[Khaama (Afghanistan)] Over thirty people were killed or maimed in a suicide kaboom in southern Helmand ...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan... province of Afghanistan late on Sunday evening.
According to the local government officials, the incident took place in the vicinity of Nawa district after a jacket wallah detonated his explosives.
Provincial governor’s front man Omar Zwak confirmed that a suicide bomber targeted an armored vehicle of the security forces at around 6:30 pm local time.
He said preliminary reports indicate at least thirteen people were killed and more than nineteen others were maimed in the attack.
In the meantime, another security official said civilians and security personnel were among those killed or maimed in the attack.
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] Some family members of the Taliban ...Arabic for students... group found Mullah Mohammad Omar and several leaders of the group have reportedly returned from Pakistain.
The provincial police chief of southern Kandahar province Gen. Abdul Raziq informed the return of the Taliban leaders as he was speaking to news hounds in Kandahar late on Saturday.
Gen. Raziq further added that some family members of Mullah Omar ... a minor Pashtun commander in the war against the Soviets who made good as leader of the Taliban. As ruler of Afghanistan, he took the title Leader of the Faithful. The imposition of Pashtunkhwa on the nation institutionalized ignorance and brutality in a country already notable for its own fair share of ignorance and brutality... and at least fifteen leaders of the group have returned to Kandahar.
Without providing further information regarding the identities of the returnees, Gen. Raziq said some of the high ranking leaders of the group are also among those who have returned and some of them have previously served as governors and in other high posts when Taliban regime was in power.
In the meantime, Gen. Raziq said the Taliban leaders and family members of Mullah Omar were encouraged by the local officials in Kandahar to return and rejected any other party’s involvement in the process.
The Taliban murderous Moslems group has not commented regarding the report so far.
It is also yet not clear if the son of Mullah Omar is also among those who have returned as he was appointed the military commission of the group after the death of his father and appointment of Mullah Ahtar Mansoor.
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] At least two key members of a terrorist group were killed in an Arclight airstrike in eastern Kunar province ... which is right down the road from Chitral. Kunar is Haqqani country..... of Afghanistan on Saturday.
The 201st Silab Corps of the Afghan national army in the East said the Arclight airstrike was carried out in the vicinity of Watapur district.
A statement by 201st Silab Corps said the two members of the terrorist group were killed in Gambir area of Watapur district.
The statement further added that the gunnies killed in the Arclight airstrike have been identified as Ibrahim and Mullah Khairullah.
The Silab Corps of the Afghan army did not disclose further information regarding the Arclight airstrike and it is yet not clear if the Arclight airstrike was carried out by the US forces or the Afghan Air Force.
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[RADIOSHABELLE] A heavy fighting between Kenyan Defence Forces (KDF) and Al-Shabaab ... the Islamic version of the old Somali warlord... hard boyz was reported to have erupted in a small area in Gedo region, near Somalia’s border with Kenya.
The battle broke out after armed Al shabaab fighters ambushed KDF convoy in a village, about 8-Km away from Dhamase settlement, located in the outskirts of El Wak town.
Local residents, told Radio Shabelle over the phone that the hard boyz burnt down a battle wagon belonging to KDF, while seizing another lorry truck during the combat.
The number of casualties on KDF and Al shabaab sides has not yet been confirmed.
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[RADIOSHABELLE] Unidentified warplanes have carried out an Arclight airstrike on a coastal town in Bari region, located in Somalia’s northeastern state of Puntland ...a region in northeastern Somalia, centered on Garowe in the Nugaal province. Its leaders declared the territory an autonomous state in 1998. Puntland and the equally autonomous Somaliland seem to have avoided the clan rivalries and warlordism that have typified the rest of Somalia, which puts both places high on the list for Islamic subversion... , officials said.
Confirming the incident, the commissioner of Alula, Ayanle Abdullahi said the military jets targeted rural areas and killed many animals and inflicted casualties on the local herders.
He added that there were no any bases for the Al shabaab and ISISfaceless myrmidons in the area hit by the overnight aerial bombardment.
It’s yet unclear which country belongs to the military jets conducted the air raid on Alula, but, U.S. forces often carry out such Arclight airstrikes in the country, targeting the bad boys.
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[AlAhram] Egypt’s army killed seven Death Eaters in North Sinai, including two who were highly dangerous, an army front man said on Monday.
The army also destroyed 14 terrorist hideouts, where they found military uniforms, communication devices, computers, weapons and improvised bombs, and materials to manufacture bombs.
Eight vehicles and four cycle of violences were also destroyed in the raid, according to the front man's statement.
In a related context, a tribal source from North Sinai told Ahram Online that Ouda El-Hamadeen, one of the leaders of Islamist Lion of Islam group Ansar Beit al-Maqdis, which has claimed the majority of deadly attacks on security forces in North Sinai, has been killed in an army air raid.
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El-Hamadeen was conducting a meeting with a number of Ansar Beit al-Maqdis members when he was killed in the raid, the source added.
El-Hamadeen has been known as a leading figure in Ansar Beit al-Maqdis and has been conducting attacks, along with his brother Selim El-Hamadeen, against security sources since 2013.
[AlAhram] Egyptian security forces are attempting to trace two detainees who beat feet from a prisoner transport vehicle on Sunday evening.
The men were being transferred from the Police Academy in New Cairo to Tora prison in Maadi following a court session, al-Arabic Ahram website reported.
According to the prosecution’s investigations, the driver felt movement inside the prison van and pulled over to find five detainees attempting to escape. He shot at them, injuring one. The injured man was later transferred to hospital.
Two of the detainees were incarcerated Yez got nuttin' on me, coppers! Nuttin'! , while another two managed to flee.
The interior ministry has not yet issued any statements about the escape attempt.
The five defendants are on trial in the case known in local media as the "Helwan militia cell," a trial of 215 defendants charged with forming a bad boy group that targets police forces.
The Helwan Brigades group first appeared in a video in August 2014, in which they vowed to target all police facilities in Helwan, a southern suburb of Cairo.
The video showed a group of 12 men wearing masks and holding rifles. Some were making the four-fingered gesture associated with August's 2013 forced dispersal of the Rabaa al-Adawiya sit-in.
Al-Ahram reported that 11 other detainees have managed to escape custody since the beginning of August, in several different cases.
They include two among 66 defendants in the "Upper Egyptian ISIS case" who are charged with forming an unlawful group that calls for overturning the constitution and seeks to harm national unity by terroristic attacks on state institutions and Christians.
The detainees escaped during their transfer to court earlier this month.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Houthi ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The Yemeni government has accused the Houthis of having ties to the Iranian government, which wouldn't suprise most of us. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews ... militias issued a circular to all its security posts and checkpoints in Sanaa and its major entrances stipulating that members of parliament, commanders in the General People’s Congress and figures close to ousted President President-for-Life Ali Abdullah Saleh ... Saleh initially took power as a strongman of North Yemen in 1977, when disco was in flower, but he didn't invite Donna Summer to the inauguration and Blondie couldn't make it... cannot leave the capital.
Security sources close to the Houthis said that in addition to these orders the Houthis ordered more military patrols and set several security check points in Sanaa’s neighborhoods as well as on the southern side of the capital and near Saleh’s house in al-Komaem area in Hedda Street.
According to eyewitnesses, armed Houthi members were stationed in front of the General People’s Congress headquarters in Hedda and in its buildings near Saleh’s home. Armored vehicles and dozens of armed Houthi fighters were also stationed around the Charter Institute building which is affiliated with the General People’s Congress.
In the past hours, Houthis tossed in the clink I ain't sayin' nuttin' widdout me mout'piece! dozens of Saleh loyalists and General People’s Congress activists.
Medical sources said that following their festivities with Saleh loyalists, Houthi forces of Evil stormed two hospitals near Al Sabeen Square and detained some maimed men affiliated with the Elite Republican Guards who is loyal to Saleh.
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Everything inside the state, nothing outside the state, nothing against the state.
[DW] Prosecutors say the two men, one of whom was a policeman, were gearing up for a breakdown in public order resulting from the refugee crisis. The searches took place in Germany's northern cities of Rostock and Schwerin.
The Federal Public Prosecutor's Office in Karlsruhe said Monday's searches stemmed from intercepted chatroom internet conversations involving the two men, who were opposed to what they saw as Germany's misguided policy on asylum.
No arrests were made, but the potential charges were of preparing serious acts of violence endangering the state, said the prosecutor's office.
The two men, one a policeman based in the town of Ludwigslust, allegedly drew up a list of people on Germany's "left-wing spectrum," with the intention of detaining and killing them if a breakdown in public order developed.
Arrivals of asylum seekers peaked in Germany in late 2015 and early 2016 when Chancellor Angela Merkel ...current chancellor of Germany and the impetus behind Germany's remarkably ill-starred immigration program. Merkel used to be referred to by Germans as Mom... 's coalition government kept Germany's borders open to "Balkan route" migrants colonists.
The suspects had stashed away foodstuffs and ammunition for weapons they had already acquired via "legal" channels, "fearing" a drain on public funds and increasing disorder, the Karlsruhe-based prosecutors said.
So everything they did was legal, except for planning to detain and kill lefties, in case the plan should become necessary.
Diyala (IraqiNews.com) Five Islamic State militants were killed in an airstrike launched in northeast of Diyala, according to the Dijla Operations Command.
Speaking to Alghad Press on Monday, Maj. Gen. Mazhar al-Azzawi, said “Iraqi fighter jets destroyed in the evening a resthouse, vehicle and five motorbikes of the group in addition to killing five militants in an airstrike launched in Wadi Thilab, located in Neft Khana basin, northeast of Diyala.”
Naft Khana is considered a pivotal region in Diyala for its strategic location, being near to main roads, in addition to being geographically-connected to Hamrin basin.
Attacks launched by Islamic State militants against security troops, the pro-government forces and civilians surged over the past few weeks in northeast of Diyala, which urge the Iraqi forces to prevent the militants infiltration between Salahuddin and Kirkuk provinces, especially the regions stretching along Hamreen mountains and Al-Azeem town.
IS holds pivotal regions that link between each of Diyala, Salahuddin and Kirkuk, posing threats to the liberated regions.
After declaring victory in Mosul, the government and military commanders are expected to wage operations at other IS havens across the country, including Diyala, in order to mark an end to the group’s self-styled “caliphate” declared by the group in 2014.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] The spokesman of the Iraqi Joint Operations Command, Brig. Gen. Yahya al-Zubaidi, said Iraqi army troops began advancing towards Ayadieh which is the last ISIS stronghold in Tal Afar.
Zubaidi said Ayadieh has been fully besieged, adding that the air force has struck ISIS targets in it.
Iraq’s Ministry of Defense announced on Sunday that Iraqi forces recovered 95 percent of Tal Afar from ISIS, the militant group’s stronghold in the country’s northwest. Iraqi forces await recovering Ayadieh before declaring complete victory over ISIS.
Meanwhile, Saudi Arabia congratulated Iraq for the government forces’ consecutive victories against ISIS and for recovering Tal Afar.
A Saudi foreign ministry source reiterated Saudi Arabia’s support of the Iraqi government’s efforts to combat and eliminate terrorism and extremism.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Popular Mobilization forces have started looting the liberated areas of Tal Afar city in Iraq’s northwest, Al Arabiya Television has learned.
An Iraqi Army officer told Al Arabiya that bandidosfaceless myrmidons began looting as forces battled to clear the city of the remaining ISIS krazed killers. He added that the army has tried to stop the looting but has failed.
The officer, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, identified the looters as Turkmen rustics in the Hussein mobilization militias. He described them as "engaging in Dire Revenge attacks on homes" in the Mahlabia district east of Tal Afar.
The officer said that the bandidosfaceless myrmidons are demolishing homes with explosives after looting them. A local city official confirmed to Al Arabiya news channel that members of the popular mobilization forces are looting government property as well as private property in the city.
[Iran Press TV] Iraqi security soldiers have discovered a detention facility in the western flank of Tal Afar, which members of the ISISTakfiri ...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who must be killed... terrorist group used to incarcerate people and subject the detainees to various forms of torture.
The Arabic-language al-Sumaria satellite television network reported on Monday that government forces had found the prison in the recently-liberated al-Saad neighborhood of the city, located 63 kilometers west of djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... The building incorporated several rooms, where ISISbully boyz apparently used to hold civilians in captivity and torment them.
Iraqi security forces could recover dozens of boxes of tablets in addition to narcotics from the site.
ISIS had installed a comprehensive CCTV surveillance system across the building for the principal purposes of keeping an eye on the movements of the detainees.
Meanwhile, ...back at the shootout, Butch clutched at his other leg...... the media bureau of Popular Mobilization Units, commonly known by the Arabic word Hashd al-Sha'abi, announced in a statement that soldiers from the 16th Division of the Iraqi Army had reclaimed control over Kharaj al-Asheq village southwest of al-’Ayadiya district, which lies 11 kilometers northwest of Tal Afar.
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[DAWN] A boom-mobiledestroyed a busy market area in eastern Baghdad on Monday morning, killing at least 10 people, Iraqi officials said.
The explosives-laden car went off at the wholesale Jamila market in Baghdad's Shia district of Sadr City, a police officer said. The kaboom also maimed 25 other people, he added, saying the corpse count was expected to rise further.
A medical official confirmed the casualty figures. Both officials spoke on condition of anonymity.
A plume of thick black smoke was billowing from the area and people were running away in panic. At the site, twisted metal and shards of glass littered the pavement, along with vegetables and other goods sold at the market.
At least one soldier was seen being evacuated from the scene, which was sealed off by security forces.
Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) Two civilians were wounded in an IED blast that occurred in northern Baghdad, a police source was quoted saying on Monday.
“A bomb, planted near stores at al-Tarmiyah region, north of Baghdad, exploded in the evening, leaving two people wounded,” the source told AlSumaria News.
Speaking on condition of anonymity, the source said “police cordoned off the accident spot and transferred the injured to nearby hospitals.”
Earlier on the day, Islamic State claimed responsibility for a blast that hit eastern Baghdad, killing and injuring thirteen civilians. Another blast occurred as an IED exploded on Monday at al-Yusufiya region, in south of Baghdad, which caused death of four persons and injury of eight others, a police source told AlSumaria News.
Several explosions occurred in Baghdad on Sunday. Three civilians were killed and injured as an IED went off at an area southwest of Baghdad. This came a few hours after two car bombings rocked two areas also southwest of Baghdad, killing and wounding eight people.
Violence and armed conflicts left more than 500 Iraqis dead and wounded during the month of July, according to a monthly count by the United Nations Assistance Mission in Iraq which excludes security members deaths.
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[IsraelTimes] The Israel Defense Forces seized a number of M16 rifles during raids throughout the West Bank early Monday.
One M16 was found in a home in the Jerusalem-area Paleostinian town of Abu Dis, while another, together with a homemade gun, was found in the northern West Bank village of Bir al-Basha, the army said.
The IDF had previously found an M16 and a pair of M4 carbines during operations in the West Bank over the past week.
The army said it has confiscated 220 illegal firearms in the West Bank since the start of the year and shut down 25 gun workshops.
During the raids, the IDF also placed in durance vile Drop the heater, Studs, or you're hist'try! eight Paleostinians on suspicion of violent rioting and "popular terror," a term used by the army to denote acts such as rock-throwing and rioting.
[Iran Press TV] About 1,000 persecuted Rohingya Moslems from Myanmar's western Rakhine state have fleed to neighboring Bangladesh after coming under fire from military soldiers.
Jahangir Aziz, a Bangladeshi local government representative, said that when Myanmar troops fired their guns, the crowd ran back and broke through a Bangladesh barricade and cordon of 300-400 guards.
They then scattered, with at least some making it to unofficial camps for unregistered refugees, the official added.
The Moslems, who were seeking refuge from the ongoing violence in Myanmar, had been in a border no man's land for two days.
Bangladeshi border guards, who had earlier provided them with food and water, sought to push them back to Myanmar.
Rohingya leaders say 8,000 to 9,000 Rohingya have entered Bangladesh since a fresh wave of violence broke out in Rakhine last Thursday.
At least 104 people have been killed in the fresh bout of violence involving Myanmar’s military and the gang. The official corpse count as of Sunday was 96.
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Life has got to be bad when Bangladesh is a refuge.
[AnNahar] Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... gunnies and their families began leaving a border area between Leb and Syria on Monday as part of a controversial negotiated deal with the Death Eater group to end its presence there, Lebanese and Syrian media reported.
An unidentified number of gunnies and their families headed in buses toward a town held by the Islamic State group in far eastern Syria, near the border with Iraq. The evacuation will effectively end the presence of jihadist Lion of Islam groups on the border, after al-Qaeda-linked fighters evacuated earlier this month.
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Dohuk (IraqiNews.com) Kurdish authorities said Monday that three women from the Yazidi minority had been released from their Islamic State captors in Tal Afar as Iraqi forces near victory over the militant group there.
The Kurdistan Region office on Yazidi abductees said the released females were a 40-year-old woman and two girls aged 14 and 19.
“The abductees were released with the help of benevolent locals,” office head Hussein Qaidi said in statements to BasNews, giving no mroe details.
A statistic released by the Kurdistan Region Government’s Endowments and Religious Affairs Ministry in July said Islamic State’s massacres of Yazidis forced nearly 360.000 of the religious minority to flee their areas. It said IS had kidnapped 6417 Yazidis since 2014, the report added. Those included 1102 women and 1655 children, the statistics show, adding that authorities had run into 43 mass graves of Yazidi victims slaughtered by IS,.
Islamic State massacred and enslaved thousands of Yazidis when they overran their Sinjar region, west of Nineveh.
Iraqi government forces and allied paramilitary troops are currently nearing victory over Islamic State members in Tal Afar, an anticipated development that would mean a total collapse of the group’s self-styled “caliphate” declared in 2014.
Anbar (IraqiNews.com) Heartbroken with the news of his son’s death in an attack in Anbar, an Islamic State member committed suicide, a security source said Monday.
An official security source told Aljournal News website that the militant hanged himself inside his residence in Rawa, a group stronghold near Anbar’s western borders with Syria, after he had is received news of his son’s death in a random bombardment of a militants’ convoy in the same town.
Islamic State militants are still holding areas in western Anbar since 2014, when they occupied a third of Iraq to proclaim their self-styled “caliphate”. So far, there has not been a wide-scale campaign to retake those regions, but occasional offensives by government forces and allied Popular Mobilization Forces have managed to take over several surrounding villages.
Anbar’s borders with Syria had seen occasional encounters between security forces and Islamic State militants.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
the Islamic version of the old Somali warlord...
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