[KhaamaPress] The Talibs suffered heavy casualties in the Arclight airstrikes of the Afghan Air Force in southern Uruzgan province, the military officials said Tuesday.
A source in the 205th Atal Corps of the Afghan Military in the South said the airstrikes were carried out in the vicinity of Tarinkot city.
The source further added that the airstrikes left at least 9 Taliban ...Arabic for students... bully boyz dead and 12 others maimed.
Uruzgan is among the relatively volatile provinces in South of Afghanistan where the anti-government armed bandidosbully boyz are actively operating in a number of its districts, including the bustling provincial capital Tarinkot.
The Talibs often attempt to carry out coordinated attacks on key districts of the province including Tarinkot city.
In the meantime, the Afghan forces have stepped up ground operations and airstrikes against the Taliban to suppress the bandidosbully boyz of the group as they attempt to carry out large scale attacks as part of their spring offensive.
The group last week announced the launch of its spring offensive and vowed to carry out more attacks across the country.
[KhaamaPress] At least one US soldier and several Afghan security personnel lost their lives during the clashes with the militants in East of Afghanistan.
The NATO-led Resolute Support Mission in a statement said one U.S. service member was killed and another U.S. service member was wounded during a combat operation in eastern Afghanistan, April 30.
The statement further adds that in addition, several Afghan security force members were killed or wounded.
“My thoughts and those of U.S. Forces-Afghanistan are with the families and friends of our fallen and wounded service members,” said Gen. John Nicholson, U.S. Forces-Afghanistan (USFOR-A) commander. “Their valiancy in battle, and that of the brave Afghan partners they fought alongside, will endure in our hearts and history.”
The wounded service member, who is in stable condition, was taken to Bagram Airfield’s hospital for treatment, the alliance added.
No further details were given regarding the exact location where the clash took place but the Afghan and US forces are mostly in engaged in counter-terrorism operations in eastern Nangarhar province of Afghanistan against the ISIS and Taliban insurgents.
The anti-government armed militant groups including Taliban militants have not commented regarding the report so far.
[KhaamaPress] An explosion targeted a member of the provincial council in eastern Nangarhar province of Afghanistan, leaving at least six people dead or wounded.
Provincial governor’s spokesman Attaullah Khogyani confirmed the incident took place earlier today targeting the provincial council member Iftikhar Momand.
Khogyani further added that Mr. Momand was wounded in the explosion along with his two security guards.
He said at least three people including two civilians and a security guard of Mr. Momand were killed in the explosion.
In the meantime, the provincial government media office, in a statement said the incident has taken place in Kama district at around 9:30 am local time.
The statement further added that the vehicle of Mr. Momand was targeted in a roadside bomb explosion and as a result one of his bodyguards was killed.
According to the provincial government, at least four people, including Mr. Momand, two of his guards, and a civilian were wounded.
No individual or group has so far claimed responsibility behind the incident.
[Khaama Press] The Special Operations Forces of the Afghan Intelligence, National Directorate of Security (NDS), conducted a night operation on a compound of the Taliban group leader in eastern Nangarhar province of Afghanistan.
The provincial government media office in a statement said the raid resulted into the killing of the Taliban local leader along with five others.
The statement further added that the operation was conducted late on Monday night in the vicinity of Khogyani district.
The Taliban leader killed during the operation has been identified as Faridullah who was also famous as Zindani, the statement added.
According to the governor’s office, at leat five other insurgents accompanying Faridullah were also killed during the operation.
In the meantime, the NDS Special Forces arrested two other individuals, Ezatullah and Hejratullah, on suspicion of having links with the Taliban group.
The local officials are saying that the raid resulted into the clearance of the area from the presence of the Taliban insurgents.
The anti-government armed militant groups including Taliban militants have not commented regarding the report so far.
[KhaamaPress] The governor of eastern Laghman ...It has a population of about 445,600, which is multi-ethnic and mostly a rural society. During the invasions of Alexander the Great, the area was known as Lampaka, wich is apparently Olde Macedonian for Laghman.The city of Mihtarlam serves as the bucolic capital of the province. The population is half Pashtun, the remainder Tadjik and Pashai. It had a repution for great wealth until it was conquered in the tenth century by Abu Mansur Sabuktigin.
He conquered it and set fire to the places in its vicinity which were inhabited by infidels, and demolishing the idol-temples, he established Islam in them, He marched and captured other cities and killed the polluted wretches, destroying the idolatrous and gratifying the Musulmans. After wounding and killing beyond all measure, his hands and those of his friends became cold in counting the value of the plundered property.
After that it was mostly notable for the production of dirt, rocks, and holy men. province Mohammad Asif Nang says the counter-terrorism clearance operations codenamed Qahr-1 are being conducted with full momentum in the restive parts of the province.
He made the remarks during a presser in Allisheng district and said the operations are part of the spring offensive to suppress the myrmidons.
Nang further added that the operations kicked off a week ago and at least 23 turbans have been killed so far while 12 others have sustained and one suspect has been detained.
Provincial security chief and the commander of the first brigade of the armed forces said the Afghan forces have also discovered and defused at least 16 improvised bombs so far while 30 kgs of explosives, 14 rockets, 2 mortars, ammunition, and a vehicle have also been confiscated along with 5 cycle of violences, armored vests, and several other types of military kits.
In the meantime, governor Nang said the Afghan forces and the local residents have not suffered any casualty during the operations as he hailed the security forces for their bravery and ensuring required measures to protect the civilians.
According to Nang, at least 35 big and small villages have been cleared from the turbans and voting centers which were under the threats of the turbans have been secured.
[Khaama Press] At least two non-combatants were killed and another one was maimed in an kaboom in central Pashtun-infested Logar province of Afghanistan, the local authorities said Tuesday.
The incident took place close to the lovely provincial capital late on Monday after a civilian vehicle struck a roadside mine.
The provincial government media office in a statement said the kaboomdestroyed the vehicle in Choni area at around 8 pm local time on Monday.
The statement further added that the blast targeted a mini truck leaving two civilians dead and one maimed.
The local security and police officials have launched an investigation in connection to the incident, the provincial police commandment added.
The anti-government armed bully boy groups frequently use explosives materials for the roadside kaboomings and boom-mobileings to target the government staff and security personnel.
However, corruption finds a dozen alibis for its evil deeds... in majority of such incidents the ordinary civilians are targeted besides such bombings incur casualties to the security personnel and in some cases the Talibs themselves are killed or maimed.
A total of 10,453 civilian casualties ‐ 3,438 people killed and 7,015 injured ‐ were documented in the 2017 Annual Report released last month by the UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) and the UN Human Rights Office.
The report further added that the high number of casualties to the civilians were inflicted by suicide kabooms and other attacks using improvised bombs (IEDs).
[RADIOSHABELLE] al-Shabaab ... Somalia's version of the Taliban, functioning as an arm of al-Qaeda... claimed it killed at least four Somali soldiers, including a senior Intelligence officer in two separate attacks in Mogadishu, the country’s capital and a nearby suburb.
The group said in a statement its fighters carried out a daring raid against security forces manning a checkpoint in the city’s Wadajir district on Monday night, killing 3 soldiers.
Separately, armed faceless myrmidons rubbed out a senior Somali Intelligence official in Sinka-Dheer area, located on the outskirts of Mogadishu, according to al-Shabaab statement.
The government has not yet commented on the attacks which were the latest in such raids against the security force members and the civil servants in the capital in the past few months.
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[RADIOSHABELLE] Kenya Defence Forces (KDF) on Sunday rescued thirteen people who were recruited form Magarini in Kilifi county to fight for al-Shabaab ... Somalia's version of the Taliban, functioning as an arm of al-Qaeda... in Somalia.
The returnees, aged between 18 to 38 years, were reportedly lured by one Mohammed Ali ‐ a resident of Marereni, that there was a job in the neighbouring country.
Two among the lot are reportedly from Bargoni in Lamu county while the remaining 11 are from Msumarini, Gongoni, and Marereni in Magarini sub-county.
They were flown from Kiunga where they were being held by KDF personnel. They were received by Malindi OCPD Matawa Muchangi on Monday.
A senior security officer said after being recruited, Ali handed the unsuspecting youths to Abdlalla Shekue ‐ a boat owner in Kiunga, who took them to Somalia.
The official said the returnees were recruited on March 26 and KDF managed to rescue them on April 29 after some reported to their families.
"Shekue handed over them to Yusuf Ali on the pretext that they were going to engage in fishing in Somalia."
"During their one month stay in Somalia, the boys moved from Mdoa to Bula Haji with the intention to be recruited to fight for al-Shabaab," the official said.
The security officer said Mdoa and Bula Haji are al-Shabaab bases.
He said the KDF personnel in Somalia rescued the men at Ras Kamboni and handed them over to the Kenya Police to facilitate their reunion with their families.
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[DAWN] Suicide bombers killed more than 60 people at a mosque and a market in northeast Nigeria ... a particularly crimson stretch of Islam's bloody border... on Tuesday, in a twin attack bearing the hallmarks of Boko Haram ... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality... and a day after US President Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... pledged greater support to fight the bad boys.
The blasts, said to have been carried out by young boys, happened shortly after 1:00 pm (1200 GMT) in Mubi, some 200 kilometres (125 miles) from the Adamawa state capital, Yola.
Imam Garki, from the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), said a joint assessment with the police and Red Thingy found that 26 people were killed and 56 were maimed, 11 of them critically.
They were transferred to the Federal Medical Centre in Yola for treatment.
But a medical source at the Mubi General Hospital said they had received 37 bodies, while a rescue worker involved in the relief operation said he counted 42 dead and 68 injured.
"These I saw with my own eyes. We were counting as they were being taken," said Sani Kakale.
Two local residents who attended funerals for the victims said the corpse count was much higher ‐ and could climb further.
"Before I left the cemetery I took part in the burial of 68 people. More bodies were being brought by families of the victims," said Muhammad Hamidu.
"I think this is the worst attack Mubi has ever witnessed. The human loss is unimaginable." Abdullahi Labaran added: "We left 73 freshly dug graves where each victim was buried. There are still unclaimed bodies at the hospital.
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[AlAhram] At least 15 people including a priest were killed and scores maimed in Central African Republic's capital Bangui on Tuesday when unidentified button men attacked a church, a morgue official and rights groups said.
The attack occurred on the border of the predominantly Moslem PK 5 neighbourhood where 21 people were killed last month when a joint mission by UN peacekeepers and local security forces to disarm criminal gangs descended into open fighting.
Witnesses said Notre Dame de Fatima church was attacked with gunfire and grenades during a morning service, forcing trapped churchgoers to escape through a hole made in the church wall by police.
"Filled with panic, some Christians began to flee until bullets and grenades began to fall in the parish grounds, trapping those who remained in the compound," Moses Aliou, a priest at the church, told Rooters.
Nine dead bodies were taken to Bangui's Community Hospital, a morgue official said, while aid agency Doctors Without Borders said six people had died and 60 were maimed at other hospitals where it operates.
It is not clear if they were all killed in the church attack itself or during skirmishes that occurred afterwards in the surrounding area.
A priest named Albert Toungoumale Baba was among those rubbed out during the attack, said the Chancellor of the Archdiocese of Bangui, Walter Brad Mazangue.
A crowd of thousands of angry, shouting protesters gathered as his body, covered by a sheet, was carried on a makeshift stretcher along dirt streets to the presidential palace, a Rooters witness said.
Although the button men were not identified, Central African Republic has seen frequent incidences of inter-faith violence since 2013 when mainly MoslemSeleka ...a 'mainly' Moslem rebel force in the Central African Republic that overthrew the govt, imposed a regime of rapine and looting on the country's non-Moslem population, and was then tossed by France. They still exist, getting funding and weapons from somewhere or other, licking their wounds, complaining about the oppression of Moslems, and occasionally raping and looting someone... rebels ousted President Francois Bozize.
Retaliation killings followed by "anti-balaka" gangs, drawn largely from Christian communities, and Moslem "self-defence" groups sprang up in PK5, claiming to protect the Moslem civilians concentrated there against efforts to drive them out.
The same church was previously attacked in 2014, when button men with grenades killed a priest and some worshippers.
After last month's deaths in PK5, demonstrators who blamed UN soldiers for firing on residents protesting against the operation to counter gangs carried the bodies of the dead to the gates of the UN mission, known as MINUSCA.
MINUSCA and the police were not immediately available for comment on Tuesday.
Article is in German. Here's a short summary:
In the night from 04/29 to 04/30 three police patrol cars came to the Ellwangen refugee reception center (former Bundeswehr barracks) to pick up a 23 y/o Togolese who was to be deported.
200 Africans surrounded the police, freed the Togolese (with handcuffs still on) and forced the police to withdraw to the center's guard area.
The refugees hit and damaged the patrol cars.
Later a security guard who was acting as a middleman at the behest of the refugees issued an ultimatum to the police.
If the police didn't remove the Togolese' handcuffs the refugees would storm the gate. (It is unclear whether they threatened to storm the center's outer gate and attack the town or the gate of the guard area and attack the police.)
The police surrendered the key to the handcuffs to the middleman. The Togolese has apparently vanished.
The police were commended by their superiors for staying calm. Reinforcements would have taken hours to arrive. The rioters will be criminally investigated.
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It's always so nice to see a community come together to unite against outsider threats like this.
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What the hell happened to the Germans? I remember in the 80's there was an anti-US/Nato/Nuclear protest and the police smashed it. Then there was an anti-police brutality protest and the reporter actually said, "So the West German police went out to break some heads." And they smashed that one.
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The police in a Western democracy at peace isn't supposed to be an internal occupation force.
The vast majority of inhabitants obeys the laws by consensus i.e there's a consent of the governed.
Merkel let in over a million of men of military age who share a cultural and legal consensus that is quite different and incompatible.
The consequences of this act are just staring to manifest themselves.
So far these incidents were always the result of a spontaneous escalation.
With just a little coordination interested parties could inflict great harm on Germany or Europe.
Think synchronized riots and looting at a multiple places that simply overwhelm the police's resources.
This was a standoff between six policemen and 200 refugees. The police expected deference, it wasn't equipped or prepared to impose German law on a large group of people using armed force.
[DAWN] Balochistan...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it... 's Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) on Tuesday announced the arrest of a key suspected holy warrior involved in a series of assassinations in the city.
Deputy Inspector General (DIG) CTD Aitzaz Goraya, along with the DIG Frontier Corps ...a provincial paramilitary force. Total manpower is about 80,000. They are tasked to help local law enforcement in the maintenance of law and order, and to carry out border patrol and a..the Antwerp-based Salafist organization that had campaigned to introduce Sharia law to Belgium before single-handedly making Belgium the highest per capita supplier of jihadis to Syria in Europe. There was a big trial in Antwerp in 2015, but most of those convicted were in absentia...nti-smuggling operations.... (FC), announced that Dr Abdur Raheem Mohammad Shahi, a lead commander of the Lashkar-e-Jhangvi ... a 'more violent' offshoot of Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistain. LeJ's purpose in life is to murder anyone who's not of utmost religious purity, starting with Shiites but including Brelvis, Ahmadis, Christians, Jews, Buddhists, Rosicrucians, and just about anyone else you can think of. They are currently a wholly-owned subsidiary of al-Qaeda ... (LeJ), was locked away Yez got nuttin' on me, coppers! Nuttin'! during an operation conducted yesterday.
DIG Goraya in his statement to the media said, "The man is suspected of having a hand in the suicide kabooms and numerous murders that took place in Hazara ...a grouping of Dari-speaking people of Sino-Tibetan descent inhabiting Afghanistan and Pakistain. They are predominantly Shia Moslems and not particularly warlike, which makes them favored targets... Town, Bolan Medical Complex, and the [provincial] IG's office."
A number of weapons were also recovered from the arrested terrorist, he said, adding that the man had a Rs2 million bounty on his head. The CTD official said that efforts are underway and more arrests will be made soon.
According to DIG Goraya, the key suspect’s group members Waliullah, Khalid and Aurangzeb were killed in a police encounter on July 30, 2013; while Shafiq, Siraj, Nadir and other accomplices were killed in an encounter with security forces on August 25, 2015.
The arrested suspect has not taken part in any terrorist activity since 2015 when his accomplices were killed, after which he went into hiding.
The police official said that the suspect has informed them about the turbans present in Larkana and Khuzdar. Police teams have been dispatched to those areas to unearth the holy warrior network, he added.
Regarding the recent rise in killings of Hazaras, Goraya said, "Security agencies are working with CTD to unearth the perpetrators behind the killings, for which we have very good and proper leads."
"We have procured the names of those who funded and supported these incidents. Raids are being conducted since last night and these individuals are near arrest, we are hopeful that we will be sharing the good news with you soon [of their arrest]."
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Baghdad (Iraqinews.com) ‐ Iraqi police denied that one of its rapid response units clashed with militias of Shia holy manMoqtada Tater al-Sadr ... the Iranian catspaw holy man who was 22 years old in 2003 and was nearing 40 in 2010. He spends most of his time in Iran, safely out of the line of fire, where he's learning to be an ayatollah... in Tuz Khurmatu district in Salahuddin.
In a statement, a copy of which was obtained by Knooz Media, Iraqi police said, "Al-Sadr’s Saraya al-Salam militias received a tip-off that a rapid response unit came under a terrorist attack near a security checkpoint in Salahuddin."
"Immediately, the militias rushed to the incident site, but one of the coppers stationed at the checkpoint shot up them as he thought they were terrorists," the statement explained. "The situation has been successfully contained."
The statement highlighted that the unit’s commander "extended thanks to Saraya al-Salam fighters and praised their efforts to protect the city."
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Since Sadr is currently aligned with the Communist Party of Iraq could they be the ones clashing leaving nobody lying?
Diyala (Iraqinews.com) ‐ A SWAT officer was killed while another was injured in a dual kaboom in the eastern governorate of Diyala, an Iraqi provincial officer was quoted as saying.
Speaking to Alghad Press on Tuesday, Awwad al-Rabei, the head of Abu Saida’s security committee, said, "Two explosive charges went off sequentially while a police vehicle was passing by al-Mokhisa village on the outskirts of Abu Saida district in Diyala."
"According to preliminary reports, the bombings left a SWAT officer killed and another injured," al-Rabei pointed out.
Ambulances rushed to the blast site and carried the body to the forensic medicine officer, while the injured was moved to hospital for treatment, he added.
Rutba (IraqiNews.com) Iraqi air forces destroyed two 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.... hideouts in Anbar province, a senior military source was quoted saying on Tuesday as the government struggles to clear the country from remnant terrorist cells.
The source from Anbar Operations Command told Alsumaria News that the strikes targeted two hideouts in a desert area at the city of Rutba (310 km west of Ramadi).
He said the two places were destroyed and all Lions of Islam inside died consequently.
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Kirkuk (Iraqinews.com) ‐ Iraqi troops raided on Tuesday a number of tunnels and hotbeds that were used for storing 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.... (IS) arms in oil-rich Kirkuk.
"Iraqi police and the 11th brigade of al-Hashd al-Shaabi (Popular Mobilization Forces) launched a military operation to target Islamic State dens in several villages of Hawija district, southwest of Kikruk," Alghad Press quoted al-Hashd al-Shaabi as saying in a statement.
"The joint forces managed to seize a number of tunnels and hideouts that were used by IS bully boyz for storing their weapons and ammunition," the statement read.
"The operation was launched after receiving information about the presence of IS fighters in several villages of Hawija," concluded the statement.
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Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) Two civilians were maimed in a kaboom, north of Baghdad, a security source said on Tuesday.
Speaking to Alghad Press, the source said, " a bomb, placed on the side of Tarmiyah road, north of Baghdad, went off, leaving two civilians maimed as they were passing near the kaboom."
Security troops, according to the source, "cordoned off the blast scene, while the ambulance transferred the maimed to nearby hospital."
Baghdad (Iraqinews.com) ‐ Seven Iraqi coppers were killed and injured Tuesday as a kaboom targeted their police vehicle in djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... city, a security official was quoted as saying.
"An explosive charge was remotely detonated, targeting a police patrol inside a train station, west of Mosul, killing two coppers and injuring five others," Captain Zayed Omar told BasNews website.
"Security forces immediately rushed to the blast site and carried the bodies of the two officers to the forensic medicine department, while the maimed were moved to a nearby hospital for treatment," added Omar.
[LI] The so-called Great March of Return held every Friday for the past four weeks at the Gaza-Israel border is falsely portrayed as a peaceful civilian protest by groups like Amnesty International. That false designation has led to claims that Israel is violating international law by using live fire against "protesters" who approach the border fence.
In fact, as we have documented weekly, the "protests" are actually military operations by Hamas and other terror groups using civilian protests as cover.
The purpose is to cut through, burn down, or pull down the border fence so that terrorists can infiltrate Israel to carry out operations. Even when the fence is not breached, explosives are placed next to the fence for later detonation.
[IsraelTimes] IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Gadi Eisenkot said Palestinian terror groups have attempted to kidnap soldiers on the Gaza border.
At a ceremony marking the installation of a new top liaison to the Palestinians, Eisenkot said, “In recent weeks we’ve once again seen the complexity of the situation, when our forces found themselves facing mass protests that served as cover for terrorist actions, attacks on soldiers, attempts at kidnapping, attacks on military posts, and attempts to infiltrate [Israeli] towns.” The IDF chief did not elaborate.
[IsraelTimes] Security forces arrested two Palestinians on Tuesday after they were caught with three pipe bombs at the entrance to the Samaria Military Court in the northern West Bank, police said. The youths were also said to be in possession of a bag containing a gas canister. The two youngsters, aged 14, were from the West Bank city of Jenin.
Border police said that sappers were working to defuse the devices, and that the entrance to the court remained closed.
Police later clarified that one of the three pipes contained explosive materials and that the canister was empty.
[IsraelTimes] East Jerusalem residents who allegedly wanted to gun down Israeli soldiers in the West Bank were known to security forces
Prosecutors on Tuesday charged three Paleostinian residents of East Jerusalem with planning to carry out an attack against Israelis on behalf of the Hamas, one of the armed feet of the Moslem Brüderbung millipede, terrorist group.
According to the indictment filed at the Jerusalem District Court, Naseem Hamada, Izz al-Din Atun and Obeida Amira were "terrorist operatives" known to Israeli security services.
The three, all from East Jerusalem’s Sur Baher neighborhood, were charged with contact with a foreign agent, membership in a terrorist organization and conspiring to carry out a terror attack.
A fourth suspect, identified only as A.A., was under investigation for suspected involvement in planning the attack, but the state prosecutor’s office has yet to decide whether to file charges against him.
The charge sheet said Hamada, Atun and Amira were placed in durance vile Keep yer hands where we can see 'em, if yez please! in "recent weeks" after a joint police-Shin Bet operation uncovered their plan to open fire on IDF soldiers at a bus stop outside the settlement of Oranit, in the central West Bank.
During interrogation, Hamada revealed that he was the group’s ringleader, and was taking orders from Hamas operatives in the Gazoo Strip.
The investigation also revealed that Atun and Amira traveled to The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... last year to visit Hamas figures Mahmoud Atun and Musa Azari, who were exiled under the Gilad Shalit prisoner exchange, and received thousands of dollars to help fund the attack.
Prosecutors have asked the court to remand the suspects in jug until the end of the legal proceedings against them.
Earlier this year, the Shin Bet accused Turkey of helping Hamas launder money for its military activities, and asserted that Ankara was in "direct contact" with the Paleostinian terrorist group.
The security service said that Zaher Jabarin, a senior Hamas operative who also settled in Turkey after being expelled in the 2011 prisoner exchange, was smuggling money into the West Bank to fund terror attacks. Jabarin, who is also an Israeli citizen, was arrested in January with 91,000 euros in cash on him, which Israeli authorities said he intended to hand over to the terrorist group.
[Mindanao Examiner] Security forces launched a massive operation to rescue four people, two of them policewomen, who were seized by Abu Sayyaf militants in Sulu province. Policemen and soldiers were searching for police officers Benierose Alvarez and Dinah Gumahad, and civilians Jakosalem Blas and Faizal Ahidji.
They were traveling on a motorcycle taxi on Sunday afternoon when about a dozen gunmen flagged down their vehicle in Liang village in Patikul town and took them away. Police have identified the gang’s leader as Mujir Yada.
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[UCA News] A bomb blast shook a Catholic church in the southern Philippines on April 29, a day after Southeast Asian leaders were warned of a real threat of terror attacks in the region. Philippine officials blamed the Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters, which have claimed allegiance to the Islamic State, for the blast that wounded two people in the city of Koronadal.
Another bomb was later found outside a convenience store in the city, three blocks from the St. Anthony Parish cathedral where the first blast occurred. Central Mindanao police chief Marcelo Morales said, "This is a diversionary tactic [of the terrorists] because of a series of arrests we made and military operations against lawless groups."
The blast happened after Sunday Masses while baptism ceremonies were taking place inside the church. Police sources said the bomb "bore the signature of an Islamic extremist group."
The day before, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong of Singapore warned Southeast Asian leaders that the region is facing "very real" threats from terror and cyber-attacks. Lee said, "We need to be resilient to both conventional threats, and also non-conventional threats such as terrorism and cyberattacks."
Indonesian terrorism expert, Ansyaad Mbai, said the threat of cyber-attacks is a reality in Indonesia with a network known as Saracen allegedly behind the spread of hate speech. Mbai, former head Indonesia's National Counterterrorism Agency, said the group intends to sow division ahead of upcoming elections.
[Ynet] Syrian state media say rebels have agreed to surrender an enclave near Syria's third largest city to the government.
Al-Ikhbariya TV says rebels have agreed to allow government forces into the countryside north of Homs and re-establish state institutions. Rebels will have the option of pledging their allegiance to the government or relocating to rebel-held territory in northern Syria.
The station says the international highway running through the region will reopen in three days.
The agreement is the latest in a string of capitulations by rebels worn down after seven years of war. Earlier this year, the government took back control of suburbs around Damascus and two neighborhoods held by the 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.... group inside the capital. Tens of thousands of people have departed to northern Syria instead of living again under Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Lord of the Baath... 's rule.
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[AAWSAT] The US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces kicked off on Tuesday the final stage in its battle to expel the ISIS terrorist group from eastern Syria.
Backed by the US-led coalition, the Kurdish SDF have driven ISIS out of large parts of the country.
ISIS has retained a presence in a few areas of the country, including in the eastern oil-rich province of Deir Ezzor near the border with Iraq.
The SDF's Deir Ezzor Military Council on Tuesday said it would press its efforts to oust ISIS from remaining areas.
"Our forces with the forces of the international coalition have started the last stage" of the anti-ISIS campaign, it said in a statement.
"Our forces will liberate these areas and secure the Iraqi border once and for all," the military council announced at the al-Tanak oilfield east of the Euphrates.
The United States confirmed the start of the military operation.
ISIS holds dozens of villages in eastern Syria, from the eastern banks of the Euphrates River that cuts across Deir Ezzor to the border with Iraq, and in the south of the adjacent province of Hasakeh.
The US State Department said later that the coalition and its "partners, including the Syrian Democratic Forces, are launching operations to liberate the final ISIS strongholds in Syria".
"The fighting will be difficult, but we and our partners will prevail... The days of ISIS controlling territory and terrorizing the people of Syria are coming to an end," it said in a statement.
Deir Ezzor Military Council head Ahmed Abu Khawla told AFP there was a "shared operations room with Iraqi forces".
The US-led coalition including French forces had increased their numbers and would support the SDF in "the final stage" of their operation, he said.
French special operations forces arrived in Syria last month to help boost US-led efforts against ISIS, US Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said last week.
The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... ’s offensive to expel the People’s Protection Units (YPG) from Afrin - where the United States has no presence - led to a pause in the campaign against ISIS, the Pentagon has said.
Ottoman Turkish forces captured Afrin in March.
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[ALMASDARNEWS] A joint US-French military convoy entered the town of Manbij in northeast Aleppo this week, despite reports of a potential Ottoman Turkish-led operation to expel the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF).
According to a statement from the Manbij Military Council Spokesperson, Sharfan Darwish, the US and French troops in northern Syria are preparing to open a joint military base in this town located in Aleppo’s northeastern countryside.
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[ALMASDARNEWS] The Syrian Arab Army (SAA) and their Paleostinian allies continued their large-scale offensive inside the key town of Hajar al-Aswad today.
Backed by heavy Arclight airstrikes from the Russian Aerospace Forces, the Syrian Arab Army and their Paleostinian allies managed to liberate the al-Alaf area and al-Bassel Garden, which are both located in northwestern Hajar al-Aswad.
Following this advance, the Syrian Army and their Paleostinian allies continued to press further into Hajar al-Aswad, reaching new street blocks in this strategic town.
Tonight’s operation was led by the shock troops of the Syrian Arab Army’s 9th Division; they arrived a few weeks back after spending a short period of time in Dara’a.
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