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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The officials are saying that a senior commander of the Afghan Special Forces lost his life in an attack by unknown button men in Kabul city.
A front man for Kabul Police Commandment Hashmat Stanikzai confirmed the incident and said at least two people including a senior Special Forces commander were martyred in the attack.
Stanikzai further added that the incident took place at around 8:30 pm local time in the vicinity of the ninth police district of the city in Ferdawsi Park.
He said the commander of the 01 Unity of the Special Forces for Paktika ...which coincidentally borders South Wazoo... Azizullah Karwan was martyred in the attack along with another civilian.
According to Stanikzai, at least three more people, including a woman were maimed in the attack.
The Taliban ...Arabic for students... group grabbed credit behind the attack with the group’s front man Zabiullah Mujahid claiming that commander Azizullah Karwan was killed in a tactical attack.
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The Police Chief of Southern Kandahar province General Abdull Raziq claims that the Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... ’s Quetta Council leaders are mulling peace talks with the Afghan government.
Gen. Raziq claims that he is in contact with the Taliban group leaders and has participated in talks for at least four times as efforts are underway to encourage the group to start peace negotiations, according to RFE/RL’s Afghanistan Service.
According to Gen. Raziq, the contacts between him and the Taliban leaders started nearly two months ago and efforts are underway to start talk for reconciliation.
The Police Chief of Kandahar also claimed that representatives of some other countries, including US, Saudi, and officials of certain European countries are also engaged in the ongoing efforts for the revival of peace talks.
The Taliban group has not commented regarding the latest claims of Gen. Raziq so far.
In the meantime, Gen. Raziq claims that almost half of the Taliban leaders representing the Quetta Shura ...Taliban's command center, located in Quetta, that the Pak govt hasn't been able to find since its establishment in November, 2001. Honest... (Council) are shown readiness for the peace talks.
This comes as reports emerged earlier suggesting that the Afghan officials and Taliban group leaders will participate in the summit in Azerbaijan to discuss peace prospects.
However, it's easy to be generous with someone else's money... the Taliban group front man Zabiullah Mujahid rejected the reports and said none of the leaders of the group will take in the summit.
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] A series of dronezap targeted faceless myrmidons affiliated with 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.... of Iraq and Syria Khurasan (ISIS-K), a day after at least 130 Pak Talibs, Tehrik-e-Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... Pakistain (TTP), attack the security posts in Nangarhar The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country.. province.
The 201st Silab Corps of the Afghan Military said at least five ISIS-K faceless myrmidons were killed in dronezaps in Kako and Gorgori areas of Deh Bala district.
The source further added that a commander of the group identified as Salman Orakzai was also among those killed.
In the meantime, the commander of the 1st Brigade of the Border Police forces, Gen. Mohammad Ayoub Hussain Khel said a group of at least 130 faceless myrmidons launched coordinated attacks on security posts late on Wednesday night.
He said the attack was carried out in the vicinity of Momand Dara district and at least ten faceless myrmidons were killed or maimed after the Afghan forces responded to the attack.
Gen. Hussain Khel further added that the dead bodies of the faceless myrmidons were left in the area after the clash ended and Pak identity cards were also recovered from the dead Death Eaters.
According to Gen. Hussain Khel, the faceless myrmidons managed to flee the area after the attack and the Afghan forces are fully prepared to respond to the attacks by the Death Eaters.
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The Ministry of Defense of Afghanistan (MoD) says the operations against the Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... group turbans will resume after the ceasefire period extended by the Afghan government ended late on Friday night.
MoD front man Gen. Mohamamd Radmanish informed regarding the resumption of the operations as he was speaking during a presser shortly after President Ghani said the ceasefire with the Taliban has come to an end.
He said the ceasefire was originally announced from 27th of the holy month of Ramadan until the 5th day of Eid al-Fitr and was subsequently extended for another ten days by President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani ...former chancellor of Kabul University, now president of Afghanistan. Before returning to Afghanistan in 2002 he was a scholar of political science and anthropology. He worked at the World Bank working on international development assistance. As Finance Minister of Afghanistan between July 2002 and December 2004, he led Afghanistan's attempted economic recovery until the Karzais stole all the money. .. Gen. Radmanish further added that the ceasefire period has ended as per the instructions of President Ghani and the operations will resume similar to the past.
In regards to the latest operations conducted in the past 24 hours, Gen. Radmanish said at least 35 myrmidons, including five ISIS-K bad boyz were potted and at least 33 others sustained injuries.
He said at least nine of the turbans were killed in Herat ...a venerable old Persian-speaking city in western Afghanistan, populated mostly by Tadjiks, which is why it's not as blood-soaked as areas controlled by Pashtuns... , 6 were killed in Uruzgan, 5 ISISI-K turbans were killed in Nangarhar The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country.. , 4 turbans were killed in Faryab, 10 others were killed in Maidan Wardak, and another terrorist was killed in Sari Pul-Jawzjan highway.
Gen. Radmanish said the Afghan forces defended against the Taliban attacks in at least ten parts of the country while conducting counter-terrorism operations against al-Qaeda, ISIS, and other terror groups.
According to Gen. Radmanish, the Afghan forces also discovered and defused nine improvised bombs from various parts of the country during the same operations.
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] At least five Talibs were killed or maimed in an kaboom triggered by a roadside kaboom in Maidan Wardak province of Afghanistan.
The 203rd Thunder Corps of the Afghan Military said the incident took place in the vicinity of Jalrez district after an improvised bomb planted on a roadside went off targeting a group of armed murderous Moslems.
The source further added that the kaboom left at least three Talibs dead while two others sustained injuries.
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[AlAhram] Islamist holy warriors armed with rockets and explosives raided the headquarters of an African military taskforce in central Mali, leaving at least six people dead on Friday, a front man for the force said.
Assailants driving a vehicle rigged with bombs attacked the compound in the town of Sevare as some exchanged gunfire with Malian troops and fought to get in, officials said.
Pictures from the scene showed the charred remains of a vehicle, a crater and the battered walls of the buildings, which are used by the G5 Sahel, a regional force created last year to root out Islamist holy warriors in West Africa's semi-arid Sahel region ... North Africa's answer to the Pak tribal areas... A front man for the G5 force - which is made up of soldiers from Mali, Niger, Burkina Faso ...The country in west Africa that they put where Upper Volta used to be. Its capital is Oogadooga, or something like that. Its president is currently Blaise Compaoré, who took office in 1987 and will leave office feet first, one way or the other... , Chad and Mauritania - said two soldiers and four assailants died in the attack.
"The attackers fired rockets at the headquarters and some of them infiltrated the compound. There was an exchange of fire," defence ministry front man Boubacar Diallo told Rooters.
A U.N. source in Sevare, speaking on condition of anonymity ... for fear of being murdered... , said that the compound was hit by a boom-mobile. Gunfire had died down by mid-afternoon, the source added.
Extremism watchdog SITE, which monitors turban activity globally, said Al Qaeda's branch in Mali had reportedly grabbed credit for the attack and described it as a suicide kaboom.
The attack comes a month before Mali's presidential election.
Violence by Islamist holy warriors has proliferated in the sparsely-populated Sahel in recent years, with groups linked to al Qaeda and 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.... using central and northern Mali as a launchpad for attacks across the region.
Western powers, including La Belle France and the United States, have provided significant funding to the G5 in a bid to beat back the jihadists. But the force has been slow to get off the ground, hobbled by delays disbursing the money and coordinating among the five countries.
The French defence ministry said in a report on Thursday that around 15 assailants were killed when a detachment of its forces, alongside Malian commandos, clashed with a group of around 20 holy warriors on June 22.
It said the clash, which required helicopter support, led to the seizure or destruction of many materials including two pickups and six cycle of violences, munitions and heavy and light weapons.
A separate U.N. peacekeeping mission in Mali, MINUSMA, declined to comment on the attack on the G5 compound
[AlAhram] A five-nation African anti-terror task force vowed Saturday to press on in its battle against jihadists, the day after a suicide attack on the outfit's headquarters in Mali killed two soldiers and a civilian.
Friday's attack by a bomber in a vehicle painted in UN colours destroyed the building's entrance wall.
It was the first attack on the headquarters of the G5 force, set up with the backing of La Belle France in 2017 to roll back jihadist gunnies and criminal groups in the vast, unstable Sahel region.
"The conditions of this force will improve," Mauritanian Foreign Minister Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed said. "This shows our determination rather than an indication of any weakness."
The French and Cameroon ...a long, narrow country that fills the space between Nigeria and Chad on the northeast, CAR to the southeast. Prior to incursions by Boko Haram nothing ever happened there... ian presidents condemned the attack and discussed the security situation in the Lake Chad area, the French leader's office said Saturday.
"This demonstrates once again the importance of the vision of the heads of state to create this force which can respond to these difficulties," the foreign minister said in the Mauritanian capital Nouakchott.
The al-Qaeda-linked Support Group for Islam and Moslems, the main jihadist alliance in Africa's Sahel region, claimed the attack in a telephone call to the Mauritanian news agency al-Akhbar.
The strike in the Malian town of Sevare came shortly after Friday prayers, a military source in the G5 Sahel force told AFP.
Governor Sidi Alassane Toure said four suspects had been tossed in the calaboose Book 'im, Mahmoud! UN secretary general Antonio Guterres, who visited the Sevare headquarters last month, highlighted security shortcomings on several of the force's sites in Mali in a report published in May.
"Poor conditions on and around the site represent an important security threat, and are delaying the deployment of the remaining soldiers," the report said.
The strike came three days before a meeting in Nouakchott between French President Emmanuel Macron and the heads of the G5 Sahel states to discuss progress made by the force.
The G5 Sahel aims to have a total of 5,000 troops from five nations — Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali, Mauritania and Niger, but has faced funding problems. It operates alongside La Belle France's 4,000 troops in the troubled "tri-border" area where Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso meet, and alongside the UN's 12,000-strong MINUSMA peacekeeping operation in Mali.
The G5 Sahel was scheduled to be fully mobilised by mid-2018, but its deployment has faced delays, equipment worries and accusations of human rights ...which are usually open to widely divergent definitions... abuses.
On Tuesday, the UN said Malian soldiers within the force had "summarily" executed 12 civilians in a market in central Mali in May in retaliation for the death of a soldier.
La Belle France intervened militarily in Mali in 2013 to help government forces drive al-Qaeda-linked jihadists out of the north. But large tracts of the country remain lawless despite a peace accord signed with ethnic Tuareg leaders in mid-2015 aimed at isolating the jihadists. The violence has also spilled over into both Burkina Faso and Niger.
[ALMASDARNEWS] A large military convoy from the United Arab Emirates (UAE) was filmed heading towards the western coast of Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of. Except for a tiny handfull of Jews everthing there is very Islamic... this month to aid their allied forces on the ground.
According to Yemeni pro-government media, the Emirati military convoy was moving towards the front-lines of Hodeidah, where their allies from the Southern Resistance Army and Elite Republican Guard are currently fighting the 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 ... forces.
In the footage filmed this month, the UAE troops not only head to the Hodeidah front, but they also partake in festivities against the Houthi forces.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] The Arab Coalition Supporting Legitimacy in Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of. Except for a tiny handfull of Jews everthing there is very Islamic... foiled on Saturday an imminent attack by the 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’s boats against civilian fishing boats in the Red Sea.
The coalition added in a statement that it seized the Houthi militias’ boats along with its cargo of weapons.
In another development the Arab coalition confirmed issuing an entry permit to an oil tanker to enter Hodeidah port in the last 24 hours.
The coalition clarified that six ships already started unloading at Hodeidah port, while seven other ships are waiting for permission to enter the port, pointing out that the ship Great K reached the port after being obstructed by the Houthi militias for 69 days.
The coalition said that the Houthi militias also obstructed the entering of the ship Volante to Hodeidah for more than 39 days.
Meanwhile there are two ships, one waiting at Saleef port, and another waiting for permission to enter.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] A Ottoman Turkish vessel that was damaged while trying to dock on Houthi-controlled port of Saleef last month is currently being repaired on Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... ’s Jazan port, according to an-Arab coalition statement released on Saturday.
The Ottoman Turkish "Ince Inebolu" was trying to unload its cargo of wheat last month when an kaboom heavily damaged the vessel.
The captain of the ship at the time sent a distress call to an Arab coalition naval ship who reported an opening had appeared in the middle of the vessel’s left side.
"Coalition forces conducted a survey of the incident and visited the ship and found an kaboom from the inside to the outside," a coalition front man said in a statement at the time.
The captain said he did not know the cause of the damage, the front man said. The coalition later towed the ship to the port of Jazan in Saudi Arabia.
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[EN.ABNA24] The Yemeni army forces on Friday carried out offensive against the positions of Saudi-backed militias in Yemen’s restive Lahj ... a Yemeni governate located in the southwestern corner of the Arabian Peninsula. It is the stomping grounds on the southern secessionist al-Harak movement province, said a military official.
The offensive targeted the militias’ positions in the in the junction of Alkhamees area in AlKabytah district, which resulted in liberating several strategic positions, the official added.
The official confirmed that dozens of the militias were killed and injured in the attack.
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[EN.ABNA24] The Yemeni army forces, popular committees besieged coalition-backed forces and battle formations in several areas on the western coast, reported a military official.
In the past hours, the official said the army and the committees foiled and besieged a large-scale attack of the coalition-backed militias in the farms of Faza’a district, confirming that the militias inflicted heavy casualties.
The official added that two of the coalition military vehicles and armored personnel were destroyed by the army on the western coast.
The Coalition leadership left their dead and maimed on the battlefields every day without any medical evacuations, the official said.
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A magistrate defending his family against an armed gang who stormed his home ended up being arrested himself ‐ and accused of a racially aggravated assault.
Police detained Nigel Stringer for three hours and he remains under investigation while the gang ‐ believed to have been armed with a gun, knives, metal bars and a crossbow ‐ were allowed to leave.
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Police detained Nigel Stringer for three hours and he remains under investigation while the gang ‐ believed to have been armed with a gun, knives, metal bars and a crossbow ‐ were allowed to leave.
[AlAhram] A rescue boat saved 59 migrants colonists at sea off Libya on Saturday and Italia immediately said it would not welcome them, setting up a fresh stand-off with Malta and adding to tensions among European governments over immigration.
The migrants colonists on board Open Arms, a boat run by the Spanish Proactiva Open Arms charity, include five women and four children, said Riccardo Gatti, head of the organization's Italian mission.
Italian Interior Minister Matteo Salvini, leader of the right-wing League Party, said there would be no exception to his policy of refusing to let humanitarian boats dock in Italia and added that Malta was the nearest port of call.
"They can forget about arriving in an Italian port," he tweeted.
Maltese Home Affairs Minister Michael Farrugia, shot back on Twitter that the rescue had taken place closer to the Italian island of Lampedusa than to Malta.
He told Salvini to "stop giving false information and involving Malta without any reason."
Gatti told Italian radio broadcaster Radio Radicale that the migrants colonists on board included Paleostinians, Syrians and Guineans and were all in good condition.
He later told Rooters that Open Arms had received no authorisation from any country to dock, and did not know where it would take the migrants colonists.
On Wednesday Malta let the German charity ship Lifeline dock in Valletta with 230 migrants colonists on board, after it was stuck at sea for almost a week following Italia's decision to close its ports to rescue vessels run by non-government organizations.
However, a woman is only as old as she admits... Maltese Prime Minister Joseph Muscat said the gesture was a one-time "ad-hoc" resolution to the crisis and the following day Malta announced it would not allow any more charity boats to dock.
European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... leaders on Friday came to a hard-fought agreement over migration that Salvini and Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte said was positive for Italia.
However, a woman is only as old as she admits... the agreement does not oblige other EU states to share the burden of sea rescues.
More than 650,000 migrants colonists have come ashore in Italia since 2014, mostly after being rescued at sea off the Libyan coast by private and public groups. Italia is sheltering about 170,000, but the number of arrivals has plummeted this year.
Despite the decline in arrivals, there are still daily stories of disasters as migrants colonists make the perilous crossing from Africa to Europe. The Libyan coastguard said around 100 were thought to have drowned off Tripoli ...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn... on Friday.
That tragedy raised the political temperature in Italia, where the government dismissed opposition accusations that it was responsible due to its crackdown on NGOs, and said the best way to save lives was by preventing departures from Libya.
"The fewer people set sail, the fewer die," Salvini said.
ISTANBUL (Reuters) - The Turkish military killed eight Kurdish militants in air strikes in northern Iraq and southeastern Turkey at the weekend, it said on Sunday.
The air strikes were carried out on northern Iraq’s Zap region and Turkey’s southeastern provinces of Sirnak and Van, the military tweeted.
Turkey has stepped up strikes on Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) bases in northern Iraq, especially its stronghold in the Qandil mountains. Ankara has said it may launch a ground offensive into Qandil, where it believes high-ranking PKK members are based.
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[AlAhram] The Ottoman Turkish military carried out Arclight airstrikes in northern Iraq's Avasin Basyan region on Saturday, killing four Kurdish holy warriors, it said on its official Twitter account.
The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the decaying remnant of the Ottoman Empire.... has recently stepped up strikes on Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) bases in northern Iraq, especially its stronghold in the Qandil mountains. Ankara has said it may launch a ground offensive into Qandil, where high-ranking PKK members are believed to be based.
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Kirkuk (IraqiNews.com) Eight Sunni tribal fighters were killed and injured in an attack carried out by 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.... , southwest of Kirkuk, ... a thick stew of Arabs, Turkmen, Kurds, and probably Antarcticans, all of them mutually hostile most of the time... an informed security source said on Saturday.
Speaking to Shafaq News website, the source said Islamic State members set up an ambush for the Sunni fighters, in the evening, on the road of Makhus village in Hawija, southwest of Kirkuk.
The attack, according to the source, left five fighters killed and three others injured.
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Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) Several 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.... members were killed as joint forces carried out an attack against one of the Death Eater group’s strongholds in Makhmur town.
Speaking to Alghad Press website, the source said, "joint troops of the U.S.-led Coalition and Peshmerga carried out an attack against of IS strongholds in Qargough mountain, located in Makhmur town."
The attack, according to the source, "was carried out based on intelligence information. Several Islamic State members, including prominent leaders, were killed.
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Diyala (IraqiNews.com) An Iraqi policeman has been killed by an 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.... sniper in Diyala province, a security source said on Saturday.
"A sniper from Islamic State opened fire against a police conscript of Diyala police in Abu Sayda town, Diyala," the source told Baghdad Today website. The policeman was immediately killed.
The situation in the region, according to the source, "has been deteriorating over the past few days."
Unknown snuffies "randomly fire shots in the region," the source said adding that this has intimidated the residents, which caused ten families to flee the town.
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[ALMASDARNEWS] Iraq is in full control of the Syrian border region after ousting the so-called 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.... (ISIS) from the region, Kurdistan 24 reported, citing the head of the Iraqi Border Guards.
According to the Kurdistan 24 report, the commander of the Iraqi Border Guards, Major General Hamid ’Abdullah Ibrahim, told the news agency that they completed the construction of a barbed-wire fence along the Iraq-Syrian border.
"We are now concerned about the Syrian border. We have put forward a program based on Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi’s request...and are doing strategic work to protect the border," Ibrahim said in a press statement, as quoted by Kurdistan 24.
The Iraqi Border Guards are now working to install thermal cameras to prevent any further Islamic State infiltrations from Syria.
"Neither infiltrators nor smugglers nor holy warriors will penetrate our borders in the future," the Maj. Gen. continued, adding the border guards’ work will expand following the strengthening of the Syrian-Jordanian-Iraqi border triangle.
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"Neither infiltrators nor smugglers nor holy warriors will penetrate our borders in the future"
As the good General twiddled with his magnificent mustache, there was snickering heard from the areas off-camera.
Probably from the smugglers in his entourage.
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[IsraelTimes] Four of the maimed are children aged 6 to 14 whose families were reportedly all killed in the fighting between the Syrian army and rebels in the southwestern part of the country.
Six Syrians, who were moderately-to-seriously maimed in the battles between the Syrian army and rebels in the southern part of the country, were transferred by the IDF to hospitals in Israel for treatment over the weekend.
Among the Syrian maimed are four children aged 6 to 14, whose families were reportedly all killed in the fighting.
On Friday night, the IDF Northern Command's medical forces were called to the border fence in the southern Golan Heights, where they provided the maimed Syrians with life-saving initial treatment in the field.
Troops from the IDF's 366th Division, also known as the Path of Fire Division, then transferred the maimed to hospitals in northern Israel in a complex operation.
According to the IDF, throughout the Syrian civil war, there has been a severe shortage of medical infrastructure, doctors and medicine. The IDF has been providing Syrian civilians caught in the crossfire with life-saving humanitarian aid, while at the same time avoids interfering in the fighting.
The IDF also said that since 2013, over 3,500 Syrian maimed were brought into Israel for medical treatment, including men, women and kiddies.
Since 2016, over 1,300 sick Syrian children were brought into Israel for one-day treatments by expert doctors.
One field clinic the IDF established along with international aid organizations in the southern Golan has treated some 6,000 patients since its opening in August 2017.
In total, over 4,800 Syrians received treatment in Israel, with 33 percent of them men, 17 percent women and some 50 percent children.
The IDF delivered about 60 tons of humanitarian aid to the Syrian Golan Heights on Thursday night. During the special overnight operation, some 300 tents, 13 tons of food, 15 tons of baby food, three pallets of medical equipment and medicine and some 30 tons of clothes and shoes were transferred into Syria from four different spots on the border.
[IsraelTimes] Cause of blast in neighborhood of Shejaiya not yet known; Gazoo boy killed Friday buried amid calls for Dire Revenge; he was son of Hamas, a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth", terror commander
At least two Paleostinians were killed and five injured on Saturday evening in an kaboom in an apartment in the Gazoo City neighborhood of Shejaiya, according to the Hamas-run Gazoo health ministry.
The cause of the blast was not immediately known, but there were suggestions it was the result of mishandling of explosives.
Hadashot TV news reported that the family in whose home the kaboom occurred is affiliated with Fatah, Hamas’s Paleostinian rival, which was violently tossed by the terror group now ruling Gazoo in 2007.
By contrast, Haaretz reported that the apartment held firecrackers and other explosives, and cited a Paleostinian source as saying there were indications the alleged lab belonged to Hamas’s armed wing.
The paper also said the two Gazooks killed were 17-year-old Mouayed Hals and Dia al-Arar, also 17.
Earlier Saturday, Israeli firefighters battled five blazes sparked by incendiary devices flown toward Israeli communities from Gazoo.
Saturday’s fires come a day after the Hamas-run health ministry said two Paleostinians were killed Friday in violent demonstrations along the Gazoo Strip’s border with Israel. A 13-year-old was fatally shot in the head and a 24-year-old man died of gunshot wounds to his leg and abdomen, the ministry said.
According to some reports, the boy was shot while sabotaging the border fence. A paramedic told AP the teenager was throwing stones "very close to the fence" when he was shot. Reports from his funeral Saturday named him as Yasser Abu al-Naja, and said he was the son of senior "commander" in the Hamas terror group’s military wing. AFP put his age at 11. Thousands of Gazooks attended the funeral, with mourners demanding "Dire Revenge.”
[ALMASDARNEWS] The Syrian Arab Army (SAA) kicked off an operation along a new axis in western Daraa yesterday.
Led by their elite Elite Republican Guard forces, the Syrian Arab Army began the operation by storming the Free Syrian Army ... the more palatable version of the Syrian insurgency, heavily influenced by the Moslem Brüderbund... ’s (FSA) positions at the large hilltop of Tal Zamitiyah.
Not long after attacking this hilltop, the Syrian Arab Army was able to impose full control over Tal Zamitiyah after overwhelming the Free Syrian Army fighters in the area.
As a result of this advance, the Syrian Army was able to impose fire control over the last rebel supply line from west Daraa to the eastern countryside of the province.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Iranian security forces have shot and killed at least four protesters after demonstrations erupted for a second day in a row in the southwestern city of Muhammarah, activists told Al Arabiya English.
Videos of the protests have been circulating on social media showing festivities between demonstrators and security forces of the Revolutionary Guards with "death to Khamenei slogans" slogans being heard.
The news of protesters death comes a day after major protests erupted on Friday as thousands of people gathered in Khorramshahr city in front of the city’s central mosque.
The rallies protested against what activists described as a deteriorating economic situation of their city, as well as the lack of support for their towns with slogans being chanted against "regime thieves" being heard.
Protesters Chant Anti-Regime Slogans In Khorramshahr City Last week, traders at Tehran’s Grand Bazaar staged a rare strike following earlier reports of street protests in provincial cities.
Iranians have been hit by rising prices, and record levels of unemployment have left a third of under 30s out of work.
The latest protests follow dozens over the new year which left at least 25 people dead.
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Just a little nudge and this could get big
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[EN.ABNA24] The Syrian Arab Army (SAA) reached the newly liberated town of al-Hirak in the eastern countryside of the Daraa Governorate on Friday.
Footage shows truckloads of soldiers as they pass through battle-damaged streets.
According to the Syrian news agency SANA, the SAA was successful in re-establishing control over several villages northeast of Daraa city and operations are now underway to clear the areas of mines and improvised bombs (IEDs).
The fighting is part of a week long offensive in the area, which according to the UN has displaced up to 45,000 people.
The majority of those displaced have reportedly fled from the eastern parts of Daraa towards the country’s southern border with Jordan.
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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
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...former chancellor of Kabul University, now president of Afghanistan. Before returning to Afghanistan in 2002 he was a scholar of political science and anthropology. He worked at the World Bank working on international development assistance. As Finance Minister of Afghanistan between July 2002 and December 2004, he led Afghanistan's attempted economic recovery until the Karzais stole all the money. ..
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] At least five Talibs were killed or 
...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of. Except for a tiny handfull of Jews everthing there is very Islamic...
