[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The Afghan military says the deadly festivities between the Talibs and ISIS Khurasan bandidosLions of Islam continue in eastern Kunar province ... which is right down the road from Chitral. Kunar is Haqqani country..... of Afghanistan.
The 201st Silab Corps of the Afghan Military in the East said the two sides once again exchanged fire in Chapa Dara and Suki districts on Saturday and Sunday.
The source further added that the clash in Karayo area left at least six ISIS forces of Evil and at least one Taliban ...Arabic for students... murderous Moslem dead.
According to the Silab Corps, at least three ISIS forces of Evil were killed and two others were maimed during the clash in Suki district.
The anti-government armed bad boy and terrorist groups including Taliban and ISIS forces of Evil have not commented regarding the report so far.
This comes as Silab Corps said Wednesday at least four ISIS-K forces of Evil were killed while at least nine others were detained by the Taliban Lions of Islam during a similar clash in Chapa Dara district.
According to the Silab Corps, at least two Taliban Lions of Islam were also captured by ISIS-K forces of Evil during the clash.
A shootout took place among the local public uprising forces and forces of Evil 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) in eastern 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 of Afghanistan late on Sunday night in the vicinity of Nazian district, leaving several people dead from the two sides.
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The Special Forces of the Afghan Intelligence, National Directorate of Security ...the Afghan national intel agency... (NDS), have tossed in the slammer Drop the gat, Rocky, or you're a dead 'un! at least three ISIS Khurasan Death Eaters who were plotting suicide kabooms against the Afghan forces.
The provincial government office 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.. said the Death Eaters were arrested from Behsud district on Sunday during an operation of the NDS Special Forces.
The governor’s office further added that the detained individuals have been identified as Qari Abbbas, Abdul Rashid, and Azam Khan who were planning to carry out attacks on Afghan forces in Kunar province ... which is right down the road from Chitral. Kunar is Haqqani country..... This comes as the local officials had earlier said that a key ISIS Khurasan group member who was in charge of coordinating in the urban areas and expert in producing Improvised Explosive Devices was killed during an operation of the Afghan armed forces.
According to the local officials, the key ISIS Khurasan group member was killed in Jalalabad city the historic provincial capital of Nangarhar province.
The officials further added that the Special Forces of the Afghan intelligence, National Directorate of Security (NDS), conducted an operation in Muqam Khan area of Behsud, resulting into the killing of a key ISIS Khurasan group member, who was famous as Muhajir.
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The Afghan Air Force carried out airstrikes on a large gathering of the Taliban insurgents in northern Faryab province of Afghanistan, inflicting heavy casualties on the group’s fighters.
The 209th Shaheen Corps of the Afghan Military in the North said the airstrikes were carried out in the vicinity of Pashtun Kot district.
Shaheen Corps further added that the airstrikes left at least 24 Taliban militants dead while at least 31 others sustained injuries.
According to Shaheen Corps, the military commission chief of the Taliban group Makhdoom Alam is also among those wounded during the airstrikes.
At least three vehicles, including two Fielder type SUVs and thirteen motorcycles were also destroyed during the airstrikes, Shaheen Corps added.
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] At least six holy warriors were killed during the Arclight airstrikes conducted along the highway between Kabul and Jalalabad, the Ministry of Defense (MoD) said Monday.
According to a statement released by the Ministry of Defense, the airstrikes were conducted in support of the ongoing operations to suppress the turban groups.
No further details have been given regarding the airstrikes but the anti-government armed holy warriors often conducted terrorist related activities in the outskirts of Kabul province, mainly in the areas around Sarobi.
In the meantime, MoD said at least one turban also sustained injuries during the ground operations and airstrikes along the highway.
The anti-government armed turban groups including Talibs have not commented regarding the report so far.
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[Black Rifle Coffee Co.] Buck, a former US Army Ranger-turned-Special Forces communication sergeant, quietly watched as a C-130 cargo airplane lifted off from the runway at Jalalabad Airfield with a deafening roar, quickly ascending into the pitch-black sky.
"I know there’s a scientific explanation for it, but it still blows my mind every time I see it," Buck said. "I mean, something that big just doesn’t seem like it should be able to take off like that."
The lone operator was patiently waiting for his hour-long flight out to combat outpost (COP) Blackfish, located in Nangarhar Province’s Achin District, where the rest of his Special Forces team was deployed. Only 11 kilometers from the Pakistan border, the remote camp is one of the most forward positions the US military holds in the fight against ISIS-Khorasan.
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[SABANEWS.NET] The army and popular forces assaulted sites of the Saudi-paid mercenaries over the past 24 hours in several combat fronts, killing and injuring dozens, a military official told Saba on Tuesday.
Taiz province, the army repulsed the mercenaries 'attempt to move towards Maqbanah district, killing, injuring many and destroying a military vehicle.
In border province of Najran, Dozens of Saudi soldiers were killed and wounded when the army repelled an attack of the mercenaries towards al-Shorfa western site, as the artillery was fired at other groups in western, eastern site of Sudis.
The army raided against sites of mercenaries off al-Khadra crossing point, slaying and injuring several of them.
The army waged assault against sites groups of the mercenaries in al-Sakar hilltop and al-Buqa desert, killing, wounding A number of the mercenaries and destroyed a military vehicles.
In Lahj province, the army raided on sites of the mercenaries in Moghnih area of Qabidah district, killing and injuring dozens.
In border province of Jizan, A number of the mercenaries were slayed and injured when the army foiled an attempt to sneak up towards sites in al-Khubah area.
The army's artillery fired at gatherings of Saudi soldiers and their mercenaries in sites of Abu al-Maid camp, al-Madrasah village and al-Ma'ain, killing and wounding several of them.
In border governorate of Asir, the army's sniper units shot dead two militiamen in Majazah area and hit groups of Saudi soldiers and their mercenaries in Alib crossing point. Howzat Hodeidah battle goin' fer you?
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Direct from Saana Sam, Baghdad Bob's little brother....
[Bus Insider] An Iranian diplomat, along with five others, have been arrested over a plot to blow up an event of an exiled Iranian opposition group.
The event for the National Resistance Council of Iran (NRCI), an Iranian opposition organization based in Paris, also featured President Donald Trump's lawyer Rudy Giuliani on Saturday.
Belgian police intercepted two suspects on Saturday with 500 grams of a home-made explosive powder, as well as a detonation device in their car, Reuters reported, citing a joint statement by the Belgian prosecutor and Belgian intelligence services.
The suspects, reportedly a married couple in their thirties, were charged with attempted terrorist murder and preparation of a terrorist act. The NCRI said the woman had come from Iran to Belgium in 2009.
According to The National, the Iranian diplomat was based in the Austrian capital of Vienna, and was arrested in Germany. The diplomat is suspected of having been in contact with the couple who were identified by Iranian exiles as residents of northern Antwerp.
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Must be a cultural misunderstanding. Good thing he has diplomatic immunity.
[IsraelTimes] German authorities say they have enjugged Drop the rosco, Muggsy, or you're one with the ages! a 27-year-old German woman suspected of being part of 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’s "morality police" in Iraq.
Federal prosecutors said Monday that Jennifer W. traveled to Iraq via The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... and Syria in September 2014, where she joined the Death Eater group.
In a statement, prosecutors said she patrolled parks in Fallujah and djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... , ensuring that women adhered to the dress and behavior codes imposed by IS.
W., whose surname wasn’t released for privacy reasons, was arrested by Ottoman Turkish police in January 2016 after applying for a passport at the German embassy in Ankara. She was deported to Germany days later.
Prosecutors said she was arrested in southern Germany on Friday and her home in northern Germany searched. She’s accused of membership in a foreign terrorist organization.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] The Belgian federal prosecutor confirmed the opening of an investigation into a terror plot targeting the Iranian opposition conference in Paris, France, based on information from the Belgian state security agency.
The security authorities in Antwerp, northern Belgium, arrested two suspects, Anis S. (1980) and his wife Nasima N. (1984), both Belgians of Iranian origin, suspected of involvement in planning an extremist bombing attack on Saturday in Paris’ Villepint where the National Council of Resistance of Iran is currently holding its annual conference.
The couple, described by prosecutors as being "of Iranian origin", were carrying 500 grams (about a pound) of the volatile explosive TATP along with a detonation device when an elite police squad stopped them in a residential district of Brussels.
Belgian prosecutors said an alleged accomplice was under arrest in France, while two others were released after questioning by French police.
The statement said that an Iranian diplomat at the Austrian embassy in Vienna, a contact of the couple, was also arrested in Germany.
The federal prosecutor’s office say that the two, both in their thirties, are suspected of planning a kaboom Saturday against an Iranian opposition group, the People’s Mujahedin, in the French town of Villepinte, which is close to Gay Paree.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] A source has said German authorities identified and placed in durance vile ... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not... Asdollah Assadi, an Iranian diplomat currently being detained on suspicion of involvement in plotting a major kaboom targeting an Iranian opposition gathering in Gay Paree.
In a related case, two suspects in Belgium were intercepted by Belgian police on Saturday, with 500 grams of TATP, a home-made explosive produced from easily available chemicals, as well as a detonation device found in their car, a joint statement by the Belgian prosecutor and the intelligence services said.
Three other arrests were made in La Belle France.
"The terrorist diplomat, who is the station chief of the Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS) in Vienna, has been stationed in Austria since August 2014," a source from the Committee of Security and Counter-terrorism of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) said in a statement sent to Al Arabiya English.
The exiled Iranian opposition group NCRI were hosting their annual Free Iran conference in La Belle France attended by 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... 's lawyer Rudy Giuliani and several former European and Arab ministers.
"Prior to Asadollah Assadi, an individual by the name of Mostafa Roudaki was the MOIS station chief in the regime’s embassy in Austria. Roudaki was transferred to Tehran and was subsequently dispatched to Albania in 2017 as the MOIS station chief there to plot against the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran," the source added.
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[DAWN] Army Chief Gen Qamar Javed Bajwa on Monday confirmed the death sentences awarded to "12 hardcore terrorists" by the military courts, the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) said.
The bandidosholy warriors "were involved in heinous offences related to terrorism, including the killing of innocent civilians, attacking law enforcement agencies and the armed forces," read a statement issued by the military's media wing.
The ISPR said the convicts were involved in "killing a total of 34 people, including 26 civilians, and injuring 133 others". They were also found to be involved in planning and execution of an attack on an Imambargah ...since Pakistain is very religiously correct, Shia Moslems can't call their houses of worship 'mosques,' which are reserved for Sunnis. It's not clear if imambargahs are used for explosives storage like mosques are... in Parachinar, it added.
The men were tried and sentenced by military courts, in addition to six others who were handed imprisonments. Besides, Ehsan Ullah son of Kifayat Ullah was found not guilty by the court and was set free, the ISPR release said.
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[DAWN] At least six security personnel were martyred and another two injured in a rocket attack on a bomb disposal team in the Mashkay area of Awaran district on Monday.
Official sources said the bomb disposal team was busy sweeping across the area some 30km from Mashkay when the rocket fired from the nearby mountains landed and went kaboom! near them.
"Six personnel of the bomb disposal team were martyred on the spot when the rocket hit them," official sources said, adding that two soldiers were maimed.
A contingent of security force rushed to the scene and shifted the bodies and the injured to a nearby health facility.
The dear departed were identified as Havaldar Shabbir and Sepoys Sheraz, Bashir, Sharaj, Allah Nawaz and Abid. The injured were Sepoys Ehsan and Rashid.
According to sources, security forces launched a search operation in the area to trace out the culprits involved in the attack.
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Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) 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.... member, who recruits other myrmidons, west of djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... , as well as two other myrmidons, have been tossed in the calaboose You have the right to remain silent... , Iraqi authorities announced on Monday.
In a statement, Maj. Gen. Saad Maan, spokesperson for the Interior Ministry, said counter-terrorism troops in Tal Afar arrested an IS member, against whom an arrest warrant was issued."
Troops, according to the statement, "arrested the terrorist, possessing a recruitment form for the new members who joined the group, while it was controlling Mosul."
Moreover, the Security Media Center announced arresting two bully boyz and seizing two tunnels in Nineveh.
Brig. Gen. Yahia Rasool, spokesperson for the center, said in a statement that "Nineveh Operations Command managed to arrest a terrorist in Shuqaira region. Two tunnels were found in al-Zarka village."
Troops, according to Rasool, "arrested an IS member, depending on accurate intelligence information, in al-Aamel al-Oula district."
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Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) A security expert has revealed intentions by the U.S., which leads the international coalition, backed by the Kurdish Peshmerga forces, to get more than 600 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 into provinces of Kirkuk, ... a thick stew of Arabs, Turkmen, Kurds, and probably Antarcticans, all of them mutually hostile most of the time... Diyala and Salahuddin.
Speaking to Almaalomah website, Safaa al-Aasam said the meeting between Peshmerga and the coalition tackled returning the hard boyz back to the country. "The meeting is an attempt to return Islamic State back to the disputed regions and create security and political chaos to impose control of the Kurds on Kirkuk, Diyala and Salahuddin."
Kurdistan, according to Aasam, "detains more than 600 IS members who fled battles against security troops."
The U.S. "seeks returning Islamic State into the disputed regions, with support from Peshmerga to get the country back to square one," he said, urging the government to "take strict measures against Peshmerga and the coalition to stop the conspiracy against the security of the country."
On Monday, Kurdistan’s Ministry of Peshmerga declared an agreement with the coalition to revise the military plans of Kirkuk and the disputed regions.
Iraqi government forces approached the southern borders of Erbil, capital of semi-autonomous Kurdistan Region, after taking over Kirkuk province from Kurdish Peshmerga fighters in October, fulfilling instructions made by the Prime Minister Haidar al-Abadi to retake areas where illusory sovereignty is disputed with Kurdistan.
Baghdad had declared intentions to retake areas disputed on with Erbil following the Kurdistan Region’s vote for ts independence referendum on September 25, from Iraq, urging Peshmerga to cooperate with federal troops.
The disputed regions has been one of the main conflict issues between Baghdad and Erbil for 14 years. The area of those regions reach around 37 square kilometers
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Simple lie so the Iraqi in Baghdad have an excuse to invade Kurdistan
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ISIS hardliners relocating or Tribal Mercenaries that just want to get out a 'bad contract'? Hard to tell at this point.
Kirkuk (IraqiNews.com) Large numbers of Iraqi troops arrived to the outskirts of Kirkuk province preparing for a major operation against 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.... vestiges, according to a commander.
Ali al-Husseini, a spokesperson of the Popular Mobilization Forces’ "northern axis", said "large numbers of Federal Police and army forces arrived at the outskirts of Kirkuk over the past hours", noting that "the purpose of those reinforcements is the launch of a wide-scale operation on the borders of Diyala, Salahuddin and Kirkuk to purge them of Islamic State remnants".
He said the offensives in Kirkuk will be "drastically different from previous ones", urging to engage the PMF in the effort.
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Dhi Qar (IraqiNews.com) An Iraqi court sentenced two suspects to death, and a third one to life in prison, for terrorism-related crimes in Baghdad, Dhi Qar and Diyala provinces.
Spokesperson of the High Judicial Council, Abdul-Sattar Beyraqdar, said in a statement, said the criminal court in Dhi Qar province sentenced one of the pair to death, finding him guilty of practicing forced deportation and arson in Baghdad back in 2006.
Goodness. The mills of justice ground slowly for this one.
Another defendant, the spokesperson said, was found guilty of blowing up two booby-trapped cars in Dhi Qar in 2013, leaving casualties.
A third defendant, who was sentenced to life, was found guilty of blowing a house with an IED, and carrying out an armed attack on another one in 2006 in Diyala.
Baghdad (Iraqinews.com) – An Iraqi court has sentenced an arms dealer of the terrorist Islamic State group to life in jail, according to a judicial spokesman.
“The defendant, along with others, had been arrested in southern Baghdad by the counter-terrorism forces with medium weapons in their possession, which were meant to be used by the IS militants,” spokesman for the High Judicial Council Abdul-Sattar Bayraqdar said in a statement Monday.
The spokesman added that the defendant faced charges of “selling and trading in weapons and explosives in favor of the Islamic State group.”
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Anbar (IraqiNews.com) Three 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 in an Arclight airstrike by the Iraqi fighter jets, a source was quoted saying on Monday.
"Army jets shelled a vehicle for Islamic State while trying to reach to Kubaisa region in Heet town, leaving three forces of Evil killed," the source told Almaalomah website.
Intelligence information, according to the source, "enabled the jets to target the vehicle after military units noticed it."
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Diyala (Iraqinews.com) ‐ Eight 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) members were killed Monday in an Arclight airstrike on Mutaibija region on the borders between Diyala and Salahuddin provinces, a local official was quoted as saying.
Speaking to Alghad Press, Mohammed Daifan al-Obeidi, the head of Diyala’s provincial council, said the airstrike was staged after a group of IS Death Eaters attacked Mubarak al-Farhan village on the borders between Diyala and Salahuddin last night, leaving six people maimed.
"According to preliminary reports, the airstrike left eight IS Death Eaters dead," al-Obeidi pointed out.
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...just like the people who tossed the old piracy laws, cause they believe it wasn't happening anymore. Or people who refuse to inoculate their children because those old diseases don't show up anymore.
[IsraelTimes] Military says two other Paleostinians taken into custody, one at death's door who was flown to hospital in IDF helicopter; fourth suspect flees back into the Strip
Israeli troops shot up four Paleostinians who breached the southern Gazoo security fence and set fire to an empty Israel Defense Forces post on Monday, killing one of them, the army said.
According to the military, the four Paleostinian youths broke through the fence east of Rafah in the southern Strip and set fire to a sniper’s nest near the border.
"IDF troops spotted the infiltration and monitored the incident. The troops chased after the terrorists, during which time they shot up them," the army said.
"As a result of the gunfire, one terrorist was killed, another was critically injured and was taken for medical treatment, and one was handed over to security forces for interrogation," the IDF said in a statement.
The critically maimed Paleostinian suspect was evacuated to Beersheba’s Soroka Medical Center in an IDF helicopter, the army said. A hospital spokesperson said his condition had been improved to moderate and that he was undergoing treatment in the trauma center.
According to Paleostinian media, one of the suspects made it back to the Gazoo Strip. He was taken to a nearby hospital with a bullet wound in his shoulder, the Hamas, the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,-run Gazoo health ministry said.
During the chase after the suspects, the soldiers reported hearing gunshots fired at them, the army said.
The Shehab news outlet, which is affiliated with the Hamas terror group, reported that the shots were fired by members of Paleostinian terrorist groups in the area.
Gazoo's health ministry said a 16-year-old Paleostinian was maimed by Israeli gunfire in the southern Gazoo Strip. It's unclear if the two incidents are related.
According to an update given by Minister Gila Gamliel, some 450 incendiary kites were shot down by IDF drones; 260 Paleostinians crossed the border fence and caused 203 fires; and some 19,000 dunams (some 47,000 acres) were destroyed as a result of the blazes in the Gazoo border area, causing significant damage.
Also Monday afternoon, a large blaze was raging in the Shikma Stream area in the northern Negev. Some 200 dunams (about 50 acres) have been burned so far. Firefighting forces have yet to gain control of the fire.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] A Philippine city mayor known for parading drug suspects in public but also alleged to have drug ties himself was shot and killed by a sniper Monday in a brazen attack during a flag-raising ceremony in front of hundreds of horrified employees and village leaders.
The apparent lone gunshot felled Mayor Antonio Halili of Tanauan city in Batangas province south of Manila as he and about 300 employees and newly elected village leaders sang the national anthem in a parking lot outside the city hall. The gunman escaped, police and witnesses said.
“I didn’t know that it was gunfire until people started screaming ‘Somebody’s shooting, somebody’s shooting’ while running in all directions and I saw my mayor slumped on the ground,” said village leader Rico Alcazar, who was in a crowd standing behind the 72-year-old Halili. “Everybody was shocked and it took sometime before some carried the mayor and brought him away in a car.”
Halili’s bodyguards opened fire toward a grassy hill where the gunshot was apparently fired, adding to the bedlam, Alcazar said by phone.
Cellphone video shot by Alcazar shows a few men standing around the fallen Halili as gunfire rings out continuously and people cry, scream, run and take cover during the melee. A man yells, ‘The mayor is dead, the mayor was shot,’ and another desperately calls for a car to take Halili to a hospital. A third man starts blaming his companions for the security breach.
“They did not see anybody approach him. They just heard a gunshot, so the assumption or allegation was it could have been a sniper shot,” the national police chief, Director-General Oscar Albayalde, said at a news conference in Manila, adding that an investigation was underway.
The bullet hit a cellphone in Halili’s coat pocket then pierced his chest, police said. Policemen scoured the hill but failed to find the gunman.
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte expressed suspicion in a speech that the killing was linked to illegal drugs.
Two years ago, Halili ordered drug suspects to be paraded in public in Tanauan, a small city about 70 kilometers (43 miles) south of Manila, in a campaign that was dubbed “walks of shame.” The suspects were forced to wear cardboard signs that read “I’m a pusher, don’t emulate me” in a campaign that alarmed human rights officials.
Officials, however, also linked Halili to illegal drugs and removed his control over city police. Halili strongly denied the allegation and said at the time that he would resign and would be willing to be publicly paraded as a drug suspect if authorities could come up with evidence to support the allegation.
Tanauan information officer Gerardo Laresma said Halili had received death threats “left and right” from unknown people prior to the attack. Presidential spokesman Harry Roque condemned the violence.
Halili’s unusual campaign drew attention at a time of growing alarm over the rising number of killings of drug suspects under Duterte. Since Duterte took office in 2016, more than 4,200 drug suspects had been killed in clashes with police, alarming human rights groups, Western governments and U.N. rights watchdogs.
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Daraa (Syria News) The United Nations ...a lucrative dumping ground for the relatives of dictators and party hacks... has documented, on Monday, that the number of the internally displaced persons in Daraa increased to 270,000, since the start of the military offensive in the Syrian South.
Spokesman for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in Jordan, Mohammed Hawary, said that their latest report showed that the number of the IDPs in southern Syria exceeded 270,000 persons.
Hawary also described the situation of the IDPs on the Syrian-Jordanian border as "painful", while pointed out that they already became homeless.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] In a new video published by Iranian militias on social media, the commander of the Abu Fadl al-Abbas Brigade that is ideologically and logistically tied to Iran, Maher Ajeeb Jazza appeared in numerous villages in Daraa.
On its Facebook account, the of “Zulfiqar Brigade” militia said on Sunday they, along with the Syrian regime’s army, are now in Tafs and Dael.
Several pictures of Abu al-Fadl al-Abbas Brigade’s commander, as well as members of the Republican Guard, were published.
Iran established the Abu al-Fadl al-Abbas Brigade at the end of 2012 and appointed Maher Ajeeb Jazza, a Syrian citizen, as its leader. Jazza comes from a village with a Shiite majority called "Nabil" that are tied to the city of Aleppo.
In the video, sectarian slogans that Iran usually propagates to push its militias to go to Syria appeared on Jazza’s arm.
The Assad regime changed the name of the organization, initially called Abu al-Fadl Brigade, to “The Republican Guard- Abu al-Fadl al-Abbas Brigade.”
The regime did the same with another brigade, known as “Imam Hussain Brigade,” which merged with Assad’s army and battles under the fourth division headed by Major General Maher al-Assad.
The Abu al-Fadl Brigade has its headquarters in the “Sayeda Zeinab” district in the capital Damascus, where the majority of the "Iranian" militias are headquartered in Syria.
The militia’s leader said that the Brigade was founded to defend “the shrine of Sayeda Zeinab,” which has become the motto that Iran has spread to its militias in Syria.
Before the Assad regime launched its military operation in Daraa, Mojtaba Ferdosipour, Iran’s ambassador to Jordan, said that Iran does not have military forces in southern Syria.
The military operation in Daraa has led to extensive destruction and left a large number of people dead and injured, in addition to displacing more than 200 thousand civilians who fled the war.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov urged foreign parties to withdraw from southern Syria. But Hezbollah’s leader, Hassan Nasrallah, responded by saying “there is no power in the world,” besides Bashar al-Assad, that could get Iran out of Syrian.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Protesters clashed with security forces in southwestern Iran late Sunday, a day after several demonstrators were injured in nighttime skirmishes over water pollution, Iranian state media reported.
The latest protests were held in Abadan, 12 kilometers (eight miles) from Khorramshahr, where 11 people were hurt Saturday when an unidentified gunman opened fire during a demonstration, according to officials.
State-run IRNA news agency did not specify how many people were involved in the Abadan demonstration, but said security forces had broken up a crowd that was “disrupting public order”.
Iranian state media said protesters clashed with police
It said people protesting over poor water quality in a western district of the city had thrown projectiles and set fire to rubbish bins and a vehicle.
Authorities say one protester and 10 police were injured, and videos posted online showed gunfire ringing out.
The agency did not report any further injuries, but added that water pollution in the two cities of Khuzestan province had sparked several demonstrations over the past four days.
The province was devastated by the eight-year war between Iran and Iraq in the 1980s and suffers from chronic pollution and drought.
It has a largely Arab population that has long complained of official discrimination.
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[SABANEWS.NET] The army and popular forces assaulted sites of the Saudi-paid mercenaries over the past 24 hours in several combat fronts, killing and injuring dozens, a military official told Saba on Tuesday.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] The Belgian federal prosecutor confirmed the opening of an investigation into a terror plot targeting the Iranian opposition conference in Paris, France, based on information from the Belgian state security agency.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] A source has said German authorities identified and 
parading drug suspects in public but also alleged to have drug ties himself was shot and killed by a sniper Monday in a brazen attack during a flag-raising ceremony in front of hundreds of horrified employees and village leaders.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] In a new video published by Iranian militias on social media, the commander of the Abu Fadl al-Abbas Brigade that is ideologically and logistically tied to Iran, Maher Ajeeb Jazza appeared in numerous villages in Daraa.
ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Protesters clashed with security forces in southwestern Iran late Sunday, a day after several demonstrators were injured in nighttime skirmishes over water pollution, Iranian state media reported.
