[Khaama Press] Several snuffies were killed after the Special Forces of the Afghan Intelligence, National Directorate of Security ...the Afghan national intel agency... (NDS), stormed a hideout of the Talibs 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.
The provincial government issued a statement claiming that fifteen Talibs were killed during the operation conducted late on Monday night.
The statement further added that the NDS Special Forces targeted a hideout of the Taliban ...Arabic for students... group in Maigan area of Hesarak district, leaving at least 15 snuffies dead.
According to governor’s office, several weapons, munitions, and explosives were also destroyed during the operation.
At least one Taliban murderous Moslem was also detained alive during the operation, the provincial government said, adding that a number of Arclight airstrikes were also carried out on other Taliban hideouts.
The provincial government says heavy casualties have been inflicted on Talibs during the airstrikes as well but there are no credible information available in this regard.
The local residents and security personnel have not suffered casualties during the operations, the statement added.
[Khaama Press] The Shaheen Corps of the Afghan Military in the North says the Walid-9 counter-terrorism operations have ended after successful raids against the turbans over a period of three days which left several turbans dead or maimed.
The 209th Shaheen Corps of the Afghan Military in the North said Monday at least fourteen turbans were killed during the operations in Garjak, Shisha Khana, Timorak, and Bist Paikal villages of Chamtal district in Balkh.
A statement by Shaheen Corps stated that the local commanders of the turbans identified as Mullah Khairkhwa, Qari Sediqi, and Abdul Rashid Ganjom were among those killed.
The statement further added that the named villages have been cleared from the presence of the turbans and some weapons and munitions have also been confiscated.
In the meantime, Shaheen Corps said at least six turbans were killed during the Arclight airstrikes conducted in northern Sari Pul province of Afghanistan.
According to Shaheen Corps, at least three hideouts of the turbans were also destroyed during the airstrikes but no casualties have been inflicted on civilians.
The anti-government armed Death Eater groups including Talibs have not commented regarding the report so far.
[Khaama Press] At least twenty people were killed and thirty others sustained injuries in an kaboom likely triggered by a suicide kaboom in Beautiful Downtown Peshawar ...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire. city of Pakistain.
The incident took place late on Tuesday in Yakatook area of Peshawar targeting a leader of Awami National Party founded by Abdul Wali Khan in 1986. Part of the PPP-led cabinet 2008-13. The ANP is considered left wing, advocating for secularism, democratic socialism, public sector government, and economic egalitarianism.... Haroon Bilour.
Peshawar Capital City Police Officer Qazi Jameel has said Bilour has been killed along with at least nineteen others in the attack and at least thirty others have sustained injuries.
The officials have not confirmed the type of the kaboom however the eyewitnesses in the area have said a jacket wallah detonated his explosives when Mr. Bilour arrived in a gathering organized for the elections.
Bilour reportedly sustained injuries in the attack and later died in the hospital where he was underoing treatment.
Another senior police official Safqat Malik has said preliminary reports indicate it was suicide attack and the target was ANP leader Haaroon Bilour.
No individual or group has so far grabbed credit behind the incident.
A similar attack in 2013 left at least 15 people dead with Tehrik-e-Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... Pakistain claiming responsibility behind the attack.
[Khaama Press] The US deputy secretary of state Alice Wells met with the leader of Hezb-e-Islami Gulbuddin Hekmatyar ... who used to be known in intelligence circles as The Most Evil Man in the World but who now seems merely run-of-the-mill evil... to hold talks regarding the ongoing efforts on Afghan-led grinding of the peace processor.
Sources close to Hezb-e-Islami have said Mr. Hekmatyar met with the deputy US secretary of state Alice Wells in his office on Tuesday.
According to the sources, the two sides held talks regarding the ongoing efforts to end the war, grinding of the peace processor, upcoming elections, role of the political parties, and efforts to revive peace talks.
The sources further added that Hezb-e-Islami’s political affairs chief Bakhtar Aminzai, political delegation chief Dr. Ghairat Baheer, Dr. Farooq Wardak, Eng. Mohammad Amin Karim, and Eng. Habibur Rehman Hekmatyar.
According to reports, this is the first time a top US official is meeting with the leader of Hezb-e-Islami Gulbuddin Hekmatyar after almost two decades.
The leader of Hezb-e-Islami Gulbuddin Hekmatyar signed a peace accord with the Afghan government late in September of 2016, after months of negotiations with the government.
[DAWN] Gunmen stormed an education department compound in Afghanistan's restive east on Wednesday in an attack that left at least ten people dead, officials said.
Ten others have been maimed in the second attack in Jalalabad city in as many days, 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.. provincial governor front man Attaullah Khogyani told AFP.
The sound of gunfire followed by a "big kaboom" that shattered windows alerted Qari Samiullah that an attack was under way near his shop.
"I left my shop and ran when I heard a second kaboom," Samiullah told AFP.
"Smoke came out of the building and all the people started to run away." A security guard employed by the education department branch was among the dead, Khogyani said.
Jalalabad health director Najibullah Kamawal confirmed five maimed people had been brought to hospital so far.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the raid.
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[Libya Observer] The National Oil Corporation (NOC) lifted force majeure on oil exports from Ras Lanuf, Sidra, Hariga and Zuetina after the facilities were handed over to the internationally-recognized 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... -based NOC Wednesday morning.
In a statement, the NOC said production and export operations will return to normal levels within the next few hours.
The resumption of oil exports comes after eastern Libyan warlord Khalifa Haftar ...Self-proclaimed Field Marshal, served in the Libyan army under Muammar Qadaffy, and took part in the coup that brought Qadaffy to power in 1969. He became a prisoner of war in Chad in 1987. While held prisoner, he and his fellow officers formed a group hoping to overthrow Qadaffy. He was released around 1990 in a deal with the United States government and spent nearly two decades in the United States, gaining US citizenship. In 1993, while living in the United States, he was convicted in absentia of crimes against the Jamahiriya and sentenced to death. Haftar held a senior position in the anti-Qadaffy forces in the 2011 Libyan Civil War. In 2014 he was commander of the Libyan Army when the General National Congress (GNC) refused to give up power in accordance with its term of office. Haftar launched a campaign against the GNC and its Islamic fundamentalist allies. His campaign allowed elections to take place to replace the GNC, but then developed into a civil war. Guess you can't win them all... ordered his so-called Petroleum Facilities Guard to allow Tripoli-based NOC to manage oil ports in eastern Libya.
Chairman of NOC Mustafa Sanallah welcomed the handover of oil ports to the legitimate oil institution and said "we need a proper national debate ... an expenditure of personal wind at the national level that leads to face-making and other histrionics but can't be shown to have ever solved an issue ... on the fair distribution of oil revenues. It is at the heart of the recent crisis. The real solution is transparency."
He also called on the Ministry of Finance and Central Bank of Libya to publish budgets and detailed public expenditure.
The warlord had closed the oil ports accusing authorities in Tripoli of using oil revenues to fund the gangs, which attacked oil crescent on June 13.
Earlier this month, Haftar preconditioned reopening the oil terminals and allowing the exports of crude to go back as normal as they have been to five necessary points.
Meanwhile, ...back at the secret hideout, Scarface Al sneeringly put his proposition to little Nell... observers say Haftar’s U-turn comes after a letter from 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... to the Speaker of House of Representatives Aqailah Saleh and Chairman of Presidential Council Fayez Sarraj criticizing them for being unable to solve the oil ports closure by Dignity Operation.
In the letter, Trump warned both Libyan officials that they could face international prosecution as a first step, to be followed by threats to use force to solve the oil crisis.
218 TV station, which leaked the letter, said Khalifa Haftar’s General Command was aware of Trump’s strong-worded letter.
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[Libya Observer] Libyan officer in charge of Ras Ajdir border crossing with Tunisia, Najmi Muammar, confirmed that the border has been shut to traffic by the Libyan side since Tuesday evening.
In a press statement, Muammar explained that the decision was taken due to increasing cases of attacks on Libyan travellers by locals of the Tunisian border town of Ben Gardane, because of decisions by the Libyan state to curb smuggling of goods into Tunisia.
He pointed out that the Presidential Council has addressed the Tunisian side officially to increase the security measures at its borders and protect Libyan travellers, but has received no response to its demands to date.
Muammar further noted that Tunisian protesters broke Libyan-registered vehicles and prevented ambulances from entering Tunisian territory.
"The Libyan state is determined to enforce its decisions to tighten control on the border in order to prevent the smuggling of fuel and goods that are active in border areas on both sides and the Tunisian authorities have to comply with the border security requirements," Muammar stressed.
He made clear that the border will not be reopened until the demands of the Libyan state are met.
Earlier, Deputy Chairman of the Presidential Council Ahmed Maiteeq gave orders to the Minister of Interior to take all necessary measures to protect Libyans travelling by road to Tunisia, including closing the crossing border between the two countries if Tunisian authorities fail to meet their obligations.
Border areas like Ben Gardane town in Tunisia have witnessed over the previous years riots, protests, closure of roads, and attacks on Libyan citizens and their property, as well as preventing them from entering the Tunisian territory in protest against the measures taken by the Libyan authorities to stop smuggling of fuel and food commodities from Libya to Tunisia.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Egypt’s official news agency says security forces killed at least 11 suspected bandidosforces of Evil in a shootout in the northern Sinai Peninsula.
The news agency quoted an unnamed security official Wednesday as saying that the fighting erupted when forces raided a hideout in the city of al-Arish. It says security forces dismantled two bombs and seized weapons.
It did not say when the raid took place or whether any security forces were killed or maimed. Egypt heavily restricts media access to the northern Sinai.
Egypt has been battling bandidosforces of Evil for years, but the Sinai-based insurgency gained strength after the 2013 overthrow of an elected but divisive ...politicians call things divisive when when the other side sez something they don't like. Their own statements are never divisive, they're principled... Islamist president.
In February, Egypt launched a massive operation against bandidosforces of Evil in Sinai and other parts of the country.
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[Breitbart] African migrants who thought they would be denied passage to Europe became violent and threatened to kill the crew of an Italian supply ship that had rescued them.
Vos Thalassa, a specialist Offshore Supply Ship which works supporting French oil and gas company Total, picked up more than 60 migrants after responding to a distress call in the Mediterranean on Sunday night.
But within minutes, the crew were taken "hostage" by the people they allowed onboard, according to Il Giornale, which reported that some of the individuals who were rescued became enraged when a Libyan coastguard boat arrived on the scene to take the illegal immigrants to safety.
"It turned from a rescue to piracy," commented the Italian transport ministry, stating that "death threats were made".
[SABANEWS.NET] At least 14 non-combatants were killed and 13 injured, including women and kiddies, when the US-backed Saudi-led aggression coalition launched over 19 Arclight airstrikes and ground attacks on several areas of Yemen’s provinces during the past 24 hours, according to medics and officials reports combined by Saba News Agency on Wednesday.
In Saada province, two non-combatants were killed, a woman and child were maimed in an airstrike on a civilian’s home in Qaher area of Baqem district.
Also in Saada, three non-combatants were killed and another was injured in an airstrike on Aqeq area of Kutaf district.
Furthermore, the warplanes of aggression launched four airstrikes on Atfain area of Kutaf district. an airstrike on Alaf area of Sehar district, and two airstrikes on Boqea area.
Meanwhile, ...back at the pie fight, Bella opened her mouth at precisely the wrong moment... a woman was killed, her husband and daughter were maimed in artillery and missile shells which targeted residential areas of Razih border district, as well as a civilian was killed by the fires of Saudi border guards in Shada border district.
In additional, civilians’ properties were damaged by artillery and missle shelling in Razih border district.
In Hodeidah province, five non-combatants were killed and eight injured when airstrikes hit two cars in Zabid district.
In Bayda province, a civilian and his wife were killed by the fires of Saudi-paid mercenaries in Qania area.
In Taiz province, the fighter jets waged seven airstrikes on several areas of Khadir district.
In 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, a Saudi-led coalition aggression airstrike was waged on A’airam area of Qubaita district.
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[SABANEWS.NET] The 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... army and popular committees have launched military operations, including artillery, missiles and snipping attacks to frustrate US-backed Saudi-led coalition mercenaries and soldiers’ infiltration on several battle fronts over the past 24 hours , according to military reports combined by Saba News Agency on Wednesday.
In Yemen’s western coast, a short-range ballistic missile was fired toward supply stores of coalition forces.
Also in the coast, six of Saudi-paid mercenaries were rubbed out in the south of Duraihimi district, while engineering unit of the army and committees destroyed a military vehicle of mercenaries with an bomb in Tuhaita district, killing and wounding all who were on board.
In Asir border province, a Saudi soldier was sniped in Qalat-Hassn of Raboaa city, as well as gathering of Saudi soldiers were targeted by artillery shells in Raqabt-Thia of Raboaa.
Also in Asir, two Saudi soldiers were rubbed out in Majaza.
In the border province of Jizan, a ballistic missile, Bader-1, targeted Jazan Economic City.
Furthermore, a Saudi soldier was bumped off in front of Khubah.
In Najran a city in southwestern Saudi Arabia near the border with Yemen. It is the capital of Najran Province and a favored target of Houthirocket forces.... Saudi border province, an offensive was waged on mercenaries’ sites in Khadhraa border crossing, inflicting them heavy losses in lives and equipment, while artillery force of the army and committees shelled gatherings of mercenaries in Khadhraa border crossing.
In Bayda province, the army and committees carried out an offensive on sites of the enemy in Zahir district, killing and wounding dozens.
Also in Bayda, an attack was waged on mercenaries’ sites in Thi-Na’em, inflicting them heavy losses in lives and equipment, while dozens of the mercenaries were killed and injured in an offensive on their sites in Taiab area of Thi-Na’em.
In additional, the army and committees repelled an infiltration attempt of mercenaries in Aswah area, killing and wounding dozens of them.
In Nehm district, an offensive was carried out on sites of the mercenaries in Yam, killing and wounding dozens in their ranks.
The army and committees also launched an attack, accompanied by artillery shelling and combing of medium weapons, on mercenaries sites in Madfoon, killing and wounding many.
In Taiz province, dozens of mercenaries were killed and injured when the army and committees repelled their infiltration, which was supported with coalition Arclight airstrikes, in Selw district.
In Yemen’s Jawf province, the army and committees repelled a mercenaries infiltration in Mahamisha area of Khub-washaaf district, killing and wounding dozens.
Also in Jawf, engineering unit of the army and popular committees destroyed a mercenaries’ military vehicle with an bomb, killing and injuring all its crew, while three Saudi-paid mercenaries were rubbed out in Maslub.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] The Yemeni army has seized three armed fishing boats used in the past by the Houthis to attack naval operations carried out by the legitimate forces.
Those operations against 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 were conducted with the backing of the coalition as Yemeni forces attempted to recapture the Habl port near Midi in the Hajjah governorate.
This is the first naval battle, through which the Houthis tried with to defend three boats loaded with guns and bombs. However, a hangover is the wrath of grapes... the capabilities of the coalition-backed naval army were able to defeat the Houthis.
The Houthis exploited the fishing boats and the fishermen in carrying out their military operations by camouflaging the boats, out of fear of being caught.
The naval formation of the Yemeni army in Midi has succeeded in the past few weeks in securing the coastal part of the sea in Midi after being trained by the naval forces of the Arab coalition.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] German prosecutors said Wednesday a court had remanded in jug an alleged Iranian spy accused of plotting to bomb an Iranian opposition rally in Gay Paree on June 30.
The suspect, a Vienna-based accredited Iranian diplomat whom opposition groups have named as Assadollah Assadi, 46, was one of several suspects detained in Germany, Belgium and La Belle France.
They had allegedly planned to bomb the rally by an exiled Iranian opposition group in Villepinte near Gay Paree that was attended by several US politicians.
German prosecutors said Wednesday that a court had two days earlier remanded Assadi in jug on charges of foreign intelligence activities and conspiracy to murder. They added that these charges did "not preclude" Assadi’s extradition requested by Belgium.
Assadi was believed to be a member of Iran’s Ministry of Intelligence and Security, which is tasked with the "observation and fight against opposition groups inside and outside Iran", the prosecutors’ statement said.
They said Assadi had in March ordered a married couple living in Antwerp "to carry out an explosives attack" on the annual rally and had handed them the explosives in a June meeting in Luxembourg.
The couple were jugged ... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not... in Brussels on the day of the rally by Belgian security services who said they found them in possession of 500 grams (about one pound) of the volatile explosive TATP and a detonator.
They were identified only as Amir S., 38, and Nasimeh N., 33, and as being Belgian nationals of Iranian origin. French police arrested another three people but later released two of them, French legal sources said.
Teheran has dismissed the alleged bomb plot as a "sinister false flag ploy" designed to discredit Iran at a time when it faces major diplomatic tensions with the United States.
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... over two months ago abandoned the 2015 nuclear deal in which Iran had pledged to halt most nuclear activities in return for sanctions relief.
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[AlAhram] Four recent graduates of a top Ottoman Turkish university have been tossed in the calaboose Drop the rod and step away witcher hands up! for displaying a cartoon mocking Ottoman Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan at their graduation ceremony, according to the state-run Anadolu agency.
The Middle East Technical University students in the July 6 ceremony in Ankara made and carried a long banner printed with a cartoon of animals whose faces resembled Tayyip Erdogan, entitled "The World of Tayyip".
Originally published by a popular satire weekly magazine, the cartoon was the subject of a defamation lawsuit by Erdogan 12 years ago, when he was The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...just another cheapjack Moslem dictatorship, brought to you by the Moslem Brüderbund.... 's prime minister. However, nothing needs reforming like other people's bad habits... an Ankara court dismissed the case, saying the cartoon was within the limits of freedom of speech.
Anadolu said the four had been "arrested ... in the course of an investigation into a sign containing defamation of Erdogan".
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Dear Snowflakes,
When has President Trump had people thrown in jail for mocking him?
This is the dictatorship that you have been screaming about for 2 years, it's not here, capiche?
#2
Yippy sure is sensitive to insults and mockery. Usually the sign of a "man" with a small pen1s
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Well,
A) President Trump actually understands what the First Amendment says.
B) If he tried to deal with all the slime that 's been put out there by "the media" he would not get anything worthwhile done at all. Instead he is getting the business of his constituents attended to and that's just fine with me.
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Diyala (IraqiNews.com) Two non-combatants were killed in a kaboom in Diyala, a security source from the province said on Wednesday.
Speaking to Almaalomah website, the source said, "a bomb, placed on the side of a main road in Kanaan region in Diyala province, went off leaving two civilians injured as they were near the blast."
Security troops, according to the source, "cordoned off the blast scene and transferred the victims to forensic medicine department."
Nineveh (Iraqinews.com) – Iraqi security forces said they arrested a senior Islamic State commander during a security campaign in the northern city of Mosul, the Interior Ministry spokesman said.
In a statement, a copy of which was obtained by Alghad Press website, Maj Gen. Saad Maan said, “the arrested was a member of the Islamic State’s Mosques Diwan and was responsible for taking documents on oath of allegiance from IS volunteers.”
“He was arrested in al-Resala district in Mosul’s western side,” Maan added.
Nineveh (Iraqinews.com) – Up to 20 members of the terrorist Islamic State (IS) group, including fighters of different Arab nationalities, have been killed during a wide-scale security campaign in Mosul city.
“Joint security forces managed to kill 20 Islamic State members, including Arab fighters, during a security campaign in the mountainous area in al-Atshana and Badush towns, 30 km northwest of Mosul,” Basnews website quoted the spokesman for Nineveh Operations Command, Brig. Gen. Mohamed al-Jabouri, as saying Wednesday.
“The troops also destroyed a number of tunnels in the mountainous area, which, after the security campaign, was announced free of terrorist elements,” al-Jabouri pointed out.
Nineveh (IraqiNews.com) A police conscript was killed as a bomb from the remnants of war against Islamic State members exploded, south of Nineveh, a security source said on Wednesday.
Speaking to the Russian Sputnik news agency, the source said, “a bomb from the remnants of war against Islamic State, planted on the road in al-Duwaizat village in Qayyarah town, south of Mosul, went off while a military vehicle of Federal Police was passing.”
The blast, according to the source, “left a policeman killed, in addition to damages to the vehicle.”
Meanwhile, a local source from the village said many bombs and war remnants left by the militants in the village had not been removed yet. “We lose many victims from Duwaizat village as well as victims of security troops due to those remnants.”
Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) Iraqi troops have been on high alert after 60 vehicles of Islamic State members reportedly sneaked into Iraq coming from the Syrian side, a military source said on Wednesday.
“Information received by the military task force indicated that 60 vehicles of Islamic State members coming from Syria entered Iraq and specifically into Baaj town,” Col. Saad al-Marsoumi, of Nineveh Operations Command told Anadolu news agency.
The convoy, according to Marsoumi, is provided with weapons to carry out terrorist operations.
“Iraqi troops have been on high alert to handle the violation,” he added, indicating “a military plan that was drawn over the past few hours. All armed units, backed by fighter jets, will take part to end the violation.”
Marsoumi also stressed that “Iraqi-Syrian borders are so long. They need new security plans in order to control it and prevent infiltration of militants.”
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Kirkuk (IraqiNews.com) Two Iraqi oil field guards were killed early Wednesday in an attack by Islamic State militants in Kirkuk province, north of Iraq, a security source was quoted saying.
Kurdish network Rudaw quoted Hamed al-Obaidi, from Kirkuk province, saying that the attackers fired at a checkpoint at the oil fields in Dibis, northwest of the province
Obaidi said the gunmen wounded four others and managed to flee after the attack .
In a separate incident, Obaidi said security killed a suicide bomber before blowing himself up near the Dibis hospital.
Kirkuk (Iraqinews.com) – Iraqi troops destroyed two hideouts of the terrorist Islamic State group and arrested nine suspects in Kirkuk, an Iraqi security center said in a statement.
Iraqi website Alghad Press quoted Yehia Rasool, the spokesman for the Iraqi Security Media Council, as saying that “troops of the federal police inspected several villages in Kirkuk, destroying two IS hideaways and arresting nine suspects.”
“The troops also destroyed five locally-made explosives and seized 14 Kalashnikov assault rifles,” Rasool said.
Kirkuk (IraqiNews.com) Three militants were arrested as the pro-government paramilitary troops thwarted an attempt to kidnap civilians, south of Kirkuk, the media service said on Wednesday.
A statement on the website of al-Hashd al-Shaabi (Popular Mobilization Forces) said, “information from the intelligence helped the 50th brigade to arrest three militants who were on motorbikes. They sneaked into Dakuk town.”
The operation, according to the source, caused no damages. The information “indicated that the militants were planning to abduct civilians from the town.”
Islamic State has resumed its attacks and explosions as well as blocking roads, abducting civilians and security personnel, despite operations carried out across the provinces. The group continues to launch sporadic attacks across Iraq against troops.
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[IsraelTimes] In separate incident, soldiers shoot and then detain Paleostinian man who the army says tried to breach security fence with wire-cutters and a bottle of flammable liquid
An Israeli drone fired toward a group of Paleostinians flying incendiary balloons into southern Israel from the southern Gazoo Strip, according to Paleostinian media.
No injuries were reported in the Arclight airstrike, which was said to have occurred east of the city of Rafah.
The Israeli military confirmed that one of its aircraft fired at a cell that had launched balloons toward Israel from the southern Gazoo Strip.
This was the first such strike by the IDF against Paleostinians sending airborne arson devices into Israel in two weeks.
Throughout the day on Wednesday, incendiary kites and balloons sparked 19 fires, of varying sizes, in southern Israel, according to local government officials.
Fifteen of them occurred in the Eshkol region, which abuts the southern Gazoo Strip. The other four took place in the Sha’ar Hanegev region, which lies to the northeast of the coastal enclave.
In a separate incident, also east of Rafah, Israeli soldiers shot and detained a Paleostinian youth who the army said tried to breach the Gazoo security fence with a pair of wire-cutters and a bottle full of a flammable liquid.
His condition was not immediately known.
The military said the suspect was "trying to damage security infrastructure and harm IDF soldiers."
A set of wire-cutters and a bottle of flamable liquid that the military found in the possession of a Paleostinian man who tried to cross into Israel from the southern Gazoo Strip on July 11, 2018. (Israel Defense Forces)
The wire-cutters and flammable liquid were found in his possession, the army said.
The official Paleostinian Wafa news outlet, citing local sources, reported that the suspect was part of a group of people who tried to breach the fence. The others fled back toward the Gazoo Strip.
The detained suspect was handed over to the Shin Bet security service for questioning.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Israel launched a Patriot interceptor missile on Wednesday at a drone spotted approaching from Syria, the second such incident in as many months, the Israeli military said.
The incident set off air defense sirens on the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights and the nearby Jordanian border, the military statement said.
Israel has been on high alert as Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Supressor of the Damascenes... ’s forces advance against rebels near the Golan and Jordan. Israel worries that he could deploy troops or allow his Iranian and Hezbollah allies to set up emplacements near Israeli lines.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu travelled to Moscow on Wednesday for Syria talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin ...President-for-Life of Russia. He gets along well with other presidents for life. He is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substance. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to him. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substances... , whose military is helping Assad beat back a 7-year-old insurgency.
On June 24, Israel’s military said it launched a Patriot missile at an incoming drone from Syria, which turned away unscathed. A Syrian commander said the drone was engaged in local operations.
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[PRESSTV] Syrian military air defenses have repelled an Israeli attack on the country's Quneitra province, Syrian state media report.
Syria's official news agency SANA reported late on Wednesday that Israeli warplanes fired several missiles at Syrian army positions located close to the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights causing only material damage.
"The aircraft of the Israeli enemy fired several missiles in the direction of some army positions," said a Syrian military source.
On Sunday, Syrian air defenses thwarted a missile attack on the T4 airbase in the country's central province of Homs.
The Israeli Air Force confirmed the bombings in the Syrian Golan Wednesday night, targeting regime forces in the Quneitra region near the border, hours after a Syrian drone was shot down by the military after entering Israeli airspace.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire.
Gulbuddin Hekmatyar
...Self-proclaimed Field Marshal, served in the Libyan army under Muammar Qadaffy, and took part in the coup that brought Qadaffy to power in 1969. He became a prisoner of war in Chad in 1987. While held prisoner, he and his fellow officers formed a group hoping to overthrow Qadaffy. He was released around 1990 in a deal with the United States government and spent nearly two decades in the United States, gaining US citizenship. In 1993, while living in the United States, he was convicted in absentia of crimes against the Jamahiriya and sentenced to death. Haftar held a senior position in the anti-Qadaffy forces in the 2011 Libyan Civil War. In 2014 he was commander of the Libyan Army when the General National Congress (GNC) refused to give up power in accordance with its term of office. Haftar launched a campaign against the GNC and its Islamic fundamentalist allies. His campaign allowed elections to take place to replace the GNC, but then developed into a civil war. Guess you can't win them all...
...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...
Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir 
