[KhaamaPress] The Ministry of Interior of Afghanistan (MoI) on Saturday informed regarding the arrest of a police officer affiliated with the Talibs in western Farah province of Afghanistan.
According to a statement released by MoI, a police officer who was serving in police ranks in Farah police commandment was tossed in the calaboose Yez got nuttin' on me, coppers! Nuttin'! by the Criminal Investigation Department operatives of the ministry.
The statement further added that the police officer was involved in facilitating an attack on police forces on 11th November which resulted into the martyrdom of 22 coppers and officers in Farah province.
The detained police officer has confessed to the charges against him, MoI said, adding that the suspect has been handed over to the National Directorate of Security ...the Afghan national intel agency... for further investigations.
The anti-government armed turban groups including Taliban ...mindless ferocity in a turban... have not commented regarding the affiliation of the detained police officer with the group so far.
This comes as incidents involving insider attacks among the security ranks have increased comparatively during the recent months in some of the restive provinces of the country.
[KhaamaPress] The Ministry of Defense of Afghanistan (MoD) has claimed that 54 snuffies have been killed during separate operations conducted jointly by the Afghan National Defense and Security Forces (ANDSF) in the past 24 hours.
According to a statement released by MoD, the operations were conducted with the help of the close air support of the coalition forces based in Afghanistan.
The statement further added that the operations were conducted 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.. , Paktika ...which coincidentally borders South Wazoo... , Ghazni, Daikudni, Zabul, Farah, Balkh, Faryab, and Helmand ...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan... provinces.
At least 29 of the snuffies were killed in Qarabagh district of Ghazni province and 9 others were maimed, MoD said, adding that 19 snuffies were killed and 7 others were maimed during the operations while 2 cycle of violences were destroyed in Pashtun Kot and Sherin Tagab districts of Faryab province.
The Afghan forces also killed 6 snuffies in Posht Rod district of Farah province and two others were maimed in Shajoi district of Zabul and Washir district of Helmand province, MoD added in its statement.
The anti-government armed hard boy groups including Taliban ...Arabic for students... have not commented regarding the operational update of the Ministry of Defense so far.
[KhaamaPress] The Afghan cops have thwarted a suicide kaboom on a governmental compoiund in southern Zabul province of Afghanistan, the local government officials said.
Provincial governor’s front man Gul Islam Sayal said a jacket wallah detonated his explosives after he was shot at by the security forces.
Sayal further added that the suicide bomber was looking to target the district administrative compound of Shinkai district.
He said only the suicide bomber was killed in the kaboom and no one else including security personnel has been hurt in the incident.
The Ministry of Interior also confirmed the incident and said the suicide bomber was identified and rubbed out in a police check post in Sado Khan Village.
The anti-government armed myrmidon groups including Taliban ...Arabic for students... have not commented regarding the report so far.
Zabul is among the relatively volatile provinces in South of Afghanistan where Talibs are active in some of its district and often attempt to attack the governmental and security institutions.
[KhaamaPress] At least ten turbans were killed during a clash and Arclight airstrikes in northern Faryab province of Afghanistan, the Afghan Military said Saturday.
The 209th Shaheen Corps of the Afghan Military in the North in a statement said the Afghan Air Force carried out airstrikes in Sari Hawz area of Pashtun Kot district, leaving at least 2 turbans dead.
The statement further added that five turbans also sustained injuries and four of their cycle of violences were destroyed.
A clash also broke out between the Talibs and the security forces in Jat Arkalik and Nawdri villages of Qaisar district, leaving 8 turbans dead and 16 others maimed, the 209th Shaheen Corps added.
The anti-government armed Death Eater groups including Taliban ...mindless ferocity in a turban... have not commented regarding the report so far.
Faryab is among the relatively volatile provinces in North of Afghanistan. The Talibs are active in some of districts and often attempt to carry out attacks against the government and security forces.
[KhaamaPress] The shadow military chief of Taliban ...Arabic for students... for northern Parwan province has been killed in an apparent infighting, the local security officials said Friday.
Provincial Police Chief Mohammad Mahfuz Walizada said Mullah Qadir, the shadow military chief of Taliban has been killed along with two others in Jabal Saraj district.
He said Mullah Qadir has apparently been killed in an infighting among the Talibs.
Muhfuz further added that another Taliban bully boy has also sustained injuries during the clash which took place late on Thursday night.
The anti-government armed bully boy groups including Taliban have not commented regarding of Mullah Qadir so far.
Parwan has been among the relatively calm provinces in North of Afghanistan but the security situation in some of its remote districts has tanked during the recent years.
The Talibs are active in some of the districts of Parwan and often attempt to carry out terrorist related activities.
[APNEWS] An explosives-packed vehicle detonated at a military checkpoint near Somalia’s presidential palace, killing at least 16 people and wounding more than 20 others, police said. The al-Qaeda-linked al-Shabaab ... the personification of Somali state failure... myrmidon group, which often targets Mogadishu, grabbed credit for the attack.
Those killed include three staffers from the London-based Universal TV station, including prominent journalist Awil Dahir Salad, said police Capt. Mohammed Hussein, who gave the toll of dead and maimed.
The bomber targeted the checkpoint near the rear entrance of the heavily fortified palace, Hussein said. A politician and a deputy mayor of Mogadishu were among those maimed, he said.
Soldiers also were among the dead, Col. Ahmed Mohamud said.
The blast and a second, smaller one nearby appeared to target those heading to work on what was a business day in the Horn of Africa nation.
A plume of smoke rose over the capital as ambulances rushed to the scene.
"At first I saw a vehicle driving to and fro, then we tried to stop people walking here and there, and then in the blink of an eye the vehicle went kaboom!, causing havoc," traffic police officer Mohammed Harun told The News Agency that Dare Not be Named.
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[Middle East Monitor] Egyptian security forces killed 14 suspected militants in the restive Sinai Peninsula, according to the country’s interior ministry as reported on Anadolu Agency.
A ministry statement said the militants were killed in a shootout during a raid on a "terrorist" hotbed planning attacks in the North Sinai city of Arish.
The ministry’s narrative could not be verified from an independent source.
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[PRESSTV] On another deadly day in the disputed region of Kashmire, six people have been killed by Indian soldiers during an attack in the section of the region under the control of the New Delhi government.
On Saturday, Indian forces launched a cordon-and-search operation in Tral area of Pulwama district, located south of Kashmire’s main city Srinagar.
A shootout ensued, culminating in the death of six Kashmiris, inspector general of police Swayam Prakash Pani said.
As the news of the killings spread, hundreds of people erupted into the streets in Tral in a public display of anger at the deadly event. They clashed with police. According to witnesses, tear gas was used to disperse the crowd.
Authorities have suspended train services in Kashmire Valley and shut down mobile internet services to prevent the unrest from spreading.
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Paks riling up the rubes?
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[Mil Times] Some educators genuinely care about their pupils. There are those who go out of their way to tutor, mentor, offer advice or even take personal interest in the struggles impacting their students' lives at home.
Then there’s Charlotta Turner, a professor of analytical chemistry at Sweden’s Lund University, who, upon learning that one of her doctoral students was in hiding in an Islamic State war zone, dispatched a heavily-armed mercenary squad to rescue the student and his family.
Firas Jumaah was completing a doctorate thesis under Turner in 2014 when he received a terrifying text message from his wife, who was home in northern Iraq with the couple’s two young children: ISIS fighters had captured an adjacent Yazidi village and were killing the men and enslaving the women.
"My wife was totally panicking," Jumaah told Lund’s University Magazine LUM. "I took the first plane there to be with them. What sort of life would I have if anything had happened to them there?"
After arriving in Iraq and reuniting with his panicked family, Jumaah packed up some of their belongings and moved them to a hideout in an abandoned bleach factory, Sweden’s The Local reported. All the while, the family could hear the sounds of ISIS gun fire getting closer with each passing day.
Amidst the chaos, Jumaah sent a text message to Turner to inform her that he likely wouldn’t be finishing his doctorate thesis.
"I had no hope then at all," he said. "I was desperate. I just wanted to tell my supervisor what was happening. I had no idea that a professor would be able to do anything for us."
But Turner is not just any professor. And as the saying goes, "Those who can, do. Those who cannot, hire mercenaries to get Jumaah the hell out of there."
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And what charge of non-PCness will she be arrested on?
Kirkuk (IraqiNews.com) ‐ Iraqi security forces locked away Drop the heater, Studs, or you're hist'try! on Saturday a fighter belonging to the terrorist 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 in the oil-rich province of Kirkuk, ... a thick stew of Arabs, Turkmen, Kurds, and probably Antarcticans, all of them mutually hostile most of the time... a state-run security media body was quoted as saying.
"The terrorist was fighting for Islamic State’s so-called al-Qadisiya army," Baghdad Today News Agency quoted the Security Media Center as saying in a statement, adding that the arrest was made in the "June First" neighborhood in southern Kirkuk.
According to the statement, the myrmidon "was referred to the Iraqi judiciary for legal action."
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Nineveh (IraqiNews.com) ‐ Four 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.... forces of Evil were killed on Saturday in an Arclight airstrike that targeted their hotbed in Nineveh province, the Iraqi military announced.
"A force of the 20th division of the Nineveh Operations Command came under attack by a group of Islamic State forces of Evil during a security operation in Atshana Mountains in Nineveh," Ayn Al Iraq website quoted the Security Media Center as saying in a statement.
"The assailants expeditiously departed at a goodly pace after the attack into a tunnel at the Atshana Mountains," the statement read, adding that the U.S.-led international coalition later launched an airstrike targeting the tunnel, killing four Islamic State myrmidons.
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Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) Baghdad Operations Command announced, on Saturday, arresting four persons on different charges, in different areas in Baghdad.
Alsumaria News reported that Baghdad Operations Command has tossed in the clink Youse'll never take me alive coppers!... [BANG!]... Ow!... I quit! four persons in different areas in Baghdad, including a woman who is charges of fraud.
The Command said in a statement that the security forces managed to arrest four persons on charges of terrorism and fraud in different areas of Baghdad, while added that the 44th brigade of the command arrested a person on charges of terrorism in Hay al-Basatin area, northeast of Baghdad.
Furthermore, the Command revealed that the 1st brigade of the Federal Police arrested one person on charges of terrorism in Nahrawan area, south of Baghdad, while arrested another one on same charges in Karada area and a woman on charges of fraud in the area of al-Ghazaliyah.
The Command explained that all the arrested persons were transferred to the competent authorities to receive their punishment.
[MEMO] Saudi Arabia and the UAE have sent military forces to areas controlled by the Kurdish YPG group in north-east Syria, Turkey’s Yenisafak newspaper reported.
The paper said the forces will be stationed with US-led coalition troops and will support its tasks with huge military enforcements as well as heavy and light weapons.
Quoting the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, the newspaper reported that a convoy of troops belonging to an Arab Gulf state recently arrived in the contact area between the Kurdish PKK/YPG and Daesh in the Deir Ez-Zor countryside.
This comes at a time when Ankara is preparing to launch an expanded military operation with the Free Syrian Army against the Kurdish PKK group in the northeast of Syria.
Saudi and Emirati military advisers have in recent months met with officials of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) and Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), considered by Turkey as terrorist organisations, at the US base in north-east Syria.
There are fears of Arab-Turkish confrontations that will be the first of their kind on Syrian soil.
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Perhaps the Donald had a chat with the Saudis and Emirates before announcing the US withdrawal.
A big part of the freakout in the media and elsewhere is over the fact that Trump didn't pre-announce his intentions. How dare you do this with consulting us and giving us a chance to bitch, whine and disparage before hand?
Leaving aside the idea that regional powers might play a role in regional affairs, I do like the suggestion that this is a thank-you to Trump for not jumping on the Kashoggi bandwagon.
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Upon reading beyond the headline and second sentence:
This has been in the works for a while without me noticing. Besoeker’s article is dated November 22, 2018, while the Read link is from the end of May. From the May article:
Saudi, Emirati and Jordanian military officials visited an international coalition military base in the Kurdish Syrian region of Kobani yesterday, according to local sources.
Al Jazeera reported that the officials met leaders of the so-called Syrian Democratic Forces and field commanders in the international coalition during their 24 hour visit.
The Anadolu Agency said that the visit was aimed at establishing Arab military units in the region whose nucleus would be Al-Sanadid Forces, one of the factions affiliated with the so-called Syrian Democratic Forces. Sources stated that in the upcoming period, the units would form one of the Border Guard Forces, with Saudi funding.
The Turkish news agency confirmed that each associate of these units would get $200 per month, and added that points of contact would be established in Al-Hasakah and Qamishli to receive and run the affairs of the associates.
The news agency also said that the aforementioned meeting was held with officials of the Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD) and Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), which Turkey considers terrorist groups. Anadolu quoted local sources as saying that in April, Saudi Arabia sent aid to the Kurdish Democratic Union Party in Syria.
The news agency added that on October 2017, the Saudi minister of Gulf affairs, Thamer Al-Sabhan, visited the city of Raqqa, which is controlled by the party, and met US officials there.
Turkey rejects any international intervention to support the Syrian Democratic Forces, an affiliate of the outlawed Kurdish People’s Protection Units (PKK).
Good find, Besoeker, and a news site to add to our list. This is exactly why I waited for the other shoe to drop after yesterday’s announcement. President Trump has neatly hornswoggled Sultan Erdogan I “the much beloved”.
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How dare you do this with consulting us and giving us a chance to bitch, whine and disparage before hand?
Actually, I think there is a component of needing g time to coordinate both their narrative and attack that they didn't get. I wonder if they'll learn from this. So Trump seems to have seen the same thing we did and had it covered no matter what direction things went. Now we just have to hope it works as planned ....
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Upon further thought, supposedly Mattis quit largely because of this. Does that still hold true? Maybe this is something that Trump came up with after he quit? Maybe the Saudis figured it out themselves?
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According to an Ay Pee article this morning, Turkey sent more troops — a commando unit in 50 vehicles, whatever that means — into Syria overnight. But now, instead of facing only cleverly fighting Kurdish irregulars armed with light weapons, the Saudi and Emirati contingent is now in place with heavy weaponry.
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Trivia question: How many reporters would look at that photo and write, "Three tanks"?
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Are the Saudis bringing the one thing the US would not give the Kurds?
Artillery. If so then this is huge.
Going back to the battle of Omdurman, regional armies are usually on the receiving end of western artillery. Give the Kurds heavy artillery will let them continue to punch well above their class.
All they would need is SAMs or MANPADs to shoot down the Turkish AF, and there would be hell to pay by the Turks for any incursion.
However, initially, it is likely the Turks will try to use their proxies in the FSA to probe for weakness. If they do and the Kurds respond with their usual ferocity, it will go badly for the FSA.
The the Turks will have to decide if they really want to risk the kind of disaster you imply.
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Now that you've explained it and the timeline, the Saudis being in the works means Trump's exit wasn't necessarily as sudden as the Media has made it look.
Trump actually prepping replacements from Saudi and UAE? I hope its true. And in the process getting the Kurds Artillery? Dream come true for the Kurds. Doing this in advance to his announcement of a "withdrawal" should NOT be "news", and yet here it is only now coming to light yet reported on a while back.
The puzzle pieces are coming together now with Kashoggi and the Saudis, the withdrawal from Syria, and a surprising lack of complaining coming from the Kurds themselves.
I would bet the Kurds would gladly trade the 2000 US troops in the AO for real artillery of their own and some US special ops advisers/trainers.
I think we've been had by the MSM and their editorial bias of simply refusing to cover things if it doesn't fit their narrative or if they do not understand the implications at the time.
Anyone know where I can find recipes for Crow? I may be needing one quite soon.
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This is exactly the sort of maneuvering I would expect coming from Trump. The timing and the media so unprepared. Perhaps salutations a bit much for Trump alone but a masters chess player he appears to be. The mud throwing and mockery of him hides the moves he makes and so spectacular success seems so unexpected. I have said this before that more is to come. Pass the popcorn.
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A Turkish foothold in Syria would not be welcomed by the Russians. The entire region is a powder keg. I suspect POTUS' decision will soon be vindicated.
[DAWN] Air strikes by the US-led coalition killed 13 jihadist fighters and 14 of their relatives on Friday in eastern Syria, a war monitor said.
The strikes came two days after US President Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... ’s decision to pull troops out of Syria raised fears the holy warriorIslamic 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 would use the vacuum to regroup.
"At least 27 people were killed this morning in al-Shaafa," Rami Abdel Rahman, the head of the Britannia-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, said.
He said eight children were among the 14 civilian victims and added several people were seriously maimed in the strikes.
The raids targeted IS positions in al-Shaafa, one of the two main villages in the last pocket of territory still controlled by IS in the Euphrates River valley.
Close to 1,000 IS fighters have been killed since Kurdish-led forces, backed by coalition air strikes, launched an operation on that pocket in September.
Trump said he was ordering a withdrawal of the estimated 2,000 US troops in Syria because IS had been defeated, an assessment rubbished by many, including in his own camp.
On Friday, the leadership of the Kurdish force that has spearheaded the fight against IS warned it might have to pull back from the anti-jihadist front if a US withdrawal invites a Ottoman Turkish military assault against them.
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[Middle East Monitor] Egyptian security forces killed 14 suspected militants in the restive Sinai Peninsula, according to the country’s interior ministry as reported on Anadolu Agency.
[DAWN] Air strikes by the US-led coalition killed 13 jihadist fighters and 14 of their relatives on Friday in eastern Syria, a war monitor said.
