[DAWN] A woman was nabbed Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out! after she was caught trying to "sneak a hand grenade" into the Pak consulate in the northern Afghan city of Mazar-e-Sharif on Sunday, the Foreign Office said in a statement.
According to the blurb, the Afghan woman had attempted to carry the grenade into the Pakistain Consulate General in her personal bag. She was arrested by police and is currently under investigation, being carried out to determine who was behind the "failed attack".
The consulate was closed following the incident, the FO spokesperson said.
"The Embassy of Pakistain in Kabul has urged the Afghan Foreign Office to provide foolproof security to its Consulate ... and to share the findings of its investigation at the earliest."
As per the blurb, the consulate will remain closed for visa services till "foolproof security" is provided by authorities in Mazar-e-Sharif to prevent any untoward incident from taking place at the facility.
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The coalition forces have carried out dronezaps against the hideouts of ISIS Khurasan (ISIS-K) in two districts of 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 in East of Afghanistan.
The 201st Silab Corps of the Afghan Military in a statement said the coalition forces targeted ISIS-K hideouts in Achin district of Nangarahr on Saturday.
The statement further added that the dronezaps left at least 8 turbans of the terror group dead while two of their hideouts were destroyed.
The 201st Silab Corps in another statement said the coalition forces carried out similar Arclight airstrikes in Khogyani district of Nangarhar province today.
According to the statement of 201st Silab Corps, two ISIS Khurasan turbans were killed in today’s airstrikes.
The local residents and security personnel involved in ground operations in the area have not sustained casualties, the statement by 201st Silab Corps added.
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[PULSE.NG] Sudanese police fired tear gas at protestors holding rallies in the capital Khartoum on Sunday after organisers called for further demonstrations against President Omar al-Bashir Head of the National Congress Party. He came to power in 1989 when he, as a brigadier in the Sudanese army, led a group of officers in a bloodless military coup that ousted the government of Prime Minister Sadiq al-Mahdi and eventually appointed himself president-for-life. He has fallen out with his Islamic mentor, Hasan al-Turabi, tried to impose shariah on the Christian and animist south, resulting in its secessesion, and attempted to Arabize Darfur by unleashing the barbaric Janjaweed on it. Sudan's potential prosperity has been pissed away in warfare that has left as many as 400,000 people dead and 2.5 million displaced. Omar has been indicted for genocide by the International Criminal Court but nothing is expected to come of it. 's three decades of rule.
Bashir, on a visit to Cairo to meet his Egyptian counterpart Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, said the media were exaggerating the size of the problems he faced at home.
Deadly protests sparked by a government decision to raise the price of bread have rocked the east African country for weeks.
The demonstrations have mushroomed into nationwide rallies against the government of Bashir, who swept to power in 1989 in an Islamist-backed coup.
Officials say 30 people have died in the violence since the protests first erupted on December 19 in the farming town of Atbara, before spreading to Khartoum and other regions.
Rights groups say more than 40 people have been killed.
On Sunday, protesters came onto the streets in Khartoum and its twin city of Omdurman to hold sit-ins in several squares, responding to a call by the Sudanese Professionals Association which is leading the protests.
But a massive deployment of riot police and security agents prevented them from gathering at several locations, witnesses said, and the protesters later began rallies in residential areas of Khartoum and Omdurman.
"You're police, you have to protect us," demonstrators shouted as riot police cordoned off several squares in Khartoum and Omdurman, where they had planned to hold sit-ins.
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[AA.TR] A number of Lions of Islam were killed in an Arclight airstrike in Egypt’s restive Sinai Peninsula, according to the Egyptian military on Sunday.
The airstrike targeted a "terrorist outpost" in the northern Sinai Peninsula, military front man Colonel Tamer Rifai said in a statement.
He said a number of Lions of Islam were killed in the attack, including two big shots of a terrorist group.
While the front man didn't name the group, the military used to blame the ISIS terrorist organization for a spate of attacks in the restive region.
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[AlAhram] Boko Haram ... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality... jihadists attacked two military bases in northeast Nigeria ... a particularly crimson stretch of Islam's bloody border... 's Borno state, near the border with Cameroon ...a long, narrow country that fills the space between Nigeria and Chad on the northeast, CAR to the southeast. Prior to incursions by Boko Haram nothing ever happened there... , injuring six soldiers, two military sources told AFP on Sunday.
The attacks were the latest against military targets in the region with security becoming a major campaign issue ahead of presidential and legislative elections next month.
President Muhammadu Buhari, who came to power in 2015 on a pledge to end the Islamist insurgency, is seeking re-election in the February 16 polls.
Early on Sunday, troops fought off an attack by fighters believed to be from the Abubakar Shekau ... the lunatic leader of Boko Haram who has been reported dead at least eleven times, pledged his body and soul to ISIS, told his fighters to hang it up once or twice, and been fired by the Caliph and refused to step down ... faction of Boko Haram in the town of Pulka along the border with Cameroon.
"The bandidossnuffies attacked around 1:15 am (0015 GMT) and soldiers engaged them in a 30-minute fight, forcing them to withdraw," a military officer said in an account confirmed by another officer.
The fighters' intention was to attack and loot the town after overrunning the base, said the officer, who asked not to be identified because he was not authorised to speak to the media.
Late on Saturday fighters from the same faction attacked another base in Logomani village near the town of Gamboru, leading to a fight that left six soldiers injured.
"Troops came under attack by Boko Haram bandidossnuffies who came in four gun trucks around 6:30 pm (1730 GMT)," the second officer told AFP.
"Six soldiers were maimed from bomb fragments," he said.
Boko Haram has intensified attacks on military targets in the region over several months.
On Wednesday and Thursday the jihadists attacked three bases in Borno and neighbouring Yobe states, stealing weapons and burning the bases.
Boko Haram's jihadist insurgency in northeast Nigeria has claimed 27,000 lives since 2009.
More than two million people have also been forced to flee their homes, triggering a humanitarian crisis in the region.
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[PULSE.NG] Eight non-combatants were killed and 30 others maimed in a "shocking" kaboom against a centre for displaced people in Yemen, the UN said Sunday.
The bombing hit the centre in the Haradh district in the northwestern province of Hajja on Saturday, according to the UN humanitarian coordinator for Yemen, Lisa Grande. She did not name the party behind the attack.
"Any attack on a civilian site is unconscionable and a clear violation of international humanitarian law," Grande said in a statement.
"An attack like this cannot be justified -- ever."
The centre is in an area under government control in Hajja, but the Houthis control other parts of the province.
The Iran-backed Huthis have battled a pro-government military coalition, led by Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... and the UAE, for control of the impoverished country for four years, triggering what the UN calls the world's worst humanitarian crisis.
Both parties are accused of failing to protect civilians. The Saudi-led alliance, which controls Yemeni airspace, has been criticised by the UN for the killing and maiming of children in air raids.
Saudi Arabia's state-run King Salman ...either the largest species of Pacific salmon or the current Sheikh of the Burnin' Sands, Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques and Lord of Most of the Arabians.... Humanitarian Aid and Relief Center (KSRelief) on Saturday accused the rebels of the attack. This organization also said eight had been killed and 30 maimed.
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Salahuddin (IraqiNews.com) – Two Iraqi civilians were wounded Sunday when a bomb exploded in the central Iraqi province of Salahuddin, a security source was quoted as saying.
“An explosive charge went off near a vehicle in Tikrit city, the administrative center of Salahuddin province, leaving two civilians wounded,” the source told Arabic-language Baghdad Today website.
“They were moved to a nearby hospital for treatment,” the source said, adding that security forces cordoned off the blast site and prevented passers-by from approaching.
Salahuddin (IraqiNews.com) – Three Iraqi people were killed and 11 others wounded when two explosive charges went off early morning Sunday in the central province of Salahuddin, the Ministry of Health announced.
“The death toll from the two bomb blasts in al-Shirqat district in Salahuddin rose to three, while 11 others were wounded,” Alghad Press quoted the ministry as saying in a statement.
There are security forces among the casualties as the first attack took place in the morning when a roadside bomb went off near a four-wheel drive vehicle, carrying passengers, on a main road near the town of al-Shirqat.
About 30 minutes later, a second roadside bomb struck another vehicle when a police force arrived near the site of the first explosion to start a search operation for the perpetrators.
Anbar (IraqiNews.com) – Pro-government fighters of al-Hashd al-Shaabi foiled on Saturday a plot by Islamic State to infiltrate into Anbar province coming from Syria to carry out terrorist attacks.
“Acting upon accurate intelligence reports, an artillery shelling was launched targeting a gathering of Islamic State in Syria, killing several terrorists,” Alghad Press website quoted al-Hashd al-Shaabi, aka Popular Mobilization Forces, as saying in a statement.
“The terrorists were planning to sneak into Iraq and attack security forces stationed west of Anbar,” the statement added.
Anbar (IraqiNews.com) – The Iraqi intelligence service announced on Wednesday the capture of an Islamic State militant a few hours after he came back from Turkey.
Acting upon intelligence reports, military intelligence agents managed to arrest an Islamic State militant, who fled to Turkey following the Islamic State’s collapse in Iraq in December 2017, Alghad Press website quoted the Iraqi Military Intelligence Directorate as saying in a statement.
The terrorist took part in the armed attacks that was launched by Islamic State against security forces during the group’s capture of a large swath of Iraqi territories during the period from 2014 to 2017, the statement read.
He was taken to a detention center for interrogation, the statement concluded.
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Diyala (IraqiNews.com) – Three Islamic State militants were arrested Sunday in the northeastern Iraqi province of Diyala for killing seven people a month ago, a well-placed provincial official was quoted as saying.
“The 5th division of the Iraqi army, in cooperation with military intelligence, managed to arrest one of the most dangerous terrorist cells in Buhriz district, 10km south of Baqubah,” Sadeq al-Husseini, the head of the Security Committee in Diyala Provincial Council, told the Arabic-language Baghdad Today news website.
“The three-strong cell was implicated in killing seven civilians on the tourist highway in Diyala a month ago,” al-Husseini added.
Diyala (IraqiNews.com) – Iraqi military intelligence forces killed on Sunday an Islamic State militant and arrested another after storming their terrorist hotbed in Diyala, an army commander said.
They are implicated in an attack on a police station in Khanaqin district, Almaalomah news website quoted Ali al-Sudani, the head of Diyala intelligence directorate, as saying.
He added that the troops found weapons and explosive charges inside the hideout.
The slain Islamic State militant was found to be of foreign origin, Sudani noted.
Diyala (IraqiNews.com) – Three Islamic State militants were killed Saturday in an airstrike on a terrorist hotbed in Diyala, a well-placed provincial official said.
Sadeq al-Husseini, the head of the Security Committee in Diyala Provincial Council, told the Arabic-language SNG news website that Iraqi warplanes targeted a hotbed of Islamic State in al-Waqf basin, northeast of Baquba, leaving three terrorists dead.
The airstrike was launched following close coordination between the Iraqi Air Force and Intelligence Service, he added.
Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) – Paramilitary troops of al-Hashd al-Shaabi destroyed on Wednesday an underground tunnel of Islamic State in Hamrin Mountains in the northeastern province of Diyala, a security source was quoted as saying.
Speaking to Al-Ahd News website, the source said that a special force of al-Hashd al-Shaabi destroyed an underground tunnel that was used by Islamic State militants to carry out terrorist attacks.
He added that the force continues to comb the areas near the tunnel in search of any Islamic State remnants.
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Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) ‐ The Iraqi Interior Ministry said on Sunday that six 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.... turbans were jugged Yez got nuttin' on me, coppers! Nuttin'! Sunday in djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... city.
"The turbans were arrested in Rajm Hadid and al-Nahrawan districts in the western side of Mosul," Baghdad Today website quoted the ministry’s front man Maj. Gen. Saad Maan as saying in a statement.
The front man added that the turbans were fighting among the group’s ranks during its capture of Mosul city.
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[AA.TR] At least six people were killed and 15 others injured in attacks in northern and eastern Iraq on Sunday, according to Iraqi authorities.
A police vehicle struck a roadside kaboom south of al-Shirqat town in northern Saladin, Police Lieutenant Salahuddin al-Jabbouri told Anadolu Agency.
He said four other police personnel were maimed in the attack.
In a statement, the Iraqi Defense Ministry said a second kaboom took place in the town of al-Mesehli.
According to the ministry, four people were killed and 10 others injured in the two attacks.
Meanwhile, ...back at the laboratory the smoke and fumes had dispersed, to reveal an ominous sight... an Iraqi man and his wife were rubbed out by gunnies in al-Shoura area, south of djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... , Police Lieutenant AbdelKadir al-Jabbouri said.
Militants also attacked a security checkpoint in the eastern Diyala province, injuring five security personnel, according to Police Captain Habib al-Shimari.
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[Bangkok Post] Three police officers providing protection for teachers and three local residents were injured when a bomb detonated in Yala province on Friday morning. The explosion in Krong Pinang district was reported about 8:25am.
Police spokesman Pongsak Khaonuan said the blast wounded three policemen, and three civilians - a man, a woman and a young girl. Police and army rangers were dispatched to secure the scene.
[PULSE.NG] Driving towards the frontline of what remains 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 self-declared "caliphate" in eastern Syria, US-backed fighters pass huge craters from air strikes and buildings reduced to rubble.
Backed by air strikes of the US-led coalition, the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces are battling to expel IS from a few hamlets in the eastern province of Deir Ezzor.
But cornered in a final remote pocket of territory near the Iraqi border, the jihadists are staging a fierce fightback, hiding in tunnels and deploying jacket wallahs -- including women.
Eating their Darwinian seed corn...
Listening to Egyptian diva Umm Kulthum, SDF fighters drive along a desert road towards a string of villages retaken in recent weeks from the jihadists.
"The Islamic State has surrendered," reads graffiti scrawled across the wall of a small house at the entrance to the deserted village of Shaafa.
Nearby, a cart once used to sell fruit and vegetables lies abandoned.
The armoured car continues southwards, to where the Kurdish-led SDF is battling to secure the last patch of the village of Baghouz from the jihadists.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights this week said the village had been retaken, but SDF commanders on the ground say some IS fighters still remain, and are fighting back hard.
"Two women blew themselves up near our position," an SDF official tells AFP.
"We saw them come towards us dressed in black. They cried 'God is greatest' and then blew themselves up," he says, giving his name as Damat.
'CORNERED'
Aram Jaweesh, a commander in the SDF, says five women blew themselves up in various parts of Baghouz on Saturday, killing one SDF member and wounding three others.
IS suicide bombers are usually men, but some women have carried out such operations in Iraq.
From a rooftop, Jaweesh oversees operations, issuing instructions to his fighters in Kurdish through a walkie-talkie that never leaves his side.
A few streets away, armoured cars from the international coalition rumble by.
SDF advances in recent weeks have whittled away at the last pocket of Syrian territory the group controls, and Jaweesh says the noose is tightening around IS.
"They're cornered between the Iraqi border on one side and the SDF on the other," he says.
Late Saturday, four more suicide bombers killed 11 SDF fighters, according to the Britannia-based Observatory, while a further 19 jihadists bit the dust in air strikes.
Coalition war planes zip across the skies above Baghouz.
A blast resonates, then a mushroom cloud of smoke rises above its houses.
CIVILIAN EXODUS
On the roof, an SDF fighter points to another spot in the village.
"Look, civilians are coming out," he says.
Thousands of people, mostly relatives of IS fighters, have fled the ever-shrinking IS pocket in recent weeks.
When they reach SDF-held territory, those who are suspected of being fighters are detained for questioning, while relatives are ferried north to Kurdish-run camps.
IS swept across large parts of Syria and Iraq in 2014, declaring a "caliphate" there and ruling it with a brutal version of Islamic law.
It has since lost almost all of it to various offensives.
Earlier this week, the SDF's commander-in-chief told AFP that his forces would have flushed out the last shreds of the quasi-state within a month.
Leaving Baghouz, the armoured car drives into the dark, cold desert, traditional Kurdish songs now blasting from its speakers.
Jaweesh says the battle has yet to be won -- the jihadists may be encircled in a small area, but they are still launching rockets and drones.
"Every time our forces lead an assault, they emerge from tunnels and blow themselves up," he says.
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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.
... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality...
... the lunatic leader of Boko Haram who has been reported dead at least eleven times, pledged his body and soul to ISIS, told his fighters to hang it up once or twice, and been fired by the Caliph and refused to step down ...
...either the largest species of Pacific salmon or the current Sheikh of the Burnin' Sands, Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques and Lord of Most of the Arabians....
