[KhaamaPress] The Afghan and coalition forces have killed at least 30 Taliban ...Arabic for students... and ISIS Khurasan (ISIS-K) faceless myrmidons during their latest operations which were conducted in the past 24 hours.
According to the informed military sources, a coalition air strike in Khugyani district 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 killed 2 ISIS-K fighters while 7 more faceless myrmidons were killed during similar Arclight airstrikes conducted in Washer of Helmand ...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan... and Chimtal district of Balkh province.
The sources further added that a coalition air strike in Qarah Bagh district of Ghazni killed 4 Taliban fighters.
The Afghan Special Forces conducted a clearance operation in Tarin Kot city of Uruzgan, killing 13 Taliban fighters and destroying 2 roadside kabooms.
According to the informed sources, the Afghan Special Forces conducted a raid in Marawarah district of Kunar, killing 3 Taliban fighters while 1 Taliban fighter was killed during a similar operation in Zurmat district of Paktia province.
The anti-government armed faceless myrmidons including Taliban have not commented regarding the operation and killings of their faceless myrmidons so far.
[KhaamaPress] The local officials in western Farah province confirm that a Taliban ...mindless ferocity in a turban... attack has claimed the lives of seven coppers in this province.
Members of the provincial council said a group of Taliban holy warriors launched an attack on a security outpost in Bala Bolok district late on Saturday night.
The officials further added that the attack claimed lives of 7 coppers and Talibs took away the weapons and other equipment of the police forces.
In the meantime, the provincial police commandment officials confirm the attack but added that three coppers have bit the dust during the clash.
Farah is among the relatively volatile provinces in West of Afghanistan with some of its remote districts remaining home to Talibs who often attempt to carry out attacks against the government and security institutions.
[KhaamaPress] The Afghan Special Forces have rescued seven civilians during an operation in southern Helmand ...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan... province of Afghanistan, the Afghan Military said Sunday.
According to a statement released by the Special Operations Corps, the Afghan Special Forces stormed a Taliban ...mindless ferocity in a turban... prison in Washir district of Helmand on Saturday which resulted into the killing of Taliban fighter.
The statement further added that seven civilians who were kept as prisoners in the cell were also rescued during the operation.
The detention cell was destroyed together with a vehicle during the operation, the Special Operations Corps added in its statement.
The anti-government armed turban groups including Taliban have not commented regarding the operation so far.
This comes as the Afghan forces rescued five people during a similar operation which was conducted in Kunduz province of Afghanistan two days ago.
[KhaamaPress] The Ministry of Interior (MoI) has announced that the police forces have thwarted a deadly suicide kaboom plot in Kabul city.
According to a statement released by the Ministry of Interior, the Pashtun-infested Logar police forces incarcerated Drop the gat, Rocky, or you're a dead 'un! a would-be jacket wallah and confiscated a vehicle-borne improvised bomb during an operation which was conducted at 11:00 pm local time.
The statement further added that the would-be suicide bomber was on his way to Kabul but was stopped and arrested in the vicinity of Pashtun-infested Logar province before he manages to reach Kabul city.
The Ministry of also added that the suicide bomber was looking to carry out an attack in Kabul city.
The main target of the bomber has not been ascertained so far but the Pashtun-infested Logar security officials are saying that an investigation is underway in this regard.
The anti-government armed bully boyz including Taliban ...Arabic for students... have not commented regarding the detention of the would-be suicide bomber so far.
[KhaamaPress] The Afghan Intelligence operatives have nabbed Yez got nuttin' on me, coppers! Nuttin'! three members of the notorious Haqqani terrorist network in connection to two deadly bombings in Kabul city which left scores of people dead.
The National Directorate of Security ...the Afghan national intel agency... (NDS) in a statement said three Haqqani Network members have been arrested in connection to the bombings near the German Embassy and G4S Camp in the city.
The statement further added that the three individuals identified as Eng. Sharif, and Ghulam Mustafa who are originally residents of Syedabad district of Maidan Wardak province, have confessed their role in planning and facilitating the two attacks based on their Masters’ orders
Master? Huh.
who are based outside the country.
The National Directorate of Security also added that the investigations once again prove the previous information of the agency that the attacks were planned by Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... leadership with coordination of the neighboring intelligence and were implemented by Haqqani Network cell located in Maidan Wardak province.
The assailants who carried out attack against G4S camp were trained by Mawlavi Haneef who is originaly a resident of Kandahar province and is in charge of training jacket wallahs in Quetta city,
But Quetta is in Pakistan — how can that be?
NDS said, adding that the dead bodies of 4 assailants Zulfiqar, Zuhoor Ahmad, Najeebullah and Khalil Ahmad were buried in Gulistan and Kachlagh areas of Quetta.
According to the statement the three Haqqani members were locked away Drop the heater, Studs, or you're hist'try! in connection with the truck bomb near Zanbaq Square in Kabul city in May 2017.
The suspects are from Maidan Wardak province and reportedly confessed to the bombing during an interrogation. According to the NDS, these three suspects organized the bombing. The NDS also said that the three suspects had been involved in a number of other attacks. However, nothing needs reforming like other people's bad habits... the NDS did not provide details regarding their identity.
The deadly May 2017 truck bomb exploded at the entrance of the Green Zone close to Zanbaq Square in Kabul city at 8:20am on a Wednesday morning in May 2017.
At least 85 people were killed in the incident and about 400 were maimed.
The Taliban ...mindless ferocity in a turban... rejected any involvement in the blast.
This latest arrest comes after eight people were sentenced to extended jail terms last week after being found guilty of conspiring in the Intercontinental Hotel attack in Kabul in January last year, a source from the Attorney General’s Office confirmed. The AGO source said the eight people had been found guilty of aiding in the attack and transporting explosives. The eight were not however named. The source said that three of the guilty parties were sentenced to 20 years in prison and five to 22 years in prison.
A group of murderous Moslems stormed the Intercontinental Hotel in Bagh-e-Bala area in Kabul city on 28 January last year which resulted in the death of at least 29 people. At the time however, one source said the corpse count could have been as high as 43. Fourteen foreign nationals were among the dead.
Over 100 hotel guests and staff were rescued during the 17 hour siege, including 41 foreign nationals.
The Taliban grabbed credit for the attack and said five attackers had been involved in the siege.
Eyewitnesses at the time said there had been an engagement party at the hotel when the attack happened and that button men opened fire on guests. The state-owned hotel, built in the 1960s, is not part of the global InterContinental chain. However, nothing needs reforming like other people's bad habits... guests believed it to be secure and well protected.
However, nothing needs reforming like other people's bad habits... witnesses at the time claimed the hotel's security guards fled the attackers and left guests to their fate. Hotel security had been taken over by a private company just three weeks before the attack.
[DAWN] An Afghan politician says Arclight airstrikes in the southern Helmand ...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan... province have killed 21 civilians, including women and kiddies.
Mohammad Hashim Alkozai, a senator from Helmand, on Sunday said that 13 non-combatants were killed in one strike and eight in another. Both airstrikes were carried out late on Friday in the Sangin district, where heavy fighting is underway between NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It's headquartered in Belgium. That sez it all.... -backed Afghan forces and the Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... Alkozai says at least five other people were maimed in the airstrikes.
Omer Zwak, the provincial governor's front man, said turbans fired on Afghan forces from a civilian area.
Right — human shields. That’s the fault of those who hide behind them.
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[Libya Observer] The self-styled army's Air Force - under 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... 's command - has carried out an Arclight airstrike on El Feel oilfield in southwestern Libya, hitting the runway as a Libyan Airlines airplane was preparing to transport sick and maimed people for treatment in 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... According to sources from the scene, no casualties were reported and the strike hit the runway of El Feel oilfield.
The attack on a civilian plane was rendered by the Presidential Council (PC) as a terrorist act that is punishable by Libyan and international laws.
"We condemn in the strongest terms this attack by the General Command of eastern Libya on Libyan civilians and we consider it a terrorist act and a crime against humanity." The PC said in a statement Saturday, following the attack.
The PC also said that it had instructed the Foreign Ministry to document the attack and present it to the United Nations ...an idea whose time has gone... Security Council.
"Those responsible for this attack are subject to punishment by law and shall be held accountable. This is an attempt to deprive Libyans of their oil resources and to drag Libya backward into chaos and war." The statement reads.
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[ALMASDARNEWS] The Houthi forces released a new video on Sunday that showed their rocket battalion destroying an enemy tank inside the Dhale Governorate of Yemen.
In the video, the Houthi forces’ rocket battalion can be seen using an anti-tank guided missile to strike a T-34 tank that was manned by the pro-government Yemeni Army.
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It could be a journo screw up. Or, more likely, Russians do not like to throw staff away with so many ways it can be used to cause mischief in "right" hands. And, they haven't discovered "planned obsolescence" until recently.
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Not a screw up. Russian sources identify the tank as a T-34-85, and they should know.
As a matter of fact, the Russians probably delivered them to then Socialist Republic of Yemen.
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...There were some stories a year or two back - with pics that didn't seem to be faked - of WWII German gear, including a couple of vehicles, that popped up in Syria. More at:
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Dunno. Looking up if anyone still manufactured 7.92x33 wiki states,
"...still in use by some within the Lebanese Forces militia, Djibouti and Pakistan [19] as well as irregular forces in some countries in the Horn of Africa and the Middle East, where captured German arms were distributed as military aid by Eastern Bloc countries as well as Yugoslavia."
[DW] German police are investigating after three maiden of tender yearss were targeted in apparent xenophobic attacks in Berlin. In one case, a woman allegedly tried to pull off a 12-year-old's headscarf and stab her with a syringe.
A man spouting racist insults allegedly confronted two Syrian teenagers in northeastern Berlin and punched them in the face, authorities said Saturday.
He hit the girls, aged 15 and 16, "with his fist several times ... before fleeing into a shopping arcade," police alleged in a statement. Both girls were taken to hospital for treatment.
Hours later, a woman reportedly attacked a 12-year-old girl in the southeastern district of Neukölln. Officers alleged the suspect tried to tear off the girl's headscarf, pulled her hair and threatened her with pepper spray. The woman also allegedly attempted to stab the child with a syringe filled with what appeared to be blood, police said.
Officers from the state security police are investigating the incidents, which took place late Friday.
The suspected hate crimes highlight tensions over migration in Germany. Last month, a 50-year-old German man was charged with attempted murder after he deliberately drove his car into foreigners in the western cities of Bottrop and Essen. Eight people were maimed in the New Year's Day attack, including a 4-year-old Afghan boy and a 10-year-old Syrian girl.
Anbar (IraqiNews.com) ‐ Iraqi security forces incarcerated Drop the heater, Studs, or you're hist'try! on Saturday a big shot of 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 western province of Anbar, a security source was quoted as saying.
"Security forces launched a wide-scale operation in northern Ramadi, the capital of Anbar province, managing to arrest a senior Islamic State leader," the source told Almaalomah news website.
According to the source, the terrorist was handed over to the competent authorities for interrogation.
Anbar (IraqiNews.com) – Four Iraqi soldiers were killed and wounded Saturday when a bomb blast targeted their armored vehicle in Anbar province, a security source said.
Speaking to Almaalomah news website, the source said that an explosive charge went off when an armored vehicle was passing through Kabisa city in the Hīt district of Anbar province.
“The bomb blast left two soldiers dead and two others wounded,” the source said, adding that the injured were moved to a nearby hospital for treatment.
Islamic State is believed to be beyond the bomb attack, said the source.
Anbar (IraqiNews.com) – Iraqi security forces arrested on Sunday an Islamic State militant while he was trying to booby-trap a vehicle in the western province of Anbar, a security source said.
Speaking to Almaalomah news agency, the source said that the IS terrorist was planning to target security forces with the booby-trapped vehicle in Amiriyat Al-Smood district, in southern Fallujah.
The source added that the terrorist was moved to a detention center amid tightened security measures for interrogation.
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Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) ‐ Iraqi security forces killed on Sunday two jacket wallahs and tossed in the slammer Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out! three others during a security operation in djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... city, a security source was quoted as saying.
Speaking to the National Iraqi News Agency (NINA), the source said that the suicide kaboomers were plotting to carry out a terrorist attack in al-Ba’aj district in western Mosul using boom belts.
There was a woman among the arrestees, the source said.
[IsraelTimes] Separately, mortar shell said fired at southern Israel, apparently fails to clear border; ’confusion units’ resume festivities with IDF.
The Israeli Navy tossed in the slammer I ain't sayin' nuttin' widdout me mout'piece! a Paleostinian man who attempted to swim into Israel from the Gazoo Strip on Sunday night, the military said.
The man was spotted as he approached the Strip’s northern maritime border and was captured shortly after he crossed into Israeli waters, according to the Israel Defense Forces.
He was unarmed and was handed over to the Shin Bet security service for further questioning.
The man will likely be returned to the Gazoo Strip in the coming day, as are most Paleostinians who attempt to flee the coastal enclave.
Meanwhile, ...back at the shootout, Butch shot Black Bart's other gun out of his other hand...... Paleostinians launched at least one mortar shell toward Israel from east of the city of Deir al-Balah in central Gazoo, according to local media. The projectiles apparently fell short and landed inside the Strip.
The Israeli military said no projectiles landed in Israel.
The Eshkol regional council said residents of Kibbutz Kissufim, across from Deir al-Balah, reported hearing kabooms.
"We are in contact with the army, and the reports are being checked," an Eshkol spokesperson said in a statement.
No special safety instructions were given to residents.
In northern Gazoo, a so-called "confusion unit" also clashed with IDF troops along the security fence, after approximately two months without such nighttime skirmishes.
Members of the confusion unit threw Molotov cocktails and rocks, shined laser beams and set off fireworks at the Israeli soldiers serving on the border, across from the Jabaliya refugee camp, according to Paleostinian media reports.
The IDF troops responded with tear gas and, in some cases, live fire. No serious injuries were reported by Paleostinian officials.
The return of the confusion units to the border and the reported mortar fire appeared to indicate an intention by the Strip’s Hamas, a regional Iranian catspaw, rulers to maintain heightened tensions as the terror group negotiates a ceasefire with Israel.
[IsraelTimes] A Jordanian court sentences two brothers to death on Sunday in connection with a 2016 attack claimed by 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.... jihadist group, overturning a life sentence handed to the men last year.
The shooting attack in Karak, home to one of the region’s largest Crusader castles, killed seven coppers and two Jordanian civilians as well as a female Canadian tourist, and maimed 34 other people.
The head of the kingdom’s state security court, a military tribunal, orders Khalid al-Majali and Hamza al-Majali to be "hanged to death."
Jordan’s cassation court, the kingdom’s highest judicial body, reverses a November ruling which sentenced the two to life behind bars.
"The actions of the defendants caused chaos, panic and horror among Jordanians and foreign tourists and threatened the country’s security and stability," a judicial source tells AFP.
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[AnNahar] French howitzer-guns deployed in the Euphrates Valley desert just inside Iraq stand ready to pour fury on 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 diehards in their last holdout across the border in Syria.
Warplanes flash through the sky, followed seconds later by kabooms on the Syrian side that send up a mushroom cloud.
"We're less than 10 kilometers (six miles) from the frontline here," points out Colonel Francois-Regis Legrier.
He is the commander of Task Force Wagram, a French artillery group within the U.S.-led military coalition that backs up Iraqi soldiers and the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) against the jihadists.
Dozens of 155-mm shells are lined up ready to be loaded onto three green-and-black Caesar gun-howitzers with a range of 40 kilometers (25 miles).
The SDF, a coalition of Kurdish and Arab fighters, announced a final push to retake the jihadist pocket in and around the village of Baghouz near the Iraqi border late Saturday, after a pause of more than a week to allow civilians to flee.
"The end is near," is the message from La Belle France's Defense Minister Florence Parly who visited the Task Force Wagram site in al-Qaim from Baghdad aboard an American V-22 Osprey military aircraft.
"The Death Eaters are leaderless, without communications, in disarray, on the verge of collapse. So let's finish off this fight," the minister tells a group of some 40 French soldiers manning the outpost alongside 100 U.S. troops.
Legrier, whose 68th regiment took part in the 2016 recapture from IS of the northern Iraqi city of djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... , says there are "a few hundred fighters left in Baghouz, not more."
"Mosul, that was a nine-month battle and 10,000 shells. On this front, it's been four months and we're at 3,500 rounds," he says.
He points to challenges caused by frequent sandstorms and heavy rains.
Weather conditions have often grounded warplanes but artillery has been largely unaffected.
"At the end of last year, the pace was intense, we didn't get much sleep," explains Valentin, a 27-year-old lieutenant on his maiden overseas deployment.
- 'NOT COMPLETELY OVER' -
The lieutenant and his comrades are being rotated out next week, probably for the last time, as the mission winds down.
"The territorial caliphate, which has not yet been wiped out, is being defeated," Parly had said in the Iraqi capital last week, referring to the swathes of territory straddling Syria and Iraq seized by a rampant IS in 2014.
"We must continue the fight against IS and terrorism in the region because IS is probably in the process of reorganizing underground and spreading out," she said on her visit.
Since the launch of its al-Qaim operations, codenamed Chammal, French forces have fired off more than 18,000 shells and conducted 1,500 air strikes in support of anti-IS fighters on the ground.
"Our forces have been playing their part in full," Parly says in the desert.
But "the fight is not completely over," she warns. "What we want to avoid at all costs is for ISIS (IS) to regroup in clandestine forms, threaten the region, disrupt its stabilization, and also menace our countries."
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I'll have a "French 75" tonight to toast their valor.
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Send in the Foreign Legion unit known as "Les Rif", keep the newsies out and forget about it.
[ALMASDARNEWS] Despite ISIS’s recent string of losses in Syria, many of its members are refusing to give up and clinging to the remaining sliver of land that they have under their control.
Many of the hard-core ISIS* members who have decided to stay to make a last stand are imported muscle, who went to Syria and Iraq in 2014-2016, with up to 50 of them being British citizens, the Daily Star reported. Good. Die there.
The British newspaper further wrote, citing sources in the YPG [Kurdish People’s Protection Units], that a total of around 500 high-ranking ISIS* bandidosDeath Eaters remain in Deir ez-Zor to pick up the fight with Kurdish and Syrian forces.
According to the estimates of several YPG fighters, clearing the territory of ISIS remnants could take from several days up to several weeks to carry out.
"The time to negotiate and play around with these gunnies is over. They need to give up or they die", an anonymous YPG commander reportedly said.
However, corruption finds a dozen alibis for its evil deeds... the mop-up operations are complicated by citizens fleeing from areas occupied by the terrorist group. One Kurdish fighter told the Daily Star that "hundreds" are fleeing every day, with most of them being "ISIS wives".
In addition to the continual series of defeats by Kurdish and government forces, ISIS is reportedly also suffering from internal squabbles.
The Guardian reported on February 8, citing anonymous intelligence sources, that the leader of the terrorist organization, His Supreme Immensity, Caliph of the Faithful and Galactic Overlord, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi ...the head of ISIS, or what remains of it, and a veteran of the Abu Graib jailhouse. Looks like a new messiah to bajillions of Moslems, like just another dead-eyed mass murder to the rest of us. So far he has been killed at least four times, though not yet by a stake through the heart... , had survived an liquidation attempt on 10 January in a village near Hajin.
The attack was allegedly part of an unsuccessful coup organised veteran foreign fighter Abu Muath al-Jazairi, who now has a bounty on his head.
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"I refuse to be repatriated to the land of bad food and worse dentistry.... and there are no virgins"
[ALMASDARNEWS] A high ranking jihadist commander was recently assassinated in the northwestern region of Syria after a rival group opened fire on a checkpoint.
According to opposition activists via social media, the Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham field commander Adel Abu Ibrahim was assassinated by a group of fighters from the jihadist group Tanzim Hurras al-Deen on Saturday.
The opposition activists claimed that Abu Ibrahim was killed when the Tanzim Hurras al-Deen fighters opened fire on Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham’s Tal Hadiya checkpoint in southern Aleppo.
Recently, the two jihadist groups have traded hostilities in northwestern Syria, prompting many residents of Idlib and Aleppo to fear a new war breaking out.
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[ALMASDARNEWS] A large number of reinforcements from the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) reportedly deployed to the southwestern countryside of the Aleppo Governorate on Wednesday, a source from the military told al-Masdar News.
According to the military source, the Syrian Arab Army sent a large number of troops to southwestern Aleppo and eastern Idlib after Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham was observed building up their forces at these fronts.
The source said the Syrian Arab Army’s high command believes that Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham is preparing to launch a big attack against the government forces in both southwestern Aleppo (Rashiddeen axis) and eastern Idlib (Abu Dhuhour axis).
The news of a potential jihadist offensive comes just days before the Syrian government and opposition prepare to meet at the Astana Peace Conference.
At the peace conference, the topic of the Idlib Governorate’s future rule is set to be discussed by the government, opposition, Russia, The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... , and Iran.
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It’s been a while since we had reason to use this image...
[ALMASDARNEWS] 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.... ’s recent string of losses in the eastern region of the Euphrates River Valley has begun taking a toll on their morale, prompting them to carry out the ruthless execution of captured enemy fighters.
On Sunday morning, the Islamic State’s official media wing released footage of their Death Eaters executing their prisoners from the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF).
Among those executed by the terrorist group were two members of an Arab tribe from the al-Hasakah Governorate in northeastern Syria.
In the interview prior to the execution, the two rustics said that they were forcibly conscripted into the Syrian Democratic Forces, adding that they were placed at the front-lines in eastern Deir Ezzor before they were captured by the Islamic State.
The Islamic State often carries out these executions when they are on the verge of defeat; this has happened on a number of occasions in the past, with the battle of al-Safa in late 2018 being the most recent reference.
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[ALMASDARNEWS] The Russian Air Force has been observing the ongoing turmoil in western Idlib this week as two major jihadist groups are on the verge of war.
According to a source in Latakia city, Russian jets are watching the situation very closely in the Jabal al-Zawiyah and Jisr al-Shughour regions of Idlib as both Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham and Tanzim Hurras al-Deen appear on the path to war.
The source said that the Russian Air Force is primarily using their IL-20 spy planes which are usually seen flying over the jihadist positions when an offensive is looming or a drone attack was launched on the Hmeimim Airport.
Should a jihadist civil war break out in western Idlib, the Syrian Arab Army and their Russian allies may take advantage of this upheaval and begin retaking land from these groups.
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[IsraelTimes] Kurdish-led troops closing in on last pocket of territory held by jihadist group in eastern Syria, where hundreds of civilians and imported muscle are believed trapped.
US-backed forces were locked in fierce fighting Sunday as they pressed the battle against the last shred 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 "caliphate" in eastern Syria.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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[KhaamaPress] The Afghan and coalition forces have killed at least 30 
[KhaamaPress] The Afghan Special Forces have rescued seven civilians during an operation in southern 
[KhaamaPress] The Afghan Intelligence operatives have 
...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...
[IsraelTimes] Separately, mortar shell said fired at southern Israel, apparently fails to clear border; ’confusion units’ resume 
...the head of ISIS, or what remains of it, and a veteran of the Abu Graib jailhouse. Looks like a new messiah to bajillions of Moslems, like just another dead-eyed mass murder to the rest of us. So far he has been killed at least four times, though not yet by a stake through the heart...
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