[KhaamaPress] The Afghan National Police repulsed a Taliban ...mindless ferocity in a turban... attack against a security check post in western Farah province of Afghanistan.
According to the local security officials, the Afghan National Police repulsed a Taliban attack on a checkpoint in Pur Chaman district early this morning killing several Taliban fighters and their commander, Mullah Noor Ahmad.
"Armed gunnies attempted to attack check posts in Nawbara village and were repulsed by the brave ANP forces and the enemy fled from the area after sustaining casulties," front man for the Farah Police Headquarters.
"Afghan cops around the country are working hard to ensure security of the bases so they can provide security for the people of Afghanistan," the officials added.
The anti-government armed snuffies including Taliban have not commented regarding the report so far.
The security situation in western Farah province has started to deteriorate sharply during the recent yeas as the anti-government armed elements including Taliban are continuously attempting to stage attacks against the government and security institutions in this province.
[KhaamaPress] The Ministry of Defense of Afghanistan has claimed that the Arclight airstrikes have left at least 450 Talibs dead in past one week.
According to a statement released by the Ministry of Defense "Despite unsuitable weather condition and heavy snowfall, over the past week, Afghan Air Forces carried out airstrikes on the enemies’ havens in order to ensure security."
The statement further added "These air operations were launched in Sangen district of Helmand ...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan... , Sancharak district of Sarepul, Dashte-Qala district of Takhar, Qarabagh, Dehyak and Andar districts of Ghazni, Hesarak 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.. , Zurmat district of Paktia, Shulgara district of Balkh, Shahwalikut district of Kandahar and vicinity of Trenkut city. As a result, 350 murderous Moslems including Shafiqullah, Mullah Zanjer, Mullah Noor Ahmad known as Khalid, Abdullah, Zahidullah, Yousuf, Badruddin, Mullah Faizullah, Mawlai Nematullah, Mawlawi Muhammadi, Mullah Noorulhaq and Mullah Temoor Shah, Local commanders were killed. Tens of their fighting positions, hideouts and depots destroyed as well."
"Mentioned enemy commanders had played active role in planning suicide kabooms, placing IEDs and conducting offensives in their respective areas," MoD said, adding that the Afghan Air Forces alongside other Afghan National Defense and Security Forces are ready to defend the country under any circumstance and will not spare any effort in fighting terrorism and destroying enemy havens.
The anti-government armed faceless myrmidons including Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... have not commented regarding the report so far.
[KhaamaPress] The Special Forces of the Afghan Intelligence stormed a key compound of the Taliban ...Arabic for students... group in northern Baghlan province leaving at two members of the group dead.
The National Directorate of Security ...the Afghan national intel agency... in a statement said the operation was conducted against the compound of Taliban group leader Qari Janat Gul alias Shaheen in the vicinity of Mulayan Village which is located along Pul-e-Khumri and Samangan highway.
The statement further added that two members of the group were killed during the operation and a large quantity of weapons and munitions were confiscated.
According to National Directorate of Security, Qari Janat Gul is leading a group of 15 bandidosturbans in Dand-e-Shahabuddin area of the Baghlan who are mainly involved in destructive activities besides harassing and terrorizing people on Pul-e-Khumri and Mazar highway.
The two members of the group who were killed during the operation have been identified as Adam Khan son of Shah Gul and Mohammad son of Afzal, the National Directorate of Security said, adding that a 82mm rocket launcher, a PKM machine gun, a Ak-47 rifle, a grenade launcher, a Taliban flag, and some other military kits were confiscated by the security forces.
The anti-government armed bandidosturbans including Taliban have not commented regarding the operation so far.
[KhaamaPress] The Ministry of Interior has announced that the police forces of Counter-Narcotics Task Force have tossed in the slammer Into the paddy wagon wit' yez! five drug pushers and an arms smuggler in Kabul and Khost province ... across the border from Miranshah, within commuting distance of Haqqani hangouts such as Datta Khel and probably within sight of Mordor. Khost is populated by six different tribes of Pashtuns, the largest probably being the Khostwal, from which it takes its name... s.
According to a statement released by the Ministry of Interior, the Counter-Narcotics Task Force police forces have arrested three drug pushers from the vicinity of Paghman district and 6th police district of Kabul city and confiscated four kgs of heroin, tablets, and other types of drugs.
The statement further added that an arm smuggler was also arrested from Pul-e-Charkhi area and confiscated a pistol along with 252 bullets were confiscated.
The Counter-Narcotics Task Force police forces also arrested two other drug pushers in Khost province and confiscated 39 sachets of drugs, the Ministry of Interior added in its statement.
Anbar (IraqiNews.com) – Three Islamic State terrorists were killed Sunday while trying to infiltrate from Syria into the western Iraqi province of Anbar, a security source was quoted as saying.
Speaking to Almaalomah news website, the source said that security forces managed to kill the trio before sneaking from the Syrian city of Al-Baghuz into Anbar province.
The arrest was made based on accurate intelligence reports, added the source.
Anbar (IraqiNews.com) An official source in Anbar Province informed, on Sunday, that the US-led international coalition warplanes carried out air strikes on an area in Anbar and destroyed a tunnel belonging to the Islamic State group (ISIS) in Maheya Valley in the province.
The source said in a statement that the warplanes of the international coalition conducted, at Saturday’s evening, an air strike on Maheya Valley, west of Kabisa and south of Heet.
The source, who asked to be anonymous, added that the air strike resulted in the damage of a tunnel used by the Islamic State members as a hideout.
It is noteworthy that the security forces, backed by the international coalition and Iraqi aviation, are frequently destroying headquarters belonging to the Islamic State in the areas that were held by them, inflicting heavy human and material damage on the group.
Anbar (IraqiNews.com) – An Iraqi security source has said that two Islamic State armored vehicles have been destroyed during an air raid in the western province of Anbar.
Speaking to Almaalomah news website on Sunday, the source said that the Iraqi Air Force targeted two armored vehicles that were planned to be used by Islamic State militants in attacking a military force in the desert of Kabisa city in the Hīt district of Anbar.
“The warplanes managed to destroy the two vehicles completely and killed all Islamic State terrorists at the scene,” the source said, adding that intensified security measures have been taken to thwart any plot by Islamic State to attack security forces and citizens in Anbar province.
Anbar (IraqiNews.com) – Eight militants of the terrorist Islamic State group were killed Saturday during a security operation near the Iraqi-Syrian border, a security source was quoted as saying.
“Iraqi troops carried out a security operation in the desert areas near Ar-Rutbah and Nukhayb towns in western Anbar to pursuit Islamic State terrorists,” the source told Almaalomah news website.
“The operation resulted in the arrest of eight IS extremists,” the source said, adding that the arrestees are implicated in carrying out terrorist attacks against security forces and civilians in Anbar province.
Law enforcement acted on precise intelligence data as they made the arrest, added the source.
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Erbil (IraqiNews.com) ‐ A Kurdish Peshmerga fighter was killed Sunday in an armed attack outside his house in Erbil, the capital city of Iraqi Kurdistan, a security source was quoted as saying.
"Unidentified button menshot up a Peshmerga fighter outside his house in Erbil district in Kurdistan," Baghdad Today website quoted a security source as saying.
"Investigations were launched into the incident," the source said, adding that the perpetrators of the armed attack expeditiously departed at a goodly pace into an unknown location.
[Jpost] One IDF soldier was badly injured and a second soldier was lightly injured.
Two IDF soldiers were maimed in a ramming attack in Binyamin in the West Bank late Sunday night at Kefar Neama, Channel 12 reported on Monday morning.
One IDF soldier was badly injured and a second soldier was lightly injured.
The attack was committed by three terrorists. Two holy warriors were were rubbed out by IDF forces, and the third was tossed in the calaboose Drop the rod and step away witcher hands up! Israeli security forces are investigating the incident.
The alleged ramming attack took place after a tense night in which IDF forces allegedly shelled the Quneitra district in Syria and fired tear gas at civilian houses in the Gazoo neighborhood of Shuja'iyya, as reported by Syrian and Paleostinian media sources.
The reports have not been confirmed by the IDF Spokesperson.
So that’s all we know about Israel attacking Iranian units in Syria as of the midnight rollover. Eventually more will no doubt be revealed, but at this point it doesn’t look like the next big war has started. Update from An Nahar at 5:15 p.m. ET:
"Assailants ran over a number of soldiers who had stopped at the side of the road on their way out of the village" of Kafr Nama, northwest of Ramallah, a military statement said.
"An (army) officer was severely injured and a border police soldier was lightly injured as a result," the army said.
Police front man Micky Rosenfeld said that the policeman injured in the pre-dawn attack had already been released from hospital.
The Paleostinian health ministry named the two men killed as Amir Mahmoud Darraj and Yussef Anqawi, both 20.
Kafr Nama's mayor said that troops were leaving the village on foot after a raid to arrest a Paleostinian suspect there when the incident occurred.
Israel's army said its troops had tossed in the slammer Drop the rosco, Muggsy, or you're one with the ages! 11 alleged Hamas, the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®, operatives in the Ramallah area overnight.
It added that "an initial inquiry suggests that earlier in the evening, the assailants of the car-ramming attack also hurled Molotov cocktails at a crossing".
"Additional Molotov cocktails were later found in the vehicle that had been used in the terror attack," the army statement said.
#Breaking#IDF targeted a #Hamas position in #Gaza following the ongoing explosive devices being hurled and launched at Israel. This appears to be a new policy and is probably a result of the criticism of the inability of the government to stop the ongoing Palestinian violence.
— LTC (R) Peter Lerner (@LTCPeterLerner) March 3, 2019
Interesting point about a new policy. But Hamas has also recently increased their protests to nightly from just a Friday activity.
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[IsraelTimes] Paleostinian media says Israeli drone targeted terror group’s observation post in northern Strip, in first apparent case of retaliation against nighttime ’confusion’ units.
An Israeli military drone bombed a Hamas, a regional Iranian catspaw, position in the northern Gazoo Strip on Sunday night in response to a violent riot along the border nearby, according to Paleostinian media.
While it was Israel’s third retaliatory Arclight airstrike against the terror group in the past two days, it appeared to be the military’s first time conducting such an attack in response to riots along the security fence itself, rather than to cross-border violence directed toward Israeli civilian communities.
"An Israel Defense Forces aircraft attacked a Hamas post in response to the throwing of bombs across the security fence in the northern Gazoo Strip," the army said.
On Sunday evening, members of a so-called "confusion unit" held a violent demonstration along the security fence in the northern Gazoo Strip, east of Beit Hanoun, burning tires and setting off many bombs near the border.
According to the Hamas-run Gazoo health ministry, three people were maimed by Israeli troops during the riot.
Earlier in the evening, Israeli troops caught two unarmed Paleostinian who crossed into Israeli territory from the northern Gazoo Strip, the army said. The men were detained shortly after breaching the security fence, and were not in possession of weapons, according to the military.
After halting their activities for several months, the Paleostinian "confusion units" recently returned to the Gazoo border, holding riots at different locations along the security fence each night in an effort to maintain pressure on Israel by tormenting the civilians living nearby and the troops serving on the border.
[ALMASDARNEWS] The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) launched a number of tank shells towards the Syrian Arab Army’s (SAA) defenses inside rural al-Quneitra, a source told al-Masdar News from southwest Syria.
According to the military source, the Israeli Defense Forces fired the tank shells towards a Syrian Army garrison near the town of Hader in al-Quneitra.
The source added that the situation in southwestern Syria could escalate in the coming hours should the Syrian Arab Army choose to respond to the attack from the Israeli Defense Forces.
The question is whether this time Assad is feeling luckier than he did the last many times.
In the past, when the Syrian Arab Army and their allies have responded, the Israeli military would come back with a series of powerful Arclight airstrikes across western and eastern Damascus.
This is the first attack launched by the Israeli Defense Forces since they shelled the Syrian Arab Army’s positions across the al-Quneitra Governorate on February 11th.
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[AnNahar] A Syrian jihadist group linked to al-Qaeda killed 21 regime and allied forces Sunday near Idlib province, in one of the deadliest breaches of a six-month-old truce deal, a monitor said.
"At dawn, 21 fighters from the regime forces or allied militia were killed in an attack by Ansar al-Tawhid jihadists," the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
"Five jihadists were also killed," Rami Abdel Rahman, the director of the Britannia-based monitoring group, said.
Ansar al-Tawhid has ties to the larger Hurras al-Deen group, which is also active in the area. Both are considered semi-officials franchises of al-Qaeda in Syria.
The area of Idlib and small parts of the adjacent provinces of Hama and Aleppo are mostly controlled by the rival Hayat Tahrir al-Sham organization.
HTS is led by fighters who formerly belonged to al-Qaeda's ex-affiliate in Syria.
Sunday's deadly attack was carried out against regime positions in the village of Masasna, in the north of Hama province, the Observatory said.
"It was one of the highest casualty figures among regime ranks since the Putin-Erdogan deal," Abdel Rahman said. He was referring to an agreement reached in the Russian resort of Sochi between 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... and his Ottoman Turkish counterpart Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First ... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey... Under the September 17 deal, The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... was supposed to exert its influence over anti-regime groups in the Idlib region to get them to pull back their fighters and heavy weapons from a demilitariZed zone.
The agreement was meant to stave off a planned offensive by the regime and its Russian backers that aid groups feared could spark the eight-year-old Syrian conflict's worst humanitarian crisis yet.
The government assault on the last major bastion of forces opposed to Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Leveler of Latakia... 's rule has indeed been held off but the deal's provisions have not been implemented and the de facto truce looks shakier than ever.
Since the Sochi agreement, HTS has consolidated its grip on the Idlib province and Turkey appears to be in no position to deliver on its commitment.
Breaches of the demilitarized zone have spiked in recent days. Another 20 regime and allied forces were killed in three days of festivities about a week ago.
[Rudaw] As the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) begin their final push into 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.... (ISIS) holdout in Baghouz, eastern Syria, Rudaw spoke to the last civilians and suspected fighters to emerge from the besieged village.
Among the last people to surrender ahead of the SDF’s advance is a suspected ISIS emir from Bosnia. He refuses to talk, holding up a hand and shaking his head at the camera.
Betcha his name and particulars are in the data base constructed from ISIS employment files previously liberated elsewhere, so now we have photo, fingerprints, retinal scans, and DNA as well. Victory contains so many kinds of sweetness.
Next to him are ISIS murderous Moslems’ wives. They are being screened for affiliation, intelligence, and weapons.
Many are found hiding electronic devices and papers. Others have concealed firearms. None of them appear to be natives of this area. The bulk of them are foreigners, speaking various languages.
As the SDF advanced in recent days, they uncovered potential evidence of mass executions. The victims are feared to be Yezidi slaves held captive for the last four years.
"ISIS kidnapped a lot of Yezidi women and kiddies," SDF spokesperson Lilwa Abdulla told Rudaw.
"During our advances, we liberated 200 children and women. In the meantime, we discovered a large number of Yezidi women’s bodies. We do not have a specific number of Yezidis here. Dozens were seen under ISIS here," she added.
Although a large number of civilians and ISIS members have fled, hundreds have chosen to make a last stand against advancing Kurdish forces.
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[Rudaw] Kurdish-led forces backed by US warplanes rained artillery fire and air strikes Sunday on besieged and outgunned jihadists making a desperate last stand in a remote Syrian village.
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 fighters holed up in Baghouz, the last dreg of the once-sprawling "caliphate" that their leader His Supreme Immensity, Caliph of the Faithful and Galactic Overlord, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi
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[Rudaw] Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) continue to capture foreign ISIS fighters in their last holdout east of the Euphrates in al-Baghhouz.
The SDF announced six imported muscle were captured alive on Saturday.
"Along with heavy fighting by our units within the Syrian Democratic Forces against ISIS terrorists, security operations are constantly being carried out in order to ensure safety in the areas liberated," the SDF said in a statement.
They included:
- Dmitry Simonov (Abu Isa al-Rusi), Russia
- Mahmoud Se’id Ateb (Abu Mushab al-Almani), Germany
- Nicholas Joseph Lee (Abu Yousuf al-Amriki), Latin America
- Emrah Rifat Ozanoglu (Abu Fatima al-Turki), The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...just another cheapjack Moslem dictatorship, brought to you by the Moslem Brüderbund.... - Abrar Mohammad (Abu Zubair al-Sweidi), Sweden
- Hisham al-Arabi (Abu Maryam al-Maghribi), Morocco
The murderous Moslems face coalition air strikes and an SDF ground attack in al-Baghouz. SDF leaders said on Saturday: "We expect it to be over soon."
The SDF has called on imported muscle to be tried in their home countries, citing an inability to process thousands of ISIS murderous Moslems through their own judicial systems.
Some countries have complained that there is a lack of usable evidence to prosecute alleged ISIS fighters. SDF has transferred custody of some Iraqi suspects to the Iraqi Army, and released some Syrian suspects to local tribal elders on Saturday.
Nearly 300 Syrians suspected of belonging to 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 have been freed because they have "no blood on their hands", Kurdish authorities who were holding them said.
Their release was announced late Saturday by the semi-autonomous Kurdish administration of northern Syria, which said in a statement that 283 Syrians had been set free.
Tribal chiefs and other local officials had lobbied for their release.
The statement said they were men who "have no Syrian blood on their hands", suggesting that they did not take part in any fighting.
"They had lost their way... violated the traditions of the Syrian society and the law, and some of them had been deceived... but they remain our Syrian children," it said.
Releasing them is a gesture of "cooperation, fraternity and clemency," said the statement posted on the website of the US-backed, Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF).
The prisoners were released in several areas of northern Syria held by Kurds, including the city of Raqa, which was the de facto Syrian capital of the IS "caliphate", the statement added.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Britannia-based war monitor, said it was not the first release of IS-linked prisoners by Kurdish authorities, but the number was particularly large this time.
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[KhaamaPress] The Afghan National Police repulsed a 
[Jpost] One IDF soldier was badly injured and a second soldier was lightly injured.
...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...
... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey...
