[ToloNews] Five employees of the state-owned Central Bank were kidnapped and killed in the western province of Herat ...a venerable old Persian-speaking city in western Afghanistan, populated mostly by Tadjiks, which is why it's not as blood-soaked as areas controlled by Pashtuns... , allegedly "by Taliban ...Arabic for students... ," according to provincial police.
The incident happened on Thursday evening when the employees were on their way from Kuhsan district in Herat to the center of the province, police front man Abdul Ahad Walizada said.
He said the employees did not coordinate their movement with security agencies.
Tariq Aryan, a front man for the Ministry of Interior Affairs, confirmed the incident and said "Taliban were responsible."
[KhaamaPress] The security forces killed 9 Talibs and maimed 3 others during the festivities in Zabul and Pashtun-infested Logar provinces, the Afghan military said.
The 205th Atal Corps in a statement said the Talibs were planning to attack the security posts in Arghandab district of Zabul province on Wednesday.
The statement further added that the security forces conducted Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s in self-defense, killing 7 Talibs and wounding 3 others.
The 203rd Thunder Corps in a statement said the Talibs attacked the security posts in Qala-e Elyas, located in the outskirts of the historic provincial capital of Pashtun-infested Logar province.
The security forces repulsed the attack and killed 2 Talibs during the clash, the 203rd Thunder Corps added in its statement.
The statement also added that the security forces discovered and defused 18 improvised bombs during the operations in Paktiya, Wardak 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.
The Taliban ...Arabic for students... group has not commented regarding the festivities so far.
#BREAKING@USAfricaCommand says "collective self-defense strike" against #alShabaab terrorists who engaged US partner forces, Somali National Army Danab & Jubaland Security Force near Kobon, #Somalia Thursday killed 10. Airstrike targeting al-Shabaab near Jilib today killed 1.
[ndtv] The Indian Army says the targets were precisely hit and follows an unprovoked ceasefire violation by Pakistan in the Keran sector of Kupwara in Jammu and Kashmir.
Five days after five Special Forces soldiers were killed in a major high altitude encounter in Jammu and Kashmir's Kupwara, the Indian Army released drone footage of a major Indian retaliation in the same sector.
The aerial footage shows a Pakistani Army ammunition dump being hit by Indian Bofors artillery guns.
The video shows multiple explosions.
According to Indian Army sources, Pakistani terror launch pads, gun positions and an ammunition dump were targeted across the Line of Control.
The army says the targets were precisely hit and follows an unprovoked ceasefire violation by Pakistan in the Keran sector of Kupwara.
On Sunday, a squad of five Indian Army Special Forces soldiers engaged and eliminated four Pakistani terrorists in the Kupwara sector but were also killed in the encounter.
A fifth terrorist who escaped from the encounter site was eliminated by soldiers near the Line of Control.
The operation called Randori Behak began on April 1, three days before the Special Forces commandos were called in.
Soldiers deployed in the Battalion manning the defences of Kupwara repeatedly picked up and lost track of the terrorists as they infiltrated across the Line of Control.
On April 3, soldiers picked up the trail at 4:30 pm and again at 6:30 pm on April 4.
On April 5, around dawn, the Special Forces squad had ventured onto a cornice, an overhanging patch of hardened snow with no underlying support. The cornice broke under the weight of two soldiers.
The soldiers fell in the exact area where the terrorists were hiding and a gunfight followed in which the terrorists were killed.
The soldiers who lost their lives were Sub Sanjeev Kumar, Hav. Davendra Singh, Sepoy Bal Krishan, Sepoy Amit Kumar and Sepoy Chhatrapal Singh.
#BREAKING: Ceasefire violation by Pakistan in Balakote & Mendhar Sectors in Poonch, Jammu & Kashmir. Today at about 10:30pm, Pak initiated unprovoked ceasefire violation by firing small arms & intense shelling with Mortars at LoC in Poonch. Indian Army is retaliating befittingly.
The United States is offering up to $10 million for information on Sheikh Mohammad al-Kawtharani, a senior military commander of the #Hezbollah in #Iraq group, who was an associate of the late Iranian General Qassem #Soleimani.https://t.co/dqR4iNZVCt
Kawtharani was branded a global terrorist by the United States in 2013, accused of funding armed groups in Iraq and helping transport Iraqi fighters to Syria to join President Bashar al-Assad's effort to put down a revolt against his rule.
Reuters reported in February that according to two Iraqi sources and a senior Iraqi Shi’ite Muslim leader, Kawtharani for now was seen as the most suitable figure to direct Iraqi militias until a permanent Iranian successor could be chosen, although he did not have Soleimani's clout.
“Kawtharani has connections with the militia groups,” the Shi'ite leader said. “He was trusted by Soleimani, who used to depend and call on him to help him in crises and in meetings in Baghdad.”
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Unpaid, follow-on installments from Soetoro's Iranian deal? Is there a Peoria to McLean, VA call-forwarding number ?
[PUBLISH.TWITTER] On Friday, the Syrian government forces regained control of all the positions that they lost yesterday in the eastern countryside of Homs, amid continued aerial bombardment by Syrian and Russian warplanes on the positions of the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really 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 western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... groups (ISIS).
The Syrian government forces were able to regain control of all of their positions in the town of al-Sukhnah in the eastern countryside of Homs, in the middle of the Syrian desert (Badia), that were captured yesterday by ISIS Death Eaters.
Clashes are continuing between the Syrian government forces and ISIS elements in the outskirts of Badia al-Sukhnah, in conjunction with mutual shelling.
Whereas, the Russian and Syrian warplanes continue to bombard positions of ISIS in the area.
The number of killed and maimed has increased since yesterday Thursday to 32 members of the government forces, and 26 members of the Islamic State, in addition to dozens of maimed from both sides, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
The Syrian government forces sent military reinforcements to their positions in al-Sukhnah, its outskirts, and the Third Station, accompanied by Russian support, in order to fortify their positions on the Homs-Deir ez-Zor road in the Syrian Badia.
Yesterday, ISIS Lions of Islam attacked the positions of the Syrian government forces in the eastern countryside of Homs governorate, where violent festivities and mutual shelling took place between the two sides, during which the terrorist group's Lions of Islam took control of several areas in al-Sukhnah, in the eastern countryside of Homs.
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[NPASYRIA] On Friday, the Syrian government forces regained control of all the positions that they lost yesterday in the eastern countryside of Homs, amid continued aerial bombardment by Syrian and Russian warplanes on the positions of the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really 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 western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... groups (ISIS).
The Syrian government forces were able to regain control of all of their positions in the town of al-Sukhnah in the eastern countryside of Homs, in the middle of the Syrian desert (Badia), that were captured yesterday by ISIS bully boys.
Clashes are continuing between the Syrian government forces and ISIS elements in the outskirts of Badia al-Sukhnah, in conjunction with mutual shelling.
Whereas, the Russian and Syrian warplanes continue to bombard positions of ISIS in the area.
The number of killed and maimed has increased since yesterday Thursday to 32 members of the government forces, and 26 members of the Islamic State, in addition to dozens of maimed from both sides, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
The Syrian government forces sent military reinforcements to their positions in al-Sukhnah, its outskirts, and the Third Station, accompanied by Russian support, in order to fortify their positions on the Homs-Deir ez-Zor road in the Syrian Badia.
Yesterday, ISIS Death Eaters attacked the positions of the Syrian government forces in the eastern countryside of Homs governorate, where violent festivities and mutual shelling took place between the two sides, during which the terrorist group's Death Eaters took control of several areas in al-Sukhnah, in the eastern countryside of Homs.
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Look closely. See the man with white hair? That's the head of the Syrian Armed Forces 1st Corps, Luau Ali Ahmad Assad. He's visiting Hezbollah positions in #Syria.
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...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling 
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling 
