If the Russians provide air cover they've got a chance to take out Hayat Tahrir al-Sham and regain control of their country, to include the Ottoman outposts. Last time they tried, they lost most of their air force
Saied Abdelkareem, (A.K.A. Abu Rami), formerly with Ansar al-Sharia, then the ISIS voice of Sirte, who's not working with the GNA, tossed into jug and his archives confiscated
[KhaamaPress] The Afghan forces prevented rocket barrage on Kabul city by discovering and confiscating at least 30 rounds of various types of rockets and mortar rounds.
The Kabul Police Headquarters in a statement said the police forces conducted multiple operations in Kalakan district of Kabul province.
The statement further added that the police forces confiscated at least 30 rounds of BM-1 rockets, 82 mm artillery rounds and 82 mm mortar rounds.
The turbans were looking to carry out attacks on Kabul city using the rockets, artillery and mortar rounds, the Kabul Police Headquarters added.
The anti-government armed turbans including Taliban ...mindless ferocity in a turban... have not commented in this regard so far.
[KhaamaPress] The security forces killed a suspected militant and wounded three others during a clash in Kabul city, the Kabul Police Headquarters said.
According to a statement released by Kabul Police, a group of armed individuals, affiliated with the Taliban group, clashed with police forces in 17th district of the city.
The statement further added that the security forces killed one of the militants and wounded three others.
The security forces also confiscated an Ak-47 assault rifle and 5 ammunition magazines, the statement said, adding that the detained suspects confessed that they had links with the Taliban group.
The Taliban group has not commented regarding the incident so far.
[RADIOSHABELLE] The United States admitted on Monday that it had killed two civilians and injured three in an Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... in Somalia early last year, in a rare acknowledgment of civilian casualties from US Africa Command military operations in the Horn of Africa country.
The deaths were mentioned in a debut quarterly assessment report by AFRICOM on allegations of civilian casualties raised in connection with its operations against faceless myrmidons in Somalia, Libya, and other African countries.
"Regrettably two non-combatants were killed and three others injured in a February 2019 airstrike. "We are deeply sorry this occurred," AFRICOM’s commander, US Army General Stephen Townsend, said in the report.
The airstrike was carried out in the vicinity of Kunyo Barrow in Somalia’s Lower Shabelle region and the report said the intended target — two members of Somali gang al-Shabaab ...... the personification of Somali state failure... — were killed.
The civilian deaths, it said, occurred as a result of US or al-Shabaab munitions that went kaboom! during the airstrike. Camp followers or simple, but well-armed goat herders?
It was the second known incident in which AFRICOM has acknowledged killing civilians in Somalia, where rights activists have accused it of long shrouding its operations in secrecy.
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A lot of French civilians died in the allied bombing campaign 1940-44.
Warlord Haftar’s armed groups attacked with rockets a field hospital in the Airport Road in #Tripoli on Tuesday causing damage to the site pic.twitter.com/zRBh0KQ6sE
[Libya Observer] The Libyan Army Spokesman, Colonel Mohammed Ganunu, said on Monday that the Libyan Air Force had carried out five Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s, targeting military vehicles and Haftar militias at al-Wattia Air Base.
The media office of the Volcano of Rage Operation quoted Ganunu as saying that these strikes come within the Peace Storm Operation, in response to the ongoing indiscriminate bombardment of 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... neighborhoods.
It added that these air force raids, carried out at dawn on Tuesday, hit two trucks of ammunition and fuel south of Bani Walid, which were earmarked to support Haftar forces in Tarhuna.
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[Libya Observer] The Libyan Interior Ministry of the Government of National Accord (GNA) arrested Tuesday the media expert of ISIS terrorist groups in Sirte, Saied Abdelkareem, (A.K.A. Abu Rami) who is a 34-year-old Sudanese national, born in Sirte.The Ministry said the Anti-Crime-Terrorism Deterrence Apparatus detained the ISIS murderous Moslem after a security operation that had been ongoing for weeks.
Abu Rami was part of Ansar al-Sharia ...a Salafist militia which claims it is not part of al-Qaeda, even though it works about the same and for the same ends. There are groups of the same name in Libyaand Yemen, with the Libyan versions currently most active. Tunisia's Shabaab al-Tawhid started out an Ansar al-Sharia and changed its name in early 2014. It still uses the old name now and then, probably because the stationery's not all used up and the web site hasn't expired yet... 's media teams from 2012 to 2014, then he pledged allegiance to ISIS and worked at ISIS-linked al-Bayan Radio in Sirte as a video and news editor and presenter.
Abu Rami was part of the team of ISIS big shot Ahmed al-Himmali (Abu Abdullah) who was the leader of 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... ISIS sleeper cell that carried out attacks in 2014 and 2015 before he was killed by al-Bunyan al-Marsous forcs in Sirte Liberation battles in 2016.
The Interior Ministry said it had found with Abu Rami an archive for information about the activities of ISIS when they were controlling Sirte, adding that he was later sent to the Public Prosecution for further legal procedures.
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[NPR.ORG] El Salvador's president authorized the country's police and military to use lethal force against gang members, who over the weekend were allegedly responsible for the murders of dozens of people. Along with the emergency orders, President Nayib Bukele put all incarcerated gang members on a 24-hour shutdown.
Bukele says the gangs are taking advantage of the police focus on enforcing the coronavirus lockdown instead of battling criminal elements. Lethal force can be used in self-defense or to protect the lives of Salvadorans, he says.
Fifty-three people were killed over the weekend, with 29 murdered on Sunday alone, a new one-day record for homicides since Bukele swept into office last June pledging to reduce the killings. Murders had dropped dramatically in March, as El Salvador enacted some of the most restrictive lockdown measures in the region to combat COVID-19.
Bukele says gang leaders ordered the murders from inside prisons. He spent much of Monday, tweeting pictures of workers boarding up prison cells and says the gang members will no longer see sunlight and will be housed with rivals. He warned the gangsters will regret for the rest of their lives having made the decision to order the murders.
[Rudaw] Iraqi Security Forces (ISF) captured a senior 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.... (ISIS) executioner in Saladin province on Monday, according to defense officials.
The ISF conducted a "successful ambush" near the town of Dujail in southern Saladin, the Iraqi Security Media Cell said in a tweet.
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"He has the blood of Peshmerga forces on his hands," Brig. Gen. Nawshirwan Ahmed said at the time.
So execute him by removing his hands, one joint at a time.
Gunmen attacked the office of the Iraqi directorate for counter-terrorism and intelligence in Kirkuk on Monday morning, security sources told a Rudaw news hound.
According to the source, three button men reportedly attacked the building in Qadisya neighbourhood,where two blew themselves up. One gunman reportedly managed to enter the building. Shooting ensued between the gunman and security forces, lasting around five minutes.
A statement from Iraq's security media cell confirmed that two people were maimed after one of the button men detonated a boom jacket.
While no one has grabbed credit for the attack, 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.... group (ISIS) has sharply increased its Death Eater attacks in recent weeks, launching offensives on Iraqi security forces and Kurdish Peshmerga in the disputed territories, including in Kirkuk.
This is reported to be the fourth attack in Kirkuk in less than a month, three of which have been claimed by the Islamic State.
[ALMASDARNEWS] On Monday, the Iraqi Armed Forces carried out a specific a massive military operation to destroy to the last remnants 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.... (ISIS/ISIS/IS/ISIS) along the administrative border of the Salaheddine and Diyala governorates.
According to the Iraqi security forces, their troops began the operation from four axes, hitting the terrorist group’s positions in both the Salaheddine and Diyala governorates.
The Iraqi security forces said the operation was a huge success, as their troops managed to uncover several terrorist hideouts and tunnels.
The Iraqi Ministry of Defense said that the Iraqi Army, with the participation of support groups from the police and Hashd al-Sha’abi (Popular Mobilization Units), carried out a broad military operation within the Salaheddine Operations Command, from 4 main axes to track down the terrorist cells of ISIS.
"The operation is targeting murderous Moslems in the Mataybija area (Hawi al-Azim), and the villages along the borders between Diyala, Salaheddine and Samarra," the Ministry of Defense said.
It reported the destruction of three terrorist hideouts, two tunnels, a boat and an bomb.
The Iraqi Ministry of Defense pointed out that the process, which is still ongoing, comes to end the Islamic State’s presence of these governorates.
They added that scores of Islamic State bad boyz were potted during the 24 hours, thanks in large part to the ongoing assistance from their air force.
But not from the Americans, ‘cause that would be icky.
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[ALMASDARNEWS] The Syrian Arab Army (SAA) launched a new attack on the jihadist defenses in southern Idlib, Tuesday, targeting their positions along the Jabal al-Zawiya front-lines.
According to a field source in the nearby Hama Governorate, the Syrian Arab Army began to target the jihadist defenses in southern Idlib after the latter was seen moving their forces towards the front-line area in Jabal al-Zawiya.
The source said the Syrian Army targeted the jihadist positions with heavy artillery and missiles, hitting their front-lines at al-Fateera and al-Bara’ in southern Idlib.
He would add that the Syrian Arab Army is still striking hte jihadist positions at this time, as they are currently in violation of the March 5th Moscow Agreement.
The Syrian Arab Army has increased their attacks against the jihadist forces in southern Idlib recently, as they attempt to force these holy warriors to withdraw six kilometres north of the M-4 Highway (Aleppo-Latakia Highway).
At the same time, the Russian and Ottoman Turkish armed forces continued their patrols along the M-4 Highway on Tuesday, despite protests by Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham, formerly al-Nusra, before that it was called something else ...al-Qaeda's Syrian affiliate, from which sprang the Islamic State... (HTS) in the eastern part of Idlib.
Earlier this week, the Ottoman Turkish Army broke up an HTS-sponsored protest near the town of al-Nayrab; this prompted the latter to attack some observation posts in the Idlib Governorate.
As a result, the Ottoman Turkish Army destroyed the hard boy barriers and dispersed the protesters to clear the highway.
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A Turkish drone reportedly carried out a rare attack in northern Syria at dawn on Tuesday, opposition activists reported.
According to the reports, the Turkish drone strike targeted the Kurdish-led Asayish forces in the border-city of Kobane (var. ‘Ayn Al-‘Arab), which is located in northeastern Aleppo.
The reports said the Turkish drone attack resulted in no casualties.
The Asayish forces are a Kurdish-led police unit that is used throughout all of the territories controlled by the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in northern and eastern Syria.
The Turkish Ministry of Defense has not commented on the strikes.
In addition to this attack, the Turkish military also heavily shelled the positions of the Syrian Democratic Forces in the ‘Ayn ‘Issa countryside.,
According to a field report, the Turkish military attack on the ‘Ayn ‘Issa countryside was unprovoked and the SDF did not respond to this ceasefire violation.
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[ALMASDARNEWS] The Israeli Air Force carried out an attack on the southern suburbs of Damascus this past weekend, resulting in a confrontation with the Syrian military in the capital city.
According to a military source in Damascus, the Israeli Air Force fired at least eight missiles towards Damascus from Lebanese airspace, with at least three of the projectiles hitting the southern suburb of Sayyeda Zaynab.
As a result of this attack, the Syrian government reported three civilian deaths and the hospitalization of four others.
During the attack, however, it appears that the Israeli Air Force was able to evade the Syrian military’s preliminary radars, as their missiles were designed to suppress enemy defenses.
In an article released on Monday, the Russian publication Avia.Pro reported that the Israeli Air Force used their Delilah missiles, which are designed to suppress enemy radar and defense systems.
"Israel’s unexpected attack on the Syrian capital this morning ended mainly in favor of the Syrian air defense systems, which were able to successfully hit targets in the northwestern part of Damascus," Avia.Pro said. "Nevertheless, as it turned out, this is not about ordinary missiles, but about Delilah cruise missiles designed to suppress enemy radar and air defense, which did not work against the means protecting the Syrian capital."
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What began as a protest in front of the Central Bank has now turned into a march in popular neighborhoods of Beirut, with numbers quickly adding up as protesters join the crowds. #LebanonProtests#لبنان_ينتفضpic.twitter.com/ZonzonbmCK
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United States Military Cargo Planes have landed at Al-Omar Oilfield Base and Qasrak Base in Deir Ez Zor and Hasakah Governorates respectively,with a United States Military Convoy holding Military and Logistical Support entering SDF areas,towards US Military Bases
Over 40 dead, including women and children, in a deadly bomb attack in which a truck loaded with fuel barrels was used as VBIED, in Afrin. Other videos show gruesome site littered with dead bodies which I won't share here. #Syriapic.twitter.com/cwDZGUV8OO
[IsraelTimes] A fuel truck bomb kills more than 20 people, including at least six The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire... -backed rebel fighters, in a northern Syrian city controlled by Ankara’s local proxies, a war monitor says.
"At least 22 people including non-combatants were killed and 27 others maimed when an bomb inside a fuel truck went kaboom! in a market" in the Afrin region, says Rami Abdul Rahman, the head of the Britannia-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
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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.
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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 
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[ALMASDARNEWS] The Israeli Air Force carried out an attack on the southern suburbs of Damascus this past weekend, resulting in a confrontation with the Syrian military in the capital city.
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