— NORTH PRESS AGENCY - ENGLISH (@NPA_English) March 10, 2022
ALEPPO NORTHERN COUNTRYSIDE, Syria (North Press) – A Syrian opposition faction affiliated with the Turkish intelligence arrested, yesterday,a security official of the Kurds Independent Association in the city of Afrin north of Aleppo, north Syria.
A local source told North Press that the Turkish intelligence arrested Khaled Ibish, the security official and member of the Kurds Independent Association in Afrin who hails from Hamam village of Jindires district in the countryside of Afrin.
An office of the association was opened in Afrin city in July 2018 chaired by Abdulaziz Tammo.
The Kurds Independent Association was founded in 2016 during a conference that was held in the city of Urfa south Turkey.
The association supported Turkish military operations carried out on Syrian soil including the Turkish invasion of Afrin in 2018 and those were launched in the cities of Ras al-Ain (Sere Kaniye) and Tel Abyad in 2019.
The Turkish forces and Turkish-backed armed factions took control over Afrin city and its countryside in March 2018 following a violent military operation.
The Turkish operation called “Olive Branch” displaced over 300,000 indigenous people towards the northern countryside of Aleppo where several camps were established to shelter them, while some residents resorted to villages there.
Meanwhile, others headed to areas held by the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (AANES) northeast Syria.
Since then, the region has been witnessing ongoing security chaos accompanied by infighting among militants of the Turkish-backed factions, arrests, and kidnappings amid the factions’ disability to settle the security and spread safety.
Reporting by Farouq Hamo
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[An Nahar] Ex-PM Saad Hariri ...Second son of Rafik Hariri, the Leb PM who was assassinated in 2005. He has was prime minister in his own right from 2009 through early 2011. He was born in Riyadh to an Iraqi mother and graduated from Georgetown University. He managed his father's business interests in Riyadh until his father's assassination. When his father died he inherited a fortune of some $4.1 billion, which won't do him much good if Hizbullah has him bumped off, too.... on Thursday lashed out at Hizbullah ...Party of God, a Leb militia inspired, founded, funded and directed by Iran. Hizbullah refers to itself as The Resistance and purports to defend Leb against Israel, with whom it has started and lost one disastrous war to date, though it did claim victory... for "protecting the criminals," after the Special Tribunal for Leb ...an Iranian colony situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozeen flavors of Christians. It is the home of Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers... reversed the acquittals of Hizbullah operatives Hassan Merhi and Hussein Oneissi in the case of Rafik Hariri’s liquidation.
"Ex-PM Saad Hariri renews his full confidence and complete commitment to what the Special Tribunal for Lebanon issues in the case of the liquidation of martyr premier Rafik Hariri and his lover companions as well as in the connected cases," his press office said in a statement.
"The Appeals Chamber’s decision to reverse the acquittals of the Accused Hassan Habib Merhi and Hussein Hassan Oneissi obligates the Lebanese state and all its military and security authorities and agencies to seek the arrest of the convicts to hand them over to the STL for the execution of the decided penalties," the statement added.
It said that Hariri also calls for the arrest of the third convict in the case — Hizbullah operative Salim Ayyash.
Hariri "holds Hizbullah responsible for covering up for the crime, protecting the criminals who belong to it, and evading the rulings of international justice," the statement added.
"History will not be merciful on all the culprits and plotters who planned the liquidation crime, and it will remain on the lookout for every party or leadership that fails to implement justice and penalize the criminal murderers," the statement said.
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he Islamic State jihadist group confirmed the death of its leader Abu Ibrahim al-Qurashi in a statement Thursday and named Abu Hasan al-Hashemi al-Qurashi as his replacement.
IS jihadists have "pledged allegiance" to "Abu Hasan al-Hashemi al-Qurashi as an emir over believers and the caliph of Muslims," the group's spokesperson said in an audio recording.
The recording confirmed the death of the former IS chief along with the group's ex-spokesman.
"Abu Ibrahim al-Qurashi and the official Islamic State group spokesman... Abu Hamza al-Qurashi... were killed in recent days," the new spokesperson said.
The former leader blew himself up in early February during a U.S. raid in northwest Syria, according to Washington, in an area controlled by rival jihadists.
Abu Ibrahim al-Qurashi, who led IS from 2019, was an ethnic Turkmen from the Iraqi city of Tal Afar. He replaced IS supremo Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, who was killed in a US raid in October that year. Read the rest at the link
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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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...an Iranian colony situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozeen flavors of Christians. It is the home of Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers...
