[KhaamaPress] A resistance front commander, resisting the current administration in Afghanistan, reportedly surrendered and joined the government along with 12 of his men.
The state-run Bakhtar News Agency reported on Thursday, December 1, citing security sources in Panjshir province of northern Afghanistan that a National Resistance® Front (NRF) commander relinquished to the new government.
"Twelve rebels led by commander Baz Mohammad and his brothers Mohammad Arez and Nek Mohammad joined the Islamic Emirate," Bakhtar reported quoting security officials in Panjshir province.
Mawlawi Mohammad Mohsen Hashemi, the governor of Panjshir province, hailed the surrender of the resistance front commander and stated that the current administration does not favor "bloodshed."
The authorities in Afghanistan refer to the current administration adversaries as "rebels", especially the NRF. The NRF is led under the leadership of Ahmad Massoud, the son of the late resistance front commander Ahmad Shah Massoud when the Afghan capital collapsed in mid-August last year.
The Ahmad Massoud-led NRF has yet to confirm and respond to the surrender of the NRF commander to the NRF’s opponent, the current administration in Afghanistan.
ISIS CONFIRMS LEADER KILLED IN BATTLE, ANNOUNCES NEW LEADER APPOINTED – An ISIS spokesman announced yesterday that the ISIS chief, Abu al-Hasan al-Hashimi al-Qurashi, had been killed in an unspecified battle. US Central Command confirmed the news on 30 November 2022 and attributed his death to the Free Syrian Forces. It is believed he committed suicide with some of his followers after being surrounded. He had led the group since early March of 2022 and is said to have been killed near the village of Jasim in Daraa Province, Syria…possibly in October. His successor is thought to have assumed the same name and little is currently known about him.
TALIBAN HALTS SEVERAL INTERNATIONAL RADIO BROADCASTS – The Taliban suspended broadcasts from both Voice of America and Radio Free Europe yesterday. They have cited concerns that the programming was misinforming people and inciting potential treason. The move is being seen as simply another measure to limit press freedoms. The move has brought swift condemnation from the journalism sphere.
PLANNED POWER OUTAGES IN 11 PROVINCES AND KABUL – The national electric company, Da Afghanistan Bareshna Shirkat (DABS) announced yesterday that power would be out in 11 Provinces and Kabul starting at 7 AM Friday and may be completed by the ‘end of the day’. Power is being cut in order to fix some technical issues with the 220 kV distribution lines coming in from Uzbekistan. The outages are expected to last twenty-four hours but could take longer. DABS scheduled the work to try and resolve issues before winter arrives in full force.
PAKISTAN DEMANDS TALIBAN HALT TERROR ATTACKS FROM AFGHAN SOIL – In the wake of the deadly suicide bombing in Quetta, the Interior Minister of Pakistan seemed to suggest the TTP attack may have originated inside Afghanistan. The Taliban responded with a statement of their own that assured their neighbors that Afghan soil would not be used to launch attacks against them. The Interior Minister claimed at 5,000 TTP militants were known to be sheltering in Afghanistan.
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THREAT OF A MOSQUE BOMBING IN WESTERN KABUL – A source in the Police has said a threat to bomb a Mosque in an unspecified Hazara neighborhood on Friday was received late Wednesday night. The source said the Police are taking it seriously because a mobile number associated with the threat is known to them. It is not clear if communities have been warned or if additional security will be dispatched. At-risk Afghans planning on attending Friday worship services in these neighborhoods should be cognizant of the risk.
POWER CUTS COULD TAKE LONGER THAN EXPECTED – At-risk Afghans should be prepared for up to 48 hours of power outages. A source familiar with the national grid says the work required to reinforce the distribution network is highly technical and will likely see power restored across the 11 Provinces in a piecemeal fashion.
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[REGNUM] Nearly 40 terrorist group members killed in clashes with military in Somalia
The Somali army eliminated about 40 militants of the Al-Shabaab terrorist group (an organization whose activities are banned in the Russian Federation) in the Middle Shabelle region, the Somali Ministry of Information reported on its website.
Several more terrorists were injured. The Somali authorities also claim that over the past three months, more than 600 members of this organization have been killed in Somalia, from which 68 settlements have been recaptured.
As REGNUM reported on November 28, militants from the Al-Shabaab group (an organization whose activities are banned in the Russian Federation) attacked the Villa Rose Hotel in the center of the Somali capital Mogadishu. Four people were killed in the attack. The establishment was liberated.
A joint operation carried out by spy Somalia's agency and foreign partners has left over 40 al-Shabaab ...... the Islamic version of the old Somali warlord... Lions of Islam dead in Middle Shabelle, Somalia's government announced, in the latest victory against the group which is fading fast in the Horn of Africa nation.
According to state media, the National Intelligence Security Agency [NISA] conducted that operation in the vicinity of Mahaday town within Middle Shabelle on Thursday, leading to fierce fighting between the government troops and the al-Shabaab holy warriors.
Reports indicate that the Lions of Islam were plotting an attack within the town before they were neutralized by security forces
"Over 40 Khawarij Death Eaters neutralized in a joint operation conducted by NISA, national army, locals and global security partners at Ali Foldhere area under Mahaday town of Middle Shabelle region. Militants were targeted while regrouping to stage an attack, " state media noted.
The government did not exactly reveal the group of foreign soldiers who assisted the Somali troops during the raid but the US Africa Command and the African Union ...a union consisting of 53 African states, most run by dictators of one flavor or another. The only all-African state not in the AU is Morocco. Established in 2002, the AU is the successor to the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), which was even less successful... Transition Mission in Somalia [ATMIS] have in the past assisted the military to successfully degrade the al-Shabaab holy warriors.
In fact, the US Africa Command has been doing this through regular Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s across al-Shabaab strongholds while ATMIS is on record for providing infantry units who directly confront the holy warriors.
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[REGNUM] Congolese army says rebels killed 50 civilians in eastern DR Congo
The armed forces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DR Congo) claim that March 23 Movement (M23) rebels
...also known as the Congolese Revolutionary Army. The Tutsi group was founded in 2012 as a Rwandan sock puppet, which no doubt seemed a good idea at the time, but in less than a year the Congolese army defeated them, and then Rwanda publicly stepped back in response to international pressure. Recently M23 has started acting up again, possibly again at Rwandan instigation...
and their allies have killed at least 50 civilians in a massacre in the east of the country, Reuters reported.
According to the army, residents of the city of Kishish were attacked. At the same time, representatives of M23 deny the accusations and state that the movement is not involved in the massacres.
As REGNUM reported , on November 18, the head of Rwanda, Paul Kagame , and former President of Kenya, Uhuru Kenyatta , called on the M23 group to stop hostilities and leave the occupied territories in eastern DR Congo.
Two #Saudi citizens and one resident have been sentenced to 18 years in jail and fined $133,000 for money laundering, the Saudi Public Prosecution said on Thursday.#SaudiArabpic.twitter.com/pcKbkFmUlg
[IsraelTimes] Report says authorities believe German-Iranian man who fled country has operational command over Revolutionary Guard plots in Germany
German authorities believe Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps is behind a string of recent attacks on synagogues, according to a local report Thursday.
The Tagesschau news website, citing an investigation led by the attorney general of the North Rhine-Westphalia state, said Sherlocks also believe the president of the Central Council of Jews in Germany, Josef Schuster, is in increased danger of being targeted by the Iranian cell accused of committing the other attacks.
The attacks included shots fired at a synagogue in Essen, the Molotov cocktailing of a synagogue in Bochum and an attempted arson at a synagogue in Dortmund, all in mid-November.
The report named a German-Iranian suspect referred to as Ramin Y., saying he fled to Iran ...Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979... last year.
German security officials believe the suspect, who is wanted on an international arrest warrant for "a murder in the rocker milieu," has operational command over IRGC attack plots in Germany, the report said.
"We’re talking about state terrorism ... any action taken by a non-Moslem state that constrains the violent impulses of Moslems or their allies ... here," it quoted an investigator as saying.
No further details were given in the report on the suspected threat against Schuster.
Iran has in the past targeted Israeli and Jewish figures and sites in numerous countries to retaliate for several high-profile liquidations and mysterious deaths of top Iranian officials in recent years, as part of the long-running shadow war between Israel and the Islamic Theocratic Republic.
The recent attacks in Germany on Jewish houses of worship came three years after a gunman killed two people in the eastern city of Halle after failing to storm a synagogue on Yom Kippur. Before the attack, he had posted a racist, misogynistic and antisemitic manifesto online.
Germany in May reported a new record in the number of politically motivated crimes last year, including a nearly 29 percent jump in antisemitic crimes to 3,027.
Seven decades after the Holocaust, in which the Nazi regime slaughtered six million Jews, the vast majority of the offenses — 2,552 — were attributed to the far-right.
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[IsraelTimes] Maad Hamed, who escaped PA custody before his arrest by Israel in April, will face potential life sentence for drive-by shooting that killed Malachy Rosenfeld.
A military court on Thursday convicted a Paleostinian terrorist over a deadly attack in the West Bank in 2015. Maad Hamed was part of a Hamas, a regional Iranian catspaw, cell that killed Malachy Rosenfeld, 25, in a drive-by shooting.
Hamed was convicted of intentionally causing the death of Rosenfeld. The charge is equivalent to murder in the West Bank military court system. He was additionally convicted of attempted murder and several other security offenses, according to the Israel Defense Forces.
He faces a potential life sentence.
The indictment said Hamed established a terror cell on behalf of Hamas "with the aim of carrying out attacks against Israeli targets, and planned, together with other members of the unit, to carry out a shooting attack."
It added that he had shot at the vehicle with the other cell members, killing Rosenfeld.
The IDF said that Hamed was also charged with a separate shooting attack that caused no injuries during the same month. No ruling has been issued yet on this charge.
Hamed’s sentencing trial is slated to begin on January 4.
Hamed was arrested by the Paleostinian Authority in July 2015, not long after the attack, and remained in PA custody until April this year, when he escaped, according to the Shin Bet security agency.
He was arrested by Israeli security forces on April 13 in the West Bank town of Silwad, considered a Hamas stronghold.
Hamed had been previously dconvicted and incarcerated Yez got nuttin' on me, coppers! Nuttin'! for a year over his connection to a 2012 shooting attack. And in 2014, he was in administrative detention for several months over his affiliation with the terror group.
Rosenfeld’s three friends, with him in the car, were maimed in the attack. The Hamas gunnies opened fire on their car near the West Bank settlement of Shvut Rachel, north of Ramallah, as they returned home from a basketball game.
The four, all of whom lived in the West Bank settlement of Kochav Hashahar, had been driving near Route 60, the main north-south artery running through the West Bank when they were attacked.
In July 2015, security forces detained four members of a seven-strong Hamas cell behind the attack, the Shin Bet said at the time.
Two others — including Hamed — were being held by the Paleostinian Authority, and the ringleader was said to be in Jordan.
Three members of the cell have already been given life sentences for the attack.
[IsraelTimes] IDF reports shooting near Ofra settlement as officials brace for possible retaliation after killing of 2 senior terror group fighters
Assailants opened fire on a bus in the West Bank early Friday morning in an attempted terror attack, the Israel Defense Forces said.
Bullets hit the bus near the Ofra settlement, north of Jerusalem, but caused no injuries, the IDF said. The bus had been reinforced against attacks and was traveling to Ariel on Route 60 when it was hit, the Kan public broadcaster reported. After the shooting, the bus continued on its route until it met IDF forces at the Shiloh settlement farther to the north. The IDF reported the shooting shortly after midnight.
Troops were scouring the area in a search for suspects.
In a separate incident on Thursday night, troops spotted a suspect who was throwing Molotov cocktails near the settlement of Givon Hahadasha north of Jerusalem. The soldiers fired at the assailant and "identified a hit." In a search of the area, the troops found additional Molotov cocktails, the IDF said. There were no injuries to Israeli forces.
[NPASYRIA] Ottoman Turkish forces shelled on Thursday a village in the northern countryside of Raqqa Governorate, northern Syria, destroying a mosque as a result. They're Moslems so they're allowed to do that.
The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) Media Center said that the Ottoman Turkish shelling targeted with more than 25 shells the mosque of the village of al-Terwaziya, east of the town of Ain Issa.
The center added that the shelling resulted in almost complete destruction of the mosque.
The photos attached to the article on the SDF website show the mosque’s stairs completely destroyed and a huge hole in the roof.
In December 2021, the mosque of the town of Zirgan (Abu Rasin) in the northern countryside of Hasakah Governorate, was subjected to Ottoman Turkish shelling, causing great damage.
On late May, the Mar Sawa church in the village of Tel Tawil in the countryside of the town of Tal Tamr, north of Hasakah, was subjected to heavy Ottoman Turkish shelling.
Since November 20, Ottoman Turkish warplanes have bombed hundreds of sites along the border in northern Syria, focusing on infrastructure and health facilities, in addition to claiming 52 lives and injuring 46 others, most of them civilians.
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[ALESTIKLAL.NET] The Guardian newspaper published a report indicating that the Director of the Fifth Division in the Military Intelligence Service MI5, Ken McCallum, revealed the existence of Iranian attempts to kill and kidnap opponents of its regime residing in Britain.
McCallum stated that the number of attempts in 2021 reached 10 attempts.
He emphasized that Iran’s attempts to target journalists and dissidents in Britain have increased since January as its regime feels increasing pressure.
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[NPASYRIA] A leader of one of the local armed groups, which are supported by the Syrian government and Russia, in the town of Jasim in south Syria, said on Thursday that the leader of the Islamic State (ISIS) Abu al-Hassan al-Hashimi al-Qurashi was killed on October 15.
The local leader, who had taken part in the fight against ISIS sleeper cells in Jasim, told North Press that ISIS leader blew himself up after he was surrounded in a house in northern Jasim with three fellows.
The leader, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, told North Press, “Local fighters were able to encircle the house where the ISIS leader was hiding. They asked them to give up, but they rejected and violent clashes ensued.”
Hours later, the leader blew himself up along with the three attendants.
On October 14, a curfew was imposed by local armed groups in Jasim to chase down ISIS operatives.
According to the local leader, ISIS leader was known as Abu Abdulrahman al-Iraqi and no one knew his real name.
Yesterday, an audio aired by Abu Omar al-Muhajer announced that the group’s leader was killed, naming at the same time Abu al-Hussein al-Husseini al-Qurashi a new leader of the terrorist group.
The body of the blown up ISIS leader was buried in Jasim after being exposed two days in the site of explosion.
No evidence were found that could verify the identities of the three other slain militants. Falsified documents were found at the site which were of people from the governorate that had passed away.
Yesterday, the US Central Command confirmed the death of the leader of the radical group in the city of Daraa in south Syria in mid-October, adding he was killed by the Free Syrian Army (FSA).
Syrian state media at the time reported that authorities received information that IS members have hideouts in the northern neighborhoods of Jassem, about 60 kilometers (37 miles) south of Damascus. Syrian troops were joined with former rebels who had reconciled with the government in 2018 and were allowed to stay and keep their weapons in the southern province of Daraa, and together they began an operation against the suspected Death Eater hideouts, state news agency SANA said at the time.
Amid the intensity of the fighting, an Iraqi IS commander known as Abu Abdul-Rahman al-Iraqi, made his family escape from the house where he was staying and once they were out and he was totally surrounded, the Iraqi citizen detonated an boom belt he was wearing, killing himself, according to Rami Abdurrahman who heads the Britannia-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, an opposition war monitor.
In a nearby house, rebels surrounded and blew up the hideout of two other IS Death Eaters, a Lebanese and a Syrian, killing both of them, Abdurrahman said.
According to Syria’s state news agency SANA, three rebels were killed and seven others were maimed in the battle in Jassem that lasted since the late hours of October 14 until the next day. During the fighting, Syrian troops imposed a curfew on the village, SANA said.
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
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...Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979...
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