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ISIS launches massive offensive in Deir Ezzor
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Afghanistan
Taliban reacts in panic as AAF drops first laser-guided bomb
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The Taliban
...Arabic for students...
group in Afghanistan reacted in panic as the Afghan Air Force dropped the first laser-guided bomb on a hideout of the group in western Farah province.

A front man for the Taliban group Zabiullah Mujahid called the latest Arclight airstrike a "small step", claiming that the coalition forces did not have any major achievement despite using such sophisticated weapons and equipment in the past 17 years.

However,
a clean conscience makes a soft pillow...
the alliance led by NATO
...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A single organization with differing goals, equipment, language, doctrine, and structure....
, calls the use of the first laser-guided bomb by the Afghan Air Force a major achievement and another chapter in the success story of the Afghan Air Force.

"On March 22, the Afghan Air Force tasked the A-29 squadron to destroy a Taliban compound in Farah. The Afghan attack pilots were equipped with both guided and unguided bombs, and elected to employ the GBU-58 laser-guided bomb to avoid collateral damage," according to a report by Resolute Support Mission.

"Key pieces that you’re seeing is that the Afghan Air Force itself, one of the more lethal organizations they have, and one that we’re looking to triple in size by 2023, is conducting significantly more air operations in direct support of the ANDSF on the battlefield, to the tune of 500 more sorties this year than they did the year before," said U.S. Air Force Brig. Gen. Lance Bunch, director of future operations, Resolute Support, in a December 2017 presser.

Bunch also noted the Afghan forces conducted their combat operations through 2017 with the lowest level of support from the coalition forces in the 16-year war here, yet has seen some of the most success they’ve ever had.

Posted by: Fred || 03/29/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Taliban

#1  "WTF? Aiieeeeee!"
Posted by: Frank G || 03/29/2018 9:47 Comments || Top||

#2  I was skeptical at first, but the Afghan Air Force seems to be making good use of those cute little Super Tucanos.
Posted by: SteveS || 03/29/2018 10:26 Comments || Top||

#3  Contract pilots and maintenance crews, Steve.
The only AFG might be the fuel and paint.
Posted by: Skidmark || 03/29/2018 14:27 Comments || Top||

#4  Contract pilots and maintenance crews

Ah, that explains a lot. Thanks, Skid!

Personally, I see a great future for Private Military Contractors in places where the govt is unable to stand up forces capable of dealing with the local hard boys. But that's a rant for another day.
Posted by: SteveS || 03/29/2018 23:10 Comments || Top||


Nusrat operations underway to suppress militants in Helmand
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The counter-terrorism clearance operations (Nusrat Operations) are underway in southern Helmand
...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan...
province to suppress the Death Eaters in this province.

The provincial government media office said Nusrat Operations were launched in new Solar Year 1397 with the support of the Air and Ground forces of the Maiwand Corps of the Afghan military.

According to an official statement, the operations are currently being conducted in Greshk district and so far 4 Death Eaters have been killed and 3 others have sustained injuries.

The statement further added that the Afghan forces have also destroyed 27 hideouts of the Death Eaters so far and have discovered and defused 12 improvised bombs.

The provincial government says at least three suspects have also been rounded up during the operations and three cycle of violences, two vehicles, and a pistol have also been confiscated.

The Afghan forces have also started operations in Sangin district as part of the Nusrat operations and are being conducted successfully.

Posted by: Fred || 03/29/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Taliban


Africa Horn
Car Bomb Blast Wounds At Least Three In Somali Capital
[RADIOSHABELLE] Somali police say at least three people are maimed after a bomb attached to their vehicle went kaboom! near the office of the International Committee of the Red Thingy in the capital, Mogadishu.

Officer Abdifitah Ahmed confirms that the bomb went off shortly after the three left in the vehicle from a parking lot next to the ICRC office on Wednesday.

The ICRC says it is "shocked and deeply troubled
...meaning it might require more than two 'tuts'. If the other side responds at all it's known as a 'tut for tat' and it's worth 20 diplomatic points..
" that one of its staffers was hurt.

The police officer says one victim is at death's door while the other two are lightly maimed.

The Somalia-based al-Shabaab
... Somalia's version of the Taliban, functioning as an arm of al-Qaeda...
holy warriors, who are linked to al-Qaeda, often targets high-profile areas of the capital.
Posted by: Fred || 03/29/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: al-Shabaab (AQ)


Africa North
US military says senior AQIM leader Musa Abu Dawud killed in Libya strike
[THEHILL] The U.S. military has confirmed that a big shot of an al Qaeda branch in Africa was killed in a U.S. Arclight airstrike in Libya on Saturday.

Musa Abu Dawud, a high-ranking al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) official, was one of two hard boyz killed in the precision strike near Ubari in southwestern Libya, Africa Command (Africom) said in a statement Wednesday.

"Now that operational reporting and the battle damage assessment is fully complete, the command is able to confirm the death of Dawud," Africom said.

Saturday’s strike, which Africom disclosed over the weekend after media requests, was the first U.S. military strike in that country against AQIM. Previously, Africom focused its Libya strikes on the branch of 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....
in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) around the northern city of Sirte.

Dawud was labeled as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist by the State Department in 2016. He started engaging in terrorist activity as early as 1992, was appointed commander of the southern zone for AQIM in 2012 and was put in charge of a mission in Tunisia in 2013 to recruit and train new members in North Africa on the use of weapons, according to his designation.

He was responsible for a February 2013 attack on the military barracks in Khenchela, Algeria, that injured multiple soldiers, as well as a July 2013 attack on a Tunisian military patrol in the Mount Chaambi area that killed nine soldiers, the designation added.

"Dawud trained AQIM recruits in Libya for attack operations in the region," Africom said in its statement. "He provided critical logistics support, funding and weapons to AQIM, enabling the terrorist group to threaten and attack U.S. and Western interests in the region."

The military assessed no non-combatants were killed in the strike, according to Africom.

The strike was done in coordination with Libya’s Government of National Accord, the United Nations
...an idea whose time has gone...
-recognized government of the fractured state, and under authorities given to the U.S. military by the 2001 authorization for the use of military force, Africom added.

"Al-Qa’ida and other terrorist groups, such as ISIS, have taken advantage of under-governed spaces in Libya to establish sanctuaries for plotting, inspiring, and directing terror attacks; recruiting and facilitating the movement of foreign terrorist fighters; and raising and moving funds to support their operations," Africom said.

"Left unaddressed, these organizations could continue to inflict casualties on the civilian populations and security forces, and plot attacks against U.S. citizens and allied interests in the region."
Posted by: Fred || 03/29/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: al-Qaeda in North Africa

#1  Reading the names of these bad guys sometimes makes me wonder what life in the US would be like if every guy was named Joe Smith, Tom Jones or Dick Green and that was it. I sort of imagine it would be complicated.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 03/29/2018 6:45 Comments || Top||


Arabia
Police arrest five drug dealers in Dubai over 20kg heroin possession
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Dubai Police said on Tuesday that they tossed in the slammer
Drop the gat, Rocky, or you're a dead 'un!
five individuals who smuggled 20 kg of heroin into the UAE.

The Dubai Police Anti-Narcotic Department arrested the drug pushers at a Dubai hotel on Monday, March 19, reported Gulf News.

Speaking to the newspaper, the commander-in-chief of Dubai Police, Maj. Gen. Abdullah al-Merri, said that the drugs were smuggled into the country onboard fat merchantmen.

The suspects were arrested in an "undercover operation" where a police officer was sent as a potential drug buyer to negotiate a 2.2kg heroin purchase.

Assistant commander-in-chief for the Criminal Investigation Affairs department, Maj. Gen. Khalil Ebrahim al-Mansouri, the gang arrested were of European, African and Asian nationalities.

"The three Asian men smuggled the drugs in a commercial ship and then arrived to Dubai International Airport in different timing and stayed in different hotels. The gang were professional and organized," said al-Mansouri.

Detailing events that took place during the operation, director of the Anti-Narcotic Department at Dubai Police, Brigadier Eid Mohammad Thani Hareb, said: "We raided the location in a parking lot in a hotel. We arrested the European while he was handing over the drugs and arrested the African suspect who was with him. We searched his apartment and found the drugs hidden in his closet."

Posted by: Fred || 03/29/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Narcos


The Grand Turk
Shooter in deadly Quebec mosque attack pleads guilty
[Al Jazeera] A Canadian man who stormed a Quebec City mosque last year and shot and killed six Moslem worshipers has pleaded guilty to the charges against him.

Alexandre Bissonnette, 28, had pleaded not guilty
"Wudn't me."
previously this week, but formally changed that plea in a Quebec City courtroom on Wednesday.

"I'm ashamed of what I did," Bissonnette said in court as he read a written statement, Canadian media reported.

"I would like to ask for forgiveness for all the pain I've caused you," he said, referring to the victims and their families, "but I know that my actions are unforgivable."

Bissonnette was charged with six counts of first-degree murder and six counts of attempted murder in relation to the attack at the Islamic Cultural Centre in Quebec City on January 29, 2017.

Six men were killed, five others critically maimed, and a total of 19 people suffered injuries in the attack, which took place shortly after evening prayers.

Posted by: Fred || 03/29/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Moslem Colonists

#1  I don't know why he should be punished. After all, he did say he was sorry.
Posted by: Canuckistan sniper || 03/29/2018 21:11 Comments || Top||


Home Front: WoT
Suspected Mexican cartel leader smuggled 44 pounds of fentanyl into NYC
[FoxNews] A suspected Mexican cartel drug kingpin was charged Tuesday in the seizure of 44 pounds of fentanyl from a sting operation late last year, officials said.

Francisco Quiroz-Zamora, 41, was arrested in November after he traveled to New York City to collect a payment from an undercover agent posing as a drug dealer, authorities said. Officials charged him in connection with the opioid seizure at a Bronx hotel and a posh Manhattan apartment.

Authorities used undercover agents to track Quiroz-Zamora’s shipments from Mexico to Arizona and Californian and New York, according to the New York Post.

He allegedly stashed a duffel bag filled with fentanyl above a vending machine at the Bronx hotel and five more pounds was being stored at a Central Park West apartment, according to the New York Daily News.

An investigation into Quiroz-Zamora’s alleged trafficking was conducted by the Drug Enforcement Administration, the office of Special Narcotics Prosecutor Bridget Brennan and other agencies.

Quiroz-Zamora is believed to be a leader of Mexico’s Sinaloa Cartel, according to the New York Post. He was reportedly working under the nickname “Gordo.”

Five of Quiroz-Zamora’s alleged accomplices were also charged in the smuggling ring.

Fatal overdoes of fentanyl reached an all-time high of more than 1,400 in New York City in 2017, officials said.
Posted by: Skidmark || 03/29/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Narcos

#1  We can't show this article! It's anti-immigrant! Poor guy's just trying to keep the cost of drugs low in the Big Apple. Now the druggies will have to do more crime to pay the higher prices!
Posted by: Bobby || 03/29/2018 17:48 Comments || Top||


Iraq
Twelve IS members arrested in operation, west Mosul: Commander
djinn-infested Mosul
... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn...
(IraqiNews.com) Twelve 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....
members were jugged
Drop the heater, Studs, or you're hist'try!
in an operation, west of Mosul, Nineveh police command announced on Wednesday.

"Nineveh police, backed by the U.S.-led Coalition forces, in coordination with the Iraqi intelligence, carried out an operation against Islamic State locations," Maj. Gen. Hamed Names al-Jabouri, said in a statement.

The operation, according to Jabouri, "resulted in arrested 12 IS holy warriors, detonating six bombs and destroying three tunnels that were used by the members. The operation was carried out in al-Boweir village, west of Mosul."
Posted by: trailing wife || 03/29/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State


Military intelligence: Two terrorists nabbed, five IS tunnels destroyed in Iraq
Baghdad (Iraqinews.com) ‐ Iraqi Military Intelligence announced on Wednesday arresting two holy warriors and destroying five tunnels used by 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....
(IS) Death Eaters in Iraq, a move which comes as part of security efforts to completely eliminate terrorism in the country.

In a statement, a copy of which was obtained by Baghdad Today, the Military Intelligence said that troops of its 14th and 6th brigades carried out an operation to hunt for IS Death Eaters in Baghdad, Anbar and Nineveh.

"The troops managed to arrest two holy warriors in Saqlawiyah and Mansour districts in Anbar and Baghdad provinces," the statement read.

The two are wanted on terror charges pursuant to article 1/4 of the counter-terrorism law, added the statement.

Meanwhile,
...back at the Senate, Odius Sepulcher called for war against the Visigoths...
the Military Intelligence said troops of its 20th brigade destroyed five tunnels in southern djinn-infested Mosul
... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn...
that were used by IS Death Eaters for moving and hiding.
Posted by: trailing wife || 03/29/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State


Anbar Antics: big turban bound, 2 innocents kaboomed, 4 bad guys arrested


Iraqi forces apprehend Islamic State’s desert emir in Anbar

Anbar (Iraqinews.com) – A senior Islamic State (IS) leader was arrested Wednesday along with one of his aides in a successful air landing operation in Anbar governorate, Sky News Arabia reported.

In a statement, the Iraqi Counter-Terrorism Service said that a group of its troops, backed by Iraqi warplanes, carried out a successful air landing operation in Anbar governorate, apprehending the Islamic State’s so-called desert emir Saab Abdullah al-Issawi and one of his assistants.

According to the statement, Issawi was responsible for preparing booby-trapped vehicles in a location deep into the desert.

Two people injured in bomb blast, 4 others arrested in operation in Anbar

Anbar (IraqiNews.com)Two civilians were wounded as a bomb exploded under the rubble of one of the houses, in central Ramadi, west Anbar, a security source from Anbar police was quoted saying on Wednesday.

Speaking to BasNews, the source said, “a bomb from the remnants of IS went off while a family was trying to lift the debris of their destroyed house in al-Andalus district, central Ramadi, which two people injured.”

Moreover, the source said four people were arrested, while huge amounts of weapons were seized in security operation.

“Security forces carried out a wide-scale operation in al-Karma and al-Saqlawiya regions, leaving four people involved in terrorist operations and amounts of weapons confiscated,” the source added.
Posted by: trailing wife || 03/29/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State


Three people wounded in southern Baghdad bomb blast
Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) Three civilians were maimed in a kaboom that took place, south of Baghdad, a security source said on Wednesday.

"A bomb, placed near a market, in al-Mahmoudiya district, south of Baghdad, occurred leaving three people injured," the source told Alghad Press.
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Israel-Palestine-Jordan
PA stages ‘campaign of arrests’ against Fatah dissidents, critics
[IsraelTimes] Loyalists of exiled leader Dahlan accuse Abbas of staging crackdown over opposition to his bid to convene the Paleostine National Council

Paleostinian Authority security forces have tossed in the clink
Please don't kill me!
several supporters of Mohammad Dahlan, a deposed senior Fatah official and arch-rival of President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas
Continued on Page 49
Posted by: trailing wife || 03/29/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Palestinian Authority


Palestinian caught smuggled into Jerusalem in trunk, behind stroller
[Ynet] Attempting to enter city illegally, a Hebron resident‐aided by an Israeli Arab driver‐hides behind stroller in car's trunk; man spotted and incarcerated
Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw!
, both him and driver taken in for questioning.


A resident of Hebron, who does not have a permit to enter Israel, hid behind a baby stroller tucked away in the trunk of a car in order to enter Jerusalem.

He was arrested by border guards who spotted him hiding, and was taken for questioning. In addition, the driver of the vehicle, a resident of the east Jerusalem neighborhood of Isawiya, was arrested. The vehicle itself was confiscated.

Commenting on the arrest, the Israel Police stated that they "operate both on the intelligence and operational levels in order to eliminate the entry of illegal aliens into Israel, Paleostinians who are often involved in property offenses in Israel and sometimes even involved in terrorism."

Paleostinians who wish to enter Israel and do not have an entry permit sometimes pay Israelis‐some of whom are Israeli Arabs‐to help them through the checkpoints.

Today in Israel there are tens of thousands of Paleostinians who entered the state illegally.

Some who live in harsh conditions in the West Bank and Gazoo Strip get involved in crime, mainly in property crime, as a way to earn a better living‐smuggling the stolen property over to Paleostinian territories where they can sell them to a fence for profit.

This system is well known to the police, which try by all means to prevent it.

IDF nabs Gazan in third infiltration incident in under a week

[IsraelTimes] Israeli soldiers placed in durance vile
You have the right to remain silent...
an unarmed Paleostinian man who broke through the Gazoo security fence on Wednesday, in the third such infiltration in under a week, the army said.

According to the Israel Defense Forces, the man was arrested moments after he crossed from the northern Gazoo Strip into Israeli territory, near the community of Zikim. He did not have a weapon in his possession, the army said.

The suspect was handed over to the Shin Bet security service for questioning.
Posted by: trailing wife || 03/29/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


IDF tanks shell Hamas positions after 2 Gazans start fire near border
[IsraelTimes] An Israeli tank shelled two Hamas, the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood, positions in the northern Gazoo Strip on Wednesday after two Paleostinian men set fire to a platform near the security fence surrounding the coastal enclave, the army said.

The military said the targets were observation posts used by the terrorist group, which rules the Gazoo Strip.

Earlier, two men approached the abandoned Karni Crossing in northern Gazoo and set fire to a wooden platform connected to it, the army said.

"The IDF takes seriously any attempt to harm or deface the security fence and defense infrastructure," the army said in a statement.

The Israel Defense Forces stressed that the two suspects did not get through the security fence and enter Israeli territory.
Posted by: trailing wife || 03/29/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Hamas

#1  Fires defeat thermal monitoring technology.
Posted by: Skidmark || 03/29/2018 3:49 Comments || Top||

#2  You want fire? Hold my beer.
Posted by: AlanC || 03/29/2018 7:40 Comments || Top||


IDF chief: 100 snipers authorized to use live fire during Gaza march
[IsraelTimes] Gadi Eisenkot warns army could use 'a lot of force' to keep protesters from the border; says 'high chance' of military conflict with the Paleostinians this year

Israel has deployed more than a hundred snipers to deal with a Paleostinian march expected to begin on Friday and will authorize them to open fire if it is determined that Israeli lives are in danger, IDF Chief of Staff Gadi Eisenkot told Hebrew-language media in a series of interviews published Wednesday on the eve of the Jewish festival of Passover and ahead of the state’s 70th anniversary.

In separate interviews with Israel’s three most prominent Hebrew dailies, Eisenkot said he had ordered over a thousand covert operations outside the country, called the Jewish state "invincible," and added he has no intention of entering politics after his tenure is over, as several of his predecessors have done.
Continued on Page 49
Posted by: trailing wife || 03/29/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Hamas

#1  "Head Shot!"
Posted by: Frank G || 03/29/2018 9:41 Comments || Top||


Army announces 10-day closure of West Bank, Gaza for Passover
[IsraelTimes] Checkpoints, crossing to remain shuttered from Thursday morning to end of week-long holiday, as military braces for Gaza border riots and West Bank unrest.
Hopefully this means continued relative quiet.
Posted by: trailing wife || 03/29/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Palestinian forces arrest dozens of Hamas supporters in West Bank
[Al Jazeera] Dozens of Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, supporters and activists have been detained in the West Bank over the past two weeks following an attack on the Paleostinian Authority (PA) prime minister's convoy in Gazoo on March 13.

Paleostinian President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas
... a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial...
accused Hamas of being behind the attack on Rami Hamdallah's motorcade, calling it an "liquidation attempt".

Hamas denied the allegations.
No, no! Certainly not!
and said it was launching an investigation to uncover who was behind the blast.

Almost two weeks after the attack, two suspects were killed in an operation carried out by Hamas security forces. They were identified as Anas Abu Khousa and Abdul Hadi al-Ashab, unaffiliated with any Paleostinian political faction.

The attack and the subsequent recriminations marked a serious deterioration in relations between Hamas and the PA.

So far, at least 55 Paleostinians have been tossed in the clink
Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw!
as part of a crackdown by the PA on Hamas supporters.

'Arrests must stop'
Hasan Khreisheh, a member of the Paleostinian Legislative Council in the West Bank, told Al Jazeera that the arrest campaign by PA security forces is "incomprehensible and unjustified".

"These arrests must be stopped in favour for a Paleostinian united front to take a stance against the bigger issues at hand, such as US President Donald Trump
...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States...
's decision to move his country's embassy to Jerusalem," Khreisheh said.

"If the PA is serious about confronting these real issues, then they should stop the arrests," he continued. "In light of what the Paleostinian cause is going through, political detention deepens unreasonable disputes."

The MP said the PA leadership and other factions must intervene to stop the political arrests.

Posted by: Fred || 03/29/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Hamas


Science & Technology
Baltimore's emergency call system struck by hack
[THEHILL] Baltimore’s emergency dispatch system reportedly faced a cyberattack over the weekend, causing officials to manually handle emergency calls while its automated program was temporarily shut down.

Officials learned about the "limited breach" against the city’s computer network on Sunday morning, Baltimore's chief information officer Frank Johnson told The Baltimore Sun.

An unidentified hacker reportedly disrupted the network’s messaging functions within the computer-aided dispatch system.

Johnson told The Baltimore Sun that employees manually took over handling emergency calls to 911 and 311 until the system was back up and running. City officials mitigated the hack by isolating and taking offline the breached server, he said.

"This effectively means that instead of details of incoming callers seeking emergency support being relayed to dispatchers electronically, they were relayed by call center support staff manually," Johnson told the newspaper.

Baltimore is the second U.S. city to recently face a cyberattack, after Atlanta faced a ransomware attack earlier this month that affected a range of the city’s services, like bill collection operations.

Posted by: Fred || 03/29/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Syrian Army gives Jaysh Al-Islam final opportunity to respond to Douma offer
[ALMASDARNEWS] The Syrian Arab Army (SAA) has given Jaish al-Islam
...Liwa al-Islam (Brigade of Islam) was established by Zahran Alloush, the son of Saudi-based religious scholar Abdullah Mohammed Alloush, after Syrian authorities released him from prison in mid-2011 where he had been serving time for his Salafist activism. The group claimed responsibility for carrying out the July 2012 Damascus bombing that killed Defense Minister Dawoud Rajiha, Deputy Defense Minister Asef Shawkat, and Assistant Vice President Hassan Turkmani. It was a driving force behind actions in the Damascus region. It cooperated and conducted joint operations with al-Nusra. In Sptember 2013 Saudi Arabia engineered Liwa al-Islam's merger with fifty other more or less Salafist groups as a counterweight to al-Nusra, which the Learned Elders of Islam considered was growing too powereful...
a final opportunity to respond to their offer regarding the future of Douma, a military source told al-Masdar News this afternoon.

According to the source, the Syrian Army informed Jaish al-Islam that their decision to surrender Douma must come directly after the last rebel group leaves Jobar and Zamalka.

If they fail to meet this timeline, the Syrian Army will begin their long-awaited offensive to capture Douma.

Jaish al-Islam was supposed to give the Syrian Army and Russian military their answer today; however, they did not respond, despite repeated attempts to by the Russian Reconciliation Center communicate with this Islamist group.
Posted by: Fred || 03/29/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Jaish al-Islam (MB)

#1  Is it like J as in GAYISH? Like do they wear pink digital camo from Canada ?
Posted by: Jack Chaiter7913 || 03/29/2018 13:37 Comments || Top||


ISIS launches massive offensive in Deir Ezzor
[ALMASDARNEWS] The so-called 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) has launched a massive offensive in the countryside of the
Deir Ezzor Governorate, today, targeting the Syrian Arab Army’s (SAA) positions near the key town of al-Mayadeen.

ISIS launched this new offensive in order to take advantage of the large dust storm that is sweeping through eastern Syria at the moment.

No gains have been reported.

According to a military report from this front, ISIS began today’s assault by detonating a boom-mobile in the southwestern countryside of al-Mayadeen; this would result in a series of intense festivities that are still ongoing.

Tonight’s attack by ISIS is considered their largest assault against the Syrian Army since their brief counter-offensive after losing al-Sukhnah.
Posted by: Fred || 03/29/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State


Syrian Army reportedly discovers Israeli-made weapons in East Ghouta base
Aftermarket Uzis, perhaps?
[ALMASDARNEWS] The Syrian Arab Army (SAA) discovered a murderous Moslem base inside the newly captured East Ghouta suburb of Harasta, the Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) reported on Wednesday.

According to SANA, inside this Harasta base was a large cache of weapons that once belonged to the murderous Moslems of Harakat Ahrar al-Sham
...a Syria jihadi group made up of Islamists and salafists, not that there's that much difference, formed into a brigade. They make up the main element of the Islamic Front but they don't profess adoration of al-Qaeda and they've been fighting (mainly for survival) against the Islamic State. Their leadership was wiped out at a single blow by a suicide kaboom at a crowded basement meeting in September, 2014...
The SANA report would add that Israeli-manufactured mines were discovered among the murderous Moslems weapons.

In addition to discovering this base, the Syrian Army unearthed a large network of tunnels that stretched across the Harasta suburb.
Posted by: Fred || 03/29/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Ahrar al-Sham (Salafists)

#1  The SANA report would add that Israeli-manufactured mines were discovered among the murderous Moslems weapons.

Electronically detonated, via cell phones were they? The newer GPS variant possibly?
Posted by: Kojo Crerens5707 || 03/29/2018 11:57 Comments || Top||


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US-led anti-IS coalition admits 14 more civilian deaths
[AlAhram] The US-led coalition fighting the IS group in Syria and Iraq acknowledged Wednesday the deaths of another 14 civilians, increasing the overall toll of non-fighters killed to at least 855.

The coalition said in a statement that it had completed a review in February of 84 reports of potential civilian casualties from air and artillery strikes, of which all but six were deemed not credible.

These six incidents occurred in Syria between May 2017 and January 2018.

In one instance, five non-combatants were killed near Albu Kamal during a coalition strike against an 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....
leader.

"The investigation assessed that although all feasible precautions were taken and the decision to strike complied with the law of armed conflict, unintended civilian casualties unfortunately occurred," officials said in a statement.

Investigators were still looking at another 522 reports from the campaign.

The coalition conducted a total of 29,225 strikes between August 2014 and the end of February 2018 in Iraq and Syria.

Monitoring group Airwars says the number of civilian deaths acknowledged by the US-led coalition is well below the true toll of the bombing campaign, estimating that at least 6,238 civilians have been killed.

The US-led operations to fight IS in Iraq and Syria have largely wound down, with the jihadists ousted from more than 98 percent of the territory they once held.
Posted by: trailing wife || 03/29/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State



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