[ToloNews] Government figures show that almost 45,000 members of Afghan National Defense and Security Forces bit the dust in the past four years under the National Unity Government.
Meanwhile, ...back at the the conspirators' cleverly concealed hideout Montefiore's foot was still stuck and the hound had completely soaked his uniform with slobber... festivities have intensified in northern, northeastern and southern parts of the country as the weather is changing.
In a recent incident on Monday night, at least eight members of the Afghan police were killed in an attack by the Taliban ...Arabic for students... in northern Balkh province.
In a report released in February, the United Nations ...the Oyster Bay money pit... said the organization has documented 3,804 civilian deaths, including 927 children, in 2018.
In total, UNAMA documented 10,993 civilian casualties (3,804 deaths and 7,189) maimed), representing a five percent increase in overall civilian casualties and an 11 percent increase in civilian deaths compared with 2017.
In this report, UNAMA attributes the majority of civilian casualties ‐ 63 percent ‐ to anti-government elements (37 percent to Taliban, 20 percent to ISIS, and 6 percent to undetermined anti-government elements).
According to the report, pro-government forces caused 24 percent civilian deaths (14 percent by Afghan national security forces, six percent by international military forces, and four percent by other pro-government gangs and forces).
The report says that key factors contributing to the significant increase in civilian casualties were a spike in suicide kabooms by anti-government elements, mainly ISIS, as well as increased harm to civilians from aerial and search operations by pro-government forces.
The report says that 2018 witnessed the highest number of civilian casualties ever recorded from suicide attacks and aerial operations.
[ToloNews] Sources close to the Taliban ...Arabic for students... have confirmed that the United Nations ...the Oyster Bay money pit... has "temporarily" removed sanctions on Taliban’s senior members who have held negotiations with US officials in Qatar ...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi... According to the sources, all the 14 members of Taliban’s political office in Qatar, including Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, head of Qatar office and deputy leader of the group, have been removed from the UN blacklist for nine months.
Anas Haqqani, Sher Mohammad Abbas Stanikzai ...Sher Mohammad Abbas Stanikzai, Head of the Taliban political office in Doha. He was a member of Rassoul Sayyaf's group in the war against the Soviets.... , Amir Khan Muttaqi, Qari Din Mohammad, Zahidullah Ahmadzai and Mawlawi Ziaurrahman Madani are also among those who have been removed from the UN blacklist, the sources said.
"This issue (removing names from UN blacklist) was discussed in the first meeting as well, but the Americans were making the excuse that for removing the names, the agreement of the Afghan government is needed. But this time, it is clear that the Americans have made the move, after their 16-day meeting (in Qatar), to reach an agreement," said Nazar Mohammad Mutmaen, a political analyst familiar with Qatar talks.
The Afghan government and the UN have not commented on the report.
Iqbal Khyber, head of People’s Peace Movement said that lifting sanctions on the Taliban’s senior members will help the peace talks.
"This will not only facilitate the peace talks but will also create trust between the two sides," said Khyber.
This comes as the US Special Envoy for Afghan peace Zalmay Khalilzad and his team are expected to start a new round of talks with the Taliban in Qatar later this month. Khalilzad so far has held five rounds of talks with the Taliban which according to him, these meetings have been "productive".
Mohammad Ismail Khan, member of the Jamaat-e-Islami ...The Islamic Society, founded in 1941 in Lahore by Maulana Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi, aka The Great Apostosizer. The Jamaat opposed the independence of Bangladesh but has operated an independent branch there since 1975. It maintains close ties with international Mohammedan groups such as the Moslem Brotherhood. the Taliban, and al-Qaeda. The Jamaat's objectives are the establishment of a pure Islamic state, governed by Sharia law. It is distinguished by its xenophobia, and its opposition to Westernization, capitalism, socialism, secularism, and liberalist social mores... leadership and member of the newly-established Reconciliation Leadership Council, said the working committees of the council have not reached an agreement about the members of the delegation that will attend the Qatar meeting ‐ scheduled for April 19.
"So far, they have not agreed on a list. The government was trying to have more delegates (in the team), but the politicians were not accepting it," Khan said.
The intra-Afghan talks, between the Afghan government, Afghan politicians and the Taliban, is scheduled for April 19 to 21. Initially, the talks were scheduled for April 14, but the Reconciliation Leadership Council on Wednesday said the meeting has been postponed.
This comes as the Taliban announced their spring offensive on Friday morning which is entitled Operation al-Fatha - which means "victory" in Arabic. The group said in a statement that the offensive will be conducted across Afghanistan with the aim of "eradicating occupation" and "cleansing our Moslem homeland from invasion and corruption".
Hours after Taliban announced their so-called spring offensive, a front man of the Resolute Support mission in Afghanistan, Dave Butler, said the coalition forces will continue to support the Afghan forces in the fight against the Taliban as the group has chosen violence despite a "tremendous" opportunity for peace.
[ELUNIVERSAL] The military council that assumed power in Sudan after the ouster of Omar al Bashir considers that this overthrow was not a "coup d'état", one of its members declared on Friday. "It's....something different"
The head of the junta's political committee, Lieutenant General Omar Zinelabidine, told diplomats that the expulsion of the man who ruled the country for three decades with an iron fist was not a "coup d'état," said AFP.
For his part the head of the military Council, which in principle has to lead a democratic transition, General Awad Ibn Ouf, will address the nation "very soon" announced state television ... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe?
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Hopefully its more of a "Weekend At Bernies d'etat"
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Ottoman Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu clashed on Friday with a French politician over the commemoration of the "Armenian genocide" in a heated exchange that prompted the French delegation to walk out.
The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... and Armenia are at odds over how to describe treatment of Armenians during the Ottoman era in WWI, with Turkey denying massacres and forced deportations amounted to a genocide.
French President Emmanuel Macron in February announced La Belle France would hold a national day on April 24 to commemorate the "Armenian genocide", drawing criticism from Ankara.
During a meeting of the NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Originally it was a mutual defense pact directed against an expansionist Soviet Union. In later years it evolved into a mechanism for picking the American pocket while criticizing the cut of the American pants... parliamentary assembly in Antalya in southern Turkey on Friday, Ottoman Turkish parliament chief Mustafa Sentop lashed out at La Belle France’s decree to establish the commemorative day, accusing Gay Paree of "manipulating history."
He also referenced massacres committed in Algeria when it was still a French colony and in Rwanda whose government accuses Gay Paree of being complicit in the 1994 slaughter there.
Attending the meeting, French politician Sonia Krimi, from Macron’s LREM party, criticized Ottoman Turkish comments saying she was shocked. But that provoked a sharp response from Cavusoglu.
"In terms of genocide and history, La Belle France is the last country to be giving lectures to Turkey, and we have not forgotten what happened in Rwanda and Algeria," the minister said.
"You can keep trying to look down on us, but we will keep putting you in your place."
Krimi and the French delegation left the room in protest over Cavusoglu’s remarks.
"When the arrogant @MevlutCavusolgu gives you lessons on arrogance and politeness, arrogantly and without any respect," she wrote on Twitter referring to the incident.
Turkey’s presidential front man Ibrahim Kalin hit back posting on Twitter a story from state news agency Anadolu about "dark stains in French history."
"Neither their colonial past nor their self-centred present guarantees their moral superiority," he wrote.
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[ALMASDARNEWS] Israel is claiming that the Iranian missile fired into the occupied Golan Heights earlier this year had violated international law.
The missile used was a "medium-range surface-to-surface missile" that was allegedly transferred from Iran to Syria after January 2016; this is a violation of Annex B of the UN Security Council Resolution 2231, the Israeli Ambassador to the UN Danny Danon said on April 4th, as reported by IHS Janes.
According to Danon, the Iranian missile allegedly "flew no less than 60 km" and was equipped with a "precise warhead".
"The [Security] Council must take responsibility for stopping these activities that continue to jeopardize the safety and security of our region," Danon said in the letter.
As stipulated in UN Resolution 2231, Iran is prohibited from transferring any military equipment to a foreign country.
The attack that took place on January 20th was carried out by the Syrian Arab Army in retaliation for an Israeli projectile that targeted the western part of the country.
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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
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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.
...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi...
