[KhaamaPress] The civil aviation authority of Afghanistan said in a statement that the radar and VSAT systems guiding flights from Bagram airfield and Hamid Maybe I'll join the Taliban Karzai ...A product, and probably the sole product, of the Southern Alliance... International airport reactivated. Both the systems were deactivated before Resolute Support vacate the Bagram airbase in the north of Kabul.
It comes after local residents of the Bagram district of Parwan province started plundering the military base soon after the last plane carrying US troops flew from the airbase.
Of course they did. This is why Afghanistan can’t have nice things.
Local people purportedly stormed the base and took away a great deal of equipment late on Friday night. Afghan National Army and Police now manning security of Bagram airbase, arrested some culprits and shot maimed others. The Afghan security personnel said that US troops flew and left the airbase without coordination or informing them which caused the plunder.
Bagram airbase, the biggest and most paramount military base for the US and coalition forces in combat with Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... and hunting down al-Qaeda perpetrators, evacuated two days back bringing the total number of US troops based in Afghanistan to around one thousand.
Although Pentagon has not clarified the exact date of its last soldier leaving Afghanistan it says that around one thousand US troops will remain in Kabul until handing over security of Kabul airport to Ottoman Turkish troops.
Bagram airbase is now sixth in Afghanistan being handed over to ANDSF by US troops. Afghanistan Ministry of defense says that they will soon start using the airfield in suppressing the Taliban.
[AlAhram] Egypt’s President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi inaugurated the "3rd of July" Naval Base on Saturday, in a "message of peace and development for the entire region."
Below are the facts and missions of the Mediterranean base
Facts:
The naval base is located in Gargoub area in Egypt's northwest coast which overlooks the Mediterranean Sea.
The base stretches over 10 million square meters and is considered Egypt’s largest naval base.
It took its name from a history associated with eliminating the motives of hateful terrorism and moving towards development and progress, including the tangible interest in the sea after the 30 June Revolution.
The base comprises 28 armoured combat boats, four Swift boats, two Italian FREMM Bergamini frigates, an Egyptian-manufactured Gowind-class design frigate, and a German-made Type 209 submarine.
It includes 74 facilities, in addition to an airstrip attached to it, a hall for receiving VIP visitors, a number of training fields and an operations centre.
It has a military berth with a length of 1,000 metres and a depth of 14 metres, a number of commercial berths with a length of 2,200 metres and a depth of 17 metres, a port control tower with a height of 29 metres and two breakwaters with a length of 3,650 metres.
It includes a hotel on 6,300 square metres, a conference hall that can accommodate 700 visitors, a complex for sports activities, an open theatre that can accommodate 600 attendees, a service building, an equipped medical point, and a mosque on an area of 1,100 metres.
Missions:
The base will be in charge of securing Egypt’s northern and western strategic borders.
It safeguards Egypt’s economic capabilities, secure shipping routes, and maintain maritime security by using combat groups from land military units, submarines, and air forces.
It will help in protecting navigation in the Suez Canal.
The base will help in confronting illegal immigration as well as combating smuggling.
It will act as provider of the logistical support for the Egyptian troops in the Red and Mediterranean seas to confront any challenges and threats that may exist in the region.
The base will host Egypt’s military drill "Qader 2021" in addition to the joint military exercises with friendly countries.
[AlAhram] Foreign ministry in Baku said the move was part of a Russian-mediated deal and followed Yerevan's decision to release to Baku maps of minefields in the conflict zone
Azerbaijan on Saturday handed over to Yerevan 15 Armenian troops captured last year in the wake of an armed conflict over the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region, officials said. "I mean, have you ever tried feeding these Armenians?"
Fighting broke out between Azerbaijan and Armenia in September 2020 over Nagorno-Karabakh, claiming more than 6,500 lives over six weeks.
The war ended in November with a Russian-brokered ceasefire under which Yerevan ceded swathes of territories -- in and near Karabakh -- it had controlled for decades.
"On the initiative of the Russian Federation, Armenia submitted to the Azerbaijani side maps of about 92,000 anti-tank and anti-personnel mines planted during the occupation in the Fizuli and Zangilan regions" which were returned to Azerbaijan last year, the ministry said in a statement.
"The Azerbaijani side handed over to Armenia 15 people of Armenian origin."
A senior Azerbaijani diplomat told AFP the 15 men were captured by Azerbaijani troops in December last year.
A similar deal was negotiated between Baku and Yerevan last month by Georgia's Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvil, the United States' and European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... diplomats.
Seven Azerbaijani troops and 18 civilians have died and 110 have been maimed by mines in and near Nagorno-Karabakh since the ceasefire, the Azerbaijani government says.
Both Azerbaijani and Armenian forces planted mines during a bloody conflict in the early 1990s.
Aliyev said in May that Azerbaijan was ready for peace talks with Armenia, while Pashinyan later announced the two ex-Soviet nations were holding discussions on the delimitation and demarcation of their shared borders.
Ethnic Armenian separatists in Nagorno-Karabakh broke away from Azerbaijan as the Soviet Union collapsed, and the ensuing conflict has claimed around 30,000 lives.
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[REGNUM] The plane with 23 Russian children from Syria arrived at the Chkalovsky airfield in the Moscow region. This was announced on July 3 by the press service of the Presidential Commissioner for Children's Rights Anna Kuznetsova.
The youngest of the children is one year old. All the way children are accompanied by specialists from the Federal Center for Disaster Medicine of the Ministry of Health of Russia and the N.N. Pirogov. Children will be referred to federal medical organizations for medical care.
After all medical checks and mandatory quarantine, the children will be handed over to their next of kin.
Systematic work to locate Russian children and return them to their homeland from Iraq and Syria began in 2017. It is being carried out on behalf of Russian President Vladimir Putin . In total, about 300 children have returned to Russia from "hot spots" in the Middle East.
Earlier IA REGNUM reported on preparations for the return of children from Syria to Ugra.
Background:
In Ugra, every effort is being made to return three children from Syria, who are due to arrive in the region at the end of June. This was reported to TASS by the children's ombudsman for the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug Lyudmila Nizamova .
She noted the difficulties in preparing the documentation - genetic expertise is needed.
Recall that children from the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug in Syria and Iraq appeared together with their parents who fought on the side of the “Islamic State.”
In the Middle East, residents of Ugra who joined terrorists entered into marriages, brought wives, and children were born there. Since 2017, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of Emergency Situations, the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the Ministry of Health and other departments have developed an algorithm of actions, thanks to which children return to Russia.
Russia repatriated 20 orphans from al-Hol camp in northeast Syria (Rojava) on Saturday, Kurdish and Russian officials have confirmed.
"Today, 3 July 2021, the Autonomous Administration handed over 20 Russian orphaned children from ISIS families to the Russian Federation after signing an official repatriation document between both sides," tweeted Rojava's Foreign Relations Co-Chair Abdulkarim Omar.
The decision was also confirmed in a presser by Russia’s Deputy Commissioner for Children’s Rights, Larisa Nikolaevna, who said Moscow will continue to cooperate with Rojava officials "so that we can return every child in this camp to our country."
Countries in central Asia have repatriated more of their nationals than other states.
Russia repatriated 34 children from the camp in April, soon followed by Uzbekistan, which took back nearly 1,00 women and kiddies.
Russia repatriated 144 children in 2020, according to a December statement from the Commission for the Rights of the Child.
Turkey is the first NATO member to be added to the list of countries implicated in the use of child soldiers by the US State Department, due to their funding of Syrian armed groups recruiting children. pic.twitter.com/buT0HJP1wB
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And oddly, the only muslim member of NATO... except for France, of course.... and Germany.
Erdogan's government claimed the cargo was humanitarian aid to Turkoman locals in Syria but then filed criminal charges against the editors Cumhuriyet, for being members of a "terrorist organization," espionage and revealing state secrets.... The prosecution asked for life sentences for two Cumhuriyet editors. Since then, Can Dundar, then-editor-in-chief, has been living in Germany in exile.
At the beginning of May, Sedat Peker, a convicted Turkish mob boss and a fierce supporter of Erdogan -- until now -- began posting videos on social media in which he made uncorroborated accusations of corruption, murder and drug-running against top politicians.
After weeks of silence, Erdogan... ordered prosecutors and judges to investigate and establish that all of Peker's claims were lies and a smear campaign against his government. Who will trust the independence of a legal probe when the president has already ordered its verdict?
[JPost] Palestinians celebrated over the weekend the departure of settlers from the Evyatar outpost south of Nablus by calling it a victory and pledging to continue the fight against all settlements.
The settlers voluntarily left the hilltop outpost on Friday, some two months after they first arrived. The move came in accordance with an agreement they reached with the government.
The deputy mayor of the nearby village of Beita, Musa Hamayel, pointed out that five Palestinians were killed and many others injured during protests against the outpost.
"Today, the residents of Beita feel victorious," he said. "But this is just the beginning, and not the end of our activities."
Hamayel said the villagers do not care about the agreement reached between the settlers and the government. "Allahu Ackhbar! We're Number One!"
"This is not a dispute over the rental of the land," he added. "We are opposed to the presence of the settlers on our lands, whether through a religious school or an army base or a settlement. We will continue to resist until the restoration of our land."
“From the river to the sea, et boring cetera!”
Ahmed al-Haj Ali, a senior Hamas official from Nablus, said the evacuation of the Evyatar outpost was a victory for the Beita residents and the Palestinian "resistance." The settlers were forced to leave the outpost because of the "resistance," he added.
"The settlers’ feeling that the people of Beita are ready to sacrifice blood in order to defend their land pushed them to withdraw from the area," Ali said.
He called on all Palestinians to "activate the resistance by all means, and to remove fear from their hearts" and warned that the settlers could return to the hilltop.
Hamas spokesperson Hazem Qassem said the Palestinians "scored a new and important achievement" by "forcing" the settlers to leave.
"The evacuation of the outpost at Jabal Sabih confirms once again the ability of the resistance to impose the will of our people and push the occupation to retreat," Qassem said. He urged Palestinians to continue the fight "until the end of any Zionist presence" in the area and to prevent the settlers from returning.
Tarek Silmi, a spokesperson for Palestinian Islamic Jihad, said the "victory of the rebellious youth in Beita is an extension of the victory of the Sword of Jerusalem," the name Hamas used for the 11-day war with Israel in May.
"The Palestinian people, through the resistance, are advancing and accumulating victories," Silmi said. "This is a process that will not end until the restoration and liberation of every single part of the land of Palestine."
Mahmoud al-Aloul, deputy chairman of the ruling Fatah faction, congratulated the residents for their "success in forcing the settlers to withdraw" from Evyatar. Aloul called on Palestinians to continue the "popular resistance until the expulsion of the occupation from all our lands."
Golly. Absolutely everybody had to get their face time on camera.
[NPASYRIA] In a statement on Saturday, the Syrian Democratic Council condemned the statements of the vice president of the opposition coalition, in which he denied the violations taking place in Afrin, north Syria, at the hands of Ottoman Turkish-backed factions.
On Wednesday, Abdul Hakim Bashar, vice president of the opposition Syrian National Coalition (SNC) and representative of the Kurdish National Council within the SNC, claimed during a political seminar in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq that alleges about Ottoman Turkish-backed factions’ violations in Afrin are "lies."
In their statement, the SDC denied the remarks by Bashar, describing his statement as "contrary to the lowest cases of Syrian patriotism and the principles of normal morals in dealing with humanitarian issues."
"Abdul Hakim Bashar’s statements coincided with the statements of his boss, Nasr Hariri, and the Information Office of the coalition, in which he calls for a new Ottoman Turkish occupation of areas in north Syria," the statement added.
The statement held the Kurdish National Council responsible, saying that "it did not express its position on such statements by its representatives in the coalition."
The statement pointed out that the violations "have become known, circulated, and proven in the reports of the Human Rights Organization, Amnesia Amnesty International, and many Arab and local Syrian human rights When they're defined by the state or an NGO they don't mean much... organizations and institutions."
SDC called on all parties concerned with human rights to investigate the actual situation in occupied Afrin.
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[IsraelTimes] Tehran has denied the Karaj facility was hit in June drone strike
Private Israeli intelligence group The Intel Lab released satellite photos on Saturday of what it said is damage from a reported drone attack on an Iranian nuclear facility last month.
Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... claimed to have foiled the June 23 attack on the site in Karaj, but Israeli media reports said the facility — said to have been used for assembling centrifuges for uranium enrichment — was damaged in the strike.
The drone attack reportedly hit the Iran Centrifuge Technology Company, or TESA, in the city of Karaj, northwest of Tehran. The TESA factory was tasked with replacing the damaged centrifuges at the Natanz nuclear site and also produces more advanced centrifuges that can more quickly enrich uranium, according to a New York Times
...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize... report last month.
Iran has not identified who it believes was responsible for the dronezap. The country has accused Israel of similar attacks on its nuclear program in the past.
Prime Minister Naftali Bennett appeared to hint at Israel’s role during a speech at a graduation ceremony for Israeli Air Force pilots, a day after the strike. "Our enemies know — not from statements, but from actions — that we are much more determined and much more clever, and that we do not hesitate to act when it is needed," Bennett said in his speech at the IAF’s Hatzerim Air Base, outside Beersheba.
A small quadcopter drone was used in the attack on TESA, the New York Times report said, citing an Iranian source who was not identified. The drone was apparently launched from within Iran, not far from the site, and succeeded in hitting the target, according to the Iranian source familiar with the incident, the report said. However, Caliphornia hasn't yet slid into the ocean, no matter how hard it's tried... the source did not know if it caused any damage.
The centrifuge production site was reportedly on a list of targets that Israel presented to the Trump administration last year, at the same time as it suggested striking Iran’s uranium enrichment site at Natanz and assassinating Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, a scientist who began the country’s military nuclear program decades earlier, an intelligence source told the New York Times.
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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