[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The President of Poland Andrzej Duda has said more Polish troops will be deployed to Afghanistan to contribute in NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A collection of multinational and multilingual and multicultural armed forces, all of differing capabilities, working toward a common goal by pulling in different directions... ’s train, advise, and assist mission in Afghanistan.
President Duda made the remarks during his meet with the Chief Executive of the Government of National Unity of Afghanistan Abdullah Abdullah ... the former foreign minister of the Northern Alliance government, advisor to Masood, and candidate for president against Karzai. Dr. Abdullah was born in Kabul and is half Tadjik and half Pashtun... on Tuesday.
However, nothing needs reforming like other people's bad habits... he did not disclose further information regarding the exact number of the Polish troops to be deployed in the framework of the NATO-led Resolute Support Mission.
According to the Office of the Chief Executive, President Duda also pledged to increase political and military support to Afghanistan besides increasing the number of the Polish troops.
The source further added that the two sides also discussed the recent political developments and upheavals in Afghanistan.
The Office of the Chief Executive said the two countries are expected to celebrate the 90th year of the political relations between the two nations.
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] Conflicting reports have emerged regarding a clash between the Afghan and Pak border forces near Durand Line in Paktia as situation remains tense along the Line amid deteriorating security situation and persistent artillery shelling.
The provincial government of Paktia said in a statement that the Afghan border forces came under coordinated fire both from the Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... and Pak militia forces at around 2pm local time Dand-e-Patan district.
The statement further added that the Afghan border forces returned fire which sparked a clash that continued until 5pm local time resulting into the retreat of the militia forces and the Taliban turbans.
However, a good lie finds more believers than a bad truth... the Embassy of Pakistain in Kabul, in a statement rejected the reports regarding the clash between the Afghan and Pak forces.
The statement further added that no clash has taken place and no Pak soldier has breached the Line, emphasizing that Pakistain respects the territorial integrity and illusory sovereignty of Afghanistan.
This comes as the situation in certain southeastern and eastern provinces along the Durand Line remains tense amid ongoing insurgency led by the hard boyz as well as the persistent artillery shelling from the other side of the Durand Line.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Afghanistan recently summoned the Charge d’Affaires of Pakistain in reaction to the artillery shelling in the eastern provinces, particularly in Kunar province ... which is right down the road from Chitral. Kunar is Haqqani country..... , which has came under immense shelling during the recent weeks.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Members of the United Nations ...an organization conceived in the belief that we're just one big happy world, with the sort of results you'd expect from such nonsense... Security Council issued a statement on Wednesday condemning in the strongest possible terms the multiple Houthi ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The Yemeni government has accused the Houthis of having ties to the Iranian government, which wouldn't suprise most of us. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews ... missile attacks on several Saudi cities.
"The members of the Security Council underlined that such attacks pose a serious national security threat to the Kingdom of Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... as well as a wider threat to regional security. The members of the Council also expressed alarm at the stated intention of the Houthis to continue these attacks against Saudi Arabia, as well as to launch additional attacks against other states in the region," the statement read.
Saudi Arabia’s air forces have responded to 104 ballistic missiles launched by Iran-backed Houthi militias on the kingdom since the June 6, 2015.
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[RADIOSHABELLE] Proceeds from illegal logging and charcoal burning inside the Boni Forest are being used to fund terrorists, the authorities say.
Al-Shabaab ... Somalia's version of the Taliban, functioning as an arm of al-Qaeda... is also benefiting from the sale of game meat by the Boni community.
A crackdown on the loggers and charcoal burners have been launched.
Speaking during the launch, Lamu police commander Muchangi Kioi said security officers in the Linda Boni operation will work closely with police to end the illegal trade.
He said areas, where the trade was taking place, have had frequent al-Shabaab attacks.
Kioi said al-Shabaab sympathizers were endangering the lives of innocent Kenyans. He said it was unfortunate that residents were still supporting terrorists.
"The fact that people burn charcoal and cut timber to fund such terrorist acts is unimaginable. We can’t have such activities going on here," Kioi said.
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Proceeds from illegal logging and charcoal burning
Where the hell is Greenpeace on this massive carbon orgy, huh?
[RADIOSHABELLE] The Æthiopian Tourism Organization said protecting peace and tourism should be a priority agenda to all citizens and stakeholders engaged in the sector.
A three days training targeting stakeholders, like hotels and tour operators, was launched here yesterday.
Briefing journalists Assistant Professor Yechale Mihiret, Deputy Director at the Organization said the training is aimed at upgrading the awareness of these groups on how to protect tourism destination from terrorist attacks.
He also stressed that the integrated effort of stakeholders would play a crucial role in sustaining peace and preserving tourism.
Assistant Commissioner of the Federal Police Commission Muluwork Gebre, who offered the training, told the trainees that terrorism has been targeting infrastructure during early trends.
Now commercial centres and Tourist destinations around the globe have become major targets. He said research conducted in 2014 indicated that 23 percent of terrorist attacks were on commercial centres while tourist destinations followed by 20 percent.
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[Al Jazeera] Former Egyptian president Mohammed Morsi is being detained in standards lower than those sanctioned by international law, which could lead to an early death, a panel of British MPs and lawyers said.
In a report released on Wednesday, the Detention Review Panel (DRP), which was commissioned by Morsi's family, said the former leader is "receiving inadequate medical care, particularly inadequate management of his diabetes, and inadequate management of his liver disease".
"The consequence of this inadequate care is likely to be rapid deterioration of his long-term conditions, which is likely to lead to premature death," it said.
The panel said the conditions of his detention could meet the threshold for torture in accordance with Egyptian and international law. It added President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi "could, in principle, be responsible for the crime of torture".
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] The United Arab Emirates said on Wednesday it had pledged $500 mln (AED 1.84 bln), to support the United Nations' humanitarian response plan in Yemen, state news agency WAM reported.
The UAE, which is part of the Arab military coalition fighting to restore legitimacy in Yemen, said the donation was part of their plan to provide $1.5 bln to support UN operations in the country.
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[Dhaka Tribune] Prime Minister the loathesome Sheikh Hasina ...Bangla dynastic politician and current Prime Minister of Bangladesh. She has been the President of the Bangla Awami League since the Lower Paleolithic. She is the eldest of five children of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the founding father of Bangla. Her party defeated the BNP-led Four-Party Alliance in the 2008 parliamentary elections. She has once before held the office, from 1996 to 2001, when she was defeated in a landslide. She and the head of the BNP, Khaleda Zia show such blind animosity toward each other that they are known as the Battling Begums.. has called for uprooting all sorts of terrorism to establish a secured and prosperous region.
"We must root out all kinds of terrorism to build a secured and prosperous region," she said when the national security chiefs of the Bimstec countries paid a courtesy call on her at her official residence, Ganabhaban, in Dhaka Wednesday evening.
After the meeting, the prime minister’s Press Secretary Ihsanul Karim briefed news hounds.
The national security chiefs of the Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation (Bimstec) are now in Dhaka to discuss security cooperation issues among the seven-member states of the regional grouping.
This is the second such meeting held at state guesthouse Padma in the capital on Wednesday. The first meeting of the national security chiefs was held a year ago in New Delhi.
The prime minister expressed hope that the Bimstec countries will further strengthen their cooperation to stamp out terrorism from the region.
She said containing drug abuse, human trafficking, cyber crime, maritime space threat and sea-level rise due to climate change are challenges for the region.
"We have to come up with a system to face these challenges and find out a solution in a coordinated way," she said.
The prime minister reiterated her government’s zero tolerance policy against terrorism.
"We have taken massive measures to create awareness among the youths, families and educational institutions about terrorism and extreme violence," she said.
Hasina also reaffirmed her government’s firm stance not to allow anyone to use Bangladesh’s soil for terrorist acts in other countries.
She described again poverty as a common enemy for the development of the region and called for united efforts by all countries to eliminate poverty.
The prime minister put emphasis on solving the problems between neighbouring countries bilaterally. She, however, said: "If there is more necessity, we could solve those multilaterally."
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[Guardian] Mark Altaweel is surprised at how easy it is. A few hours into a hunt around London, the near-east specialist from the UCL Institute of Archaeology has uncovered objects that, he says, are "very likely to be coming from conflict regions" in Iraq and Syria. The items ‐ pieces of early glass; a tiny statue; some fragments of bone inlay ‐ range from the second to fourth centuries BC. Altaweel says they are so distinctive that they could only have come from a particular part of the region: the part now controlled by the so-called Islamic State. That we were able to find such items openly sold in London "tells you the scale ‐ we’re just seeing the tail end of it," he says. Lengthy article continues.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Two Spanish art experts suspected of running a ring that sold antiques looted from archaeological sites in Libya by groups linked to the ISIS group have been nabbed Keep yer hands where we can see 'em, if yez please! , police said Wednesday.
Officers seized "numerous works of art", including seven mosaics and a sarcophagus, during raids carried out in five locations in Barcelona and the nearby town of Argentona as part of their operation, police said in a statement.
The works were stolen from archaeological sites in Libya's eastern coastal region of Cyrenaica and northern region of Tripoli ...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn... tania, which are home to some of the finest Roman and Greek ruins in existence.
The two men who were arrested as part of the operation are both Spanish nationals aged 31 who are experts in ancient art.
Police said one of the men appeared regularly on TV to discuss ancient art and even took part in several academic conferences that discussed the destruction of historical sites by the ISIS group.
"They led a network that illegally bought works looted from archaeological sites by groups linked to the terrorist group ISIS, helping to finance its activities," police said in a statement, using the Arabic acronym for ISIS.
"Some of the pieces also showed imperfections, bumps and marks that indicated they underwent a violent extraction from the subsoil, without the use of adequate archaeological techniques," it added.
The two men are accused of selling the works, dubbed "blood antiques" on the black market according to Spanish police, at a gallery they run in Barcelona.
They face charges of membership in a criminal organization, document falsification, smuggling and financing terrorism.
Spanish police said they sought the help of Libyan authorities to verify the authenticity of the works.
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Baghdad (Iraqinews.com) ‐ Iraq would take a firm action against The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...just another cheapjack Moslem dictatorship, brought to you by the Moslem Brüderbund.... if the latter violated international laws and penetrated into northern Iraqi territories to strike Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) fighters, a pro-government coalition was quoted as saying Wednesday.
In an exclusive interview with Baghdad Today, Abbas al-Bayati, a member of the State of Law Coalition, said that so far there are no confirmed or official reports of "any Ottoman Turkish penetration into Iraqi territories."
"Turkey cannot cross into Iraqi territories as our country enjoys illusory sovereignty and independence," Bayati said, stressing that any penetration by Ottoman Turkish troops into Iraq would constitute a flagrant violation of international laws and norms of good neighborhood.
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Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) fighters have handed over a border crossing with Syria to the Iraqi army, a newspaper has reported as The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... eyes an invasion of northern Iraq against the group.
London-based, 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... -owned The New Arab said the Iraqi army and "Yazidi mobilization forces" received management of the Khan Sour border crossing with Syria from 15 PKK fighters who brought down the group’s posters, flags and bunkers in the area before pulling out from Tal al-Banat area.
According to the newspaper, four-wheeled vehicles were waiting for the fighters, and carried them to al-Fatha, a road leading to the Syrian-Iraqi borders near the syrian city of Hassaka.
PKK recently announced it was pulling out from Iraq’s Sinjar having become assured that 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.... holy warriors were no longer a threat to the Kurdish-speaking Yazidi minority there.
PKK has been active in Sinjar since 2014, when Islamic State snuffies proclaimed a self-styled "caliphate" in Iraq and neighboring Syria.
Turkey brands PKK fighters as terrorists, and has launched regular Arclight airstrikes on their locations in northern Iraq. President Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First ... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey... said recently that Turkey was planning to launch an offensive against the group in Sinjar, a step which Iraqi officials rejected officially.
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[Ynet] The Paleostinian Authority decided to return to directly financing financial aid to families of snuffies imprisoned in Israel and to families of snuffies killed in attacks against Israel‐who they refer to as "freedom fighters."
The PA has given these payments indirectly for the past four years, but has now decided to do so explicitly after the US passed on Friday the Taylor Force Act‐which halts economic aid to the Paleostinian Authority until they cease paying stipends to snuffies and to the families of deceased terrorists‐as a show of defiance against the Trump administration and the new measure.
The amount of the payment was published in the Paleostinian Authority's budget reports for 2018.
According to the reports, the Paleostinian Authority directly allocates 550 million shekels as stipends for Paleostinians imprisoned in Israel, as well as NIS 687 million to the families of snuffies who were killed during terrorist attacks or attempted attacks against Israel.
Or about US$355 million altogether. So generous of those other countries and the UN to finance these activites. The Times of Israel adds:
Paleostinian Media Watch says the payments will come out of the PA’s total operating budget for the coming year, which has been set at NIS 16.6 billion ($4.76 billion).
[Ynet] Investigation reveals sniper fire was halted at least an hour before Paleostinians say Ibrahim Abu Thuraya was hurt during Gazoo riot; one of two Maglan fighters questioned under caution tells Sherlocks, 'There's no chance we killed him'; intelligence investigation finds protestor bid farewell to his family as a 'shahid' the night before his death.
Findings of a Military Police investigation into the death of Ibrahim Abu Thuraya,
...the former Fatah Force 17 fighter and later Hamasnik who lost his legs during those activities. His name is also spelt Ibrahim Abu Toriya in our archives...
a double amputee who was killed during a violent protest near the border fence in the northern Gazoo Strip in mid December, reveal that the sniper fire had ended at least an hour before the time Abu Thuraya was hurt according to Paleostinian reports, Ynet has learned.
[ALMASDARNEWS] A large convoy of forces of Evil and their family members are preparing to depart from the East Ghouta region to northern Syria, a military source told al-Masdar News this afternoon.
According to the military source, over 30 buses filled with 1,723 people will be departing from the East Ghouta shortly.
Of the 1,723 people leaving the East Ghouta today, at least 398 of them are forces of Evil that were previously fighting in the suburbs of Jobar, Zamalka, and ’Arbeen.
With another large convoy heading to northern Syria, almost all of the East Ghouta should be under the Syrian Arab Army’s (SAA) control by the end of the week.
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[ALMASDARNEWS] The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the decaying remnant of the Ottoman Empire.... has its eyes set on an important military installation in northern Aleppo, as they look to expand their operations against the Kurdish-led People’s Protection Units (YPG).
The Mennagh Military Airport has been under the control of the YPG since 2016, when they managed to expel the jihadist rebels from the installation.
In addition to capturing the Mennagh Airport in 2016, the YPG was also able to expel the jihadist rebels from the key town of Tal Rifa’at, which is another area that Turkey has shifted its attention to.
If the Ottoman Turkish military and their rebel allies capture the Mennagh Airport, they will have access to their first airbase inside the Aleppo Governorate.
Furthermore, the Ottoman Turkish military can use the Mennagh Airport to launch attacks against the YPG forces in Tal Rifa’at.
Despite threats from Turkey, the YPG maintains they will not withdraw from Tal Rifa’at, adding that they will fight as long as they have to in order to hold onto the town.
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[ALMASDARNEWS] Syrian Presidential Adviser Boutaina Sha’aban stated on Wednesday that Syria will expel both the Ottoman Turkish and U.S. forces from the country.
"We are determined to liberate all of Syria’s territory from forces of Evil and Ottoman Turkish and U.S. occupation forces," Sha’aban told the crowd at the cultural symposium held by the al-Quds International Foundation.
Sha’aban’s comments come just two days after The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... announced that they were going to continue their operations in northern Syria.
The Syrian government has called on both the U.S. and Turkey to immediately withdraw from Syria; however, both nations maintain they are fighting terrorists.
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So the a-hole wants to go to war with the biggest dog in NATO and the world?
What conceivable hole card could he hold?
No reason the public would see a reason to rebuild his shithole 3rd world nation if he does so.
Maybe some idiot generals or D.C. folk he thinks he owns but not the public. The US public's attitude would be somebody attacked? Break them and leave them broken forever as an example of what not to do.
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A little in depth info. Russian mercenaries were not the only people wiped out by the US recently. The Syrians, with the help of the Russians/Wagner put together a small unit called the ISIS Hunters:
They are Syrian older guys who were brought together after ISIS kicked Syria's butt out of Palmyra. They were pretty good at hunting down ISIS. Then they made a fatal mistake when they joined the attempted assault on the US forces and the SDF. Almost 2 dozen of them got wiped out.
[ALMASDARNEWS] The Ottoman Turkish regime demanded on Wednesday that the People’s Protection Units (YPG) immediately withdraw from the key city of Manbij in northeastern Aleppo.
The Ottoman Turkish regime released a statement during their National Security Council meeting, calling on the YPG to leave Manbij before they launch an operation to expel them from the town.
The YPG has repeatedly refused to surrender Manbij, despite the fact that the Ottoman Turkish regime has threatened to invade the area.
Making matters worse for Ankara, the U.S. has not given the green light to The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the decaying remnant of the Ottoman Empire.... to begin this operation in Manbij; this could prove to be a major issue down the road, as Washington refuses to support this Ottoman Turkish offensive.
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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
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.
... the former foreign minister of the Northern Alliance government, advisor to Masood, and candidate for president against Karzai. Dr. Abdullah was born in Kabul and is half Tadjik and half Pashtun...
Somalia's version of the Taliban, functioning as an arm of al-Qaeda...
...Bangla dynastic politician and current Prime Minister of Bangladesh. She has been the President of the Bangla Awami League since the Lower Paleolithic. She is the eldest of five children of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the founding father of Bangla. Her party defeated the BNP-led Four-Party Alliance in the 2008 parliamentary elections. She has once before held the office, from 1996 to 2001, when she was defeated in a landslide. She and the head of the BNP, Khaleda Zia show such blind animosity toward each other that they are known as 
...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...
... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey...
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