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Afghanistan
Afghan forces conduct 4 joint operations, 69 Special Operations, 18 airstrikes: MoD
[KhaamaPress] The Ministry of Defense of Afghanistan has announced that the Afghan National Defense and Security Forces have conducted 4 joint offensive operations, 69 Special Operations, and 18 Arclight airstrikes in the past 24 which left 103 murderous Moslems dead, 38 maimed, and 8 others were locked away
Book 'im, Mahmoud!
According to a statement released by the Ministry of Defense, the Afghan Air Force also participated in 94 other missions to support the ground forces.

The statement further added that the operations were conducted in Laghman
...It has a population of about 445,600, which is multi-ethnic and mostly a rural society. During the invasions of Alexander the Great, the area was known as Lampaka, wich is apparently Olde Macedonian for Laghman.The city of Mihtarlam serves as the bucolic capital of the province. The population is half Pashtun, the remainder Tadjik and Pashai. It had a repution for great wealth until it was conquered in the tenth century by Abu Mansur Sabuktigin.
He conquered it and set fire to the places in its vicinity which were inhabited by infidels, and demolishing the idol-temples, he established Islam in them, He marched and captured other cities and killed the polluted wretches, destroying the idolatrous and gratifying the Musulmans. After wounding and killing beyond all measure, his hands and those of his friends became cold in counting the value of the plundered property.
After that it was mostly notable for the production of dirt, rocks, and holy men.

, Pashtun-infested Logar, Ghazni, Uruzgan, Herat
...a venerable old Persian-speaking city in western Afghanistan, populated mostly by Tadjiks, which is why it's not as blood-soaked as areas controlled by Pashtuns...
, Sar-e-Pul
...a city and eponymous province in northern Afghanistan, population about 500,000. Demographically it is majority Tadjik and Uzbek. There are small Pashtun, Arab, and Hazara
...a grouping of Dari-speaking people of Sino-Tibetan descent inhabiting Afghanistan and Pakistain. They are predominantly Shia Moslems and not particularly warlike, which makes them favored targets...
communities, of which the Hazaras mostly don't bother anyone...

, Baghlan, Balkh, Kunduz, Badakhshan, and Helmand
...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan...
provinces and as a result 8 murderous Moslems were killed, 13 others were maimed, 3 motorycles and some explosives were seized in Shulgara district of Balkh province.

At least 2 murderous Moslems were killed killed in Jurm district of Badakhshan province, 2 others were maimed, and 2 weapons were confiscated in Jurm district of Badakhshan. Another holy warrior was killed in Alingar district of Laghman province and 4 suspects were arrested in Chahar Dara district of Kunduz province.

Similarly, the air forces carried out airstrikes in Sancharak district of Sar-e-Pul province leaving 34 murderous Moslems dead including Temor Shaha, the shadow district of Taliban
...the Pashtun equivalent of men...
for Balkhab district, MoD said adding that 18 others were maimed.

At least 18 other murderous Moslems were killed in Hazaragi and Aab Dara Villages in Tarinkot city of Uruzgan, 17 others were killed, 5 were maimed, and some weapons and munitions were destroyed in Andar, Qarabagh, and Geru districts of Ghazni province.

The Afghan forces also killed 8 murderous Moslems in Chemtal district of Balkh province and some weapons and munitions were destroyed, 8 other murderous Moslems were killed and some weapons and munitions were destroyed in Marjah and Greshk districts of Helmand province, and 7 more were killed in Pul-e-Alam city of Pashtun-infested Logar province, a motorcyle and a vehicle were destroyed, the Ministry of Defense added.
Posted by: trailing wife || 03/01/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Taliban


Afghan forces thwart Taliban attack in Zabul province leaving 28 militants dead
More “heavy” casualties: n=104.
[KhaamaPress] The Afghan cops have thwarted an attack by Talibs in Arghandab district of Zabul province leaving at least 28 murderous Moslems dead, informed military sources said Thursday.

In the meantime, at least 30 murderous Moslems were killed were killed during the operations of the Afghan Special Forces and an Arclight airstrike which were conducted in Tarinkot of Uruzgan, Nahr-e-Saraj and Sangin districts of Helmand
...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan...
, and Hisarak district of Nangarhar
The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country..
province.

The sources further added that similar operations were also conducted in Sabari district of Khost, Shahwlai Kot district of Kandahar, Sancharak district of Sar-e-Pul
...a city and eponymous province in northern Afghanistan, population about 500,000. Demographically it is majority Tadjik and Uzbek. There are small Pashtun, Arab, and Hazara
...a grouping of Dari-speaking people of Sino-Tibetan descent inhabiting Afghanistan and Pakistain. They are predominantly Shia Moslems and not particularly warlike, which makes them favored targets...
communities, of which the Hazaras mostly don't bother anyone...

province, and Qarabagh district of Ghazni province leaving at least 32 murderous Moslems dead and 5 others maimed.

An air strike in Mohammad Aghah district of Pashtun-infested Logar province left 7 Taliban
...Arabic for students...
fighters dead, the sources said adding that similar airstrikes in Zurmat district of Paktia province killed 2 Taliban fighters.
Posted by: trailing wife || 03/01/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Taliban


Heavy casualties inflicted on Taliban commanders and militants in Balkh province
“Heavy”: n=34.
[KhaamaPress] The Talibs and their commanders have suffered heavy casualties during the festivities and Arclight airstrikes in northern Balkh province.

The 209th Shaheen Corps of the Afghan Military in the North in a statement said at least 8 Talibs were killed and 5 others were maimed during the airstrikes and armed festivities which took place at around 1:20 pm local time in Chematal district.

The statement further added that a similar clash took place between the security forces and Taliban
...mindless ferocity in a turban...
in Tawa Village of Shulagara district leaving 8 bully boyz dead including their commander Mullah Faiz Ur Rahman. The dead bodies of two bully boyz were left in the area.

According to 209th Shaheen Corps, at least 13 bully boyz also sustained injuries during the same festivities and one of their commanders Mullah Hafeez is also among those maimed.

The Afghan forces also confiscated a Ak-47 rifle, a rocket launcher and three cycle of violences following the festivities, the 209th Shaheen Corps added in its statement.
Posted by: trailing wife || 03/01/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under: Taliban


Africa Horn
Huge blast rocks Somali capital, killing at least five- police UPDATE: Fighting Continues Into Friday
[AlAhram] A suicide boom-mobile went kaboom! in Mogadishu on Thursday, killing at least five people and destroying buildings in the Somali capital’s busiest street, police said.

"The kaboom took place in a business center full of hotels, fairs, shops and restaurants," Major Mohammed Hussein, a police officer, told Rooters."Many cars are burning now," he said following the blast in Maka Al Mukaram street. "We know five people are dead and the corpse count is sure to rise."

A Rooters witness saw four dead people and dozens of others injured. He saw blood stains, a dozen cars burning and three buildings including hotels destroyed by the blast.

Earlier, a Rooters news hound heard a huge blast followed by clouds of smoke and heavy gunfire.
The Daily Mail adds:
The ambulance service reported another 25 wounded were carted to hospital. Al-Shabaab claimed responsibility for the attack. A volley of gunfire was heard after the explosion. A second blast was heard in the area a few minutes later, but it was unclear what caused that explosion. Al Shabaab said their fighters were trying to kill senior officials staying in the famous Maka Al-Mukarama hotel.
Update from Deutsche Welle at 10:35 a.m. ET:
Security forces and al-Shabab gunmen clashed in the Somali capital, Mogadishu, on Friday after an attack by the Islamist militants on a hotel used by government officials killed at least 19 people and injured dozens more.

"The militants are still fighting from inside a civilian house adjacent to the hotel ... [They] are fighting back with grenades and Kalashnikov [rifles]," police officer Major Musa Ali told the Reuters news agency.

Thursday evening's attack targeted the Maka Almukarramah hotel, which has already suffered several assaults by the al-Qaida-linked group. Al-Shabab said a suicide bomber from their group was responsible for the attack, which it said aimed to kill senior officials staying at the hotel.

The hotel is situated in a busy street in Mogadishu that was filled with people at the time of the attack, witnesses said. Officials say that the death toll is likely to rise, with many people lying severely wounded in hospital.
Posted by: trailing wife || 03/01/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: al-Shabaab (AQ)

#1  I though Minneapolis was the capital of Somalia now...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 03/01/2019 9:39 Comments || Top||


Africa North
Libya... Land of wonders and shopping cart technicals
[TWITTER]

Posted by: Fred || 03/01/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Arab Spring

#1  "12 items or less?""

"I got your 12 items RIGHT HERE-----"
Posted by: USN, Ret. || 03/01/2019 13:42 Comments || Top||


Caribbean-Latin America
Ex-judge, others jailed over cover-up of Argentina Jewish center attack probe
[IsraelTimes] Former intel chief also ordered to prison, but ex-president Carlos Menem acquitted as four-year trial into allegations of meddling in investigation of AMIA bombing wraps up.

The former Argentine judge who led the probe into the deadly 1994 bombing of a Jewish center in Buenos Aires was locked away
Please don't kill me!
for his role in a cover-up Thursday, but the country’s former president Carlos Menem was acquitted.

Juan Jose Galeano was locked away
Please don't kill me!
for six years for concealment and violation of evidence.

Former intelligence chief Hugo Anzorreguy was sentenced to four-and-a-half years in jail for his role in the cover-up surrounding the bombing of the Argentine Israelite Mutual Association (AMIA) center, which killed 85 people and injured 300 others.

They were among 13 defendants facing a slew of corruption and obstruction of justice charges in a trial that lasted four years.

The court sentenced Carlos Telledin, a used car dealer who sold the van that contained the bomb, to three-and-a-half years in jail.

The court found Galeano paid Telledin $400,000 to implicate a group of coppers in the bombing. Galeano denied prosecutors’ assertions that he had acted on the orders of Menem, who is now a senator.

In addition, former prosecutors Eamon Mullen and Jose Barbaccia were convicted of not fulfilling their duties as public officials and each sentenced to two years.

No one has ever been convicted of the bombing, though Argentina
...a country located on the other side of the Deep South. It is covered with Pampers and inhabited by Grouchos, who dance the Tangle. They used to have some islands called the Malvinas located where the Falklands are now. They're not supposed to cry for Evita...
‐ and Israel ‐ have long pointed the finger at Iran.

They suspect a Lebanese Hezbollah operative of carrying out the suicide kaboom on Tehran’s orders.

But decades of investigation in Argentina have been roiled by political interference and allegations of corruption.

The bombing investigation was plagued by irregularities, according to a court ruling in 2004. That court acquitted a number of people who had been charged as part of an alleged "local connection" in the attack. The court asked for an investigation into members of the government and judicial system for their roles in the investigation’s problems.

Prosecutors had called for a four-year jail sentence for Menem, Argentina’s president from 1989-1999, on grounds that he ordered a cover-up. Instead, he was cleared of allegations that he tried to divert attention in the bombing investigation away from a Syrian businessman who was a Menem family friend.

"In these three years there was not a single element that could justify an illicit act on the part of the former president," Menem’s lawyer, Omar Daer, told news hounds after the sentence was heard. "He feels relieved."

Even if convicted, he likely would have avoided prison due to his legal protections as a senator.

The aging statesman gave little away in his testimony, saying state secrets meant he was prevented from presenting bombshell evidence.

His lawyer explained to the court in 2016 that Menem declined to reveal any information "that could affect the current government, the interests of the nation, and peaceful coexistence with other nations."
Update from An Nahar at 1:00 p.m.m ET:
Decades of obstructed investigation meant a key line of inquiry in the case, the so-called Syrian track, was abandoned.

That track led to Syrian businessman Alberto Kanoore Edul, a boyhood friend of Menem. The prosecutor said that on the day of the attack, the businessman had spoken with Telledin.

Galeano, the ex-judge, said during the trial that the investigation was flawed by problems within the Argentine secret services. He was accused of acting on Menem's orders to drop the Syrian track of the investigation implicating Edul and other businessmen linked to the purchase of the bomb materials.

In addition to Galeano and the intelligence chief, two police officers and two former prosecutors in the case were also sentenced to jail time.

However, a former Jewish community leader, Ruben Beraja, as well as a lawyer and two former members of the intelligence services, were acquitted.

Prosecutors separately indicted ex-president Cristina Kirchner in 2017 for whitewashing Iran's alleged role in the attack. Kirchner had the Argentine Congress' backing for a 2012 political deal with Iran to allow Iranian suspects to be questioned in their own country by Argentine prosecutors. The deal was never ratified by Tehran, but prosecutors investigating Kirchner for corruption say the deal was effectively a cover-up to absolve Iran in return for lucrative trade deals with her government.

Tehran has always refused to hand over Iranian diplomats suspected of having participated in the planning of the attack.
Posted by: trailing wife || 03/01/2019 00:33 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Hezbollah

#1  And I thought American justice was slow.
Posted by: Chereting Pelosi1889 || 03/01/2019 7:13 Comments || Top||


India-Pakistan
Peshawar High Court judge, driver injured in gun attack: police
[DAWN] Two unidentified button men opened fire on Beautiful Downtown Peshawar
...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire.
High Court (PHC) judge Justice Ayub Khan's car on Thursday morning while he was on his way to the high court, police said.

The judge and his driver, both of whom suffered injuries were shifted to a private hospital, Superintendent of Police (SP) Wasim Riaz said, adding that the victims were out of danger.

The incident took place in a residential area in Hayatabad's Phase V, SP Riaz said.

Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Zahoor Afridi said that a 9mm Kalashnikov had been used by the button men, who expeditiously departed at a goodly pace after the attack.

The police have launched a probe and recorded the statements of two eyewitnesses so far, SSP Afridi told the media.

He said that the police were also investigating why a security guard had not been accompanying the injured judge.
Posted by: Fred || 03/01/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistan


India AF missed its target
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Posted by: Fred || 03/01/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Jaish-e-Mohammad

#1  24 hour rule?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 03/01/2019 3:12 Comments || Top||

#2  So they did not do the needful?
Posted by: Hellfish || 03/01/2019 12:11 Comments || Top||

#3  What about all the casualties? Innocent civilians who just happened to live a casual 200m from a training camp?
Posted by: gorb || 03/01/2019 14:21 Comments || Top||


India bans Kashmir Jamaat-e-Islami
[TWITTER]

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24 Pak Jets Tried To Cross Over, Intercepted By 8 Air Force Fighters
[NDTV] As India waited for the release of Wing Commander Abhinandan Varthaman, who is in Pakistain's custody, exclusive details emerged on the unprecedented air combat operation along the Line of Control, where a package of 24 Pak aircraft were intercepted by eight IAF fighters, which included a MiG 21 Bison he was piloting.

The Wing Commander was in hot pursuit of a Pak F-16 jet, which he engaged with an R-73 air-to-air missile. The state-of-the-art Pak fighter, thought to be a two-seater variant of the jet, was shot down. Both pilots were seen parachuting down on the Pak side of the Line of Control.

NDTV has learnt that the Pak Air Force strike package included eight F-16s, four Mirage-3 aircraft, four Chinese made JF-17 "Thunder" fighter.

Other aircraft in the formation were escort fighters to protect the Pakistain strike formation from any IAF retaliation. The large Pak attack formation was detected at 9.45 am, when they came within 10 km of the Line of Control.

A small number of these fighters then proceeded to cross the Line of Control, when they were intercepted by eight IAF jets, which included four Sukhoi 30s, two upgraded Mirage 2000s and two MiG 21 Bisons.

The Air Force fighters gave chase to the Pak jets on their return leg after they had dropped a handful of laser-guided bombs that narrowly missed their military targets along the Line of Control.

Wing Commander Abhinandan Varthaman was in hot pursuit of a Pak F-16, which his radar had locked onto.

Despite being warned by other aircraft in the formation about the presence of Pak fighters, he pushed home his attack and fired an R-73 air-to-air missile.

At this stage of the air-to-air encounter, the pilot's wingman was also exposed and vulnerable.

Two missiles were fired by Pak F-16s. One of them, an AMRAAM (Advanced Medium-Range Air-to-Air Missile) struck his aircraft, while another missed his wingman.

The Wing Commander was forced to eject and landed into the Pak side of Line of Control, where he was captured. Pakistain has announced that he will be released tomorrow.

Early on Wednesday, Pakistain circulated videos of the pilot, where he was seen being interrogated -- maimed, tied up and blindfolded. The clips were, however, taken off once New Delhi accused Pakistain of violating the Geneva Convention for prisoners. A video circulated later showed the pilot sipping tea, saying he was being 'well looked after" by officers of the Mighty Pak Army.

Posted by: Fred || 03/01/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistan

#1  the F-16s sold to Pakistan in the 90s required Pak to sign a statement that they would never be used for offense
Posted by: lord garth || 03/01/2019 15:43 Comments || Top||

#2  They also promised to kiss their mothers every day and take out the garbage.
Posted by: jpal || 03/01/2019 15:48 Comments || Top||

#3  "A cobra hisses, a Muslim speaks - what's the difference?" - S. M. Stirling Peshawar Lancers
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 03/01/2019 15:50 Comments || Top||


Iraq
Mosul car bombing kills 1, injures 13: security forces
[Rudaw] A boom-mobile killed one civilian and injured 13 in west djinn-infested Mosul
... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn...
late on Thursday evening, according to the Iraqi Security Media Cell.

Medical and police sources who spoke to Rooters put the number of maimed at 24.

"A terrorist attack via a VBIED [vehicle borne improvised bomb] which was parked next to the outside wall of the cultural group area in Mosul city, resulting in the martyrdom of one civilian and injury of 13 others, according to initial information on the incident," read a statement from Iraqi Security Media Cell.

No group has grabbed credit for the attack.

According to local media outlets, the kaboom took place near Mosul University campus.

Abdul-Karim Atroshi, head of the university’s media affairs, confirmed the kaboom to Rudaw English, but said it had not affected the university.

"It took place in a street near the university," Atroshi said.

In an earlier statement, the Iraqi Security Media Cell said a Hashd al-Shaabi vehicle went kaboom! after passing over an IED 50 kilometers south of the city.
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Bad Boy nabbed in Mosul
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Posted by: Fred || 03/01/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
IDF arrests 12 Suspected Terrorists, Finds Assault Rifles
[Jpost] The IDF had been conducting ongoing operations to uncover illegal weapons and cash used by forces of Evil in the West Bank.

Two Carlo-type sub-machine guns and a truck were seized during overnight raids conducted by the IDF, Shin Bet (Israeli Security Agency), Border Police and Israel Police in a special joint operation, the IDF Spokespersons Office announced.

Twelve wanted persons suspected of involvement in terrorist activities and violent disturbances against civilians and soldiers were taken into custody as well and questioned by authorities.

The illegal weapons were found in the Arab community of Asira ash-Shamaliya, located near ​​the IDF Shomron Regional Brigade base. The town is under the jurisdiction of the Nablus Governorate of the Paleostinian Authority.

A second operation was conducted in Idhna, a PA city of 19,000 located near Hebron. IDF soldiers seized the vehicle belonging to an individual suspected of being involved in the transfer of tens of thousands of shekels used to fund terrorist activities. The operation was part on an ongoing campaign to crack down on terror funding.

The terrorist who murdered 19-year-old Ori Ansbacher earlier this month lived in Hebron. The nearby community of Idhna was the site of a discovery last year of ancient burial tombs dating to the time of the Second Temple Era.
Posted by: trailing wife || 03/01/2019 00:33 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:


Stray bullets from Egypt hit IDF vehicle near border, military says
[IsraelTimes] The Israel Defense Force says bullets hit an army vehicle near the border with Egypt, adding it is likely spillover from infighting in Sinai.

The military says in a statement that there were no injuries caused in the incident, which follows several similar occurrences in recent months.
Egypt’s hunt for ISIS in the Sinai is getting frisky again, it appears.
Posted by: trailing wife || 03/01/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State


Southeast Asia
Abu Sayyaf rebel killed in Basilan clash
[Inquirer] An Abu Sayyaf militant was killed and a militiaman was injured in a clash in Barangay Masola in Isabela City on the evening of February 25. Isabela police chief William Gadayan identified the injured party as Boy Hashim, a a resident of Barangay Kapayawan.

The unidentified Abu Sayyaf fighter was killed where the special forces recovered an M14 rifle with seven magazines of live ammunition.

“The body was brought to La Isabela Funeral Homes waiting for post mortem examination and for proper disposition,” Gadayan said.

The Isabela City Police learned about the encounter through Captain Artemio Sombrio Jr., the 4th Special Forces Battalion commander based in Cabunbata village in Isabela City. Sombrio appeared at the police station on Tuesday morning to report the clash.
Posted by: ryuge || 03/01/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Abu Sayyaf (ISIS)


Thai ranger killed by roadside bomb in Yala
[Bangkok Post] A Thai ranger was killed and another ranger and a civilian injured when a roadside bomb exploded in Yala province on Tuesday morning. Police said two homemade bombs were hidden on a roadside in Banang Sata district.

One was detonated as a six-man ranger patrol on teacher protection duty passed the spot. Two rangers were hit by shrapnel. One was killed and the other wounded. A woman riding a motorcycle along the road was also knocked to the ground and broke her wrist.

Bomb disposal officers sent to the scene found the second bomb hidden nearby in the grass along the roadside. They safely destroyed it.

Police blamed insurgents.
Posted by: ryuge || 03/01/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Thai Insurgency


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
SDF Poised for Final Assault on IS, find mass grave
[AnNahar] Kurdish-led fighters readied Thursday for a final onslaught against jihadist fighters who have been defending the last patch of their "caliphate" in eastern Syria.

The SDF estimates the number of people inside the last IS redoubt, a patch of half a square kilometre on the banks of the Euphrates river, at anything from a few hundred to several thousand.

"We're not sure about the number of civilians still inside but everyday we're astonished by the number of people coming out. We didn't expect that," Afrin said.

The SDF also announced Thursday its forces had secured the release of 24 of their comrades who had been captured by the jihadists but did not specify how.

The US-backed SDF is ready to move from the west and north of Baghouz while the Syrian regime fighters and Iraqi paramilitaries sealing the siege are stationed across the river and border.

Accounts from women who have left the enclave in recent days suggest IS is allowing many families to go, sending them to a hill from which they can walk to an assembly point and hand themselves over.

"We have been waiting here a long time for the vehicles that will take us out," said Nadia al-Hamid, a woman from the nearby city of Mayadin.

- SLEEPING ROUGH -
Many of the civilians who spent months holed up in the last dreg of the "caliphate" proclaimed almost five years ago, are in bad physical and mental health.

"There have been more than 100 cases of diarrhoea among new arrivals and efforts are ongoing to prevent an outbreak of dysentery," the International Rescue Committee said.

"We are now seeing thousands of people sleeping rough in the arrivals area at the camp, where they are exposed to the cold, wind and rain," said Misty Buswell, the IRC's Middle East advocacy director.

"Many of the children are having to cope without shoes or coats," she added.

US-backed Syria fighters find mass grave near IS-held area
A brief video can be seen at the link.
[IsraelTimes] A front man for US-backed forces fighting the Islamic State group in Syria says they have uncovered a mass grave near the last IS-held pocket in the country’s east.

Adnan Afrin says the grave unearthed outside the village of Baghouz contains the remains of men and women but says the number of bodies and their identities remain unclear.

A video published by Kurdish-run Furat FM TV station has emerged showing several bodies dug out from a pit.

Afrin says his forces managed to free 24 SDF fighters over the course of evacuating civilians from the area.
Posted by: trailing wife || 03/01/2019 00:01 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State


New report inadvertently reveals Iranian forces along Israeli front-lines in Syria
[ALMASDARNEWS] A new report from the Syrian Elite Republican Guard revealed this week that several of the casualties from the Israeli attack this month on the al-Quneitra Governorate were, in fact, Iranian soldiers.

According to the Syrian Elite Republican Guard, five of the recovered corpses from the Israeli attack on the military garrison in western al-Quneitra were found to be the remains of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) personnel that were positioned near the border of the occupied Golan Heights.

Thanks to DNA evidence, the Syrian military was able to confirm that the soldiers in western al-Quneitra were from the IRGC; they have since begun the process of returning the bodies to Iran.

While the DNA evidence helped confirm the identity of the soldiers, it also inadvertently revealed that the Iranian forces were still present along the border with the Israeli occupied Golan Heights.

The total number of Iranian soldiers present along the border is unknown; however, the targeted military garrisons that the Israeli forces hit on February 11th were located in an area near the demilitarized zone that separates the al-Quneitra Governorate and occupied Golan Heights.

On February 11th, the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) heavily targeted three sites inside Syria’s al-Quneitra Governorate.

Of the targeted areas by the Israeli Defense Forces were two military garrisons and the al-Quneitra National Hospital.

The al-Quneitra National Hospital was turned into a weapons depot by the jihadist rebels during their reign over the bustling provincial capital.
Posted by: Fred || 03/01/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran

#1  The idea that they shouldn't mess with Israel just doesn't seem to penetrate?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 03/01/2019 3:56 Comments || Top||

#2  g(r)om, you talking about the Mid East or Washington DC?
Posted by: AlanC || 03/01/2019 7:39 Comments || Top||

#3  ME, you've first dibs on the "people" in DC
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 03/01/2019 12:04 Comments || Top||

#4  "Sorry. Didn't realize they were your guys. If you can give us the exact locations where you have people, we'll be sure to be more precise next time."
Posted by: SteveS || 03/01/2019 12:21 Comments || Top||

#5  I like the fact they had to use DNA to identify from the various noses, ears, tiny shriveled testicles pink mist
Posted by: Frank G || 03/01/2019 13:17 Comments || Top||

#6  Hassan...you lost another platoon?
Posted by: swksvolFF || 03/01/2019 15:06 Comments || Top||

#7  #6 Hassan...you lost another platoon?

heh heh heh
Posted by: SteveS || 03/01/2019 17:07 Comments || Top||


Kurdish forces kill 7 Turkish-backed rebels in northwest Aleppo
[ALMASDARNEWS] The Kurdish-led Afrin Liberation Forces resumed their operations against the Ottoman Turkish-backed rebels in the Afrin region of northwestern Aleppo.

According to the Afrin Liberation Forces’ official media wing, their fighters killed at least seven Ottoman Turkish-backed Free Syrian Army
... the more palatable version of the Syrian insurgency, heavily influenced by the Moslem Brüderbund...
(FSA) fighters between the dates of February 24-25.

The first three FSA fighters were reportedly killed along the Qara Road near Afrin city, as an IED targeted the rebel group’s vehicle.

Another attack was carried out against the FSA the following day when the Afrin Liberation Forces targeted a rebel checkpoint at the entrance of Nabi Huri.

Posted by: Fred || 03/01/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Sublime Porte


Former Syrian national team member turned militant commander survives assassination attempt
[ALMASDARNEWS] The former goalkeeper for the Syrian national football team, ’Abdel-Basit Sarout survived an liquidation attempt in the southern countryside of the Idlib Governorate on Thursday, opposition activists reported via social media.

According to reports, Sarout, who is now a commander in the Free Syrian Army
... the more palatable version of the Syrian insurgency, heavily influenced by the Moslem Brüderbund...
’s (FSA) Jaish al-Izza faction, was targeted by an improvised bomb inside the town of Ma’arat al-Nu’man.

The reports added that Sarout survived the liquidation attempt with minor wounds.

Sarout rose to prominence during the early years of the Syrian uprising when he joined protests against the government in his home city of Homs.

The former national team member would then join the rebel forces to fight the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) in several parts of the country.

Posted by: Fred || 03/01/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: al-Nusra



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