[KhaamaPress] The Afghan armed forces have stormed a major hideout of Taliban ...Arabic for students... which was used as headquarters by group’s bully boyz and commanders to conducted terrorist related activities in Lalpur 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 provincial government media office in a statement said a prison along with several other small and medium hideouts of the group were also discovered and destroyed during the same operation and some heavy and light weapons and munitions were confiscated.
The statement further added that Talibs were keeping innocent civilians as hostages inside the prison besides using the hideouts to carry out attacks in Nangarhar province.
At least ten villages have also been cleared the operations so far and new security outposts have been established, the provincial government added in its statement.
The security situation in Nangarhar province has deteriorate during the recent years as both Taliban and ISIS loyalists are attempting to expand their foothold and insurgency in this province.
[KhaamaPress] The Special Forces of the Afghan Intelligence, National Directorate of Security ...the Afghan national intel agency... (NDS), have conducted raids on hideouts of Mawlavi Sharafuddin, the military commission of Taliban ...Arabic for students... for southern Uruzgan province.
The National Directorate of Security (NDS) in a statement said at least 18 faceless myrmidons were killed during the raids.
The statement further added that NDS Special Forces also confiscated 6 heavy weapons, 7 light weapons, 47 improvised bombs, 5 hand grenades, 5 communication sets, hundreds of rounds of munitions, and some other military kits and uniforms.
The anti-government armed faceless myrmidons including Taliban have not commented regarding the operation so far.
Uruzgan is among the relatively volatile provinces in South of Afghanistan where Talibs are actively operating in some of its districts and often carry out attacks against the government and security institutions.
[KhaamaPress] At least seven bandidosgunnies affiliated with 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.... of Iraq and Syria Khurasan (ISIS-K) were killed in a U.S. dronezap in eastern Kunar province ... which is right down the road from Chitral. Kunar is Haqqani country..... of Afghanistan.
The 201st Silab Corps of the Afghan Military in a statement said the Arclight airstrike was carried out on Wednesday in Noor Gul district.
The statement further added that a commander of ISIS-K identified as Mawlavi Khyber was killed along with six other bandidosgunnies in the airstrike.
The anti-government armed bandidosgunnies including ISIS-K loyalists have not commented regarding the airstrike so far.
Kunar is among the relatively volatile provinces in East of Afghanistan. Both Taliban ...Arabic for students... and ISIS Khurasan bandidosgunnies are active in some of its districts and often attempt to target the government and security institutions in this province.
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[ToloNews] Afghan forces have retaken main parts of Bala Murghab district in Badghis province, in the northwest of Afghanistan, almost after 10 days of heavy festivities against the Taliban ...Arabic for students... , which displaced thousands of families and left dozens of soldiers dead and maimed.
"Bala Murghab is cleared of Taliban ’terrorists’," the Ministry of Defense said in a tweet on Thursday evening. "Afghan National Defense and Security Forces broke the Taliban’s final resistance and are in full control in Bala Murghab."
Badghis Governor Abdul Ghafoor Malikzai confirmed that the special units of the Afghan Army and Police have entered Bala Murghab and that bully boyz have been pushed back.
He said that the Taliban could not resist against Afghan cops and that they "were forced to evacuate the district".
The Taliban entered key parts of the district a week ago, including the police headquarters, which is close to the Army camp, where hundreds of forces are stationed. But they were pushed back after Arclight airstrikes conducted by Afghan forces in support of coalition troops.
Bala Murghab is surrounded by some other volatile districts such as Ab Kamari, Muqur, Jawand and Qadis.
Last time, Bala Murghab came under Taliban attack early in March and was under siege for more than two weeks, leaving more than two dozens of security forces dead and almost 28 of them gone missing.
This comes as the conflicts have intensified in different parts of the country with the arrival of the spring season ‐ which is deemed as a usual fighting season for gunnies fighting the Afghan government forces.
According to the Ministry of Defense, at least 100 Talibs have been killed in the festivities.
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[AlAhram] Egyptian security forces have killed 11 suspected bully boyz in a shootout in North Sinai governorate, the interior ministry said in a statement on Thursday.
The suspects were members of a terrorist cell in the governorate's capital of El-Arish and were planning to carry out attacks on police and army forces in a number of vital areas, the statement said.
Probably Islamic State in the Sinai — perhaps one day we’ll know.
The shootout broke out as security forces conducted a raid on the suspects' hideout.
On Tuesday, seven people, including four coppers, were killed when a jacket wallah targeted police near a market in the North Sinai town of Sheikh Zuweid.
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[AlAhram] More than 190 troops from eastern Libyan forces have been captured during their offensive on 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... , officials loyal to the internationally recognised government based in the capital said on Thursday.
A total of 116 fighters were captured in Zawiya, a town west of Tripoli, and additional 75 in Ain Sara on the southern outskirts of the capital, officials said, allowing news hounds to film some of them.
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[AlAhram] Egypt’s Ministry of the Interior said in a statement on Thursday that police forces have killed six gunnies from the Moslem Brüderbund-affiliated group Hasm in Qalioubiya governorate, north of Cairo.
The bad boyz were potted in a shootout with security forces as police raided a building on a farm in Qalioubiya.
The ministry said the raid was carried out based on intelligence received by the National Security Agency that the gunnies where planning attacks upon calls from the media platforms of the terrorist-designated Moslem Brüderbund organization, which aim to weaken stabilty and security in the country.
Police seized two automatic riffles, 3 bullets magazines, a 9mm pistol, a birdshot rifle, and different types of bullets and detonative material used to produce IED’s in possession of the terrorists, according to the statement.
Earlier in the day, Egyptian security had forces killed 11 gunnies in a shootout in North Sinai, the interior ministry said in a statement. The suspects were members of a terrorist cell in the bucolic provincial capital of El-Arish and were planning to carry out attacks on police and army forces in a number of vital areas, the statement said.
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[DAWN] 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... 's interior ministry has announced that two Pak nationals, a husband-and-wife duo, were executed on Thursday after being found guilty by its courts of smuggling heroin into the Kingdom.
The country's ministry, in a blurb, stated that Muhammad Mustafa and Fatima Ijaz were "jugged Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw! when they smuggled a quantity of heroin".
The case was referred to the court where an investigation led to the indictment of the accused, said the Saudi ministry, adding that the punishment was also supported by the court of appeals as well as the supreme court.
Therefore, the ministry said, a royal order to implement the death sentences were issued, and the duo were executed in Jeddah.
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[DAWN] Police's Counter-terrorism Department (CTD) on Thursday said it has jugged Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw! a suspected bad boy linked with banned outfit Jundullah, which allegedly orchestrated major acts of terrorism, bank robberies, kidnappings and killings in Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... post-9/11.
The CTD, acting on a tip-off, detained Mohammed Ishaq alias Gul as he arrived at Cantt Railway Station from Sukkur, said officer in-charge Transnational Terrorism Intelligence Group (TTIG), Raja Umar Khattab, who described the detained suspect as an "extremely wanted bad boy belonging to Jundullah".
The CTD officials said that they have seized one "ready" suicide jacket and two hand grenades from Ishaq.
The bad boy, according to police, had joined Jundullah in 2006 before leaving for Afghanistan two years later where he received his training. He reportedly returned to Balochistan ...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it... recently before making his way to Sindh.
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[Rudaw] An Iraqi man who was in charge of transferring 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) members from Kirkuk to Diyala province near the Iranian border in recent months has been incarcerated Drop the gat, Rocky, or you're a dead 'un! , Kurdish security forces said on Thursday. This could be a major blow to the simmering insurgence that is brewing in the Sunni provinces in northern Iraq since the group’s territorial control of the area ended in late 2017.
"Over the past few days the Garmiyan Asayesh forces in Kalar managed to arrest an Arab suspect," Osman Abdulkarim, the spokesperson of the Garmiyan Asayesh announced in a presser. "The suspect confessed before the investigating judge that he had joined the ISIS terrorist organization in Kirkuk."
Abdulkarim added the ISIS member, 22, also confessed that "he was in charge of the transfer of ISISbandidosturbans from Kirkuk and Hawija to Palkana."
Palkana village is near Sargaran town west of Kirkuk. Since the declared defeat of ISIS, the village and surrounding areas have been a hotbed for the group’s lingering and still deadly remnants.
"He had been trying to move from Kalar to Sulaimani using fake ID to hide himself..." he explained.
The ISIS member, whose name was not revealed, is also said to have been a member of the group’s security department.
As part of the continued campaigns against ISIS remnants, last week the Garmiyan court handed down a five year prison sentence to four ISIS members from Kirkuk, ... a thick stew of Arabs, Turkmen, Kurds, and probably Antarcticans, all of them mutually hostile most of the time... Kifri, Tuz Khurmatu, and Kalar who had been arrested in raids carried out in mid-2018 after they had all confessed membership to the hard boy group.
"Our forces will continue to pursue those bandidosturbans who want hide themselves in these areas," added the official.
It was the seventh additional arrest of an ISIS member over the past two months in Garmiyan, Abdulkarim added.
Confessions, whether in earnest or coerced, are used frequently in courts across the Middle East as proof of one’s suspected guilt.
Rights groups have criticized Iraq for its prosecution of ISIS suspects. Human Rights Watch has reported judicial authorities are rushing trials and using coerced confessions.
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There is a cute little map at the link showing the area in question in relation to the rest of Iraq.
[Rudaw] Two brigades of the elite Iraqi Counter-Terrorism Forces (ICTS) commenced an operation to drive 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) remnants out of a mountain range in the north of the country on Thursday, destroying a media office of the bully boy group.
"...the sectors of the Counter-Terrorism forces, supported by Iraqi Army aviation and international coalition aviation, initiated a broad security operation to chase the remnant members of the terrorist ISIS in the hills of Hamrin to destroy the caves and their safe havens," read a statement by the Security Media Cell on Facebook.
The operation was green lit by Prime Minister Adil Abdul-Mahdi, the country's commander-in-chief, according to the media cell.
In the operation, "The headquarters of al-Naba newspaper ‐ affiliated with terrorist ISIS gangs ‐ was destroyed and a number of issues of the newspaper as well as printers, computers, and significant documents were found," the ICTS announced Thursday evening.
By controlling the Hamrin area ‐ some 160 kilometers north of Baghdad and 70 kilometers south of Kirkuk ‐ ISIS has continued to launch attacks into nearby towns.
ICTS confirmed on its Facebook page that two of its divisions were participating in the offensive "to destroy all the caves and safe havens..." Lt. Gen. Abdul Wahab al-Saadi, the commander of the ICTS, was said to be in charge of the operation that included two of his brigades. Through the ISIS conflict, the US-trained ICTS spearheaded liberations of cities and towns.
ISIS was declared defeated in Iraq in December 2017 by then PM Haider al-Abadi, but the group’s sleeper cells continue to pose a security threat in disputed or Kurdistani areas between Iraqi and Peshmerga forces.
Additionally, there have been reports of ISIS members fleeing from Syria into western Iraq’s Anbar province.
Hamrin, located between the frontlines of Iraqi and Peshmerga forces, has allowed elements to regroup. It is a disputed or Kurdistani area claimed by both Erbil and Baghdad. Locals have repeatedly told Rudaw that ISIS remains active in the area, stealing, kidnapping, and killing. The lack of security is a contributing factor for the continued displacement of some 1.2 million Iraqis.
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[Aljazeera] Islamabad, Pakistan - At least 16 people have been killed and another 30 wounded as an explosion ripped through a market in the southwestern Pakistani city of Quetta, police say, the latest attack to target the city's minority Hazara community.
The explosion took place as Hazaras, who are Shia Muslims, were buying vegetables early on Friday morning, Quetta police chief Abdul Razzaq Cheema told Al Jazeera by telephone.
"Members of the Hazara community go to the market every day to shop, and we provide them with a security escort," he said.
"They were at the market as police and [paramilitary] Frontier Corps soldiers patrolled the area. There was a store selling potatoes, and that is where the explosion has taken place."
Images from the scene of the explosion showed blood sprayed across the dirt floor of the market, damaged vehicles and sacks of potatoes split open by the force of the blast.
Cheema said police would not know whether the bomb was planted or a suicide attack until investigating teams, who had cordoned off the site, completed their analysis.
"The bomb appeared to have been set in the potato sacks, but we cannot rule out whether it was a suicide attack just yet," he said.
At least seven members of the Hazara community and one paramilitary soldier were among those killed, he said.
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At least 16 people Hazaras have been killed and another 30 Hazaras wounded as an explosion ripped through a market in the southwestern Pakistani city of Quetta, police say, the latest attack to target the city's minority Hazara community.
So, "Natural Causes™"
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[IsraelTimes] Israeli troops tossed in the slammer Please don't kill me! four Paleostinians Thursday who tried to enter Israel from the Gazoo Strip.
The Israel Defense Forces said it stopped the four ungunnies in two separate incidents and were handed over to the Shin Bet security service for questioning.
In previous incidents where there was no violence, the military returned Gazooks to the Strip. "Back in the terlet wid yas!"
An incident on March 8 prompted a large-scale call-up of security personnel in the border area when two Paleostinians from Gazoo evaded capture for an hour. The pair were eventually arrested and found to be carrying a knife and a hand grenade after infiltrating into Israel from the northern Gazoo Strip.
On April 3, Israeli forces opened fire and maimed three Paleostinians who entered Israel from Gazoo and were carrying knives. The three were transferred to an Israeli hospital.
[Ynet] Israeli security forces tossed in the clink Into the paddy wagon wit' yez! overnight Wednesday 19 Paleostinians on suspicion of involvement in terrorist activity in the West Bank.
[ALMASDARNEWS] For the second time this month, a Syrian Arab Army (SAA) convoy has disappeared along the Palmyra-Deir Ezzor convoy.
According to a report from eastern Homs, the Syrian Arab Army’s command in Palmyra lost contact with the convoy after it departed from the aforementioned city to Deir Ezzor.
The Syrian Army sent a search party to find out what happened to the convoy; however, they were unable to find any trace of the vehicles or soldiers.
A military source told al-Masdar this afternoon that the Syrian Army’s high command believes the convoy was ambushed by 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.... (ISIS/ISIS/IS/ISIS).
The Islamic State has been carrying out ambushes on Syrian military vehicles over the last two months; this has resulted in the death and capture of several soldiers.
In response to these ambushes, the Syrian Arab Army has sent reinforcements to this front; however, they have been unable to quell these late night ambushes by the Islamic State murderous Moslems that are believed to be hiding out in the caves of the Badiya al-Sham.
Since they lost their territories in central and eastern Syria, the Islamic State has switched its battle plan from attempting to capture ground to carrying out hit-and-run attacks against both the Syrian Army and Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF).
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[ALMASDARNEWS] The Ottoman Turkish Army carried out a powerful attack against the Kurdish-led People’s Protection Units (YPG) in the northern countryside of the Aleppo Governorate this evening.
Using heavy artillery, the Ottoman Turkish Army repeatedly struck the YPG’s positions near the town of Tal Rifa’at, prompting the latter to respond with their own barrage of projectiles on the former’s defenses.
This attack by the Ottoman Turkish Army comes just 48 hours after the Russian military withdrew their police forces from Tal Rifa’at and its surrounding villages in the northern countryside of the Aleppo Governorate.
The Syrian Arab Army (SAA) is still active in the Tal Rifa’at area and they have already warned the Ottoman Turkish Army about moving into the government-held parts of northern Aleppo.
In particular, the Syrian Arab Army and their allies in Nubl and al-Zahra’a have refused to withdraw from these towns despite warnings from the Ottoman Turkish military.
Nubl and al-Zahra’a were previously besieged by the jihadist rebels until the Syrian Arab Army and their allies launched an offensive in 2016 to lift this siege.
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[ALMASDARNEWS] A front man from the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) told Russia Today’s Arabic channel that leader 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.... (ISIS/ISIS/IS/ISIS), His Supreme Immensity, Caliph of the Faithful and Galactic Overlord, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi ...the head of ISIS, or what remains of it, and a veteran of the Abu Graib jailhouse. Looks like a new messiah to bajillions of Moslems, like just another dead-eyed mass murder to the rest of us. So far he has been killed at least four times, though not yet by a stake through the heart... , is currently hiding in the Idlib Governorate in northwestern Syria.
According to the spokesperson form the SDF, Mostafa Bali, the Islamic State commander is currently hiding among the Ottoman Turkish-backed rebels in the Idlib Governorate.
Furthermore, Bali claimed on his Twitter page that the ISIS oil minister has confessed to transferring nearly 40 tons of gold and a large number of valuable goods from Iraq to Syria.
Despite these claims, Iraqi sources claimed in February that al-Baghdadi was alive and hiding in Syria near the Iraqi border.
"Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi is still alive and is in Syria," RT quoted an Iraqi intelligence source as saying on condition of anonymity.
There have been multiple claims made regarding the whereabouts of al-Baghdadi; however, it is still unclear where this terrorist leader is currently hiding out.
What is known from Syrian and Iraqi sources is that the Islamic State is still very active in both countries, despite the fact they do not control any significant piece of territory.
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It makes sense to me that he is being protected by the Turks.
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...the head of ISIS, or what remains of it, and a veteran of the Abu Graib jailhouse. Looks like a new messiah to bajillions of Moslems, like just another dead-eyed mass murder to the rest of us. So far he has been killed at least four times, though not yet by a stake through the heart...
