[KhaamaPress] At least 24 Talibs were killed during the operations of the Afghan Special Forces and Arclight airstrikes which were conducted in various provinces of the country in the past 24 hours.
According to informed military sources, one Taliban ...mindless ferocity in a turban... fighter was killed and three others were maimed during an operation of the Special Forces in Nahr-e-Saraj district of Helmand ...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan... The Afghan Special Forces conducted a similar operation in Uruzgan province and destroyed 5 complete IEDs and 10 IED chargers.
At least 5 Taliban fighters were killed during the Special Forces operations in Ghazni province, the sources said, adding that the Afghan Special Forces conducted a raid in northern Parwan province during the same period and confiscated a small weapons cache.
The sources also added that the Afghan Special Forces conducted a clearance operation near Farah City and locked away Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw! 8 Taliban fighters while airstrikes were also carried out in the province which left 10 turbans dead.
The Afghan Special Forces conducted an operation in Balkh province and detained 2 Taliban fighters, the sources said.
No doubt it is meaningful that their clothes are blindingly white, and that the woman’s face and hands are not covered.
[KhaamaPress] The police forces have tossed in the calaboose You have the right to remain silent... two drug smugglers who were attempting to smuggle 8.5 kgs of drugs outside the country, the Ministry of Interior said.
According to a statement released by interior ministry, police forces have discovered 8.5 kgs of Crystal meth from the detained individuals.
The statement further added that the drugs were professional placed among bath items and clothes.
The Ministry of Interior has not disclosed further information in this regard.
Photographs released by the Ministry of Interior indicates that a woman has also been arrested in connection to the smuggling of the drugs.
[KhaamaPress] A prominent leader of the Taliban ...mindless ferocity in a turban... group identified as Mullah Azizullah has been locked away Drop the rosco, Muggsy, or you're one with the ages! in western Farah province of Afghanistan, the Ministry of Interior announced Wednesday.
A front man for the Interior Ministry Nasrat Rahimi said the Taliban leader Mullah Azizullah alias Zekriya was arrested during an operation in Farah.
Rahimi further added that Mullah Azizullah is a prominent leader of the Taliban group who was involved in major destrutive activities in Helmand ...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan... , Badghis, 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... , Nimroz, and Farah province.
The anti-government armed Death Eaters including Taliban have not commented regarding the arrest of Mullah Azizullah so far.
Farah is among the relatively volatile provinces in West of Afghanistan. The Talibs are active in some of its remote districts and often carry out attacks against the government and security institutions.
[KhaamaPress] At least three ISIS Khurasan murderous Moslems were killed after attacking the security pots of public uprisign forces in Achin 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 201st Silab Corps of the Afghan Military in a statement said ISIS-K murderous Moslems on Tuesday attacked the security posts of public uprising forces in Pekha area of Achin district.
The statement further added that the attack sparked a clash which resulted into the killing of three ISIS Khurasan Death Eaters.
The anti-government armed Death Eater groups including ISIS Khurasan loyalists have not commented regarding the clash so far.
Achin is one of the volatile districts of Nangarhar province where ISIS Khurasan murderous Moslems are still active and continuously attempt to carry out terrorist related activities.
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[AlAhram] Sudan’s military rulers said on Wednesday that two brothers of ousted President Omar al-Bashir Head of the National Congress Party. He came to power in 1989 when he, as a brigadier in the Sudanese army, led a group of officers in a bloodless military coup that ousted the government of Prime Minister Sadiq al-Mahdi and eventually appointed himself president-for-life. He has fallen out with his Islamic mentor, Hasan al-Turabi, tried to impose shariah on the Christian and animist south, resulting in its secessesion, and attempted to Arabize Darfur by unleashing the barbaric Janjaweed on it. Sudan's potential prosperity has been pissed away in warfare that has left as many as 400,000 people dead and 2.5 million displaced. Omar has been indicted for genocide by the International Criminal Court but nothing is expected to come of it. have been tossed in the slammer Yez got nuttin' on me, coppers! Nuttin'! as part of a continuing campaign of arrests against "symbols of previous regime."
A front man for the Transitional Military Council also said that irregular forces linked to Bashir’s former ruling party have been brought under the army or police control.
[Libya Herald] The International Criminal Court (ICC) Prosecutor, Fatou Bensouda, called on all taking part in the fighting in Tripoli to respect the rule of International Humanitarian Law (IHR).
In a statement released yesterday on the violence in and around Tripoli, she said commanders will be held liable and accountable for IHR crimes, as well as those committed by their subordinates. She assured of her determination to pursue all IHR crimes.
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[Jpost] 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.... (IS) has recorded 69 casualties from the Nigerian Army and troops from an African anti-militant force in attacks over the past week, the Jihadist group said in its weekly paper on Thursday.
Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP), which split from Nigeria-based Boko Haram ... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality... in 2016, has carried out a series of attacks in the last few months.
In its newspaper al-Nabaa, IS said its fighters killed a number of African coalition soldiers in attacks on a military barracks, a military post and a town in northeastern Borno state and the Lake Chad region.
It said its fighters detonated explosives on Saturday on a tank of the African alliance near the town of Tomer in Niger, killing all soldiers on board. ISIS did not specify the number killed.
The Death Eaters said over the past week troops from Nigerian and Cameroon ...a long, narrow country that fills the space between Nigeria and Chad on the northeast, CAR to the southeast. Prior to incursions by Boko Haram nothing ever happened there... were either killed or injured, without providing details.
A Nigerian military front man could not immediately be reached for comment.
Boko Haram has waged a decade-long insurgency in northeast Nigeria ... a particularly crimson stretch of Islam's bloody border... which has killed around 30,000 people and forced about 2 million to leave their homes.
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.... claimed its first attack in Congo on Thursday, and declared it the "Central Africa Province" of the "Caliphate," after two Congolese soldiers and a civilian were killed in a shootout.
The three died in festivities on Tuesday in Bovata, near the town of Beni, a source at the U.N. peacekeeping mission and a civil society leader told Rooters. The town and the surrounding area have been simultaneously beset by militia violence and an Ebola epidemic.
An epidemic, too?
It was not possible to independently verify Islamic State's claim, made through its Amaq news agency. There are more than a dozen different militia groups and criminal outfits operating in this area of eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo ...formerly the Congo Free State, Belgian Congo, Zaire, and who knows what else, not to be confused with the Brazzaville Congo aka Republic of Congo, which is much smaller and much more (for Africa) stable. DRC gave the world Patrice Lumumba and Joseph Mobutu, followed by years of tedious civil war. Its principle industry seems to be the production of corpses. With a population of about 74 million it has lots of raw material... . IS also claimed a higher toll of five soldiers killed and three maimed.
The U.N. source and a local civil society leader, David Moaze, said witnesses at the scene of the attack had blamed an Islamist group called the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF), which may have links to Islamic State.
A report by New York University's Congo Research Group and the Bridgeway Foundation in November said the ADF had received money from a financier linked to Islamic State, suggesting tentative ties between the Congo turbans and other jihadists in Africa and beyond.
Keen to woo anti-terrorist support from Western powers, Congolese authorities have blamed the ADF for a series of massacres in the last two years in the east of the country, usually without producing any evidence that it was them.
Rival militia groups control parts of eastern Congo, long after the official end of a 1998-2003 war in which millions of people died.
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[JPOST] Channel i24NEWS reported on Thursday that Chad and the Central African Republic have uncovered an Iranian terror network operating in their territories as well as in other countries.
The members of the network have been arrested.
According to the report, the unit called "Saraya Zahara" established an infrastructure of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards' Quds Force in Central Africa, with the aim of attacking Western targets in these countries.
In addition, the unit has worked in various African countries, including Chad, Sudan and Eritrea, where Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been working to strengthen ties with Israel.
The Iranian network has also tried to establish additional terror cells in African countries and help pro-Iranian elements take control of various countries on the continent.
According to the details revealed on Thursday, the squad's budget was hundreds of thousands of dollars and it also possessed various types of weapons.
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[ALMASDARNEWS] 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 ... forces scored an imperative victory in central Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of. Except for a tiny handfull of Jews everthing there is very Islamic... this morning after a three-day-long battle against the pro-government Yemeni National Army.
According to the official media wing of the Houthi forces, their troops managed to fully secure the al-Aoud Mountain and its surrounding points after the Yemeni National Army attempted a counter-offensive to retake their lost territory.
The Houthi forces said they were able to inflict heavy casualties within the ranks of the Yemeni National Army before they retreated to a neighboring area in the Ibb Governorate of central Yemen.
With the defeat of the Yemeni National Army at the al-Aoud Mountain, the Houthi forces have scored their first major victory in central Yemen this month.
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[IsraelTimes] Abdelkader Merah found to have helped in 2012 terror spree in which soldiers, rabbi and three children were killed; prosecution had requested life term.
A Gay Paree appeal court on Thursday handed a 30-year jail term to Abdelkader Merah,
...known in the neighbourhood as “Bin Laden”, Abdelkader and his younger brother Mohammed walked the common path from petty crime to prison to jihad. Sister Souad and her four children fled to ISIS in Syria after Mohammed got himself killed...
brother of a French jihadist who rubbed out seven people, finding him guilty of being an accomplice in the 2012 murders.
The verdict was received in silence in the courtroom, before sobs broke out among the victim’s relatives in the public gallery.
Merah, 36, had in 2017 been tossed in the calaboose Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out! for 20 years being part of a terrorist conspiracy but had been cleared, by the lower court, of having a direct hand in his brother’s shooting spree.
The appeal court decision, reached after 12 hours of deliberations, the 30-year term falling short of the prosecution’s request for a life term for Merah.
His brother Mohammed Merah
...the Algerian-French "lone wolf" who trained in Pakistan with Jund al-Khilafah" (Army of the Caliph), linked to a Belgian jihadi network and Al Qaeda in North Africa. Quite possibly Md. was a French informant before going on an 8-day killing spree that ended with his dramatic death in a shootout with French police...
killed three soldiers in March 2012 before turning his sights on a Jewish school in Toulouse ...lies on the banks of the River Garonne, half-way between the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea. The Toulouse metropolitan area is the fourth-largest in La Belle France... , where he bumped off a rabbi, two of the rabbi’s children, aged three and five, and an eight-year-old girl.
The attack was the deadliest on Jews in La Belle France in three decades and marked the advent of a new threat from French-born turbans goaded by foreign terror groups to strike their homeland.
Mohammed Merah was killed by police after a 32-hour siege at his home, three days after the school assault.
The trial of Merah’s older brother and mentor Abdelkader was the first in connection with a string of attacks that have claimed the lives of over 240 people in La Belle France in recent years.
The appeal court also reduced the sentence of Fettah Malki, a friend of the Merah brothers, from 14 to 10 years, found guilty of associating with known criminals, rather than the greater crime of terrorist conspiracy.
It was Malki who supplied Mohammed Merah with a machine gun and a bullet-proof vest was also convicted of a terrorist conspiracy.
Nineveh (IraqiNews.com) ‐ An Iraqi court has sentenced an 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 warrior to death by hanging over his involvement in several sniper attacks in the country.
The Central Criminal Court in Baghdad handed the Islamic State holy warrior the death penalty for shooting dead several security forces and members of the Popular Mobilization Forces in sniper attacks in Nineveh province, Baghdad Today website quoted the Supreme Judicial Council media center as saying in a press statement on Thursday.
The Islamic State "terrorist admitted belonging to the Islamic State group and standing behind the killing of several security personnel," said the statement.
Iraqi courts have sentenced many of Islamic State members, including a big number of female members, to death over joining the holy warrior group.
The exact number of detained holy warriors is still unknown, however, it’s estimated to be at thousands. It’s also unclear how many members are likely to face death sentences.
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Diyala (IraqiNews.com) ‐ Iraqi security forces destroyed on Thursday three 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.... terrorist hotbeds and a booby-trapped house during a security operation in the eastern province of Diyala, a security source was quoted as saying.
"Joint security forces, backed by the Iraqi Air Force and tribal fighters, continued their security operation in al-Waqf basin, 25 km northeast of Baqubah, for the second day in a row to track down Islamic State snuffies scattered there," the source told Baghdad Today news website.
"Three Islamic State terrorist hotbeds and a booby-trapped house were destroyed in the security campaign," the source said, adding that seven explosive charges were found inside the house.
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[Jpost] Israel Police in conjunction with Border Police jugged Keep yer hands where we can see 'em, if yez please! 92 Paleostinian workers in Israel's north over the last week. The workers were arrested because they entered Israel illegally, the Police foreign press front man said.
Since the beginning of the year 1004 illegal Paleostinians were detained or arrested, and 185 suspects who were employing them.
18 businesses were closed due to the fact that they were employing the Paleostinians illegally.
[Jpost] The IDF tossed in the calaboose ... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not... 11 Paleostinians in the West Bank overnight on Thursday who are suspected of being involved in terrorist activities, popular terrorism and violent disturbances against civilians and security forces. The suspects were transferred for questioning.
[Jpost] IDF units were searching for weapons, terror suspects and illegal funds in the West Bank on Wednesday night in the cities of Nablus, Bethlehem, Ramallah and Qalqilya, Walla reported.
During the operations festivities broke out between IDF units and Paleostinians, no casualties were reported.
The security forces used live ammunition and crowd dispersal measures.
[ALMASDARNEWS] For the third time in the last two weeks, 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) has carried out a bushwhack against the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) in eastern Syria.
According to a military source near the ancient city of Palmyra (Tadmur), the Islamic State ambushed a Syrian Arab Army unit in the small town of al-Kawm, which is north of al-Sukhnah.
The source said the Syrian military suffered more than ten casualties as a result of the Islamic State ambush.
During the attack, ISIS managed to capture 2 vehicles and a large amount of weapons before they retreated back toward the Syrian desert.
The Islamic State has recently increased their activity in the eastern part of Syria, using their sleeper cells to wreak havoc on both the Syrian Arab Army and Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF).
In response to these ambushes, the Syrian Arab Army has sent reinforcements to the Iraqi border in a bid to secure the international highway that goes through the cities of Albukamal and al-Qa’im (Iraqi city).
A source from the Syrian Arab Army in Damascus said that they are working with the Iraqi authorities to reopen the international highway before the end of the month.
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[ALMASDARNEWS] The Syrian Arab Army sent a large convoy of reinforcements to the Iraqi border on Wednesday, a source from the military told al-Masdar News this afternoon.
According to the military source, the Syrian Arab Army reinforcements were deployed to the highway near the T-2 Pumping Station in rural Deir Ezzor.
The source said that the reinforcements were sent to this area to ensure the safety of the international highway as they prepare to reopen this imperative roadway that links the Syrian and Iraqi capitals.
This move also coincides with the recent deployment of Hashd al-Sha’abi reinforcements to the Syrian border with the al-Anbar Governorate.
The Syrian government is hoping to reopen the international highway before month’s end as this roadway will boost their trade and commerce with Iraq.
Furthermore, this will also give Iran the ability to transport supplies to the Syrian military and government from neighboring Iraq.
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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.
... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality...
...formerly the Congo Free State, Belgian Congo, Zaire, and who knows what else, not to be confused with the Brazzaville Congo aka 
[JPOST] Channel i24NEWS reported on Thursday that Chad and the Central African Republic have uncovered an Iranian terror network operating in their territories as well as in other countries.
...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of. Except for a tiny handfull of Jews everthing there is very Islamic...
Diyala (IraqiNews.com) ‐ Iraqi security forces destroyed on Thursday three 
