[KhaamaPress] The security forces carried out Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s against Talibs in 4 provinces in the past 24 hours, the military officials said.
The officials further added that an airstrike in Qarabagh district of Ghazni province killed 1 Taliban ...Arabic for students... krazed killer.
Furthermore, an airstrike killed 3 Talibs in Baghlan-e Jadid district of Baghlan province, the officials added.
The security forces conducted another airstrike in Chimtal district of Balkh which killed 2 Talibs, the officials said, adding that a similar airstrike in Gurziwan district of Faryab killed 2 Talibs.
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where's Besoeker these days; he seems to be on a hiatus?
As Frank G says, he is bumming around Europe, which will no doubt add direct observations to his comments on his return. But then, I am recovering from the better part of a week in Las Vegas before driving down to visit trailing daughter #2 and her no longer new husband for the last quarter of this month, which has impacted my own contributions here. Fortunately, Rantburg is a group project.
[KhaamaPress] The Afghan Special Forces killed at least 20 Talibs during an operation in western Farah province of Afghanistan.
The military officials said Sunday that the Special Forces conducted the raid in Anar Darah district of the province.
The officials further added that the Special Forces also destroyed a cache of weapons belonging to Taliban ...Arabic for students... The security situation in Farah province has tanked during the recent months.
Talibs are active in some districts of the province and often conduct terrorist related activities.
Meanwhile, ...back at the pie fight, Bella went down under the weight of the custard... the Afghan forces routinely conduct counter-terrorism operations against the anti-government gangs in this province.
The U.S. forces also conduct regular Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s in restive parts of the country to suppress Taliban and other anti-government hard boys.
[KhaamaPress] An Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... in northern Faryab province killed or maimed at least 19 Talibs including a foreign trainer of the group.
The 209th Shaheen Corps of the Afghan Military in the North said in a statement that the security forces conducted the airstrike in Gurziwan district on Saturday.
The statement further added that the airstrike targeted a training camp of the snuffies Dara-e Shakh area of the district.
Furthermore, the 209th Shaheen Corps said the airstrike also killed two trainers of the snuffies including a Pak national identified as Mustar Hanzala and Mullah Amanullah who was a resident of Helmand ...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan... The 209th Shaheen Corps also added that the airstrike maimed 12 other bandidosbully boyz including Qari Sunatullah and Mullah Rahmat, two key commanders of the group.
[KhaamaPress] The Afghan Special Forces discovered and destroyed one of the biggest bomb factories of Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... during an operation in Ghazni province.
The 203rd Thunder Corps said in a statement that the Special Forces discovered the bomb making factory in Moqor district.
The statement further added that the Special Forces confiscated and destroyed 165 improvised bombs.
Furthermore, the Special Forces confiscated 26 cycle of violences, a vehicle, 5 Ak-47 rifles, 2 PKM machine guns, a rocket launcher, 15 rockets of the rocket launcher, 500 rounds of Dshk ammunition, 1000 rounds of PKM machine ammunition, 500 rounds of M4 rifle ammunition, 20 military uniforms and 5 radio sets.
[KhaamaPress] The Afghan and U.S. forces conducted counter-terrorism operations in South-eastern Paktika ...which coincidentally borders South Wazoo... province, killing or wounding at least 120 Talibs.
The 203rd Thunder Corps said the Afghan cops conducted the operations with the support of U.S. air power in Warmama district.
The statement further added that the security forces killed at least 90 Talibs during the operations and maimed at least 20 others.
Furthermore, the 203rd Thunder Corps said the security forces also destroyed 23 cycle of violences, a tractor and some weapons during the operations.
[ToloNews] Officials said the incident happened on Sunday when the two pylons were blown up by explosives.
Electric power imported from Uzbekistan was drastically cut in 11 Afghan provinces, including Kabul, after "anti-government armed Death Eaters destroyed two power pylons in the northern province of Baghlan," according to a statement by the power supply company De Afghanistan Breshna Sherkat (DABS).
"The incident happened approximately at 10 a.m. on Sunday when the two pylons were blown up by explosives," DABS front man Wahidullah Tawhidi said.
A large portion of the electricity is used by factories in Kabul’s industrial parks in the east of the city.
Power transmission lines in Afghanistan have been damaged many times over the past year.
The Taliban militants destroyed three power pylons in Baghlan province, cutting electricity supply to several provinces including Kabul.
Da Afghanistan Breshna Sherkat, the State-run power company said in a statement that the militants destroyed the power pylons in in Balak Mirzad Hasan Tal Village of Baghlan.
The statement further added that the militants detonated improvised explosive devices near the power pylons, cutting electricity supply to Kabul and several other provinces in the South and South-east.
The power company also added that the militants had earlier destroyed power pylons in Dand-e Shahabuddin of Baghlan and Buz Kandahari of Kunduz province.
Meanwhile, the company stated that the technical staff are busy reconnecting the power transmission lines.
[KhaamaPress] An Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... killed the shadow governor of Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... for Samangan and his comrades, the Afghan military said.
The 209th Shaheen Corps said in a statement that the security forces conducted the airstrike close to Tuqsan Village in Dara-e Suf Payeen district earlier today.
The statement further added that the airstrike killed Mawlavi Nooruddin, the shadow governor of Taliban for Samangan and his comrades.
Furthermore, the 209th Shaheen Crops said Mawlavi Nooruddin was on his way to Tuqsan Village when the security forces targeted his vehicle at around 9 am local time.
[RADIOSHABELLE] Somali forces killed at least 10 al-Shabaab ...... the Islamic version of the old Somali warlord... holy warriors and injured several others maimed in the Lower Shabelle region after the group attacked four districts in the region, local media said on Sunday.
Ali Waal ‐ a police brass hat in the town of Qoryooley, one the district attacked by al-Shabaab ‐ told media that the government forces killed at least 10 fighters after an attack on a military base in the town.
"Al-Shabaab fighters had attacked our base in Qoryooley but we managed to overcome them and killed 10 of them," Ali Waal said.
Some of our soldiers were maimed during the attack, he added.
According to the reports, the group also attacked three other districts in the region but the casualties remained unknown.
"Heavy combat erupts in Lower Shabelle region after al-Shabaab attacked SNA [Somali National Army] bases in Qoryooley, Awdhegle, as well as in Barrire town area," a resident said.
Meanwhile, ...back at the comedy club, Boogie ducked another tomato... Somali-based group al-Shabaab claimed that it had killed 14 African Union ...a union consisting of 53 African states, most run by dictators of one flavor or another. The only all-African state not in the AU is Morocco. Established in 2002, the AU is the successor to the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), which was even less successful... peacekeeping mission forces from Burundi and maimed 8 others.
African Union Mission in Somalia known as (AMISOM) has not yet commented on the incident that took place in the Middle Shabelle region.
[AlAhram] Egyptian security forces have killed a group of suspected bandidossnuffies in North Sinai who were plotting to carry out a series of attacks against police and army troops in the border region, the interior ministry said.
The men were killed after they opened fire from their vehicle on security forces who approached them in the Galabana area, the ministry said in a statement.
The bandidossnuffies were found in possession of ammunition, automatic weapons and materials used in making bombs, it said.
The ministry did not reveal the number or the identity of the suspects but said all of them were killed, adding that another terrorist was killed nearby after he opened fire on security forces.
A total of four copperswere maimed in the two shootouts, it added.
The ministry released photos of bloodied bodies with their faces concealed lying on the ground.
[Libya Observer] The Libyan Presidential Council (PC) has condemned mass killings in Tarhouna and accused criminal gangs loyal to Khalifa Haftar ...Self-proclaimed Field Marshal, served in the Libyan army under Muammar Qadaffy, and took part in the coup that brought Qadaffy to power in 1969. He became a prisoner of war in Chad in 1987. While held prisoner, he and his fellow officers formed a group hoping to overthrow Qadaffy, so it's kind of hard to describe him as a Qadaffy holdover. He was released around 1990 in a deal with the United States government and spent nearly two decades in the United States, gaining US citizenship. In 1993, while living in the United States, he was convicted in absentia of crimes against the Jamahiriya and sentenced to death. Haftar held a senior position in the anti-Qadaffy forces in the 2011 Libyan Civil War. In 2014 he was commander of the Libyan Army when the General National Congress (GNC) refused to give up power in accordance with its term of office. Haftar launched a campaign against the GNC and its Islamic fundamentalist allies. His campaign allowed elections to take place to replace the GNC, but then developed into a civil war. Guess you can't win them all... 's forces of committing the crime.
The PC said in a statement on Sunday that the criminal gangs had killed in cold blood tens of residents in Tarhouna.
"This coward crime amounts to a genocide. We vow to bring all those responsible for the atrocity to justice." The PC said.
It called on the international community and Security Council sanctions committee to take strict measures toward such crimes, urging the UNSMIL to probe the incident.
The crime was also condemned by Tarhouna Protection Force of the Libyan Army under the command of Presidential Council's government, holding Kanyat militia, backed by Haftar, accountable for it.
The force said scores were killed, including a member of the Tarhouna municipality and two members of the city's elders' council.
It also called on the residents of the city to side with the right against wrong and on the UNSMIL to document the crime in order to try the perpetrators at the International Criminal Court.
Media sources said that Kanyat militia in Tarhouna killed in a mass murder about 50 people, including Haftar's opponents and February revolution figures.
Pakistan’s government and people condemn attacks on Saudi oil facilities “Pakistan is ready to take any step for the safety and security of the Kingdom"https://t.co/LfPcl2WpsU
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Now this report
Iran launched nearly a dozen cruise missiles and over 20 drones from its territory in the attack on the SA oil facility, a senior official said. The President is fully aware that Iran is responsible, but he wants the Saudis to acknowledge it if they want US help -
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I was surprised too. Then I found this news is composed of mainly statements from opposition party leaders and irrelevant guys in Pakistain. They all want to embarrass the Imran Khan govt for begging billions from Saudi and not being able to help. I wouldn't be surprised if they resort to breaking light bulbs in Karachi over this just to inconvenience the already belabored former cricketer.
"Imran Khan ! Go help our brothers in Saudi ! YAAAH!"
'Several other terrorists emerged from the building but immediately surrendered and began panicking as two of the bodies didn’t have heads – they thought they were about to be executed.'
I confess I laughed at that. Does that make me a bad person?
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An M1014 firing a 2¾ inch 12 gauge shell filled with 9 hardened steel and antimony 00 buckshot bearings ? A double tap from that should be called a 'double whammy'.
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Get a feeling why WWI Germans (you know the guys who let loose the gas genie) wanted an international law against the thing. They got a up close and personal experience when the Yanks got into the trenches. American never signed on.
Diyala (IraqiNews.com) ‐ The Iraqi army destroyed on Sunday an arms depot of the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really 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 western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... bad boy group in the eastern province of Diyala, a security source said.
"Iraqi warplanes destroyed a warehouse that was used by Islamic State bully boyz for storing weapons in al Miqdadiyah district, about 30 km northeast of Baquba, the capital of Diyala," the source told Iraqi news website Mawazin News.
"Four boom belts, four bombs and eight missiles were found inside the hotbed," the source said, adding that all the explosives were destroyed in the operation.
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djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... (IraqiNews.com) ‐ Iraqi police announced on Sunday that four Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really 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 western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... bandidosbully boyz were arrested during a security operation in Mosul city.
The four turbans were nabbed in al Haramat district in the western side of Mosul, Nineveh Police Chief Brigadier General Hamad al-Jabouri told Iraq’s privately-owned IKH News website.
"Three of them were members of Islamic State’s Jund (soldiers) diwan and fought against security forces during the security operations to liberate Mosul from terrorism," he added.
All legal procedures were taken against the arrestees, he noted.
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[Jpost] 19 people suspected holy warriors were arrested throughout the night in the West Bank. They were transferred to security forces for further questioning.
[Jpost] Hamas, one of the armed feet of the Moslem Brüderbund millipede,gunnies stopped Paleostinians from infiltrating Israel, according to reports from Gazoo ...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamaswith about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... A Hamas border patrol stopped two Paleostinians from entering Israel from the Rafah area in the south
Obviously this is our fault for leaving the nuke pact, /sarc
[Express UK] The Israeli Broadcasting Corporation is reporting another ship has been seized in the gulf. Correspondent Amochai Stein said on Twitter: "Iran has seized another oil vessel in the Strait of Hormuz. Iran's Revolutionary Guard arrests a vessel and 11 crew on 'diesel smuggling charges'."
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oil up about $6/barrel to $62 as of this post
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These acts against Saudi refineries and ME shipping gives Iran much needed revenue via higher oil prices on the black market.
[Jpost] A rigged car went kaboom! near a hospital in the Syrian town of al-Rai
...in the Euphrates Shield area in Aleppo province, which is controlled by Turkey...
at the border with The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire... on Sunday, killing 10 people and wounding 15, the local council and a medical worker said.
The blast also caused damage in the hospital, said a statement from the council of the town, which lies in a part of northwest Syria under the control of Turkey-backed rebels.
Turkey's state-run Anadolu news agency said 12 non-combatants were killed after a "terror kaboom" near the frontier.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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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
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[ToloNews] Officials said the incident happened on Sunday when the two pylons were blown up by explosives.
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[AlAhram] Egyptian security forces have killed a group of suspected 
...Self-proclaimed Field Marshal, served in the Libyan army under Muammar Qadaffy, and took part in the coup that brought Qadaffy to power in 1969. He became a prisoner of war in Chad in 1987. While held prisoner, he and his fellow officers formed a group hoping to overthrow Qadaffy, so it's kind of hard to describe him as a Qadaffy holdover. He was released around 1990 in a deal with the United States government and spent nearly two decades in the United States, gaining US citizenship. In 1993, while living in the United States, he was convicted in absentia of crimes against the Jamahiriya and sentenced to death. Haftar held a senior position in the anti-Qadaffy forces in the 2011 Libyan Civil War. In 2014 he was commander of the Libyan Army when the General National Congress (GNC) refused to give up power in accordance with its term of office. Haftar launched a campaign against the GNC and its Islamic fundamentalist allies. His campaign allowed elections to take place to replace the GNC, but then developed into a civil war. Guess you can't win them all...
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling 
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling 
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