[DAWN] East Libyan forces said on Thursday they had retaken the shuttered oil ports of Es Sider and Ras Lanuf, hours after festivities resumed south of Ras Lanuf during a counter-attack by rival factions.
Staff were evacuated from terminals in Libya’s eastern oil crescent and exports were suspended last Thursday when armed opponents of eastern-based military commander 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. 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... stormed the ports and occupied them.
The closure has led to production losses of up to 450,000 barrels per day (bpd) and two oil storage tanks were destroyed or badly damaged by fires during the fighting.
For the past week, Haftar’s Libyan National Army (LNA) has pounded the area with air strikes as it mobilised to retake the ports, and it continued to target its rivals with air strikes on Thursday as they retreated.
Haftar is one of the figures vying for power in Libya since the country fragmented following a NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Originally it was a mutual defense pact directed against an expansionist Soviet Union. In later years it evolved into a mechanism for picking the American pocket while criticizing the cut of the American pants... -backed uprising in 2011. He has received increased international recognition since seizing the oil crescent ports in 2016 and allowing the National Oil Corporation (NOC) to reopen them, despite his rejection of a UN-backed government in the capital 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... Ahmed al-Mismari, a front man for the LNA which Haftar built up during his three-year campaign to seize the eastern city of Benghazi, said troops had retaken Es Sider by mid-morning.
He said Ras Lanuf ‐ which includes a residential town, an air strip, storage tanks and a refinery alongside the oil terminal ‐ had also been taken by the LNA, as rivals had fled to the west and south into the desert, suffering heavy losses.
"The oil crescent is thanks to God under full control," Mismari said.
Hours earlier military and local sources said festivities had resumed south of Ras Lanuf when the LNA’s opponents counter attacked. Medical and military sources confirmed 10 dead and 13 maimed among LNA forces.
An oil engineer said a third oil storage tank may have been hit after photos published on social media showed thick black smoke rising from the area, though officials were still trying to confirm the source of the fire.
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[ALMASDARNEWS] The Gulf-backed forces scored a big advance in the al-restive Lahj ... a Yemeni governate located in the southwestern corner of the Arabian Peninsula. It is the stomping grounds on the southern secessionist al-Harak movement Governorate of southern 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... on Friday.
Led by the Southern Resistance Army and their allies from the Yemeni Army, the Gulf-backed troops began the day by retaking several points around the al-Qabitah District of northern al-Lahj.
Following this advance, the Gulf-backed troops managed to retake the large hilltop of Talat al-Qinbas and several points surrounding it.
The 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 were forced to abandon a lot of points between the Ta’iz and al-Lahj governorates on Friday, as the Saudi-led Coalition repeatedly struck their positions in this part of southern Yemen.
The Gulf-backed troops are now working to secure the entire Ta’iz-Lahj axis before the Houthi forces send reinforcements to help retake this area.
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[Cleveland.com] A Sheffield Lake man who bought an AK-47 from an undercover FBI agent with the purpose of supporting the Islamic State terrorist group was sentenced Wednesday to 16 years in federal prison.
Amir Al-Ghazi, 41, received the sentence handed down by U.S. District Judge Sara Lioi in Akron after reaching an agreement with federal prosecutors to admit to charges and cooperate with the government. The agreement led Al-Ghazi to take the stand in March against a North Carolina man in another terrorism case.
That would be Erick Jamal Hendricks, who contacted Mr. Al-Ghazi on social media to oersuade him to form an ISIS cell. Mr. Hendricks is clearly an extrovert, because he was also social media friends with Elton Simpson and Nadir Hamid Soofi, the Garland Texas attackers who failed so miserably despite FBI encouragement.
At his sentencing he said that he wanted to prove to the judge that he had sworn off his previously-held extremist views for good.
"My speech was violent at the time and I can do nothing but apologize for that," he said.
Al-Ghazi tried for months to buy an assault weapon to use as a "prop" in propaganda videos, Assistant US Attorney Shepherd said. However, chats Al-Ghazi had with informants also showed that he tried to recruit a "squad" for U.S.-based attacks, the prosecutor explained.
He finally succeeded, or so he thought, in June 2015, when he paid $400 to an undercover FBI agent in North Olmsted. He pleaded guilty in March 2016 to attempting to provide material support to ISIS, as well as weapons charges.
Al-Ghazi has said his path to supporting ISIS was fueled by anger and drug abuse and that he frequently posted "crazy messages on Twitter" to get a rise out of people.
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Diyala (IraqiNews.com) Two soldiers were maimed in an armed attack against a security checkpoint, north of Diyala, a security source from the province said on Friday.
Speaking to AlSumaria News, the source said "a joint security checkpoint at the outskirts of Hawi al-Udhaim region saw, last night, an armed attack by 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.... , leaving two soldiers injured."
The situation, according to the source, is under control as the whole region was combed to follow the holy warriors.
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Nineveh (IraqiNews.com) Iraqi joint forces have locked away Yez got nuttin' on me, coppers! Nuttin'! twelve holy warriors and found families of 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.... members in the depth of desert, within operations carried out, west of Nineveh.
"Army, police and al-Hashd al-Shaabi (Popular Mobilization Forces) started today an operation combing Hatra region and the desert, west of Nineveh," an army source told Alghad Press on Friday.
The troops, according to the source, "arrested 12 Islamic State wanted members, in addition to destroying two tunnels and detonating 23 bombs."
"Joint forces found families from Biji town, north of Salahuddin, living in the depth of al-Jazira region," the source added.
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[IsraelTimes] An IDF officer was lightly wounded during a clash with some 200 local Palestinian protesters at the Deheishe refugee camp near Bethlehem early Friday.
The officer was hit by a rock thrown at him after an overnight arrest operation was met by rioters at the camp.
The soldiers succeeded in arresting the suspect who was the target of the operation, the IDF said.
The protesters also threw Molotov cocktails and shot off fireworks toward the troops, who responded with riot dispersal methods.
[IsraelTimes] Border Police on Friday defused a pair of improvised explosive devices planted near Israeli security forces in the West Bank city of Hebron, police said. The bombs were both discovered near security checkpoints at the Tomb of the Patriarchs holy site, according to police.
One device was found in a yard by a patrol. Border Police sappers destroyed it in a controlled explosion, police said. During a subsequent scan of the area officers also found a pipe bomb near a checkpoint. It was also defused by sappers, police said.
The discovery of the bombs comes on a week which saw two incidents of improvised explosive devices being thrown at officers at the entrance to the Tomb of the Patriarchs — on both Tuesday and Thursday.
[PRESSTV] More than 200 unarmed Paleostinian protesters have been maimed by Israeli troops in the besieged Gazoo Strip along the border separating the impoverished enclave and the occupied territories. Oh, the pain!
According to a report by the Gazoo Ministry of Health, 206 demonstrators, including at least eight minors, sustained injuries as a result of inhaling tear gas fired by Israeli soldiers in the blockaded sliver on Friday.
Reports said that Israeli forces fired large quantities of tear gas canisters and live bullets east of Gazoo City to disperse some 7,000 protesters who were rallying for what had been officially designated as "Friday of the Wounded", paying tribute to those who have been maimed since the beginning of the Great March of Return demonstrations.
At least 133 Paleostinians, including 14 children, have been killed by Israeli forces since the Return rallies began in the Gazoo Strip on March 30. About 14,600 Paleostinians also sustained injuries, of them 300 are currently in a critical condition. Of those maimed, at least 3,900 have been injured by live bullets and another 500 by rubber-coated steel bullets, while more than 6,500 suffered from excessive tear gas inhalation.
Paleostinians took part in festivities on Israel’s border with the Gazoo Strip for a thirteenth consecutive week Friday, with the Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason,-run health ministry reporting 206 injured.
The army said two grenades was thrown during the festivities toward Israeli troops at the border fence near Kibbutz Nahal Oz. No soldiers were maimed.
Reports put turnout at Friday’s violent protests at around 1,000 people, a steep drop from participation at the height of the rallies and riots, when tens of thousands took part.
During the festivities, Paleostinians launched incendiary devices toward Israel. The Walla news site reported 10 fires broke out in the Gazoo periphery during the day as a result of the flaming balloons and kites. All the blazes were extinguished.
...despite serving a sentence in maximum security prison for funding a Jemaah Islamiyah training camp, the cell phone sermons of the former holy man of Al Qaeda in Aceh persuaded hundreds of Indonesians to join the ISIS caliphate in Iraq and Syria. Ten devices were confiscated from his cell in September 2014 alone, demonstrating that prison walls cannot confine the spirit of a determined man with imprisoned followers willing to riot...
was sentenced to death Friday over his role in a 2016 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.... terror attack that saw a jacket wallah blow himself up at a Jakarta Starbucks cafe.
Heavily armed police guarded the hearing at a Jakarta court ‐ which had earlier found Abdurrahman guilty of criminal masterminding the attack that killed four ‐ as it ordered his execution.
"(The defendant) has been proven to have committed a criminal act of terrorism," said judge Akhmad Jaini, who also cited Abdurrahman’s involvement in other attacks for handing down the death penalty "He will be sentenced to death."
Executions are carried out by firing squad in the world’s biggest Moslem-majority country, which has long struggled with Islamist terrorism.
The assault in the capital two years ago saw security forces battle gun-toting Lions of Islam near the cafe where a suicide bomber detonated his explosives.
Last month, prosecutors demanded that Abdurrahman be handed a death sentence for his role in the attack, which was the first claimed by IS in Southeast Asia.
Considered the de facto head of all IS supporters in Indonesia, Abdurrahman ‐ believed to be 46 ‐ is also the spiritual leader of local murderous Moslem network Jamaah Ansharut Daulah (JAD).
Authorities have said JAD was involved in the 2016 attack and a recent wave of suicide kabooms in Indonesia’s second-biggest city Surabaya. Two families ‐ including girls aged nine and 12 ‐ blew themselves up at churches and a cop shoppe last month, killing 13.
Authorities have not charged Abdurrahman ‐ who was already in jail on a separate terror conviction ‐ over the Surabaya attacks.
Despite being imprisoned since 2010, Abdurrahman has recruited Lions of Islam to join IS, is thought to have been in communication with leaders of the jihadist group, and is the main translator for IS propaganda in Indonesia, according to analysts and authorities.
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Make him choke to death on a cell phone. Allan would like that
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Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) The Syrian Democratic Forces have recaptured a village on the Iraqi-Syrian borders following confrontation with 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.... members, Sky News Arabia reported on Friday.
In breaking news, the satellite channel reported that "Syrian Democratic Forces managed, today, to recapture al-Theeba village, on the borders between Iraq and Syria, following confrontations with Islamic State members."
Islamic State controls small region, east of Deir az-Zour at the south of Hasaka near Iraqi borders, where the Syrian Democratic Forces carry out operations, backed by the U.S. coalition to get the hard boyz out of it.
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[ALMASDARNEWS] A top military commander of Harakat Ahrar al-Sham ...a Syria jihadi group made up of Islamists and salafists, not that there's that much difference, formed into a brigade. They make up the main element of the Islamic Front but they don't profess adoration of al-Qaeda and they've been fighting (mainly for survival) against the Islamic State. Their leadership was wiped out at a single blow by a suicide kaboom at a crowded basement meeting in September, 2014... was assassinated by unknown assailants in east Aleppo on Friday.
According to pro-opposition activists in northern Aleppo, one of the top commanders of Harakat Ahrar al-Sham was assassinated in the town of al-Bab.
The military commander and chief of weapons and armaments for Harakat Ahrar al-Sham, Abu ’Ali al-Babi, was killed on Friday when unknown assailants opened fire on his vehicle in al-Bab City.
Opposition activists have accused members of the Free Syrian Army ... the more palatable version of the Syrian insurgency, heavily influenced by the Moslem Brüderbund... ’s (FSA) al-Hamza Division of carrying out this liquidation.
Recently, al-Bab has witnessed a lot of festivities and infighting between various rebel groups as each group is trying to dominate and control the others inside the city
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[ALMASDARNEWS] Two Iranian soldiers were killed in the southeastern province of Sistan-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... on Thursday, state-owned IRNA reported.
Citing the Iranian Border Guard Commander Brigadier General Qasem Rezaei, the IRNA said that the two soldiers were killed in armed festivities with terrorist narcos near the Pakistain border.
The commander added that two assailants were also killed and several others escaped the scene.
He continued that the forces of Evil were seeking to import drugs from the southeastern borderlines and two regions in the Sistan-Baluchestan Province.
Rezaei said the armed forces also managed to confiscate considerable amount of light and heavy weapons and munitions, military and telecommunication equipment.
Rezaei added about 1.1 tons of illegal drugs were confiscated by Iran’s border guards in two military operations.
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[ALMASDARNEWS] Another high ranking jihadist commander has been assassinated by unknown assailants in the northern provinces of Syria.
A military commander from Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham was the victim of another targeted liquidation of the group’s leadership in the Idlib Governorate of northern Syria on Friday.
Abu Khadijah al-Urdoni of Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham was assassinated in the southern Idlib town of Tarmala on Friday after unknown assailants opened fire on his vehicle.
Urdoni is a Jordanian national that led Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham in several battles in the Idlib Governorate before his liquidation this week.
Two of his associates were also killed during the attack.
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[ALMASDARNEWS] The Syrian Arab Army (SAA) unleashed their largest assault on the southwestern region of Syria tonight.
Using a plethora of surface-to-surface missiles and artillery shells, the Syrian Army heavily targeted the jihadist rebel positions in the eastern countryside of the Dara’a Governorate tonight.
According to a military source in Izra’a, the Syrian Army struck the jihadist rebel defenses at the towns of al-Hirak, Masifrah, Maliha Sharqiyah, Maliha al-Gharbiyah, Busra al-Sham, Busra al-Harir, and al-Karak.
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[ALMASDARNEWS] The US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) continued their offensive against 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), Friday, seizing more ground along the Iraqi border.
The Syrian Democratic Forces were able to seize more ground in southeast al-Hasakah after breaking through the Islamic State’s (ISIS) positions near the Iraqi border.
According to pro-SDF media, their forces managed to capture the town of al-Zhibah after advancing from nearby Tal Safouk.
As a result of this advance, the Syrian Democratic Forces were able to meet up with the Iraqi troops at the border of the Nineveh Governorate.
This is a big blow to the Islamic State because the Tal Safouk area is where they first made their announcement that established their so-called ’caliphate’ (var. khalifah).
In the video that was released in 2014, the Islamic State’s infamous commanders, Abu ’Uthman al-Leebi, ’Umar al-Shishani, and Abu Mohammad al-’Adnani, were filmed crossing from Iraq into Syria from the Tal Safouk Crossing.
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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
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Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
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...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. 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...
...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...
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