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One could claim that when Kamala Harris said the border is secure she meant that illegal aliens are secure when they cross. I mean, they don't look like they're worried about coyotes robbing and murdering them. They're obviously not worried about getting arrested. So, yeah, they feel secure. They are secure. American citizens are not but illegal aliens are.
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Re:#4
Frank I agree but think he should have a whole bunch of company starting with Gropy Joe and working down.
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RE #5: Looks more like a used sex tool salesman. I wouldn't trust him (or any of the rest of Biden's "cabinet" to get out of the rain.
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/\ You're being far too charitable OP. The business you suggested provides a useful service or product. I don't see this SOB even coming close to providing a useful service.
[AKIPRESS] - Head of the CSTO Joint Staff Colonel-General Anatoly Sidorov said that 400 faceless myrmidons 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.... of Iraq and the Levant terrorist organization were deployed to the north of Afghanistan, TASS reported.
Sidorov noted that the Death Eaters were sent to the northern Afghan provinces of Badghis, Jawzjan, Kunduz, Takhar and Badakhshan "with the aim of attacking civilian and military facilities".
According to him, a high level of terrorist activity remained in Afghanistan. About 250 people became victims of Death Eaters in 2022, more than 1,000 were maimed.
"Senior officials from the leadership of the Taliban ...Arabic for students... are the main objects of attacks," the head of headquarters noted.
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oh well
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To recapitulate, the Taliban aren't orthodox enough and must be rubbed out? Do carry on!
RECLAIMING RESETTLED HOMES — Residents in Takhar province have banded together to resist Taliban efforts to remove locals from their homes and resettle Pashtun nomads in their place. Residents of the Rastaq and Yengi Qala districts forcibly took back some of the houses from the nomads and forced them to leave the area.
MORE NRF PRISONER EXECUTIONS — Video evidence of an additional 3 NRF prisoners being executed in Panjshir has surfaced on social media. The content has not yet been verified, but the video seems to show prisoners being urged to divulge information. A Taliban fighter was overheard saying, “We aren’t going to kill them”, but later footage shows them being shot. The location of the incident is unknown.
Sources within the Ministry of the Interior are saying Minister Sirajuddin Haqqani is incensed over the execution of Resistance fighters and others. He has vented in several meetings about the practice of summary executions and how it negatively affects the international view of the Taliban. He claims to have issued multiple orders to halt the practice and is frustrated that he is being ignored.
SPECIAL COMMANDER’S STATUS UNCLEAR — The status of the Taliban’s Special Commander for Panjshir, Mullah Abdul Qayyum Zakir, remains unclear. Rumors continue to circulate about his death, although others claim he was injured and is still recovering in the hospital.
KYRG-TAJ FIGHTING RECOMMENCES — After the temporary ceasefire was violated, fighting between Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan recommenced along their joint border. Both countries are blaming the other for breaching the ceasefire, and it is not clear who initiated hostilities. The situation is tense, and violence could escalate. If the situation deteriorates, Tajikistan could close its borders.
CONFLICT TRACKER Kapisa: The AFF claims to have launched a successful night attack against the Taliban checkpoint (codename JENDER) in Hessa-e-Awal Kohistan. The AFF says one Talib turban was killed and 2 more were maimed. Badghis: An AFF spokesman announced one Talib big turban and 1 Talib turban were killed in Rabat, or possibly they were highway police. Balkh: There are reports that Talib Sholgora District Commander Maulvi Fateh and some of his henchmen were poisoned by an unidentified Resistance faction.
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VIOLENCE EXPECTED OVER RESETTLEMENT — People in Takhar province should expect a Taliban response to the expulsion of Pashtun nomads from two districts. Apparently, other districts have adopted the same tactics and are forcing the resettled nomads out, but we do not have verification of where this is taking place. Taliban security forces are likely to respond, and the situation could turn violent.
[WSJ] American officials are in talks to send the remaining Afghans held at a U.S. base in Kosovo to the tiny South American nation of Suriname, after they failed to meet entry requirements for admission to the U.S., according to people familiar with the discussions.
EXILED LEADERS CONVENE IN AUSTRIA — A meeting of exiled Afghan political, military, and civil leaders began in Vienna, Austria today. The three-day meeting has attracted several high-profile Afghan leaders who held posts in the previous regime or who are actively involved in opposition measures against the Taliban. The primary focus of the meeting is to (1) form an amalgamated consensus on the current security situation in the country and (2) plan both political and military steps to resist the Taliban regime going forward. A report will be issued upon the conclusion of the meeting.
SIDE MEETINGS AT SCO — While no senior Taliban officials are participating in the Shanghai Cooperation Organization meeting in Uzbekistan, several Taliban representatives are said to be in attendance, and multiple bilateral meetings have taken place on the periphery of the conference between select SCO members and Taliban representatives. The conference will conclude on September 16, but several follow-up meetings are scheduled into next week.
MORE TALIBAN BODIES SHIPPED FROM PANJSHIR — An additional shipment of Taliban fighters killed in the fighting in Panjshir was reported late on Wednesday evening. 25 bodies were seen being loaded on transports headed to Uruzgan, and 11 bodies were reputedly sent to Maidan Wardak. In total, we estimate the total number of Taliban deaths during the past 6 days of fighting stands at approximately 300 (taking into consideration the bodies that could not be recovered in the mountains). In contrast, the casualty totals for the Resistance are approximately 50, but those figures are disputed by an NRF spokesman.
RUMORS OF MULLAH ZAKIR’S DEATH — Several rumors are circulating that the Taliban’s recently appointed special commander in Panjshir was killed during clashes with the NRF in Abdullah Khel Valley in Panjshir. Sources state that he was hospitalized in Kabul, but died after two days of treatment. One source claims he was “fragged” by his own men. There has been no confirmation of any of these rumors, and false death rumors commonly circulate in Afghanistan.
CRITICISM OF NEW US FUND — There have been many negative reactions to the US’ recent announcement to use the Central Bank’s frozen assets to create a trust fund at a Swiss bank. Humanitarian agencies decry the move as a throwback to strings-attached aid and say the move will hamper humanitarian operations. The Taliban, Russia, and China have all condemned the move. Our analysis of the political aspects of the strategy indicates that the move will allow the international community to maintain leverage in any future discussions with the regime.
CONFLICT TRACKER Kabul: Masked gunmen assassinated staffer (possibly an investigator) of the Serious Crimes & Administrative Corruption Dept. early Thursday morning. Ghor: Tribal leader named Payanda was assassinated in Firozkoh city by unidentified gunmen Wednesday night. Payanda is thought to have had a relationship with the local police under the previous government. Kapisa: The Taliban are accused of killing 4 civilians in Najrab district. The four were arrested for possessing weapons, then executed. The village where this is said to have occurred was subjected to an aborted house-to-house search operation, which the villagers resisted. A local source was quoted as saying everyone in rural areas carries personal weapons for protection.
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UPCOMING CLASHES IN PANJSHIR — Although the fighting in Panjshir has subsided somewhat, we expect fresh offensive actions against select NRF bases in the province to commence within the coming days.
AFG-PAK BORDER DISCUSSIONS — There are rumors that a Pakistani delegation will meet with Taliban leaders at a secret location on the border to attempt to ratchet down the tensions. It is not clear if the Taliban have accepted the offer to meet.
[Euronews] The leader of the National Resistance Front of Afghanistan Ahmad Massoud has called on the international community to help deliver a new future for his country, saying there is now a unique opportunity to bring about change.
[AlJazeera] The Taliban government in Afghanistan has blamed the Pakistan army’s attempt to build a security post at their border as the reason behind Tuesday’s cross-border skirmish, causing multiple deaths on both sides, including at least three Pakistani soldiers.
The exchange of fire between the two sides happened in Paktia province on the Afghan side and Pakistan’s Kurram region. Karimi said some Afghan authorities went to talk to the Pakistani officials allegedly building the border post, but they were fired upon.
The Taliban’s response came a day after the Pakistani military claimed the “terrorists from inside Afghanistan” opened fire on Pakistani troops stationed in Kurram, resulting in “heavy casualties” for the rebel fighters.
“Pakistan strongly condemns the use of Afghan soil by terrorists for activities against Pakistan and expects that Afghan government will not allow conduct of such activities in future,” the statement said.
On Wednesday, the Taliban rejected reports claiming Pakistan’s Jaish-e-Muhammad (JeM) chief Masood Azhar had sought refuge in Afghanistan.
[SHABELLEMEDIA] Somali National Army’s commandos (DANAB) killed the militants during an offensive against Al-Shabaab in Buq-Aqable village, which is 90KM south of Beledweyne, the Provincial Capital of Hiiraan region, on Thursday, SNA’s Chief, Gen Odawa Yusuf told State Media.
There were no independent sources verifying the death toll as the area residents are afraid to speak with the media on the military operations against Al-Shabaab.
For the past few weeks, the Somali military backed by local armed residents has been conducting a joint assault on Al-Shabaab bases in response to a recent attack near Beledweyne which left at least 21 people dead.
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[North Africa Post] At 17 people bit the dust in a battle with opposing breeders and farmers in the province of Moyen-Chari, of Chad, Anadolu news agency reports.
"The violence that broke out on Tuesday continued on Wednesday. We also recorded several injuries, including to gendarmes who were dispatched to the area to restore order. The victims were evacuated to the district hospital in Kyabé," Nardji Samson, commandant of the Kyabe brigade in the province told the news agency.
The violence sparked out Tuesday when a herd of oxen invaded farmers’ fields. This set off a firestorm that led to a first clash with a corpse count of around 17 in the locality of Kyabé in the Lac Iro department.
The situation came back to normal Thursday after mediation from local authorities.
Some provinces in the central African country are occasionally the theater of inter-community conflicts. In June eleven other people died in festivities between herders and farmers in the locality of Berem, in the Kabbia department of Mayo-Kebbi East province.
Tensions between semi-nomadic Arab herders and sedentary indigenous farmers is a traditional problem in central and southern Chad.
They often arise when farmers accuse herders of allowing their animals to eat or trample on their crops.
The latest shootout began on Tuesday as an altercation between a farmer and a herder in Marabe, a small village some 700 kilometres (435 miles) south of the capital N'Djamena.
The trouble spread to two neighbouring villages on Wednesday, said Ali Ahmat Akhabache, governor of the Moyen-Chari province bordering the Central African Republic.
"Ten people died and 20 were maimed," he told AFP by phone, adding that police had managed to restore calm "and the situation has been fully under control" since Wednesday.
Last month, 22 people were killed in festivities between farmers and herdsmen in an area 500 km south of N'Djamena.
Violence between the two communities has become common in central and southern Chad, where many of the inhabitants are armed.
Thanks to southern Chad's relatively mild climate for the Sahel, its vegetation is lush, and for centuries it has drawn in migratory herders from arid areas, many of them Arabs, for seasonal grazing.
The nomads generally come from the arid Sahelian zones of northern Chad and increasingly want to settle in more fertile land where they can raise their camels and sheep.
They sound like the Fulani, who’ve allied with Boko Haram.
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[SAHARAREPORTERS] About eight snuffies including a middle-rank Commander simply identified as "Kundu" have been reportedly killed when 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... fighters clashed with members 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.... in West Africa Province (ISWAP) faction of the terrorists.
It was gathered that the incident took place on Thursday, September 15, between Dikwa and Bama Local Government Areas.
A counter-insurgency expert, Zagazola Makama, disclosed this in a series of tweets on Friday.
The rival groups have been attacking communities in the Northeast region since both camps fell apart over leadership issues.
The groups have also since been having festivities, and Abubakar Shekau ...the lunatic leader of Boko Haram who has been reported dead at least eleven times, pledged his body and soul to ISIS, told his fighters to hang it up once or twice, and been fired by the Caliph and refused to step down. Last seen in 2017, sneaking into Cameroon while wearing a burka... , leader of Boko Haram, was reportedly killed during one of such festivities in 2021.
According to Makama, Kundu and his team were on a robbery mission when the ISWAP intercepted them on six cycle of violences each conveying three fighters.
"A Heavy fight ensued between the holy warriors resulting in 8 casualties on the side of the Boko Haram terrorists, while few ISWAP holy warriors were maimed.
"The surviving Boko Haram holy warriors took to their heels, leaving their cycle of violences to the ISWAP terrorists," Zagazola tweeted.
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[SAHARAREPORTERS] It was gathered that button men in the early hours of Friday rubbed out one Sunday Izhikpa, who was a member of the Southeast outfit at his duty post in the community.
It is not yet clear why he was killed but Peoples Gazette reported that a resident of the area, Victor Ogbaga, told newsmen in Abakaliki, the state capital that the dear departed was a native of Nduakparata Igbeagu in the same local government area.
Ogbaga was quoted as saying that "He was killed by the button men at his duty post, Mkpuma Ekwa-oku in Izzi, adding that the corpse of the victim has been evacuated from the scene, where he was murdered this morning."
The Ebonyi State Police Public Relations Officer, SP Chris Anyanwu, also confirmed the killing, saying that the victim was shot in the early hours of Friday.
The police spokesperson said, "Yes, I have called a personnel of Ebubeagu and he said that the attack was true."
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the corpse of the victim has been evacuated from the scene, where he was murdered this morning
"By evening they woulda finished all the juicy parts, the locals."
[BenarNews] At least one Rohingya youth was killed and several more young refugees were maimed when two mortar shells reportedly fired from the Myanmar side fell and went kaboom! in the no-man’s land along Bangladesh’s southeastern border Friday night, Bangladeshi police said.
The youths were all refugees from a camp in the no-man’s land on the Myanmar-Bangladesh border, Additional Superintendent of Police (Sadar Circle) of Bandarban, Md. Reza Sarwar, told BenarNews. The incident occurred amid reports of intense fighting near the Myanmar side of the border lately between Burmese junta forces and rebels in neighboring Rakhine state.
...formerly known as Arakan State, from which the Arakan Army (Buddhist) and the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (Muslim) took their names. ARSA, in Arabic Harakah al-Yaqin or Harkat ul Yaqin (Faith Movement, HaY), is led by a committee in Saudi Arabia, and commanded on the ground by a group of 20 jihadis fronted by one Ata Ullah a.k.a. Hafiz Tohar a.k.a. Jununi, etc., who was born in Karachi and reared in Saudi Arabia. ARSA may or may not be a false-nose-and-mustache front for Aqa Mul Mujahideen, a minor jihadi group linked to al-Qaeda and the Rohingya Solidarity Organisation (RSO). At any rate, ARSA has the vocal support of al-Qaeda’s Bangladesh offshoot Ansar al-Islam as well as Hizbut Tahrir, and has been running amok in the Cox’s Bazaar refugee camps, which is why Myanmar authorities are interested...
The police official said at least five injured Rohingya were admitted to local hospitals. The youth who died in the incident was identified as Mohammad Iqbal, 18, son of Matlab Hossain.
The shells reportedly landed in an area that borders Bangladesh’s Bandarban district, Reza Sarwar added.
A Rohingya resident from the area, Dil Mohammad, said the shells were fired around 8:30 p.m. Friday.
Another resident Md. Kamal concurred.
"Two mortar shells landed in no-man’s land at the time. And we were hearing sounds of shelling from afternoon to night. People are scared in the neighborhood," he told BenarNews.
Bangladeshi officials say more than 4,000 Rohingya refugees have been living in no-man’s land for the last five years since a brutal crackdown by the Myanmar military forced the ethnic minority to flee their homes in August 2017. Some 740,000 Rohingya crossed the frontier and took refuge in camps in Bangladesh’s Cox’s Bazar district.
Lt. Col. Faizur Rahman, director (operations) of the Border Guard Bangladesh, told news hounds that the agency immediately lodged a protest about Friday’s incident with the Border Guard Police of Myanmar.
This wasn’t the first time that the fighting between Arakan Army rebels and the Myanmar military in Myanmar had come close to the Bangladesh border.
On Aug. 28, during heavy fighting in Myanmar’s border state of Rakhine, two mortar shells landed in the same area but did not go off. A similar incident also occurred on Aug. 20 as well.
This month alone, Dhaka has protested and summoned Myanmar’s ambassador to Bangladesh three times to protest these incidents.
Earlier this week, Bangladesh Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal said the country’s border police had reinforced security along the frontier with Myanmar.
Amid the tense situation inside Myanmar, a few new Rohingya families have arrived in Cox’s Bazar, where Bangladesh already hosts about one million refugees from Myanmar.
One of the new arrivals told BenarNews on Sept. 10 that he saw "several hundred" people clustered along the Naf River that separates Cox’s Bazar from Rakhine state, and who were trying to cross the border several days earlier.
It was not immediately clear what happened to those other people apparently displaced by intense festivities in recent weeks between junta forces and the Arakan Army.
Kyrgyzstan's border authority said intense fighting is taking place on border with Tajikistan despite earlier claims of cease-fire between 2 neighborshttps://t.co/7jqjA7XPsI
4 Iranian nationals arrested in Istanbul on espionage charges after police recover hundreds of stolen, forged passports, IDs, spying equipmenthttps://t.co/L7o5yjEXdQ
Turkish navy drone detects Greek forces forcibly transfering irregular migrants to 2 inflatible boats, being pushed toward Türkiye off Izmir's Çeşme districthttps://t.co/DSN5QMSN4L
[IsraelTimes] Military operates in Kafr Dan, the Jenin-area hometown of two Paleostinians who killed an officer on West Bank barrier a night earlier
The Israeli military said Thursday troops operated in the West Bank village of Kafr Dan, the hometown of two Paleostinian button men who carried out a deadly attack along the West Bank security barrier a day earlier, in order to map out their residences ahead of a potential demolition.
During the overnight operation, troops clashed with Paleostinian button men. The Paleostinian Authority health ministry said a 17-year-old Paleostinian, Oday Salah, was killed by Israeli gunfire.
The Israel Defense Forces said troops shot up armed Paleostinians who shot toward troops and hurled bombs and Molotov cocktails, adding that "hits were identified."
The soldiers were mapping the homes of Ahmed Abed and Abdul Rahman Abed, from the village near Jenin, who shot and killed Maj. Bar Falah, 30, the deputy commander of the elite Nahal reconnaissance unit, early Wednesday.
They were both slain in an ensuing firefight with troops, near the northern West Bank village of Jalamah.
Israel regularly demolishes the homes of Paleostinians accused of carrying out deadly terror attacks as a matter of policy. The efficacy of the policy has been hotly debated even within the Israeli security establishment, while human rights One man's rights are another man's existential threat. activist muppets denounce the practice as unjust collective punishment.
The IDF added that troops arrested two Paleostinians in Kafr Dan suspected of aiding the two button men, and seized two firearms.
According to the IDF, before dawn on Wednesday, soldiers operating surveillance cameras spotted the two suspects in the so-called seam zone between the West Bank and Israel. Troops, including Falah and his team, dispatched to investigate flanked the pair and initiated arrest procedures, leading to the exchange of fire.
The military suspected the two were planning to ambush troops stationed at a nearby post.
Following the deadly shooting, Defense Minister Benny Gantz ordered the closure of the Jalamah and Salem checkpoints, as well as halting the entry permits to Israel for residents of Kafr Dan, all until further notice.
Kafr Dan is located close to Jenin, where a number of the attacks earlier in the year originated and where the IDF has concentrated much of its anti-terror campaign.
At least 98 Paleostinians have been killed by Israeli forces so far this year, according to a tally from the PA health ministry, including 34 in the Jenin area alone.
In separate raids across the West Bank early Thursday, troops detained another six wanted Paleostinians, the IDF said.
Are these women and children supposed to beat up anyone who wants to resist their occupiers? Or what, exactly? How is bulldozing their homes anything but cruelty towards people who already have shitty lives?
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It does sound pitiable, Sonny de Medici5342, until one realizes that the two million or so other West Bank Palestinians who did not just try to kill Israelis — whether Jewish, Moslem, Christian, or Druze — are living safely in completely undestroyed homes. So clearly almost all of the Palestinians have better things to do than go hunting Israelis, despite all the big talk.
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They're destroying the homes of people who didn't do anything, who already live in terrible situations. This is just inexcusable, vile savagery. It's like something Ghengis Khan would do. At least the Mongols had the "excuse" of being barbarians - Israel is civilized. Supposedly.
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Free Israel of Moslem vermin! Eretz Israel! Hail Zion! No bulldozers. Fire missiles into Moslems! Moslems deserve terrible conditions! The fuck with their boo hoo hoo!
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Right after 9/11, some muzz holeyman said "There are no civilians."
So we play by their rules. Or we should.
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Exactly. Moslems are a mistake of the christian world and we have to solve it together. They have been allowed to proliferate for far too long now. Not one of them is interested in co-existence.
Our prayer goes 'let they kingdom come on earth as ...'
There's goes, 'give us complete victory over all unbelievers...'
There can be no coexistence with islamics. They must die or the seed of Adam loses.
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Little Mustafa needs to learn that if he wants to be a Jew killer when he grows up then his family's house and all their stuff is going under the bulldozer. It's as simple as that.
[IsraelTimes] Gunmen open fire on troops in so-called seam zone north of Jenin, killing Maj. Bar Falah, 30; both killed in subsequent firefight
An Israel Defense Forces officer was killed when two Paleostinian button men opened fire as soldiers tried to apprehend the pair near the West Bank security barrier early Wednesday, the military said. The two button men, one of whom was a member of the Paleostinian Authority security services, were killed in the subsequent firefight.
The IDF confirmed the death of the officer several hours after the incident and said his family had been informed. He was later identified as Maj. Bar Falah, 30, the deputy commander of the elite Nahal reconnaissance unit.
The fatal incident occurred near the scene of another shooting attack less than 24 hours earlier.
According to the IDF, soldiers operating surveillance cameras spotted two suspects in the so-called seam zone between the West Bank and Israel, near the Paleostinian village of Jalamah, during the pre-dawn hours of Wednesday. Troops dispatched to investigate flanked the pair and initiated arrest procedures.
At that point "the suspects shot up the soldiers," the military said in a statement. "IDF troops took cover and shot at the suspects, neutralizing them."
The Paleostinian button men were named by Paleostinian media as Ahmed Abed and Abdul Rahman Abed, from the village of Kafr Dan near Jenin. Ahmed was an officer in the PA security services.
The commander of the IDF’s West Bank division, Brig. Gen. Avi Blot, told news hounds that the button men were first identified more than two hours before the shooting.
He confirmed that the pair, armed with a Carlo makeshift submachine gun and another semi-automatic weapon, were killed.
Blot said the military suspected they were planning to ambush troops in the area. An armed drone was scrambled to the scene, but was not used as the military did not immediately identify that the two suspects were armed, Blot said.
"Sadly it is not a good morning. We lost an officer last night. I convey my condolences to his family and his girlfriend," military chief Aviv Kohavi said, addressing a military conference on Wednesday morning.
The exchange came as tensions have spiked in the region in recent weeks with Israeli forces ratcheting up arrest raids and other counter-terror efforts, which Paleostinians say have inflamed anger.
A senior Israeli official told news hounds accompanying Prime Minister Yair Lapid to Germany on Monday that Israel was "toughening up IDF operations in places like Jenin and Nablus."
On Tuesday morning, a Defense Ministry engineering vehicle working along the security barrier in the same area came under gunfire. There were no injuries, but the vehicle was damaged.
In June, the Defense Ministry began to upgrade a section of the barrier in the northern West Bank after a series of deadly terror attacks were committed by Paleostinians who illegally entered Israel earlier in the year.
Much attention has been focused on the seam zone, a swath of West Bank land on the Israeli side of the barrier. In recent months, the IDF has dispatched thousands of troops to the area to prevent Paleostinians from crossing into Israel illegally.
Jalamah is located adjacent to the security barrier just north of Jenin, where a number of the attacks earlier in the year originated and where the IDF has concentrated much of its anti-terror campaign.
Israeli troops have repeatedly come under gunfire during nightly raids in the West Bank. The military launched the operation after a series of deadly attacks that killed 19 people between mid-March and the beginning of May.
More than 2,000 suspects have been detained since the beginning of the year, according to the Shin Bet security agency.
In raids across the West Bank during the predawn hours of Wednesday, troops arrested seven wanted Paleostinians and seized several weapons, with violent mostly peaceful incidents in some areas, the IDF said.
#UPDATE: Syrian MoD confirms Israeli airstrike on Damascus International Airport and other sites targeted, 5 Syrian soldiers killed https://t.co/vBe3b5UEum
Israeli aircraft attack Damascus outskirts Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[REGNUM] Israeli military aircraft attacked the outskirts of the Syrian capital of Damascus, Syrian state television reports.
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Information about the victims and destruction is being specified.
As REGNUM reported , on September 1, Syrian Foreign Minister Faisal al-Mekdad said that Israel was "playing with fire" by carrying out air attacks on Syrian territory.
Israeli strikes hit the Damascus airport area Friday overnight, Syrian state media said. It said five soldiers had been killed.
"Our air defenses intercepted hostile missiles in the airspace of Damascus and its countryside, shooting down a number of them," Syrian’s official Sana news agency said. Syria regularly claims to intercept Israeli missiles, though military analysts doubt such assertions.
The strike carried out at approximately 00:45 a.m. came "from the northeastern direction of Lake Tiberias, targeting Damascus airport and some points south of Damascus," it added.
"The aggression led to the death of five soldiers and some material damage," Sana quoted a military source as saying.
In the past month, reported Israeli Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s have targeted Aleppo airport twice.
As a rule, Israel’s military does not comment on specific strikes in Syria, but has admitted to conducting hundreds of sorties against Iran-backed groups attempting to gain a foothold in the country. It says it also attacks arms shipments believed to be bound for those groups, chief among them Lebanese Hezbollah.
On Thursday a senior Israel Defense Forces officer told news hounds that the military has identified that Hezbollah and other Iran-backed militias in Syria are beginning to withdraw from the region following a series of airstrikes attributed to Israel in recent weeks. The officer said the apparent withdrawal of these forces from the area is "a result of the IDF strikes."
Israeli defense officials have made such claims before, most recently in 2020.
Recent airstrikes attributed to Israel disrupted operations at the Aleppo and Damascus airports, in an attempt to stem weapon shipments from Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites.... to the Hezbollah terror group via Syria. Other recent airstrikes Syria has blamed on Israel targeted a Syrian military site-turned-weapons factory in Masyaf.
Defense Minister Benny Gantz said on Monday that Iran had converted the Scientific Studies and Research Center, as well as other sites across the country, into factories for long-range precision missiles for Hezbollah.
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...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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