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Afghanistan
Prominent Taliban leader killed in Jawzjan airstrikes
[KhaamaPress] A prominent local leader of the Taliban
...mindless ferocity in a turban...
group was killed during the Arclight airstrikes conducted in northern Jawzjan province of Afghanistan, the Afghan army said Saturday.

According to a statement released by 209th Shaheen Corps of the Afghan Military in the North, the Afghan forces conducted airstrikes in Faizabad district of Jawzjan on Friday, leaving a prominent of Taliban Wali Mohammad dead.

The statement further added that three accomplices of Wali Mohammad were also critically maimed during the same airstrikes.

According to 209th Shaheen Corps, the Afghan forces also conducted airstrikes in Daichi village of Faryab province,leaving at least three Death Eaters dead and three more maimed.

The Special Foces of the 10th Kandak of Afghan Commando and 09th Unit of the Afghan Intelligence also conducted joint operations in Kunduz city and Khanabad districts of Kunduz province, leaving two Death Eaters dead and three others maimed, the 209th Shaheen Corps added.
Posted by: trailing wife || 12/09/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Taliban


Dead bodies of 19 people killed in Farah air crash handed over to their families
[KhaamaPress] The dead bodies of at least nineteen people who bit the dust in an air crash around 38 days ago in western Farah province, were handed over to their families.

The 207th Zafar Corps of the Afghan Military in the West in a statement said the remaining bodies of 19 victims of Farah air crash were shifted to 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...
province following an operation of the Afghan Special Forces.

The statement further added that dead bodies of the victims were handed over to their families after they were shifted to Herat province.

According to 207th Zafar, the dead bodies of 19 victims of Farah air crash were recovered during an operation in Anar Dara district.

At least 8 holy warriors were killed and four others were maimed during the same operation, the 207th Zafar Corps added.
Posted by: trailing wife || 12/09/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:


4 Taliban militants blown up by own explosives in Kunduz province
[KhaamaPress] At least four Talibs were blown up by own explosives in northern Kunduz province of Afghanistan, the Afghan military said Saturday.

The 209th Shaheen Corps of the Afghan Military in the North in a statement said the incident has taken place on Kunduz-Qala Zal highway.

The statement further added that four Talibs who were looking to plant an Improvised Explosive Device on the highway were killed after the explosives went off prematurely.

According to 209th Shaheen Corps, an Improvised Explosive Device expert of the group was also among those killed.

The anti-government armed murderous Moslem groups including Talibs have not commented regarding the report so far.

Kunduz is among the relatively volatile provinces in North of Afghanistan but the security situation of has tanked more during the recent years.

The Talibs are active in some districts of Kunduz and often conduct terrorist related activities against the government and security institutions.
Posted by: trailing wife || 12/09/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Taliban

#1  D'oh!
Posted by: Frank G || 12/09/2018 8:50 Comments || Top||

#2  red wire green wire confusion.
Posted by: AlanC || 12/09/2018 12:14 Comments || Top||


Afghan Special forces rescue 11 people from a Taliban prison in Helmand
[KhaamaPress] The Afghan Special Forces have rescued at least eleven civilians who were kept as prisoners in a cell run by the Talibs in southern Helmand
...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan...
province of Afghanistan.

The 215th Maiwand Corps of the Afghan Military in the South in a statement said the Special Forces of the Afghan National Defense and Security Forces conducted an operation on Friday night which resulted into the rescue of 11 civilians from a Taliba-run prison.

The statement further added that the civilians and security personnel did not suffer any casualties during the operation.

In the meantime, a military source says at least three Talibs were also killed during the same operation.

The anti-government armed Lion of Islam groups including Taliban
...mindless ferocity in a turban...
have not commented regarding the report so far.

Helmand is among the relatively volatile provinces in South of Afghanistan where the Talibs and other groups are actively operating in some of its districts and often carry out terrorist related activities.
Tolo News adds that the raid took place in Sangin district.
Posted by: trailing wife || 12/09/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Taliban


Africa North
10 migrants missing, 10 rescued as boat capsizes off Libyan shores
[Libya Observer] The Libyan coastguards have rescued 10 illegal migrants colonists, recovered two bodies and are still looking for 10 others, who have been missing from the boat that capsized off Misrata shores.

The media office of the Libyan Navy Force said on Facebook that Libyan Red Islamic Thingy helped rescue the 10 migrants colonists - one Algerian and one Egyptian nationals, one woman and seven African nationals, and then it recovered the two bodies.

"22 immigrants colonists were onboard a wooden boat. It had been in water for 12 days since they took off from Sabratha. They ended up off Misrata shores." The media office added.

It added that the engine caused the stoppage of the boat, saying the fate of the 10 missing migrants colonists is unknown.

The illegal migrants colonists were taken to the Red Islamic Thingy center in Misrata for medical care and other assistance.

The media office also indicated that the boat was handed over to the coastguards' central branch in Misrata for further investigations into the incident.
Posted by: Fred || 12/09/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Moslem Colonists

#1  Why would anyone who can't swim ever get on a boat?
Posted by: M. Murcek || 12/09/2018 11:27 Comments || Top||

#2  Three men, and one weak, in a boat:
From Punt to the northward they float,
When, just before dinner:
"By Allah, you sinner!
Mohammed, again with the goat?"
Posted by: Whoque Jones3892 || 12/09/2018 16:14 Comments || Top||


Egypt's interior ministry says 2 others involved in Coptic monastery attack killed
[AlAhram] Egypt's interior ministry announced on Saturday in an official statement that it killed two other members of the cell involved in the attack that killed seven Coptic Christians south of Cairo in early November.

This comes as a continuation of the ministry's efforts to pursue those responsible for the attack, the statement said.

On 3 November, the ministry announced that it had killed 19 button men involved in a 2 November ambush where button men opened fire on two buses carrying Christians near the Monastery of St. Samuel the Confessor in Minya, some 260 km south of Cairo, killing seven and wounding 18 others. Six of those killed were of the same family.

Security forces tracked the faceless myrmidons to a hideout in a mountainous region west of Upper Egypt's Assiut governorate, near the area of Dashlout/Farafra, the ministry said.

The area was raided in coordination with the armed forces, and two bad boyz were potted in the attack.

Security forces found on site three automatic rifles, a large quantity of different caliber bullets, and living subsidies.

The forces also seized a vehicle that belonged to the faceless myrmidons and a mobile phone that belonged to one of the dear departed in the attack, Kamal Youssef Shehata.

The legal proceedings have begun and the Supreme State Security Prosecution is investigating the incident.

The attack on Copts was the latest in a series of assaults targeting the country's Christian minority, and was claimed by the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
group, according to the group’s Amaq news agency.

The group was also behind another attack that killed 28 people in almost the same spot in May 2017.

Christians make up around 10 percent of Egypt's 97 million predominantly Moslem population.
Posted by: trailing wife || 12/09/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Ansar Bayt al-Maqdis (IS)


India-Pakistan
6 injured in blast at Milad gathering in Karachi's Gulistan-i-Jauhar area
[DAWN] At least six people were maimed in a blast which occurred in Bloody Karachi
...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous...
's Gulistan-e-Jauhar area late on Saturday night, DawnNewsTV reported.

The blast reportedly targeted a Mehfil-e-Milad being held near the Perfume Chowk in Block 18 area of the neighbourhood. SSP East Azfar Mahesar told Dawn that unidentified attackers riding a cycle of violence reportedly hurled a cracker near the venue and fled.

Following the blast, police and rescue teams rushed to the site and shifted the injured to a nearby hospital where the condition of two was said to be critical who were later shifted to Jinnah hospital.

IT Minister Khalid Maqbool Siddiqui and MQM leader Khawaja Izharul Hasan were present at the event at the time of the blast but remained unhurt.

Police, however, mentioned that the gathering was arranged without taking prior permission from relevant authorities.

Soon after the incident, Sindh Chief Minister Murad Ali Shah telephoned Khawaja Izhar and Faisal Subzwari and inquired about the incident.

Khawaja Izhar informed the chief minister that his driver and Khalid Maqbool's coordinator were among those injured in the attack.

Meanwhile,
...back at the abandoned silver mine, the water was up to Jack's neck and still rising. And then he smelled the smoke...
Sindh IG Kaleem Imam has sought a report from the SSP East.

There has been no immediate claim of responsibility from any group.

Last month, two teenagers were killed while eight others injured in an kaboom in Quaidabad area of the metropolis.
Posted by: Fred || 12/09/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Iraq
Iraqi troops apprehend Islamic State mouthpiece in Mosul
Nineveh (IraqiNews.com) – Iraqi authorities announced on Saturday the capture of a prominent Islamic State mouthpiece in the group’s previously-proclaimed capital Mosul.

In a statement, a copy of which was obtained by Russia’s Sputnik news agency, the Iraqi Military Intelligence Directorate said that its forces arrested a senior IS media person, who was in charge of promoting the terrorist group’s extremist ideology in Mosul city.

The arrestee, according to the statement, “was responsible for convincing citizens to join the terrorist group, using various means such as leaflets, lectures and writings to this end.”
Posted by: trailing wife || 12/09/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State


Iraqi warplanes kill 3 Islamic State militants in Anbar
Anbar (IraqiNews.com) – Three Islamic State militants were killed Saturday in an air raid by the Iraqi Air Force on a terrorist hotbed in Anbar, a security source from the province’s operations command was quoted as saying.

Speaking to the privately-owned Almaalomah news agency, the source pointed out that Iraqi warplanes targeted three Islamic State militants riding two motorbikes and trying to sneak into Wadi al-Shaib, which leads to al-Kasrat area, west of Ramadi, the capital of Anbar province.

“The three terrorists were killed and their motorbikes were destroyed in the airstrike,” the source said, adding that a large cache of weapons were found at the scene
Posted by: trailing wife || 12/09/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
In rain and mud, IDF exposes another tunnel from Lebanon into Israel
[IsraelTimes] Passage is third one identified by military in its tunnel-busting operation thus far; army refuses to disclose its location, says it wasn’t yet operational.

The Israeli military on Saturday located an additional cross-border attack tunnel from southern Leb into Israeli territory that it says was dug into the Hezbollah attack tunnel ‐ the second it has fully exposed and the third it has identified since the start of its operation to find and destroy such underground passages.

This fresh tunnel, whose location has been kept secret for security reasons, has been fitted with explosives in order to ensure that it cannot be used by the Iran-backed terror group Hezbollah, army spokesperson Lt. Col. Jonathan Conricus told news hounds.
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Posted by: trailing wife || 12/09/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Hezbollah


Palestinian killed in Israel after accusations of selling land to Jews — report
[IsraelTimes] Ahmed Salama was said to have denied involvement in West Bank land sales to Israelis, a capital offense under Paleostinian Authority law

A Paleostinian man killed in an Arab Israeli town over the weekend was involved in the sale of West Bank land to Jews, Paleostinian media reported Saturday.

Ahmed Salama, a resident of Jaljulia in central Israel, was shot Friday near his home and later pronounced dead at Meir Hospital in nearby Kfar Saba. Police have opened an investigation into the shooting.

Originally from the West Bank city of Qalqilya, Salama acquired residency in Israel through his marriage to an Arab Israeli woman, the Ynet news site said.

Citing an unnamed Paleostinian Authority source, Ynet reported Salama was wanted by the PA for selling land to Jewish settlers, which is punishable by death under the West Bank-based government’s penal code.

However,
we can't all be heroes. Somebody has to sit on the curb and applaud when they go by...
the law requires that PA President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas
... a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial...
approve any death sentence, and he has not signed off on any executions since 2006.

Salama had denied involvement in such land sales, according to Ynet, which said he has previously also been suspected in Israel of illegal arms dealing and was detained by police on Wednesday for unknown reasons before being released.
Posted by: trailing wife || 12/09/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Palestinian Authority

#1  Makes no sense any way I cut it. Find the killers and execute them.
Posted by: gorb || 12/09/2018 1:36 Comments || Top||

#2  Police have opened an investigation into the shooting.

"we don't know who to give the stipend to"
Posted by: Frank G || 12/09/2018 8:08 Comments || Top||


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Senior jihadist commander assassinated in southern Idlib
[ALMASDARNEWS] A senior jihadist commander was assassinated this evening inside the southern countryside of the Idlib Governorate.

According to opposition activists via social media, a senior field commander from Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham
, "Abu Fahd al-Miri", was killed by unknown assailants in the southern countryside of Idlib this evening.

No group has grabbed credit for the liquidation.

The liquidation of al-Miri comes just days after another high ranking jihadist commander was killed by an unknown group inside rural Idlib.

Since the latest round of peace talks in Astana, there has been an increase in liquidations of jihadist leaders, prompting some opposition activists to accuse the Syrian government forces of carrying out these attacks.

The Syrian government has not commented on these allegations.
Posted by: Fred || 12/09/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: al-Nusra

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Syria accuses US Coalition of completely destroying hospital in Deir Ezzor
[ALMASDARNEWS] The Friday Arclight airstrikes of the US-led Coalition have completely destroyed a hospital in the Syrian city of Hajin in the eastern Deir ez-Zor province, Ikhbariya broadcaster reported.

SANA and the Ikhbariya broadcaster reported earlier on Friday that eight more non-combatants were killed in recent airstrikes on Hajin. All of the killed civilians were reportedly members of one family.

The US-led coalition regularly carries out airstrikes in eastern Deir ez-Zor province, and has recently been concentrating its air power on Hajin.

According to the Wednesday US-led Coalition blurb, all strikes were carried out near Hajin and destroyed supply routes, vehicles, fighting positions, as well as tunnels and buildings.

On Saturday, the SANA news agency reported that the coalition’s airstrikes hit the al-Buqa village near the town of Hajin in the province of Deir ez-Zor leaving 40 civilians dead.

The coalition’s front man Col. Sean Ryan told Sputnik that the coalition had conducted strikes in the area, which, however, did not result in any civilian casualties.

The coalition’s activities in Syria are authorized neither by the Syrian government, nor by the UN Security Council.
Posted by: Fred || 12/09/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Syria


Daesh’s new capital is set to fall as SDF troops continue to advance
[ALMASDARNEWS] 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....
’s (ISIS/ISIS/IS/ISIS) de facto capital, Hajin, is on the verge of being captured by the U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) after a week of battle.

According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR), the Syrian Democratic Forces are now in control of 70 percent of Hajin, leaving the southern quarter of the town still occupied by the Islamic State.

While the SOHR alleges that the SDF controls 70 percent of Hajin, other reports from local activists indicate that the U.S.-backed troops control less than half the town.

Should the Islamic State lose Hajin in the coming days, they will themselves in a world of trouble, as they will no longer control any major town east of the Euphrates River.

For the Syrian Democratic Forces, the capture of Hajin would be a major victory against the Islamic State and it would allow them to free up a large number troops that are greatly needed in northern Syria.
Posted by: Fred || 12/09/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State


Syrian Army carries out rare drone strikes on jihadist positions
[ALMASDARNEWS] The Syrian Arab Army (SAA) carried out a rare attack, today, using their predator drones against the jihadist rebels in northwest Syria, a military source in Latakia told al-Masdar News.

According to the military source, the Syrian Arab Army’s attack drones struck the jihadist positions inside the northern Hama town of Hakoura.

The source said the attack resulted in heavy casualties for the jihadist rebels; this was later confirmed after opposition activists reported several casualties within their ranks.

Opposition activists claimed the strikes in northern Hama were carried out by drones from the Russian Hmeimim Airbase in southwest Latakia.

The dronezaps by the Syrian military were carried out after Russian spy planes spent much of the day observing the jihadist positions around the demilitarized zone.
Posted by: Fred || 12/09/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: al-Nusra


Islamist rebel infiltration attempt in northern Hama ends in disaster
[ALMASDARNEWS] For the second time on Saturday, the Salafist tough guys attempted to infiltrate the Syrian Arab Army’s (SAA) positions around the demilitarized zone in the Idlib and Hama provinces.

Led by Jaish al-Izza, the Salafist tough guys attempted to sneak past the Syrian Arab Army’s checkpoints near hilltop town of Tal Sakhar.

However,
there's no worse danger than telling a mother her baby is ugly...
the Salafist tough guys of Jaish al-Izza were spotted by the Syrian Arab Army before they could infiltrate the latter’s lines at Tal Sakhar.

Using heavy machine guns and artillery shells, the Syrian Arab Army unleashed a powerful attack on the infiltrating myrmidons; this would result in heavy casualties for Jaish al-Izza.

The Syrian Arab Army managed to force the remaining Salafist tough guys to abort their mission and flee back to their lines in the demilitarized zone.

These type of attacks by the Salafist tough guys have become the norm in the demilitarized zone in the Idlib and Hama provinces.

In response to these attacks, the Syrian and Russian forces have begun using spy planes to identify myrmidon gathering points and movements around this large demilitarized in Idlib, Hama, Aleppo, and Latakia.
Posted by: Fred || 12/09/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: al-Nusra



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  UN peacekeepers confirm existence of tunnel from Lebanon into Israel
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  Jihadists seize more ground inside Idlib deescalation zone as Turkish Army watches from afar
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  ISIS leader involved in murder of US aid worker Peter Kassig killed
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  TLP leader Khadim Hussain Rizvi booked under treason, terrorism charges: information minister
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