[Khaama (Afghanistan)] A Pak senator has claimed the country fixed the 2009 Afghanistan's Caped Presidential Elections in the favour of the former Afghanistan's Caped PresidentHamid Maybe I'll join the Taliban Karzai ... A former Baltimore restaurateur, now 12th and current President of Afghanistan, displacing the legitimate president Rabbani in December 2004. He was installed as the dominant political figure after the removal of the Taliban regime in late 2001 in a vain attempt to put a Pashtun face on the successor state to the Taliban. After the 2004 presidential election, he was declared president regardless of what the actual vote count was. He won a second, even more dubious, five-year-term after the 2009 presidential election. His grip on reality has been slipping steadily since around 2007, probably from heavy drug use... Senator Mushahid Hussain made the revelation during an interview with a locla newspaper.
Pointing towards Pakistain’s role in shaping the polling results, Senator Hussain explicitly told The Express that "the election, we know how to rig, and they were duly rigged in favour of Karzai."
The Senator further added that he had told American officials that Karzai was smarter than any of them and had the capacity to outsmart and still survive.
"President Hamid Karzai knew that Americans were gunning for him. He switched from America to Pakistain, earned a good will, and there were three million Afghan refugees in Pakistain and we were supposed to be holding their elections, and all the threemillion voted for Karzai," he said.
He also also asserted that President B.O.’s Special Envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistain, Richard Holbrooke met with him in Lahore in 2009 before the presidential elections in Afghanistan in August.
"Holbrooke took out a notepad and he said to me, ’Tell me who should be the next president of Afghanistan," Mushahid said he found the remark very arrogant and pompous. "I said, Holbrooke, are you deciding the presidency today? Is it just pick and choose? It’s not going to happen," he said.
The 2009 Presidential Elections ended in Karzai’s favour after his rival Abdullah Abdullah ... the former foreign minister of the Northern Alliance government, advisor to Masood, and candidate for president against Karzai. Dr. Abdullah was born in Kabul and is half Tadjik and half Pashtun... decided to pull out of the vote during the second round of the election.
Abdullah had said the decision was taken "in the best interests of the country".
In a gathering organized late in 2009, Abdullah made it clear he did not want to provoke a confrontation with Karzai or risk partisan violence.
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"Holbrooke took out a notepad and he said to me, ’Tell me who should be the next president of Afghanistan," Mushahid said he found the remark very arrogant and pompous.
[Libya Herald] There are growing fears of renewed fighting between Zawia and the neighbouring Wirshefana district following the murder of three Zawia men two days ago. A Wirshefana gang has been accused on the killing the three civilians at Syed between Zawia and Janzour. Reports from Zawia say that local militia units are mobilising against the Wirshefana. Photos of three tanks held by the Zawians being prepared for attack have appeared on social media sites.
Threats against the Wirshefana have also been made by the Fursan Janzour (“Janzour Knights”) brigade in its Facebook page.
Both Janzur and Zawia are deeply hostile to the Wirshefana, their mutual neighbour. It was largely for this reason that both supported the now defunct pro-GNC Libya Dawn alliance while the Wirshefana allied themselves to the House of Representatives and Khalifa Hafter.
The deadly attacks against the Wirshefana two years ago involving mainly Zawia (and Janzour) forces resulted in hundreds of dead and wounded, and there have been regular if intermittent clashes since.
The hostility between the Zawia and the Wirshefana is also the main reason for the continued closure of the coastal road west of Tripoli.
[ARA News] Erbil – U.S. Senator John McCain (R-AZ), Chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, on Thursday called on Turkey to stop its attacks on Syrian Kurds, while planning by the US-led coalition to take Raqqa from ISIS continues.
“The United States has a longstanding relationship with Turkey, but a series of recent events have raised concerns about the fundamentals of our relations. I have long argued that the Obama administration’s feckless approach to Syria has contributed to a strategic disaster on Turkey’s doorstep,” McCain said.
“At the same time, the Turkish government’s continued attacks on Syrian Kurds are destabilizing and troubling,” he said.
“These Kurdish fighters have shown themselves to be willing and capable partners in the fight against the Islamic State in Syria, and our continued cooperation serves the national security interests of both the United States and countries in the region, including Turkey,” the US senator said.
“I urge the Turkish government to refrain from further attacks against Kurdish groups in Syria,” McCain stated.
Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on 26 October said that they would attack the Kurds in Manbij. “We will do whatever necessary if they do not return back across the other side of the Euphrates River,” Erdoğan said.
Kurdish officials said that recent attacks by Turkey and its local allies are aimed to disrupt the Raqqa operation.
Moreover, Turkey told US officials to keep the People’s Protection Units (YPG) out of Raqqa, although the US said that the YPG is one of the most effective forces against ISIS and its fighters are needed for the Raqqa operation.
“The only force that is capable on any near frame — near-term timeline is — are the Syrian Democratic Forces, of which the YPG are a significant portion,” Lieutenant General Stephen Townsend, commander, Combined Joint Task Force-Operation Inherent Resolve said on Thursday.
“So, we’re negotiating, we’re planning, we’re having talks with Turkey and we’re gonna take this in steps. And we think there’s an imperative to get isolation in place around Raqqa because our intelligence feeds tell us that there is significant external operations attacks planning going on, emanating centralized in Raqqa,” Townsend said.
“We think it’s very important to get isolation in place around Raqqa to start controlling that environment on a pretty short timeline. So, we’re gonna take the force that we have and we will go to Raqqa soon with that force,” he said.
“The Syrian Democratic Forces, to include the Kurdish YPG and the Syrian Arab Corps, will all be part of that force to go and place isolation at Raqqa.”
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His heart is in the right place, his brains though...
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So he goes from saying "Bomb everyone," to "No, wait..." What does his girlfriend Lindsey G say?
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McCain ought to STFU. Nobody is more responsible for the chaos in that part of the world than he is. He wanted to arm the rebels in Syria. He wanted to back them up with air support. He wanted a war. Well, now he has one. STFU, McCain. Old fool should have retired 30 or 40 years ago.
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Who woke up this joke? WHere was he when Obama (and Bush) blew the SOFA and let the Shias stop us from establishing a semi-permanent brigade+ presence there for "training and security"?
[ALMASDARNEWS] Turkish prosecutors have ordered the detention of 73 air force pilots, the latest in a stream of police operations related to the investigation of July's attempted coup, the state-run Anadolu news agency said Thursday.
The operation targeting supporters of U.S.-based holy manFethullah Gulen ... a Turkish preacher living in Pennsylvania whom the current govt of Turkey considers responsible for all the ills afflicting Turkey and possibly the entire world... , whom Ankara blames for the putsch, focused on an air base in the central Turkish province of Konya and spread across 17 provinces, it said.
Other media reports said more than 200 soldiers and civilians were to be detained in coup-related operations Thursday.
Since the July 15 coup attempt, The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... has tossed in the calaboose Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw! 35,000 people and sacked or suspended more than 100,000 others in the civil service, judiciary, police, military and elsewhere. Gulen denies involvement in the failed coup.
The latest suspects were accused of "armed rebellion against the Turkish Republic" and membership of what Ankara calls the Gulenist Terror Organisation, the privately-owned Dogan news agency said. Anadolu said 71 of those sought were lieutenants.
The latest detentions will bring to more than 300 the number of pilots dismissed or arrested as part of the coup investigation. The shake-up comes as Turkey's military pursues an offensive against ISIS in Syria and targets Kurdish gunnies there, as well as in Iraq and southeast Turkey.
Police last week detained 47 soldiers in a similar operation focused on the Konya base, of which 29 were subsequently remanded in jug, Dogan said.
On Wednesday, Ankara said it had replaced three quarters of provincial police heads as part of the crackdown.
Turkish officials have said the interior ministry has ramped up efforts to purge the police and state institutions after the appointment at the end of August of a new minister, Suleyman Soylu, seen as close to President Tayyip Erdogan.
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Bet they will if Iraqi forces need reinforcements.
[ARA News] Erbil – Lieutenant General Jabbar Yawar, Secretary-General of the KRG Ministry of Peshmerga Affairs and the Spokesperson of the Kurdistan Region’s armed forces, told ARA News that after liberating Bashiqa District from ISIS, the Kurdish forces will not go to Mosul city.
“According to the agreement with Baghdad, the Peshmerga’s forces will create a line [of defence], while the Iraqi army will advance further. We will not go to the centre of Mosul,” General Yawar said. “Only Iraqi army, federal police and local police will ever the city.”
Kurdish Peshmerga forces have surrounded the town of Bashiqa, and today took the village of Fadiliye, saving civilians from the grip of ISIS. However, the city itself has not been taken yet.
Civilians in the Fadiliye Village welcomed the Peshmerga forces with white flags, and described them as “liberating forces”.
After Bashiqa, Peshmerga forces will only assist Iraqi forces as part of the Mosul operation, although in the future Peshmerga forces will also play a role in liberating southern Sinjar and Hawija, in northern Iraq, from ISIS.
The Peshmerga spokesperson also denied reports that Turkey was part of the Mosul operation.
“No, there are no relations; Turkey is not part of the planned operations. We have no relations with Turkey,” General Yawar told ARA News in an exclusive interview on Thursday.
“The Ministry of Peshmerga has no relations with Turkey; we only have agreement with the [US-led] coalition and the Iraqi government [regarding the ongoing battle for Mosul],” he stressed.
Nevertheless, ARA News sources confirm that Turkey-backed Sunni Arab fighters are part of the Mosul operation, but not the Turkish army itself.
Furthermore, the Peshmerga spokesperson said that the Hawija operation “has not started yet”, although there has been an agreement to launch it earlier.
“Battle for Hawija needs a lot of forces, that’s why the operation is a bit late, but it will happen,” he concluded.
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The Eisenhower approach to Berlin? Let the Russkies take it and pay the price?
(81,116 dead or missing, 280,251 sick or wounded -wiki)
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Iblis, do tell, new documents? Note that the division of Berlin was already set in stone, how would the western powers have benefited from taking it first?
History read it or repeat it along with Practical Math. :)
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Kurds have no dog in the fight in Mosul proper. I doubt they could be convinced to come in and die for those areas as long as the Shia militias and others are willing cannon fodder.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Iraqi sources reported that Qassem Soleimani, commander of Iranian Quds Force, left Kurdistan and arrived to Baghdad two days ago.
He reportedly wants to discuss the participation of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards in the battle of Tal Afar, a city in the north of djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... Analysts view this step as part of the Iranian strategy aiming to make the area a pathway for Iranian troops moving from Iraq to Syria.
Iranian-backed Popular Mobilization militias are currently situated on the outskirts of Tal Afar, on the borders between Iraq, Syria and The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... . Observers believe that Iran made a strategic choice to secure a passage into Syria, down to its coastline on the Mediterranean.
Iran is supporting Bashir al-Assad’s regime and trying to secure a vital line to help its troops in Syria through Iraq.
Suleimani will reportedly supervise military axes, in which the Popular Mobilization Force is participating and trying to seize areas from ISIS, including the district of Tal Afar, in the northern side of Mosul dominated by Shiite Turkmen.
Controlling Tal Afar will strengthen the coordination between the Revolutionary Guards, the Popular Mobilization militias and the Syrian regime army backed by Iran.
Iranian military officials said have said that "Iran and its allies believe that the battle of Mosul is crucial and will affect the battles in Aleppo and other regions in Syria".
The news comes in line with the confirmations of Iraqi sources that "the Quds Force commander, Soleimani, held meetings with militia leaders in Baghdad two days ago, to discuss their participation in the Battle of Mosul within the southern axis known as the axis of Qayyarah.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] A video that went viral this week exposed violations committed by the Popular Mobilization militias in Iraq against detainees in djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... The footage showed bandidosholy warriors "torturing" displaced Iraqis under their detention during the ongoing battle to liberate the city of Mosul, a member of the Iraqi Parliament told Al Arabiya’s sister Al Hadath channel.
Several Iraqi parties, international human rights ...which are usually open to widely divergent definitions... organizations and the United Nations ...the Oyster Bay money pit... have already accused the pro-government Shiite militia of committing several sectarian crimes against Sunni civilians in the liberated cities since 2014 and until 2016.
Sunni Iraqi politicians expressed concern ...meaning the brow was mildly wrinkled, the eyebrows drawn slightly together, and a thoughtful expression assumed, not that anything was actually done or indeed that any thought was actually expended... over the increasing record of violations, saying the crimes committed in Mosul were previously reported in other Iraqi cities.
In Fallujah, ... the City of Mosques, which might have somthing to do with why it's not called Center of Prosperity or a really nice place to raise your kids... several human rights organizations accused the bandidosholy warriors of torturing and kidnapping civilians, in addition to detaining more than 2500 in unidentified detention camps.
In Saqlawiya, in the Anbar province, the Sunni Iraqi forces coalition said in a statement in September that the Popular Mobilization militia was involved in a massacre that led to the death of dozens of people and the abduction of more than 600 others.
The UN has also accused the militia of torturing, forced confessions and executions in Anbar.
In Tikrit, the National Center for Justice (a non-governmental center) said it had evidence that 8,000 houses had been looted before being destroyed using bombs in 2015.
As for Baquba in the Diyala province, witnesses said that militias loyal to the Popular Mobilization were accused of burning houses and agricultural fields, and preventing Sunnis from returning to their houses.
Tribes in Diyala accused members of the Popular Mobilization forces of destroying 100 mosques in the province in 2014.
Human Rights Watch ... During the fiscal year ended June 30, 2011, HRW received a pledge from the Foundation to Promote Open Society, of which George Soros is Chairman, for general support totaling $100,000,000. The grant is being paid in installments of $10,000,000 over ten years.Through June 30, 2013, HRW had received $30,000,000 towards the fulfillment of the pledge.... said it has proof that the Popular Mobilization militias have looted Sunni civilians’ property; they burnt down their houses and shops, and wrecked at least two villages in Salahuddin province in 2014.
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[Ynet] In preparation for a possible Third Leb War, in which large numbers of Hezbollah fighters will attempt to infiltrate Israeli territory, the IDF is beefing up border defense by installing new fences, more obstacles and reinforcing existing infrastructure
Wednesday's cross-border shooting incident, which is still being investigated by the Northern Command as an attack by another terrorist group, has exposed one of Israel's weak points in a sensitive sector, the border line separating roads, orchards and Israeli settlements, mainly in the Galilee panhandle.
The IDF believes that Hezbollah will seek to exploit this weak point and attempt to infiltrate its Radwan special forces troops into Israeli territory in the next Leb war. The Radwan companies are comprised of dozens of heavily armed, select men who will attempt to quickly enter Israeli territory, capture an outpost or settlement near the border, raise the Hezbollah flag and present it as a symbol of victory.
As part of preparations against this scenario, the IDF is completing a 30-kilometer long border defense project that is part of a larger three-year project that has gained momentum in recent months.
The project consists of a series of engineered barriers that do not exist in any other part of the country. It consists of reinforced concrete panels dozens of meters high, concrete blocks, fortified towers and upgrades to existing fences that were put in place in the 80s.
The project is eventually expected to encompass the entire 120km Lebanese border, stretching from Rosh Hanikra to Mount Dov and Mount Hermon. However, there's more than one way to stuff a chicken... the project is of relatively low priority in terms of resource allocation by the IDF General Staff and the government, so it will only be completed within a few years. The majority of resources and attention are currently focused on the Gazoo border to guard against Hamas, the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood, tunneling attempts.
In the meantime, the Northern Command has found alternative solutions, such as training programs for engineering battalions, which are being conducted in the north. As a result, the Galilee division has prioritized 30 kilometers of territory as "more threatened," and has erected barriers and other obstacles.
During a Ynet tour of the border, officials demonstrated the troubling ease with which forces in Leb can open fire at any moment towards Israel, especially near the international barrier, as was the case with the shooting Wednesday.
Col. Zaky Yeffet of the Northern Command explained, "We can't dig everywhere, so we found other solutions such as reinforcing the border fence and we placed large boulders near Hanita to act as an obstacle against possible infiltration. The concrete panels we also placed in the areas guard against small arms fire and anti-tank missiles. Additionally, we cleared brush wherever we could along the border to allow us to see approaching threats easier."
Another obstacle that has been taken into account are mine fields. There are currently more than a million and a half landmines spread out over 4,000 different fields. The majority of the mines are anti-personnel, but there are a few anti-tank mines also mixed in. The IDF periodically replenishes these mine fields, but the goal is to thin them out as much as possible due to the risks associated with them.
More than 26 civilians were killed yesterday in air raids carried out by warplanes that are most likely to belong to the Syrian regime on the village of Hass in the southern countryside of Idlib.
Moaz Al-Shami, a media activist who visited the site of the massacre immediately after the air raids, said that “Syrian warplanes carried out seven air raids on the town of Hass and specifically on a group of schools and institutes there at 11.30am yesterday. More than 26 people including 12 children were killed and 40 others were injured, some critically.
Residents of Hass are still shocked and are puzzled about why a group of schools and institutes, and the town as a whole, were targeted considering that they have been living in peace for many months.
Videos circulated by activists on social media networks show a number of children weeping and refusing to return to their classes. Other pictures showed dead children lying on the ground along with their books and school bags.
The National Coalition for Syrian Revolution and Opposition Forces issued a statement saying that the “Warplanes belonging to the Syrian regime and Russia carried out an attack with very explosive missiles carried by parachutes on a group of schools and a local market in the town Hass in the Idlib countryside. 26 people were killed as a result and most of them were students and teachers. In addition to this, many people were injured.”
The Coalition added that “Russia and the regime’s continued attempts to intentionally, deliberately and systematically target centres offering services confirms that there are attempts to kill as many people possible in order to weaken the rebels and force them to accept compromises outside the political process”.
On his part, the director of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights Rami Abdulrahman said that 22 civilians were killed and dozens more were wounded in six air raids, and that it is not known whether the raids were carried out by the Syrian regime or Russia. He continued by saying that the raids targeted a school and its surroundings in the Idlib countryside, and that the dead included seven children who were inside the school that was damaged by the raids.
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"Once you open the Gates of Hell, you don't get to chose which Demons emerge..."
[ARA News] Aleppo – The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) have accused Turkey of carrying out an ethnic cleansing campaign in northern Syria and called for an investigation.
The Kurdish-led SDF also accused Turkey of bombing their positions while they fight ISIS.
Tensions between the SDF forces and Turkey-backed rebels have been growing after Turkey said they would take the cities of al-Bab and Manbij in northern Syria.
Turkey’s military and allied rebels of the Euphrates Shield also attacked SDF positions near Tel Rifaat and Afrin in the northern countryside of Aleppo earlier this week, but failed to advance.
“Turkey, with its militias, emptied the population of al-Rai town and the nearby villages, displacing thousand son people and preventing them from returning,” SDF spokesman Shervan Darwish said on Thursday. “Turkey accuses our forces of the ethnic cleansing. However, Turkey with its allied rebels are committing criminal acts,” he said.
Furthermore, the official said the groups backed by Turkey are jihadists.
“Ideologically, militias led by Turkey in Syria are a copy of ISIS. These groups are all affiliated with the Islamic Movement of Ahrar al-Sham and Jabhat al-Nusra in Idlib,” Darwish said.
“We call on the international community to visit the town of al-Rai and surrounding villages in order to investigate these crimes,” he said. “The world should be more serious to fight the mentality of terrorism and extremism.”
The SDF spokesperson said the groups that Turkey supports are anti-Western, unlike the Kurdish-led SDF forces.
“These extremist groups expelled the US military from al-Rai, calling the West ‘infidel and Crusader’, the same slogans raised by ISIS,” he added.
[FRANCE24] Russia on Thursday dismissed as "unconvincing" the findings of a UN-led investigation showing that Syrian forces had carried out three chemical attacks, and said no sanctions should be imposed.
"We believe that the proof is not there for any punitive action to be taken. It's simply not there," Russian Ambassador Vitaly Churkin told news hounds following a closed-door Security Council meeting.
A joint United Nations ...an idea whose time has gone... -Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) panel concluded that government forces carried out three chlorine gas attacks on villages in 2014 and 2015.
It was the first time an international probe blamed Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Horror of Homs... 's forces after years of denial from Damascus.
But Churkin told the council that the findings were not strong enough to trigger sanctions.
The conclusions "in most cases... are not substantiated by sufficient testimonial basis, first of all material proof, they are full of contradictions and therefore unconvincing," he said, according of a text of his remarks.
The findings are "not definitive, have no legally binding force and cannot serve as accusatory conclusions for taking legal decisions," he added.
Britannia and La Belle France pressed demands for sanctions, arguing that UN resolutions provided for such action in response to the use of chemical weapons.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... is prepared to join a US-led international coalition preparing an operation to isolate ISIS Death Eaters in the Syrian city of Raqqa, Arab Coalition front man Maj Gen. Ahmed al-Assiri told Alarabiya.net.
Assiri expressed Saudi Arabia’s willingness to take part in the operation if it was asked to do so.
"The kingdom is committed to the fight against ISIS in Syria as part of an international coalition, including air sorties delegated to it, whether from within the kingdom or via its warplanes stationed at the Turkish Incirlik base," he told the website.
The US-led coalition intends to start an operation to retake ISIS’s de facto capital of Raqqa.
With regard to ground operations, Assiri said that the international coalition agreed in a meeting in Washington to rely on local Syrian forces and would provide air coverage for them.
When asked if Saudi Arabia is interested in joining the ongoing battle to retake djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... , Assiri said the Kingdom never took part in any operations in Iraq, citing that it cannot be involved in operations in which the Iranian-backed he Popular Mobilization forces are involved.
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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
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] A Pak senator has claimed the country fixed the 2009 
[ARA News] Erbil – U.S. Senator John McCain (R-AZ), Chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, on Thursday called on Turkey to stop its attacks on Syrian Kurds, while planning by the US-led coalition to take Raqqa from ISIS continues.
[ALMASDARNEWS] Turkish prosecutors have ordered the detention of 73 air force pilots, the latest in a stream of police operations related to the investigation of July's attempted coup, the state-run Anadolu news agency said Thursday.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Iraqi sources reported that Qassem Soleimani, commander of Iranian Quds Force, left Kurdistan and arrived to Baghdad two days ago.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] A video that went viral this week exposed violations committed by the Popular Mobilization militias in Iraq against detainees in 
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