[Khaama (Afghanistan)] At least thirty seven Death Eaters were killed and seven others were maimed in joint Arclight airstrikes conducted in the outskirt of Farah city.
The 207th Zafar Corps of the Afghan Military in the West said the airstrikes were jointly conducted by the Afghan and US forces in response to a coordinated Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... attack.
The source further added that dozens of Taliban holy warriors launched a coordinated attack on security posts in the outskirts of the city at around 2 am that lasted until 6 am in the morning.
According to Zafar Corps, the airstrikes were carried out around 3 am local time to suppress the murderous Moslems.
Several key commanders of the Death Eaters including Mullah Ibrahim ‐ leading a group of 40 Lion of Islams, Hafiz Niaz Mohammad ‐ leading of 30 murderous Moslems, Haji Basir commander of 20 Death Eaters and Saleh Moammad who was in charge of a group of at least 10 Death Eaters were among those killed.
At least one Afghan policeman also lost his life during the festivities and two others were maimed, the Zafar Corps added.
In another incident in Bala Bolok district, at least two key commanders of the Taliban group identified as Mullah Abdul Qayoum and Hesamuddin were killed, according to Zafar Corps.
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The Afghan military has launched a major operation in Zazai Maidan of Khost and Dand Pathan of Paktia province in the southeastern parts of the country.
The 203rd Thunder Corps of the Afghan Military in the Southeast said the operation "Fatah" was launched earlier today in the two provinces.
The source further added that the security personnel from all the institutions participate in the operations besides the personnel of the 203rd Atal Corps.
The commander of the 203rd Thunder Corps Gen. Shahoor Gul is leading the operations, according to a statement released by the Thunder Corps.
The operation in Zazai Maidan was launched a day after a shootout broke out between the Afghan and Pak forces.
The provincial government media office of Khost in a statement said the Pak militia forces launched attacks on security posts in Jando Sar and Bad Khawaran areas of Zazai Maidan district at around 8 am on Sunday.
The statement further added that the local residents and security personnel responded to Pak militia forces fire, claiming that some dead bodies of Pak military forces and their weapons were left in the area.
The source also added that two local residents fighting the militia forces also bit the dust during the clash.
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] A hideout of the ISIS bandidosbandidos krazed killers was targeted in the latest dronezap conducted by the US military in eastern Nangarhar The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country.. province of Afghanistan.
The 201st Silab Corps of the Afghan Military in the East said the Arclight airstrike was carried out in the vicinity of Nazian district.
The source further added that one krazed killer affiliated with 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.... of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) terrorist group was killed in the airstrike.
Nangarhar is among the relatively calm provinces in the East but the anti-government armed krazed killer groups including Taliban ...Arabic for students... and ISIS bandidosbandidos krazed killers have been attempting to expand their foothold in some remote parts of the province during the recent years.
This comes as counter-terrorism operations and airstrikes are underway in different parts of the country against ISIS and other krazed killer and terrorist groups.
The 201st Silab Corps of the Afghan Military in the East said Saturday that the US forces based in Afghanistan carried out a series of airstrikes on ISIS hideouts in Khogyani district.
The source further added that the bandidosbandidos krazed killers were targeted in Zawa area of the district by unmanned aerial vehicles and as a result at least six bandidosbandidos krazed killers were killed.
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The Afghan cops have thwarted a plot by the anti-government armed hard boy groups to detonate an improvised bomb in Kabul city.
The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) officials said a remote-controllied improvised bomb was discovered from the 5th police district of the city before the holy warriors manage to detonate it.
The officials further added that the explosives were planted on a roadside and was successfully defused at around 7 am local time today.
This comes as the Afghan National Police (ANP) forces have thwarted three back to back kabooms in different parts of the capital as part of their ongoing efforts to foil the destructive plots being hatched by the anti-government armed elements.
The CID officials said last week that the kabooms were thwarted in Qarabagh district, 5th and 6th police districts of the city.
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The Ministry of Defense (MoD) confirms that a soldier of the Frontier Corps ...a provincial paramilitary force. Total manpower is about 80,000. They are tasked to help local law enforcement in the maintenance of law and order, and to carry out border patrol and a..the Antwerp-based Salafist organization that had campaigned to introduce Sharia law to Belgium before single-handedly making Belgium the highest per capita supplier of jihadis to Syria in Europe. There was a big trial in Antwerp in 2015, but most of those convicted were in absentia...nti-smuggling operations.... of the Pak military has been captured during the festivities from the vicinity of Khost province ... across the border from Miranshah, within commuting distance of Haqqani hangouts such as Datta Khel and probably within sight of Mordor. Khost is populated by six different tribes of Pashtuns, the largest probably being the Khostwal, from which it takes its name... MoD front man Gen. Mohammad Radmanish told news hounds that the clash in Zazai Maidan district hast left at least 14 FC personnel dead and 17 others maimed.
He did not disclose further information in this regard but this comes as the Pak military officials are saying that two Frontier Corps soldiers were killed and five others were maimed after coming under from the Afghan side of the Durand Line.
"FC KP troops fired upon from Afghanistan side in Kurram agency. Troops were carrying out routine surveillance along Pak Afghan border for plugging of gaps and making necessary preparations for starting fencing in that area," the Pak military said in a statement.
The statement further added that "2 FC soldiers martyred and 5 injured. Pak troops are exercising maximum restraint so as to avoid any Afghan civilian casualties. Military engagement is underway to defuse situation."
However, some people are alive only because it's illegal to kill them... the Afghan officials are claiming that the clash broke out after Pak troops attempted to intrude into the Afghan soil.
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] Pak military officials are saying that two Frontier Corps ...a provincial paramilitary force. Total manpower is about 80,000. They are tasked to help local law enforcement in the maintenance of law and order, and to carry out border patrol and a..the Antwerp-based Salafist organization that had campaigned to introduce Sharia law to Belgium before single-handedly making Belgium the highest per capita supplier of jihadis to Syria in Europe. There was a big trial in Antwerp in 2015, but most of those convicted were in absentia...nti-smuggling operations.... soldiers were killed and five others were maimed after coming under from the Afghan side of the Durand Line.
"FC KP troops fired upon from Afghanistan side in Kurram agency. Troops were carrying out routine surveillance along Pak Afghan border for plugging of gaps and making necessary preparations for starting fencing in that area," the Pak military said in a statement.
The statement further added that "2 FC soldiers martyred and 5 injured. Pak troops are exercising maximum restraint so as to avoid any Afghan civilian casualties. Military engagement is underway to defuse situation."
However, Caliphornia hasn't yet slid into the ocean, no matter how hard it's tried... the Afghan officials are claiming that the clash broke out after Pak troops attempted to intrude into the Afghan soil.
The provincial government media office of Khost in a statement said the Pak militia forces launched attacks on security posts in Jando Sar and Bad Khawaran areas of Zazai Maidan district at around 8 am on Sunday.
The statement further added that the local residents and security personnel responded to Pak militia forces fire, claiming that some dead bodies of Pak military forces and their weapons were left in the area.
The source also added that two local residents fighting the militia forces also bit the dust during the clash.
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[PRESSTV] One person has been reportedly killed and several others injured after members of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria (IMN) clashed with the police in the capital Abuja.
The police, using tear gas and live ammunitions, forcefully dispersed Shia protesters demanding the release of their leader, Sheikh Ibrahim Zakzaky, at the Unity Fountain on Monday.
Sheikh Zakzaky has been detained without trial for over two years.
Abdullahi Muhammad, an IMN leader, said he witnessed police dragging bullet-hit protesters into a van and sitting on them, adding that he did not know if they were dead or alive.
"As we started protesting they started shooting tear gas and using water cannons," Muhammad said, noting, "We refused to disperse and they used bullets as well, and they shot so many people."
"They want to push us to violence but they couldn't, so that is why they are using live ammunition, thinking that killing will stop us. No amount of killing will stop us."
"The only thing that will stop these protests is when the government frees our leader."
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[ALMASDARNEWS] At approximately 10:45 P.M. (Sana’a Time), 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 fired a ballistic missile towards 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... ’s Najran ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... , a city in southwestern Saudi Arabia near the border with Yemen. It is the capital of Najran Province and a favored target of Houthirocket forces.... region in the southern part of this Gulf kingdom.
According to official media wing of the Houthi forces, their rocket battalion fired a Badr-1 ballistic missile towards the Najran electrical station near the northern border of Yemen.
No details were released regarding the fate of the missile.
Tonight’s attack by the Houthi forces marks the fourth time in the last seven days that their rocket battalion has fired a ballistic missile at a Saudi military or government site.
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ISIS, Kurds, Gulenists? So many possibilities, and only four arrested.
[Ynet] Dutch prosecutors said on Monday they had tossed in the clink Drop the rosco, Muggsy, or you're one with the ages! four men suspected of planning an attack on the Ottoman Turkish consulate in Rotterdam.
In a statement, the national prosecutor's office identified the four as Moroccan-Dutch, and evidence of their plot had surfaced from a wiretap of a different man arrested in 2017.
Three of the men are to be brought before a judge this week, while the fourth was arrested in Belgium and will be extradited, prosecutors said.
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[Ynet] Kurdish bandidosmurderous Moslems attacked Ottoman Turkish security forces in southeast The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... early on Monday, killing three soldiers and wounding one, security sources said.
They said the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) bandidosmurderous Moslems staged the attack in the Kuyutepe military base area of Sirnak province.
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[DAWN] At least five Frontier Corps ...a provincial paramilitary force. Total manpower is about 80,000. They are tasked to help local law enforcement in the maintenance of law and order, and to carry out border patrol and a..the Antwerp-based Salafist organization that had campaigned to introduce Sharia law to Belgium before single-handedly making Belgium the highest per capita supplier of jihadis to Syria in Europe. There was a big trial in Antwerp in 2015, but most of those convicted were in absentia...nti-smuggling operations.... (FC) personnel deployed at the Pak-Afghan border were reported martyred while 12 others were maimed in an attack from across the border that started a day earlier, DawnNewsTV reported on Monday.
The attack, which was carried out from the Khost province ... across the border from Miranshah, within commuting distance of Haqqani hangouts such as Datta Khel and probably within sight of Mordor. Khost is populated by six different tribes of Pashtuns, the largest probably being the Khostwal, from which it takes its name... of Afghanistan, targeted a border post in Laka Tika area of Lower Kurram Agency ...home of an intricately interconnected web of poverty, ignorance, and religious fanaticism, where the laws of cause and effect are assumed to be suspended, conveniently located adjacent to Tora Bora... , officials of the political administration in Kurram Agency said.
According to MNA Sajid Toori, the skirmishes, which spanned more than 24 hours, also left at least 10 assailants dead and several injured. The bodies of the slain FC troops were recovered after officials from both sides held dialogues, of which MNA Toori and several others were a part of.
The political administration, however, has not yet confirmed the recovery of bodies.
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Mosul (IraqiNews.com) The Nineveh Operations Command has announced killing more that 20 Islamic State members, purging all the border regions, in the wake of infiltration of some militants into the province.
In remarks on Monday, Maj. Gen. Najm al-Jabouri, the commander, said troops “started purging the border regions, west of Nineveh. All the towns there were surrounded. Names of the residents were checked.”
“Security troops managed on Sunday to kill 22 IS members after setting an ambush for them. Information showed they were infiltrating through borders, west of Mosul. All were killed immediately. Their weapons were confiscated,” he added.
Nineveh (Iraqinews.com) – Five Iraqi civilians were killed while 11 others injured as two bombs exploded near a popular market in Mosul city, a security official was quoted as saying.
Captain Saleh Hassan from Iraqi police told the Kuwaiti Al-Aan newspaper that two explosive charges planted by Islamic State militants went off at al-Maash market in western Mosul, 400 km north of Baghdad, leaving five civilians killed and 11 others injured.”
Security forces cordoned off the blast site and prevented passers-by from approaching, Hassan pointed out.
Al-Maash market is deemed as the biggest vegetables market in Nineveh province, where merchants from across Iraq sell their vegetables.
Nineveh (Iraqinews.com) – Iraqi intelligence officers arrested on Monday a terrorist, who was wanted by the judiciary on terrorism-related charges, a police spokesperson was quoted as saying.
In a press statement, a copy of which was obtained by Alghad Press, Spokesman for the Iraqi Security Media Center Brigadier General Yehia Rasool said, “In Nineveh, troops of the 20th division of the Iraqi military intelligence arrested a terrorist at Qayyarah sub-district in Mosul city after receiving accurate intelligence reports on his location,” the statement read.
The terrorist is wanted pursuant to article ¼ of the anti-terror law, added the statement.
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I figured from the title that this would be a TW posting. :-)
Salahuddin (IraqiNews.com) One of the people wounded in the attack against a police station, south of Samarra, Salahuddin province, has succumbed to death, making the total death toll rise to four victims, a security source said on Monday.
Speaking to Baghdad Today website, the source said, “one of the security personnel wounded during the attack by Islamic State members against Dalf police station in al-Abbassi region, south of Samarra, succumbed to death, following several attempts to rescue him.”
“The death toll went up reaching four victims, in addition to three wounded people,” the source added.
Earlier today, the source said the attack was carried out by a suicide attacker, wearing suicide belt, and was followed by an armed attack against the police station.
Salahuddin (Iraqinews.com) – Pro-government forces repatriated on Monday 38 displaced families in Samarra city in Iraq, a move which comes as part of the country’s efforts to help all internally displaced people return to their houses.
In a statement, a copy of which was obtained by Alforat News, the media service of al-Hashd al-Shaabi (Popular Mobilization Forces) said, “Troops of the 313th brigade helped a new batch of displaced families, totaling 38, to return to their homes in Haji Hussein village in western Samarra.”
“The families extended thanks to the paramilitary troops for their efforts to remove bombs from their houses and help them get back again to their home regions,” according to the statement.
Salahuddin (Iraqinews.com) – Iraqi intelligence officers arrested on Monday three terrorists, who were wanted by the judiciary on terrorism-related charges, a police spokesperson was quoted as saying.
In a press statement, a copy of which was obtained by Alghad Press, Spokesman for the Iraqi Security Media Center Brigadier General Yehia Rasool said, “Troops of the 7th division of Iraqi military intelligence set an ambush at the southern entrance of Tirkit city in Salahuddin province, managing to arrest three terrorists.”
The three terrorists are wanted pursuant to article ¼ of the anti-terror law, added the statement.
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Ramadi (Iraqinews.com) – Twenty Iraqi civilians were wounded Monday in a grenade attack by a militant on a house in Ramadi city, in central Iraq, a security source was quoted as saying.
“A militant hurled a grenade at a house owned by an Iraqi civilian in central Ramadi city, leaving 20 people wounded,” the source told Knooz Media news website.
“All the injured were moved to a nearby hospital for treatment, and security forces launched a manhunt in search of the attacker, who fled to an unknown location,” the source said.
Anbar (IraqiNews.com) Iraqi security services have announced confiscating a facility that was used as a hospital by Islamic State group as well as a number of tunnels and a training camp during operations in Anbar province, the Security Media Center said on Monday.
“Security troops of Al-Jazeera Operations Command managed, during operations north of Rawa and Qaim toward Nineveh and Salahuddin, to seize a hospital that was used by IS in Tamasha region, a rest house and a tunnel in al-Dabashi region. Several tunnels were found in Um al-Wohoush region,” the center said in a statement.
Moreover, the forces, according to the statement, “destroyed an old camp for the militants and arrested four suspects.”
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Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) The Iraqi Justice Ministry has announced carrying out death sentences against 13 convicts, most of whom are involved in terrorism.
In a blurb by the media office, the ministry said, "the death sentences against 13 convicts were carried out after fulfilling all legal measures."
"Among the convicts were 11 people who were involved in terrorism; including either booby-trapping vehicles, killing security personnel or abduction," the statement added.
Moreover, the ministry "stressed implementing the provisions of law with being influenced by foreign pressures."
[Ynet] Security forces enjugged Drop the rosco, Muggsy, or you're one with the ages! 30 people in the West Bank overnight, suspected of terrorism, popular terrorism and violent riots. Suspects were taken in for questioning.
[IsraelTimes] The Israel Police says it has tossed in the slammer Into the paddy wagon wit' yez! three Paleostinian minors who confessed to hurling Molotov cocktails at IDF soldiers in the central West Bank several days ago. One of the teens has been indicted at the Ofer Military Court, a police statement says.
The police add that during their interrogation of one of the suspects, the minor confessed to buying the materials at a gas station in the Binyamin Regional Council and implicated two other conspirators.
[IsraelTimes] Israeli police arrest two Paleostinian youths from East Jerusalem suspected of burning Israeli flags in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of French Hill. The suspects are residents of East Jerusalem, police say in a statement.
Police say they were called to the area after reports that a number of people were burning flags there, and found the suspects with the charred flags and a lighter "suspected of having been used to commit the crime."
[IsraelTimes] An Israeli wheat field near the Gazoo border caught fire after a burning can full of fuel was flown into it on a kite from the coastal enclave, in the third such incident in as many days, the local fire department says.
The fire was quickly extinguished.
Based on the photo at the link, it wasn’t much of a fire, though not for lack of trying.
This method of airborne arson was attempted on Friday, but failed. However, a lie repeated often enough remains a lie... on Saturday and Sunday, Gazooks succeeded in flying kites, to which they’d affixed Molotov cocktails and other incendiary devices, into Israeli territory.
About that overnight attack posted here: someone’s nerves are a little jumpy.
[IsraelTimes] Pro-regime commander says Russian experts brought in to deal with incident initially thought to have been a missile strike
A false alarm caused by a "joint electronic operation" carried out by Israel and the US led to the firing of air defenses missile over Syria overnight Monday, a commander of militia forces supporting the regime said.
Embarrassing if it’s wide open to hackers, even more embarrassing if it’s a bug in the program, most embarrassing of all if operators at multiple sites are jumping at shadows.
Speaking on condition of anonymity to Rooters on Tuesday, the commander said that the Syrian radar system had been targeted in the alleged cyberattack and that Russian experts were brought in to resolve the issue.
All you programmers who’ve dealt with customers can fill in both sides of the conversation, not to mention the thuoghts not uttered aloud...
Syrian state news originally reported overnight that missiles targeting government air bases had been shot down over the western city of Homs, but later said the air defense systems had been triggered by a false alarm.
Large kabooms were heard near Al Shayrat Air base in Homs province, and in eastern Qalamoun near Damascus, where two other air bases are located, the Syrian Observatory for Human rights reported.
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"..Russian experts were brought in.."
Kaspersky, no doubt. I can't believe some people still use them for PC "security".
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So, in other words, the missile defenses were activated and all missiles launched. AFTER the radars indicated 100% interception, everyone from Damascus to Moscow started patting themselves on the back.
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So, in other words, the missile defenses were activated and all missiles launched. AFTER the radars indicated 100% interception, everyone from Damascus to Moscow started patting themselves on the back.
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A false alarm caused by a "joint electronic operation" carried out by Israel and the US led to the firing of air defenses missile
From what I've read (and bearing in mind I don't know squat about this), the last time the Juice waxed a nuke plant, they were able to 'inject' signals into the air defense radars that created the appearance of a bajillion attackers. In response, the radars were shut down (or rebooted if they were running Windows) This is a clever step up from 'normal' electronic countermeasures that just blast a lot of noise at the radars and create a big fuzzball on the screen to hide the attack.
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In the old fashioned way, when everybody's screen turns to fuzz, you run outside and start shooting up in the air just in case.
With the new one, you call the IT guy and go get a cup of coffee.
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Could have been a Cyber attack but also sounds like something like an AWAC or something sending false echos on the radar frequency.
[Jpost] Area in Damascus has been under siege for four years with over 140,000 civilians displaced in fighting.
The Syrian regime is massing troops and armored vehicles to prepare to retake from 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.... the Yarmouk area in southern Damascus, according to local sources and media.
Yarmouk was home to large numbers of Paleostinian refugees before the country’s civil war, but has been under siege by the Syrian regime for many years.
According to al-Masdar News, the Syrian Army has been concentrating forces near Yarmouk in southern Damascus after the regime successfully defeated the rebels in eastern Ghouta.
As part of its campaign in eastern Ghouta, the regime of Bashir al-Assad allegedly used chemical weapons against Syrian rebels, which resulted in air strikes by the US, UK and La Belle France on Saturday. However, some people are alive only because it's illegal to kill them... the strikes didn’t stop the rebels from leaving eastern Ghouta under an agreement with Damascus that saw them bused to the north of the country.
Now the regime has set its eyes on Yarmouk.
A recent uptick in violence, including exchanges of rocket fire have been reported. According to the recent reports, the Syrian Army has sent its 9th Armored Division, Tiger Forces and Paleostinian units that support Assad to help retake Yarmouk.
Yarmouk was once home to 160,000 Paleostinians, many of whom were the descendants of refugees. It had a lively economy and local culture before the Syrian civil war erupted in 2011. After years of battles, an estimated 140,000 Paleostinians were displaced by the fighting, according to the United Nations ...a lucrative dumping ground for the relatives of dictators and party hacks... Relief and Works Agency for Paleostine Refugees (UNRWA).
Around 18,000 Paleostinians have remained in Yarmouk, where they have faced conditions bordering on starvation, according to reports.
In 2015, Islamic State took over 60% of Yarmouk and has held it ever since, under a state of siege by the regime. There is also a small pocket of Syrian rebel fighters next to the ISIS held area.
According to the Arabic media site thmnia.com, a front man for UNRWA had issued a statement of concern about the situation in the Yarmouk camp and that it was following the security situation closely. However, some people are alive only because it's illegal to kill them... in an email to The Jerusalem Post, an UNRWA front man denied that a statement had been issued.
The fate of Yarmouk has made headlines several times over the years. One of the former Paleostinian residents, Aeham Ahmad, recently wrote a book called The Pianist of Yarmouk. ISIS burned Ahmad’s piano in 2015 and he fled to Europe, making the perilous sea journey, eventually securing asylum in Germany.
The Action Group for Paleostinians estimates that 3,685 Paleostinians have been killed in the Syrian conflict and 85,000 have fled the country.
According to several pro-regime Twitter accounts, the assault on Yarmouk will be led by veteran Syrian soldiers from elite units such as the 42nd Brigade of the 4th Mechanized Division, that have played a part in other campaigns against rebel enclaves in recent months. They will also include a group of Paleostinians from the Jerusalem Brigade (Liwa al-Quds) which includes Paleostinians allied with the Popular Front for the Liberation of Paleostine (PFLP).
Alwatan, a Syrian media website, included a statement from the director of the political department of the Paleostinian Liberation Organization, Anwar Abdel Hadi, giving a "last warning" to Lions of Islam in Yarmouk. According to the statement, the Syrian regime would likely move against ISIS in the coming days and has sought not to harm civilians. It called on the "militants" to resolve the situation and leave.
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[ALMASDARNEWS] The Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) reported tonight that the Syrian Air Defense managed to shoot down at least nine Israeli missiles in the eastern countryside of Homs.
According to the SANA report, the Israeli missiles targeted the Syrian military’s positions Shay’rat Airbase, which was the target for the U.S. strike last year.
However, there's more than one way to stuff a chicken... a source from the Syrian Army told al-Masdar News that the likely target was actually the T-4 Military Airport, as several kabooms were heard in that area.
[ALMASDARNEWS] The Syrian military announced at approximately 1:10 A.M. (Damascus Time), the Israeli Air Force fired several missiles towards the Shay’rat Airbase and its surrounding area in the Homs Governorate.
According to the statement, the Syrian Air Defense managed to intercept several of the missiles, but there was no mention as to whether or not the Israelis scored any direct hits.
This attack by Israel tonight marks the second time in seven days that they have targeted the eastern countryside of the Homs Governorate.
[Jpost] Syrian media and eyewitnesses reported missile, anti-aircraft fire and fighter jets early Tuesday morning.
Syrian media and locals reported air strikes and Syrian air defense launching rockets in response in the early hours of Tuesday.
According to initial reports, the strikes may have targeted al-Sayrat airbase and rural Homs, as well as areas around Damascus.
Days after US-led Arclight airstrikes hit Homs and Damascus on April 14, Syrian Twitter accounts blamed Israel for alleged strikes on Tuesday morning. The first reports emerged around 1:30am. Al Sura Media claimed fighter jets had targeted Syria’s T4 airbase, where Iranian troops are alleged to be present.
Syria’s Sana Ajel news claimed anti-aircraft units responded to an attack in Shayrat airbase near Homs. That was the same airbase the US struck in 2017 in response to a chemical weapons attack at Khan Sheikhoun.
Reports of strikes at Shayrat airbase and areas south of Damascus were dismissed as rumors by some commentators online. Syria's regime is gearing up for a battle with ISIS in Yarmouk in southern Damascus, and some said that the sounds of missiles might be related to that conflict.
However, a hangover is the wrath of grapes... al-Mayadeen and other pro-regime channels showed video of a strange light, which they claimed was part of the airstrikes, hovering in the sky.
The Pentagon said that the US was not involved in any strikes Tuesday morning.
The map [at the link] shows the location of the reported strikes.
Big kabooms were heard near Al Shayrat Air base in Homs province, and in eastern Qalamoun near Damascus where two other air bases are located, the Syrian Observatory for Human rights reported.
Observatory chief Rami Abdel Rahman said missiles did not hit any of the air bases.
Following reports the strike was carried out by Israel, an IDF front man said he was "not aware of such an incident."
Update at 9:15 a.m. EDT. It was a false alarm. See here for details.
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[ALMASDARNEWS] The Syrian Army and allied paramilitary forces have scored a major advance against Rastan-based rebel groups in the southeastern countryside of Hama province, capturing five towns since an previous successful push earlier this (Monday) morning.
According to military-affiliated sources, Syrian assault units stormed and seized the settlements of Ard Qabr ash-Sheikhah, Zahrat Jababi, Zahrat Jasiyah, Khirbet Barbara and Ard Jaysiyah after festivities with Lion of Islam fighters lasting several hours.
Furthermore, sources report that the Syrian Army also took control of the valley areas of Wadi Qarbat and Wadi al-Habiyah as well as the hilltop of Tal An-Naoraa, all located along its main advance route via the above-mentioned towns and villages.
Finally, information has now surfaced that veteran Syrian Army field commander Major General Muhammad Khaddour is leading the Ar-Rastan operation.
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[ALMASDARNEWS] Earlier, the Russian Defense Ministry had said that Syrian air defenses intercepted 71 of more than 100 missiles that the United States, the United Kingdom, La Belle France launched on Friday in response to the alleged chemical attack in Syria’s Douma.
According to Russian Defense Ministry front man Igor Konashenkov, Russian-made Pantsir-S1 air defense system deployed by the Syrian forces showed almost 100% effectiveness in repelling the Western missile strike.
"In anti-aircraft combat, the Russian-made Pantsir S-1 system that had been previously supplied to the Syrian armed forces was actively used," he added.
Konashenkov went on to say that the Syrian air defenses used 112 ground-to-air missiles to repel the attack that targeted not only facilities in Barza and Jaramana, but also military facilities, including airfields.
Konashenkov further commented that the strikes had involved cruise missiles launched from the Red Sea, Mediterranean Sea, the Persian Gulf and the eastern Syrian city of al-Tanf. The attack targeted the facilities that were not bunkers protected by the Syrian air defenses, he pointed out, adding that those were facilities were built on the surface. He has reiterated that 71 missiles of those 100+ had been intercepted.
The front man also denied the reports that S-200 air defense missile system had underperformed while repelling the attack, saying the system is designed to hit aircraft, in the course of fending off the strike.
"However, it was a brave man who first ate an oyster... not long ago, this system destroyed a fighter jet of one of the neighboring states, which tried to violate the Syrian airspace," he added.
Konashenkov reiterated that Syrian air defense systems S-125, S-200, Buk, and Kvadrat took part in repelling the joint strike.
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Well, like the old joke about a magic charm that repels pink elephants...Things stopped exploding so their system obviously works, right, Right??
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Re Almasdarnews:
Business Insider reporter Natasha Bertrand has described Leith Abou Fadel, the editor of al-Masdar, as someone who had pushed a conspiracy theory in the past, and described him as an "Assad loyalist".
The bias is very clear, Clurong Peacock9529. Unfortunately, local reporting in English in that part of the world comes with bias toward one or another of the parties. Until recently we balanced our Syria reporting with Asharq al-Aswat, But they appear to have given up publishing in English. We’ll find another source, but for the moment this is what we have.
[DAWN] Two Pak nationals were killed and five others were enjugged You have the right to remain silent... when Iran’s border security forces acted against a group of people allegedly trying to enter into Iran illegally.
Gwadar Assistant Commissioner Jamil Ahmed told DawnNewsTV that the bodies and arrested men were handed over to 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... Levies personnel by Iranian border authorities on border-post 250 located on the Pak-Iran border near Gwadar.
The bodies were shifted to District Headquarters Hospital Gwadar, while the arrested persons were handed over to Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) where a case will be registered against them under the Passport Act.
Officials at the DHQ hospital said the dear departed, identified as Shahzeb Khan and Mohammad Sadiq, belonged to Bannu district in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa.
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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
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
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trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[PRESSTV] One person has been reportedly killed and several others injured after members of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria (IMN) clashed with the police in the capital Abuja.
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[ALMASDARNEWS] Earlier, the Russian Defense Ministry had said that Syrian air defenses intercepted 71 of more than 100 missiles that the United States, the United Kingdom, 
