[ShabelleNews] Mogadishu, Somalia-Kenyan military fighter jets are reported to have targeted Al-Shabaab ... Somalia's version of the Taliban, functioning as an arm of al-Qaeda... Lion of Islams' training comps in an area just outside south of Somalia's Gedo region, dozens were feared dead, residents said.
A local herder told Shabelle Media based in Mogadishu that Kenyan Defense Forces military planes stroke snuffies strongholds in Godon-dhawe area just 3Km south of Balad-hawo town near Somalia-Kenya border.
Kenya has struggled to stop the flow of snuffies and weapons across its porous 700-km border with Somalia, and the violence has also damaged the economy by scaring away tourists and investors.
The exact casualties resulted from the bombing against Al-Shabaab Lion of Islams' bases in south of Somalia's Gedo region are yet to be established by Kenyan officials and targeted krazed killers.
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Question. We ever had a report on Iraqi army bombing ISIS?
Yes. Regularly. Iraqi News pays close attention to such things, but because they run mostly little stories that need to be amalgamated, we don't check them daily.
[ShabelleNews] Baidoa, Somalia-A front man for regional south-west administration says that its troops will be deployed into lower Shabelle territories in a bid to secure the overall security in the region.
Spokesman Abdulkadir Mohammed Nadara told Shabelle Media in Mogadishu that president of SW administration called on local elders to bring youth who are trained to protect insecurity cases in the region.
Mohammed Nadara added that there are some soldiers who are being trained in south of Somalia's lower Shabelle region.
This comes a day after a convoy carrying president of south-west administration Sharif Hassan Sheikh Aden was targeted landmine kaboom in agricultural town of Agoye near Mogadishu.
[LibyaHerald] Continued fighting in Benghazi yesterday and today has resulted in three more Libyan National Army (LNA) soldiers being killed and at least 33 others injured -- almost entirely in Buatni and Leithi, according to a front man for Jalaa Hospital where the injured are being...
[LibyaHerald] Misrata's 166 Brigade this morning launched a new major offensive against 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.... (IS) forces in Nufaliya, 140 kilometres east of Sirte. Heavy weaponry has been used and, for the first time, the Misratans have bombed IS fighters in the desert town from the air.
Brigade 166 is not releasing any statements about the fighting at present and will not do until it is over. However, today is that tomorrow you were thinking about yesterday... one member of the brigade is knon to have been killed in the fighting and seven others injured. They have been brought back to hospital in Misrata for treatment.
It is reported that four IS fighters were also maimed in the festivities. They are said to have been taken to the Ibn Sina Hospital in Sirte which is fully under IS control.
For its part IS says that it has captured the Al-Jalet camp south east of Sirte, previously held by Misratan forces.
Nufaliya fell to IS forces in February. A week ago, they used it as a base to attack Harawa, 70 kilometres away -- an attack which saw IS behead two local youths. Residents there had for some time been calling on Misrata to help defend them against the jihadists. Today's operation is seen as a realisation by Misratan military and politicians that the threat posed by IS required urgent, decisive action.
Meanwhile yesterday, confident IS forces in Sirte paraded through the town to celebrate the capture by their counterparts in Iraq of the city of Ramadi on Sunday. There were IS celebrations in Derna as well.
[LibyaHerald] Misrata's 166 Brigade which this morning launched an operation against 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.... (IS) forces in Nufaliya is reported to have pulled back from the town to its operations base west of Sirte. "It is holding its base", a Misratan official said.
Fighting is said to have been fierce during the day. The Misratans lost two men with another 12 maimed. Brigade sources, however, say it killed "tens" of IS members, including six Algerians and three Tunisians.
For its part, IS has claimed that it has seized the brigade's camp south west of the Sirte and another camp also used by Libya Dawn ...aka Fajr Libya, the Islamist operation launched to counter that of General Khalifa Haftar (Operation Dignity). It is made up of the Libya Shield militia (Misrata and Moslem Brotherhood), Libya Revolutionaries Operations Room (Moslem Brotherhood), and Tripoli Brigade (close to Abdul Hakim Belhaj, head of Al-Watan party). Financing and moral support come from Turkey and Qatar... forces. It has posted photos of IS equipment it claims it captured during the day in Sirte.
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[AnNahar] Algerian soldiers rubbed out three Islamist bandidosbandidos Death Eaters Wednesday, raising to 25 the number of suspects killed in a sweep east of the capital where jihadists operate, the defense ministry said.
The ministry said "three terrorists" armed with automatic weapons were killed.
Twenty-two armed Islamists were killed on Tuesday, the first day of a vast operation in the mountainous Ferkioua area of Bouira province, according to the ministry.
It said automatic weapons, ammunition and other weaponry were seized.
A security source told AFP the army was keeping up the operation "to neutralize other members of the gang".
The sweep was launched on the back of information of a large group of bandidosbandidos Death Eaters in the area, a zone of operations of Jund el-Khilafa, a local affiliate of 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.... jihadist group that beheaded a French tourist in September.
A judicial source said experts were trying to determine if the dead bandidosbandidos Death Eaters were members of Jund al-Khilafa or of Al-Qaeda's North African branch.
Jund al-Khilafa bandidosbandidos Death Eaters kidnapped and beheaded mountain guide Herve Gourdel in September 2013 in Kabylie, east of Algiers, in retaliation for La Belle France participating in U.S.-led air strikes against IS in Iraq.
Its leader Abdelmalik Gouri was killed in an army operation last December in Issers, 60 kilometers (35 miles) east of the capital.
The army says it has now killed 59 armed Islamists since the start of this year.
Islamist-linked violence rocked Algeria in the 1990s but has since waned, although gangs remain active in central and eastern Algeria where they mount attacks on security forces.
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Occasional news from the far reaches of Al Qaeda's influence...
[AnNahar] An unidentified gunman opened fire on a United Nations ...an organization conceived in the belief that we're just one big happy world, with the sort of results you'd expect from such nonsense... residence in the Malian capital Bamako on Wednesday, wounding a civilian guard and damaging vehicles, the organization's MINUSMA peacekeeping mission said.
The assailant attempted to set fire to one of the force's vehicles parked in front of the residence housing troops in the city's southeastern Faso Kanu neighborhood around 2:30 am (0230 GMT), the force said in a statement.
Before escaping, he shot and maimed the guard and then opened fire on the building and parked U.N.-marked cars, the statement added.
"MINUSMA condemns in the strongest terms this attack against its staff and property, which constitutes a serious crime under international law," the mission said.
"It calls on the Malian authorities to make every effort to identify those responsible for this act and bring them to justice."
The statement said members of UNMAS, the mission's mine-clearing service, had been dispatched to defuse two unwent kaboom! grenades found at the scene.
No one grabbed credit for the attack, but it comes at a time of strained relations between the government and the peacekeeping mission, which complained at the weekend that its impartiality was being "regularly called into question".
Reacting to criticism of the mission by Malian President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita, the force lamented that "neither its contribution nor its sacrifices are accorded their proper value".
Keita's broadside came at the end of a speech by the ephemeral Ban Ki-moon ... of whom it can be said to his credit that he is not Kofi Annan... , read out in Bamako on Friday by the U.N.'s chief peacekeeper Herve Ladsous, lamenting serious violations of ceasefire agreements "on all sides".
"Have we ever violated the ceasefire? Never," Keita said.
"So then, Mr. Ladsous, it would be appropriate that the United Nations act justly and fairly in this regard," he said, calling for "a little respect for our people".
Yvan Guichaoua, a lecturer at the University of East Anglia in Britannia and an expert on the Sahel region ... North Africa's answer to the Pak tribal areas... , tweeted in reaction to the attack that Keita's "anti-MINUSMA words last week don't look so wise retrospectively".
He added that, while he didn't think Keita's outburst was responsible for the attack, "continually and publicly running down MINUSMA doesn't help in calming the political climate".
With more than 40 peacekeepers killed since its inception in 2013, MINUSMA is considered the most dangerous U.N. mission in the world.
The country's restive north has been plagued by violence by jihadist groups that seized control of the region from Tuareg rebels before being routed by a French-led international intervention that began in 2013.
A jacket wallah struck a U.N. barracks in the town of Ansongo in April, killing two civilians and wounding nine peacekeepers from Niger in an attack claimed by Algerian jihadist commander Mokhtar Belmokhtar's militia.
Despite peaceful elections after the French operation, the country remains deeply divided and the north has seen an upsurge in attacks by pro-government militias and the Tuareg-led rebellion known as the CMA.
The government and several gangs signed a peace accord last week in a ceremony in Bamako attended by numerous heads of state but missing the crucial backing of the CMA.
The Algerian-led international mediation team in the grinding of the peace processor said in a statement on Wednesday it was launching a series of consultations in Algiers to establish conditions for the "completion of the signing process".
The team has appointed a group of experts to set out a timetable for the implementation of the agreement, it said.
[AnNahar] A journalist and rights activist known for his outspoken criticism of the humanitarian crisis in southeastern Niger has been placed in durance vile Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw! for "collaborating" with 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... Islamists, the interior minister said Wednesday.
Human rights watchdog Amnesia Amnesty International condemned Moussa Tchangari's arrest and called on Niger to release him.
"This man has been collaborating with Boko Haram for some time, and he is actively spreading propaganda and false news in liaison with Boko Haram," Interior Minister Hassoumi Massaoudou told AFP.
"All his propaganda aims to show... that Niger's defence and security forces are the criminals... (and) not Boko Haram."
Niger cannot "tolerate such an active collaboration with terrorists", or such "systematic spreading of false news", he added.
Tchangari was arrested on Monday and charged with "criminal links to the terrorist group Boko Haram", he said.
Tchangari's organization Alternative Espace Citoyen has been critical of the humanitarian crisis in southeastern Niger, where the army is fighting Boko Haram.
In early May, his group published a report that criticized the Niger authorities after the evacuation of some 25,000 Lake Chad residents over fears of new Islamist attacks, following a deadly assault in late April.
At the time, Tchangari said thousands of men, women, children and elderly Lake Chad residents "walked for more than 50 kilometers (30 miles)" until they reached safety.
"No preparations were in place to welcome... or support them," he added.
In early May, a U.N. source said the evacuees were living in "dramatic" conditions -- without tents or shelter, and in some cases without access to drinking water.
In a statement Tuesday, Amnesia Amnesty International called on Niger to free Tchangari "immediately", saying: "The fight against Boko Haram must not serve as a pretext to violate free speech."
The call for Lake Chad residents to evacuate came a week after a cross-border assault by Nigerian-based Boko Haram murderous Moslems on the island of Karamga that left at least 74 people dead.
It was Niger's heaviest loss since it joined a regional offensive against the krazed killers, whose six-year insurgency has claimed some 13,000 lives and displaced about 1.5 million people
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I read the organization's name as Alternative Espece de Citoyen - wonder why?
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[ArabNews] A special criminal court in Riyadh on Tuesday sentenced a terrorist to death after an appeals court found that the trial court's sentencing of the culprit was not commensurate with the gravity of his crime.
Defendant No. 14, belonging to the Turki Al-Dandani terror cell, was handed a 35-year prison sentence, a SR10,000 fine and a travel ban by the special court in the earlier judgment.
The crime sheet against the defendant included murder of security officers, threatening them with a hand grenade when asked to surrender after his hide-out in a Riyadh apartment was raided, and opening fire on security officers and spectators.
He was also accused of hijacking a car at gunpoint to flee from the law; joining Al-Qaeda; pledging allegiance to the late Osama bin Laden ... who doesn't live anywhere anymore... ; and serving as his personal guard in Kandahar, Afghanistan.
He was also involved in mapping and spying on residential areas for foreigners in the Eastern Province.
He was found involved in making plans to fight against the United States and also to kill a journalist.
He was also found to have possessed forged documents to facilitate travels of snuffies to the Kingdom, and for terror financing.
[AnNahar] Canadian police tossed in the slammer Into the paddy wagon wit' yez! 10 young people as they allegedly tried to leave the country to join 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, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police said Tuesday.
The federal police arrested the group, all residents of the Montreal area, last weekend at the city's international airport and their passports have been withdrawn.
Charges have not been filed and the families and relatives of the 10 are being interviewed, police said.
Local media reported that one parent had notified authorities of the planned departure.
Local media reported that one parent had notified authorities of the planned departure.
IS is known for its brutality in the swathes of territory it controls in Syria and Iraq. The group's radical ideology has inspired thousands of people to join it or try to send support.
Canada in particular has been concerned over the number of youths from the country who have tried to join the group.
University of Ottawa student John Maguire was reportedly killed in December in Syria, while six teenagers from the Montreal area left the country and apparently joined IS several months ago.
Another teen was arrested in March for aiming to join the IS jihadists.
Lawmakers recently endorsed a new anti-terror law that boosts powers of Canada's spy agency amid concerns of attacks within the country.
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Glad on northern neighbors are on the job. Can't say that for the southern border failed state, Mexico.
[DAWN] Sindh Chief Minister Qaim Ali Shah has said four suspects involved in the brutal attack on the Shia Ismaili community bus near Safoora Goth are being grilled to find clues to the perpetrators and planners.
He added that the culprits placed in durance vile Drop the rosco, Muggsy, or you're one with the ages! were the controllers of the gun attack.
The chief minister disclosed this while talking to journalists after chairing the 13th convocation of the Peoples University of Medical and Health Sciences, Nawabshah.
More than 45 people belonging to the Ismaili community were killed and many others were maimed in the targeted attack on May 13. Mr Shah said they would not tolerate terrorism in Sindh and would eliminate each and every terrorist from the land.
The chief minister said there were chances of the involvement of the Indian intelligence agency Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) in the incident. But it would be too early to arrive at this conclusion as the investigation was still under way, he said.
The chief minister said there were chances of the involvement of the Indian intelligence agency Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) in the incident. But it would be too early to arrive at this conclusion as the investigation was still under way, he said.
It was yet to be ascertained if RAW, banned bully boy groups or any political party was behind the incident, he added.
Answering a question, Mr Shah said that former home minister Dr Zulfikar Mirza was inexperienced in politics. He was not in a position to teach politics to the chief minister, he said, adding that everyone knew about the hidden forces behind him.
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Minorities meet with RAW dealing,
Which spoils the Pak air of good feeling?
Just something that Modi
And some half-baked toady
Cooked up over cups of Darjeeling!
[DAWN] Bahadur Khan, the Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) belonging to the counter-terrorism department (CTD) of Beautiful Downtown Peshawar ...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (formerly known as the North-West Frontier Province), administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire. police, was bumped off by gunnies in Gulbahar area of Peshawar on Wednesday morning.
Muhammad Khorasani, spokesperson for the outlawed Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistain (TTP), claimed that the holy warrior organization was behind the killing.
Peshawar SSP (operations) Dr Mian Saeed said that DSP Bahadur Khan was on his way to drop his daughter off to school when cycle of violence-riding gunnies opened fire on him as the police officer's vehicle neared Anam Sanam chowk in Peshawar's Gulbahar area. DSP Khan's daughter remained unhurt in the attack.
Police sources added that the slain DSP had been receiving threats from unknown holy warriors. The attackers manged to escape from the scene after the incident.
Police and rescue personnel reached the spot.
"Which spot?"
"THAT spot!"
Security personnel cordoned off the area as a probe into the incident went underway.
Peshawar, the capital of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa ... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central... , lies on the edge of Pakistain's tribal areas which have been labelled by Washington as the main sanctuary for Al Qaeda and Talibs in the country.
The city has seen frequent attacks by Lions of Islam in the past few years, with targets ranging from civilians to coppers and other law enforcement
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[DAWN] At least 13 suspected Death Eaters were killed on Wednesday during Arclight airstrikes conducted by military fighter jets in the Dattakhel area ... which is owned and operated by Hafiz Gul Behadur... of North Wazoo Tribal Agency, according to a statement issued by the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR).
The statement added that five hideouts of the Death Eaters were also destroyed in the blitz.
The Pakistain Army launched Zarb-e-Azb ..the Pak offensive against Qaeda in Pakistain and the Pak Taliban in North Wazoo. The name refers to the sword of the Prophet (PTUI!)... , a comprehensive operation in 2014, against foreign and local Lions of Islam who were hiding in sanctuaries in the North Waziristan tribal region, a week after the brazen holy warrior attack on the country's busiest airport 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... The tribal region, which borders with Afghanistan, has been used as a base by Death Eaters over the years. According to the ISPR, troops have been deployed along its border with neighbouring agencies to block any movement of Lions of Islam in and out of the region.
North Waziristan is one of the seven regions in Pakistain's Federally Administered Tribal Areas (Fata) governed by tribal laws which is situated along the Pak-Afghan border and is rife with Taliban Death Eater activity.
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[RUDAW.NET] 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.... snuffies searched door-to-door for coppers and pro-government fighters and threw bodies in the Euphrates River in a bloody purge Monday after capturing the strategic city of Ramadi, their biggest victory since overrunning much of northern and western Iraq last year. None of that "hearts and minds" bull here. Just plain old fashioned sack and pillage.
Some 500 civilians and soldiers died in the turban killing spree since the final push for Ramadi began Friday, authorities said.
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[AnNahar] Five men and a teenager were charged in a Malaysian court on Wednesday with plotting terror attacks in the country, according to court documents.
The five men are mostly in their 20s or early 30s while the teenager is 16.
Police could not immediately be reached for further information.
It was not clear whether the six were among 12 suspected Islamic bandidosDeath Eaters tossed in the calaboose Drop the rod and step away witcher hands up! in late April just before a Southeast Asian summit was held in the capital, Kuala Lumpur.
At the time of the arrests in late April, police said they seized 20 kilograms (44 pounds) of ammonium nitrate, a similar amount of potassium nitrate, two litres of kerosene and remote-control devices.
National police chief Khalid Abu Bakar said at the time the suspects were targeting "strategic" locations in and around Kuala Lumpur for attacks to be launched on April 25 and April 26.
Those charged Wednesday face a maximum 30 years' imprisonment and fines if found guilty, according to the court documents.
They are expected back in court on June 22, The Star newspaper reported.
In a separate case six men, including an Indonesian suspected weapons expert, were charged in late April with conspiracy to stage terror attacks and plotting to kidnap high-profile figures.
Police say dozens of Malaysians have gone to Syria to join the brutal jihad 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, and have warned of hard boyz returning to stage attacks on home soil.
Over the past year police have announced a series of arrests of suspects whom they say were IS sympathisers plotting such attacks.
But opposition politicians say authorities have shared no details with them about the arrests or the extent of the purported terror threat.
[InterAksyon] An Abu Sayyaf gunman was killed in a gun battle with police in Jolo, Sulu late Wednesday afternoon.
Jolo policemen saw the man carrying an M16 rifle at the wet market in Barangay Walled City around 5:50 p.m. When the police intervened him, the gunman refused to surrender, running towards them and firing, causing them to shoot back and kill him.
Joint Task Group Sulu commander Colonel Alan Arrojado later identified the dead gunman as Mindas Manda, also known as "Muktader", a member of the so-called "Muktader Brother" group of the Abu Sayyaf, based in Sitangkai, Tawi-Tawi.
The group is reported to be led by Abu Sayyaf sub-leaders Idang Susukan, Alhabsy Misaya, Anga Adji and Yasser Igasan.
Arrojado added that Manda was involved in a recent spate of kidnappings in Malaysia.
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Rooters. UN takes credit.;
U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon on Wednesday announced talks between warring Yemeni parties in Geneva on May 28 to end over seven weeks of war, as Iran agreed for international inspections of an aid ship sailing to Yemen. So sez Rooters. So the UN can take credit. They would have done that anyways...
"The Secretary-General is pleased to announce the launch of inclusive consultations starting on 28 May in Geneva to restore momentum toward a Yemeni-led political transition process," the U.N. statement issued in New York said. But don't get your hopes up, because -
Houthi leader Abdel-Malek al-Houthi announced "conditions" for their attendance of the talks in a speech broadcast on Wednesday, including a commitment by parties to a controversial agreement after the Houthis' September takeover of the capital that integrated the militia into all the state's institutions. We say you promised, so now it's a condition to chiseling it in stone.
"The only way to solve the political problem is dialogue in a neutral country over what has been agreed upon in advance in the peace and partnership agreement," al-Houthi said. First, you agree to everything, then the UN can arrange the five-star dining. If it's all agreed in advance then there's no point to the meeting...
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Nice try: those weren't UN warships that would've stopped that ship
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My concern is that the inspectors' competency will be on a par with those of the IAEA.
[Ynet] An air raid by US-led forces killed at least 15 members of al Qaeda's Syria wing Nusra Front in the northwest of the country on Wednesday, a group monitoring the Syrian civil war said.
The raid hit the headquarters of the group in Tawama village in the western countryside of Aleppo province, said the Britannia-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which gathers information from a network of sources on the ground.
Most of the fighters killed were Turkish, it said, and there were several also maimed. It was not immediately clear how senior they were.
[EN.ZAMANALWSL.NET] Dozens of villages in the region of Jabal abdul-Aziz witnessed on Monday heavy displacement as the festivities between forces of the Democratic Union Party (PYD) and the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... (ISIS) have become too near, added to Arclight airstrikes of the US-led alliance.
Yasin al-Ma'eeshi told Zaman al-Wasl that people from dozens of villages in the Northern part of Jabal Abdul-Aziz tried to escape their villages, fearing of getting trapped in the middle of battles if festivities reached to their villages and repeating the scenario of Tal-Hamis when Kurds' and Sanadid militias placed in durance vile Youse'll never take me alive coppers!... [BANG!]... Ow!... I quit! people and rob their houses.
Fear of siege was another reason pushed people to escape their villages although battles have not reached them yet, especially if the main road to Hasaka gets closed, the activist said.
Al-Ma'eeshi mentioned that people suffer of severely bad humanitarian condition, because of shortage of food, and no is aid available, as well as transportations' difficulties, which forced people to escape on foot through the steep rugged mountainous routes.
Moreover, dozens of men gathered at roads, begging by-passers to pick up their families and give them a lift.
The activist mentioned that siege and war's conditions have deepened suffering of people who already live in poverty and lack of medical care and healthy conditions, as no single doctor is available.
Local sources mentioned that PYD gangs have performed a convolution operation around the villages controlled by the Islamic State and attacked the far villages with the help of US-led alliance's air strikes on the Islamic State's bases in Jabal Abdul-Aziz region, Tal Shommar and Tal Nasri near Tal-Tamer.
Hawara agency, the PYD's news agency confirmed the convolution operation around all fronts of Ras al-Ain, Tal-Tamer and Hasaka to the village of Tal- masamir which is situated at the road of Tal-Tamer and town of Ghora in Jabal Abdul-Aziz, mentioning that all supply routes to 23 villages controlled by ISIS have been closed.
Fighters of PYD has failed on Sunday in forcing ISIS's fighters to withdraw from Tal-Tamer without fighting as they aimed to repeat the plan done two months ago in Tal-Brak, when the regime's forces attacked the village from Hasaka-Tal-Brak route, while Beshmega's forces advanced via Sinjar-Tal-Hamis, which forced ISIS's fighters to withdraw fearing of siege.
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[EN.ZAMANALWSL.NET] Kurdish forces backed by U.S.-led air strikes are pressing an attack on 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.... in northeastern Syria that has killed at least 170 members of the jihadist group this week, a Kurdish official and a monitoring group said on Wednesday.
The official said Kurdish YPG fighters and allied militia have encircled Islamic State turbans in a dozen villages near the town of Tel Tamr in Hasaka province. The region is important in the battle against Islamic State because it borders land controlled by the jihadists in Iraq.
The Kurdish YPG appear to be trying to drive Islamic State from a stronghold in the mountainous Jabal Abdul Aziz area to the southwest of Tel Tamr, said Rami Abdulrahman, who runs the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitoring group.
The U.S.-led alliance bombing Islamic State in Syria has been coordinating its air strikes in Hasaka with the YPG, after successfully joining forces with the Kurds to drive the jihadists from Kobani, or Ayn al-Arab, in January.
The Kurdish official, Nasir Haj Mansour, said around 80 Islamic State fighters were killed in an ambush when they tried to flee the Tel Tamr area for Jabal Abdul Aziz earlier this week. Dozens more were killed in air strikes.
"The confirmed number of (Islamic State) dead is between 170 and 200," said Mansour, speaking by telephone from Syria.
Around 100 Islamic State fighters were still encircled in the villages near Tel Tamr, he added.
Abdulrahman confirmed the YPG had effectively encircled Islamic State fighters in the villages near Tel Tamr. "The YPG are getting ready to launch attack on Jabal Abdul Aziz," he said.
Islamic State is still believed to be holding some 200 Assyrian Christians kidnapped in February from villages near Tel Tamr.
The U.S.-led Combined Joint Task Force said on Tuesday it had carried out seven air strikes since early Monday in Hasaka that had destroyed vehicles, fighting positions and a shipping container.
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Proper leadership, proper training, and barely adequate equipment. Compare and contrast to the Shi Iraqi Army, full of corruption and cowardice.
[EN.ZAMANALWSL.NET] Fatah Army keep an eye on Bashir al-Assad's last stronghold in Idlib province, massing troops to capture mountainous town of Ariha, a day after the takeover of al-Mastouma camp.
Ariha has been witnessing fierce festivities since three weeks on the enclaves of the town, but rebels' morale seems very high as they plan to hit Assad's strongholds in what they called, 'Cleansing Idlib from the Nusayri Regime', (Nusayris: an Islamic designation for Alawites who got their new name by the French mandate in the twenties of last century.
The alliance of Salafist tough guys on Tuesday seized full control of al-Mastouma camp for the first time since the Syrian revolution erupted in 2011.
Army of Fatah, a reference to the conquests that spread Islam across the Middle East from the seventh century, has seized swathes of territory northern Syrian since late of March 2015 including Idlib city and Jisr al-Shughour town.
Meanwhile, ...back at the comedy club, Boogie was cracking himself up, but nobody else seemed to be getting the non-stop jokes... the Syrian government extended its intense aerial campaign against rebel-held areas of the northern cities of Aleppo and Idlib, conducting a series of Arclight airstrikes that killed at least 25 people on Tuesday, including children and women, activists and monitoring group said.
The Syria Network for Human Rights said at least 22 people were killed in missile attack on Darkoush town in Idlib province; as well three people were killed in Bab al-Nairab neighborhood of Aleppo city.
Syrian regime also has detonated a tunnel that was reportedly used by rebels in the government-controlled parts of Aleppo on Tuesday.
Assad's air forces had also conducted a new chlorine attack on Mishmishan village in Idlib, the Syrian Network for Human Rights said Tuesday.
SNHR said at least 19 victims suffocating due to chlorine gas attack on Mishmishan village near the captured town of Jisr al-Shughour.
Last Friday, chlorine gas bomb on Mishmishan killed two children and left 20 suffocation cases recorded.
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[EN.ZAMANALWSL.NET] The Syrian government extended its intense aerial campaign against rebel-held areas of the northern cities of Aleppo and Idlib on Tuesday, conducting a series of Arclight airstrikes that killed at least 25 people, including children and women, activists and monitoring group said.
The Syria Network for Human Rights said at least 22 people were killed in missile attack on Darkoush town in Idlib province; as well three people were killed in Bab al-Nairab neighborhood of Aleppo city.
Syrian regime also has detonated a tunnel that was reportedly used by rebels in the government-controlled part of Aleppo on Tuesday.
SNHR also said 127 victims died in government's shelling on Aleppo from May 1, 2015 to May 16.
The corpse count of Tuesday reached 57 according to SNHR.
Fatha Army in Idlib has seized full control of regime's powerful stronghold of of al-Mastouma camp for the first time since the Syrian revolution erupted in 2011.
The alliance of Islamist groups, including the Nusra Front, who seized large parts of al-Mastouma town days ago, has taken full control of Bashir al-Assad mail stronghold in Idlib province.
On another battlefront, activists said that around 170 jihadis have been killed in Arclight airstrikes conducted by a U.S.-led coalition against ISIS in northeastern Syria in the past 48 hours.
According to AFP, "the jihadis were killed in the past 48 hours in the province of Hasakah, nearly all of them in very intense Arclight airstrikes by the international coalition which is helping Kurdish forces in the area."
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[EN.ZAMANALWSL.NET] Airstrikes by a U.S.-led coalition against ISIS in northeastern Syria have killed around 170 jihadis in the past 48 hours, activists said Tuesday.
"The jihadis were killed in the past 48 hours in the province of Hassakeh, nearly all of them in very intense airstrikes by the international coalition which is helping Kurdish forces in the area," said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
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[EN.ZAMANALWSL.NET] The Syrian government extended its intense aerial campaign against rebel-held areas in the Old City of Aleppo on Wednesday, conducting a series of Arclight airstrikes that killed a family of 7 members, a monitoring group said.
The Syria Network for Human Rights said 7 victims including 3 children and 2 women due to barrel kaboom on al-Balat neighborhood in Aleppo.
About 150 victims died in government's shelling on Aleppo from May 1, 2015 to May 20, according to SNHR documentation.
For months, the regime has waged an unrelenting aerial campaign against the opposition-held areas making particular use of crude so-called barrel bombs.
Rights groups criticize the weapons as indiscriminate and say they are more likely to cause civilian casualties.
Syria's four-year-old war has killed more than 220,000 people and forced millions out of their homes.
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[CTVNEWS.CA] Islamic State extremists captured the ancient Syrian town of Palmyra after government defence lines there collapsed Wednesday, a stunning triumph for the group only days after it captured the strategic city of Ramadi in Iraq.
It was unclear by nightfall how close to Palmyra's famed archaeological site the militants had advanced, activists said, adding that Syrian soldiers were seen fleeing the area.
The ruins at Palmyra are one of the world's most renowned historic sites and there were fears the extremists would destroy them as they did major archaeological sites in Iraq. The UNESCO world heritage site is famous for its 2,000-year-old towering Roman-era colonnades and other ruins and priceless artifacts. Before the war, thousands of tourists a year visited the remote desert outpost, a cherished landmark referred to by Syrians as the "Bride of the Desert."
The fall of the town to the Islamic State group after a week of fighting was an enormous loss to the government, not only because of its cultural significance, but because it opens the way for the extremists to advance to key government-held areas, including Damascus and the Syrian coast to the south and southwest, as well as the contested eastern city of Deir el-Zour to the east.
Next to it are also important gas and oil fields in the country's central region.
It was not immediately clear how close the militants were to the ruins, which are just southwest of the town.
"I am terrified," said Maamoun Abdulkarim, Syria's director-general of antiquities and museums. "This is a PR battle for Daesh, and they will insist on scoring victory against civilization by destroying" the ancient ruins, he said, using the Arabic acronym for the group.
The fall of Palmyra just days after Islamic State fighters seized the strategic Iraqi city of Ramadi showed the extremists' ability to advance on multiple fronts at opposite ends of a sprawling battlefield that spans the two countries -- and erased any sense that recent IS losses in Tikrit and elsewhere had dealt a major blow to the militants.
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Palmyra is famous for ruins, and I've always wanted to go there. Now I'll never see the wonders of this place.
I am really hating sharia-loving Islamists today. Particularly the fifth column. It's depressing how huge it is in Australia.
We've imported hundreds of thousands of Sunnis (who are always the worst).
We have a raging problem with Hizb ut-Tahrir. We have mosques opening every five minutes. We are made to pay donations to spread this evil sunni Islamist sharia crap on our groceries.
Why can't we just declare the Caliphate the enemy and Sharia its ideology.
That way we can lock up or deport its followers for treason, leaving only the secular Muslims who hate sharia and who are not a problem.
In World War II, Australia AND the US had internment camps for Japanese and German citizens because we couldn't tell friend from foe.
Michio Kaku the great US physicist grew up in one for part of his childhood. He isn't resentful. He knows it was war and the government had no choice. He had good care and education there.
Soon if we cannot control our problem with fifth column Islamists who want Sharia then we are going to have to lock up all Muslims.
Now in Australia there are more than 250,000 of them and they're swarming in
every day a new boatload - always muslim - is trying to get here. It's the same in Europe. It's a colonisation we have to get rid of!
[EN.ZAMANALWSL.NET] Extremist groups have forced their laws on the people of northern and eastern Syria, severely restricting freedoms and imposing harsh sentences for disobedience.
No! Really?!? How utterly unexpected.
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's extreme interpretation of Islamic teaching holds sway in large areas of the country, including its "capital" Raqqa, while the al-Qaeda-linked Nusra Front has imposed its version on Idlib and parts of Aleppo.
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
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
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[DAWN] Sindh Chief Minister Qaim Ali Shah has said four suspects involved in the brutal attack on the Shia Ismaili community bus near Safoora Goth are being grilled to find clues to the perpetrators and planners.
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[InterAksyon] An Abu Sayyaf gunman was killed in a gun battle with police in Jolo, Sulu late Wednesday afternoon.
