[Khaama (Afghanistan)] A top Taliban group leader Qari Fida Mohammad was killed in an Arclight airstrike in the restive Marjah district of southern Helmand ...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan... province.
The Ministry of Defense (MoD) said Qari Fida was among three top Taliban leaders killed in the Arclight airstrike carried out by the Afghan Air Force.
A statement by MoD said Qari Fida was actively involved in planning and coordinating suicide kabooms.
The statement further added that the two other top Taliban leaders have been identified as Mullah Muhajir and Mullah Nemtullah who were the recruitment and chief of operations of the group in Helmand.
MoD said at least 8 other snuffies were also killed during the Arclight airstrike but the Taliban group has not commented regarding the report so far.
This comes as Taliban’s shadow judge for southern Helmand province was killed during an operation Afghan National Security Forces (ANSF) led by 215th Maiwand Corps of the Afghan Army.
According to a statement by 215th Maiwand Corps, the operations were conducted in Marjah district where Taliban’s shadow judge Haji Rahmatulalh was killed along with a member of the military commission of the group.
Helmand is among the volatile provinces in southern Afghanistan where anti-government armed murderous Moslem groups are actively operating and frequently carry out insurgency activities.
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The commandos of the Afghan National Army (ANA) forces released at least 23 hostages from a Taliban-run prison in southern Helmand ...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan... province of Afghanistan.
The hostages were released during a night operation conducted by the Afghan commandos in the restive Marjah district.
The commander of the 1st Brigade of 215th Maiwand Corps of the Afghan National Army General Noor Alam said the operation was conducted in Sistani area late on Saturday night.
He said the hostages were all ordinary civilians who were kept by the Talibs in the prison.
According to Gen. Alam, at least 20 Death Eaters were killed and over 30 others were maimed during the operations in Helmand province.
Gen. Alam further added that 2 Afghan soldiers and 3 coppers were also maimed during various operations in the past 24 hours in this province.
The Talibs group has not commented regarding the report so far.
This comes as at least 60 prisoners were released from a Taliban-run prison in southern Helmand province of Afghanistan earlier this month.
The Afghan Special Operations Forces have stepped up night raids targeting the Taliban faceless myrmidons in the restive provinces recently as experts believe the operations have yielded positive results in curbing the insurgency activities of the holy warriors.
[Tolo News] Four Taliban capos were killed in an Arclight airstrike in Marjah district of southern Helmand ...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan... province on Sunday morning.
Local officials in Helmand said that heavy casualties have been inflicted on the Taliban through the Khanjar 13 operation.
Security officials meanwhile said that 25 to 30 Afghan troops were released from Taliban captivity during the operation.
Omar Zwak, front man for the Helmand governor's office, said that at least 24 Talibs were killed in recent fighting.
"Khanjar 13 military operation is continuing successfully and Afghan forces have moved forward nearly 15 kilometers in the northern and southern parts," said Omar Zwak.
He said that Afghan forces have managed to recapture a large number of villages from the Taliban.
"Heavy casualties have been inflicted on the bully boys. At least 24 bully boyz have been killed. Four commanders of the murderous Moslems were also killed in an air strike by Afghan forces this morning (Sunday). Among the commanders killed is the Taliban's former [shadow] district chief for Marjah," he added.
Police in Helmand said that 25 bully boys, including two military commanders, were killed in two days of fighting in Marjah district.
Security forces also recovered a number of weapons and kabooms during the operation.
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] Multiple kabooms rocked Herat ...a venerable old Persian-speaking city in western Afghanistan, populated mostly by Tadjiks, which is why it's not as blood-soaked as areas controlled by Pashtuns... city earlier this afternoon after the Death Eaters fired several rockets on the provincial governor’s compound.
The Herat police confirmed that the Death Eaters had planted the rockets in a rickshaw from where they targeted the provincial governor’s compound.
At least two of the rockets impacted the governor’s compound and the other rocket hit another rickshaw near the governor’s compound, the police officials said.
They also added that a civilian was killed and seven others were maimed in the attack.
No group including the Taliban has so far grabbed credit behind the incident.
Herat is among the relatively peaceful provinces in western Afghanistan however the anti-government armed krazed killer groups have increased to their insurgency activities during the recent months.
The latest attack on the provincial government compound comes as Afghanistan is preparing to inaugurate Salma dam which has been built with the financial support of India.
Three BM-1 rockets were fired at the governor's office in Herat ...a venerable old Persian-speaking city in western Afghanistan, populated mostly by Tadjiks, which is why it's not as blood-soaked as areas controlled by Pashtuns... city shortly after 1pm local time in Herat city, officials have confirmed.
Two of the rockets reportedly hit the entrance to the governor's building, wounding five.
The rocket that hit the auto-rickshaw killed one person and maimed one other, said officials.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Senior Afghan Taliban sources on Sunday confirmed the death of their chief Mullah Akhtar Mansour in a US drone strike in Pakistain, adding a shura or council is underway to decide his successor.
"I can say with good authority that Mullah Mansour is no more," a senior Taliban source told AFP.
Mansour’s death was confirmed by two other senior figures, who said the group’s top leaders were gathering in Quetta to name their future chief.
Earlier, Rooters quoted a US official as saying that Mansour was "likely killed" along with another combatant. He added that multiple U.S. drones targeted the men as they rode in a vehicle.
Pentagon Press Secretary Peter Cook said in a statement: "Today, the Department of Defense conducted an Arclight airstrike that targeted Taliban leader Mullah Mansour in a remote area of the Afghanistan-Pakistain border region."
Cook said that Mansour has been "actively involved with planning attacks against facilities in Kabul ...the capital of Afghanistan. Home to continuous fighting from 1992 to 1996 between the forces of would-be strongman and Pak ISI/Jamaat-e-Islami sock puppet Gulbuddin Hekmayar and the Northern Alliance, a period which won Hek the title Most Evil Man in the World and didn't do much for the reputations of the Northern Alliance guys either.... and across Afghanistan, presenting a threat to Afghan civilians and security forces, our personnel, and Coalition partners."
Cook added that "Mansour has been an obstacle to peace and reconciliation between the Government of Afghanistan and the Taliban, prohibiting Taliban leaders from participating in peace talks with the Afghan government that could lead to an end to the conflict."
According to local reports, the Arclight airstrike was carried out in southwest of the town of Ahmad Wal in Zabul province and media outlets quoted an official as confirming that President Barack Obama I think when you spread the wealth around, it's good for everybody... has authorized the strike.
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Mansour’s death was confirmed by two other senior figures, who said the group’s top leaders were gathering in Quetta to name their ISI-approved future chief.
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[Iran Press TV] Egyptian security forces have conducted a series of fresh raids against the hideouts of bully boyz in the North African country’s restive Sinai Peninsula, killing at least 58 gunnies over three days.
Egyptian security officials said that at least seven gunnies were killed in festivities North Sinai on Sunday.
Three bad boys, including a ringleader, were killed when security forces raided their hideout in south Rafah, while four others were killed when troops attacked their positions in el-Arish's al-Jurah district and the town of Berth.
Also on Friday, at least 51 bully boyz were killed after Egyptian military supported by the air force conducted massive raids against the bad boy positions in north and central Sinai. According to Egyptian security sources, 43 of them were killed in and around Arish, Sheikh Zuwaid and Rafah, while six others were killed in the mountainous Halal region in central Sinai. Two others were also killed while they were attempting to target a security patrol south of Sheikh Zuwaid.
Two top bad boy commanders are among those killed in the massive security operations.
Egyptian forces also destroyed 12 buildings along with a farm used by bully boyz as bases to carry out attacks across the troubled region.
They also managed to destroy four trucks, five cycle of violences and a huge fuel dump belonging to the bad boys.
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People forget that within weeks of the 'Arab Spring' Egypts jails were emptied and Egypt Islamic Jihad and Jammaa Islamiya revolutionaries made a beeline straight to Sinai. There they received the direct support of Gaza's Hamas. Rooting them out now is tough going.
[Libya Herald] Another officer has been killed and two soldiers maimed near Abu Grain.
According to the media office of the Bunyan Marsous Operations Room, Colonel Mohammed Osuaib was killed when a mine went kaboom! on Saturday night.
However, Caliphornia hasn't yet slid into the ocean, no matter how hard it's tried... other military officials say that Osuaib was killed and the other two maimed not at Abu Grain nor in mine kaboom but in the attack early yesterday on the Baghla checkpoint in which former government minister Mohammed Sualim died.
The area around Abu Grain is strewn with mines placed by the so-called 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.... . Several members of the Misratan-led forces have been killed in recent days as a result.
Abu Grain itself is in the hands of the Misratans, with the front line at Al-Wishka 25 kilometres away. However, Caliphornia hasn't yet slid into the ocean, no matter how hard it's tried... there are unconfirmed reports that Bunyan Marsous forces are now at Buerat Al-Hasun, 15 kilometres further along the road to Sirte.
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[Libya Herald] The head of the Libya news agency LANA in Tripoli ...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn... , Ahmed Saad, has been incarcerated Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw! amid claims of fraud and corruption.
He is alleged to have sold property belonging to LANA and misappropriated LD 3 million, supposedly moving it to Tunisia and elsewhere. One report claims that when he was arrested he had LD 300,000 in his possession.
LANA staff have told the Libya Herald that while the allegations may or may not be true, they believe the real reason for his arrest is political Dire Revenge. Appointed by the former Tripoli regime prime minister Khalifa Ghwell last summer, Saad is, they say, disliked by elements now supporting the Presidency Council.
It is extremely unusual for anyone to be arrested and charged with corruption at present in Libya, although it is rampant.
LANA is split into two parallel organizations, one in Tripoli, the other in Beida.
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[Libya Herald] There have been festivities today in Sorman, some 50 kilometres west of Tripoli ...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn... , and in Wadi Rabie near Tripoli International Airport.
In the Sorman fighting ‐ allegedly between a two local militias, one supporting the Presidency Council, the other opposed ‐ one person is reported to have been killed and two others injured. It is said to have followed a demand by one militia that the other hand over a military camp.
According to a local source, locals are not venturing out into the streets and both militias are gathering further forces to back them.
In Wadi Rabie, south of the city, where numerous farms are used as bases by various militias and consequently scene of many festivities over the past three years, five people were maimed in shooting between a local militia and a Misratan unit. The reason has not been disclosed.
The five injured were taken to a clinic in nearby Ain Zara. Roads in and out of Ain Zara are reported to have been closed.
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[Al Ahram] A Libyan former minister was killed in festivities between unity government forces and fighters 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.... hard boy group in the Sirte area, the LANA news agency reported Sunday.
Mohammed Soualem, labour minister in Ali Zeidan's government from 2012 to 2014, "was directing military operations against IS" at the time, said the agency loyal to the North African country's new unity government.
He was killed in fighting in the Abu Grein area, 100 kilometres (60 miles) west of Sirte, the hard boy group's main stronghold in Libya and hometown of late dictator Muammar Qadaffy ...Custodian of Wheelus AFB for 42 long years until he was ejected from the gene pool by his indignant citizens... "The festivities cost the life of Commander Mohammed Soualem and maimed five fighters," LANA reported.
"Air units in support of this operation succeeded in destroying dozens of vehicles" used by IS "and maimed several" miliatns, it said.
Last Tuesday, forces loyal to the Government of National Accord said they had retaken the key town of Abu Grein from IS group.
GNA troops and forces of the rival government based in the east of the country and loyal to General Khalifa Haftar ... served in the Libyan army under Muammar Qadaffy, and took part in the coup that brought Qadaffy to power in 1969. He became a prisoner of war in Chad in 1987. While held prisoner, he and his fellow officers formed a group hoping to overthrow Qadaffy. He was released around 1990 in a deal with the United States government and spent nearly two decades in the United States, gaining US citizenship. In 1993, while living in the United States, he was convicted in absentia of crimes against the Jamahiriya and sentenced to death. Haftar held a senior position in the anti-Qadaffy forces in the 2011 Libyan Civil War. In 2014 he was commander of the Libyan Army when the General National Congress (GNC) refused to give up power in accordance with its term of office. Haftar launched a campaign against the GNC and its Islamic fundamentalist allies. His campaign allowed elections to take place to replace the GNC, but then developed into a civil war. Guess you can't win them all... are engaged in a race to be first to eject IS group from Sirte, 400 kilometres east of Tripoli ...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn... The rivalry between the two factions is a major cause of international concern which sees it as jeopardising anti-militant efforts.
The GNA, recognised by the international community and based in Tripoli for the past month and a half, is trying to assert its authority over a country plagued by divisions and the hard boy threat.
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[Al Ahram] Libyan coastguards said they intercepted seven vessels on Sunday carrying around 850 African migrants colonists trying to reach Europe illegally by sea.
"The coastguard in the west was patrolling the area off the Zawiya refinery (45 kilometres, 28 miles west of Tripoli ...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn... ) and ... they intercepted seven large inflatables," Libyan navy front man Colonel Ayoub Qassem told AFP.
He said the migrants colonists "from several African countries" included 79 women -- 11 of them pregnant -- and 11 children.
"The migrants colonists were handed over to the authorities for transfer to shelters," he said.
The chaos in the North African country since Moamer Qadaffy's fall in 2011 has been exploited by people traffickers, with thousands of migrants colonists trying to reach Europe from Libya just 300 kilometres from Italia.
The onset of better weather conditions has raised fears of huge numbers of people attempting the still perilous sea crossing.
At the end of March, French Defence Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian estimated that around 800,000 migrants colonists were waiting to head for Europe from Libya.
On May 13, a British parliamentary report said the EU's naval mission to combat people trafficking off the Libyan coast was "failing" and had only succeeded in forcing smugglers to change tactics.
Operation Sophia "does not in any meaningful way deter the flow of migrants colonists, disrupt the smugglers' networks or impede the business of people smuggling on the central Mediterranean route", it said.
Committee chairman Lord Tugendhat said the mission to patrol an area six times larger than Italia "was always going to present an enormous challenge".
"The smuggling networks operate from Libya, and they extend through Africa. Without support from a stable Libyan government, the operation is unable to gather the intelligence it needs or tackle the smugglers onshore," he said.
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[english.Alarabiya.Net] Yemeni government forces backed by 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... -led coalition aircraft killed 13 suspected murderous Moslems in two overnight raids near the former al-Qaeda stronghold of Mukalla, a security official said on Sunday.
Three soldiers also died in the raids on suspected al-Qaeda hideouts east of the port city of some 200,000 people that pro-government forces recaptured last month, the official said.
Nine troops were maimed in the assaults in the Rukob and Bowaish districts outside the Hadramawt province capital. Two murderous Moslems were captured.
Apache helicopters of the coalition that intervened in support of President Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi in March last year took part in the raids.
Last month, Hadi loyalists backed by the UAE and Saudi Arabian special forces drove al-Qaeda out of Mukalla and the port city of Shihr further east, ending a year of jihadist rule.
But since then there has been a spate of attacks on security forces, many of them suicide kabooms, claimed by al-Qaeda or ISIS.
Despite its loss of Mukalla and the Indian Ocean coast, al-Qaeda retains a strong presence in the province and still controls several towns in the interior valley of Wadi Hadramawt.
Washington regards al-Qaeda’s Yemen-based branch as its most dangerous and has stepped up a longstanding drone war against it in recent weeks.
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[RFE/RL] Russia's counter-terror agency says it has arrested four suspects in Ingushetia that it says are linked to Daesh. The National Counterterrorism Committee said that the four are suspected of planning terrorist attacks against government officials, police, and Muslims who reject the Daesh's views. The four suspects, all residents of Ingushetia, were nabbed during a raid in the region by security forces who also discovered home-made explosive devices, grenades, and assault rifles.
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[RFE/RL] A court in Kosovo announced that it has sentenced seven men to prison terms of up to ten years after finding them guilty of being members of Daesh.
Imam Zekeria Qazimi, the main defendant, was jailed for ten years for recruiting young Kosovars to fight in Syria for Daesh. Qazimi had been the imam at the El-Kuddus mosque in Gjilan when he was detained in August 2014. Part of the evidence leading to his conviction was a video from 2013 in which Qazimi said, "The blood of infidels is the best drink for us."
The court said that five others were found guilty of "fighting with the terrorist organization" after traveling from Pristina to Turkey and then on to Syria. The seventh man was found guilty of recruiting fighters for Daesh and fighting in Syria.
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QUETTA: Two charred bodies and the remains of a car were found on Sunday in Balochistan's Noshki district near the border with Afghanistan.
The bodies, which were transferred to the Civil Hospital Quetta, were later identified as Wali Muhammad, resident of Balochistan's Killa Abdullah district and Muhammad Azam hailing from Taftan town in the province's Chaghi district.
"Their bodies had been severely burnt from explosive material and there were iron marks on their faces," a senior doctor who declined to be named since he was not authorised to speak to media told Dawn.com.
Azam's body has been handed over to his heirs, who said the victim was a taxi driver.
Haji Khudai Nazar, Azam's uncle, told Dawn.com Azam had been driving a taxi for almost a decade.
The militant-infested Pak-Afghan border region in Balochistan saw unprecedented American bombardment over the weekend, which was authorised by United States President Barack Obama, the Pentagon said on Saturday.
US officials also claimed that Taliban chief Mullah Mansour was killed in one of the drone strikes over the weekend. The Afghan government later confirmed the development, with Afghan chief executive Abdullah Abdullah claiming Mansour was killed in a US drone strike near Quetta – Balochistan's capital.
American officials said the target of the strikes, Afghan Taliban chief Mullah Mansour, was "likely killed".
Pakistan has however said it is "seeking clarification" about a US drone strike that purportedly killed Mansour. Foreign Office Spokesman Nafees Zakaria in a statement on Sunday said: "I have seen the reports [surrounding Mansour's death in a drone strike]. We are seeking clarification."
It is pertinent to mention hear that US Secretary of State John Kerry in a statement on Sunday said he had notified Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif by telephone of a US drone strike that 'likely killed' Afghan Taliban leader Mullah Mansour.
Kerry said the Afghan leadership was also apprised of the air strike ordered by US President Barack Obama, declining to elaborate on the timing of the notifications.
[Iran Press TV] Heavily-armed hard boyz have ambushed and killed six paramilitary soldiers in northeastern India near the border with Myanmar.
The attack occurred in India’s militancy-scarred Manipur State on Sunday.
The soldiers were on their way to the Chandel district of Manipur, where they were due to do rescue work following a mudslide, a police officer said.
The hard boyz ambushed and fired at a three-vehicle convoy of the paramilitary Assam Rifles soldiers in the forest area, said the officer, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to talk to the media.
All the six occupants of the front vehicle were killed. The other two vehicles sped away and escaped the attack, the officer said.
The region is infested with active myrmidon groups that operate from both sides of the India-Myanmar border. The Sunday attack occurred about 15 kilometers (10 miles) from the border with Myanmar.
In June last year, hard boyz used rocket-propelled grenades and automatic weapons to ambush an Indian military convoy in the same area, killing 18 soldiers.
Separatist groups accuse India’s government of exploiting the region’s rich natural resources while neglecting local development.
Most of the main myrmidon groups in Manipur are not engaged in cease-fire talks with the Indian government, unlike those in other remote northeastern states.
The mountainous region, known for its natural beauty, has been the site of militancy for decades.
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[ARA News] ERBIL – Extremists of the Islamic State (ISIS) have executed 20 civilians in Mosul city of Iraq’s northwestern Nineveh province, local sources reported on Sunday.
The victims, including 19 young men and a woman, were arrested by the ISIS-led Islamic Police last week on various charges.
The ISIS-linked Sharia Court in Mosul issued a statement regarding the reasons behind the execution of the twenty civilians.
“The woman was accused of committing adultery, nine men were accused of spying for hostile parties, and ten others were arrested on charges of apostasy and violating the ISIS regulations in Mosul,” local media activist Abdullah al-Malla told ARA News in Mosul, citing a statement by the Sharia Court.
“They were publicly executed by firing squad. Hundreds of people have been invited to witness the brutal execution,” al-Malla reported.
This comes just one days after ISIS extremists beheaded three civilians in Iraq’s northwestern Nineveh province on charges of spying for the Kurdish Peshmerga force. The three victims were arrested by ISIS militants on Friday evening while trying to escape the Safina village of the Qayyarah district in southern Mosul.
The Sharia Court in Mosul claimed that interrogations revealed the involvement of the three young men in leaking security information about the group to the Kurdish Peshmerga forces, local sources reported.
“By such executions, ISIS is trying to send a message to the Peshmerga, Iraqi army and the US-led coalition that the group is still powerful and is able to uncover any attempts to leak security information about its activities to those forces,” head of Nineveh media centre Raafat al-Zarari told ARA News.
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(IraqiNews.com) Babel – A source in Babel province said on Sunday, that the security forces had managed to detain 38 wanted individuals on various criminal charges in different areas of the province.
The source, who asked anonymity, said in a statement obtained by IraqiNews.com, “The detachments of Babel Police Command were able to arrest 38 wanted individuals on various criminal charges, during raid operations in different areas of the province in the past 48 hours, in accordance with various legal materials,” adding that, “The detainees were transferred to the competent authorities for the completion of the preliminary investigations.”
(IraqiNews.com) Kirkuk – A security source in Kirkuk province said on Sunday, that ten ISIS elements had been either killed or injured in an aerial bombing by the international coalition west of the province.
The source said in a brief statement obtained by IraqiNews.com, “The international coalition aviation conducted an aerial strike, in the afternoon, on a site belonging to the ISIS in the area of Shari’a in the vicinity of al-Zab (85 km west of Kirkuk), resulting in the death of four [ISIS] elements and wounding six others.”
The source, who requested to remain anonymous, added, “The strike also resulted in the destruction of three vehicles belonging to [them].”
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(IraqiNews.com) Nineveh – On Sunday, a local source in Nineveh Province revealed, that 18 ISIS members were either killed or wounded in a bombardment carried out by the international coalition aviation in eastern Nineveh.
The source reported for IraqiNews.com, “Today the international coalition aviation bombarded ISIS headquarters in Tel Aswad and Zar Khatoun in Khazar axis, killing 10 ISIS members and wounding 8 others.”
The source, who spoke on condition of anonymity, added, “The coalition aviation bombarded three other headquarters in Khabour area in eastern Nineveh.”
(IraqiNews.com) Nineveh – On Sunday, official journalists with the Ministry of Defense announced, that 16 ISIS members were killed, including senior leader, in an air strike conducted by the international coalition aviation in Nineveh Province.
The journalists said in a statement obtained by IraqiNews.com, “ISIS leader the so-called Sheikh Ibrahim, along with 15 ISIS terrorists were killed in an air strike carried out by the international coalition aviation on a hideout in (IraqiNews.com) Nineveh – On Sunday, official journalists with the Ministry of Defense announced, that 16 ISIS members were killed, including senior leader, in an air strike conducted by the international coalition aviation in Nineveh Province.
The journalists said in a statement obtained by IraqiNews.com, “ISIS leader the so-called Sheikh Ibrahim, along with 15 ISIS terrorists were killed in an air strike carried out by the international coalition aviation on a hideout in al-Houd village.”
The statement added, “The hideout was used by ISIS to launch attacks on Makhmur District south of Mosul.” village.”
The statement added, “The hideout was used by ISIS to launch attacks on Makhmur District south of Mosul.”
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(IraqiNews.com) Anbar – On Sunday, a source in the army’s 7th brigade in Anbar Province announced, that a security force managed to kill two ISIS suicide bombers while trying to sneak into al-Sekak area in Haditha District.
The source said in a statement obtained by IraqiNews.com, “Two ISIS suicide bombers wearing explosive belts managed, at dawn today, to sneak into al-Sekak area in al-Haqlaniya vicinity south of Haditha District,” pointing out that, “The suicide bombers came from Wadi Horan desert southwest of Haditha.”
The source, who spoke on condition of anonymity, added, “A force from the army’s 7th brigade and tribal fighter managed to besiege the suicide bombers inside one of the houses in al-Sekak area and killed them.”
(IraqiNews.com) Anbar – The commander of Anbar Operations Major General Ismail al-Mahalawi announced on Sunday, that nine terrorists belonging to the so-called ISIS were killed in bombardments carried out by the international coalition and Army Aviation in different areas of the province.
Mahalawi said in a press statement followed by IraqiNews.com, “The international coalition aviation backed by a force from the Iraqi army managed to bombard a hideout belonging to ISIS terrorists in al-Subaihat area west of Fallujah, destroying the hideout and killing two ISIS members inside it.”
Mahalawi added, “The Army Aviation also managed to bombard two vehicles belonging to ISIS in Albu Ali al-Jassim area north of Ramadi,” pointing out that, “The bombardment resulted in the destruction of the vehicles, as well as killing seven ISIS terrorists.”
(IraqiNews.com) Anbar – On Sunday, official journalists with the Ministry of Defense announced, that the Iraqi F16 fighter jets destroyed a laboratory for manufacturing improvised explosive devices and killed dozens of ISIS members in Fallujah District.
The journalists said in a statement obtained by IraqiNews.com, “The Iraqi Air Force conducted a number of air strikes in Fallujah District, based on accurate intelligence information, and destructed a laboratory for manufacturing improvised explosive devices belonging to ISIS, as well as killing dozens of ISIS terrorists and burning two vehicles.”
The statement added, “The strikes also resulted in the destruction of the so-called ISIS Sharia Court.”
(IraqiNews.com) The Mayor of Rutba District Emad al-Dulaimi announced on Sunday the killing of five ISIS suicide bombers during violent clashes with the security forces and al-Hashed al-Sha’bi militia in the center of the district.
Dulaimi said in a statement obtained by IraqiNews.com, “Five suicide bombers belonging to the ISIS were hiding inside one of the houses in the neighborhood of al-Hara in central Rutba (440 km west of Ramadi) attempted to attack the security forces, resulting in violent clashes with them.”
Dulaimi added, “Four elements of al-Hashed al-Sha’bi were injured during the confrontations,” asserting that, “The five suicide bombers were killed.”
(IraqiNews.com) al-Anbar – A source in the leadership of al-Hashed al-Sha’bi in Anbar Province announced on Sunday, that the security forces were able to repel an ISIS attack and kill five ISIS elements in the southern axis of Haditha west of Ramadi.
The source said in a statement received by IraqiNews.com, “The joint security forces had managed to repel an attack by ISIS on the southern axis of Haditha District (170 km west of Ramadi), resulting in the death of five [ISIS] elements.”
The source added, “The security forces began to expand its presence in the southern axis of Haditha in order to address any potential breach.”
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(IraqiNews.com) Baghdad – A source in the Iraqi Interior Ministry said on Sunday, that six elements of al-Hashed al-Asha’ri militia had been either killed or injured in a bomb blast that targeted their patrol south of Baghdad.
The source said in a statement obtained by IraqiNews.com, “This morning, an explosive device went off targeting a patrol for al-Hashed al-Asha’ri while passing in the vicinity of al-Yusufiyah, south of Baghdad, resulting in the death of one element and wounding five others.”
The source added, “A security force rushed to the area of the incident and transferred the injured to a nearby hospital for medical treatment and the dead body to the forensic medicine authority.”
[ENGLISH.ALMANAR.LB] Senior commanders from the Takfiri ...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who must be killed... ISIS terrorist group have reportedly started fleeing the town of Karma in Iraq’s beleaguered western province of Anbar en masse as Iraqi security forces are making headway toward the area.
Iraqi military commander Colonel Mahmoud Morzi al-Jumaili announced that the terrorist commanders have begun escaping from the town, which is located 48 kilometers (30 miles) west of the capital, Baghdad, and heading toward an unknown location in Anbar Province, Leb’s al-Ahed news website reported.
Meanwhile, ...back at the comedy club, Boogie sadly admitted that he was a better peeping Tom than he was a comedian... at least 35 ISISDeath Eaters have turned themselves in to Iraqi security forces deployed to the outskirts of the city of 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... which is located roughly 69 kilometers (43 miles) west of Baghdad and is held by ISIS.
A security source, speaking on condition of anonymity ... for fear of being murdered... , said the development attests to the panic, confusion and serious cracks within the ranks of ISIS.
Separately, Iraqi security forces together with Popular Mobilization units retook control of a strategic highway on the outskirts of Trebil Village, which lies in Anbar Province and on the Iraq-Jordan border, on Friday.
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#1
Is someone there to scoop up the senior commanders, or did we telegraph what we were going to do on purpose so they'd have a chance to bug out and leave the guys carrying guns to die?
#5
Probably not, if they're running in the direction of Syria
Probably about 260-280 miles away. The town is about 25 miles WNW of Baghdad near what was Camp Donnica. Another sh*thole that was a very nasty place for our forces.
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Doesn't ISIS execute fighters who desert in combat? Or does that only apply to the cannon fodder?
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[The Telegraph] Islamic State has moved its chemical weapons operation to densely populated residential areas and is testing homemade chlorine and mustard gas on its prisoners, residents of the Iraqi city of Mosul have claimed.
The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (Isil) is reported to have set up laboratories in built-up neighbourhoods in the heart of its so-called caliphate to avoid being targeted by coalition air strikes.
The terror group is known to harbour chemical and nuclear ambitions, and is trying to manufacture weapons not only for attacks within Iraq and Syria but also the West.
It has a special unit for chemical weapons research made up of Iraqi scientists who worked on weapons programmes under Saddam Hussein, as well as foreign experts.
The head of the unit, Sleiman Daoud al-Afari, was captured during a raid by US special forces outside Mosul in March and is now sharing intelligence on Isil’s chemical operation.
An investigation by Syrian and Iraqi citizen journalists who report under the name Sound and Picture, reveal he has now been replaced by Abu Shaima, an Iraqi doctor who worked at the University of Baghdad during Saddam’s reign.
Other than his links to the late Iraqi dictator little is known about Shaima, which is customary for top Isil leaders.
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We should allow this to go forward so they will be able to fully develop these weapons, import them to Western cities, and kill and injure a bunch of folks there.
[Breitbart IS] TEL AVIV - Egypt is in the final stages of planning a large-scale campaign against the Islamic State in the Sinai, an Arab intelligence official told Breitbart Jerusalem.
The Egyptian army has mobilized tanks, APVs, as well as engineering and artillery units into the peninsula over the past few days, the official said, adding that the operation is poised to take place with coordination from Israel.
According to the Israeli-Egyptian peace treaty, Cairo is prevented from sending heavy weaponry into Sinai. However, given the two countries’ common enemy, Israel has been allowing that violation for the past few years so that Egypt can fight militants in Sinai.
"That clause has long ceased to be relevant" when it comes to fighting Sinai militants, the official said. "Israel understands [President Abdel Fatah] Sisi’s needs, and realizes that IS is a common enemy, therefore their operative cooperation is unprecedented at the operative level, with an Egyptian army backed by Israel’s intelligence."
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Who is our enemy? If you are talking about Egypt, we have a quasi peace treaty with them that allows our stationing of troops in the Sinai. That treaty is now nearing the forty-year mark, and except for the period when the Muslim Brother was PM, Egypt has been found to be trustworthy.
[AsiaOne] Malaysian police have arrested 14 suspected Daesh rebels - 13 men and a woman - in a special operation that spanned six states. The 14 suspects were picked up between May 17 and May 20.
Deputy Inspector-General of Police Datuk Seri Noor Rashid Ibrahim said, "Eight of the suspects were responsible for channeling funds to Daesh in Syria and the Abu Sayyaf in the southern Philippines. They were detained in Kuala Lumpur, Selangor, Perak, Perlis and Johor."
He added that the eight have connections to a Malaysian Daesh fighter in Syria, Muhammad Wandy Mohamed Jedi.
Noor Rashid said in a statement that one of the eight detainees is a relative of Muhammad Wandy, and that his account was used to send funds to Daesh. Rashid said, "He is actively recruiting new militants in Malaysia and has threatened to murder the Prime Minister and Bukit Aman's top officer."
He said that two of the 14 were detained for promoting Daesh propaganda on Facebook while another had hosted Daesh-related meetings at his home.
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[Telegraph] When a British-Canadian mining expert was beheaded by an Islamist kidnap gang in the southern Philippines, the nations leaders pledged to unleash the full might of the military to "neutralize" the Abu Sayyaf. But in the weeks since, there has been no sign of progress in the "relentless manhunt" for the gunmen who murdered John Ridsdel and hold two other Westerners.
During the last two decades, Abu Sayyaf militants have developed an abduction-for-ransom operation that blends ruthless banditry and religious fanaticism. In recent months, they have become increasingly brazen in their speedboat-driven raids, seeking kidnap targets far from their strongholds. In their lair, the Sulu archipelago, terrain and local support certainly favor the rebels. They hide out in the dense jungle on islands where they divide their time between piracy and farming jackfruit and durian.
The local economy there is so dependent on the kidnap business that it has become a way of life. The profits are shared between corrupt officials and military commanders, Islamic leaders and tribal elders, distributed down to local villagers who provide food and cover, not to mention the militants themselves and their arms procurers.
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[ARA News] KOBANE – Militant fighters of the Islamic State (ISIS) on Sunday launched an attempt to infiltrate into Kobane in northern Syria by attacking three villages in the Kurdish region, military sources reported.
Kobane and its countryside are under control of the Kurdish forces of the People’s Protection Units (YPG).
“ISIS militants attacked the villages of Gire Abre, Gire Sor and Shuyoukh in the southwestern countryside of Kobane, using mortar shells and heavy weapons,” YPG officer Nuraddin Gaban told ARA News in Kobane.
A number of civilians were injured in the targeted villages, before the YPG responded to the ISIS offensive by bombing ISIS positions in the area.
“Subsequent to the terror attacks on southwestern Kobane, our (YPG) forces were engaged in clashes with ISIS terrorists,” the Kurdish officer said. “We bombed ISIS positions with heavy artillery and rockets, causing the terror group heavy losses in manpower and equipment.”
At least eight ISIS militants were killed and two ISIS vehicles were destroyed, while the rest of the group’s fighters withdrew towards their headquarters in Jarablus, according to the official.
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[ARA News] DEIR EZZOR – Prominent Islamic State (ISIS) jihadi and governor of Deir ez-Zor Abu Khadijah al-Masri was killed along with other ISIS members during clashes with Syrian army forces in eastern Syria, activists reported on Sunday.
Al-Masri, an Egyptian jihadi who joined ISIS ranks in 2014, was appointed by the group’s leadership as a Wali, or governor, for the ISIS-held Deir ez-Zor. He joined the military campaign in defence of the ISIS-held Syrian eastern province against regime army troops.
“More than 15 ISIS fighters were killed on Sunday, including al-Masri, in clashes with the Syrian army in the vicinity of Deir ez-Zor military airport,” media activist Salman Hammadi told ARA News in Deir ez-Zor.
Fierce clashes took place on Sunday in the Tharda district near the airbase. ISIS militants were forced to withdraw towards the city centre after the death and injury of dozens of the group’s fighters under shelling by the Syrian army.
After a failed attempt to storm the military airbase, ISIS militants launched two car bomb attacks on the regime-held neighbourhood of Sinaa east of the city Deir ez-Zor, killing at least four pro-regime forces and injuring others.
“Conduction the car bomb attacks came in response to the death of al-Masri and other fighters of the Islamic State near the Deir ez-Zor airbase,” a source close to ISIS told ARA News.
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[Iran Press TV] Iran has captured two ISISis in the country’s western province of Hamadan, says a high ranking intelligence official.
According to the province’s intelligence director general, the two Iranian nationals with links to the ISIS terrorist group were caught during two separate intelligence operations while en route to Tehran, IRINN reported on Sunday.
On Friday, Iran's Intelligence Minister Mahmoud Alavi announced that Iran had dismantled more than 20 terrorist groups that had planned to detonate bombs and cause insecurity across the country during the last Iranian calendar year (ended on March 19). He added that a large amount of weapons and ammunition was confiscated from the terrorists.
Alavi said that ISIS seeks to hatch plots against the Islamic Theocratic Republic from its de facto capital Raqqah in Syria, but any terrorist team which headed to Iran fell prey to Iranian security forces.
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[ENGLISH.ALMANAR.LB] More bandidosLions of Islam are getting killed as the Syrian army units, backed by the Air Force, continued Sunday striking their positions in various areas, with their equipment and vehicles destroyed in the operations.
Homs
A military source announced that the army units and popular defense groups established control over three strategic points in in the direction of al-Mazar Mountain northeast of Palmyra in Homs province.
The Point of al-Hari Citadel as well as Points 619 and 711 came under the army’s control after the remaining gatherings of ISISbandidosLions of Islam were eliminated there.
Earlier, the source said the army’s air force destroyed ISIS terrorists’ positions and vehicles in the vicinity of al-Shaer oil field in the eastern countryside of the province.
ISIS positions and vehicles were destroyed in the army air force sorties on their dens in the villages of Abu Joreis, Unq al-Hawa, Um Sahreej, Um al-Reesh and Um Tababeer.
A field source told SANA that an army unit carried out an operation, targeting a den for leaders of terrorist organization of al-Nusra ...formally Jabhat an-Nusrah li-Ahli sh-Sham (Support Front for the People of the Levant), also known as al-Qaeda in the Levant. They aim to establish a pan-Arab caliphate. Not the same one as the Islamic State, though .. ... Front (Qaeda branch in the Levant) in al-Quneitrat village in al-Rastan town, adding that the terrorist Hussein Nawaf al-Nassif was killed in addition to many others during the operation.
Deir Ezzor
In the eastern Deir Ezzor province, the army’s air force destroyed ISIS terrorists’ fortified positions, armored vehicles and pickup vehicles equipped with machineguns in the vicinity of the Airport and to the southwest of Deir Ezzor city.
An army unit carried out concentrated operations against ISIS terrorists’ gatherings and positions in the vicinity of al-Tharda Mountain in the southeastern countryside of the Province.
32 ISL bandidosLions of Islam at least were killed, and two vehicles loaded with weapons and ammunition were destroyed during the operations.
Another army unit clashed with a group of ISISbandidosLions of Islam that attempted to infiltrate from Hweijet Saqer in the vicinity of Deir Ezzor city towards al-Sina’a neighborhood, where many of the bandidosLions of Islam were either killed or injured.
Sweida
In southern Syria, an army unit targeted ISIS terrorists’ gatherings in al-Qaser village at the outskirts of the Badyia area in Sweida southern province, killing many of the bandidosLions of Islam and destroying a vehicle equipped with a machinegun.
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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
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Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Senior Afghan Taliban sources on Sunday confirmed the death of their chief Mullah Akhtar Mansour in a US drone strike in Pakistain, adding a shura or council is underway to decide his successor.
[RFE/RL] A court in Kosovo announced that it has sentenced seven men to prison terms of up to ten years after finding them guilty of being members of Daesh.
[AsiaOne] Malaysian police have arrested 14 suspected Daesh rebels - 13 men and a woman - in a special operation that spanned six states. The 14 suspects were picked up between May 17 and May 20.
[Telegraph] When a British-Canadian mining expert was beheaded by an Islamist kidnap gang in the southern Philippines, the nations leaders pledged to unleash the full might of the military to "neutralize" the Abu Sayyaf. But in the weeks since, there has been no sign of progress in the "relentless manhunt" for the gunmen who murdered John Ridsdel and hold two other Westerners.
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