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Nawaz Sharif, daughter arrested upon arrival in Lahore
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Afghanistan
Taliban’s Red Unit militants suffer heavy casualties during Paktia attack
[Khaama Press] The local officials in southeastern Paktia province are saying that the Taliban
...the Pashtun equivalent of men...
’s Red Unit snuffies have suffered heavy casualties after attacking the Ahmadabad district.

The provincial government media office in a statement said Thursday that the Red Unit snuffies of the group launched coordinated attacks on Sparai and Machlaghoo areas of the district late on Wednesday night.

The statement further added that the Afghan forces launched coordinated Arclight airstrikes and ground operations in response to the attacks, leaving at least 55 snuffies dead.

According to the provincial government, several Talibs have also sustained injuries during the festivities with the security forces.

A number of the commanders of the Taliban group are also among those killed or maimed, the provincial government said, adding that the snuffies have taken positions inside the residential houses after fresh troops were deployed in response to the attack.

Several weapons, munitions, and vehicles have also been destroyed during the operations, the provincial government said, adding that the snuffies still resist the security forces by using civlians as human shields in their houses.

In the meantime, the provincial police front man Sardar Wali Tabasoom said at least four coppers have also bit the dust during hte festivities and at least seven others have sustained injuries.
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/14/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Taliban

#1  What is the Red Unit of the Taliban? The first I noticed it mentioned was in the Long War Journal link I posted in a comment yesterday.
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/14/2018 14:45 Comments || Top||

#2  It's the Taliban's rednecks.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 07/14/2018 14:57 Comments || Top||

#3  Given that the Afghan Taliban are Pashtuns, which is to say they’re already the region’s rednecks...

;-)
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/14/2018 22:52 Comments || Top||

#4  Basically, Islamic hillbillies. Not to be confused with the Islamic desert hillbillies.
Posted by: SteveS || 07/14/2018 23:25 Comments || Top||


US and Afghan forces suffer casualties during a counter-terrorism operation
[Khaama Press] The US and Afghan forces have suffered casualties during an operation in an eastern province of Afghanistan, the US military said.

"A U.S. service member died today of a wound sustained during a combat operation in eastern Afghanistan, July 12," a statement by the US Military said.

The statement further added "In addition, an Afghan security force member was killed and several were maimed."

No further details were given regarding the exact location where the US and Afghan forces suffered casualties but the Afghan and US troops are engaged in counter-terrorism operations against the ISIS and other forces of Evil in eastern Nangarhar
The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country..
province of Afghanistan.

In the meantime, the US Military said "In accordance with U.S. Department of Defense policy, the name of the service member killed in action is being withheld until 24 hours after next of kin notification is complete. Additional information will be released as appropriate."

This comes as at least three US soldiers were killed or maimed during an apparent insider attack in southern Afghanistan nearly a week ago.
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/14/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:


Taliban attacks on Afghan forces leave 40 dead
[DAWN] Taliban
...the Pashtun equivalent of men...
attacks on Afghan cops in the country’s north have caused "heavy casualties", officials said on Thursday, putting the number of soldiers killed as high as 40 in ongoing fighting.

Militants using night-vision goggles launched simultaneous raids on several Afghan military bases and posts in Dashte Archi district in Kunduz province overnight, defence ministry front man Mohammad Radmanish and other Afghan security sources said.

"We have suffered casualties, the Taliban have also suffered casualties," Radmanish said.

Between 10 and 15 Afghan soldiers had been killed so far, and about the same number maimed, he added.

But an Afghan security source said that the corpse count among security forces was "more than 40", and another confirmed that 39 had been killed and 10 maimed.

A separate security source said there had been "heavy casualties" among the soldiers.

An air and ground operation against the Taliban was under way, Radmanish said.

But on Thursday afternoon an army base on the border between Kunduz and Takhar provinces, where 29 security forces had been killed and 17 others maimed, was still under Taliban control, Takhar governor front man Sunatullah Timor said.

"No reinforcements have come to the area yet," he said.

The Taliban grabbed credit on Twitter for the attacks, confirming their fighters had captured an army base as well as 11 posts, and killed 65 soldiers and "many local police".

The night-vision goggles used in the latest attacks helped the Taliban fighters execute their pre-dawn raid, a senior Afghan commander said. He said the attacks were carried out by the group’s elite Red Unit.

"Since we don’t have the night-vision (goggles), the Taliban can get close to soldiers without them noticing," he said.

Taliban have stolen armoured Humvees, weapons and other equipment ‐ including night-vision goggles ‐ in previous raids on Afghan cops, helping them to carry out devastating attacks.

Mohammad Hanif Rezayee, a front man for the 209 Shaheen Army Corps in the north, said two military posts had fallen to the Taliban, but security forces had managed to beat back an attack on a base.
Posted by: Fred || 07/14/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Taliban


Arabia
At least 45 Houthis killed in failed attempts to restore various lost posts
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] More than 30 Houthi
...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The Yemeni government has accused the Houthis of having ties to the Iranian government, which wouldn't suprise most of us. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews ...
murderous Moslems were killed following Arab Coalition air raids in Yemen’s Tahita directorate in the country’s west coast, as well as several Saada fronts.

A security source said that the raids targeted Houthi gatherings in a number of farms surrounding Tahita, which resulted in the destruction of four Houthi military vehicles, and death of murderous Moslems including top Houthi officials.

Meanwhile,
...back at the barn, Bossy's udder had begun to ache...
at least 15 Houthi murderous Moslems were killed, and several others injured after the Yemeni army deterred a Houthi attack on army posts in the Alab front, north of Saada.

Brigadier General Yasser Majli, commander of the 63rd infantry division, said the army forces deterred the Houthi attack on al-Shaeer Mountain and al-Tabab in the Baqim district, adding that the Houthis were trying to restore some of the posts they had lost control of, but failed.

The army’s confrontations with the Houthi militias coincided with Arclight airstrikes launched by coalition fighter jets on Houthi posts in the area of Abwab al-Hadid and parts of al-Tabab.

The Yemeni army found TNT, owned by Houthi militias in Saada, following a qualitative military operation launched against Houthi posts in the Alab front on Monday night.

Colonel Sami al-Qabbati had told Al Arabiya news channel the TNT was seized after the Yemeni army succeeded in executing a military operation on the Houthis posts in Abwab al-Hadid in Baqim, adding that a number of Houthis were killed and injured during the raid.

In Baqim, new Arab Coalition military reinforcements arrived in support of the legitimate army, including tanks, armed vehicles and machine guns of various calibers, according to military sources.

Posted by: Fred || 07/14/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Houthis


Home Front: WoT
Miami Beach man allegedly threatens to ‘kill all the Jews' in condo fire
[Times of Israel] A Miami Beach man was arrested for planning to burn down his condo building after receiving an eviction notice, reportedly telling a neighbor that one of his aims was to "kill all the Jews."

Acting on a tip, police on Thursday arrested Walter Stolper, 72, as he was wheeling two plastic containers filled with gas through the garage of the condo building on Collins Avenue. They found another eight plastic containers filled with gas in a dumpster.

Stolper told police he was planning a "small barbecue," Local 10 News, an ABC affiliate, reported.
"Killing all the Jews" has been attempted a time or two previously. They are remarkably resilient.
Antisemitism has been described as the pretense at philosophy for the intellectually deficient.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/14/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  In south Florida that's gonna require more gasoline. Railcars of gasoline...
Posted by: ed in texas || 07/14/2018 7:12 Comments || Top||

#2  Well, that will solve his housing problem.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 07/14/2018 7:31 Comments || Top||


India-Pakistan
Political activist shot dead in Peshawar
[DAWN] Unidentified assailants bumped off a political activist from Landi Kotal on Nasir Bagh Road in Beautiful Downtown Peshawar
...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa 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.
on Thursday.

Family sources said that Qari Said Alam along with his two other companions was coming from their house near Regi Lalma to Karkhano Market when their car was attacked by unidentified button men riding on a cycle of violence near Nasir Bagh cop shoppe.

He was killed on the spot as he was hit in the head and face, while his lover companion Fahad was injured in the attack.

Alam’s body was later shifted from Peshawar hospital to Landi Kotal.

His third companion Tayyab escaped unhurt.

Said Alam was affiliated with al-Haj Karawan, a non-political organization of former MNA from Khyber Haji Shahji Gul who is contesting the July 25 elections as an independent candidate.

He was considered a close aide of Shahji Gul and was running his election campaign. During his recent speeches, he had hinted about the threats he was receiving. He was a theology teacher in a government school.

Said Alam remained closely affiliated with another former MNA and now a candidate of Pakistain Tehrik-e-Insaf
...a political party in Pakistan. PTI was founded by former Pakistani cricket captain and philanthropist Imran Khan. The party's slogan is Justice, Humanity and Self Esteem, each of which is open to widely divergent interpretations....
Allama Noorul Haq Qadri during his previous election campaigns in 2008 and 2013. He parted ways with Mr Qadri after developing personal differences with him after the 2013 general elections which he lost to Shahji Gul.
Posted by: Fred || 07/14/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistan


Blast targets convoy of JUI-F leader Akram Khan Durrani in Bannu, 4 killed
[DAWN] At least four people were killed and 32 others were maimed in a kaboom near the convoy of former Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa chief minister Akram Khan Durrani in Bannu on Friday.

Durrani, who was heading back from an election rally near North Wazoo, remained safe in the remote control blast, District Police Officer (DPO) Bannu Khurram Rasheed said.

The injured were taken to District Headquarter (DHQ) Hospital Bannu for treatment, where officials confirmed the corpse count had risen to four while 32 injured were undergoing treatment.

KP Inspector General (IG) Mohammad Tahir said that three police personnel were also among those injured in the attack which occurred within the limits of Haved cop shoppe.

Caretaker Chief Minister Dost Mohammad Khan condemned the incident and summoned an emergency meeting to discuss the security situation in the aftermath of the attack.

Durrani is contesting the election on NA-35 (Bannu) against Pakistain Tehrik-e-Insaf
...a political party in Pakistan. PTI was founded by former Pakistani cricket captain and philanthropist Imran Khan. The party's slogan is Justice, Humanity and Self Esteem, each of which is open to widely divergent interpretations....
(PTI) Chairman Imran Khan
... aka Taliban Khan, who ain't the sharpest bulb on the national tree...
on a Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal (MMA) ticket.

This is the third major attack in KP during electioneering, just days ahead of the general election 2018. On Monday, Awami National Party
founded by Abdul Wali Khan in 1986. Part of the PPP-led cabinet 2008-13. The ANP is considered left wing, advocating for secularism, democratic socialism, public sector government, and economic egalitarianism....
(ANP) candidate from Beautiful Downtown Peshawar
...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa 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.
's PK-78 Haroon Bilour, and 19 others, were killed in a suicide kaboom.

The attack was claimed by the Tehrik-e-Taliban
...Arabic for students...
Pakistain (TTP) which had also grabbed credit for 2012 attack that killed Haroon's father, Bashir Bilour.
Posted by: Fred || 07/14/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: TTP


Gen Bajwa confirms death sentence of 12 'hardcore terrorists'
[DAWN] The Chief of Army Staff (COAS) Gen Qamar Javed Bajwa on Friday confirmed the death sentences of 12 "hardcore terrorists" sentenced by military courts, the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) said.

The convicts "were involved in heinous offences related to terrorism" including attacks on security and law enforcement agencies, destruction of an educational institution and a telephone exchange, as well as killing of civilians.

The convicts included those also involved in attacking the Bannu and Dera Ismail Khan
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Posted by: Fred || 07/14/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistan


Suicide Blast Kills 128 as Pakistan Pre-Vote Violence Escalates
[Bloomberg] A suicide bomber killed at least 128 people on Friday in the worst attack in Pakistan since a 2014 school massacre as the country witnesses a spate of violence ahead of a tense July 25 national election.

More than 120 others were also injured after at an election rally in northwestern Mastung in the restive province of Balochistan, regional officials told Bloomberg News. Interim Balochistan Home Minister Agha Umer Bangalzai confirmed the casualty figures in a post on Twitter. "Suicide bomber loaded with 8 Kg explosives material caused this much devastation," he said.

This is the third major attack to take place that has targeted politicians in the South Asian nation this week. Balochistan Awami Party leader Siraj Raisani was killed in the Mastung blast, while Haroon Bilour, a key leader of the Awami National Party, was murdered in a suicide bombing in the northwestern city of Peshawar. Akram Khan Durrani of the Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal escaped a blast in northern Bannu on Friday.

Beset by widespread violence in previous election campaigns, up until this week Pakistan had been spared from major attacks ahead of the ballot. The armed forces have beefed up security in recent years and Friday’s bombing was the worst in the country since the Pakistani Taliban killed 148 people at an army-run school in the northern city of Peshawar in December 2014.
An Nahar adds:
The blast -- which was claimed by the Islamic State group -- ripped through the crowd in the town of Mastung near the Balochistan provincial capital Quetta.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/14/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State


Election campaign convoy bombing in SW Pakistan kills 128, injures over 200
[PRESSTV] At least 128 people have been killed in a bomb kaboom that hit a campaign convoy in Pakistain's southwestern province of Balochistan...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it...
, the day's second attack on a political event ahead of the upcoming election.

Pak media reported that over 200 other people were also injured in the Friday bombing claimed by the ISIS 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...
terrorist group in Mastung town, near the thriving provincial capital of Quetta.

Agha Umar Bungalzai, the provincial home minister, confirmed that the blast also killed Siraj Raisani, younger brother of former provincial chief minister Mir Aslam, who was running for a provincial assembly seat with Balochistan Awami Party (BAP).

"Mir Siraj Raisani succumbed to wounds while he was being shifted to Quetta," Bungalzai said.

Pakistain's caretaker government launched a crackdown on political gatherings on Friday after former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif
... served two non-consecutive terms as prime minister, heads the Pakistain Moslem League (Nawaz). Noted for his spectacular corruption, the 1998 Pak nuclear test, border war with India, and for being tossed by General Musharraf, then by the courts...
returned home to rally his party ahead of the general elections.

The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) court on July 6 handed down a 10-year jail term to Sharif in a corruption case linked to his family's purchase of upscale flats in London.
Posted by: Fred || 07/14/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Lashkar e-Jhangvi


Nawaz Sharif, daughter arrested upon arrival in Lahore
[PRESSTV] Pakistain's ousted Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif
... served two non-consecutive terms as prime minister, heads the Pakistain Moslem League (Nawaz). Noted for his spectacular corruption, the 1998 Pak nuclear test, border war with India, and for being tossed by General Musharraf, then by the courts...
and his daughter Maryam have been nabbed
Drop the heater, Studs, or you're hist'try!
upon arrival in the country ahead of the July 25 elections.

Uniformed men escorted the duo from the airplane after it touched down in the central city of Lahore at around 8:45 p.m. local time (1645 GMT) on Friday evening.

A front man for Sharif's Pakistain Moslem League-Nawaz (PML-N) party confirmed they were detained soon afterward.

Local media reports said Sharif and his daughter were put on board another waiting aircraft to be flown out of Lahore.

A series of festivities broke out at the main highway entry point to Lahore between pro-Sharif protesters and police who had been deployed in their thousand.

Sharif's brother, Shehbaz, led around 10,000 party supporters during a march on the city center in defiance of a citywide ban on public gatherings.

Mobile phone service had been cut off in mid-afternoon across Lahore and surrounding areas.

The country's media regulator in a statement told local news channels to abstain from airing statements "by politicianship containing defamatory and derogatory content targeting various state institutions specifically judiciary and armed forces."

The former premier decried the tactics ordered by the caretaker government that took over in June.

"What credibility will these elections have when the government is taking such a drastic action against our people and this crackdown is taking place all over the country?" Sharif said at the airport in Abu Dhabi, the United Arab Emirates, as he waited for a connecting flight to Lahore.

Pakistain's major political movement, the Pakistain Peoples Party, also censured the crackdown, with its prime ministerial candidate Bilawal Baby Bhutto Zardari
...Pak dynastic politician, son of Benazir Bhutto and grandon of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto. As far as is known, Bilawal has no particular talents other than being pretty and being able to memorize political slogans, but he had the good luck to be born into the right family and he hasn't been assassinated yet...
questioning why Sharif's supporters would be prevented from gatherings.
Posted by: Fred || 07/14/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistan


Iraq
Two Islamic State members killed near borders between Diyala, Salahuddin
Diyala (IraqiNews.com) The pro-government paramilitary troops have killed two Isamic State members near borders between Diyala and Salahuddin provinces, a security source said on Thursday.

Speaking to Almaalomah website, the source said, "troops of al-Hashd al-Shaabi (Popular Mobilization Forces) killed, today, two 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....
members near Mutaibija, between Diyala and Salahuddin."

The two turbans, according to the source, "were planning to infiltrate into Diyala, possessing weapons."

PMFs, as well as other security troops, "are still purging desert regions to clear it out of Islamic State members," the source added.
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/14/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State


Seven Islamic State members killed in airstrikes, south of Kirkuk
Kirkuk (IraqiNews.com) Seven 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....
members were killed in an Arclight airstrike carried out by Iraqi fighter jets, south of Kirkuk,
... a thick stew of Arabs, Turkmen, Kurds, and probably Antarcticans, all of them mutually hostile most of the time...
a security source from the province said on Thursday.

Speaking to AlSumaria News, the source said, "Iraqi jets carried out, today, airstrikes in al-Samaka village and at Wadi al-Shai region in Dakuk, south of Kirkuk."

The airstrikes, according to the source, who preferred anonymity, "left seven Islamic State members killed and their rest houses destroyed."
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/14/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State


Three people wounded in bomb blast, southwest of Baghdad
Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) Three people were maimed in a kaboom, southwest of Baghdad, a police source was quoted saying on Thursday.

"A bomb, placed on the side of the road at al-Bayaa’ region, southwest of Baghdad, went off today, leaving three people injured," the source told AlSumaria News.

Speaking on condition of anonymity, the source said, "security troops cordoned off the blast scene and prevented approaching, while the maimed were taken to hospital for treatment."

Baghdad has recently seen significant security stability, however, some kabooms take place in sporadic regions across the capital every now and then.
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/14/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
IDF renews strikes in Gaza, Hamas rocket fire resumes
[Ynet] The Israel Air Force renewed its bombardment of the Gaza Strip on Saturday afternoon, attacking over 40 targets and prompting rocket and mortar fire from the strip in retaliation.

The Palestinians reported several strikes across the Gaza Strip, including extensive strikes in the northern part of the strip, a series of strikes in Gaza City, a strike on Hamas's military wing in the centeral part of the strip, a strike in the Rafah area near the Egyptian border, and a strike in the Zeitoun district east of Gaza City.
The summer Gaza war we all been waiting for.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 07/14/2018 11:07 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Israel has been threatening something just short of actual war against Hamas if they continue their fire kite attacks. Perhaps this will be it.
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/14/2018 11:24 Comments || Top||

#2  Should they find the will.
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/14/2018 22:20 Comments || Top||


Police officer lightly wounded by explosive device in West Bank riot
[IsraelTimes] During protests outside Jerusalem, masked Paleostinian youths burn tires, shoot fireworks and throw stones at officers

A Border Police officer was lightly maimed on Friday when Paleostinians threw an bomb at the force during a West Bank riot, police said.

The incident occurred as Paleostinian protesters burned tires, threw rocks, shot fireworks and tossed at least one bomb at the officers during a violent riot in the West Bank town of Abu Dis, just outside Jerusalem.

The officer was taken to the Hadassah Hospital Ein Kerem in Jerusalem with an injury to his hand, police said.

"The remains of the device were collected by the officers for further investigation in order to identify the terrorist behind the attack and to help arrest him," police said.

Following Friday prayers there were festivities in several places across the West Bank, with Paleostinian throwing rocks at the Israeli troops, who responded with tear gas and rubber bullets.
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/14/2018 00:09 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Israel fires Patriot missile at drone coming from Syria
[Ynet] For the second time this week, IDF fires Patriot missile to intercept UAV approaching Israeli border from Syria; witness on Syrian side of border says drone crashed.

Israel fired a Patriot missile on Friday afternoon at a UAV approaching its border from Syria, the second such an incident this week.

The Patriot was launched from Safed at around 3pm, according to residents, and a witness on the Syrian side of the frontier said the drone had been brought down.

"A Patriot missile of the IDF's (Israel Defense Forces) aerial defense system was launched towards a Syrian UAV flying over the demilitarized zone. The UAV was most likely intercepted," the military said in a statement.

The army said the drone was intercepted over the buffer zone between the two countries.

The IDF said it will "operate against attempts to violate the 1974 Separation of Forces Agreement, threats to Israeli illusory sovereignty and any attempt to harm Israeli civilians."

On Wednesday, a Patriot missile was fired at a Syrian drone that infiltrated 10 kilometers into Israel, prompting a rocket-alert siren to go off in several communities in the Golan Heights. The IDF intercepted the drone over the Kinneret.
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/14/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Syria

#1  Why use a sledgehammer to drive a tack?
Posted by: gorb || 07/14/2018 0:31 Comments || Top||

#2  Training?
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 07/14/2018 6:33 Comments || Top||

#3  Live action training. No cost OPFOR. No need to recycle items nearing their 'Best Use By' date.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 07/14/2018 7:29 Comments || Top||


Palestinians fire 17 rockets into Israel as IDF bombs tunnel, Hamas base in Gaza following the usual Friday border riot
[IsraelTimes] Iron Dome intercepts 5 projectiles, one rocket falls in a kibbutz; no injuries reported in Israel or in Gazoo; flare up comes after IDF officer maimed by grenade in border riot

Israeli aircraft hit several sites in the Gazoo Strip early Saturday including a terror tunnel and several Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, bases after an IDF officer was maimed by a grenade during a riot on the border, the army said. Following the air raids, Paleostinian terror groups launched a barrage of at least 17 rockets or mortars into Israel.

The army said five of the launches were intercepted by the Iron Dome system. There were no reports of injuries. However,
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Posted by: trailing wife || 07/14/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Hamas

#1  Spray the whole area that they like to use with that skunk scent that Israel has?
Posted by: gorb || 07/14/2018 0:33 Comments || Top||

#2  Eventually, we'll have to go Biblical on them.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 07/14/2018 5:55 Comments || Top||

#3  They're begging for a beat down
Posted by: Frank G || 07/14/2018 7:14 Comments || Top||

#4  Put up toll booths like they did in Blazing Saddles and then buy up all the dimes.
Posted by: AlanC || 07/14/2018 7:40 Comments || Top||

#5  Uthman Rami Hals

Most famous for Laughing Mohammed,
Or Haarlemmer He-goat with Ahmed,
Or, had I to choose,
Autoportrait with Fuze
Smoking, Ramming the Jooz, with a Bomb-Head
.

Audacious perspective and anticipation of photographic bokeh, wot?
Posted by: Zenobia Floger6220 || 07/14/2018 10:51 Comments || Top||

#6  Delightful, Zenobia F. :-)
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/14/2018 11:21 Comments || Top||

#7  The IDF has to know they're already fighting a war. Is it that hard to get the message across to the rest of Israel?
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 07/14/2018 14:33 Comments || Top||


Israel launches air attacks on three Syrian military facilities
[AL JAZEERA] Israel has attacked Syrian military positions after an unmanned drone entered its airspace near the occupied Golan Heights on Thursday.

The Israeli military acknowledged in a statement that three Syrian army positions in Quneitra province were targeted overnight, saying it was in retaliation for the entering of a Syrian drone into its airspace a few hours earlier.
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Three Abu Sayyaf rebels killed in Sulu encounter
[PhilStar] Three Abu Sayyaf rebels were killed in a clash with troops in Indanan, Sulu on Thursday. Soldiers launched the offensive in Barangay Kuppong at around 4:30 a.m. One of the fatalities was identified as Pakam Sakam Sappari, who was tagged in recent kidnappings in Sulu.

On Wednesday, a soldier was killed and ten others were injured in a battle in Patikul. Troops clashed with militants led by Hatib Hajan Sawadjaan in Barangay Panglayahan.
Posted by: ryuge || 07/14/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Abu Sayyaf (ISIS)


12 BIFF militants slain in Maguindanao clashes
[Xinhua] Twelve Islamist militants were killed in clashes with Philippine security forces, bringing the death toll of Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters to 57 in the ongoing offensive that started on June 1.

The military said on Tuesday that eight were killed during a clash on Sunday in the villages of Shariff Saydona Mustapha town in Maguindanao province in the central Mindanao. Four others were killed on the same day in a separate clash in another part of town.

On Sunday, military spokesman Cirilito Sobejana said there are up to 400 BIFF rebels operating in central Mindanao.

BIFF members are mostly disgruntled former militants from the larger Moro Islamic Liberation Front which signed a peace accord with the government. The BIFF is among the armed groups in Mindanao that pledged allegiance to the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria a few years ago.
Posted by: ryuge || 07/14/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters


Two commies face trial after intel about plot to oust Duterte
[SunStar] Authorities turned over to the trial court in Bukidnon province two alleged high-ranking members of the New People's Army who were arrested last week. Maria Limbaga Unabia, alias Del, and Francis Madria, alias Kiang, are facing charges of murder, frustrated murder and attempted murder.

Unabia, who is from Koronadal, South Cotabato; and Madria, who is from Malaybalay City in Bukidnon, were arrested in Barangay Lagao, General Santos City on July 4.

Eastmincom spokesperson Ezra Balagtey said the militants were arrested after an intelligence report stating that communist guerillas would converge in General Santos City to assess and plot the ouster of President Rodrigo Duterte.

Aside from the accused, Balagtey said 11 persons were also arrested and were charged with violation of Presidential Decree 1829 or Obstruction of Justice after they tried to prevent authorities from arresting the two wanted rebels

Balagtey said the 11 people were granted temporary liberty by a judge after Bayan Muna Representative Carlos Zarate and Ali Macalintal of rights group Karapatan posted bail on their behalf. He said, "The Philippine National Police, assisted by the Armed Forces of the Philippines legal team, is on the process of applying for issuance of search warrant to allow a forensic test on the electronic gadgets confiscated from the 11 persons."

Eastmincom commander Benjamin Madrigal earlier directed units to intensify security operations, in light of plans for a revolutionary movement to oust President Duterte.
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#1  Didn't have the immunity DoJ has, huh?
Posted by: Procopius2k || 07/14/2018 7:33 Comments || Top||


Thai soldier killed by motorcycle gunmen
[Bangkok Post] A Thai soldier was gunned down on a road in Cho Airong district on Tuesday in an ambush. The body of Phatchai Suree was found near his motorcycle on the roadside of the Cho Airong-Sungai Padi road.

Phatchai Suree left his living quarters in Rangae district by motorcycle, heading to work on Tuesday morning. About 10.15am it was reported he had been attacked and killed. In Cho Airong district, he had been followed by two men on a motorcycle. The pillion rider fired five shots at him. He fell off his bike and the attackers fled.

Police blamed separatist militants.
Posted by: ryuge || 07/14/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under: Thai Insurgency


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
SDF launch operation targeting ISIS in Deir ez-Zor’s Hajin
[Rudaw] Kurdish-led forces have begun operations against one of the last remaining ISIS-held strongholds on the east side of the Euphrates River in Syria’s Deir ez-Zor province.

"The final #DefeatISIS is near," tweeted Kino Gabriel, spokesperson for the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), announcing the commencement of operations against ISIS in the town of Hajin on Friday.

The offensive, part of Operation Roundup, is backed by the US-led coalition.

Late Thursday night, 28 civilians and 26 ISIS snuffies were killed in Arclight airstrikes on an ice factory near the village of al-Soussa, some 25km southeast of Hajin, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported.

The conflict monitor could not confirm if it was Iraqi or coalition jets that carried out the strike. The coalition admitted it may have been responsible and told Rudaw they are investigating the incident.
But Iran PressTV is certain it’s the Americans, for what that’s worth.
In addition to battling ISIS along the Euphrates River in the Hajin area, the SDF is also confronting the terror group along the Iraq-Syria border where they took control of Dashisha in mid-June.
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/14/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State


One killed, many injured in Kazeroon city, as Iranians protest water scarcity
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Clashes erupted between farmers and local police during a protest over water scarcity in Kamarej village, close to Kazeroon city in Iran’s Fars province south of the Islamic Theocratic Republic on Thursday.

A social affairs aide in the local police said one person was killed and many others were maimed when the police fired in the air in an attempt to disperse the angry crowds.

The source added that among the injured were a number of police members.

Iran state news agency IRNA said the festivities began after authorities removed illegal water-pumps from a river.

Protests have been held across southern Iran in recent weeks over water scarcity and on May 16 Kazeroon city witnessed angry protests where anti-regime slogans were raised during attempts to merge part of the province to another administrative zone in the country and during which four people were killed and many injured.

Much of the country is suffering from drought, and in some areas tap water has turned muddy or salty.

The water shortage has compounded Iran’s economic woes after the US withdrew from the 2015 nuclear accord.

Earlier, cities and villages in the provinces of Fars and Bushehr, including Brazzan in southern Iran, witnessed protests where protesters called on the government and officials of the Iranian regime to intervene to find solutions to the water shortage crisis caused by drought and government mismanagement of water resources.

While the cities of Muhammara, Abadan and Ahwaz, Arab populated areas in southwestern Iran, have recently witnessed days of protests against the backdrop of the shortage of tap water due to the sharp decline in water levels due to the government’s wrong policies in the construction of dams to divert water to other Iranian provinces in the center of the country, resulting in the destruction of the environment and sewage infiltration.

According to a human rights
When they're defined by the state or an NGO they don't mean much...
organization in the city of Ahvaz in southwest of Iran, police and security personnel clashed with protesters firing live bullets, which led to many casualties, followed later with random arrests of more than 125 activists in the city.

Posted by: Fred || 07/14/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran


Roads reopen between areas held by Syrian forces, militants in Dara'a
[PRESSTV] Bulldozers on Friday reopened and cleared the roads between neighborhoods held by the Syrian government and militants in the city of Dara'a.
Posted by: Fred || 07/14/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Syria


Syrian government raises flag in Deraa, birthplace of revolt
State TV says the army hoisted the flag near the post office, as President Assad takes further control of the country.
Posted by: 3dc || 07/14/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Syria



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