[RADIOSHABELLE] The government will deploy at least one thousand additional police reservists along the Kenya-Somalia border in Wajir County as efforts to counter violent extremism intensify.
Northeastern regional coordinator regional Mohammed Birik says the process of training the police reservists has been concluded and the officers are properly equipped.
And in efforts to enhance cohesion among security agents and local communities, authorities in the area have launched sporting activities in the frontier counties of Garissa, Mandera, and Wajir as a way of building trust among the two groups.
The al-Shabaab ... the Islamic version of the old Somali warlord... militia has often taken advantage of the porous Kenya-Somalia border to gain entry into the country to launch terrorist attacks with often fatal consequences.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] The Arab coalition supporting legitimacy in Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of. Except for a tiny handfull of Jews everthing there is very Islamic... said on Sunday that 157 air and land permits were issued to convoys headed to Yemen within the past three days.
The coalition issued 19 permits for vessels on Sunday destined for Yemeni ports, while 12 air permits were also given. Sixteen vessels carrying Yemeni aid were also allowed into the country.
In a statement, the coalition said that the vessels authorized to dock at Yemeni ports were carrying oil derivatives as well as food and medical supplies.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Ottoman Turkish President Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First ... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey... on Saturday blasted television news anchor Fatih Portakal over his questioning of whether it was possible to hold a peaceful protest in The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... without fear of the government, Ahval News quoted independent news site T24.
"Some morally deficient person is calling people to take to the streets. What a low life. The judiciary will respond to this," Erdogan said, in an apparent reference to Portakal. ’"What are you doing? Is this Gay Paree? Everyone got their lesson during the Gezi Park protests. And in the July 15 [2016 coup attempt]. They will pay a heavy price for this."
Fox TV news anchor Portakal last week said that people are afraid to take to the streets to protest, while criticising Ankara’s response to the ongoing Yellow Vests protests in La Belle France, labelling the police intervention as heavy-handed. Erdogan has said that the ongoing "yellow vests" protest movement reveals Europe’s failure in democracy, human rights ...which are usually entirely different from personal liberty... and freedom.
’"Do you think we can do it? How many people will be able to take the streets without fear? For the sake of God, can you tell me how many people would demonstrate? They are trying to discourage social opposition and keep it under pressure. It is a most natural right, but cannot be exercised. Whether it’s La Belle France or Turkey, it doesn’t really matter all that much,’" Portakal said on Fox TV.
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[PRESSTV] Ottoman Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu says the Ankara government would consider working with Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Light of the Alawites... if he won a democratic and credible election. Say as democratic and credible as Erdogan's...
The Ottoman Turkish foreign minister made the remarks while addressing the 18th edition of Doha Forum on Sunday.
Asked whether The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... would consider working with Assad, Cavusoglu said there must first be an election in Syria and "if it is a democratic and credible one, then everybody should consider that [working with Assad]."
"It has to be very credible, transparent, democratic and fair elections. At the end, Syrian people should decide who is going to rule the country after the elections," Cavusoglu added.
He further noted that the constitution for Syria should be drafted by the people of their own country.
Elsewhere in his remarks, Cavusoglu said he believed US President Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... was considering a policy of leaving Syria.
Syria's Deputy Foreign Minister Faisal Mekdad demanded on November 4 that "occupation" forces from Turkey must leave, emphasizing that the troops must depart the territories of his conflict-plagued Arab country in order for security and stability to be restored there.
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[PRESSTV] The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...just another cheapjack Moslem dictatorship, brought to you by the Moslem Brüderbund.... says President Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... of the United States has told President Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First ... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey... that Washington is working on extraditing the US-based Ottoman Turkish dissident Fethullah Gülen ... a Turkish preacher living in Pennsylvania whom the current govt of Turkey considers responsible for all the ills afflicting Turkey and possibly the entire world... , whom Ankara accuses of having criminal masterminded the July 2016 coup attempt against the Ottoman Turkish leader.
Ottoman Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu made the comment in a forum held in the Qatar ...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi... i capital of Doha on Saturday, Turkey's English-language Hurriyet Daily News newspaper reported on Sunday.
"In Argentina ...a country located on the other side of the Deep South. It is covered with Pampers and inhabited by Grouchos, who dance the Tangle. They used to have some islands called the Malvinas located where the Falklands are now. They're not supposed to cry for Evita... , Trump told Erdogan they were working on extraditing [Fethullah] Gulen and other people," Cavusoglu said, refereeing to the G20 summit held in the South American country two weeks ago.
In mid-July 2016, a faction of the Ottoman Turkish military declared that it had seized control of the country and the government of President Erdogan was no more in charge. The attempt was, however, suppressed a few hours late
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Strongly condemn killing of innocent Kashmiri civilians in Pulwama IOK by Indian security forces. Only dialogue & not violence & killings will resolve this conflict. We will raise issue of India's human rights violations in IOK & demand UNSC fulfil its J&K plebiscite commitment
[DAWN] A 30-member jirga is in Diamer to negotiate with the people responsible for the burning of more than a dozen schools ‐ half of which were girls-only centres ‐ in August this year.
The jirga is working towards getting the fighters to surrender, said Faizullah Faraq, the spokesperson for the Gilgit-Baltistan government, on Sunday.
An initial report suggested that miscreants carried out the attacks in an organised manner, first vandalising the buildings and then setting them ablaze.
It also said that important evidence uncovered during the investigation suggested involvement by foreigners and some local controllers.
An operation was subsequently launched in the area to track down and arrest the culprits. A total of 40 people have been incarcerated You have the right to remain silent... so far in connection with the torching of GB schools, while 15 others still remained on the lam.
According to Faraq, the GB government has given the jirga the mandate to conduct these talks, which are being held up in the mountains, where these bully boyz live with their families.
Faraq said that the government does not want to use force with these murderous Moslems as their wives and children are also living with them in the mountains.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] As part of a five-year project financed by a $50.4 million donation from the United Arab Emirates, Iraqis on Sunday laid the cornerstone in rebuilding djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... ’s al-Nuri mosque and leaning minaret, national emblems destroyed last year in the ferocious battle against ISIS.
Abu Bakr Kenaan, head of Sunni Moslem endowments in Nineveh province, told AFP remnants of the minaret would be preserved, while other parts of the mosque would be built afresh, along with a museum about its history and adjacent homes.
The famed 12th century mosque and minaret, dubbed al-Hadba or "the hunchback," hosted His Supreme Immensity, Caliph of the Faithful and Galactic Overlord, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi ...the head of ISIS, or what remains of it, and a veteran of the Abu Graib jailhouse. Looks like a new messiah to bajillions of Moslems, like just another dead-eyed mass murder to the rest of us. So far he has been killed at least four times, though not yet by a stake through the heart... ’s only public appearance as ISIS chief, when he declared a self-styled "caliphate" after murderous Moslems swept into Mosul in 2014.
The structures were ravaged three years later in the final, most brutal stages of the months-long fight to rid Iraq’s second city of ISIS.
On Sunday, dozens of government officials, religious figures, United Nations ...a formerly good idea gone bad... representatives and European ambassadors gathered in the large square in front of the battered mosque to see the foundation laid. Abdullatif al-Humaym, the head of Sunni Moslem endowments in Iraq, set down the stone in a simple ceremony.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday he had issued a warning to Hamas, the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®, after recent deadly attacks in the occupied West Bank, including two shootings claimed by the Paleostinian faction.
Netanyahu referred to a controversial Gazoo ceasefire in November that ended the worst escalation between Israel and Hamas since a 2014 war.
"I conveyed a clear message to Hamas - we won’t accept a situation of a truce in Gazoo and terror in Judea and Samaria," Netanyahu told a cabinet meeting, using the biblical name for the West Bank, as is Israel’s official policy.
"We will exact a high price over them," he said of the attacks.
Hamas runs the Gazoo Strip but also has a presence in the West Bank.
Netanyahu’s comments came after two soldiers were rubbed out at a central West Bank bus station near a settlement on Thursday.
On the same day, a baby prematurely delivered after his mother was shot and maimed in a separate attack nearby on December 9 also died.
Hamas grabbed credit for the December 9 shooting and another in the West Bank on October 7 that killed two Israelis.
The two Paleostinians behind those attacks were rubbed out by Israeli forces during arrest raids last week, Israeli officials said.
Israel’s security forces say they have also tossed in the calaboose You have the right to remain silent... at least 37 Hamas operatives in connection with recent violence.
The attacks came after a deal to restore relative calm to the Gazoo Strip that included Israel enabling Qatar ...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi... to bring fuel and tens of millions of dollars to the besieged territory for salaries.
Hardline Israeli politicians opposed the Gazoo agreement and have also criticized Netanyahu over the recent West Bank violence.
On Sunday, hundreds of settlers protested outside Netanyahu’s office in Jerusalem to call on the government to increase security measures as well as settlement construction.
Those moves would make Paleostinian turbans understand that "there’s no point to terror and hope in it," said Hananel Dorani, chairman of settler group the Yesha council.
Participating in the protest were a number of ministers, including Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked of the far-right Jewish Home.
A ministerial committee headed by Shaked later gave initial approval to a bill that would help legalize settlement homes built on state land without government approval.
"The snuffies will know that we’re here to stay," she said following the vote. "We won’t be deterred by attacks."
On Thursday, Shaked said that Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit had also approved of a way to help legalize some 2,000 West Bank homes considered illegal by Israel as they are located on privately owned Paleostinian land.
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[PRESSTV] Hamas, a regional Iranian catspaw, leader, Ismail Haniyeh ...became Prime Minister after the legislative elections of 2006 which Hamas won. President Mahmoud Abbas dismissed Haniyeh from office on 14 June 2007 at the height of the Fatah-Hamas festivities, but Haniyeh did not acknowledge the decree and continues as the PM of Gazoo while Abbas maintains a separate PM in the West Bank... , has commended the West Bank for its "resistance" in the face of Israeli occupation, as thousands of Paleostinians marched in the Gazoo Strip to express their support for the movement on its 31st anniversary.
"We place our hopes in the West Bank, which is the main area where events are occurring and the most appropriate area to resolve the conflict with our Zionist enemy," Haniyeh told the massive crowd, who waived green Hamas flags on Sunday.
"The West Bank has shaken and stood up with glory, strength and skill, as if it wanted to say to our people on the occasion of this glorious anniversary that it was with the resistance, in total harmony."
Also present during the celebrations were Hamas’ armed wing, the Ezzeddin al-Qassam Brigades, which showcased various military vehicles and weapons.
Haniyeh affirmed that al-Qassam Brigades had succeeded in obtaining accurate information about the recent Israeli operation that was carried out by Israeli special forces in Khan Younis, describing the security assets it had obtained as priceless and useful in managing "the brain warfare" against the occupation in the next stage.
Undercover Israeli special forces infiltrated into the territory in a civilian car near Khan Yunis, opening fire and killing local commander Noor Baraka when they were discovered.
The unit was chased by Hamas fighters who killed a ranking Israeli officer. Israel then launched dozens of Arclight airstrikes on Gazoo, drawing Hamas retaliation. During a two-day flare-up, more than 500 rockets were fired at Israel, forcing Tel Aviv to accept a hasty declaration of a ceasefire.
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[IsraelTimes] Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu tells a group of Israeli envoys serving in Africa, Asia and Latin America that Israel is pushing ahead with forging ties with the Arab world despite moribund efforts to reach peace with the Paleostinians.
"I won’t suspend efforts to reach peace with the Arab world until the Paleostinians make peace with us. I won’t do it," he says, describing a process of "normalization" with the region.
"We are going to the [Arab world] and are not subject to the whims of the Paleostinians," he says, repeating hopes that ties with the Arab world will open up new opportunities to reach a deal with the Paleostinians.
He also says Israeli bilateral trade with The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...Qatar's colony in Asia Minor.... is on the rise, despite diplomatic tensions between the two former allies.
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[Ynet] Four years of intense intelligence gathering led in early December to the launch of an operation to uncover and destroy Hezbollah's tunnels on the Lebanese border. From top secret discussions kept from half the General Staff to combat engineering soldiers who didn't even know what they were training for—this is how Operation Northern Shield came to be.
During its covert construction, the IDF's high command post in the Kirya base in Tel Aviv—also known as "the pit"—still had a secret code name. But last week, when it was opened for the first time to manage Operation Northern Shield, it got its permanent name: "Fort Zion."
The planning and construction of the new "pit" lasted ten years. It's a giant space, several dozen feet underground, with several floors. The Operations Division's personnel sit in areas separated from one another by glass walls, with each being used for a different control center. Everyone can see everyone. Above this is an office floor, which is used by the IDF's top brass, such as the IDF chief, the head of the Operations Directorate, the head of the Operations Division who commands over the "pit," and others. The communications and control technologies installed there are state-of-the-art. The opening of the new "pit" was timed to coincide with the launch of the operation to expose Hezbollah tunnels on the Lebanese border.
The decision to open "the pit" under the command of the IDF chief is reserved for big operations, usually beyond the state's borders, that entail high risk of escalation leading to war. And indeed, when Operation Northern Shield was announced, the level of alert was raised not just in the Northern Command, but in the entire General Staff, including preparations for immediate deployment of the army's quick-response units: The Commando Brigade, which was sent to the north last week; Special Forces units; and the Israel Air Force (IAF).
In such a situation, at least based on past experience, dozens of IAF fighter jets stand ready at the different air bases. The situation assessment on the eve of the operation may have determined there was a low chance of escalation, but the operations area on the northern border—Syria and Lebanon—is so unstable that any situation assessment is almost considered an educated guess.
It's enough for a series of military operations—which started with a strike in Syria in early December, which was attributed to Israel, and continued with the massive IDF presence on the Lebanese border and the discovery of Hezbollah's tunnels—to be misconstrued, for the other side to feel threatened. This is why there has been criticism, coming from inside the IDF as well, of the boastful rhetoric used by the political echelon weeks before the operation and upon its launch, which could be seen on the other side as preparing public opinion in Israel for war.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Iranian news outlets have released mixed reports on whether or not an Iranian general allegedly shot himself in the head by accident while cleaning his pistol.
According to the News Agency that Dare Not be Named, the website of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard is reporting that Gen. Ghodratollah Mansouri, who fought in Syria and Iraq, has allegedly accidentally killed himself while cleaning a gun.
The report added that Mansouri was veteran of the 1980s Iran-Iraq war and a "defender of the shrine," a reference to Iranians who fight against ISIS in Syria and Iraq.
Since 2014, Mansouri was a regional commander of the Guard’s ground forces in the northeastern city of Mashhad, some 900 kilometers east of the capital Tehran.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] The appointment of President Hassan Rouhani’s son-in-law as head of Iran’s geological survey has renewed accusations of nepotism and led on Sunday to the resignation of a bigwig, according to conservative media.
The appointment of Kambiz Mehdizadeh, in his early thirties and reportedly married to Rouhani’s daughter in a low-key wedding this August, was widely criticised by Iranians on social media.
It also triggered the resignation of Jafar Sargheyni, head of the mining section in the industries ministry, who criticised "unprofessional appointments" without directly naming Mehdizadeh, the conservative Tasnim news agency reported.
Mehdizadeh is a PhD student in petroleum engineering, who has also served as an advisor to Iran’s oil ministry, taekwando federation and national youth organization, Tasnim said.
Iranians on social media renewed criticism of nepotism that had spread last year with the hashtag "#good-genes" -- a reference to the son of a prominent reformist politician who attributed his business success to inheriting "good genes" from his parents.
"I had no idea even sons-in-law could inherit #good_genes!," wrote one Twitter user on Sunday in reference to Mehdizadeh’s appointment.
Another online campaign this summer called on bigwigs to come clean about the privileges their children enjoy, particularly those studying in the United States and other Western countries.
The "#Where_is_your_kid" campaign pressured several government figures to respond, including Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif who said his children had returned to Iran after studying abroad.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Political prisoner and lawyer, Narges Mohammadi, sent a letter to Iran’s attorney general, saying that she is not getting her right to receiving medical care and treatment in prison.
In 2015, the Islamic Revolutionary Court of Iran had sentenced Mohammadi to 16 years in prison for "belonging to a campaign protesting the death penalty , colluding against national security, and spreading propaganda against the regime."
In an interview with the Defenders of Human Rights Center, Mohammadi revealed that her request to be seen by a doctor had been ignored several times, with no clear reason by the Iranian officials.
In her last letter, Mohammadi also stated that she suffers from lung disease, gynecological problems and as well as issues with her gallbladder. The prison’s doctors asserted that she should be treated outside of the prison.
"I have no hope in my country’s judiciary; all I ask of Tehran’s attorney general is to provide me the right conditions so that I can receive the necessary treatment and see specialized doctors," she said.
Narges often sends letters from her prison cell to Iranian officials since she was imprisoned in 2015. She usually criticizes security and defense governmental entities and their control over the country’s judiciary.
YEARS OF IMPRISONMENT One Mohammadi’s most famous letters sent from her prison cell said: "I do not have a real and clear image of my twins, anymore."
She had not seen them for three years. In another letter she sent months ago to president Rouhani, she said: "The people did not vote to support the regime, but rather to apply the law and fulfill civil society activists’ demands in the country."
The Defenders of Human Rights Center website published Narges Mohammadi’s last letter, a few days after announcing the death of political activist Wahid Sayadi Nassiri in the central prison in Qom, who died of a hunger strike that he began last October.
She was heavily involved with the Defenders of Human Rights Center in Iran headed by Shirin Ebadi, the first Iranian and first Moslem woman to win a Nobel Peace Prize.
In September 2016, the Tehran Court of Appeals sentenced her to 16 years in prison, 10 of which could not be appealed.
She was accused of "propaganda against the state," "assembly and collusion against national security" and "membership in the [now banned] Defenders of Human Rights Center."
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Not only did the statements from Iranian and Ottoman Turkish officials during the Doha Forum recently, underline simmering tension within the Arab Gulf region and its US ally, they demonstrated Qatar ...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi... ’s risk of breaking away from the Arab orbit and posing a serious threat to 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... , the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain, according to experts.
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[PRESSTV] Iran says it is fully ready for joint anti-terror operations with neighboring Pakistain after gunnies killed six Pak troops in an ambush near their joint border Friday.
Foreign Ministry front man Bahram Qassemi strongly condemned the attack on a border checkpoint in Pakistain's 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... province.
He also expressed condolences to the Pak government and people as well as the families of the victims and those maimed in the terrorist attack.
The Islamic Theocratic Republic of Iran, Qassemi said, is fully ready to take part in any joint campaign "against the evil phenomenon of terrorism in all its forms and shapes in the region," IRNA reported.
Six Pak soldiers were killed when a paramilitary convoy came under attack by button men during a routine patrol in the mountainous district of Kech on Friday.
Pakistain authorities said some 30 turbans attacked the Frontier Corps ...a provincial paramilitary force. Total manpower is about 80,000. They are tasked to help local law enforcement in the maintenance of law and order, and to carry out border patrol and a..the Antwerp-based Salafist organization that had campaigned to introduce Sharia law to Belgium before single-handedly making Belgium the highest per capita supplier of jihadis to Syria in Europe. There was a big trial in Antwerp in 2015, but most of those convicted were in absentia...nti-smuggling operations.... convoy, also wounding 14 soldiers.
The separatist Pak group the Balochistan Liberation Army (BLA) grabbed credit for the attack, which also left four attackers killed in the shootout.
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[PULSE.NG] Nobel laureate and former jihadist captive Nadia Murad called for the protection of women belonging to her Yazidi minority until 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.... leaders are tried for crimes against the community.
"All the victims need a safe haven until ISIS is brought to the international courts," the 25-year-old Iraqi said at an international conference in Doha, using an Arabic acronym for the jihadist group.
Murad also renewed calls for Iraq and other countries to investigate the fate of members of her Yazidi minority kidnapped by IS.
Murad was jointly awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo earlier this month with Congolese doctor Denis Mukwege for her work highlighting the plight of Iraq's Yazidis.
Like thousands of other Yazidi women and girls, Murad was kidnapped by IS in 2014 as the jihadists overran the minority's stronghold of Sinjar in northern Iraq, close to the border with Syria.
They were held captive, tortured, raped and sold as sex slaves by IS.
Attending the Doha Forum, Murad -- the first Iraqi to receive the Nobel prize -- said on Sunday that she dreams of returning home.
"I dream about returning to Sinjar and living a noble life, opening a beauty salon as a way to help Yazidi women," she said.
More than 3,000 Yazidi women and kiddies are still missing, probably still held captive, according to Murad.
IS captured large swathes of Iraq and neighbouring Syria in 2014, proclaiming a "caliphate" in land it controlled.
The jihadists have since lost most of their territory to offensives by multiple forces in both countries, retreating to desert holdouts.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
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.
the Islamic version of the old Somali warlord...
...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of. Except for a tiny handfull of Jews everthing there is very Islamic...
... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey...
Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir 
... a Turkish preacher living in Pennsylvania whom the current govt of Turkey considers responsible for all the ills afflicting Turkey and possibly the entire world...
...the head of ISIS, or what remains of it, and a veteran of the Abu Graib jailhouse. Looks like a new messiah to bajillions of Moslems, like just another dead-eyed mass murder to the rest of us. So far he has been killed at least four times, though not yet by a stake through the heart...
...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi...
...became Prime Minister after the legislative elections of 2006 which Hamas won. President Mahmoud Abbas dismissed Haniyeh from office on 14 June 2007 at the height of the Fatah-Hamas festivities, but Haniyeh did not acknowledge the decree and continues as the PM of Gazoo while Abbas maintains a separate PM in the West Bank...
