[Khaama (Afghanistan)] 15 bully boyz have been killed and 19 others maimed in fresh military operations in southern Afghanistan.
Officials at 205th Atal "Hero" corps in south say the operations were conducted in Zabul, Kandahar and Urozgan provinces in past 24 hours.
Eight bully boyz were killed and six others maimed during military operation in Ibrahimkhil village of Shah Joy District in Zabul province.
Four bully boyz including a Taliban capo identified as Idrees were killed and five others maimed in Klankicha village of Maiwand District in Kandahar province.
Three bully boyz were killed and eight others maimed during a shootout in Tur Nasir village of Dehrawad District in Urozgan province.
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[Tolo News] The Afghan cops have reportedly taken full control of Nawa district in southern Ghazni province after a 13-day military operation that culminated on Friday, local officials said. The seizure marks the first time in nine years the Afghan government has cleared the district of Lion of Islams.
The operation was launched under thename of "Fatha." Despite facing some 200 roadside mines planted by myrmidons, the Afghan forces were able to take control of the district without any casualties, Ghazni's acting governor Musa Khan Akbarzada said.
"With great cooperation and with the support of the people, the Afghan forces reached their goal without any casualties," Akbarzada said Friday. "The Lions of Islam planted 200 mines, but earlier today the Afghan forces took control of Nawa after nine years."
Once the National Security Council (NSC) and tribal elders have been consulted with, the governing structure for the district is expected to be put in place.
The Fatha operation was launched in Ghazni as well as southern Zabul province, which borders Ghazni. According to officials, some 270 Lions of Islam have been killed, including many foreigners, and 250 mines have been flagged by the Afghan forces.
"The operation was aimed to clear Nawa district and in this operation more than 200 Lions of Islam were killed, which are massive casualties, and now the people are walking freely in the bazaars," Interior Ministry front man Sediq Sediqqi said.
Nawa has been one of the most consistently insecure districts in Afghanistan over the past decade. The retaking of it by government forces marks a major achievement, and a promising sign as military launches a coordinated offensive around the country in hopes of curtailing gains made my forces of Evil in recent months.
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[AnNahar] Foreign fighters allied with the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... group are training Taliban gunnies in a restive Afghan province, an official said Friday, the first such claim as the government raises the alarm over an emerging IS threat.
[ALMANAR.LB] Two civilians and a UN peacekeeper were killed on Sunday as bandidosbandidos murderous Moslems attacked a barracks used by the United Nations ...an idea whose time has gone... ' MINUSMA force in northern Mali, it said in a statement.
"This morning around 5:40am (0540 GMT), the MINUSMA camp in Kidal suffered more than 30 rockets and shells during a complex attack," the force said in a statement. "Once the source of the shooting was established, MINUSMA force soldiers immediately returned fire two kilometers (1.2 miles) from the camp, around 6:00 am.
"An initial assessment revealed the death of a MINUSMA soldier and that eight soldiers were maimed. The rockets also hit Kidal citizens outside the camp, and two deaths and four maimed were counted."
The statement said some of the maimed were being treated at the barracks, and that air and ground patrols had been launched.
A MINUSMA source told AFP the civilian victims were members of the nomadic Arab Kunta tribe, which is spread across the Saharan regions of Mali, Algeria, Mauritania and Niger. Their encampment near the UN base was hit by stray rockets as the attack got underway, the source said.
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[AnNahar] Friday outside a school in northeast Nigeria ... a particularly crimson stretch of Islam's bloody border... 's city of Potiskum, seriously wounding 12 students in an area repeatedly targeted by Boko Haram ... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality... , a police officer and witnesses said.
"We have evacuated 12 people with serious gunshot wounds to hospital from the scene of the shooting attack," said the officer, who requested anonymity.
Many students at the College of Administrative and Business Studies (CABS) in Potiskum, Yobe state, said the attacker with explosives strapped to his body went kaboom! when he ran out of ammunition, but the blast caused no other casualties.
Following a wave of attacks in the city, including on schools and colleges, students at CABS must pass through security screening before entering the campus.
The gunman fired on a crowd waiting at the gate to be screened shortly past 8:00 am (0700 GMT), witnesses said.
"We had just started a class when we heard gunshots coming from the direction of the gates and we instantly realized we were under attack which made us to rush out of the class," student Tijjani Musa said.
According to another student, Mustapha Umar, the gunman managed to pass through the gates amid the chaos that broke out after he began shooting.
"He kept firing sporadic shots," but was chased by a group of students who were frantically trying to subdue him, said Umar.
"When he ran out of ammunition he detonated the explosives under his robe, killing himself but no one from the crowd," Umar told AFP.
While there was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack, Potiskum has frequently been targeted by Boko Haram, which is responsible for leaving more than 15,000 people dead and another 1.5 million homeless since 2009.
Nigeria's military has claimed a series of major victories over Boko Haram across the northeast during an operation launched in February with support from neighboring Cameroon ...a long, narrow country that fills the space between Nigeria and Chad on the northeast, CAR to the southeast. Prior to incursions by Boko Haram nothing ever happened there... , Chad and Niger.
But experts say the forces of Evil remain capable of hit-and-run strikes, and may increasingly target soft civilian targets, despite being weakened by the military offensive.
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[AnNahar] Unidentified gunniesrubbed out a policeman in the capital of 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... on Friday, a police front man said.
Gunmen in a car shot up a patrol in southern Riyadh, killing one of its members, a front man for Riyadh region police said in a statement carried by the SPA state news agency.
It was the latest in a series of attacks on security forces in the kingdom which is part of a U.S.-led coalition against Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... group jihadists in Syria.
Two Saudi coppers were maimed in a drive-by shooting in Riyadh in late March, days after the kingdom started to lead an campaign of air strikes targeting Iranian catspaws in Yemen.
On March 22 the United States resumed consular services in the Gulf state following a week-long closure over unspecified "heightened security concerns."
Saudi security forces also occasionally come under attack from opponents in the country's Shiite-populated Eastern Province.
Attacks on police are rare in the capital, however.
[EN.ZAMANALWSL.NET] Saudi-led forces conducted several air strikes on Thursday against the Yemeni province of Saada, a stronghold of the Iranian-allied 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 ... movement, Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... 's state news agency SPA said on Friday.
The strikes targeted two Houthi control centers in Bani Maaz and destroyed a mine factory in the old quarter of the city of Saada and a communications center in the Mothalath area, the agency said. Two Houthi command centers in the province were also destroyed.
Residents of Saada said the strikes had damaged the tomb of the founder of the Houthi movement, Hussein al-Houthi.
There was also heavy shelling in the west of the province, on the border area between Saudi Arabia and Yemen, and 13 villagers were killed in strikes on Hajja province, also near the border, locals said.
The figures could not be independently verified.
In the southeastern province of Shabwa, coalition forces conducted at least five air strikes in the vicinity of Ataq airport and in Ataq city itself, local sources said.
Battles also continued between Houthi fighters and opposing militias in the city, with local sources saying 10 Houthis and five fighters were killed on Thursday.
Coalition strikes were also conducted in Aden late on Thursday night and early on Friday morning.
A Saudi-led coalition began strikes against the Houthis on March 26, aimed at pushing back their advances and restoring President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi's government.
The Saudi-led forces had threatened on Thursday to deliver a harsh response to Yemen's Houthi militias following attacks on Saudi citizens.
The Houthis shelled a Saudi air defense facility north of Najran on Thursday after sending mortars and rockets into the city on Tuesday and Wednesday, killing eight people. Another two Saudis were killed by Houthi shells that hit a village in Jizan province.
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[AnNahar] 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... Friday announced a humanitarian ceasefire 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... starting May 12, even as it stepped up retaliatory air strikes on Shiite Houthis in the north of the country.
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[Ynet] A Norwegian court has handed prison terms to two men convicted of joining Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... snuffies in Syria and third man found guilty of providing logistical support. In the first case of its kind in Norway, Djibril Abdi Bashir, 30 and Valon Avdyli, 28, were sentenced to over four years in prison for joining the IS group.
The latter's 25-year-old brother, Visar Avdyli, was sentenced to seven months for acquiring equipment for a third brother who was killed while fighting for ISIS. The three defendants, all Norwegian citizens, pleaded innocent. No, no! Certainly not! during the trial in Oslo. Their lawyers told news agency NTB they would appeal.
An Nahar adds that Mr. Bashir is of Somali background, while the Avdyli brothers have Albanian origins.
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[ALMANAR.LB] Two ambassadors, and the wives of two other ambassadors, were among six people killed when a helicopter crashed Friday into a school in northern Pakistain.
Pakistain's military believes a mechanical problem caused the Mi-17 helicopter to go down, army front man Gen. Asim Bajwa told CNN, citing an initial investigation.
But a front man for Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistain, known as the TTP or Pak Taliban, insists this was no accident. Members of his myrmidon group used a surface-to-air, shoulder-fired missile, Mohammed Khurrassani said.
The Taliban front man said holy warriors had "a special plan to target" Pak 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... during his anticipated visit to Pakistain's Naltar Valley. Sharif wasn't part of the delegation in Naltar, but the TTP -- according to Khurrassani -- carried through nonetheless.
Khurrassani appeared to warn of future attacks using SAM-7 anti-aircraft missiles.
"We will soon unveil to the entire world the shoulder-launch missile SAM-7 and its training," he said.
Those killed include Norwegian Ambassador Leif Larsen and Philippines Ambassador Domingo D. Lucenario Jr., as well as the wives of Indonesia and Malaysia's top diplomats in the Asian nation, and the two pilots, according to Pakistain's Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
In a statement from the Philippines' foreign affairs department, the 54-year-old Lucenario was remembered as a decorated "career ambassador" who had worked out of Germany, Hong Kong, Australia, Afghanistan and Kenya, where his jurisdiction included 12 African countries.
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How come the Rantburg souk-cafe never has any pie hats?
But it's India, and a majority-Catholic part of India at that. How would a court have ruled in Pakistan?
[AnNahar] An Indian court nabbed Drop the rosco, Muggsy, or you're one with the ages! 13 Islamists Friday over an attack on a professor whose hand was chopped off after being accused of blaspheming the Prophet Mohammed in an exam paper.
The group were handed jail terms ranging from three to eight years at a court in the southern state of Kerala after being convicted last week on charges including attempted murder and conspiracy.
T. J. Joseph, a lecturer at Kerala's Newman College, was attacked in June 2010 following an allegation that a Malayalam language question paper he had set for his students included derogatory remarks about Mohammed.
Joseph has denied the allegation of blasphemy, saying he lifted the question from a book approved by Newman College which mainly caters for post-graduate students.
The attackers, followers of a radical Islamist group known as the Popular Front of India, dragged Joseph out of his car on his way home from Catholic mass before severing his wrist with a sword.
The attack caused widespread outrage in Kerala, a southern state with a large Catholic population. Prosecutors produced more than 300 witnesses before the court to establish their guilt.
[IraqiNews.com] The Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) front man in djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... , Saeed Mamouzini announced Friday, that 17 ISIS elements have been killed during violent festivities with the paramilitary Kurdish Peshmerga forces in the district of Sinjar in west of Mosul.
Mamouzini stated in an interview for IraqiNews.com "Today the paramilitary Peshmerga forces clashed with ISIS Lions of Islam in the area of Sanoon in the district of Sinjar, located in west of Mosul," pointing out that, "Violent festivities erupted after the ISIS Lions of Islam attempted to attack the area."
"The festivities resulted in killing 17 ISIS elements and the destruction of 4 vehicles," he added.
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[AnNahar] The Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... group grabbed credit for a kaboom on a Shiite mosque in eastern Iraq Friday that officials said killed at least 10 people including a senior policeman.
Fifteen people were also maimed in the attack on al-Zahraa mosque in Baladruz, a district in Diyala province 75 kilometers (46 miles) northeast of Baghdad, the interior ministry said.
There were conflicting reports on the nature of the attack.
The interior ministry said two boom-mobiles went off and a police officer told AFP one car went kaboom! and immediately afterwards a jacket wallahwent kaboom!.
IS, in an online claim posted on jihadist websites, said a suicide bomber in a car carried out the attack.
"Brother Abu Jihad al-Ansari... drove his booby-trapped car... and blew it up, killing dozens," the statement said.
The interior ministry identified one victim of the "twin terrorist attack" as Colonel Adnan al-Tamimi, who led a rapid intervention force in Baladruz.
Friday's attack is the latest in a series of IS bombings targeting Shiite districts or militias in Iraq, since members of the community have joined ranks with government forces to battle the jihadist group.
The holy warrior group, which controls chunks of Iraq and neighboring Syria, was present in many areas of Diyala province, which authorities said they retook in January.
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[RUDAW.NET] A frontline Peshmerga commander has threatened to attack a Shiite militia unless it withdraws Thursday from a newly liberated town in Kurdish area of northern Diyala province
Mahmoud Sangawi, leader of Peshmerga forces on the Garmaser front, told Rudaw on Thursday the Shiite militia, known as Hashd al-Shaabi, or Popular Mobilization Units, must retreat south to Saadia town.
"Upon the order of the Garmaser front commander, today is the deadline for the 80 Hashd al-Shaabi fighters to withdraw from the town of Jalawla. If they do not, the Peshmerga will attack them," said Sangawi.
He added: "Now, the Hashd al-Shaabi militates have started preparations to leave."
Kurdish forces entered the town of Jalawla in November after they launched a major assault on 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.... fighters , said Rudaw correspondent in the area.
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[EN.ZAMANALWSL.NET] Syrian rebels have reportedly cut the international highway running through the embattled Qalamoun region south to Damascus.
"Rebels seized control over [a section] of the international highway in Qalamoun between Qaldoun and Maalula," Al-Arabiya reported Friday morning.
The Saudi-owned station added that the armed opposition groups had seized control of the area after launching a wide-scale offensive on several points near Jayroud, a town to the east of the Homs-Damascus roadway.
Meanwhile, ...back at the chili cook-off, Chuck and Manuel's rivalry was entering a new and more dangerous phase... a local media activist said that the regime had fired flares over the area of fighting, while a picture on the opposition Qalamoun Media Center Facebook page purported to show the flares lighting up the night sky.
Taym al-Qalamouni wrote on Facebook that the action was conducted by "eastern Qalamoun rebels" without elaborating further.
The pro-regime Sama Syria news outlet, in turn, reported that forces of Evil had conducted an attack along the highway and killed civilians.
"Three civilians died after forces of Evil entered the Homs-Damascus highway between Nabk and the Maaloula Bridge and shot up random."
Leb's pro-Damascus Al-Binaa newspaper carried the same story Friday morning.
There was no independent verification of the reported highway cutting, which occurred some 20 kilometers east of growing battles between a coalition of Syrian rebels and Hezbollah on the western slopes of the Qalamoun Mountains along the Lebanese border.
On Thursday, Hezbollah pushed back Army of Conquest-Qalamoun coalition fighters from a number of hills overlooking the regime-controlled border town of Assal al-Ward.
The party has reportedly lost dozens of fighters, including two field commanders, in the fierce fighting which is expected to escalate as Hezbollah ramps up its preparations to launch a major military campaign in the region.
Syrian Observatory for Human Rights director Rami Abdel Rahman on Thursday told AFP that Hezbollah's current operations could be considered "a battle with slow advances, not a big military operation."
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This Qualmun kerfluffel is shaping up nicely. I have fiery cinnamon candy instead of Barbs snack-o-death.
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The highway is the main route from Damascus to the Syrian coast and cutting it is a big blow to the regime. The main attack was expected from the mountains to the west, but has come from the east.
[EN.ZAMANALWSL.NET] Top commander in Syrian air force has been killed with 13 officers in mysterious circumstances, pro-Assad media outlets said.
Major General, Nadim Jawad Ghanem, Commander of Blay military airport, who buried in his hometown of Tartus on Friday, was killed with 13 others, news feeds said without giving further details. Some say they were killed by barrel bomb's kaboom and other say by fighter jet's crash.
This week has witnessed high corpse count amid top Syrian army commanders in Eastern Ghouta, Idlib, and Aleppo.
The big news circulated early this week on Ali Mamlouk, Head of National Security Office. Activists said Mamlouk is under house arrest over leaks say he was cooperating with foreign intelligence.
Activists said Bashir al-Assad is adopting the elimination policy to kill all aids and close officers who linked to war crimes he committed since the start of Syrian uprising in March 2011.
Assad's fears come true as Turkish officials confirm pact with 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... to help rebels to oust him.
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Coup de Grass? The Air Force is always your prime suspect.
[EN.ZAMANALWSL.NET] Commander of Failaq al-Rahman on Thursday has been maimed with 9 others in Eastern Ghouta district near Damascus when an 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.... jacket wallahlet 'er rip near the rebel groups' headquarters, source Zaman al-Wasl.
10 fighters, including Failaq al-Rahman's commander Abdulnaser Shumair, and two senior commanders have been maimed in the suicide kaboom, media activist Mohammed Abu Kamal told Zaman al-Wasl.
Recently, Failaq al-Rahman has engaged in fierce fighting with ISIS in ٍthe Syrian desert on the enclaves of embattled Eastern Ghouta suburbs.
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[EN.ZAMANALWSL.NET] Syria's coastal province of Tartus has mourned 9 military pilots who were killed in Aleppo and Damascus in the last three days, according to pro-government social media pages.
Activists of the predominantly Alawite province said 4 pilots, including two top officers, were killed in Blay military airport, south of Damascus, and 5 others were killed in Quwayres military airport near the northern city of Aleppo.
Major General, Nadim Jawad Ghanem, Commander of Blay military airport, who buried in his hometown of Tartus on Friday, was killed with 13 others, news feeds said without giving further details. Some say they were killed by barrel bomb's kaboom and other say by fighter jet's crash.
Syrian air force pilots have dropped thousands of barrel bombs on civilians throughout the war-torn country, killing more than 20,000 people, according to monitoring groups.
This week has witnessed high death tl amid top Syrian army commanders in Damascus, Idlib, and Aleppo.
The big news circulated early this week on Ali Mamlouk, Head of National Security Office. Activists said Mamlouk is under house arrest over leaks say he was cooperating with foreign intelligence.
Activists said Bashir al-Assad is adopting the elimination policy to kill all aids and close officers who linked to war crimes he committed since the start of Syrian uprising in March 2011.
Assad's fears come as Turkish officials confirm pact with 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... to help rebels to oust him.
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[ALMANAR.LB] Syrian army units alongside and resistance fighters controlled several sites in the Qalamoun town of Al-Jibbeh in a surprise attack against bully boyz in the region.
Al-QalamounThe Death Eaters escaped leaving behind their weapons and ammunition, in light of the continuing progress of Army and resistance forces in the Jibbeh barrens.
The Death Eaters had earlier fled the town of Assal al-Ward, which is located about two kilometers northeast of the Lebanese border enclave of Tofeil. Al-Jibbeh is about five kilometers northeast of Assal al-Ward.
The Syrian army and resistance forces were all the day pounding holy warrior positions in the outskirts of Al-Jibbeh, one day after the bully boyz withdrew to the area.
On Thursday, Hezbollah and Syrian troops seized five strategic hills in the eastern part of the Qalamoun, taking control over the town of Assal al-Ward and Al-Jibbeh.
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[RUDAW.NET] At least 25 people were maimed in Thursday's riot in the city of Mahabad, located in Iran's West Azerbajian province, and security officials said a crackdown will commence if protests continue.
"Iranian police will not stay calm forever and if the [protests] continue we will strongly crack down on the protesters," said Alireza Radfar, a security official in Uremia, capital city of West Azarbaijan, who confirmed the number of casualties on Friday.
Radfar said seven security personnel were among the causalities. He also denied the government's alleged use of gunfire against the hundreds of demonstrators who torched and hotel over the unexplained death of a local woman.
The incident involving Farinaz Khosrawani, 25, who was killed by a fall from the 4th floor of the Tara Hotel remains mysterious. The death was denounced by local demonstrators who suspected foul play.
Anti-government media and Kurdish protesters claimed Khosrawani jumped to her death to avoid the advances of an Iranian army officer who was allegedly
working in cooperation with the hotel's owner. These accusations have not been confirmed by Rudaw.
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... if the [protests] continue we will strongly crack down ...
Is Baltimore watching this? Is 'bamers DOJ watching this?
[AnNahar] Fierce battles between Syrian regime forces and the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... jihadist group in eastern Syria have left 34 fighters dead in 24 hours, a monitor said Friday.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said 19 pro-government forces and 15 IS holy warriors had been killed since festivities began late Wednesday in the city of Deir Ezzor and around its nearby military airport.
The head of aerial defense at the airport -- one of the few areas left in regime hands in Deir Ezzor province -- was killed in the fighting, the Observatory said.
Four government soldiers had their heads chopped off by IS Thursday as the jihadists seized a key checkpoint in the city near the air base.
"An IS jacket wallahlet 'er rip by the checkpoint, which IS then seized," said Observatory director Rami Abdel Rahman.
"Seizing the checkpoint gets them closer to the military airport."
Abdel Rahman said fighting continued into Friday morning with both sides shelling positions on the outskirts of Deir Ezzor city.
Local activist Mohammad al-Khleif confirmed IS had gained control of the Jamyan checkpoint in the city's southeast.
IS already controls most of Deir Ezzor province and roughly half its capital, he told AFP.
If its offensive succeeds, Deir Ezzor would be the second thriving provincial capital to fall to the group, after it named the northern city of Raqa the capital of its "caliphate."
In northern Syria, at least six non-combatants were killed Thursday in attacks in Aleppo city, once Syria's commercial hub but now divided between government control in the west and rebels in the east.
The Britannia-based Observatory said a woman and three children died after rebel rocket attacks on the government-held Ashrafiyeh neighborhood.
A father and his young son were killed by snipers in another regime-held area.
In Aleppo province, a fierce attack by IS on the regime's Kweyris military airport left seven pro-government forces dead.
According to the Observatory, IS has surrounded the airport but are coming under fire from regime war planes.
Southeast of Syria's capital, an kaboom in the Billi military airport killed 13 regime soldiers, including the base's head, the Observatory said.
"The blast happened inside a plane within the base, but the causes are still unclear," Abdel Rahman said.
Billi air base lies 40 kilometers (25 miles) southeast of Damascus along a main highway that leads to the regime-controlled city of Sweida.
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[RUDAW.NET] The office of Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has ordered security forces to avoid clashing with demonstrators and withdraw from the area where angry protestors torched a hotel in downtown Mahabad Thursday afternoon.
Rudaw has learned that Iranian security forces have withdrawn from the area around Tara Hotel where a female employee named Farinaz Khosrawani, 25, jumped to her death to avoid "rape by a security officer,"
Thousands of residents of Mahabd erupted into the streets of Mahabad after a call from opposition women's rights activists to protest Farinza's death.
Eyewitnesses told Rudaw that as a result of confrontations with the police and the use of tear gas 18 people have been injured.
"The mayor's office and the office of the president believe that protecting people's lives is more important than the hotel," an official inside Mahabad mayor's office told Rudaw.
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[RUDAW.NET] Tensions are on edge in the ethnically Kurdish city of Mahabad, Iran, where protesters earlier torched a hotel over the unexplained death one of its female employees.
Police on Thursday used tear gas to remove hundreds of demonstrators from the area in front of the damaged Tara Hotel, leading to near riot conditions in the city some 200km from the border with Iraq's Kurdistan region.
At least one protester has been reported injured in the incident that began after the death of Farinaz Khosrawani, 25, who was killed by a fall from the 4th floor of the hotel.
The death was denounced by local demonstrators who suspected foul play. Despite the arrest of a suspect, protesters set fire to part of the hotel.
"The people must wait until the investigation results are out to find out the reason behind Khosrawani's death," Jaafar Katani, Muhabat mayor, told Rudaw.
Khosrawani's family agreed withe the investigation but tensions remain high in the city of 280,000 people.
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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.
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trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[ALMANAR.LB] Two ambassadors, and the wives of two other ambassadors, were among six people killed when a helicopter crashed Friday into a school in northern Pakistain.
