[ALMANAR.LB] Two children were killed and three others sustained injuries as a kaboom hit Imam Sahib District in Afghanistan's northern Kunduz province on Wednesday, a local official said.
"A mine planted by turbans under a bridge in Imam Sahib district went off at around 10:00 am local time, killing two children and injuring three others, including two children and a woman," district governor Imamudin Qurishi told Xinhua news agency.
He also blamed the attack on the enemies of peace, a reference to the Talibs. However, the difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits... the gang, which is fighting the government and are active in parts of Imam District and the neighboring Dasht-e-Archi district, has yet to claim responsibility.
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ABUDWAK -- At least eight fighters from the opposing sides have been reported killed in the second day of deadly clashes in a row in central Somalia town of Abudwak, Garowe Online reports.
Outstanding example of fire control discipline in a pic at the link.
Medics and witnesses said, the fighting raged between forces loyal to Interim Galmudug administration and moderate Islamists, Ahlu Sunna Wal Jamea early in the morning.
The deadly clashes which dragged from Tuesday into late on Wednesday flared up after Ahlu Sunna militiamen raided a building housing Galmudug Commerce Minister Abdilatif Abdullahi Warsame.
A spokesman for Galmudug and Deputy Minister for Constitution, Mohamed Hayir Nur told the media that Ahlu Sunna fomented the deadly violence.
The heaviest armed confrontations began in Abudwak’s October neighborhood where residents are fleeing. Unverified reports indicate that Galmudug soldiers managed to seize Abudwak Police Station, with Ahlu Sunna militias regrouping in vicinity, 3km off Abudwak town.
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[BBC] Three men have been arrested at a shopping center in Nairobi with a suspected explosive device, which has since been detonated in a controlled explosion. A witness said one of the men refused to be searched by security guards and was overpowered in the ensuing scuffle.
Police spokesman George Kinoti said that the three men in custody were all Kenyans and the explosives were discovered in one of their bags. He said, "The situation is under [the] absolute control of our security agencies and the entire country is under multi-agency surveillance."
Reports say it is believed to have been a small explosive device with a battery and a mobile phone attached.
[AlAhram] Egypt's army said it killed 27 Death Eaters in the latter stages of a second day of a major operation it began on Monday to eliminate Death Eaters in volatile North Sinai, bringing the corpse count to 56.
The army said 154 suspected Death Eaters have now been locked away Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out! by troops and anti-terror police backed up by air support.
Operation Martyr's Right was launched on Monday morning to "root out terrorist elements" in the North Sinai towns of Rafah, Arish and Sheikh Zuweid, in what sources described as the biggest operation of recent months.
Earlier on Tuesday the military said forces had killed 29 "terrorist elements" as it began the "comprehensive operation." It said an army officer and a soldier were also killed, and four maimed, when their armoured vehicle drove over a bomb.
A subsequent statement late on Tuesday said another 27 had been killed, driving the toll up to 56 in two days. It added that forces burnt out several terrorist "dens" and destroyed two explosives caches and tens of cycle of violences and other vehicles used by Death Eaters in terrorist operations.
It also released a three-minute video documenting air and ground assaults on targets in the northern part of the Sinai Peninsula.
Islamist hard boy group Ansar Beit Al-Maqdis, the Egyptian 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.... -affiliate that has intensified attacks on army and police personnel since the 2013 ouster of Islamist president Mohammed Morsi, has grabbed credit for most anti-state attacks in Egypt's North Sinai.
The group said it killed the two soldiers on Monday with a roadside kaboom that blew up their armoured vehicle as it left a military base in a large convoy.
[AnNahar] Algerian soldiers killed two Islamist gunnies Wednesday during an ongoing operation against Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb group, the defense ministry said.
The two were killed near Ain el-Hamra village in the corpse-littered Boumerdes region, some 50 kilometers (30 miles) east of Algiers.
Troops also recovered a Kalashnikov assault rifle and ammunition.
The ministry said the operation against AQIM in the area was still under way.
Algeria still bears the scars of a brutal war between the state and Islamist murderous Moslems in the 1990s.
Despite the adoption in 2005 of a peace and reconciliation charter that was meant to turn the page on a conflict that claimed 200,000 lives, armed Islamist groups are still active.
In July, at least nine soldiers were killed in an ambush southwest of Algiers, an attack claimed by AQIM, which said more than 14 died.
The ministry says that more than 60 Islamists have been killed this year, and that upwards of 100 were killed in 2014.
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[Libya Herald] Attempts by Amazigh elders from the Jebel Nafusa to end the fighting between Tuareg and Tebu militias in the south-western oasis town of Obari have ground to a halt because of ceasefire violations, a senior local Tuareg official has said.
According to Mohammed Abdul Karim, a member of the Social Council of Tuareg Tribes, there has been a two-day meeting between the two communities' representatives at which it was agreed to set up a joint committee chaired by an Amazighi. At it there was agreement on a number of points as well as disagreements on others, but it had agreed a second meeting in Sebha to try and iron them out. However, those who apply themselves too closely to little things often become incapable of great things... the main problem, he claimed, was the continuing attacks by Tebus. They had to return to their positions, he insisted. There could be no confidence in negotiations while the violations continued.
Also according to him, the Amazigh mediators had proposed a month-long ceasefire during which the joint committee would work out terms for a permanent peace, including the withdrawal of armed forces from the area. Describing the Amazigh proposals as "excellent" and saying they could work, Abdul Karim claimed that the Tebus had rejected a truce longer than 10 days.
Nonetheless, there would now be a further meeting to overcome the problem, he said.
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[Libya Herald] Heavy fighting ... as opposed to the more usual name-calling or slapsy... which broke out this afternoon near Sabratha between local revolutionaries backed by Western Libya Shield ...a conglomerate of pro-Islamist militias deployed across Libya. It reports to the Libyan defense ministry and is organized like a real army unit. Its commander used to head a Benghazi brigade called Free Libya Martyrs... fighters and a Libyan National Army (LNA) Supported Forces unit, intensified during the evening and triggered other festivities in Sayad, west of Janzour. The coast road was reported to be closed.
Involving heavy weapons, the fighting in Sayed is said to be between Warshefana forces and the Fursan Janzour brigade, part of the revolutionaries' alliance supporting the General National Congress in Tripoli ...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn... .
Both sets of festivities have, however, been condemned by Colonel Idris Madi, the head of the LNA's Tripoli (formerly Western) Operations Room based in Zintan. In a statement, he said that what was happening had not been launched by the LNA, was an illegal operation and the responsibility of those involved.
Earlier there were unconfirmed reports that four members of the Supported Forces unit, fighting in an area known as Ras Yusuf between Sabratha and Ajilat, had been captured alive by the revolutionaries but were then taken to Sabratha and shot.
For their part the Supported Forces, many of them from Ajilat, claim to have killed one of the revolutionaries and captured another, said to be from Sorman.
Reinforcements have been sent to the revolutionaries from Zawia, from the Furqan brigade, one of a number of local Islamist brigades controlled by Abu Obeida Al-Zawi. It is further reported that fighters from Sabratha, Zawia and Sorman who last week were said to have moved in to "protect" the Mellitah gas complex near Zuwara have gone to join the fight.
In an unrelated development on Tuesday night but equally indicative of the lack of LNA control over local forces, there was fighting between a Supported Forces unit and LNA military police on the road between Al-Assa and Rigdaleen in the Jebel Nafusa. The skirmishes, said to have involved the Warshfana's Al-Keba brigade led by Mohammed Eshtewi, did not result in any casualties.
It is the first time that there have been festivities in the region between units supposedly under the control of the western Libya operations room based in Zintan and supporting the House of Representatives in Tobruk.
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[ALMANAR.LB] A boom-mobilewent kaboom! near a prison in the Libyan capital where former officials of Muammar Gaddhafi's regime, including the dictator's playboy son, are being held, an official said.
"A boom-mobilewent kaboom! close to the Al-Habda al-Khadra prison, where there is also an interior ministry brigade headquarters," prison front man Othman al-Ghellani told AFP.
"The car blew up around 150 meters (yards) from the prison's perimeter wall," he said.
"Initial investigations found that a woman parked the car there under the pretext of wanting to visit an inmate."
Ghellani said no one was hurt in the blast, which damaged two nearby cars.
Al-Hadba is controlled by the Fajr Libya militia coalition which seized Tripoli ...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn... last year and is opposed to the internationally recognized government which is based in the east.
The jail is currently home to several former Qadaffy henchmen, many of whom have already been sentenced to death or to life imprisonment for crimes committed during the longtime autocrat's decades-long rule.
His son Saadi is being held there. The former Libyan football team captain was extradited to Libya from Niger in March 2014 and is due back in court on Monday.
Last year, a video emerged appearing to show officials and guards at the prison ill-treating several detainees, including Saadi.
The krazed killerIslamic 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 has taken advantage of the chaos engulfing Libya since Qadaffy's ouster in 2011 to expand into some coastal areas and claim a number of bombings in Tripoli, including a boom-mobile last week on an oil firm headquarters.
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[ALMANAR.LB] Saudi fighter jets pounded several residential areas across 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... on Wednesday and bombed the Yemeni capital as many as 25 times, killing and injuring more civilians.
The aggression war planes targeted the area of al-Nahzeh in Sana'a, killing four civilians and injuring seven others.
At least four other people also sustained injuries in the Saudi Arclight airstrikes in the area of Jamalan in the capital. Saudi Arclight airstrikes also hit the area of al-Hadeh.
Meanwhile, ...back at the chili cook-off, Chuck and Manuel's rivalry was entering a new and more dangerous phase... the Saudi-US fighter jets also pounded the province of Sa'ada, targeting a hospital and a residential area in the district of Dhaher.
The hostile warplanes also targeted a school in the district of Haydan in Sa'ada. There has been no immediate report of possible casualties.
In another development, Yemen's army and Popular Committees forces fired Katyusha rockets at Saudi troops in the area of Sahn al-Jin in the Yemeni province of Ma'rib on Wednesday (250 kilometers East of the capital, Sana'a) in retaliation for Riyadh's ongoing Arclight airstrikes.
A number of Saudi military vehicles were destroyed and some other items of military equipment were damaged in the attacks.
The Yemeni forces also fired rockets at a number of Saudi military bases in the Southwest of the Persian Gulf kingdom.
Earlier on Tuesday, the Yemeni national military and PC forces fired a barrage of rackets at a Saudi border guard headquarters in Dhahran al-Janub, southwest of the Persian Gulf kingdom.
No reports of possible casualties and the extent of damage inflicted were immediately available.
The Yemeni forces also targeted 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 Khojrah military site in the Saudi Jizan border region, leaving a number of Saudi soldiers killed and maimed.
Saudi Arabia has been striking Yemen for more than five months (168 days) now to restore power to runaway president Abed-Rabbu Mansour Hadi, a close ally of Riyadh. The Saudi-led aggression has so far killed at least 5,788 Yemenis, including hundreds of women and kiddies.
Hadi stepped down in January and refused to reconsider the decision despite calls by Ansarullah revolutionaries of the 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.
Despite Riyadh's claims that it is bombing the positions of the Ansarullah fighters, Saudi warplanes are flattening residential areas and civilian infrastructures.
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In February 2014 a committee of senior members of Yemen's political parties, and chaired by Yemen President Mansur Hadi, agreed to recreate a perpetually fractious Yemen into a federation of six regions. The participants thus rejected a two state solution -- a North and South -- the same situation that existed from 1967-1990 and was cause of much bloodshed. One region created was devoted to the Shiite Houthi minority. The meeting and subsequent agreement were sponsored by the Gulf states and the UN.
However, the Houthi soon broke the cease-fire and must now face the consequence. Despite Iranian support the Houthi homeland is being bombed, and the Saudis will not quit until the region returns to the 12th century and the Shiite community is decimated.
[RFE/RL] An imam in Dagestan region has been killed. Russia's Investigative Committee says two masked men gunned down Magomed Khidirov early in the morning of September 9 while he was on his way to a mosque in Novy Kurush. The village is located in the western Khasavyurt district bordering Chechnya.
The killing of Khidirov came three weeks after another Islamic cleric, Zamirbek Makhmutov was gunned down in the Stavropol region neighboring Dagestan.
Imams appointed by the official Spiritual Directorates of Muslims in Russia usually support government's policies and propagate moderate Islam.
[Ynet] German prosecutors have charged a 25-year-old German man with membership in a terrorist organization over allegations he joined 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 in Syria.
The federal prosecutor's office said Wednesday that the suspect, identified only as Nils D. in line with German privacy regulations, traveled
to Syria around October 2013 to join the group. They say he received firearms and explosives training and, from April to November 2014, was tasked with tracking down deserters. He's also alleged to have provided the organization up to 9,000 euros ($10,060).
He returned to Germany in November 2014 and was nabbed Drop the gat, Rocky, or you're a dead 'un! Jan. 10 in the Duesseldorf area. He has been in jug since.
Authorities say there's no evidence he was planning attacks in Germany.
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With all those 'refugees' they're about to let in, this will become a standing headline for years to come.
[Hurriyet Daily News] A massive military operation after a deadly terrorist attack that killed 16 troops on Sept. 6 resulted in the deaths of around 100 Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) myrmidons, the Anadolu Agency reported on Sept. 9, citing military sources.
Turkish Air and Land Forces conducted a coordinated operation on the group that perpetrated the deadly Daglica attack and their hideouts since Sept. 6, the report said, adding that special forces also joined the campaign.
In a bid to neutralize fleeing terrorists, two special forces teams and eight gendarmerie units composed of 150 security personnel crossed into the northern Iraq, the Agency said. Terrorists have been hit by aerial bombings while their camps in the Kandil Mountain and in northern Iraq have also been severely bombed.
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The Turks must have learned from CENTCOM how to report on military activity.
[Hurriyet Daily News] Nationwide demonstrations have been held in The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... to protest recent terrorist acts, following calls from far-right organizations, while several of them turned violent on Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) buildings in many cities, including Ankara.
The HDP headquarters in Turkey's capital of Ankara as well as local party buildings across the country have been attacked in demonstrations, protesting the killings of security personnel in outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) attacks in the country's east and southeast.
Thousands of protesters waving Turkish flags, including Nationalist Movement Party Deputy Group Chair Oktay Vural, Idealist Hearths Head Olcay Kilavuz and MHP Ankara Provincial Head Baki Cetinkaya, staged a demonstration in Ankara on Sept. 8 upon a call for protest by Idealist Hearths ("Ülku Ocaklari" in Turkish), a far-right organization with purportedly close links to the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP).
Kilavuz said large numbers of coppers and soldiers had been killed in a spate of "cowardly attacks" since July 20, a markedly momentous date in recent Turkish history with a deadly kaboom, which 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.... of Iraq and the Levent (ISIL) grabbed credit for, that left dozens dead and over 100 others injured in the southeastern town of Suruc.
Around 50 protesters marched toward Ankara's HDP headquarters to enter the building, but faced a police barricade at the entry and exit of the street where the headquarters is located.
Several protesters who escaped the barricade hurled stones at the building, smashed the HDP banner at its entry and hoisted a Turkish flag on HDP's flag pole after coppers fired tear gas to disperse the crowd.
In protests staged in the central Anatolian province of Kirsehir, four workplaces owned by Kurdish people were burnt and 13 offices owned by Kurds were smashed. Some 30 suspects were detained for violent acts in the central Turkish city.
In a march staged in the northwestern province of Balikesir in protest against attacks on soldiers in the eastern province of Igdir and the southeastern province of Hakkari, a large number of protesters hurled stones at HDP's building in Balikesir's Burhaniye district, smashing the building's windows. A police officer was injured in the incident.
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[Hurriyet Daily News] A group of people marching from Istanbul's Mecidiyeköy neighborhood to the Besiktas district to condemn terror, after three deadly attacks killed a total of 30 Turkish security officers in in The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... 's eastern provinces in just three days, began protesting the media group which includes daily Sabah and private broadcaster ATV while in front of their common building late Sept. 8.
Sabah reported the group attacked the building with stones and water bottles and tried to enter it, while adding police had difficulty preventing the protesters from entering the building.
The Turkish Journalists' Association (TGC) released a written statement condemning the attacks on Sabah and ATV, and also a separate attack on daily Hurriyet on the same night.
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[DAWN] KARACHI: Senior journalist Aftab Alam was killed in a gun attack near his home in Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... 's North Karachi neighbourhood on Wednesday, television reports said.
Unknown assailants opened fire on Alam near his home in North Karachi's Sector 11-C. Alam was rushed to the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital where doctors declared him dead. He's dead, Jim! after an external examination.
Later, Alam's mother and sister took his body to the Aga Khan University Hospital (AKUH).
He was shot in the head upon leaving his residence to pick his children up from school. DIG West Feroz Shah said the police recovered three 9 MM bullet casings from the site.
The shooting took place near Sir Syed market and within the remits of the Sir Syed cop shoppe.
Alam, 42, was unemployed for the past year and a half on account of health issues and had previously worked with Geo News. He was also reportedly associated with Samaa TV at one point.
Sindh Chief Minister Syed Qaim Ali Shah took notice of the murder and directed the police to submit a report on the incident. He has ordered for the immediate arrest of those behind the attack.
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... condemned the attack and prayed for eternal peace for the departed soul. He also directed relevant authorities to make a comprehensive security plan for journalists in Pakistain immediately.
Sindh Interior Minister Suhail Anwar Siyal demanded a report about the attack from Inspector General Police (IGP) Sindh Ghulam Haider Jamali, while ordering immediate arrest of the murderers.
Siyal further said that such attacks cannot deter the war against terrorism and Death Eaters in the province.
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Sindh Chief Minister Syed Qaim Ali Shah took notice of the murder and directed the police to submit a report on the incident. He has ordered for the immediate arrest of those behind the attack.
"or the Usual Suspects™...whatever"
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[DAWN] KARACHI: Four family members -- father, mother and two children -- were found dead in their residence in Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... 's Manzoor Colony area Wednesday morning. The youngest family member, an eight-year-old boy, was found alive but had sustained critical injuries.
Police surgeon Dr. Jalil Qadir said the mother and the two deceased children were stabbed to death. The father, he said, was suffocated to death with the help of a hard object.
The victims were identified as Tariq, 45, his wife Samina, 40, their son Saad, 15, and daughter Rumeesa, 13. Hammad, eight, was found alive but critically injured.
SSP Investigation-South Faizullah Korejo said initial investigation suggested they were murdered by someone who "might have stayed there as the family's guest."
Tariq, originally hailing from Dera Ismail Khan ... the Pearl of Pashtunistan ... , was a Koran teacher who taught pupils at their homes.
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The father, he said, was suffocated to death with the help of a hard object.
a wood pillow?
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Karachi at midnight. One pauses,
Accounting for Prophet and losses:
The Angel of Islam
Dispenses no wisdom
But stamps all files, "Natural causes."
[IraqiNews] Anbar – The commander of Buraq forces, one of the factions of al-Hashed al-Shaabi forces, Watiq al-Fartusi announced on Wednesday the killing of ISIS Wali of al-Baghdadi and two of his his aides in military strike western Anbar.
Fartusi said in an interview for IraqiNews.com, "The joint forces of al-Hashed al-Shaabi and the Iraqi army were able to kill the so-called Abu Humam al-Shami (Wali of Baghdadi district) and two of his aides in a military strike in Albu Hayat area in al-Baghdadi western Anbar."
Fartusi added, "The strike were carried out in accordance with accurate intelligence," pointing out that "the security forces and al-Hashed al-Shaabi forces control Baghdadi district and its surrounding areas."
[IraqiNews] Anbar – A security source in Anbar province announced on Wednesday, that a security force has foiled a suicide kaboom by a booby trapped vehicle and killed seven members of the ISIS organization east of Ramadi.
The source said in an interview for IraqiNews.com, "A security force foiled a suicide attack by a vehicle driven by a jacket wallah who tried to target defense lines of the security forces in Husaybah area east of Ramadi," noting that "the force blew up the vehicle and killed the suicide bomber by the Russian missile system."
The security source, who asked not to be named, added: "The attack was followed by another attack by ISIS elements and confrontations occurred using all kinds of weapons, resulting in the death of seven members of the organization."
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[IraqiNews] Salah AL-Dien -- The martyr Sadr's forces, one of the factions of al-Hashed al-Saabi forces, announced on Wednesday the killing of two members of ISIS south of the city of Tikrit.
The commander of the troops, Abu Ahmed, said in an interview for IraqiNews.com, "A force from the martyr Sadr forces belonging to al-Hashed al-Saabi forces, was able to kill 2 members of ISIS that were trying to plant explosives in Tilal area south of Tikrit."
Abu Ahmed added that "the two elements were in possession of 28 bombs," noting that "The force has seized the explosives and will destroy them."
[IraqiNews] Dohuk – Media official of the Kurdistan Democratic Party in djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... Saeed Mamouzini revealed on Wednesday, that ISIS has executed 10 women in Mosul for refusing to practice sex.
A delicate locution for something very indelicate indeed.
Mamouzini said in an interview For IraqiNews.com, "ISIS has executed 10 women in the city of Mosul," noting that "the killing came after refusing to join the ranks of the organization and practicing sex with gunnies."
Mamouzini added that "ISIS has recently detained 87 women from various areas of the city," pointing out that, "ISIS killed dozens of women and girls during the past months for refusing to join its ranks."
[IraqiNews] al-Anbar -- The Provincial Council of Anbar announced on Wednesday, that the Iraqi security forces have regained control over areas south of the city of Ramadi, while pointed out to the liberation of al-Naimiyah area south of Fallujah.
The deputy president of the council, Faleh al-Issawi, told IraqiNews.com, "The 16th division of the Rapid Intervention Forces carried out a tactical operation in al-Naimiyah south of Fallujah and managed to liberate it and arrive at a distance of 700 meters from Shuhada neighborhood south of Fallujah, ... the City of Mosques, which might have somthing to do with why it's not called Center of Prosperity or a really nice place to raise your kids... " noting that, "The recent progress has tightened the siege on ISIS."
He also stressed, "Ramadi and Fallujah will be liberated by the security forces, local police elements, anti-terrorism forces and al-Hashed al-Sha'bi forces from the residents of Anbar."
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"He also stressed, "Ramadi and Fallujah will be liberated by the security forces, local police elements, anti-terrorism forces and al-Hashed al-Sha'bi forces from the residents of Anbar."
[AlAhram] The US is sending dozens of additional troops and support equipment to improve protection for US peacekeepers in the northern Sinai Peninsula in the aftermath of a roadside kaboom last week that maimed four US soldiers, defense officials said Wednesday.
The officials said at least 75 additional troops are being deployed, including a light-infantry platoon and a surgical team, as well as surveillance equipment and other assets designed to beef up the peacekeepers' self-protection.
The officials were not authorized to discuss the details publicly and so spoke on condition of anonymity. They said plans for additional security measures were in the works before last week's attack, reflecting growing US concern about security for US members of what is formally known as the Multinational Force and Observers.
The US has about 720 soldiers in the Sinai as part of the multinational force that has continually monitored compliance with the 1979 peace treaty between Egypt and Israel. The centerpiece of the US group is the 1st Squadron, 112th Cavalry Regiment of the Texas Army National Guard, which has been operating there since early this year.
Four US soldiers and two Fijians with the Multinational Force and Observers' peacekeeping mission were maimed last Thursday when their vehicles were hit by a roadside kaboom during a routine patrol near their base in the town of el-Gorah.
The News Agency that Dare Not be Named reported in August that the B.O. regime was quietly reviewing the future of America's role in the Sinai. Options ranged from beefing up the US troops' protection to pulling them out altogether. One defense official said Wednesday that there is currently no active plan to pull out of the mission but that US officials have been discussing force protection measures since mid-August with the Israeli and Egyptian governments.
Asked Tuesday about the US review, Pentagon press secretary Peter Cook said the US supports the role of the Multinational Force and Observers, or MFO.
"We are concerned over security conditions in that area of the northeastern Sinai where Egyptian security forces as well as civilian and military elements of the MFO, including US military forces stationed at the MFO north camp, are exposed to potential risk," Cook said.
"And in light of the security situation there, we are, again, considering additional measures to bolster their protection going forward, taking steps to try and enhance their protection."
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This is crazy! The rationale for a MFO no longer exists because the territorial divisions of the Sinai as envisioned in the Camp David accords no longer exist. The Sinai has been remilitarized yet Israel and Egypt now work together. (And Israel is reopening its embassy in Cairo.) The MFO is an expensive operation and the money the US government now spends would be better employed in the creation of a strong Egypt-Israel terrorist deterrent in the Sinai.
[InterAksyon] Philippine security forces pursuing Abu Sayyaf militants have discovered a house used as temporary shelter by the insurgent group in the hinterlands of Sulu.
Brig. Gen. Alan Arrojado said troops uncovered the site Wednesday morning in Barangay Latih, Patikul. He said soldiers were scouring the area when they uncovered a "freshly abandoned" temporary harbor site "of the fleeing ASG members."
Arrojado said soldiers have recovered medical supplies used by the injured Abu Sayyaf militants in a recent clash with government forces. He said the troops also recovered bomb-making components, mobile phones, a radio transceiver, police and military uniforms, hammock, laminated sacks and a box of dried fish.
Earlier, Arrojado said that 15 Abu Sayyaf militants were reported to have been injured in heavy fighting in Mount Awak on August 28. He said among the injured were Abu Sayyaf sub-leaders Roger Samlahun and Hatib Hajan Sawalaan.
During the fighting, the troops pounded Abu Sayyaf positions with mortar shells that forced them to flee in different directions.
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They captured a hammock and a box of dried fish? Whoa! Waytago General!
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[AnNahar] Al-Qaeda's Syrian affiliate and its allies seized the last regime-held military base in northwestern Idlib province on Wednesday, in the latest setback for Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Light of the Alawites... 's forces.
Al-Nusra Front and a coalition of mostly Islamist groups captured the Abu Duhur military airport after a siege that lasted two years, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitor said.
"After a violent attack that had been taking place since Monday, Al-Nusra Front and some Islamist factions control all of the Abu Duhur military airport," the Britannia-based Observatory said.
The attacking force began to enter the base on Tuesday night.
Observatory chief Rami Abdel Rahman said the forces appeared to have taken advantage of a massive sandstorm that blanketed much of the Middle East and made it difficult for regime aircraft to carry out strikes.
"The army is no longer present in Idlib province," he added, saying that the soldiers who had been defending the base withdrew towards Aleppo province in the east.
"The regime's only presence left in the province is in the Shiite villages of Fuaa and Kafraya," which are besieged by rebels and are being defended by pro-regime militias and Hizbullah ...Party of God, a Leb militia inspired, founded, funded and directed by Iran. Hizbullah refers to itself as The Resistance and purports to defend Leb against Israel, with whom it has started and lost one disastrous war to date, though it did claim victory... , not the army.
Syrian state television ... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe?
effectively acknowledged the loss, saying troops had left the base.
"After fierce fighting at the Abu Duhur airport, the army, which defended the airport with great courage under total siege for more than two years, abandoned their positions," the broadcaster said.
Abu Duhur has long been a target for opposition forces in the northwestern province.
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Rebel forces had seized the entrance to the airport and several positions on its outskirts in late August in an advance that began with jacket wallahs on cycle of violences.
The airport's capture is the latest success for a coalition of Islamist and jihadist forces, including Al-Nusra, that calls itself the "Army of Conquest".
They first shot to prominence with the swift overrunning of Idlib's placid provincial capital in March.
They have since extended their gains throughout the province, seizing a string of strategic towns and even pushing into neighbouring Hama province, where they are fighting to capture the Sahl al-Ghab area.
With Abu Duhur's fall, the regime's only remaining presence in Idlib is in Fuaa and Kafraya.
Both are now completely surrounded by rebel forces, who have fired hundreds of rockets at the Shiite-majority areas.
The loss is the latest setback for Assad's forces, which the embattled president acknowledged in July were suffering from "fatigue".
"There is a lack of human resources" in the army, Assad said in the remarks after a string of defeats in Idlib province and elsewhere.
"The problem facing the military is not related to planning but to fatigue."
Assad's regime has been at war with different rebel groups for the past four years, in a conflict that has so far killed at least 240,000 people.
The conflict began with anti-government protests but descended into a war after a regime crackdown on dissent.
It has evolved into a complex multi-front battle involving rebels, jihadists, the regime, Kurds and a U.S.-led coalition that is carrying out air strikes against 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.
[Reuters] Russian forces have begun participating in military operations in support of government troops in Syria, three Lebanese sources said on Wednesday. The sources gave the most forthright account yet from the region, though one of the sources said the number of Russians involved so far was small.
Two of the Lebanese sources said the Russians were establishing two bases in Syria, one near the coast and one further inland which would be a base of operations. He said, "The Russians are no longer just advisors. The Russians have decided to join the war against terrorism."
US officials said Russia has recently sent two tank landing ships and additional cargo aircraft to Syria and deployed a small number of naval infantry forces. The officials said Russia's intent was not clear. One suggested the focus may be on preparing an airfield near the port city of Latakia, an Assad stronghold. The officials have not ruled out the possibility that Russia may want to use the airfield for air combat missions.
Secretary of State John Kerry spoke to his Russian counterpart for the second time in four days to express concern over such reports, warning that it could fan more violence. The White House said it was closely monitoring the situation.
Russia has declined to comment on the scale and scope of its military presence. Damascus has denied Russians were involved in combat, but a Syrian official said the presence of experts had increased in the past year.
Germany's foreign minister warned Russia against increased military intervention, saying the Iran nuclear deal and new UN initiatives offered a starting point for a political solution to the war.
At least three Russian military transport planes have landed in Syria in recent days, U.S. officials said Tuesday. The aircraft have landed at the airport in Latakia on Syria's Mediterranean coast over the past several days, U.S. officials told Agence La Belle France Presse on condition of anonymity. Two of the aircraft were giant Antonov-124 Condor planes and a third was a passenger flight, one of the officials said.
The Russians have installed modular housing units -- enough for "hundreds" of people -- at the airport, as well as portable air traffic control equipment, the official noted.
"All of this seems to be suggesting that Russia is planning to do some sort of forward air-operating hub out of this airfield," the official said.
Bulgaria has refused permission for Russian aircraft to enter its airspace, and Greece said Tuesday that Washington had asked it to also deny Russian overflights.
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So, Russia the only European country that does something constructive re "Syrian refugee crisis"?
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Russia would put boots on the ground i reckon. Russia is morphing into a theocratic state under Putin. His power base is the Russian orthodox church. While the true enemy of Islamic state (and all religious nutbaggery) is secularism the Church comes second what with the crucifixion and beheading of Christians.
Putin being the strongarm thug he is can be quite decisive. Being militaristic helps shore up his popularity among the ordinary russians whose economy has been stolen by that kleptocrat and his oligarch mates.
it thus makes sense for Vlad the Impaler to go and take a swing.
It would make him wildly popular. I would even be tempted to admire him stamping on that nasty IS.
but the same what goes for china goes for him. it might be tempting to like it but the enemy of my enemy is not necessarily my friend.
we dont really want an emboldened russia or china into foreign interventions and territorial mergers and acquisitions
[IraqiNews] Baghdad -- British Ministry of Defense announced, that its air force had carried out 300 air strikes against ISIS, according to a report about the air raids published by the ministry.
The Financial Times newspaper reported that "the sorties, which are carried out by drones in Iraq and Syria, are expected to be doubled."
The British aircraft carried out the last air raid in Baiji and destroyed three buildings used by the terrorist organizations.
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[IraqiNews] The Kyrgyz Ministry of Interior announced on Tuesday the killing of 45 Kyrgyz nationals in Iraq and Syria after they had joined the ISIS organization, while noted to the presence of 250 Kyrgyz citizens in the conflict areas in those two countries.
According to the Kyrgyz website "KG 24," the ministry said in a press statement obtained by IraqiNews.com, "45 Kyrgyz citizens had been killed in Iraq and Syria after their involvement in the ranks of the ISIS organization," adding that, "122 women and 83 children from Kyrgyzstan live in Iraq and Syria in areas controlled by the organization after they had joined ISIS."
"63 Kyrgyz families have gone to Iraq and Syria and are still living there," the statement read.
[AlAhram] 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 claims to be holding a Norwegian man and a Chinese consultant hostage and is demanding ransom for their release.
The holy warrior group posted pictures of the two men wearing yellow prison outfits in the latest issue of its online magazine Dabiq, which was released Wednesday. It identifies the Norwegian man as Ole Johan Grimsgaard-Ofstad, 48, from Oslo. It identifies the Chinese man as Fan Jinghui, 50, a freelance consultant from Beijing.
The magazine lists a telegram number for "whoever would like to pay the ransom for his release and transfer."
It does not say when or where the two were captured. The IS group controls large parts of Iraq and Syria. It has killed several captives in gruesome videos released online.
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IS "milking" the on-going Refugee Crisis in EUorpe, + Bangkok/Thailand bombing.
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I don't know a better euphemism for unemployed than "freelance consultant". The Chinese won't come after him, he wandered off the reservation and this is what you expect to happen.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
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Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
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[RFE/RL] An imam in Dagestan region has been killed. Russia's Investigative Committee says two masked men gunned down Magomed Khidirov early in the morning of September 9 while he was on his way to a mosque in Novy Kurush. The village is located in the western Khasavyurt district bordering Chechnya. 
[Hurriyet Daily News] A group of people marching from Istanbul's Mecidiyeköy neighborhood to the Besiktas district to condemn terror, after three deadly attacks killed a total of 30 Turkish security officers in in 
[DAWN] KARACHI: Senior journalist Aftab Alam was killed in a gun attack near his home in 
[DAWN] KARACHI: Four family members -- father, mother and two children -- were found dead in their residence in 
Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir 
