[AnNahar] A roadside kaboom has killed five Afghan coppers on patrol in the eastern province of Paktia, officials said Sunday, the latest in a series of deadly Lion of Islam attacks.
The blast in Zurmat district in the troubled province bordering Pakistain hit a police vehicle Saturday evening and killed all five officers on board, provincial police chief Zulmai Oryakhail told AFP.
The incident and corpse count was confirmed by the provincial governor's front man Naqib Ahmad Attal.
No group or individual immediately grabbed credit but both officials blamed Talibs for the attack.
Roadside bombs are the favorite weapon of the Islamist gunnies fighting to oust the Western-backed Kabul ...the capital of Afghanistan. Home to continuous fighting from 1992 to 1996 between the forces of would-be strongman and Pak ISI/Jamaat-e-Islami sock puppet Gulbuddin Hekmayar and the Northern Alliance, a period which won Hek the title Most Evil Man in the World and didn't do much for the reputations of the Northern Alliance guys either.... government.
Separately a bomb kaboommaimed at least eight civilians in Asad Abad, the capital of Kunar province ... which is right down the road from Chitral. Kunar is Haqqani country..... also on the border with Pakistain, provincial police chief Abdul Habib Sayedkhili told AFP.
Militants frequently target Afghan police and military, but the surge in attacks has also taken a heavy toll on civilians.
Nearly 1,600 non-combatants were killed and 3,329 injured in the first half of this year, according to U.N. figures.
NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A single organization with differing goals, equipment, language, doctrine, and organization.... ended its combat mission in Afghanistan last December and pulled out the bulk of its troops, leaving the front-line fight to Afghan forces.
A 13,000-strong residual foreign force remains for training and counter-terrorism operations.
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] Local officials say that Taliban had established a check point in Khan Baba area of Andar District where they dragged out dozens of passengers from different vehicles and took them to unidentified location on Saturday.
Mohammad Ali Ahmadi, Deputy Governor of Ghazni province the passengers were ordinary civilians who were on their way to Ghazni city for IED shopping.
He said forces of Evil kidnapped them believing that among them there might be people who have taken weapons against Taliban.
According to Ahmadi, most of them were released the same day but three of them are still in the custody of Taliban.
Meanwhile, ...back at the palazzo, Don Smilzo looked for an avenue of escape. The only window opened a hundred feet above the moat. The nearest of the hired assassins hold a bloody axe.
The window was looking better all the time.... an elder of Andar District has told media on condition of anonymity that 13 hostages remain with Taliban.
Residents of Andar District have been fighting with Taliban from several years. They took their weapons against the krazed killer group when insurgency surged in their areas.
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] Talibs have warned 100s of villagers in Ghazni's Deh Yak District to empty their homes as soon as possible.
Rabat Sangi villagers say that Taliban have also blocked routes leading to their village which has resulted in serious problems for them.
Mohammad Ali Ahmadi, the deputy governor of Ghazni province confirms the warning.
He said that Taliban had early warned Rabat Sangi residents to remove the security post of Afghan Local Police (ALP) from their area.
He added when the demand was not met then Taliban distribute night letters in the area warning its residents to leave.
According to Ahmadi, Taliban have furnished landmines on one route leading to Rabat Sangi from Ghazni city but said that there is another route that is still being used by residents of the area.
The Deputy Governor said that security forces are with Rabat Sangi villagers and the main route to the area would be cleared of landmines in coming few days.
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[Tolo News] At least five civilians were maimed in a blast in northern Samangan province on Sunday morning, local officials said.
The incident took place in Aibak, the capital of the province, after explosives were placed in a cycle of violence. Five people were maimed when the explosives were detonated, provincial police chief Mohammad Baqir said.
"A woman and the finical head of the provincial Independent Election Commission department are among the injured people," he said.
Police have started investigations into the incident and the injured people were taken to a nearby hospital for treatment, according to officials.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Unidentified assailants bumped off an Egyptian police general on the street in the Sinai Peninsula stronghold of the ISIS group late on Saturday, the interior ministry said.
General Ahmed Abdel Satar was the second senior police officer in three days to be killed in the North Sinai historic provincial capital El-Arish.
On Wednesday evening, assailants killed General Khaled Kamal Osman as he inspected a police unit in a drive-by shooting claimed by the bully boys' Egyptian affiliate ISIS Sinai Province.
The security forces have struggled to suppress an insurgency in the peninsula since the army overthrew Islamist president Mohammad Mursi in 2013.
Cairo says Lions of Islam have killed hundreds of police and soldiers, many in attacks claimed by ISIS.
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[WASHINGTONPOST] A bomb went kaboom! in a middle-class neighborhood in Cairo on Sunday, wounding two people, Egypt's state news agency MENA said.
The kaboom happened near a building with administrative offices for Egypt's Ministry of Foreign Affairs and caused minor damage to the structure. News Agency that Dare Not be Named video showed the busy street littered with broken glass and rubble immediately after the blast.
MENA quoted the Ministry of Health as saying the two victims were taken to a hospital but did not give their conditions.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility.
Egypt faces a burgeoning insurgency, including a branch of the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... group. Attacks have primarily targeted security forces in the restive northern Sinai, but are now happening regularly in the capital.
Here's how Al Ahram, the local rag, reported the story:
[AnNahar] Two young jacket wallahs killed three people in far north 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... on Sunday, the latest attack to hit a region that has been rocked by strikes blamed on 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... Islamists from neighboring Nigeria.
The youth set off their suicide belts in the town of Mora as a police officer became suspicious of their appearance and approached to question them, a security source said on condition of anonymity.
The policeman, two civilians and the bombers were killed in the kaboom, the source said. Another source close to regional security forces confirmed the toll and said that the attackers, who aimed to target the town's market, were a "young girl and a young boy," without giving any more details.
It marked the third time since the start of September that the area had been hit by double suicide kabooms -- seven people were killed in a strike in Kolofata on September 13 and between 20 to 40 people are thought to have died in a bombing on September 3 in Kerawa.
Since July, some 100 people have died in suicide kabooms in the extreme north of Cameroon, which has joined the regional fight against Boko Haram.
The Nigerian-based Islamists have seized countless children and youths during their six-year insurgency that has killed at least 15,000 people and left more than two million homeless.
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[AnNahar] Saudi-led air strikes on a security complex in central 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... controlled by Iranian catspaws killed 11 people on Sunday, some of them prisoners, witnesses and medics said.
A first strike on the complex in the Ibb province town of al-Qaeda caused no casualties but a second strike hit as guards were evacuating some 300 detainees, the sources said.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Six foreign hostages have been released on Sunday after being held by 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 ... rebels in the Yemeni capital of Sanaa for more than five months, Al Arabiya News channel reported.
The hostages boarded a plane and will be flying to the Gulf nation of Oman, which negotiated their release, the channel reported, in accordance with measures taken by Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... and the United States to facilitate their release.
The hostages are three Americans, two Saudis and a Brit. They were all civilians, the channel said. Two more Saudi teachers remain held by Houthis, it added.
"Upon a request from the U.S. government to help settle the issue of the American citizens held hostage in Yemen, the concerned authority coordinated with Yemeni authorities in Sanaa to release two U.S. citizens," a statement from Oman's Ministry of Foreign Affairs said.
All of those released were taken onboard a Omani air force carrier back to Muscat where they will travel from back to their home countries, the statement added.
Houthi officials refused to give the reasons for the detention of the hostages, the News Agency that Dare Not be Named reported.
But at least one of them is a journalist, who was described as having "entered the country illegally" and "worked without notifying the authorities."
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[AnNahar] German police are investigating an asylum-seeker on suspicion that he fought for 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, newspaper Welt am Sonntag reported Sunday.
The suspect is a Syrian national and lives in an asylum-seeker shelter in the northeast region of Brandenburg, the newspaper reported, quoting security sources. The man had allegedly told other migrants living in the centre that he had fought for the IS group and killed people. His claims were filmed secretly with a mobile telephone by other residents of the shelter, leading to the probe.
Investigators are now trying to determine if the Syrian was indeed a member of the IS, the newspaper reported.
A spokeswoman for federal police declined to confirm or deny the report.
Despite the case, federal police do not believe that Islamists are infiltrating Germany through the influx of refugees.
"Whatever you do, don't alarm the rubes! If they panic, who knows what might happen!" Sadly for that approach, Germans are passing around links like this on Facebook and elsewhere.
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[Hurriyet Daily News] As many as 85 officials from the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) and the Democratic Unity Party (DBP), including the mayor of the southeastern province of Batman and his deputy, have been detained after they attempted to enter a military security zone in Batman's Sason district.
Batman Mayor Sabri Özdemir, deputy mayor Gulistan Akel and HDP Batman provincial head Rojda Surucu along with others were detained by gendarmerie forces on Sept. 19 after they attempted to enter a military security zone where an outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) myrmidon was killed in Sason's Kelhasan village on Sept. 19.
Among the 85 detained were Besiri district Mayor Mustafa Özturk, Gercus district Mayor Abdulkerim Kaya, Iki Köpru town Mayor Osman Karabulut, Batman Municipality Assembly President Salih Altun and DBP Batman provincial head Mehmet Candemir.
Behcet Kara, a resident of Kelhasan, where a military-imposed curfew is in effect, said residents of the village wanted the curfew to be lifted and they hoped for to return to normality.
"We wish for peace and democracy," Kara added.
Some of the people detained were on a minibus heading to Sason when it was stopped at a checkpoint placed by the Yanikkaya Gendarmerie Command to deny entry to the district.
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[Rudaw] Turkish fighter jets Wednesday carried out a wave of Arclight airstrikes against Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) positions in The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... 's eastern Tunceli province, according to a security source quoted by the state-run Anadolu Agency on Saturday.
The Arclight airstrikes were carried out by F-16 and F-4 jets and resulted in the deaths of 55 to 60 PKK fighters in an operation near Ovacik.
[DAWN] KOHAT: The security forces on Saturday conducted a joint operation in the localities surrounding the PAF base, Kohat, and seized a big quantity of arms. They also placed in durance vile You have the right to remain silent... 96 suspects, including 21 Afghans.
The security forces and police also carried out house-to-house search in the locality. The operation was conducted in the city, cantonment, Officers Training School road, Dheri Banda, Miangan Colony and private residential areas around the Kohat airbase.
The security forces were supported by armoured personnel carriers, bomb disposal squad, sniffing dogs, lady police and elite police force. During the search, the agencies recovered five Kalashnikovs, three 12-bore repeaters, six shotguns, four rifles, 17 pistols and thousands of cartridges from the suspicious people.
They arrested people were handed over to the respective cop shoppes for investigations where cases had been registered against them. The Afghan nationals, staying illegally, were sent to prison.
The security forces also rounded up some owners of rented houses and hotels for allowing stay of the non-locals without registering their personal data.
Meanwhile, ...back at the Council of Boskone, Helmuth ordered the space pirate fleet to attack Zemblonia... the Hangu police claimed to have captured a RAW agent possessing Indian currency and belonging to banned TTP. Sources said that the operation was carried out by the personnel of Frontier Constabulary on a tip-off that an agent of RAW was hiding in Tora Warai area.
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[DAWN] ISLAMABAD: An activist of a banned religious outfit put under the watch list of the police under the Anti-Terrorism Act 1997 has disappeared from his residence in the capital's rural area.
Qari Ansar Iqbal, a resident of Naiabadi in Bhara Kahu, was included in the Fourth Schedule of the ATA under which he had to inform the local police before leaving the city and upon his return, officials in the police on the condition of anonymity told Dawn on Saturday.
When the police came to know that Qari Ansar had disappeared from his house a couple of months ago, a manhunt was launched. Later, it emerged that he was doing a business in Rawalpindi along with his brothers, one of them an official of the Islamabad police.
When the police came to know that Qari Ansar had disappeared from his house a couple of months ago, a manhunt was launched. Later, it emerged that he was doing a business in Rawalpindi along with his brothers, one of them an official of the Islamabad police.
But another brother of the suspect, identified as Mohammad Asghar, told the police that Qari Ansar had left for central Punjab 1.) Little Orphan Annie's bodyguard
2.) A province of Pakistain ruled by one of the Sharif brothers
3.) A province of India. It is majority (60 percent) Sikh and Hindoo (37 percent), which means it has relatively few Moslem riots.... a couple of months ago. It was also revealed that the suspect had been moving around different parts of Punjab, especially central Punjab. The police officials said his arrival in a city of Punjab 10 days ago had also been confirmed.
They said a police team had been sent to the city to bring him back to the capital. On the complaint of additional station house officer (SHO) Ghulam Mustafa, an FIR was registered with the Bhara Kahu police on September 18 against Qari Ansar for leaving the capital without informing the police and disappearing.
A senior police officer told Dawn on the condition of anonymity that it was yet to be ascertained why the suspect had been moving in different parts of Punjab.
The suspect was in the Fourth Schedule for the last one decade in connection with his affiliation with the banned Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistain ...a Sunni Deobandi organization, a formerly registered Pak political party, established in the early 1980s in Jhang by Maulana Haq Nawaz Jhangvi. Its stated goal is to oppose Shia influence in Pakistain. They're not too big on Brelvis, either. Or Christians. Or anybody else who's not them. The organization was banned in 2002 as a terrorist organization, but somehow it keeps ticking along, piling up the corpse counts... . Though the suspect claimed that he had left the outfit, there were reports that he was still active and working for the banned outfit, the officer added.
He said Qari Ansar had to submit a surety bond to the police every year stating that he would avoid spreading sectarian hatred through his speeches or other acts. Besides, he cannot participate in the activities of the banned outfit, the officer said. Under the surety bond, he also agreed to visit the area cop shoppe on a regular basis to show his presence in his residence.
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[DAWN] KARACHI: A jacket wallah detonated his suicide jacket in Malir's Rifa-e-Aam Society on Sunday during a raid conducted by police and other law enforcement agencies in the area.
Two copperswere maimed during the raid. The injured coppers were admitted to a private hospital for treatment.
A team comprising police and other law enforcement agencies headed by Senior Superintendent Police Malir Rao Anwar was conducting a raid in Kehkashan Society where the suspect Farhan alias 'Pehlwan' was believed to be in hiding.
The team exchanged fire with the suspect who fired back, shooting one policeman in the stomach and another in the leg. He then hurled two hand grenades, one of which went kaboom!, before detonating his suicide jacket.
Farhan is suspected of assassination of coppers and Rangers personnel, and affiliation with Al Qaeda. The weapon used by the suspect was sent to a forensics lab for further investigation.
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[IraqiNews] Baghdad -- Sources in the Iraqi police revealed on Sunday, that six people were either killed or maimed in the kaboom of an bomb in Madain area south of the capital Baghdad.
The source said in a press statement that "a person was killed and five others were maimed in the kaboom of an bomb in Madain area south of the capital Baghdad."
The source added that the blast targeted a gathering of residents in the center of a market.
Noteworthy, Baghdad and its surroundings witness similar bombings, using improvised bombs and boom-mobiles targeting local communities and Iraqi security forces.
[IraqiNews] Dohuk -- Media official of the Kurdistan Democratic Party in djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... Saeed Mamouzini said on Sunday, that 20 Lions of Islam belonging to ISIS were killed, including a "leader" by food poisoning west of Mosul.
Mamouzini said in an interview for IraqiNews.com, "20 gunnies from ISIS were killed in the district of Baaj west of Mosul, because of their exposure to food poisoning, including a leader called Abu Zeidan."
Mamouzini added that "unidentified had put toxic substances in the food of the Death Eaters."
Well done, O unknown actor, acting as the instrument of Allah's will! (Of course it was Allah's will -- all occurs as he wills it, according to Muslim dogma, so to punish the cooks is to insult Allah himself and guarantee for the perpetrator an eternity in the nether depths of Hell.)
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Yep, poison their food, poison their water and carpet bomb their homes with pig fat.
Maybe there is a bacon bomb lying around somewhere just begging to be used.
[IraqiNews] Anbar -- The president of Khalidiya council in Anbar province Ali Daoud announced on Sunday, that 20 big shots in the ISIS organization were killed in an aerial bombardment east of the city of Ramadi.
Daoud said in an interview for IraqiNews.com, "The Iraqi army aviation was able today to bomb a gathering of ISIS big shots inside a house in al-bobali area in Khalidiya Island (23 km east of Ramadi)."
Daoud added that "the bombing resulted in the killing of 20 big shots, as well as causing great material and human losses," pointing out that "the leaders were planning for terrorist operations during Eid."
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[IraqiNews] Diyala -- A local source in Diyala province announced on Sunday, that three coppers, including an officer, had been either killed or maimed in an armed attack in the district of Baquba.
The source said in an interview for IraqiNews.com, "a police patrol was targeted by an bomb on the Agricultural Road in the area of al-Abara (15 km north east of Baquba), followed by an armed attack, which resulted in the killing of one policeman and wounding another, as well as a lieutenant colonel."
The source, who asked anonymity, added: "the security forces cordoned off the area and opened an investigation."
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[IraqiNews] Anbar -- On Sunday, a security source in Anbar announced destroying five ISIS vehicles in an aerial bombardment east of Ramadi.
The source said in an interview for IraqiNews.com, "The Iraqi warplanes in coordination with Anbar Operations managed to bomb five ISIS vehicles carrying heavy weapons in Husaybah area, (7 km east of Ramadi), resulting in their destruction."
The source, who asked not to be named, noted: "the bombing was based on intelligence information and caused great material and human losses in the ranks of ISIS."
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[IraqiNews] Dohuk – Media official of the Kurdistan Democratic Party in Mosul Saeed Mamouzini revealed on Sunday, that ISIS has executed two young men downtown Mosul on charges of filming public places via their mobile phones.
Mmousini said in an interview for IraqiNew.com, “The organization executed two young men in Bab Tob area in central Mosul,” noting that “the two young men were executed after being accused of filming public places in Mosul via their mobile phones.”
Mamouzini added that “the two young men were publicly executed in order to spread terror among the population,” pointing out that “ISIS arrested 127 people on charges of the use of mobile phones two days ago.”
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"I call this picture 'My last selfie ever'"
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[Rudaw] A Kirkuk city judge and three of his bodyguards were rubbed out by gunnies Sunday morning, Kirkuk police said.
"A number of unknown gunnies have shot Kirkuk's court judge Ibrahim Khamis and three of his guards on Quds Street in Kirkuk, ... a thick stew of Arabs, Turkmen, Kurds, and probably Antarcticans, all of them mutually hostile most of the time... " a Kurdish police official identified only as Razwan told Rudaw.
"Could be criminals, ISIS, Shia militia men, personal feud of some sort... could be we'll never know why they died," he added.
According to the source, the judge succumbed to his wounds 30 minutes after being rushed to the hospital.
The gunniesexpeditiously departed at a goodly pace of the shooting, said the police.
Kirkuk governor Najmaldin Karim called the act an liquidation and described Khamis, "as a dear judge of our city who worked hard to enforce the law and justice and serve the people of Kirkuk,"
[IsraelTimes] Paleostinians throw rocks, Molotov cocktails at Israeli forces outside Nablus, causing light to moderate injuries to one
An IDF soldier was maimed early Monday morning after his unit was attacked by rock-throwing Paleostinian assailants near the Tomb of Joseph outside the West Bank city of Nablus. The Paleostinians threw stones and Molotov cocktails at the soldiers, inflicting light to moderate injuries upon the soldier, Walla news reported. The soldier was taken to the hospital for treatment of his injuries.
On Sunday, a spate of rock-throwing incidents targeting Israeli vehicles in the West Bank occurred, after a week of festivities between Paleostinian protesters and Israeli security forces in and around Jerusalem.
On Route 443 northwest of Jerusalem, Paleostinians threw stones at passing motorists, damaging three cars.
Stones were also thrown at Israeli drivers on Route 60 near the Beit Anun intersection near Hebron, in the southern West Bank.
Egged bus No. 149 was pelted with rocks and paint between Hizma and Anatot north of Jerusalem, but no injuries or physical damage to the bus were reported.
The incidents are part of a recent spike in attacks, some of them deadly, against Israelis in the West Bank and Jerusalem. The cabinet on Sunday debated increasing the severity of judicial and law-enforcement responses to such attacks.
On Sunday, the Israel Police said they had tossed in the clink Keep yer hands where we can see 'em, if yez please! 39 Paleostinians in the West Bank and East Jerusalem for "disturbing the peace," "taking part in riots" and "throwing stones and Molotov cocktails.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has promised to seek harsher penalties and mandatory minimum sentences for those convicted of throwing rocks and Molotov cocktails, and fines for parents of minors found to have committed the acts.
[EN.ZAMANALWSL.NET] At least 17 civilians, including nine children and three women, were killed on Sunday when rebels shelled a regime-controlled neighborhood in the northern city of Aleppo, a monitoring group said.
The Syrian Network for Human Rights said the shelling Sunday took place in Al-Midan neighborhood, once a center for the city's thriving Armenian community.
The monitoring that tracks war in Syria said 4 people were killed in regime barrel kaboom on al-Sha'ar neighborhood
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] A new ceasefire went into effect on Sunday between Syrian pro-government forces and Salafist tough guys in three battleground districts, a local official and a monitoring group said.
The truce covers the two remaining villages in Idlib province in the northwest still in government hands and the rebels' last stronghold near the Lebanese border, the town of Zabadani.
"The truce in Zabadani, Fuaa and Kafraya which began at noon (0900 GMT) has held except for some sporadic fire on Fuaa in the afternoon," said Rami Abdel Rahman, head of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
He said sniper fire on Fuaa from the neighbouring village of Binesh killed one government fighter and maimed three, sparking a brief exchange of fire before calm returned.
Abdel Rahman said the agreement "did not specify an end for the ceasefire" and that the rival sides would continue negotiations for a broader truce.
A member of Zabadani town council, which has been involved in the talks, confirmed that negotiators had set no end date.
Pro-government forces launched an offensive to try to recapture Zabadani in July, prompting a rebel alliance, including Sunni Moslemgunnies of Al-Qaeda, to besiege the Idlib villages of Fuaa and Kafraya, whose residents are Shiites.
A resident of the town of Madaya, adjacent to Zabadani, told AFP the situation there was "completely calm".
The ceasefire comes after the rebels launched one of their fiercest attacks to date on Fuaa and Kafraya.
The assault began on Friday with at least nine boom-mobiles against the outskirts of the two villages -- seven of them detonated by jacket wallahs.
At least 66 rebels, 40 pro-government turbans and seven non-combatants were killed in the latest assault, according to the Observatory.
Sunday's ceasefire is the third attempt to agree a truce for the three areas. A ceasefire last month lasted only 48 hours.
Stumbling blocks have included the withdrawal of all rebels from Zabadani, safe passage for civilians seeking to leave Fuaa and Kafraya, and food and medical aid for those who stay on.
Elsewhere in Syria, at least five children were among 14 people killed by rebel fire on a government-held area of the northern city of Aleppo, the Observatory and state media reported.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
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Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
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[IsraelTimes] Paleostinians throw rocks, Molotov cocktails at Israeli forces outside Nablus, causing light to moderate injuries to one
On Sunday, the Israel Police said they had 
