[Tolo News] The Ghormach district of northern Faryab province reportedly fell to the Taliban early Sunday after heavy festivities broke out with security forces, sources told TOLOnews.
A source said on condition of anonymity that the Taliban attacked Ghormach at about 2 am local time and took control of the district governor's compound and the police headquarters after heavy festivities with security forces.
The source said that babus government employees have been moved to a military base in the district which is also now surrounded by Death Eaters.
The source said that "if the troops do not receive air support, the military base will also fall to the Taliban".
However, if you can't be a good example, then you'll just have to be a horrible warning... the local security officials have not yet commented on the incident.
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[Tolo News] Security forces have locked away Keep yer hands where we can see 'em, if yez please! 12 Lions of Islam in Wardooj district in Badakhshan, seven of whom are allegedly "child soldiers", local officials said on Sunday.
In footage sent to TOLOnews, which was reportedly taken two weeks ago when Wardooj fell to the Taliban, at least three of the detained fighters appear to be below the legal age of 18.
Officials have not however given any details regarding the alleged child soldiers or of their ages.
However, some people are alive only because it's illegal to kill them... the acting governor of Badakhshan Shah Waliullah Adib confirmed that the use of child soldiers in Badakhshan is a common practice by hard boys. He said there are many child soldiers in their ranks but he was not able to give exact figures.
Security forces have however since retaken control of Wardooj where at least 23 Lions of Islam were reportedly killed after security forces launched a clearing operation. In addition, 32 security force members were also killed in the battle.
Badakhshan has long been the scene of fierce fighting by Lions of Islam and Wardooj and Baharak districts have fallen a few times to the Taliban.
"The collapse of Wardooj district also resulted in the collapse of Baharak district to the Taliban," Badakhshan MP Zakaria Sawda said, calling for government to pay serious attention to the security situation of the north-eastern province.
This comes after a number of Afghan and international human rights ...not to be confused with individual rights, mind you... organizations accused the Taliban of having committed war crimes in Kunduz -- which the group over ran for 72 hours after a massive and well-planned attack late last month.
Also, the use of children as "soldiers" is globally denounced and is considered a war crime.
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The National Directorate of Security ...the Afghan national intel agency... (NDS) -- Afghanistan's intelligence agency has detained two important commanders of Daesh [Islamic State] and Taliban groups in eastern Nangarhar The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country.. province.
A statement released by NDS on Sunday states that Zakirullah who was involved in terrorist activities in Achin and Mohmand Dara districts was jugged Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out! with two of his lover companions in one raid.
The statement further states that Zakirullah who had 12 people under his command was previously with Taliban but now member of Daesh [Islamic State].
In another raid, NDS officials detained Bilal with one of his lover companions and recovered 13 Kalashinkovs, 41 Pak pistols, eight hand grenades, three anti-tank landmines and military equipment from their possession, the statement adds.
Bilal who was leading a group of 10 forces of Evil was sent to Nangarhar province for terrorist activities from across the Duran Line, the statement states.
NDS statements usually do not contain information about the exact date of the achievements but they come after recent activities.
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Unidentified pistol-wielding men have shot and killed an employee working with Somalia’s finance ministry in the capital, Mogadishu, the latest assassination targeting on Govt members.
Isse Beyle, a middle-aged man was gunned down near his house in Mogadishu’s Nasteeho nighbourhood while heading to his workplace of the finance ministry, according to the witnesses. Abukar Sheikh Ahmed, a senior security officer has confirmed the murder of Mr Beyle, adding that police have launched an investigation into the murder case.
Al shabaab claimed responsibilty for the killing in a statement posted on its online publication that they were behind Sunday’s assassination in Mogadishu.
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Somali Govt troops backed by African Soldiers in the country’s central Hiiraan region began advancing on villages controlled by Al shabaab militants, military officers said.
The allied troops are now a few kilometers from Eldhere village after retaking Garisyani area on the outskirts of Bula-burde town over the weekend, according to Mohamed Omar Aden, a senior Somali military commander.
Somali and AMISOM troops have been making military movements across Hiiraan region over the past few months, in a move they want to drive the Al shabaab militants out of their remaining bastions.
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GARBAHREY, Somalia -- A battle that left six people from the opposing sides dead occurred in Gedo region of southwestern Somalia on Sunday, Garowe Online reports. The deadly clashes flared up in Massale-Adun vicinity, 23km off Gedo regional capital of Garbaharey.
Wherever that is...
Gedo Governor Ahmed Bulled Mohamed (Anjeh) told VOA Somali Service that Somali government troops attacked Al Shabaab militants following Zakat collections. Anjeh noted that they seized back undisclosed number of livestock from militants.
Commander in charge of operation was killed along with a government soldier according to security sources.
Meanwhile, militants targeted reinforcements, killing four troops in the separate incident.
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[AnNahar] Nigerian soldiers rubbed out a suspected jacket wallah outside a military base in the northeast on Sunday, detonating explosives concealed in her handbag, a civilian vigilante and a military source told AFP.
The target was thought to be the Maimalari army barracks -- the main military base in Maiduguri, which has been hit repeatedly in recent months 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... Islamists.
"Soldiers at Maimalari army barracks this morning (Sunday) foiled a suicide kaboom by a female bomber," said Babakura Kolo, from the civilian volunteer force assisting troops against the rebels.
The woman approached the barracks around 7:00 am (0600 GMT) and headed towards the gates, he said. Military guards at the gates shouted at her to stop for security checks but she ignored them and continued walking towards the gates, he added.
"She continued walking with her handbag slung on her shoulder, despite repeated shouts from the soldiers asking her stop.
"One of the soldiers opened fire on the woman and the handbag went kaboom!, blowing the woman to pieces."
There were no other casualties in the kaboom, which one military officer in the city described as an "attempted suicide attack by Boko Haram terrorists."
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] A battalion of Sudanese troops arrived in Yemen's southern port city of Aden on Saturday, military officials said, bolstering Saudi-led Arab forces trying to keep out the Iran-backed Houthis and curb the growing presence of Islamist myrmidons.
Aden, a strategic port and shipping hub, became the seat of the Yemeni government earlier this year after the Houthis, a clan from northern Yemen, seized the capital Sanaa and forced President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi to flee to the south.
A military source in Aden said that 300 Sudanese soldiers and officers arrived by sea on Saturday. Their purpose was to "help maintain security for the city against the Houthis and Saleh," the source said, referring to former President President-for-Life Ali Abdullah Saleh ... Saleh initially took power as a strongman of North Yemen in 1977, when disco was in flower, but he didn't invite Donna Summer to the inauguration and Blondie couldn't make it... , whose supporters have sided with the Houthis.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Yemen's government will attend U.N.-sponsored talks with the Houthis and supporters of deposed leader President-for-Life Ali Abdullah Saleh ... Saleh initially took power as a strongman of North Yemen in 1977, when disco was in flower, but he didn't invite Donna Summer to the inauguration and Blondie couldn't make it... , a government spokesperson said on Sunday, in a fresh bid to end months of fighting that has killed more than 5,000 people.
"The decision has been taken to attend (the talks) and a letter will be sent to the U.N. secretary-general (about that)," Rajeh Badi, the government front man, told Rooters.
U.N. special envoy to 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... Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed has been in 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... for discussions with Yemeni President Abdrabbu Mansour Hadi and other senior Yemeni officials over the talks.
A previous round of U.N.-sponsored talks in Geneva between the Yemeni government and the Houthis in June failed to achieve a breakthrough.
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What are they negotiating? A ceasefire so that each side can rearm?
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[Rudaw] At least four Turkish soldiers and 17 guerrillas were reportedly killed in festivities between the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) and the Turkish army in the southeastern province of Hakkari, the Turkish military announced on Sunday.
"On Saturday, the PKK fighters launched an attack on Turkish troops in the Daglica village of Hakkari's Yuksekova district, killing four Turkish soldiers and wounding five," the military said in a statement.
One of the soldiers killed was Lt. Col. Ihsan Ejdar, the commander of the battalion conducting the operations in the area, according to the Hurriyet Daily News.
Since late July, Turkish warplanes have been launching blistering attacks on PKK camps in the Kurdistan region of Iraq and in The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... 's own Kurdish southeast.
The fighting shattered a 2013 fragile peace deal between Turkish authorities and PKK forces.
Army sources have said that only 129 soldiers and coppers were killed in two months of fighting while the PKK lost 337 of its guerrillas.
Clashes continue as the country prepares to hold general elections on November 1, following an inconclusive poll in June, after which the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) failed to muster the seats to form a new government in 45 days.
[AlAhram] Two Turkish soldiers were killed when a roadside kaboom hit their vehicle in the province of Tunceli, security sources said on Sunday, bringing the military corpse count in two days of violence in the predominantly Kurdish east to six.
The sources said a fourth soldier had died of his wounds following festivities on Saturday with Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) forces of Evil in the province of Hakkari, southeast of Tunceli near the borders with Iran and Iraq.
[Hurriyet Daily News] Fifty individuals have been detained for alleged links to 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 Levant (ISIL) in Istanbul, the state-run Anadolu Agency has reported, in the wake of the Oct. 10 Ankara bombing that killed at least 102 civilians.
The detained suspects, all of whom were foreign nationals, were detained in a pre-dawn operation against ISIL Lions of Islam on Oct. 18 after Istanbul Police Department Counterterrorism Unit officers raided 17 homes in Pendik, a district on Istanbul's Anatolian side.
Speaking after the deadly twin blasts that killed at least 102 civilians and maimed hundreds of others ahead of a peace rally in the Turkish capital on Oct. 10, Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said ISIL was the focal point in the investigation launched into the deadly bombings.
Ömer Deniz Dundar, allegedly one of the two jacket wallahs in the Ankara blast, and his twin brother, Mahmut Gazi Dundar, had previously been probed by Turkish prosecutors for alleged links to al-Qaeda, but the investigation was dropped, news website Radikal reported on Oct. 16.
The police raids came as the Istanbul Police Department gathered intelligence that newly arrived ISIL-linked suspects were about to head to conflict zones in Iraq and Syria.
The detained suspects were taken to the police department in Istanbul's Fatih district after undergoing health check-ups.
In a separate anti-terror police operation against the outlawed Revolutionary People's Liberation Party-Front (DHKP-C) Lions of Islam in Istanbul, the police department's counterterrorism unit officers raided 16 homes in the districts of Atasehir, Sariyer, Gaziosmanpasa and Sultangazi early Oct. 18, although there was no immediate word of detentions.
A 24-year-old woman identified by the initials D.D. was maimed being shot by a person sharing the same apartment with D.D. as the latter reportedly grabbed a police gun while coppers searched D.D.'s home, Anadolu Agency reported. On the other hand, the victims' brother, Emrah Dogan, speaking to journalists in front of the hospital where D.D. was taken in for treatment, accused the coppers for the shooting, stating that police had directly aimed at his sister.
D.D., who was taken to a public hospital in Istanbul's Okmeydani neighborhood with gunshot wounds to the lungs, is reported to be at death's door.
The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... has stepped up anti-terror police operations against ISIL Lions of Islam in the country, as the Oct. 10 twin blasts in the Turkish capital sent shockwaves through the country, with at least 102 civilians dead and hundreds of others injured.
Thirteen ISIL-linked suspects have reportedly been detained so far within the investigation launched into the Ankara bombing.
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[Hurriyet Daily News] Four of six suspects over the deadly Oct. 10 Ankara bombing were tossed in the calaboose Drop the rod and step away witcher hands up! on Oct. 18.
An Ankara criminal court of peace ruled for the arrest of four suspects late Oct. 18 after an interrogation which lasted about seven hours while the other two were released.
The prosecutor's office also requested an arrest warrant in absentia for 9 suspects.
The Oct. 10 Ankara bombing left at least 102 dead and hundreds maimed.
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[AnNahar] Iraqi forces advanced on three fronts 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 Sunday, flushing out pockets of resistance in and around Baiji and closing in on Ramadi and Hawijah, officers said.
Iraqi security and allied paramilitary forces last week launched a broad offensive on Baiji, about 200 kilometers (120 miles) north of Baghdad.
The city and nearby refinery -- the country's largest -- have been one of the worst flashpoints since IS launched a sweeping offensive across Iraq's Sunni Arab heartland in June 2014.
Anti-IS forces, including thousands from the Popular Mobilization (Hashed al-Shaabi) force that includes many Tehran-backed Shiite militias, have reconquered most of Baiji and its surroundings.
"They are still combing some neighborhoods of Baiji, including Tamim to the west and the market area in the center," a police brigadier general said.
"There are still a few IS members in there," he said.
"The security forces and Hashed forces took up positions to take control of some neighborhoods in Baiji, searching for bombs and booby-trapped houses," an army major general said.
He described the latest advance in the Baiji area as "the biggest victory since 10th of June 2014," when IS made massive territorial gains with a lightning offensive that saw Iraq's federal forces collapse completely.
Since they launched a counter-attack last year, government and allied forces have retaken all areas south of Baghdad and others north of the capital, including the city of Tikrit.
The government forces pushed past Baiji on the main road leading north to djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... , cutting off IS fighters holding the city of Hawijah, east of the Tigris river.
Army and police, backed by hundreds of Sunni tribal fighters incorporated into the Hashed al-Shaabi, began an operation Sunday aimed at surrounding Hawijah.
"The operation started in two areas, one west of Kirkuk around Al-Fatha and the other south of Kirkuk near Allas oil field," a major general said.
The Kurdish peshmerga forces were not directly involved in this operation but they have made progress of their own in recent weeks, pushing southwest from Kirkuk, ... a thick stew of Arabs, Turkmen, Kurds, and probably Antarcticans, all of them mutually hostile most of the time... which they control.
A security coordination meeting between federal and Kurdish forces and politicians was held in Kirkuk Sunday, governor Najmeddin Karim said.
Iraqi forces also continued to tighten the noose around Ramadi, the capital of the western province of Anbar, which IS captured in May this year.
Iraq's Counter-Terrorism Service is leading operations around Ramadi, with backing from the security forces, Sunni rustics opposed to IS and U.S.-led coalition air strikes.
"Albu Farraj neighborhood is under full control now. The city of Ramadi is completely isolated from the northern side now," said Major General Ismail Mahalawi, from Anbar Operations Command.
A coalition front man said last week the number of IS fighters still inside Ramadi was estimated at 600 to 1,000.
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[DAWN] Air strikes on a convoy 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 killed at least 40 IS gunnies in central Syria at the weekend, a monitoring group said on Sunday.
The Britannia-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said unidentified warplanes hit the 16-vehicles motorcade overnight between Saturday and Sunday in Hama province, killing the myrmidons.
The Observatory, which monitors the war in Syria and has a network of sources on the ground, was not immediately able to say whether the raids were carried out by Russian warplanes or Syrian regime ones.
"But they don't belong to the coalition led by Washington," said Observatory chief Rami Abdel Rahman. Charred bodies of IS fighters were found at the scene, he added.
Syrian regime aircraft bombard almost daily the eastern countryside of Hama where IS has positions.
Abdel Rahman said the convoy was hit as it was heading from the self-declared IS capital of Raqa in northern Syria to the Hama countryside.
Russia, a key ally of the Syrian regime of Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Horror of Homs... , has been carrying out a campaign of air strikes against his opponents since September 30.
Last year, a US-led coalition launched an air campaign against IS which controls swathes of Syria and neighbouring Iraq.
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Does Syrian Observatory for Human Rights do bomb damage assessment? Do they make a phone call and ask uncle Moonif? Do they stick a finger in the air and judge the wind speed? Or what?
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Gosh it's like the west wasn't actually doing anything despite saying it would.
How F**Ked up is the world when you trust Putin more than you do the POTUS?!?
[WASHINGTONEXAMINER] A coalition Arclight airstrike in Syria killed the highest ranking leader of the Khorasan Group, the Pentagon announced Sunday.
Abdul Mohsen Adballah Ibrahim al Charekh, aka Sanafi al-Nasr, was a "long-time jihadist" who helped to move money into al Qaeda leaders in Iraq and maintain routes for new recruits to travel to Syria, Pentagon press secretary Peter Cook said in a statement. He was killed in a coalition Arclight airstrike in northwest Syria on Thursday.
In 2012, he was put in charge of al Qaeda's core finances. After relocating to Syria in 2013, he went on to become the highest ranking leader of the Khorasan Group, a network of al Qaeda affiliated terrorist groups, according to the statement.
"The United States will not relent in its mission to degrade, disrupt and destroy al Qaeda and its remnants," Defense Secretary Ash Carter said. "This operation deals a significant blow to the Khorasan Group's plans to attack the United States and our allies, and once again proves that those who seek to do us harm are not beyond our reach."
He is the fifth big shot of the Khorasan Group killed in the last four months.
A U.S. strike in Syria killed the previous leader of the Khorasan Group, Muhsin al-Fadhli, on July 8. He was one of a small group of people who knew about the 9/11 attacks before they were launched, according to the New York Times ...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize... .
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There is a problem in Saudi which the West ignores.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
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