[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The militia forces loyal to the First Vice President General Abdul Rashid Dostum ...ethnic Uzbek warlord who distinguished himself fighting the Soviets and the Taliban. The story that he had a bad guy run over with a tank is an exaggeration. It was an armored personnel carrier... have allegedly terrorized local residents in northern Faryab province of Afghanistan.
The Human Rights Watch ... During the fiscal year ended June 30, 2011, HRW received a pledge from the Foundation to Promote Open Society, of which George Soros is Chairman, for general support totaling $100,000,000. The grant is being paid in installments of $10,000,000 over ten years.Through June 30, 2013, HRW had received $30,000,000 towards the fulfillment of the pledge.... (HRW) has called on the government to prosecute militia members responsible for killings and other abuses against civilians in this province.
Citing interview report in the aftermath of the attack, Patricia Gossman, senior Afghanistan researcher at Human Rights Watch, said "The killings in Faryab are the latest in a long record of atrocities by Dostum’s militia forces."
Gossman further added "The fact that these forces, and Vice-President Dostum himself, have never been held accountable, has undermined security in northern Afghanistan."
On June 26, Afghan army and Junbish forces conducted a military operation against Taliban forces in Faryab province, in which the militia forces killed at least 13 civilians and maimed 32 others, HRW said, citing UNAMA report.
The rights organization further added after Taliban forces left the area, Junbish fighters entered four villages and assaulted villagers whom they accused of supporting the Taliban, killing five and injuring 12.
Dostum was elected vice-president in September 2014. In late 2015 he announced that he was reactivating the Junbish militia in response to Taliban military gains in Faryab and Sar-e Pul provinces, and has since overseen military operations in these provinces.
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It's like this Dostum character is srs bidness war wise.
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The top US commander in Afghanistan General John Nicholson has said roughly 70 per cent 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.... of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) terror group loyalists fighting in Afghanistan are the members of Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistain.
Briefing the Washington-based journalists earlier this week, Gen. Nicholson, said "In the case of Islamic State Khorasan province, the majority of the members are from the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistain (TTP)."
Gen. Nicholson further added that many of these turbans were forced out of Pakistain by the Zarb-e-Azb ..the Pak offensive against Qaeda in Pakistain and the Pak Taliban in North Wazoo. The name refers to the sword of the Prophet (PTUI!)... military operation.
He said many IS fighters in 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 came from Pakistain’s Orakzai tribal agency.
"And they were former members of the TTP, complete with their leadership, who wholesale joined Islamic State, pledged bayt (allegiance) to Islamic State and joined them earlier this year," Gen. Nicholson added.
This comes as the local officials in Nanagarhar made a similar remark regarding the terror group’s loyalists in Afghanistan earlier last month.
Provincial governor’s front man Ataullah Khogyani has said the documents obtained from the dead bodies and those incarcerated Drop the rosco, Muggsy, or you're one with the ages! during the operations in Achin, Kot, Haska Mina and other parts of Nangarhar, reveal that they are originally residents of Orakzai Agency ... crawling with holy men, home to Darra Adam Khel, the world's largest illegal arms bazaar. 14 distinct tribes of beturbanned primitives inhabit Orakzai agency's 1500 or so square kilometers... Khogyani further added that the intelligence information gathered by the government also reveal that the ISIS loyalists are mostly comprised of Pak nationals.
According to Khogyani, the residents of Tajikistan are also fighting alongside the Pak nationals for ISIS terrorist group who are mainly deployed after completing training in Pakistain.
The Afghan forces as well as the US forces in Afghanistan have increased raids against the loyalists of the terror group in Nangarhar during the recent months.
Both the Afghan and US forces conduct regular Arclight airstrikes to eliminate the supporters of the terror group amid fears they are attempting to expand foothold in the country.
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[IsraelTimes] Cairo learns that IS fighters maimed in attack on its troops in Sinai were smuggled into Gazoo via tunnels for treatment
Cairo is fuming over increasing cooperation between the Paleostinian terror group Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason,, which rules the Gazoo Strip, and 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.... -affiliated forces in the neighboring Sinai Peninsula, The Times of Israel has learned, despite attempts in recent months to alleviate the tension between Egypt and Gazoo.
In an effort to curb that collaboration, Egypt has relayed to Hamas leaders that it is aware of the links between its senior activists in the Rafah border area and commanders in the Islamic State’s Sinai Province.
That cooperation has seen injured IS fighters routinely brought into the Strip for treatment, alongside ongoing weapons smuggling over the border. A few days ago, Cairo discovered that a group of IS fighters maimed during an attack on Egyptian Army soldiers ‐ they were planting explosives on the beach at Al-Arish ‐ were transferred to hospitals in Gazoo for treatment.
Egyptian sources say they were likely smuggled into Gazoo via tunnels overseen by Hamas’s military wing that facilitate the connection between the two Islamist terror groups.
This highly worrying development for the Egyptians began a few months ago, when prominent members of Hamas’s military wing crossed over from Gazoo into Sinai to help IS set up its military infrastructure there. Several of them took their families with them, and were involved in training IS activists in the art of planting IEDs and firing missiles at tanks. Several even joined the IS-affiliated Sinai Province group, including Muhammad Abu Shawish and Abed Al Wahad. Another senior activist in Hamas, Nasser Judah, also originally of Gazoo, was killed fighting with IS in Sinai. In May, The Times of Israel identified two more activists who crossed into Sinai as Mohammed Sami and Mahmoud Zinet.
Egyptian sources say that whenever Cairo brings up the issue with Hamas’s leadership, it receives the same evasive answer: the activists assisting IS are all former members of the Paleostinian organization. But the dissembling doesn’t end there: Hamas military wing commanders in Rafah regularly host commanders of Sinai Province. One of the most prominent of these is Suleiman Al-Sawarka, whose Al-Sawarka tribe was among the founders of Ansar Bait al-Maqdis, which went on to pledge allegiance to IS and become Sinai Province.
Al-Sawarka, whom Israel and Egypt accuse of involvement in an attack in Taba in 2004 that killed 34, including 18 Egyptians, arrived in the Strip about two months ago and has been holding talks with senior figures in Hamas’s military wing. Egyptian sources emphasize that he is in Gazoo with the blessing of some of the top officers in Hamas, including the commander of the southern Strip, Muhammad Shabbaneh; Hamas military chiefs Muhammad Deif and Marwan Issa; and strongman Yehya Sinwar.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] The foreign minister of Yemen’s internationally recognized government on Monday gave Iran-backed 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 ... militias and their allies a deadline till Aug. 7 to sign a UN peace proposal aimed at ending the country’s civil war.
The Yemeni government has already accepted the UN peace proposal on Sunday after more than a year of armed conflict.
"If they want peace, they have to sign the peace deal and we were patient," Abdulmalik Al-Mekhlafi, who is also Yemen’s deputy prime minister, told news hounds.
Mekhlafi's deadline also comes after the delegation of Yemen’s government decided to leave Kuwait on Monday after the Houthis side rejected the UN peace proposal.
The foreign minister, meanwhile, said: "We’ll return at any moment, even an hour after our departure, if the other side agrees to sign this document which the [UN] envoy presented."
Mekhlafi also warned that the Yemeni people will challenge the Houthis who "are working against legitimacy" especially if they continued to be "hurdles" to peace in the country, which he warned to be on the verge of an economic collapse.
He said the Yemeni government is "keen to achieve peace," and accused the Houthis and their allies of "torture," "arrests" of political dissidents and the "destruction of cities" and creating "unprecedented situations" harmful to the country.
He also reiterated the Yemeni government’s demand for the UN Security Council Resolution 2216. The resolution states that the Houthi militias must withdraw from seized territories including the capital Sanaa.
Fahad al-Sharafi, a Yemeni analyst, told Al Arabiya News channel that the UN proposal holds key and important points for peace to be reached in Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of. Except for a tiny handfull of Jews everthing there is very Islamic... and to end the current crisis.
Sharafi also said that the Houthis have "enough time" to sign the agreement, but it is unclear if they will also follow suit "because within hours" after the UN proposed the peace draft, they rejected it.
Usually that kind of thing is considered a pretty clear sign.
Peace talks in Kuwait, which started in April, have done little to end fighting that has killed more than 6,200 people and displaced more than 2.5 million in the Arabian Peninsula state.
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[IsraelTimes] A leader of French Jews criticized Moslem intellectuals whose petition against local jihadists omits any mention of anti-Semitic violence.
The petition, signed by dozens of academics and celebrities, appeared Sunday in the Journal de Dimanche under the title "We, French-Moslems, are ready to assume our responsibilities." In it, the co-signatories lamented the perceived weakness of the institutions of their faith communities in stopping gunnies from acting violently in Islam’s name.
The text begins by listing five recent terrorist attacks: The Charlie Hebdo ...A lefty French satirical magazine, home of what may well be the majority if the active testicles left in Europe... killings in January 2015, the bombing and shooting attacks in November, the murder of two coppers in June, the Nice promenade attacks last month, and last week’s slaying of a priest.
It makes reference neither to the murder of four Jews in a kosher supermarket, the Gay Paree Hyper Cacher, after the Charlie Hebdo massacre, nor to the execution of three children and a rabbi in Toulouse ...lies on the banks of the River Garonne, half-way between the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea. The Toulouse metropolitan area is the fourth-largest in La Belle France... in 2012 ‐ both perpetrated by radical Islamists.
In their letter, the co-signatories called for "a clear organizational project" within French Moslem communities, which would involve "transparent and viable funding for mosques, education and salaried employment for imams, research on history, anthropology and theology that would allow and allows one to be Moslem in a non-religious republic."
It also called for "a cultural battle against radical Islam, among young and not so young, with modern methods and the most effective techniques for disseminating information and ideas."
"You’re ready to assume your responsibilities, but you are off to a bad start," Robert Ejnes, the executive director of the CRIF umbrella of French Jewish communities and organizations, wrote on Facebook, citing the omissions.
"You have a long way to go, my friends: You need to understand one day that these anti-Semitic attacks were committed against *Jews*, who were targeted for being Jewish. You can’t avoid these anti-Semitic murders," Ejnes added.
"In any case, we’ll always be here to remind you," he concluded.
CRIF has asked the authors to address the omission and have the text corrected.
[Ynet] Due to credible ISIS threats, beachgoers in La Belle France are not allowed to bring large beach bags with them to the beach; armed soldiers on patrol are now a common sight; does this point to a new European norm?
The price of refusing to submit gets higher.
Alert levels warning citizens all around Europe to be wary of terror attacks are still high. Dutch news stations reported on Monday that a man was tossed in the clink Book 'im, Mahmoud! on a bus travelling on a highway towards Amsterdam's Schipol airport waving a pistol and shouting that he has a bomb.
Meanwhile, ...back at the pie fight, Bella grabbed the cocoanut cream... unusual pictures coming out of La Belle France show soldiers strapped with semi-automatic rifles patrolling the beaches due to a warning of an attack on sunbathers.
Beachgoers in Cannes are no longer allowed to bring large bags to the beach due to security concerns. Cannes Mayor David Lisnard said that the restrictions prevent people from bringing bags to the beach which might be filled with kaboom, and explained that the move is designed to make the police's jobs easier.
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For some reason I can't muster much sympathy. I guess there's a flaw in my character.
[AlAhram] French authorities have shut down around 20 mosques and prayer halls considered to be preaching radical Islam since December, Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said on Monday.
"There is no place ... in La Belle France for those who call for and incite hatred in prayer halls or in mosques, and who don't respect certain republican principles, notably equality between men and women," the minister said.
There are some 2,500 mosques and prayer halls in France, about 120 of which are considered to be preaching radical Salafism.
"That is why I took the decision a few months ago to close mosques through the state of emergency, legal measures or administrative measures. About 20 mosques have been closed, and there will be others."
Cazeneuve was speaking after a meeting with leaders of the French Council of the Moslem Religion.
There are some 2,500 mosques and prayer halls in La Belle France, about 120 of which are considered to be preaching radical Salafism, a strict Sunni interpretation of Islam.
He said that since 2012, 80 people had been expelled from La Belle France, and dozens more expulsions were under way, without giving further details.
...then brought to Italy rather than returned to Libya, which will encourage ever more of the unvetted to take this easier invasion route.
[AlAhram] More than 1,500 migrants colonists were rescued from waters off Libya Monday, lifting the total picked up to 8,000 over five days, according to the Italian coastguard which coordinated the operations.
Vessels from the coastguard, the Italian navy, humanitarian organizations and EU anti-trafficking operation Sophia were involved in 14 different rescue missions.
The latest rescues will lift to around 94,000 the number of migrants colonists brought to Italian ports this year, roughly in line with the pattern of 2015, according to Flavio Di Giacomo, a front man for the International Organisation for Migration (IOM).
The number of migrants colonists trying to reach Europe via the Greek islands has dropped sharply since an EU-The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... deal designed to stem the flow was agreed in March.
Numbers on that route are running at dozens per day rather than the thousands per day seen this time last year.
More than 3,000 migrants colonists have died at sea while trying to reach either Greece or Italia since the start of this year, an increase of some 50 percent on the same period in 2015.
Lovely civilization you got there -- be a shame if anything happened to it, INFIDEL!
[DailyMail] More than 1,170 have crossed the Aegean and into Greece in the fortnight following the attempted putsch on July 15, compared to just 560 in the two weeks before.
In which the Erdogan regime again attempts to put the infidels in their place.
[Hurriyet] International rating agencies Moody’s and Fitch will tarnish their own reputations if they declare negative ratings for Turkey’s economy, the chief economic adviser to Turkey’s president told Anadolu Agency on Aug. 1.
Cemil Ertem’s comments came after Moody’s announced on July 18 it would review Turkey’s rating for a possible downgrade following the July 15 failed coup attempt.
No nook or cranny left untouched, no matter how small.
[Hurriyet] Turkey is cooperating with the Turkish Cypriot government to clamp down on groups linked to Fethullah Gülen, the U.S.-based Islamic scholar accused of being behind the July 15 failed coup bid, the Turkish ambassador said on Aug. 1.
A corruption conviction is erased by blaming Gulen pique.
[Hurriyet] The TFF also said it shared information with relevant state institutions about all its employees, competition organizers and the chairmen and members of its 11 affiliated boards.
Yıldırım was first sentenced to jail in 2012 and fined 1.3 million Turkish Liras ($560,000) for forming a criminal group and engaging in match-fixing during the 2010-2011 season. He served around one year behind bars before being freed pending a retrial.
The Istanbul 13th High Criminal Court later issued a unanimous ruling that acquitted Yıldırım.
“Aziz Yıldırım was annoyed by a friend’s remarks over Gülen during a plane trip. Then, that friend told the issue to Gülen, who got angry with this. This is why the rigging operation was launched. They did not want Yıldırım’s negative thoughts about Gülen to be dominant in the largest club in Turkey,” Gülerce said.
And the most important thing:
Meanwhile, a three-month state of emergency will not affect Turkish football matches, TFF President Yıldırım Demirören said last week.
Good. There should be a cost for going full fascist, scapegoat and all.
[Hurriyet] This amount may however increase when more detailed calculations are made, he added.
“When we consider all those warplanes, helicopters, weapons, bombs and buildings, the cost is 300 billion liras at minimum according to our prior calculations. The exact cost may likely increase when the detailed calculations are made. There will also be various costs in the medium-term. For instance, many orders from abroad have been canceled. Many foreigners have halted their Turkey visits. The coup plotters have unfortunately created a Turkey image as if it were a third world country. People who see tanks in the streets and the parliament bombed will not come to Turkey. All of these create costs in the medium-term,” Tüfenkci said in a meeting with a group of journalists in Ankara.
[AlAhram] Anadolu said the runaways were caught in the Ula district of Mugla province after gendarmerie special forces, supported by helicopters and drones, were sent to the area after a tip-off from a local.
Gunfire broke out as the Special Forces clashed with the runaways, but there were no reports of any casualties.
Dozens of protesters gathered and jeered outside the gendarmerie outpost where the commandos were first held before being taken to a cop shoppe in the area.
A total of 37 soldiers were reportedly involved in the operation to seize Erdogan in Marmaris and 25 of them had been caught earlier, Anadolu said.
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Turkey has said that it would have to abandon a deal with the European Union reached to stem the flow of migrants into the bloc if the EU did not grant visa-free travel to its citizens.
"Nice continent ya got there..."
Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu told German Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ) that if the EU did not grant visa-free travel to Turkish citizens, then it would abandon the March 18 Turkey-EU migrant deal. Çavuşoğlu said the agreement on stemming the refugee flow had worked because of “very serious measures” taken by Ankara.
“But all that is dependent on the suspension of the visa requirement for our citizens, which is also an item in the agreement of March 18,” he was quoted by Reuters as telling FAZ on July 31.
“If visa liberalization does not follow, we will be forced to back away from the deal on taking back [refugees] and the agreement of March 18,” he said, adding that the Turkish government was waiting for a precise date for visa liberalization.
“It could be the beginning or middle of October - but we are waiting for a firm date.”
European Commissioner Guenther Oettinger said recently he did not see the EU granting Turks visa-free travel this year due to Ankara’s crackdown after the failed military coup in mid-July.
In response to Çavuşoğlu’s remarks, German Vice Chancellor Sigmar Gabriel said Germany and the EU should not be blackmailed by Turkey in talks on visa liberalization for Turkish nationals.
“It is up to Turkey if there is or there isn’t visa liberalization,” Gabriel said during a trip to northern Germany, according to Reuters. “Germany and Europe should under no circumstances be blackmailed.”
You'd better be prepared with a fence, flights back to Syria, and tear gas...
...and more than a whiff of grapeshot.
Turkey had agreed to take back all irregular migrants reaching Greece via Turkey as of March 20, according to the EU-Turkey migrant deal reach on March 18. In exchange, the EU would take in the same amount of Syrian refugees from Turkey. As of Aug. 1, only less than 500 migrants were sent back to Turkey from Greece, while even a smaller amount of Syrian refugees were sent to the EU from Turkey.
The EU said Turkey must respect all the conditions of its migrant deal with the bloc before it can secure visa-free travel to Europe for its citizens. EU Commission spokeswoman Mina Andreeva said Aug. 1 that “if Turkey wants visa liberalization the benchmarks must be met,” according to the Associated Press.
Within the scope of the deal, the EU vowed to grant a total of 6 billion euros to Turkey to be used for Syrian refugees in the country, while also granting Turkish citizens visa-free travel inside the Schengen zone, on grounds that Turkey met the necessary requirements.
Last week, Greek data showed that migrant arrivals in Greece inched up in the past two weeks after the failed coup attempt in Turkey. The average rate has increased to 90 people a day, compared to 30 before the attempted coup, according to the data, AFP has reported.
At the height of the migrant crisis last year, thousands of people would land every day on Greek Aegean islands close to the coast of Turkey. Most were allowed by Greece to continue their journey northwards, prompting an outcry among several European states that hastened to shut their borders earlier this year.
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Turkey has said that it would have to abandon a deal with the European Union reached to stem the flow of migrants into the bloc if the EU did not grant visa-free travel to its citizens.
*Snort* If this was comedy the oneliners write themselves.
[DAWN] HYDERABAD: Larkana police are reported to have found a pamphlet -- purported to have been written by Sindhudesh Revolutionary Army (SRA) -- claiming responsibility for Saturday’s kabooms near a Rangers’ checkpoint. It warns the paramilitary force to leave Sindh as soon as possible.
The pamphlet, whose image was sent to Dawn by a police brass hat by WhatsApp on Sunday, reads: "Sindh’s geography, demography, natural resources and national identity are under threat in the state system of Pakistain.
"Sindh’s trade routes and railway lines are being used only for exploitation of Sindh’s natural resources, oil, gas, coal, etc. In such context, SRA feels its historical responsibility to save Sindh from upcoming national threats and challenges".
DIG Larkana Abdullah Sheikh told Dawn that police were examining the pamphlet, but avoided making any further comment.
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Just a reminder that the Turks are there, doing whatever it is they are doing.
[Rudaw] At least 60 Turkish soldiers and 20 Sunni Death Eaters have reportedly been poisoned at a military base near the town of Bashiqa north of djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... , according to a local Kurdish official, who said that 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.... (ISIS) is believed to have spoiled the bases’ water supply.
Khairi Khidir, manager of Shekhan hospital, told Rudaw that around "20 soldiers, who are [Sunni] Hashd al-Watani soldiers, were poisoned and admitted to our hospital."
Brig. Gen. Mohammed Yahya, head of the Gudadi base in Bashiqa rejected the notion that the soldiers have been poisoned, claiming instead that they "became ill due to high temperatures and overheated water."
Khidir added that according to the information obtained by them "another 60 Turkish soldiers became ill while at the base. Some of them received treatment from us while others were rushed back to The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... Khidir went on to say that "we could not immediately identify the reason for their illness en masse."
An estimated 1,500 Sunni volunteers have been receiving military training from Turkish personnel at the Gudadi military base in Bashiqa, which Sunni officials claim will be a crucial part of pushing back ISIS murderous Moslems from Mosul.
About 300 Turkish troops with heavy weapons, tanks, and armored vehicles have been stationed at the base to train the Sunni militias.
A military source inside the base told Rudaw that now everybody at the base "is reluctant because they believe ISIS has poisoned the base's water, aimed at the Turkish soldiers specifically."
However, if you can't say something nice about a person some juicy gossip will go well... Brig. Gen. Mohammed Yahya, head of the Gudadi base in Bashiqa rejected the notion that the soldiers have been poisoned, claiming instead that they "became ill due to high temperatures and overheated water."
Hysteria rather than poison? Or simply poor hygiene practices...
The base is only 30 kilometers northeast of Mosul city and was established by the former Mosul governor Aseel Nujaifi.
Hashd al-Watani was initially established to recruit Sunni fighters who were willing to take part in an assault on ISIS in Iraq’s Sunni heartland of Mosul.
The base has been a frequent target for ISIS midrange missiles that have so far killed at least four Sunni fighters and maimed 28 others, according to military officials at the base.
Russia's Roscosmos space corporation might receive an order for the supply of components for Iranian satellites, Russian Minister of Communications and Mass Media Nikolai Nikiforov said Thursday.
Earlier in the day, Nikiforov and Iranian Minister of Communication Mahmoud Vaezi met in Moscow and discussed a number of issues.
"Iran is very interested in the experience of the Russian space program, including in the sphere of communication. Indeed, my colleague [Vaezi] has repeatedly talked about the interest in the use of Russian satellite technology. This is being discussed with the Roskosmos corporation. The Russian satellites constructors have a very good chance of getting the orders and the contracts for Iranian projects. I know that the negotiations are on the way. It necessary to wait for the results," Nikiforov told Rossiya 24 news channel.
Vaezi is currently on an official visit in the Russia capital, where he is also expected to meet Russian Industry and Trade Minister Denis Manturov as well as Russian Energy Minister Alexander Novak. All peaceful use, you understand....
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HASAKAH – A civilian was killed in Syria’s border city of Ras al-Ain, also known as Serekaniye in Kurdish, after being shot by Turkish border guards while trying to cross into the Turkish territories, local sources reported on Monday.
Khalil Daoud, 25, from the town of Alouk [5 kilometers east of Serekaniye city in Hasakah province], was killed while trying to enter Turkey.
The Kurdish police force, known as Asayish, transferred the victim to the local hospital of Serikaniye. According to medical reports, the man died after being hit by five bullets.
Turkish government continues building the separation wall along its borderline with Syria allegedly for security reasons and to prevent terror attacks.
In early 2015, Turkey closed its border to all but seriously injured Syrian asylum seekers.
Also, in the town of Tel Abyad some civilians were injured or even killed, when they tried to cross the border.
In the night, there is the regular sound of gunfire, when smugglers try to smuggle civilians across the border.
Human rights organizations have criticized the decision by Turkey to not allow civilians fleeing the Syrian conflict to go to Turkey.
Last May, Human Rights Watch (HRW) called on Turkey to open it’s borders.
“Its [Turkish] border guards have killed Syrian asylum seekers and pushed others back into the world’s worst war zone,” said Gerry Simpson, senior refugee researcher at Human Rights Watch.
“Governments and UN agencies should end their deafening silence on Turkey’s abuse of Syrian asylum seekers and press Turkey to reopen its border to civilians fleeing the horrors in Syria,” he added.
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
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A lefty French satirical magazine, home of what may well be the majority if the active testicles left in Europe...
