[AnNahar] Oil production has been suspended for several days at three oil fields in Libya after an armed militia shut off pipelines, the state-owned National Oil Company said Wednesday.
The output of oil, nearly one million barrels per day prior to the stoppage, had fallen by more than 360,000 bpd, NOC said in a statement.
The gang, described as "criminal" by the company, had in the past few days closed off two pipelines to the refinery and port at Zawya from the al-Sharara and al-Hamada oil fields.
It had already blocked production on Saturday at the al-Fil field, also located in the west of the country, said the statement from NOC.
The militia seized the pipelines to protest against the "marginalization" of the region, according to sources in the area.
As a result of its actions, NOC said it had declared force majeure at the three affected oil fields.
The legal measure means that due to unforceable circumstances the company can be exonerated from fulfilling oil contracts.
Libya, which has Africa's largest oil reserves, used to produce about 1.6 million barrels per day before the 2011 armed uprising that toppled and killed dictator Muammar Qadaffy ...a reminder that a single man with an idea can change an entire nation, usually for the worse... But it has only managed to export a few tankers of crude in recent months, with efforts to revive the industry thwarted by jihadist attacks and political turmoil.
The closure of oil ports has cost the country more than 130 billion dollars since late 2014, according to NOC.
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[Libya Observer] The member of the Tobruk-based House of Representatives (HoR) Siham Sergiwa said UN envoy to Libya, Ghassan Salame's report on Libya at the Security Council was very interesting as it tackled the suffering of the people more than any previous envoys did, adding that this should urge Libyans to sit together without UN mediation.
Sergiwa urged the HoR to meet in Tobruk or Benghazi or even 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... so they avoid pressure regarding their opinions and duties for the people.
She said about not being able to go to Benghazi that she is still in contact with the electoral circle in the city and they are meeting in Tripoli some times, adding that she brought them money from Tripoli for Benghazi hospitals employees' salaries and military officers.
"No problem between Haftar and al-Sirraj actually, so why did Gay Paree bring them together? The problem is between Haftar and HoR members who reject the interference of military institution in politics and Haftar's problem with them is that he rejects the political agreement." She explained.
Haftar's self-styled general command denied the words said by Sergiwa that their fighters are being paid by the UN-proposed government's ministry of finance, saying their salaries are paid by the ministry of finance of the Interim Government in east Libya.
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[AlAhram] Egypt’s state gazette on Wednesday published the names of 296 individuals who have been added to the state's terror list by court order, including two leading members of the Moslem Brüderbund.
On 24 July, a Cairo criminal court ruled that the 296 people be added to the national terrorist list for three years, as they had all been found guilty of engaging in attacks or planning attacks on the state’s institutions and security forces.
Included in the judgement is Mahmoud Ezzat, the Moslem Brüderbund's deputy Supreme Guide, who fled Egypt in 2013 after a crackdown on the group.
Ezzat has been found guilty of planning terror attacks in Egypt while abroad.
The list also includes Ibrahim Mounir, the Brotherhood's secretary-general in London, who was likewise found guilty of planning attacks in Egypt from abroad.
In December 2013, the Egyptian government designated the Moslem Brüderbund a terrorist organization.
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[Breitbart] Nigeria will soon receive $593 million in military equipment to fight the ongoing 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... terrorist siege of its northeast, a sale approved by the B.O. regime but announced to occur on Monday. The weapons will arrive a week after Nigeria urged Russia to become more deeply involved in fighting Islamic terrorism in Africa.
The website Quartz reports that the bulk of the military equipment Nigeria will receive consists of surveillance and attack planes, to be used for Arclight airstrikes and monitoring Boko Haram targets. The terrorist group, which is a branch of the Islamic State
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Bombing the forest comes with the risk of killing these hostages.
[SUN] EU counter-terrorism co-ordinator Gilles de Kerchove singled out the UK as having more radicalised muslims than any other country in Europe.
Mr de Kerchove also warned Islamic state will attempt a cyberattack on nuclear power stations or air traffic control systems within five years - possibly by paying Russian hackers to break into vital computer systems.
The official, who is in regular contact with security services, terrorism experts and governments around Europe, said: "The United Kingdom has identified 20,000 to 35,000 radicals. Of these, 3,000 are worrying for MI5, and of those 500 are under constant and special attention."
"I wouldn’t like to put a concrete figure on it, but (in Europe) tens of thousands, more than 50,000."
Mr de Kerchove, who has been in his position since 2007, was speaking in an interview with Spain’s El Mundo newspaper.
He warned European countries will suffer further attacks inspired by ISIS - and said greater measures must be taken to prevent them.
Asked about the 12-man cell who murdered 16 and injured more than 100 in attacks in Barcelona and Cambrils on August 17 and 18, he said: "We will suffer more attacks. Most, except for Brussels and Paris, were not directed from Raqqa, but they were inspired there. And later Islamic State claims responsibility."
[IsraelTimes] British police investigating Friday’s sword attack outside Buckingham Palace in London have released a suspect from custody, but another man is still being questioned.
"A 30-year-old man who was placed in durance vile Drop the heater, Studs, or you're hist'try! in west London on Sunday, 27 August by detectives investigating a terrorist incident near Buckingham Palace has been released from police custody with no further action," a police statement says.
A 26-year-old man from Luton, north of London, was arrested at the scene on suspicion of grievous bodily harm and assault on police, and counter-terrorism have until September 1 to question him.
The suspect reached for a four-foot sword after being challenged by unarmed coppers he deliberately drove at outside the royal palace, authorities say.
Police said the man had repeatedly shouted "holy shit! Allahu akbar" (God is greatest) and was incapacitated with tear gas.
One does have to wonder what is so dire that neither man's name, nor additional details, has yet been revealed. Usually the Daily Mail, et al race to be the first with the juicy information.
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Tennessee already does let you openly carry a sword. I carry a saber.
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used to be (25 years ago) a dude(tte) who walked the Capitol Hill section of Seattle bare-chested with a pair of bastard swords in back harnesses - known to one and all as "Fred the Pretentious"
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"One does have to wonder what is so dire that neither man's name, nor additional details, has yet been revealed. Usually the Daily Mail, et al race to be the first with the juicy information."
[DAWN] An anti-terrorism court (ATC) in Rawalpindi reserved its decision on the decade-old Benazir Bhutto ... 11th Prime Minister of Pakistain in two non-consecutive terms from 1988 until 1990 and 1993 until 1996. She was the daughter of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, founder of the Pakistain People's Party, who was murdered at the instigation of General Ayub Khan. She was murdered in her turn by person or persons unknown while campaigning in late 2007. Suspects include, to note just a few, Baitullah Mehsud, General Pervez Musharraf, the ISI, al-Qaeda in Pakistain, and her husband, Asif Ali Zardari, who shows remarkably little curiosity about who done her in... murder case on Wednesday after the defence counsel concluded their arguments.
It is expected that the judgement will be announced at Rawalpindi's Adiala jail this week, as Judge Muhammad Asghar Ali Khan earlier said he would require two days to scrutinise and compile all the records.
In today's hearing, Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) prosecutor, Chaudhry Azhar, said that former president retired Gen Pervez Perv Musharraf ... former dictator of Pakistain, who was less dictatorial and corrupt than any Pak civilian government to date ... ─ declared "most wanted" in the case ─ could not appear before the court because he is under threat by the Al Qaeda.
Naseer Tanoli, the lawyer of Aitzaz Shah who is accused of helping and financing the attack, told the court that the FIA's investigation into the case is full of defects.
Tanoli observed that the FIA had not asked any of the suspects about when they were locked away Youse'll never take me alive coppers!... [BANG!]... Ow!... I quit! .
The FIA prosecutor argued that if there were discrepancies regarding the dates of the arrests of the suspects, the fault lies with the police, not the FIA.
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[DAWN] Jamaat-e-Islami ...The Islamic Society, founded in 1941 in Lahore by Maulana Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi, aka The Great Apostosizer. The Jamaat opposed the independence of Bangladesh but has operated an independent branch there since 1975. It maintains close ties with international Mohammedan groups such as the Moslem Brotherhood. the Taliban, and al-Qaeda. The Jamaat's objectives are the establishment of a pure Islamic state, governed by Sharia law. It is distinguished by its xenophobia, and its opposition to Westernization, capitalism, socialism, secularism, and liberalist social mores... chief Sirajul Haq ...current head of the Pak Jamaat-e-Islami. Siraj was born in 1962 and entered politics shortly after that... has warned the government against doing away with Articles 62 and 63 of the Constitution and said such a bid would be a ’suicide kaboom’ against the entire Constitution.
He was addressing a public meeting in Brawal area here on Tuesday.
JI provincial chief Mushtaq Ahmad Khan, KP senior minister Inayatullah Khan, party’s district nazim ...small time big shot, the chief elected official of a local government in Pakistan, such as a district, tehsil, union council, or village council... Upper Dir Sahibzada Faseehullah, Dir and Brawal tehsil nazims Mir Makhzanud Din and Jehan Alam respectively, local leaders and workers of the party were present on the occasion.
He said his slogan against corruption would continue until corrupt politicians were held accountable.
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[DAWN] Former interior minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan ...Currently the Interior Minister of Pakistain. He is the senior leader of the Pak Moslem League (N) and a close aide to Nawaz Uncle Fester Sharif. He is noted for his vocal anti-American railing in the National Assembly. However (comma) Khan told the U.S. ambassador that he was in fact pro-American but he and the PML-N would have to be critical of US actions in order to remain publicly credible. Khan cited his wife and children's US citizenship as proof, which means he's lying to one side or the other and probably both. He wears a wig, but you probably guessed that. since hair doesn't grow naturally in that shape or texture... on Wednesday lambasted the new policy for Afghanistan and South Asia announced by US President Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... , saying Pakistain was not responsible for the failure of US and its allies in Afghanistan.
Nisar also ridiculed Trump's claim that the US has paid "billions and billions of dollars" to Pakistain and called on the government to issue the record of the past 20 years to "expose" American claims.
"It's not billions of dollars, it's peanuts," the former interior minister said while addressing the National Assembly.
Nisar said that Coalition Support Fund payments from the US were for services rendered by Pakistain in the fight against terrorism.
He also criticised the US for dragging its feet in making payments from the military fund, adding: "If our bill [for military services] is $500 million, they [US] sit on it for months [...] and end up giving us $200 million."
"They have ruined our roads, our airspace and our country, but are not ready to pay for the expenses."
"Put your money where your mouth is," Nisar railed, adding that the US has been able to point fingers because Pakistain did not keep a proper record of American assistance.
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[DAWN] The Balochistan ...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it... High Court (BHC) on Wednesday dismissed an application challenging the acquittal of former president General (retd) Pervez Perv Musharraf ... former dictator of Pakistain, who was less dictatorial and corrupt than any Pak civilian government to date ... and others in the Nawab Akbar Khan Bugti murder case.
The application had been filed by the Baloch nationalist leader's son, Jamil Akbar Bugti, in 2016, challenging the verdict of an Anti-Terrorist Court (ATC) in Quetta that acquitted the former military dictator and others in the case.
A divisional bench of BHC, comprising justice Jamal Mandokhail and Justice Nazeer Ahmed Langove, dismissed the application challenging the acquittal and maintained the judgement of the ATC.
"We are not satisfied with the judgment," Jamil Bugti's counsel, Advocate Sohail Rajput, told news hounds outside the high court. "We will challenge the BHC dismissal of our application in the Supreme Court."
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[DAWN] The Senate on Monday unanimously passed a motion recommending that the government launch a regional diplomatic initiative to coordinate responses to US President Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... ’s new Afghan policy, which takes a dim view of Pakistain’s anti-terrorism efforts.
The entire house, which converted itself into a Whole Committee, devised the recommendations based on policy guidelines proposed by a six-member subcommittee. The Senate chairman said that the house had come up with the recommendations after discussions with the Ministries of Defense and Interior.
After the recommendations were accepted, the Senate Chairman Raza Rabbani ordered that the recommendations also be forwarded to all Pak embassies around the world. The recommendations were also sent to the National Assembly.
"It has been proven yet again that the Senate comes together proactively when it comes to matters of national security," he observed.
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The cockroaches scurry when the light's turned on
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Pakistan's senate appears to be as blustery and ineffective as ours.
[DAWN] The National Assembly on Wednesday passed a resolution rejecting the "hostile and threatening" statements made by US President Donald J. Trump and Gen John W. Nicholson -- the top US commander in Afghanistan.
During the NA session, Foreign Minister Khawaja Asif read out the resolution, which was earlier passed unanimously by the lower house.
The resolution categorically rejected Gen Nicolson's claims regarding the existence of the Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... shura in Beautiful Downtown Peshawar ...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (formerly known as the North-West Frontier Province), administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire. and Quetta.
The NA also disapproved of the "unacceptable targeting of Pakistain" by Trump in his speech while he announced Washington's new South Asia policy.
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[IsraelTimes] UNIFIL given widened powers after US and Israeli called for it to do more to tackle Hezbollah arms buildup
The United Nations ...an organization conceived in the belief that we're just one big happy world, with the sort of results you'd expect from such nonsense... extended the mandate of its peacekeeping mission in southern Leb Wednesday night, and gave its forces widened powers to address Hezbollah’s weapons buildup in the area.
As a result of the changes, which were approved by the UN Security Council, UNIFIL will increase its oversight activities in southern Leb, including by entering villages where the Hezbollah terror group operates.
The resolution highlights that UNIFIL has the authority to "take all necessary actions" in areas where its forces are deployed and must ensure that its area of operations is "not utilized for hostile activities of any kind."
Israel’s ambassador to the UN Danny Danon welcomed the decision, saying in a statement that "the resolution requires UNIFIL to open its eyes, and forces it to act against Hezbollah’s terror buildup in the area."
He described the resolution as "a victory for Israel."
The resolution came following complaints from Israel over the international body’s failure prevent Hezbollah from gaining strength.
La Belle France, a key player on the Security Council, argued that UNIFIL had succeeded in maintaining calm in south Leb, but the United States pushed for action by the mission against Hezbollah, which it accuses of stockpiling weapons and readying for war.
Thank you, President Trump. It is such a pleasure to be able to write that sincerely instead of with bitter sarcasm.
"Conditions in south Leb are very dangerous today. The clouds of war are gathering," US Ambassador Nikki Haley ...first woman to serve as Governor of South Carolina, and the second Indian-American governor in the country, after Bobby Jindal of Louisiana. At the age of 39, Haley is the youngest current governor in the U.S., a distinction formerly held by Jindal. She is a Republican, which really grates on the Dems... told the council after the vote. "UNIFIL exists to help prevent war from happening again and it is supposed to do that."
The resolution also requests that UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres look at ways to increase UNIFIL’s visible presence, through patrols and inspections, but within its existing mandate.
"UNIFIL can, of course, do better and do more," said French Deputy Ambassador Anne Gueguen, but she stressed that the force was indeed keeping the peace. "No one in this council can imagine for one second the environment that would exist there without UNIFIL."
Rejecting the demands from the US and Israel for UNIFIL’s mission to be expanded, Leb had called for the peacekeeping force’s mandate to be renewed without changes.
Responding to the Wednesday vote, indeed, the Lebanese mission to the UN tweeted that the mandate had been extended "without changing."
For a given definition of unchanged, at any rate.
Set up in 1978, UNIFIL was beefed up after the 2006 war between Israel and Hezbollah, tasked with guaranteeing a ceasefire and Israeli withdrawal from a demilitarized zone on the Israeli-Lebanese border.
It now has 10,500 troops on the ground monitoring the ceasefire and helping the Lebanese government secure its borders.
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"The clouds of war are gathering," US Ambassador Nikki Haley told the council after the vote. "UNIFIL exists to help prevent war from happening again and it is supposed to do that."
Funny, I was under the impression that the 'hurricane of war' had already made landfall.
[IsraelTimes] US Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley ...first woman to serve as Governor of South Carolina, and the second Indian-American governor in the country, after Bobby Jindal of Louisiana. At the age of 39, Haley is the youngest current governor in the U.S., a distinction formerly held by Jindal. She is a Republican, which really grates on the Dems... is reportedly threatening to cut funding to UN bodies over a document being written up that singles out companies doing business with Israeli settlements.
The so-called settlement blacklist has been called "shameful" by Haley and Israeli officials have railed against its creation.
According to Israel’s Channel 2, one the bodies that may have funding cut is the UN Human Rights Council, which is drawing up the list and has been bashed by US officials for its anti-Israel bias.
[Free Beacon] The Obama administration likely hid information about Iran illicitly ferrying militants into Syria on commercial aircraft in order to promote the landmark nuclear deal and foster multi-billion dollar business deals with Tehran's state-controlled airline sector, according to lawmakers and other sources familiar with the matter.
The Washington Free Beacon first disclosed last week that congressional leaders are calling for an investigation into Iran for using its state-controlled air carrier, Iran Air, to ferry militant fighters into Syria, where they are taking up arms in defense of embattled President Bashar al-Assad.
Photographs provided to Congress show Iran using Iran Air to ferry these soldiers between 2016 and 2017, in part when the Obama administration removed sanctions on Iran Air and promoted multi-billion dollars sales between the carrier and aircraft manufacturer Boeing, which is seeking to provide Iran Air with a fleet of new planes that many suspect will be used to carry terrorist fighters and weapons into regional hotspots.
This behavior violates international laws governing the nuclear deal and has now led lawmakers and others to accuse the Obama administration of downplaying Iran's illicit activity in order to promote the nuclear deal and ensure Tehran receives a new commercial fleet.
[AlMasdar] In a remarkable turn of events, Ankara has cut salaries to all Syrian rebel groups that are tied to the so-called ’Syrian National Coalition’.
The falling out is related to the election of Riad Seif, a Kurdish-backed figure who has become the president of the Syrian National Coalition. The Ottoman Turkish regime had backed other candidates with Islamist sympathies.
Following the result earlier this month, the relations between The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... and Ottoman Turkish-backed jihadists in Syria have begun to deteriorate with Ankara reducing pay to its long-standing jihadist allies, citing "bureaucratic reasons".
On August 22, a delegation headed by President Riad Seif met up in Istanbul with representatives of Turkey’s Foreign Affairs Secretary. At the meeting, financial problems of the jihadists, the Riyadh talks and a possible truce under the guarantor ship of Turkey were put on the agenda.
Following the talks, payments to Ottoman Turkish-backed rebel fighters have been cut in half, causing much concern for Islamist commanders in northern Aleppo and Idlib whom have heavily relied upon Ottoman Turkish tax money to fund their myrmidons.
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[IsraelTimes] The U.S. administration has been dismayed by Leb's "submission to an agreement led by the Syrian regime 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... " that led to the evacuation of 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.... bully boyz from the eastern border region, and has accordingly decided to halt its military support for Leb, a media report said on Wednesday.
Washington has decided to "cease military support to Leb and retrieve around 50 modern tanks that it had convinced Riyadh to pay for and supply to the Lebanese army to support it in its battle against terrorism," An Nahar newspaper said.
"These tanks deployed in several posts and took part strongly and effectively along with other weapons in the army's battle in the outskirts of al-Qaa and Ras Baalbek," the daily added.
The army had launched an unprecedented military offensive to oust IS bully boyz from the eastern border region on August 19. Separately but simultaneously, Hizbullah and the Syrian army began an assault to remove IS from the Syrian side of the border.
Simultaneous ceasefires were announced on both sides of the border on Sunday morning to allow for negotiations over the fate of nine Lebanese troops kidnapped by IS bully boyz in 2014.
The Lebanese army has insisted that it has not coordinated any move with Hizbullah or the Syrian army.
The Hizbullah-led agreement resulted in the recovery of nine bodies likely belonging to the captive troops, the evacuation of hundreds of IS bully boyz and their families from the Lebanese-Syrian border to eastern Syria, and the handover of a Hizbullah captive and several corpses to the Iran-backed group.
President Michel Aoun ...a wholly-owned subsidiary of Hizbullah... and Army Commander General Joseph Aoun declared victory over IS on Wednesday morning, two days after Hizbullah chief His Eminence Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah The satrap of the Medes and the Persians in Leb... described the removal of IS' bully boyz as Leb's "Second Liberation Day."
BEIRUT: Fierce fighting between Syrian government forces and the Daesh group has killed 64 combatants in Raqqa province over a 24-hour period, a monitoring group said Wednesday.
The clashes come with the army pressing an advance through Raqqa, in northern Syria, toward neighboring Deir Ezzor, the only remaining province of the war-ravaged country still in the hands of Daesh jihadists.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Britain-based monitor, said the fighting had claimed the lives of 38 jihadists and 26 pro-regime combatants since Tuesday morning.
It takes to 145 the overall death toll in six days of fighting in villages on the banks of the Euphrates River in the east of Raqqa province, near Deir Ezzor.
Daesh said in a statement on Tuesday that its members had killed dozens of regime combatants in “intense fighting lasting hours.”
Observatory director Rami Abdel Rahman told AFP that the regime was fighting to secure a foothold in Raqqa province “in order to advance in Deir Ezzor.”
The jihadists have laid seige to government forces and civilians in the provincial capital of Deir Ezzor since 2015.
Earlier this month, government troops and allied fighters arrived at the outskirts of Madan, the last Daesh-held town in the countryside of eastern Raqqa province before Deir Ezzor.
But Daesh launched a counterattack last week that pushed the regime forces back, and fighting has since continued.
The Syria army operation in the area, backed by air support from ally Russia, is separate from the battle for provincial capital Raqqa city.
The effort to oust Daesh from the city is being led by the Syrian Democratic Forces, a US-backed alliance of Kurdish and Arab fighters.
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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
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Currently the Interior Minister of Pakistain. He is the senior leader of the Pak Moslem League (N) and a close aide to Nawaz 
[Free Beacon] The Obama administration likely hid information about Iran illicitly ferrying militants into Syria on commercial aircraft in order to promote the landmark nuclear deal and foster multi-billion dollar business deals with Tehran's state-controlled airline sector, according to lawmakers and other sources familiar with the matter.
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