[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The officials in northeastern Takhar province of Afghanistan are saying that sixteen security personnel have been martyred in bandidosbully boyz attack.
Provincial governor’s front man Sanatullah Temor said the attack was carried out by a large number of bandidosbully boyz in Khaja Ghar district.
Temor further added that seven army soldiers and nine members of the Afghan Local Police (ALP) forces were martyred in the attack.
He said at least 13 security personnel have also sustained injuries in the attack but did not elaborate further regarding their health condition.
In the meantime, the Chief Executive of the Unity Government Abdullah Abdullah ... the former foreign minister of the Northern Alliance government, advisor to Masood, and candidate for president against Karzai. Dr. Abdullah was born in Kabul and is half Tadjik and half Pashtun... said at least ten army soldiers and six police personnel were martyred in the attack.
However, it's easy to be generous with someone else's money... the Takhar police front man Khalil Asir says at least ten coppers and seven army soldiers have bit the dust in the attack.
The Talibs group grabbed credit behind the attack with the group’s front man Zabiullah Mujahid claiming that the police forces have suffered heavy casualties during the festivities.
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] At least sixty Talibs have been killed in the latest Arclight airstrike conducted by the US forces in southern Kandahar province of Afghanistan.
According to the local government officials, the latest airstrike was carried out late on Wednesday night in the vicinity of Maiwand district.
Provincial governor’s front man Qudrullah Khoshbashkht confirmed that the US forces based in Afghanistan carried out airstrikes in support of the Afghan cops.
Khoshbakht further added that the airstrikes were carried out in response to a coordinated attack by the Taliban ...Arabic for students... Lion of Islams.
He said at least sixty bully boyz have been killed and twenty others have been maimed during the airstrikes.
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] An kaboom rocked Kabul city at around 11:30 am local time with the security officials saying a jacket wallah has detonated his explosives near a ceremony to mark the death anniversary of Abdul Ali Mazari.
The incident took place in the vicinity of the 6th police district of the city after a suicide bomber detonated his explosives near the ceremony.
The Ministry of Interior confirms that at least nine people have been killed and eighteen others have been maimed in the attack.
The ministry of public health had earlier said at least four people have been killed and thirteen others have been maimed.
The deputy front man for the ministry of interior Nusrat Rahimi had also confirmed the killing of at least Seven people while twenty two others were maimed in the attack.
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The Afghan military has confirmed the deadly Arclight airstrike on snuffies in eastern Kunar province ... which is right down the road from Chitral. Kunar is Haqqani country..... of Afghanistan amid reports the son of Tehrik-e-Taliban ...Arabic for students... Pakistain Chief Mullah Fazlullah ...son-in-law of holy man Sufi Mohammad. Known as Mullah FM, Fazlullah had the habit of grabbing his FM mike when the mood struck him and bellowing forth sermons. Sufi suckered the Pak govt into imposing Shariah on the Swat Valley and then stepped aside whilst Fazlullah and his Talibs imposed a reign of terror on the populace like they hadn't seen before, at least not for a thousand years or so. For some reason the Pak intel services were never able to locate his transmitter, much less bomb it. After ruling the place like a conquered province for a year or so, Fazlullah's Talibs began gobbling up more territory as they pushed toward Islamabad, at which point as a matter of self-preservation the Mighty Pak Army threw them out and chased them into Afghanistan... has also been killed.
The 201st Silab Corps of the Afghan Military in the East said the airstrike was carried out in Chogam and Chinar Banda areas of Shiltan district.
Without disclosing further information regarding the identities of the snuffies killed in the airstrike, the Silab Corps confirmed the deaths of at least fifteen snuffies were killed.
This comes as Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistain had earlier confirmed that the son Mullah Fazlullah has been killed in an airstrike in eastern Kunar.
In a statement sent to the local media outlets, TTP has said at least nineteen jacket wallahs were also among killed in the airstrike.
TTP has blamed the Afghan Intelligence, National Directorate of Security ...the Afghan national intel agency... (NDS), for providing information regarding the TTP hideout which was targeted by the US air forces.
The attack was reportedly carried out in Sultan Khel area of Kunar near Bajaur Agency, aka Turban Central ...Smallest of the agencies in FATA. The Agency administration is located in Khar. Bajaur is inhabited almost exclusively by Tarkani Pashtuns, which are divided into multiple bickering subtribes. Its 52 km border border with Afghanistan's Kunar Province makes it of strategic importance to Pakistain's strategic depth... tribal region of Pakistain.
The sources in Pakistain have said that a hideout of the group Ghaz was camp was targeted in the airstrike and the commander of Bajaur chapter of TTP Gul Mohammad was also killed in the raid.
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The Imghad and Allies Self Defense Movement (GATIA) and the Movement for the Salvation of Azawad (MSA) have again reported its fighters have battled with militants loyal to the Islamic State led by Abu Walid al Sahrawi.
According to the joint statement released by the groups, one of their joint patrols engaged in combat with the Islamic State-loyal militants in the Tinzouragan area of Mali’s northern Gao region yesterday. The locale sits close to In-Delimane and the Nigerien borders, an area where the so-called Islamic State in the Greater Sahara (ISGS) operates. The Tuareg alliance reported that five jihadists were killed, including a high level commander named as Djibo Hamma. Other militants and vehicles were reported captured.
At the same time, France’s Operation Barkhane reported its forces also clashed with suspected jihadist militants near In-Delimane on March 6. It is unclear which group the French troops battled with. While ISGS operates in that area, al Qaeda’s Group for Support of Islam and Muslims have claimed attacks on French troops in that area as well.
This article starring:
ABU WALID AL SAHRAWI
Islamic State
DJIBO HAMA
ISGS
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[SABANEWS.NET] The units of the army and popular forces attacked on Thursday al- Talaa Saudi military site in Najran, causing killing and injuring dozens of Saudi soldiers and their mercenaries, a military official told Saba.
The army killed dozens of Saudi soldiers and mercenaries in counter- offensive operation on al- Talaa site, the official said.
Meanwhile, ...back at the wreckage, Captain Poindexter wished he had a cup of coffee. Even instant would do... the army and popular forces burned weapons store of the Saudi soldiers beyond al- Makhrooq site with artillery shells, assuring that three of the Saudi mercenaries were shot in front of Alab border crossing in Asir district.
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Feelin' the qat?
Please don't keep it under your hat.
To kafirs, Catha edulis;
To us, a faceful of h3rbal bliss!
Chewing the fat
With any old skinny-ass rat,
You'll yak so much
Your tongue will ache;
Your heart will go pitter-pat
When you're feelin'
That wonderful qat!
[Dhaka Tribune] Police’s Counter Terrorism and Transnational Crime (CTTC) unit has handed over the brother of Foyzur Rahman Faizul, who attacked noted author Prof Zafar Iqbal at Shahjalal University of Science and Technology (SUST) on March 3, to Jalalabad police station in Sylhet city.
Enamul Hasan was sent to Sylhet on Friday morning, said CTTC unit’s Deputy Commissioner Mohibul Islam Khan.
Jalalabad police OC Shafiqul Islam also said that they were expecting Enamul in their custody soon.
Enamul, who had fled their family home after Faizul carried out the attack, was arrested by CTTC unit officials in Gazipur on Thursday evening.
Police also seized a tablet, a mobile phone and a memory card from him at the time. These were previously used by Faizul, officials claimed.
After the news of the attack spread and Faizul was identified, all members of his family had run away from their house. However, his father Atiqur Rahman and mother Minara Begum surrendered at Jalalabad police station the next day.
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[ahram online] President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Friday said Turkish forces and allied rebels could enter the centre of the Kurdish-held Syrian town of Afrin "at any moment", a day after the capture of another key strategic town.
"Now our objective is Afrin... As of now, we have Afrin encircled. We can enter Afrin at any moment, God willing," Erdogan told his ruling party in Ankara, a day after Turkish forces took control of the town of Jandairis.
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#1
It has taken a Turkish armored Divison a month and a half to go about ten of the 14 miles from Turkish border to Afrin.
Pattons ghost is giggling at the ineptitude.
Kirkuk (IraqiNews.com) Three Iraqi security personnel were killed and injured in an armed attack against one of the headquarters of the Turkmen Front in Kirkuk.
In a statement on Friday, Mohamed Samaan, an official from the front in Kirkuk, said, “the headquarters of the military district, east of Kirkuk, was targeted by unidentified gunmen using RPGs.”
The attack, according to Samaan, left “one personnel of the Counter-Terrorism Service killed and another injured.”
Earlier on the day, a security source said a CTS patrol was attacked in east of Kirkuk, adding that troops repelled the attack.
A total of 91 Iraqi civilians were killed and 208 others were injured in acts of terrorism, violence and armed conflict in February, according to the monthly report issued by the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI).
Baghdad was the worst affected Governorate, with 195 civilian casualties (49 killed, 146 injured). Anbar Governorate ranked second place, with 14 killed and 37 injured, and Diyala had 12 killed and 11 injured.
As many as 3,298 civilians were killed and 4,781 others were wounded in 2017, excluding Anbar civilian casualty figures for November and December, which are not available, UNAMI said in a report in December.
Thousands of IS militants as well as Iraqi civilians were killed since the government campaign, backed by paramilitary troops and the coalition was launched in October 2016 to fight the militant group, which declared a self-styled “caliphate” from Mosul in June 2014.
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Nineveh (IraqiNews.com) An Islamic State member, who was in charge of confiscating houses and weapons of police conscripts, has been arrested, Nineveh Police Command announced on Friday.
Speaking to Baghdad Today website, Lt. Gen. Hamad Names al-Jabouri, commander of Nineveh police, said troops “managed to arrest IS member called Ahmed Hussein Khalaf Ibrahim, who is from a village in Nimrud region.”
The militant, according to Jabouri, “was in charge of confiscating houses and weapons of the conscripts in Nineveh.”
“Troops managed to arrest him in al-Karama district in eastern Mosul,” he added.
On Tuesday, an IS emir was arrested in an operation in south of Mosul, the military intelligence department announced Moreover, the Nineveh Operations command said 26 people were arrested in western Mosul over their suspected affiliation with the Islamic State.
Earlier this week, Hassan al-Sabaawi, member of Nineveh provincial council, warned against appearance of IS militants.
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Mosul (IraqiNews.com) Officials at Iraq’s Nineveh province have warned that senior Islamic State leaders were still in hiding at tunnels in the city of Mosul, the birthplace of the extremist group’s self-proclaimed “caliphate”.
Hossam al-Abbar, a member of the Nineveh Province Council, was quoted saying in press statements that senior IS members were still hiding in underground tunnels in the western regions of Mosul, adding that those regions are of tough geography that makes it difficult to detect those tunnels.
The banks of Tigris River have become a hideout for the militants who entrench in tunnels well-hidden in the middle of the jungles, according to Abbar.
Nineveh officials have recently warned that several IS members were moving in the province with fake IDs.
Iraq declared victory over Islamic State militants and the recapture of all of the group’s strongholds in December 2017, but forces continue to hunt for remnant militants hiding at desert areas. As part of the clearing efforts, security commanders have occasionally reported the finding of underground tunnels belonging to the group.
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[IsraelTimes] Violent demonstrations reported across West Bank and along Gazoo border fence; two Paleostinians said maimed near Ramallah and four in Gazoo
A Paleostinian man was killed in festivities on Friday with the Israeli army in the West Bank city of Hebron,
...Hamas Central in the West Bank...
the Paleostinian health ministry said, as hundreds of Paleostinians demonstrated against the moving of the US embassy to Jerusalem.
Mohammed al-Jabari, 24, was shot during the festivities and later died in hospital, the ministry said.
The Israeli army said a "riot" had broken out in Hebron and that protesters had attacked soldiers.
"Troops fired live rounds towards a main instigator who held a Molotov cocktail with the intent to hurl it," a front man said, adding an investigation had been launched.
Some Paleostinian media reported he Jabari was deaf. The official Paleostinian news agency Wafa said he had disabilities, without further details.
During the violent demonstrations, Paleostinians threw rocks and fire bombs at the soldiers who responded with riot dispersal means. There were no reports of injuries to IDF forces.
Two other Paleostinians were reported maimed by live fire in festivities near Ramallah in the West Bank, while violent festivities were also reported along the border fence with Gazoo.
The Hamas, a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",-run health ministry in Gazoo said four people were maimed, one of them seriously.
Paleostinian groups have called for festivities with Israeli forces to protest the US administration’s decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital and relocate the US embassy to the city.
[IsraelTimes] Ismail Haniyeh predicts 'tens of thousands' of Palestinians will march on Israeli border when diplomatic mission relocates to Jerusalem in May.
On Friday, four Palestinian protesters were injured in clashes with Israeli soldiers near Khan Younis. The Hamas-run health ministry said the injured protesters were taken to a local hospital and one was in a serious condition and the other three were in moderate condition.
Earlier this week, Palestinians in the Gaza Strip called for a sit-in protest along the border in the weeks leading up to Nakba Day.
Organizers on Wednesday said a tent city was being erected near border to protest Israel’s refusal to grant Palestinian refugees and their descendants a full “right of return” — permission to live in Israel.
The group wants hundreds of thousands of Gazans, including families, to come join the tent city “at the nearest, safe point from the border” with Israel, the Reuters news agency reported.
[IsraelTimes] Shots were fired Thursday evening in the direction of IDF soldiers who were operating near the city of Nablus in the West Bank, the military said. There were no casualties in the incident, the IDF said. Troops were conducting searches in the area for suspects, it added.
Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman said in February that Israel’s security forces thwarted between 20 and 30 terror attacks in the West Bank each week over the past few months.
[Ynet] The IDF, Shin Bet, and Israel Police arrested nine wanted persons suspected of involvement in terrorist activity and violent disturbances in The West Bank Wednesday overnight. They were detained and transferred for questioning.
[IsraelTimes] As at least 12 of terror group's members tossed in the calaboose I ain't sayin' nuttin' widdout me mout'piece! , it complains it is being targeted by Israeli and Paleostinian Authority security forces
The Paleostinian Islamic Jihad ...created after many members of the Egyptian Moslem Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the assassination of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah... (PIJ) on Thursday accused the Paleostinian Authority of targeting members of the terror group in the West Bank because of their "political and social activities."
In recent days, scores of PIJ members were summoned for interrogation or arrested by the PA security forces in Hebron, Ramallah, Tulkarem, Qalqilyeh, Jenin, and Nablus, said Daoud Shehab, spokesperson for Islamic Jihad in the Gazoo Strip
On Thursday, the PA’s Preventative Security Force arrested 12 PIJ members in the Jenin area.
The PA security forces, he said, have been summoning for interrogation or arrest "anyone connected to the intifada and the resistance, including those who support the families of prisoners and deaders."
Shehab accused the PA of stifling social and political activities. "There’s no room anymore for political and social work in the West Bank."
PA security sources said that the crackdown on PIJ was linked to the terror group’s increased activities in the West Bank. The arrests are not linked to the suspects’ political or social activities, the sources clarified, without elaborating.
Among those taken into custody are Maher al Akhras, a senior PIJ operative, and his son, Islam.
The two were arrested during a raid on their home in the village of Silet al Dahriyeh, near Jenin, Paleostinian sources said.
Earlier, the PA security forces arrested Hikmat Odeh, another PIJ operative, after raiding his home in Tulkarem, the sources added, noting that he had been released from Israeli prison a few weeks ago after serving a seven-year sentence for security-related offences.
In the Hebron area, the PA security forces arrested Malek Abu Shkhaidem, Nail Bashir, and Mahmoud Odeh, according to the sources.
Fathi al Qara’wi, a Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, member of the Paleostinian Legislative Council in the West Bank, strongly condemned the PA clampdown, saying there was widespread anger among the Paleostinians because of the arrests.
He claimed that the PA security forces have also been arresting Paleostinians because of posts on social media and statements in support of Paleostinian prisoners held by Israel.
The Hamas official said that Odeh, who was arrested in Tulkarem, was beaten by PA security forces in front of his family members. The PA security forces’ actions were tantamount to crimes, he charged.
[AFP] On Friday, the Philippine military said it had killed at least eight insurgents in an operation to stop efforts to set up a militant base in the country's south following the five-month siege of Marawi last year. Military spokesman Gerry Bisana said armored vehicles and artillery were used against about 50 gunmen from the Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters on Thursday.
Bisana said troops recovered the bodies of eight gunmen, although they believe rebels carried off 15 other dead comrades. He said a soldier was also injured in the fighting near the town of Datu Saudi Ampatuan.
The military said last month that gunmen linked to the Islamic State have renewed an armed campaign to set up a caliphate in the region. The first attempt was quashed last year after a military campaign that flattened Marawi and killed more than 1,100 people.
Survivors of that siege have recruited a fresh force of about 200 gunmen, according to the military, with President Duterte warning they could attack other cities in Mindanao.
[ALMASDARNEWS] One of the highest ranking commanders of Faylaq al-Rahman was killed in the East Ghouta region of Damascus, today, pro-opposition activists reported.
The Faylaq al-Rahman commander, Abu ’Ali Dhiya al-Shaghouri, was reportedly killed during the Syrian Arab Army’s (SAA) attack on the Jobar-’Ayn Tarma axis, which is located at the western corridor of the East Ghouta region. From Wikipedia: "al-Rahman Legion (Arabic: فيلق الرحمن, Faylaq al-Raḥmān), also called the al-Rahman Corps, is an Syrian rebel group affiliated with the Free Syrian Army operating mostly in Eastern Ghouta, in the outskirts of Damascus, but also in eastern Qalamoun. It is the main rebel group in Jobar and has received BGM-71 TOW missiles.[20] The group's leader is Abdul al-Nasr Shamir, a captain from rural Homs who defected from the Syrian Army in early 2012."
Shaghouri was considered the chief of staff of Faylaq al-Rahman, making him one of the most powerful members of this Free Syrian Army ... the more palatable version of the Syrian insurgency, heavily influenced by the Moslem Brüderbund... (FSA) faction.
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[ALMASDARNEWS] The Ottoman Turkish-backed rebels have been on a roll in the Afrin region recently, capturing large chunks of territory from the Kurdish-led YPG forces.
On Friday, the Ottoman Turkish-backed rebels continued their push towards Afrin city, seizing two towns in the northern part of this region in Aleppo’s northwestern countryside.
According to pro-opposition media, the Ottoman Turkish-backed Free Syrian Army ... the more palatable version of the Syrian insurgency, heavily influenced by the Moslem Brüderbund... (FSA) captured the towns of Enab and Maryamin after a short battle with the YPG forces in the area.
[ahram online] Turkish forces and their Syrian rebel allies seized control of the town of Jinderes on Thursday, the state-run Anadolu news agency reported, giving them control of one of the largest settlements in Syria's northwest Afrin region.
The Turkish army and its allies from Free Syrian Army (FSA) factions pushed fighters from the Syrian Kurdish YPG out of the town centre on Thursday following intense clashes, it said, adding that operations to secure the area were continuing.
Air raids on the Jinderes town centre had intensified after Turkish forces and the FSA captured the hill overlooking it a day earlier, Anadolu said.
Turkey and its allies have so far seized five of the seven urban centers in the Afrin region, it said.
Turkey launched its air and ground assault on Afrin, dubbed Operation Olive Branch, in January to drive out the YPG, which it sees as an extension of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) that has waged an insurgency on Turkish soil since 1984. The PKK is considered a terrorist organisation by Turkey, the United States and the European Union.
Turkey's foreign minister said on Thursday the operation will be completed by May.
On Tuesday, Kurdish-allied Syrian Arab militias said they are redeploying 1,700 fighters from fronts against Islamic State (IS) militants to the Afrin region to help fend off the Turkish offensive.
The United States, which has infuriated Turkey with its support for the YPG-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), said Turkey's offensive on Afrin has diverted attention from the fight against IS.
[AhramOnline]The Syrian Kurdish YPG militia denied on Friday that Turkish troops had besieged Afrin town, after Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said the military had surrounded the center of Afrin.
"The forces of Erdogan's Turkish army ... are 10 to 15 km away from it," YPG spokesman Nouri Mahmoud said.
[ALMASDARNEWS] At least 68 soldiers from the Ottoman Turkish Armed Forces have been killed since the start of Operation Olive Branch on January 20th, the pro-opposition Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) reported.
In addition to the 68 soldiers killed, the SOHR alleged that 341 rebels were killed as well, raising the corpse count for the Ottoman Turkish forces to 409.
Furthermore, the SOHR claimed that the Kurdish-led People’s Protection Units (YPG) 359 casualties, while their allies from the pro-government National Defense Forces (NDF) lost a total of 81 fighters.
The Ottoman Turkish General Staff claims contrast the SOHR’s numbers, as they allege that more than 3,000 YPG fighters have been killed since January 20th.
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[ALMASDARNEWS] The so-called 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) launched a new offensive tonight that targets the western countryside of the Dara’a Governorate.
ISIS reportedly began the attack by storming the rebel lines at the al-Ruba’i Checkpoint, which is located just west of Sheikh Sa’ad.
According to the Islamic State’s media wing, their bandidosLions of Islam managed to capture this checkpoint after a short battle with the rebel forces.
Intense festivities are now ongoing at the Sheikh Sa’ad axis, where ISIS is attempting to advance against the rebels.
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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.
... the former foreign minister of the Northern Alliance government, advisor to Masood, and candidate for president against Karzai. Dr. Abdullah was born in Kabul and is half Tadjik and half Pashtun...
...Smallest of the agencies in FATA. The Agency administration is located in Khar. Bajaur is inhabited almost exclusively by Tarkani Pashtuns, which are divided into multiple bickering subtribes. Its 52 km border border with Afghanistan's Kunar Province makes it of strategic importance to Pakistain's strategic depth...
[SABANEWS.NET] The units of the army and popular forces attacked on Thursday al- Talaa Saudi military site in Najran, causing killing and injuring dozens of Saudi soldiers and their mercenaries, a military official told Saba.
[Dhaka Tribune] Police’s Counter Terrorism and Transnational Crime (CTTC) unit has handed over the brother of Foyzur Rahman Faizul, who attacked noted author Prof Zafar Iqbal at Shahjalal University of Science and Technology (SUST) on March 3, to Jalalabad police station in Sylhet city.
[AFP] On Friday, the Philippine military said it had killed at least eight insurgents in an operation to stop efforts to set up a militant base in the country's south following the five-month siege of Marawi last year. Military spokesman Gerry Bisana said armored vehicles and artillery were used against about 50 gunmen from the Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters on Thursday.
[ALMASDARNEWS] One of the highest ranking commanders of Faylaq al-Rahman was killed in the East Ghouta region of Damascus, today, pro-opposition activists reported.
[ALMASDARNEWS] The so-called 
