[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The Talibs suffered heavy casualties during the recent Arclight airstrikes in southern Helmand ...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan... province of Afghanistan, the Ministry of Defense (MoD) said Saturday.
According to a statement by MoD, the latest airstrikes were carried out in the vicinities of Nahr-e-Saraj and Greshk districts.
The statement further added that fourteen murderous Moslems were killed and twelve others were maimed during the same airstrikes.
The Ministry of Defense also added that a vehicle packed with explosives, 51 kgs of explosives, and three hideouts of the murderous Moslems were also destroyed.
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The Afghan national defense and security forces have killed at least six Lions of Islam affiliated with 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) terrorist group in northern Jawzjan province of Afghanistan.
According to the local officials, the Lions of Islam were killed during a clash that took place on Friday in Darzab district.
Provincial governor’s front man Mohammad Reza Ghafori confirmed the report and said six members of the ISIS terrorist group were killed during the clash.
He said at least two foreign nationals hailing from Uzbekistan were also among those killed but the Afghan cops did not suffer any casualty.
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[AlAhram] A Giza criminal court sentenced on Saturday 10 people to death in a case known in the media as the "Imbaba
...a working class neighbourhood that confusingly resides in either Cairo or Giza, it has been a Jemaah Islamiyah (“the Islamic Group”) stronghold since the 1980s. With the election of Mohammed Morsi and following his overthrow, Imbaba became a stronghold of Moslem Brotherhood support...
Terrorist Cell."
The court also sentenced five others to life imprisonment.
Saturday’s sentence comes after a preliminary death sentence issued by the court in late January pending the Grand Mufti’s non-binding opinion.
Referring death sentences to the Grand Mufti is a legal requirement before the sentenced is finalised, although the Mufti’s religious opinion is not binding.
The defendants were being tried for establishing an outlawed group from 2013 till March 2015 with the aim of attacking state institutions, harming national unity, targeting Copts, disturbing public order, endangering society, attacking police and security forces, and possessing unlicensed arms.
[AnNahar] The Libyan navy on Saturday rescued 252 migrants colonists seeking to reach Europe, in two separate operations off the country's western coast.
"We were alerted... to the position of a migrant boat" around 30 kilometres (20 miles) off Zawiya, west of 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... , navy captain Rami al-Hadi Ghomed said.
He said the 140 migrants colonists on board, including 14 women and four children, were brought back to Tripoli's naval base before being transferred to a detention centre.
The second rescue operation took place around 50 kilometres off Garabulli, east of the capital.
The navy rescued "112 migrants colonists, including 30 women and three children, aboard an inflatable boat", said navy front man Ayoub Kacem.
"The migrants colonists, from African countries.... were given medical care before being transferred to the Tajoura detention centre" in Tripoli, Kacem said.
The navy gave no details on the origin of the boats, but smugglers usually launch departures from western Libya, just 300 kilometres from the Italian coast.
Recent years have seen thousands of migrants colonists infiltrate the vast southern border of Libya in attempts to cross the Mediterranean to Europe.
At least 337 migrants colonists have died or disappeared off the coast of Libya since the start of the year, according to the International Organization for Migration.
[AnNahar] Gunmen suspected to be herdsmen have killed at least five people in central Nigeria's Plateau state, police said Saturday, in the latest violence linked to tensions over grazing rights.
Thursday's attack happened just as President Muhammadu Buhari was rounding up a tour of Plateau and four other flashpoint states.
"The button men were believed to be herdsmen. They attacked some communities in Miango district and killed five people," state police front man Terna Tyopev told AFP.
He said dozens of people were maimed while many houses and properties were destroyed in the mayhem.
Local media said apart from the incident in Miango, six people were also killed at Ganda village in Bokkos local government area of the state.
The police could not immediately confirm the attack.
Speaking to Nigeria's Guardian newspaper, community leader, Matawa Mankut put the toll at six dead when cattle rearers invaded the village on Friday.
"We are at the burial ground in Ganda village to give the dear departed a mass burial," he said, urging the authorities to end the violence.
Since the start of the year, Nigeria has seen a growing number of festivities between largely nomadic herders and farmers over land, water and grazing rights.
Buhari has been under pressure to end the killings.
Plateau state lies in Nigeria's so-called Middle Belt that separates the predominantly Moslem north from the largely Christian south.
It has long been a hotbed of ethnic, sectarian and religious tensions between indigenous farming communities, who are mainly Christian, and the nomadic Hausa/Fulani cattle herders, who are Moslem.
Tensions have boiled over access to land and resources, escalating into a rift that has deepened along nominally religious lines.
In January, eight people were killed in tit-for-tat attacks in the rural districts of Bokkos and Bassa of the state.
[SABANEWS.NET] The army and popular forces launched different attacks on positions of Saudi enemy and mercenaries in several fronts on Friday, which left heavy losses in the enemy’s ranks, a military official told Saba on Saturday.
In Taiz province, the army attacked Saudi-paid mercenaries’ positions in south of the western coast, while the snipers unit bumped off three mercenaries in Himiar front in Aldar Alsharqiya.
In the same front, the army destroyed a military armored vehicle of mercenaries, killing its crew members, as well as shooing dead a mercenary at al-Ethnashar hill in the south of Khalid military base in Moza district
In Najran region, two Saudi soldiers were bumped off in Raqabat Alzor.
The missile force of the army fired a barrage of Katyusha rockets toward Saudi troops in Shorfa positionf, while the artillery shelled locations of the enemy’s army in Raqabat Sodais and Homr and Talat Rajla of the same region.
In Jizan region, two Saudi soldiers were rubbed out in Jadhea Nomir and Altabba Albayda in Hamidha village, as well as burning a Saudi military vehicle in Raqabat Qais and destroying another one in Jadhea Nomir.
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‘Prisoners Forced to Convert to Islam for Protection’ Claims Christian Pastor
13 February
[Breitbart] A chaplain who was allegedly dismissed from his role at HMP Brixton Prison for having “extreme” Christian views has said that some prisoners are being forced to convert to Islam in exchange for protection from gangs.
Terror-Linked Radical Sect Ordered to Demolish Illegal London Mega-Mosque
7 February
[Breitbart] An East London mega-mosque built and run by a radical, anti-Western Islamic sect is illegal and must be demolished, a High Court judge has ordered. Abbey Mills Mosque near the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in Stratford can be used by some 2,500 people, but never received planning permission, Dawn reports. Member of the Tablighi Jamaat group constructed it in 1996 as a supposedly temporary Islamic centre on the site of an old factory.
Tablighi Jamaat preaches a supremacist, anti-Western form of Islam and has been linked to the 7/7 terrorists, a San Bernardino shooter, and more recently the London Bridge attack. Part of the Deobandi movement, founded in British colonial India specifically to oppose Western influence, the more hardline Tablighi Jamaat offshoot has been labelled the ‘army of darkness.’ They dominate Muslim schools in the UK, controlling 600 of Britain’s nearly 1,500 mosques and produce 80 per cent of all domestically trained Islamic ‘scholars’.
UK: Just Five Per Cent of Illegal Migrants Sent Back, Thanks to ‘Completely Useless’ EU Rules
9 March
Fewer than one bogus asylum seeker in ten arriving in the UK from the EU is transferred back, thanks to “completely useless” Brussels rules.
Record Number of UK Terror Arrests, Surge 58 Per Cent in One Year
9 March
The number of people being arrested in the UK for terror offences has surged by 58 per cent in a year to a new record high, and 32 per cent of suspects did not consider themselves British.
Jail and Deportation Order For Migrant Male Who Beat and Raped Teen Girl in Manchester Hotels
8 March
A Sri Lankan man has been jailed after subjecting a teenage girl to a brutal rape and beating, following which he forced her to clean up her own blood and filmed it on his mobile phone. Manchester Crown Court heard that Agampodi Dezoysa, 25, waged a month-long campaign of psychological, sexual, and physical abuse after he “latched on” to the girl following a party at which the pair met.
Hundreds of Foreign Criminals ‘Missing’ After Home Office Too Slow to Deport
5 March
Nearly 500 foreign criminals including violent offenders had gone off the radar after the Home Office took too long to deport them following their release from prison. Data obtained under a Freedom of Information request shows that between 2014 and March 2016, a total of 494 foreign national offenders (FNOs) went missing after they were released. The news of missing criminal migrants in the United Kingdom follows similar revelations in Europe. Breitbart London reported in 2016 the German government had misplaced 130,000 migrants.
Appeaser Theresa: EU to Have a Say in Setting UK’s Post-Brexit Immigration System
5 March
Prime Minister Theresa May has said the European Union (EU) will have a say in setting the UK’s migration policy after Brexit, moments after giving a speech about a ‘softer’ form of Brexit.
German Study Finds Foreigners Twice as Likely to Be Suspects in Crimes
9 March
A study carried out using data gathered by the police in the German region of Schleswig-Holstein has revealed that non-Germans are two times more likely to be suspects in crimes.
More Than Half of Students in No-Go Suburb School Not Qualified to Enter High School
9 March
Over half of the students in a school in the heavily migrant-populated Stockholm no-go zone suburb of Rinkeby are not qualified to enter high school.
Berlin Teachers Complain of ‘Religious Bullying’ from Muslim Students
9 March
Teachers in some of Berlin’s most heavily migrant-populated schools have complained that they are seeing a large increase in bullying along religious lines, primarily from Muslim students.
Still at Breaking Point: EU Braces for Fresh Migrant Surge
9 March
The European Union is bracing itself for a fresh surge of migrants in the spring and summer of 2018, as the bloc continues to struggle with the crisis.
Afghan Asylum Seeker Admits to Vienna Stabbings, Says He Did It Because He Was in a ‘Bad Mood’
8 March
The 23-year-old Afghan asylum seeker who was arrested in connection with the stabbings of four people Wednesday night in Vienna has confessed to the attacks, saying he stabbed them because he was “in a bad mood”.
Swedish Court Slammed for Using Sharia Law to Settle Domestic Violence Case
8 March
Swedish legal experts have slammed a court in Solna after it ruled that a Muslim man who was accused of beating his wife was innocent because he came from a “good family” while the woman did not.
Watch: Hungarian Minister Censored by Facebook for Claiming Mass Migration Had Raised Crime Levels
8 March
János Lázár’s video, which claimed migrants had made Vienna more dangerous and dirtier, was removed by social media giant Facebook after a massive backlash.
Swedish Municipalities May Be Forced to Raise Taxes to Pay for Mass Migration
7 March
A report from the Swedish National Institute of Economic Research claims that municipalities across the country may be forced to raise taxes to pay for the recent population growth fueled by mass migration.
Sri Lankan Migrants Scalp Man and Cut Off His Arm in Paris Restaurant
7 March
In what has been described as a dispute between rival Sri Lankan migrants, two men attacked another with a machete, scalping him and cutting off his arm in a Paris restaurant.
Exclusive: Tiny Irish Town Taking Hundreds of Migrants Had No Say, Locals Fear Being Called Racist
7 March
A resident of a tiny Irish town having its population increased by a third by a new migrant centre has said Ireland has become a “slave state” of the European Union (EU) and its immigration policies, leaving locals helpless.
Illegal Algerian Migrant Arrested for Murder of Homeless Man Was Found Wearing Victim’s Shoes
6 March
A 40-year-old illegal migrant living in France has been arrested in Montpellier after being suspected of murdering a 45-year-old homeless Romanian and was found wearing the murder victim’s shoes.
Hungary Challenges United Nations Plan to Facilitate Global Mass Migration
5 March
Presenting a “security first” proposal to the United Nations (UN), Hungary has announced it is “ready to fight” the globalist body over plans to promote mass migration.
German School With 99 Per Cent Migrant Background Pupils Forced To Hire Security
4 March
A German elementary school in Berlin, which contains a student population who almost all hail from migrant backgrounds, has been forced to hire security guards because of escalating violence.
Berlusconi Advocates ‘Marshall Plan’ For Africa To Stop Mass Migration
4 March
Former Italian Prime Minister and leader of the Forza Italia party Silvio Berlusconi has put his support behind a plan to revitalise the economies of Africa in order to prevent mass migration to Europe.
[DAWN] GWADAR: Four suspected bad boys, among them the ’commander’ of a banned ...the word banned seems to have a different meaning in Pakistain than it does in most other places. Or maybe it simply lacks any meaning at all...
organization, were killed in a gunbattle with security forces in the Pasni area on Friday night, security officials said.
Security personnel launched a search operation in the Shadi Kour and Paidarak areas of Kech district on a tip-off about the presence of the bully boyz there.
The officials said that an exchange of fire with bully boyz took place when the security personnel raided the area. During the shootout four of the bully boyz were killed.
"An important commander of the bully boyz was among the four dead," a security official said.
The bully boyz were identified as ’commander’ Jamil Ahmed, Safar Khan and Rais Khan. One of the bully boyz could not be identified till late in the night.
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[DAWN] At least two personnel of the Frontier Corps ...a provincial paramilitary force. Total manpower is about 80,000. They are tasked to help local law enforcement in the maintenance of law and order, and to carry out border patrol and a..the Antwerp-based Salafist organization that had campaigned to introduce Sharia law to Belgium before single-handedly making Belgium the highest per capita supplier of jihadis to Syria in Europe. There was a big trial in Antwerp in 2015, but most of those convicted were in absentia...nti-smuggling operations.... (FC) were maimed in a roadside blast near their vehicle in Hub district on Friday, DawnNewsTV reported.
Hub DSP Jan Mohammad Khosa said that the blast occurred near FC camp in Perak area of the district, targeting the FC convoy which was on routine patrol.
The injured FC men have been shifted to combined military hospital in Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... for treatment.
Four FC personnel had bit the dust when unknown assailants shot up their vehicle in Quetta last month.
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Kirkuk (IraqiNews.com) Seven security personnel of the pro-government paramilitary troops were killed and injured as a kaboom targeted their patrol, southwest of Kirkuk, ... a thick stew of Arabs, Turkmen, Kurds, and probably Antarcticans, all of them mutually hostile most of the time... a source said on Saturday.
Speaking to AlSumaria News, the source said, "a bomb went kaboom!, in the evening, as a patrol of al-Hashd al-Shaabi (Popular Mobilization Forces) was passing at al-Najatiya village in Hawija, leaving one personnel killed and six others injured."
"The troops transferred the victim to forensic medicine department, while the maimed were taken to hospital for treatment," the source, who preferred anonymity, added without giving further details.
Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) Three people were maimed as a kaboom took place, west of Baghdad, a security source was quoted saying on Saturday.
"A bomb went off near market in al-Nasr wal Salam region in Abu Ghraib district, west of Baghdad, leaving three people maimed," the source told Baghdad Today website.
"Ambulances arrived to the blast spot to transfer the injured to nearby hospital, before security troops arrived to conduct investigations," the source added.
[IsraelTimes] Army says it intervened in confrontation between Paleostinians and settlers, resorting to live fire, killing 22-year-old Imayyer Shehadeh
A Paleostinian man was rubbed out by IDF soldiers who intervened during a clash between Paleostinians and Israeli settlers near the northern West Bank city of Nablus, Paleostinians and the army said Saturday.
The Paleostinian Red Islamic Thingy identified the dead man as Imayyer Shehadeh, 22, from the town of Urif, adding that at least one other person was maimed.
Paleostinian security sources said the clash was started by the settlers, after which the army intervened and fired at a group of Paleostinians.
However, some people are alive only because it's illegal to kill them... an IDF front man said the Paleostinians had approached the northern West Bank settlement of Yitzhar and began throwing rocks at the Israeli residents, as well as at IDF troops who arrived at the scene shortly after.
The soldiers used riot dispersal measures and then live fire to clear the area, the army said, adding that it would be investigating the incident.
A front man for the Yitzhar said that the festivities had broken out before the troops had arrived, claiming that a group of settlers had acted to distance the Paleostinians from the community.
"We are experiencing terrorist attacks by Arabs from the villages near the settlement, almost daily," said Yitzhar secretariat chairman Uriah Cohen.
The Yitzhar front man also claimed that the settlement’s security coordinator came under attack hours earlier by a group of Paleostinians who approached one of the hilltop community’s neighborhoods. When the security coordinator arrived at the scene, his vehicle was pelted with stones, the front man said.
Violent outbursts between Israeli settlers and Paleostinians have been a near daily occurrence as of late in the West Bank.
On Friday, a Paleostinian was killed by Israeli fire in the West Bank city of Hebron, and at least four others were maimed in festivities along Gazoo’s border with Israel. The Paleostinian Health Ministry identified the victim as 24-year-old Mohammed al-Jabari.
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.
Meanwhile, at the a-Tuwani village in the southern Hebron Hills, the IDF and police are investigating a suspected hate crime in which extreme right-wing activists smashed windows of Palestinian-owned vehicles. More than 10 similar incidents have been reported in the West Bank in recent weeks.
All because Hamas insists on spending its funds on terror tunnels and rockets instead of doing all those things responsible governments do with their money.
[IsraelTimes] Enclave's residents suffering consequences of ongoing blockade and dispute between Hamas and the Paleostinian Authority.
Sameh al-Madhoun’s eyes fill with tears as he recalls his fall from successful businessman to prisoner in a Hamas jail in Gazoo.
Once the owner of a flourishing car dealership, he is one of more than 40,000 Gazooks charged in the last year with failing to keep up debt payments as the economy in the Paleostinian enclave collapses.
Madhoun, a 40-year-old father of four, has sold most of his possessions, including his house and some of his cars, in a bid to pay back the $3 million debt that dragged his business into bankruptcy.
"I have paid off half of it until now. I don’t know how I will pay off the rest," he told AFP from his jail cell.
"I don’t own anything else now except these debts."
A decade-long blockade by Egypt and Israel ‐ which Israel maintains in order to prevent Gazoo’s Hamas terrorist rulers from importing weaponry ‐ and a dispute between Hamas and the West Bank-based Paleostinian Authority have brought the coastal territory’s economy to its knees.
Some 42,500 people were placed in debtors' prison Drop the rod and step away witcher hands up! in the past year for failing to pay debtors, according to Hamas police.
At least 600 are currently in debtors' prison on similar charges.
Madhoun has been detained since September, but is allowed to leave two days a week to see his young children and search for the money to pay back his debtors.
AFP met him both in debtors' prison, after being granted access by Hamas, and during one of his leave days at his former company ‐ now just a few cars gathering dust.
"The market collapsed. Even though prices fell there were no customers," Madhoun said.
"If it continues all the businesses in Gazoo will fail."
Economy ’all but dead’
And whose fault is that?
The economy of Gazoo, a Paleostinian enclave of two million people sandwiched between Israel, Egypt and the Mediterranean, is "all but dead," said Maher Tabba, an official at the territory’s Chamber of Commerce.
As Gazooks’ buying power has collapsed, the amount of goods being imported into the Strip has more than halved in just seven months, according to border officials.
Tabba said some $112 million worth of checks bounced in 2017, up from $62 million in 2016. That, he said, is "clear evidence of an economic collapse."
Tabba estimates that several hundred of those currently in debtors' prison are owners of struggling or failed businesses.
In an attempt to contain the crisis, the Public Prosecutor’s Office in Gazoo recently announced it would give people an extra month to find the money to service their debts.
Much of the world has dropped the policy of imprisoning debtors, but in Gazoo it is still common.
With the help of Egypt, Israel has maintained a blockade of Gazoo since 2007, which it says is necessary to isolate Hamas, with which it has fought three wars since 2008. Hamas ‐ the Islamist terror group which seized control of Gazoo in 2007, two years after Israel withdrew its entire military and civilian presence from the Strip ‐ is openly committed to the destruction of Israel.
Rights groups and UN officials say the blockade amounts to collective punishment and strangles the economy in the enclave, where unemployment is around 40 percent.
But the Paleostinian Authority has also sought in recent months to harm Hamas by damaging Gazoo’s economy, including by cutting the salaries it still pays to civil servants there despite Hamas taking over the territory in 2007.
Hamas has also largely stopped paying civil servants after an attempted reconciliation with the Fatah movement of president the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas ... a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial... stalled.
[IsraelTimes] Several people are said hurt in a training accident at a Hamas training facility in the Gaza Strip, according to media reports in Gaza cited by Hebrew-language media this evening. The facility is located at the Shati refugee camp near Gaza City.
There are no reports of deaths. According to the Walla news site, Hamas is refusing to publicize any details about the incident.
[IsraelTimes] A 20-year-old Palestinian Islamic Jihad member was killed in an accidental explosion in the northern Gaza Strip, a spokesman for the Hamas-run Health Ministry there said Saturday.
Ibrahim Fathi Farahat is said to have been working with explosives. Two other Palestinians were injured.
The blast was apparently caused by a work accident as the explosives were being prepared, the Ynet news site reported.
Several Hamas and PIJ operatives have been killed or injured in accidental blasts and tunnel collapses in recent months.
[Rudaw] A number of Kurds, in their attempt to travel through The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... illegally to seek asylum in Germany, were imprisoned and eventually ended up in the hands of the Nusra Front in Syria.
Harem, his brother Hunar, and his maternal and paternal cousins left the Kurdistan Region in August 2017 in an attempt to seek asylum in Germany.
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[RT] The first group of murderous Moslems have surrendered their arms and left East Ghouta as an increasing number of rebel fighters in Syria seek to disassociate themselves from Jabhat al-Nusra ...formally Jabhat an-Nusrah li-Ahli al-Sham (Support Front for the People of the Levant), also known as al-Qaeda in the Levant. They aim to establish a pan-Arab caliphate. Not the same one as the Islamic State, though .. ... terrorists, the Russian military has announced.
"Certain representatives of illegal gangs have intensified attempts to get in touch with the Syrian government forces and the Russian Center for Reconciliation with the aim of discussing their separation from the banned terrorist group Jabhat al-Nusra," Major General Yury Yevtushenko, the head of the Reconciliation Center in Syria, said in a statement on Friday.
Efforts to separate the so-called moderate opposition fighters from jihadists continue in the Damascus suburb of Eastern Ghouta. The Syrian government established a humanitarian corridor which remains open to both civilians and murderous Moslems who are willing to lay down their arms.
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[RT] Syria’s deputy foreign minister says murderous Moslems plan a chemical attack in Eastern Ghouta on Sunday, will highlight the female victims and then pin the blame on Damascus. He accused the West of "only wanting to believe terrorists."
"We have received information that murderous Moslems plan to stage an attack between the districts of Mesraba and Beit Sawa. Tahrir al-Sham forces of Evil plan to sacrifice several women for this purpose and launch a disinformation campaign. The performance is thought to be scheduled for March 11," Deputy Foreign Minister, Faisal Mekdad, told journalists in Damascus.
Earlier this week, the White Helmets, a self-proclaimed civil defense group, accused the Syrian government of staging a chlorine attack that affected 30 residents of Eastern Ghouta, a Lion of Islam-held suburb of Damascus wrecked by intense fighting in the past month. The government, which regards the White Helmets as a foreign-funded terrorist propaganda organization, has rejected these claims.
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[AlAhram] Ottoman Turkish forces and allied Syrian rebels battling Kurdish militia in northern Syria advanced on Saturday to less than two kilometres from the flashpoint town of Afrin, a war monitor said.
The move came as Ottoman Turkish President Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First ... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey... threatened again to "purge" Kurdish militia from the town.
The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... launched operation "Olive Branch" on January 20 against the powerful Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG), which controls the Afrin region in northwest Syria and which Ankara regards as a "terror group".
On Saturday, the Britannia-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitoring group said the attacking forces had scored a fresh advance.
"Ottoman Turkish forces (and allied rebels) are on the edges of Afrin, less than two kilometres from the town's northeast," said Observatory head Rami Abdel Rahman.
They successfully captured the Brigade 135 military base from Kurdish forces, both Abdel Rahman and an AFP correspondent embedded with the rebel groups said.
Pro-Ankara fighters could be seen taking heavy machine guns and ammunition from the base, even as they continued to exchange fire with nearby Kurdish fighters.
Ankara says the YPG is the Syrian branch of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), which has fought a three-decade insurgency in southeast Turkey.
"Olive Branch" initially made slow progress, but the capture on Thursday of Jandairis, a major town in the Kurdish-held enclave, has given the operation a clear shot at the central town of Afrin.
The operation's media branch on Saturday said their new push had left Afrin's eastern side "exposed" to advancing fighters.
Erdogan has said his troops and the Syrian fighters they were backing could break into the town "at any moment," and on Saturday said they could go even further east.
"Once we have purged the hard boyz (from Afrin) we will then cleanse them from Manbij, Ayn al-Arab (Kobane), Tel-Abyad, Ras al-Ayn and Qamishli," he said in televised comments.
Manbij, the next main YPG-held town east of Afrin, is a particular flashpoint as it has an American military presence there.
Fighting was raging on Saturday on other fronts around Afrin in an attempt to besiege it and cut it off from other areas, the Observatory.
Abdel Rahman said that the advance sparked "major concerns" for tens of thousands of civilians in the town of Afrin.
Thousands of people have fled heavy shelling on villages and towns near the Ottoman Turkish border, many of them into Afrin town.
Only one route currently leads out of the town and into government-controlled zones in Syria's northern province of Aleppo.
Last month, pro-regime forces entered the Afrin region to take a stand against the Ottoman Turkish offensive.
According to the Observatory, Turkey and allied Syrian opposition factions now hold 60 percent of the Afrin region.
The monitor says at least 370 YPG fighters and 340 rebel fighters have died since the assault began.
It says more than 200 civilians have also been killed, but Turkey denies the reports and says it takes the "utmost care" to avoid civilian casualties.
Ankara says 42 Ottoman Turkish soldiers have died in the fight.
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Kurdish media is reporting that even though Turk/Al Nusra (Al Qaeda Syria) is moving close to Afrin, YPG/YPJ fighters are popping up behind the enemy lines and inflicting large numbers of losses after many scenes of civilian deaths appeared in the media.
Firat News Agency claims approx. 450 invaders killed during the past 48 hours, over 750 killed by the YPG/YPJ forces during the past 4 days.
The YPG/YPJ guerrilla force is huge behind enemy lines. Numerous invasion vehicles have been destroyed during the past 4 days.
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This indicates the progress wasade strictly by air strikes and artillary that leveled entore towns and killed or injured many civilians. But the invading ground forces may not be competent enough to maintan their territorial gains.
I assume that since you haven’t been doing your Afrin reports the twitter feeds are still silent, Ulaigum Ebbineng7056. Would you be so kind as to give us a round up from the news sites instead?
Actually, the Twitter feeds are rather amazing. As Turk artillery and air munitions burst all around them in the main objective city of Afrin, old women are dancing and ululating every time a shell hits the ground in joyfull defiance of Erdogan. The old men blair Kurdish music over loud speekers.
In Europe and England Kurdish protesters are blocking and sitting on tracks of commuter trains to try to get the media and governments to do something. YPG/YPJ are popping up and fiercely fighting on the ground behind the lines. SDA and Turk soldiers are taking many more casualties and the angry SDA are taking video of brutal executions and posting them in retaliation.
While all of this is occurring 100s of Kurd civilians pass through the lines each day to come to die in Afrin city as human shields.
[IsraelTimes] Keen to secure Damascus, Russia-backed government troops continue to close in on enclave, killing nearly 1,000 civilians in under a month
Syrian troops on Saturday cut off the largest town in Eastern Ghouta from the rest of the rebel-held enclave which is now split in three, a monitor said.
The army captured a road linking the town of Douma with Harasta further west, and also captured the town of Misraba, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
"Regime forces have therefore divided Eastern Ghouta into three parts ‐ Douma and its surroundings, Harasta in the west, and the rest of the towns further south," the Britannia-based war monitor said.
An AFP correspondent inside Douma said shelling and air strikes were rocking the town on Saturday.
Besieged by government forces since 2013, Ghouta is the last remaining rebel-held area near the capital.
Keen to secure Damascus, government troops and allied militias have been closing in on the enclave since February 18 and have overrun more than half of it.
Nearly 950 civilians have been killed since Russia-backed government forces launched a blistering assault on the last opposition bastion near Damascus on February 18.
Eastern Ghouta’s 400,000 inhabitants have lived under government siege since 2013 and the enclave ‐ more than half of which has over the past three weeks been retaken by regime forces ‐ is home to a myriad of gangs.
Apart from Islamist groups such as Jaish al-Islam ...Liwa al-Islam (Brigade of Islam) was established by Zahran Alloush, the son of Saudi-based religious scholar Abdullah Mohammed Alloush, after Syrian authorities released him from prison in mid-2011 where he had been serving time for his Salafist activism. The group claimed responsibility for carrying out the July 2012 Damascus bombing that killed Defense Minister Dawoud Rajiha, Deputy Defense Minister Asef Shawkat, and Assistant Vice President Hassan Turkmani. It was a driving force behind actions in the Damascus region. It cooperated and conducted joint operations with al-Nusra. In Sptember 2013 Saudi Arabia engineered Liwa al-Islam's merger with fifty other more or less Salafist groups as a counterweight to al-Nusra, which the Learned Elders of Islam considered was growing too powereful... , jihadists from Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), who are mostly linked to al-Qaeda, are also deployed there.
Syrian state television ... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe?
aired footage of a single bus carrying 13 "fighters" and family members out of the enclave through al-Wafideen checkpoint, without giving their affiliation.
Some appeared to be young, while others wore hoodies to cover their heads and faces.
The limited operation came as the powerful Jaish al-Islam said HTS fighters would be evacuated to the northern province of Idlib, in an arrangement struck following consultations with the United Nations ...an idea whose time has gone... and other international players.
"It has been agreed that the first group of HTS members be released from the prisons of Jaish al-Islam ... (and) moved to Idlib at their request," Jaish al-Islam said.
HTS is the main force in Idlib, in Syria’s northwest and the last province outside regime control.
Civilians continued to bear the brunt of the violence on Friday with at least six killed in air strikes on the area of Jisreen, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights war monitor said.
Thirteen trucks loaded with 2,400 food parcels, meanwhile, crossed into Eastern Ghouta, the International Committee of the Red Cross said, entering what UN chief Antonio Guterres has called "hell on earth".
But "shelling" near the enclave's main town of Douma threatened "to put at risk" the joint ICRC, Syrian Arab Red Crescent and United Nations convoy, said the UN humanitarian coordinator in Syria, Ali al-Zaatari.
The aid was delivered as helicopters hovered overhead and warplanes targeted areas outside Douma, a correspondent said.
The World Health Organization said it has verified 67 hits on medical facilities in Syria through January and February, nearly half of them in Eastern Ghouta.
The facilities hit included 20 hospitals, 16 health facilities, two ambulance stations and one medical supply warehouse.
Doctors and nurses in the enclave have run out of several life-saving items, according to Doctors Without Borders (MSF), which reported a "terrible medical catastrophe."
"Medical material is extremely limited, medical infrastructure has been hit and medical staff are exhausted," it said, adding that hundreds of people have been wounded and need urgent assistance.
In the face of the regime's Russian-backed onslaught, Ghouta's main rebel groups had so far rejected Moscow-brokered offers to evacuate civilians or any of their own fighters.
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