[DAWN] An Afghan official says the Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... have attacked security positions northwest of Kabul, killing at least five police.
Mohammed Zaman, the provincial police chief for Ghazni province, says the attack late on Saturday set off a two-hour gunbattle.
The Taliban have stepped up attacks across Afghanistan since the United States and NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A single organization with differing goals, equipment, language, doctrine, and structure.... formally concluded their combat mission at the end of 2014.
In the western Ghor province, meanwhile, a roadside kaboom killed a young shepherd and maimed five others.
Police Spokesman Iqbal Nizami says the Taliban planted the bomb in order to target security forces.
In the eastern Khost province ... across the border from Miranshah, within commuting distance of Haqqani hangouts such as Datta Khel and probably within sight of Mordor. Khost is populated by six different tribes of Pashtuns, the largest probably being the Khostwal, from which it takes its name... , Police Spokesman Basir Bina says a roadside kaboom killed two children and maimed another nine. Both bombs went off on Saturday.
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[AlAhram] Egypt's Court of Cassation issued on Sunday a final acquittal for Mubarak-era culture minister Farouk Hosni, who was tried for profiteering while serving as minister.
The court rejected on Sunday an appeal by the prosecution against an acquittal order by a criminal court in January 2013.
In 2013, Hosni was found not guilty of making illicit gains and profiteering from October 1987 to January 2011.
The January decision came several months after a Cairo administrative court reversed a verdict freezing Hosni's assets worth EGP 9 million (around $512,000).
Last week, a Cairo criminal court dismissed a corruption case against Mubarak-era steel tycoon Ahmed Ezz and the former head of the Industrial Development Authority Amr Assal, removing their names from a travel ban list after the pair reached a financial settlement with the state.
Ezz will pay EGP 1.7 billion as part of a reconciliation deal with the Egyptian government, according to Egypt's prosecutor-general Nabil Sadek.
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[SABANEWS.NET] The heroes of the army and popular committees, carried out an offensive operations toward the Saudi soldiers and it's mercenaries, bumped off six soldiers, as well as broke large infiltration attempts, while the missile and artillery force targeted their gatherings over the past 24 hours resulted in huge losses in their ranks, a military official told Saba.
In Jizan, dozens of Saudi soldiers killed and injured in an offensive operation on al- al-Lahaj and the neighboring hills in Qais mountain, six Saudi soldiers were bumped off in Jadhea Namir and Qewa village and site of al- Hasskol, the military official said.
In Najran, the missile force launched scores of Katyusha rockets gathered of Saudi soldiers in leadership of Selah, while an artillery shells targeted Saudi soldier's mercenaries troops in al-Khadhraa crossing and al-Firas hill in al- Ajasher desret.
The artillery bombard of the army hit the gathering of the Saudi soldiers and their mercenaries in Qilal al-Shaibani and in front of Alb border crossing in Asir, as well similar shelling targeted mercenaries troops beyond Alb crossing, and bumped off one of the mercenaries in front of the border crossing.
Meanwhile, ...back at the shootout, Butch shot Black Bart's gun out of his hand...... the heroes of the army also broke large infiltrations for the mercenaries toward Natia district in al- Bayda province, continued from the morning until 6 pm, accompanied by the aggression Arclight airstrikes on the area.
Casualties of mercenaries fell, including leaders during the repelled to the infiltrations and destructed a supplies vehicle with a 23-caliber machine gun guided missile.
The death of the mercenary commander Taqi Abdul-Rab al-Amri, "battalion of al- Shaddadi" and five others and wounding ten mercenaries by the fire of the army and the Popular Committees in the front of Nata.
The missile force of the army and the Popular Committees fired Zilzal 1 on the gatherings of mercenaries aggression in the area of al- Hawl in Nehm district, indicating that five of Saudi-paid mercenaries were bumped off in different areas of the West Coast Front in Taiz province.
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[Breitbart] Police in Texas increased the reward being offered for information leading to the arrest of the Austin package bomber. Since March 2, the bomber or bombers killed two people and injured two others in three separate attacks.
Austin Interim Police Chief Brian Manley announced the reward being offered increased from $65,000 to $115,000 on Sunday. "We need your help!," Chief Manley tweeted on Sunday.
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Either ex-military or a fairly smart guy like the Unabomber. Cakewalk for ex-military with normal IQ. Civilian would need to be smarter than the average bear. Experimenting with explosives and detonation mechanisms without formal training is likely to be a little nerve-racking. Meticulousness and the ability to figure out worst case scenarios, while planning ahead to avoid the consequences, are key. Hence, a pretty smart civilian, but seriously whacked to be attacking random victims.
Unlikely. Most not smart enough to avoid work accidents. Besides, for most jihadists, the point is self-immolation. This is more Unabomber than jihadist.
[DAWN] Iranian forces fired about half a dozen mortar shells into Pak territory near the Panjgur border in 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... on Saturday, according to official sources.
The shells were fired by Iranian border guards without provocation. The shells landed and went kaboom! in an open space in the Parako area, a small village in Panjgur district.
Security officials said that mortar shells were fired in the early hours of the day, adding that no casualty was reported.
However, a hangover is the wrath of grapes... panic gripped the people of the area when they woke up to loud kabooms.
Levies and 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.... personnel rushed to the site where the shells had landed to collect evidence. The Panjgur deputy commissioner informed the officials concerned in Quetta about the incident.
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[DAWN] A Frontier Constabulary (FC) soldier was martyred and another injured when person or persons unknownshot up their vehicle in Mohmand Agency ... Named for the Mohmand clan of the Sarban Pahstuns, a truculent, quarrelsome lot. In Pakistain, the Mohmands infest their eponymous Agency, metastasizing as far as the plains of Peshawar, Charsadda, and Mardan. Mohmands are also scattered throughout Pakistan in urban areas including Karachi, Lahore, and Quetta. In Afghanistan they are mainly found in Nangarhar The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country.. and Kunar... 's Safi tehsil on Sunday.
The attack comes hours after two polio ...Poliomyelitis is a disease caused by infection with the poliovirus. Between 1840 and the 1950s, polio was a worldwide epidemic. Since the development of polio vaccines the disease has been largely wiped out in the civilized world. However, since the vaccine is known to make Moslem pee-pees shrink and renders females sterile, bookish, and unsubmissive it is not widely used by the turban and automatic weapons set... workers were killed, while three others were kidnapped in the same area last night.
Sources in the political administration said the assailants managed to escape after the attack. The site of the attack has been cordoned off.
Security officials in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas are made the target of myrmidon attacks. At least 11 security officials were martyred when a jacket wallahwent kaboom! near a Pakistain Army camp in Kabal area of Swat ...a valley and an administrative district in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province of Pakistain, located 99 mi from Islamabad. It is inhabited mostly by Pashto speakers. The place has gone steadily downhill since the days when Babe Ruth was the Sultan of Swat... last month.
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[DAWN] Ten people, including two minor girls, were maimed in heavy shelling by Indian troops in Azad Jammu and Kashmire's Nakyal sector on Sunday, an official said.
"Indian troops started heavy mortar shelling at about 7am in the morning, targeting civilian populations in almost all villages along the Line of Control (LoC)," said Nakyal Assistant Commissioner Waleed Anwar.
According to the assistant commissioner the shelling finally ceased at noon.
A shell went kaboom! on the roof of the house of one Haji Aslam in Palani village, critically injuring three of his daughters, he said. The victims were identified as Musarrat, 22, Nargis, 25, and Samra, 15.
Elsewhere, in the same sector, 11-year-old Aleeba Majeed and 35-year-old Muhammad Zahoor Mughal were maimed in Jair Merg and Dharoti Naari villages respectively, Anwar said.
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Nineveh (IraqiNews.com) The Iraqi military intelligence has announced arresting Islamic State’s head of Nineveh police in an operation, north of Mosul.
In a statement on Saturday, the department said security troops managed to arrest one of IS prominent leaders, who used to be the police chief of the so-called Nineveh State. He was in charge of collecting the revenues of the militants. He was also famous for planting bombs.
The leader, according to the statement, has been hiding in Badush mountains since the liberations of Mosul. Troops then managed to arrest him at al-Shaiqara village, north of Mosul.
Nineveh (Iraqinews.com) – Iraqi troops killed on Sunday seven Islamic State (IS) militants while trying to infiltrate into al-Ba’aj district in Nineveh province, a military spokesman was quoted as saying.
Speaking to the Kuwaiti al-Watan newspaper, spokesman for the Nineveh Operations Command Brigadier-General Mohamed al-Jabouri said, “A group of IS militants tried to sneak into al-Ba’aj district, 120 km northwest of Mosul, but security forces stationed there managed to foil their scheme and killed seven of them.”
“The IS insurgents sought to infiltrate into al-Ba’aj district to carry out terrorist attacks against security forces and citizens,” Jabouri said, adding that the troops seized all weapons from the terrorists.
Jabouri pointed out the security forces will continue to hunt for Islamic State infiltrators across the province.
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Anbar (Iraqinews.com) – Over 15 civilians, mostly women and children, were killed while 30 others injured in the Iraqi city of Fallujah over the past few months as bombs left by Islamic State (IS) militants went off in different parts in the city, a well-placed official was quoted as saying Sunday.
Speaking to Basnews website, Fallujah’s Mayor Issa al-Sayer said “IS militants have left many explosive charges and booby-trapped houses at al-Shohada and al-Nuaimiya districts in southern Fallujah after Iraqi troops forced them out of the city in June 2016.”
Sayer warned that the IS bombs “mainly target civilians, who return to their homes in southern Fallujah following the country’s victory over the militant group last year.”
The mayor called on the Iraqi government to step up efforts to eliminate all war leftovers in Iraq and provide additional equipment to detect bombs to prevent the fall of more victims.
Anbar (Iraqinews.com) – Iraqi intelligence agencies arrested on Sunday two terrorists and seized a large cache of explosives and missile launchers in Anbar province.
In a statement, a copy of which was obtained by Knooz Media, the Directorate of Military Intelligence said that its officers arrested two terrorists during a military operation in Fallujah and Saqlawiyah cities in Anbar.
“The two were found to have links to terrorism-related offences,” the statement read.
Furthermore, intelligence troops also seized a large cache of explosive materials and missile launchers in al-Karmah district in the province, according to the statement.
The explosives were successfully detonated at site by the troops, the statement concluded
Anbar (IraqiNews.com) Several Islamic State members were arrested as an airstrike was carried out, west of Anbar, a security source was quoted saying on Sunday.
Speaking to AlSumaria News, the source said, “troops of the Counter-Terrorism Service carried out an airstrike in the desert, southeast of Rutba, in coordination with Anbar Operations Command and the first brigade.”
The troops, according to the source, who asked to remain anonymous, “managed to arrest group of terrorists.”
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Kirkuk (IraqiNews.com) Five civilians, including a woman, were killed in an armed attack, west of Kirkuk, a local source said on Sunday.
“A group of gunmen, believed to be members of Islamic State, attacked a village in al-Riyad town in Hawija, leaving five civilians, including a woman, killed,” the source told AlSumaria News.
“Security troops transferred the victims to forensic medicine department,” the source, who preferred anonymity, added without giving further details
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[IsraelTimes] Authorities suspect French national, who acted as driver, engaged in regular trips between Jerusalem and Gazoo
An employee at the French consulate in Jerusalem was tossed in the slammer Keep yer hands where we can see 'em, if yez please! a few weeks ago by Israeli authorities, and will appear in court for a "security" issue, sources close to the case said.
The French national, a man in his 20s, is due to appear before a court in southern Israel on Monday, they said.
The judge is expected to spell out the charges against him, the sources said, adding that they were "serious."
Israeli authorities suspect him of arms trafficking, one of the sources said.
The man was arrested as he crossed the border between Israel and the Gazoo Strip, which is ruled by the Paleostinian Islamist movement Hamas, a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth", that Israel considers a terrorist organization.
He held a series of roles for the French consulate, including that of driver, carrying out regular trips between Jerusalem and Gazoo.
"We take this case very seriously and are in close contact with the Israeli authorities," said a front man for the French Embassy in Tel Aviv.
"He has benefited and continues to enjoy the consular protection" provided to Frenchies, said the front man, without providing more details on the case.
The Israeli foreign ministry, justice ministry, intelligence agency and police declined to comment.
In 2013, a French consulate employee was detained after attempting to use an official vehicle to smuggle a large amount of gold, tobacco and checks into Israel from Jordan.
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Actually, the young man was very lucky. He could just as easily been rear-ended by a speeding Merkova at a stop sign. But then of course, he could not have divulged his network of buyers.
[Ynet] After hours of attempts to stabilize the victim's condition, who was said to be in life-threatening danger after being stabbed multiple times in the Old City by a terrorist, victim, identified as Adiel Coleman‐father of 4‐dies in hospital; terrorist, 28, from village near Nablus, was a Paleostinian who was granted permit to look for work in Israel.
A 32-year-old man succumbed to his wounds Sunday evening after being stabbed in Jerusalem's Old City multiple times in a terror attack.
The victim was evacuated to Shaare Zedek Medical Center in Jerusalem where he was said to be in life-threatening danger. Doctors battled for hours to stabilize what was described as an "extremely seriously" condition and despite being operated on, the hospital was forced to pronounce his death.
He was identified as Adiel Coleman, a resident of Kokhav HaShahar in the West Bank, who was born in the Keshet community in the Golan Heights and who was a married father of four.
The 28-year-old terrorist, Abd al-Rahman Bani Fadel, who was later confirmed to be a Paleostinian from the village of Aqraba near Nablus, was was rubbed out by a police officer at the scene on HaGai Street where he carried out his attack.
Fadel, a father of two, had a temporary permit for a week that allowed him to enter Israel to search for employment. He had already received such permits in the past, as there was no indication of his terrorist intentions.
"He was fully conscious and didn’t answer any questions when we got to him. He had suffered from serious wounds to his chest and stomach," said one MDA paramedic.
Commander of the area, David Shmueli later said that security forces were still trying to figure out how the terrorist managed to carry out the attack. "We are still looking into how he got here and where he entered from. We are assessing all the possibilities in order to understand what happened here after a long period of comparative quiet in Jerusalem," he said.
Shmueli also added that in light of a number of warnings of future attacks, police were preparing for a beefed-up deployment ahead of, and during, the upcoming festival of Passover.
"We are taking everything into account. There are multiple alerts unfortunately and we are obviously augmenting the forces accordingly."
[IsraelTimes] Following month-long manhunt, security forces catch Arab Israeli Abed al-Karim Assi in West Bank city of Nablus
Israeli forces on Sunday, after an extensive manhunt, tossed in the calaboose Drop the gat, Rocky, or you're a dead 'un! a suspected terrorist who is believed to have stabbed to death Rabbi Itamar Ben-Gal near Ariel in February, the Shin Bet security service said.
On February 5, 19-year-old Abed al-Karim Assi, an Israeli citizen, is believed to have attacked Ben-Gal, 29, at a bus stop outside Ariel, a West Bank settlement.
Assi expeditiously departed at a goodly pace, leading security forces on a month-long manhunt that ended with his arrest in the predawn hours of Sunday in the West Bank city of Nablus, the Shin Bet said.
The security service said he was found inside a house in the city.
According to the Israel Defense Forces, Assi was injured during the early morning arrest raid and received treatment from army medics. The military would not elaborate on how he sustained his wounds.
"The arrest was carried out by the Shin Bet, Israel Police Special Patrol Unit and Israel Defense Forces. It was the culmination of extensive efforts since the terror attack, during which a number of accomplices, who are suspected of either helping [Assi] or knowing his whereabouts, were interrogated," the Shin Bet said in a statement.
In addition to Assi, a number of people who were with him at the time of his arrest were also taken into custody, the service said.
Assi had been thought to have been hiding out in Nablus, where his father lives, since the attack. Before the attack he had used his Israeli citizenship to spend time on both sides of the Green Line, including with his mother, who lives in Haifa.
He had received social service assistance from Israeli authorities, including at the Shanti Home in Tel Aviv for at-risk youth.
The facility’s coordinator, Hilit Levy, told Channel 10 that she was "shocked" to hear he was suspected in the stabbing attack last month. She said that Assi had decided to leave the home in November 2016 after staff told him he could no longer continue making weekly visits to his family in Nablus.
"He came from a broken family that did not support him," Levy added.
The Welfare Ministry released a statement after the attack saying Assi "was known to social services."
"Over the years, attempts were made to help the young man who was abandoned by his parents," the statement said, adding that the 19-year-old had more than once left the housing and rehabilitation programming in which he had been participating.
Footage from the scene of the attack showed Assi crossing a road toward Ben-Gal, who was standing in front of a bus stop, and stabbing him. Ben-Gal then fled across the street with the stabber in pursuit.
Medics tried to resuscitate Ben-Gal, who was stabbed three times in the chest. He was taken to Beilinson Hospital in Petah Tikvah, but succumbed to his wounds.
He was laid to rest in a cemetery in the Har Bracha settlement where he lived with his family. He is survived by his wife and four children.
[Ynet] Tunnel running from Rafah to Eshkol was originally destroyed during Protective Edge; another tunnel was bombed in the central Gazoo Strip overnight; Lieberman: 'Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, should invest the money in welfare of the Gazoo residents, because by the end of the year its tunnel project will be eliminated.'
The IDF destroyed for the second time on Sunday a terror tunnel initially demolished during the 2014 Operation Protective Edge, which Hamas has tried to rebuild.
The tunnel, which runs from Rafah in the southern Gazoo Strip to the Eshkol Regional Council inside Israel, was flooded with materials rendering the whole network unusable.
"Overnight, IDF forces operated against underground infrastructure in the Rafah area," the IDF Spokesman's Office said.
"For several weeks now, we've been identifying Hamas activity, as they have been trying to rebuild underground infrastructure that was active during Protective Edge. We've been following this activity and decided to take this action to thwart it before Hamas could reconnect the tunnel to the old infrastructure and before the tunnel crossed into our territory. It did not pose a threat," the IDF continued.
Another Hamas tunnel was bombed by the Israel Air Force overnight Saturday in the central Gazoo Strip. The IAF also attacked other Hamas targets in retaliation for several IEDs that have been planted along the strip's border.
Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman recommended to Hamas "to invest the money in the welfare of the Gazoo residents, because by the end of the year its tunnel project will be eliminated."
Paleostinian sources reported the targets included farmland east of the Zaytun Quarter in Gazoo City and two Hamas military posts. There have been no reports of injuries or damage in Gazoo.
The Military Police closed off some areas of the Eshkol Regional Council as IDF forces were working to neutralize the tunnel. The Paleostinians reported IDF engineering forces were operating on the southern Gazoo border.
"There's no developing security incident on the Gazoo border and the roadblocks are just part of routine activity," the IDF Spokesman's Office said.
Over the past six months, the IDF has exposed and neutralized three border-crossing terror tunnels in Israeli territory‐two in the Kissufim and Ein HaShlosha area and another under the Kerem Shalom border crossing, which also branched out into Egypt. The tunnels were uncovered thanks to new technology to detect underground activity.
Also over the past six months, the IAF attacked two terror tunnels inside the Gazoo Strip, one of them a month ago in the Zaytun Quarter in response to an explosive that went off on the border near Khan Yunis, leaving four IDF soldiers maimed.
"We've been operating in recent months using an ability that to our understanding will not allow re-using old tunnels dealt with during Protective Edge," the IDF said. "Hamas is trying to use what it has to repurpose old tunnels by trying to reconnect what's left of the tunnel tunnels. Hamas is once again investing its money in the underground project that is going down the drain thanks to our operations. We have a pretty good knowledge of the locations where it is possible to repurpose tunnels."
Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman recommended to Hamas "to invest the money in the welfare of the Gazoo residents, because by the end of the year its tunnel project will be eliminated."
"Systematically, based on quality intelligence and groundbreaking technology, Israel is destroying Hamas's tunnels one by one. Those who think they can hurt us from below ground will come across an iron wall," Lieberman added.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stressed that "Our policy is to take determined action against any attempt to attack us and to systematically eliminate the infrastructure of terrorist tunnels and thus we will continue. The time has come for the international community to realize that the assistance funds to Gazoo are being buried underground."
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"We'vebeen operating in recent months using an ability that to our understanding will not allow re-using old tunnels dealt with during Protective Edge,"
Did they place strips of bacon every ten feet along the floor of the tunnel?
[ALMASDARNEWS] On Sunday, al-Qaeda affiliate militia Ha’yat Tahrir al-Sham (better known by its former name, 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 .. ... ) conducted a car kaboom against Syrian Army positions in the now government-controlled East Ghouta district of Jisreen.
At the present time little information is available on the result of the attack, specifically whether or not it was successful and, if so, how many losses were endured to the ranks of Syrian government forces.
At face value, the kaboom appears to have taken out an entire residential building block.
Some sources state that the car kaboom was followed up with a general storming of Syrian Army positions aimed at retaking the district of Jisreen, but that the assault was ultimately repelled by Elite Republican Guard units.
Ha’yat Tahrir al-Sham is the second biggest group after ISIS to conduct suicide car kabooms on enemy forces ‐ even so, it ranks second place by a very large margin, perhaps to a factor of about 10.
[ALMASDARNEWS] Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Light of the Alawites... paid a daring and unexpected visit to one of the recently-liberated Eastern Ghouta towns.
Photos published by the Syrian Presidency shows Assad amid a group of the soldiers who are battling against Islamist bully boyz in the area.
Nearly a month ago, the government forces launched an onslaught against the murderous Moslem of East Ghouta. Ever since, up to 80% of the longtime rebel-held enclave.
[ALMASDARNEWS] The Syrian Ministry of Defence has issued a final warning to jihadist fighters of Moslem Brüderbund affiliate militia Ahrar al-Sham ...a Syria jihadi group made up of Islamists and salafists, not that there's that much difference, formed into a brigade. They make up the main element of the Islamic Front but they don't profess adoration of al-Qaeda and they've been fighting (mainly for survival) against the Islamic State. Their leadership was wiped out at a single blow by a suicide kaboom at a crowded basement meeting in September, 2014... holding out in the besieged district of Harasta.
Syrian military authorities are pressuring Ahrar al-Sham rebels to keep good on their semi-official promise to either completely evacuate Harasta for northwest Syria or to reconcile with the government in the coming days.
According to al-Masdar News journalist Ibrahim Joudeh, the Syrian Army is looking for an official acknowledgement from the holy warrior group’s leaders in the district that they will in fact abide by the preliminary evacuation-reconciliation deal.
The Syrian Army has threatened to storm Harasta and drive out jihadist faceless myrmidons at gunpoint if they lax on the set arrangement.
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McShhhhhhhtainsssssch friendscccccccchhh getting more desccccccccchhhhperate as he gets to sccccccchhhhhick to deliver.
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[ALMASDARNEWS] Amid an ongoing 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.... offensive in the east Syrian province of Deir Ezzor, the Syrian Army and allied paramilitary forces have endured their worst day of festivities with the terrorist group throughout the region since the start of 2018.
ISIS launched it offensive on the night of Saturday to Sunday, at first targeting the strategic T-2 military airport. This was latter followed up with attacks on and between the government-controlled Euphrates cities of al-Mayadeen and Abu Kamal.
Within the first several hours of battle, both sides endured dozens killed ‐ almost to the effect of 100 dead in total. By now, the combined corpse count has undoubtedly increased to beyond one hundred and perhaps now closer to 200.
At the present time its appears that Islamic State forces have not been able overrun either the T-2 military airport or any key positions around the cities of al-Mayadeen and Abu Kamal.
The terrorist offensive has been launched out of a vast area of uncleared desert countryside in western Deir Ezzor province thought initially to only have 200 fighters inside it; now it is clear that closer to one thousand faceless myrmidons would be a better guess.
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Coincidence that the Turks are pushing further into Syria and providing support to various anti-government pro-Islamist factions?
[ALMASDARNEWS] Islamist bully boyz positioned in the East Qalamoun mountains have reportedly shot down a fighter jet for the Syrian Air Force.
Footage published by pro-rebel accounts on social media shows a Syrian SU-24 attack aircraft being shot down by anti-aircraft machineguns.
The destiny of the pilot is not yet known, but reports had it that the jet fell on Syrian Army-controlled territories.
A rebel alliance called Jaish Tahrir al-Sham declared a fresh offensive against the Syrian Army in the besieged East Qalamoun pocket.
The alliance is made up of 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... , Osoud al-Sharqiyah and Ahmad al-Abdo Brigades.
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[ALMASDARNEWS] Despite earlier reports that the Syrian Army had imposed full control over the town of Ar-Rayhan in Damascus’ East Ghouta region, the reality stands that rebel fighters remain in partial control of what still appears to be a standing stronghold for them.
Even more, it has become apparent that the Syrian Army has endured major losses to its armored forces in the ongoing festivities for Ar-Rayhan and its surrounding countryside (still heavily littered with undiscovered tunnels and trenches).
A video (shown below) released very recently by the 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... Lion of Islam faction suggests that as many as a dozen Syrian Army tanks have been knock-out by various means available to local bad boys.
By far, Ar-Rayhan has proven to be the most persistent bad boy stronghold encountered by the Syrian Army; even before the latest Damascus offensive, the town had withstood dozens of attacks by government forces.
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[DAWN] Ottoman Turkish-backed Syrian rebels have taken "total" control of the centre of Afrin, a Kurdish-majority city in northern Syria, 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... said on Sunday.
"Units of the Free Syrian Army ... the more palatable version of the Syrian insurgency, heavily influenced by the Moslem Brüderbund... , which are backed by Ottoman Turkish armed forces, took control of the centre of Afrin this morning at 8:30 am (0530 GMT)," Erdogan said, adding that de-mining operations were under way.
Taking Afrin has been the main objective of The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... 's operation Olive Branch, a deadly ground and air offensive launched on January 20 with the aim of ousting the People's Protection Units (YPG), a Kurdish militia group.
Erdogan said a "large number" of Kurdish fighters had "fled with their tails between their legs". He added Ottoman Turkish special forces had deployed in the city.
News of Afrin's capture was also confirmed by the Ottoman Turkish military, which released a statement saying the city centre was "under control".
"Search operations to locate mines and other explosives are under way," it said.
On Twitter, the military posted a video of a soldier putting a Ottoman Turkish flag on a balcony.
"Now the Ottoman Turkish flag will fly over there! The flag of the Free Syrian Army will fly over there!" said Erdogan who was speaking at a ceremony marking the battle to open the Dardanelles during World War I.
As the Ottoman Turkish operation intensified, more than 200,000 civilians fled the Kurdish-majority city in less than three days and dozens have been killed in the area, according to the Britannia-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
[ALMASDARNEWS] According to reports, units of the so-called Free Syrian Army ... the more palatable version of the Syrian insurgency, heavily influenced by the Moslem Brüderbund... (FSA), the Ottoman Turkish-backed rebel organization that fights both the Syrian government and Kurdish militias alike, has went on a rampage of plundering in recently conquered areas of Afrin.
The FSA reportedly has started looting all across the city of Afrin after asserting full control over the city on Sunday, plundering civilian residences belonging to people who fled from the violence.
Reports also have it that different groups within the FSA have violently clashed with one another, either over disapproval of the plundering or due to disagreements on how the spoils of plunder should be divided amongst the rebel forces.
The FSA was one of the earliers Syrian rebel organizations, founded in 2011, but quickly lost relevance in the ensuing conflict. It subsequently all but disappeared to the background until 2016, when the FSA was chosen as The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...just another cheapjack Moslem dictatorship, brought to you by the Moslem Brüderbund.... ’s strategical ally in the Euphrates Shield campaign, and later in the Ottoman Turkish invasion of the Afrin district.
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YPG announced today they are in all districts of Afrin Canton as guerilla units.
35 Turk and FSA jihadists destroyed in the main city of Afrin via an explosion detonated by the YPG.
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...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...
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