[Khaama (Afghanistan)] A key ISIS Khurasan group member who was in charge of coordinating in the urban areas and expert in producing Improvised Explosive Devices was killed during an operation of the Afghan armed forces.
According to the local officials, the key ISIS Khurasan group member was killed in Jalalabad city the picturesque provincial capital of Nangarhar The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country.. province.
The officials further added that the Special Forces of the Afghan intelligence, National Directorate of Security ...the Afghan national intel agency... (NDS), conducted an operation in Muqam Khan area of Behsud, resulting into the killing of a key ISIS Khurasan group member, who was famous as Muhajir.
According to the officials, Muhajir was killed after resisting the NDS Special Forces during the operation.
Muhajir was involved in the attacks in Jalalabad cricket stadium, customs department, education directorate, and several other attacks in Kabul city, the officials said.
According to the provincial officials, the Afghan forces also confiscated two improvised bombs during the operaiton.
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“Is he resisting?”
“Sure looks like it?”
Bang. Bang! Bangety!
“I saw a twitch!”
“Bang. Bang! Bang.
“He still looks somewhat resistant, let’s soften him up some more!”
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] 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 Khurasan (ISIS-K) turbans have beheaded at least three people working as attendants for a local school in eastern Nangarhar The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country.. province of Afghanistan.
The provincial government media office in a statement confirmed that the ISIS Khurasan turbans have beheaded three workers of Malikyar High School in Khogyani district.
The statement further added that the incident took place late on Saturday night and the library of the school was also set on fire.
Provincial education directorate front man Mohammad Asif Shinwari also confirmed the brutal murder of the school attendants and said all three men had their heads chopped off by the bully boys.
Nangarhar’s governor Hayatullah Hayat expressed grief regarding the brutal murder of the school attendants and ordered the concerned authorities to thoroughly investigate the incident.
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] An kaboom rocked Jalalabad city, the lovely provincial capital of 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.. , leaving at least eighteen people dead and several others maimed.
Provincial public health director Doctor Najibullah Kamawal said at least eight Sikh nationals and six others including two security personnel were killed in the kaboom.
The eyewitnesses in the area are saying that the incident has taken place close to a trading market in Mukhaberat Chawk.
They also added that the sounds of gunfire were also heard from the incident area.
the provincial public health officials had earlier said that the dead bodies of at least four people have been shifted to the hospital along with at least ten others with injuries.
A member of the provincial council had also said at least seven people were killed and at least twenty others were maimed in the kaboom.
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.... group on Monday grabbed credit for a suicide kaboom in eastern Afghanistan that killed at least 19 people, mostly Sikhs and Hindus.
The bomber targeted a delegation from the minority communities as it was traveling to the governor's residence in the eastern city of Jalalabad on Sunday for a meeting with President Ashraf Ghani ...former chancellor of Kabul University, now president of Afghanistan. Before returning to Afghanistan in 2002 he was a scholar of political science and anthropology. He worked at the World Bank working on international development assistance. As Finance Minister of Afghanistan between July 2002 and December 2004, he led Afghanistan's attempted economic recovery until the Karzais stole all the money. .. Avtar Singh Khalsa, a longtime leader of the Sikh community, was among those killed. Another 20 people were maimed.
In a statement released Monday, ISIS said it had targeted a group of "polytheists."
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The US forces in Afghanistan have conducted more than twenty Arclight airstrikes in support of the Afghan national defense and security forces who resumed operations against the Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... at the end of the extended ceasefire announced by the government.
"Elsewhere in the nation, U.S. forces have conducted more than 20 strikes targeting selective Taliban irreconcilables in Ghazni, Helmand ...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan... and Uruzgan provinces in support of the nationwide Afghan-led offensive," according to a report by Resolute Support Mission.
The report further added "In addition, the Afghan Air Force conducted at least two independent strikes in Uruzgan province."
"Multiple Afghan National Army Corps and Afghan Special Forces also began operations around the country, demonstrating the full and extensive capabilities of the Afghan National Defense Forces. It is from this position of strength that the Afghan National Defense and Security Forces maintained a unilateral ceasefire for more than two weeks," the report added.
In the south of the country, U.S. Army Brig. Gen. John W. Lathrop, Train, Advise, and Assist Command-South (TAAC-South) commander, met, June 27, with Rahmatullah Yarmal, Zabul Province provincial governor, to discuss the offensive there, according to Resolute Support Mission.
"The outcome of the operation will have a big impact on Zabul," said Yarmal. "We need to make sure the Government of Afghanistan is in control."
"The Taliban should heed the calls of the Afghan people, the international community, and the Islamic world, and respond positively to their request to end the violence and start the grinding of the peace processor. In fact, some have already responded to the social and diplomatic pressure," said U.S. Army Lt. Col. Martin L. O’Donnell, Resolute Support and U.S. Forces-Afghanistan front man. "The alternative for those that cast-off peace is defeat through relentless military pressure."
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"In fact, some have already responded to the social and diplomatic pressure, and deadly air strikes. But mostly deadly air strikes"
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[Defense-blog.fr] On July 1, 2018, the French troops of Operation "Barkhane" lost two infantry fighting vehicles VCBI in an attack led by terrorists.
The French army spokesman said there were no dead among French troops, but the Malian Ministry of Defense said at least two civilians were killed in the attack, which took place in the Gao region.
As a result of the terrorist attack, two French VBCI infantry fighting vehicles were destroyed. This was the first known loss of infantry fighting vehicle of this type in the operation in Mali.
The attack comes as more than 40 African heads of state gather for an African Union summit in the Mauritanian capital of Nouakchott with security making the agenda top priority.
The VBCI (Infantry Armored Fighting Vehicle) is one of the most modern wheeled infantry fighting vehicles in the world. The VBCI is intended to replace the former AMX-10P tracked infantry fighting vehicle, currently used by mechanized units of the French Army.
[AAWSAT] The Yemeni army announced on Sunday that its forces have captured Houthi ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The Yemeni government has accused the Houthis of having ties to the Iranian government, which wouldn't suprise most of us. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews ... leader, Waddah Ahmed Hussein Dahman, in the Hajjah region as they were advancing in the valley of Hiran, north of the governorate, reported the Saudi Press Agency.
The Houthi captive is the director of the office of prominent Houthi leader Ahmed al-Madoumi, who is responsible of Kahlan Afar in Hajjah, said a statement from the fifth military region.
Separately, the army regained military vehicles and large quantities of different types of weapons in battles against the Houthis on the Midi Hiran front.
The Yemeni National Army, backed by the Saudi-led Arab coalition, is engaged in fierce battles with the Houthis in Midi Hiran, as the military continues its march on the coastal strip and deep in Hiran valley.
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[AAWSAT] Twenty-five relief convoys provided by the King Salman ...either the largest species of Pacific salmon or the current Sheikh of the Burnin' Sands, Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques and Lord of Most of the Arabians.... Humanitarian Aid and Relief Center (KSRelief) crossed the Saudi Wadi border into Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of. Except for a tiny handfull of Jews everthing there is very Islamic... on Saturday.
The convoys, headed towards the Hodeidah province, carried 512 tons and 920 kilograms of basic foodstuffs that will be distributed to the most needy families in the coming days.
These efforts are part continuous support provided by the Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... for Yemeni people in implementation of the directives of King of the Arabians, Sheikh of the Burning Sands, Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman bin Abdulaziz and Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman ...Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia as of 2016.... , Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Defense.
Saturday’s latest relief brings to 119 the total number of convoys that have been provided by KSRelief to Yemen in 12 days.
The convoys are among a series of projects provided by KSRelief to the Yemeni people. The center has so far implemented 262 projects throughout Yemen.
Last month, 18 KSRelief relief convoys, carrying 361 tons and 462 kilograms of foodstuffs, crossed the Wadia border towards Hodeidah.
One June 19, 15 KSRelief trucks, loaded with food and medicine, headed from Jazan towards Yemen.
That same day, four trucks arrived in Aden on their way to Hodeidah, carrying 70 tents and 10,000 cartons of dates.
A day later, Adviser to the Royal Court and KSRelief General Supervisor Dr. Abdullah al-Rabiah launched a 45-truck convoy, carrying 924 tons and 462 Kilograms of food, medical and shelter materials, to Hodeidah.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] The Arab Coalition backing the Yemeni legitimate government confirmed on Sunday that it issued seven entry permits for ships heading toward Hodeidah port while seven other vessels were awaiting permission to enter the port.
The coalition added that a ship in al-Salif port is currently unloading its cargo of wheat.
In another development, the coalition confirmed that the Houthi ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The Yemeni government has accused the Houthis of having ties to the Iranian government, which wouldn't suprise most of us. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews ... militias have now been holding the "G Muse" vessel in Hodeidah’s port for two months for unknown reasons.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Jose Guadalupe Chan, a news hound for a news website in the Mexican state of Quintana Roo, has been rubbed out, the state’s prosecutor and the site Chan worked for said Saturday.
Chan -- at least the sixth Mexican journalist to be killed this year -- was at a bar in the indigenous community of Felipe Carillo Puerto when he was attacked by an unknown person.
"The cause of death was bullet wounds," the Quintana Roo prosecutor said in a statement.
Chan was a correspondent for the digital weekly Playa News, which is headquartered in Riviera Maya, near the resort city of Cancun.
His killing comes ahead of Sunday’s general election in which voters will fill more than 18,000 positions, including the president and federal politicians.
The election has been marked by a high level of violence, with more than 130 politicians murdered as of Friday, according to a tally by consultancy Etellekt.
Ruben Pat of Playa News told AFP that Chan recently told him that he had received death threats and had asked for protection from authorities but did not receive a response.
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Obviously spurred by Trump's rhetoric
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[clevenland.com] CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Federal law enforcement officials are expected to announce the arrest of a person suspected of planning a Fourth of July terrorist attack in downtown Cleveland.
The FBI released a brief statement early Monday saying it will hold a press conference at 9:15 a.m. at the FBI headquarters on Lakeside Avenue in Cleveland. The person is charged with attempted material support of a foreign terrorist organization.
FBI special agent Stephen Anthony, U.S. Attorney Justin Herdman, Cleveland police Chief Calvin Williams and other executives from the FBI's Joint Terrorism Task Force are expected to attend the press conference.
The FBI revealed no additional details about the arrest. Cleveland.com will cover the press conference live on Facebook. Added via HotAir:
Chalkone up for the FBI. After coming across online postings from a wannabe radical-Islamist terrorist in the suburbs of Cleveland, investigators lured Demetrius Pitts, AKA Abdur Raheem Rahfeeq, into overt acts by posing as a member of al-Qaeda. An arrest was made over the weekend, the FBI announced today, and the home-grown terror suspect’s plans to attack during the Independence Day celebrations in Cleveland have come to naught
Anbar (IraqiNews.com) A mass grave containing bodies of Islamic State members was found in west of Anbar, a senior tribal fighter said on Sunday.
“Intelligence information enabled security troops of the Tribal Mobilization Forces to reach a mass grave containing bodies of Islamic State bodies,” Shuaib Barzan, tribal commander in al-Baghdadi town, told BasNews website. The troops also managed to fill four trenches that were used by the militants over the past few years.
“Presence of the shelters and trenches in the Jazira region is a danger and obstacle for the residents. All the trenched were filled so the militants cannot hide in or move through it,” he added.
“Tens of bodies of the militants were removed and transferred to forensic medicine department to identify them,” he added.
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Baghdad (Iraqinews.com) ‐ Two people were maimed Sunday in a kaboom in the Iraqi capital Baghdad, a security source was quoted as saying.
"An explosive charge went off at a marketplace in al-Taji district in northern Baghdad, leaving two civilians maimed," the source told Alghad Press website.
"The injured were moved to a nearby hospital for treatment," the source said, adding that security forces immediately rushed to the blast site and opened a probe into the attack.
No group has so far grabbed credit for the attack, but 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.... (IS) Lion of Islam group, in most cases, is responsible for attacks targeting crowded areas, including markets, cafes and mosques across Iraq.
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Diyala (IraqiNews.com) A civilian was killed, while another was injured as a kaboom took place between Diyala and Salahuddin provinces, a local source from Diyala said on Sunday.
Speaking to AlSumaria News, the source said "a bomb placed on the road to Mubarak al-Farhan village, located on borders between Diyala and Salahuddin, went off today as a car carrying two people was passing. One of them was killed, while the other was injured."
The village, according to the source, who preferred anonymity, said "was recently attacked several times by 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....
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Kirkuk (IraqiNews.com) Two security personnel were maimed as a kaboom took place, east of Salahuddin province, a security source was quoted saying on Sunday.
"A bomb, placed on the side of the road near al-Zarka bridge, south of Tuz Khurmatu, east of Salahuddin, went off, as security troops from Salahuddin Operation Command was passing," the source told Baghdad Today website.
The blast left two personnel maimed, the source said, adding they were taken to hospital for treatment.
Diyala (IraqiNews.com) Iraqi troops have killed 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.... members, northeast of Baquba in Diyala province, a security source said on Sunday.
"Troops, backed by al-Hashd al-Shaabi [Popular Mobilization Forces] managed, today, to kill two Islamic State members and burn a rest house, near al-Mekheisa region, northeast of Baquba," the source told Almaalomah website.
Security troops and PMFs, according to the source, "resume purging the regions, where the holy warriors exist."
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] One person was killed in Iraq’s Kirkuk on Sunday when a suicide boom-mobile went off near a storage site housing ballot boxes from a May national election, police sources said, two days before a manual recount was due to begin.
Another 20 people were maimed in the kaboom. The warehouse holding the ballot boxes was not damaged, the sources said.
Iraq’s parliamentary election in May was clouded by allegations of fraud. On Saturday a judges’ panel announced that a recount of votes mandated by the Iraqi parliament and the courts was to kick off on Tuesday, starting with Kirkuk.
The driver detonated the vehicle before reaching the entrance of the warehouse after officers guarding the facility opened fire, the police sources said.
Shi’ite holy manMoqtada Tater al-Sadr ... the Iranian catspaw holy man who was 22 years old in 2003 and was nearing 40 in 2010. He spends most of his time in Iran, safely out of the line of fire, where he's learning to be an ayatollah... ’s electoral list came first in the national election which saw a historically low turnout. After weeks of negotiations on forming a government, Sadr formed an alliance with Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi, whose electoral list came third and with second-placed Iran ally Hadi al-Amiri’s bloc.
In early June, a storage site holding half of Baghdad’s ballot boxes went up in flames in an incident Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi described as a "plot to harm the nation and its democracy".
The source pointed out that most of those injured in the kaboom are coppers stationed to protect the site, where a manual recount of parliamentary election votes was scheduled to take place.
"No ballot boxes were affected by the kaboom," the source said.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Iraq has begun building a fence along its border with Syria to stop ISIS forces of Evil crossing into the country, a border guards front man said Sunday.
"Ten days ago we started to set up a barbed wire security fence with surveillance towers along the border with Syria," said Anwar Hamid Nayef, front man in Iraq’s Anbar province.
The frontier barrier includes a six-metre-wide trench and involves thermal cameras and drones scanning the border for forces of Evil attempting to cross from Syria.
Baghdad declared victory over ISIS at the end of last year, but the group holds pockets of territory in the vast deserts of eastern Syria and maintains its ability to strike inside Iraq.
The new fence so far runs for 20 km north from the area around the border town of al-Qaim, which Iraqi forces retook from ISIS in November.
In total the frontier stretches for some 600 km.
Border front man Nayef said that experts from Baghdad’s ministry of defense and an anti-ISIS coalition spearheaded by the United States would come "to evaluate the effectiveness of the fence".
"If they approve the installations, we will continue along the whole border with Syria," he said.
In a sign of the continuing menace it poses to Iraq, the bodies of eight captives executed by ISIS were this week found along a highway north of Baghdad.
In a bid to combat the myrmidons, Iraqi forces have carried out a series of air strikes against ISIS inside Syria.
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But ... but ... fences don't work! Oh, the humanity! What about their human right to migrate? Where is Amnesia International on this?
[IsraelTimes] A group of Paleostinians infiltrated Israeli territory from the southern Gazoo Strip Sunday and set fire to an abandoned IDF post along the border, before rushing back into the coastal enclave, the army said. A military spokesperson said IDF troops spotted the breach, but the Paleostinians had already fled back into Gazoo by the time they arrived.
The Paleostinians continued sending incendiary kites and balloons over the border sparking at 20 fires in the western Negev, the Eshkol regional council said. Of those, six fires were in the Be’eri forest, five in the Kissufim Forest, and another adjacent to Kibbutz Kfar Aza.
Separately, police said that sappers were called to deal with what appeared to be flammable material attached to a balloon sent from Gazoo that landed in a forested area near the southern city of Kiryat Gat, some 30 kilometers (20 miles) from Gazoo.
[IsraelTimes] Paleostinian media reported Sunday that an Israeli aircraft fired a missile at a group of Paleostinians in the Gazoo Strip about to launch burning kites towards Israel.
According to the Paleostinian media there were no injuries from the shot which targeted a group in Shuja’iyya, in the east of Gazoo City.
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The Paleostinians continued sending incendiary kites and balloons over the border sparking at 20 fires in the western Negev, the Eshkol regional council said.
[Al Jazeera] Talks have resumed between the Syrian opposition and Russian negotiators over a peace deal in a rebel-held town in southwestern Syria after Jordanian mediation, an opposition spokesperson said.
Sunday's talks come after at least 75 people, including 23 children and 14 women, were killed in air raids by Syria's air force in the past 24 hours, local sources told Al Jazeera.
A team representing the Free Syrian Army ... the more palatable version of the Syrian insurgency, heavily influenced by the Moslem Brüderbund... 's (FSA) rebels was holding talks with Russian officers in the town of Bosra al-Sham on Sunday morning, Ibrahim al-Jabawi, the spokesperson for the central operations room representing FSA negotiators told Rooters news agency.
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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
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] A key ISIS Khurasan group member who was in charge of coordinating in the urban areas and expert in producing Improvised Explosive Devices was killed during an operation of the Afghan armed forces.
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The 
...former chancellor of Kabul University, now president of Afghanistan. Before returning to Afghanistan in 2002 he was a scholar of political science and anthropology. He worked at the World Bank working on international development assistance. As Finance Minister of Afghanistan between July 2002 and December 2004, he led Afghanistan's attempted economic recovery until the Karzais stole all the money. ..
...either the largest species of Pacific salmon or the current Sheikh of the Burnin' Sands, Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques and Lord of Most of the Arabians....
...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of. Except for a tiny handfull of Jews everthing there is very Islamic...
Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia as of 2016....
Moqtada 
