[KhaamaPress] At least three more members of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria Khurasan (ISIS-K) were arrested in Jalalabad city, the provincial capital of Nangarhar province.
The provincial government media office in a statement said the three ISIS-K militants were arrested during an operation of the Afghan Intelligence Special forces.
The statement further added that the operation was conducted close to Darunta area in Surkh Rod.
According to the provincial government, the detained individuals were involved in orchestrating and coordinating attacks, making remote-controlled bombs, and explosions.
[KhaamaPress] An explosion ripped through a vehicle of a local Taliban commander in eastern Nangarhar province of Afghanistan, leaving at least seven people dead or wounded, including civilians.
The provincial government media office said the incident took place at around 9am local time in the vicinity of Khogyani district.
The statement further added that an improvised explosive planted in the vehicle of a local Taliban commander went off in a picnic area, leaving the Taliban command dead along with his two companions.
According to the provincial government, the Taliban commander killed in the explosion has been identified as Hakimullah.
At least four civilians also sustained injuries in the explosion, the provincial government said, adding that the health condition of the wounded civilians is satisfactory.
No individual or group has so far claimed responsibility behind the incident.
[KhaamaPress] At least twenty five ISIS Khurasan militants including the shadow judge and a commander of the group were killed during the ongoing operations in eastern Nangarhar province.
The governor’s office in Nangarhar said the militants were killed during the separate operations conducted in Achin and Haska Mina districts.
The source further added that 23 ISIS Khurasan militants including one of their shadow judges and a local commander of the group were killed during the air and ground operations in Achin district.
The operations were conducted late on Wednesday night in the vicinity of Bandar area, the governor’s office added.
In the meantime, the US forces conducted airstrikes on ISIS Khurasan hideouts in Haska Mina district leaving at least two dead, the provincial government office said, adding that the airstrikes were carried out in Angoor Kala area.
The Nangarhar governor’s office also added that some heavy and light weapons belonging to the terror group were also destroyed.
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[AlAhram] At least 17 people have been killed in fighting between gunnies from Somalia's al-Shabaab ... the personification of Somali state failure... group and clan militias in the country's central semi-autonomous region of Galmudug ...a semiautonomous region in central Somalia, bordering Puntland on the north. Galmudug is not trying to obtain international recognition as a separate nation, but rather considers itself autonomous within the larger Somali federalism, for what that's worth... , residents and the group told Rooters on Thursday.
Somali state-run Radio Muqdisho reported on its website on Thursday that the fighting in the Haradheere area, which started on Wednesday, had been triggered by alleged al-Shabaab conscription of teenagers into their ranks.
Al-Shabaab has controlled the port district for years but has repeatedly clashed with local clan militias over a range of disputes.
"Al-Shabaab asked for teenagers to be recruited," the radio reported. A tax called zakat being imposed by al-Shabaab had also stoked anger among the residents and militias, it added.
Residents in the area told Rooters a total of nine militia members and al-Shabaab fighters had been killed in the fighting.
"We attacked al-Shabaab and ... then, al-Shabaab got many gunnies as reinforcement from various regions. We fought and fought till we ran out of bullets," a local elder, Farah Ahmed, told Rooters by phone from the Haradheere area on Thursday.
Somalia has been convulsed by lawlessness and violence since 1991 when dictator Mohammed Siad Barre was toppled.
Al-Shabaab is fighting to dislodge the western-backed central government and African Union ...a union consisting of 53 African states, most run by dictators of one flavor or another. The only all-African state not in the AU is Morocco. Established in 2002, the AU is the successor to the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), which was even less successful... -mandated peace-keeping force AMISOM which, defends it, and install its own government based on its strict interpretation of Islamic sharia law.
Abdiasis Abu Musab, al-Shabaab’s military operations front man told Rooters they had fought the militias because they were armed by neighbouring Æthiopia. They had killed 15 members of the militias, he said.
"Æthiopia wants Hobyo port and so it is using clan militias to capture the road to Hobyo port town," he said.
Hobyo port is about 260 kilometers northeast of Haradheere. Musab said al-Shabaab had taken all weapons from the militias during the attack.
[RADIOSHABELLE] al-Shabaab ... Somalia's version of the Taliban, functioning as an arm of al-Qaeda... has fired several mortar shells at a military belonging to Kenyan defence forces [KDF] serving under African Union ...a union consisting of 53 African states, most run by dictators of one flavor or another. The only all-African state not in the AU is Morocco. Established in 2002, the AU is the successor to the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), which was even less successful... Mission [MISOM] in southern Somalia, residents said.
The mortar attack was targeted at KDF’s camp in Fafahdhun area in Gedo, where the Kenyan soldiers are stationed, according to a villager, speaking to Radio Shabelle by phone.
The raid has sparked a heavy shootout ensued between the Death Eaters and the Kenyan troops which led to an unspecified number of casualties.
Kenyan defence ministry has not yet commented on the attack so far.
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[NYP] Boys in the Congo were forced to rape their mothers while blood-drinking soldiers feasted on the flesh of dying victims, a nightmarish new report claims.
Rebels and government troops in the Kasai region of the African country have committed sickening atrocities including mass rape and cannibalism, UN human rights experts claim.
In one horrific massacre, 186 men and young boys from a single village had their heads chopped off, the report says.
The team investigating the conflict in the Kasai region told the United Nations Human Rights Council last week that they suspected all sides were guilty of war crimes and offenses against humanity.
Their detailed, 126-page report cataloged gruesome attacks committed in the conflict, which erupted in late 2016, involving the Kamuina Nsapu and Bana Mura militias and Congo’s armed forces, the FARDC.
[SABANEWS.NET] At least 15 Saudi-paid mercenaries were killed and 20 others injured by a unique attack of the army heroes and popular committees on the parties of al- Nakhilah area of al- Drehemi district on the west coast during the past hours, a military official told Saba on Thursday.
The army and committees destroyed five military vehicles of the invaders among US Ashcush warships and all of its crew, said the official.
The enemy failed to evacuate his casualties only by sea after army and committees put under siege on the target area of all ground points.
The heroes of the army and committees took control of a number of sites and farms that the enemy was preparing to occupy.
Furthermore, a specialized unit of the army and committees held up with the free sons of Tihama carried out a unique operation in the vicinity of al-Jabaila area in Tuhita managed to control a number of important sand hills and inflicted the enemy and its mercenaries losses of lives and vehicles that six were destroyed completely including those kit of heavy machine guns and US Ashcush armored.
The aggression forces failed to carry out an attack on the north of Tahita and suffered heavy losses in lives and military equipment, which confirmed the destruction of a number of crews and warships while dozens of mercenaries' casualties' fell.
The operations in the western coast continued to repel the enemy's attempt to carry out offensive operations and infiltration attempts on a number of sites in Drehami, al-Tahta and other areas.
The heroes of the army and committees are continuing to cut enemy supply lines and develop combat tactics according to the evolution of the battle and the strategy of the enemy in targeting the West Coast.
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[AnNahar] Twelve people were jugged Drop the rod and step away witcher hands up! after a second night of rioting in the western city of Nantes triggered by the deadly shooting of a young man during a stop-and-search operation by police.
The killing of the 22-year-old, identified by local media as Aboubakar F., risks inflaming simmering tensions in deprived urban areas in La Belle France where residents frequently complain of police brutality.
Rioters set fire to several dozen cars for a second night running Wednesday and fought pitched battles with the police in the low-income district of Breil where Tuesday's shooting took place and surrounding neighbourhoods.
Several public buildings, including a cop shoppe, were damaged and a dozen shops were torched, despite calls by the victim's family for calm.
Eleven people were arrested in Breil and one person was arrested in the Gay Paree suburb of Garges-les-Gonesse where Aboubakar F. grew up.
The victim was under surveillance as part of a drug-trafficking investigation when he was stopped by police while driving at around 8.30 pm.
The police said he was not carrying ID and that they attempted to arrest him.
Nantes prosecutor Pierre Sennes said that the driver then "apparently tried to escape the search by quickly reversing."
Police sources said he reversed into one of the officers, prompting his partner to open fire -- but a witness said the car was at a halt when the driver was hit in the neck by a single bullet.
A police oversight body is investigating the killing.
The driver had been wanted by police in Creteil, near Gay Paree, for robbery and other offences.
- Contradictory accounts -
A woman who filmed the incident, who wished to remain anonymous, said "there were no police behind the car, he didn't hit anyone. There was only the one gunshot."
French police have a long history of strained relations with youths in poor suburbs with large immigration populations, while officers frequently complain about being targeted.
In January, the government vowed a crackdown on urban violence after a shocking video emerged of a policewoman being beaten by a crowd in the Gay Paree suburbs on New Year's Eve.
A parliamentary report released Tuesday showed high suicide rates within the police and warned about widespread low morale in the force.
Breil, the Nantes neighbourhood where Tuesday's shooting occurred, is a socially mixed district home to a large housing estate with a history of gang violence.
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I looked up Nantes in Rantburg’s archives, and discovered it was the home of the leader of Forsane Alizza (Knights of Pride in Arabic). They claimed to be a soft jihad organization which aimed by public spectacle to fight Islamophobia by reminding the kufrs of France of their approaching dhimmitude in the future French caliphate. First noticed by the public when they invaded a Limoges McDonalds to shout antisemitic slogans in 2010, they subsequently got in the habit of leading prayer services in the streets, collecting AK-47s and similar toys, playing paintball in the forests by way of training, and formulating plans for mass terror attacks on identified Jewish businesses. The interior ministry banned them in 2012 for encouraging their fellow citizens to join the jihad in Afghanistan, and in 2015 jailed emir Mohammed Achamlane and 13 of his henchmen for mopery and dopery on the spaceways.
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Re #3 and le whiff...
A misunderstanding, mon frere,
Of events of Thirteenth Vendémiaire!
Twas just a few scrapes
As we harvested grapes
For that Royalist rouge running there.
Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) Four people were maimed in a kaboom and an attack against military checkpoint in Baghdad, sources from the Iraqi Interior Ministry said on Thursday.
"A bomb placed inside a bus that transfers commuters, went off, in the evening, at the northern entrance gate of Baghdad, leaving two civilians maimed," one source told Baghdad Today website.
Moreover, another source said "a bomb went kaboom! near a checkpoint of the Iraqi army in Abu Ghraib region, west of Baghdad, leaving a soldier and a civilian maimed."
Security troops, according to the sources, cordoned off the two blast scenes and prevented approaching, while the maimed were taken to hospital for treatment.
djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... (IraqiNews.com) Four non-combatants were killed in an armed attack and three Lions of Islam were placed in durance vile Yez got nuttin' on me, coppers! Nuttin'! in Mosul city, official sources were quoted saying on Thursday.
Speaking to BasNews, Col. Tarek Jalil, spokesperson for Nineveh Police Command, said "unidentified button men attacked a house in Baghla village in Badush town, northwest of Mosul. They killed a father and three of his sons."
Security troops, according to Jalil, "cordoned off the village in search for the perpetrators. The bodies were transferred to forensic medicine department in Mosul."
Moreover, the Security Media Center announced on Thursday arresting three Lions of Islam in al-Tanak region in Mosul.
In a statement, Brig. Gen. Yahia Rasool, spokesperson for the center, said the military intelligence department "arrested a terrorist cell composed of three members in al-Tanak region in Mosul."
The members, according to Rasool, were transferred to authorities in question to take legal measures against them.
Kirkuk (IraqiNews.com) Around 30 people were killed and arrested during a security operation, carried out in southwest of Kirkuk, the Federal Police announced on Thursday.
In a statement, the command said troops “resume their military operation in villages and valleys in Kirkuk toward southwest of the province to reach borders with Salahuddin at Makhoul and Hamreen mountains.”
The operation, according to the statement, “left 15 militants killed, 63 villages purged, seven booby-trapped vehicles destroyed and 15 suspects arrested.”
Kirkuk (IraqiNews.com) The Iraqi pro-government paramilitary troops have killed two Islamic State members as they were trying to sneak into southwest of Kirkuk province, the media service said on Thursday.
A statement by al-Hashd al-Shaabi (Popular Mobilization Forces) said “troops of the 27th brigade killed, today, two Islamic State members who infiltrated into a village in Hawija town, southwest of Kirkuk.”
The two members, according to the statement, “attempted carrying out attacks, however, the troops managed to kill them before they reached their target.”
On Wednesday, Federal Police killed an Islamic State leader called Shehab Ahmed al-Sallab at the outskirts of Hawija.
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[ALMASDARNEWS] The Syrian Arab Army (SAA) has just captured the last town east of Daraa city after a fierce battle with the Free Syrian Army’s Southern Front Brigades.
Backed by heavy airstrikes, the Syrian Arab Army was able to overpower the rebel forces at the town of Al-Naimah, forcing the latter to fall back to the eastern district of Daraa.
This fresh advance by the Syrian Army comes just 18 hours after their troops captured the neighboring town of Saida from the Free Syrian Army and their allies.
With Al-Naimah captured, the Syrian Army will now move towards the eastern part of the provincial capital, as the 4th Division inside the city pushes south towards the Daraa Al-Balad District.
The Syrian Army will not only launch this new offensive on the provincial capital, but they will also work to clear the remaining towns around Daraa city.
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[PRESSTV] Syrian army soldiers have managed to establish full control over a strategic town in the country’s southwestern province of Dara’a, as they are engaged in counter-terrorism operations to put an ultimate end to the presence of foreign-backed Takfiri militants in the eastern and southeastern sectors of the province.
On Thursday, Syria’s official news agency SANA reported that government forces advanced towards the Dara'a al-Balad residential area of Dara’a, located about 13 kilometers north of the border with Jordan, where militants affiliated to the Jabhat Fateh al-Sham, formerly known as al-Nusra Front, Takfiri terror group are positioned.
The operation inflicted heavy losses on militant ranks. A number of rocket launch pads belonging to Takfiri terrorists were destroyed in the process as well.
Syrian army soldiers then entirely recaptured Saida, situated some 10 kilometers east of Dara’a, after fierce clashes with militants and driving the Takfiris out of a Syrian Air Defense Force base southeast of the town.
A number of terrorists were killed and wounded in the gun battle, while several others fled towards the nearby town of al-Taiba.
Syrian bomb disposal units are now combing the liberated area for hidden ordnance and explosive devices, which terrorists have planted there to slow down the advance of army forces.
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Minbaj (IraqiNews.com) At least 23 people were killed and injured on Thursday as a blast took place in north of Syria among protesting supporters of the Syrian Democratic Forces.
Speaking to BasNews, local sources from Minbaj said a blast occurred in al-Hayya town in the countryside of the city as citizens were gathering to protest against Ottoman Turkish forces, which left casualties.
The blast, according to the sources, resulted from a landmine planted near a school, leaving a civilian killed and 22 others injured.
Meanwhile, ...back at the barn, Bossy's udder had begun to ache... two powerful blasts, believed to have resulted from two booby-trapped cars, occurred in Jarabulus city, controlled by the pro-Ottoman Turkish factions Euphrates Shield.
On Wednesday, U.S. forces demarcated the borders between regions under the control of Minbaj military council, an ally of SDF and Euphrates Shield, between Jarabulus and Minbaj.
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Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) The Syrian forces and Russian allies have carried out hundreds of Arclight airstrikes against towns in Daraa province, south of Syrian, in an unprecedented escalation since beginning of attacks against the region more than two weeks ago.
The London-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights has said more than 600 airstrikes were carried out since Wednesday night.
"The Russian and Syrian jets are turning the region into hell," the observatory said on Thursday, indicating "hysterical shelling against the countryside of Daraa in an attempt to make the factions surrender after they rejected the Russian proposal on ceasing the battles during the recent round of talks on Wednesday."
The Syrian opposition had been in talks with Russian since Saturday in efforts to reach an agreement to end the battles, however, no agreement was reached.
The first round of talks ended on Saturday as the opposition delegation withdrew saying the conditions set by the Russians are almost humiliating surrender.
Several towns, controlled by the opposition in the southwest, striked agreements, separately from the main opposition factions, with the government in light of progress by the army and the airstrikes.
The United Nations ...where theory meets practice and practice loses... had said that fighting in the southwest of Syria caused 270,000 persons to flee their houses.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
the personification of Somali state failure...
Somalia's version of the Taliban, functioning as an arm of al-Qaeda...
[AnNahar] Twelve people were 
Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) Four people were 
[ALMASDARNEWS] The Syrian Arab Army (SAA) has just captured the last town east of Daraa city after a fierce battle with the Free Syrian Army’s Southern Front Brigades.
[PRESSTV] Syrian army soldiers have managed to establish full control over a strategic town in the country’s southwestern province of Dara’a, as they are engaged in counter-terrorism operations to put an ultimate end to the presence of foreign-backed Takfiri militants in the eastern and southeastern sectors of the province.
