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Afghanistan
Taliban commander and civilians among 11 dead, wounded in Nangarhar blasts
[Khaama Press] At least eleven people including a local commander of the Taliban
...the Pashtun equivalent of men...
group and non-combatants were killed or maimed in two separate kabooms 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 said an kaboom took place in Khogyani district at around 9 am local time, leaving two people dead, including a commander of the Taliban group and a civilian.

The statement further added that the Taliban Überstürmbannführer killed in the kaboom has been identified as Zabit Khan who was also famous as Zarqawi.

The civilian killed in the kaboom has been identified as Hewad, the provincial government added in its statement.

In the meantime, an kaboom destroyed a gathering of people in a picnic area in Chaparhar district, leaving at least nine civilians maimed.

According to the provincial government, the maimed civilians have been shifted to the hospital for the treatment.

The incident took place at around 10 am local time and at least two children are among those maimed with one of them at death's door.

The anti-government armed holy warrior groups including Talibs have not commented regarding the incidents so far.
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/10/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Taliban


7 Taliban militants killed during the ongoing operations in Bati Kot
[Khaama Press] At least seven Talibs were killed during the operations in Bati Kot district of 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, the local officials said Monday.

The provincial government media office in a statement said the gunnies were killed during the operations in the past 24 hours.

The statement further added that the dead bodies of at least three gunnies were left in the area and some weapons and munitions were also captured.

In the meantime, another Taliban
...Arabic for students...
myrmidon belonging to Qari Sajid group was locked away
Into the paddy wagon wit' yez!
during a separate operation in Surkh Rod district.

According to the provincial government, the detained myrmidon has been identified as Bashir Ahmad and two Pak sim cards, two mobile phones, a refugee card were also confiscated.

At least three more suspects identified as Ashraf, Anwar, and Samandar were arrested during a separate operation in Momand Dara district, the provincial government said, adding that the individuals were arrested on charges of having links with the Taliban group.

The anti-government armed myrmidon groups including Talibs have not commented regarding the report so far.
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/10/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Taliban


Operations underway in Kabul’s Surobi after last week’s attack by militants
[Khaama Press] The Afghan armed forces have launched an operation in Surobi district of Kabul after a coordinated attack by the holy warriors on a security post last week.

The 201st Silab Corps of the Afghan Military in the East said the operations, Qahri Silab Number Three, are jointly being conducted to improve the security of Lata Band area ahead of the parliamentary and district councils elections.

A statement by Silab Corps stated that the operations are jointly being conducted by the Afghan army, Afghan police Special Forces, Border Police and Afghan Local Police, and the Afghan Intelligence operatives.

The statement further added that a full coordination is in place with the 111th Army Division of the Afghan Military while operations are being conducted.

According to Silab, several villages in the area have been fully cleared from the presence of the holy warriors during the operations so far.

This comes as the Afghan armed forces suffered casualties in an attack by the Talibs on a security post in Surobi district last week. Security sources in Kabul confirmed that the incident took place late on Tuesday night in the vicinity of Surobi district. The sources further added at least six soldiers bit the dust and at least four others were maimed in the attack.
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/10/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Africa Horn
Al-Shabaab Launches Deadly Assaults in Somali Capital
[All Africa] More than 15 people have been killed and more than two dozen others were maimed in two assaults Saturday on the compound of Somalia's interior and security ministries in capital city Mogadishu, according to witnesses.

The first attack began when button men set off huge kabooms outside the main gate of the interior ministry building before three forces of Evil stormed it. Smoke was seen rising above the scene.

Witnesses said the security forces launched a counterterror operation and engaged in an hour-long battle with the forces of Evil before ending the siege and killing all the three armed attackers.

Witnesses said government workers were among those killed in the first attack. "I have seen with my eyes at least 10 dead bodies lying inside the compound" a female witness told VOA.

Speaking to news hounds, the Somali Information Minister Dahir Mohamud Geelle said the forces of Evil carried out today's attacks to kill and maim civilians.

"They killed and maimed a number of people who were inside the compound, but the security forces engaged with the forces of Evil and killed all the terrorist," Geelle said.

The minister declined to say how many people were killed in the attacks. An official who asked not to be named, though, said the corpse count could rise as authorities sort through the building, the exterior compound and at a police building across from the interior and security ministries.

Dozens of people trapped in the building during the battle were rescued during the operation, while others escaped by leaping from the windows.

Abdinasir Said Muse, the deputy minister of security, was among those rescued from the compound.

Posted by: Fred || 07/10/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: al-Shabaab (AQ)


Africa North
Tunisia Pays Tribute to Security Forces Killed in Jihadist Attack
[AnNahar] Tunisia paid tribute on Monday to six members of its security forces killed the day before along the border with Algeria in the country's bloodiest jihadist attack in more than two years.

The attack comes as Tunisia prepares for what it hopes will be a surge in tourism after a spate of jihadist attacks in 2015 sent visitor numbers plunging.

After the ceremony at the national guard base close to the capital, hundreds of people watched as several of the dead were laid to rest.

A large procession led by members of the armed forces accompanied the body of guardsman Arbi Guizeni through the Tunis suburb of Douar Hicher.

The six national guard members were killed, and three others maimed, when their cars were attacked Sunday morning with an improvised bomb in the Ain Sultan area of the Jendouba border province.

The three maimed guards were transferred to a military hospital in Tunis and their condition was stable on Monday, said guard front man Colonel Houssemeddine Jebabli.

He said search operations launched Sunday were continuing but no arrests had been made.

Okba Ibn Nafaa,
...on occasion spelt Uqba bin Nafi Brigade, they’ve fought since 2012 with security forces in Tunisia's mountainous interior. In 2014 they joined forces with Ansar al Sharia to form Al Qaeda in Tunisia, although later they also supported ISIS and their big attacks were claimed by both. At that time the new organization was headed by Bejaia native and explosives expert Khaled Chaieb (aka Lokman Abou Sakhr). Throughout their existence they’ve encouraged people to go abroad for jihad. ....
a Tunisia-based division of al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), late on Sunday grabbed credit for the attack and said it had killed nine soldiers, according to the SITE Intelligence Group that monitors jihadist activity online.

Okba Ibn Nafaa and the Tunisian branch of 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, Jund al-Khilafa (Soldiers of the Caliphate), are active in the mountainous border region where the attack took place.
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Okba Ibn Nafaa
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/10/2018 01:16 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: al-Qaeda in North Africa


Africa Subsaharan
'Nigeria is now the deadliest place in the world to be a Christian!' – 238 people slaughtered in Christian village…
[CBN via Right Scoop] A new wave of attacks by Fulani herdsmen against Christians is leading one international human rights advocate to call on the US Congress to appoint a special envoy to investigate.

"Nigeria is now the deadliest place in the world to be a Christian," explained attorney Emmanuel Ogebe.

"What we have is a genocide. They are trying to displace the Christians, they are trying to possess their land and they are trying to impose their religion on the so-called infidels and pagans who they consider Christians to be."

Two weeks ago, 238 people were killed in a village massacre in north central Nigeria. Six of Ogebe’s relatives were among the victims.

"From what we have been able to piece together, the husband and his pregnant wife, he tried to take her out of the house to safety and come back for the kids," recalled Ogebe. "But they ran into the herdsmen along the way and they shot him and his pregnant wife and they went into their home and they killed their four-year-old son and their six-year-old daughter who were asleep in their beds."

He said the Muslim attackers also killed two relatives who were visiting the family during summer break.

Ogebe said he was told that authorities would not allow the corpses of his relatives to be taken away for separate burial. Instead, they were buried in a mass grave with the other victims.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/10/2018 03:21 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Middle East, now Africa, Londonistan, France is burning. Satan's Islamic energy is amazïng when given an open border or two.
Posted by: Ebbavirt Clunk4147 || 07/10/2018 4:44 Comments || Top||


Arabia
Yemen army carries out military operation on Saudi troops over 24 hours
[SABANEWS.NET] The 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...
army and popular committees launched military operations, including drones' raids, missile, artillery and sniping attacks, which targeted Saudi troops during the past 24 hours, according to military reports combined by Saba News Agency on Monday.


In Yemen's western coast, Apache helicopters targeted Saudi-paid mercenaries in Tuhaita district, killing and wounding dozens.


Also in the coast, air force's drones launched strikes on coalition military communication system.

In Najran
a city in southwestern Saudi Arabia near the border with Yemen. It is the capital of Najran Province and a favored target of Houthirocket forces....
border province, artillery shells were fired toward gatherings of enemy's force in the West of Sudais and Boqea desert, killing and wounding Saudi soldiers, including leaders, while an infiltration attempt of mercenaries was foiled in Adhyaq area, killing and wounding dozens.

In border province of Asir, the army and committees targeted gatherings of mercenaries in front of Alb border crossing by artillery shells.

In Jizan border province, artillery force of the army and committees targeted gatherings of Saudi soldiers and their mercenaries in Raqabat Jahfan mount.

In Jawf province, the army and committees launched an offensive on sites and fortifications of mercenaries in Maslup, killing and wounding dozens.

In Taiz province, the army and committees cleared several sites in the south of Waseaiah junction during an attack on mercenaries, killing and wounding dozens.

Also in Taiz, a military vehicle was burned in a sniping attack in the North of Waseaiah triangle.
Posted by: Fred || 07/10/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Houthis

#1  In Yemen's western coast, Apache helicopters targeted Saudi-paid mercenaries

That's the problem with the Apaches. Their loyalty can only be rented, never bought.
Posted by: Glereth Hapsburg4022 || 07/10/2018 2:05 Comments || Top||


Yemeni drones hit Saudi communications systems
[PRESSTV] Yemeni drones have hit communications systems belonging to Saudi-led forces which have been attacking the country’s key port of Hudaydah, al-Masirah television network has reported.

"Drones belonging to the 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...
army and popular committees, in an important operation, attacked communications systems of the invading and occupying forces in the western coast of Hudaydah," the television said Sunday.

"The attack came after careful observation of the enemy's movements," it said, stating that the operation was set to "deepen crisis among the invading forces and undermine and confound their options" in the offensive.

The report also said a number of mercenaries fighting for 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...
had been killed in an air raid after attempting to flee the battlefield in Hudaydah.

Meanwhile,
...back at the shootout, Butch clutched at his shoulder. Ow! he exclaimed, with feeling......
media outlets close to the coalition admitted that five members of the Abu-Haroon battalion of the so-called Fifth Amaliqa Brigade had been killed and several others injured after their position was mistakenly bombed by Saudi aircraft.

The battle for Hudaydah on the Red Sea, which began last month, has hit a brick wall in the face of stiff resistance put up by Yemen's 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 ...
fighters and their allies.

The UAE has been helping coordinate the battle to retake Hudaydah which is Yemen’s largest port on the Red Sea. Its strategic view of the battle is bigger than just the port because the Persian Gulf Arab state has also been working in Somalia and Eritrea
...is run by the People's Front for Democracy and Justice (PFDJ), with about the amounts of democracy and justice you'd expect from a party with that name. National elections have been periodically scheduled and cancelled; none have ever been held in the country. The president, Isaias Afewerki, has been in office since independence in 1993 and will probably die there of old age...
to expand its influence in the region.

Posted by: Fred || 07/10/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Houthis


Iraq
Kirkuk casualties: turbans kill hizzoner, 4 cops kaboomed


Islamic State executes mayor of village, kidnapped last week, southwest of Kirkuk

Kirkuk (IraqiNews.com) Islamic State members have killed a mayor of a village, southwest of Kirkuk, a security source from the province was quoted saying on Monday.

Speaking to Baghdad Today, the source said,”security troops found body of the mayor of al-Therban village in al-Riyad town, southwest of Kirkuk, after being abducted by the militants a week ago.”

The mayor, according to the source, “was kidnapped after his father, who was previously the mayor of the village, was executed two months ago.”

The militants “target the mayors for their cooperation with security services and facilitating the return of displaced people,” the source added.

Bomb blast leaves four Federal Police personnel killed, injured, southwest of Kirkuk

Kirkuk (IraqiNews.com) Four Federal Police conscripts were killed and injured as a bomb blast targeted their patrol, southwest of Kirkuk, a security source said on Monday.

“A bomb went off targeting a patrol for Federal Police conscripts near al-Bakkara village in Hawija, southwest of Kirkuk,” the source told Baghdad Today website.

The blast, according to the source, “left a conscript killed and three others, including an officer, wounded.”

Troops “carried out operations in the region and areas in the vicinity in search for the perpetrators,” the source, who preferred anonymity, added.
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/10/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State


Diyala dead dudes: farmer kaboomed, turban permanently unwound


Iraqi farmer wounded in bomb explosion on Diyala bridge

Diyala (Iraqinews.com) – An Iraqi farmer was wounded Monday after a bomb exploded on a bridge in Jalawla city in Diyala, a security source was quoted as saying.

Iraqi troops killed IS militant in Diyala implicated in terrorist attacks

Diyala (Iraqinews.com) – Iraqi troops killed on Monday an Islamic State militant south of Baquba city in Diyala, the Defense Ministry said.

In a statement, a copy of which was obtained by Alforat News website, the ministry said the terrorist was “hiding behind poultry farms in Buhriz town, 6 miles south of the major city of Baquba, when the troops shot him dead,”

“The IS militant was implicated in launching attacks on a joint force from the Counter-Terrorist Service and the 18th infantry brigade,” the statement read

The statement added that the terrorist was “wearing Afghan clothes and holding grenades and a Kalashnikov assault rifle when the troops targeted him.”
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/10/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State


20 Islamic State militants killed in airstrike by Coalition warplanes in Nineveh
[IraqiNews] Up to 20 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....
Lions of Islam were killed Monday in an Arclight airstrike by the U.S.-led international coalition warplanes on a village in Nineveh province, an Iraqi security center said.

Iraqi website Baghdad Today quoted Yehia Rasool, the front man for the Iraqi Security Media Center, as saying that "U.S.-led international coalition fighter jets targeted a tunnel for Islamic State in Badush village in Nineveh, leaving 20 Lions of Islam killed."

"Troops of the Nineveh Operations Command, meanwhile, destroyed nine tunnels and found 63 explosive charges and 15 locally-made rockets in al-Salam village in Nineveh," Rasool added.
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/10/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State


Four Iraqi soldiers killed, injured in bomb blast, west of Anbar
Anbar (IraqiNews.com) Four soldiers were killed and injured as a bomb kaboom targeted a military patrol, west of Anbar, a police source was quoted saying on Monday.

Speaking to BasNews, the source said, "a bomb, placed on the side of a road at the main entrance of Rutba, west of Anbar, targeted a military patrol, leaving two soldiers killed and two others maimed."

Security troops, according to the source, who preferred anonymity, "headed to the accident spot and combed the region in search for other kabooms."
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/10/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:


6 Hashd fighters killed, wounded in Islamic State attack in Salahuddin
Salahuddin (Iraqinews.com) ‐ Five members of the paramilitary al-Hashd al-Shaabi fighters were killed and maimed Monday in an attack by the terrorist 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) group in Iraq’s central province of Salahudin, a security source was quoted as saying.

"A group of IS murderous Moslems wearing boom belts attacked the headquarters of the 31st brigade of al-Hashd al-Shaabi in Baiji district in Salahuddin," Alghad Press quoted the source as saying.

"The attack left a paramilitary fighter of al-Hashd al-Shaabi dead and five others maimed," the source said, explaining that the murderous Moslems came from al-Jazeera area targeting the Area 600 complex near Baiji oil refinery, which is used by security forces and Hashd Shaabi fighters as a security headquarters.

Al-Hashd al-Shaabi (also known as Popular Mobilization Forces) is an alliance of volunteer Shia paramilitary forces, which actively backed the Iraqi government’s military campaign against IS since 2014.

The alliance was formed upon a top Shia clergy edict to counter the Sunni Jihadist group.

Al-Hashd won official recognition as a national force late 2016, becoming under the command of the prime minister, who is also the supreme commander of the armed forces.

Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi has recurrently defended al-Hashd al-Shaabi against domestic and foreign accusations of committing human rights
When they're defined by the state or an NGO they don't mean much...
violations.
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/10/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Settlers throw rocks at Palestinians in West Bank village
A group of settlers descended from the settlement of Har Bracha and the Giv'at Ronen outpost toward the village of Burin in Area B of the West Bank Tuesday afternoon, and proceeded to throw stones at the Palestinian villagers, said the spokesperson for Israeli human rights organization Yesh Din.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 07/10/2018 14:43 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Tit for tat.
Posted by: Woodrow || 07/10/2018 15:04 Comments || Top||

#2  Nice tits, I say.
Posted by: gorb || 07/10/2018 23:40 Comments || Top||


Police arrest Palestinian carrying a knife
[IsraelTimes] Border Police officers at the Abu Dis checkpoint east of Jerusalem arrest a Paleostinian man bearing a knife.

Police say in a statement that while examining passengers in a van headed from the northern to the southern West Bank, officers found that one of the passengers wasn’t carrying identification papers.

When they asked him for his identity, he provided the identifying information of another person, police say. They then found the knife on his person.

In a statement, police say he is being questioned in order to ascertain his identity and motive.
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/10/2018 00:39 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Israel shuts down Kerem Shalom crossing
[Ynet] PM Netanyahu declares closure of Kerem Shalom as incendiary kites and balloons continue coming from Gazoo into Israel, scorching thousands of acres of Israeli farmland and woodland; the crossing is Gazoo's main commercial channel.

Israel said on Monday it was closing the Gazoo Strip's main commercial crossing and limiting the Paleostinian coastal enclave's fishing zone in a crackdown targeting the Hamas, a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth", terror organization responsible for border protests now in their fourth month.

"We will crack down immediately on the Hamas regime in the Gazoo Strip. In a significant move, we will today shut down the Kerem Shalom (border) crossing," Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said during a Likud faction meeting.

An IDF statement said Kerem Shalom would remain open for the transfer of specially approved humanitarian goods. It also said Gazoo's fishing zone would revert to 11 km (6 miles) after it was temporarily expanded to 17 km (9 miles).

The IDF statement, and separate remarks by Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman, linked the new measures to fires from incendiary kites and helium balloons that have been flown over the border since the protests began on March 30, consuming swathes of Israeli farmland.

Israel says it has lost 7,000 acres of forests and farmland to the kite or balloon-set fires.

Organizers say the Gazoo border demonstrations are expressions of popular frustration that aim to press demands such as for Paleostinians' right to lands lost to Israel in the 1948 War of Independence and for an Israeli-Egyptian blockade on Gazoo to ease.

"We do not intend to continue absorbing and continuing with this situation," Lieberman said in separate comments to his own Yisrael Beytenu party.

Israel, which last fought a Gazoo war with Hamas in 2014, does not seek a new military flare-up, he said, "but the way Hamas is conducting itself‐it is simply liable to spiral out of control, and it is liable to pay the whole price, a much, much heavier price than in the 2014 Operation Protective Edge".

Israel briefly shut Kerem Shalom in May after dozens of Paleostinian torched some of the terminal's facilities on the Gazoo side of the border.

On July 5, a US special envoy to the Middle East, Jason Greenblatt, tweeted a picture of repair work at Kerem Shalom and accused Hamas in the "deplorable attack" on the terminal.

The administration of US President Donald Trump
...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States...
has been watching Gazoo closely as it seeks to improve humanitarian conditions while sidelining Hamas, which is blacklisted as a terrorist group in the West.

Gazans say closing crossing a ‘crime against humanity,’ promise response

[IsraelTimes] After Israel announces move in response to border violence and incendiary kites, Hamas, one of the armed feet of the Moslem Brüderbung millipede, demands international community step in, Islamic Jihad
...created after many members of the Egyptian Moslem Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the assassination of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah...
calls move 'declaration of war'.

Posted by: trailing wife || 07/10/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Hamas

#1  humanity doesn't start fires to endanger civilians, cockroaches
Posted by: Frank G || 07/10/2018 7:01 Comments || Top||


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Islamic State’s security chief, Arab, foreign militants killed in Iraqi shelling inside Syria
Anbar (IraqiNews.com) 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....
leader, along with other holy warriors, were killed as three rest houses were destroyed in shelling by Iraqi troops in Syria, an official from the pro-government troops said on Monday.

In remarks reported by the media service of al-Hashd al-Shaabi (Popular Mobilization Forces), Qassim Musleh, commander of the western Anbar axis, said, "artillery shelling was carried out against pockets of Islamic State at the border region of Sousa, in Syria."

The shelling, according to Musleh, "destroyed three rest houses of Islamic State, killing group of murderous Moslems inside. There were Arabs and foreign holy warriors, as well as the head of security department called Abu Aisha."

Iraqi warplanes had launched wave of air raids against outposts of the Islamic State group in Syria.
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/10/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State


Protests over water shortages get revived in Iran
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Demonstrations were revived in the Iranian city of Borazjan in the Bushehr Province, as hundreds took to the streets on Sunday evening to protest the quality of drinking water while chanting: “Death to the dictator”.

A video posted by an activist on Twitter showed that there were plenty of women among the protestors who were chanting: “Don’t be afraid, we are united”.

This is the second night residents of Borazjan take to the streets to protest the water shortages as they had gathered on Saturday night in a famous square and chanted anti-government slogans such as: “We don’t want a failed government”.
Posted by: Fred || 07/10/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran


20-year sentence for Iranian woman who protested headscarf
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] An Iranian woman who removed her headscarf out of protest in December says she has been sentenced to 20 years in prison.

Shapark Shajarizadeh posted on her personal website that she had been jailed for “opposing the compulsory hijab” and “waving a white flag of peace in the street.” There was no immediate comment from Iranian officials.
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ISIS slaughters Nusra militants in west Aleppo amid rising tensions
[ALMASDARNEWS] 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....
jihadists continue to conduct hit-and-run attacks against rival jihadi groups in north and northwest Syria as the terror organization loses ground to the Syrian Army and Kurdish militia in eastern Syria.

Up to 10 murderous Moslems from the Nusra-linked Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham
group were killed as ISIS jihadists stormed their position in Ikarda area of west Aleppo countryside.

The assailants used silencers to shoot dead the two guards outside the post before infiltrating inside and slaughtering the rest of the squad.

The slain murderous Moslems belong to Jaish al-Nakhba; an elite unit formed from the best and most war-experienced fighters of HTS.

Soon after, the Islamic State grabbed credit for the daring attack; confirming that all its ’soldiers’ have returned safely to their base.

The Nusra-affiliated group has recently launched a major crackdown of ISIS sleeper cells in Idlib province; killing and arresting dozens.

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Rebels on the verge of losing entire Daraa-Jordan border, thousands of civilians flee to Israeli border
[ALMASDARNEWS] The rebel forces are on the verge of losing the entire Daraa-Jordan border in southwest Syria after a string of losses to the Syrian Arab Army (SAA).

Led by their elite 4th Armored Division, the Syrian Arab Army scored another big advance in southwest Syria this week, seizing several areas around the quiet provincial capital.

Among the several areas captured by the Syrian Arab Army on Monday were a number of border points near the quiet provincial capital of Daraa and the large hilltop of Tal Shehab.

To make matters worse for the rebels, the Syrian Arab Army also managed to completely isolate the bandidos turbans in the quiet provincial capital, leaving them no way of reaching their forces in the western countryside of Daraa.

The Syrian Army has been working to isolate the quiet provincial capital for days; they were finally successful on Monday, when the rebel defenses collapsed.

With the quiet provincial capital isolated, the Syrian Army will now turn their attention to the southern districts of Daraa city that are jointly controlled by the Free Syrian Army
... the more palatable version of the Syrian insurgency, heavily influenced by the Moslem Brüderbund...
’s Southern Front Brigades and Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham


Syrians in Islamic State-held area flee toward Israel border

[IsraelTimes] Several thousand Syrians have fled parts of the country’s south held by an affiliate of 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....
jihadist group, due to fears of a government attack, a monitor said Monday.

The IS-held pocket in Daraa province’s western countryside is not included in a ceasefire deal agreed last week between rebels and the regime’s ally, Moscow.

That agreement put an end to more than two weeks of heavy bombing of rebel-controlled areas, but the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said Monday that those living under an IS affiliate feared that they were the next target.

"Around 4,000 people including hundreds of women and kiddies fled areas controlled by Jaish Khaled bin Walid in western parts of Daraa, towards the border with the occupied Golan," the Britannia-based monitor said.

The affiliate holds just under seven percent of Daraa province, according to Observatory chief Rami Abdel Rahman.

The regime’s military advance and the handover of towns through the ceasefire deal has brought government forces to areas adjacent to the IS-controlled zone, Abdel Rahman told AFP, but no operation had begun.
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