[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The Afghan and U.S. forces carried out joint Arclight airstrikes on two separate gatherings of the Taliban ...Arabic for students... group in northern Faryab province of Afghanistan, leaving several turbans dead.
The 209th Shaheen Corps of the Afghan Military in the North in a statement said the airstrikes were carried out based on accurate intelligence information and coordinates.
According to 209th Shaheen Corps, the gatherings of the Talibs were targeted in Garziwan village and Islam Qala area of Sherin Tagab district.
At least 17 turbans were killed during the airstrikes on two gatherings, 209th Shaheen Corps said, adding that a commander of the group identified as Qari Rahmatullah was among those killed.
The statement by 209th Shaheen Corps also added that similar airstrikes were also carried out in Bazar Qala area of Dawlatabad district, leaving at least 11 turbans dead.
A key commander of the group identified as Qari Adbullah was among those killed, the 209th Shaheen Corps said.
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] Several bully boyz have been killed in the latest clash between two factions of the Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... group in western Herat ...a venerable old Persian-speaking city in western Afghanistan, populated mostly by Tadjiks, which is why it's not as blood-soaked as areas controlled by Pashtuns... province of Afghanistan, the local officials said.
Provincial governor’s front man Jilani Farhad confirmed the incident and said the latest clash took place between the bully boyz led by Mullah Hebatullah and Taliban’s dissident group led by Mullah Rasool.
Farhad further added that the incident has taken place in the vicinity of Guzra district of Herat and as a result at least sixteen bully boyz have been killed.
According to Farhad, at least ten bully boyz affiliated with Mullah Hebatullah group and six bully boyz loyal to Mullah Rasool were killed during the clash.
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] At least five Talibs were blown up by own explosives as they were placing an Improvised Explosive Device on a roadside in western Farah province of Afghanistan.
The Ministry of Interior (MoI) in a statement said the incident has taken place in the vicinity of Posht Rod district.
The statement further added that five Talibs, who were planting an Improvised Explosive Device on a roadside in Nehal Dasht village of Posht Rod, were killed after the explosives went off prematurely.
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[DAWN] An election candidate was among eight killed in a suicide kaboom in Afghanistan on Tuesday, officials said, days ahead of a parliamentary vote that holy warriors have vowed to disrupt.
Another 11 people were maimed when the attacker went kaboom! inside Saleh Mohammad Asikzai's campaign office in the southern city of Lashkar Gah, Helmand ...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan... provincial governor front man Omar Zhwak told AFP.
Asikzai, a young first-time candidate, was campaigning on a platform of "positive change".
There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack. Helmand has long been a stronghold for the Taliban ...mindless ferocity in a turban... , which was toppled from power in a US-led invasion in 2001.
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. .. condemned the attack and said Afghans who believed in democracy would not allow "terrorists" to stop the elections.
It is not clear how many people were inside the room at the time of the blast, which comes a day after the Taliban warned candidates to pull out of the "bogus" election scheduled for October 20.
Describing the polls as a "malicious American conspiracy" and urging voters to boycott them, Taliban front man Zabihullah Mujahid said the holy warriors would pull no punches to disrupt the ballot.
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[RADIOSHABELLE] The U.S. military said on Tuesday it had killed one murderous Moslem in an air strike in southern Somalia over the weekend during a battle pitting U.S. and Somali government troops against al-Shabaab ... the Islamic version of the old Somali warlord... Islamist fighters.
The U.S. military’s Africa Command (Africom) said the strike had been carried out on Oct. 6 in the vicinity of Kunyo Barrow, which is north of the town of Kismayo ...a port city in the southern Lower Juba province of Somalia, at the extreme southern end of the country (assuming Somalia can be called a country). It is the commercial capital of the autonomous Jubaland region... .
"We currently assess no civilians were maimed or killed in this air strike," Africom’s statement read.
An Africom Arclight airstrike on Oct. 1, also near Kismayo in southern Somalia, killed nine murderous Moslems. (Reporting By Maggie Fick Editing by Gareth Jones)
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[AlAhram] Egypt’s interior ministry said "it has killed ten terrorist elements in a shoot-out during a pre-emptive raid against terrorism al-Arish in North Sinai."
In an official statement released on Tuesday, the ministry said the bad boyz were potted after security forces attempted to raid a deserted farm used as a shelter, leading to a shoot-out between both sides.
According to the statement, the intelligence gathered before the raid, which was provided by the ministry’s national security sector, showed that suspects were planning hostile actions.
Those killed were found to be in possession of three machine guns, two birdshot guns, and two bombs, as well as a large amount of ammunition.
[AnNahar] Saudi-led coalition air strikes in 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... have killed almost 80 Huthi rebel fighters over 48 hours in the western province of Hodeida, military and medical sources said Tuesday.
The strikes on Hodeida, site of a vital port and target of a renewed coalition offensive, also left seven civilians dead, they said.
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... intervened in Yemen at the head of a military coalition to support the government of President Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi after the Huthis ousted it from the capital Sanaa and swathes of the country's north.
The coalition has used air power to oust the Iran-backed rebels from much of the country's south.
But the Huthis continue to hold Sanaa and the key Red Sea port of Hodeida.
Following the collapse of United Nations ...a lucrative dumping ground for the relatives of dictators and party hacks... -backed talks in September, the coalition announced it was relaunching an assault on Hodeida city and its port.
The port is the main conduit for aid and commodities into Yemen, which is teetering on the brink of famine.
The fighting has since eased and the coalition has focused its raids on the city limits and other parts of the surrounding province.
However, a person who gets all wrapped up in himself makes a mighty small package... in the past 48 hours, coalition raids have hit two farms, two rebel training camps and an area close to the city's port, according to rebel military sources.
Rescue personnel and medical sources have confirmed that 79 rebel fighters were killed and their bodies taken to hospitals in the province.
Yemen's war has left 10,000 people dead, mostly civilians, since the coalition intervened in 2015, and triggered what the U.N. has labeled the world's worst humanitarian crisis.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] A pregnant woman was killed by a 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 ... sniper in al-Jawf, north of Yemen.
The Saba news agency quoted a local source as saying that a Houthi sniper shot the woman, Shafeaa Mabkhout, while she was grazing sheep in al-Hajl in al-Maslub District. The area where was killed is far from the scene of battles between Houthis and Yemeni forces.
The source added that residents rushed the woman to al-Jawf General Hospital in al-Hazm District but she died after arriving to hospital.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Two of 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 ... militia commanders were killed during festivities with Yemeni army forces in the Baqim district, north of Saada.
According to a local news site, a field source confirmed that Houthi Commander Abdullah Yousif Hussein Thawra, was killed during a Yemeni forces attack on the militias’ locations behind the al-Udaida Mountains, northwest of the center of the Baqim district.
The source added that Thawra is one of the militias’ top commanders and headsin various battlefronts in Saada, and received training in Iran.
Another field source stated that the second Houthi commander, Abu Ali al-Nawari, was killed during the same attack by the army’s forces behind the al-Udaida Mountains.
The source added that Nawari was appointed by the Houthis 10 days ago as the commander of the so-called "quick intervention forces" in the Baqim front.
On Monday, the army launched a surprise attack on the Houthi militia’s locations, behind al-Udaida Mountains northwest of the Baqim district, during which the militias suffered several losses in Death Eaters and armed vehicles.
Media sources said that the Yemeni army was able to capture a Houthi sniper from the battalion of the special guards of the militias’ leader Abdul Malik al-Houthi during a battle to liberate Ramdan battle, behind al-Udaida Mountains in Baqim.
The source added that 18 other Death Eaters were killed by Arab Coalition air raids along with the Houthi sniper in this battle.
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[ALMASDARNEWS] One Ottoman Turkish serviceman was killed and four more people, including a civilian, were maimed in the rocket fire from Iraq’s northern areas controlled by the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), the authorities of The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...Qatar's colony in Asia Minor.... ’s southeastern Hakkari province said in a statement.
"One of our servicemen was killed as a military base, located in the regional center of Cukurca in our province, was attacked by two rockets launched from the territory of northern Iraq on October 9. Four more people were maimed, including one civilian who is at death's door. The investigation is underway," the statement read.
The Ottoman Turkish forces are involved in anti-PKK raids across the country and in northern Iraq.
Earlier in October, the Ottoman Turkish parliament approved the extension of a mandate authorizing the deployment of Ottoman Turkish troops in Iraq and Syria for one more year.
Tensions between Ankara and the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), listed as a terror organization in the country, escalated in July 2015 when the ceasefire between Turkey and the PKK collapsed over a series of terror attacks which the Ottoman Turkish government holds the PKK responsible for.
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[ALMASDARNEWS] The Ottoman Turkish security forces launched a big operation this morning to arrest several suspected members of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) in southeast The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...just another cheapjack Moslem dictatorship, brought to you by the Moslem Brüderbund.... According to the state-owned Anadolu Agency, the Ottoman Turkish security forces locked away Keep yer hands where we can see 'em, if yez please! at least 90 suspected members of the PKK organization in southeast Turkey.
Citing the Interior Ministry, the Anadolu report said that of the 90 arrests made in the last 12 hours, at least 80 of them were made in the Diyarbakir Province near the Syrian border.
The other arrests reportedly took place in the Mersin, Van, Sirnak, Sanliurfa, Batman and Mardin provinces.
Many terror group-related documents and digital material were seized during the operations.
The operation across eight provinces was continuing, the Interior Ministry said in a statement.
The arrests come days after President Tayyip Erdogan warned he would replace any mayors elected in next year's local elections if they were deemed to have links to terrorism.
Erdogan accuses the main pro-Kurdish party, the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP), of links to the PKK. The HDP denies this and says it is unjustly targeted by the government.
More than 140 HDP members were tossed into the calaboose over several days, the party said on Sunday.
Ninety-four of 102 municipalities in Kurdish-majority cities and towns are now administered by trustees, rather than their elected mayors. Authorities removed those mayors, elected in the last municipal elections in 2014, in the security crackdown that followed an attempted military coup in 2016.
"Elections are nearing," Erdogan said at a meeting of his AK Party (AKP) over the weekend, referring to the March 2019 local vote. "If those involved with terror come out of the ballot box, we shall appoint trustees without delay."
Ottoman Turkish police detained dozens of people over alleged links to Kurdish bandidosbandidos turbans in an operation carried out in nine cities including Kurdish-majority Diyarbakir, the local prosecutor's office said Tuesday.
The police detained 90 out of 151 suspects they were seeking during the raids carried out at 183 addresses, and seized organizational documents and digital materials, the chief prosecutor's office in Diyarbakir said in a statement.
The suspects were accused of links to the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), designated as a terror group by The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...Qatar's colony in Asia Minor.... and its Western allies.
Last week, eight Ottoman Turkish soldiers were killed by an improvised bomb in southeastern Turkey in an attack which the government blamed on the PKK.
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Diyala (IraqiNews.com) The pro-government paramilitary troops have killed two 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, repelling an attack carried out, northeast of Diyala, a security source said on Monday.
Speaking to Almaalomah website, the source said "troops of al-Hashd al-Shaabi (Popular Mobilization Forces) managed, today, to repulse an attack by Islamic State members, carried out in the desert of Udhaim region, northeast of Diyala."
The troops, according to the source, "killed two snuffies and destroyed the vehicle they were on board."
The source denied any security danger against the region.
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Salahuddin (IraqiNews.com) ‐ Three Iraqi people were maimed Tuesday in a kaboom near a water plant in Salahuddin province, a security source was quoted as saying.
Speaking to Iraqi website Almaalomah, the source said that an explosive charge went off near a water plant in Salahuddin’s city of Baiji while a car was passing by the area.
According to the source, the kaboom left three people maimed.
"A security force rushed to the blast site and carried the maimed into a nearby hospital for treatment," added the source.
Anbar (IraqiNews.com) Four security personnel were killed and injured in an attack that took place, west of Anbar, the Iraqi Health Ministry said on Monday.
In a statement, the ministry said "a terrorist attack took place today in Hit region in Anbar, leaving two army conscripts and a paramilitary fighter killed."
The attack, according to the statement, also "left another fighter maimed."
[ALMASDARNEWS] An Iranian soldier was killed in an overnight attack by an gang near the Iraqi border, state-owned Islamic Theocratic Republic News Agency (IRNA) reported this morning.
According to IRNA, the Iranian soldier was killed when an gang attempted to infiltrate into the border-city of Marivan in the Kurdistan Province; they tried to enter from Iraq’s Suleimaniyah Governorate.
Marivan is 125 km to the west of the historic provincial capital, Sanandaj, bordering Iraqi Kurdistan. The city shares a 100-km border with Iraq’s Sulaymaniyah.
Citing the Deputy Commander of the Iranian Border Guards, IRNA said the military seized a large quantity of weapons and ammunition from the gang that was attempting to enter the country.
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[ALMASDARNEWS] A high ranking jihadist commander was assassinated in the northwestern countryside of the Idlib Governorate on Monday, opposition activists reported.
According to the opposition activists, the military of Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham , Abu Mussab al-Dureer, was killed alongside two of his associates in the northwestern countryside of Idlib this week.
The HTS commander was reportedly traveling along the Darkoush-Azmarin Road in northwest Idlib, when a group of unknown assailants opened fire on his vehicle.
Abu Mussab al-Dureer was killed instantly during the ambush and his body was later retrieved by his own faction.
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[ALMASDARNEWS] The Syrian Arab Army (SAA) uncovered a large weapons cache in the eastern countryside of the Daraa Governorate this week.
According to a field journalist from al-Ikhbariya, the Syrian Arab Army uncovered this large weapons cache while combing through the towns that were previously controlled by the rebel forces.
Among the weapons found in this large cache were several hellfire cannons, MLR missiles, mortar shells, IEDs, and ammunition boxes.
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[ALMASDARNEWS] Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Scourge of Qusayr... passed a historical legislative decree this morning that grants all military deserters amnesty.
According to a government report, the Syrian President issued decree number 18 for 2018, which grants general amnesty for military deserters inside and outside the country and the crimes included in the Military Penalties Law issued by Legislative Decree No. 61 for 1950 and its amendments committed before October 9, 2018.
Not everyone is eligible for amnesty, as the new decree specifically leaves out people wanted for crimes against the state.
However, there's more than one way to stuff a chicken... if they turn themselves within the next four months (6 months for people outside the country), they will be considered for amnesty.
The legislative decree also provides general amnesty for crimes included in the law of Military Service No. 30 of 2007 and its amendments.
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[ALMASDARNEWS] Syrian paratroopers have entered the battle in southern Syria this week after the army suffered heavy casualties at the hands 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.... (ISIS) Death Eaters inside the al-Safa region.
According to a military source in Sweida city, the Syrian paratroopers landed behind enemy lines in the al-Safa region, Monday, in order to help eliminate the Islamic State’s well-fortified trenches that have proven difficult to infiltrate.
The source added that the Syrian Arab Army is now storming the Islamic State’s positions at three different axes in a bid to reach the highest peak in the al-Safa region.
The Islamic State has occupied the al-Safa region for over three years now; they were forced to retreat back to this part of the Sweida Governorate after a series of losses across southern and eastern Syria.
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[ALMASDARNEWS] The Syrian Arab Army (SAA) resumed their field operations in the al-Safa region of southern Syria this week after repelling another attempt by 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.... (ISIS) to breakout of this area.
Led by their 3rd Crops and 10th Division, the Syrian Arab Army managed to score a new advance in the al-Safa region on Monday after an intense battle with the Islamic State bandidosforces of Evil at the northwestern and southwestern axes of this volcanic area.
The Syrian Arab Army was able to make this advance in southern Syria, despite suffering heavy casualties as a result of an ambush that was laid out by the Islamic State.
As a result of this ambush by the Islamic State, the Syrian Arab Army and National Defense Forces (NDF) suffered more than 15 casualties in the al-Safa region on Monday.
In the video below, the Syrian Arab Army can be seen advancing in this rocky part of al-Safa, despite heavy resistance from the Islamic State.
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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.
...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. ..
...a port city in the southern Lower Juba province of Somalia, at the extreme southern end of the country (assuming Somalia can be called a country). It is the commercial capital of the autonomous Jubaland region...
...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...
Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir 
