[Breitbart] The Taliban and al-Qaeda no longer maintain "strategic ties" in Afghanistan despite the ongoing "limited support" provided by Taliban leaders, the Pentagon argues in its most recent assessment of the war.
"Some lower- and mid-level Taliban leaders provide limited support to al-Qa’ida; however, there is no evidence of strategic ties between the two organizations, and the Taliban likely seeks to maintain distance from al-Qa’ida," the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) reveals in its report released last month, which covers U.S. efforts to enhance security and stability in the nation from June 1 through November 30 of last year.
The Pentagon claims that the al-Qaeda threat against the United States stemming from Afghanistan "has decreased," adding:
[DAWN] Three children were killed and another sustained injuries in an accidental blast in Killi Behram town of Balochistan ...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it... 's Washuk district on Friday, DawnNewsTV reported.
According to a statement issued by the Levies force, the children had found an unwent kaboom! grenade and were playing with it when it went kaboom! accidentally.
"The blast occurred at around 12pm when two girls and two boys, aged between seven and 10, were drawn towards a hidden, unwent kaboom! grenade and started playing with it. The grenade went kaboom!, killing two boys and a girl on the spot while seriously injuring one girl," read the Levies statement.
The injured girl was administered first aid in Washuk after which she was shifted to Combined Military Hospital (CMH) in Khuzdar district for further treatment.
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)]At least sixteen Talibs and seven soldiers of the Afghan border police forces were killed during a clash with the Talibs in southern Kandahar province of Afghanistan, the local authorities said Saturday.
According to a statement released by the provincial government media office, at least seven border police soldiers bit the dust during a clash with the Talibs in Spin Boldak district.
The statement further added that four border police soldiers also sustained injuries during the clash.
In the meantime, the provincial government claims that 16 Talibs were also killed during the clash and at least 11 others sustained injuries.
However, facts are stubborn; statistics are more pliable... reports indicate that 18 police soldiers have bit the dust during the latest clash with Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... in Spin Boldak district.
The provincial media office said Taliban attacked a security outpost of the border forces in Nawa village in Spin Boldak district, which is located along the Durand Line.
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The Afghan National Defense and Security Forces have killed at least 17 Talibs during the operations in Tarinkot district, the bustling provincial capital of southern Uruzgan province.
Military sources privy of the development have said the bully boyz were killed during the operations which were conducted in the past 24 hours.
The sources further added that the Afghan forces also destroyed six fighting positions, 3 tunnels, 15 improvised bombs, and a bomb making factory.
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The Afghan Special Forces have rescued at least twelve people from a Taliban ...Arabic for students... prison in southern Helmand ...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan... province of Afghanistan.
According to the local authorities, the operations were conducted by the Special Forces of the Afghan Intelligence, National Directorate of Security ...the Afghan national intel agency... (NDS), on Thursday night.
The provincial government media office confirmed in a statement that the NDS Special Forces stormed the hideouts of top Taliban leaders in Nahr-e-Saraj district and rescued 12 people kept as hostages.
The statement further added that the operations were conducted in the hideouts of Taliban’s shadow mayor, Mullah Jabar, and Shuja prison.
The Afghan forces have also confiscated some weapons, equipment, and propaganda letters belonging to Taliban group, the statement added.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] An Egyptian explosives expert has been killed while he was attempting to defuse a bomb near a church in Cairo, Al Arabiya’s correspondent reports.
"There were suspicions of an unattended package near the church in Nasr city after which a bomb squad was immediately deployed and attempts were made to diffuse it," Al Arabiya News Channel’s correspondent Ahmed Othman said.
"The church in question is located in Nasr city and is one of the smaller ones in the areas and the capital," he added.
Two coppers and an onlooker were also injured when the device went kaboom!, security sources said.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the incident.
The incident took place 24 hours before Egypt marks Coptic Orthodox Christmas on Monday. Coptic Orthodox Christians, who make up a substantial majority of all Christians in the country, celebrate Christmas on 7 January, following the Julian calendar.
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BLOW IT IN PLACE, FFS.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] An Uzbek orthopedic doctor died in a Houthi-run prison in Ibb governorate, south of Yemen, according to a medical source.
The source revealed that doctor Azzam (55 years) died in a prison in Yarim district, while the circumstances of his death are still unclear.
Last Tuesday, the pro-Iranian 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 kidnapped Dr. Azzam with another doctor from Tajikistan and a Yemeni man, after their house was stormed by the militias, during New Year Eve.
The source suggested that the Uzbek doctor was subjected to physical and psychological torture by the Houthis while in detention.
Last Thursday, Houthi media reported that its hard boyz kidnapped the doctor and his lover companions on charges of working in a liquor factory.
Early last month, the News Agency that Dare Not be Named released an investigated report on the graphic torture by Houthis of prisoners.
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[PRESSTV] Yemen’s army, backed by 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 ... forces, has launched fresh retaliatory attacks against Saudi forces inside the kingdom, leaving an unspecified number of them killed or injured.
Troops fired ballistic missiles and artillery shells at Saudi mercenaries in the 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.... region, Yemen’s al-Masirah television network reported.
The al-Hammad and Akefah military bases were hit by the projectiles, including a Zalzal-1 rocket, with more missiles fired at the gathering of Saudi mercenaries in the nearby Jizan region, it said.
Yemen's tribal forces in the southern province of Shabwa carried out their own retaliatory attacks against UAE and Saudi mercenaries, killing at least 10 fighters.
The retaliation reportedly came after helicopters flown by the United Arab Emirates attacked the impoverished country’s southwest, killing seven civilians.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] British police say a 31-year-old man has been rubbed out by armed officers in central England, and two others were detained at the scene following an "intelligence-led" operation.
Police say officers were acting on a warrant at a residence in the city of Coventry, about 20 miles (32 kilometers) southeast of Birmingham, late Friday. They didn’t provide details about the nature of the operation, or why officers opened fire.
Witnesses described a large number of officers and police vehicles descending on the largely residential area north of the city center.
The Independent Office for Police Conduct said Saturday it has opened an inquiry after West Midlands Police reported the fatality during a "pre-planned operation."
The shock incident took place at around 6.20pm on Burnaby Road Friday night
Friends have revealed that Sean Fitzgerald, 31, was the man shot by police
Cory Brown said that Mr Fitzgerald was unarmed and shot in the back by officers
Locals were told to go indoors as a section of the street was closed for operation
An ex-squaddie was killed by coppers after being shot in the back in a 'drugs bust gone wrong' during an intelligence-led raid at an address in Coventry.
Friends claim that car trader Sean Fitzgerald, 31, was just visiting friends when armed officers burst into the house on Burnaby Road in Coventry, a working class street which has several shops and homes on it, on Friday night.
Cory Brown, 28, also claimed that police used ladders to enter through the windows of the house where cannabis was allegedly being grown by others.
Cory, a groundworker, said Sean was unarmed, there were no weapons in the home, and claims he was trying to run away because he was scared.
He said: 'He was my friend. All of the lads inside the house were my friends. They were all in the house unarmed.
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[DAWN] Six people, including two women, were maimed on Saturday in a blast in Kala Bari market located in the Saddar area of Beautiful Downtown Peshawar ...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire. , according to sources at the Lady Reading Hospital, where the maimed were shifted.
All six injured were in a stable condition Capital City Police Officer (CCPO) of Peshawar Qazi Jamil said. Earlier, Jamil had had said that four people had been injured in the kaboom.
At least three stores were damaged by the bomb's impact. The area was cordoned off by security forces after the kaboom.
Jamil said that about eight to ten kilogrammes of kaboom was used in the blast. The material was planted in a white Corolla, he added.
"It was an IED (improvised bomb) kaboom and the kaboom was fitted inside the vehicle," he told AFP.
Bomb Disposal Unit chief Shafqat Malik agreed that it was an IED kaboom and added: "All of the vehicle had blown up and only (its) engine part remained intact."
The CCTV footage of the blast shows an identified man parking and exiting the said vehicle before wrapping himself in a shawl. The kaboom takes place as he walks out of the frame.
The blast today was the first of 2019 in the bustling provincial capital. The last IED kaboom took place in October, that left a civilian and a paramilitary soldier injured.
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[DAWN] A man was rubbed out while three others received injuries during a violent clash between two religious groups on Saturday night over the possession of a mosque in Mehmoodabad area of Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... , falling in the jurisdiction of Baloch Colony cop shoppe.
Police said that the mosque was given under the administrative control of one sect when members of a 'perceived' rival sect attacked it.
DIG East Amir Farooqi told Dawn that the mosque was handed over to a Deobandi group under court orders.
"The transition occurred smoothly in the day but at night, at around 11 pm, around 150-200 men from Sunni Tehrik ...formed in Karachi in 1992 under by Muhammad Saleem Qadri. It quickly fell to trading fisticuffs and assassinations with the MQM and the Sipah-e-Sahaba, with at least a half dozen of its major leaders rubbed out. Sunni Tehreek arose to become the primary opposition to the Deobandi Binori Mosque, headed by Nizamuddin Shamzai, who was eventually bumped off by person or persons unknown. ST's current leadership has heavily criticized the Deobandi Jihadi leaders, accusing them of being sponsored by Indian Intelligence agencies as well as involvement in terrorist activities... and Tehrik-e-Labbaik Pakistain (TLP) attacked the men present inside the mosque," said the senior officer.
Both sides resorted to fist fights and attacked each other with sticks, he said adding that "some attackers were armed as well".
At least four persons sustained bullet wounds in the clash and were shifted to Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre (JPMC) where doctors pronounced one Kashif Hussain, 35, as dead on arrival, officials said.
The injured persons, who were admitted for treatment, have been identified as Yamin, 30; Adeel Afzal, 30; and Raja Hafeez, 44; got admitted for treatment, said JPMC Director Dr Seemin Jamali.
Meanwhile, ...back at the barn, Bossy's udder had begun to ache... the contingents of police rushed to the area, where the incident had happened, to prevent the situation from deteriorating further. "The situation is under control at the moment, " DIG Farooqi said.
IG Sindh Dr Syed Kaleem Imam was quick to take notice of "injuries to six persons during the clash" and sought a report from the East SSP.
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[Rudaw] Ottoman Turkish jets bombed villages in Amedi, Duhok province on Saturday night, according to residents.
Ramzi, whose village of Sargali was among those hit, told Rudaw the warplanes bombed the area three times.
News of casualties and the extent of the damage are currently unknown.
The sound of planes and regular bombing has instilled fear in the region’s villagers, Ramzi said.
The Amedi area is located roughly 70 kilometers north of Erbil.
The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...Qatar's colony in Asia Minor.... frequently carries out strikes on alleged Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) positions in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. Earlier last year, Turkey launched a ground operation targeting the PKK’s Qandil mountains headquarters.
Ottoman Turkish strikes have killed several civilians, forced farmers and shepherds off their lands, and caused wildfires.
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Samarra (IraqiNews.com) – An Islamic State militant was arrested Saturday while trying to plant a bomb in the Iraqi city of Samarra, a police chief said.
“A terrorist wearing military uniforms was apprehended during his attempt to plant an explosive charge on a street, east of Samarra, in Salahuddin,” Mawazin News website quoted the city’s police chief Jabbar al-Rubei as saying.
“The terrorist admitted to belonging to the terrorist Islamic State group,” al-Rubei said, warning that the extremist group still launches attacks against government premises and holy sites with the aim of undermining security in the city of Samarra.
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Kirkuk (IraqiNews.com) – The Iraqi army said that its troops destroyed on Saturday an Islamic State tunnel linking two villages in the country’s oil-rich province of Kirkuk.
“Troops of the Iraqi intelligence and counter-terrorism directorates found a 100-meter long tunnel between Sikati and Hassan villages in Kirkuk,” Alghad Press website quoted spokesman for the Security Media Center Brig. Gen. Yahya Rasool as saying in a statement.
“The troops also seized a vehicle inside the tunnel that was used to carry foodstuffs for the extremist group,” the statement read, adding that the tunnel was successfully destroyed.
Nineveh (IraqiNews.com) – Two Iraqi civilians were injured Saturday in a roadside bomb explosion in western Anbar province, a security source said.
Speaking to the privately-owned Almaalomah news website, the source said, “an explosive charge placed on the side of a road leading to Akashat town between Ar-Rutba and Al-Qaem districts in western Anbar, went off, leaving two people injured.”
“The pair were moved to a nearby hospital, suffering from severe injuries,” the source said, adding that the security forces cordoned off the blast site and started a search for more explosive charges at the scene.
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[IsraelTimes] An Israeli bus driver was lightly injured Saturday night in a shooting attack near the settlement of Beit El in the central West Bank, the Israel Defense Forces said.
In a statement, the army said that soldiers were searching the area for suspects in the attack, which also damaged the bus.
The central West Bank has seen a surge in terror activities in recent weeks, including two shooting attacks that claimed the lives of three people.
[IsraelTimes] Terror group says perpetrators are former Paleostinian Authority employees whose salaries had recently been suspended
Authorities in the Gazoo Strip tossed in the calaboose Book 'im, Mahmoud! five men on Saturday on suspicion that they had trashed the headquarters of the Paleostinian Authority’s television station in the territory a day earlier, the Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason,-run interior ministry said.
It said the five were former PA employees whose salaries had recently been suspended.
The PA, which on Friday had blamed Hamas for the incident, did not immediately comment on the arrests.
The raid on the offices of the Paleostinian Broadcasting Corporation in Gazoo City was conducted by gunnies, who caused damage to equipment, according to station staff quoted by the official PA news agency Wafa.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the incident.
The Paleostinian Broadcasting Corporation is funded by the West Bank-based PA, which has a longstanding dispute with the Hamas terror group, and the building houses offices for Paleostine TV and the Voice of Paleostine radio station.
Separately on Saturday evening, five people were maimed in an kaboom in Rafah in the southern Gazoo Strip, the Hamas-run health ministry said.
Local media reported the blast emanated from the home of Mohammed Talal al-Ajani, the Rafah Brigade commander of the Popular Resistance Committees, a Gazoo terror group. The kaboom, apparently triggered by explosives, was said to have caused a fire and damage to neighboring buildings.
[IsraelTimes] Soldiers said to warn family to give up Asem Barghouti, linked to Givat Assaf shooting; brother Salih was slain fleeing arrest for Ofra attack; Gazoo boats said to come under fire
Israeli security forces overnight Friday tossed in the slammer Drop the rosco, Muggsy, or you're one with the ages! a West Bank man whose two brothers have been implicated in two recent terror attacks, Paleostinian media reported.
Mohammad Barghouti, 17, was detained by troops in Kobar, a village near Ramallah, according to local media.
Israeli defense officials have said Mohammad’s brother Asem is suspected of carrying out a deadly terror attack on December 13 near the Givat Assaf outpost in the West Bank.
Paleostinian media said Israeli forces threatened family members that they could be deported to Jericho if they did not give up Asem within days.
Another brother, Salih, was rubbed out on December 12 in Kobar as he attacked Israeli security forces in an attempt to evade arrest. He was suspected of having carried out a terror attack near the Ofra settlement three days earlier, on December 9.
Seven people were maimed in the drive-by shooting attack on a bus stop outside Ofra, including a 30-weeks pregnant woman who was maimed. Her baby was delivered in an emergency operation, but died days later.
Salih’s participation in the Ofra attack was confirmed by the Hamas, the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood, terror group.
The day after Israeli forces shot and killed Salih Barghouti, two soldiers were killed in the shooting attack near Givat Assaf ‐ Sgt. Yosef Cohen and Staff Sgt. Yovel Mor Yosef ‐ and two people were maimed, a soldier and a civilian woman.
The gunman immediately expeditiously departed at a goodly pace of the attack toward Ramallah in a car with Israeli license plates and is still being sought.
Asem was set free from an Israeli prison in April of last year after serving an 11-year sentence.
A number of members of the Barghouti family have a history of involvement in terrorist activities.
Meanwhile in the Gazoo Strip Paleostinian media reported that Paleostinian fishing boats were fired upon by Israeli army forces in the south of the territory.
There were also reports of Paleostinian farmers east of Khan Younis, in the central Strip, coming under fire.
An Israeli military front man said he was looking into the reports. There were no reports of casualties in either incident.
The IDF often fires warning shots at Gazoo boats that sail beyond permitted fishing zones. Israel maintains a naval blockade of the Gazoo Strip, saying it is necessary to prevent terror groups from rearming and launching attacks.
[DAWN] Thirteen policemen were killed and nine injured in early morning attacks on Friday on police outposts in Myanmar’s Rakhine state by the Lion of Islam Arakan Army, state media reported.
The Arakan Army is a rebel group seeking autonomy for Rakhine state from Myanmar’s central government.
It has no links with the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army, a Moslem Lion of Islam group whose similar attacks in 2017 sparked a bloody government counterinsurgency campaign against the area’s Moslem Rohingya minority, driving more than 700,000 to flee to Bangladesh.
While the Moslem ARSA group has become virtually inactive, the Arakan Army, which is aligned with the state’s Buddhist population, has taken advantage of the area’s instability to increase its military activities after training its guerrillas in regions controlled by other Lion of Islam groups, including the Kachin in northern Myanmar.
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[ALMASDARNEWS] Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham ’s continued their large-scale offensive in the western countryside of the Aleppo province, today, targeting the several areas controlled by the Ottoman Turkish-backed rebels near the Afrin region.
According to opposition activists via social media, Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham launched a big attack on the town of Deir Semaan and its corresponding castle after seizing most of western Aleppo from Harakat Nouriddeen al-Zinki.
The opposition activists later reported that Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham managed to capture Deir Semaan and Qal’at Deir Semaan following the full withdrawal of the Ottoman Turkish-backed National Liberation Front ...the Turkic paramilitaries intended to replace with their native jihadi ferocity all the highly trained Turkish soldiers Sultan Erdogan I the much beloved has jailed in the last few years for not worshipping the ground he walks upon. The Uighurs and so forth who did not join Al Nusra or ISIS seem to have ended up here... from this imperative town.
With Deir Semaan captured, Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham now controls the strategic crossing between west Aleppo and the nearby Afrin region.
The loss of Deir Semaan could spell trouble in the future for the Ottoman Turkish-backed rebels as Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham is now able to target the Afrin region for the town.
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the FSA (or NLF or whatever they call themselves) was never that strong; if they can be ousted by the HTaS (or al nusra or Al Q) they must not have any of the advanced weapons that Turkey promised them
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[ALMASDARNEWS] The Syrian Democratic Forces have captured another 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/ISIS/IS/ISIS) stronghold in the eastern part of the Euphrates River Valley this week.
Backed by the U.S. and French air forces, the Syrian Democratic Forces were able to assert full control over the Islamic State stronghold of al-Shafah, tonight, after overrunning the terrorist group’s positions.
According to local reports, the Syrian Democratic Forces managed to kill a large number of Islamic State forces of Evil during the battle, while also seizing a large number of weapons left behind by the terrorist group.
With al-Shafah fully under their control, the Syrian Democratic Forces will now push to enter the last Islamic State stronghold, al-Sousah, which has been the target of several Iraqi air strikes.
[ALMASDARNEWS] The Kurdish-led People’s Protection Units (YPG) said on Saturday evening that two British soldiers were maimed as a result of an attack 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/ISIS/IS/ISIS) in eastern Deir Ezzor.
Denying a previous report by state-owned Syria TV, the YPG said that the two British soldiers were badly maimed when the Islamic State terror organization fired an anti-tank guided missile (ATGM) towards the advancing Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in al-Shafah.
At least one fighter from the Syrian Democratic Forces is believed to have been killed as a result of this Islamic State attack.
Earlier today, Syria TV reported two British soldiers with the Anti-ISIS Coalition were killed when a missile hit their positions in the town of al-Shafah.
The Syrian Democratic Forces are currently in control of more than 75 percent of al-Shafah at this time, leaving only the southern part of the town still under the Islamic State’s influence.
Since September, more than 1,000 jihadists have been killed in the fighting compared with just under 600 SDF members while 15,000 people have fled Hajin, according to the Observatory.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)]At least sixteen Talibs and seven soldiers of the Afghan border police forces were killed during a clash with the Talibs in southern Kandahar province of Afghanistan, the local authorities said Saturday.
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The Afghan Special Forces have rescued at least twelve people from a 
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] An Egyptian explosives expert has been killed while he was attempting to defuse a bomb near a church in Cairo, Al Arabiya’s correspondent reports.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] An Uzbek orthopedic doctor died in a Houthi-run prison in Ibb governorate, south of Yemen, according to a medical source.
...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire.
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Kirkuk (IraqiNews.com) – The Iraqi army said that its troops destroyed on Saturday an Islamic State tunnel linking two villages in the country’s oil-rich province of Kirkuk.
[IsraelTimes] Soldiers said to warn family to give up Asem Barghouti, linked to Givat Assaf shooting; brother Salih was slain fleeing arrest for Ofra attack; 
[DAWN] Thirteen policemen were killed and nine injured in early morning attacks on Friday on police outposts in Myanmar’s Rakhine state by the
