[ToloNews] Mullah Husain, a key member of Taliban ...mindless ferocity in a turban... , was killed in a night raid conducted by Afghan forces in Qarabah district in Kabul on Sunday night, Qarabagh District Governor Mohammad Hanif Sediqi said on Monday.
The operation was launched in Sabzrang village in Qarabagh district, he said.
"Mullah Husain was involved in several attacks on security forces’ convoy in Kabul-north highway," he said.
He did not provide further details about the operation.
[KhaamaPress] At least 27 Taliban ...mindless ferocity in a turban... and ISIS Khurasan (ISIS-K) murderous Moslems have been killed during the separate operations conducted by the Afghan and coalition forces in the past 24 hours.
According to the informed military sources, two coalition air strikes in Dahanah-ye Ghori and Baghlan-e Jadid districts of Baghlan province left at least 11 Taliban fighters dead.
The sources further added that the Afghan Special Operations Forces conducted a clearance operation in Achin district of Nangarhar The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country.. province, killing 5 ISIS-K fighters and destroying a weapons cache.
A coalition air strike in Darah-ye Pech district killing 2 Taliban fighters, the sources said, adding that an Afghan Special Operations Forces operation killed 5 Taliban fighters and destroyed a large weapons cache in Paktika ...which coincidentally borders South Wazoo... At least four Talibs were killed during the separate operations of the Afghan and coalition forces in Tarinkot of Uruzgan and Kandahar provinces, the sources added.
[KhaamaPress] The Afghan Air Force bombed a gathering of Talibs in northern Faryab province of Afghanistan leaving at least 11 bully boyz dead.
The 209th Shaheen Corps of the Afghan Military in a statement said the Arclight airstrike was carried out at around 4:40pm local time in Badghesi Village of Khawajah Sabz Posh district.
The statement further added that the airstrike on Taliban ...Arabic for students... gathering followed a day after a senior Taliban Überstürmbannführer Qari Tajuddin was killed with his 20 fighters in the same district.
According to 209th Shaheen Corps, at least 14 bully boyz had also sustained injuries and 12 others were tossed in the calaboose Drop the rod and step away witcher hands up! during the operation on Saturday.
The anti-government armed bully boyz including Taliban have not commented regarding the killing of the bully boyz in Badghesi Village so far.
Faryab is among the relatively volatile provinces in North of Afghanistan where Talibs are actively operating in some of its districts and often attempt to carry out attacks against the government and security institutions.
[Al Jazeera] An explosion has rocked the Afghan capital, Kabul, killing at least four people and wounding scores of others, the country's health ministry has said.
The 93 people injured in the blast on Monday in eastern Kabul included 24 children, Afghanistan's Public Health Ministry spokesperson Wahidullah Mayar said in a Tweet.
The explosion took place when a bomb-laden car blew up outside a high-security compound that is home to several international companies and charities, security officials told the Reuters news agency.
"Most of the victims were civilians," said Interior Ministry spokesperson Najib Danish.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the blast.
"The area is cordoned off ... and search operation under way for suspects and attackers," he said.
Local Afghan news website Tolo News posted footage on Twitter which appeared to show ambulances returning from the scene of the explosion.
[NY Post] Explosions and gunfire erupted Tuesday at an upscale hotel complex in Kenya's capital, Nairobi, sending people fleeing for their lives in an attack for which the Somalia-based extremist group al-Shabab quickly claimed responsibility.
The al Qaeda-linked group issued the claim via its radio arm, Andalus.
No information about casualties was immediately available about the attack at the complex in Nairobi's Westlands neighborhood, which includes a large hotel known as DusitD2, banks and offices.
Witness Robert Murire said he saw at least two bodies after the attack by gunmen wrapped in ammunition.
Charles Njenga, who also fled from the scene, said: "It is terrible. What I have seen is terrible. I have seen a human as I ran out and there is what looks like minced meat all over."
Another man said he hid in an office when the gunfire erupted.
"My colleagues were running everywhere. … Yeah, it was a terrorist attack. I think so," said the man, breathing heavily, who did not give an Associated Press video journalist his name.
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Police spokesman Charles Owino said anti-terror forces responded to the scene, where plumes of black smoke billowed into the sky from the parking lot as vehicles were engulfed in flames.
A bomb disposal unit detonated a car that had explosives inside, police said, and other vehicles were being cordoned off for fear they also contained explosives.
An unexploded grenade was seen in a hallway of the complex.
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Charles Njenga, who also fled from the scene, said: "It is terrible. What I have seen is terrible. I have seen a human as I ran out and there is what looks like minced meat all over."
[RADIOSHABELLE] At least two people, including a child, were reported to have been maimed in a boom-mobilekaboom in Mogadishu, the Somali capital on Monday evening.
A witness told Radio Shabelle that the blast was caused by an explosive-laden parked outside the Village Restaurant located near Benadir junction in the capital.
The maimed have been immediately taken to a hospital for treatment by the local ambulances. Their injuries are not life-threatening, medics said.
No group has so far grabbed credit for the boom-mobileings, but, such attacks in the city often blamed on Al-Shabaab ... an Islamic infestation centering on Somalia... , an al-Qaeda-linked group fighting the Somali government.
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[Libya Observer] The former commander of the central region's Petroleum Facilities Guard (PFG) Ibrahim Jadran rejected in an audio tape posted Sunday the arrest warrant issued of him by the Libyan Attorney General, who accused him of involvement in the attacks on oil terminals using mercenaries from Chadian rebels’ groups.
Jadran accused the Head of the investigation bureau of the Attorney General al-Siddiq al-Sour of fabricating charges against him, saying he is an impostor as the Attorney General's office is vacant and no one is appointed by the Libyan law.
"Al-Sour is now committing a crime by claiming this post he is occupying and thus he plunged the Public Prosecution into political conflicts to benefit one of the leaders of the counter-revolution ," he added, implying a hint at Khalifa Haftar ...Self-proclaimed Field Marshal, served in the Libyan army under Muammar Qadaffy, and took part in the coup that brought Qadaffy to power in 1969. He became a prisoner of war in Chad in 1987. While held prisoner, he and his fellow officers formed a group hoping to overthrow Qadaffy. He was released around 1990 in a deal with the United States government and spent nearly two decades in the United States, gaining US citizenship. In 1993, while living in the United States, he was convicted in absentia of crimes against the Jamahiriya and sentenced to death. Haftar held a senior position in the anti-Qadaffy forces in the 2011 Libyan Civil War. In 2014 he was commander of the Libyan Army when the General National Congress (GNC) refused to give up power in accordance with its term of office. Haftar launched a campaign against the GNC and its Islamic fundamentalist allies. His campaign allowed elections to take place to replace the GNC, but then developed into a civil war. Guess you can't win them all... He added that placing him on the list of murderous Moslems is an agenda-driven act since the Attorney General has looked away from lots of crimes against the PFG forces under his command.
On January 03, the Attorney General issued arrest warrants of Jadran, the Head of Al Wattan party Abdelhakim Belhaj, four other Libyans and several Chadian nationals.
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[Rudaw] Two brothers from Kalar were handed a five year prison sentence on Sunday when a Sulaimani court found them guilty of communicating with 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) murderous Moslems over the internet.
According to a statement issued by the Garmiyan Asayish press office, the two convicted felons were jugged Drop the rosco, Muggsy, or you're one with the ages! in June 2018.
"The Kirkuk/Garmiyan Criminal Court on January 13, 2019, sentenced the two brothers to five years and one month in prison," the statement read.
The brothers were aged between 19 and 21.
When ISIS swept across large swathes of Iraq and Syria in 2014, a large number of Death Eater Kurds in the Kurdistan Region pledged allegiance to the group.
According to some estimates, around 500 Kurds including women and teenagers joined the group, many of whom were killed during the battle to liberate ISIS held territory.
The Iraqi government declared the defeat of ISIS in Iraq in December 2017 after security forces, Peshmerga, and the US-led coalition succeeded in recapturing the major urban centers seized by holy warriors.
However, ars longa, vita brevis... a low level insurgency has continued across several provinces, particularly Kirkuk, ... a thick stew of Arabs, Turkmen, Kurds, and probably Antarcticans, all of them mutually hostile most of the time... Diyala, and Saladin, while ISIS remnants have exploited security gaps between Iraqi Army and Peshmerga lines.
ISIS and its fragments continue to operate in the Hamrin mountains close to Kalar.
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Anbar (IraqiNews.com) ‐ Iraqi security forces seized on Monday three hotbeds of 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 during a security campaign in Anbar province, a security source said.
"A security force from al-Jazeera Operations Command, backed by fighters of the Tribal Mobilization Forces, carried out a security campaign in northwestern Anbar, during which three Islamic State hideouts were found and destroyed," the source told Almaalomah news website.
The source added that the troops found a huge amount of ammunition and bombs in the hotbeds.
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Kirkuk (IraqiNews.com) – A fighter of the pro-government Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF) was killed Monday in an armed attack by Islamic State against a security checkpoint in the Iraqi province of Kirkuk, a security source was quoted as saying.
“IS militants attacked a security checkpoint run by the Popular Mobilization Forces in Brayati village, in northwestern Kirkuk,” the source told Alsumaria News TV channel, adding that a fighter of the PMF was killed in the attack.
The source, who spoke on condition of anonymity, further said that a security force sealed off the incident site and carried the body to the forensic medicine department.
Popular Mobilization Forces, an alliance of volunteer Shia paramilitary forces, have actively backed the Iraqi government’s military campaign against IS since 2014, when they were formed upon a top Shia clergy edict to counter the Sunni Jihadist group.
PMF 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.
Kirkuk (IraqiNews.com) – A police officer was killed Monday when an explosive charge went off in the oil-rich province of Kirkuk, the Iraqi federal police said.
“A policeman was martyred while on duty as an explosive charge exploded in Hawija district, southwest of Kirkuk,” Baghdad Today news website quoted the federal police as saying.
No further details were given about the bomb attack but the Islamic State (IS) militant group, in most cases, is responsible for attacks targeting crowded areas, including markets, cafes and mosques across Iraq.
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[IsraelTimes] Paleostinian officials say scuffles have broken out on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem’s Old City after guards at the mosque refused to allow an Israeli policeman to enter for a routine security check because he was wearing a Jewish skullcap.
Firas Dibs, a front man for the Islamic authority that oversees the site, says scuffles erupted between dozens of worshipers and police after the guards closed the doors to the mosque and barricaded themselves inside. He says the director of the mosque was lightly maimed.
One does wonder if these are the guards Hamas trained with their own money and personnel.
[Asia Times] Philippine police revealed that they detained two suspected terrorists during the Christmas holiday period who were part of a plot to detonate explosives and disrupt last week’s Black Nazarene procession.
Sudais Asmad, said to be a member of Dawlah Islamiyah, an Abu Sayyaf umbrella group, was arrested at Binondo on December 20. Jeron Aba, also based in the southern region of Mindanao,was held in Barangay on December 25 after being seen with a pistol. He also had a grenade.
Manila Police spokesman Vicente Danao Jr said,“The suspect is a member of the Dawlaw Islamiyah and Moro Islamic Liberation Front and he was planning to conduct an improvised explosive device attack during the holiday season."
Danao said Aba had also admitted that he had fought during the five-month siege of Marawi. He said news of the arrests was suppressed at the time to avoid creating a public panic.
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[Bangkok Post] An eight-year-old girl and a volunteer ranger were injured while two militants were killed in a clash between security forces and insurgents near a hideout in Yaring district yesterday morning.
More than 100 security officers surrounded a house at 5am following a tip-off that rebels involved in Thursday's deadly shooting at Ban Pukoh School in Yaring were hiding there. The two sides exchanged gunfire for more than five hours.
Two militants were found dead inside the house. The dead men were identified as Abdulloh Samae, who was wanted on six arrest warrants, and Abdulloh Jehlong who is believed to have been wounded in an earlier clash with authorities on Thursday in which four defense volunteers were killed.
Military spokesman Pramote Promin said the clash took place as authorities were looking into a tip-off related to the school shooting. He said during the siege the suspects opened fire on authorities. Islamic leaders and local figures were called in to persuade the two to surrender but they refused.
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[KhaamaPress] At least 27 
[Al Jazeera] An explosion has rocked the Afghan capital, Kabul, killing at least four people and wounding scores of others, the country's health ministry has said.
an Islamic infestation centering on Somalia...
...Self-proclaimed Field Marshal, served in the Libyan army under Muammar Qadaffy, and took part in the coup that brought Qadaffy to power in 1969. He became a prisoner of war in Chad in 1987. While held prisoner, he and his fellow officers formed a group hoping to overthrow Qadaffy. He was released around 1990 in a deal with the United States government and spent nearly two decades in the United States, gaining US citizenship. In 1993, while living in the United States, he was convicted in absentia of crimes against the Jamahiriya and sentenced to death. Haftar held a senior position in the anti-Qadaffy forces in the 2011 Libyan Civil War. In 2014 he was commander of the Libyan Army when the General National Congress (GNC) refused to give up power in accordance with its term of office. Haftar launched a campaign against the GNC and its Islamic fundamentalist allies. His campaign allowed elections to take place to replace the GNC, but then developed into a civil war. Guess you can't win them all...
[Rudaw] Two brothers from Kalar were handed a five year prison sentence on Sunday when a Sulaimani court found them guilty of communicating with 
[Asia Times] Philippine police revealed that they detained two suspected terrorists during the Christmas holiday period who were part of a plot to detonate explosives and disrupt last week’s Black Nazarene procession.
[Bangkok Post] An eight-year-old girl and a volunteer ranger were injured while two militants were killed in a clash between security forces and insurgents near a hideout in Yaring district yesterday morning.
