[Khaama (Afghanistan)] Several anti-government armed Death Eaters have been killed or maimed during the separate operations, Arclight airstrikes, and clash in southeastern Ghazni province of Afghanistan.
The 203rd Thunder Corps of the Afghan Military said at least 4 Death Eaters were killed and 2 others were maimed during the Thunder-3 operations in Andar district.
According to a statement released by 203rd Thunder Corps, the coalition forces also carried out airstrikes in Qarabagh district of Ghazni.
The statement further added that the coalition airstrikes resulted into the killing of at least 12 Death Eaters while two vehicles were also destroyed.
A clash also broke out between the anti-government armed Death Eaters and security forces in Moqor district of Ghazni leaving at least 6 Death Eaters dead and 2 others maimed, the 203rd Thunder Corps added in its statement.
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] At least four holy warriors affiliated with ISIS Khurasan terrorist group have been killed in an kaboom triggered by an Improvised Explosive Device.
The 201st Silab Corps of the Afghan Military confirmed that the holy warriors were blown up by an Improvised Explosive Device which the holy warriors were looking to use in an attack.
According to a statement released by 201st Silab, the incident has taken place in the vicinity of Pech Dara district of Kunar province ... which is right down the road from Chitral. Kunar is Haqqani country..... The statement further added that the kaboom took place while the holy warriors were looking to transfer and plant the IED in Kalaigal area of the district.
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] Several turbans have been killed or maimed in a series of Arclight airstrikes which were conducted in southern Kandahar province of Afghanistan.
According to the informed security sources, at 17 Talibs were killed and 11 were maimed in a series of air strikes in Spinboldak on Saturday night and Sunday morning.
The sources further added that Death Eaters were targeted at a known enemy training camp in Kandahar which resulted in the destruction of the training compound and all enemy weapons within it as well.
In the meantime, provincial police chief of Kandahar Gen. Tadin Khan Achekzai has said at least 19 Talibs were killed and 11 others were maimed in the airstrikes.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] A high-level delegation from Libya’s parallel government in the east visited the main southern city of Sabha on Monday after its forces this month seized control of the city, an official said.
The eastern government is allied to 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... , whose Libyan National Army (LNA) launched a campaign this month in southwestern Libya.
Sabha had been nominally under the control of the internationally recognized government in Tripoli ...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn... but in reality was run by local groups including tribes.
Control of Sabha is seen as vital for securing southern Libya’s oilfields, one of the stated goals of the LNA campaign.
The interior, health and junior justice ministers of the eastern government, which is based in Benghazi, were seen meeting local officials in the municipality of Sabha in pictures sent to Rooters by members of the visiting delegation.
The officials later visited the main hospital and a court, journalists said.
Tripoli officials could not be reached for comment on the visit, which further highlighted the internationally recognized government’s continued lack of authority in most of Libya.
Tripoli-based Prime Minister Fayez al-Serraj said during a visit to Vienna on Monday that "many things" were not going well in the south, but he did not allude to the visit by the eastern delegation or to the LNA advance.
"Regarding the south we need better support for our security forces. We need more cooperation between all security forces," he said.
The LNA has secured Sabha airport and other strategic sites in the area in recent days, after local groups handed them over without a fight.
The LNA says its campaign is aimed at combating bully boy groups and securing oil facilities in the south, which include El Sharara oilfield, Libya’s biggest.
On Monday LNA forces killed a suspected al-Qaeda fighter called Adel Ahmed al-Abdaly when they stormed his house in Sabha, LNA front man Ahmed Mismari said. Otherwise the city has been largely quiet since the arrival of the LNA.
Al-Qaeda and ISIS have been using southern Libya as a base for attacks in Libya and neighboring countries, exploiting a security vacuum created by the fall of dictator Muammar Qadaffy ...who single-handedly turned a moderately prosperous kingdom into a dictator's fantasyland and was then murdered by his indignant subjects 42 years later... in a 2011 rebellion backed by NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It's headquartered in Belgium. That sez it all.... air strikes.
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[AlAhram] At least four Burkinabe soldiers were killed Monday when button men raided a military base in the north, security sources said, a day after 10 people died in a separate attack in the same region.
The pre-dawn attack saw heavily-armed button men ambush a base in Nassoumbou in Soum province, which flanks the Malian border, with one security source saying they used rockets.
"Heavily-armed and unidentified individuals attacked the GFSN military base in Nassoumbou at around 4:00 am. Four members of the defence and security forces were killed and four others were maimed," a security source told AFP.
The GFSN is a military force which is engaged in anti-terror operations in Burkina Faso ...The country in west Africa that they put where Upper Volta used to be. Its capital is Oogadooga, or something like that. Its president is currently Blaise Compaoré, who took office in 1987 and will leave office feet first, one way or the other... 's restive north.
"The attackers... arrived on cycle of violences and also fired rockets at the base" which caught fire, a second security source told AFP, saying they fled towards the Malian border, which lies just 30 kilometres (18 miles) away.
The Burkinabe army immediately requested backup from Barkhane, La Belle France's regional anti-jihadist force, which deployed a Mirage fighter jet from Niger and a Tiger attack helicopter from Mali, a diplomatic source said.
The aerial support was confirmed by the French armed forces, with a Burkinabe security source saying it had allowed their troops to hunt down and kill an unspecified number of the attackers.
The Nassoumbou base has been targeted a number of times with the worst attack in December 2016 when button men killed at least 12 soldiers.
Monday's attack came just 36 hours after suspected jihadists raided Sikire, a village about 100 kilometres (60 miles) to the east, killing 10 people when they opened fire on local residents.
And on January 11, button men attacked Gasseliki, another village in the area, where they opened fire on a market in broad daylight, killing 12 locals.
Jihadist attacks began in northern Burkina Faso in 2015 but then spread to the east, near the border with Togo and Benin.
The country is one of the poorest nations in the world and part of the vast Sahel region ... North Africa's answer to the Pak tribal areas... which is struggling with a bloody insurgency by Islamist murderous Moslems.
The region turned into a hotbed of violent extremism and lawlessness after chaos engulfed Libya in 2011, followed by an Islamist insurgency in northern Mali.
Most attacks in Burkina have been attributed to Ansarul Islam, a jihadist group which emerged near the Mali border in December 2016, and to the JNIM (the Group to Support Islam and Moslems), which has sworn allegiance to al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb.
[IsraelTimes] Burkina Faso ...The country in west Africa that they put where Upper Volta used to be. Its capital is Oogadooga, or something like that. Its president is currently Blaise Compaoré, who took office in 1987 and will leave office feet first, one way or the other... ’s security minister says nearly a dozen button men opened fire on civilians at a Sunday market yesterday in the Soum province, killing at least 10 people.
Ousseni Compaore says two others were maimed in the attack on Sikire in the northern Sahel region ... North Africa's answer to the Pak tribal areas... that took place in the middle of the day while the market was full. He says investigations into the attack are ongoing.
Islamic Lions of Islam have increased attacks in the Sahel region, forcing Burkina Faso to declare a state of emergency there.
The jihadist threat has also shifted from the northern Sahel region, home to radicalized local preacher Ibrahim Malam Dicko, into the forested east near the border with Niger.
Burkina Faso is part of a five-nation regional counter-terror force, the G5 Sahel, launched in 2017.
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[DAWN] Bahrain's supreme court, whose verdicts are final, on Monday upheld a life term for Shia opposition leader Sheikh Ali Salman for spying for Gulf rival Qatar ...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi... , a judicial source said.
Salman, who headed the al-Wefaq group, was convicted in November of "communicating with Qatari officials... to overthrow constitutional order", a ruling rights groups have called a travesty.
Salman's aides Ali al-Aswad and Hassan Sultan, who had been sentenced to life in absentia, also lost their right to appeal. Both men are former MPs and currently reside outside of Bahrain.
Qatar has repeatedly denied accusations of conspiring against Bahrain with Salman.
Bahrain and Qatar have been locked in a bitter regional dispute since June 2017, when a Saudi-led boycott of Doha was enforced over allegations it was cosying up to regional arch-rival Iran and supporting radical Islamist groups.
Bahrain, 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... and the United Arab Emirates banned their citizens from travel to Qatar.
Ruled for more than two centuries by the Sunni al-Khalifa dynasty, Bahrain has been hit by waves of unrest since 2011, when security forces crushed Shia-led protests demanding a constitutional monarchy and an elected prime minister.
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[AA.TR] Iraq has declared a state of "high alert" along its border with Syria amid ongoing anti-terrorist operations on the Syrian side of the frontier, an Iraqi military source said Monday.
"A state of high alert has been declared along the border, while operations remain underway on the Syrian side to destroy ISIS’s lingering presence there," Iraqi Army Major-General Qassem al-Mohammadi said in a statement.
According to al-Mohammadi, fresh security measures along the border are aimed at preventing fleeing ISISturbans from crossing the border into Iraq.
After the Iraqi army wrested djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... from ISIS in late 2017, officials in Baghdad declared that the terrorist group’s presence in the country had been all but destroyed.
While attacks by ISIS have persisted in certain parts of Iraq, they appear to have become much less frequent in recent months.
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[Bangkok Post] Two homemade bombs went off in Narathiwat province on Saturday -- one in Cho Airong and the other in Tak Bai district -- but neither caused any casualties.
The first bomb, which was fashioned out of a fire extinguisher, was buried in a drain underneath a road near Ban Khokin. The improvised explosive device detonated as a pickup truck carrying a team of rangers drove past it on Saturday afternoon. The blast left a crater about one meter deep, but caused no damage to the vehicle, which was travelling on the other side of the road.
On Saturday night, a small bomb went off by a house at Ban Rai village in tambon Che Hae, Tak Bai district. The bomb blew up as two motorcycles carrying four soldiers were passing by. No casualties were reported in the incident. It is believed the bombs were merely intended to cause disturbance, not serious damage or injuries.
The bombs add to the series of of attacks across the far south recently. On January 18, five military rangers were wounded in a blast while patrolling in Sungai Padi's tambon Todeng. Hours later, gunmen killed two monks at Wat Rattananuparb in the same district.
[IsraelTimes] Hundreds of people have fled 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’s last major stronghold in Syria, including fighters who tried to sneak out among civilians, Syrian opposition activists say.
The Syrian Democratic Forces, a US-backed and Kurdish-led group, has intensified its offensive in the last area held by the Lions of Islam since 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... announced plans to withdraw American troops last month. The ground offensive is taking place under the cover of Arclight airstrikes by the US-led coalition.
Despite the intensity of the offensive and the airstrikes some IS fighters holed up in two villages are refusing to surrender and have continued to inflict losses among the attacking forces while using civilians as human shields.
The Britannia-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says some 2,000 people, including 300 IS button men, have left the area in the eastern province of Deir el-Zour since yesterday. It says many of those who left are from Iraq and the former Soviet Union.
Rami Abdurrahman, the director of the Observatory, says a search is underway for any senior IS commanders who might be in the area.
The DeirEzzor 24, an activist collective, reports that dozens of civilians have left the area, adding that the SDF captured a local IS commander and his bodyguard.
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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 four 
...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...
[AlAhram] At least four Burkinabe soldiers were killed Monday when 
...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi...
