[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The Taliban ...Arabic for students... group reacted at the demands of the former 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... governor Mohammad Ismail Khan regarding the reconciliation process amid efforts are underway to persuade the group to take part in direct peace talks.
Taliban front man Mujahid issued a statement in reaction to Khan’s demands and claimed that the former governor of Herat has demanded from the Taliban to contact the Mujahideen leaders in a bid to find a peaceful resolution to end the violence.
He said Khan had the demand during a gathering to mark the national deaders’ day and the offer was apparently made to open door for Taliban and Mujahideen contacts if the group is not prepapared to respond to government’s offer for grinding of the peace processor.
Mujahid also claimed that the Taliban group welcomes all those efforts which are aimed to end the violence but insists that such efforts must also aim at the complete withdrawal of the foreign forces.
The Taliban front man suggested in his statement that Ismail Khan should start negotiations with the political office of the Taliban group to find a way to end the presence of the foreign forces as well as the ongoing violence and conflict in the country.
This comes as the leader of Hezb-e-Islami Gulbuddin Hekmatyar ... who used to be known in intelligence circles as The Most Evil Man in the World but who now seems merely run-of-the-mill evil... says the recommendations of Hezb-e-Islami regarding the reconciliation process have been shared with the Afghan government, Taliban group, and the foreigners, including Washington.
Without disclosing further information regarding his party’s recommendations, Hekmatyar said he expects to receive a feedback from the concerned parties within a week or two.
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The leader of Hezb-e-Islami Gulbuddin Hekmatyar ... who used to be known in intelligence circles as The Most Evil Man in the World but who now seems merely run-of-the-mill evil... says the recommendations of Hezb-e-Islami regarding the reconciliation process have been shared with the Afghan government, Taliban ...Arabic for students... group, and the foreigners, including Washington.
Hekmatyar made informed regarding the presentation of his party’s recommendatins regarding the grinding of the peace processor as he was speaking during a gathering in 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.. on Monday.
Without disclosing further information regarding his party’s recommendations, Hekmatyar said he expects to receive a feedback from the concerned parties within a week or two.
This comes as Hekmatyar had earlier suggested autonomy for the Taliban group in a bid to help reach to a peace agreement between the Afghan government and the Taliban group.
In an interview with the New York Times
...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize... , Hekmatyar had said his participation in Afghan politics showed the Taliban that they, too, could wield influence after laying down their weapons.
The leader of Hezb-e-Islami further added that he had already begun establishing himself as an intermediary and was in regular contact with the Taliban’s supreme leader, Mawlawi Haibatullah Akhundzada ...Former deputy to Taliban supremo Mullah Akhtar Mansour, now The Big Man Himself... According to the Times, Hekmatyar is promoting a reconciliation with the Taliban that would grant local autonomy to the bully boy group in certain regions, or peace provinces. He called these regions "secure areas" that would remain part of Afghanistan, even as Afghan Army troops withdrew from them.
"It would be very effective," he said, adding that in his discussions with the Afghan president, Mr. Ghani had been supportive.
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[Libya Observer] Military officers from the self-styled army of 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... and the government of Presidential Council led by al-Sirraj started a meeting in Egypt’s Cairo to unify the Libyan military institution.
This meeting comes after others which, according to reports, came out with agreements between the military officers under the auspices of Egypt.
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[ARABNEWS] Billionaire Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal has revealed plans for a string of new investments in his first interview since being detained at the Ritz-Carlton in Riyadh.
Speaking exclusively to Bloomberg Television, he said that life was now "back to normal" as he gave an intriguing inside account of his detention as part of the Saudi government’s high profile anti-corruption drive.
The Kingdom Holding chief was one of the most high-profile figures to be detained at Riyadh’s Ritz-Carlton Hotel as part of a widespread anti-corruption drive.
In a television interview with Bloomberg, a fast-talking Alwaleed said: "I am for the anti-corruption that took place in 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... . Now, unfortunately, I was added to that group. But fortunately, I’m out of it right now and life is back to normal."
The prince, once dubbed the Warren Buffett of Saudi Arabia, was released from the Ritz-Carlton hotel in early January.
He was among about 350 suspects rounded up since Nov. 4, including some of the Kingdom’s most senior businessmen. As a major investor in several global corporations, his detention sent shockwaves through boardrooms around the world.
Now, after being released, he wants to reassure investors of continuity across his sprawling business empire. "I need to clear my name," he said. "And to clear up a lot of lies."
Specifically, Alwaleed rejected claims that he was tortured, detained in a prison and was forced to abandon work on the world’s tallest tower under construction in Jeddah, and instead transfer workers to the recently announced Neom mega-project instead.
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[ALMASDARNEWS] Ottoman Turkish President Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First ... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey... questioned USA’s role as an ally and partner of The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...just another cheapjack Moslem dictatorship, brought to you by the Moslem Brüderbund.... , speaking from Ankara on Tuesday.
"In one hand, you [US] tell Turkey that we are your strategic partners and on the other hand you cooperate with the terrorists. Here is the truth, if you are our strategic partner you have to respect to us and you walk with us. You tried to fool us," Erdogan said to members of the Ottoman Turkish parliament.
He went on to declare, "What kind of partnership is this? What kind of solidarity?"
On Sunday Ottoman Turkish President claimed that Ottoman Turkish Armed Forces and Ottoman Turkish-backed Free Syrian Army ... the more palatable version of the Syrian insurgency, heavily influenced by the Moslem Brüderbund... (FSA) fighters have taken control of Afrin’s centre, while Turkey’s Olive Branch operation continues.
The little caliph could clarify a lot of situations by just pulling out of NATO. That would make the Kurd situation black and white, the Cyprus situation extremely clear, the constant infringement on the Greeks obvious and the infiltration of the EU clear-cut.
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[DAWN] Human rights watchdog Amnesia Amnesty International has called on Pakistain to resolve hundreds of cases of enforced disappearances for which "no one has ever been held accountable".
"Disappearances are a tool of terror... if committed as part of a widespread or systematic attack, they constitute a crime against humanity," Amnesty said in a statement issued on Monday, calling on Pakistain to "take concrete steps to end impunity".
Pakistain has had a history of enforced disappearances over the past decade, mainly confined in the past to conflict zones near the Afghanistan border or to 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... , where separatists have been agitating for independence.
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[ALMASDARNEWS] The Paleostinian National Authority (PNA) has demanded from the Hamas, a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth", movement to hand over full control over the Gazoo Strip, the Paleostinian government said in a statement obtained by Sputnik.
"The council of ministers demands from the Hamas movement to immediately cede control over the Gazoo Strip," the statement said.
According to the document, the government is ready to take responsibility for Gazoo in order to save it from the dangers that surround it and prevent Israel from splitting Paleostine.
The statement was issued after Paleostinian President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas ... a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial... had directly accused Hamas of the kaboom on Paleostinian Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah’s motorcade during his visit to Gazoo last week and threatened to impose sanctions against the enclave.
On March 13, an kaboom hit a site near Hamdallah’s motorcade in the Gazoo Strip. Hamdallah himself was not injured in the blast. The Paleostinian National Authority placed the blame for the attack on the Hamas movement, which has been governing the Gazoo Strip. Hamas, in turn, condemned the attack on Hamdallah’s convoy and called on law enforcement agencies to find the perpetrators as soon as possible.
In October 2017, Hamas and its rival Fatah faction, headed by Abbas, signed a reconciliation agreement, prior to which Hamas agreed to hand over administrative control of the Gazoo Strip and start talks with Fatah in order to hold a general election in Paleostine. In late November, the two sides agreed to hold parliamentary and presidential elections in Paleostine before the end of 2018.
Nabil Shaath, the foreign affairs adviser of Abbas, told Sputnik in February that the intra-Paleostinian reconciliation process had been put on hold, because the Hamas movement had not yet relinquished administrative control over the Gazoo Strip.
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[PRESSTV] Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has praised the Islamic Theocratic Republic’s role in efforts to restore peace and stability to the Middle East through cooperation with regional countries.
Rouhani made the remarks on Tuesday in a live address to the nation on the occasion of Iranian New Year.
The Iranian president made a reference to the ISIS terror group’s territorial defeat last year in Iraq and Syria, which came about with the help of Iranian military advisors.
"Last year, our nation, which has always been the creator of peace and tranquility in the region and the world, managed to bring more stability and security to the region alongside nations of Iraq, Syria and Leb, through its continued endeavors and the [efforts made by] its sincere soldiers and diligent diplomats."
Rouhani praised the unity of the land of the Medes and the Persians during the tragic incidents that occurred last year, including the natural disasters that hit several parts of the country.
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"Kinetic Peace"
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[ALMASDARNEWS] Russia has called on the United States to abandon its unconditional plans for a strike against the Syrian government forces and Damascus, Sergei Ryabkov stated, answering the journalist’s question.
"We’ve warned and warned the US that these plans must be unconditionally refused. Any such unlawful use of force, similar to what happened almost a year ago at the Shairat air base, would be an act of aggression against a sovereign state, as defined by the relevant article of the UN Charter," he said.
Sergei Ryabkov believes that if the situation in Syria and, in particular, Eastern Ghouta changes for the better, opponents to a peaceful resolution to the conflict could incite the international community by sabotaging this process, possibly by using chemical weapons.
"The situation in Eastern Ghouta has changed radically for the better," Sergei Ryabkov told news hounds on Tuesday.
He drew attention to the fact that tens of thousands of people had already left the danger zone. "All this, of course, infuriates, in the truest sense of the word, the opponents of the government in Damascus; they are looking for new pretexts for attacks on us and on Syria," Ryabkov said.
"In this situation, of course, any provocations are possible, and we need to be prepared. Provocations could include staging the use of chemical weapons by government troops," Ryabkov said.
Staged ’chemical attacks’ will continue in Syria as Syrian troops advance, he added.
Earlier, US Ambassador to the United Nations ...an idea whose time has gone... Nikki Haley ...Trump administration's ambassador to the UN. First woman to serve as Governor of South Carolina, and the second Indian-American governor in the country, after Bobby Jindal of Louisiana. At the age of 39, Haley was the youngest governor in the U.S., a distinction formerly held by Jindal. She is a Republican, which really grates on the Dems... said that the US was prepared to act on the use of chemical weapons in Syria. According to him, the United States struck at the Shairat airbase, after a chemical attack in Syria’s Khan Sheikhoun on April 4, 2017, as the UN Security Council "was unable to take action."
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[DAWN] The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the decaying remnant of the Ottoman Empire.... vowed on Monday to expand its operation in northern Syria to other Kurdish-held areas after its troops and allied forces seized control of the city of Afrin in a major blow to the Kurds.
A day after Ottoman Turkish-led forces entered the city virtually unopposed, President Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First ... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey... said the fight would now be taken to other Kurdish areas of northern Syria.
"We will continue this process until we entirely eliminate this corridor, including in Manbij, Ayn al-Arab, Tal Abyad, Ras al-Ayn and Qamishli," said the Ottoman Turkish leader, in a characteristically bullish mood.
Syria’s civil war entered its eighth year this week with heavy fighting on two fronts ‐ around Afrin and in the rebel enclave of Eastern Ghouta near Damascus.
In Afrin, the Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) could do little when Syrian Arab fighters backed by NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A cautionary tale of cost-benefit analysis.... ’s second-largest army thrust into the city on Sunday.
The fighters, mostly former rebels who fought President Bashir al-Assad, celebrated their victory by destroying the statue of Kurdish hero Kawa and looting shops and other property. The pillaging drew widespread condemnation, including from Syrian opposition groups supporting the Turkish intervention.
Is it Kosher to mix Turkey and Curds? VS
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Afrin evacuation. “She saw lots of women who were pregnant and had miscarriages on the road. She was so overwhelmed that she couldn’t talk anymore and she started to cry. She told me, ‘I cannot explain to you what I saw.’
When you see ‘the abomination that causes desolation' standing where it does not belong flee to the mountains. How dreadful it will be in those days for pregnant women and nursing mothers! (A similarity of Mark 13)
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What we are seeing is a historic upheaval of what can be referred to as the raging sea of mankind. Even NATO Supreme Leader of Norway only 1 week ago supported Islamist State Leader Erdogan with NATO Germany and NATO Britain inking more arms deals to his Islamic expansionist designs. It is as if the once free and decent West is now fully under the control of aggressive Satanic forces.
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Gulbuddin Hekmatyar
...Former deputy to Taliban supremo Mullah Akhtar Mansour, now The Big Man Himself...
...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...
... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey...
...Trump administration's ambassador to the UN. First woman to serve as Governor of South Carolina, and the second Indian-American governor in the country, after Bobby Jindal of Louisiana. At the age of 39, Haley was the youngest governor in the U.S., a distinction formerly held by Jindal. She is a Republican, which really grates on the Dems...
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