Three young Muslim men were found shot to death in Fort Wayne, Indiana, this week in an "execution-style" slaying, reported WANE-TV.
Authorities say they found the bodies of Fort Wayne residents Mohamedtaha Omar, 23, Adam K. Mekki, 20, and Muhannad A. Tairab, 17, inside a local home on Wednesday. Whoever killed them shot each man multiple times. What?! No beheadings?
NBC affiliate 21Alive further reported the home had become a known spot where young members of the local African diaspora gathered to party due to an "absentee ownership situation," though WANE wrote police do not believe the hangout spot is connected to gangs or crime. Of course.
Police currently do not believe the three deaths were related to the men's nationality or religion, according to the News-Sentinel, but each was a Sunni Muslim from Chad or Sudan. Nope. Totally unconnected.
But amid a growing wave of anti-Muslim sentiment in the U.S., including numerous acts of violence directed against Muslim Americans, that the slayings were a hate crime remains a disquieting possibility. Don't forget to check to see if there's a Shiite within 100 miles.
In February 2015, a man named Craig Stephen Hicks was arrested for the alleged murder of three Muslim students at the University of North Carolina's Chapel Hill campus. One of the victim's families later launched an educational campaign to promote equitable treatment of Muslims in the U.S. Yep. How could anyone deny the connection here.
In the months following an Islamic State of Iraq and Syria terrorist attack in Paris in November 2015, numerous reports of violence and intimidation directed against Muslims sprung up across the U.S. They ranged from shots fired at the home of Amir Elmasri in Orange County, Florida, to a xenophobic meltdown at a planning meeting in Spotsylvania, Virginia, over a proposed mosque extension. For every genuine case of xenophobia I'll bet we could come up with five cases of Muslim-on-Muslim violence framed to look like xenophobia. But obviously that couldn't be the case here.
On Twitter, several people noted the violence was greeted with little coverage by the national media -- yet another sign Muslim-Americans in the U.S. often have few allies in their corner when confronted with bigotry. Which suggests people are tired of the Muslims who cry wolf. And tired of Muslims.
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....the home had become a known spot where young members of the local African diaspora gathered to party due to an "absentee ownership situation,"
Some played cribbage, others watched football on the tele, while still others engaged in book club discussions. No one saw anything or really knows what took place.
Pirates don't get the protection of the law. That's been established law for a couple thousand years...
US Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit Wednesday that a Somali man convicted of piracy cannot withdraw his plea deal.
Abdiwali Abdiqadir Muse was the sole surviving pirate suspect from the hostage-taking of commercial ship captain Richard Phillips from the Maersk Alabama. Muse was prosecuted as an adult after the lower court determined he was at least 18 years old during the 2009 hijacking. Muse is currently sentenced to over 30 years in federal prison.
A number of countries around the world have taken actions in the attempt to solve the problem of maritime piracy. In 2014 security forces arrested Somali pirate Mohamed Garfanji, then second-in-command of Somalia’s pirate industry.
In 2013 a judge for the US District Court Eastern District of Virginia sentenced Somali pirates Abukar Osman Beyle and Shani Nurani Shiekh Abrar to 21 life sentences for their roles in the killing of four Americans aboard a yacht off the Horn of Africa in February 2011.
Also that year three Somali pirates accused of hijacking a private yacht off the coast of Somalia in 2009 faced trial in France. In February 2013 the Abu Dhabi Federal Appeal Court upheld the sentences of 10 Somali pirates convicted of highjacking a UAE-owned bulk-carrier ship in April 2011.
In October 2012 the Hanseatic Higher Regional Court of Hamburg issued sentences for 10 Somalis who were involved in the hijacking the German freighter MS Taipan off the coast of Somalia two years ago.
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Hanseatic Higher Regional Court?
Who knew?
Punished by:
Death by Herring
Or Hot Beeswax down the gullet
Forcefully changing his name to Amber Muse.
Three Egyptian army officers have been prosecuted and handed prison sentences ranging from 5 years to life in prison for plotting to overthrow President al-Sisi. The three officers, a naval Colonel and two infantrymen, were found guilty of plot against President al-Sisi by an Egyptian military court.
London-based Qatari media The New Arab reports that two of the officers were sentenced to life in prison while the third received a five-year term in prison.
This is the fourth case of an alleged military coup against President al-Sisi since he came to power in 2013.
Last year in October, 26 army officers were handed sentences ranging from five years to life in prison for disclosing military secretes and attempting to overthrow the regime. Also in December, three army officers were sentenced to death for planning to assassinate the Egyptian President. Prominent Egyptian investigative journalist and right activist Hossam Bahgat was detained for several days over publication of a report covering the secret trial of the 26 officers.
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Practically from the creation of the Muslim Brotherhood there has followed its attempt to infiltrate the Egyptian military. It even had its own fighting unit in the early months of the war with Israel. Perhaps the most significant military man to join the Muslim Brotherhood was Anwar Sadat. He did so in his youth and remained a fellow-traveller until his death by, ironically, former Muslim Brothers.
[AnNahar] Increasingly targeted by jihadist fighters roaming its remote northern desert, and Nigeria's feared Boko Haram ... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality... turbans on its southern flank, Niger fears the emergence of its own brand of home-grown Islamist trouble.
In recent years foreign-funded aid groups and social media have brought ideas peddled by Wahhabism -- an ultraconservative form of Islam -- to more and more of Niger's 19 million people, one of the planet's poorest nations.
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Taiz- Ali al-Moa’amari, Mayor of Taiz, said that many international relief organizations are being misguided by regional groups. In an interview with Asharq Al-Awsat, al-Moa’amari said that the organizations are influenced by the pro-insurgency clusters. The reports show some employee accomplices helping with deceiving humanitarian organizations.
Al-Moa’amari requested that all humanitarian organizations to work on delivering aid via governmental routes in Aden and Taiz. Moreover, the Taiz Mayor praised the humanitarian efforts spent by the Arab coalition and Saudi Arabia. King Salman Center for Relief and Humanitarian Aids is pretty much the only orientation that helped break-off the barricade on Taiz effectively.
The Mayor clarified that the militias in the war they waged on Taiz, have taken in the help of experts from the Republican Guard and combatants trained by Hezbollah and Iran. Al-Moa’amari revealed that three brigades are being prepared for the comprehensive freeing of Taiz, and stressed that the governorate’s importance lies in the fact that it represents the northern city gate to the temporary capital Aden and southern governorates.
Settling the battle in Taiz interprets the virtual death of the insurgency in Yemen, and the failing of the militia’s mission. Houthi and ousted President Saleh’s supporters believe that should they win over Taiz, they would have gained massive political and military advantages, which is exactly why their campaign is being re-directed to the governorate on a large scale.
When asked on recent developments, Al-Moa’amari said that Taiz witnesses now a broad battle to extinguish militants. Confrontations are ongoing on a daily basis and undertake several battlefronts. Over 15 fronts are established, which expanded to include regions out of the city, after militias had failed to take over the center city Taiz. Militants have rendered defeated and disappointed, the National Army men and the Popular Resistance record triumph persistently. With the Popular Resistance’s backing the National Army was able to secure Al Misrakh district.
[RFE/RL] Moscow-backed Chechen chief Ramzan Kadyrov has said he is ready to resign. Kadyrov's current term of office is due to end in early April.
"My time has passed," Kadyrov said in an interview with government-allied NTV television. He said, "There are lots of successors on our team. We've got very good specialists."
The announcement comes on the one-year anniversary of the murder of Kremlin critic Boris Nemtsov. Many in the opposition have accused Kadyrov of playing a role in Nemtsov's murder.
Kadyrov told NTV, "Nemtsov did not bother me at all, in fact. That's because he is not my level. The nation's leadership needs to find another person so that my name isn't used against my people."
Dmitry Gudkov, one of only a handful of opposition lawmakers left in the State Duma, said, "I know that, after the killing of Boris Nemtsov, the relationships between the federal government and Chechnya's leadership have worsened considerably. This explains Ramzan Kadyrov's recent hysteria toward the opposition."
Earlier this week, opposition leader Ilya Yashin released a report accusing Kadyrov of involvement in Nemtsov's killing and calling for his resignation. All five suspects arrested for the crime have ties to Chechnya and the North Caucasus.
North Korea is expected to respond forcefully to a resolution set to pass at the United Nations Security Council, and to the upcoming U.S.-South Korea joint military drills.
Pyongyang has already issued televised warnings against South Korean President Park Geun-hye and the "ruling anti-unification reactionaries" after the shutdown of the Kaesong Industrial Complex, a jointly operated factory park.
The North's condemnations of the United States and South Korea are expected to crescendo -- the latest round of sanctions that could hit the country are powerful and comprehensive, and designed to encircle its army, navy and air force in a multilateral blockade.
North Korea could also come under another source of undue pressure, when the United States and South Korea start the joint annual military exercise known as Key Resolve on March 7. The exercise is to include more than 90,000 South Korean and 15,000 U.S. troops.
North Korea's state-controlled channel KCTV has previously said the exercises are the "most cruel and evil act" which aims to "destroy North Korean homes and lives." Its enemies would pay a price, the North has said. It's a good thing we aren't going to actually invade North Korea.
Pyongyang's retaliation could come in the form of maritime incursions across the disputed Northern Limit Line in the Yellow Sea, or increased cyberattacks, Yonhap reported. Those are some nice mid-century relics of submarines you have there. It would be a shame if something were to happen to them.
North Korea could also test a fifth nuclear weapon, or announce plans to test-launch a submarine-launched ballistic missile, or SLBM. Tell me again, how many nuclear bombs would it take to destroy Pyongyang?
The country is already preparing for the Seventh Congress of its ruling Workers' Party, and according to KCNA, the Party's Central Military Commission and other task forces have declared a 70-day "battle" or mass rally across the country.
Large groups of state workers, students, farmers, and government officers are expected to be participating, South Korean news service CBS No Cut News reported.
The motives behind the highly publicized execution of Jang Sung Taek, the uncle of current North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, have been open to question, but a South Korean analyst said Jang's ambition to restore an old power structure could have played a role in his death sentence. Could have. And monkeys shooting bottle rockets could come flying out of my a$$, too.
Ko Soo-suk, a senior researcher at the Unification Research Institute of JoongAng Ilbo, a South Korean newspaper, wrote Jang was seeking the role of prime minister in the North Korean Cabinet. OK, here's a possible element of truth on which we can hinge the rest of the assumptions that can be found in this story.
According to Ko, a North Korean document on the judgment of death penalty for Jang, included a passage on Jang's crimes against the state. Ooh, an official document!
"Jang had a foolish dream, and he took the first step to seize the position and status of prime minister," the document read.
Unlike China, where the prime minister is an influential player in economic policy, North Korea's prime minister plays a largely ceremonial role and has low impact in governance, Ko wrote.
Economic planning is the task of a department in the Korean Workers' Party, and the prime minister follows instructions from the Party.
Jang, who was a prominent figure under former leader Kim Jong Il, often traveled to China and even to South Korea to learn about economic policy and planning. Jang has often been associated with economic reform, but in December 2013 was executed on charges of treason and of being a "counterrevolutionary."
The prime minister position Jang could have had in mind was the more influential version in place under North Korea founder Kim Il Sung. Prime ministers under the late Kim were in charge of economic policy and Jang would have been well-suited for a bigger role involving growth and development.
Ko also stated in his analysis that members of North Korea's core leadership, rather than Kim Jong Un, could have thwarted Jang's ambition. Core leadership officials foiled attempts by Jang to procure a meeting with Kim, who was away on a field guidance trip at a critical time. While Kim was away, Ko wrote, core members could have been able to enforce an order of execution for Jang. "OK, he's dead! There's one detail left to take care of, so let's draw lots to decide who gets to tell Pudgy!"
North Korean leader Pudgy Kim Jong-un has observed the test-fire of a new anti-tank guided weapon, the North's state media reported Saturday.
Fat Boy Kim claimed the portable anti-tank laser-guided rocket has the longest firing-range in the world and its rate of hits is "as accurate as a sniper's rifle firing" as well as its armor penetrating capability and destructive power are marvelous.
"He noted with great satisfaction that even the special armored tanks and cars of the enemies, which boast their high maneuverability and striking power, are no more than a boiled pumpkin before the anti-tank guided weapon," of North Korea, the Korean Central News Agency said in an English-language dispatch, without elaborating on date of his inspection.
Boiled pumpkin? That's funny and I don't even know what that means...
The corpulent Kim also called for quickly starting massive production of the weapons and deploying them at frontline military units and coastal units.
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[Bangkok Post] Thai security authorities quickly dismissed a claim by former prime minister Chavalit Yongchaiyudh that a Daesh cell was active in southern Thailand. Chavalit said he wondered if the government was aware that a group calling itself "Black Swan" which, according to him, is a Daesh affiliate, was establishing a presence in the far South. He was responding to a question about security matters during a meeting Thursday with reporters.
Gen. Chavalit urged the government to launch a probe into the Black Swan group, saying the conflict in the southern Thailand has changed. Fourth Army commander, Wiwat Pathomphak, said he has not heard of the Black Swan group and there has not been any recent intelligence reports about it. Wiwat said security forces were monitoring reports about Daesh although there has not been any sign of Daesh activity in Thailand so far, said Lt Gen Wiwat.
Jeh-aming Totayong, a former Democrat Party MP for Narathiwat, challenged Gen Chavalit to prove his claim about Daesh-linked activities in the in the far Suoth. Mr Jeh-aming said the former prime minister should not resort to spreading rumors to frighten the Thaksin Shinawatra camp who were lining up to discredit Thailand. He accused Chavalit of attempting to link the insurgency as part of a political agenda similar to the way Thaksin was now renewing his attempts to discredit Thailand from overseas where he is in exile.
Meanwhile, one security source said both the National Intelligence Agency and the Immigration Bureau told a previous meeting of security agencies they had been alerted by their counterparts in other nations that one or two Syrian nationals, who are members of Daesh, had traveled to Thailand on tourist visas. According to the source, the two Syrian nationals had gone to Thailand's far South. This led to a search for the pair and a security alert both in the deep South and Bangkok, said the source.
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani earned an emphatic vote of confidence and reformist partners secured surprise gains in parliament in early results from elections that could accelerate the Islamic Republic's emergence from years of isolation.
While gains by moderates and reformists in Friday's polls were most evident in the capital, Tehran, the sheer scale of the advances there suggests a legislature more friendly to the pragmatist Rouhani has emerged as a distinct possibility.
A loosening of control by the anti-Western hardliners who currently dominate the 290-seat parliament could strengthen his hand to open Iran further to foreign trade and investment following last year's breakthrough nuclear deal.
"The people showed their power once again and gave more credibility and strength to their elected government," Rouhani said, adding he would work with anyone who won election to build a future for the industrialized, oil-exporting country.
The polls were seen by analysts as a potential turning point for Iran, where nearly 60 percent of its 80 million population is under 30 and eager to engage with the world following the lifting of most sanctions.
Millions crowded polling stations on Friday to vote for parliament and the Assembly of Experts, which selects the country's highest authority, the supreme leader. Both bodies have been in the hands of hardliners for years.
Supporters of Rouhani, who promoted the nuclear deal, were pitted against hardliners close to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who are wary of detente with Western countries.
ACUMEN
Rouhani and key ally and former President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani were leading the race for the Assembly of Experts with most votes counted, and appeared to be sure of winning seats, early results released on Saturday showed.
Until now, the contest for this seat of clerical power was an unremarkable event, but not this time. Because of Khamenei’s health and age, 76, the new assembly members who serve eight-year terms are likely to choose his successor. The next leader could well be among those elected this week.
Rafsanjani is among the founders of the Islamic Republic and was its president from 1989-1997. Nearly always at the center of Iran's intricate webs of power, the arch-fixer is famous for his pragmatism and political acumen.
Two prominent hardliners were on course to be elected with lesser scores in the experts assembly race: Ahmad Jannati was in 11th place and the assembly's current chairman, Mohammad Yazdi, was 15th. Arch-conservative Mohammad-Taghi Mesbah-Yazdi appeared unlikely to win a seat, according to partial results.
The results were initially announced as final in an official statement. A later statement said the results were partial and a final tally would be announced in due course.
INFLUENCE
A Reuters tally, based on official results published so far, suggested the pro-Rouhani camp and allied independents were leading in the parliamentary vote. Some moderate conservatives, including current speaker Ali Larijani, support Rouhani.
A breakdown of the results had independents on 44, reformists on 79, and hardliners on 106, the tally showed. A number of seats will be decided in run-offs in late April because no candidate won the required 25 percent of votes cast. Eight of the initial winners were women.
Analyst say the large number of independents may be significant as they could cooperate across ideological lines with Rouhani's government.
Whatever the outcome, Iran's political system places much power in the hands of the conservative Islamic establishment including the Guardian Council, which vets all laws passed by parliament.
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Yes, "reformers" and "moderates" - at least to the Western elites.
The key words are "most evident in the capital, Tehran." The mullahs' power is in the smaller cities and the rural areas. It'll end up being Green Revolution II, in any case.
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When the Democrat Super-Delegates are counted, it's back to Ayatollah Machine Tyranny™
ValJar is pleased
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"Moderates" in Iran mean bad cop/junkyard dawg cop.
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"Moderates" and "Reformers" handpicked by the head cheese. The terms may be to placate the long suffering Iranian people who have had to live under the theocracy.
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Defense Secretary Ash Carter has made it official: ISIS has saved one of its deadliest enemies, the U.S. Air Force's A-10 Thunderbolt.
The inelegant but well-armed and well-armored ground-attack jet, nicknamed the "Warthog," was facing quick retirement after the Air Force said it needed the money and crews being used to keep the A-10s flying for the brand-new F-35s and other missions.
"We're pushing off the A-10's final retirement until 2022 so we can keep more aircraft that can drop smart bombs on ISIL," Carter told the committee.
The defense chief said plans are to keep the A-10 in the Air Force inventory until 2022.
"As 2022 approaches, A-10s will be replaced by F-35s only on a squadron-by-squadron basis as they come online, ensuring that all units have sufficient backfill and that we retain enough aircraft needed to fight today's conflicts," Carter said.
The plan to keep the A-10s flying was in the Pentagon's budget that was released earlier this month. What was new Thursday was the Obama administration's top defense official linking that plan to ISIS.
Republican senators like Arizona's John McCain and New Hampshire's Kelly Ayotte had been pushing the Defense Department for months to hang on to the A-10s.
"As ISIS has learned firsthand, the A-10 represents our nation's most effective and lethal close air support aircraft," Ayotte said in a statement earlier this month.
"I look forward to seeing our A-10 pilots continue to make important advances in the fight against ISIL in the Middle East, boosting NATO's efforts to deter Russian aggression in Eastern Europe, and supporting vital missions for U.S. national security wherever they are needed," a statement from McCain .
The A-10's role in the fight against ISIS was highlighted in Operation Tidal Wave II in November, when A-10s combined with AC-130 gunships to destroy 116 ISIS fuel tanker trucks.
Unlike the multirole F-35s that are slated to replace them, the A-10s are the only airplanes in the Air Force specifically designed for close air support, a mission that has become urgent in the fight against ISIS.
Able to circle over a target for long periods, the straight-winged Warthog is supremely maneuverable at low speeds and altitudes. So when ground troops find themselves in trouble -- and too close to the enemy for fighter jets to drop bombs without risking friendly fire casualties -- A-10 pilots can skim hillsides day and night, under any type of weather, and accurately and punishingly engage ground targets with the aircraft's powerful 30 mm, seven-barrel Gatling gun, which fires depleted uranium bullets at 3,900 rounds per minute.
Then came Operation Inherent Resolve, the U.S.-led coalition's campaign against the Islamic State in Syria and Iraq.
"I saw some of the A-10s that are flying bombing missions against ISIL (the Pentagon's term for ISIS) when I was at Incirlik Air Base in Turkey last December, and we need the additional payload capacity they can bring to the fight," Carter said in testimony on the Pentagon's Fiscal Year 2017 budget before a House Appropriations subcommittee on Thursday.
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1) damn i phone stutters
2) Carter's key statement was the one about replasing the A-10 with the F-35 on a squadron by squadron basis as they come on line. So the USAF stills gets their way and this hack only restated theobvious.
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Photon Torpedos
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This battle between the AF and the A-10 has been going on since John Boyd's tenure in the Pentagon, 40 years ago. This has been a multi-generational program by Pentagon bosses to kill the A-10. "It works, therefore we don't want it. [not sexy enough]"
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Early results indicate that the reformist candidates are leading the race for parliamentary seats in capital city of Tehran.
So-called reformists. Remember, they were approved for the election by the mad ayatollahs. There's only so much 'reform' that's allowed...
According to Iran's Elections Headquarters, 1.293 million votes have been counted so far, the state-run IRINN TV reported Feb. 27.
Mohammad Reza Aref, a former vice president, stands in first place in the Tehran ballot with 587,100 votes. Ali Motahari, a conservative MP who took place in the reformists’ list was in the second place with 515,650 votes.
The head of the conservative list, Gholamali Hadad Adel, a former parliament speaker, is the only candidate outside the reformists’ list who takes place among the top 30 positions that would earn seats in parliament. He was placed seventh with 435,900 votes.
Almost 2.9-3 million people have participated in the election in Tehran, while some 6.6 million were eligible for voting, Iran’s interior minister Abdolreza Rahmani Fazli said, estimating that the voter turnout at Tehran city reaches 42 percent.
Elections were held for the tenth round of parliament and fifth round of the Assembly of Experts on Feb. 26. Iranians went to the polls in over 1,063 constituencies.
Currently, the Parliament has 290 representatives fourteen of whom represent the non-Muslim religious minorities. Women constitute about eight percent of the Parliament members in Iran.
A total of 4,844 hopefuls, including about 500 women, who were qualified among 12,000 registered candidates by the Guardian Council, were taking part in the race to take the parliamentary seats. The elected candidates will serve from May 3, 2016 for a four-year term.
The Assembly of Experts will also see its 88 members elected by the people for another eight-year term.
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HAMA – Militant fighters of the Islamic State (ISIS) have made new gains near the city of Salamiya in Syria’s western Hama province. ISIS militants have captured several villages in the countryside of Salamiya–main bastion for Syria’s Ismaili minority group.
“Subsequent to clashes with Syrian army troops, ISIS fighters took control of a number of villages in the area, including Taiba and Salm,” rights activist Edib Barazi told ARA News in Hama.
“The recent progress by ISIS militants has raised concerns among members of the Ismaili minority in Salamiya,” Barazi said. “People are afraid of facing a similar fate as Yezidi Kurds of Iraq if ISIS takes over Salamiya city.”
ISIS leadership issued a statement on Saturday, warning the Ismailis to surrender “or face the justice of Allah”.
The extremist group considers religious minorities like the Ismailis, Yezidis and Druzes as apostates.
Speaking to ARA News in Salamiya, Ismaili cleric Haidar al-Saleh said: “We are a peaceful minority and we had taken a neutral position towards the ongoing conflict in Syria.”
“The Ismailis try to avoid clashes with any armed group,” he said. “We are aware of the ongoing progress by ISIS in the countryside of Salamiya, and our community is highly concerned about its fate in case this radical group took over the city.”
The Ismaili cleric appealed to the international community to intervene and protect his community against possible atrocities by ISIS.
“With ISIS advance in Hama province, local minorities remember images from the ISIS atrocities against the Yezidi Kurds. We hope this nightmare won’t come true,” al-Saleh told ARA News.
In August 2014, ISIS extremists had taken control of the Yezidi Shingal district in northern Iraq, causing a mass displacement of nearly 400,000 people. Tens of thousands of Yezidi Kurds remained trapped in Mount Sinjar, suffering mass killings, kidnappings and rape at the hands of ISIS militants. Also, more than 3000 Yezidi girls have been taken by the radical group as sex slaves. The Kurdish Peshmerga troops regained control of the Yezidi Shingal region in November of 2015, after fierce battles against ISIS. The Kurdish forces have recently discovered more than five mass graves in the Yezidi region, where hundreds of Yezidi civilians have been summarily executed and buried by ISIS jihadis.
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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
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Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
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Three young Muslim men were found shot to death in Fort Wayne, Indiana, this week in an "execution-style" slaying, reported WANE-TV.
Three Egyptian army officers have been prosecuted and handed prison sentences ranging from 5 years to life in prison for plotting to overthrow President al-Sisi. The three officers, a naval Colonel and two infantrymen, were found guilty of plot against President al-Sisi by an Egyptian military court.
[RFE/RL] Moscow-backed Chechen chief Ramzan Kadyrov has said he is ready to resign. Kadyrov's current term of office is due to end in early April.
North Korea is expected to respond forcefully to a resolution set to pass at the United Nations Security Council, and to the upcoming U.S.-South Korea joint military drills.
The motives behind the highly publicized execution of Jang Sung Taek, the uncle of current North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, have been open to question, but a South Korean analyst said Jang's ambition to restore an old power structure could have played a role in his death sentence.
Defense Secretary Ash Carter has made it official: ISIS has saved one of its deadliest enemies, the U.S. Air Force's A-10 Thunderbolt.
