[AnNahar] Two Mexicans have been extradited to the United States and charged with involvement in the 2011 murder of an immigration and customs agent, justice officials said Monday.
The two men face murder charges in the 2011 killing of Jaime Zapata, and attempted murder charges against another agent, a Justice Department statement said.
The Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents were aboard an armored vehicle near San Luis Potosi, Mexico when gunnies with the Los Zetas narco mob opened fire, killing Zapata and wounding Avila.
Jesus Ivan Quezada Pina, 28, and Alfredo Gaston Mendoza Hernandez, 33, appeared before a magistrate in Washington. They are being held without bond.
Four other suspects including a cartel commander have pleaded guilty in the same cases. They were among five extradited over the affair.
The commander, Julian Zapata Espinosa, has testified that there was a mix-up, and that when the US agents refused to get out of the vehicle, the gang opened fire thinking the men were with a rival narco mob.
The Justice Department did not say when the suspects were extradited.
Update at 11 a.m. ET: Rantburg's archive on this story goes back to 2011. Attorney General Holder literally pounded the table on this one, bringing to life the lawyerly dictum, "If you have the facts, pound the facts. If you have the law, pound the law. If you have neither facts nor law, pound the table."
Relatives and friends of at least 50 police force members, who are under siege by the Taliban, have accused government of not taking the situation seriously.
The security force members have reportedly been under siege for six days.
"We told government to help the soldiers but it said that they do not have sufficient weapons to help the forces," said Temor Shah, a relative of the soldiers.
Another relative of the policemen, Shafiqullah, said: "It is two days and two nights that we ask government to send helicopters to help the soldiers but they have not made any move so far. Government lies to us and it deceives us."
Members of Baghlan provincial council meanwhile said that a lack of coordination among security forces has worsened the security situation in Baghlan.
"This is a shame as they [government] failed to save the soldiers despite having equipment and tanks," said Bismillah Atash, a member of Baghlan's provincial council.
"Lack of a powerful manager in security forces' leadership and lack of implementing orders by Baghlan security forces are among the problems that have affected the province's security," said Ferozuddin Aimaq, a member of Baghlan provincial council.
Meanwhile, some of the soldiers under siege told TOLOnews that they are faced with a serious threat by Taliban.
"It is six days that we are under Taliban siege. Nothing has been done for us. Taliban launch attacks on us every day and night. Two of our soldiers were killed and some of them were wounded. The martyred soldiers are inside the room but government has not helped us so far."
This comes after the Meshrano Jirga (Upper House of Parliament) on Tuesday blasted government for what they called the lack of attention to the security forces.
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The United States will not oppose the ongoing the ongoing political talks between the Afghan government and the Hezb-e-Islami party led by notorious warlord 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... .
A State Department official has told Voice of America’s Afghan Service "the United States does not have any pre-conditions for supporting an Afghan-led, Afghan-owned reconciliation process."
The delegation of Hezb-e-Islami arrived for peace talks with the Afghan government in mid March following the conclusion of Quadrilateral Coordination Group (QCG) meeting on Afghan grinding of the peace processor.
The Afghan High Peace Council officials have said they have reached to an agreement on majority of the 25 conditions of Hezb-e-Islami to join grinding of the peace processor.
Earlier, Mohammad Ismail Qasimyar, international relations adviser to Afghanistan High Peace Council, said Hekmatyar is expected to visit Kabul ...the capital of Afghanistan. Home to continuous fighting from 1992 to 1996 between the forces of would-be strongman and Pak ISI/Jamaat-e-Islami sock puppet Gulbuddin Hekmayar and the Northern Alliance, a period which won Hek the title Most Evil Man in the World and didn't do much for the reputations of the Northern Alliance guys either.... to sign the agreement.
According to the High Peace Council officials, Hekmatyar has demanded the release of Hezb-e-Islami prisoners with the signing of the agreement besides removing his name together with his party member’s from the international blacklist.
Meanwhile, ...back at the pie fight, Bella opened her mouth at precisely the wrong moment... the State Department official, speaking on the condition of anonymity, has told VOA that "the United States is prepared to work with the government of Afghanistan and members of the United Nations ...boodling on the grand scale... Security Council in considering sanctions relief in the event that an agreement is concluded that provides for fulfillment of the necessary conditions."
Hekmatyar is considered is a notorious warlord for his involvement in the devastating civil war and insurgency following activities following the fall of the Taliban group.
Earlier, the group was insisting on full withdrawal of the foreign forces from the country to participate in peace talks.
However, alcohol has never solved anybody's problems. But then, neither has milk... Hekmatyar stepped back from his demands for the complete withdrawal of foreign forces with an official of Hezb-e-Islami Amin Karim Hekmatyar is no longer demanding that all foreign troops leave Afghanistan.
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[EN.ZAMANALWSL.NET] 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... 's foreign minister said Tuesday that if Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad The Scourge of Hama... did not abide with efforts to establish a truce across Syria country, alternatives would need to be looked at.
"We believe we should have moved to a 'Plan B' a long time ago," Adel al-Jubeir told news hounds after a meeting of foreign governments in Vienna.
"The choice about moving to an alternative plan, the choice about intensifying the military support (to the opposition) is entirely with the Bashar regime. If they do not respond to the treaties of the international community ... then we will have to see what else can be done."
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So they'll be openly funding Salafist groups other than ISIS and Al Nusra (probably a waste of money), or Salafist groups plus ISIS and/or Al Nusra (incurring American ire), or just Al Nusra because the Salafist groups are all local, ISIS is sitting on a target, and Al Nusra has international cachet (but Al Nusra is a branch of Al Qaeda, which seems unwise given previous attempts to start the conquest of Saudi Arabia)? A pity this is happening just when income has fallen by half and there is a nearby war calling heavily on the government purse.
[IsraelTimes] Ex-wife of Lebanese-Canadian Hassan Diab says he was in Beirut at the time, though his passport stamps indicate he was in Europe
The chief suspect in a deadly attack on a Gay Paree synagogue in 1980 has been released on bail after being held for 18 months, judicial and investigation sources told AFP Tuesday.
Hassan Diab, 62, is accused of being part of the Special Operations branch of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Paleostine (PFLP). The PFLP was blamed for the bombing on October 3, 1980, that left four dead and around 40 injured.
Diab, a Lebanese-Canadian sociology professor, was extradited from Canada in November 2014 and charged with the attack.
The bombing of the synagogue in rue Copernic, western Gay Paree, was the first major attack on a Jewish site in La Belle France since World War II.
But Diab was released on bail on Saturday after a judge ruled there was a doubt on the "fundamental question" of whether he was in La Belle France on the day of the attack.
Diab’s ex-wife told Sherlocks that he was in Beirut on September 28, 1980, despite stamps in his passport indicating that he was already in Europe by that date, a source close to the investigation told AFP.
If it wasn't him, then to whom did he loan his very own precious passport for the duration?
The judge said her statement should be treated with caution but had to be taken into account, the source added.
The Gay Paree prosecutor’s office has appealed the decision.
Diab has been charged with murder, attempted murder and destruction of property as part of a terrorist enterprise.
He has always maintained his innocence and denied being a member of the PFLP.
His lawyer, William Bourdon, said there was "strictly no risk of flight. He will be present for the next hearing before the court of appeal," where he could be returned to jail.
[EN.ZAMANALWSL.NET] The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... will take it upon itself to deal with attacks on the border town of Kilis if it receives no outside help, President Tayyip Erdogan said Tuesday, in a sign Ankara may be willing to act against ISIS on its own.
"We will overcome 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). We will solve that issue ourselves if we don't receive help to prevent those rockets from hitting Kilis," Erdogan told an international meeting of ministers in Istanbul.
Kilis, which is just across the border from an ISIS-controlled area of Syria, has come under frequent rocket fire in recent weeks. Turkish officials say Ankara needs more help from the U.S.-led coalition in protecting its border.
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[AnNahar] The U.S. Senate passed legislation Tuesday that would allow families of Sept. 11 victims to sue the government of 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 money runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... , rejecting the fierce objections of a U.S. ally and setting Congress on a collision course with the B.O. regime.
The Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act, approved by voice vote, had triggered a threat from Riyadh to pull billions of dollars from the U.S. economy if the bill is enacted.
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The Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act, approved by voice vote, had triggered a threat from Riyadh to pull billions of dollars from the U.S. economy if the bill is enacted.
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I'm with G(r)om. It may be an indication that Congress is finally doing its job, but I am an optimist. Obama will likely veto this, but we can only wait and see.
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As I've been saying here for years "Any real WOT will start with elimination of the Saudi 'royal' family"
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Unfortunately the military is a spent force at this point. It needs to be pulled back and have a good 2-3 years of rebuilding done. Seriously doubt this is going to happen no matter who is in charge.
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...going to be easier with someone who is interested in America's security than the worlds. I know the argument of consequences, but you've got to face the reality that we can not be the world's policeman and priorities have to be set. Hell, first to be is your own homeland security by securing your own borders. If you can't do that, why worry about 'what ifs' in decades or years out?
[DAWN] WANA: Seven employees of the Fata Development Authority, who had been kidnapped in South Wazoo about two months ago, were set free on Monday.
Officials said the kidnapped employees had been taken to the Paktia province of Afghanistan. Elders from both sides of the border played a key role in their recovery.
Political Agent Zafar Islam Khattak told newsmen that local elders handed over the employees, along with two security guards, to the administration in Khamrung area near the Afghan border. Later they were shifted to Wana.
Eight FDA employees were kidnapped from Toi Khula area, adjacent to Zhob in 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... , on March 10. One of them was released about one month ago.
Sources said the administration had paid Rs30 million to the kidnappers, but bigwigs denied it. No group grabbed credit for kidnapping the babus government employees.
Project director Atiq Bangash with seven other FDA employees was inspecting an irrigation project in Toi Khula when they were kidnapped.
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[DAWN] Punjab 1.) Little Orphan Annie's bodyguard
2.) A province of Pakistain ruled by one of the Sharif brothers
3.) A province of India. It is majority (60 percent) Sikh and Hindoo (37 percent), which means it has relatively few Moslem riots.... Law Minister Rana Sanaullah on Tuesday said that legal action against proscribed organizations like Jamaat-ud-Dawa ...the front organization of Lashkar-e-Taiba... (JuD) and Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) is not possible since "state itself has remained a part of this".
In an interview with BBC Urdu, Sanaullah said that these organizations are banned but asked, "How can someone proceed with legal action when state is itself involved in the case".
He, however, added that the accusation against PML-N for overlooking extremism in Punjab province is ’baseless’.
"After Zarb-e-Azb ..the Pak offensive against Qaeda in Pakistain and the Pak Taliban in North Wazoo. The name refers to the sword of the Prophet (PTUI!)... , our whole military and politicianship agreed that no one should be allowed to use Pak soil against the country’s neighbours. And any kind of terrorist activity which may be carried out to help someone or for someone’s right to self determination will be unacceptable for us," the Punjab law minister was quoted as saying.
Answering a question about South Punjab’s link to militancy, Sanaullah said the whole country gripped by extremism and "this impression that South Punjab is the hub of militancy is not correct."
He added that the region was linked with militancy during the PPP tenure by former interior minister Rehman Malik Pak politician, Interior Minister under the Gilani government. Malik is a former Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) intelligence officer who rose to head the FIA during Benazir Bhutto's second tenure. Malik was tossed from his FIA job in 1998 after documenting the breath-taking corruption of the Sharif family. By unhappy coincidence Nawaz Sharif became PM at just that moment and Malik moved to London one step ahead of the button men. He had to give up the interior ministry job because he held dual Brit citizenship. for "political gains".
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[DAWN] Pakistain's foreign secretary on Tuesday told a United States envoy his country has the "credentials" to join a club of nuclear trading nations, signalling Islamabad may apply alongside India and force a showdown in the consensus-based group next month.
Such a move would drag the Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) into the long-running tension between India and Pakistain.
Diplomats last year quietly launched a new push to induct India into the NSG -- a 48-nation club dedicated to curbing nuclear arms proliferation by controlling the export and re-transfer of materials that could foster nuclear weapons development.
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Philippines president-in-waiting Rodrigo Duterte has extended an offer of cabinet posts to the communist party of the nation, where a decades-old conflict with leftist rebels has killed tens of thousands.
I'm sure the Philippines can defend their interests in the South China Sea without our help...
Duterte said the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) might have the opportunity to fill posts in the Department of Agrarian Reform, Department of Environment and Natural Resources, Department of Labor and Employment and the Department of Social Welfare and Development.
Foxes, chicken coops...
Duterte said, "I have kept open [these departments] because they said they are the most oppressed. Those are the only departments I can concede to them [leftist groups], provided they are qualified educationally."
Referring to the CPP's armed wing the New People's Army (NPA), he emphasized, "when I reach my oath-taking... they must realize I am the government and I am the enemy but I offer my hand in peace and we can talk."
Before the May 9 polls, Duterte had invited the CPP's exiled founder -- Jose Maria Sison, his former professor at a Manila university -- back to the Philippines. Duterte said, "Yes, he [Sison] is welcome. I am happy with the statement that he is coming home. I would very much want to talk to him about resolving the insurgency problem."
Sison, 77, currently lives in the Netherlands, having fled to Europe after negotiations with the Philippine government failed in 1987.
[IsraelTimes] An American heritage organization says the Russian military is constructing a new army base in the central Syrian town of Palmyra, within the protected zone that holds the archaeological site listed by UNESCO as world heritage.
The American School of Oriental Research’s Cultural Heritage Initiative posted DigitalGlobe satellite imagery that shows the construction on the northern edge of the ancient site that was damaged 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.... group, which held Palmyra for 10 months.
Syrian troops backed by Russian Arclight airstrikes captured Palmyra in March and fighting continues miles away until this day.
Maamoun Abdulkarim, who heads the department of Damascus antiquities and museums, says the Russians are building small barracks that include offices and clinics. His organization was not asked for permission, he says.
[ARA News] QAMISHLO – Analysts suggest that despite the Russian diplomatic support to Syrian Kurds, it’s unlikely that the Democratic Union Party (PYD) will be invited to any future peace talks in Geneva.
Syrian Kurdish officials have been visiting both the United States and Russia in a bit to receive more political and military support.
On Monday, the Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, in a meeting with PYD representative Khalid Issa in Vienna, thanked the Syrian Kurds for returning the body of Russian soldier Alexander Prokhorenko who was killed in Syria. Lavrov reportedly said that the PYD should be part of any future peace talks in Geneva.
Speaking to ARA News, Woodrow Wilson Centre’s analyst Amber Zaman said: “The main reason that the PYD is excluded from the Geneva talks is Turkey’s opposition. Turkey is a key actor in the Syrian conflict and without its cooperation the talks would fail. But another, frequently overlooked reason, is that most of the other Syrian opposition groups despise the PYD.”
Michael Stephens, head of the RUSI think-tank, told ARA News that it will be difficult to foresee the PYD to be invited to the Syria peace talks in Geneva any time soon.
“The vast majority of opposition groups are still vehemently opposed to any notion of national division in Syria. Additionally, both Turkey and Saudi Arabia would reject the Kurdish inclusion,” he said.
“However this would only speed up the de-facto formation of a separate ruling system in Syria, as the Kurds will simply concentrate on institutionalizing their governance across Rojava [Syria’s Kurdish region] until the federalization they seek in Syria is achieved. If both the regime and the opposition continue to refuse to talk to the PYD they will only succeed in hastening the break up of the country, rather than preventing it,” Stephens told ARA News.
Nevertheless, head of the RUSI think-tank described the Russian push for the inclusion of the PYD in the Syrian negotiations as “unsuccessful”.
“The Russians have been pushing hard for a while on this, but have yet to get a result. I think primarily because Turkey knows this is a Russian pressure point it’s why they’ve resisted it so strongly,” he added.
Some Kurdish politicians believe that Russia is only supporting the Assad regime in Syria, and is not serious in its support to the Kurds.
Moreover, the PYD is also disappointed that the United States does not recognize the Kurds, and does not push Turkey to accept the PYD as one of the Kurds’ representatives in Syria.
A Kurdish politician who wished to stay anonymous wondered how the US could convince and push Russia to accept an Islamist rebel leader like Mohammed Aloush, commander of the Army of Islam [Iash al-Islam], as a negotiator in Geneva, but could not push for the inclusion of the PYD.
“Short of the diplomatic recognition the Kurds desire, the US can deliver security guarantees. There is a widespread analysis on the American side that while the Kurds are not the complete answer to defeating ISIS, they are an indispensable component to defeating ISIS,” Nicholas Heras, a Washington-based Middle East researcher at the Centre for a New American Security told ARA News.
“The US is trying to avoid this by escalating military support to the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) now, to make northeastern Syria under the American sphere of influence,” he added.
[ARA News] QAMISHLO – Official spokesman for the Kurdish forces of People’s Protection Units (YPG) in a statement to ARA News rejected the claims by the Free Syrian Army (FSA) group about the assassination of two members of the YPG media office.
The Free Syrian Army’s (FSA) group of Jaish al-Shamal claimed responsibility for the killing of alleged Kurdish officials Shirin and her assistant Ziyad Jafar on Monday, which caused a wave of outrage among Syrian Kurds. The two were allegedly part of the negotiations concerning the handing over of 66 rebels that were killed in a failed attack on the Kurdish-held Ayn Daqnaq, in the countryside of Aleppo.
“The claim of assassinating two of our YPG officials was a mere fabrication. The two persons who appeared in a video released by the FSA are not members of our media office,” Fewzi Sileman, spokesperson of the Defence Body and representative of the People’s Protection Units (YPG) in the Shabha district, told ARA News.
“After the painful defeats suffered by the terrorist groups backed by countries like Turkey, especially after the battle of Ayn Daqnaq, they are trying to raise the moral of their gangs in various ways, to prevent an internal collapse and confrontations among themselves,” the YPG command in Afrin [in Kurdish Efrîn] said in an official statement.
Moreover, the General command of the People’s Protection Units in Afrin denied that any female members work in the YPG office there, in response to the FSA claim that among those assassinated was a female Kurdish official, and said that these small groups of FSA rebels such as Jaish al-Shamal are not able to capture Kurdish YPG members, adding that the battle of Ayn Daqnaq was an example of this.
“Such fabrications cannot obscure the truth,” the YPG said.
Clashes have increased between the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces [SDF] and rival rebel groups backed by Turkey, since the SDF advanced in February taking over Til Rifaat and threatening to capture the town of Marea in northern Aleppo.
However, the Kurdish defence head in Afrin, Abdo Ibrahim, said they are committed to the truce in Aleppo province and will not attack rival rebel groups despite of continuous rocket and mortar attacks by Islamist rebels that have killed and injured civilians.
Speaking to ARA News, Washington-based Middle East researcher at the Centre for a New American Security Nicholas Heras said: “These assassinations, targeting of civilian areas, and turf battle conflicts based on the politics of identity weaken the anti-ISIS campaign, and are a thorn in the paw of the U.S.-led counter-ISIS effort.”
“There is a real danger that the identity “Kurd,” will become synonymous with the word “traitor” for a large number of predominately ethnic Arab members of the Syrian opposition,” he added, suggesting this will play into the strategy of ideological extremist actors such as the Islamic State (ISIS).
Amnesty International last week said that armed groups attacking the Kurdish neighbourhood of Sheikh Maqsoud in Aleppo since February have killed at least 83 civilians, and called on Turkey, Gulf states and others to stop the transfer of arms to the Aleppo Conquest operations room–an umbrella for Syrian Islamist rebels.
[EN.ZAMANALWSL.NET] Billions of dollars were sent to hundreds of individuals, institutions and even government during the past years of the Syrian war without anyone revealing the total number of money of relief to the Syrian affected populations. The money which leaked to the wrong pockets.
Destroying the hopes of Syrians in obtaining the basic needs of food and medication is paving the way to topple their high needs manifested in freedom, dignity and justice.
The relief file of the Syrian crisis is considered an exceptional file for many reasons. The most prominent is the size of money and donations pumped into the relief and the number of organization working on the Syrian crisis, their types and intertwining and finally the variety and divergence of funding sources and channels.
All these factors make the file of Syrian relief a huge and complicated one to an extent that following up, supervision, and monitoring procedures seem limited. This automatically led to gaps from which administrative and financial corruption leaked and it grew with the proportion and size of money and aid directed to Syrians in the light of millions of affected.
There is not enough information of how much money reached the targeted and affected in the relief work since nobody can say the total amount of money which has gone to the wrong pockets.
In addition to that, the limitation in the management of the relief work added another pressure on Syrians who already fled war to find themselves in a difficult reality in which they live in tents that do not match the rocket money they hear about coming to rescue them in their name and for them.
The American step of freezing millions of dollars used to fund organization helping Syrian population until they verify it represents the first official procedure around the world. It also confirms the violations in the relief work after many said it is only a claim without evidence.
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"Crazy bellringer was right, there's money to be made in a place like this."
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[WND] NEW YORK - More than 100 pages of previously classified Department of Defense and Department of State documents implicate the Obama administration in a cover-up to obscure the role Hillary Clinton and the State Department played in the rise of ISIS.
The documents were obtained in a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit filed by the Washington watchdog Judicial Watch.
They confirm WND reporting over the past three years of evidence that U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens was involved in shipping weapons from Benghazi to support the al-Qaida-affiliated militias fighting the Bashar al-Assad regime in Syria, effectively arming the Sunni jihadists who morphed into ISIS. Pulled from a link Skid provided yesterday.
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[EN.ZAMANALWSL.NET] ISIS has continued losing control over territory across Iraq and Syria, a Pentagon front man said Monday, including almost half of what it had once held in Iraq.
The Defense Department had previously estimated that ISIS fighters had lost control of about 40 percent of the territory they claimed in Iraq and about 10 percent of the land they held in Syria.
Those tallies had gone up in recent weeks, Pentagon front man Peter Cook said.
"The number right now in Iraq is about 45 percent of the territory they once held has been recovered," Cook said.
"The number in Syria is anywhere between 16 to 20 percent."
ISIS gunnies stormed across large parts of Iraq and Syria in early 2014, meeting little resistance from Iraqi security forces and exploiting the chaos in civil-war-torn Syria.
Since August 2014, the United States has led an international coalition fighting back against the ISIS group, using a combination of Arclight airstrikes and training and equipping local partners.
ISIS fighters have lost control of Ramadi and Heet in Iraq, but still control other important cities including djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... and Fallujah.
In Syria, the group maintains control of Raqa, the capital of their so-called caliphate.
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What oil company has added it to their holdings do they have green energy options?
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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
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
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Philippines president-in-waiting Rodrigo Duterte has extended an offer of cabinet posts to the communist party of the nation, where a decades-old conflict with leftist rebels has killed tens of thousands.
[EN.ZAMANALWSL.NET] Billions of dollars were sent to hundreds of individuals, institutions and even government during the past years of the Syrian war without anyone revealing the total number of money of relief to the Syrian affected populations. The money which leaked to the wrong pockets.
[EN.ZAMANALWSL.NET] ISIS has continued losing control over territory across Iraq and Syria, a Pentagon 
