[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The Afghan government approved in principle the strategy to fight the enemy moles (secret agents) during a meeting of the National Security Council chaired by President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani ...former chancellor of Kabul University, now president of Afghanistan. Before returning to Afghanistan in 2002 he was a scholar of political science and anthropology. He worked at the World Bank working on international development assistance. As Finance Minister of Afghanistan between July 2002 and December 2004, he led Afghanistan's attempted economic recovery until the Karzais stole all the money. .. According to the Office of the President, the decision was taken following a comprehensive discussion regarding the issue.
The relevant authorities were instructed to implement the strategy in the tactical level after approving the strategy in principle.
The defense and security ministers also presented their reports regarding the security situation of Helmand ...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan... , Uruzgan, Kunduz, Jawzjan, Baghaln, Faryab and Kunar province ... which is right down the road from Chitral. Kunar is Haqqani country..... s.
The Afghan National Security Forces (ANSF) personnel were hailed for their bravery, sensitivity, and competence in fight against the enemy forces.
The National Security Council issued necessary instructions to the security institutions to take necessary measures to prevent outbreak of security threats in the country.
The strategy to fight the enemy moles has been approved in principle amid concerns that the enemy forces are attempting to infiltrate among the security forces.
Earlier, the newly-nominated Intelligence Chief, Masoom Stanikzai, vowed to take all necessary measures to fight against the conspiracies of the enemies of the country.
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The Chief Executive Officer Abdullah Abdullah ... the former foreign minister of the Northern Alliance government, advisor to Masood, and candidate for president against Karzai. Dr. Abdullah was born in Kabul and is half Tadjik and half Pashtun... has said he is ready to have meal together with the 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... in one table in a bid to help serve the national interests of the country.
The remark by Abdullah comes as the Afghan government is expecting to finalize a peace deal with Hezb-e-Islami led by Gulbuddin Hekmatyar.
In an interview with BBC, Abdullah said any step that would reduce tensions would be welcomed, emphasizing that the people of Afghanistan would welcome if negotiations between Hezb-e-Islami and Afghan High Peace Council yielded positive results.
Abdullah further added that the situation has changed as he had the support of the party under the leadership of Arghandiwal.
He was responding to a question regarding concerns about Hekmatyar’s return however he said "The issue that Hekmatyar had more problems with certain people and less with some others, perhaps your gesture is towards the era of Islamic government, then the Taliban era and resistance against Taliban and then the 15 years that passed and the elections that followed where I had the support of Hezb-e-Islami under the leadership of Arghandiwal."
Abdullah said he did not have the opportunity to jointly have meal with Hekmatyar when he joined the Islamic Theocratic Republic government of Afghanistan but emphasized it would be not be bad if he has the opportunity to do it.
He also added that the personal interests cannot create barriers when the issue of national interest comes forward, insisting that a peace deal with Hezb-e-Islami will not have a major affect to completely change the situation in the country.
However, it was a brave man who first ate an oyster... he said he is hopeful that the other groups will learn from him and join peace talks with the Afghan government.
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, a similar demand put forward by the Taliban group for peace talks.
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"Try the sushi. It's imported from Russia"
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[AnNahar] The first schoolgirl kidnapped by 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... in Chibok, northeast Nigeria ... a particularly crimson stretch of Islam's bloody border... , more than two years ago has been found, the military and activists said Wednesday, raising hopes for the release of 218 others still being held.
Amina Ali was discovered on Tuesday in the Sambisa Forest area of Borno state by civilian vigilantes assisting the military and brought back to her home town of Mbalala, near Chibok.
"She met her parents, who recognized their daughter before she was taken to the military base in Damboa," Ayuba Alamson Chibok, a community leader in Chibok, told AFP. "Her father's name is Ali and the girl's name is Amina. I know the family very well because I have worked with them, being a front man for the families of the Chibok girls."
Yakubu Nkeki, head of the Abducted Chibok Girls Parents' group, also confirmed her name and said she was 17 when she was kidnapped.
He added: "She's the daughter of my neighbor... They brought her to my house."
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The men said the teenager appeared to have given birth while in captivity while Tsambido Hosea Abana, a Chibok community leader in the capital, Abuja, from the BringBackOurGirls pressure group, said she had told family there were other kidnapped girls in the forest, but "six were already dead."
The Sambisa Forest has long been known to contain Boko Haram camps. Other kidnapped women rescued from the former game reserve over the last year have reported seeing some of the Chibok girls.
Army front man Colonel Sani Usman confirmed the girl's rescue, although he gave a different name -- Falmata Mbalala -- and said she was found by troops in Baale, near Damboa. Manaseh Allan, a Chibok youth leader, said it was not uncommon for children in the town to use different names at home and at school.
Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari, who has said Boko Haram is "technically" defeated, has said success in the campaign would be measured on the return of the Chibok girls and other abductees.
The Times of Israel adds:
Her uncle describes her as pregnant and traumatized but otherwise fine.
Amina Ali Nkeki was found wandering in the forest, uncle Yakubu Nkeki says. He says the 19-year-old -- who was 17 when kidnapped -- was brought to Chibok last night for her identity to be verified and to be reunited with her mother. Her father died while she was held captive, he says.
News reporting is most assuredly the first draft of history.
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[DAWN] PESHAWAR: The enraged local people on Tuesday torched the house of a person, who along with other accomplices had allegedly attacked the residence of Awami National Party founded by Abdul Wali Khan in 1986. Part of the PPP-led cabinet 2008-13. The ANP is considered left wing, advocating for secularism, democratic socialism, public sector government, and economic egalitarianism.... leader Khushdil Khan in the limits of the Badhber cop shoppe.
Police said that the attacker identified as Banus along with his seven other accomplices opened firing on the farmhouse of ANP leader on Monday evening.
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[DAWN] Indian tactics to depict Azad Jammu and Kashmire (AJK) as part of India cannot change the fundamental fact that the state is 'disputed territory', Pakistain's Ambassador to the United Nations ...an idea whose time has gone... (UN) Dr Maleeha Lodhi said on Wednesday. She was referring to a controversial draft bill seeking to regulate India's geospatial information.
Under the Geospatial Information Regulation Bill, anyone distributing a map that the Indian government deems to be "wrong" could be liable for a billion-rupee fine and jail time.
Voicing Pakistain's "serious concern" over the draft bill, Ambassador Lodhi termed India's claim over AJK as an integral part of its territory "untenable" and hit out at the "travesty of history, morality, international law and facts on the ground".
In her letter, now distributed as an official UN document, the Pak envoy regretted that the international community and the United Nations had failed to take notice of this action on India's part.
Lodhi told APP that AJK was a disputed territory and "numerous UN Security Council resolutions attest to this".
Indian External Affairs Ministry front man Vikas Swarup claimed that the proposed draft bill was "an entirely internal legislative matter of India, since the whole of the state of AJK is an integral part of India".
"Pakistain or any other party has no locus standi in the matter," he added, rejecting what he called "repeated and increasing attempts by Pakistain to impose on the international community matters that it had always been open to address bilaterally".
Lodhi called on the international community to honour its responsibility to the people of AJK and reiterated the need for an "independent and impartial plebiscite under UN auspices".
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[DAWN] Interpol on Tuesday issued a red corner notice (RCN) against bad boy group Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) chief Masood Azhar and his brother for their alleged involvement in the Pathankot air base attack earlier this year, Times of India reported.
At least 7 Indian troops were killed during an attack on the sprawling 2,000 acre installation in Pathankot. Gunmen besieged the air base for nearly a week before security forces were able to secure the installation.
The Indian National Investigation Agency sought the notice against Azhar, his brother Abdul Rauf, Kashif Jan and Shahid Latif, the suspected handlers of the Pathankot attackers.
Masood Azhar was placed in durance vile You have the right to remain silent... in India in February 1994 but India was forced to release him and two others -- Mushtaq Zargar and Umar Sheikh -- in Dec 1999 in exchange for passengers and crews of an Indian flight that was hijacked by murderous Moslems linked to Harkatul Mujahideen from Kathmandu and forced to land in Kandahar.
Abdul Rauf is believed to have criminal masterminded the hijacking. After his return to Pakistain, Azhar split with Harkatul Mujahideen in 2000 and formed JeM.
Interpol issues an RCN against any accused after it receives all information and evidence against him from the country in which the crime has been committed.
An RCN, however, is not an international arrest warrant and Interpol cannot force Pakistain to arrest Azhar. India had also managed to get an RCN issued against Azhar earlier, but it could not force Pakistain to take any tangible action against him.
Earlier this year, Pakistain Sherlocks probing the Pathankot airbase attack across the border told Indian interlocutors that it had yet to find evidence linking Masood Azhar to the terror attack but India maintains JeM is responsible for the attack.
In April, China blocked India's call to ban Masood Azhar at the United Nations ...a formerly good idea gone bad... (UN). The UN banned Jaish in 2001 but India’s efforts to get restrictions imposed on Azhar after the Mumbai attacks did not bear fruit because China did not allow them to be imposed.
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Earlier this year, Pakistain Sherlocks probing the Pathankot airbase attack across the border told Indian interlocutors that it had yet to find evidence linking Masood Azhar to the terror attack but India maintains JeM is responsible for the attack
"Yeah, we totally asked him about it and he said he had nothing to do with it, so there's that"
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[AlAhram] 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, on the defensive and under heavy pressure in Iraq, has struck back with bloody attacks in Baghdad, where persistent gaps in security increase the city's exposure.
In doing so, IS group can portray itself as still being on the offensive, draw attention away from the setbacks it has suffered, and obtain media attention unrelated to losses.
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[Jpost] Sea-based version of Iron Dome to soon be operational on missile ships; Navy preparing attack plans against Hezbollah radar-guided missiles that place Israeli ports in range.
The Israel Navy is in the midst of intensive preparations to deal with a growing rocket and missile threats posed by Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, and Hezbollah, a senior IDF officer revealed on Wednesday.
Preparations include the installation of Rafael's C-Dome system, which is a sea-based version of the Iron Dome anti-rocket battery, on missile ships. A successful trial of the C-Dome occurred in February, the source said, when the C-Dome shot down three barrages of simulated Grad rockets ...Soviet-developed 122-mm rockets, usually launched from trucks. Newer versions are reported to have a range of up to 30 km.... fired by the IDF at a navy ship.
The source said the system on board the ship shot down all incoming threats.
C-Dome will enable the navy to protect offshore gas drilling rigs against Hamas rocket attacks, using a relatively inexpensive interceptor missile to deal with such projectiles.
At the same time, the navy is preparing to deal with the more significant threat of long-range, radar-guided Hezbollah missiles, which include the infamous Yakhont supersonic missile.
To that end, the navy is planning on making the IAI-made Barak 8 anti-missile system, which intercept such missiles, fully operational by the end of 2017. The Barak 1 system, which has been operational for years, already protects ships against such threats.
The source described a changing enemy that has placed strategic Israeli targets within range of its missiles. Hezbollah can deploy mobile missile launchers on the Lebanese or even the Syrian coastline, and use them to target any strategic Israeli site.
Hezbollah has an array of surface-to-sea missiles,with ranges of up to 300 kilometers, that can be used to strike gas drilling rigs and navy ships. The same missiles can also be used as surface-to-surface missiles to attack the Israeli ports of Haifa and Ashdod.
The inter-branch approach has become key to the navy's concept of attaining "sea superiority," the source said. He said the navy had set up a new new fire control center, dedicated to acquiring enemy targets and allocating their coordinates to the air force, the IDF Northern Command, and navy ships.
The navy's ships are being fitted with a growing number of sea-to-surface missiles, reflecting the changing nature of their missions.
Additionally, the navy has installed new sonar detection sensors in northern Israel, designed to sound an alert in case of a Hezbollah attack involving commando divers seeking land on an Israeli beach.
According to the source, the navy is also integrating itself in Ground Forces combat functions. Reporters were shown on Wednesday two previously unknown vessels, dubbed 'Manta,' which are designed to ferry logistics for ground units in combat arenas.
Speaking on board one such craft, Navy Chief V-Adm. Ram Rothberg said, "We are expanding our operational capability well beyond the borders of the sea. We can take part in ground combat, and we have a sea superiority concept that calls for accurately striking the enemy."
[GMA News] Russia and the Philippines are expected to begin military and anti-terror cooperation under the administration of incoming Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte, the Russian ambassador indicated to reporters. Duterte met Ambassador Igor Khovaev on Wednesday.
Khovaev said, "It is time to promote our military cooperation.... We have a great potential for cooperation in the field, in the struggle against terrorism and other challenges and threats to security and sustainable development."
Khovaev said terrorist groups such as the Abu Sayyaf and Daesh were discussed during his meeting with Duterte. He said, "Both Russia and the Philippines suffered a lot from terrorists. Terrorists are a common threat to all of us. It is not possible to eradicate, to eliminate terrorism alone. All of us should combine our efforts. And we discussed the subject in this way. We have a full mutual understanding in this respect. Russia of course has a lot more experience in this field."
"We are open to share our experience. We are open to share our information. We are open for close partnership in this field," Khovaev added.
Hey, I know I believe that...
ANKARA- Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) revealed on Wednesday that many Iranians have volunteered to fight in Syria in support of al-Assad regime, the semi-official Tasnim news agency reported. Shi’ite-dominated Iran is Assad’s main regional ally and has provided him with military and economic support, especially with his conflict with ISIS and the al Qaeda-affiliated Nusra Front.
Although no numbers were given, however “General Ramezan Sharif said young Iranians from different ethnicities have volunteered to go to Syria in support of the Syrian government.
Tehran said last month that military commandos had also been dispatched to Syria as advisers, suggesting it was using its regular army as well as forces from the IRGC, while it denies today having any conventional armed forces there.
Nevertheless, Iran’s army chief later said those personnel were volunteers working under IRGC supervision, and that the regular army was not directly involved.
Noting that, serious losses were sustained in the past few months including several high-ranking members of the IRGC. Iranian media have reported the death of over 100 members of the IRGC and its affiliated volunteer, the Basij militia, in Syria.
The United States, Saudi Arabia and some other Western and Gulf states plus Turkey back rebels fighting to remove Assad, who has military support from Russia and Iran.
“Syria is the golden ring of resistance front,” Ali Akbar Velayati, top adviser to Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, told Iran’s Student News Agency ISNA.
“If Assad and the Syrian people fail in their fight against Takfiri (hardline Sunni Islamist) groups…, their next target will be (Shi’ite-led) Iraq, followed by Iran,” he said.
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This is the same bunch that were allowed to kill hundreds of us in Southern Iraq...without sanction...yea, they were even rewarded by our WH with a favorable treaty. I hope thousands of the IRGC meet the same fate in a desert far from home.
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“If Assad and the Syrian people fail in their fight against Takfiri (hardline Sunni Islamist) groups…, their next target will be (Shi’ite-led) Iraq, followed by Iran,” he said.
So I should worry about that? Unless the statement is a line planted by Champ - then I'd worry!
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Buh-bye. Have a nice death.
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[ARA News] SERE KANIYE – Amid the ongoing Syrian war, life conditions have been deteriorating in Rojava, including in the Hasakah province. Prices of basic daily supplies and materials have dramatically increased, making life for civilians more difficult and movement at the markets is never like before.
People who insisted to stay in Syria’s Kurdish region [Rojava] despite the mounting violence are encountering hard living conditions, locals told ARA News.
“The prices are now very high and the roads of transport became very difficult and insecure, that’s why 1kg tomato now costs 450SP, potatoo 400SP and cucumber 400SP. People are poor and the living conditions in the region became unbearable,” says Hikmat, owner of a vegetable store in Sere Kanye city of Hasakah province.
“The main reasons for the increasing prices of food supplies include the scarcity of safe routes to import those goods. In Damascus 1kg tomato is 150SP while here it reaches 450SP. May God help our people,” Hikmat added.
According to economists and observers, the main reason for the increasing prices is the closure of the Semalka crossing on the border between Rojava (Syrian Kurdish region) and Iraqi Kurdistan, beside the mounting expenses of transportation within Syria and the decreasing rates of the Syrian pound in exchange for foreign currencies.
Mustafa Mayim, a citizen of Hasakah, told ARA News that the Syrian pound (Lira) has been dramatically decreasing.
“We need authorities of the region to ease this siege on our people. Somalia crossing should reopen to avoid a humanitarian crisis in Rojava, and the local authorities of the Auto-Administration should rather assist the people instead of imposing more taxes on the scarcely imported goods,” Mayim said. “For instance sugar is nonexistent in our areas at the moment, and once it’s available the price of 1kg exceeds 1000SP.”
It is expected that the [Kurdish-led] Auto-Administration [that governs Rojava] would try to rely on local production. However, the fear remains that the citizens would still suffer the lack of basic supplies and constantly increasing prices at the local markets.
[ARA News] VIENNA – Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov again voiced the Russian position that the Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD) should be included in the Syrian peace talks in Geneva. Analysts say the Russians want to use the Kurds against Turkey and the United States.
“It is very important that our joint position in the UN Security Council supposes an inclusive charter of the Syrian talks and we don’t have to exclude any parties, including Kurdish parties,” Lavrov said.
“We think it is something that we mustn’t do, and we mustn’t hinder including their party and to give them access to talks in Geneva,” he said in a press conference with US Secretary of State John Kerry, and UN Special Envoy Staffan de Mistura, after the meeting of the International Syria Support Group in Vienna.
Moreover, the Russian FM said that the 19 to 90 kilometers border with Turkey still controlled by the Islamic State (ISIS) should be liberated from the radical group.
“And there are two enclaves of Kurds, and from time to time Turkey says that if the Kurds push ISIL [ISIS] out from this border zone it will not put up with that because it is not acceptable for them,” Russian FM Lavrov said.
“In any case, somebody must combat ISIL on that border area because it is fragile. The contraband flow now – it has decreased and there was a flow of supplies, of weapons to the extremists and to flows of militants, and everybody acknowledges that this is not acceptable,” the Russian FM said.
According to Dov Friedman, the director of Middle East Petroleum, Russia is trying to use the exclusion of the PYD from Geneva to drive a wedge between Turkey and the US, that are still allies.
“Certainly, the PYD should be included, but that’s not Lavrov voices support for it. The Russians have again identified and exploited a wedge issue between the U.S. and Turkey over the PYD’s role in a Syrian transition,” expert Friedman told ARA News.
“Turkey routinely thwarts greater cooperation between the Syrian Arab opposition and the PYD, but the U.S. also shoulders considerable blame,” he said, amidst rumours that US officials visited the Kurdish city of Kobane in northern Syria on Monday to discuss future military operations.
“Its narrow focus on ISIS deemphasizes the broader Syrian conflict and enables other actors to impede progress toward a broader, collaborative opposition working toward a new Syria,” he said.
Speaking to ARA News, Tony Badran, a researcher at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, said that the Russian government wants to dilute the Syria opposition by supporting the PYD and to diminish the influence of the Saudi- and Turkish-backed groups.
“By adding others whose position toward the Assad regime isn’t as strong, or who are more amenable to reaching a working arrangement with Assad, it looks to turn the position of the Saudi- and Turkish-backed opposition into that of an outlying minority,” he said.
“On the other hand, it serves other, broader Russian purposes vis-a-vis Turkey/NATO and the US. The Russians are looking to shut out Turkey from Syria,” Badran told ARA News.
“The way to do this, they’ve been very explicit, is to line up the border with the YPG [Kurdish forces of the People’s Protection Units]. Beyond the Syrian theater, this would mean gaining leverage against Turkey, and having an asset controlling the southern frontier of NATO (where the Russians are now directly present),” he added.
According to Badran, the Russians want to use the YPG as an instrument to push the US toward an open military and diplomatic cooperation with Russia, on Russian terms.
“[They want] to draw the US into a de facto partnership with the [Assad] regime, as the Russians look to include the PYD into an arrangement with the regime through the diplomatic process. So, any US cooperation with the Russians or the YPG would effectively, if not formally, lend recognition to the regime, and to the political arrangement that Russia brokered there,” he told ARA News.
However, Timur Akhmetov, an independent Russian analyst on the Middle East, believes that Russia wants to ensure that PYD keeps neutral in the conflict.
“If the PYD is neutral it can be used both against opposition and Turkey. Also Lavrov’s statement should demonstrate to the PYD that Russia is somehow supporting the Kurdish cause, but again Russia is playing a double game with PYD, “ he said.
“I don’t think Russia is sincere about Kurdish rights,” Akhmetov told ARA News. “Their main goal for now is to secure the regime, pacify the opposition and then to get to the Kurds.”
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"Russia is trying to use the exclusion of the PYD from Geneva to drive a wedge between Turkey and the US, that are still allies." In reality, in driving a "wedge" Russia is doing the US a favor (depending on who wins the next US election).
[EN.ZAMANALWSL.NET] Ahrar al-Sham movement and Nour al-din al-Zenki have both denied any knowledge of 'Jaish al-Shamal', or the North Army, that intended to fight the Islamic State (ISIS) in the North countryside of Aleppo.
The military spokesman of Nour al-Din al-Zanki, captain Abdul Salam Abdul Razzak told Zaman Al Wasl that the aim of those lies about including the name of the movement is to confuse the rebels by creating rumors around them.
Ahrar al-Sham movement has confirmed to Zaman Al Wasl via a phone call with the Abo Yusuf al-Mohajer, the military spokesman, that they have no information about Jaish al-Shamal, and mentioned that the movement only participated with the operation room of Jaish al-Fatah.
Many sources could not deny the formation of a united army in the north of Syria including all the U.S-Supported formations including big formations like Ahrar al-Sham movement and al-Zenki, and that was indicted by sending 400 fighters of Ahrar al-Sham movement to the Northern countryside of Aleppo.
News reports mentioned that American-Turkish agreement have resulted in deciding the formation of an operation room including the U.S-supported formations to help in pushing the Islamic State away from the Turkish southern borders with Syria to protect the Turkish southern towns from ISIS’s attacks which resulted in almost 40 deaths especially in Kilis province.
Many tweets of the Major General Mohib Shalati were surfaced over the internet saying that the intelligence of the great regional countries have pushed the non-terrorist-listed formation to form a military body named Jaish al-Shamal.
He mentioned that the army is going to be in a form of an operation room includes most of big rebel formation and al-Zenli an Ahrar al-Sham are within it.
Nour al-Din al-Zenki was formed in late 2011 by Shaikh Tawfiq Shahabuddin in the Shaikh Salman area north-west of Aleppo. It took part in the initial battles that started the Battle of Aleppo in July 2012 capturing the Salaheddine neighborhood, then they were forced to withdraw to the North countryside. The movement has received financial aid from the United States as part of the CIA’s program to support moderate rebel groups.
Ahrar ash-Sham has almost 10000 to 20000 fighters making it the second single most powerful formation fighting against the Syrian regime after the Free Syrian Army. It was the main organization operating under the umbrella of the Syrian Islamic Front and was a major component of the Islamic Front. It was led by Hassan Aboud until his death in 2014.
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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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Gulbuddin Hekmatyar
[AnNahar] The first schoolgirl 
[DAWN] Interpol on Tuesday issued a red corner notice (RCN) against
[GMA News] Russia and the Philippines are expected to begin military and anti-terror cooperation under the administration of incoming Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte, the Russian ambassador indicated to reporters. Duterte met Ambassador Igor Khovaev on Wednesday.
