[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The social media have been rife with a viral report suggesting that the successor of Mullah Mohammad had a Pak passport.
A photograph which purportedly shows a photograph of Mullah Akhtar Mansoor printed in the main page of a Pak passport has gone viral on social media following reports of his death in a drone strike.
Mullah Mansoor’s death has been confirmed by the Afghan security institutions including the Afghan Intelligence Agency, National Directorate of Security ...the Afghan national intel agency... (NDS).
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... also confirmed the supreme leader of the Taliban group Mullah Akhtar Mansoor was killed in a drone strike in Quetta, the lovely provincial capital of 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... province of Pakistain.
The US Department of Defense first confirmed on Saturday that the Taliban supreme leader was targeted in a drone strike.
"Today, the Department of Defense conducted an Arclight airstrike that targeted Taliban leader Mullah Mansur in a remote area of the Afghanistan-Pakistain border region," a statement by Department of Defense said.
The Afghan government also confirmed that the vehicle of Mullah Mansoor was targeted in an Arclight airstrike in the southwest of the town of Ahmad Wal.
However, a good lie finds more believers than a bad truth... the Afghan government said an investigation is underway to confirm that death of Mansoor which would be announced as soon as they receive final information confirming his death.
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Federal Government of Somalia’s (FGS) President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud is planning to dissolve parliament ahead of presidential and parliamentary election and selection processes later this year, Garowe Online reports.
The decision is said to be under pondering as western donors and members of International Community say they are disappointed that the 275-seat-chamber of national assembly failed to pass 2016 electoral transition. Mohamud is in clockwork talks with his Prime Minister, Parliament Speaker and regional presidents at Villa Somalia.
Presidency sources tell GO that a parliamentary session has once more been postponed on Saturday for concerns over the future of Somalia Election Blueprint should parliament decline to vote in favor.
197 MPs, a greater majority compared to those who attended recent sessions have trooped into parliament house, overshadowing intense political discussions in Mogadishu with possible relapse into politics of chaos.
Mohamud is seeking support from regional presidents for controversial scheme to include members representing Banadir region in the Upper House. Somali President will decree National Election Proposal (NEP) if parliament repeals it tomorrow, meaning lawmakers would be disbanded as soon as possible.
UN delegates called for swift endorsement of election modality jointly introduced by Somali political leaders on April 12.
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Washington has imposed sanctions on a man it says is a key IS operative in Libya as part of what the US Treasury describes as its aggressive action against those who finance, support and arm the terrorists.
The 37 year-old Salmi Salama Salim Sulayman ‘Ammar is the only one of six terrorists just sanctioned by the US who operates out of Libya. Also known as “Abu Asra” and “Yusri” Ammar, who may be an Egyptian national, is said by the Americans to have pledged allegiance to ISIL in Syria in late 2014, when he based himself in Libya. He then become involved in providing financial and material support to its operations in the Sinai peninsular.
The US Treasury describes him as one of ISIL’s “critical facilitators” in North Africa, claiming that he helped move hundreds of thousands of dollars, weapons and ammunition to the Sinai. However, the Americans have given no details of what they believe to be Ammar’s role with IS in Libya.
The sanctions mean that any property interests that Ammar has within US jurisdiction are frozen and no US citizen is able to have any financial dealings with him.
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[Al Ahram] Prominent Egyptian rights campaigner Mina Thabet was remanded in jug for fifteen days on Saturday by prosecutors in Cairo, to be investigated on charges including seeking to overturn the regime and joining a terrorist group.
Thabet, the programme director for minorities and marginalised groups at the Egyptian Commission for Rights and Freedoms, was taken from his home during a raid by plainclothes police in the early hours of Thursday morning, the NGO has said.
On Thursday a prosecutor ordered him detained for an initial four days, on charges of inciting unlicenced protests, calling for the overthrow of the regime, inciting attacks on cop shoppes, and joining a terrorist group that prevents state insituttions from doing their work, according to ECRF lawyer Doaa Mostafa, who was quoted in the local press.
International rights watchdog Amnesia Amnesty International condemned the arrest as a "flagrant attack against freedom of expression and association" and in a Thursday release described Thabet as "a pillar of Egypt’s human rights ...which are often intentionally defined so widely as to be meaningless... community" who "has tirelessly worked to defend the rights of minority groups, including Coptic Christians."
Thabet is the second employee of the ECRF to be tossed in the calaboose Yez got nuttin' on me, coppers! Nuttin'! in recent weeks; on 25 April, Ahmed Abdallah, the director of the NGO's board, was arrested at his home. He has since been charged with inciting unlicenced protests, among other offences.
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[Ynet] Tunisia's Islamist party Ennahda will separate its political and religious work, its chief said on Friday, moving away from its tradition of political Islam.
Ennahda was the first Islamist party to come to power in the wake of the 2011 Arab Spring revolutions and it took part in the first government coalition after the overthrow of Tunisia's autocratic leader Zine El-Abidine Ben Ali.
It won the first post-uprising election by appealing to many Tunisians who saw its Islamist identity as an antidote to the years of corruption and repression under the Ben Ali government in one of the region's most secular nations.
[Al Jazeera] Nigeria's information minister said on Tuesday that 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... was "largely defeated" - despite two days of grisly attacks blamed on the gang that killed dozens in the volatile northeast.
Lai Mohammed said the Nigerian government had greatly reduced Boko Haram's capacity to strike, adding it was on its last legs as a rebel force since launching an insurgency six years ago that has killed an estimated 20,000 people.
"Boko Haram has been largely defeated. They know they are on their way out," Mohammed told journalists in Lagos.
"They lack the capacity to launch horrendous attacks they used to do in the past. We have succeeded in dislodging them. Our problem now is how to resettle the internally displaced people."
Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari set a self-imposed deadline to stamp out the group on December 31, and he said recently Boko Haram had been "technically" defeated.
However, facts are stubborn; statistics are more pliable... it is believed Boko Haram was responsible for a series of attacks last weekend on towns in the north of Africa's most populous nation, calling into question the government's claims.
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[VOA News] The war against 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... lent added significance to Cameroon ...a long, narrow country that fills the space between Nigeria and Chad on the northeast, CAR to the southeast. Prior to incursions by Boko Haram nothing ever happened there... ’s annual National Day celebrations Friday. There were the usual military parades and speeches, but citizens also mobilized to honor and help the troops.
Hundreds of youths sang in front of President Paul Biya. If it weren’t for the military, they sang, their country would have been seized by Boko Haram.
Cameroon has deployed more than 8,000 soldiers to the north to fight the Nigerian terrorist group.
In hospitals around Yaounde, people donated blood all week for maimed soldiers. Among them was university student Julienne Njock, 19. She said she could not go to the front but could make this modest contribution. The teenager said she was moved when she saw maimed soldiers, some who had lost legs to amputation.
Cameroon said it needs at least 400,000 pints of blood and that shortages have forced medical staff to stop work to give blood for urgent cases.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Yemeni Foreign Minister Abdulmalik Mikhlafi who is leading the government negotiating team announced Saturday that he received regional and international guarantees to comply with the six points mentioned by the government delegation in Kuwait consultations.
He added in a tweet that the delegation received the guarantees in order to give Kuwait consultations a ’last chance.’
The Yemeni government late on Tuesday suspended its participation in UN-sponsored peace talks in Kuwait and said it would only return if its opponents, the Houthis, committed to withdraw from cities they have seized since 2014 and hand over weapons.
The talks center on government demands for the Houthis to hand over their weapons and quit cities captured since 2014 and the formation of a new government that would include the Houthis.
The pullout comes after UN special envoy Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed said he was optimistic about achieving a peaceful settlement in the war-torn country.
The two delegations were on the verge of finalizing a deal to release half of the detainees and prisoners before the start of the Muslim holy fasting month of Ramadan in early June.
The United Nations ...an organization originally established to war on dictatorships which was promptly infiltrated by dictatorships and is now held in thrall to dictatorships... estimates that more than 6,400 people have been killed and 2.8 million displaced in Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of. Except for a tiny handfull of Jews everthing there is very Islamic... since March last year.
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[billingcat] On Saturday, numerous supporters of ISIS posted pictures on social media from major European cities, displaying messages of support for the group. This social media campaign was in support of an imminent speech from ISIS spokesperson Abu Mohammed al-Adnani. In these photographs, backgrounds of various European cities can be seen, with the intention of, as described by Sheera Frankel of BuzzFeed News World, “instill[ing] fear by showing that the group had supporters in major European cities.” As noted by J.M. Berger, this was the “first time in months that the ISIS social media team has come out in force to push a release,” and that the ISIS “fanboys” felt accomplished in getting their hashtag to tweet.
However, these photographs revealed the exact locations of the ISIS supporters in their photographs, in some cases even exposing their home addresses. Numerous Twitter users crowdsourced the geolocation of these photographs throughout the day on Saturday, eventually pinpointing the locations of several photographs shared by ISIS supporters.
One ISIS supporter tweeted a photograph of him/herself from Münster, Germany.
[IsraelTimes] Officials see clubs for judo, kickboxing and other sports as fertile ground for terror recruiters, places for attackers to hone skills
Combat sports are booming around the world but in La Belle France they increasingly draw the attention of intelligence services hunting potential jihadists. Long concentrated in poor suburbs and with no real organization watching over their activities, critics say the mixed martial arts, judo, kickboxing and other clubs are ideal for fomenting radicalization and jihadist training. Ironically, many of the clubs get subsidies from French town halls.
Perhaps they should subsidize soccer clubs instead? Basketball? Competitive knitting?
They could subsidize wine tasting, sitting about in cafés, and fashion design...
Mederic Chapitaux, who has written a book, "Sport, The Fault In State Security," about the phenomenon, believes La Belle France should not be alone in worrying.
[AnNahar] Mohamad Jomaa breathlessly recounts his covert journey from Greece to Macedonia: a 10-day trek through the mountains, getting robbed by local "mafia" and handing over costly bribes to police.
While the so-called "Balkan route" is now officially closed to migrants, hundreds are still finding ways to cross it every day -- whether furtively by foot or in the hands of smuggling gangs.
"Maybe today or tomorrow I'm going to Serbia, walking again. I don't care (about) police or mafia or anything, I want to go to Germany," says Jomaa, 20, a law student from Syria.
He and his four travelling companions, other Syrian and Iraqi young men, are spending a couple of days recovering at the Tabanovce refugee centre in northern Macedonia before readying for their next leg north to Belgrade.
They tell of intense haggling and deals struck at the camp between refugees desperate to leave and the smugglers who visit at nightfall.
"It's a bazaar here," jokes floppy-haired Jomaa.
After countries along the Balkan route shut their borders to migrants back in March, around 1,500 people were stuck at Tabanovce. Now just a few hundred remain as those who are able have left.
Before the border lockdown, when thousands were passing through Macedonia each day, "we didn't know who is poor and who is rich," says Driton Maliqi from Legis, a Macedonian NGO working with refugees.
But the ones still here are clearly poor, "because people who have money, they manage to go," he says, adding that some get cash wired to a nearby town from their families.
- 'Smuggler channels' -
The camp's numbers are boosted by those using Tabanovce as a quick stop-off point on their way to Serbia and beyond.
They arrive from Greece, where thousands have been detained in overcrowded camps for weeks as they wait for asylum under a shaky EU-Turkey deal -- spurring some to just get up and leave.
"Even though the Balkan road is closed, we can say that every day new refugees are arriving, but everyone knows they are coming in smuggler channels," says Maliqi.
Gangs smuggling migrants to Europe raked in up to $6 billion in 2015 alone, according to a joint report released on Tuesday by Interpol and the EU's law enforcement agency Europol.
More than 90 percent of migrants use smugglers at some point on their journey -- paying an average of 3,000 to 6,000 euros -- and that percentage is expected to rise this year, the report says.
It warns of a likely increase in migrants being targeted for labour or sexual exploitation as a way to repay their debts.
[Ynet] An Afghan who once faced war crimes charges at Guantanamo has now been cleared for release from the U.S. base in Cuba, the government announced Friday.
The Periodic Review Board, an organization made up of various government agencies that conducts parole-style hearings for prisoners held at Guantanamo, determined it was no longer necessary to detain the man known by the single name of Obaidullah. A statement announcing the decision was posted on a Pentagon website.
"He's fat, pre-diabetic, has a bad heart and worse knees. How much harm can he do now?"
[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 confirmed the supreme leader of the Taliban group Mullah Akhtar Mansoor was killed in a drone strike in Quetta, the placid provincial capital of 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... province of Pakistain.
CEO Abdullah confirmed the death of Mullah Mansoor in an online statement, saying "Taliban leader Akhtar Mansoor was killed in a drone strike in Quetta, Pakistain at 4:30 pm yesterday."
Abdulllah further added that Mansoor’s car was attacked in Dahl Bandin area of Quetta.
The confirmation by CEO Abdullah followed shortly after the Afghan Intelligence, National Directorate of Security ...the Afghan national intel agency... (NDS), confirmed the Taliban supreme leader Mullah Akhtar Mansoor was killed in an Arclight airstrike in Pakistain.
The US Department of Defense first confirmed on Saturday that the Taliban supreme leader was targeted in a drone strike.
"Today, the Department of Defense conducted an Arclight airstrike that targeted Taliban leader Mullah Mansur in a remote area of the Afghanistan-Pakistain border region," a statement by Department of Defense said.
The Afghan government also confirmed that the vehicle of Mullah Mansoor was targeted in an Arclight airstrike in the southwest of the town of Ahmad Wal.
However, man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them... the Afghan government said an investigation is underway to confirm that death of Mansoor which would be announced as soon as they receive final information confirming his death.
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All that effort and money expended to build the asset. The ISI is gonna be pissed
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The Ministry of Defense of Afghanistan (MoD) said the leaderships of the terrorist groups are based in Pakistain, apparently gesturing towards the Taliban’s Quetta Council and the Haqqani terrorist network using the Pak soil to conduct operations in Afghanistan.
A front man for the Ministry of Defense (MoD), Dawlat Waziri, told news hounds that Taliban’s supreme leader Mullah Akhtar Mansoor was killed 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... province of Pakistain.
Waziri invited Taliban group to come to 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.... and start activities as a political group instead of electing a new leader.
He warned that the new leader of the Taliban group would face the same fate as Mullah Mansoor and would be killed.
The remarks by Waziri come as the Afghan intelligence and 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... confirmed the death of Mullah Akhtar Mansoor in an Arclight airstrike in Balochistan province.
The Taliban group however has rejected the reports and said Mullah Mansoor is health and alive.
This comes as the Afghan officials have long been criticizing Pakistain for allowing the anti-government armed bully boy groups of Afghanistan to use its soil and plan and coordinate attacks in Afghanistan.
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[GEO.TV] US Secretary of State John F. I was in Vietnam, you know Kerry Former Senator-for-Life from Massachussetts, self-defined war hero, speaker of French, owner of a lucky hat, conqueror of Cambodia, and current Secretary of State... said on Sunday Afghan Taliban leader Mullah Akhtar Mansour posed a "continuing imminent threat" to US personnel in Afghanistan and to Afghans, and was a threat to peace.
US officials in Washington said on Saturday US missile-firing drones had attacked Mansour and probably killed him in a strike in southwest Pakistain, near the Afghan border, authorised by US President Barack Obama They get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them... "Yesterday, the United States conducted a precision air strike that targeted Taliban leader Mullah Mansour in a remote area of the Afghanistan-Pakistain border. Mansour posed a continuing, imminent threat" to US personnel and Afghans, Kerry told a news conference in the Myanmar capital.
"This action sends a clear message to the world that we will continue to stand with our Afghan partners as they work to build a more stable, united, secure and prosperous Afghanistan."
Kerry said the leaders of both Pakistain and Afghanistan were notified of the air strike but he declined to elaborate on the timing of the notifications, which he said included a telephone call from him to Pak Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif ... served two non-consecutive terms as prime minister, heads the Pakistain Moslem League (Nawaz). Noted for his spectacular corruption, the 1998 Pak nuclear test, border war with India, and for being tossed by General Musharraf... "Peace is what we want. Mansour was a threat to that effort and to bringing an end to the violence and suffering people of Afghanistan have endured for so many years now.
He was also directly opposed to the peace negotiation and to the reconciliation process," Kerry said.
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[GEO.TV] QUETTA: Two bodies were recovered on Sunday from a burnt down car in Noshki area of 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... province close to Pakistain's borders with Afghanistan and Iran. Note that Noshki is a town and district in Balochistan, Pakistain. It lies southwest of Quetta, and is situated in a plain at the base of the Quetta plateau. Musta been a hell of an explosion to blow them all the way across the border like that.
The bodies were recovered hours after reports of Afghan Taliban leader Mullah Akhtar Mansour being targeted in a US drone strike in the Pak-Afghan border region.
It was unclear if either of the bodies was that of the Taliban leader.
Sources said one of the two bodies was identified as that of a local driver named Mohammad Azam, whose cousin confirmed that he was bringing a passenger from taftan to Quetta.
The second body was burnt beyond recognition, but the deputy commissioner in Chaghai said a passport had been found from near the vehicle.
The passport belongs to a man named Wali Mohammad, a resident of Qila Abdullah in Balochistan, he said.
It was yet to be determined if the passport belonged to the second man riding in the car, which was completely destroyed by the flames.
Initial post-mortem of the bodies revealed that both men recieved injuries from an apparent kaboom. Hospital sources said the men appeared to have died after kaboom blew up, and that they had also suffered wounds from metal shrapnel hitting them.
Pak authorities are currently investigating the incident to ascertain the identities of both the bodies.
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[GEO.TV] The Pak Foreign Office said it was "seeking clarification" about a US drone strike against Afghan Taliban leader Mullah Akhtar Mansour, the foreign ministry front man said on Sunday, after US officials said Mansour was likely killed in an air strike.
"I have seen the reports. We are seeking clarification," Foreign Office spokesperson Nafees Zakaria said in a statement.
He added that Pakistain wanted the Afghan Taliban to return to the negotiating table to end the long war in Afghanistan.
"Military action is not a solution," he added.
US Secretary of State John F. I was in Vietnam, you know Kerry Former Senator-for-Life from Massachussetts, self-defined war hero, speaker of French, owner of a lucky hat, conqueror of Cambodia, and current Secretary of State... said on Sunday that Pakistain Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif ... served two non-consecutive terms as prime minister, heads the Pakistain Moslem League (Nawaz). Noted for his spectacular corruption, the 1998 Pak nuclear test, border war with India, and for being tossed by General Musharraf... was notified of the air strike which took place a day earlier, but declined to elaborate on the timing of the notification.
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[NATION.PK] 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.... has released a new 22-minute Arabic-language documentary on purported Indian jihadists in its ranks, providing the first interviews with five runaway jihadists known to have joined the ranks of fighters in Iraq and Syria since 2014.
The video, released online on Friday, is the first propaganda the Islamic State has produced with content focused on India and South Asia.
Thane engineering student Fahad Tanvir Sheikh who travelled to Syria in 2014 along with three other men from the city, as first reported in The Indian Express, is the only individual conclusively identified in the video, in which he uses the pseudonym Abu Amr’ al-Hindi.
"We will return," Sheikh vows, "but with a sword in hand, to avenge the Babri Masjid, and the killings of Muslims in Kashmire, in Gujarat ...where rioting seems to be a traditional passtime... , and in Muzaffarnagar."
Sheikh also pays homage to his friend from Thane, Shahim Tanki, who is said to have been killed in a kaboom in Raqqa last year.
The third member of the group, Areeb Majid, is now being prosecuted by the National Investigation Agency (NIA).
The video also features several still-to-be-identified members, suspected to be once of the Indian Mujahideen A locally recruited auxilliary of Pakistain's Lashkar-e-Taiba, designed to give a domestic patina to Pakistain's terror war against its bigger neighbor... , whose members are known to have been serving with Islamic State forces after breaking with their Pakistain-based leadership.
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They are coming to get you Babri! The zombies know!
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] Pakistain’s foreign affairs adviser Sartaj PrunefaceAziz ...Adviser to Pak Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on National Security and Foreign Affairs, who believes in good jihadis and bad jihadis as a matter of national policy... has said the country has no control over the Taliban group, a statement which he makes nearly three months after admitting Pakistain’s influence over the group.
"Vested interests have often tried to create a perception that Pakistain actually controls the Taliban," Aziz said.
He said such an impression breeds unrealistic expectations from Pakistain.
This comes as Aziz admitted earlier in March that Islamabad has influence on the Afghan Taliban leaders based Pakistain and that the country could use certain leverages to bring the Taliban leaders to negotiations table with the Afghan government.
Speaking at an event organized by the Council on Foreign Relations, Aziz said the leadership of the group is based in Pakistain along with their families who are using certain facilities, including health centers in the country.
Aziz further added that Islamabad can put pressure on the Taliban leadership to sit-in for peace talks but it can’t negotiate on behalf of the Afghan government.
Meanwhile, ...back at the barn, a little lightbulb figuratively appeared over Bossy's head... Aziz in his speech at the fifth round of Pakistain-Afghanistan dialogue organized by Regional Peace Institute, said the Afghan Taliban have not yet responded positively to the efforts made by the Quadrilateral Coordination Group (QCG) to revive talks between them and the Afghan government.
He hoped that the QCG countries in line with their shared responsibility would continue efforts for such talks to bring peace and stability.
[DAWN] The G7 on Saturday pledged to clamp down on financial support for terrorist networks, with a plan to step up intelligence-sharing, freeze assets and tighten reporting rules on international transfers.
The club of wealthy nations has been cooperating to block the financial pipelines that allow Lions of Islam to travel, plan and carry out attacks, but said that more must be done.
"Countering violent extremism and bringing perpetrators to justice remain top priorities for the whole international community," they said after two days of talks in northern Japan.
"The G7 commits to working together to strengthen the global fight against terrorist financing," said an action plan to be adopted by the group's leaders who meet in Japan next week.
French Finance Minister Michel Sapin, whose country suffered devastating attacks in January and November of 2015, said the Group of Seven was now in the "operational phase" of its efforts.
"We will introduce effective tools at our disposal in the war against terrorism financing," he told AFP. "It is absolutely essential. "Sapin said that good exchanges between intelligence agencies were vital, "especially to fight against large movements of money by, for example, 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.... in Syria or Iraq".
Another key tool is to counter the cover provided by "prepaid but anonymous phone cards, movements of cash that allow anonymous access to finances," he said.
"We must trace these. "The G7 action plan identified "targeted financial sanctions" as critical to hindering terrorist support networks.
It also emphasised the need to freeze terrorist assets, including those of individual Lion of Islams.
Among specific measures, the bloc committed to reducing the threshold for declaring cross-border cash transactions from $15,000, 15,000 euros and two million yen to $10,000, 10,000 euros and one million yen.
It also said it would provide "continued strong leadership" to the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), which sets international standards to combat money laundering and terrorism finance.
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Money seized is taxes not collected. Of course they should be after it.
[Al Jazeera] Syrian social media users have circulated photos online of a well-known government army commander posing next to dead bodies in the eastern Syria's Deir Az Zor province.
Tasked with leading the Syrian government's military operations in Deir Az Zor, Issam Zahreddine was reportedly photographed with two hanged bodies behind, both of which ostensibly bear the marks of torture.
The identity of the two killed people remains unknown, sources told Al Jazeera. They both appeared to have been cut into several pieces before being hanged.
Zahreddin's son and other soldiers reportedly appear in similar pictures that have circulated on social media in recent days.
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God OMG I cannot believe youz guyz don't remember it's his honey moon pictures dah they made it all legal for them! Geesh the dude who issued that fat chick thingy is gonna be so mad!
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Security officials in the Kurdistan region recently announced the death of Ali Aswad al-Zubai Abu Mujahid, the head of intelligence office in ISIS. More importantly, he was described as the one responsible for the safety of the group’s leader, His Supreme Immensity, Caliph of the Faithful and Galactic Overlord, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi ...formerly merely the head of ISIL and a veteran of the Bagram jailhouse. Looks like a new messiah to bajillions of Moslems, like just another dead-eyed mass murder to the rest of us... According to intelligence information gathered so far, al-Aswad was targeted by an Arclight airstrike carried out by the international coalition near the village of Tel Azba in the Nineveh province of northern Iraq. Two other senior ISIS leaders were said to have been with him at the time of the attack.
Born in 1978 in Khan Dhari in Iraq, al-Aswad was known to be an bad boy affiliated to hard-line organizations that were affected by the return of Afghan Iraqis. He is said to have been close to al-Baghdadi since 2003 and was responsible for his movements and security.
Expert on terrorist groups, Hisham al-Hashimi, says terror leaders who returned from Afghanistan included Mohammed Hussein al-Jubouri who is currently the leader of Ansar al-Sunna, deceased Mohammed al-Falastini, who was the leader of Jund al-Aqsa in Syria, Abdel-Hamid Abu Azzam who runs al-Qaeda’s recruitment network in Europe and Mohammed Saleh, the ISIS secretary in Baghdad.
According to al-Hashimi, these were the leaders who inspired Ali al-Aswad al-Zubai, who was incarcerated in the Bucca prison from 2005 to 2008.
Notably, all the reports explaining the hierarchy of the organization do not put al-Aswad in the top ranks of the leadership. People who have been described as close to the ISIS leader al-Baghdadi include Alaa al-Afri, Abu Ali Anbari, Abu Omar al-Chichani, Abu Mohammed al-Adnani, and Abu Sulaiman Nasser.
These reports also suggest that al-Aswad was Baghdadi’s intelligence agent and his personal guard.
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affiliated to hard-line organizations that were affected by the return of Afghan Iraqis.
In other words, Al Qaeda.
He is said to have been close to al-Baghdadi since 2003
More specificially, Al Qaeda in Iraq, which subquently became ISIS. Got it.
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