From the beginning of May, but the pattern is familiar. This is why Afghans don't have nice things.
[AnNahar] The decision to sack an Afghan strongman accused of deliberately handing over parts of a crucial southern highway to the Taliban has laid bare power struggles and tribal feuds within police ranks, worsening insecurity.
Dozens of police checkpoints on the 160 kilometer (100 mile) highway connecting the scenic provincial capitals of Tarin Kot, in Uruzgan, and Kandahar last week fell under Taliban control, raising security alarms.
Their loss prompted a chorus of allegations that they were deliberately surrendered on the orders of Rahimullah Khan, a local powerbroker and deputy Uruzgan police chief.
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[DAWN] The United States offered an olive branch to the new Taliban leader when it asked him to join the Afghan reconciliation process, says the US State Department.
"Our olive branch would be simply that we have long said that we support an Afghan-led, Afghan-owned grinding of the peace processor and reconciliation process, and we would welcome any efforts by the new Taliban leadership to engage," said a State Department front man, Mark Toner.
Asked if the United States would offer the new Taliban leader Mullah Haibatullah an olive branch to encourage him to join the grinding of the peace processor, Mr Toner said the elimination of his predecessor last Saturday has created an opportunity for Mullah Haibatullah to quit violence.
But the US official once again refused to offer an assurance that American drones would not target the new Taliban leader if he chose to join negotiations.
"I’m just not going to -- and I said this yesterday -- ever preview any operational activities we may take with regard to targeting any individual."
Mr Toner, however, explained that the strike against Mullah Mansour was based on both his previous actions and his intent to carry out additional strikes not only against Afghan forces, but also against United States military forces on the ground in Afghanistan.
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The local officials in eastern Nangarhar The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country.. province have said drone strikes have played a role in suppressing the activities of the loyalists of 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.... of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) terrorist group in Achin district.
The district administrative chief Ghalib Mujahid has said the group has received major blows in this district during the recent months and their activities have become limited by a large extent.
He said the loyalists are the terror group are targeted on daily basis both the Afghan forces and the US forces.
Mujahid further added that the terror group loses around 5 to 10 Lions of Islam on daily basis as a result of the counter-terrorism operations.
According to Mujahid, the drone strikes have mainly targeted the hideouts and centers of the terror group which they had established in this district.
Achin was once a stronghold of the loyalists of ISIS terrorist group from where they started their operations in the country.
The US forces stepped up Arclight airstrikes against the terror group after the B.O. regime granted more authorities to the US forces in the country.
The increased Arclight airstrikes against the terror group followed amid concerns that the leaders of the group are attempting to expand foothold in the country and establish a regional operational base in Nangarhar.
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The US Embassy in 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.... has issued a security alert warning its citizens regarding murderous Moslems planning attacks in the city.
"The U.S. Embassy in Kabul continues to receive reports of murderous Moslems planning unspecified attacks in Kabul City and elsewhere in Afghanistan against locations and individuals with potential American connections," the alert by the embassy states.
It also adds that the murderous Moslems are looking to attacks Afghan and U.S. government facilities, foreign embassies, foreign guest houses, restaurants, hotels, airports, civilian institutes, and educational centers.
The latest security alert by the US Embassy comes as the anti-government armed krazed killer groups are looking to carry out attacks in Kabul, specifically following the death of Mullah Akhtar Mansoor in a US drone strike last Saturday.
At least eleven people were killed and ten others were maimed in an kaboom in Kabul province earlier on Wednesday.
The incident took place after a jacket wallah detonated against a shuttle bus transporting employees of the Maidan Wardak provincial court.
Earlier, the Afghan cops thwarted a suicide kaboom plot against the Ministry of Interior compound by arresting a suicide bomber and seizing a Vehicle-borne Improvised Explosive Device (VBIED).
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] A prominent political figure and former Jihadi leader Abdul Rab Rasool Sayyaf ...Afghan Salafist warlord, owned by Saudi Arabia. He was the guy who invited al-Qaeda to come into Afghanistan and make themselves at home... has warned that Pakistain will be added to the list of State Sponsors of Terrorism if it does not refrain from wrongdoings.
Sayyaf was apparently pointing towards Pakistain’s support to the anti-government armed murderous Moslem groups fighting in Afghanistan, joining the Afghan officials to slam the country for providing shelter to terror groups.
He was speaking during a gathering in capital 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 remember 117 people belonging to Nahzat Islami killed 37 years ago.
Sayyaf said the world has recognized Pakistain and there will be one day that the name of Pakistain will be included in the list of State Sponsors of Terrorism.
He also called on the Taliban group to join grinding of the peace processor by renouncing violence, warning that the Talibs will be killed as their leaders if they chose to pursue violence.
The remarks by Sayyaf comes as the Afghan officials have long been criticizing Pakistain for providing shelter to anti-government armed murderous Moslem groups, specifically the Taliban group and the notorious Haqqani terrorist network.
The Afghanistan's Caped 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. .. earlier asked Pakistain to take actions against the leadership councils of the groups based in Beautiful Downtown Peshawar ...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (formerly known as the North-West Frontier Province), administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire. and Quetta cities of Pakistain.
President Ghani warned to take the issue to the international organizations, including the UN Security Council if Pakistain did not take any action against the groups waging violence in Afghanistan.
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[Al Ahram] The Czech Republic has extradited to the United States a Lebanese man who was detained on suspicion of supporting terrorism in a sting operation in 2014, police said Saturday.
Faouzi Jaber was caught trying to sell weapons from Ukraine to agents of the US Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) posing as guerilla fighters belonging to the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia FARC or FARC-EP, is either a Marxist-Leninist revolutionary guerrilla organization or a drug cartel based in Colombia. It claims to represent the rural poor in a struggle against Colombia's wealthier classes, and opposes United States influence in Colombia, neo-imperialism, monopolization of natural resources by multinational corporations, and the usual raft of complaints. It funds itself principally through ransom kidnappings, taxation of the drug trade, extortion, shakedowns, and donations. It has lately begun calling itself Bolivarian and is greatly admired by Venezuela's President-for-Life Chavez, who seemingly fantasizes about living in the woods and kidnapping people himself. He provides FARC with safe areas along the border. (FARC), according to Czech media.
He faces a life sentence in the United States after his extradition from the Czech Republic several weeks ago, police spokeswoman Marketa Janovska said in a statement.
Faouzi was tossed in the calaboose Please don't kill me! in April 2014 along with two other men of Lebanese-origin who were subsequently released in February 2016, provoking an angry reaction from the United States embassy in Prague.
Ali Taan Fayyad and Khaled Marabi were freed as part of a deal to secure the release of five Czech citizens kidnapped in Leb in July 2015, among whom was Fayyad's lawyer.
The two men were accused by American officials of preparing liquidations of US babus government employees and of planning to use a surface-to-air missile against a US diplomatic mission.
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[Al Ahram] A prominent member of Germany's far-left Linke party was hit in the face with a chocolate cream pie on Saturday in an attack claimed by a self-styled "anti-fascist" group protesting her stance on refugees.
Sahra Wagenknecht, who has advocated putting a limit on the number of refugees Germany should accept, is the second German politician to be attacked with a desert this year over her position on asylum-seekers. Beatrix von Storch of the anti-immigrant Alternative for Germany party suffered a similar fate last month.
Wagenknecht was sitting in the front row during the opening speech at a party congress when a young man stopped in front of her and threw the creamy pie in her face, before shouting what sounded like slogans.
The party's president interrupted his speech. As cameramen rushed towards her, one party official asked journalists not to film or take pictures of Wagenknecht as another sought to screen the Linke's parliamentary group leader with a jacket.
The man who threw the pie was swiftly taken away by security and offered no resistance. A young woman later said they belonged to a group called the "Anti-fascist Initiative, pies against the enemies of mankind," which was outraged by Wagenknecht's refugee policy.
Wagenknecht suffered a backlash in her own party when she spoke of a cap on how many refugees Germany should take in. The party has since distanced itself from that stance.
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An asylum seeker who jokingly wore a T-shirt saying 'I'm Muslim, don't panic' was so savagely beaten by his fellow refugees that he had to be rushed to hospital.
The 23-year-old Iraqi had thought that his fellow Islamic asylum seekers would see the funny side, but instead they accused him of offending their religion and decided to teach him a painful lesson.
The man was attacked in the evening as he returned to his asylum seeker home in Berlin, Germany wearing the T-shirt which he had just bought. He was allegedly confronted by three angry Muslims who ripped up the T-shirt and ran off after beating him.
Pic of the offending shirt at the link. Bwha-ha-ha...
Two of the alleged attackers, a 27-year-old from Syria and a 33-year-old from Lebanon, were later arrested on charges of aggravated GBH. Police said a report would be prepared for prosecutors.
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[Al Ahram] Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan ... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him... on Saturday condemned the United States' support of Kurdish fighters in Syria after AFP pictures revealed US commandos wearing the insignia of a militia branded a terror group by Ankara.
"The support they give to... the YPG (militia)... I condemn it," said Erdogan. "Those who are our friends, who are with us in NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A cautionary tale of cost-benefit analysis.... ... cannot, must not send their soldiers to Syria wearing YPG insignia."
Erdogan's comments came after an AFP photographer captured images of US troops in Syria wearing insignia of the Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG).
Ankara regards the YPG as a terror group, accusing it of carrying out attacks inside The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... and being the Syrian branch of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) which has fought an insurgency against the Turkish state for over three decades.
"The PKK, the PYD, the YPG, ISIS (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.... ), there is no difference. They are all terrorists," Erdogan said.
It had long been public knowledge that around 200 US commandos are in northern Syria helping local militia target the Islamic State bully boy group's de facto capital Raqa and guiding in coalition air strikes.
Erdogan, speaking in the majority Kurdish city Diyarbakir, accused the US of being dishonest because of its support for the militia and its political wing the Democratic Union Party (PYD).
"I believe that politics should be exercised with honesty," he said.
The US, seeking to avoid a rift with ally Turkey, had announced Friday that special operations troops in northern Syria would henceforth stop wearing the badge of the YPG guerrillas.
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[NDTV] The US has asked Pakistain to go after holy warriors especially the Taliban leadership, days after an American drone killed Taliban chief Mullah Akhtar Mansour in the country's troubled 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.
"We continue to cooperate closely with Afghanistan, but also urge Pakistain to go after terrorists, especially Taliban leadership, and that cooperation continues," State Department Deputy Spokesman Mark Toner told news hounds.
Meanwhile, ...back at the revival hall, Buford bit the snake and Eloise began speaking in tongues... a former US Ambassador to Afghanistan, James B Cunningham, said the drone strike that killed Taliban leader Mullah Mansour inside Pakistain should send a signal that the United States will not tolerate terrorist safe havens.
"I hope that this is the beginning of a message that we will not tolerate any more the strategic challenge that is posed by the leadership of the Taliban being in Pakistain and having a safe haven there. I hope that this is the beginning of a new phase in the effort to bring the Taliban into a= political discussion," he told the Atlantic Council.
"It is rumoured that senior parts of the ISI (Pakistain's intelligence agency) may have been involved in setting Mansour up. The official account is that we informed Pakistain of the strike after it took place. In places like Afghanistan and Pakistain, conspiracy rumours will circulate for some time," he said.
Mr Cunningham hoped that this would force Pakistain to rethink the wisdom of providing safe heavens to terrorists. "I would hope so. I have seen some commentary from some Pak observers that this may encourage a rethinking of the policy that the ISI has been pursuing. That is what is necessary. That's what we, the US, have been arguing for years; that's what we need to find a way to accomplish," he said.
"We have a core strategic objective here, which is to bring the conflict to an end. In order to do that we need to make clear to the Taliban leaders that they will not prevail by terror and by military means. And we, the international community, need to make clear to the ISI that we are no longer going to tolerate the kind of policy that they have been pursuing," the former top American diplomat said.
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[Al Ahram] Sunni politicians in Iraq condemned on Saturday a visit by Iranian General Qassem Soleimani to Shia paramilitary forces fighting alongside the Iraqi army to drive 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.... bandidosLions of Islam out of the Sunni city of Falluja.
Three politicians from the province of Anbar told Rooters the visit by Iran's al-Quds brigade commander could fuel sectarian tension and cast doubt on Baghdad's assertions that the offensive is an Iraqi-led effort to defeat Islamic State, and not to settle scores with the Sunnis.
Falluja, which lies about 50 kilometers (32 miles) west of Baghdad, is a bastion of the insurgency that fought the US occupation of Iraq and the Shi'ite-led authorities that replaced former Iraqi strongman Saddam Hussein, a Sunni.
In recent days, Iranian media published pictures of what they said was a visit by Soleimani to Falluja and a meeting he held with the leaders of the Iraqi coalition of Shi'ite militias known as Popular Mobilization, or Hashid Shaabi.
It is the second time Soleimani has appeared in Iraqi conflict zones. About a year ago, witnesses said he was present when Popular Mobilization fighters ousted Islamic State bandidosLions of Islam from cities north of the capital.
An Iraqi government front man did not confirm Soleimani's visit and stressed that Iranian advisors are present in Iraq in order to assist in the war on Islamic State (IS group) in the same capacity as those of the US-led anti-IS group coalition.
Member of parliament (MP) Hamid al-Mutlaq rejected that, however.
"We are Iraqis and not Iranians," he said. "Would Turkish or Saudi advisers be welcomed to assist in the battle?" he added, drawing a parallel between the three regional powers bordering Iraq -- mainly-Sunni The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... and 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... , and Shia Iran.
"Soleimani's presence is suspicious and a cause for concern; he is absolutely not welcome in the area," said Falluja parliamentarian Salim Muttar al-Issawi.
"I believe that the presence of such an official from the (Iranian) Revolutionary Guard could have sectarian implications," said another MP from the city, Liqaa Wardi.
Falluja was the first city captured by Islamic State in Iraq in January 2014, and is the second-largest still held by the bandidosLions of Islam after djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... , their de-facto capital.
The Association of Muslim Scholars of Iraq, a hardline political organization formed after Saddam's ouster to represent Sunnis, rejected the participation of the Shi'ite militias in the fighting in Falluja.
"The militias ... didn't come to liberate areas, as they claim, but to carry out their sectarian goals with direct guidance from Iran," it said in a statement on Friday.
Meanwhile, ...back at the palazzo, Count Guido had been cornered by the banditti... rivals Iran and Saudi Arabia traded accusations over Soleimani's role in Iraq.
"The presence of Iran's military advisers in Iraq under the command of General Qassem Soleimani is at the request of the country's legitimate government in order to fight terrorists," an Iranian foreign ministry front man said, according to the Fars news agency.
Saudi Foreign Minister Adel Al-Jubeir was quoted as telling Russia's RT channel Soleimani's presence in Iraq was "very negative."
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Watch what what happens to the guy in the red shirt his new associates,
[Ynet] In light of a possible war with Hezbollah, believed to have 100,000 rockets aimed at Israel, citizens will be trained in disaster relief and working with the population.
Israel is forming civil defense units throughout northern Israel to assist in any future conflict between Israel and Hezbollah, Col. Eren Makov, the Northern Regional Commander of the Homefront Command recently stated.
"There is a big change in the Arab population in Israel in that they are much more willing to cooperate with us," Makov said in an interview. "We give them training in what to do and they see it as a contribution."
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"There is a big change in the Arab population in Israel in that they are much more willing to cooperate with us," Makov said in an interview. "We give them training in what to do and they see it as a contribution."
[ARA News] AYN AL ISSA – Rojda Felat, the commander of the Northern Raqqa campaign told ARA News that the operations against ISIS extremists are continuing for the fourth day. This despite rumours that operations have stopped.
“Since the beginning of the campaign we have captured six villages and four farms [from ISIS],” she said.
In an exclusive interview with ARA News, the Kurdish female commander denied reports that the operations were halted and blamed the heavy mined areas.
“The border line of our areas is mined, so demining this area takes time,” she said.
Furthermore, local fighters told ARA News that the Islamic state is using human shields and prevent civilians from leaving Raqqa.
Felat said that so far the operation is only taking place for taking northern Raqqa.
“It depends on the situation and the strategic changes on the ground,” she added.
The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) led by the female commander Felat launched an operation on 24 May to liberate the northern countryside of Raqqa form ISIS.
She told ARA News that this has no affect on the cooperation between Kurds and the more conservative tribal Arbas in the SDF.
“This culture is broken because many women join the SDF, including Arabs, Kurds, and Syriacs,” she added.
“We in the SDF have no difference between men and women,” she said.
Nevertheless, while many Arab men are joining the SDF-forces, the number of Arab women joining the SDF is quite limited. So far mostly female Kurds join the battle against the Islamic State.
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[DAWN] The United States offered an olive branch to the new Taliban leader when it asked him to join the Afghan reconciliation process, says the US State Department.
Afghan Salafist warlord, owned by Saudi Arabia. He was the guy who invited al-Qaeda to come into Afghanistan and make themselves at home...
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[Al Ahram] A prominent member of Germany's far-left Linke party was hit in the face with a chocolate cream pie on Saturday in an attack claimed by a self-styled "anti-fascist" group protesting her stance on refugees.
[Al Ahram] Sunni politicians in Iraq condemned on Saturday a visit by Iranian General Qassem Soleimani to Shia paramilitary forces fighting alongside the Iraqi army to drive 
