[AlAhram] Egypt's state security prosecution referred on Sunday 292 alleged members of 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.... Lion of Islam group to a military court on charges of plotting to assassinate President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi and launch terrorist attacks in the country, state news agency MENA said.
Judiciary sources told local media that the military prosecution will release detailed confessions from a number of the suspects.
According to year-long investigations carried out by the state security prosecution, the suspects plotted two liquidation attempts against President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi, with the first in 2014 as he performed a pilgrimage in 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... , MENA said.
The alleged attempt, which also targeted Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Nayef, involved members from terrorist cells in Egypt and Saudi Arabia. The prosecution did not specify how the plot was foiled.
The second attempt was allegedly orchestrated by a terrorist cell consisting of seven members ‐ six former coppers and a dentist ‐ who planned to attack the president's convoy using explosive charges as it travelled in Cairo.
The suspects were also responsible for carrying out a number of high-profile attacks in North and South Sinai, including the bombing of a tourist bus in the resort town of Taba in February 2014 that killed two South Koreans and an Egyptian driver.
'Bearded coppers group'
The liquidation attempt on Sisi was part of a larger plan to overthrow the current regime that would also involve the liquidation of former interior minister Mohammed Ibrahim over the 2013 dispersal of Cairo sit-ins supporting ousted president Mohammed Morsi, according to the prosecution.
Authorities say the six former coppers involved in the plots were members of the "bearded coppers" group formed in 2012, whose members said they would grow their beards in accordance with their interpretation of Islamic doctrine. At the time, the interior ministry blocked this move, saying it violated police and military codes. The group members were then sent to the ministry's reserve forces. Authorities say these former security officials planned to use their expertise to target the president’s convoy as it moved through Cairo.
Investigators say all the members of the terrorist cells advocated the Jihadist ideology and believe that state officials and members of the army, police and the judiciary are "infidels."
In October, the prosecutor-general ordered the state security prosecution to open an investigation into terrorist groups' plans to execute wide scale terrorist operations in Greater Cairo. Earlier this month, Egyptian authorities detained five people who they say are leaders of the little-known terrorist groups Hasm and Liwaa al-Thawra.
The state prosecutor submitted indictments to a military tribunal against 292 people suspected of involvement in establishing 22 terror cells affiliated with the ISIS branch in Sinai. According to the Egyptian newspaper al-Ahram, they received instructions from senior figures in the terror group. The state prosecutor added that the liquidation plot in Mecca included the involvement of workers in the local Clock Tower Hotel.
The report states that that as part of the conspiracy to be implemented in Soddy Arabia, one of the indicted suspects suggested that his wife blow herself up with an boom belt in order to divert the attention of security officials away from liquidation al-Sissi to follow shortly thereafter.
The second plot is believed to have involved a cell of Egyptian coppers known as the "bearded officers," who were relieved earlier of their command positions.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Kuwait’s Minister of Defense Sheikh Khalid al-Jarrah said his country’s arms deal with the United States includes only 28 F/A-18 fighter jets, worth $5 billion, local Al Rai newspaper reported him as saying on Sunday.
Jarrah, who is also Kuwait’s Deputy Prime Minister, dismissed reports that the US Department has approved a possible $10.1 billion military sale of 40 F/A-18 aircrafts to his government.
Sources told Al Rai said the deal was not made "in a day as others believe," but bore its fruition after "a long process of negotiation."
Reports of Kuwait purchasing 40 fight jets from the US was a heated topic especially among hopefuls running for the upcoming parliamentary election scheduled to take place on Nov. 26.
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Hmmm...Israel and Jordan get F35s.
Kuwait gets F18s because they need them NOW?
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The Iranophillic Obama admin has been stalling for years fighter aircraft purchases for Kuwait and Qatar. Qatar finally bought 24 French Rafales before the Obama admin relented on the purchases of F-18Es for Kuwait and F-15QAs for Qatar.
[Dhaka Tribune] Investigators of the International Crimes Tribunal are preparing to file a case against newly-elected Ameer of Jamaat-e-Islami Maqbul Ahmad for his involvement in crimes against humanity in Feni area during the 1971 Liberation War.
Chief Coordinator of the investigation agency Abdul Hannan Khan said that the case would be filed on the base of evidence found against Maqbul, who sworn in as the Jamaat chief on October 17.
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Anti-terrorist judges have charged a French teenager over links to an ISIS extremist suspected of instigating several attacks in France, a judicial source said Satu
The 17-year-old boy was allegedly in touch with French-born jihadist Rachid Kassim,
...the 29 year old former child carer from a town north of Lyon who has 317 friends on his Telegram account, several of whom have already been arrested...
who is believed to have inspired an attack this year in which a senior French policeman and his partner were knifed to death and another in which an elderly priest's throat was cut. The teenager, born in Belgium, was arrested this week in the western city of Rennes, where his family moved recently.
His name has appeared in an investigation into a 16-year-old girl arrested in August on suspicion of seeking to commit an act of terror in the name of jihad, based on a messages on Telegram -- the encrypted messaging app popular among French radicals. The boy, who called himself Abou Omar in the exchanges, was also active on Telegram, in particular in the account run by Kassim.
Investigators suspect he may also have been planning an attack, sources close to the probe said. At least 15 people, some of them minors, have been arrested in France since last summer for threatening attacks inspired by calls issued on Telegram by Kassim, 29, from IS-controlled areas of Iraq or Syria.
More than 200 people have been killed in attacks in France since 2015, including 130 who died in the November, 2015 Islamic State attacks in Paris.
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A Swedish fighter for the terror group ISIS claimed over 50,000 Swedish kroner in benefits while living and working in its Raqqa stronghold. Michael Skråmo, who goes by the name of Abdul Samad al Swedi, took his wife and four small children to Syria in August 2014, settling in Raqqa. He has since appeared in a string of propaganda videos, sometimes with his children, posing with a Kalashnikov assault rifle.
According to Sweden’s Göteborgs Tidning (GT) newspaper, it took more than a year for Sweden’s welfare agency Försäkringskassan to sent a letter to Skråmo’s Gothenburg address informing him that his child and housing benefit had been discontinued.
"Försäkringskassan has stopped payments of child benefits and housing benefits for your children,” the letter, which has been passed to the newspaper, reads.
Magnus Ranstorp, a terrorism researcher at Sweden’s National Defence University, said he suspected that even the 5,814 kronor Skråmo and his wife received each month in child benefits would have been enough to support them in Raqqa, even without their payments for housing benefit.
“It exposes how weak the system seems to be in its control mechanisms,” he told GT. “Michael Skråmo has been one of the most well-known IS sympathisers for quite some time. Police should be able to somehow sound the alarm and inform all the authorities when someone has journeyed down there.”
According to the newspaper, Skråmo’s payments appeared to have been stopped eight months after he and his family left Sweden. He also owes 61,842 kronor in unpaid rent to his old landlord.
His wife sent an email in April to Gothenburg’s court, advising a debt collection agency to lay down the cases against her, as she was not planning to return to Sweden.
“To make it simple for you, you don’t need to send more papers to me,” she wrote in the email. “I am not in Sweden and am probably never in my life going to come back… so for your own sake, can you just drop it all ;).”
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Why not get the prank phone call people on it and have them start calling Sweden and Syria!
Soon to be seen at a migrant registration center in Europe.
[Ynet] The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... 's interior ministry says that 123 migrants colonists being held at a repatriation center in Istanbul have fled in the chaos that ensued after a fire broke out.
The ministry said in a statement that Saturday's fire was set by some of the migrants colonists.
All rooms were vacated and the inmates were brought to an assembly area, from where 123 people fled during the ensuing chaos.
Authorities have detained 20 runaways and are searching for the rest.
Three foreigners who were hospitalized after the fire are all in good condition. An investigation has been launched into the employees who allowed flammable materials in the center, and they have been suspended.
The state-run Anadolu Agency says the majority of the migrants colonists were Afghan and Pak nationals.
[ALMASDARNEWS] Thousands of opposition protesters demonstrated in Istanbul on Sunday against a crackdown on MPs from The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... ’s main pro-Kurdish party and municipal chiefs in the southeast.
At least 5,000 people -- mainly supporters of the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) and the secular Republican People’s Party (CHP) -- gathered on the Asian side of Istanbul.
"Shoulder to shoulder against fascism ...a political system developed in Italy symbolized by the Roman fasces -- thin reeds, each flimsy in itself but unbreakable when bound into a bundle. The word is nowadays thrown around by all sorts of people who have no idea what they're talking about... ," the protesters shouted.
Ten MPs from the HDP, including co-leaders Selahattin Demirtas and Figen Yukseksag, were enjugged Youse'll never take me alive coppers!... [BANG!]... Ow!... I quit! this month on charges of links to the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK).
Several mayors in the predominantly southeast of Turkey were also detained following similar accusations of links to the PKK.
Turkey declared a state of emergency after a failed coup bid in July, with tens of thousands arrested in a massive crackdown which critics call a breach of human rights ...which are often intentionally defined so widely as to be meaningless... EU and US officials have expressed concern ...meaning the brow was mildly wrinkled, the eyebrows drawn slightly together, and a thoughtful expression assumed, not that anything was actually done or indeed that any thought was actually expended... over the arrest of opposition politicians as fears grow over Turkey’s use of emergency laws.
The arrests come as Turkey wages a relentless battle to wipe out PKK rebels who have stepped up attacks since the collapse in 2015 of a fragile truce against Turkish security forces.
The government accuses the HDP of links to the PKK but the party denies any organic bond with the banned group.
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[ALMASDARNEWS] Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan ... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him... on Sunday warned NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It's headquartered in Belgium. That sez it all.... against sheltering "terrorist" soldiers after Turkish officers in the alliance’s command reportedly sought asylum after a failed putsch.
"How can a terrorist, a terrorist soldier, a soldier who has been involved in plotting a coup, be employed in NATO?" Erdogan told journalists on a plane from Uzbekistan, the Milliyet newspaper reported.
"They cannot do such a thing," he said.
On Friday, NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg said a number of Turkish officers serving in NATO command positions had requested asylum following the botched coup on July 15.
Neither Stoltenberg nor Erdogan provided a number, although Erdogan said it was not high.
Erdogan said his government demanded that soldiers who asked for asylum be extradited and warned the alliance against providing them with a haven.
"NATO cannot entertain accepting asylum requests of this kind. Those in question are accused of terror," he said.
Stoltenberg said the NATO countries concerned would make their own asylum decisions rather than the alliance headquarters in Brussels.
"We would be wrong if we started to go into that kind of legal issue; that’s for the judicial system" of the countries concerned, Stoltenberg said.
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[CA.NEWS.YAHOO] President Tayyip Erdogan was quoted on Sunday as saying that The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... did not need to join the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... "at all costs" and could instead become part of a security bloc dominated by China, Russia and Central Asian nations.
NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A cautionary tale of cost-benefit analysis.... member Turkey's prospects of joining the EU look more remote than ever after 11 years of negotiations. European leaders have been critical of its record on democratic freedoms, while Ankara has grown increasingly exasperated by what it sees as Western condescension.
"Turkey must feel at ease. It mustn't say 'for me it's the European Union at all costs'. That's my view," Erdogan was quoted by the Hurriyet newspaper as telling news hounds on his plane on the way back from a visit to Pakistain and Uzbekistan.
"Why shouldn't Turkey be in the Shanghai Five? I said this to (Russian President) Mr Putin, to (Kazakh President) Nazarbayev, to those who are in the Shanghai Five now," he said.
"I hope that if there is a positive development there, I think if Turkey were to join the Shanghai Five, it will enable it to act with much greater ease."
China, Russia and four Central Asian nations -- Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan -- formed the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) in 2001 as a regional security bloc to fight threats posed by radical Islam and drug trafficking from neighboring Afghanistan.
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OK. We'll send your "refugees" to Shanghai as well.
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The White House has said Pakistain ’can and must’ do more against the terrorist groups operating in its soil, it has been reported.
Emphasizing that no state should allow its soil to be used by any terror group to launch attacks on other countries, a senior White House official has said "Recognising the sacrifices of the people and the security forces of Pakistain in fighting some myrmidon and terrorist networks, a fight which we support, President Barack Obama Dreams of My Sainted Father... has emphasised that Pakistain ’can and must’ also take more effective action against terrorist groups operating from its soil."
The official further added "The president has made it very clear that no state should allow its territory to be used by turbans to launch attacks into another state, and we will continue to engage on this issue."
The official was responding to an online petition, ’We the People’, launched by Indians in the US that was signed by 665,769 people.
This comes as Pakistain has been accused of allowing certain myrmidon groups to use its soil for planning and coordinating attacks in its neighboring states.
The officials have long been criticizing Pakistain for allowing the Taliban and Haqqani terrorist networks to openly operate in Pakistain.
According to the Afghan officials, the two myrmidon groups are having leadership councils 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 from where they plan and coordinate attacks in Afghanistan.
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A TOP British official has taken aim at some Muslim nations during a meeting at the United Nations this week, slamming them for not clamping down on extremism. It comes as it can be revealed just 18 out of 57 Muslim majority world states have signed up to a coalition against ISIS.
The UK’s permanent representative to the UN, Matthew Rycroft, delivered a strongly worded speech blasting what he called "evil groups" and saying not enough is being done.
The comments came as the UN general assembly supported a plan by the Islamic Development Bank to invest £7.2bn to tackle the cause of terror.
Britain is using its muscle at the UN to encourage more cooperation and has also pledged to invest £20m of taxpayers’ money to the Arab Women’s Enterprise Fund.
Mr Rycroft said: "One issue facing the OIC’s (Organisation of Islamic Cooperation) members, indeed all members of the UN, is the growing threat of extremist ideologies and violent extremism.
"Sadly, as we in this Council know only too well, this threat affects Muslim majority states in a truly disproportionate way ‐ in Iraq, in Syria, in Libya, in so many places.
Worryingly, Mr Rycroft pointed out that just 18 of the 57 member states, with a collective population of over 1.6 billion ‐ that makes up the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation which was founded in 1969 ‐ are members of the Global Coalition against Da’esh.
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So, 2/3 of Muslim nations are neutral, at best, or supportive of ISIS.
Sounds like all those polls showing Muslims that are active supporters of terrorists vs. quiet supporters vs. against terrorists. Speaks to the rare "moderate Moslem".
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I think it might be appropriate to announce that the US will seek to establish an all moslem combat unit to fight against ISIS (later against Boko H or the Taliban or Al Shabab). First troops would be from existing US and British forces and these would train new volunteers.
It would be unrealistic to count on this reaching Division strength, but it should at least be enough to play a prominent role in the liberation of Raqqa.
Let's see if the various Imans in the West support it. If not, well it tells us something important and in a meaningful way.
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So, 2/3 of Muslim nations are neutral, at best, or supportive of ISIS.
Baghdad ‐ (IraqiNews.com) An Iraqi MP has disclosed an agreement between the governments in Baghdad and Ankara limiting the role of al-Hashed al-Shaabi paramilitary forces in the liberation of the Nineveh town of Tal Afar.
Nineveh MP Ahmed Madloul al-Jarba said Sunday that the US-sponsored agreement assigns the liberation of Tal Afar to the Iraqi army, limiting the role of al-Hashed al-Shaabi to retaking and besieging the town’s military airport.
"The issue of Tal Afar is possibly the most sensitive when it comes to the liberation of Nineveh," Jarba said, praising Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi’s ability to manage that issue "with wisdom and without stirring any problem".
Tal Afar has been a concern for The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... which had said it feared that Shia paramilitary forces engaged in combat could carry out retaliatory measures against Sunni Turkmen residents of the town. Turkey’s deployment of troops in Nineveh has also triggered diplomatic war of words with Iraq. While Ankara maintains its presence is merely to train locals on combating ISIS, Baghdad says the deployment and Ankara’s concerns over Tal Afar were a pretext for intervention into the country’s affairs.
On Saturday, al-Hashed al-Shaabi media said the militia successfully liberated the strategic military airport of Tal Afar, proceeding to chase fleeing ISIS bandidosturbans towards the town. al-Hashed said the recapture of the airport represented a major step since it cuts a major supply line for ISIS from Syria’s town of Raqqa, an ISIS stronghold.
On Sunday, Turkish presidency spokesperson Ibrahim Kalin urged the Iraqi government to honour pledges it had made through the United States to keep al-Hashed al-Shaabi away from the Tal Afar battles. Jarba said the statement was a clear reference to the agreement. "We expect that the liberation of Tal Afar will be entrusted to the Iraqi army alone, especially with federal police and anti-terrorism teams being busy with (battles) at the western and eastern sections".
News have been conflicting over al-Hashed al-Sha’bi’s future combat movements after the recapture of the airport. The militia’s media website said Sunday the troops began to set up barricades around the town preparing to storm it.
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[RUDAW.NET] The governor of Nineveh has sacked three top security and government officials in Qayyarah for failing to protect the town against a recent ISIS holy warrior infiltration weeks after its liberation by Iraqi troops.
An official told Rudaw that the governor sacked the Nineveh police chief, head of police intelligence and the mayor of Qayyarah because ISIS holy warriors had managed to infiltrate Imam Gharbi village near Shargat on Saturday where they had remained in control for several hours.
Qayyarah was liberated by Iraqi troops at the end of August. It is 60 KM southeast of djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... The fired mayor Salim Jabouri defended his position, saying he has no power over security forces though he is legally in charge of the police.
"It is true that I am the head of the security committee, but I have no power over the security forces, because I am not a security commander and therefore cannot move around the security forces."
Ghazwan Dawudi, a member of the Nineveh Provincial Council confirmed the sackings by the governor.
Iraqi War Media office said in a statement on Saturday night: "The heroic federal police were able to reclaim the area and killed more than 40 terrorists...with the support of the international coalition."
Dawudi said the police chief, Wathiq al-Hamdani failed to protect the area when a group of ISIS holy warriors attacked Saturday.
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[IsraelTimes] An imminent Fatah congress in Ramallah will shape the future of the Paleostinian movement, laying bare its rivalries.
Lots of inside baseball for those interested. But I think the closing paragraphs are of more general interest:
As noted, a dark cloud looms over the upcoming congress and the elections -- the threat of a possible split the next day if Dahlan and his supporters should decide to form a competing movement. But Abbas and the PA have an even bigger problem than Dahlan or his emissaries in the West Bank, who have been trying to heat things up against the PA in many refugee camps.
A severe, unprecedented crisis has broken out between the Paleostinian Authority and the moderate Arab world. Abbas is close to cutting off relations with the Sunni Arab states, Egypt 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... first among them. Cairo stands behind Dahlan and encourages his various activities. Saudi Arabia has suspended its financial aid to the PA. The United Arab Emirates is giving Dahlan official protection, and Jordan could not care less about what happens in Ramallah.
Together only with part of Fatah, Abbas, 82, stands alone, in near-isolation, against Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason,, the State of Israel, the Arab countries, and his own enemy from within -- Mohammad Dahlan.
And yet there is no shortage of would-be successors.
He did serve time in Israeli prisons in the 80s when he was in his 20s (he was born in 1961)
He more or less ran Gaza as his own fiefdom for some years before the Israeli withdrawal from Gaza. Within Fatah, which is known for stealthy corruption, Dahlan was considered one of the most 'honest' thieves in that he admitted what he stole (which was considerable) and what he took in bribes.
His troops were quickly crushed by Hamas during the Fatah-Hamas conflict of 2007 and he eventually wound up in exile in the Gulf States. He and Abbas are former friends who became bitter enemies and, I think, are still enemies today.
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Thanks LG, I am confusing him with someone else, name starts with a B I think, still in the slammer and subject to countless negotiations.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] The Syrian government refused the UN envoy’s latest proposal for a truce in Aleppo on Sunday, calling on Lions of Islam to withdraw and saying it would not grant autonomy to the rebel-held east in exchange for calm.
UN envoy Staffan de Mistura has proposed that the Syrian government grant eastern Aleppo autonomy in exchange for peace, and called on the estimated 900 al-Qaeda-linked bandidosLions of Islam in the east to depart to other rebel-held territory.
But Foreign Minister Walid al-Moallem said restoring government rule was a matter of "national illusory sovereignty," and that Damascus would not allow the people of eastern Aleppo to be "hostages to 6,000 gunnies."
"We agreed on the need that forces of Evil should get out of east Aleppo to end the suffering of the civilians in the city," he said.
He spoke after meeting with de Mistura, who acknowledged a "major disagreement" with al-Moallem and said a "creative" if interim solution was required to halt the violence.
"We are only proposing that there should not be a radical dramatic change in the administration of Aleppo until there is a political solution," he said.
The envoy warned in a recent interview with the UK newspaper The Guardian that the government was chasing a "pyrrhic victory" in Aleppo if it does not reach a political settlement with the opposition.
He warned the military’s approach would drive more moderate rebels into the ranks of ISIS.
At least 172 civilians have been killed since the government renewed its assault on the besieged enclave six days ago, according to the Britannia-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
The UN estimates 275,000 people are trapped inside. By Saturday, the government had damaged or destroyed every hospital in the east, according to the Syrian American Medical Society, which supports hospitals in Syria.
The government denies striking hospitals, and de Mistura said there was a "difference of opinion" about the attacks. He said he had proposed sending an observer team to inspect all the hospitals in Aleppo, but that the idea was not discussed further.
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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
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Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
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[AlAhram] Egypt's state security prosecution referred on Sunday 292 alleged members of the 
Anti-terrorist judges have charged a French teenager over links to an ISIS extremist suspected of instigating several attacks in France, a judicial source said Satu
[ALMASDARNEWS] Turkish President 
[CA.NEWS.YAHOO] President Tayyip Erdogan was quoted on Sunday as saying that 
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The White House has said Pakistain ’can and must’ do more against the terrorist groups operating in its soil, it has been reported.
[RUDAW.NET] The governor of Nineveh has sacked three top security and government officials in Qayyarah for failing to protect the town against a recent ISIS
