[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The Afghan National Defense and Security Forces (ANDSF) managed to retake the control of Tala Barfak district in northern Baghlan province of Afghanistan.
The Ministry of Defense (MoD) said the control of the district was taken during the operations of the armed forces and as a result the district has been fully cleared of the turbans.
The source further added that the Afghan forces have also cleared the landmines and improvised bombs planted by the turbans.
According to MoD, the situation of the district is normal now and additional armed and defense forces have been deployed in the district.
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] At least two bully boyz affiliated with 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.... of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) terrorist group were killed in US dronezap 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 of Afghanistan.
The provincial government media office in Nangarhar said the two bully boyz were apparently operating as snipers and were killed in Haska Mina district.
The statement further added that the Arclight airstrike was carried out in the vicinity of Gagar area late on Wednesday night.
According to the governor’s office, two sniper rifles belonging to the bully boyz were also destroyed in the airstrike.
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[AAWSAT] Terrorist F. Salah, whose family surrendered on 26 April, has in his turn surrendered on Wednesday, following the appeal by his family, said the Algerian Ministry of National Defence in a communiqué.
In line with the continuous efforts of the different units of our Armed Forces and following the appeal by his family, made up of ten members, who surrendered on 26 April 2018 in Jijel, terrorist F. Salah has surrendered today 16 May 2018 to the military authorities in Jijel (5th Military Region)," said the communiqué.
Salah, alias Abu Oussama, who joined terrorist groups in 1998, was in possession of a Kalashnikov submachine gun, three stores loaded with ammunition," added the Ministry's communiqué
What happened "reaffirms the determination of the National People's Army units to cleanse our country from the remnants of terrorist groups as well as the effectiveness of the approach adopted by the high command of the army to eradicate this phenomenon from our country," the ministry added.
This policy, according to observers, is considered one aspect of the "reconciliation" that Algerians supported in a 2005 referendum, represented in revoking prison sentences issued against hundreds of murderous Moslems in return for surrendering themselves and their weapons.
Saleh’s family, which has renounced terror strongholds less than a month ago, consists of his wife, son, five women, two children and two infants.
The army then published three pictures, taken at a military site, showing the women and kiddies with their faces covered.
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What's the expiration date on the 'renunciation', two weeks?
[ALMASDARNEWS] For the second straight night, the Houthi ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The Yemeni government has accused the Houthis of having ties to the Iranian government, which wouldn't suprise most of us. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews ... forces have fired a ballistic missile into 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... , targeting another economic site inside this Gulf kingdom.
According to the official media wing of the Houthi forces, their rocket battalion fired a Badr-1 ballistic missile towards the lovely provincial capital of Saudi Arabia’s Jizan region tonight.
The Houthi forces added that the missile hit its intended target in Jizan.
The Houthi forces have recently stepped up their attacks against Saudi Arabia, following the latter’s attack that killed the anti-regime’s political leader in Sanaa.
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[IsraelTimes] November 2016 plot was said to have been coordinated by two Albanians in Syria fighting with 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.... A Kosovo court has sentenced nine Albanians, eight to jail, for planning a foiled attack against the Israeli soccer team during a 2016 qualifying World Cup match in neighboring Albania.
Pristina court Judge Hamdi Ibrahimi on Friday sentenced the leader of the group, Visar Ibishi, to 10 years in jail. Seven others got between 1-1/2 to 6 years imprisonment. One was slapped with a 2,500-euro ($2,950) fine.
The planned attack in November 2016 was said to have been coordinated by two Albanians in Syria fighting with the Islamic State group.
The World Cup qualifier in was originally due to take place in the northern town of Shkodra. The match eventually took place in Elbasan, about 45 kilometers (28 miles) from the Albanian capital Tirana, under a massive security presence.
Police found bombs, weapons, electronic equipment and bad boy religious literature at their homes.
Kosovo authorities say about 180 citizens are still active with bad boy groups in Syria and Iraq.
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[IsraelTimes] Two Egyptian-born brothers enjugged Yez got nuttin' on me, coppers! Nuttin'! in Gay Paree on suspicion of planning assault with poison agent ricin
Police in La Belle France have foiled a suspected terror attack and arrested two brothers of Egyptian origin, French Interior Minister Gerard Collomb said on Friday.
"There were two young people of Egyptian origin who were preparing to commit an attack, with either explosives or ricin, this very powerful poison," the minister said on BFMTV.
"They had tutorials that showed how to make ricin-based poisons," Collomb said, adding that they had communicated via the Telecom encrypted messaging app.
The revelation came after a 29-year-old man was killed and five other people injured in a deadly knife attack in Gay Paree last Saturday night.
Collomb did not indicate when they were arrested, but a source close to the inquiry said they were detained in the northern 18th Arrondissement of Gay Paree on May 11, the day before Khamzat Azimov carried out his knife rampage.
One of the men "admitted having wanted to stage an attack," the source told AFP.
Azimov also lived in the 18th Arrondissement, parts of which are packed with low-income high-rises and a mix of French and immigrant communities.
In late March, Prime Minister Edouard Philippe had indicated that a total of 51 attacks had been thwarted by French security services since January 2015, the beginning of a wave of strikes on French soil, many claimed by the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... group.
A total of 246 people have been killed in attacks since then.
[DAWN] Four people, including three children, were killed while 10 were maimed in unprovoked ceasefire violations across the Working Boundary (WB) by India on Friday, an Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) blurb said.
According to the army's media wing, the Punjab 1.) Little Orphan Annie's bodyguard
2.) A province of Pakistain ruled by one of the Sharif brothers
3.) A province of India. It is majority (60 percent) Sikh and Hindoo (37 percent), which means it has relatively few Moslem riots.... Rangers are responding to Indian fire and targeting Indian posts which initiated fire in the Sialkot sector as intermittent fire continues.
The Foreign Office said that the violations took place in Pukhlian, Cahprar, Harpal, Charwah and Shakargarh sectors and identified the dear departed as a woman, Kalsoom, and her three children ‐ Mehwish, Safia and Hamza.
The News Agency that Dare Not be Named, quoting Indian officials, earlier reported that the firing began after an Indian paramilitary soldier was allegedly killed by a Pak sniper late Thursday. The Indian officials also claimed that two people were killed by Pak firing.
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Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) Three civilians were maimed in a kaboom, south of Baghdad, a security source was quoted saying on Friday.
Speaking to AlSumaria News, the source said, "a bomb placed near stores at Hor Rajab region, south of Baghdad, went off today, leaving three civilians maimed."
Security troops, according to the source, who preferred anonymity, "cordoned off the accident spot and transferred the maimed to nearby hospital for treatment."
Diyala (IraqiNews.com) Two people were killed and injured in a kaboom in a village at the outskirts of Diyala, an official said on Friday.
"A bomb, went off at a village inhabited by farmers at the outskirts of Khanaqin, northeast of Diyala, leaving one person killed and another injured," the source told Alghad Press.
"The victim’s body was taken to forensic medicine department, while the injured was transferred to hospital for treatment," the source added.
The Iraqi Security Media Center said the police command in the town of Tal Keif arrested four memebrs of Daesh (Islamic State) who “confessed to committing crimes against innocent civilians and security members.
The center said the four were wanted for justice based on the Iraqi anti-terrorism law.
Nineveh (IraqiNews.com) The Old City in Mosul has been declared to be empty of bodies under the rubble, the governor of Nineveh province said on Friday.
Speaking to Alghad Press, Nofal al-Aakob, the governor, said “the civil defense department as well as others managed to recover all the bodies under the rubble in the Old City. No more bodies are there.”
The civilian recovered bodies, according to Aakob, reached 2654, while 157 bodies of Islamic State members were recovered.
Other sources said on Thursday that more than 600 bodies were recovered within the campaign, launched on Wednesday.
The total number of recovered bodies since end of war in Mosul against Islamic State, that ended more than ten months ago, reached 9,000, according to municipal sources.
The bodies recovered over the past two days are being buried randomly in the Old City, sources told Alghad Press.
As many as 3,298 civilians were killed and 4,781 others were wounded in 2017, excluding Anbar civilian casualty figures for November and December, which are not available, the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI) said in a report in December.
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[IsraelTimes] Police announce the arrest of four suspects from the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Issawiya for hurling Molotov cocktails at Border Police officers and a nearby hospital.
The suspects, three minors from Issawiya and an Israeli citizen, were behind the burning of a Border Police post outside Hadassah Hospital Mount Scopus, police say. Officers were not in the post when it was targeted.
Authorities say two of the suspects were also involved in other attacks on police in the neighborhood, which included throwing rocks and Molotov cocktails.
An indictment filed at the Jerusalem District Court accuses the suspects of weapons production and possession, rioting, attempting to attack a police officer and attempted arson.
Police say a civil suit may also be filed against the suspects over damages caused in the attacks.
[IsraelTimes] Ismail Haniyeh ...became Prime Minister after the legislative elections of 2006 which Hamas won. President Mahmoud Abbas dismissed Haniyeh from office on 14 June 2007 at the height of the Fatah-Hamas festivities, but Haniyeh did not acknowledge the decree and continues as the PM of Gazoo while Abbas maintains a separate PM in the West Bank... denies a deal has been reached with Egypt to call off the protests after Cairo opens Rafah crossing for entire month of Ramadan
The leader of the Hamas, one of the armed feet of the Moslem Brüderbung millipede, terror group on Friday vowed he would personally lead fresh protests at the Gazoo border fence, days after 62 Paleostinians were killed in festivities there with Israeli forces. Hamas has said 50 of the fatalities were its members.
Ismail Haniyeh also denied a deal had been made to end seven weeks of border protests, promising they would continue.
The IDF said there were some 1,000 taking part in festivities along the border fence on Friday afternoon and several thousand in protest camps further back. Demonstrators were slinging stones, burning tires and flying flaming kites into Israel.
Soldiers were responding with riot disposal means and live fire in accordance with rules of engagement, the IDF said.
Also Friday, the IDF said it had facilitated the transfer of seven of the Gazoomaimed who had Jordanian citizenship from Gazoo to Jordan for medical treatment.
Speaking at a Gazoo City mosque during midday prayers on the first Friday of the Moslem holy month of Ramadan, Haniyeh said: "We will all go, and me first of you, to the Gazoo border.
"The marches will not stop until the siege is lifted completely from the Gazoo Strip."
Israel and Egypt have blockaded Gazoo since Hamas took over the Strip in 2007 in an attempt to prevent the terror group bringing in weapons, rockets and material for constructionist fortifications and attack tunnels.
Haniyeh had previously touted the aims of the protests, known as the "March of Return," as the beginning of the Paleostinians’ return to all of Paleostine.
"We are here to declare today that our people will not agree to keep the ’right of return’ only as a slogan," he said at one of the first of the protests in the last six weeks.
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sissi announced late Thursday at the start of Ramadan that his country’s border with Gazoo would be open throughout the holy month to "alleviate the suffering" of Gazooks.
Local media have speculated that a deal has been struck for Egypt, which has a 1979 peace treaty with Israel, to open the border in exchange for Hamas ending the protests.
Haniyeh welcomed Sissi’s decision but denied any such an agreement.
"There is a rumor that Hamas made a deal with Egypt to end the marches. This is baseless," he said.
On Tuesday, Israel reopened the trucking lanes of the Kerem Shalom Crossing and began allowing through medical supplies and commercial goods, though in two cases Paleostinian officials refused to accept the trucks.
Paleostinian Authority officials, working on the Gazoo side of the crossing, sent back 14 trucks worth of food and diapers on Tuesday, for unclear reasons. The next day, Hamas officials inside Gazoo refused to accept two shipments of medical supplies, despite shortages in the Strip’s hospitals, because they were provided by the Israeli military.
While the inability to import medical equipment and other essential goods to the Gazoo Strip due to the temporary closure of the crossing was a source of concern, international officials this week warned of the dire consequences of the lack of fuel.
[ALMASDARNEWS] The Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... (ISIS) launched a big counter-offensive in southern Damascus on Thursday, targeting the territory they recently lost to the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) in Hajar al-Aswad.
ISIS began the offensive on Thursday by storming the Syrian Arab Army’s front-lines from several axes inside Hajar al-Aswad.
The terrorist group would then make some small gains in northern Hajar al-Aswad before the Syrian Army and their Paleostinian allies forestalled the Islamic State’s advance and launched their own attack.
According to a military source in southern Damascus, the Syrian Army and their Paleostinian allies killed scores of Islamic State Death Eaters, while also seizing a large supply of their weapons.
The source added that the Syrian Army’s counter-offensive resulted in new gains for their troops and several setbacks for the Islamic State terrorists.
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[ALMASDARNEWS] The Syrian Arab Army launched a big attack, yesterday, to counter the so-called 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.... ’s (ISIS) previous offensive that took place earlier that afternoon.
Led by their 42nd Brigade of the 4th Mechanized Division and 105th Brigade of the Elite Republican Guard, the Syrian Army took the battle to the remaining Islamic State Lions of Islam in Hajar al-Aswad, seizing more ground from the terrorist group after hours of fighting.
With these latest gains, the Syrian Army has found themselves on the brink of liberating all of Hajar al-Aswad, which was once the largest city in southern Damascus.
Once Hajar al-Aswad is liberated, the Syrian Army will be in position to finally launch a full attack on the ISIS-held areas of the Yarmouk Camp District.
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A lota WTF occurances happening at Iranian facilities in Syria lately.
[ALMASDARNEWS] A massive explosion ripped through Hama military airbase, sending huge plumes of thick and black smoke into the sky.
The reason behind the blast is still unknown, but early reports say that ammunition storage might have exploded due to a man-made error or the sudden rise of temperature.
Other unconfirmed reports spoke of a missile attack that hit an armory inside the airbase.
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sudden rise of temperature
That will do it. Like incendiary rise?
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Consider: (1) Assad Regime negotiates with Rebels; (2) Rebels are to leave all military material behind; (3) SAA occupies area; and (4) multiple explosions erupt. Sounds like timers on demolition charges to me.
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Via syria.liveuamap.com... Local Syrian tweeted: The massive explosions which occurred earlier today in Hama AB happened due to a technical failure while welding a local-made free fall aerial bomb. 3 ammo depots completely vanished, heavy losses in equipment. No dead, because the first explosion forced everyone to shelters.
Red Wire, Green Wire...??
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Re #4) ^... Ooops. He later says:I reported previously that the incident occurred due to a malfunction while welding an aerial bomb, but it was false.
[ALMASDARNEWS] The Syrian Arab Air Force unleashed a flurry of Arclight airstrikes this morning over the southern districts of Damascus, following a relatively quiet night near 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.... ’s (ISIS) front-lines.
According to a military source in the capital city, the Syrian Air Force launched more than 15 airstrikes over the Yarmouk Camp, Hajar al-Aswad, and al-Tadamon districts of southern Damascus this morning.
The source added that the Syrian Air Force is aggressively targeting the Islamic State’s positions in southern Damascus in a bid to force them to surrender the area.
Thus far, the Syrian military has refused to hold peace talks with the Islamic State, given their gruesome executions of captured soldiers inside the towns of Hajar al-Aswad earlier this month.
ISIS was previously offered the opportunity to go to the Deir Ezzor Governorate; however, they would later reject the Syrian military’s offer, vowing to fight until their last man
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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[DAWN] Four people, including three children, were killed while 10 
Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) Three civilians were 
...became Prime Minister after the legislative elections of 2006 which Hamas won. President Mahmoud Abbas dismissed Haniyeh from office on 14 June 2007 at the height of the Fatah-Hamas festivities, but Haniyeh did not acknowledge the decree and continues as the PM of Gazoo while Abbas maintains a separate PM in the West Bank...
