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Militant leader gunned down in southern Thailand
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Afghanistan
ISIS urban network busted in Jalalabad city, 5 suspects arrested
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The Afghan Intelligence, National Directorate of Security
...the Afghan national intel agency...
(NDS), operatives have busted an urban network 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....
of Iraq and Syria Khurasan (ISIS-K) in Jalabad city, the quiet provincial capital of 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.

Provincial governor’s front man Ataullah Khogyani told news hounds that five ISIS-K holy warriors were also tossed in the clink
Keep yer hands where we can see 'em, if yez please!
during the operation.

He said the terror group was using the network to carry out assassinations of the government staff besides planting explosives, smuggling arms, and conducting other terrorist related activities.

Khogyani further added that the NDS Special Forces also confiscated 21 various types of weapons during separate operations conducted in Surkh Rod district.

He also added that the ISIS hideouts which were used to coordinate attacks in Jalalabad city and Rodat district during the Eid days have also been destroyed during the Arclight airstrikes.

The provincial government media office in a statement confirmed that the detained individuals have confessed to their crimes.

The detained individuals have told the security forces that they were trained by the foreigners including Pak holy warriors before they were deployed to Jalalabad city for the attacks.

Posted by: Fred || 06/21/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State


Militants suffer heavy casualties in Sari Pul artillery and airstrikes
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] Several forces of Evil were killed during the artillery and Arclight airstrikes carried out by the Afghan armed forces in the vicinity of Sayad district in northern Sari Pul province.

The Ministry of Defense of Afghanistan (MoD) said Wednesday that the latest artillery and airstrikes left at least 16 forces of Evil dead.

The source further added that at least 11 forces of Evil also sustained injuries and their five cycle of violences along with some weapons and munitions were destroyed.

The 209th Shaheen Corps of the Afghan military in the North had said earlier that the artillery and airstrike have left at least six forces of Evil dead while six others have sustained injuries.

Posted by: Fred || 06/21/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Taliban


Africa Horn
Car Bomb Wounds At Least Two In Somali Capital
[RADIOSHABELLE] A witness says at least people were maimed in Mogadishu after an bomb fitted into to their luxury car went kaboom! on the main Makka al-Mukarama road on Wednesday.

The IED-attached vehicle went off near Haji Pasto junction along the busy road of Maka al-Mukarama, which links the Airport to the Presidential Palace in Mogadishu.

The blast destroyed the private car, leaving the occupants maimed who are yet to be identified. Police cordoned off the scene and began an investigation into the incident.

No group has so far claimed the responsibility for the blast which would be the first since the end of the holy month of Ramadan.

The kaboom comes on the heel of the reopening of the city’s roads following a presidential order after the visit by the Æthiopian PM Abiy Ahmed last Saturday.

Posted by: Fred || 06/21/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Africa North
Seven Islamist militants surrender in southern Algeria: Ministry
[AlAhram] Seven Islamist murderous Moslems surrendered to Algerian authorities on Wednesday near the North African country's border with Mali, the defence ministry said.

Security forces recovered arms including six Kalashnikov assault rifles, the ministry said in a statement.

Violence has declined in Algeria since the 1990s, when a conflict between the state and Islamist turbans killed an estimated 200,000 people.

Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb and small bands of fighters allied to 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....
(IS) murderous Moslems are still active in some remote areas.
Posted by: trailing wife || 06/21/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: al-Qaeda in Mali/Nusrat al-Islam wal Muslimeen


Africa Subsaharan
Islamist militancy causes 16,000 to flee homes in Niger
[AlAhram] Incursions by Islamist holy warriors into western Niger from neighbouring Mali have caused more than 16,000 people to flee their homes since the start of the year, the UN said Wednesday.

"Growing insecurity since January has caused the number of displaced people to leap," the UN's Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said.

"More than 16,000 people are internally displaced in the regions of Tillaberi and Tahoua," it said, referring to two regions near the border with Mali.

It blamed "repeated attacks by armed non-state groups" and an "intensification of inter-community conflicts" on the Niger-Mali border.

In May alone, 2,867 people were added to the list of known displaced, compared to 540 in January.

Niger is one of a number of poor, fragile countries in the Sahel that have been hit by a jihadist revolt.

The country is part of the so-called G5 Sahel group, which aims at creating a 5,000-member joint force to tackle the Death Eaters and criminal gangs which roam the remote region.
Posted by: trailing wife || 06/21/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: al-Qaeda in Mali/Nusrat al-Islam wal Muslimeen


Boko Haram attacks Borno town in 11 gun trucks
[PREMIUMTIMESNG] Suspected members of 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...
on Monday attacked Gajiram town in Borno State.

According to the police, the Death Eaters arrived in 11 gun trucks but were repelled by a combined team of security forces.

"Terrorists in 11 Gun Trucks Attack Gajiram Town On Monday’s evening at about 1740hrs, heavily armed Boko Haram terrorist in about eleven gun trucks attacked Gajiram town, headquarters of Nganzai Local Government Area.

"Police personnel deployed to the area alongside troops of the Nigerian Military engaged the Death Eaters and promptly repelled the attack," the Borno police spokesperson, Edet Okon, said in a statement sent to PREMIUM TIMES by PRNigeria, a news agency with close ties to security forces.

Mr Okon said there was no casualty on the side of the police. He, however, was silent on civilian casualty or those of the military.

"Meanwhile,
...back at the precinct house, Sergeant Maloney wasn't buying it. It was just too pat. The whole thing smelled phony, kind of like a dead mackeral but without the scales...
reinforcement has been mobilised and deployed to the town. Further development will be communicated to the press in due course," he said.

Borno is the state most affected by the Boko Haram insurgency that has caused the death of tens of thousands of people since 2009.

Posted by: Fred || 06/21/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Boko Haram (ISIS)


Arabia
No civilian casualties in Hodeidah Airport battle
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] There have been no civilian casualties in the battle to liberate Yemen’s Hodeidah Airport, Arab Coalition front man Turki al-Malki said in an interview with Al Arabiya from Brussels, accusing the Houthis of placing tanks inside residential areas.

"We are now destroying 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 ...
fortifications near the airport," he said, adding that the operation has not resulted in a dire humanitarian crisis in Hodeidah.

"Hodeidah port is operating as normal and the movement of ships is normal," Malki said. "We have humanitarian and development plans for when we liberate the entire city."

Arab Coalition forces launched strikes on Houthi militia targets in the key port city of Hodeidah on Wednesday as Yemeni armed forces de-mined neighborhoods.

An Al Arabiya English correspondent reported the strikes on eastern Hodeidah and said on the ground, armed forces were combing through residential areas in the city.

This came after Yemeni government forces seized Hodeidah airport from Houthi militias, their commander said, in a major step towards retaking the city.

"The airport was completely cleared, Thank God, and is under control," coalition commander Abdul Salaam al-Shehi said in a video posted by the United Arab Emirates' official WAM news agency.

Posted by: Fred || 06/21/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Houthis


Europe
Germany foiled biological attack with Tunisian arrest
[GUARDIAN.NG] German police said Wednesday they had foiled a biological attack with last week’s arrest of a Tunisian suspected jihadist in possession of the deadly poison ricin and bomb-making material.

"Very concrete preparations had been made for an act with a ... biological bomb, which is a first for Germany," said Holger Muench, head of the BKA Federal Criminal Police Office.

German police commandos on June 12 stormed the Cologne
...the largest city in North Rhine-Westphalia and the fourth populated city in Germany....
apartment of the 29-year-old Tunisian identified only as Sief Allah H. and discovered "toxic substances" that turned out to be ricin.

Produced by processing castor beans, ricin is lethal in minute doses if swallowed, inhaled or injected and 6,000 times more potent than cyanide, with no known antidote.

Muench said, speaking to German public radio, that "we became aware of this person a few months ago, and then evidence emerged pointing to links to 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....
The Tunisian man, who has been charged with possession of weapons of war and planning a serious act of violence against the state, was thought to have followed instructions on making a ricin bomb disseminated online by the IS.

"There are instructions on how to do this, including by Islamist organizations, on the internet, and this person was obviously guided by that," Muench said.

Prosecutors have said he was "strongly suspected of intentionally manufacturing biological weapons" ‐ but they reiterated Wednesday they still lacked concrete indications or details of an attack plan.

Seeds, coffee grinder
The head of the BND foreign intelligence service, Hans-Georg Maassen, said that a "very likely" attack had been prevented thanks to "cooperation between security service at the national and international level," news agency DPA reported.

Bild daily has reported Germany received a warning from the CIA based on the suspect’s online purchases.

The domestic intelligence service BfV said it also received a tip-off over a telephone hotline about the Tunisian, who is married to a German woman who recently converted to Islam, DPA reported.

During the police raid, said Muench, "we found a large number of castor seeds from which to make (ricin), as well as the utensils you need to make an bomb".

"Which concrete target he had in mind we don’t know yet ... and the question of possible accomplices also remains open."

Prosecutors say Sief Allah H. started buying the equipment and ingredients to make ricin in mid-May ‐ including online purchases of thousands of "castor seeds and an electric coffee grinder".

Police had found over 3,000 castor seeds and 84 milligrams of ricin, as well as 950 grams of pyrotechnic powder, two bottles of flammable liquid, wires soldered to light bulbs and 240 metal balls.

He had been in contact with radical Islamists and had tried twice last year to travel via The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire....
to Syria, "presumably to the ’Islamic State'" bases there, they said in a statement.

Posted by: Fred || 06/21/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State


The Grand Turk
Kurdish militants attack Turkish troops; Turkish jets hit N.Iraq
[AlAhram] Kurdish forces of Evil fired on military vehicles in southeast The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire....
on Wednesday, killing two soldiers and wounding another, the local governor's office said, in the latest of a series of attacks.

Turkey's armed forces later said its warplanes had carried out air strikes in northern Iraq, killing 10 forces of Evil in the Avasin-Basyan and Sinat Haftanin areas and destroying weapon stores and shelters.

The incidents come ahead of nationwide elections on Sunday. There has been a wave of Ottoman Turkish air strikes on Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) bases in northern Iraq, especially its stronghold in the Qandil mountain region.

"Members of the separatist terror group carried out a rocket attack in which two military personnel were martyred and one maimed," the Hakkari provincial governor's office said, using Ankara's term for the PKK.

The attack on Wednesday morning targeted military vehicles leaving a hillside base in Cukurca district of the province, on the border with Iraq, it said.

Ankara has warned it might launch a ground offensive into the Qandil region, where high-ranking PKK members are believed to be based. President Tayyip Erdogan has vowed to "drain the terror swamp" there.

Erdogan said on Wednesday Turkey had carried out two air operations targeting Qandil, the second of which had struck a meeting of PKK commanders.

"We dealt with a team of their leaders that was meeting in Qandil," Erdogan said during a campaign rally in the southeastern province of Sanliurfa. He did not provide further details or say when the strikes occurred.

On Tuesday, three Ottoman Turkish soldiers were killed in kabooms blamed on the PKK in the southeastern provinces of Siirt and Sirnak.
Posted by: trailing wife || 06/21/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Sublime Porte


Iraq
Salahuddin adventures: turbans take farmer, tribals permanently unwind 3 turbans


Islamic State kidnaps farmer after storming village in Iraq

Salahuddin (Iraqinews.com) – A group of Islamic State (IS) militants stormed a village in Salahuddin governorate and kidnapped a farmer there, a security source was quoted as saying Wednesday.

“IS terrorists attacked late Tuesday Wadi al-Safa village in al-Shirqat district and kidnapped a farmer from a local tribe there,” the source told Iraqi website Shafaaq.

“The militants seized a truck as well,” the source pointed out.

Iraqi tribe kills three Islamic State members for infiltrating into north of Salahuddin

Salahuddin (IraqiNews.com) A local tribe in Salahuddin province has announced killing three Islamic State members, who attempted infiltrating into villages north of the province.

In a statement on Wednesday, Shammar tribe said tribal fighters “managed today to kill three Islamic State members who tried to sneak into villages of Teloul al-Baj, north of Salahuddin.”

The members, according to the statement, “were planning for kidnapping, but the tribal fighters are still following the members who ran away.”
Posted by: trailing wife || 06/21/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State


Iraqi police find two tunnels for Islamic State in Kirkuk’s Hawija
Kirkuk (Iraqinews.com) ‐ Iraqi police forces found on Wednesday two tunnels for 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....
and detonated 13 explosive charges during security campaigns in Hawija district in oil-rich Kirkuk.

Federal Police Chief Raed Shawkat Gawdat said in a statement that three forces of Evil were also locked away
Yez got nuttin' on me, coppers! Nuttin'!
in two villages in Kirkuk,
... a thick stew of Arabs, Turkmen, Kurds, and probably Antarcticans, all of them mutually hostile most of the time...
while three others expeditiously departed at a goodly pace before the police catch them.

Police forces also found a roadside kaboom placed near a Kirkuk hospital, Iraqi website Alghad Press quoted Gawdat as saying.
Posted by: trailing wife || 06/21/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State


3 people wounded in clashes between Hezbollah, Iraqi police in Baghdad
Baghdad (Iraqinews.com) ‐ Three people were maimed Wednesday in a firefight between Iraqi police and Iraq’s Hezbollah militias in the capital Baghdad, a security source said.

"The festivities erupted after a police patrol stopped a car in the Paleostine Street in Baghdad. Later on, a five-vehicle convoy of Hezbollah arrived at the scene and clashed with the police forces before fleeing the scene," the source told Al Arab Al Yawm newspaper.

"Iraqi security forces sealed off the headquarters of Iraq’s Hezbollah in Baghdad," the source said. "Following negotiations between police and Hezbollah leaders, the latter agreed to hand over the fighters who had fired on the police patrol."

According to the source, three people were maimed in the faceoff, including two coppers and a Hezbollah fighter.

Kata’ib Hezbollah, or Hezbollah Brigades, is an Iraqi Shia paramilitary group supported by Iran. The group, which is a component of the Iran-backed al-Hashd al-Shaabi fighters, played a role in Iraq’s wars against 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....
and American Invasion forces.

The group’s structure is not known, but Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, an adviser to Iran’s Quds Force and a former Badr Organization member, is known to be a senior figure in the group.
Posted by: trailing wife || 06/21/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran Proxies


Iraqi military kill Islamic State members, foil attempt to blow Hit mosque west of Anbar
Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) The Iraqi military intelligence announced killing two 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....
members and foiling an attempt to blow a mosque, west of Anbar.

In a statement on Wednesday, the department said troops of the 29th brigade of the seventh division managed today to foil an attempt to plant bombs near al-Sedeeq mosque in Hit town, west of Anbar.

Moreover, the department added that troops "managed, after thwarting the attempt, to arrest two Islamic State members who were going to carry out a terrorist attack."
Posted by: trailing wife || 06/21/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
IDF deploys additional Iron Dome batteries near Gaza amid heightened tensions
[IsraelTimes] Local government calls for residents to keep bomb shelters ready in case of renewed rocket, mortar fire, after terror groups in Strip launch 45 projectiles

The army deployed additional Iron Dome missile defense systems in southern Israel on Wednesday, after terror groups in the Gazoo Strip launched dozens of rockets and mortar shells earlier in the day.

Residents of the area were encouraged to go about their daily lives as usual, but to also prepare themselves for the possibility of another round of violence.

Schools opened as usual on Wednesday, following the rocket and mortar attacks earlier that morning, though teachers led special sessions to speak with students about what had happened. Parents were also given the option to not send their child to school, though few did. Over 90 percent of students attended classes on Wednesday, according to an Eshkol spokesperson.

The flare-up in the early hours of Wednesday morning could be traced to a number of incendiary and explosive kites and balloons that were flown into Israeli territory throughout the day on Tuesday.

These types of kite and balloon attacks have become a regular occurrence in the Gazoo periphery in recent weeks, sparking hundreds of fires that have burned thousands of acres of farmland, forests and national parks, causing millions of shekels in damages.

In an effort to force the Hamas, the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood, terrorist group to rein in the Paleostinians launching these airborne arson devices, the military conducted a round of Arclight airstrikes in the Strip shortly after midnight, hitting three Hamas positions.

In response to the Israeli air raid, Hamas and the Iran-backed Paleostinian Islamic Jihad
...created after many members of the Egyptian Moslem Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the assassination of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah...
launched nearly 50 rockets and mortar shells at southern Israel over the course of nearly five hours, ending just before six in the morning.

At least eight projectiles went kaboom! inside Israeli communities, causing damage but no injuries, including one that hit just outside a kindergarten. Seven of them struck in the Eshkol region, while the eight landed in a kibbutz in the Sha’ar Hanegev region, according to local government officials.

Seven projectiles were intercepted by the Iron Dome missile defense system, and three fell short of the border and landed inside Gazoo, the army said. The rest appeared to have fallen in open fields.

The Israeli military does not believe that Hamas is directly behind the incendiary kites and balloons that have wreaked havoc in southern Israel, but sees that the group is supporting the practice. In general, the IDF also holds Hamas responsible for any violence emanating from the Strip.

"We see an effort made by Hamas to encourage and enhance the production and launching of these kites," IDF spokesperson Lt. Col. Jonathan Conricus told news hounds Wednesday.

"It might have started spontaneously, but as Hamas saw the damage caused on the Israeli side, it has taken this offensive effort under its control and actively promotes it," he said.

Hamas, meanwhile, blamed Israel for Wednesday’s exchange, accusing it of trying to "change the rules of engagement" by adopting the policy of carrying out strikes on its facilities in response to arson attacks from the Strip.

This standoff, with each side blaming the other for the flare-up, raised concerns that the security situation in the Gazoo Strip could deteriorate into full-blown war.

"We can’t know how it ends, when it ends, but it looks like we are on the way to an escalation," Energy Minister Yuval Steinitz told Hadashot news on Wednesday night.
Al Jazeera adds:
Three Paleostinians were lightly injured during the attacks in the early hours of Wednesday, residents said. The exchange was one of the most intense recent barrages of rocket fire and air strikes.

No casualties were reported in Israel. Air raid sirens and Israeli phone warning applications sounded throughout the predawn hours.

While Hamas praised the rocket attacks from Gazoo into Israel on Wednesday, it did not take responsibility for them.

Hamas front man Fawzi Barhoum said it was time for new rules of engagement, where "bombing is met with bombing".

"It's the Israeli occupation that started the escalation.The resistance has warned against continuing to target civilians, fishermen, farmers, and resistance positions.

"It's time to ... present new rules of engagement: bombing is met with bombing. Whoever began the escalation should be responsible for the consequences.

"The resistance is not interested in a new war at all, but we always want to defend the Paleostinian people.

"The peaceful demonstrations in all forms will continue on the eastern border and the Paleostinian resistance will be ready to protect Paleostinian civilians and defend them."
Another Times of Israel article adds:
In a joint statement, the military wings of Hamas and allied Islamic Jihad said late Wednesday that they had “targeted seven Israeli military positions near Gaza… in response to continued Israeli aggression against resistance sites in Gaza.”
And from Ynet:
On Wednesday afternoon, the IDF fired warning shots near a cell dispatching incendiary balloons in the southern Gazoo Strip. There were no reports of injuries.

According to an IDF statement, the Air Force struck a total of 25 Hamas, the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood, targets across the Gazoo Strip in three waves. Eleven targets were attacked in the last wave "in four military compounds of the Hamas terror organization, including an underground training facility."
Posted by: trailing wife || 06/21/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Hamas

#1  Hamas, meanwhile, blamed Israel for Wednesday’s exchange, accusing it of trying to "change the rules of engagement" by adopting the policy of carrying out strikes on its facilities in response to arson attacks from the Strip.

Well...yeah. You claim to control Gazoo? Then do it
Posted by: Frank G || 06/21/2018 8:49 Comments || Top||

#2  When they move up the artillery we'll know it's escalated.
Posted by: Skidmark || 06/21/2018 9:48 Comments || Top||


Palestinian policeman arrested in Jerusalem for illegal weapons possession
[IsraelTimes] Israeli security forces arrest a Paleostinian Authority police officer in the Paleostinian neighborhood of A-Ram, north of Jerusalem, police say in a statement.

The officer is locked away
Drop the rod and step away witcher hands up!
after a search of his home uncovered a Carl Gustav submachine gun and ammunition.

This type of homemade or craft-produced rudimentary automatic weapon has been used in the majority of shooting attacks on Israeli civilians and security personnel.
A photo of the thing can be seen at the link, along with two boxes of Luger 9mm bullets.
Posted by: trailing wife || 06/21/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Palestinian Authority


Southeast Asia
Militant leader gunned down in southern Thailand
[Bangkok Post] A leading member of an militant group operating in Narathiwat province was killed in a gun battle with soldiers at a house he was using as a hideout in Kapho district of Pattani early on Wednesday morning.

The house was targeted and surrounded by a combined team of paramilitary rangers and security officers. They were acting on information it was used as a safe house by rebels. They spotted Sulaiman Muhama, who was wanted in a security case, inside
the house. As they moved in to arrest him, Sulaiman opened fire. In the following clash, Sulaiman was killed.

Sulaiman was known among insurgents as "Porsu" and was an operational leader of a group operating in Rueso district of Narathiwat.

Authorities said Sulaiman was held responsible for a string of violent attacks in southern Thailand.
Posted by: ryuge || 06/21/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Thai Insurgency


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Kurdish militia captures death squad in Raqqa
[ALMASDARNEWS] A group of assailants who had assassinated several Kurdish commanders in the Syrian city of Raqqa has been captured.

Militants from the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces raided a hideout for Harakat al-Qiyam krazed killer group, killing one of them and capturing 2 others.

Investigations with the tossed in the calaboose
Keep yer hands where we can see 'em, if yez please!
led to arresting 10 other members from the sleeper cell.

Formed in August 2017, Harakat al-Qiyam is an krazed killer group active in northern Syria in order to fight the US-backed Kurdish militia.

The group has ever since carried out several liquidations targeting top commanders and officials.
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ISIS sleeper cells launch massive attack across Idlib
[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) activated their sleeper cells inside the Idlib Governorate, tonight, targeting several areas controlled by the jihadist rebels of Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham
.

According to pro-opposition activists, the Islamic State began their massive assault by targeting Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham’s positions around the town of Baliyoun, which is just south of Ariha.

The pro-opposition activists added that the Islamic State took full control of Baliyoun after killing more than ten Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham fighters inside and outside this small Idlib Governorate town.

Meanwhile,
...back at the argument, Jane reached into her purse for her .38...
in northeast Idlib, the Islamic State began storming Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham’s checkpoints near the strategic town of Saraqib.

Intense festivities are now ongoing outside of Saraqib and several other towns inside the Idlib Governorate; this is considered the largest attack by the Islamic State since their brief offensive in 2017.

Posted by: Fred || 06/21/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State


High ranking jihadist commander assassinated in Aleppo
[ALMASDARNEWS] Another high ranking jihadist commander was assassinated by unknown assailants in the Aleppo Governorate of northern Syria this month.

A high ranking commander from Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham
was assassinated in rural Aleppo on Wednesday, the jihadist group’s media wing reported.

Abu Ahmad Sharoukh was reportedly assassinated on Wednesday, when a group of unknown assailants opened fire on his vehicle in the al-Muhandiseen area of west Aleppo.

The jihadist commander was known for preparing and planning boom-mobileings against the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) in the Aleppo Governorate.

Sharoukh was said to have carried out at least 20 boom-mobileings against the Syrian Arab Army in Aleppo before his liquidation this week.

Posted by: Fred || 06/21/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: al-Nusra



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