[AnNahar] Twelve villagers were killed and 14 injured in an attack by suspected jihadists on a village in a gas-rich region of northern Mozambique, a local source told AFP on Friday.
Since October, the southeast African country's golden vision to exploit its gas reserves has been thrown into doubt by an kaboom of bloodthirsty assaults in the region where the industry plans to base its hub.
"Ten people killed were shot by firearms and two burnt (to death) after 55 houses were charred. A person was beheaded after being rubbed out" in the northern village of Paqueue late Thursday, said the source.
A health official in the Cabo Delgado region, who declined to be named, said that an ambulance was dispatched to Paqueue to "rescue the 14 maimed".
In a separate incident, a military convoy came under attack near the Tanzanian border north of Paqueue, killing a senior army officer, according to a police source.
"The attack occurred at night when defence and security forces routinely patrol. The attackers wore military uniforms and had large-calibre firearms," said the source who declined to be named.
[JTA] One of Hezbollah’s most wanted members, Assad Ahmad Barakat, was placed in durance vile Keep yer hands where we can see 'em, if yez please! near Brazil’s border with Argentina ...a country located on the other side of the Deep South. It is covered with Pampers and inhabited by Grouchos, who dance the Tangle. They used to have some islands called the Malvinas located where the Falklands are now. They're not supposed to cry for Evita... and Paraguay on Friday.
Barakat has been labeled by the U.S. Treasury as one of the Lebanese terrorist group’s main financiers. He is part of the Barakat Clan, a criminal organization known for its links to Hezbollah.
Barakat was arrested in Foz de Iguazú, in southern Brazil. That triple border, or Triple Frontier as it is known as, has been linked with Hezbollah terrorist activity for decades, specifically as a source of the group’s funding.
In July, the Barakat Clan’s assets were frozen by the Financial Information Unit of Argentina. On Aug. 31, Argentine Judge Rubén Darío Riquelme ordered Barakat’s international capture. Barakat was also sought by Paraguay and Brazil.
Barakt, who was born in Leb, is also accused in Paraguay for identity fraud and for omitting information about his nationality status.
Brazilian police have arrested a man designated by the U.S. Treasury Department as a high-ranking Hezbollah financier after neighboring Paraguay sought his detention on identity theft charges, authorities in Brazil said on Friday.
In 2004, U.S. authorities designated Assad Ahmad Barakat as one of Hezbollah's "most prominent and influential members." They said he had long served as a treasurer for the group and was an associate of the then-financial director of Hezbollah, a Death Eater group based in Leb.
It was not immediately known if Barakat had a lawyer.
Brazilian federal police said in a Friday written statement that the country's Supreme Court authorized his arrest after Paraguayan authorities issued a warrant late in August.
Police also said Argentine authorities accused him of laundering $10 million through a casino in the border city of Puerto Iguazu.
Barakat was previously imprisoned in Paraguay from 2002 to 2008 on charges of tax evasion. After his release, Brazilian police said, Barakat lived in Brazil, and carried out business activities in Paraguay, Argentina, and Chile.
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During the final years of the Stroessner regime in Paraguay (1987-88) the Paraguay consulate in Beirut sold more than 3,000 Paraguay passports to Shiite elements. The result was an explosion of Muslim immigrants who settled in the Tri-Border region. As for Barakat, he owned and operated the biggest store in Paraguay's Ciudad del Este (nee Ciudad Stroessner). Notice was finally taken of the expanding and radical Muslim population with the bombing of a Jewish center in Buenos Aires.
[AnNahar] German police have locked away Drop the heater, Studs, or you're hist'try! a 20-year-old woman on suspicion of serving in 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.
Federal prosecutors said Friday the German-Algerian woman, identified as Sarah O. for privacy reasons, is accused of membership in a foreign terrorist organization.
Prosecutors say she traveled to Syria as a teenager in October 2013, where she received firearms training and married an IS fighter from Germany in 2014.
German authorities say she and her husband conducted "guard and police duties" in IS-controlled areas. She is also alleged to have tried to recruit others in Europe ...also known as Moslem Lebensraum... to join IS and, together with her husband, received about $118 a month from the group.
Prosecutors' spokeswoman Frauke Koehler said the woman's children were taken into care upon their arrival at Duesseldorf airport from The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... on Friday.
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[AnNahar] Ottoman Turkish police on Friday detained 85 military personnel in countrywide raids over alleged links to the group blamed for the 2016 failed coup, state media reported.
Prosecutors in Ankara issued arrest warrants for 110 active duty personnel in the air force, state-run news agency ...and if you can't trust the state-run news agency who can you believe?... Anadolu said, as part of a probe into followers of US-based Moslemholy manFethullah Gülen ... a Turkish preacher living in Pennsylvania whom the current govt of Turkey considers responsible for all the ills afflicting Turkey and possibly the entire world... Police launched operations in 16 provinces including Ankara while those detained in other cities would be taken to the Ottoman Turkish capital.
Five of those sought by police were pilots while three were colonels, the agency added.
The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... claims Gulen ordered the attempted overthrow of President Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First ... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey... on July 15, 2016 but he strongly denies the charges.
Over 77,000 people including military personnel, teachers and judges have been tossed in the calaboose Keep yer hands where we can see 'em, if yez please! over suspected links to Gulen under the two-year state of emergency imposed five days after the coup bid. The government ended the emergency this July.
Western allies have expressed concern over the scale of the crackdown which saw over 140,000 people suspended or sacked from the public sector.
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The remainder will be incompetent, but politically loyal
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[DAWN] In India-held Kashmire, Indian troops launched a massive cordon and search operation in several villages of south Kashmire's Pulwama district on Saturday.
According to the Kashmire Media Service, the troops cordoned off Lassipora, Armula, Alaipora, Batnur, Garbug, Naupora Payeen, Hajdarpora and Acchan areas of the district and launched door-to-door searches.
The operation comes following the killing of three Indian police personnel posted in India-held Kashmire reportedly by armed Kashmiris, who have been waging a struggle for the Kashmiris' right to self-determination.
The three were taken hostage when Kashmiri fighters raided over a dozen homes of coppers in two southern Kashmire villages, Indian officials said, adding that bullet-riddled bodies of the kidnapped coppers were recovered on Friday.
The killings came days after the region's largest group fighting for Kashmire's independence asked officers to quit the Kashmiri police force and stay away from operations targeting pro-independence fighters.
A fourth policeman who had resigned from the police days earlier was also among those taken hostage early on Friday. The former officer was released unharmed, Indian police said.
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"fighting for Kashmire's independence" = Pak subservience by Islamists
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[DAWN] Three Indian police personnel posted in India-held Kashmire were killed, reportedly by armed Kashmiris, who have been waging a struggle for the Kashmiris' right to self-determination.
The three were taken hostage when Kashmiri fighters raided over a dozen homes of coppers in two southern Kashmire villages, Indian officials said, adding that bullet-riddled bodies of the kidnapped coppers were recovered on Friday.
The killings came days after the region's largest group fighting for Kashmire's independence asked officers to quit the Kashmiri police force and stay away from operations targeting pro-independence fighters.
A fourth policeman who had resigned from the police days earlier was also among those taken hostage early Friday. The former officer was released unharmed, Indian police said.
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[AnNahar] The bodies of three copperskidnapped by turbans were recovered in Indian-administered Kashmire on Friday, police said, as tensions mount ahead of local civic polls.
Police officers, many of them local Moslems, have been increasingly targeted in recent months in the territory rocked for decades by violence.
The increased focus on coppers seems to be in response to what appear to be new police tactics of detaining the family members of prominent bully boys.
Kashmire has been divided since the end of British colonial rule in 1947 but both India and Pakistain claim the former Himalayan kingdom in full. India has about 500,000 soldiers in the zone it controls, where separatist groups demand independence or a merger with Pakistain.
The latest incident saw groups of armed turbans raiding the homes of at least 11 coppers in the twin villages of Kapran and Batgund in southern Kashmire valley.
They kidnapped three Special Police Officers (SPOs), as well as the brother of a police constable, police and witnesses said.
"Three bullet-riddled bodies of the SPOs were found lying in the fields," a police officer told AFP, speaking on condition of anonymity ... for fear of being murdered... The brother of the constable was released unharmed.
The SPOs are the lowest-rank coppers who are often deployed for counter-insurgency duties. Police authorities recently advised officers not to visit their homes without security and not for more than two hours at a stretch.
Last month turbans kidnapped 11 coppers and their relatives, after police detained family members of prominent turbans and allegedly set ablaze the homes of two rebel leaders.
All of them were released the next day without harm, but a commander of the Hizbul Mujahideen ...Party of Holy Warriors, founded by Muhammad Ahsan Dar in September 1989. One of the Pak sock puppets waging jihad in Indian Kashmir. It was originally organized as the armed wing of Jamaat-e-Islami. In 1990, Dar declared Hizbul as the sword arm of Jamaat. Hizbul murdered many of the pro-independence intelligentsia in Kashmir. After the organization was taken over by Syed Salahuddin Dar and several other ex-Hizb leaders were assassinated between 2001 and 2003... (HM) bully boy group warned of "an eye for an eye" next time if government forces did not stop harassing families of bully boys.
On Wednesday an audio statement surfaced on social media in which HM commander Riyaz Naikoo was heard demanding the SPOs quit or face death.
Several SPOs publicly resigned after the warning.
Tensions in the region have been rising since India's Supreme Court began hearing a case challenging Article 35A of the Indian constitution this year -- a provision which bars Indians from outside the disputed territory buying land there.
Civic polls slated for October and November have added to the tension, with two of the main pro-India political parties saying they would boycott the vote.
HM is the largest of the local bully boy groups fighting the Indian military in the disputed region, demanding independence or a merger of the territory with Pakistain.
The fighting has left tens of thousands of people dead, mostly civilians.
djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... (IraqiNews.com) A mayor was killed, while his son was injured in an attack by 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, southwest of Mosul, a police officer from Nineveh said on Friday.
Speaking to BasNews, Col. Farouq Ahmed said "Islamic State members, disguised in military uniform, sneaked into Maflaka village in Hatra region. They broke into the house of Saad al-Me’mari, the mayor."
The holy warriors, according to Ahmed, "killed the mayor and injured his son. They also killed another civilian before they bravely ran away."
Security troops conducted investigations after transferring the victim to forensic medicine department.
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Anbar (IraqiNews.com) Eleven Islamic State members were killed, while three booby-trapped vehicles were destroyed in an operation, west of Anbar, a security source from the mobilization forces of the province said on Friday.
Speaking to Almaalomah website, the source said “security troops, backed by army jets, managed to kill eleven Islamic State members in an operation that targeted Wadi al-Halkoum region and caves in the northeast of Akashat region in Rutba, west of Anbar.”
Security troops, according to the source, also destroyed three booby-trapped vehicles as well as other weapons.
Anbar (IraqiNews.com) Eleven Islamic State members were killed, while three booby-trapped vehicles were destroyed in an operation, west of Anbar, a security source from the mobilization forces of the province said on Friday.
Speaking to Almaalomah website, the source said “security troops, backed by army jets, managed to kill eleven Islamic State members in an operation that targeted Wadi al-Halkoum region and caves in the northeast of Akashat region in Rutba, west of Anbar.”
Security troops, according to the source, also destroyed three booby-trapped vehicles as well as other weapons.
Anbar (IraqiNews.com) Seven Islamic State members were killed in an operation carried out by the Iraqi troops, west of Anbar, the media service of the pro-government paramilitary troops reported on Thursday.
“Joint troops of al-Hashd al-Shaabi (Popular Mobilization Forces) in Anbar, covered by army jets, carried out an operation in the western desert, which is adjacent to the Iraqi-Syrian borders, leaving seven militants, including the leader abu Aisha al-Karbouli, killed,” the website of PMFs quoted Saadi Nasser al-Tamimi, deputy commander of PMFs operation in west of Anbar.
The operation, according to Tamimi, “left three rest houses destroyed.
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Kirkuk (IraqiNews.com) 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 have went kaboom! an electricity transmission tower, southwest of Kirkuk, ... a thick stew of Arabs, Turkmen, Kurds, and probably Antarcticans, all of them mutually hostile most of the time... a security source said on Thursday.
Speaking to Baghdad Today website, the source said "unidentified button menwent kaboom! an electricity transmission tower in a village in Hawija town, southwest of Kirkuk."
The attack, according to the source, "is the 21st of its kind."
"It left the tower totally destroyed," the source added.
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If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And—which is more—you'll be a Man, my son!
[IsraelTimes] Soldier lightly maimed by shrapnel from bomb; arson balloons and kites cause seven blazes inside Israel; IAF carries out several strikes on balloon launchers
One Paleostinian was reported killed and at least 312 were maimed as some 10,000 Paleostinians protested on the Gazoo Strip border on Friday, with some throwing bombs and rocks and burning tires, as soldiers responded with tear gas and occasional live fire.
One Israeli soldier was lightly injured by shrapnel from a pipe bomb thrown at troops, the army said, adding that it spotted a number of infiltration attempts.
The Hamas, a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",-run health ministry in Gazoo said that a 25-year-old was shot and killed at one of the protests. Fifty-four others were hurt by live fire, the ministry said.
It identified the dead man as Kareem Mohammad Kolab.
"IDF troops are responding with riot dispersal means and are firing in accordance with standard operating procedures," the army said.
Paleostinians also sent fire balloons and kites into Israel, causing at least seven blazes along the border. Paleostinian sources said an IDF aircraft fired at a group launching incendiary devices. The IDF confirmed several strikes in northern Gazoo but gave no further details.
Firefighters were still battling four blazes, a spokesperson said on Friday evening.
[Jpost] "Shooting began by several button men from behind the stand during the parade. There are several killed and injured," a correspondent told state television.
At least 20 people were killed after unknown button men opened fire during a military parade in the southwestern Iranian city of Ahvaz on Saturday, Iranian media reported.
"Shooting began by several button men from behind the stand during the parade. There are several killed and injured," a correspondent told state television ... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe?
Eyewitnesses reported that the attackers were wearing military dress and that the shooting lasted for some ten minutes, the semi-official Iranian Student News Agency reported. Participants and spectators of the parade threw themselves to the ground at the sound of the gunfire.
The four or five attackers were killed by security forces, Iranian Republic News Agency reported.
State television blamed "takfiri ...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who most be killed... elements," a reference to Islamist bully boys, for the attack in Ahvaz, the center of Khuzestan province, which has been the site of sporadic protests by Iran's Arab minority.
The parade in Ahvaz, and others held around the country, marks the 37th anniversary of the beginning of the Iran-Iraq War, the longest and bloodiest conflict in Iran's modern history.
The Islamic State (IS) jihadist group claimed to have carried out the rare assault in the southwestern city of Ahvaz, while Iranian officials accused "a foreign regime" backed by the United States of being behind it.
The city lies in Khuzestan, a province bordering Iraq that has a large ethnic Arab community and has seen separatist violence in the past that Iran has blamed on its regional rivals.
IS jihadists said via their propaganda mouthpiece Amaq that "Islamic State fighters attacked a gathering of Iranian forces" in Ahvaz.
State television gave a casualty toll of 29 dead and 57 wounded, while the official news agency IRNA said those killed included women and children among spectators at the rally. Many of the wounded were in critical condition.
Zarif did not specify which regional government he held responsible for the shooting, but Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards said the attackers were funded by Sunni arch-rival Saudi Arabia.
"Those who opened fire on civilians and the armed forces have links to the Ahvazi movement," Guards spokesman Ramezan Sharif told the semi-official agency ISNA.
"They are funded by Saudi Arabia and attempted to cast a shadow over the Iranian armed forces."
Khuzestan was a major battleground of the 1980s war with Iraq and the province saw unrest in 2005 and 2011, but has since been largely quiet.
Attacks by Kurdish rebels on military patrols along the border further north are relatively common.
But attacks on regime targets inside major cities are far rarer.
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sauce, goose, gander
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[AlAhram] The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the decaying remnant of the Ottoman Empire.... and the United States have almost completed work on joint patrols in northern Syria's Manbij area and those patrols and joint training will begin soon, Ottoman Turkish presidential front man Ibrahim Kalin said on Friday.
In a news conference with journalists, Kalin said that Turkey expected the international community to contribute to the political process in Syria.
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[AlMasdar] The Kurdish-led People’s Protection Units (YPG) carried out a powerful ambush against the Ottoman Turkish-backed Free Syrian Army ... the more palatable version of the Syrian insurgency, heavily influenced by the Moslem Brüderbund... (FSA) in the Afrin region of northwest Aleppo this week.
"On September 20th, our units ambushed a Ottoman Turkish military vehicle on the road between the villages of Khalta and Gubele in Sherawa district. As a result of the action, two Ottoman Turkish soldiers were killed," the official media wing of the YPG reported.
"On that same day, our fighters targeted a military vehicle of the Sultan Murad Division mercenary fraction on the road between Rajo and Mabata districts," they continued.
"As a result, three mercenaries were killed and three AK-47 weapons seized. The names of the killed mercenaries are as follows: Khaled al-Ragheb (originally from northern Hama), Ali al-Barhoum (Homs) and Kholouf al-Ghoutani (Damascus)," the statement added.
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[AlMasdar] The Syrian Arab Army (SAA) continued their field operations in the al-Safa region of al-Sweida, today, after repelling a big 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) counter-offensive.
Led by their 3rd Corps and 10th Division, the Syrian Arab Army stormed the Islamic State’s positions in the al-Safa region from two different axes in a bid to overwhelm the terrorist forces.
According to a military source in Sweida city, the Syrian Arab Army and their allies from the National Defense Forces (NDF) managed to liberate new points in the al-Safa region on Friday, forcing the Islamic State holy warriors to fall further back.
The source said that the Syrian Arab Army and their allies also killed at least ten Islamic State turbans and destroyed a field artillery gun and two technical vehicles.
Despite this advance by the Syrian Arab Army, the Islamic State maintains control over several parts of the al-Safa region, including the highest point that overlooks the government’s positions.
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[AlMasdar] Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov stated that creation of the demilitarised zone in Syria’s Idlib will prevent the shelling of Syrian troops and the Russian Hmeymim military base, speaking at in Sarajevo on Friday after talks with his Bosnian counterpart Igor Crnadak.
Lavrov said the agreement on the de-escalation zone between Moscow and Ankara is an just “an intermediate step”, adding that by mid-October all heavy weaponry and the Jabhat al-Nusra militants should be moved out of the area.
[AlMasdar] (4:20 P.M.) – A military commander from the Free Syrian Army (FSA) was recently assassinated inside a key city in the Idlib Governorate.
According to opposition activists in the Idlib Governorate, the military commander of the Al-Sadiq Brigade of the Al-Sham Regiment, Yousef Houran, was assassinated on Friday after his vehicle struck an improvised explosive device (IED) along a road in Saraqib city.
Opposition activists have blamed Syrian Arab Army (SAA) spies for the assassination of Houran in Saraqib today.
Houran is the first military commander of the Free Syrian Army to be killed in the Idlib Governorate since the Turkish-Russian agreement was established inside the province.
There could be an influx of assassinations in the coming weeks, as the recent string of executions by the jihadist rebels in the Idlib Governorate could prompt responses by the groups targeted.
[AlMasdar] 2018-09-21 (6:20 P.M.) – For the fourth day in a row, the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) has launched a powerful attack along the Idlib-Hama axis in northwest Syria.
Led by their artillery units, the Syrian Arab Army unleashed a flurry of missiles and artillery shells towards the jihadist defenses, hitting a number of trenches and hideouts used by Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham and Jaish al-Izza.
According to a military source in Hama city, the Syrian Arab Army heavily targeted the rebel-held towns of Kafr Zita, Al-Lataminah, Zakat, Aleywi, Sukeek, Taman’ah, Umm Khalakheel, and Khuwayn.
The Syrian Arab Army intensified their strikes this afternoon, following a number of attacks by the jihadist rebels on the government-held towns of northern Hama.
Despite the recent Turkish-Russian agreement in the Idlib Governorate, the Syrian Arab Army and the jihadist rebels have yet to stop the hostilities in the region.
However, no buffer zone has been implemented as of yet in the Idlib Governorate; once it is established, the hostilities will likely dissipate.
[AlMasdar] 2018-09-22 (12:25 A.M.) – A Syrian Arab Army (SAA) recently filmed from inside the key town of Khan Sheikhoun, which was the site of a pro-opposition and Turkey rally.
The Syrian Army spy showed the the small rally that was held inside this Idlib Governorate town recently; however, the exact location inside of Khan Sheikhoun could not be identified.
As shown in the short video below, the Syrian Army spy is moving freely through the town and filming the crowd:
Khan Sheikhoun was the site of the alleged chemical weapons attack that took place on April 4th, 2017.
The Syrian government was blamed for the attack by the United States and their allies; they would later attack the Shayrat Airbase in Homs in response.
[AlMasdar] (10:00 P.M.) – Intense clashes broke-out between the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) and Turkish-backed rebels in east Aleppo this evening after a relatively quiet few months.
According to a military source in Damascus, the intense clashes broke out after the Syrian Arab Army fired a couple of mortar shells towards the Free Syrian Army’s (FSA) positions at Al-Bab in east Aleppo.
In response, the Turkish-backed rebels fired several missiles towards the Syrian Arab Army’s positions in the nearby town of Tadef, which is just south of Al-Bab.
A flurry of gunfire was then exchanged between the Syrian Arab Army and Turkish-backed rebels near the Al-Bab-Tadef axis, resulting in a fierce engagement this evening.
The clashes are still ongoing at this time; however, the total number of casualties for either party is still unknown.
This is the first major confrontation between the Syrian Arab Army and Turkish-backed rebels at the Al-Bab axis in nearly a year.
[AlMasdar] 2018-09-22 (12:40 A.M.) – The jihadist rebels launched a powerful attack on southwest Aleppo this evening, targeting a number of neighborhoods under the control of the government.
According to a military source inside the provincial capital, the jihadist rebels in the Rashiddeen 4 area launched several ground-to-ground missiles at the Al-Hamdaniyah District, causing several explosions throughout the residential neighborhoods.
As a result of this attack, a dozen civilians were injured and taken to a local field hospital for medical care.
The Syrian Arab Army has now responded with an attack of their own, targeting the Rashideen 4 area that is controlled by the jihadist rebels.
Tonight’s attack by the jihadist rebels on Al-Hamdaniyah marks the first major confrontation in southwest Aleppo this month.
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[AlMasdar] The Syrian Arab Army (SAA) wiped out an entire jihadist rocket launching site in the northern countryside of the Latakia Governorate this week.
According to the Sputnik News Agency, the rocket launching site was also used by the jihadist rebels to deploy attack drones on the Hmeymim Military Airport in the southwestern countryside of the Latakia Governorate.
These attack drones have been a source of agitation for the Russian military, who view these constant attacks as a risk to the safety of their personnel in Syria.
The Russian military has repeatedly called on the Ottoman Turkish forces to restrict these jihadist rebels from launching attacks on the Hmeymim Airbase, but it has been to no avail.
In response to these constant attacks, the Syrian Arab Army has been building up their forces in the northeastern countryside of Latakia in preparation for a new offensive to clear this region once and for all.
However, alcohol has never solved anybody's problems. But then, neither has milk... this offensive could be in jeopardy if the Ottoman Turkish and Russian forces agree to establish a buffer zone in the area.
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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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...also known as Moslem Lebensraum...
... a Turkish preacher living in Pennsylvania whom the current govt of Turkey considers responsible for all the ills afflicting Turkey and possibly the entire world...
... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey....jpg)
founded by Muhammad Ahsan Dar in September 1989. One of the Pak sock puppets waging jihad in Indian Kashmir. It was originally organized as the armed wing of Jamaat-e-Islami. In 1990, Dar declared Hizbul as the 
[IsraelTimes] Soldier lightly 
...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who most be killed...
