[Breitbart] TEL AVIV -- It appears the Pentagon is struggling with the same moral dilemma that confronts Israel in its own war on terror: How to minimize civilian casualties without compromising the aims of airstrikes targeting terrorist infrastructure in urban areas.
Social media is ablaze with claims that the Obama administration "tipped off" Islamic State terrorists 45 minutes before the U.S. Air Force destroyed 116 tanker trucks in the Al-Bukamal province of Iraq. The strike was intended to reduce ISIS's ability to transport stolen oil products.
The Pentagon's Operation Inherent Resolve Spokesman Colonel Steve Warren told reporters that before the mid-November airstrike, the military dropped leaflets warning truckers, "Get out of your trucks now, and run away from them."
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How to minimize civilian Muslim casualties without compromising the aims of airstrikes targeting terrorist infrastructure in urban areas.
The Muslim in heart if not chief, only tries to kill 'unauthentic' Muslims and not his kind. Same rationale of Sunnis and Shiites killing apostates, cause you don't kill other 'real' Muslims. Ike didn't have a problem hitting French railroads and yards (and French operators in the vicinity). It's war, not PR.
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In early September 2014 European Ambassador to Iraq [Jana Hybaskova of Czechoslovakia} claimed there were numerous reports emmanating from Eastern Europe that ISIS was receiving $3 million daily in sales of oil emmanating from Dier Azor and Raqqa. Three European countries were then said to be "unwittingly funding" ISIS. The report was slammed because of the great number of trucks that would be needed to move that quantity of oil. Little did anyone know that Obama had denied attacks on ISIS oil trucks. Thus, it can be truly said that Obama has helped fund the IS campaign and is responsible for the death of thousands.
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The crazy Jooooooooo Army seeks "Pearl Shine" the purity only known to dawg's army of angels. I pray for them and sender the odd pizza, but they are on the wrong track. G(r)om knows.
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...I would respectfully point out that during WWII even as solid an advocate for total war as Curtis LeMay allowed the dropping of leaflets on targets to let the civilians there know we were coming. I don't believe this should be the case here; just pointing out that it does have precedent.
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ISIS logistics units aren't civilian factory workers.
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I'm all for it!
"Dear Daesh, Wherever you go, whatever you do, we're going to find you and bomb you into oblivion. If anyone is anywhere close to you, they will also be destroyed. Sorry about that."
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Why are some of the most privileged students in the nation plunging into a racial grievance culture and upending their campuses as though oppressed by Halloween costumes they don't approve, imagined racial slights, portraits of Woodrow Wilson, a tiny handful of real racial epithets, and the like?
The reasons are of course multifaceted. But one deserves far more attention than it has gotten: Many or most of the African-American student protesters really are victims -- but not of old-fashioned racism.
Most are, rather, victims of the very large admissions preferences that set up racial-minority students for academic struggle at the selective universities that have cynically misled them into thinking they are well qualified to compete with classmates who are, in fact, far stronger academically.
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They have a void in their heart and soul, it can never be filled with things or emotion. They lack confidence because they've never been challenged and they know it.
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I wouldn't say all evil but it's certainly bad enough.
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Most are, rather, victims of the very large admissions preferences that set up racial-minority students for academic struggle at the selective universities
Of course, they're perfectly happy to take advantage of these preferences when it suits them, so my sympathy meter is at zero.
May everyone have a blessed day of thanks with family, friends, food, and football.
Reminder, if you have some spare shekels in the couch, please kick em Fred's way. We are truly living in interesting and uncertain times, and the Burg is an unmatched resource in staying on top of things. Our CiC would do well to read it
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Thank you for this post, Frank. In the crush of keeping this place going while Fred recovers from surgery, we completely forgot.
There's so much to be thankful for: family, friends, Rantburg and the internet overall, and the fact the beloved presidents Erdogan and Putin are backing away from the next big one... and of course football. Happy Thanksgiving!
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Indeed well said TW, the Turko-Russ stand-0ff scared the poo out of me.
I will send such cash as I can find in dresser drawers and maybe a ten spot with.
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Thanks Frank. As TW said we should have done something, a bloid perhaps.
Happy Thanksgiving to everyone at the Burg!
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hey, we all forget stuff. I apparently left the handcuff keys too close to Ship.
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God Bless one and all! Thanksgiving for our wonderful America and the blessings with live by and with. A bit of wonder and joy of love and family. Not to mention Lefse :)
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Dream on. I'm afraid it's too late. By 2017 the ISIS invasion of Europe and America will be out of control. The war will be in Europe and America, not in Iraq or Syria.
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that is not what defeating ISIS would look like.
Defeating ISIS would start by expelling all theocratic fascist muslims from within western countries.
If we were defeating ISIS then there would be no airforce ground crews *waiting back at the base in Saudi Arabia* because Saudi Arabia would be cut off. It would be declared an enemy state. It would not be an ally.
So would Pakistan.
cut off. No more aid. No more trade.
The bombs would fall on al-Azhar university.
That is what defeating ISIS would look like.
What a stupid article written by a military minded guy with NO idea.
If you could solve ISIS with bombs we would have done it already. ISIS is not Raqqa. ISIS is Saudi Arabian-spread Islamist fascism.
IF you could solve it with bombs you could press 1 button and nuke Raqqa. The problem would multiply x 100 because the problem is not just *over there* the problem is IN HERE
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I wish this would happen, but I believe we all know this is fiction.
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I believe this is both accurate and relevant, notwithstanding the other naysayers: critical for ISIS to maintain its caliphate, a physical nation state-like territory where it could govern, where it could plan and train, and where the fools and psychopaths who bought into its sick philosophy could gather.
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yes i agree getting rid of the Caliphate is important.
but getting rid of it without solving the Ideological problem will just be useless
it will pop up again and again
just like when al-qaeda was fought --- and the ideological war was not addressed --- we got ISIS
You cannot win with military action without tackling the Ideology and that is exactly what we have been doing for 15 years -- and that is why we are LOSING
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tackling the Ideology About half the "ideology" is domestic and not Muslim, Americans who will put YouTube versions of "Imagine" on their Facebook pages after the latest jihadi outrage and then wring the wee little hands over another outbreak of Islamophobia, while blaming the rest of our problems on evangelical Christians.
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Its known what works on the mind, but posting any comments on that gets the comment deleted quickly.
I will say what a bad guy told me once.
If I attack a man's body I go to jail. If I turn his mind inside out and run it through a wringer washer the worst anybody can charge me with is the lowest level minor assault and effectively I have murdered his mind.
Arab coalition forces backed by units of the Yemeni national army have made advances in their march towards Taiz. They managed to retake some sites from the control of Houthi militas and forces loyal to ousted president Ali Abdullah Saleh.
Arab forces took control of Al Kasara site near Najd Qasim and Dabab area, west of Taiz. Troops regrouped offensive lines and launched a ferocious battle in which several Houthi militia members were killed. Some areas of Al Misrakh district of Taiz were also liberated. The government forces are now only 2km away from Al Rahda district.
The Arab coalition's air forces bombed an assembly area of the militias in Demna opposite Al Saqee dam in which a Houthi leader called Abu Hilal along with several others were killed.
A sting operation carried out by the resistance forces at Azzan area in Al Waziyah district resulted in killing seven Houthis militias and rebels loyal to Saleh.
According information available here, military reinforcements from Wadia had been delivered to the Yemeni army in city of Marib. The reinforcement includes ammunition, armoured vehicles, and heavy artillery in preparation for the liberation of Sirwah.
Unconfirmed information points to a deal on prisoners swap between Houthis and the government forces at Bihan district of Shabwa governorate, southeast of Yemen. A total of 17 Houthis were exchanged for eight resistance forces loyal to the government.
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[Rudaw] Turkish jets reportedly resumed fresh bombings against the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) on Wednesday, hitting positions in Zakho near the Kurdistan region's border with The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... "Turkish F16 warplanes are continually bombing PKK bases in the area of Barwari Balla and Kesta village in the town of Zakho," said a Rudaw news hound from the scene.
Makes me wonder how the Turks would react if a couple Iraqi F-16s shot down a Turkish warbird in Iraqi airspace...
There were no immediate reports of casualties, since the attacks were ongoing, he said.
"Before they bombed their targets, they [the warplanes] inspected the area a while ago," the news hound said.
On Saturday, Turkish warplanes also bombed PKK bases in the Kurdistan region's mountainous outskirts of Qandil, including the Sidakan sub-district and the villages of Enzi, Prdashal and Zargali.
Since July 24, Turkey has continued attacks against the PKK, in and outside Turkey, including in the Kurdistan region.
Turkey is starting a new offensive with "new strategies" against the PKK, including raids on the group in northern Iraq and Turkey's Kurdish southeast, Turkish media have reported.
I don't recall shooting along the border to cover infiltration recently -- perhaps we were distracted by bigger events elsewhere.
[AnNahar] The Indian army killed three suspected rebels and another person was rubbed out during a six-hour shootout Wednesday on a military camp in Indian Kashmire near the border with Pakistain, a military front man said.
Heavily-armed fighters stormed the army base in Tangdhar, 140 kilometers (87 miles) northwest of the main city of Srinagar, setting off grenades and firing automatic weapons.
"Three bad boyz were potted in the exchange of stand-off fire that began in the morning hours. One soldier was maimed in the firefight," defense front man in Srinagar N.N. Joshi told AFP.
A civilian who worked on the base was also killed in the firing, Joshi said, adding that the attack finished some six hours after the Death Eaters infiltrated the base.
Kashmire has been divided between India and Pakistain since the end of British colonial rule in 1947.
Both claim the Himalayan territory in its entirety and have fought three wars over its control.
[Rudaw] 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 (ISIS) is on its last breath in the city of Ramadi, where it is blowing up homes to punish young men who have fled and joined the Iraqi Army, an Iraqi officer and the government said.
"In retaliation for the (men) fleeing Ramadi and joining the Iraqi army, ISIS has turned to blow up civilian homes in the area of Albu Isa in eastern Ramadi," Brig Gen. Ismail Mahlawi, commander of the Anbar operation command, said Wednesday.
They want to "avenge the advances of the Iraqi army through bombing civilian homes in Ramadi," he said, adding he believes this is the beginning of the end for the Islamic State group in Iraq.
One can hope...
Meanwhile, ...back at the chili cook-off, Chuck reached for the green sauce... the Iraqi cabinet claimed in a news release on Monday that ISIS is on a major defensive in Ramadi and that eight ISIS murderous Moslems were killed during an attack by Iraqi warplanes in Ramadi on the same day.
"Iraqi warplanes targeted ISIS strongholds in Ramadi and managed to kill eight murderous Moslems and destroy a vehicle and a barrel bomb," the cabinet said in a statement.
Mahlawi added: “The end of this organization is imminent,” indicating that “The ISIS blew up these houses as a revenge because of losing the battle against the security forces.”
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[Rudaw] Darbaz Muhammad, Iraq's immigration minister, announced Wednesday the number of Iraqi internally displaced persons (IDPs) had reached 3.5 million and predicted the figure would rise.
How many would be willing to traipse over to Europe for a new life?
Muhammad said in a presser the growing number of IDPs had put the government under "pressure and facing a difficult task."
The minister added that so far up to 669,000 IDP families are registered in the ministry of immigration.
djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... , Iraq's second largest city, fell to ISIS on June 10, 2014, forcing an estimated 243,000 to flee, according to government data. In Anbar province, also under ISIS control, 1 million people have fled and the government has recorded an additional 600,000 from Salahadin province.
Also according to the ministry, in Kirkuk province 16,000 families have become IDPs, in Diyala province 61,000 families and in Baghdad 26,000 families.
International human rights ...which are usually entirely different from personal liberty... law identifies the forced displacement of populations as a crime against humanity, and victims of that policy have a right to return to their homes or be compensated.
A slow day. It's not as easy for the boys to be boys when Israeli troops and police have flooded the landscape.
[Ynet] Attacker shot and killed after stabbing 20-year-old soldier at the Fawwar junction on Highway 60 in the West Bank.
IDF soldier was seriously maimed in a stabbing attack at the Fawwar junction near Hebron shortly before noon on Wednesday.
The attacker, Mohammad Shobaki, 19, lunged at the soldier during a routine security check at the entrance to the Fawwar refugee camp, where he lives.
Other soldiers at the scene shot and neutralized Shobaki. He was taken to hospital at death's door and succumbed to his wounds in the operating room.
Magen David Adom paramedics evacuated the 20-year-old soldier, who suffered stab wounds to his upper body, to Shaare Zedek Medical Center in Jerusalem.
About an hour after the attack, some 150 Paleostinians hurled stones at IDF troops near the scene of the stabbing. The troops, who were stopping the Paleostinian rioters from reaching Highway 60, used crowd dispersal measures.
[AnNahar] State Commissioner to the Military Court Judge Saqr Saqr charged on Wednesday 26 people with belonging to the Islamic State extremist group, reported the National News Agency.
Among them are 13 detainees who are linked to the twin suicide bombings of Bourj al-Barajneh that took place on November 12.
The suspects are charged with receiving orders from IS “prince” Abou al-Walid al-Souri and with planning to carry out terrorist attacks and bombings in various Lebanese regions.
In addition, they were charged with transporting explosive material, explosive vests, weapons, and ammunition and hiding them in various apartments in Beirut and the North and transporting suicide bombers and recruiting members for the IS.
Syrian suicide attackers Imad Ghayyath and Amer al-Freij blew themselves up at Beirut's southern suburbs of Bourj al-Barajneh, leaving over 43 people dead.
Detainee Ibrahim al-Jamal was arrested before he could carry out an attack, added NNA. He could face the death penalty if convicted.
Saqr has since referred the case to Military Examining Magistrate Riyad Abou Ghida.
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[AlAhram] The United States and its allies launched a fresh round of daily air strikes 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.... on Tuesday, targeting the hard boy group with 18 strikes in Iraq and five in Syria, the U.S.-led coalition leading the operations said in a statement.
In Iraq, the strikes near 10 cities included six near Ramadi that hit five Islamic State tactical units as well as three fighting positions and five weapons caches, among other targets, the coalition said in the statement, released on Wednesday.
In Syria, five strikes near three cities also hit five tactical units and two fighting positions, it said.
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Us 23: Russia 470! I think that shows who is serious.
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Us 23: Russia 470!
But Russia accomplished that in twice the time, chris, so it isn't a fair comparison.
/sorry, couldn't resist
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Just goes to show... you can have the most powerful military in the world, but if you skimp on photocopiers, you just can't get your warning leaflets reproduced fast enough.
At least twenty people have been arrested in a massive security operation carried out by Somali troops in the central Somali town of Bula-Burde, an official said Wednesday.
Confirming the incident, Bulo-Burde district commissioner Abdulaziz Durow said the troops launched a house-to-house search across the city and detained 20 people on suspicion of being Al shabaab members.
“The operation was aimed at securing the town and protect Al shabaab attacks. The suspects are being interrogated at the police station. The innocents will freed soon and the everyone found guilty will be put on trail,” said Mr Durow.
Bulo-burde, is a former al shabaab stronghold located in central Somalia’s Hiiraan region, some 200km (125 miles) north of the Somali capital, Mogadishu.
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ALEPPO – The radical group of Islamic State (ISIS) pounded Wednesday the town of Marea in the northern countryside of Aleppo, northern Syria, with heavy weapons, causing the death and injury of several civilians, military sources reported.
This led to the outbreak of clashes between the terror group and the rebel fighters of the Levant Front in the area, amid intense airstrikes by the U.S.-led coalition on ISIS’s positions north of Aleppo.
Speaking to ARA News in Aleppo, Saleh Zein, a spokesman for the Levant Front, confirmed that ISIS militants have targeted the town of Marea with homemade rockets and mortar shells, causing the death of at three civilians and the injury of eight others.
“ISIS terrorists carried out a large-scale operation aimed at infiltrating into the heart of the town,” Zein said, pointing out “But, our fighters were able to repel the enemy’s attack, forcing it to withdraw after receiving painful blows.”
The hardline group, which was inflicted with heavy losses, withdrew to its bases in the areas of Telalain and Herbel.
In the meantime, warplanes of the U.S.-led coalition conducted several airstrikes on ISIS’s positions in the towns of Oum Housh and Qirat Mazraa in the northern countryside of Aleppo, causing direct losses in its ranks, Zein told ARA News.
“After targeting a tactical unit for Daesh, the raids led to the death of five insurgents and the destruction of a number of armored-vehicles,” he concluded, using the Arabic acronym for ISIS.
Over the past year and a half, ISIS extremists have been trying to storm the besieged town of Marea, but they are faced with fierce resistance from Syrian rebels despite the group’s use of toxic gases and car bomb attacks.
Noteworthy, Turkey has officially started with the initial steps of establishing a safe zone in northern Syria, after intensifying its military support to the Turkmen rebel group of Sultan Murad under the pretext of combatting ISIS on the outskirts of Jarablus, Marea and Azaz.
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[Hurriyet] The Turkish Air Force has increased the number of warplanes patrolling the Turkish-Syrian border after the downing of a Russian jet fighter by a Turkish F-16 on Nov. 24, while Moscow fortified its military presence in Syria with additional missiles.
The intensification of the aerial protection of Turkish airspace was announced by a routine daily statement of the Chief of General Staff that declared the Turkish-Syrian border was now being patrolled by a record number of 18 F-16s.
The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... has always patrolled its airspace with F-16s, but the number of warplanes on duty was no more than 12, even in early October when Russian jetfighters first violated Turkish airspace.
Turkey also sent 10 tanks to the southeastern province of Gaziantep early on Nov. 25, which will be deployed to the border, sources said.
An additional howitzer was also deployed to Hatay's town of Yayladagi, close to where the Russian jet was shot down.
The move follows Russia's statement that it would continue its military operations near the Turkish border and deploy high-tech air defense systems to Syrian bases.
Russian President Vladimir Putin ...Second and fourth President and sixth of the Russian Federation and the first to remain sober. Putin is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from polonium poisoning. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to Putin. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead... ordered the deployment of state-of-the art air defense missile systems to a Russian air base in Syria on Nov. 25.
The S-400 missile systems, which will be sent to the Hemeimeem air base in Syria's coastal province of Latakia, just about 50 kilometers south of the border with Turkey, are capable of targeting Turkish jets.
GWADAR: Security forces freed on Wednesday 22 passengers who had been kidnapped from a coach going to Gwadar from Karachi.
According to official sources, armed men on two vehicles intercepted the coach carrying around 25 people in Nalaint area of Pasni on the Coastal Highway and took away 22 passengers after identifying them.
The kidnap victims, belonging to different areas of the country, were going to Iran for their onward journey to Europe.
Armed men intercepted a coach carrying around 25 people in Nalaint area of Pasni and took away 22 passengers after checking their identity
Personnel of Army, Frontier Corps and Levies launched a joint search operation on the outskirts of Pasni and found the kidnap victims during a raid on a hotel.
One suspected kidnapper was arrested.
Brigadier Shehzad Iftikhar, who looks after security affairs in Gwadar district, said the incident was the outcome of a dispute between two gangs of human smugglers, adding that one of the gangs had kidnapped the ‘clients’ of the other.
One of the key suspects had been detained and efforts for arrest of others were under way, he said.
Commissioner of Makran Division Bashir Bangulzai said the kidnapped people were would-be illegal immigrants. They were going to Gwadar and intended to illegally enter Iran.
Human smugglers often take people to Turkey via Iran, from where they are transported to Greece and other European countries.
LAHORE: Haroon Bhatti, one of the founding members of the banned Lashkar-i-Jhangvi (LJ), and three others were killed in a police "encounter" in Lahore's Badami Bagh area late on Wednesday, a spokesman from the Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) said.
The official told journalists that three police constables had also received bullet injuries during the encounter.
Police had brought back Bhatti, along with his four associates, to Pakistan from Dubai with the help of Interpol on October 22 this year.
The key LJ leader was reportedly accompanying the police and CTD personnel to assist them in identifying a house in use of suspected terrorists near Malik park in the Badami Bagh area when the encounter took place.
Know more: Five arrested LJ militants brought from Dubai
The CTD spokesman said the police party raided a house on the tip off to arrest criminals involved in sectarian killings. He added that the terrorists staying in the house offered resistance to the raiding party and opened fire.
Police said the raiding party resorted to retaliatory firing as a result of which the attackers were killed.
Police also claims to have recovered a huge cache of arms and explosives, including Kalashnikovs, rifles and hand grenades from the suspected terrorists' possession.
The three suspects were identified as Omair Nadeem, Omair Hassan and Noman Yasin.
Police officials feared that the men could have conducted massive sectarian-related terrorist attacks. Their bodies were shifted to the Mayo Hospital's morgue for legal formalities
[AlAhram] President Vladimir Putin ...Second and fourth President and sixth of the Russian Federation and the first to remain sober. Putin is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from polonium poisoning. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to Putin. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead... on Wednesday ordered state-of-the art air defence missile systems to be deployed at a Russian air base in Syria following the downing of one of its warplanes by The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... , a move that raised the threat of a military confrontation between the NATO
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also criticized Russian and Syrian operations in Syria's Turkmen region, saying there is "not one single" presence of the ISIS group there. It goes without saying no true Turkmen belongs to ISIS.
The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) militant group claimed responsibility on Wednesday for a deadly attack on a Tunisian presidential guard bus, an official statement from the group said.
Tunisian authorities said that a suicide bomber carried out the attack on Tuesday, which killed at least 12 people and forced the government to impose a nationwide state of emergency.
Earlier on Wednesday, Tunisia's Interior Ministry said 10 kilograms of military explosives were used in the attack.
It said in a statement Wednesday that either a backpack or an explosive belt containing the explosives was used.
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(IraqiNews.com) al-Anbar – A local source in Anbar province said on Wednesday, that 11 people were wounded in an aerial strike by the international coalition that targeted a mosque in al-Ratba District west of the province.
The source reported for IraqiNews.com, “Warplanes of the international coalition bombed al-Zubair Mosque and one of the houses near it in the neighborhood of al-Mithaq in the city of al-Ratba (310 km west of Ramadi).”
The source, who requested anonymity, added, “The bombing resulted in the injury of 11 people, including a child and a man of great age, in addition to causing serious material damage to the mosque and the house.”
URFA – Kurdish forces of the People’s Protection Units (YPG) threatened to target any plane that intend to breach its airspace in the Syrian Kurdish region. This comes after two foreign military helicopters, believed to be Turkish, were seen above the suburbs of Qamishli in northeastern Syria, military sources reported on Wednesday.
There does seem to be a recent precedent about shooting down foreign aircraft in one's airspace...
“Two unidentified military helicopters were seen Tuesday night in Qamishli’s northern suburbs, specifically in Alyan area, flying over the oil-rich town of Rumelan and the petroleum stations of Tel Adas (Gir Ziro) as well as the village of Gir Ziyaret,” the YPG’s official spokesman Redur Khalil said in a statement on Wednesday. “The helicopters headed north towards the Turkish territory.”
“We, the YPG forces, warn if this irresponsible action (Turkish breach of Syrian Kurdish airspace) were repeated, we will take the necessary procedures to target any violation of such type,” Khalil stressed.
Speaking to ARA News in Rumelan, an informed source said the Turkish helicopters were roaming in a range of 20 km along the borderline with Syria, adding “one of these helicopters breached the region’s airspace almost three kilometers above Derona Aghe village north of Chel Agha.”
“The Turkish border guards are mobilized on the Turkish side of the border since Tuesday as security cars have intensified their movements on the borderline, which has raised Kurdish concerns,” the source said on the condition of anonymity.
Khalil’s statement coincides with the Russian government’s announcement about a possible plan by Turkish authorities over downing its fighter jet near the Syrian border earlier on Tuesday.
Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said that the Turkish attack on the Russian warplane earlier on Tuesday appeared to be “an ambush”, describing the Turkish action as a “planned provocation”.
President Vladimir Putin considered Turkey’s downing of the Russian jet “a stab in the back”.
On the other hand, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said in a statement that the Russian fighter jet was downed “after failing to heed multiple warnings and crossing into Turkey’s airspace”.
“We certainly don’t have any idea to escalate this issue,” Erdogan added.
Moscow revealed Wednesday a plan to deploy an S-400 air-defense system at the Latakia military base in western Syria and provide air support for its warplanes from a cruiser in the Mediterranean Sea and by dispatching fighter jets to accompany bombing missions.
Syrian opposition activists considered the statement of the YPG’s spokesman on Wednesday as a “veiled threat” to Turkey, especially the Turkish forces have repeatedly threatened to hit the Syrian Kurdish forces for its alleged links with the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK).
(IraqiNews.com) Baghdad – A source in the Interior Ministry announced on Wednesday, that nine people had been either killed or wounded in a car bombing south of Baghdad.
The source said in an interview for IraqiNews.com “A car bomb exploded this afternoon in al-Wardiya area south of Baghdad, killing two people and injuring seven others, indicating that “the death toll may increase because of the severity of the explosion.”
The source, who asked not to be named, added: “A security force rushed to the scene and transported the wounded to a nearby hospital for treatment and the bodies of the dead to the forensic medicine department, while cordoned off the area and prevented approaching it.”
(IraqiNews.com) Baghdad – A source in the Iraqi police said on Wednesday, that five civilians have been injured as a result of a car bomb blast in the area of al-Mada’en in southern Baghdad.
The source reported for IraqiNews.com, “Today, a booby-trapped vehicle exploded at the entrance of the area of al-Wardiya in al-Mada’en, located in southern Baghdad,” noting that, “The blast resulted in injuring five civilians.”
“A security force cordoned of the area of the incident, while ambulances transferred the injured to a nearby hospital,” the source added.
[Hurriyet] Four 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.... of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) have been captured in two separate provinces, the Turkish General Staff has said in a written statement.
The general staff said Nov. 25 that two Russian citizens identified to be ISIL members were detained in an operation in the northwestern province of Bursa.
Dogan News Agency reported that the Bursa operation was conducted in the Gursu district.
In the southeastern province of Kilis, two foreign nationals were captured in the Elbeyli district as they attempted to cross into Syria from The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... on Nov. 25, the general staff added.
The military operations in the eastern provinces of Siirt, Bitlis, Van as well as in the southeastern provinces of Mardin, Diyarbakir and Sanlirurfa, were still ongoing, it added.
Turkey has stepped up anti-terror operations against ISIL after the group was implicated in the Oct. 10 Ankara blasts, the twin bombings that killed more than 100 civilians and maimed hundreds of others ahead of a peace demonstration outside a train station in Ankara.
More than 1,000 suspects have been detained on suspicion of ISIL links since the beginning of the year.
Ankara, however, declared what it described as a "synchronized war on terror" in July, referring to both the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) and ISIL.
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(IraqiNews.com) Nineveh – A security source in Nineveh province announced on Wednesday, that 12 elements of the ISIS were killed in an air strike by the international coalition south of Mosul.
The source said in an interview for IraqiNews.com: “the international coalition aircraft carried out an intensive raid, targeting ISIS strongholds in the village of Sultan Abdullah in Qayyarah (60 km south of Mosul).”
The source added that “the operation resulted in the killing of 12 armed members of the ISIS, in addition to wounding others.”
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The US Justice Department has provided specific suggestions to governments in Europe and elsewhere on how to strengthen counterterrorism laws in order to arrest would-be foreign fighters before they join groups like Islamic State, according to a policy paper reviewed by Reuters.
US government officials distributed the paper to overseas government agencies earlier this year as part of a push by the Obama administration to track and stem the flow of homegrown foreign fighters from Europe bound for Syria and Iraq, a person with knowledge of the matter said.
Following the Paris attacks earlier this month and this week's security crackdown in Belgium, European law enforcement and intelligence agencies are under pressure to disrupt the replenishment of Islamic State’s forces and prevent battle-hardened militants from returning home to carry out attacks.
Mousetraps only work if you kill the rodent in the trap...
US officials began lobbying for European countries to enact legal changes targeting Islamic State as early as 2014. But the March 2015 memo details the steps the Justice Department has urged other governments to consider, including prosecuting “aspiring foreign fighters” before they leave for Syria or Iraq.
Specifically, the document urges governments to consider making it a crime to travel to designated areas like those under the control of Islamic State or to attempt to join a group deemed by an overseas government to be a terrorist organization.
Or, failing that, ensuring that the fighters give their lives for the glorious cause in the shit hole part of the world to which they've travelled...
“In the United States, this approach has proven very effective in intercepting foreign fighter travel,” the document said.
It was not clear what kind of reception the lobbying effort by the Justice Department received or whether any legal changes overseas had been undertaken as a result.
But we can guess how it was received since nothing has been done to change the flow of hard boy recruits to the Middle East...
Its disclosure comes at a time of renewed debate about how to balance security with privacy concerns in the United States and new scrutiny of the security risk posed by a visa waiver program that allows citizens of mostly European countries to visit freely.
US prosecutors have used laws banning dealings with foreign militant groups to prosecute dozens of American citizens and residents for crimes related to Islamic State while they are still in the United States. Under US law, federal prosecutors do not have to “establish a link with specific terrorist activities” in order to charge a suspect with a crime, but only show a suspect intended to “support or join” a group the government has already labeled a terrorist organization, the paper noted.
It urged other governments to consider similar steps to criminalize what US prosecutors have called “preparatory acts” for would-be militants and Islamic State recruits.
The US Department of Homeland Security said in a June report that 64 individuals had been arrested in the United States between January 2014 and September 2015 for attempting to join Islamic State or for other “terrorism-related activities” involving the group. Among that total, the security agency said it had arrested 28 individuals for planning travel to join Islamic State.
How many did we miss who slipped out of the U.S. and are now fighting in Syria? That's the real question...
In addition to discussions with European officials, Washington has kept up pressure on Turkey to do more to tighten its border with Syria against the two-way traffic of militants of Islamic State and other militant groups.
It's not like Turkey wants to arrest and house the mooks. Though a few months in a tender Turkish prison might be just what these jokers need...
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Hundreds of national Yemeni army soldiers and resistance fighters were seen heading for the strategic Bab Al Mandeb Red Sea waterway as part of reinforcements to support the offensive to liberate Taiz province from the Iranian-backed coup rebels.
A U-Tube film, published by Yemen Press, showed a large column of military vans and armored vehicles were headed for Dhabab area just near the waterway.
The network quoted military sources as saying the reinforcements were sent to support a final offensive against the Houthis and their allies to eject them from Taiz.
QAMISHLI – Several secret tunnels carved by militants of the radical group of Islamic State (ISIS) have been found littered with drugs, copies of the Quran and U.S.-made ammunition in the recently liberated Yezidi region of Sinjar (Shingal) in northern Iraq, military sources reported.
They dig like Paleos...
Backed by the U.S.-led coalition’s air cover, the Kurdish Peshmerga forces were able to liberate the Yezidi areas after more than a year and a half from ISIS. Following the expulsion of the terror group, dozens of secret tunnels dug by ISIS extremists have been found in Sinjar by the Kurdish fighters and local Yezidi combatants.
Speaking to ARA News in Shingal, Yezidi fighter Rizgar Yawir said: “We were surprised that the deserted ISIS tunnels were provided with electricity, beside a number of sleeping dens lined with sandbags for military purposes.
“Remnants of food and unwashed plates were also found there,” he added, pointing out “some drugs, mainly painkillers, were seen on the ground”.
“During our inspection we also found several copies of the Quran hung on the walls of the tunnels,” Yawir told ARA News, pointing out that some of the U.S.-made boxes of ammunition and bomb-making tools were placed in the corners.
“A network of nearly 40 tunnels have been found inside Shingal,” Yawir added.
“Daesh dug these tunnels in a bid to hide from the U.S.-led coalition’s airstrikes and the shells of the Kurdish and Yezidi forces,” he told ARA News, using the Arabic acronym for ISIS.
“This would definitely have facilitated their movement during military operations,” he stressed. “It was a key depot of weapon.”
As Syrian Kurds were able to recapture the key town of al-Hawl in Hasakah province in northeastern Syria from ISIS, the Iraqi Kurdish fighters achieved parallel victory in Shingal (Sinjar). Thus, both sides were able to cut-off the vital supply routes from the ISIS de-facto capital in Syria’s Raqqa to the city of Mosul –ISIS major bastion in Iraq.
In the meantime, the Peshmerga forces have reportedly discovered two mass graves in Shingal after ISIS departure from the area. One grave included dead bodies of 76 women and the second one had 60 bodies of men, women and children. The victims are believed to be Yezidi civilians executed recently by the radical group.
In June, the Syrian Kurdish forces of the People’s Protection Units (YPG) discovered several tunnels used by ISIS insurgents to move between the villages of Sere Kaniye in Hasakah province.
The terror group has been engaged in fighting against the Kurdish forces for months before the latter, backed by Arab and Christian groups, were able to regain control of several strategic towns and villages in the province.
“We found tunnels that have been used by the group to move between the villages of Sere Kaniye’s countryside in order to avoid our (YPG) fire and airstrikes by the U.S.-led coalition,” YPG fighter Dafram Kortay told ARA News in an earlier interview.
The displaced Yezidi Kurds, who are currently based in refugee camps in Iraqi Kurdistan, are unable to return to their hometowns for fear of the land-mines planted by the ISIS terror group before its withdrawal from the Shingal region, Kurdish activists reported.
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Dat picture!
Buh, Buh, Buh, buh,
I'm alright and nobody worry 'bout me
Why you got to gimme a fight, can't you just let it be?
I'm alright don't nobody worry 'bout me
You got to gimme a fight, why don't you just let me be?
Do what you like doing it naturally
But if it's too easy, they're gonna disagree
It's your life and isn't it a mystery
If it's nobody's business it's everybody's game
[AlAhram] Tunisia announced Wednesday it was closing its land border with war-torn Libya for 15 days following a deadly bus bombing in Tunis claimed by ISIS group.
The National Security Council headed by President Beji Caid Essebsi decided to close the frontier from midnight with "reinforced surveillance of maritime borders and in airports", a presidency statement said.
Thousands of Tunisians have travelled to Libya, Iraq and Syria to fight alongside Islamic Lion of Islams, according to the authorities.
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[AnNahar] The United States imposed sanctions Wednesday on supporters of Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Horror of Homs... 's government, including a middleman it alleged buys oil for the regime from 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.
"The Syrian government is responsible for widespread brutality and violence against its own people," said Adam Szubin, acting under secretary for terrorism and financial intelligence, in a statement announcing the sanctions action.
"The United States will continue targeting the finances of all those enabling Assad to continue inflicting violence on the Syrian people."
The Treasury Department named four individuals and six entities for sanctions for their support of the Assad regime, "including a middleman for oil purchases by the Syrian regime from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant ... the current version of al-Qaeda in Iraq, just as blood-thirsty and well-beloved as the original... (ISIL)," another name for the Islamic State group.
The department highlighted "ongoing government of Syria ties to ISIL."
Sanctions were imposed on George Haswani, a Syrian national, and his company, HESCO Engineering and Construction Company.
"Haswani is a Syrian businessman who serves as a middleman for oil purchases by the Syrian regime from ISIL. HESCO is a Syrian engineering and construction company that operates energy production facilities in Syria, reportedly in areas controlled by ISIL," the Treasury Department said.
Other sanctions targets included Russian Financial Alliance Bank, Primax Business Consultants Limited, and Belize-based Kremsont Commercial Inc.
The sanctions forbid U.S. individuals or entities from doing any business with those on the blacklist, restricting their access to international financial networks crucial to doing business.
By Reuters, Beirut Wednesday, 25 November 2015
A Syrian military source said rebels are making heavy use of U.S.-made anti-tank missiles paid for by Saudi Arabia and supplied via Turkey in recent weeks and the weapons are having an impact on the battlefield.
The so-called TOW missile is the most potent weapon in the arsenal of rebel groups battling President Bashar al-Assad, and has been seen in action more frequently since Russia intervened with air strikes on Syria on Sept 30.
A rebel group was shown using one of the guided missiles to destroy a grounded Russian helicopter in Syria on Tuesday.
Addressing the increased supplies of TOW missiles for the first time, the Syrian military source said they had an impact on the fighting, but played down their overall significance, saying the army was gaining ground.
Hey, I know: Let's blame Bush!
Reports that a section of the Libyan air force loyal to the General National Congress and its chief of staff carried out strike on Sirte and managed to kill a number of Islamic State (IS) commanders are not true, the Libya Herald has been told by a source in the town.
According to the source, the strike was carried out on Monday by members of the Furjan tribe who were part of Al-Jalat Brigade. In a hit-and-run operation south of Ghardabiya airbase, they launched a missile attack on IS forces, allegedly killing and wounding a number IS fighters before pulling out.
In Tripoli and elsewhere, however, it was being reported yesterday that the air force had carried out two raids on Sirte, on ammunition and storage facilities in the suburbs of Abu Hadi and Al-Dahair and that as many as seven people had been killed, including two senior IS commanders. One of them was named as Abu Jalal Al-Maghrabi, allegedly the head of IS’ media office.
Appearing to confirm the fact that no such air raid had taken place, the spokesman for general chief of staff, Ali Sheikhi, he said that he did not have information about it.
Tunisia's President Beji Caid Essebsi declared a nationwide state of emergency and a curfew in the capital after a bomb attack on a presidential guard bus killed at least 12 people on Tuesday.
No group immediately claimed responsibility for the bombing, which a ministry official said also wounded 20 people when it went off on Mohamed V Avenue, just as this year's 26th Carthage Film Festival was in full swing.
Essebsi, who cancelled a trip to Switzerland for Wednesday, declared a state of emergency throughout the country and a curfew in the capital.
"As a result of this painful event, this great tragedy... I proclaim a state of emergency for 30 days under the terms of law and a curfew in greater Tunis from 9:00 pm (2000 GMT) until 5:00 am tomorrow," he said in brief televised address.
Presidential spokesman Moez Sinaoui, who described the bombing as an "attack", told AFP the curfew would stay in place until further notice.
The United States condemned the attack and offered to help the Tunisian authorities with their investigation. US Secretary of State John Kerry "was proud to stand with Tunisian leaders earlier this month in Tunis and reaffirm our countries' extensive economic, governance, and security cooperation", a spokesman for his department said.
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A drone strike carried out the coalition forces in eastern Nangarhar province has killed a Taliban shadow district governor, Ministry of Defense and Nangarhar’s police HQ announced on Wednesday.
According to a statement released by the ministry, Qari Salim the so-called governor for Gushta District and one of his companions was killed in Mohmand Dara District on Tuesday.
“two militants were killed in an airstrike in Dabila area of Mohmand Dara District around 5 o’clock yesterday, among them is a so-called district governor of armed militants,” a statement released by Nangarhar police HQ’s spokesperson Colonel Hazrat Hussain Mashriqiwal.
Yesterday’s air strike was at least the 3rd one carried out by Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) in Nangarhar this month.
12 militants including Noor Rahman the Taliban shadow governor for Khogyani District were killed in a drone strike on November 14 and 33 were killed in an air strike in Gulai area of Ghanikhil District on November 7.
QUETTA: A large quantity of illegal arms and ammunition was seized during an intelligence-based action carried out along the Pak-Afghan border in Chagai district on Wednesday.
A Frontier Corps spokesman said that FC troops and intelligence personnel raided the Killi Nafas Khan area close to the border with Afghanistan and found the cache of weapons.
“The consignment was concealed underground,” the spokesman said. No arrest was reported.
The arms and ammunition seized included 14 SMG rifles, two AK-47s, four LMGs, three snipers, one MI16 G3, two RPG7, four guns, one 303 rifle, 16 secondary RPGs and thousands of rounds and dozen of magazines. The FC spokesman said that arms and ammunitions had been smuggled from Afghanistan to Pakistan for carrying out terrorist attacks.
This is why smart politicians work to get the agreement of their voters. It's not just about burning empty buildings to keep the migrants from seeking shelter there.
[AnNahar] "I came from my room to see what was happening. I saw the fire and ran outside," says Dawit, a 13-year-old Æthiopian boy living in a Swedish center for asylum seekers.
His voice is steady and lacking emotion, but the arson attack on his temporary home for unaccompanied children has cast a shadow over his hopes of living in safety one day.
At least 25 centers for asylum seekers in the Scandinavian country have been reduced to ashes or damaged by fires this year, often set in the dark of night while the migrants sleep, unaware of the danger they are in.
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'"People were afraid," he admits, looking far older than his 13 years as he makes toast for breakfast in the center's dining room before starting the day in the autumn sunshine with a cigarette and an energy drink.'
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Allah Akbar, Inshallah and all that jazz, My name is Dr, Szell, I am a here to look at your teefs. 13? Humm, problem we has, your second set not coming in so good. Your baby teefs are crowding out your big teefs. I must take action immediate!
Nuss! Checker the hydraulic pressure! Bring me the ratchet, the ear lobe protector and a quart of Rum! Ima do oral surgery Nao!
[AnNahar] A U.N. employee was killed Tuesday in an attack on a peacekeeping convoy in northern Mali, Secretary General the ephemeral Ban Ki-moon said.
The attackers used explosives on the road from Goundam to Timbuktu where the vehicles from the U.N. MINUSMA force were traveling, he said.
Ban condemned the attack in which a civilian staff member was killed and said such actions "will not alter the determination of the United Nations ...aka the Oyster Bay Chowder and Marching Society... to support the Malian people and the grinding of the peace processor."
The attack came just days after Islamist gunnies stormed a luxury hotel in Bamako, killing at least 20 people and taking hostages before Malian, French and U.S. troops moved in to end the siege.
Northern Mali fell under the control of Tuareg rebels and jihadist groups linked to Al-Qaeda in mid-2012 before they were beaten back by a French-led operation in early 2013.
In June, the two main armed factions signed a peace deal to end the conflict in the north, but some splinter groups are opposing the agreement.
Two separate jihadist groups have grabbed credit for the assault on the Radisson Blu hotel in Bamako on Friday: the Al-Murabitoun group, an Al-Qaeda affiliate led by notorious one-eyed Algerian murderous Moslem Mokhtar Belmokhtar, and the Macina Liberation Front (LWF) from central Mali.
The United Nations has deployed some 10,200 peacekeepers in Mali to help restore order after the Islamist takeover in the north but the mission has come under repeated attacks.
A coordinated suicide attack plot on Kandahar provincial government compound was foiled with the detention of two suspected militants.
According to the local government officials, the two suspects were arrested during an operation by the Afghan Intelligence – National Directorate of Security (NDS) operatives.
The officials further added that the two suspects belonged to Taliban commander Mullah Bozorg who are actively operating on Kandahar-Helmand highway and within the Kandahar city.
The two suspects were identified as Lal Mohammad who is originally a resident of Panjwai district of Kandahar province and Abdul Wali who is a resident of Zherai district.
According to the officials, the two militants were instructed to detonate a rickshaw vehicle packed with artillery shells in front of the entrance of government compound.
The Taliban militants group has not commented regarding the report so far.
Kandahar is among the relatively volatile provinces in southern Afghanistan where anti-government armed militant groups are actively operating in its various districts and often carry out insurgency activities.
This comes as at least six people, including four militants and a suicide bomber were killed after launching an attack in Arghandab district last week.
Moscow on Monday said its warplanes had hit 472 targets in war-torn Syria in the past two days, including tanker trucks and oil infrastructure in territory controlled by the Islamic State group.
“In 141 combat sorties in the past two days, warplanes of the Russian airforce struck 472 terrorist targets in the provinces of Aleppo, Damascus, Idlib, Latakia, Hama, Homs, Raqa and Deir Ezzor,” the Russian defence ministry said in a statement.
The military said that the latest strikes had destroyed 80 tanker trucks near the Islamic State stronghold of Raqa, as well as a large oil storage tank and a oil refinery south of the city.
The Russian defence ministry said last week that it was “hunting” oil transporters in a bid to cut IS financing and claimed that in the past five days some 1,000 fuel trucks had been destroyed.
The Russian military claimed that “terrorists” had suffered “serious losses” in Saraqib, a city in the northwestern province of Idlib province, and in the town of Qalaat al-Madiq in the Hama province.
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Go russia!
i never thought i would ever cheer on Putin but if he keeps smashing those Islamofascists I cannot help but like him
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It's difficult isn't it? In due course there will be plenty of
F blowback, the disintegration of NATO, the loss of a Western looking Ukraine, the Finlandadization of the Baltic States and a nuclear Poland.
Three more people were murdered in Ajdabiya today in one of its worst days of violence so far. They have been named as Ageela Sameen, Faiez Sardeena and Walid Shaari. they were shot in separate incidents. All were involved in security.
Sardeena was working for the town’s criminal investigation department, another member of which, Hamza Senussi, was murdered last week.
Shaari, said to be a Salfist, was killed first. The other two are reported to have been shot dead as they went to give their condolences to Shaari’s family.
The town, south of Benghazi has endured a spate of assassinations and attempted assassinations in recent weeks, making it the most dangerous place in the country. The violence and the targets, which include imams, mirrors that in Derna last year before it fell into the hands of Islamic State forces.
IS and its increasingly close ally, the Ajdabiya Revolutionaries’ Shoura Council, stand accused of the wave of killings.
KARACHI: One man died and four other people were injured as a remote-controlled blast detonated near a bus terminal in the Lea Market area on Wednesday, Senior Superintendent Police-City Fida Hussain said.
The intended target has not yet been ascertained.
The blast had earlier been reported by television channels as a cylinder explosion.
The Bomb Disposal Squad said no pellets had been used in the bomb, which contained half a kilogram of explosives.
An investigation has been initiated into the incident.
Earlier this week, Karachi's Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD) escaped an attack after an improvised explosive device (IED) lobbed into the parking lot of the CTD building failed to explode. The wires of the IED disconnected after it landed inside the premises.
The ‘operation’ against criminal elements in Pakistan’s commercial hub was initiated back in September 2013 and has gained momentum in 2015. The Rangers-led operation against criminal elements in the city focused on targeted killings, kidnappings for ransom, extortion and terrorism in Karachi during its first phase.
The second phase, which was announced in early November, will target terrorists, contract killers and their facilitators involved in attacks on law enforcement personnel, particularly police, lawyers and witnesses.
Karachi, a teeming metropolis of around 18 million people, is rife with political, ethnic, sectarian and criminal violence. Proscribed organisations have also used Karachi as a base to generate funds for furthering their anti-state agenda.
[Rudaw] The head of the monitory committee in Iraq's parliament says the body has rejected the Shiite Hashd al-Shaabi militias' application for nearly $800 million for the reminder of the year after a federal court intervened and dismissed the application.
Ahmad Rashid said the court rejected the case since the Hashd al-Shaabi had already been granted over 1.1 trillion Iraqi dinar (about $1 billion) in the national budget for the same period.
"This is in fact five times bigger than what the Peshmerga forces receive, though they are almost twice as large as the Hashd," Rashid told Rudaw.
According to Hoshiar Abdulla, a member of the Iraqi parliament's defense committee, the Hashd al-Shaabi commands over 50,000 fighters while the Peshmerga have over 100,000.
"Iraq's own army is apparently a failure and the international coalition forces are reluctant to cooperate with Shiite militias since they are largely directed by Tehran," Abdulla told Rudaw.
The Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) has implicitly been critical of the Shiite militias, fearing future conflicts over disputed territories in Iraq's south and central regions.
Last month's deadly stand off in Khurmatu between the two sides sent shockwaves in Kurdistan, which has long questioned the rapid rise of the Hashd al-Shaabi now battling ISIS virtually on behalf of Iraq's national army.
"They have access to almost all the military equipment the Iraqi army has in its arsenal, both light and heavy weapons," said Kurdish politician Shaxawan Abdulla, who is also a member of Iraq's defense committee.
"We are really doubtful that they will ever return the armaments, which will indeed become problematic in the future," he added.
The militia's growing recruitment in Shiite Kurdish areas such as the disputed province of Khanaqeen in the south has not been welcomed by Kurdish parties.
"There should be some limitations and regulations as to how many they can recruit," said Abdulla.
Rudaw spoke to one Kurdish commander with the Hashd al-Shaabi who confirmed that they were planning to recruit more fighters among Shiite Kurds in the Khanaqin area.
"Our Brigade has 3,150 soldiers who are entirely Kurds," said Abu Muntazar, the commander of a Hashd al-Shaabi brigade in Khanaqin who also added that more than 400 people in other areas had applied to join the unit, which offers regular monthly payments.
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Because your 'regular' army did so well repealing ISIS in the first place. The wages of filling the officer ranks with political hacks rather than by merit.
[AnNahar] Germany will send up to 650 soldiers to Mali, Defense Minister Ursula von der Leyen said Wednesday, to provide some relief to La Belle France in its global fight against 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.... jihadists.
Von der Leyen made the announcement hours before German Chancellor Angela Merkel ...current chancellor of Germany. She was educated in East Germany when is was still run by commies, but in 1989 got involved with the growing democracy movement when the Berlin Wall fell. Merkel is sometimes referred to by Germans as Mom... travels to Gay Paree to meet President Francois Hollande ...the Socialist president of La Belle France, an economic bad joke for la Belle France but seemingly a foreign policy realist... to discuss support in the wake of the deadly November 13 attacks by the Islamic State group in the French capital.
"We will and must stand firmly by La Belle France's side and do everything we can to help in this situation," von der Leyen said after a parliamentary defense committee meeting.
"We will make a substantial contribution to this mandate. That is why we will soon put a mandate for 650 troops before (the German) parliament."
She said the German soldiers would focus on logistics and reconnaissance as part of the U.N. peacekeeping mission in Mali (MINUSMA).
Berlin had previously deployed around 10 soldiers as part of the U.N. mission and von der Leyen had in October already discussed increasing the number of troops.
"The French are very pleased that we are boosting our engagement here," she said.
Von der Leyen added that if the international mission manages to create more stability in Mali, "the French will no longer be so tightly bound to this part of the world".
Around 1,500 French troops are deployed in Mali as part of the fight against Al-Qaeda-linked jihadist groups which seized control of the country's north in 2012.
Large parts of Mali remain beyond the control of government and foreign forces, despite the French-led mission launched in 2013.
The EU also has a military training mission in Mali (EUTM) in the relatively quiet south of the country, to which Germany has contributed 200 soldiers.
Merkel said earlier in a speech to parliament that Germany would "stand in solidarity at La Belle France's side".
"If further commitments prove necessary, we wouldn't rule it out," she said.
[Ynet] Three-quarters of those who become imported muscle for 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.... murderous Moslem group are recruited through friends and 20 percent through family members, a terrorism expert said Tuesday.
Scott Atran, co-founder of the Center for the Resolution of Intractable Conflict at Oxford University, said research has found that "radicalization rarely occurs in mosques" and very, very rarely through anonymous recruiters and strangers.
He said some Islamic State recruits come from Christian families "and they happen to be the fiercest of all the fighters we find."
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KARACHI: Four suspected terrorists were killed in a shootout with the Rangers late on Tuesday, a spokesman for the paramilitary force said.
He said the Rangers men raided a hideout near Northern Bypass on reports about the presence of some militants. The raid turned into an exchange of gunfire.
“The armed men in the hideout attacked personnel of our team when they were busy taking positions following information about the presence of terrorists in the area,” he said.
“The shootouts left all four terrorists dead while a Rangers personnel was also injured in the firing. The deceased terrorists were not identified immediately.”
The Islamic State has likely radicalized thousands of people in the United States, according to a new report, raising concerns that supporters of the terrorist group could be plotting domestic attacks similar to the recent shootings and bombings in Paris.
The Threat Knowledge Group, an organization led by the counterterrorism experts Sebastian and Katharine Gorka, has compiled a list of 82 individuals in the United States who were affiliated with the Islamic State (also known as ISIS or ISIL) and apprehended by law enforcement officials, including those who traveled or attempted to travel to Iraq and Syria, launched domestic attacks, or participated in recruiting or fundraising.
The Gorkas note in a new report that almost one third of these individuals had plotted attacks against Americans on U.S. soil in the last 18 months. Through Islamic State propagandists on Twitter and other social media sites, the terrorist group has been able to attract hundreds more supporters in the United States, they said.
Ali Shukri Amin, a 17-year-old Virginia resident and Islamic State supporter who was sentenced to 11 years in prison in August, used his Twitter account with 4,000 followers to raise funds for the group and encourage friends to join it overseas.
Ahmad Musa Jibril, an Islamist preacher in Dearborn, Michigan, who has also spent time in jail for money laundering and tax evasion, also points to the terrorist group’s online reach. Jibril has more than 38,000 Twitter followers, though he has not tweeted since last July and may have found other methods of communication. He is reported to have a large following among foreign fighters in Iraq and Syria.
“Based on the evidence available, the number of ISIS supporters in the United States measures in the thousands, rather than hundreds,” the Gorkas said in their report.
“Whether ISIS will launch an attack on the scale of the Paris attack is unknown, but it is clear that the United States is a primary target for ISIS and that ISIS has the necessary supporters in place and the financial means to carry out such an attack,” they continued. “The challenges of screening incoming refugees may further exacerbate the problem.”
The Islamic State has displaced al Qaeda as the top threat to the U.S. homeland, the Gorkas said. After examining arrests per month, they found that U.S. police are interdicting 300 percent more Islamic State recruits than al Qaeda supporters.
The Islamic State has been able to attract thousands of foreign fighters and U.S. supporters through its aggressive dissemination of propaganda on social media and urgent ideological and religious narrative.
Religious authorities for the group claim that the “end times” are swiftly approaching, a period when Muslims will defeat invading Christians in Syria in “the final jihad” before the world ends and devout Muslims ascend to heaven. “They are able to persuade many supporters to come fight on the grounds that this is ‘The Final Jihad,’” the Gorkas said.
The Islamic State also focuses on young recruits, who are more vulnerable to radicalization. The report notes that 63 percent of those arrested in the United States for supporting the group were between the ages of 15 and 25.
Islamic State supporters often recruit in clusters in the United States, with friends and family members forming a local jihad network.
“For law enforcement, it suggests that if one person in a community affiliates themselves with ISIS, one can expect to see more, especially among those who are close to the recruit,” the Gorkas said.
Still, Islamic State adherents in the United States are vulnerable to capture. Among the 82 cases of U.S. supporters studied by the Threat Knowledge Group, about 60 percent were identified by authorities through their social media posts or a tip from someone close to them. The Gorkas recommended that police build trust in communities so families and residents will feel comfortable turning in those that they suspect are radicalized.
Additionally, they urged law enforcement authorities to work with educators about identifying signs of radicalization among youth, focus more on tracking the Islamic State’s religious authorities online and their propaganda, and develop a more rigorous screening process for refugees from the Middle East.
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Yep RT are reporting they are targeting college campuses. This would be no different to Australia where they are also targeting universities and have been for years
They use front groups.
They use Hizb ut Tahrir - which campaigns peacefully for the Caliphate through Sharia.
HT itself sends its members out to start up a lot of other front groups with names like
The Islam Project
and peaceful marketing propaganda - happy looking lotus flowers and pamphlets that lie and say they are all about peaceful religion, and charities to help the war stricken refugees overseas
as the rubes get sucked in they get introduced to the more hard core caliphate fans
then they get put in touch with people who can help them get to syria
that is why you have to declare war on the Caliphate and NOT on Islamic State the group.
Declare war on the Caliphate and you hoover up these support groups for treason
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and you hoover up these support groups for treason
Anyone one remember the last treason trial? Seem treason has been 'redefined' as protected speech et al. I mean, being in the naval reserve, and engaging with the enemy in Paris for anti-war movements, can get you a gig as a Senator or Secretary of State.
President Tayyip Erdogan said on Wednesday that Turkey did not want any escalation after it shot down a Russian warplane near the Syrian border, saying it had simply acted to defend its own security and the “rights of our brothers” in Syria.
But while neither side has shown any interest in a military escalation, Russia has made clear it will exact economic revenge through trade and tourism. Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said on Wednesday that important joint projects could be cancelled and Turkish firms could lose Russian market share.
The downing of the jet on Tuesday was one of the most serious publicly acknowledged clashes between a NATO member and Russia for half a century, and further complicated international efforts to battle Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) militants in Syria.
Russia’s foreign minister on Wednesday said the downing of its fighter jet by Turkey appeared to be a “planned provocation” but said the countries would not go to war over the incident.
“We have serious doubts about this being an unpremeditated act, it really looks like a planned provocation,” Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said at a press conference in Moscow after speaking with Turkish counterpart Mevlut
Cavusoglu.
“We do not plan to go to war with Turkey, our attitude toward the Turkish people has not changed,” Lavrov added, stressing that Moscow would however “seriously reevaluate” its ties with Ankara.
“Such attacks are absolutely unacceptable,” he said.
Lavrov also backed a proposal by French President Francois Hollande to close off the Syrian-Turkish border to prevent fighters from flooding into Syria, saying the idea may be raised by Hollande during his visit to Moscow on Thursday.
Russian authorities reacted furiously to the downing of the Russian Su-24 warplane on the Syrian border on Tuesday, with President Vladimir Putin calling it a “stab in the back committed by accomplices of terrorists.”
Ankara and Moscow are already on rival sides in the Syrian civil war that has lasted over four years, with Turkey wanting to see the ouster of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad while Russia remains one of his last remaining allies.
[A] Turkish convoy has been hit by apparent airstrikes in northwestern Syria. Footage released online by the Istanbul-based Humanitarian Relief Foundation (IHH) shows plumes of smoke from the burning trucks and people running about in panic. At least 20 trucks were engulfed in flames. The mission, however, wasn’t sponsored or organized by the IHH, the group said. No organization has as yet confirmed that the convoy belonged to them.
DAMASCUS – The Russian government announced Wednesday that Turkey may have planned the downing of one of its fighter jets near the Syrian border.
What was your first clue, Ivan -- the Sidewinders?
Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said that the Turkish attack on the Russian warplane earlier on Tuesday appeared to be “an ambush”.
“The attack looks very much like a planned provocation,” Lavrov told reporters in Moscow on Wednesday, adding that Turkey was defending Syrian rebels against the government forces in the area where the downing of the Russian warplane took place.
“We can’t leave what happened without a response,” the Russian FM said.
On the other hand, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said in a statement that the Russian fighter jet was downed “after failing to heed multiple warnings and crossing into Turkey’s airspace”.
“We certainly don’t have any idea to escalate this issue,” Erdogan said.
"We made our point."
Subsequent to the incident on Tuesday, Russian President Vladimir Putin said in a press conference: “Our plane was shot down on Syrian territory by an air-to-air missile from an F-16. It fell on Syrian territory 4 kilometers from the Turkish border. It was flying at 6,000 meters 1 kilometer from Turkish territory when it was attacked.”
Putin considered Turkey’s downing of the Russian jet “a stab in the back”.
One of the Russian pilots who was rescued by special forces stressed that they have not received any warnings by the Turkish army before shooting down the warplane.
“If they’d wanted to warn us, they could have shown themselves, taking a parallel course,” the pilot said. “But there was nothing. And the rocket hit the tail of our plane suddenly. We didn’t even get a visual of it in time to take evasive action.”
If the Turks had indeed flown up next to you what would you have done?
Moscow revealed Wednesday its plan to deploy an S-400 air-defense system at the Latakia military base in western Syria and provide air support for its warplanes from a cruiser in the Mediterranean Sea and by dispatching fighter jets to accompany bombing missions.
The Turkish army on Wednesday released a series of audio recordings of apparent warnings issued to a Russian jet before it was downed near the Syrian border.
"This is Turkish Air Force speaking on guard. You are approaching Turkish airspace. Change your heading south immediately," a voice in one of the recordings can be heard saying.
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Turkey's claim that they "warned" the Russian pilot somehow reminds me of what my Navy boss told me about rules for sentries: they were supposed to say "Halt!" three times before opening fire. According to my boss, what you would likely get from some nervous 18-19 year old would be "halthalthaltbang"
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Turkish Stream is a pipeline that would export natural gas from southern Russia through Azerbaijan to Turkey. Gas then would be piped into Europe. As the author of this piece notes, even before the latest downturn in Russo-Turkish relations, the pipeline was wishful thinking.
The prospects for implementing the Turkish Stream gas pipeline project have always been questionable. However, after the incident with the Russian warplane that has been recently shot down by the Turkish Air Force, all hopes for the project implementation came to naught.
Neither Turkey nor Russia is willing to discuss its implementation today. The Kremlin does not intend to comment on the prospects for the Turkish Stream gas pipeline project, the Russian media reported referring to Dmitry Peskov, the press-secretary of the Russian president.
Here two questions arise. Who will be more affected in case of non-implementation of this project? Who really needed it?
Initially, the Turkish Stream project was planned to replace the South Stream and the EU was seen as the end user of the Russian gas supplied via it. But here the Turkish Stream faced with the same problems as its predecessor, namely the EU unwillingness to receive additional volumes of Russian natural gas. The excuse was the third energy package.
But more work was conducted for the South Stream project implementation at its time. The intergovernmental agreements were signed with a number of European countries to implement the onshore part of the project.
As for the Turkish Stream, Russia failed to reach any agreement on the construction of the European part of the gas pipeline. Later, Moscow chose the variant of supplying gas only to the Turkish market.
But problems have been here too. For a long time, Russia and Turkey have failed to settle differences concerning the gas price. Turkey says it will not buy Russian gas without any discount for it.
Apart from that, Ankara sees no need in additional Russian gas, moreover at the price offered by Moscow. And here Turkey is right. Less than three years later, Turkey will start receiving gas from the second development stage at the Azerbaijani Shah Deniz field. The gas is to be transported by the Trans Anatolian Pipeline (TANAP), which is already under construction.
Moreover, Turkey currently hasn’t got enough storage facilities for additional gas, and their construction is very expensive.
Disagreements over a gas price discount have always been considered as one of the main obstacles to implementation of the Turkish Stream. Both parties have been steadfast in this matter. But now it is even much difficult to imagine that any of them will agree to some concessions.
So, the implementation of the Turkish Stream project is postponed until better times.
But it is also possible that in the nearest future Russia, being the initiator of the project, will decide to shut it down, as it did with the South Stream. And given the challenges the project started to face at a very early stage, no one will feel sorry about it.
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A military convoy belonging to African Union troops in Somalia (AMISOM) have been targeted in double bomb blasts in the southern Somali coastal town of Marko on Wednesday, reports said.
AMISOM’s convoy were hit roadside bombs believed to have been planted on the ground by Al shabaab while passing at Rusia area in Marko town, Lower Shabelle regional capital, according to the reports. The figures of the casualties were not immediately known.
After the blasts, AMISOM soldiers have sealed off the scene of the explosions and randomly opened fire on innocent civilians who were nearby the area of the attack, causing deaths and injuries.
AMISOM did not comment on the incident in Marko today and whether their soldiers sustained injures from the land mine blasts.
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The Aden International Airport opened for civilian traffic on Wednesday after 10 months with the Yemen National Airlines's commercial flight arriving from Amman of Jordan.
In a statement to Arabic daily Al Khaleej, Director-General of Aden airport Tariq Abdo said: "A plane of the Yemeni Air will arrive today at Aden airport from Amman to move the wounded people from Aden to Khartoum."
It may be noted here that the Aden Airport was overhauled under the support and supervision of the UAE.
Earlier, Yemeni President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi had given orders for resumption of operations at Aden International Airport after his return from Riyadh last week.
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hands up who wants to fly via aden.... (crickets chirping)
President Barack Obama signed the 2016 US defense budget bill into law, the White House said in a press release, Sputnik reported.
On November 10, the US Senate passed the $607 billion defense budget bill that includes provisions opposing closure of the detention center at Guantanamo Bay, and envisions $300 million in military assistance to Ukraine.
“On Wednesday, November 25, 2015, the President [Obama] signed into law… the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2016,” the release stated on Wednesday.
The bill also includes spending cuts, which impact the train-end-equip program for the Syrian rebels that the United States says it has put in place to combat the Islamic State terror group.
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Includes this + some other Gitmo provisions:
Section1031 -
Prohibits the use of funds to construct or modify facilities in the United States to house detainees transferred from the U.S. Naval Station, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba (Guantanamo) unless Congress approves a plan submitted by DOD for the disposition of all detainees.
So, will Obama ignore it and risk the wrath of Congress? (stop laughing!)
Or will he throw up his hands saying I wanted to, but the Evil Republicans stopped me?
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Form is everything. The first act of every British Parliament is allowing for the continence for the length of the Parliment, of a British standing Army. Not a bad tradition. Navy is (cough) different of course, standing Navy always been okay.
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This is the one he first vetoed, then saw enough Donks jump the ship to pass the house by a veto proof margin. Maybe someone pointed out that was enough in the impeachment process as well. As a Donk, who would you rather have sitting in the WH come next November to better your odds for incumbent survival.
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..and watch their internet inspired home grown Jihadists have 'fun' with the local population outside the gates and walls. Can you say hostage exchange boys and girls?
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He can't move them from Gitmo to other 'existing facilities'. That's the point.
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While Obama can't expend federal funds to construct or modify facilities or to transport Gitmo detainees elsewhere is there anything to prevent his housing them elsewhere if he can get them there? I'm imagining a donk donor creating a small private slush fund to charter a few flights & retain a few contractors to transport them to sites of Obama's choosing. Anything to prevent him from dumping them in the general population at federal prisons if he can get them there?
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That's what I was thinking. According to the section SteveS quoted this just ban's him from constructing or modifying facilities. (and it doesn't really say anything about transportation...). Perhaps there is more?
And what if he transfers them to a different facility outside the U.S. first. then transfers them from 'that' facility'
I know - twisted logic but he has a pen, and a phone, and has used twisted logic like this before (see Border Violations - some call it 'immigration reform' which it isn't).
[Hurriyet] The southeastern town of Cizre has become a ghost town following festivities during a 12-hour curfew imposed for military operations against outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) holy warriors, which left one police officer killed.
Having seen a number of curfews over the past several months, with the latest in place for 12 hours, Cizre has become a ghost town, whose pictures show vehicles burnt, buildings with bullet damage on their outer walls, stores with window glass smashed, homes destroyed and looted, pavement cracked and several other damages in the curfew-hit town. The latest curfew was imposed at 2 p.m. on Nov. 24 and lifted at 6 a.m. on Nov. 25.
During the anti-terror operation on Nov. 24, the police officer identified as Umut Tuncay was injured during festivities with holy warriors in Cizre, a district in the southeastern province of Sirnak, but later departed this vale of tears at the Cizre Public Hospital where he was taken for treatment, the Sirnak Governor's Office said in a written statement.
The governor's office added that Tuncay was killed after PKK holy warriors shot up a checkpoint in Cizre's Yafes neighborhood on Nov. 24.
"In operations launched to capture the perpetrators of the attack, five PKK holy warriors were killed," said the governor's office, adding that the operation was ongoing.
In a separate incident in Sirnak's Idil district, a police officer was injured after PKK holy warriors fired shots with automatic guns at a police convoy patrolling a major road around 12 p.m. on Nov. 25.
The festivities between security forces and holy warriors from the outlawed organization were reported to be ongoing and the injured police officer was taken to the Idil Public Hospital for treatment.
The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... has stepped up efforts to secure its borders and nearby areas in its east and southeast in particular, with cross-border military operations, aerial campaigns and domestic operations against PKK holy warriors.
The indeterminate curfew in Nusaybin, a district in the southeastern province of Mardin, is on its 14th day on Nov. 26, with anti-terror operations reportedly ongoing in the southeastern town.
Meanwhile, ...back at the wreckage, Captain Poindexter awoke groggily, his hand still stuck in the Ming vase... Turkish police detained more than 30 suspected members of the PKK in multiple raids in Istanbul and Ankara on Nov. 25.
Istanbul Police Department Counterterrorism Unit officers launched an anti-terror operation against suspected PKK members early Nov. 25, raiding at least 20 separate homes in Istanbul's Kucukcekmece district, with 12 people detained.
In the southern province of Adana, counterterrorism coppers detained 20 suspected members of the PKK in an anti-terror operation against the outlawed organization.
(IraqiNews.com) Baghdad – A source in the Iraqi Interior Ministry, said on Wednesday that nine people had been either killed or wounded in a bomb blast southeast of Baghdad.
The source said in an interview for IraqiNews.com, “A bomb exploded this morning near industrial shops in Basmya area southeast of Baghdad, resulting in the killing of one person and wounding eight others .”
The source, who requested anonymity, added: “A security force rushed to the scene and transported the wounded to a nearby hospital for treatment and the body of the dead man to the forensic medicine department.”
Arab coalition warplanes flew over an area North of Yemen’s capital Sanaa on Wednesday and dropped leaflets asking residents to join the legitimate authority.
Yemen’s news network Masdar Online quoted residents in the Northern Al Jawf Governorate as saying several jets flew over residential areas and dropped leaflets.
“The leaflets urged residents in Al Jawf to oppose the coup rebels and join legitimacy in the country,” a resident told the network.
In a separate development, the national army and resistance fighters made more gains on the ground on Wednesday as they pushed ahead with their offensive to liberate the Southwestern town of Taiz, resistance sources said.
They said the fighters swept across Western Taiz and seized Al Kassara position, which has been under coup rebel control.
“The position is now under full army and resistance control…scores of Houthis were killed or wounded during the fighting,” one source said, adding that the allies are now around one km from Al Rahida city in Western Taiz.
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May everyone have a blessed day of thanks with family, friends, food, and football.
At least twenty people have been arrested in a massive security operation carried out by Somali troops in the central Somali town of Bula-Burde, an official said Wednesday.
ALEPPO – The radical group of Islamic State (ISIS) pounded Wednesday the town of Marea in the northern countryside of Aleppo, northern Syria, with heavy weapons, causing the death and injury of several civilians, military sources reported.
...Second and fourth President and sixth of the Russian Federation and the first to remain sober. Putin is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from polonium poisoning. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to Putin. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead...
QAMISHLI – Several secret tunnels carved by militants of the radical group of Islamic State (ISIS) have been found littered with drugs, copies of the Quran and U.S.-made ammunition in the recently liberated Yezidi region of Sinjar (Shingal) in northern Iraq, military sources reported.
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DAMASCUS – The Russian government announced Wednesday that Turkey may have planned the downing of one of its fighter jets near the Syrian border. 
