They promised to stop, but didn’t, so this is their reward. Well done, Afghan forces!
KABUL (Reuters) - Afghan forces used ground attacks and air strikes in multiple operations against the Taliban during the last 24 hours, killing 51 fighters in an escalation that signaled renewed deadlock in peace talks.
Afghanistan’s Defense Ministry said on Sunday that government forces had conducted 13 ground offensives and 12 air strikes in nine provinces, adding that 51 "terrorists" had been killed, 13 wounded and six arrested.
Local officials in the northern province of Balkh said at least three women and four children were killed in the air strikes, prompting protests in front of the provincial governor’s office.
The government pledged to send a fact-finding mission to investigate the reports of civilian deaths.
Meanwhile, the Taliban said it had staged two more attacks targeting security forces over the weekend, following sporadic assaults last week.
[KhaamaPress] Afghan National Army (ANA) helicopter crashed down in Kajaki district of southern Helman province on Saturday, as a result of which four Afghan soldiers were maimed.
According to the 215 Maiwand Corps, the helicopter was shot down while landing, with no accurate information on who committed the shooting.
An unknown source within the Afghan cops reported that the Taliban ...Arabic for students... bully boyz had brought down a chopper; however, the Taliban holy warrior group has not grabbed credit for the downing so far.
"The helicopter was on its way to Kajaki district to transport supplies for the Afghan forces." the source said. The source adds that two army soldiers had also bit the dust, and its pilots had severe injuries.
On the contrary, the front man of the Ministry of Defense Syed Ghafoor Ahmad Jawid in a statement said that the chopper had to make an emergency landing due to technical issues, and it did not leave any casualties.
Over the last couple of months, at least four helicopters of the Afghan forces were crashed down ‐ the first was claimed as a shot down by the Taliban in Farah, and the two others reportedly crashed during an emergency landing in Paktia and Paktika ...which coincidentally borders South Wazoo... , and the last one brought down in Helmand ...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan... province.
[AnNahar] A Frenchie has been sentenced to 22 years in prison for seeking to recruit dozens of youths to fight as jihadists in Syria and for leading a brigade of French-speaking Islamists in the war-torn country.
Mourad Fares,
...recruiter of dozens from Toulouse and Strasbourg. Among his recruits was at least one of those trained to execute the November 13, 2015 ISIS massacre that killed 130 across Paris ...
35, fled Syria in 2014, and was arrested in The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...Qatar's satrapy in Asia Minor... and handed over to French authorities the same year.
Prosecutors said he played a "crucial" role in the recruiting of young people to fight as jihadists in Syria, and noted a lack of any "real regret" for his actions.
Fares appeared unmoved as the verdict was read out at a special court Friday evening.
He admitted to the court he "indirectly" recruited youths to fight as jihadists via his propaganda videos and "facilitated" the entry of a number of people into Syria.
He denied taking part in combat operations in Syria, where he travelled in 2014.
But prosecutors said he "participated in armed actions" with the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really 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 western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... in Iraq and the Levant (ISIS), later known as the Islamic State group, before leaving to a join a cell of French-speaking jihadists affiliated with the al-Nusra ...formally Jabhat an-Nusrah li-Ahli al-Sham (Support Front for the People of the Levant), also known as al-Qaeda in the Levant. They aim to establish a pan-Arab caliphate. Not the same one as the Islamic State, though .. ... front.
The court also found Fares guilty of leading this cell.
[Jpost] A former Mexican federal police commander was arrested on Friday for allegedly accepting hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes from Mexican narco mobs to help them send cocaine into the United States, in a case linked to imprisoned drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, U.S. prosecutors said.
The office of U.S. Attorney Richard Donoghue in Brooklyn, New York said the defendant Ivan Reyes Arzate was arrested at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn, where he was serving a 40-month prison term after pleading no contest in 2018 to obstruction charges in an Illinois case.
Reyes had been scheduled to be released on Jan. 27 and then deported to Mexico, before a federal grand jury indicted him on Thursday on three conspiracy charges, Donoghue's office said.
A lawyer for the defendant could not immediately be identified.
Reyes is expected to appear later Friday in a Brooklyn courtroom. Each charge carries a 10-year mandatory minimum prison sentence, and prosecutors want Reyes subjected to permanent detention, calling him a "significant flight risk."
According to Donoghue's office, Reyes received bribes from the El Seguimiento 39 cartel in exchange for helping protect its drug trafficking activities.
Multiple cooperating witnesses said other cartels including the Beltran Leyva Organization also paid bribes to Reyes for his assistance, Donoghue's office said.
According to prosecutors, Reyes worked from 2003 to 2016 in the Mexican federal police's Sensitive Investigative Unit, and from 2008 to 2016 was its top officer, making him the main contact for sharing information with U.S. law enforcement.
Prosecutors said Reyes' case was "presumptively related" to their cases in Brooklyn against Guzman and Genaro Garcia Luna, formerly Mexico's top security official, because the facts arose from the same criminal schemes, transactions and events.
Guzman is serving life in prison without parole after being convicted in last year.
Garcia Luna pleaded not guilty "Wudn't me." on Jan. 3 to accepting millions of dollars in bribes to let Guzman's Sinaloa narco mob operate with impunity.
[HindustanTimes] Qari Yasir, a Pak, was killed at the Hariparigam village of Tral after a day-long encounter with security forces. His other two associates Pak resident Moosa and Tral resident Burhan were also killed in the shootout.
Security officials on Saturday claimed to have killed the self-styled Kashmir ...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it Azad (Free) Kashmir. The remainder they refer to as "Indian Occupied Kashmir". They have fought four wars with India over it, the score currently 4-0 in New Delhi's favor. After 72 years of this nonsense, India cut the Gordian knot in 2019, removing the area's special status, breaking off Ladakh as a separate state, and allowing people from other areas to settle (or in the case of the Pandits, to resettle) there.... chief of Jaish-e-Mohammad
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[HindustanTimes] Investigations by the Jammu & Kashmir ...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it Azad (Free) Kashmir. The remainder they refer to as "Indian Occupied Kashmir". They have fought four wars with India over it, the score currently 4-0 in New Delhi's favor. After 72 years of this nonsense, India cut the Gordian knot in 2019, removing the area's special status, breaking off Ladakh as a separate state, and allowing people from other areas to settle (or in the case of the Pandits, to resettle) there.... Police (JKP) into seven grenade attacks on Indian security forces since the nullification of Article 370 last August have revealed a link between the terror strikes -- they were all Chinese-made grenades, and four of their levers had the same serial numbers -- according to people familiar with the matter.
This has led the Sherlocks to conclude that a consignment of Chinese ordnance used by the Pakistain Army was smuggled into the Valley across the Line of Control (LoC), the people added.
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[Rudaw] Forces deployed by the Iraqi government have so far regained control of four areas previously blocked by protesters, according to Rudaw news hounds on the ground.
Rudaw's Baghad news hound Mustafa Goran said that Baghdad Operations has announced the re-opening of Ahrar Bridge, Wasba Square, Khalani Square and Mohammed Qassim highway in the city, key locations that have been the focus of protester blockades.
Live ammunition and tear gas were used at the scene, with the latter injuring some protesters.
Security forces also tried to enter Tahrir Square but were confronted by protesters who burned tires to prevent the forces from advancing, Goran added.
Security forces forcibly dispersed protesters in the southern city of Basra on Friday, according to AFP.
Tents erected in Najaf and other cities across central and southern Iraq have been dismantled. Iraqi officials have been accused of burning tents at a protest camp in Basra last night.
Videos showing protesters' tents being burned in Baghdad have circulated on social media, with users accusing security forces of arson.
Anti-government demonstrations have been held nationwide since October, with Tahrir Square at the heart of the movement.
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[Jpost] The IDF attacked multiple sites belonging to murderous Moslems groups in the Gazoo ...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamaswith about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... Strip on Saturday night in response to a large number of incendiary and explosive balloons that have been launched from the Strip in the past two weeks, according to Paleostinian reports.
Multiple explosions were heard at the Fajr site and other targets near Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip and an additional explosion was heard in the central Gaza Strip. One Paleostinian has been injured in the Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s, according to Paleostinian reports.
Dozens of incendiary devices have been launched from the Hamas, a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",-controlled coastal enclave in the past two weeks.
A senior Hamas official said last week that the recent spate of explosive balloons that are being launched from the Gaza Strip was a signal to Israel to accelerate the unofficial agreement between the two sides.
Several balloons with an bomb resembling a rocket propelled grenade attached to it landed outside Sde Boker in the Negev Desert on Saturday morning. Sde Boker is some 70 km. from the Gaza Strip.
A second batch of balloons connected to an incendiary device was later discovered in the Ramat Negev Regional Council. It was neutralized by sappers as well.
The targets included a weapon-manufacturing depot and a military post operated by Hamas.
[Jpost] No details were available on the extent of damages or injuries.
Unidentified aircraft targeted Iranian militias near the Syrian-Iraqi border in the Deir Ezzor area of eastern Syria on Saturday, according to Deir Ezzor 24.
Two sites were targeted in villages outside the city of al-Mayadeen, according to the STEP news agency. One belonging to the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corp and another belonging to the Shi'ite Fatemiyoun militia.
No details were available regarding the extent of the damage caused or what injuries were sustained.
Dozens of snuffies and Syrian regime forces defected and Iranian militias were put on high alert after a series of Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s targeted their positions in areas near al-Bukamal in the Deir Ezzor area of eastern Syria earlier this month.
Multiple people of non-Syrian nationality have been killed in the earlier strikes, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR).
At least three members of a pro-Iranian militia were killed in alleged IAF strikes on the Tiyas Military Airbase, also known as the T-4 Airbase, in Syria’s Homs province northeast of Damascus two weeks ago. SOHR reported that the strikes destroyed an ammunition depot as well as military vehicles and a building under construction at the base.
The alleged strikes marked the first time in 2020 that IAF jets bombed military targets belonging to Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan, the abbreviation IRGC is a cognate form of Stürmabteilung (or SA), the term Supreme Guide is a cognate form of either Shah or Führer or maybe both, and they hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... west of Syria’s Deir Ezzor and came several hours after two Syrian Air Force cargo flights from Tehran landed at the base.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
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KABUL (Reuters) - Afghan forces used ground attacks and air strikes in multiple operations against the Taliban during the last 24 hours, killing 51 fighters in an escalation that signaled renewed deadlock in peace talks.
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