[ToloNews] Illicit drugs expert David Mansfield, in a report citing satellite imagery, said that poppy cultivation in Afghanistan has been reduced to levels not seen since 2001 with cultivation in the south of the country down by at least 80% compared with last year, when the Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... banned the growing of poppies for opium.
"In fact, high resolution imagery shows that in the province of Helmand ...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan... poppy cultivation has fallen from more than 120,000 hectares in 2022 to less than 1,000 hectares in 2023 — a reduction in this one province alone that surpasses any prior national poppy ban in Afghanistan," Mansfield wrote in the report posted online by Alcis, an organization that provides "geographic information services."
"This is good that there is a both efforts against (narcotics) and also a treatment program. But this is not enough, there should be international assistance in this regard," said Ajmal Zurmati, a political analyst.
"Last year, the cultivation of wheat increased by 10 to 40 percent compared to the previous years in the provinces," said Muzbahuddin Mustaeen, a front man for the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock.
The Alcis report said that while denied the possibilities of growing poppy, many have turned almost entirely to wheat but will not have sufficient land to feed their families.
"Some will cultivate a portion of land with crops like onion, garlic, and tomato, but will not raise enough income to feed, cloth, and provide healthcare for a family of ten or more people," the report said.
"The government should help us regarding the cultivation of wheat. Provide us wheat seeds," said Farid Ahmad, a farmer in Kandahar.
"After the poppy cultivation was banned, the people could not earn their expenses. The people are so worried about the water—the water used to be found at the surface 10 meters deep but it cannot be reached now even 20 meters deep," said Abdul Wali, a farmer in Kandahar.
The Islamic Emirate’s deputy front man, Bilal Karimi, welcomed the findings of Alcis.
"It is good that we witness such acknowledgement from these organizations about the improvements made by the Islamic Emirate regarding narcotics across the country. According to the decree of the (leader), the cultivation and production of narcotics, its processing and its selling has been banned," he said.
The report said that the poppy cultivation was reduced by more than 99% in Helmand Province, which "previously produced more than 50% of the country’s opium."
According to official information, the Ministry of Interior has conducted more than 6,000 counter-narcotic operations.
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in Afghanistan has been reduced to levels not seen since 2001 with cultivation in the south of the country down by at least 80% compared with last year, when the Taliban banned the growing of poppies for opium.
Hmm.
And confirmed poppy fields can be notice by overhead sensor technologies.
[8am] In continuation of the poisoning of at least 77 female students in the Sar-e Pol province, local sources report that the Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... have halted the activities of all domestic and foreign organizations involved in the education sector in this province.
If the schools were not open, the students would not have been poisoned.
According to local sources cited by Hasht-e Subh, Mohammad Yaoob Abdul Rahman, the Taliban governor for Sar-e Pul province, suspended the operations of all educational centers run by domestic and foreign organizations in the province on Wednesday, June 7.
Sources indicate that he took this decision following the poisoning of female students in the Sancharak district of Sar-e Pul.
There are also speculations that the Taliban governor may have halted the activities of domestic and foreign organizations involved in the education sector in Sar-e Pul due to alleged connections with the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... and other countries.
Although local Taliban authorities have not commented on this matter to the media so far, based on the information from Hasht-e Subh, the Deputy Political Director of the United Nations ...a lucrative dumping ground for the relatives of dictators and party hacks... residing in Balkh province met with local Taliban officials in Sar-e Pul yesterday.
Meanwhile, ...back at the pound, the little lost dog had finished eating the rat terrier... two days ago, at least 77 female students from two girls’ primary schools in the Sancharak district of Sar-e Pol were poisoned.
This incident has sparked domestic and international reactions.
[ANInews] After leaving a number of smaller countries 'high and dry', China, the current villain in global politics, has now set its sights on Afghanistan, a war-torn South Asian country that has been facing increasing global marginalisation owing to its appalling human rights ...which are usually open to widely divergent definitions... track record.
A prolonged stressed financial system has already resulted in widespread unemployment, economic deprivation, and high inflation in Afghanistan. China has latched on to the opportunity to gain a foothold in the devastated country. From oil extraction to lithium deposits, China is eyeing Afghanistan's both untapped and underexplored reserves and facilities. The Taliban
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So many people complained about China abusing western China's Muslim groups, so they decided to diversify their abuse. Plenty to go around.
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Afghanistan is onboard with suppression of religious minorities.
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For China an hour-long fast
Passed quickly. Now, appetite vast...
"It looks like Tibet
Has been pretty well et."
"But you Chinese, so eager
To sit down with Uighur,
Committed to eating us last!"
[ArianaNews] The Islamic Development Bank (IDB) has signed cooperation agreements worth $8.1 million with six international humanitarian agencies to help the people of Afghanistan in various sectors.
The contracts are in the areas of food security, drinking water supply, health and in agriculture in different provinces of the country.
The Ministry of Finance in a statement welcomed the move.
Of course, since most of it will flow into Taliban coffers and private pockets.
[KhaamaPress] 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.... (ISIS) fighters grabbed credit for Tuesday’s car kaboom in northeastern Badakhshan province, which killed the Taliban ...Arabic for students... deputy governor and his driver.
On Tuesday, ISIS wrote on Telegram, saying its fighters succeeded to detonate a bomb targeting Taliban deputy governor Mawlavi Nisar Ahmad Ahamdi, which also left six others injured, according to provincial officials.
Mazudeen Ahmadi, the head of the Information and Culture Department of the Taliban said the deputy governor’s vehicle was attacked while it was on its way to a court in Faizabad, the bucolic provincial capital of Badakhshan province.
The injured people have been transferred to the provincial hospital for treatment, sources said.
Since the return of the Taliban to power in August 2021, ISIS has been a major threat to the de facto authorities of Afghanistan. The murderous Moslem fighters have been behind several brutal attacks targeting the Russian Embassy, Pakistain’s Diplomatic Mission and a Chinese-run hotel in the heart of Kabul over the past nearly two years.
As a result of the terror attack on the foreign institutions in Kabul, scores of foreign and innocent locals were killed in injured.
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[NationalWorld] Afghan women are being imprisoned and tortured for leaving home without a male escort, with many then forcibly married to Taliban ...Arabic for students... members as a way to escape jail
When the Taliban took back control of Afghanistan in August 2021, it promised to protect women’s rights. It promised that women would not suffer under its regime.
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UGANDA'S ARMY chief Gen. Muhoozi Kainerugaba meets with President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud in Mogadishu following Al-Shabaab attack on UPDF base in Lower Shabelle that claimed 54 soldiers according to Ugandan authorities. pic.twitter.com/jhM7MQgY2u
[Rudaw] Sweden’s Supreme Court approved the extradition of a supporter of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) to The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...just another cheapjack Moslem dictatorship, brought to you by the Moslem Brüderbund... , one of Ankara’s main conditions to ratify Stockholm’s NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Originally it was a mutual defense pact directed against an expansionist Soviet Union. In later years it evolved into a mechanism for picking the American pocket while criticizing the cut of the American pants... accession, Swedish media reported on Tuesday.
The 35-year-old man was sentenced to prison for over four years in Turkey in 2014 for transporting a bag of cannabis, and after being released on parole, he moved to Sweden where he was arrested last year after a request from the Attorney General’s Office in Turkey, according to Swedish broadcaster SVT.
The broadcaster, citing reports by Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet, added that the man claims the reason he is wanted by Ottoman Turkish authorities is because of his affiliation to the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party ...every time you hear the phrase white people, white supremacy,white anything but paint, you're listening to a Democrat. Ask him/her/it to reimagine something for you; they do that a lot, though not well. They can hear a dog whistle a mile or two away. They invented the spoils system and Tammany Hall, and inspired the addition of the word (Thomas) Nasty to the English language. They want to stop continental drift and repeal the law of unintended side effects... (HDP) and for conveying his support to the outlawed PKK. Ankara considers the group as a terrorist organization.
According to the report, the court stated in its decision that the Swedish attorney general had received reassurances from Turkey that the man was not being persecuted for the crimes of "propaganda for a terrorist organization" or "insulting the Ottoman Turkish president."
The final decision for the extradition now lies with the Swedish government. This is the first time the country’s top court has taken such a decision as Stockholm rushes to become a NATO member.
On June 1, a new law came into force prosecuting the crime of "participation in a terrorist organization," likely to appease Turkey.
Sweden and Finland submitted a joint bid to enter NATO following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, however, the bid faced an obstinate Ottoman Turkish refusal. Accession requires a unanimous decision of the members, a condition Turkey used as leverage to pressure both countries in dealing with Kurds with alleged ties to the PKK.
Finland was ratified as a member in April but Ankara continues to block Sweden from joining.
Both Finland and Sweden had initially said last year that they would not extradite those wanted by Turkey.
On Sunday, Finnish MP Ville Valkonen told Rudaw’s Zana Kayani ... four star general, Chief of Army Staff of the Mighty Pak Army. Kayani was the former Director General of ISI... that "Finland deals with every individual according to Finnish laws, not foreign requests" when asked whether Helsinki would fulfill Ottoman Turkish requests for extradition.
"The Kurdish issue will be dealt with according to our diplomatic positions and NATO-membership has no direct effect on it," he added.
On Sunday, NATO Chief Jens Stoltenberg said that Sweden had addressed Turkey’s security concerns and "implemented the agreement" they had reached in previous rounds of talks.
He said he believes there is "still time" for Sweden to be a NATO member at the July summit in the Lithuanian capital of Vilnius. Both NATO and Sweden are in a rush against time to ensure the ratification takes place before the summit.
Turkey, Sweden, and NATO are set to meet next week for further talks.
Erdogan has repeatedly accused Sweden of harbouring and supporting groups including the PKK. As part of its demands, Turkey is seeking the extradition of PKK members in Sweden, with Erdogan saying that there are as many as 130 there.
In December, Sweden extradited a Kurdish refugee, Mahmut Tat, to Turkey for alleged links to the PKK. However in the same month, a Swedish court blocked the extradition of Ottoman Turkish journalist Bulent Kenes, despite being named by Erdogan as one of the people wanted.
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[KhaamaPress] A US politician, Darrell Issa, said the Biden Administration’s narrative of unpreparedness for the country’s sudden collapse in 2021 was rebuked in a dissent cable.
Issa, who serves on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, told Fox News he was the first committee member to view the dissent channel cable from the U.S. Embassy in Kabul and Washington’s response.
According to Fox News, Issa, a House Foreign Affairs Committee member, was claimed to be the first committee member to see the cable from the U.S. Embassy in Kabul that sparked controversy and the government’s response.
"What we saw was their prediction, with great accuracy, of exactly what would happen and what the outcome would be if they did not change their directions," the congressman said. "We saw a response from the office of the State Department saying, ’We hear you, and we agree we do not take it lightly.’ And then, obviously, we know what they did and did not do, which was totally insufficient for the warning that was given."
"They redacted the specific names, but we now know that many of them were senior executive surrogates, meaning people that are paid at the highest level in the State Department," he continued. "They knew and understood that there was no way that the Afghan military was going to defend successfully. They did not disagree with that, and as a result, they knew that Kabul would fall within weeks, that the Taliban ...Arabic for students... would do what they have done."
Suicide bombers killed 183 people, including 13 American service personnel, on August 26, 2021, during the U.S. military’s mass evacuation at the Kabul airport. The United States responded by launching two dronezaps against alleged ISIS-K terrorists, one of which resulted in the deaths of 10 Afghan civilians, including seven children.
Immediately after the Afghanistan fiasco, critics called for the resignation of Blinken, National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan, Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin, and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley, but no one was fired.
On the other hand, the current regime of Kabul was also blamed for not abiding by what was agreed in the Doha agreement. They restricted women’s rights, including education and working with aid agencies.
These incidents have brought the country to the verge of collapse and a terrible humanitarian crisis.
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I have a hard time with 'allowed'. That drooling imbecile banned all contractors some months before. I remember a statement at the time that the administration was effectively too high minded to tolerate such 'thugs'.
No doubt played well in Brooklyn. But it didn't account for the entirety of Afghan air maintenance. No maintenance, no fly it's that simple. No fly, no air support, no re-supply, no rotations or replacements.
That removes an intrinsic, foundational element of counterinsurgency warfare from the entire post WWII era. Especially in terrain like the Afghan theater. Done the way it was months in advance it allowed the ground forces to get an up close and personal view of what their future held.
Should we have ever been there? Was it ever winnable? Those are larger questions are do not detract from the air contractor issue at a crucial juncture. A partial mirror of what the socialist vermin did to the ARVN's.
For my part, it was essentially won in early '02. Although I would have argued for more widespread destruction dome more quickly as in make the rubble bounce and hard, so hard they feel it in ALL the adjoining countries.
Forget nation building, we don't care. Just remember, WE did this to you and you really, REALLY don't want us coming back. That might not have played well in Brooklyn.
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Should we have ever been there? Was it ever winnable?
Yes, it definitely was, but NOT with 20+ years of Klingon-DoS political meddling, targeted arrests, and Paki coddling.
I can assure you, the DoD did not run the show or control the action. The disastrous final days provide proof and confirmation of that. Yes, clear evidence of who was left holding the bag, and it wasn't anyone from the US Embassy or the worthless foks back at Foggy Bottom or Langley.
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A Punitive Raid, what the Queen Victoria's soldiers called a "Butcher & Bolt", was practical and we 'won' that. Nation Building in a geographic locale full of squabbling tribes is pipedream -- if they can't do it on their own how can we 'force' it to happen?
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Bush got rolled, and bought the whole nation-building, stability, outpost of Freedom, pick-your-own-slogan, sales pitch. Never the brightest bulb in Bab's litter, he should have stopped with the crushing display of righteous American anger as Cesare so perfectly described above!
"...it was essentially won in early '02. Although I would have argued for more widespread destruction dome more quickly as in make the rubble bounce and hard, so hard they feel it in ALL the adjoining countries.
Forget nation building, we don't care. Just remember, WE did this to you and you really, REALLY don't want us coming back."
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An unknown percentage of Afghans would love to see us roll back in tomorrow. I don’t think that will ever happen. If we want to nation build, there’s alway Haiti.
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Envy of the post war generation who watched what their parents did in Germany and Japan. They forgot the preparation involved making the rubble bounce in both cases. Note well, that both cultures had a long martial history of centuries are now probably the least likely to incite that activity.
[GEO.TV] The formation commanders of the Pakistain Army on Wednesday called for a tightening of the "noose of law" "around the planners and criminal masterminds" that launched a "rebellion against the state and state institutions", a statement issued by the military’s media wing said.
"It has been further stressed that, while the legal trials of perpetrators and instigators have commenced, it is time that the noose of law is also tightened around the planners and criminal masterminds who mounted the hate-ripened and politically driven rebellion against the state and state institutions to achieve their nefarious design of creating chaos in the country," the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) said.
The statement was issued after Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Asim Munir presided over the 81st Formation Commanders Conference at the General Headquarters (GHQ) in Rawalpindi.
The meeting was attended by corps commanders, principal staff officers and all formation commanders of the army.
The top commanders while condemning the May 9 attacks reiterated their "firm resolve" that the desecrators of deaders monuments, Jinnah House and attackers of military installations would "certainly be brought to justice speedily under the Pakistain Army Act and Official Secret Act which are the derivatives of the Constitution of Pakistain".
"In this regard, efforts to create distortions and attempts to take refuge behind imaginary and mirage Human Rights Violations to create smoke screen for hiding the ugly faces of all involved, are absolutely futile and do not stand the abundantly collected irrefutable evidences," said the commanders.
They also stressed that "endeavours by any quarter to create obstructions and stymie the conclusive defeat of ill design of inimical forces will be dealt with iron hands".
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[IsraelTimes] 8 million pages from terror group’s bureaucracy have been digitized so far, and are set to be stored at Iraq’s Supreme Judicial Council
The United Nations ...the Oyster Bay money pit... will soon launch central archives containing millions of digitized documents that it says provide proof of crimes committed by the Islamic State group in Iraq, an official said Wednesday.
UNITAD, the UN body set up to investigate IS crimes in the country, began its fieldwork five years ago in an effort to bring the jihadists to justice.
"For us, it is absolutely clear that only if we work side by side with Iraqi authorities, in particular with our counterparts in the Iraqi judiciary, UNITAD can be successful," said the UN’s chief investigator Christian Ritscher.
The German former prosecutor has been looking into a slew of IS atrocities, from murder, torture and mass rape to slavery and genocide.
He says success would mean that perpetrators of "heinous international crimes" are held accountable "through evidence-based trials and before competent courts."
Among the components needed for success are "admissible and reliable evidence," he added.
"I can assure you that there is no shortage of evidence of ISIS crimes in Iraq," he said, using an alternate acronym for the IS group.
"ISIS was a large-scale bureaucracy that documented and maintained a state-like administrative system."
Because of this, UNITAD launched a huge project to digitize IS documents "to ensure that this evidence is admissible before any competent court, whether in Iraq or in other states."
So far, eight million pages of documents in the possession of Iraqi authorities have already been digitized and are already proving useful in the Iraqi judicial system, he said.
The next step will be "establishing a central archive that will be the unified repository of all digitized evidence," Ritscher added.
In agreement with Iraqi authorities, Ritscher said, the archive will be launched "in the coming days," and will be located at the Supreme Judicial Council of Iraq.
The repository, he added "could be a milestone to founding a comprehensive e-justice system in Iraq which can be upheld as a leading example, not only in the region, but also globally."
After their meteoric rise in 2014, IS jihadists briefly controlled a third of Iraqi territory.
In December 2017, Iraq claimed victory against IS, but it wasn’t until March 2019 that the radical jihadist group collapsed, losing its last stronghold in neighboring Syria.
[IsraelTimes] A senior Paleostinian official warns that the ruling Fatah party is seeing declining popularity in the West Bank because of its failure to deliver on promises. "Obviously, we need new masses"
"I can tell you there is something of a decline in Fatah’s presence among the masses," Mahmud Aloul, deputy chairman of President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas ...aka Abu Mazen, a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial. While no Yasser Arafat, he has his own brand of evil, just a little more lowercase.... ’s secular Fatah movement which dominates the territory, tells journalists in Ramallah.
"Fatah adopted peaceful means, and made promises to the public, but it has not been able to deliver on them," he adds. "This is an essential part of what has led to a decline in its popularity."
At 72, Aloul is one of the most senior figures in the Paleostinian movement and is often mentioned as a possible successor to 87-year-old Abbas. But he appears to rule himself out as a successor for Abbas, saying: "We will look for someone from the younger generation."
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"Barkeep, a round of Shireen Abu Aklehs please, top shelf, and get this birthday boy here a large State of Palestine! You ain't walking home tonight buddy!"
[An Nahar] After Speaker Nabih Knobby Berri ...Speaker of the Lebanese parliament, head of the Amal Shiite party aligned with Hezbollah, a not very subtle sock puppet of the Medes and Persians... called for a presidential election session, Hezbollah and the Amal Movement launched coordinative meetings to study the steps and choices that can be taken in the face of the rival camp’s plan, a media report said.
"These meetings will expand to include the Marada Movement the personal militia of Suleiman Franjieh, president of Lebanon at the outbreak of the civil war, currently Syrian toadies, but you never know when that could change... , seeing as tripartite meetings will be held between Hezbollah Secretary-General’s Political Aide Hussein al-Khalil, MP Ali Hassan Khalil and ex-minister Youssef Fenianos, in order to discuss the expected scenarios and the steps that can be taken," al-Akhbar newspaper said.
Informed sources meanwhile told the daily that "all options are on the table, including boycotting the session or blocking quorum."
"We know that (Jihad) Azour’s nomination is not serious and that its aim is to specify the sizes and reserving votes for Azour that would exceed those of Franjieh, something that (Free Patriotic Movement Despite its name a Christian party allied with Hizbullah, neither free nor particularly patriotic... chief Jebran) Bassil might use as a threatening card thinking that that would push the pro-Franjieh camp to back down from its nomination," the sources added.
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[An Nahar] The choice of voting for Jihad Azour in the presidential elections is "certain and natural," the Free Patriotic Movement Despite its name a Christian party allied with Hizbullah, neither free nor particularly patriotic... said.
Voting for Azour is aimed at "stressing rejection of the election of the imposed candidate from whom no reform or change of the establishment controlling the country can be hoped," the FPM’s political council said in a statement.
"Intersection over this nomination has consumed time due to the FPM’s insistence on refraining from endorsing any confrontation candidate who might challenge any party of the Lebanese," the statement said, noting that the FPM has called for the triumph of the "consensus and rapprochement approach."
Criticizing the Hezbollah-led camp, the FPM said that "intransigence in imposing a certain candidate and rejecting any dialogue over any other candidate contradicts with the rules of national partnership."
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[Rudaw] 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.... (ISIS) terror group is preparing and training its cells to launch attacks on Syria and Iraq, a spokesperson for the Kurds that control northeast Syria said Wednesday, adding that 22 members of the group were captured in May.
"ISIS is currently engaging in a process of preparing, training, & financing to launch terrorist acts targeting Syria, Iraq, and NE Syria, taking advantage of the free mobility of its cells in Syrian al-Badia & the Ottoman Turkish-occupied areas," Farhad Shami, media head for the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) said in a tweet.
The SDF fought the lion’s share of the battle against ISIS and territorially defeated the terror group in 2019 after the terror group swept through swathes of the country in 2014. The Kurdish force is in control of numerous detention facilities that house tens of thousands of veteran ISIS fighters.
According to the force, "12 partnered anti-ISIS operations in multiple regions" were conducted in May, which resulted "in 22 captured terrorists" and the death of an ISIS Death Eater.
The SDF carried out partnered operations with the US-led coalition and the anti-terror units of the Kurdistan Region’s Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK), called the Counter-Terrorism Group (CTG).
On Wednesday, the US Central Command (CENTCOM) said that the coalition and local forces in Iraq and Syria carried out 38 operations against ISIS which resulted in eight turbans killed and over 30 detained.
"Although our operations are crucial in degrading the ISIS threat, they are not enough alone, so we call on the international community to effectively tackle the challenges posed by ISIS prisoners & camps in NE Syria, and support us in countering ISIS terrorism & ideology," Shami said.
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[Rudaw] United States-led coalition and local forces carried out 38 operations against 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.... (ISIS) in Iraq and Syria in May, resulting in eight bully boyz killed and over 30 detained, US Central Command (CENTCOM) announced on Tuesday evening.
In its monthly review of anti-ISIS operations, CENTCOM said eight bully boyz had been killed and 31 detained as a result of joint operations between the coalition and their Iraqi and Syrian partners.
"Our partner forces continue to demonstrate the capability, capacity, and competence to maintain the enduring defeat of ISIS," Major General Matt McFarlane, commander of Combined Joint Task Force - Operation Inherent Resolve, said in the statement.
"The Coalition continues to Advise, Assist, and Enable our partners to keep pressure on ISIS and prevent them from re-establishing any type of network or effective military effort," he added.
In Iraq, 21 joint operations were carried out, resulting in the arrest of 11 ISIS members while six others were killed. Two were killed and 20 were detained in the 17 operations in Syria.
"Despite their degraded capability, ISIS remains a significant threat within the region," General Michael Erik Kurilla, CENTCOM commander, warned. "CENTCOM, along with our partners, is committed to the enduring defeat of ISIS."
The coalition advises and provides aerial assistance to Peshmerga forces and the Iraqi army as well as the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in the fight against ISIS. The SDF have carried out a string of raids on ISIS in northeast Syria (Rojava), in coordination with the global coalition.
"Iraqi security forces are leading the fight, and the United States and a global coalition are supporting them to ensure the enduring defeat of ISIS," Vedant Patel, US State Department Principal Deputy Spokesperson, told Rudaw’s Diyar Kurda during a press briefing on Tuesday.
"Together, Iraq, the United States, our coalition partners have freed millions of Iraqis from ISIS’s campaign," he added.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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...aka Abu Mazen, a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial. While no Yasser Arafat, he has his own brand of evil, just a little more lowercase....
...Speaker of the Lebanese parliament, head of the Amal Shiite party aligned with Hezbollah, a not very subtle sock puppet of the Medes and Persians...
...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 
...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 
