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Good morning
How Black Lives Matter activists
see the future of urban policing
Tuesday June 9th, 2020

pollywalters_1800
Russian Air Force swarms western Idlib in powerful response to jihadist attack
Rioters in US are linked to ‘terrorists’ in Syria: Erdogan
Unknown group fires missile at Baghdad Airport
Syrian Army amassing large force in Idlib as offensive nears
LNA shoots down 2nd Turkish drone near Sirte
Syrian Army retakes 2 towns in northwestern Hama
Antifa insurrection roundup

Posted by: Fred || 06/09/2020 11:36 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:


-Lurid Crime Tales-
Antifa insurrection roundup
Just a small one today.
Queens man busted after plowing car into George Floyd protesters
[NYPost] Jacob Leiper, 44, of Queens, was arrested on charges of reckless endangerment and leaving the scene of the accident in connection to the dangerous encounter around 10:30 p.m. Saturday in Crown Heights, according to cops. Protesters had begun kneeling in the street when Leiper tried to get around the crowd at Saint John’s Place and Brooklyn Ave., police said.

UK’s Johnson denounces protest ‘thuggery’ as statues vandalized
[IsraelTimes] UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson says anti-racism demonstrations have been “subverted by thuggery” after protesters tore down a statue of a slave trader in the city of Bristol and scrawled graffiti on a statue of Winston Churchill in London.

London’s Metropolitan police say a dozen people were arrested and eight officers injured after demonstrators clashed Sunday with police in central London. Crime, Policing and Justice Minister Kit Malthouse calls for those responsible for toppling the bronze memorial to slave trader Edward Colston in Bristol to be prosecuted.

3 members of anti-government group ANTIFA arrested after looting a Target in Austin, FBI says
[KSAT] Property damage and stolen property valued over $20,000.

Three people have been arrested for looting, burglarizing and damaging property at an Austin Target store, according to the FBI. The three individuals are known members of the anti-government group ANTIFA, FBI officials said. The crimes occurred on May 31 at a Target store in the 5600 block of N. I-35 in Capital Plaza.

Lisa Hogan, 27, of Austin, is charged with Riot and Burglary of a Building. FBI officials said Hogan used Facebook Live from the scene to encourage others to join the looting.

Samuel Miller, 22, of Austin, is charged with Criminal Mischief and Burglary of a Building. FBI officials said he destroyed and ripped out surveillance cameras at the store.

Skye Elder, 23, of Austin, was arrested for Burglary of a Building.

Bonds for each of the accused was set at $25,000 per charge.

FBI officials said the trio was part of a group of about 20 people who ripped plywood from in front of the doors, shattered the glass on the doors and entered the store. Members of the Austin Police Department Special Response Team arrived shortly thereafter and took the trio into custody.
Trump saved DC from the mob
On the night of Sunday, May 31, I read about the burning of the church near the White House, and, as a Department of Veterans Affairs headquarters employee[i], I received a work email stating that our two HQ buildings next to that church — the main building and the overflow building — had been "vandalized." On Friday, June 5, I came back to D.C. to see for myself what had happened to the V.A. and surrounding areas.
Lots of photos.
Posted by: trailing wife || 06/09/2020 09:09 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under: Antifa


Minneapolis judge sets a $1 million bail for police officer Derek Chauvin
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Posted by: Fred || 06/09/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Look what the guy did was way beyond Police protocol and was arrested and properly charged.

However, we all know the $1M bail is political show.

Because it violates the excessive bail clause under the US Constitution Bill Of Rights 8th Amendment.

So those of us that have seen this before know the process.

* Racial Incident found just before primary election.
* editted boob-tube video released.
* Lighter Skin person(s) convicted by the media.
* Protests held near malls, shopping areas and etc..
* Anti-FA BLM and professional Rioters/Looters start up.
* 100's of more people injured and some murdered.
* Mayors order police to pull back and let it burn.
* Charges upgraded for greater political show.
* The Reverends and other race pimps fly in.
* Go fund me setup raking in $100K to $350K.
* Donations roll in and are skimmed by handlers.
* Protesters, Rioters, Looters further incited.
* A media staged funeral just before election.
* Fancy casket and speeches.
* 2 more weekends of riots and looting.
* Rev's go straight to the MSM for $$,$$$.
* Media plays it for every angle they can create.
* Slowly the facts about the person criminal record are leaked.
* Mayors continue to milk the issue for 3-4 weeks.
* The local DA schedules court hearings at key points and draws it out leading up the election.
etc.....
* Closer to election it starts up again and the Reverends fly back in to milk it for more MSM Camera time, Interview fees and more donations,

There is more but this is idea how the playbook runs.

Posted by: NoNeed2No || 06/09/2020 5:34 Comments || Top||

#2  Chauvin is probably safer behind bars than in his own home.

Posted by: lord garth || 06/09/2020 8:41 Comments || Top||

#3  Although the vid was damning, Chauvin was tried before he was arrested. He fit the "profile" described by NoNeed2No.
Posted by: JohnQC || 06/09/2020 9:46 Comments || Top||

#4  Add the month of October also running COVID-2.19 The Hangry Games.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 06/09/2020 11:53 Comments || Top||


Afghanistan
'Taliban' Kill 4 Members of Family in Wardak: Officials
[ToloNews] The "Taliban
...the Pashtun equivalent of men...
" killed four members of a family, including a tribal elder, in Maidan Wardak province on Friday, local officials said on Sunday.

The incident happened in Chak district after the Taliban shot "the tribal elder, his wife, son and grandson," said Mohib Sharifzai, a front man for the provincial governor.

The officials did not provide further details.

However,
denial ain't just a river in Egypt...
the Taliban denied involvement and said that the "people were killed close to a government checkpoint."
Posted by: trailing wife || 06/09/2020 02:32 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under: Taliban


Africa North
LNA fighter (killed near Sirte) posing with an SA-16 Gimlet
It looks impressive enough — what is it?
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 06/09/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Arab Spring

#1  It looks impressive enough — what is it?

To my untrained eye, that appears to be a Johnny Seven OMA
Posted by: SteveS || 06/09/2020 0:50 Comments || Top||

#2  SA-16 GIMLET Igla-1 9K310

The "IGLA-1" is a portable anti aircraft missile system (SA-16) with solid propellant guided missile. It is a simplified version of "IGLA" (SA-18) portable anti aircraft missile system. The system is designed for destroying low flying aircraft and helicopters. The missile can be launched to follow or meet enemy aircraft. SA-16 GIMLET (Igla-1 9K310) man-portable surface-to-air missile system, a further development from the SA-7 & SA-14 series, is an improved version of the SA-18 GROUSE, which was introduced in 1983, three years before the SA-16.

The SA-16 feattures a new seeker and modified launcher nose cover. Whereas the the SA-18 9M39 missile is fitted with an aerodynamic spike on the nose, the 9M310 missile of the SA-16 has the spike replaced with an aerodynamic cone held in place with a wire tripod. On the SA-18 the protective cover of the seeker is conical, on the SA-16 it is tubular with a prominent lip at the forward edge. The 9M313 missile of the SA-16 employs an IR guidance system using proportional convergence logic, and an improved two-color seeker, presumably IR and UV). The seeker is sensitive enough to home in on airframe radiation, and the two-color sensitivity is designed to minimize vulnerability to flares. The SA-16 has a maximum range of 5000 meters and a maximum altitude of 3500 meters.
Posted by: Besoeker || 06/09/2020 1:06 Comments || Top||

#3  No matter how sophisticated the weapon you're holding, you look like a fool posing with bare feet.
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 06/09/2020 8:10 Comments || Top||

#4  Nice, SteveS :-)
Posted by: Frank G || 06/09/2020 9:21 Comments || Top||

#5  The ZF-1
Posted by: M. Murcek || 06/09/2020 9:48 Comments || Top||

#6  Whaz the symbol, part of The Foot Clan?
Posted by: swksvolFF || 06/09/2020 12:35 Comments || Top||

#7  He's waiting for guilty American liberals to wash his feet.
Posted by: Raj || 06/09/2020 14:44 Comments || Top||


Haftar's LNA has now lost all territory seized in the past 14 months.
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 06/09/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under: Arab Spring

#1  LNA honchos are now in Russia and Egyptian troops are massing on the Libya border. Everything set for a real clash of arms.
Posted by: b || 06/09/2020 8:40 Comments || Top||

#2  As long as the Orange Man and Pompeo keep us out of it, how they handle their issues is up to them.
Posted by: Besoeker || 06/09/2020 8:44 Comments || Top||

#3  Who should we be rooting for? Is this a can't they both lose situation?
Posted by: AlanC || 06/09/2020 11:07 Comments || Top||

#4  Holy shit!! Are they still running from the GNA??
Posted by: klozewitz || 06/09/2020 11:52 Comments || Top||

#5  Last week we also saw alot of propaganda from the GNA, I find it hard to believe this turned around so quickly. hopefully egypt will put Erdrogan in his place.
Posted by: Chris || 06/09/2020 11:55 Comments || Top||

#6  It’s my hope that the LNA is setting up or running a kill box, about which I learnt here, given their claims around numbers of enemy killed and their identities, whereas the GNA only talks about territory regained.
Posted by: trailing wife || 06/09/2020 22:44 Comments || Top||


GNA field commander Ali Fakroun was killed today by LNA
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Posted by: Fred || 06/09/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Arab Spring

#1  Hopefully the bullet magnet hanging from his pocket (along with a fresh set of batteries) was dutifully passed to the next man in line.
Posted by: Besoeker || 06/09/2020 2:17 Comments || Top||


20,000 refugees have arrived to Cyrenaica from Tarhuna, after their city was sacked by GNA
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 06/09/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Arab Spring


Italian and Turkish navy veseals moving towards Sirte to help their beloved terrorists
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 06/09/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Sublime Porte


LNA airstrikes on GNA terrorists in AbuGrian
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 06/09/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Arab Spring


In past 48 hours the GNA losses indicate 75 dead 209 injured
[TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 06/09/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under: Sublime Porte


Libya’s El Feel #oil field has restarted production
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 06/09/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Arab Spring

#1  Flaming wreckage inside a week.
Posted by: SteveS || 06/09/2020 0:54 Comments || Top||

#2  Know what they need...UN peacekeepers.

Viva El Feel!
Posted by: swksvolFF || 06/09/2020 10:45 Comments || Top||


LNA shoots down 2nd Turkish drone near #Sirte
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 06/09/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under: Sublime Porte


Turkish-backed forces vow to retake all of Libya
Big words. And of course, should they actually succeed, they’ll have firmly grasped the thistle that is Libya. That’d be one of those Pyrrhic victory thingies we’ve all heard of, just when Turkey is stretched across the globe and running out of money.
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 06/09/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Sublime Porte

#1  Second prize is two Libyas.
Posted by: SteveS || 06/09/2020 0:39 Comments || Top||

#2  Meanwhile, sm Egyptian force is massing at the Saloum Border.
Posted by: b || 06/09/2020 8:22 Comments || Top||


Arabia
Rival Saudi-, UAE- backed militants claim advance in southern Yemen
[PRESSTV] Saudi-backed faceless myrmidons loyal to Yemen
...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of...
’s former president Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi have claimed advances in the fight against once-allied UAE-backed faceless myrmidons in southern Yemen, who have denied the claim.

A source in the government of former president Hadi said the Saudi-backed faceless myrmidons captured the city of Ja'ar in the southern province of Abyan
...a governorate of Yemen. The region was a base to the Aden-Abyan Islamic Army terrorist group until it dropped the name and joined al-Qaeda. Its capital is Zinjibar. In March 2011, al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula declared the governate an Islamic Emirate after seizing control of the region. The New York Times fastidiously reported that those in control, while Islamic hard boyz, are not in fact al-Qaeda, but something else that looks, tastes, smells, and acts the same. Yemeni government forces launched an effort to re-establish control of the region when President-for-Life Saleh was tossed and the carnage continues...
on Sunday following fierce festivities with the UAE-backed Southern Transitional Council (STC) separatists.

The source told Anadolu Agency that Abdel-Rahman Shineini, a senior commander of STC hard boys, had been maimed during the fighting.

STC spokesperson Mohammad al-Naqib, however, dismissed the report, saying the UAE-backed faceless myrmidons had repelled an "infiltration attempt" against the city.

"Within half an hour, the infiltrators were eliminated," he said in a tweet.

Yemen's southern regions have witnessed renewed festivities between Saudi-backed faceless myrmidons and STC separatists since the Southern Transitional Council in late April declared a state of emergency and announced "self-administration rule" in Yemen’s southern areas, including the port city of Aden which has served as the seat of Hadi’s regime.

Soddy Arabia
...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face...
said the declaration violated the Riyadh-brokered agreement which Hadi loyalists and the STC had signed last November to end their power struggle in southern Yemen.
Posted by: Fred || 06/09/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Saudi Arabia


Europe
Germany launches terrorism probe over planned attack on Muslims
[DW] Police arrested a 21-year-old suspected right-wing holy warrior after he threatened to kill Moslems in Germany. The man reportedly said he wanted to carry out an attack similar to the deadly Christchurch mosque shootings.
If the state does not take care of maintaining law and order, the citizenry will take it upon themselves.
German authorities arrested a 21-year-old man and launched a terrorism investigation after he threatened to carry out an attack targeting Moslems, prosecutors said on Monday.

The 21-year-old man from the northern city of Hildesheim
...a charming small city in northern Germany, only fifty kilometers from Hannover, with an Islamofascism problem. The mosque there was led until a few years ago by Iraqi Salafist Ahmad Abdulaziz Abdullah A,, a.k.a. Abu Walaa, "the preacher without a face", who with some friends raised funds and volunteers for ISIS...
made the threat in an anonymous online chat forum on May 29, announcing his intention to carry out an attack "with multiple dead," prosecutors in the city of Celle said in a statement.

He referenced the March 2019 Christchurch mosque attack in New Zealand where a gunman killed 51 people, saying that he wanted to carry out a similar attack in Germany.

"The goal was to kill Moslems," prosecutors said.

The man is believed to have been considering carrying out a mass-casualty attack for some time, also seeking to attract worldwide media attention.

During a raid on the man's apartment, police uncovered data files containing right-wing holy warrior content as well as weapons that "may have been purchased to carry out the attack plans."

The suspect was arrested on Saturday and faces a string of charges including threatening to commit criminal offences, disturbing the peace and financing terrorism through purchasing weapons.

Germany has seen several deadly right-wing holy warrior attacks over the past year, with Interior Minister Horst Seehofer at one point calling right-wing terrorism "the biggest danger for democracy in Germany."

In February, a gunman with far-right beliefs killed nine people in the city of Hanau in an attack targeting hookah bars.

Last October, a gunman killed two people in an attack targeting a synagogue in the eastern German city of Halle.

One year ago, pro-immigration CDU politician Walter Lubcke was rubbed out at his come in the central state of Hesse; a neo-Nazi
...adherents of a philosophy that was seen even at the time as pure evil, which makes them either consciously and purely evil, or attention-seeking ratbags. Pick one, or both....
suspect has been charged with this murder.
Posted by: trailing wife || 06/09/2020 02:13 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under: Moslem Colonists


The Grand Turk
Turkey orders 149 people detained for suspected Gulen links -Anadolu
[Jpost] The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor...
on Monday ordered the detention of 149 people, mainly from the security forces, over suspected links to the network Ankara says orchestrated a failed coup in 2016, state-owned Anadolu news agency reported.

Authorities have carried out a sustained crackdown on alleged followers of U.S.-based Moslem holy man Fethullah Gülen
... a Turkish preacher living in Pennsylvania whom the current govt of Turkey considers responsible for all the ills afflicting Turkey and possibly the entire world. Gülen and Erdogan used to be really good friends, but only one of them could be sultan, and Gülen lost...
since the failed coup in July 2016, when 250 people were killed.

Gulen denies any involvement. A former ally of President Tayyip Erdogan, he has lived in self-imposed exile in Pennsylvania since 1999.

The prosecutor's office in the western province of Balikesir ordered the detention of 74 people, all previously sacked from the security forces and including six former police chiefs, security officials and Anadolu said.

Prosecutors in southeastern Gaziantep province ordered the detention of 33 people, including 24 security forces personnel on active duty, Anadolu said. It said that in western Bursa province, prosecutors ordered the detention of 42 people, including six soldiers on active duty.

Erdogan has for years accused Gulen's supporters of establishing a "parallel state" by infiltrating the police, judiciary, military and other state institutions.

Since the coup attempt, about 80,000 people have been held pending trial and some 150,000 civil servants, military personnel and others sacked or suspended.
Posted by: trailing wife || 06/09/2020 09:09 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under: Sublime Porte

#1  "Squirrel!"
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 06/09/2020 16:13 Comments || Top||

#2  test
Posted by: 3dc || 06/09/2020 19:13 Comments || Top||


Turkish presidency infuriated over raising of ‘Byzantine flag’ over mosque in Cyprus
[ALMASDARNEWS] The Ottoman Turkish presidency described raising the "Byzantine flag" over a mosque in the Cypriot city of Larnaca, as "showing hatred for Islam and The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...Qatar's satrapy in Asia Minor...
," noting that "stopping these attacks is a natural right."

The head of the communication department in the Ottoman Turkish presidency, Fakhreddine Alton, said on Monday via Twitter that "the suspension of the flag on the Tuzla mosque shows the deep grudge and hatred towards Islam and towards Turkey by the people of the distasteful mentalities that inherited shame and attacks on ideas, beliefs and looting. And genocide in the pages of history for thousands of years. "

"Turkey continues with all its might the struggle to transform the region into a zone of peace and security," Alton said, noting that "the epic struggle that Turkey is presenting today in the eastern Mediterranean is an expression of the blessed inspiration it drew from its civilization."

He noted that "Islam, which was a source of peace and security and the horizon of ancient civilization, will continue to enlighten the years and combat all kinds of systematic attacks," saying that "the attack on Islam and Moslems has become an institutional structure that is increasing day by day in the name of the so-called freedom of opinion."

Alton stressed that "stopping the horrendous attacks against Islam and Turkey as soon as is a natural right", stressing that "Turkey is able to rebuild the atmosphere of brotherhood and coexist with all beliefs and religions in the Mediterranean region."

Posted by: Fred || 06/09/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Sublime Porte

#1  Restore Constantinople!!!
Posted by: Dacama || 06/09/2020 7:10 Comments || Top||

#2  WTF? The Turks extinguished the last of the Roman Empire; they weren't defending themselves, they were conquering.

And for this whining to come after they held prayers in the Hagia Sofia!
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 06/09/2020 7:19 Comments || Top||

#3  To paraphrase a Faulty Towers episode, "don't mention the Armenian genocide".
Posted by: Clem || 06/09/2020 7:22 Comments || Top||

#4  An obvious 'Act of War. Please begin immediately.
Posted by: Besoeker || 06/09/2020 8:38 Comments || Top||

#5  What does the “Byzantine “ flag look like?
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 06/09/2020 11:49 Comments || Top||

#6  Its complicated.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 06/09/2020 12:51 Comments || Top||

#7  ^ Snark O' The Day entry
Posted by: Frank G || 06/09/2020 12:53 Comments || Top||

#8  Crusaders lives matter.
Posted by: bbrewer126 || 06/09/2020 14:48 Comments || Top||


India-Pakistan
4 more youth martyred by Indian troops in Occupied Kashmir
[DAILYTIMES.PK] In their fresh act of state terrorism
... any action taken by a non-Moslem state that constrains the violent impulses of Moslems or their allies ...
, The Indian occupation forces martyred 4 more Kashmiri youth in Shopian district of occupied 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....
.The youth were killed by the troops during a cordon and search operation in Pinjoora area of the district. Five youth were martyred by the troops in the same area, yesterday.
The heart (urp!) bleeds... I gotta quit that chili!



Posted by: Fred || 06/09/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistain Proxies


Iraq
Unconfirmed reports that Shiite militiamen evacuated the headquarters of Iraq's Popular Mobilization Forces in Baghdad following the crash of the U.S. Air Force C-130 at Taji Air Base
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
US military aircraft crashes north of Baghdad

[ALMASDARNEWS] An Iraqi security source told Sputnik Arabic on Monday evening that four U.S. military personnel were maimed from the international coalition in Iraq during the crash of an S-130 plane while it was landing at Taji base, north of Baghdad.

The Sputnik source said the plane "veered off the runway and hit the concrete barrier [concrete blocks] and suffered an accident."

The source confirmed that "the accident resulted in damage to the plane’s structure ."

They revealed that "the accident resulted in the injury of four American soldiers out of the 16 on board."

The source pointed out that "the accident did not cause a fire in the plane."
Posted by: Fred || 06/09/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran Proxies


Unknown group fires missile at #Baghdad Airport
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
The cell said in a statement, “The missile was launched from the Arab Khudair region, south of the airport area.”

They noted that the accident did not result in casualties.
Posted by: Fred || 06/09/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran Proxies


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Syria jihadist-regime clashes leave 41 dead
[AlAhram] An al-Qaeda offshoot led an offensive Monday against regime forces in northwest Syria, sparking festivities that left 19 pro-government fighters and 22 jihadists dead, a war monitor said.

"Jihadist factions led by Hurras al-Deen
...the current incarnation of non-Syrian Al Qaeda in Syria...
launched an assault on two villages in Sahl al-Ghab," a region of the central province of Hama, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.

They briefly seized the villages of al-Fatatra and al-Manara, Observatory chief Rami Abdel Rahman said.

But regime forces took them back just hours later amid Russian air strikes and intense shelling, the Britannia-based monitor said.

Abdel Rahman said the festivities left 19 government soldiers and 22 jihadists dead.

The country's official SANA news agency also reported the attack on "two Syrian army positions," saying it involved "explosive-rigged vehicles and jacket wallahs".

Citing a military source, it said the situation was now under control after the jihadists were forced to pull out under regime fire.

The offensive was launched from within the Idlib region, which is controlled by jihadists and rebels and is the last bastion of resistance to Damascus after nine years of devastating civil war.

A truce reached on March 6 has largely stemmed fighting in the region, which Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad
Oppressor of the Syrians and the Lebs...
has vowed to fully retake.

Hurras al-Deen is a relatively small but powerful gang led by al-Qaeda loyalists.

It is a rival of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, formerly al-Nusra, before that it was called something else
...al-Qaeda's Syrian affiliate, from which sprang the Islamic State...
, an alliance of Islamist factions dominated by former members of al-Qaeda's ex-Syria affiliate Jabhat 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 .. ...
-- although the two groups cooperate at times.

The Idlib truce brokered by regime ally Russia and rebel backer The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...Qatar's satrapy in Asia Minor...
has largely kept Syrian and Russian warplanes out of the region's skies.

The calm came as the novel coronavirus (aka COVID19 or Chinese Plague)
...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men...
pandemic spread across the Middle East.

Aid groups had warned that an outbreak of the COVID-19 illness in the Idlib region could cause a humanitarian disaster of previously unseen proportions.
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Syrian Army retakes 2 towns in northwestern #Hama
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Russian Air Force swarms western Idlib in powerful response to jihadist attack
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Syrian Army amassing large force in Idlib as offensive nears
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