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Good Morning

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Tuesday June 22nd, 2021

nancykovack3
Ethiopian national in Asir region has been arrested by Saudi Arabia's @Mokafha SA for selling cannabis
Three pro-Palestine activists from @Pal Action arrested after protest at Israeli defense factory @ElbitSystemsLtd in Manchester, UK
Gasoline smugglers blocked the highway connecting Lebanon and Syria on Monday with burned tires and metal bars
500 families in Syria's Sarin are without water ever since ISIS blew up their water tank in 2015
China urges its citizens in Afghanistan to evacuate as violence soars
Expatriated Pro-U.S.- Cuban Dissident Heads to Southern Border After Officials Ignore His Case

Posted by: Fred || 06/22/2021 || Comments || Link || [336107 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Birth Name : Nancy Kovach
Born: March 11, 1935 in Flint, Michigan, USA
Nancy Kovack was a student at the University of Michigan at 15, a radio deejay at 16, a college graduate at 19 and the holder of eight beauty titles by 20. Her professional acting career began on television in New York, first as one of Jackie Gleason's "Glea Girls" and then, more prominently, on The Dave Garroway Show (1953), Today (1952) and Beat the Clock (1950). A stage role opened Hollywood doors for Kovack, who signed with Columbia. She later racked up an impressive list of episodic television credits, and was Emmy-nominated for a 1969 guest shot on Mannix (1967). The wife of world-renowned maestro Zubin Mehta of New York Philharmonic fame, Kovack publicly alleges that she was recently bamboozled (to the tune of $150,000) by Susan McDougal, a central figure in the Whitewater scandal.
TRIVIA:
Interviewed in Tom Weaver's book "Science Fiction Stars and Horror Heroes" (McFarland & Co., 1991).
Her father was an executive with General Motors.
Stepmother of Mervon Mehta and Zarina Mehta.
Sister-in-law of Zarin Mehta.
Has appeared five times on the situation comedy Bewitched (1964), three of her appearances portrayed Darrin Stephens' catty former girlfriend Sheila Summers.
Best remembered by the public for her role in the second season episode Star Trek: The Original Series: A Private Little War (1968), as the sexy native medicine woman Nona.
Attended and graduated from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan (1954).
Currently resides with her husband Zubin Mehta in Germany.
Height 5' 8½" (1.74 m)
Posted by: Captain Glith4247 || 06/22/2021 1:30 Comments || Top||

#2 

Posted by: Captain Glith4247 || 06/22/2021 1:34 Comments || Top||

#3 

Posted by: Captain Glith4247 || 06/22/2021 1:38 Comments || Top||

#4  #2 bottom photo - Star Trek (the original series)?
Posted by: Procopius2k || 06/22/2021 7:52 Comments || Top||

#5  ^
Yes
Posted by: Captain Glith4247 || 06/22/2021 8:21 Comments || Top||

#6  Also in Jason and the Argonauts and as a blonde in The Silencers with Dean Martin
Posted by: Warthog || 06/22/2021 9:54 Comments || Top||

#7  Love the Defender-Scimitar for its timely news headlines and front page girls who can fill out a bikini. Thanks Fred.
Posted by: jpal || 06/22/2021 17:27 Comments || Top||


-Short Attention Span Theater-
US Border Patrol agent carries injured migrant on his shoulders through mountains after she got lost and broke her ankle after illegally crossing into California
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • US Border Patrol agents from the El Centro Sector in California rescued a 40-year-old woman who got lost and injured after entering the US

  • The woman, whose nationality is unknown, called Mexican 911 on June 14, which contacted the El Centro Sector for assistance

  • After speaking to the woman and tracing her location, a team of agents were dispatched to the Jacumba Wilderness

  • Due to a sprained ankle, the woman was unable to walk and had to be carried off by a Border Patrol agent

  • The woman was one of five migrants who were rescued by El Centro Sector agents during a 12-hour period on June 14

  • They were all formally processed for unlawfully entering the United States without legal documentation
Posted by: Skidmark || 06/22/2021 00:21 || Comments || Link || [336097 views] Top|| File under: Human Trafficking


Afghanistan
A broader perspective: Taliban take key Afghan district, adding to string of wins
[AlAhram] Taliban
...the Pashtun equivalent of men...
fighters took control of a key district in Afghanistan's northern Kunduz province Monday and encircled the quiet provincial capital, police said, as the holy warrior group added to its string of recent victories on the battlefield.

Fighting around Imam Sahib district began late Sunday and by mid-day Monday the Taliban had overrun the district headquarters and were in control of police headquarters, said Inamuddin Rahmani, provincial police front man said.

Talibs were within a kilometer (mile) of Kunduz, the quiet provincial capital but had not entered into the city, he said, although there were reports of small bands of Taliban near the outskirts and residents trying to leave for Kabul.

Dozens of districts have fallen to the Taliban since May 1, when U.S. and NATO
...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A single organization with differing goals, equipment, language, doctrine, and structure....
troops began their final departure from Afghanistan. Like Imam Sahib district in northern Kunduz, their significance often lies in their proximity to roads and major cities.

Imam Sahib is strategically located near Afghanistan's northern border with Tajikistan, a key supply route from Central Asia.

Rahmani said police and Afghan National Army soldiers had jointly tried to defend the district. He said it still wasn't clear how many casualties the Afghan National Security and Defense Forces suffered in the protracted battle or how many Taliban were killed or maimed.

Taliban front man Zabihullah Mujahed confirmed Imam Sahib district was in Taliban hands.

Several other districts in Kunduz have also fallen to the holy warrior group in the latest round of fighting, including Dasht-e-Archi, which neighbors Imam Sahib, said Rahmani, further consolidating local transportation links in the area.

Syed Mohammad Mousavi drove with his family to the relative safety of Kabul from northern Mazar-e-Sharif, about 120 kilometers (75 miles) west of Kunduz on Sunday.

He said people were trying to leave Kunduz city for Kabul fearing additional fighting. ``The Taliban were all over the road, checking cars. We were very scared,'' he said after reaching the capital.

In recent days, the Taliban have taken several districts across the three northern provinces of Kunduz, Baghlan and Balkh, said Mousavi. Significantly, witnesses said Doshi district in Baghlan province was in Taliban hands, which if it true gives the holy warrior group control of the one road that links five northern provinces to the capital Kabul.

The Taliban have circulated videos on their website and to WhatsApp groups which they claim show government soldiers who have surrendered being told to return to their homes and receiving money from the Taliban. On Sunday, Taliban leader Mawlawi Hibatullah Akhunzada issued a statement ordering his soldiers to ``treat those who surrender well and display good behavior with them.''

But the fighting has been bitter in some districts with both sides suffering casualties. A senior police official speaking on condition he not be identified because he is not authorized to speak to the media said the police fighting in the districts are mostly from poor families. Those families have remained poor despite the trillions of dollars spent in Afghanistan in the past 20 years. ``They have not seen changes in their lives and are indifferent so they see no difference. ... They want to save their lives just for today.``
Posted by: trailing wife || 06/22/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [336108 views] Top|| File under: Taliban


Reinforcements Sent to Faryab as Fighting Continues
[ToloNews] Reinforcements arrived in the northern province of Faryab early hours of Monday morning to launch operations in areas that have fallen the Taliban
...Arabic for students...
, the provincial police said.

The security forces have mobilized and will launch the operation soon, Faryab police front man Abdul Hakim Yurish said.

The festivities inched closer to the city of Maimana, the center of Faryab, on Sunday morning.

The police front man said that "four Taliban were killed and 11 more were maimed in a clash in Pashtun Kot district in Faryab.

He added that seven Taliban were killed in Afghan forces operation in Sabz village in Pashtun Kot district. The Dahan Dara village in the district was also cleared of Taliban, he said.

Taliban has not yet commented on the operations.

A statement by Afghan Army's 209 Shaheen Corps read that the Taliban’s gatherings were targeted by Arclight airstrike
...KABOOM!...
s in Dawlat Abad and Chahar Bolak districts in Balkh on Sunday in which 31 members of the group were killed and seven more were maimed.

The officials said that 11 vehicles owned by the Taliban were damaged in the airstrikes, the statement said.

Taliban has issued a statement and claimed that they have captured the center of Dawlat Abad and Shulgara district in Balkh province, but local officials have not commented on the fall of the areas to the group.

While many districts in Faryab are under Taliban influence, festivities inched closer to the outskirts of the city of Maimana on Sunday, increasing the alarm of Faryab residents and politicians from the province in Kabul, who said that urgent action by the security forces is needed.

Along with fighting in the center of Faryab, the centers of 11 districts have fallen to the Taliban on Sunday.

The districts include Chal, Namak Ab, Yangi Qala, Khwaja Ghar and Hazar Samooch districts in Takhar, the Dara-e-Soof-e-Bala district in Samangan, Chahar Bolak district in Balkh, Khashrod District in Nimroz, Manjigak and Khanaqah districts in Jawzjan and Kharwar district in Pashtun-infested Logar.

Faryab politicians said the province needs urgent attention to push back the Taliban attacks from the center of Faryab.

The newly appointed acting defense minister Gen. Bismillah Mohammadi called on the people to stand with security forces and that the government will provide facilities and equipment.
Posted by: trailing wife || 06/22/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [336107 views] Top|| File under: Taliban


Afghan Forces Retake Two Districts in Takhar
[ToloNews] Bangi and Khwaja Ghar districts in the northern Takhar province were retaken from the Taliban
...mindless ferocity in a turban...
in an operation by government and public uprising forces on Monday morning, the Ministry of Defense said in a statement.

The operation was launched on Sunday night with Air Force support and "the districts were cleared of Taliban this morning," the ministry said.

"The Taliban beat feet from the district after suffering heavy casualties," the Defense Ministry said.

The statement also mentioned that Abdal and Qara Parcho villages on the outskirts of the Taluqan city, capital of the province, were also cleared of the Taliban.

Taliban has not yet commented on the operation.

The situation has been fragile in the northeastern province of Takhar over the last two weeks. Eight districts of the province, including Chal, Baharak, Ishkamish, Namak Ab, Yangi Qala, Khwaja Ghar and Hazar Samooch, have either fallen to the Taliban or have been evacuated by security forces within a week's time.
Posted by: trailing wife || 06/22/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [336100 views] Top|| File under: Taliban


‘Delay in Reinforcements Major Reason Behind Fall of Districts’
[ToloNews] Military experts and sources have reported that delays in deploying reinforcements to districts — most of which are in rural areas — have been a major cause behind the fall of district centers to the Taliban
...Arabic for students...
in the last two months.

Sources in some provinces said that the exaggeration by the Taliban about the number of their fighters and about the expansion of their attacks on other districts is another reason behind the evacuation of districts without any resistance.

On Monday sources said that at least a dozen districts fell to the Taliban. In the past 48 hours, the centers of five districts fell to the group. In many cases, the security forces did not receive reinforcements and evacuated after hours of fighting, locals and other sources said. The districts include Sholgara, Dawlat Abad and Kushinda in Balkh province.

"Many areas are falling to the armed opposition because security forces remain under siege and they have no equipment or supplies," said Raihana Sadat, a member of the provincial council in Balkh.

On Sunday, at least 600 security force members in Dasht-e-Archi district in Kunduz retreated to Khawaja Bahauddin District in Takhar, according to sources. Later during the same day, Qala-e-Zal district in Kunduz was also evacuated by security forces.

"The Imam Sahib district will also fall if the situation continues," said Khaluddin Hakimi, a member of the Kunduz provincial council.

In Faryab, meanwhile, in addition to the fall of six districts to the Taliban, fighting has inched closer to the capital, Maimana. MPs from the province said the lack of reinforcements has led to the crisis in the province.

However,
if you can't say something nice about a person some juicy gossip will go well...
the Defense Ministry on Monday said that reinforcements have been sent to Maimana.

"It is questionable," said Sayed Anwar Rasul Oghli, head of a youth movement in Kabul. "People know that the security forces stationed in Qaisar, Dawlat Abad, Shirin Tagab and Khwaja Sabz Posh (districts) retreated without any resistance."

"We had at least 300 people. Many of them fought and said they were faced with an offensive attack. They did not know the number (of the Taliban), but it was exaggerated, and they were told that at least 5,000 to 6,000 Taliban were attacking them," said Fawzia Raufi, an MP from Faryab.

The Defense Ministry also said that all options are on the table to improve the security situation.

"You witnessed the clearance of many areas in Takhar last night," Defense Ministry front man Rohullah Ahmdzai said.

"I am ready. It is not only Qaisar (district)... I am ready to go to Faryab, to Jawzjan, or any other place that has fallen, even areas that are too challenging. I am ready to go and respond to the Talibs," said Nizamuddin Qaisari, former police chief for Qaisar district in Faryab.

Figures collected by TOLOnews show that at least 50 districts have fallen to the Taliban or have been evacuated in the last two months. Many of these districts are still contested and have seen ongoing fighting over the last few weeks.
Posted by: trailing wife || 06/22/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [336100 views] Top|| File under: Taliban

#1  When is Turkey going to send in mercs to save the day?
Posted by: Chris || 06/22/2021 10:36 Comments || Top||


Fighting Reaches Outskirts of Major Cities in North
[ToloNews] Fighting has reached five cities in the north as many districts around thriving provincial capitals have fallen to the Taliban
...Arabic for students...
in the last few weeks, mostly in Faryab and Takhar provinces.

Lawmakers and residents warned that fighting around the cities of Maimana in Faryab, Taluqan in Takhar, Pul-e-Khumri in Baghlan, Sar-e-Pul
...a city and eponymous province in northern Afghanistan, population about 500,000. Demographically it is majority Tadjik and Uzbek. There are small Pashtun, Arab, and Hazara communities, of which the Hazaras mostly don't bother anyone...
city in Sar-e-Pul and Kunduz city in Kunduz province have raised concerns among the people.

The main route that connects Kabul with northern provinces has been closed to traffic for the last two days because of Taliban influence in Doshi district in Baghlan.

The government announced that security forces had retaken two districts in Takhar; however, many districts across the country that are in Taliban control are being reported: Sources said that security forces left the three districts of Sholgara, Dawlat Abad and Kushinda in Balkh; the Qala-e-Zal and Imam Sahib district in Kunduz; Doshi and Julga districts in Baghlan; Aqcha district in Jawzjan; and Zazai Aryub district in the eastern province of Paktia in the last 24 hours.

"There isn’t anyone to help. The fighting has reached the entrance to Pul-e-Khumri," said Ajmal, a resident of Pul-e-Khumri.

Activists from Faryab who have come to Kabul said that the city of Maimana, the capital of Faryab, is on the verge of collapse and that there is a need for urgent action by the government.

Pul-e-Khumri and Taluqan residents meanwhile said security forces are in dire need of reinforcements.

The fighting has also gripped the northern provinces of Sar-e-Pul and Kunduz. Kunduz temporarily fell to the Taliban back in 2015 and 2016.

"The situation in Kunduz is deeply concerning. The government officials have no plan to address it," said Amruddin Wali, a member of the provincial council in Kunduz.

But the Defense Ministry said that thorough plans are underway to suppress the Taliban.

"They are fighting the enemy with full force and the security and defense institutions--from the leadership to the soldiers on the battlefield--are making efforts to bring positive changes in those areas,’’ said Rohullah Ahmadzai, a front man for the ministry.

Figures collected by TOLOnews show that at least 60 districts have either fallen to the Taliban or are currently being fought over by government forces and the Taliban.

"They are selling districts and are leaving them. It is not a tactical retreat. It is a deal," said Abdul Qadir, a Kabul resident.
Posted by: trailing wife || 06/22/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [336107 views] Top|| File under: Taliban


Africa North
90 Egyptian migrants freed from detention centre in Libya, says Egyptian embassy in Tripoli
[AlAhram] Ninety Egyptians who were tossed into the calaboose in Tripoli
...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn...
over charges of illegal immigration were released on Monday, said a statement by the Egyptian embassy in the Libyan capital, which resumed its work in May after a seven-year-closure.

The Egyptian citizens spent three days at Tripoli's immigration detention centre before the Egyptian embassy was able to resolve the matter with the concerned authorities, said Mohammed Tharwat, the head of the Egyptian diplomatic mission in Tripoli.

Tharwat expressed his thanks to the Libyan interior minister and all municipal authorities for their efforts, which he said reflect the "inextricable" ties between the two countries.

The Egyptian embassy and consulate in Libya were shut in January 2014 after the kidnapping of four Egyptian staff of the embassy by button men and an attack on the consulate.

Egypt and Libya agreed in April to resume flights between the two countries’ capitals as Cairo seeks to restore normality in relations with the neighbouring country, especially after the election of an executive authority to guide the country until legislative elections are held by the end of this year.

The reopening of the embassy and the resumption of flights came almost a month after a visit to Tripoli by a delegation of 11 Egyptian ministers led by Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly, which was the first such visit by senior Egyptian officials to the country in a decade.

Libya was a major destination for Egyptians seeking work abroad for decades before the 2011 NATO
...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It's headquartered in Belgium. That sez it all....
-backed uprising.

According to a 2010 report by the International Organisation for Migration, some 1.5 million Egyptians were working in Libya at the time of the uprising.
Posted by: trailing wife || 06/22/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [336089 views] Top|| File under: Human Trafficking


Suicide car bomber has attacked French troops patrolling in central Mali, wounding six soldiers
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]

A suicide boom-mobileer attacked French troops patrolling in central Mali on Monday, according to La Belle France’s military, wounding six soldiers and four civilians including a child in the war-torn West African country.

The French soldiers, who were traveling in a vehicle, were on a reconnaissance mission near the town of Gossi to secure the area around a nearby forward operating base.

"Six French soldiers and four Malian civilians were maimed by the earth-shattering kaboom of the suicide vehicle," the French military said in a statement.

The army added that none of their lives were in danger.

Speaking on condition of anonymity, a senior Malian military officer and a local elected official had earlier said that some soldiers were evacuated to the French army base in northern city Gao by helicopter.

The French military also said that it sent "alert units" including Tiger combat helicopters and Mirage 2000 fighter jets to the area of the attack to support ground troops.

Mali has been struggling to contain a brutal Death Eater insurgency, which first emerged in the north in 2012 before spreading to the center of the country and neighboring Burkina Faso
...The country in west Africa that they put where Upper Volta used to be. Its capital is Oogadooga, or something like that. Its president is currently Blaise Compaoré, who took office in 1987 and will leave office feet first, one way or the other...
and Niger.

Thousands of soldiers and civilians have been killed in the conflict and hundreds of thousands have fled their homes.

Former colonial power La Belle France, which intervened in Mali in 2013 to beat back the Death Eaters, currently has 5,100 soldiers deployed across the Sahel region
... North Africa's answer to the Pak tribal areas...
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Arabia
Ethiopian national in Asir region has been arrested by Saudi Arabia's @Mokafha SA for selling cannabis
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
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#1  "Dave's not here"
"Man, I'm Dave"

"Dave's not here"
Posted by: Frank G || 06/22/2021 7:23 Comments || Top||


Britain
Three pro-Palestine activists from @Pal Action arrested after protest at Israeli defense factory @ElbitSystemsLtd in Manchester, UK
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]

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Caribbean-Latin America
Gunmen kill 15 in Mexico-US border town
[DW] More than a dozen people were killed when button men in vehicles opened fire in several districts of the city of Reynosa, close to the US border.

Gunmen in sports utility vehicles shot some 14 people in different parts of the Mexican border city of Reynosa, according to reports on Sunday.

Another person was reported to have been killed in an attack on police near a border bridge.

Criminal activity in the city — which lies across the border from McAllen, Texas — has long been dominated by the Gulf Cartel, but splits are thought to have developed in the gang.

Local media reports on Sunday put the corpse count as high as 18.

The attacks began early Saturday afternoon in several neighborhoods in the eastern part of Reynosa, according to the Tamaulipas state agency that coordinates security forces.

The identity of the victims and the attackers was initially unknown, as well as the motive.

"Investigations were initiated to establish the causes of the homicides and locate those responsible, particularly in the surveillance and patrolling actions that are carried out in various parts of Reynosa," said an official report.

The violence mobilized the army, National Guard, state police and other agencies.

SPIRALING DEATHS IN BATTLE FOR CONTROL
Mexico has seen its two bloodiest years ever, with 34,681 recorded murders in 2019 and 34,554 in 2020.

Various cartels are battling for control of smuggling routes to the US that are used to transport drugs, weapons and people.

Successive governments have failed to bring the crime syndicates under control. Many have accused law enforcement and the judiciary of colluding with the gangs, or of having succumbed wholesale to corruption.

Spiraling homicide statistics, instability and high levels of corruption have led some US commentators to conclude that Mexico is on the path to becoming a failed state.

Current president, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, has said he wants to fight cartels with "hugs not bullets."

Lopez Obrador has criticized past administrations for their policies that prioritized the removal of cartel leaders.

US Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas has declined to pass judgment on the policy, saying he does not know what it means in practice.
Posted by: trailing wife || 06/22/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [336123 views] Top|| File under: Narcos

#1  "O Mexico! Holy refrito,
One never will meet a bandito
In this sweetest of lands--"
"Buenos... ayyy, Señor Franz!"
[tips his hat to the head of Carlito]
Posted by: Menhadden Shomomp7752 || 06/22/2021 0:42 Comments || Top||

#2  Good thing guns are almost totally banned in Mexico - just think how many killings they would have.
Posted by: Glenmore || 06/22/2021 0:52 Comments || Top||

#3  God's children
Hijos de Dios
Posted by: Snong Poodle6911 || 06/22/2021 7:49 Comments || Top||

#4  Fear shakes Mexico border city after violence leaves 18 dead
Posted by: Skidmark || 06/22/2021 8:55 Comments || Top||

#5  Until the local civilians are willing to do what the civilians in Coffeyville, KS did to the Dalton gang, it is never gonna end.
Posted by: DarthVader || 06/22/2021 14:43 Comments || Top||

#6  14 shot and 15 dead,
you know it ain't the Bronx.
Hi-calibers, tight grouping,
it's Montezuma's gonks!
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Iraq
Rocket hits ain al-Asad airbase, no casualties reported
[Rudaw] Iraqi security forces (ISF) have opened an investigation after a Katyusha rocket hit Ain al-Asad airbase in Anbar province on Sunday afternoon, Iraq’s Security Media Cell has said.

The cell said that the unwent kaboom! missile was launched towards the base from the al-Baghdadi area in Anbar. No casualties were recorded.

Frequent attacks on the Baghdad airport and military bases around the country housing US troops are blamed on Iranian-backed militias who want to force American troops to withdraw from Iraq.

Balad airbase, in Salahaddin province, was hit by last week. Two days later, Iraqi forces found four more rockets ready to launch towards the base.

Ain al-Asad, which houses personnel from the US-led coalition and the Iraqi army, was last hit in May.

Attacks on Iraqi bases, especially those hosting US troops, have increased since the US assassinated Iranian General Qasem Soleimani and Iraqi militia commander Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis in Baghdad in January 2020.

In its quarterly report on anti-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) operations, the Pentagon said the militia attacks have had "minimal impact" on the mission against ISIS, but that the groups "threaten Iraq’s long-term security."

The US has offered up to $3 million for information on attacks in Iraq.
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Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Fresh clashes at East Jerusalem flashpoint; 20 Palestinians, 1 Israeli wounded
[IsraelTimes] 2 Paleostinians arrested for throwing stones, Molotov cocktails at Jewish homes; police use batons, tear gas, ’skunk’ water cannons and sponge-tipped bullets to disperse Paleostinians.

Paleostinian protesters and Jewish residents clashed late Monday in a volatile East Jerusalem neighborhood before police moved in to disperse the Paleostinians, wounding at least 20.

Jewish residents of the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood said protesters threw stones and Molotov cocktails at Jewish homes, lightly wounding a pregnant woman who was hit in the head with a stone.

The neighborhood has been the scene of frequent festivities in recent weeks over the impending eviction of Paleostinian families and the violence has spilled over into wider conflict in Jerusalem and beyond. The Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, terror group 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 used the festivities as a pretext to fire rockets at Jerusalem sparking a 11-day conflict with Israel.

After the protesters attacked a Jewish home, residents responded with rocks and pepper spray and a brawl broke out.

Police then used riot dispersal means, including batons, tear gas, "skunk" water cannons and sponge-tipped bullets.

The Paleostinian Red Islamic Thingy said 20 Paleostinians had been treated, including 3 for pepper spray, 13 from tear gas inhalation, two hit by sponge-tipped bullets, and two with wounds from being hit by batons.

The rescue service also accused Jewish residents of stoning an ambulance.

At least two Paleostinians were arrested for throwing Molotov cocktails at Jewish homes.
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Arab man charged with attempted murder over Acre stoning
[IsraelTimes] Habib Abu Habib, 41, accused of throwing a rock at Mordechai Katz’s head from close range on May 12; in separate case, terror suspect arrested south of Haifa.

An Acre man has been indicted on charges of attempted murder and terrorism for his alleged role in violent mostly peaceful rioting in the city last month.

Habib Abu Habib, 41, is accused of throwing a stone at Mordechai Katz’s head from only a few feet away on the night of May 12, knocking him to the ground. Katz was also kicked and stoned before he was rescued by locals and a police official who fired his gun into the air.

Prosecutors said Monday that Abu Habib was caught on video picking up the stone in the street, running at Katz and throwing it at him.

He is also accused of taking part in the stoning of the car of another man in the city later that night.

The rioting came amid intense ethnic violence that rocked Israeli cities for several days during the Operation Guardian of the Walls conflict in 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...
Separately on Monday, a man suspected of being involved in unspecified terrorist activities was arrested on the side of the highway south of Haifa.

The Shin Bet security service confirmed that the man, who was stopped by police, has been handed over to their custody for questioning. It is not immediately clear what the man is suspected of having done or planning to do.

Video footage from the scene showed the man being handcuffed and blindfolded by uniformed and plainclothes coppers.
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Southeast Asia
Thai Security Forces Kill 2 Suspected Southern Insurgents at Beach Resort
[BenarNews] Thai security forces bumped off two suspected faceless myrmidons during a shootout at a beach resort in the Deep South on Monday, saying they were wanted in connection with the killings of three family members by rebels in a roadside ambush.

Monday’s killings brought to six the number of suspected separatist Malay Moslem rebels slain by government personnel since late April in Thailand’s troubled southern border region, with one analyst remarking that the rebels were now "clearly on their back foot."

The two suspects were hiding out at the Awada Resort in Yaring, a district of Pattani province when security forces raided the seaside hotel at 3 a.m. to capture the pair, authorities said.
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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Turkish forces deployed in the Idlib countryside bombed Syrian government forces’ positions south of Idlib
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]

On Monday, Ottoman Turkish forces deployed in the Idlib countryside bombed Syrian government forces’ positions south of Idlib in response to intense shelling carried out by the latter on sites near Ottoman Turkish points.

Ottoman Turkish forces stationed in their points around the town of al-Bara bombed military positions of the Syrian government forces near the city of Kafr Nabl south of Idlib, with heavy artillery shells, destroying a tank, killing soldiers inside, and wounding others nearby, military sources in the opposition told North Press.

The Ottoman Turkish bombardment came in response to the killing and wounding of about 15 civilians, including women, as a result of artillery shelling with guided laser missiles carried out by Russian forces stationed in the town of Basqala, south of Idlib, on the towns of al-Bara and Ahsem where Ottoman Turkish forces are deployed, according to the sources.

Pro-Ottoman Turkish armed opposition factions bombarded positions of the government forces near Khan al-Sabil, Basqala, Hantoutin and al-Dar al-Kabira, south of Idlib, with heavy artillery and rocket launchers.

Government forces continued their artillery and missile bombardment on villages and towns of al-Fatira, Kafr Awed, Kansafra, and al-Bara in Zawiya Mountain in the southern countryside of Idlib, which led to the injury of a civilian in al-Bara.

The bombing is part of a campaign of escalation of Syrian government and Russian forces in southern Idlib and northwestern of Hama villages and towns, which began early this month in those areas with Ottoman Turkish troops and military points.
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