[ToloNews] Taliban ...Arabic for students... on Friday captured the city of Zaranj, the capital of Nimroz province on the border with Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... as the first bustling provincial capital to be seized by the group since the Biden crime family administration ...knaves, footpads, and adjusters employed by the Biden Crime Family. They leave a trail of havoc everywhere they turn their attention, be it the nation's borders, the Keystone XL Pipeline, or epidemics, sometimes on purpose, most times through sheer arrogant ineptitude. They learnt this stuff in college, you know... said it would completely withdraw US troops from the country.
Taliban attacked the bustling provincial capital on Thursday night. Their attacks were followed by hundreds of residents of the city, flocking towards the border with Iran, in a desperate search for safety.
There are also reports that government assets were looted in different parts of the city.
Reports say that the Taliban after capturing Kanak district in Nimroz brutally executed at least 30 soldiers. But the Taliban have rejected the allegations, saying the soldiers were killed during festivities.
"All people including women and kiddies had flocked there," said a resident in Nimroz, referring to an attempt by hundreds of Nimroz residents to cross the border to Iran.
A video from Nimroz shows that several bodies purportedly of the government forces lying on the ground. The Taliban reportedly tortured the soldiers, maimed them and took out their eyes before killing them.
"Based on the international law, it is counted as a war crime, it is also against Islamic principles," said Laal Gul Laal, the head of human rights One man's rights are another man's existential threat. organization.
"The rejection of all these killings on the battlefields doesn’t acquit them (Taliban) from responsibility," said Zabihullah Farhang, a front man for Afghan Independent Human Rights Commission.
Nimroz has five districts of which three are completely under the control of the Taliban.
[ToloNews] In a shift of their attention from rural areas to capital cities, the Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... conducted heavy attacks on the centers of Lashkargah city in Helmand ...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan... and Sheberghan city in Jawzjan province in the last 24 hours, entering some key government facilities.
In Jawzjan, the group made some progress until Friday afternoon, but soon they were pushed back from the city.
The Defense Ministry in a statement late on Friday evening said the center of Sheberghan city was retaken by Afghan troops -- who were supported by Air Force and the local forces loyal to former vice president Abdul Rashid Dostum ...ethnic Uzbek warlord who distinguished himself fighting the Soviets and the Taliban. The story that he had a bad guy run over with a tank is an exaggeration. It was an armored personnel carrier... Jawzjan politicians said that heavy fighting was underway near the police headquarters, the office of the intelligence agency, the National Directorate of Security ...the Afghan national intel agency... (NDS), and the governor’s office in Sheberghan.
Mawlavi Abdul Hai, a member of the Jawzjan provincial council, said the security agencies are not paying the required attention to the province.
"Jawzjan is also part of the geography of Afghanistan," he said.
"The soldiers who fought for three or four months in Jawzjan were killed or maimed today. For God's sake, when you will address the issue of Sheberghan?" said MP Halima Sadaf Rahimi.
In Helmand, meanwhile, fighting continues in Lashkargah city’s District 1. Videos on social media show shops have caught fire in the ongoing festivities between government forces and the Taliban.
"What the central government is doing? Stop the violence," said Mahmoud Khan, a civil society activist in Helmand.
"Civilians have been killed there. Government forces have been killed. Taliban have been killed, but no one is there to address this problem," said Akhtar Mohammad, a presidential adviser.
Taliban attacked Lashkargah city a week ago, but the Afghan Special Forces ...established in 2007 with the intent of taking one conventional infantry kandak (battalion) from each of the regional ANA corps, giving them special training and equipment, and reorganizing based on the U.S. Army Rangers. Each battalion is assigned to one of the six regional corps. The commandos comprise 7% of the Afghan National Security Forces but conduct 70% to 80% of the fighting... launched an operation to repel their attack.
Helmand residents said there has been no progress in the operations in terms of pushing back the Taliban from strategic areas in the city.
"Afghan forces conducted air and ground operations in Jawzjan and Helmand. Our operations will continue," Defense Ministry front man Rohullah Ahmadzai said.
The Defense Ministry said that 406 Taliban fighters 209 more were maimed in Afghan forces operations in various parts of the country in the last 24 hours. Taliban has rejected the claim.
There were casualties among security forces as well. Sources said that at least 10 security force members, including a security officer for Farah, were killed in the province.
Moreover, five non-combatants were killed in a mortar attack in Maidan Wardak district, local sources said. The government blamed the Taliban for the attack.
[ToloNews] Dawa Khan Menapal, head of the Afghan government’s media and information center, was killed in an attack by unknown button men in Kabul on Friday, sources confirmed.
The incident happened at Darul Aman Road in the west of Kabul on Friday afternoon, sources said.
Before his job as head of the media and information center, he worked as deputy presidential front man from 2016 to 2020.
Menapal also served as head of the government’s media and information center in Kandahar in 2015.
He is from Zabul province in the south of Afghanistan. He had a bachelor’s degree in law and political science from Kabul University.
The attack happened when Menapal left a mosque and was in a car, probably driving home, eyewitnesses said.
Menapal served as a journalist at Radio Azadi besides prior to his assignments in the government.
Taliban ...Arabic for students... grabbed credit for the attack.
The Taliban rubbed out the head of the Afghan government's media information centre Friday at a mosque in the capital, the ministry said, days after warning they would target senior administration officials in retaliation for increased air strikes.
"Unfortunately, the savage murderous Moslems have committed a cowardly act once again and martyred a patriotic Afghan," interior ministry front man Mirwais Stanikzai said of the death of Dawa Khan Menapal.
The Taliban grabbed credit for the death, with front man Zabihullah Mujahid sending a message to media saying "he was killed in a special attack carried out by mujahideen".
The gunnies warned Wednesday of more attacks targeting Afghan government leaders, a day after the defence minister escaped an liquidation attempt.
The bomb-and-gun attack on Defence Minister Bismillah Mohammadi Tuesday night brought the war to the capital for the first time in months.
The Afghan and US militaries have stepped up air strikes in their fight against the bandidos murderous Moslems in a string of cities, and the Taliban said Wednesday the Kabul raid was their response.
[StrategyPage] August 6, 2021: Iranian media reports that Iran is establishing explicitly Iran-backed Shia militias in western Afghanistan. Iran wants to protect the Shia minority (about 20 percent of Afghans) from the expanding reach of the Taliban. In the late 1990s the Taliban went after Afghan Shia in a big way and the victims have not forgotten. The new militias are composed of combat experienced Afghan Shia who served as Iranian mercenaries and survived combat in Syria...
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let them eat each other, who really gives a shit
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The estimate of twenty percent Shia is high. Most official reports give it as 10%.
The Hazaras are a Persian-speaking ethnic group native to, and primarily residing in, the mountainous region of Hazarajat, in central Afghanistan.
They are the third largest ethnic group in Afghanistan, and are also a significant minority group in neighboring Pakistan, where there is a population of between 650,000 and 900,000, mostly in Quetta.
Wikipedia estimates the world population as more than eight million, half of which is in Afghanistan.
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The CIA World Factbook reports their estimates here. Out of Afghanistan’s national population of 37,466,414 as of last month, Hazeras are listed as third among ethnic groups, in non-alphabetical order. Afghan Persian is spoken by 78% of the multilingual Afghan population, being a lingua franca despite only 10-15% of the population being Shiite.
[LIBYAREVIEW] Informed sources told Sky News that a large explosion occurred south of the Libyan city of al-Zawiya. It came as a result of a conflict between two militias, seeking to establish greater dominance over parts of the Coastal Road.
In statements to Sky News Arabia, the sources added that a convenience store was blown up in the Bir Sardin area, which belonged to the brother of one of the leaders of the Muammar al-Dhawi militia, which is active in the Warshafana area, southwest of 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... . They accused militias from al-Zawiya of the earth-shattering kaboom, in retaliation for engaging in festivities last week.
The sources revealed that the two sides are fighting due to differences related to fuel smuggling. As Warshafana groups recently stopped a number of fuel smugglers belonging to the al-Zawiya militias, at a vital gate on the Coastal Road.
Last Friday, festivities erupted in the al-Maya region of western Libya between a militia headed by Mohammed El-Far from al-Zawiya, and the Muammar al-Dhawi al-Warshafani militia. According to eyewitnesses, medium and heavy weapons were used during the fighting.
The festivities led to the use of mortars, with photos circulated on social media showing plumes of smoke rising from the middle of residential neighbourhoods. It was reported that the festivities reached the 27 Bridge vicinity, west of Tripoli.
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[AlAhram] Anouar Maarouf is the most prominent member of the party to be targeted since President Kais Saied dismissed the prime minister and suspended parliament on July 25
Tunisia’s interior ministry has put under house arrest a bigwig of the Ennahda party which opposes the president’s seizure of governing powers, one of his colleagues said on Friday.
Anouar Maarouf is the most prominent member of the party to be targeted since President Kais Saied dismissed the prime minister and suspended parliament on July 25.
Maarouf was minister of communications and technology from 2016-20 , a government department which Saied has suggested parties tried to manipulate for their own advantage.
"Anouar Maarouf was informed by official authorities that he is under house arrest," an Ennahda official told Rooters, asking not to be named.
The Interior Ministry was not immediately available for comment. "I can say no more!" Though Saied’s moves appear to have popular support, they have raised questions over Tunisia’s democratic transition a decade after it threw off autocratic rule in a revolution that triggered the 2011 Arab Spring.
Several politicians and officials have been detained or put under investigation, including on old warrants that were implemented after the president lifted parliamentary immunity.
Saied has moved to gain direct control over the Interior Ministry and Communications and Technology Ministry, replacing the ministers in charge of both.
This week, he said he would not accept future communications and technology ministers being linked to political parties that might want control over citizens’ data.
Ennahda is one of four political parties that the judiciary said last week it was investigating over foreign financing.
It says it has not broken any rules.
The judiciary also briefly investigated four party members, including some close to the leader, parliament speaker Rached Ghannouchi, over slight scuffles with Saied supporters on July 26. The cases were quickly dropped, however.
On its part, Zim-bob-we is sending a team of 304 defence instructors to Mozambique to train Mozambican troops as part of its commitment to the SADC Standby Force Mission.
As part of Zimbabwe's contribution, last week Defence and War Veterans Affairs Minister Oppah Muchinguri-Kashiri announced, "Zimbabwe is awaiting the signing of the Status Force Agreement after which the Zimbabwe training continent will be sent to Mozambique. Once the training team is dispatched, Parliament will be informed accordingly in terms of section 214 of the Constitution of Zimbabwe.”
Already, Botswana has deployed 296 troops to Mozambique to join soldiers from the SADC region after regional leaders agreed in June to respond with proportionate force to the snuffies in the Cabo Delgado region who have left a trail of bloodshed and wrecked the country's economy.
Meanwhile, ...back at the palazzo, Count Guido stepped from behind the suit of armor, rapier in hand. Ciccolini snarled and reached for his own weapon... South Africa's SAS Makhanda which is docked in Pemba will form part of the small maritime contingent of the SADC's intervention brigade known as the SADC Mission in Mozambique or SAMIM, South African media reported yesterday.
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[REGNUM] At least 15 people were killed in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) in an attack by militants of the Alliance of Democratic Forces terrorist group, Agence France-Presse (AFP) reported on August 6.
According to the agency, the attacks took place in the Beni area of North Kivu province.
In particular, on 5 August, gunmen killed 10 people in the village of Mbingi. The next day, in a village one kilometer from Mbinga, gunmen killed five more local residents.
The military was sent to the area of the incident to pursue terrorists.
[AlAhram] Nigerian forces have killed 78 button men, known locally as bandidos, during military operations including air strikes in northwestern Zamfara state, the air force said
Heavily-armed bandidos have wracked northwest and central Nigeria for years, but the groups have recently stepped up attacks on schools, kidnapping hundreds of students for ransom and prompting a military response.
"On 2 August 2021, Nigerian Air Force... locked on armed bandidos on bikes moving into Kwiambana Forest Reserves (in Zamfara state)... over 78 bandidos were neutralized,
”Peddle away! PEDDLE AWAY!!“
and their camps destroyed," air force front man Edward Gabkwet said in a statement late on Thursday.
That’s fast — they only received new airplanes from America two weeks ago.
The bandidos were tracked to "extensive and well concealed camps with numerous huts" that were destroyed by the air force, the statement added, "in liaison with ground troops forming blocking forces around the targeted areas of the forest."
The air force said surviving bandidos escaped and abandoned the camp.
The air force used the Alpha Jet fighter and attack helicopters to bombard the bandit camp, the statement said.
The Nigerian military first deployed to the area in 2016 and a peace deal with bandidos was signed in 2019 but attacks on communities have continued.
Violence linked to these groups is just one of the challenges facing President Muhammadu Buhari's security forces, who are also battling a more than decade-long jihadist insurgency in the northeast and separatist agitation in the southeast.
Last month, heavily-armed gangs shot down an air force Alpha Jet over Zamfara although the pilot safely ejected and evaded capture.
On July 22, the air force said it had received the first six out of 12 Super Tucano light-attack turboprops from the United States.
London radical trans protest: Outside Downing Street, a trans speaker on stage gets their speech interrupted when the wind blows their dress up and exposes their underpants. pic.twitter.com/zSyR6AfAmc
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This prison pop darlin',
by no means a Marilyn,
never learnt what to wear.
Or in what weather or
how to carry it
with ladylike non-care.
What she has to hide,
no one wants to see;
thick flanks, longshanks,
and a dangling weewee.
Ty John Fox, who was arrested at a Portland #antifa riot last year on suspicion he threw an explosive at police, was arrested again on Sunday & charged w/felony unlawful use of a weapon, assault & more. He was released again without bail. https://t.co/D5dfXY6h0ipic.twitter.com/NKEMnFHdGs
[JPost] Like the slow child that keeps playing with electrical outlets, they need to feel consequences. Now hit their homes Palestinian sources at about 00:30 Saturday reported that the IDF had attacked Hamas headquarters in Jabalya in the northern Gaza Strip, and that airplanes were being shot at with machine guns.
The IDF attacked a Hamas military base and rocket launching site in Jabalya in the northern Gaza Strip on Friday evening, according to a statement by the IDF Spokesperson's Unit.
Along with the rockets shot from Lebanon towards Israel's north on Friday morning, the border with Gaza continues to be tense.
Four fires caused by incendiary balloons broke out in several areas close to the Gaza Strip on Friday afternoon, HaKeren Kayemeth LeIsrael-Jewish National Fund (KKL-JNF) reported.
The head of COGAT, Maj.-Gen. Ghassan Alian, addressed Gaza Strip residents via Facebook in response to the fires.
"Are you really willing to endanger your daily lives for the sake of balloons?" he asked. "Have you not had enough of this endless circle that leads you nowhere? Are these balloons worth more than the shrinking of your fishing zone? Maintaining the quiet and security in the region will better your economy," he wrote.
After Operation Guardian of the Walls, the IDF has consistently been attacking in response to incendiary balloons that caused brush fires in the Gaza border areas.
The IDF has still been trying to minimize the conflict, and to avoid casualties on either side.
However, since the May operation it has hit quality targets such as a military compound in Han Younes in response to incendiary balloons, where in the past it sometimes would not attack at all in the same scenario.
The previous attack occurred at the end of July.
Of the four fires that broke out Friday, three of the fires ignited in Kissufim forest, and the fourth in Be'eri forest. A spokesperson for the Fire and Rescue department reported that four firefighting teams were working on the ground alongside KKL-JNF in order to bring the fires under control and prevent them from spreading further.
In Gaza, the so-called balloon unit, Ahfad an-Nassar,
...one of three major Gaza balloon units, the other two being Ibna al-Zuwari and Barq. I’m not sure if all three are sponsored by Hamas. They also do incendiary kites...
said it had launched balloon-borne incendiary devices toward Israel in solidarity with Lebanon.
"We will not be humiliated," the group said in a brief statement on Friday.
[IsraelTimes] Emad Dweikat, 37, was reported shot during a protest against flashpoint Evyatar outpost near Nablus; despite gov’t-backed deal for settlers to leave site, area continues to seethe.
A Paleostinian was shot and killed during festivities with Israeli soldiers during a protest near the West Bank town of Beita, the Paleostinian Authority health ministry reported.
It said local resident Emad Ali Dweikat, 37, was killed during a weekly protest march against an illegal Israeli outpost, known as Evyatar, built on a hilltop overlooking Beita. Dweikat was rushed to a hospital in nearby Nablus but died shortly thereafter.
The Paleostinian Red Islamic Thingy said an additional 59 people were treated for injuries, including one hit by live fire and 20 with rubber bullets. The rest were from tear gas inhalation.
According to the Israeli military, Friday’s protests saw Paleostinians clash violent mostly peacefully with Israeli soldiers, throwing stones and rolling flaming tires at troops. No troops were reported hurt.
Beita has seethed since an illegal outpost, known as Evyatar, was constructed by national-religious Jewish settlers back in May. Paleostinians have regularly — and sometimes violent mostly peacefully — protested the settler presence, leading to seven Paleostinian deaths during festivities with Israeli forces.
In a bid to reduce tensions, the government backed a deal that saw the settlers leave the hilltop, but left open the possibility for Evyatar to become a legal settlement under Israeli law. The violent mostly peacefulfestivities, however, have continued.
Dweikat was the seventh Paleostinian to die during festivities with Israeli soldiers while protesting the outpost, Paleostinian health officials said. He is the third since the deal went into effect in late June.
The Israeli army neither confirmed nor denied that Dweikat had been killed by Israeli fire. But soldiers had used live bullets against the violent mostly peaceful rioters, the army said.
"Around 700 rioters participated, hurling stones and rolling burning tires at Israeli soldiers and Border Police. The forces active at the scene responded with riot dispersal means and Ruger bullets," the Israeli military said.
The army considers the .22mm Ruger bullets to be less lethal than standard-issue 5.56mm slugs, meaning they can be used at West Bank demonstrations. But human rights ...which often include carefully measured allowances of freedom at the convenience of the state... groups have condemned the use of Ruger fire for riot control, as the weapon can still kill.
Hisham Dweikat, a university professor and local Fatah leader, told The Times of Israel that the dear departed Emad had four daughters and a son who had been born two months ago. Emad was a construction worker who had been employed across Israel and the West Bank, Hisham said. He will be missed wasn't missed. Not by the last shot
In videos from the scene, Paleostinians can be seen slinging stones at Israeli troops. But according to Hisham, Emad had been far away from the soldiers when he was struck by live bullets in his chest.
"He was participating in the march, but he was far away from the soldiers at the time of the shooting. He was standing next to the medics, and he wasn’t throwing stones or anything," said Hisham, who said he had witnessed Emad being shot.
[BenarNews] Suspected members of the Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters ...a MILF splinter group aligned with the Islamic State... detonated a homemade bomb, leaving one soldier dead and seven others maimed earlier this week, the military said on Friday.
The soldiers were aboard a military truck in a remote village in Maguindanao province when they were attacked late Wednesday night, regional military front man Lt. Col. John Paul Baldomar said. He did not say why the incident was made public two days later.
BIFF is a splinter group of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front, a former separatist group that signed a peace deal with Manila and now controls an autonomous Moslem region in the south.
Like the Abu Sayyaf ...also known as al-Harakat al-Islamiyya, an Islamist terror group based in Jolo, Basilan and Zamboanga. Since its inception in the early 1990s, the group has carried out bombings, kidnappings, murders, head choppings, and extortion in their uniquely Islamic attempt to set up an independent Moslem province in the Philippines. Abu Sayyaf forces probably number less than 300 cadres. The group is closely allied with remnants of Indonesia's Jemaah Islamiya and has loose ties with MILF and MNLF who sometimes provide cannon fodder... Group, BIFF is a bad boy group that has also pledged allegiance to the so-called 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.... murderous Moslem group.
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One of the first foreign guests of the new Iranian President Ibrahim Raisi was the head of Hamas, Ismail Haniya.
Iranian President Ebrahim Raeisi says the Islamic Republic will continue to support Palestine as the main issue of the Muslim world.
“We have never had and will never have any doubt about this policy. In our view, Palestine has been and will be the first issue of the Muslim world,” Raeisi said in a Friday meeting with head of the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas Ismail Haniyeh, who took part in the swearing-in ceremony of the Iranian president Thursday.
Raeisi commended Haniyeh’s optimistic stance on the liberation of al-Quds and the end of Palestine’s occupation and said “Operation al-Quds Sword” — the Palestinian resistance groups’ 11-day retaliatory rocket and missile launches in response to Israel’s brutal bombing campaign of Gaza in May — showed that a great leap has been made in the fight against the occupiers.
“Today, signs of great victory of the resistant movement have emerged and Operation al-Quds Sword was one of the signs of this victory,” he said.
In Operation Sword al-Quds, he added, the resistance forces tightened the noose on the Zionist enemy in a way that neither the Zionists themselves nor their supporters could even imagine.
One of the first foreign guests of the new Iranian President Ibrahim Raisi was the head of Hamas, Ismail Haniya.
Raisi also promised to maintain close relations with Hamas and other Palestinian groups that are fighting against the Israeli occupation and the apartheid regime. Iran's close relationship with Hamas is the result of the diplomatic efforts of Qassem Soleimani, who was able to reconcile Hamas and Hezbollah and overcome the aftermath of the Syrian divide, when Hamas openly supported forces in Syria that opposed Bashar al-Assad. Suleimani made sure that all major Palestinian groups accepted the basic principle of the "Axis of Resistance" - the main enemies are the United States and Israel, so Shiites and Sunnis should not be at enmity with each other, weakening themselves in the face of the main enemy of all Muslims. Hamas, although not immediately, adopted this principle,
Regarding the shelling on the Lebanese-Israeli border and the nighttime bombing of Gaza (Israel claims that "fireballs" were launched from Gaza), Hamas said it fully supports Hezbollah's attacks against the Zionist enemy
The tweeted response to Israel’s kinetic response to Hezbollah’s completely unsuccessful rocketry attack reported yesterday. It started with Israel’s response to a small rocket attack Thursday night:
[PUBLISH.TWITTER] [PUBLISH.TWITTER]
In response to the 10+ rockets just fired at Israel from Lebanon, we are currently striking the rocket launch sites in Lebanon.
We will not let attacks on Israeli civilians go unanswered.
Ali Kamel Mohsen was Hezbollah fighter killed by Israel in Damascus on 07/21/20; Mohammad Qassem Tahhan was Hezbollah fighter killed by IDF in May on Lebanon-Israel border. Hezbollah trying to settle all of its scores w/Israel at once. https://t.co/WFq0BFyI4r
Heckuva memorial, guys. Basically, your rockets dug up some weeds — Israel’s Iron Dome got everything that got near anything important. Even the Gazans do better.
The gentleman in green looks like the last of the Hezbollah boys the Druze pulled out of the rocket truck — seen in badanov’s tweet, bewildered and afraid.
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Seeing these reports of a Sunni tribe taking on Hezbollah, and Druze interdicting Hezbollah weapons shipments on the road, I wonder if Hezbollah's ability to intimidate its internal rivals in Lebanon among the other sects is weakening.
Along with Hezbollah, Hamas, PIJ and Kataib Hezbollah, Harakat Hezbollah al-Nujaba announced it will join Hassan Nasrallah’s equation on Jerusalem they say https://t.co/KfHQM7ITTh
Harakat Hezbollah al-Nujaba is one of the Iraqi Shiite Popular Mobilization Force paramilitary groups that have fought alongside Hezbollah under IRGC-Qods Force orders in Syria since 2011. They are paid by the governments of both Iran and Iraq as a formal PMF group, listed as reporting to the prime minister of Iraq. And they do indeed follow his orders when he tells them to do something Iran already ordered.
Kataib Hezbollah is another Iraqi PMF group, though they spent more time in Iraq fighting ISIS, mostly returning to attacking American bases in Iraq after ISIS was dealt with. Both groups started out fighting the Coalition on the Iran payroll in the years after the second Iraq War.
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[REGNUM] One of the checkpoints on the Iranian-Afghan border has been closed due to the aggravation of the situation in Afghan territory, Deputy Governor of Sistan and Baluchistan Province for Security Affairs Mohammad Hadi Marashi said on August 6 .
"The border between Iran and Afghanistan at the Milak border checkpoint in the north of the province is closed due to the escalation in the Afghan region bordering Sistan and Baluchistan," Tasnim quoted him as saying.
At the same time, Marashi said that the armed forces, border guards and law enforcement officers are at the border and are monitoring the development of events.
As REGNUM reported on August 6, representatives of the Taliban movement announced the capture of the city of Zaranj, the administrative center of the Afghan province of Nimroz, bordering Iran.
[Rudaw] Another Iraqi refugee was rubbed out in Syria’s al-Hol camp amid a resurgence of crimes in the camp, a UK-based watchdog reported on Friday.
The murder is the 20th of its kind since the end of the first phase of the security operation in al-Hol in March, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) said.
Four Iraqi refugees, including two females, were bumped off in the camp in July, it added.
Al-Hol is home to nearly 60,000 people, mostly women and kiddies with suspected links to 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). The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) and Internal security forces (Asayish) launched a five-day operation in the camp in late March targeting ISIS sleeper cells, arresting 125 ISIS people.
ISIS-related violence at the camp decreased following the operation, the Pentagon said in a report issued on Tuesday. It followed a spate of murders earlier in the year, mostly involving Iraqis.
However, the hip bone's connected to the leg bone... the US Central Command said that ISIS has retained a "strong" presence in the camp, noting a concerning increase in violence during June. The report also warned against the group’s continuous practice of targeting the "most susceptible for recruitment" particularly in the camps.
"ISIS has given priority to smuggling boys out of these camps to training locations in the Syrian Desert," it said. The group also continues to raise funds through extortion of oil smuggling networks in eastern Syria, collecting kidnapping ransoms, looting, and possibly the operation of front companies in both Iraq and Syria.
Al-Hol has been branded a breeding ground for terrorism. Conditions at the camp have been described as "filthy and inhumane." The President of the International Committee of the Red Thingy (ICRC) Peter Maurer described the camp as "the place where hope is going to die" in a visit to the camp in late March.
There have been calls on foreign countries and Iraq to repatriate their nationals held in the camp.
The Iraqi government repatriated 93 Iraqi families from al-Hol in May. Iraq has agreed to take in 500 families in a phased operation.
Russia, Kosovo, Canada, and Albania also recently repatriated a number of their nationals.
[Rudaw] Christian villagers in Syria’s northern town of Ain Issa had to flee their houses this week due to fresh Ottoman Turkish bombardments which killed four members of a family, with a local security spokesperson telling Rudaw they are terrified after the attacks.
Ottoman Turkish forces bombarded a Christian house in Safawiyah village, located near Ain Issa, in the early hours of Wednesday, killing Zidan Khalaf al-Issa and his three children: Ziyad, Muna and Huda, Aram Hanna, spokesperson for the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), told Rudaw English.
"Two other civilians were maimed and were moved to Raqqa Hospital to receive treatment," he added. Rudaw has learned that Zidan’s wife was also injured.
Issa’s niece Fatima al-Issa told Rudaw that villagers left their homes after the bombing, but some have returned.
"The situation is not good but we are still here. Where can we go? Yesterday, we left and stayed away from our house but today we returned," she said.
Other families are staying in nearby villages and waiting for the security to improve.
Daham al-Layis, head of emergency services at Raqqa Hospital, told Rudaw that the injured are in good condition now.
"We received them at 12pm but they were unconscious. We did some tests and found out that they have head injuries. They are in a good condition now," he said.
Ain Issa is located on the M4 highway, the main route that crosses northern Syria. In this area in October 2019, Ottoman Turkish forces and their Syrian proxies launched a military offensive against Kurdish forces. The operation ended the same month after ceasefires were brokered by Washington and Moscow.
The truces saw The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor... take control of a stretch of territory along the border and the SDF redeploy south of the M4 with Russian and Syrian regime troops acting as a buffer.
Nabil Warda, spokesperson for the Khabur Guards Council, a local Syriac force, told Rudaw that they were terrified by Ottoman Turkish bombardment.
"All Syriac villages have been bombarded, areas where the displaced people live. Thirty bombs were thrown and all sorts of weapons were used against us," he said, saying the displaced had previously been displaced from Sari Kani (Ras al-Ain) in October 2019.
"We are terrified by the bombardment. Now, Turkey is bringing upon us what ISIS [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.... ] brought upon us in 2015 . We are still suffering from the Ottoman Turkish invasion."
The Ottoman Turkish bombardment was condemned by the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), which operates in Turkey. Its Foreign Relations Commission co-spokespersons said the repetition of such attacks in Kurdish-held areas "shows hostility and serious war crimes will continue in northeast Syria."
"For this reason, we call on both the Ottoman Turkish public and the international community to stand against the ongoing crimes against humanity in northeast Syria," said Feleknas Uca and Hisyar Ozsoy in the statement.
Turkey claims that the People’s Protection Units (YPG), the backbone of the SDF, is the Syrian offshoot of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) — an gang struggling for the increased rights of Kurds in Turkey. The PKK is designated as a terrorist organization.
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