Meanwhile, the National Directorate of Security in a statement on Wednesday released numbers indicating that the Taliban has conducted 3,712 attacks between Feb. 29 to May 11, killing 469 civilians and wounding 948 others.
Afghan forces conducted 1,593 defensive operations against the Taliban during this period in which 2,134 Taliban fighters were killed, 1,691 wounded and 173 others were arrested, NDS says.
Former Afghan president Hamid Karzai tweeted: "Rhetoric that promotes conflict and leads to further violence and instability must be avoided...Our people want peace and right now." He said Afghan factions must engage in intra-Afghan dialogue at the earliest opportunity.
[IsraelTimes] Benjamin Netanyahu officially announces he has succeeded in forming a government, ahead of it’s planned swearing-in tomorrow night.
Netanyahu makes the announcement in a formal letter to Benny Gantz, in his capacity as the temporary Knesset speaker, as well as one to President Reuven Rivlin.
The swearing-in ceremony is set to take place at 10 p.m. tomorrow at the Knesset.
[IsraelTimes] US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has concluded his visit to Israel after some eight hours.
Pompeo met with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and other top security officials, as well as with Blue and White party leader Benny Gantz and his ally MK Gabi Ashkenazi.
Not quite normal — Secretary stepped off his airplane wearing a face mask — but getting much closer.
Neither becoming a colony of China nor dealing with their habit of selling dangerously substandard equipment would help Israel remain an independent, viable Jewish homeland...
[IsraelTimes] Ahead of Pompeo visit, officials reportedly tell Trump administration they are reconsidering offer amid security concerns over Chinese involvement in Israeli infrastructure.
[Ynet] Leader of Hamas, one of the armed feet of the Moslem Brüderbund millipede,, Ismail Haniyeh ...became Prime Minister of Gaza after the legislative elections of 2006 which Hamas won. President Mahmoud Abbas dismissed Haniyeh from office on 14 June 2007 at the height of the Fatah-Hamas festivities, but Haniyeh did not acknowledge the decree and continues as the PM of Gazoo while Abbas maintains a separate PM in the West Bank... , threatened his terrorist organization will attempt further kidnappings in lieu of a prisoner exchange deal with Israel.
"A prisoner exchange deal has a known price." said Haniyeh ,"Israel knows that. Either we will come to a respectable deal, or we will go to the other option, which is increasing our loot. Our arm is long."
BREAKING: The Israeli embassy in #Turkey says that there is no truth to media reports that #Israel will sign a maritime agreement with Turkey. pic.twitter.com/EyqIN3eXuL
The Director-General of Iran’s West Azarbaijan Prisons on May 12 denied reports about an uprising against the outbreak of the deadly coronavirus in the city of Orumieh's central jail.#BaghdadPost#Iranhttps://t.co/yB9UCKk26J
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[FoxNews] 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... is building a new tunnel at the Imam Ali military base in Eastern Syria capable of storing advanced weapons systems, according to satellite images and analysis obtained by Fox News.
Images captured on May 12 show bulldozers at the entrance of the structure that is estimated to be around 15 feet wide.
Satellite shots from April 1 show an excavator and bulldozers near where the new construction took place.
Intelligence analysis conducted by Image Sat International (ISI), a civilian satellite company, indicates the tunnel is fit to be used for the storage of vehicles carrying advanced weapons systems. This conclusion was drawn from looking at similar tunnels that were dug over the past nine months on the same complex. One such tunnel, two miles away, was bombed in March, forcing the Iranians to abruptly stop construction.
Fox News was first to report the existence of this Iranian military base in September 2019, citing multiple Western intelligence sources. The compound, that sits along the Iraq/Syria border, was targeted with Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s less than a week later.
Although reports this month say Israeli defense officials believe Iran is reducing its footprint in Syria, analysts at ISI say the construction of the new tunnel shows Iran plans to continue operating in this area.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
...became Prime Minister of Gaza after the legislative elections of 2006 which Hamas won. President Mahmoud Abbas dismissed Haniyeh from office on 14 June 2007 at the height of the Fatah-Hamas festivities, but Haniyeh did not acknowledge the decree and continues as the PM of Gazoo while Abbas maintains a separate PM in the West Bank...
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