[ToloNews] In Nangarhar The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country.. , the convoy of Chaparhar district governor Mohammad Seddiq Dawlatzai was targeted by a jacket wallah on Thursday afternoon, said local officials.
The attack took place at 03:00 pm in Behsud district, when a suicide bomber detonated his explosives close to Dawlatzai’s convoy, leaving him and his son maimed, said officials.
"The maimed are in stable, pH balanced condition," officials said.
However, ars longa, vita brevis... the officials did not provide further details about the attack.
[ToloNews] Offensives mounted by Afghan forces have intensified in the west of the country, the senior deputy minister of interior, Lt. Gen. Abdul Saboor Qane, said on Wednesday, amid an increase in Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... attacks in many provinces.
The deputy minister, who visited Herat ...a venerable old Persian-speaking city in western Afghanistan, populated mostly by Tadjiks, which is why it's not as blood-soaked as areas controlled by Pashtuns... on Wednesday, said the government forces' operations are being launched in insecure areas in the west.
The Afghan forces operations against the Taliban were resumed last week following an order from President Ghani to switch from "active defense" to "offense" mode. A rise in violence generally by the krazed killer group, and two attacks with high civilian casualties in Kabul and Nangarhar The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country.. , led Ghani to order the new military posture.
Speaking of the new "offense" mode", Lt. Gen Qane said: "We want to show it in practice, based on the issued order, that our forces have switched to offense mode instead of defensive," Qane said.
Herat residents, meanwhile, called on the warring sides to agree to a ceasefire during the Eid days.
"Our demand from the Taliban is to stop killing during Eid days," said Safiullah Yaran, a Herat resident.
"We call on the Taliban to join the grinding of the peace processor," said Omid Iman, a Herat resident.
“You are about to see the largest aerial campaign in Libyan history in the coming hours,” LNA's Jaroushi said in a statement
GNA security chief Bashagha said a number of MiG 29s and SU24S reached Haftar from Russian countrolled Syria base. https://t.co/DmMLDfdg71 via @bpolitics
BREAKING / NBC News: The FBI has determined that this morning’s shooting at the Naval Air Station in Corpus Christi is "terrorism related" but they have not specifically stated why they believe that.
No information on the suspect has been released so far in the investigation.
FBI has declared the shooting attack at the Naval Air Station Corpus Christi an act of terrorism.
SOCMINT investigation reveals that the shooter - identified as Adam Salim Alsahli - was ideological supporter of al-Qaeda (not ISIS). He also expressed support for AQAP online. pic.twitter.com/gkAAYeFntx
SOCMINT investigation reveals there's a LinkedIn profile by the name of Adam Alsahli with the location of Corpus Christi, Texas which has tagged Saudi Arabia's Umm al-Qura University as an educational institution for the class of 2017-2022. pic.twitter.com/jGPwy4q53Z
[Washington Examiner] A top Palestinian official said intelligence-sharing with the CIA has ended as a result of Israel’s plan to annex land in the West Bank.
Saeb Erekat, secretary-general of the Palestine Liberation Organization, announced the move Thursday, according to Reuters. Erekat said that Palestinian officials had already notified the CIA about the move after Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas announced in a speech that all agreements with Israel and the United States were no longer valid.
"Things change, and we have decided it is time now to change," Erekat said.
The CIA declined to comment when contacted by the Washington Examiner.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former opposition leader Benny Gantz made a deal to form a government earlier this month and have expressed plans to annex parts of the West Bank identified as areas belonging to Israel as laid out in President Trump’s peace deal. The potential move has been met with anger by Palestinians, with Abbas announcing an end to cooperation with Israel and the U.S. on Tuesday.
A Palestinian official told Reuters that Palestinian forces have begun to end cooperative policing in certain areas of the West Bank in response to the potential annexation.
"In light of the president’s instructions about ceasing security coordination, the Israeli side was notified," the official said.
The increasingly tense situation comes after Secretary of State Mike Pompeo visited Israel and met with government officials. Prior to his visit, he denied reports that the U.S. is trying to get Israel to back away from the move and said it would be "a decision that the Israelis will make."
Israeli officials confirmed Thursday that Abbas is following through with the threat to end security cooperation despite making similar threats in the past.we
[IsraelTimes] As authorities probe a number of fires that have ravaged the West Bank this week during the ongoing heatwave, the Kan public broadcaster publishes footage of a Paleostinian man getting out of his car on a road outside the Shiloh settlement and proceeding to ignite a brushfire before driving away.
The Lebanese authorities announced on Thursday, that they thwarted a massive operation to smuggle cannabis into Turkey.
In a statement, the security forces stated that “after careful monitoring and control, wer were able to arrest two Lebanese nationals,” pointing out that their arrests were made in the Qabayet Akkar area in northern.
According to the security forces, their troops seized a large quantity of hashish, approximately two tons, after searching a truck in the Qabayet Akkar area.
The security forces statement added, “By investigating the detainees, they confessed that the amount of narcotics seized with them was intended for smuggling to Turkey, and that they had transported them from the Hermel region in the Beqaa, northeastern Lebanon.”
It is worth noting that cultivation of hashish in Lebanon is illegal, especially in the Beqaa region.
Exclusive via a source on the ground: a strike suspected to be by the US hit a vehicle carrying ISIS fighters south of Turkish-controlled Afrin in NW Syria. One was formerly military chief of ISIS Hama Wilayat. They were traveling with documents claiming they were Ahrar al-Sham.
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One of the side effects, when a big or medium shot gets hit is how the organization tries to figure out how we knew. No doubt takes a lot of effort, gets various folks sidelined, at best. A multiplier effect.
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So the US should do some random vehicle destruction just to boost the chaos.
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I don't like the title. It should be Strike suspected to be by the US hit a vehicle carrying [suspected] ISIS fighters south of Turkish-controlled Afrin
[AnNahar] The Lebanese Army on Wednesday arrested two Sudanese nationals who had crossed into Israel on Tuesday.
"A patrol from the Intelligence Directorate on Wednesday arrested two Sudanese nationals in the southern area of al-Qawzah after their presence there raised suspicions," an army statement said.
"They confessed that they had crossed into the occupied Paleostinian territories on Tuesday through the electronic fence near the town of Yaroun before being arrested by Israeli enemy troops, who forced them to return to Lebanese territory on Wednesday, in breach of the applicable operational measures that call for coordination with the U.N. Interim Force in Leb ...an Iranian colony situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozeen flavors of Christians. It is the home of Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers... ," the military added.
Another patrol from the aforementioned directorate meanwhile arrested four other Sudanese in the Alma al-Shaab-Wadi Hamoul area, who were preparing to cross into Israel, the army said.
An investigation has since been launched under the supervision of the competent judicial authorities, it added.
A similar incident had occurred on May 3, when Israeli forces caught five Sudanese men who crossed from south Lebanon. An Israeli military spokeswoman said it was believed the men had intended to seek work in Israel, which was home to more than 6,000 Sudanese asylum seekers as of January.
The five Sudanese were also detained by the Lebanese Army upon their return across the border.
Israel and Lebanon are technically at war, with Israel having fought a full-fledged war against Hizbullah ...Party of God, a Leb militia inspired, founded, funded and directed by Iran. Hizbullah refers to itself as The Resistance and purports to defend Leb against Israel, with whom it has started and lost one disastrous war to date, though it did claim victory... in 2006.
Israel also remains technically at war with Sudan, which supported hardline Islamists -- including, for a period, al-Qaeda -- under former president Omar al-Bashir ...Former President-for-Life of Sudan He came to power in 1989 when he, as a brigadier in the Sudanese army, led a group of officers in a bloodless military coup that ousted the government of Prime Minister Sadiq al-Mahdi and eventually appointed himself head cheese. He fell out with his Islamic mentor, Hasan al-Turabi, tried to impose shariah on the Christian and animist south, resulting in its secessesion, and attempted to Arabize Darfur by unleashing the barbaric Janjaweed on it. Sudan's potential prosperity has been pissed away in warfare that has left as many as 400,000 people dead and 2.5 million displaced. Hee was overthrown by popular consent in 2019. Omar has been indicted for genocide by the International Criminal Court but nothing is expected to come of it... . In February, the leaders of both countries met in Uganda for what the Israeli prime minister's office described as talks aimed at normalizing ties.
[AnNahar] Iran's Revolutionary Guards killed two "counter-revolutionary terrorists" in a clash in the western province of Kurdistan, state television ... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe?
's website reported on Wednesday.
At midday on Tuesday, the Guards "in a joint operation with Kurdistan province's intelligence organization fought an eight-man counter-revolutionary group and killed two of them," state television ... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe?
quoted a Guards' statement as saying.
Four other members of the group were maimed and the rest fled into the mountains, it added.
They were still being pursued.
The clash occurred near the town of Marivan, the statement said, without naming the group.
For much of the past 40 years, 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... has been battling Kurdish bully boyz who use bases in neighbouring Iraqi Kurdistan to mount attacks against the Guards and state institutions inside the country.
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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.
...the Pashtun equivalent of men...
[Washington Examiner] A top Palestinian official said intelligence-sharing with the CIA has ended as a result of Israel’s plan to annex land in the West Bank.
...an Iranian colony situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozeen flavors of Christians. It is the home of Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers...
...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 
