[Khaama (Afghanistan)] At least twenty five ISIS Khurasan militants including the shadow judge and a commander of the group were killed during the ongoing operations in eastern Nangarhar province.
The governor’s office in Nangarhar said the militants were killed during the separate operations conducted in Achin and Haska Mina districts.
The source further added that 23 ISIS Khurasan militants including one of their shadow judges and a local commander of the group were killed during the air and ground operations in Achin district.
The operations were conducted late on Wednesday night in the vicinity of Bandar area, the governor’s office added.
In the meantime, the US forces conducted airstrikes on ISIS Khurasan hideouts in Haska Mina district leaving at least two dead, the provincial government office said, adding that the airstrikes were carried out in Angoor Kala area.
The Nangarhar governor’s office also added that some heavy and light weapons belonging to the terror group were also destroyed.
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The Special Operations Forces of the Afghan National Army reacted as a number of irresponsible armed men attempted to attack the airbase and army compound in Faryab province.
The 209th Shaheen Corps of the Afghan Military in the North said the Afghan Special Operations Forces conducted a night raid on the gatherings of the irresponsible armed men in Faryab province based on the intelligence tip off.
A statement by Shaheen Corps said the irresponsible armed men had carried out a number of attacks on army planes and were looking to storm the airbase and army compound.
The statement further added that the operation resulted into the apprehension of at least 21 armed individuals.
The Afghan Special Forces also confiscated two Humvee vehicles, an armored Land Cruiser, anti-aircraft guns, and several other types of weapons and munitions.
According to Shaheen Corps, a clash also broke out between the Afghan Special Forces and the armed individuals, leaving at least two irresponsible armed men dead and two others wounded.
This comes as the security situation remains tense in Faryab after the arrest of a prominent commander of Junbish Milli party Nizamuddin Qaisari by the Special Forces.
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] At least 19 gunnies were killed and at least 8 others were maimed during the Arclight airstrikes conducted in western Farah province of Afghanistan.
The 207th Zafar Corps of the Afghan Military in the West said the airstrike were carried out on Thursday in the vicinity of Parchaman district.
The source further added that the airstrikes targeted two compounds of the gunnies in Rabat Payin and Koh Surkhak areas, leaving at least 19 dead and 8 others maimed.
According to Zafar Corps, the two compounds of the gunnies were destroyed during the airstrikes along with three vehicles.
The anti-government armed holy warrior groups including Talibs have not commented regarding the report so far.
Farah is among the relatively calm provinces in West of Afghanistan where fewer security related incidents have taken place since the fall of the Taliban ...Arabic for students... regime.
However, denial ain't just a river in Egypt... the anti-government armed gunnies have been attempting to expand their foothold and destabilize the province during the recent months and years.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] An unidentified armed group kidnapped three Filipinos and one Korean working as technicians at a water plant in south eastern Libya, an official said on Friday.
The group also kidnapped several Libyan workers in the morning raid at the Al-Hassouna plant near Ishwirif, but later released them, said the official, who asked not to be named for security reasons. The official did not say whether the Korean citizen was from North Korea or South Korea.
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[AnNahar] Seven suspected al-Qaeda gunnies were killed Friday when a drone targeted their car in the southern Yemeni province of Shabwa, a security official said.
The car was hit as it drove along a side road in Shabwa's Bihan district, the official, from forces loyal to President Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi's internationally recognized government, told AFP.
The U.S. military is the only force known to operate armed drones over Yemen.
The security official said the holy warriors were members of al-Qaeda, and said the aircraft that carried out the strike was American.
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[PRESSTV] Yemeni army forces, supported by allied fighters from the Houthi Ansarullah movement and those from Popular Committees, have fired a domestically-designed and -developed ballistic missile at a strategic economic target in Saudi Arabia’s southwestern border region of Jizan in retaliation for the Riyadh regime’s brutal military aggression against the impoverished country.
Yemen’s Arabic-language al-Masirah television network, citing a military official, said the short-range Badr-1 missile struck Jizan Industrial City on Friday evening, inflicting unspecified damage and casualties.
In a separate report, al-Masirah reported that the Yemeni army had also managed to target a gathering of the Saudi-led coalition’s mercenaries in Yemen’s flashpoint province of Hudaydah with another short-range ballistic missile earlier in the day, adding that the projectile had hit the designated target with great precision.
It added that the missile attack came after the Yemeni air force and air defense units collected exact coordinates of the target.
On Monday, the media bureau of Yemen’s Operations Command for the first time released a video of the army’s reconnaissance operations on the flashpoint western coasts conducted by a number of unmanned aerial vehicles.
It said that most of the missile attacks against the Saudi-led military coalition, either inside Yemen or inside Saudi Arabia, were carried out based on the coordinates collected by the Yemeni drones.
Brig. Gen. Abdullah al-Jafri, spokesman of Yemeni air force and air defense, said at the time that using drones was the winning card of the Yemeni army in fighting against Saudi-led forces in the western coasts.
He added that the invading enemy was unable to intercept drones, which cost the Yemeni army only one thousand dollars, at most, to produce each of them.
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a domestically-designed and -developed ballistic missile
delivered from Tehran
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] The Saudi air defense on Friday intercepted a ballistic missile fired by the Iran-backed Houthi militias from Yemen, towards the Saudi city of Jazan.
The Yemeni legitimate forces have repeatedly stressed the continued involvement of the Iranian regime in supporting the Houthi militias and supplying them with rockets carrying qualitative capabilities, in clear defiance to United Nations Resolutions 2216 and 2231 in order to threaten the security of Saudi Arabia and destabilize regional and international security.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] A Yemeni military source announced on Friday that al-Amalika brigade of the legitimate national army has taken full control of al-Tahita directorate south of Hodeidah governorate following intense festivities with the Houthi ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The Yemeni government has accused the Houthis of having ties to the Iranian government, which wouldn't suprise most of us. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews ... militias.
The festivities resulted in heavy casualties among the Houthis who tried to take cover in the nearby fields in the directorate.
The military source said that the al-Amalika brigade conducted a largescale combing operation in the surrounding areas after taking control of the directorate.
During this operation, tens of Houthi militia members surrendered to the al-Amalika brigade.
This operation comes in the context of a large combing operation by the brigade on the west coast in order to stop the infiltration by the militias in al-Tahita, al-Husseiniya, Zubaid and al-Jarrahi south of the governorate.
The Houthi coup militia tried by this infiltration to obstruct the advancement of the Yemeni legitimate army and allied popular resistance, and planted mines and bombs in roads on the coastline.
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[ALMASDARNEWS] For the second time this week, the Saudi-backed forces have launched a powerful attack to advance in eastern Sanaa.
Backed by Saudi-led Coalition Arclight airstrikes, the Hadi loyalists stormed the Houthi ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The Yemeni government has accused the Houthis of having ties to the Iranian government, which wouldn't suprise most of us. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews ... defenses around the strategic Nihm District of Sanaa.
Intense festivities would breakout between the two parties and last for several hours on Thursday before the Houthi forces were able to push back the pro-government troops.
According to the official media wing of the Houthi forces, their fighters managed to repel the Saudi-backed assault at several axes in the Nihm District, while also inflicting heavy casualties on the enemy troops.
Furthermore, the Houthi forces claimed that they responded to this Saudi-backed operation by launching their own offensive at the Tal Rabah and Sawa’el-Jarjour fronts.
Since the UAE-backed forces halted their offensive in the Hodeideh Governorate, the most intense festivities have taken place in the Nihm District of Sanaa.
This strategic district in eastern Sanaa is considered the gateway for the pro-government forces to reach the Yemeni capital.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] The Dutch Intelligence service AIVD said on Friday that two Iranian embassy staff have been expelled.
“We can confirm that the Netherlands has expelled two persons accredited to the Iranian embassy,” a spokesperson for the Dutch intelligence said. “We will not provide any further Information”
In recent days, the Austrian foreign ministry said it would strip the Iranian embassy official of his diplomatic immunity after his arrest in Germany for “conspiracy to blow up an Iranian opposition meeting in France.”
European sources announced that Tehran’s Vienna-based envoy, Assadollah Assadi, who was arrested in connection with a cell planning to blow up an Iranian opposition conference in Paris, is an Iranian intelligence services member and is wanted by the Interpol.
Assadi was detained on Sunday near the German city of Aschaffenburg on a European arrest warrant for suspected involvement in the plot.
Belgium said this week it had arrested two Belgians of Iranian origin suspected of plotting to bomb an Iranian opposition rally on the outskirts of Paris.
It has also requested the extradition of an Austria-based Iranian diplomat held in Germany and a man of Iranian origin in France in connection with the Paris plot.
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[AnNahar] Anti-terror police have detained two Britons of Iraqi origin at an airport in southwest The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the decaying remnant of the Ottoman Empire.... on charges of spreading terror propaganda for outlawed Kurdish turbans, media reported Friday.
Two brothers identified as Ayman Barzan and Hariam Barzan were held Thursday at Dalaman airport after they were interviewed by anti-terror risk analysis police over their "suspicious behaviors," the DHA private news agency reported.
Police later checked their social media accounts where they allegedly disseminated propaganda in favor of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) and the Syrian Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG) militia, DHA said.
Turkey considers the YPG as the Syrian branch of the PKK -- which has waged a bloody insurgency against the state since 1984 and is blacklisted as a terror group by Ankara and its Western allies.
The two brothers, who were detained by police, were later placed by a local court in pre-trial detention, DHA said.
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two Britons
They stole a Grenade from an abbot,
Talked Turkey, and how they might grab it --
For such was the habit
Of Peachey and Dravot --
And angered an Ankara rabbit.
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The very same! Stolen from the Frag of Nemrut Dag. I was actually thinking "Numinous Kaboom of Khartoum," but I probably wouldn't make it out of here alive.
[ColumbusDispatch] A Columbus man who tried to provide material support to the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're 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 the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... group was sentenced Friday to more than six years in prison.
Aaron Travis Daniels, 21,
...who appeared in our archive at the time of his arrest as Aaron Daniels...
of the Northeast Side, pleaded guilty last July to charges of attempting to support a foreign terrorist organization. In addition to an 80-month prison sentence, Daniels also will spend the rest of his life under court supervision, according to the U.S. Department of Justice.
Daniels was tossed in the calaboose Drop the rod and step away witcher hands up! on Nov. 7, 2016, at John Glenn Columbus International Airport as he tried to travel to Libya to join Islamic State.
Daniels, a 2014 graduate of Early College Academy, had met with an Islamic State recruiter in December 2015 and had sent money to the terrorist group to "show his worth," the Justice Department said.
Daniels, who has been in jug since his arrest, faced up to 20 years in prison.
"One of a terrorist organization’s most valuable and dangerous assets is having control over a person willing to support and advance terrorism in the United States," U.S. Attorney Benjamin Glassman said in a news release. "Our office and the agencies in the (Joint Terrorism Task Force) will continue to cooperate as we work to protect our national security."
U.S. District Judge Edmund A. Sargus Jr. accepted the government’s recommendation on sentencing and ordered that Daniels, after he is released, receive continued mental-health treatment and be barred from traveling abroad or using alcohol or other drugs. Daniels also cannot use the internet without court permission and is subject to being searched at any time without probable cause.
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Aaron Travis Daniels a.k.a. Harun Muhammad and Abu Yusuf. Funny how they lose their muslim names come a court date.
[DAWN] BAHAWALPUR: The Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) claimed on Thursday to have averted a major terrorism plan allegedly aimed at targeting politicians and personnel of an intelligence agency by arresting four men belonging to the proscribed Tehrik-e-Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... Pakistain (TTP).
The arrests have been effected on the basis of an intelligence-based operation (IBO) a team of the CTD and other law-enforcement agencies conducted in a south Punjab 1.) Little Orphan Annie's bodyguard
2.) A province of Pakistain ruled by one of the Sharif brothers
3.) A province of India. It is majority (60 percent) Sikh and Hindoo (37 percent), which means it has relatively few Moslem riots.... area, says the front man.
Coincidentally, a CTD team placed in durance vile ... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not... a suspected terrorist in Daska city as well.
The CTD front man said the south Punjab operation continued for several hours and it led to the arrest of Abdullah, Naimat Rahim, Salman Rahim and Mansoor Rahim who were waiting for a jacket wallah to carry out an attack on some politicians and security officials. The alleged terrorists, he said, had completed tracking of the high-profile politicians and personnel of an agency.
The front man told Dawn that officials recovered a rocket launcher, three hand grenades, arms and ammunition, maps of sensitive installations in south Punjab and motivational literature of the TTP. A case was registered against the suspects who were shifted to an undisclosed place, he said.
The IGP appreciated the success of the operation and announced reward for the raiding team, and pledged that the Punjab police would leave no stone unturned to make the province safe.
SIALKOT: The CTD claimed to have arrested a suspected terrorist in Sabzi Mandi, Daska city.
According to senior CTD officials, a team from Gujranwala raided a place here and caught Muhammad Yousaf, a resident of Kamalia tehsil of Toba Tek Singh, who belongs to the proscribed ISIS.
The CTD arrested him with kaboom and safety fuse and sent him behind the bars after registering a case.
It was the second such arrest in Sialkot during the last one week. A CTD team had arrested Ahmed Butt who belongs to a banned krazed killer organization on June 30.
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Anbar (IraqiNews.com) Iraqi police forces jugged Please don't kill me! on Friday the krazed killer in charge for transporting arms for Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're 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 the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... snuffies at Anbar province, a security source was quoted saying.
Almaalomah website quoted a source at Anbar province police saying that troops set up an ambush and arrested a senior Islamic State leader who had been in charge for transporting arms for the Lion of Islam group across the province’s cities.
He was arrested at al-Bouthaib region, north of the province.
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Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) One civilian was killed and another was wounded when a bus exploded with an IED north of the Iraqi capital, a police source was quoted saying on Friday.
Alsumaria News quoted the source saying that an explosive device placed inside a bus exploded when it was passing through Jukuk area, north of Baghdad, killing a civilian and wounding another.
Baghdad has seen almost daily explosions and armed attacks against security personnel and civilians since Islamic State militants took over a third of the country in 2014 to proclaim an Islamic “caliphate” rule.
Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) Four people were wounded in a bomb blast and an attack against military checkpoint in Baghdad, sources from the Iraqi Interior Ministry said on Thursday.
“A bomb placed inside a bus that transfers commuters, went off, in the evening, at the northern entrance gate of Baghdad, leaving two civilians wounded,” one source told Baghdad Today website.
Moreover, another source said “a bomb exploded near a checkpoint of the Iraqi army in Abu Ghraib region, west of Baghdad, leaving a soldier and a civilian wounded.”
Security troops, according to the sources, cordoned off the two blast scenes and prevented approaching, while the wounded were taken to hospital for treatment.
Salahuddin (IraqiNews.com) Two people were maimed as a kaboom took place in Salahuddin, a security source from the province said on Friday.
Speaking to Almaalomah website, the source said "a bomb, went off, late on Thursday, targeting a vehicle with two people on board, on the road leading to al-Zawya village, north of Biji in Salahuddin."
The blast, according to the source, "left two people maimed and their vehicle damaged."
The maimed were transferred to hospital for treatment.
Diyala (IraqiNews.com) Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're 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 the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... have killed seven members of one family on their way back from a wedding ceremony, south of Diyala, local and security sources from the province said on Friday.
Gunmen, believed to be members of Islamic State, stopped, over the night, a bus carrying several people from Baghdad as they were on way back from a wedding ceremony in Harz region, south of Baquba, back to the capital passing through the old Baghdad road, south of Diyala, the sources told Alghad Press.
The Death Eaters, according to the sources, killed seven people, without the women and kiddies. The victims were transferred to forensic medicine department.
Several officials had warned against security failure on al-Nahrawan old road, which links between Baghdad and Diyala.
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It’s Friday, and some people have nothing better to do than riot.
[Ynet] Explosive device goes off early near Karni crossing, wounding several Paleostinian murderous Moslems trying to hurl it at Israeli troops; Mohammed Abu Halima, 22, killed in festivities, with cause of death in dispute; IDF battles 3,000 Paleostinians rioting near the border fence.
A Paleostinian taking part in a border protests was killed on Friday, Gazook medical officials said, with different reports on his cause of death.
Health ministry front man Ashraf al-Qudra said Mohammed Abu Halima, 22, had died from shrapnel wounds to his chest, sustained in an kaboom east of Gazoo City.
He also said Israeli shelling maimed eight people in the same location, east of Gazoo City, though it was not clear if the two incidents were linked.
Qudra did not have details on the source of the shrapnel, but Paleostinian eye witnesses told AFP Abu Halima was maimed when a device he was holding went kaboom!.
The IDF denied shelling, saying troops used riot dispersal measures, including gunfire, as they confronted 3,000 Paleostinians at five points along the border fence, some rolling burning tires and throwing rocks.
The IDF further said a number of murderous Moslems attempted to approach the security fence with the intention of hurling an bomb at soldiers adjacent to the Karni crossing in the northern Gazoo Strip.
"The bomb went off within the Gazoo Strip and injured several Paleostinians," the army said in a statement. "No injuries to IDF soldiers were reported."
The Gazoo Health ministry said almost 400 people were maimed in Friday's protests, 57 of them from live bullets.
"The Hamas, one of the armed feet of the Moslem Brüderbung millipede, terror organization is using different measures to carry out terror attacks during the violent rioting. The Hamas murderous Moslems take advantage of the crowds and under the cover of the protests operate and endanger the residents of the strip, turning them into a cover for terrorism," the IDF said.
The Paleostinian Centre of Policy and Survey Research said on Wednesday that 74 percent of Paleostinians believe the protests have not achieved their goals or achieved little.
Its poll found 61 percent of Gazooks believe Hamas is responsible for the "initiation and organization" of the border protests.
Incendiary kites and balloons from the Gazoo Strip continued causing fires in Israel on Friday, with some 60 dunams (15 acres) burned at the Reches Gvar'am Reserve and some 300 dunams (74 acres) in the Ruhama Kurkar nature reserve northwest of Sderot. Some 5 dunams (1.2 acres) burned in the HaBesor Stream area as a result of another fire.
[PRESSTV] Mohammad Jamal Abu Halima, 22, was named as the victim and can be seen ferried away on a stretcher.
Emergency personnel were on site, assisting injured protesters.
A total of 136 Paleostinians have been killed in the series of rallies known as the 'Great March of Return' since they began on March 30.
The 'Great March of Return' protests were launched along the Gazoo-Israel border on March 30 to demand the right for Paleostinians to return to their pre-1948 homes.
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[Ynet] Mortar shell‐fired during fighting between President Assad's forces and Syrian rebels‐lands in buffer zone between two countries; IDF stresses it has no desire to become involved in internal fighting but reiterates commitment to honor 1974 Separation of Forces Agreement
The IDF struck a Syrian military outpost on Friday afternoon after a mortar shell was fired from it at Israel. The projectile landed in the buffer zone east of the border fence between the two countries.
The errant mortar shell was part of the internal fighting in the ongoing civil war between Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Supressor of the Damascenes... ’s regime and rebels fighting to overthrow him.
The Syrian army claimed the IDF targeted a hill in the vilage of Khan Arnabah, which is in the Quneitra Governorate, noting there were no casualties.
The IDF Spokesperson’s Unit issued a statement reiterating that the military remains uninvolved in the war ravaging Syria and will continue to honor the 1974 Separation of Forces Agreement that includes preserving the buffer zone.
South Syrian rebels said on Friday they had agreed to cease fire and start handing over heavy weapons in a deal mediated by Russia that will restore state illusory sovereignty over areas they hold in Deraa province after a fierce government offensive.
A commander in the regional alliance supporting Assad had earlier said government forces were advancing through rebel territory along Syria's frontier with Jordan and would soon reach the countries' main border crossing.
With the help of Russian air power, the government's assault has swept into swathes of Deraa over the past two weeks, shrinking one of Syria's last rebel strongholds.
The rebels said the deal was brokered by Russia and would allow both fighters and civilians in opposition areas to settle their status with the government under Moscow's protection.
Rebels who did not wish to come back under Assad's rule would leave for the bad boy stronghold in northwest Syria, they said.
The commander in the pro-Assad alliance told Rooters the army and its allies had seized a string of villages and reached the border. "Within a short period of time, they will reach the (Nassib) crossing," the non-Syrian commander said, speaking on condition of anonymity ... for fear of being murdered... Several witnesses along the Jordan border fence with Syria said they spotted armoured vehicles and a tank with a Russian flag heading to the Nassib crossing, a vital trade artery.
Israeli leaders have sent a series of messages making clear that they expect Assad and his Iranian-backed allies to honor a decades-old agreement that sets out a demilitarized zone along the frontier and limits the number of forces each side can deploy within 25 kilometers (15 miles) of the zone.
"We have a Separation of Forces Agreement with Syria from 1974," Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared this week. "This is the guiding principle. We will adhere to it very strictly and so must others, everyone."
Public Security Minister Gilad Erdan told Ynet on Thursday that "We must verify and do everything to clarify, vis-a-vis the Russians, the Assad government, that we will not accept any armed presence by the Assad regime in the areas which are meant to be demilitarized."
Asked if Israel was prepared to take preventive action against the Syrian military, Erdan said: "Unequivocally, yes."
IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Gadi Eisenkot received a military briefing in northern Israel on Wednesday during a visit to the 366th Division in the Golan Heights as President Assad's army continues its campaign to reclaim the last rebel-held strongholds in southwest Syria.
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[IsraelTimes] A boom-mobileing in eastern Syria on Friday killed at least 18 people including 11 members of a U.S.-backed force that has fought the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're 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 the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... group, a war monitor said.
"A boom-mobile went off in front of the Syrian Democratic Forces' base in al-Bsayra town in the eastern Deir Ezzor countryside," said Rami Abdel Rahman, head of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
It killed "a commander and ten other personnel, as well as seven civilians including three children," he said.
ISIS? The Turks or their proxies? Assad’s people? Someone else? So many possibilities, so little information.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the blast, but IS has claimed similar attacks in the past.
In Deir Ezzor province, the jihadists have been pushed back by two separate offensives: one by the SDF along the eastern bank of the Euphrates River, and another by Syrian regime forces on the western bank.
Despite its losses, IS still maintains a presence in villages in the Deir Ezzor’s east.
In May, the SDF announced the final stage of its battle to expel IS from its last desert holdouts in eastern Syria.
[ALMASDARNEWS] The Syrian Arab Army (SAA) has raised the flag of the Syrian Arab Republic, today, over the strategic Nassib Crossing for the first time in three years.
Following an agreement between the Russian Reconciliation Center and Syrian opposition, the Syrian military raised their flag over the Nassib Crossing, marking their first return to the site since withdrawing in late March 2015.
With their control of the Nassib Crossing, the Syrian government will now restore the imperative highway linking Damascus and Amman.
Reopening the Nassib Crossing has been a top priority for the Syrian government since they managed to retake the entire Damascus countryside.
The Syrian Arab Army will now shift their attention to the provincial capital of Daraa, where they hope to retake the entire southern part of the city.
In order to secure the Nassib Crossing, the Syrian Army will have capture the Daraa Al-Balad District in the provincial capital.
Without control of the Daraa Al-Balad District, the Syrian Army’s positions in the Nassib Crossing will be exposed to potential threats from the rebel forces in the provincial capital.
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[ALMASDARNEWS] The Syrian Arab Army (SAA) has beefed up their defenses in northern Latakia, following reports of an imminent jihadist offensive in the Jabal Al-Akrad and Jabal Turkmen regions.
According to a field report from Latakia, the Syrian Arab Army and National Defense Forces (NDF) have reinforced several areas around Jabal Al-Akrad and Jabal Turkmen, with a heavy concentration of troops at the Kinsibba front.
Kinsibba was recaptured by the Syrian Arab Army in 2016 after a fierce battle with the jihadist rebels of Hay’at Tahrir Al-Sham (formerly Jabhat Al-Nusra) and the Free Syrian Army (FSA).
Since retaking Kinsibba, the Syrian Arab Army has heavily fortified this area, as the town itself is highly valued by the rebels due to its territorial advantage.
The jihadist rebels have been reportedly gathering around Jabal Al-Akrad and Jabal Turkmen to launch a big offensive against the Syrian Arab Army and National Defense Forces in this region of Latakia.
This upcoming Hay’at Tahrir Al-Sham offensive is supposed to be in retaliation for the Syrian Arab Army’s operation in southern Syria; however, the jihadists have been increasingly aggressive in this part of Latakia since the Turkish military setup an observation point in Jabal Al-Akrad.
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[ALMASDARNEWS] For the second straight night, Russia’s Hmeymim Airport has come under attack by armed drones.
According to a local field source in the coastal city of Jableh, several armed drones targeted the Hmeymim Airbase’s northeastern perimeter, prompting the Russian air defense to activate its warning sirens.
Once the sirens were activated, the Russian air defense reportedly intercepted the armed drones before they could hit any targets inside the Hmeymim Airbase or its vicinity.
The field source informed Al-Masdar that the armed drones originated from the Jisr Al-Shughour District of southwest Idlib.
Jisr Al-Shughour is the same place that the Russian Aerospace Forces have been heavily bombing over the last 24 hours.
Hay’at Tahrir Al-Sham and the Turkestan Islamic Party (TIP) are currently in control of Jisr Al-Shughour, making this part of Idlib a serious concern for the Russian military and Syrian Arab Army (SAA).
The Russian military has accused both Hay’at Tahrir Al-Sham and the Turkestan Islamic Party of carrying out these attacks on the Hmeymim Airbase.
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[ALMASDARNEWS] For the second straight night, Russia’s Hmeymim Airport has come under attack by armed drones.
