[ToloNews] While progress is not evident in the Afghan peace negotiation talks in Doha, the war in the country continues to take the lives of Afghan civilians and military personnel.
In Alishing district of Laghman ...Afghan province with a population of about 445,600, which is multi-ethnic and mostly a rural society. During the invasions of Alexander the Great, the area was known as Lampaka, wich is apparently Olde Macedonian for Laghman.The city of Mihtarlam serves as the bucolic capital of the province. The population is half Pashtun, the remainder Tadjik and Pashai. It had a repution for great wealth until it was conquered in the tenth century by Abu Mansur Sabuktigin.
He conquered it and set fire to the places in its vicinity which were inhabited by infidels, and demolishing the idol-temples, he established Islam in them, He marched and captured other cities and killed the polluted wretches, destroying the idolatrous and gratifying the Musulmans. After wounding and killing beyond all measure, his hands and those of his friends became cold in counting the value of the plundered property.
After that it was mostly notable for the production of dirt, rocks, and holy men... province, an Afghan father brought home the dead bodies of three sons in one day.
He hopes that this time the Afghan warring factions will agree on a ceasefire and bring lasting peace to Afghanistan.
Currently, the war continues in several regions in 20 provinces across Afghanistan.
In this report, TOLOnews’ correspondent Sharif Amiri has tried to capture the impacts of the ongoing conflict on the Afghan people.
"There are three widows in our home. My wife and I have nearly gone mad. This is our life," said Mohammad Salim, a resident of Alishing district who lost three sons in the fighting.
"They killed my young son, I did not have the money for his burial," said Abdullah, another Afghan man who lost his son in fighting in Alishing.
These stories are only a small example of the impact of the war on the Afghan people. But despite the resurgence in violence, the Afghans still hope the war will be ended in the grinding of the peace processor.
Meanwhile, ...back at the abandoned silver mine, there was another explosion... Afghan security officials in Alishing have said that their recent crackdown on the Taliban ...Arabic for students... has hindered the krazed killers' capacity to keep fighting.
"The operation has broken the backbone of the enemy, they do not have the power to fight" said Abdul Malik Hemat, the police commander of Alishing.
Also last week, the Taliban took over a police checkpoint in Alishing. Eventually, Afghan commandos were sent to the area to clear it of the Taliban krazed killers.
"We pushed back the enemy when the commandos arrived; we inflicted major casualties on them and reopened the supply routes," said Rahmatullah, chief of staff of the 1st Commando Battalion.
[ToloNews] Afghan parents lost their 10-year-old son in fighting have called on the Afghan warring factions to end the war and to create an opportunity for peace.
The boy, named Rohullah, was killed by the Taliban ...mindless ferocity in a turban... after he and his parents sent tea and fruit to the Afghan soldiers as a simple gesture of hospitality.
The Taliban has said that they will investigate the report.
Rohullah’s parents said that the incident happened on August 6.
Rohullah’s mother Masoom said that her son was killed on August 6 while he was tending the sheep.
"His whole body was bloody," said Masooma, victim’s mother.
"He was shot and killed," said Obaidullah, the victim’s brother.
"He had been martyred when I arrived there. The Taliban fired at me, I carried my son, bullets burned my clothes," said Masooma.
"My son gave some fruit to the soldiers, I don’t know who reported it to them (Taliban)," said Ali Shah, the victim’s father.
The victim’s brother Obaidullah said that he saw his brother get shot.
Rohullah’s father says that the Taliban killed his son just because he showed kindness to the soldiers.
According to the statistics, the two decades of war in Afghanistan have taken 150,000 Afghan lives. Despite this, the Afghans hope that this time the talks in Doha will lead to lasting peace in the country.
[ToloNews] The head of Laghman ...Afghan province with a population of about 445,600, which is multi-ethnic and mostly a rural society. During the invasions of Alexander the Great, the area was known as Lampaka, wich is apparently Olde Macedonian for Laghman.The city of Mihtarlam serves as the bucolic capital of the province. The population is half Pashtun, the remainder Tadjik and Pashai. It had a repution for great wealth until it was conquered in the tenth century by Abu Mansur Sabuktigin.
He conquered it and set fire to the places in its vicinity which were inhabited by infidels, and demolishing the idol-temples, he established Islam in them, He marched and captured other cities and killed the polluted wretches, destroying the idolatrous and gratifying the Musulmans. After wounding and killing beyond all measure, his hands and those of his friends became cold in counting the value of the plundered property.
After that it was mostly notable for the production of dirt, rocks, and holy men... 's provincial council, Atiqullah Abdulrahimzai, was maimed in a kaboom in eastern Laghman province on Tuesday evening, local officials said.
The incident happened in Qarghaee district when his vehicle struck a roadside mine. Four of his security guards were also maimed, according to officials.
However, death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate... no group, including the Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... , has grabbed credit for the blast.
The blast occurred a day after the convoy of Rahmatullah Yarmal, governor of Laghman, was targeted by a blast in the center of the province.
Asadullah Dawlatzai, the governor's spokesperson, said the blast on Monday occurred as the governor was traveling between his guest house and his office on Monday.
The governor was not harmed, said the spokesperson, but the Ministry of Interior confirmed that four of the governor's guards were killed along with four civilians, and that 38 civilians were maimed.
[ToloNews] At least three civilians, including a woman, were killed in a roadside mine blast in the northeastern province of Kapisa on Wednesday morning, said Shayeq Shoresh, a front man for the provincial police chief.
The incident happened in Tagab district on Wednesday morning when the civilian’s vehicle struck a roadside mine, said Shoresh.
"The roadside mine was placed by the Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... ," he said.
No group including the Taliban has grabbed credit for the blast.
[KhaamaPress] Helmand ...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan... Local officials reported, that the ANA has suffered heavily when a boom-mobile hit a checkpoint in the Yakhchal area of Nahrul-Saraj district in Helmand province.
Omar Zwak, Helmand governor’s front man told khaama press, that four ANA soldiers were killed and three others are maimed in the incident around 10 pm on Tuesday night.
On the other hand, Gul Islam Siyal, front man for the Zabul governor, said that the Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... group attacked a security checkpoint in the Safa City district of Zabul province last night (Tuesday,6 Oct), killing three coppers and wounding two others.
But a security source, who did not want to be named, confirmed to Khaama Press that a Taliban attack on a security checkpoint in the Safa City district of the province has killed six coppers.
He added that Taliban fighters also captured and kidnapped some of these coppers.
[KhaamaPress] Local sources in Balkh province say two people were maimed when a magnetic mine went kaboom! in the Hairatan Town.
Officials report, the incident occurred around 9:30 am Wednesday morning.
Munir Ahmad Farhad, the front man for the governor of Balkh, confirmed to Khaama Press that two people were maimed in the earth-shattering kaboom of a magnetic mine planted in a carton (box) near the Hairatan border town.
According to Mr. Farhad, one of the injured in this incident was an employee of the municipality of Hairatan town and the other was a passerby whose condition is reported to be serious.
No group or individual has grabbed credit for the blast.
[AlAhram] The 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... -based interior ministry said in a statement it had arrested the three suspects in the case, adding that they had used petrol to set the victim on fire at a factory
Three Libyans killed a Nigerian man by setting him on fire in Tripoli, the interior ministry said on Wednesday, in what a UN agency described as "another senseless crime against migrants colonists in the country".
The Tripoli-based interior ministry said in a statement it had arrested the three suspects in the case, adding that they had used petrol to set the victim on fire at a factory.
Federico Soda, Libya country chief for the International Organisation for Migration (IOM), a UN migration agency, said those responsible must be held accountable.
There are half a million migrants colonists in Libya according to IOM, some of them having worked in the oil producing country before it descended into chaos and warfare, others attempting to travel through it to Europe.
The IOM and the UN refugee agency UNHCR have both repeatedly said that Libya should not be classified as a safe port for migrants colonists.
Thousands have attempted the perilous sea crossing to Europa ...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum... this year, with hundreds drowned in ship wrecks.
In July, three migrants colonists from Sudan were rubbed out by Libyan authorities while trying to flee detention after they were disembarked in Khums.
In May, some 30 mostly Bangladeshi migrants colonists were rubbed out in a southern desert town after being kidnapped by a local gang, Bangladesh and the Libyan interior ministry said at the time.
[AnNahar] Morocco on Monday arrested four suspects allegedly linked 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.... group who were plotting "dangerous and imminent terrorist" attacks, the judicial police said.
The four Moroccan men, all in their 20s, were detained in the northern city of Tangiers during a raid in which police fired warning shots, the Central Bureau of Judicial Investigations (BCIJ) said in a statement.
They were planning to "destabiliئe security in the kingdom... through terrorist methods inspired by operations" carried out by IS jihadists in Syria and Iraq, the statement added.
Bladed weapons and electronic equipment were also seized, it said.
In September, authorities said they had dismantled an IS-linked cell and arrested five men accused of preparing suicide kabooms against prominent figures and a security headquarters in Morocco.
At the time, BCIJ head Abdelhak Khiame told AFP in an interview that IS has "developed" in the Sahel-Sahara region due to conflict in Libya and in countries like Mali, which he said were unable to "control their security" situations.
"Terrorist cells and terrorism are growing in the region, but also organized crime networks, drug trafficking, (and of) weapons and human beings," he said.
"All of this... makes the Sahel region ... North Africa's answer to the Pak tribal areas... , in my opinion, a time bomb."
The Sahel covers western and north-central Africa.
[AnNahar] Tunisia on Tuesday arrested two men allegedly linked 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.... group who were plotting "terrorist operations" in the North African nation, the interior ministry said.
One was arrested in Jendouba, in northwest Tunisia, and the other in Kebili, in the south. One of the suspects was already known to the security services.
The two men appeared before a judge in Tunis, and were remanded in jug.
Tunisia, since its 2011 revolution, has been hit by a string of jihadist attacks that have killed dozens of security personnel, civilians and foreign tourists.
On September 6, assailants rammed a patrol of the National Guard with a vehicle before stabbing the officers, killing one.
Police then gave chase and three attackers were rubbed out in the ensuing gun-battle.
The Islamic State group grabbed credit.
Tunisia is under a state of emergency, but the authorities say they have made significant progress in stopping attacks.
[AnNahar] Clashes between Armenian and Azerbaijani forces have displaced half of the population of the breakaway Nagorno-Karabakh region, an official said on Wednesday, as Azerbaijan announced it would meet international mediators in Geneva.
Intermittent shelling by Azerbaijan's forces has turned Stepanakert into a ghost town dotted with unwent kaboom! munitions and shell craters.
Much of Stepanakert's 50,000-strong population has left, with those remaining hunkering down in cellars.
"According to our preliminary estimates, some 50 percent of Karabakh's population and 90 percent of women and kiddies -- or some 70,000-75,000 people -- have been displaced," Karabakh's rights ombudsman Artak Beglaryan told AFP Wednesday.
Azerbaijan has accused Armenian forces of shelling civilian targets in urban areas, including its second-largest city of Ganja.
Dozens of civilians have been confirmed killed in the fighting and the Armenian side has acknowledged more than 300 military deaths. Azerbaijan has not admitted to any fatalities among its troops.
Azerbaijani prosecutors said 427 dwellings populated by roughly 1,200 people had been destroyed.
But Le Drian, speaking to the French parliament, accused Azerbaijan of initiating the current conflict and lamented "the large number of civilian victims for the sake of meagre progress" on the ground.
Nagorno-Karabakh broke away from Azerbaijan in a 1990s war that claimed the lives of some 30,000 people. The Armenian separatists declared independence.
The region's 140,000 inhabitants are now almost exclusively Armenians after the remaining Azerbaijanis left in the 1990s war.
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This is why George Soros put so much money into local prosecutor races. He knew this day of lawlessness and riots was coming, and wanted to be sure his rioters would get released to cause more damage. One must admire this sort of forward planning.
Two Islamic State jihadists have been extradited to the US from Iraq to face trial for the murder & beheading of American citizens. One of the men’s mother in the UK was campaigning to stop the extradition because she didn’t want him to get death penalty. https://t.co/PXs4Z92i1b
...half-Ghanaian, half-Greek Cypriot who is also in our archives as Alexanda Amon Kotey; “Ringo”, age 35, captured by the SDF in January 2018...
and El Shafee Elsheikh
... Sudan-born, “George”, age 30, captured by the SDF in January 2018. The British government has stripped both of British citizenship and protections...
are accused of belonging to an IS cell dubbed "The Beatles" involved in kidnappings in Iraq and Syria.
The pair appeared via video link from prison at a hearing in a federal court in Alexandria, Virginia.
The men, who had been in US custody in Iraq, previously denied the charges.
US Assistant Attorney General John Demers told a press conference the charges were "the result of many years of hard work in pursuit of justice" for the four Americans who died - James Foley, Steven Sotloff, Kayla Mueller and Peter Kassig.
The charges carry a maximum penalty of life in prison.
The charges they face are:
Conspiracy to commit hostage taking resulting in death
Hostage taking resulting in death
Conspiracy to murder United States citizens outside of the United States
Conspiracy to provide material support to terrorists - hostage taking and murder - resulting in death
Conspiracy to provide material support to a designated foreign terrorist organisation resulting in death
The IS group's alleged ringleader, Mohammed Emwazi, known as "Jihadi John" died in a drone strike in 2016. ...betrayed by spies in Raqqa. The fourth member of the group, convert Aine Davis (formally Aine Lesley Davis, “Paul“), was jailed in Turkey in 2017. Mr. Davis is a former druggie/drug dealer who joined ISIS to get away from temptation, his wife, Moroccan-Brit Amal el-Wahabi, who graduated from Holland Park Comprehensive, the so-called 'School for Jihadis, because so many of its graduates went a-jihading, claimed at her trial for sending him €20,000....
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What's this "needle"? What's this swift sword"? What's the matter with drawing and quartering for pete's sake? It worked very well for many years and I don't see why it wouldn't work now.
Clashes in the Syrian Desert between pro-government forces and holdouts of 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.... group have killed at least 90 combatants this month, a war monitor said on Wednesday.
Russian aircraft carried out strikes in support of their Syrian regime ally, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
The festivities broke out in two separate areas of the vast desert that separates the Orontes valley in the west from the Euphrates valley in the east.
The government side lost 41 dead, the jihadists 49, the Britannia-based war monitor said.
At least 10 government loyalists and 13 IS jihadists were killed over the past 24 hours alone, Observatory head Rami Abdul Rahman said.
"IS is trying to prove that it is still strong," he added.
Mobile IS units have remained active in the Syrian Desert, known in Arabic as the Badia, since the jihadists lost the last shred of its self-proclaimed caliphate in March last year.
September festivities killed 13 pro-government fighters and 15 jihadists, while in early July 20 pro-government fighters and 31 jihadists were killed over two days.
In August, IS claimed an attack, presumably mounted from the desert, that killed a Russian general near the Euphrates valley city of Deir Ezzor.
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...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 
...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 
...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 
