[Ynet] An Afghan official says at least three people have been killed in an air strike by US-led coalition forces but villagers in the remote area dispute the official version, saying the dead are civilians who were protecting their land from nomads. Din Mohammad Darwesh, front man for the governor of Pashtun-infested Logar province, says a delegation has been sent to find out exactly what happened in Baraki Barak district Friday morning.
He says that the US-led coalition has told the governor's officers that the dead, and another five who were maimed, were Taliban murderous Moslems.
Afghan officials said that a NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It's headquartered in Belgium. That sez it all.... air strike on Friday killed five civilians and maimed six others, just days before the US-led military coalition ends combat operations in the country.
NATO's International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) did not immediately confirm the strike on Pashtun-infested Logar province, south of the capital Kabul, but always stresses that it tries to avoid civilian casualties.
"At around 3:30 am, U.S. forces conducted an air strike in Aab Josh village of Baraki Barak district," said the district governor Mohammad Amin.
"The air strike hit a residential house killing five and wounding six civilians," he told AFP.
Niaz Mohammad Amiri, Pashtun-infested Logar province's acting governor, said the incident happened as US forces tracked Taliban fighters that have been waging a deadly insurgency since late 2001.
"U.S. forces were chasing down Talibs, but mistakenly bombarded a house. As a result, civilians were victims of the attack," Amiri said.
[AMERICA.ALJAZEERA] A top leader of Somalia's Al-Qaeda-affiliated Al-Shabaab ... the personification of Somali state failure... gang has surrendered to government and African Union ...a union consisting of 53 African states, most run by dictators of one flavor or another. The only all-African state not in the AU is Morocco. Established in 2002, the AU is the successor to the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), which was even less successful... forces and is now in jug, officials said Saturday.
The group's intelligence chief, Zakariya Ismail Ahmed Hersi, was the subject of a $3 million bounty as part of the U.S. State Department "Rewards for Justice" program. Officials said he surrendered in the Gedo region, where Somalia borders Kenya and Æthiopia.
"Zakariya Ahmed was a very senior person who worked with Godane," said regional military official Jama Muse, referring to former Al-Shabaab leader Ahmed Abdi Godane. "He was in charge of intelligence and finances. He was one of the senior Al-Shabaab commanders who the Americans put a lot of money on their head."
A U.S. drone strike in Somalia killed Godane in September. The State Department declared Al-Shabaab a foreign terrorist organization in 2008, and since then American military forces have targeted the group many times.
An intelligence source said Hersi's surrender was believed to have been motivated by a series of recent bloody splits and purges within the group, with Godane having ruthlessly eliminated many of his rivals and his successor, Ahmad Umar Abu Ubaidah, continuing to maintain strict internal security.
Although presented by the officials as a senior Al-Shabaab operative, it was unclear if Hersi had still been active within Al-Shabaab in recent months or weeks, or if he was among a large group of commanders who had already fallen out with Godane prior to his death. Some of them were killed in a purge.
There was no immediate comment from Al-Shabaab.
The surrender brings some welcome news for Somalia's fragile, internationally backed government as well as the African Union's AMISOM force, who have been facing an almost constant wave of attacks from Al-Shabaab despite recent territorial gains in the south and center of the Horn of Africa nation.
The Somali government has also been locked in bitter infighting, with the president this month falling out with his prime minister. According to a Western intelligence source, the surrender could deliver an "intelligence bonanza" that could prove highly damaging to the Al-Qaeda-linked group.
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The African Union says it has killed the last three of eight al-Shabab militants who attacked its base in the Somali capital of Mogadishu, bringing the death toll to 14. A spokesman for the AU mission in Somalia (AMISOM) tells VOA five AU peacekeepers and a foreign contractor died in Thursday's raid on one of the city's most fortified bases.
Colonel Ali Aden Hamoud said an investigation is under way to find out how terrorists militants dressed in Somali uniforms infiltrated the Halane facility near Mogadishu International Airport, which is also home to a United Nations office and several embassies.
"From our coordination, there will be some change for sure," he said.
The identity and nationality of the foreign contractor have not been released.
AMISOM said Thursday it had regained control of the base and "restored normalcy" after terrorists rebels ambushed the compound around midday, trying to gain access to what the peacekeeping mission called critical infrastructure. In claiming responsibility for the attack, al-Shabab terrorists said the raid targeted a Christmas party at the base.
Can't have any of that foreign religion around Mogadishu, by Gawd...
Despite the magnitude of yesterday's attack, Ambassador Maman Sidikou, special representative of the chairperson of the African Union Commission (SRCC) for Somalia, said the continental body remains committed to supporting the Somali people and government in rebuilding their country.
“Today I’ve been on the phone with generals and officers, and I told them many people will be unhappy with us in coming days simply because you’re going to strictly enforce the regulations so that there is no mistake of this sort," he said, emphasizing the need to fully enforce all security measures to ensure that such an attack would not happen again.
"This means we have to agree with our partners, the U.N. and other partners, on how the camps are going to be monitored, who can enter and who cannot enter,” Sidikou added before expressing grief for the victims and their families.
“We lost five of our colleagues, five young soldiers to this attack by Al-Shabab on our camp. These young men have been [in] Somalia, some of them one year, some a few months, sacrificing to ensure that this part of Africa is free and stable,” he said.
Ambassador Sidikou withheld names and nationalities of the deceased, saying the mission wanted to first notify their families.
When asked how the terrorists militants infiltrated the base, he said the terrorists fighters had disguised themselves with Somali army uniforms, but quickly added that how they entered the base is less important than what will be done about it.
"This is a wakeup call for all of us, precisely because we’re working with Somalis [who] sometimes use tactics such as pretending they are [the] soldiers with whom we work to build their capacity.”
He also said Al-Shabab, which controlled most of Mogadishu before recently losing territory, is desperate to try any methods to show they are still relevant.
“So we have to adapt very, very quickly to the kind of warfare they’re imposing on us right now with the support of Somali institutions," Sikikou said. "If not, what will happen is instability will be the name of the game.”
TRIPOLI: Nineteen Libyan soldiers were killed in clashes with radical fighters on Thursday east of the country, officials said. A military source said the soldiers were killed in attacks launched by the Fajr Libya movement in Sirte.
The Al-Sidra and its adjacent Ras Lanuf terminal have been closed since a force allied to a rival government in Tripoli moved east trying to take them.
Meanwhile, a rocket hit a storage tank in the oil port as armed factions allied to competing governments fought for control of the country’s biggest export terminal.
“A tank was hit but the damage is limited,” said an official from a security service allied to the internationally recognized government, now operating from eastern Libya. He said there were heavy clashes in the Ben Jawad area west of Al-Sidra where he said some of the rival forces were based.
He accused opponents of having shot at the port from boats which they had tried to dock at Al-Sidra. “The air force destroyed three boats which were attempting to seize the port,” he said.
Ismail Al-Shukri, spokesman for the rival force, denied this, saying warplanes belonging to the other side had bombed the port. “Our forces are progressing from all directions toward Es Sider port,” he said.
An Oil Ministry official said the tank was still on fire. Smoke could be seen on pictures posted on social media websites and described as showing the port.
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BENGHAZI: An Egyptian teenager abducted in Libya by armed men who killed her parents has been found dead, a hospital source said Friday. Residents found the body of the daughter of the two slain doctors on Thursday evening, said the source at the Ibn Sina Hospital in the city of Sirte, without giving the cause of death.
She said the girl was 13 years old. Initial reports had given her age as 18. After murdering her parents in their home on Tuesday, the attackers took the girl but left behind two sisters, local council chairman Yussef Tebeiqa said on the day of the incident.
Tebeiqa said the attack took place in Sirte, home town of slain leader Muammar Qaddafi. Sirte, 500 km east of Tripoli, is in the hands of armed militias including Ansar Al-Sharia, which the UN Security Council last month added to its terror list over links to Al-Qaeda and for running Islamic State group training camps.
Several Coptic Christian Egyptians have been killed in Libya in recent years. In February, the bodies of seven Egyptian Christians who had been shot were found near the second city of Benghazi.
That's more than 'several'...
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Cairo: A roadside bomb explosion struck an army vehicle in the volatile Sinai Peninsula, killing an army captain and a soldier, a military spokesman said. The spokesman Brig. Gen. Mohammed Samir said on his official Facebook page Friday that another soldier was injured in Thursday’s explosion near the city of el-Arish.
The militant group Ansar Beit al-Maqdis,
Who?
Also known as Al Qaeda in the Sinai, until they went for the temporary strong horse.
Oh, them! Why didncha say so?
We spell it Ansar Bayt, etc., which is why you were confused.
which pledged allegiance to the ISIS group,
Splinter!
has claimed responsibility for most of the attacks in Sinai.
Meanwhile Egypt’s state news agency MENA said police exchanged fire with three gunmen in the eastern Cairo neighborhood of al-Salam on Thursday, killing two of them while three policemen and two passers-by were injured. The third gunman fled. MENA said the three gunmen refused to stop their car at a police checkpoint.
A video message posted by the Ansar Beit al-Maqdis Friday on a militant website affiliated to the ISIS group showed four Egyptians identifying themselves by their names and confessing they collaborated with the Egyptian army. The four were later shown being shot and killed one after the other by a rebel. The group had already posted videos showing similar executions of suspected collaborators.
The video also showed rebels checking identities of passengers and drivers along what it said was the international road between el-Arish and Rafah. The authenticity of the video could not be verified.
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[IsraelTimes] French police locked away Keep yer hands where we can see 'em, if yez please! a man they suspect was involved in the rape and robbery of a Jewish family in a Gay Paree suburb.
The suspect, who was not named, was apprehended Tuesday during a routine police inspection of his vehicle while he was driving in Saint-Etienne near Lyon, 340 miles southeast of the capital, Le Figaro reported. The report was based on police sources who spoke under condition of anonymity.
The man is believed to have participated in a break-in on Dec. 1 at the home of a Jewish family in Creteil along with two other individuals. The three are said to have targeted the home because they knew it belonged to Jews they thought were wealthy. A fourth suspect is in jug for his alleged involvement.
One of the men raped a 19-year-old woman they found in the house while another guarded her 21-year-old boyfriend and a third withdrew money from an ATM using credit cards they took from the couple, police Sherlocks said.
The incident sparked outrage in La Belle France?s Jewish community and came amid a string of anti-Semitic attacks. The SPCJ watchdog on anti-Semitism recorded 527 attacks in La Belle France from Jan. 1 to July 31 of this year. In all of last year, SPCJ documented 423 incidents.
Police arrested two suspects in the break-in shortly after the incident and a third accomplice whose role has not yet been determined. The two suspects arrested earlier this month are awaiting trial for religiously-motivated assault, rape, conspiracy to commit a crime, extortion and several other charges.
The brutal case prompted La Belle France?s interior minister to vow to make the fight against anti-Semitism a ?national cause.?
Bernard Cazeneuve said earlier this month: ?We need to make the fight against racism and anti-Semitism a national cause by getting all bodies concerned involved.
Cazeneuve said anti-Semitic acts and threats have more than doubled in the past 10 months and called for the authorities to ensure that ?none of them goes unpunished?.
?The Republic will defend you with all its force because, without you, it would no longer be the Republic,? he added, speaking at a rally in Creteil.
[IsraelTimes] Days after similar attacks against Jewish targets, shots were fired at a Gay Paree publishing house owned by Jews on Thursday night.
Just boys being boys, not Sudden Jihad Syndrome at all.
Bullets holes were discovered at the entrance to the building on Friday morning, Israel Radio reported.
Investigators believe the shooter used a high-powered air gun, the same type of weapon used in the two previous attacks this week.
On Wednesday, bullet holes were discovered in the window of the Al Haeche kosher restaurant located in the 19th district of northeastern Gay Paree. The attack occurred Tuesday night, the JSSNews website reported.
That bullet, too, was reportedly fired from an air gun. An air gun is believed to have been used Monday night when a bullet crashed through a window of the David Ben Ichay Synagogue in Belleville, in the northeastern section of the French capital. The synagogue is located less than a mile from the restaurant.
[FOXNEWS] The Mighty Pak Army says its warplanes have killed 23 gunnies as part of an ongoing operation in a troubled tribal region near the Afghan border.
An army statement says the Arclight airstrikes were carried out Friday evening in the Datta Khel area of the North Wazoo tribal region.
The attacks also destroyed an underground tunnel system and a large underground cache of weapons and ammunition, the statement said.
The army says it has killed over 1,200 gunnies since the start of a massive offensive launched June 15 against gunnies in North Waziristan.
Journalists are barred from the region and it is impossible to independently verify the information.
The operation is aimed at eliminating those Pak and foreign gunnies accused of launching attacks in Pakistain and neighboring Afghanistan.
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[AnNahar] Pak security forces have killed a Taliban capo who allegedly facilitated the Beautiful Downtown Peshawar ...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (formerly known as the North-West Frontier Province), administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire. school massacre, which left 150 people dead in the country's worst ever terror attack, officials said Friday.
Named only as "Saddam", the holy warrior was killed Thursday night in a shootout with security forces in the restive Khyber tribal area, which borders the northwestern city of Peshawar where last week's horrific attack took place.
"Commander Saddam was a dreaded terrorist, who was killed in an exchange of fire with the security forces in Jamrud town of Khyber tribal region," top local administration official Shahab Ali Shah told a presser in Peshawar.
"Six of his accomplices were maimed and tossed in the clink Youse'll never take me alive coppers!... [BANG!]... Ow!... I quit! He added that Saddam is believed to have facilitated the school attack, although the extent or capacity of his alleged involvement was not yet known.
"Authorities are currently interrogating the injured terrorists," Shah said.
He described Saddam as an important commander in the Pak Taliban, or Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistain (TTP), and said he had criminal masterminded several kabooms.
Saddam and his accomplices had been involved in several recent attacks on security forces that had resulted in heavy casualties, Shah said.
The military said it killed 23 Lions of Islam in aerial strikes in the troubled northwest near the Afghan border on Friday evening.
"In very effective and precise aerial strikes in North Wazoo this evening, 23 bandidosLions of Islam including some important commanders were killed," the military said in a statement.
"A huge underground ammunition dump and tunnel system have been destroyed," it added.
The Taliban and other Lions of Islam have taken refuge in Khyber from a major army offensive launched in June in North Waziristan, another restive tribal area on the Afghan border that has been a hub for al-Qaeda and Talibs since the early 2000s.
Meanwhile, ...back at the pond, the enormous newt was trying to decide if Gloria was edible... a U.S. drone strike on a Taliban compound in North Waziristan killed at least four Lions of Islam on Friday, officials said, the second such incident in a week.
Another drone strike in North Waziristan on December 20 killed at least five holy warriors, officials said.
The area is generally off-limits to journalists, making it difficult to independently verify the number and identity of the dead.
Washington pressed Islamabad for years to wipe out holy warrior sanctuaries in North Waziristan, which have been used to launch attacks on NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A single organization with differing goals, equipment, language, doctrine, and organization.... forces in Afghanistan.
The Pak military says it has killed more than 1,700 Lions of Islam so far in its heavy offensive in the tribal zone, with 126 soldiers having bit the dust.
Pakistain has ramped up its anti-terror strategy in the wake of the December 16 slaughter at an army-run school in Peshawar, where 134 children were among the victims bumped off by heavily-armed Talibs.
Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif ... served two non-consecutive terms as prime minister, heads the Pakistain Moslem League (Nawaz). Noted for his spectacular corruption, the 1998 Pak nuclear test, border war with India, and for being tossed by General Musharraf... has announced the establishment of military courts for terror-related cases in order to accelerate trials, and he has also lifted a six-year moratorium on the death penalty, reinstating it for terrorism-related cases.
Officials said Monday that Pakistain plans to execute around 500 Lions of Islam in the coming weeks.
DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan: Pakistani intelligence officials say a suspected US drone fired missiles at two compounds in the North Waziristan tribal region killing at least seven alleged militants.
Four intelligence officials say the early Friday strikes hit the compounds of the Punjabi Taleban and Uzbek militants in Shawal area of North Waziristan. They say two missiles each hit the compound of Punjabi Taleban in Kund village killing four and the compound of Uzbak militants in Mangrotai village killing three Uzbeks.
Drone strikes are largely unpopular in Pakistan where many consider them a violation of the country’s sovereignty. But the US insists these attacks are effective to eliminate militants in areas inaccessible to the Pakistani military.
Both sides are absolutely correct!
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[IraqiNews.com] Iraqi Security Forces captured 14 murderous Moslems of the ISIL elements in Ramadi city on Friday.
Security official stated to IraqiNews.com ?The captured murderous Moslems are members of a terrorist cell for the ISIL in Sufiya area of eastern Ramadi city.?
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Behead them
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I've not seen or heard of any uptick in Iraqi Security Force or Kurdish detention of ISIS personnel. I believe most are disposed of somewhere near the forward edge of the battlefield.
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Capturing - and HOLDING - these people is counter-productive. Requires guards, transportation, food etc. than can better be used elsewhere. Capture, interrogate, try & execute within a few miles and a few days.
The Iraqi Ministry of Defense confirmed killing 23 terrorists of the ISIL while liberating Jawa’na area within Baghdadi district of western Anbar province.
Statement by the ministry received by IraqiNews.com cited "The units of the Iraqi Army/ Seventh Division I cooperation with the tribesmen launched a security operation to liberate Jawa’na area from the terrorists of the ISIL," noting that "The operation resulted in killing 23 terrorists of the ISIL and destroying vehicles and weapons for the terrorists in the area."
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[Ynet] Two Israeli coppers were stabbed near the Lions Gate in Jerusalem early Friday morning and were lightly maimed as a result.
A Magen David Adom crew transferred the officers to Shaare Zedek Medical Center with one officer suffering a wound to his neck and the other suffering a hand wound.
The suspect expeditiously departed at a goodly pace and a large police presence is conducting searches for the suspect around the scene of the crime.
[IsraelTimes] Police said Friday that the identity of a Paleostinian man who stabbed two Border Police officers early Friday morning in Jerusalem's Old City was known to the authorities.
There were no indications that an arrest had been made or was imminent.
[Ynet] IDF forces shot at two Paleostinians who came close to crossing the security fence in northern Gazoo. One of the men who passed the fence suffered a light to moderate wound to his leg, and the other suspect retreated back to Gazoo.
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Not much difference between Sudden Jihad Syndrome and Sudden Gangsta Syndrome. The cultural environment of both support and glorify the 'hate of others', offer little in the way of making it which is anyways degraded as acting white/western, and likewise depends upon the white/western system to their basic existence, both of which ride on the sense of entitlement to the wealth of others by some mythical endowment preached by prophets of that 'hate others'. Neither demonstrates an individual sense of responsibility for one's own acts, life and destiny.
A Jordanian army general on Thursday denied reports that a Jordanian air force plane was shot down in the northern Syrian city of Raqqa by the so-called Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) militant group, Anadolu agency reported.
In a statement that was published by the website of the Jordanian army, the general added that early indications had showed that the plane was not shot down by ISIL, which controls the Syrian city. Nevertheless, the general went on to say that it was difficult to determine the reason why the plane fell down.
I'd believe him completely if he blamed inshallah maintenance...
He said the Jordanian army could not reach either the debris of the plane, or its pilot, who was taken hostage by ISIL.
On Wednesday, ISIL claimed that it had shot down a Jordanian air force plane that launched strikes against the targets of the militant movement in the Syrian city.
The Pentagon said in a statement on Wednesday that there were indications that ISIL did not down the aircraft.
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Jordanian authorities have begun indirect negotiations with the Islamic State (IS) to secure the release of a Jordanian Air Force pilot, whose plane crashed near the IS stronghold of Raqqah, Syria, Al Jazeera reported, citing government sources.
But don't tell anyone because it's a secret...
"Indirect negotiations are under way… We are ready to begin settling the [pilot's release]," the source was quoted as saying.
According to the broadcast network, Jordanian authorities are in close contact with high-level political figures in Iraq and tribal leaders that enjoy "strong relations" with Jordan, who could potentially serve as intermediaries. Additionally, Turkey and Qatar could also potentially fill that role, RIA Novosti reported.
"Contact is under way with our Turkish [colleagues]. We will also send [requests] to establish contact with [colleagues] in Qatar," the source was quoted as saying by the network, adding that Jordan is considering a prisoner exchange of IS fighters held in Jordan for its pilot, 26-year-old Maaz Kassasbeh.
The Jordanian military confirmed on Dec.24 reports that Kassasbeh had been captured by militants near Raqqah after one of its F-16 jets had crashed during an anti-IS air campaign. The US Central Command (CENTCOM) and the Jordanian Armed Forces later announced that, contrary to claims by the militant group, evidence indicated that IS did not shoot down the aircraft.
Kassasbeh's family appealed for his release and the army urged media outlets to exercise restraint in publishing information and "take into account the feelings of the pilot's relatives."
In June 2014, the Islamic State jihadist group declared a caliphate in swaths of Iraqi and Syrian territories under its control, prompting the United States to build a 60-nation strong anti-IS coalition directly or indirectly involved in airstrikes targeting the militant group's strongholds.
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[REUTERS] Syria said on Saturday it was willing to participate in "preliminary consultations" in Moscow aimed at restarting talks next year to end its civil war but the Western-backed opposition dismissed the initiative.
Two rounds of peace talks this year in Geneva failed to halt the conflict which has killed 200,000 people during more than three years of violence and there was little sign of the latest move gaining traction.
Syrian state television ... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe?
quoted a source at the foreign ministry saying: "Syria is ready to participate in preliminary consultations in Moscow in order to meet the aspirations of Syrians to find a way out of crisis."
But there are many obstacles to peace. The most powerful Death Eater group, the hardline 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.... , controls a third of Syria but has not been part of any initiative to end the fighting.
Other rebel factions are not unified.
The opposition is also suspicious of Russian-led plans as Moscow has long backed Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Terror of Aleppo ... with weapons.
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[AnNahar] Three gunnies were killed overnight when the Lebanese army thwarted an attempt by murderous Moslems to infiltrate an area on the outskirts of the northeastern border town of Arsal.
The state-run National News Agency said Friday that one of the dead jihadists is a Syrian member of the al-Qaeda-linked al-Nusra ...the current nom de guerre of al-Qaeda in the Levant, which isn't to be confused with al-Qaeda in Iraq and the Levant... Front.
NNA identified him as Adham Shaddad.
The fighters died when the army repelled their infiltration attempt in the area of Wadi al-Hosn, the agency added.
The nearby border is long and porous, and has proved an easy crossing point for smugglers, refugees and fighters.
Tens of thousands of Syrian refugees are being hosted in the town, and opposition fighters have bases in the mountainous border area outside Arsal.
[AnNahar] On Thursday, about 60 jihadists were killed in fighting with Kurdish forces for control of territory in northern Syria, according to the Observatory.
[Ynet] Syrian air raids on two northern towns held by the krazed killerIslamic 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 have killed more than 50 people in two days, activists said Friday.
Rami Abdurrahman of the Britannia-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said that several Arclight airstrikes on the towns of al-Bab and neighboring Qabasin killed at least 53 people, including seven children.
The strikes occurred Thursday. Another Syrian monitoring group also reported the raids, and activists uploaded video of the strikes' aftermaths to social networks. They appeared genuine and corresponded to News Agency that Dare Not be Named reporting.
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[REUTERS] The United States and its allies carried out 12 air strikes against 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.... bandidosgunnies in Iraq and Syria on Saturday, the Combined Joint Task Force said.
Six strikes near the Syrian town of Kobani on the Turkish border destroyed Islamic State buildings, fighting positions and vehicles, a task force statement said.
In Iraq, targets including buildings, vehicles and an Islamic State refinery were hit in six strikes near Al Asad, djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... , Falluja, Al Qaim and Baiji, it said.
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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
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Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
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DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan: Pakistani intelligence officials say a suspected US drone fired missiles at two compounds in the North Waziristan tribal region killing at least seven alleged militants.
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