[LibyaHerald] Three men, accused of being homosexual, are reported to have been executed by 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.... (IS) in Derna yesterday.
They were shot in the head at the town's main Ateeq Mosque following afternoon (Asr) prayers. They were reportedly seized some months go.
The three have been named as Naseeb Al-Jazwi, Faraj Al-Shewi and Saad al Fahakhri. .
Following the creation of a Sharia Court in Derna last year, IS has imposed rigid Sharia law in the town. There have been public beheadings, people have been lashed for drinking alcohol, and a fortnight ago, a man accused of stealing gold had his hand cut off.
Its rigid interpretation of Islam in the town, has also included a ban on smoking and strict gender segregation similar to that imposed in Afghanistan during the Taliban era.
However, some men learn by reading. A few learn by observation. The rest have to pee on the electric fence for themselves... many see in its imposition of such action, a reign of terror designed to maintain its rule in the town.
In November 2012, 12 men said to be homosexuals, were tossed in the clink Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw! by the Islamist Nawasi Brigade in 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... at a transvestite party. They were supposedly released a few days later by this was then denied. They have not been heard of since.
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[LibyaHerald] Three members of the Libyan Red Islamic Thingy died today and seven were maimed when a mortar smashed into their building in Benghazi . . .
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[LibyaHerald] Clashes took place this evening in an area called Abu Sera between Zawia and the Warshfana area between forces linked to the Libyan National Army (LNA) and those of Libya Dawn ...aka Fajr Libya, the Islamist operation launched to counter that of General Khalifa Haftar (Operation Dignity). It is made up of the Libya Shield militia (Misrata and Moslem Brotherhood), Libya Revolutionaries Operations Room (Moslem Brotherhood), and Tripoli Brigade (close to Abdul Hakim Belhaj, head of Al-Watan party). Financing and moral support come from Turkey and Qatar... .
There are also unconfirmed reports that LNA support forces (Zintanis and Warshefanis) are gathering east of Zawia to blockade it from that direction, as well as from the south. Eyewitness have told the Libya Herald that they have seen LNA forces at Sayed (west of Janzour) with no resistance being offered from Libya Dawn. As for the 27 Bridge, witness said the highway is still open.
There is a growing nervousness in Zawia at the Warshefana advance with locals accusing Misrata of having abandoned them. Most of the accusations are targeted at Misrata's Halboos Brigade which agreed a truce with the Warshefana and pulled out its fighters from the area. In particular they accuse Fathi Bashagha and Ali Dabeba, leaders of the brigade.
Bashagha also leads the Misratan delegation to the UNSMIL brokered Dialogue process.
Meanwhile today, it was reported that yet another Dawn attempt to seize Wattiya Airbase had been repulsed by LNA support forces.
[AnNahar] Dozens of gunnies stormed a northern Mali town, killing one and taking six other people hostage in an attack blamed on Tuareg rebels, officials told AFP Friday.
"More than 50 gunnies from the Coordination for the Movements of Azawad (CMA) came Thursday to sow terror in Bintagoungou. They killed a man and took six hostages with them," said Hama Aboubacrine, mayor of the town about 90 kilometers to the west of Timbuktu.
"Everyone knows each other here. (The attackers) had a CMA flag," added the mayor.
The gunnies also pillaged several shops and a pharmacy, and made off with two vehicles.
A Bintagoungou resident also told AFP that his father was one of the six who were taken hostage.
CMA officials were not immediately available for comment on Friday, but a U.N. peacekeeping source in Mali also confirmed the attack.
The recent violence comes amid assurances by the CMA that it was committed to a peace accord brokered by Algeria and due to be ratified at a ceremony in Bamako on May 15.
[AnNahar] Niger authorities have urged people living on islands in Lake Chad to leave to avoid new attacks by Boko Haram ... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality... , after an assault by the Islamists last weekend left at least 74 dead.
The weekend attack was the country's heaviest loss since it joined a regional offensive against the Lion of Islams, and saw authorities declare three days of mourning from Wednesday.
"The governor of Diffa invites people living on the islands in Lake Chad to rejoin the mainland," a statement Thursday said, citing security reasons.
"Measures will be taken to ensure their safety and resettlement," the statement added.
Diffa is the bustling provincial capital of south-eastern Niger, which borders north-eastern Nigeria, considered the jihadists' stronghold.
Niger has several islands in Lake Chad, a vast body of water between it, Nigeria, Cameroon ...a long, narrow country that fills the space between Nigeria and Chad on the northeast, CAR to the southeast. Prior to incursions by Boko Haram nothing ever happened there... and Chad, the regular site of deadly Boko Haram raids.
Niger lost at least 46 soldiers and 28 civilians in the Boko Haram attack on the island of Karamga Saturday.
Interior Minister Hassoumi Massaoudou said Wednesday that "156 terrorists" were also killed in the assault on an army base on the island, and that 32 troops were missing.
He said Niger had since retaken control of Karamga.
Niger, along with Chad, Cameroon and Nigeria, has recently launched a joint offensive to end Boko Haram's six-year insurgency, which has claimed 13,000 lives and caused about 1.5 million people to flee their homes.
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[AnNahar] Jihadists of 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 claimed they beheaded four Yemeni soldiers and rubbed out another 11 execution-style in a video posted online Thursday, a monitoring group said.
The soldiers were shown in front of the camera before jihadists were seen sharpening their knives and killing four of them, according to SITE Intelligence Group, a U.S. website monitor.
The heads of the four young men were then seen on the ground, in the video said to have been filmed in the southern province of Shabwa.
The footage shows 10 more soldiers, blindfolded and crouching with their hands bound, being shot once each in the forehead, while another is riddled with bullets from behind.
According to SITE, Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula ...the latest incarnation of various Qaeda and Qaeda-allied groups, including the now-defunct Aden-Abyan Islamic Army that boomed the USS Cole in 2000... (AQAP) has denied responsibility Nope. Nope. Wudn't us. for the killings which took place in mid-April.
They were instead claimed by the "Shabwa Province" militia that has declared itself as a division of IS, a Sunni Lion of Islam group that has overrun swathes of Iraq and Syria.
Shabwa was the scene of fierce fighting Thursday between loyalists of President Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi and Huthi Iranian catspaws, who have captured the capital Sanaa and advanced on his southern stronghold of Aden.
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[ArabNews] Three Saudi troops and "dozens" of 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 ... rebels were killed as Saudi ground forces repelled a major attack from inside Yemen, officials said.
A statement by the SPA said the attack on "border posts and control points" Thursday night took place on its southern border near the town of Najran. Saudi ground troops exchanged fire with Iran-backed Houthi Iranian catspaws and called in Arclight airstrikes, said the SPA. "Dozens of the Lions of Islam were killed. Three soldiers of the ground troops were martyred," according to the statement.
The attack was the first major incursion into the Kingdom by the Houthis since the Saudi-led coalition began carrying out Arclight airstrikes inside Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of. Except for a tiny handfull of Jews everthing there is very Islamic... more than a month ago.
Jazan is about 200 km east of Najran and about 10,000 rustics from Jazan have volunteered with their own weapons to stand at the border alongside the Saudi soldiers, commanders in the area say.
Saudi warplanes targeted residential areas in the Yemeni capital city of Sana'a on early Friday, leaving dozens of civilians dead and injured, a medical source said.
Yemen's Health Ministry said on Friday that the Saudi fighter jets continued their strikes in the 37th day of their aggression against Yemen and hit Sawan district in Sana'a, FNA reported.
Saudi fighter jets launched several rounds of strikes against the Southern Yemeni city of Aden on early Friday and killed more than 14 civilians.
The Saudi bombers pounded two hotels in khorMaksar district in the seaport city of Aden and killed at least 14 people, including 9 women and 2 children.
The Saudi aerial aggression also targeted a bank in Hijja province, wounding 6 civilians.
The Yemeni army, backed by the popular committees, seized a consignment of firearms and munitions that a Saudi military plane had airdropped to al-Qaeda terrorists in Yemen's Ta'iz, a military source revealed on Friday.
In Sanna, the Yemenis took to streets to protests against the US-Saudi aggression and blockade imposed on their country for over a month.
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And 15,000 gallons of chocolate ice cream was destroyed by a cruel fuel air bomb. The pilot was clearly seen laughing with delight at the havoc he and his infernal device had wrought.
[AnNahar] The United Nations ...the Oyster Bay money pit... warned fuel shortages threaten to halt all relief operations in Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of. Except for a tiny handfull of Jews everthing there is very Islamic... "within days" as Saudi-led air strikes and ground fighting killed 47 people in second city Aden.
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[Dawn] LANDI KOTAL: Five soldiers, a captain among them, and 27 forces of Evil were killed in festivities in Tirah valley of Khyber Agency on Thursday.
According to security sources, soldiers were entering bad boys' strongholds when an intense ground battle took place. They identified the officer who lost his life in the line of duty as Capt Ajmal.
With ground offensives continuing in parts of Tirah valley for the fourth consecutive day on Thursday, security forces gained control of some areas which were previously held by the banned groups.
Informed sources told Dawn that security forces had entered Garhi Kamar Khel, Nakai Malikdin Khel, Zarmanza in Sikandar Khel and Dwa Thoe, Tangu, Mehraban Kalay, Khaeyst, Tharkho Kas, Mailu, Thor Darra and Malakabad localities in Kukikhel ...a tribe of primitives inhabiting Khyber Agency. They are a branch of the Afridi tribe. Traditionally they have been migratory, tromping between Jamrud and the Rajgal valley with the seasons. The tribe has had mustache-cursing relationships with several other tribes, including the Zakkakhel and Kambarkhel, and with the Mullagori. They make welcome most anyone with a turban and automatic weapons, but every once in a while they get together a tribal lashkar to mollify the government... area. All these areas had been under the control of Tariq Afridi group of the banned Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistain (TTP) since 2010.
The sources said ground forces were supported by intense artillery firing and aerial shelling by helicopter gunships. They said troops faced little or no resistance in these localities as forces of Evil affiliated with the TTP, Jamaat-ul-Ahrar and Lashkar-e-Islam ...a group of Islamic bandidos infesting Khyber Agency. It's headed by a former bus driver.... had vacated their sanctuaries prior to the assault by security forces.
Security officials while confirming the advance into the bad boy-occupied territories said that fleeing forces of Evil had left behind a huge cache of arms and ammunition. Militants' hideouts were demolished by the troops.
They said artillery was now targeting bad boy positions in Sra Vella and Wachay Wany areas of Kukikhel. They said fleeing forces of Evil had taken refuge in areas close to the Afghan border, including Serhai and Rajgul.
[Jerusalem Post] Reuters photographer Asmaa Waguih spent time with the women who have taken up arms.
Women fighters at a Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militant base on Mount Sinjar in northwest Iraq, just like their male counterparts, have to be ready for action at any time. Smoke from the front line, marking their battle against Islamic State, which launched an assault on northern Iraq last summer, is visible from the base.
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It might catch on. I'd be glad to see them take the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and impose a new rule: men to be forced to endure the lack of rights they've imposed on women. Men to be forced into burqas. Men shunted out of the classroom and off the board of Saudi Aramco. They can wash the dishes.
(IraqiNews.com) Baghdad – A source with the Iraqi police announced Thursday, that an officer was killed and two soldiers and two civilians were wounded in two separated attacks carried out south of the capital Baghdad.
The source said in an interview for IraqiNews.com, “An explosive device implanted on the side of a road in Mr. Abdullah area in Mahmudiyah exploded at noon today, targeting an army patrol, killing an officer and wounding two soldiers.”
In a related context, the source who requested anonymity, added, “A bomb emplaced on the side of a road in al-Saklat area in Mahmudiyah exploded at noon today, injuring two civilians.”
(IraqiNews.com) Anbar – On Thursday, al-Jazirah and al-Badiyah Operations Command announced, that 11 ISIS elements have been killed in a security operation in west of Ramadi.
The commander of al-Jazirah and al-Badiyah Operations Lt. Gen. Naser Ahmed al-Ghannam said in an interview with IraqiNews.com, “Today, a force from al-Jazirah and al-Badiyah Operations, with support from Iraqi tribal fighters, conducted a joint security operation against ISIS in the area of al-Ju’wana in the district of al-Baghdadi and the forest area in Haditha,” adding that, “The security operation resulted in killing 11 ISIS elements and the seizure of 6 vehicles and 12 explosives.”
(IraqiNews.com) Kirkuk – The head of Kirkuk Police Gen. Sarhad Qader announced Thursday, that six ISIS elements have been detained in a security operation in southwest of the province.
Head of Kirkuk Police Gen. Sarhad Qader stated in an interview for IraqiNews.com, “This afternoon, a force from Kirkuk Police conducted a security operation in the village of Hangirah in Bajwan District,” pointing out that, “The force had managed to detain 6 ISIS elements from the residents of al-Hawija District as they were preparing to carry out bombings in the area.”
“The operation was based on the back of accurate intelligence received by the police,” he added.
(IraqiNews.com) Al-Anbar – On Thursday, a security source within al-Hashed al-Sha’bi militia said, that the security forces and al-Hashed al-Sha’bi militia are only 500 meters away from the center of al-Karma city, asserting that the announcement of the liberation of the city became very close.
The deputy commander of the 30th Brigade of al-Hashed al-Sha’bi militia forces, Jumah al-Jamili, stated in an interview for IraqiNews.com, “The security forces and al-Hashed al-Sha’bi are no longer separated from the center of al-Karma city except by 500 meters,” pointing out that, “The announcement of the liberation of the whole city has become very close.”
Al-Jamili added, “The forces of 30th Brigade from the sons of al-Karma are participating alongside Baghdad Operations Command in the operations to liberate al-Karma from the ISIS seizure.”
The city of al-Karma is located 53 km east of Ramadi.
(IraqiNews.com) Anbar – On Thursday, an official source of Anbar Provincial Council announced, that the residents of Ramadi city are suffering from a fuel and gas crisis after ISIS’s seizure of Ramadi Gas Plant and its neighboring fuel station in east of Ramadi.
Member of Anbar Provincial Council Azal Obeid Dahi stated in an interview for IraqiNews.com, “The residents of Ramadi city and its surrounding areas are currently suffering from a fuel and gas crisis due to lack of oil derivatives in the center of the city,” pointing out that, “The ISIS militants had seized Ramadi Gas Plant and its neighboring government fuel station in east of Ramadi.”
He added, “These sites became areas of confrontation between the security forces and ISIS.”
(IraqiNews.com) Baghdad – A source in the police announced on Thursday, that four soldiers were killed in an improvised explosive device explosion, during a raid and search process of a mosque south of Baghdad.
The source said in an interview for IraqiNews.com, “this evening, an improvised explosive device exploded inside a mosque in the village of Sayed Abdullah in Mahmudiya district south of Baghdad as a military force belonging to the 17th Division was implementing a raid operation of the mosque; the explosion killed four soldiers,” pointing out that, “Intelligence had been received in advance about the presence of munitions and weapons inside the mosque.”
The source, who asked anonymity, added: “Elements of the force transferred the dead bodies to the forensic medicine department, while cordoned off the scene and prevented approaching it in anticipation of the presence of other explosive devices.”
Erbil, Kurdistan Region – On Friday the so-called Sharia Court of the Islamic State group (IS/ISIS) reportedly executed 600 hostages from the Yezidi community of Shingal (Sinjar) in the Talafar district in northern Iraq.
The group piled the bodies into the well of Alo Antar on al-Ayyadiya highway, local sources reported.
Shahin Shingali, a fighter in the ranks of the Peshmerga forces, stated to ARA News that since Friday the IS radicals transferred nearly 700 Yezidi hostages to Talafar.
“Without a direct intervention by the international community, Iraq will be witnessing more genocides against innocent people at the hands of the IS terrorists,” Shingali said.
Aseel al-Nujaifi, governor of Nineveh province in Iraq, confirmed on Friday that the IS terrorists executed hundreds of Yezidi captives.
“A new crime was committed by Daesh (Islamic State) against our Yezidi people on Friday,” al-Nujaifi said in a statement.
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency still leads various--and sometimes outlandish--military projects. In 2011, the public managed to get a brief glimpse of the next generation of these stealthy choppers.
During the mission that led to the death of Osama Bin Laden in Pakistan, a super-secret chopper crashed at the Al Qaeda leader's compound.
This aircraft--nicknamed a "Stealth Hawk" as it appeared to be a modified UH-60 Black Hawk--probably isn't the only one of its kind in Washington's arsenal.
[GMA News] A pursuit operation against New People's Army militants who ambushed jail personnel led to a clash in Surigao del Sur.
The Philippine Army's 4th Infantry Division said the encounter happened in Marihatag town early Thursday morning. Security forces were conducting the pursuit when they were fired upon by around nine suspected NPA militants from the Guerilla Front Committee 19B of the North Eastern Mindanao Regional Committee.
The clash lasted for 15 minutes and the NPA members were "forced to leave the area," leaving behind one AK-47 with ammunition, materials to make an improvised explosive device, "subversive documents, and personal belongings."
The encounter happened during a joint pursuit operation over an ambush on Monday, when suspected NPA militants rescued two of its detained members. Two jail guards were killed, while three others were reportedly seized as well.
[Ynet] An air strike by US-led forces on the northern Syrian province of Aleppo on Friday killed at least 17 civilians including two children, and maimed dozens more, a group monitoring the Syrian conflict said.
Human shields are forbidden. When used, those hiding behind them are the ones deemed responsible, not the ones shooting through them. Also, in Syria it's the Arab forces who are doing much of the shooting. Ya gets whatcha don't pay for.
US and Arab forces have been carrying out almost daily air raids against hardline jihadist groups in Syria, such as 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.... , since last September and US-led forces are also targeting the group in Iraq.
Hasakah, Syria – On Friday, the pro-regime helicopters and fighter jets continued bombing locations of the Islamic State group (IS/ISIS) in the southern and eastern countryside of the city of Hasakah, in northeastern Syria.
The Syrian air force’s raids against IS strongholds in Hasakah has continued for the third consecutive day.
Speaking to ARA News, Khalil al-Ahmad said that pro-Assad warplanes bombed IS headquarters on Friday, targeting the front lines of the group in the villages of Dawoodiya and Rad Shaqra in the countryside of Hasakah.
In the meantime, the Media Office of the al-Baath Brigades in Hasakah announced that the Syrian air force shelled several IS strongholds in the city of Shaddadi (50 km south of Hasakah), including the headquarters of the Kazakh battalion in the area of Masakin 200 and an IS checkpoint installed west of the city.
On the other hand, pro-IS sources in Shaddadi reported that the air strikes on the city claimed the life of one civilian and injuries to three others.
Damascus, Syria – At least eight members of the pro-regime security forces were reportedly killed on Friday during clashes with rebel fighters of the al-Rahman Corps battalion in the eastern Ghouta in the countryside of Damascus, southern Syria.
Speaking to ARA News, civil rights activist Ahmed Sabbagh, from the city of Damascus, said that fierce clashes broke out between the two parties in the orchards located between the towns of Maliha and Jisrain, during which eight members of the pro-Assad forces were killed, while no casualties were reported in the ranks of the rebels.
Also on Friday, the pro-Assad warplanes carried out several raids on the city of Harasta and the town of Zamalka town in the Damascus suburbs, coinciding with a similar attack on the outskirts of the southern highway near the neighborhoods of Jobar and Zamalka, without reporting injuries.
In Daraa, civil rights activist Haitham Nassar told ARA News that the rebels of the Free Syrian Army (FSA) targeted the regime-held security branch in the city of Daraa with rockets, causing the explosion of munitions depots.
ARA News could not verify the number of casualties caused by the attack.
[ArabNews] The US-led military coalition launched 18 air strikes in Syria and Iraq 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.... since early Thursday, the Combined Joint Task Force said in a statement.
The seven strikes targeting the bandidosfaceless myrmidons in Iraq struck five units of Islamic State fighters and destroyed several fighting positions and other targets near the cities of Bayji, Falluja, djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... , Ramadi and Tal Afar, the task force said on Friday.
In Syria, 11 strikes near al Hasaka, Dayr az Zawr and Kobani also struck eight Islamic State fighting units as well as two vehicles and other targets, the statement said.
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