Unknown gunmen, thought to be Al Shabaab militants have attacked African Union mission in Somalia-AMISOM forces’ armored personnel carrier with grenade bombings in Marka town lies 109 km southwest of Mogadishu.
A resident told Shabelle Media in Mogadishu that hand grenades were thrown to AMISOM vehicle, travelling through Awballe areas in the coastal town of Marka, the capital of lower Shabelle region. African Union peacekeeping forces opened fire in response to the attack in which launched by suspected Al Shabaab gunmen, causing unconfirmed casualties.
Marka, a port city in the southern Lower Shebelle province of Somalia which lies 109 km southwest of Mogadishu is under control of Somalia National Army, along with African union troops.
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[World Post] JUBA, South Sudan -- As the sound of heavy gunfire neared his home last week, 32-year-old Anthony Bernardo knew the time had come to get his family as far from the epicenter of South Sudan's civil war as he possibly could.
Bernardo, his wife and their three children ran for the only place they could think of that might be safe -- an oil field a few hours' walk from the family's home in Melut, a town in South Sudan's Upper Nile state. The family met with Bernardo's father there, and they slept out on the tarmac at the oil field's airport that night, hoping to get a space on the South Sudanese military planes taking civilians out of the battle zone to the capital city of Juba.
A recent surge in fighting in South Sudan has sent more than 100,000 people fleeing from their homes in the past two months, according to a report this week from the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, or UNHCR. The report warned that the number of displaced persons is rising fast.
More than 2 million people have already been displaced by a war that has largely escaped international attention. South Sudan's government forces are battling with opposition fighters to gain control of as much territory as possible before the approaching rainy season renders large parts of the country inaccessible for several months.
The core of the fighting is taking place in the northern Unity and Upper Nile states, regions with barely functional roads and patchy telecommunication infrastructure. Little information makes its way out of these battle zones.
Several international aid organizations have pulled out of the areas where fighting escalated in recent weeks. The UNHCR warned on Tuesday that around 650,000 people have been cut off from humanitarian aid.
[BIGSTORY.AP.ORG] In a potentially major escalation of the months-long war, Yemeni rebels fired a Scud missile into Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... early Saturday. The attack suggests that despite more than two months of Arclight airstrikes by a Saudi-led coalition, Yemen's Iranian catspaws, known as Houthis, still have the military firepower to threaten cities inside Saudi Arabia.
According to the official Saudi Press Agency, two missiles launched from a Patriot missile battery shot down the Scud before dawn near the southwestern city of Khamis Mushait. The agency did not report any casualties in the attack, the first use of a Cold War-era Scud by the rebels since Saudi-led Arclight airstrikes targeting the Houthis began in late March.
Yemen's state news agency SABA, now controlled by the Houthis, said the rebels fired the Scud. The Houthis are allied with military and security forces loyal to former Yemeni President President-for-Life Ali Abdullah Saleh ... Saleh initially took power as a strongman of North Yemen in 1977, when disco was in flower, but he didn't invite Donna Summer to the inauguration and Blondie couldn't make it... .
Khamis Mushait is home to the King Khalid Air Base, the largest such facility in that part of the country. Saudis on social media reported hearing air raid sirens go off around the city during the attack.
The Yemeni military was widely believed to possess around 300 Scud missiles, most of which fell into the hands of the rebels. In April, the front man for the Saudi-led coalition, Saudi Brig. Gen. Ahmed Asiri, implied that the Scud arsenal 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... had been seriously degraded as a result of the Arclight airstrikes.
"As coalition forces, we confirm that all 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 ... capabilities were targeted, foremost their ballistic missiles," Asiri said at the time.
On Saturday, Asiri told the Saudi-owned Al-Hadath news channel that coalition forces have destroyed "most of" Yemen's Scuds.
Abdulkhaleq Abdullah, a professor of political science at United Arab Emirates University, said Saturday's attack was a way for the Houthis and their allies to signal that they still have fight left despite months of Arclight airstrikes. The Emirates is a member of the Saudi-led coalition.
"It is an escalation," Abdullah said. "It is clear now there has not been a knockout and a complete demolition of Houthi firepower."
The Saudis and Western powers accuse the Houthis of receiving military support from Shiite power Iran as part of a larger proxy war between the Sunni kingdom and the Islamic Theocratic Republic across the Mideast. Tehran and the rebels deny the allegations, though Iran has acknowledged sending humanitarian aid to the Houthis.
Saudi Arabia leads a coalition targeting the rebels in Arclight airstrikes in support of Yemen's exiled President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi. Those strikes have targeted arms caches and Scud missile sites around the country.
The coalition responded to Saturday's attack by targeting and damaging the Scud launcher, which was located south of the Houthi stronghold city of Saada, according to SPA.
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Off Yemen's reported arsenal of 300 SCUDS, the majority are held or controlled by the Houthis + pro-Saleh forces.
ION this sunny Guam AM ...
* GROONG > [IRNA] AYATOLLAH TASHKIRI: SAUDI REGIME ON VERGE OF DEFEAT [military collapse] IN YEMEN.
* RELATED SAME > [FNA.com] PRINCES [+ other KSA Royals + Families] FLEE SAUDI ARABIA AFTER SCUD [ + LR Rocket] MISSLE ATTACKS.
Ah yes, YOU CAN JUST FEEL THE REEL LEADERSHIP!
lol.
VERSUS
* DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > SAUDI ARABIA REPELS BIGGEST OFFENSIVE [yet] ON ITS BORDERS BY YEMENI PRO-SALEH REPUBLICAN GUARD.
More Yemen-based incursions into the KSA feared still to come.
[CNN] A U.S. Customs and Border Protection helicopter was forced to make an emergency landing in Texas after it was struck by gunfire from the Mexican side of the border Friday.
Laredo Police were called by border patrol, who said "one of their helicopters had received gunfire," said police front man Joe Baeza.
The helicopter was flying over an area notorious for illegal border crossings and narcotics smuggling.
"Our helicopter actually landed in Laredo and there were no injuries," the U.S. Customs and Border Protection said.
In a statement, the FBI said the helicopter was struck several times by gunfire about 5 p.m. during an operational flight near the Rio Grande in Laredo.
"The rounds penetrated and damaged the aircraft, forcing the pilot to make an emergency landing," the FBI statement said. "The pilot sustained no injuries and no individuals on the ground were affected."
Preliminary indications are that the gunfire came from the Mexican side of the border, Laredo Police said.
While it's not unusual to hear gunshots, incidents of cross border shootings are rare, Baeza said.
The FBI and Texas Rangers were processing the shooting scene.
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Not to ruffle too many feathers but this is not the first time this has come up. Hoover deported or induced some 120,000 Mexicans to leave, Truman in nearly 8 years repatriated some 3.4 Mexicans back to Mexico, and Ike sent somewhere between 1-2 million folks back to their home country.
Operation Wetback. It's hard to believe a government official would be allowed to call a govmint program Operation Wetback today.
[NATION.PK] At least nine suspected snuffies were killed in a US drone strike in the remote Shawal Valley in Pakistain's North Wazoo tribal region today.
According to sources, the drones targeted a house in Shawal's Zoya Saidgai area, which is said to be a hideout of the Afghan Taliban.
The drones fired two missiles, killing at least nine Death Eaters, sources said, adding that all killed in the incident were associated with the Afghan Taliban.
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[NATION.PK] Two suspected jacket wallahs got killed when their jackets went kaboom! in Sargodha today. According to police sources, the two were on Sargodha's University Road when their jackets went kaboom!. Fortunately, no innocent life was hurt.
Police and Bomb Disposal Squad arrived at the scene and took a suspect into custody. Also, the area was cordoned off immediately. According to reports, the blast, which occurred after two suicide bombers detonated their jackets, was extremely loud.
However, women are made to be loved, not understood... investigation into the incident is under way. The busy area has petrol pumps, educational institutions, a railway station, an anti-terrorist court and other offices.
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[NATION.PK] At least four police officials were rubbed out in Quetta's Pashtoonabad area today. According to our sources, unknown miscreants shot up a police mobile in Mullah Salam Road area. The coppers were on routine patrol when gunnies attacked their vehicle, killing an assistant sub-inspector, a driver and two constables.
Bodies of the killed coppers were brought to Civil Hospital Quetta for postmortem
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[NATION.PK] Three suspected Lions of Islam were killed in a shootout Saturday after they entered Indian-held Kashmire from the Pak side, an Indian army front man said.
Soldiers intercepted the Lions of Islam early Saturday in the border district of Kupwara, Lt Col Nitin N Joshi said.
The army did not suffer any casualties in the shootout, Joshi said.
There was no independent confirmation of the fighting.
Five Lion of Islams, three soldiers and a civilian have died in two shootouts in the same frontier area over the past two weeks.
Kashmire is claimed by both India and Pakistain in its entirety. India accuses Pakistain of funding and training Lions of Islam in Azad Kashmire and facilitating their entry into Indian-held Kashmire to fight Indian forces.
Islamabad denies the charge, saying it gives only moral and diplomatic support to the Kashmiri people.
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[NATION.PK] At least four coppers including Deputy Superintendent Police (DSP) Kulachi Zahoor Khan sustained injuries in an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) blast here on Friday. The police mobile van was on routine patrol when the blast occurred in DI Khan's Dara Mastang area injuring four coppers. The DSP was accompanied by his guard and other security personnel at the time of the attack. Emergency and security teams arrived at the blast site. Security forces cordoned off the area as a probe into the incident went underway.
Rescue personnel shifted the injured to the District Hospital DI Khan. No group has grabbed credit for the attack.
During the past several years scores of people have died in drive-by shootings and bombings in the Dera Ismail Khan ... the Pearl of Pashtunistan ... district bordering the restive tribal region.
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[NATION.PK] As many as nine bad boyz were potted, several injured and a number of hideouts of bully boyz destroyed when jet fighters of Pakistain Air Force (PAF) bombarded the suspected hideouts here on Friday. Security sources said that jet planes of PAF carried out shelling on hideouts of bully boyz in Shawal area of South Wazoo Agency (SWA). Several hideouts were destroyed in the air strikes resulting in death of nine gunnies and many others were reported injured.
Military operation, "Zarb-e-Azb ..the Pak offensive against Qaeda in Pakistain and the Pak Taliban in North Wazoo. The name refers to the sword of the Prophet (PTUI!)... " against the bully boyz was in progress and thousands of gunnies have been killed since it was launched in June 2014 after failure of peace talks with the Taliban.
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PTUI Python/Tkinter User Interface
PTUI Plain Text User Interface
PTUI Posted Time Update Interval (aviation)
PTUI Physical and Tangible User Interfaces
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The Kurds desperately need an influx of arms and supplies in order to be able to continue to hold their 600-mile long border against ISIS attacks. The need for weapons has only increased over the past months as the militant group has effectively plundered Iraqi military bases after overrunning cities, Yaroslav Trofimov reports from Kurdish-controlled areas for The Wall Street Journal.
"Peshmerga ammunition stocks are running low and whatever heavy weapons they have are mostly of Saddam Hussein-era vintage," Trofimov reports, citing Peshmerga commanders.
Currently, Kurdish lines throughout Iraq consist of defenses manned by Peshmerga troops armed with outdated weapons with dwindling supplies of ammunition.
I think they're going to have to borrow a page from ISIS and raid Iraqi Army armories...
The risk of the Peshmerga being overwhelmed by a similar scenario is likely given that the Kurds lack proper supplies. The US does not directly arm the Kurds: All supplies are routed through the central government in Baghdad, which has been reticent to provide the Peshmerga with all the arms the group may need over fears that Kurdistan may eventually push for independence.
This lack of direct aid has forced the Kurds to lobby the EU directly for medical aid, funding, and military support. On the ground, Kurdish commanders complained to The Journal that each loss the Iraqi military suffers directly aids ISIS and further empowers them against the Peshmerga.
"[ISIS] target us with weapons that were abandoned in Ramadi," Mustafa Sayid Qadir, the minister of Peshmerga affairs, told The Journal. "Wouldn’t it have been better if the Iraqi army had given them to us instead of giving them to ISIS?”
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But why do the Kurds get screwed? Not Arab and not Persian?
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..cause like Belgium which is stuck between Germany and France, and Korea which is stuck between China and Japan, the people and the land have been the playing field of big boys. There is an old Korean saying something along the lines - when whales fight, shrimp backs are broken.
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Obama has aligned himself with Baghdad and with Erdogan, and both are enemies of the Kurds and oppose a prospective Kurdish state. It is only thanks to European states that the Kurds have managed to do as well as they have. In Irbil one notes the presence of Brit and South Africa mercs, while the large CIA presence is accused of thumb-sucking.
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All arms are routed through Baghdad and Baghdad is reluctant to supply the Kurds?
Because Baghdad is more interested in fighting the Kurds than fighting ISIS? The first thing Al-Maliki did was purge the Kurdish officers out of the army. Baghdad has also refused to pay the Kurdish regional government or Kurdish civil servants.
The real problem is Obama is still coddling the Baghdad government even though the Europeans are arming the Kurds directly.
It's almost as if Obama wants ISIS to win.
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Almost, Al?
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Baghdad has also refused to pay the Kurdish regional government or Kurdish civil servants. The last I read, Baghdad was paying the government employees and civil servants in Mosul, run by ISIS. Baghdad has also supplied munitions to ISIS (voluntarily or not, remains to be seen).
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As an aside, has anyone heard from Sec'y. Kerry lately? The bicycle accident seems to have taken him out of the picture for an unusual amount of time.
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As an aside, has anyone heard from Sec'y. Kerry lately? The bicycle accident seems to have taken him out of the picture for an unusual amount of time.
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Remember, Barry and Co. including McCain were early backers of the anti-Assad group which was forming into ISJV. On the Risk board, ISJV works in Obama's favor as a counterweight to Russia and Iran. I think Obama sees a kindred spirit in Erdogon. Turkey makes money off of arms shipped through the Hellespont and by ISJV human traffic.
If the Kurdistanis are not 9 months into formal recognition, they missed their window. If they are and nobody has heard about it, then who is blocking it?
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D *** NG IT, that's ridiculous, WHY SHOULD THE KURDS, NATO-EU, + OUR EAST ASIA ALLIES, ETAL. WORRY ABOUT ANYTHING WID MIGHTY "RED LINE" DEFENDER" POTUS OBAMA BEHIND THEM!
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How long have I been beating this drum here? Even longer than that I've argued the same in SCIF areas. Foggy Bottom and the executive office simply dont give a shit.
Baghdad -- Government forces and Shia militiamen repelled two Daesh attacks in Anbar province on Saturday, officials said. In one attack, they used anti-tank missiles to stop four would-be suicide car bombers.
Police and military officials said Daesh fighters attacked the government-held town of Husseiba with heavy mortar fire early on Saturday. They say the attackers retreated after an hours-long battle, leaving behind three destroyed vehicles and five dead fighters. At least 10 troops and militiamen were wounded in the clash.
Iraqi forces took Husseiba, near the militant-held provincial capital of Ramadi, from the Daesh group last month.
The officials said that elsewhere in Anbar province, Iraqi troops using Russian anti-tank Kornet missiles destroyed four incoming suicide car bombs during an attack in the Tharthar area.
Iraqi forces, backed by Shia militias, have been struggling to recapture areas lost to the militant group in the country’s west and north. Last month the militant group scored a stunning victory, overrunning Ramadi and capturing large amounts of ammunition and armoured vehicles from fleeing government troops.
In the aftermath of the Ramadi defeat, Iraqi officials have stepped up calls for more weapons and more direct support from the US and the international community. During an international conference in Paris this week on the fight against the Daesh group, a senior US official pledged to make it easier to get weapons, including US anti-tank rockets, to the Iraqi soldiers that need them.
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[ARABNEWS] BAGHDAD: Government forces and Shiite turbans repelled two Daesh attacks in Anbar province on Saturday, officials said. In one attack, they used anti-tank missiles to stop four would-be suicide boom-mobileers.
Police and military officials said Daesh bandidossnuffies attacked the government-held town of Husseiba with heavy mortar fire early Saturday. They say the attackers retreated after an hours-long battle, leaving behind three destroyed vehicles and five dead fighters. At least 10 troops and turbans were maimed in the clash.
Iraqi forces took Husseiba, near the Lion of Islam-held placid provincial capital of Ramadi, from Daesh last month.
The officials said that elsewhere in Anbar province, Iraqi troops using Russian anti-tank Kornet missiles destroyed four incoming suicide boom-mobiles during an IS attack in the Tharthar area.
Iraqi forces, backed by Shiite militias, have been struggling to recapture areas lost to Daesh in the country's west and north.
Meanwhile, ...back at the argument, Jane reached into her purse for her .38... police said a bomb went kaboom! at a commercial street in the Taji area, just north of Baghdad, killing two people and wounding five others. Another kaboom near several shops killed three people and maimed eight others in the capital's southern suburbs.
In an emphatic defense of the air war in Iraq and Syria, a senior American general fired back at critics who call the campaign timid and ineffective, saying bombs have tied down Daesh men without killing large numbers of civilians.
In a news conference he said was called to counter misconceptions about the use of air power in an unconventional war, Air Force Lt. Gen. John W. Hesterman III asserted that pilots are killing more than 1,000 bandidossnuffies a month while avoiding civilian casualties and Iraqi government forces.
"The thought that we're observing large numbers of Daesh bandidossnuffies and not killing them, anywhere, is fiction," he said, using an Arabic acronym for 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.... , which has defied nearly a year of daily US Arclight airstrikes to maintain a hold on large swaths of northern and western Iraq and eastern Syria.
"We kill them wherever we find them," the general said.
Hesterman leads US Central Command's air forces and the coalition air campaign. He spoke by telephone to news hounds at the Pentagon from his headquarters at Al-Udeid air base in Qatar ...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates... .
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Surprise, surprise!
Boomobile is NOT an efficient way to use armor.
[ARA] The U.S.-led international coalition's warplanes hit the town of Hawija, west of Kirkuk in northern Iraq, causing the destruction of a major plant for explosives belonging 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.... (IS/ISIS), locals reported on Saturday.
Local sources told ARA News that the plant, which was destroyed by air strikes, was one of the largest IS plants in the region.
"The attack led to a huge kaboom in the plant, which was composed of several clustering houses close to each other," an Iraqi media activist said on the condition of anonymity.
"Hawija attack led to destruction in Awan district, the municipality building, the industrial district and the neighborhoods of Rey and Baitara," the source told ARA News.
The destruction caused by the Arclight airstrikes also reached the Tanak and "8 Shibat" districts. An estimated one square kilometer of distraction was the result of Saturday's strikes and the associated kabooms in the IS-held plant.
In the meantime, sources in the city of djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... in Nineveh province, northwestern Iraq, reported that the Islamic State formed a special committee to "compensate" the victims of the coalition's attacks in the Rifai district, as well as to guarantee the return of power supply to all neighborhoods of the city.
Noteworthy, the Rifai district of Mosul was exposed to kabooms after the coalition's strikes hit an IS-held plant there, which caused the death of dozens of civilians.
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Lemme guess, it was claimed as a baby duck factory by the Arab press?
[ARA] On Saturday, rebels of the Fatih Army (an extended umbrella for Syrian rebels) gained control of several villages in the countryside of Idlib, northern Syria, military sources said.
Rebels of Fatih Army have earlier taken over Ariha city in Idlib province, advancing towards the Sahl al-Ghab area in the regime-held coastal region, western Syria.
Al-Fatih Army announced in an official statement its control of the villages Ainata, Tabayiq, Sanqara, an-Nahl, Basenqool and Mahambal and the destruction of a number of regime-manned tanks in Idlib province on Saturday.
The rebels were able to kill dozens of soldiers from the pro-Assad army, according to the statement.
Assad army also withdrew from the town of Mahambal under heavy blows by the rebels.
Activist Abu Anas al-Faruq reported that the rebels' control over these villages in the countryside of Idlib will open the way towards the Sahl al-Ghab, the most strategic point separating opposition areas from those of the regime.
"Rebels will head towards these villages around Sahl al-Ghab and will be able then to easily target Assad fortifications in the coastal region" al-Faruq told ARA News.
Speaking to ARA News, Abu Adham al-Ansari, member of al-Nusra ...formally Jabhat an-Nusrah li-Ahli sh-Sham (Support Front for the People of the Levant), also known as al-Qaeda in the Levant. They aim to establish a pan-Arab caliphate. Not the same one as the Islamic State, though .. ... Front (Syria's branch of al-Qaeda), said that their fighters are currently locked in fierce battles with the pro-regime forces on the outskirts of Farika town, where the regime's soldiers are stationed after withdrawal from Mahambal.
On Friday, al-Fatih fighters took control of Basenqool and Mueen checkpoints as well as the highway of Ariha-Latakia, down to al-Qiyasat camp following festivities with pro-Assad forces.
Mohammed Jaafar, a fighter in al-Fatih Army ranks, told ARA News that they were able to destroy seven tanks and seize five others in al-Qiyasat camp along with capturing 30 pro-Assad soldiers and killing dozens others.
Meanwhile, ...back at the the conspirators' cleverly concealed hideout Montefiore's foot was still stuck and the hound had completely soaked his uniform with slobber... a military source in the regime's army reported that their forces withdrew from several villages in Idlib for re-positioning in new and more strategic locations for military operations in the region.
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[ARA] Subsequent to gaining control of few points from the Syrian regime south of Hasakah, northeastern Syria, as well as advancing in the southern outskirts of the city, 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 (IS/ISIS) is seeking to open a new fighting front, local activists reported.
The group seized control of the power plant in southern Hasakah few days ago, after the withdrawal of pro-regime forces.
Abdulsalam Saleh, political activist based in Hasakah, told ARA News that the southwestern suburbs of Hasakah (located on Abyad--Hasakah highway) witness military movements by the group towards the city.
"The festivities continue between the pro-regime forces backed by allied militias and the IS group in the past two days in the villages of Soda, Abed, and Abyad, coinciding with sporadic bombardments by the regime's artillery and air force," Saleh reported.
The source pointed out that pro-regime forces are preparing for a military campaign to regain the recently lost areas, "especially with the arrival of Maj. Gen. Mohammed Kaddour, head of the military and security committee for the Eastern District".
"Also the commander of the National Defense, Bassam Arsan, is preparing his forces to participate in the upcoming anti-IS operations in Hasakah," the source added.
Several groups share power over Hasakah province, including the Kurdish forces of the People's Protection Units (YPG), and pro-regime forces with allied militias, while IS gunnies are in control of several locations in the southern countryside of the province.
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[EN.ZAMANALWSL.NET] Sunni Islamist groups have overrun Syrian army outposts and villages in western Idlib province, closing on coastal strongholds of President Bashar al Assad's government, rebels and a monitor said on Saturday.
The Syrian army said its troops had abandoned the town of Muhambal, which passes along a major highway from the city of Aleppo in the north to the coastal port city of Latakia and were regrouping for a counter-offensive. Social media videos showed army trucks and large caches of weaponry abandoned.
The Islamist alliance, including al Qaeda's Nusra Front, calls its operation the "Army of Fatah", a reference to conquests that spread Islam across the Middle East from the seventh century.
"After taking over several villages, we came from the mountains and entered the town and began combing it," said Abu Malek, a field commander from Nusra who led the advance against Muhambal, was quoted as saying on an opposition television station.
Syrian state television ... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe?
later said it killed "tens of terrorists" and destroyed large convoys carrying Nusra Front fighters in a series of air raids on their positions in Basankoul and a string of villages rebels had taken over.
WEAPONRY ABANDONED
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which tracks violence across the country, said large caches of weapons were abandoned by the army when they fled the area.
Rebels have used American manufactured TOW anti-tank missiles against the Syrian army in weeks of heavy fighting, weapons that Damascus accuses The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... and Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... of supplying to hard boyz seeking to topple Assad's government.
The main olive growing Idlib province is strategically located, bordering Turkey and adjoining Latakia, the coastal province on the Mediterranean whose mountains are the ancestral home of President Assad's minority Alawite sect.
The British-based Observatory said the Islamist hard boyz intensified mortar shelling on army outposts in the strategic Jabal al Akrad mountain range that overlooks Alawite villages and close to Qardaha, hometown of the Assad family.
Nusra Front are rivals of the ultra hardline Sunni faceless myrmidons of 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.... who also expanded their presence after taking control of the central city of Palmyra last month. It marked the first time the group had seized a Syrian city directly from government control.
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Videos show perhaps a hundred troops running away with perhaps a dozen vehicles passing them, presumably officers.
Looks to me like Assad's forces are finished in the north. It remains to be seen where they can hold the line.
Reports of Iran supplying 15,000 troops. They will have to arrive by air, which means lightly armed. I doubt Egypt would let them transit the Suez Canal.
[EN.ZAMANALWSL.NET] At least 12 people were killed on Saturday in regime barrel kabooms on rebel-held Aleppo province, activists said.
Local activists told Zaman al-Wasl that said 8 people have been killed in Tariq al-Bab neighborhood in two barrel-kabooms.
Another barrel kaboom on the neighborhood of Jub al-Qubba killed a father and his three children, activists said.
For months, the regime has waged an unrelenting aerial campaign against the opposition-held areas making particular use of crude so-called barrel bombs.
Rights groups criticize the weapons as indiscriminate and say they are more likely to cause civilian casualties.
Syria's four-year-old war has killed more than 220,000 people and forced millions out of their homes.
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