[Ynet] An Afghan official says four people, including a district chief, have been killed by a roadside kaboom in a region of northern Afghanistan that has been largely peaceful until now.
Senatullah Tumor, the front man for the governor of northern Takhar province, said Sunday that the bomb killed Hamidullah Haqjo Ashkamesh, chief of the Ishkashim district, as well as a police officer and two of his bodyguards.
[Tolo News] Taliban's shadow governor in eastern Kunar has been killed along with two of his commanders and 12 fighters, the Afghan National Directorate of Security ...the Afghan national intel agency... (NDS) said in a statement on Sunday.
According to the statement the Taliban's shadow governor in Kunar Omar Zadran and his two commanders, Mawolawi Asghar from Dangam district and Mawolawi Shahabuddin from Kunar were killed in the strike..
These Taliban capos were killed in a joint security operation, the NDS said.
There were no reports of civilians casualties.
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[al-Alam] A prominent Taliban’s commander and 14 other terrorists killed in east of Afghanistan, Al-Alam correspondent reports. This group targeted in airstrike in Dangam District. Dangam District is located in the eastern end of Kunar Province, and is mountainous. Most of the population is Pashtun.
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Mogadishu -- Huge operation has been launched by Somalia security forces in Holwadag district in Mogadishu in a bid to thwart Al Shabab fighters’ attempts, internal security ministry said.
Somalia’s internal security ministry spokesman, Mohamed Yusuf told journalists that security details had arrested dozens of people on suspicion of Al Shabab militants in an operation in Mogadishu.
Somalia security forces carried out similar operations which were meant to ensure the overall security of Mogadishu.
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Eleven Al-Shabaab militiamen, including two fighters of Caucasian origin, and two KDF soldiers were Sunday morning killed in an attack on a military camp at Baure area, Lamu County.
According to military spokesman Colonel David Obonyo, Al-Shabaab militiamen attempted to attack the KDF camp at about 5:45 am Sunday morning but the attack was repulsed. KDF managed to neutralize 11 Al-Shabaab fighters in the firefight, which also saw two KDF soldiers lose their lives.
“The attack was aggressively repulsed and during the firefight 11 Al-Shabaab terrorist, including two fighters of Caucasian origin, were neutralised,” said Colonel Obonyo.
KDF recovered an assortment of weapons, including 13 AK-47 rifles, five RPGs and eight grenades.
Mr Obonyo further appealed to members of the pubic to report any suspicious looking individuals or anybody seeking medical assistance in the area.
After the attack, the militiamen who survived attacked a health centre and secondary school in the same area. The militiamen reportedly attacked Manga Health Center where they stole medicine before burning the store and two motorcycles. They also set Manga Secondary School dormitory on fire.
Confirming the incident, Senior Chief Lamu County Abdallah Shahassy said the militiamen launched the attack at about 5am and carried on till 7am.
This comes just days after the Inspector General of Police Joseph Boinett issued a statement saying that police are on high alert based on intelligence reports that terrorists might be planning attacks during the Muslim holy month of Ramadhan.
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The U.S military launched weekend airstrikes targeting and likely killing an al-Qaida-linked militant leader in eastern Libya who has been charged with leading the attack on a gas plant in Algeria in 2013 that killed at least 35 hostages, including three Americans.
The Libyan government said warplanes targeted and killed Mokhtar Belmokhtar and several others in eastern Libya. A U.S. official said two F-15 fighter jets launched multiple 500-pound bombs in the attack. The official was not authorized to discuss the details of the attack publicly so spoke on condition of anonymity.
U.S. officials said they are still assessing the results of the Saturday strike, but Pentagon spokesman Col. Steve Warren said the military believes the strike was successful and hit the target. Neither U.S. officials nor the Libyan government provided proof of Belmokhtar's death, which likely requires a DNA test or an announcement by Belmokhtar's group that he was killed.
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SO, we can fly a mission all the way to Libya and drop a butt load of bombs on one guy and yet we are afraid of collateral damage and hesitate to bomb ISIS parades and convoys.
I was talking to Sock Puppet al-Doomi yesterday and he says the air campaign against ISIS is the most pathetic use of air power he has ever witnessed.
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Moooooooktar! An old and illusive target on the kill or capture list.
[PULSE.NG] 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... terrorists, on Thursday, June 11, 2015, attacked the towns of Dabanga and Ngassama in 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... , residents say.
The faceless myrmidons were said to have stolen cartons of cooking oil from a convoy of vehicles in Ngassama and other foodstuff from Dabanga in the far North region.
Because when the jihad loses favour in the eyes of Allah, the not-so-brave Lions of Islam get awfully hungry.
According to a source cited by Cameroon Concord, the holy warriors also took many hostages from Dabanga.
Ja sure -- good for all the usual jihad slave purposes, plus they're edible.
Earlier reports had it that the sect had been hit with a shortage of food, weapons and fuel following heightened operations against it by Nigerian troops.
Allah is clearly very displeased. But Allah doesn't approve when his favoured are so quickly reconquistaed.
Meanwhile, ...back at the secret hideout, Scarface Al sneeringly put his proposition to little Nell... Cameroon was on Thursday part of talks with Nigeria, Benin, Chad and Niger Republic to create a joint force against the sect.
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[360NOBS] The Kano State Command has disclosed to media how a professor of the Ahmadu Bello University, ABU Zaria, Ahmed Falaki was murdered by a mob who mistook him for a boko haram terrorist.
Speaking to pressmen on Wednesday, the Assistant Inspector- General, Zone 1, Kano, Yabo Muhammad, revealed that Mr. Falaki was not killed by a gunshot fired by the police but by mob action when he was mistaken for a terrorist.
He said the late Professor, who was returning from a trip to Bauchi state, made a stop over to change a deflated tyre when his car was seized at gun point by fleeing murderous Moslems.
The Professor, his brother and a driver had headed to Fala village, a few metres from where their vehicle was snatched to seek assistance.
The villagers initially assisted them and called residents of a neighbouring village, alerting them of the fleeing murderous Moslems, and asking them to block the road.
However, a person who gets all wrapped up in himself makes a mighty small package... as the chaos ensued, Prof. Falaki had tried to identify himself to the special police squad who had arrived the scene, displaying his identity card. But the police officer, unable to read the contents of the ID card, suggested that the late professor, his brother and a driver, were part of the murderous Moslems.
The suspicions of the police officer caused panic among the villagers, leading to the mob action and the Professor's death.
Information gathered suggest that ABU Zaria is claiming that the Professor was killed by police bullet.
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[DAWN] 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 ... forces and their army allies 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... seized the capital of a large desert province on the border with 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... on Sunday, residents said, an important victory for the group ahead of peace talks in Geneva on Monday.
The Houthis, the dominant faction in Yemen's civil war, took control of al-Hazm, capital of the province of al-Jawf, amid Saudi-led coalition air strikes on Houthi positions and heavy fighting with armed rustics.
"The Houthi forces and those loyal to the former president spread out in the city and around government buildings," a tribal source in al-Hazm told Rooters by phone.
A Saudi-led military alliance has been carrying out air raids in Yemen for almost three months to try to restore exiled President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi and repel the Houthis, whom they regard as proxies for their regional archrival Iran.
Since forming an alliance with Yemen's still powerful former 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... and his loyalists in the army, the Houthis have taken over the capital Sanaa and swooped into several central provinces.
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[al-Alam] Nine people were killed when Saudi-led coalition warplanes bombed a district in the Yemeni capital Sanaa inhabited by relatives of ex-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... , residents and medics said.
Warplanes from the Saudi-led coalition struck Saturday positions 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... as warring parties from the impoverished nation prepared for UN-sponsored Swiss talks, witnesses said.
Air raids targeted central province of Dhamar, as well as air defence positions of allied troops loyal to former president Ali Abdullah Saleh, witnesses said.Saada were also hit.
A wave of intensive overnight air strikes targeted capital and residences of people including Saleh former President of Yemen brother's home, south of Sanaa, witnesses said.
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... launched the air war on March 26, as former President Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi refuge in the southern city of Aden.
Hadi had fled the capital, which the Ansarallah seized unopposed in September, and was rushed to Saudi Arabia as the Huthis closed in on Aden.
Clashes continued Saturday in the port city of Aden, as well as in nearby Daleh, and in the provinces of Shabwa and Abyan ...a governorate of Yemen. The region was a base to the Aden-Abyan Islamic Army terrorist group until it dropped the name and joined al-Qaeda. Its capital is Zinjibar. In March 2011, al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula declared the governate an Islamic Emirate after seizing control of the region. The New York Times fastidiously reported that those in control, while Islamic hard boyz, are not in fact al-Qaeda, but something else that looks, tastes, smells, and acts the same. Yemeni government forces launched an effort to re-establish control of the region when President-for-Life Saleh was tossed and the carnage continues... , where Saudi backed Rebels have been fighting advancing Ansarallah.
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[al-Alam] The Yemeni army and Popular Forces of Ansarullah killed tens of Al-Qaeda terrorists in special operations in Aden, Southern Yemen.
"A sum of 90 Al-Qaeda terrorists were killed in heavy fighting with army and Ansarullah forces in Ba'er Ahmad region of Aden," Saba news agency quoted an informed Yemeni military source.
The Yemeni army and popular forces are still continuing their mop-up operations in Aden's Ba'er Ahmad region.
The advances by the Yemeni forces came as the Saudi fighter jets are still pounding Aden to prevent further gains by the army and Ansarullah.
Earlier, the Yemeni army and Ansarullah fighters besieged a large number of Al-Qaeda terrorists in the province of Taiz as they continued to advance against the Saudi-backed militants.
Popular forces have tightened the noose on Al-Qaeda terrorists in Be'r Ahmad in Aden.
The Ansarullah fighters and army troops have made major advances in their fight against the Saudi-backed al-Qaeda terrorists and forces loyal to fugitive former President Mansour Hadi across Yemen in recent weeks, FNA reports.
The clashes between the Ansarullah fighters and the Saudi-backed al-Qaeda terrorists as well as the pro-Hadi militias continue in the Southern parts of the country as Saudi Arabia has been striking Yemen for 80 days now to restore power to fugitive president Mansour Hadi, a close ally of Riyadh.
Hadi stepped down in January and refused to reconsider the decision despite calls by Ansarullah revolutionaries of the Houthi movement.
Despite Riyadh's claims that it is bombing the positions of the Ansarullah fighters, Saudi warplanes are flattening residential areas and civilian infrastructures.
The Monarchy's attacks have so far claimed the lives of at least 4,561 civilians, mostly women and children.
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[DAWN] Over a hundred Baloch faceless myrmidons fighting against forces in insurgency-wracked Balochistan ...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it... have now surrendered and pledged their allegiance to the country, officials said on Sunday.
A group of 59 faceless myrmidons including two key commanders appeared before the media on Sunday, along with senior politicians and government officials from the province, to announce they would end murderous Moslem activities and become a "useful part" of society.
They followed a group of 47 faceless myrmidons on Saturday. All were given amnesty by the government.
The forces of Evil who surrendered were from groups such as Baluch Republican Army (BRA), Baluch National Movement (BNM), and Lashkare-e-Balochistan ...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it... (Army of Balochistan).
"We were trapped by our leaders who said they are fighting for the rights of Baluchs, but later we realized that they were enjoying their lives abroad and had pushed us and our families to a war here," Obaidullah alias Babrak, a Lashkar-e-Balochistan commander, told news hounds.
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[Rudaw] Authorities in Iraq say a boom-mobile blast near a market has killed 10 people in the capital, Baghdad.
Police officials say the attack took place Sunday night when the boom-mobile hit a market and shops in Baghdad's Qahira neighborhood. At least 20 people were maimed in the attack.
Several cars and shops were burnt in the attack, police said.
Medical officials in nearby hospitals confirmed the casualties. All officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to the media.
Nobody immediately grabbed credit for the attacks.
Baghdad and outlying areas see near-daily bombings. Many of them are later claimed 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.... group, which seized large parts of the country during a stunning blitz last year.
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[Rudaw] Iraqi military officials say that 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 has been cut off from weapons supplies in some parts of Anbar province, whose capital fell to ISIS last month.
Brig. Nasser Ghanam, commander of the Iraqi Army's Jazira and Badiya operations, said in a statement that ISIS has been cut off from weapons supplies from Syria through a border road running from Qaim to the town of Kobaisi in Ramadi.
The statement said that about 10 ISIS bandidosLions of Islam were killed in fighting near Kobaisi, after ISIS attacked military positions in the area.
The Iraqi military's Dijla and Badiya forces have distributed some 630 tons of food in the sub-districts of Baghdadi and Haditha, west of Baghdad, cutting the area off from Ramadi, which remains under ISIS control.
In other military developments on Sunday, local officials in Baghdadi said tribal fighters had repulsed several ISIS attacks around the sub-district, killing 16 bandidosLions of Islam and destroying six Hummer military vehicles.
In mid-May Iraq announced the launch of a military operation to drive ISIS out of the western Anbar province, where the Lions of Islam captured the thriving provincial capital, Ramadi, in early May.
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[Rudaw] 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.... has conducted a mass execution of former Iraqi soldiers in djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... , unnamed military sources told Rudaw Saturday.
According to the officials, the corpses of 27 former Iraqi soldiers were sent to a morgue in the city of Mosul. "ISIS had asked the soldiers to join ISIS and fight alongside the jihadis," the source said, claiming they were killed for not joining the group.
A similar story run by Mosul Eye on Wednesday made a bigger claim: that the bodies of 134 slain police and security officers were delivered to Aljamhouri Hospital. Mosul Eye, the nom de guerre of an "independent historian" reporting anonymously from inside Mosul, said ISIS killed the officials because it suspected they were aiding anti-ISIS forces.
ISIS captured Mosul in June 2014, overwhelming the defense forces, many of whom fled and left their weapons and uniforms behind.
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Looks like if ISIS drafts you, you had better go - and then kill your 'officers'.
[Rudaw] Kurdish artillery pounded 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.... (ISIS) on the Bashik front, southeast of the bad boy-held city of djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... , killing several the group's krazed killers, a Peshmerga official told Rudaw on Sunday.
"Later this evening the Peshmerga launched a mortar operation targeting ISIS movements and bases near the Bashik front, killing two and wounding a dozen of the krazed killers," Brig. Gen. Musa Gardi, commander of the Halgurd command, said.
"Because of the fire, many mines and booby traps planted by ISIS, who were fearing our every advance, detonated by themselves," he added.
Gardi said the Peshmerga did suffer any casualties.
In earlier festivities on the Bashik front, ISIS faceless myrmidons were repulsed in a fierce assault early April on Peshmerga stockades.
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[Rudaw] Five unnamed 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.... murderous Moslems surrendered themselves to Kurdish Peshmerga forces Sunday, Kurdish officials told Rudaw.
"They surrendered themselves through their tribal chief, and are now under investigation by Kurdish forces," Osman Abdulkarim, a Kifri security forces front man, said.
Abdulkarim added that the murderous Moslems also handed over their weapons.
Located in Sulaimani province, Kifri is a small town that had a population of 42,000 in 2003, and a Turkmen majority. Authorities did not identify the ethnicity of the murderous Moslems who turned themselves in.
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[al-Alam] Iraqi army and Popular Mobilization Forces attacked ISIS group, 48 forces of Evil have been killed.
Clashes in the Saladin province in northern Iraq led to the death of 48 Daesh bully boys, according to various sources, Anadolu Agency reports.
Lieutenant general Raid Joudat, head of the Iraqi police, said: "Police commandos managed to kill 38 forces of Evil and destroy 12 of their vehicles."
The operation took place west of Ramadi city, the quiet provincial capital.
"Iraqi police forces also killed 10 terrorists," Joudat added in the statement, "following attacks it launched alongside [Iraqi Shia militia] al-Hashd al-Shaabi against a position where Daesh fighters have entrenched themselves."
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[al-Alam] Photographs of the 4 ISIS Terrorists, one British by the nom de guerre Nigel Abu Yusef al-Britani and others believed to be Paleostinian, German and Kuwaiti nationals released in the social networks of ISIS supporters.
This group of ISIS faceless myrmidons reportedly carried out a deadly suicide mission on Baiji oil refinery in Iraq.
Several other pictures have emerged, providing a rare glimpse into the planning of the suicide bomb mission, Mail Online Reports.
In the pictures can be seen three of the four bombers taking instructions on the mission from a commander.
A mission statement claims that up to four jacket wallahs were used to drive pickup trucks packed full of explosives.
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West Bank -- An Israeli army jeep struck and killed a Palestinian in the occupied West Bank on Sunday, with the military and locals giving conflicting accounts of the circumstances.
A military spokeswoman said the jeep, which was in the village of Qafr Malik as part of an operation to arrest suspected militants, accidentally hit the Palestinian after he threw a petrol bomb at it.
“The driver was startled and swerved, hitting the man,” she said, adding that a military investigation would be launched. That'd startle me into swerving right into him.
Local resident Nail Abdul Latah El Hajj denied the Palestinian had attacked the jeep, saying the man was walking to work at a chicken farm when he was run down and then crushed as the vehicle crashed into a wall and overturned.
Just a humble chicken farmer. With a petrol bomb...
He said the man’s death sparked confrontations between stone-throwing Palestinian youths and Israeli troops. The military spokeswoman said the disturbances were already under way when the collision happened.
According to The Times of Israel it was a full-blown riot, and our poor, mistreated victim was not the only one throwing Molotov cocktails.
In a separate incident, the army said it was investigating soldiers who were filmed beating an unarmed Palestinian during a protest in a West Bank refugee camp on Friday. The video posted on social media showed the Palestinian being hit with a rifle butt and wrestled to the ground, where he was punched further and a soldier’s knee was pressed against his head. He was then handcuffed and taken away.
“If necessary, disciplinary action will be taken against (the soldiers). Based on preliminary investigation, it appears that the conduct displayed in the incident is inconsistent with that expected of IDF (Israel Defence Forces) soldiers,” the military said in a statement.
Israeli forces regularly mount raids in the West Bank in search of suspected militants, often touching off clashes with local residents. On Wednesday, Israeli soldiers shot dead a member of the Hamas group in the town of Jenin in one such operation.
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The driver was startled and swerved, hitting the man,”
[Inquirer] Philippine soldiers gunned down three New People's Army militants while suffering no losses in a clash early Sunday in Davao City. Residents identified the fatalities as Randy Cornasa and Ruben Inlog. The other slain militant was unidentified.
Battalion commander Rodney Intal said his men were fired upon while checking reports that gunmen had been conducting extortion activities in the area. He said his troops were pursuing other militants injured in the clash who escaped.
Eastern Mindanao Command chief Aurelio Baladad said, "I encourage those wounded NPA members to come out for medical treatment as our security forces will not stop their pursuit."
[Rudaw] Kurdish fighters from the People's Protection Units (YPG) have entered the town of Gire Spi and recaptured parts of the settlement from ISIS jihadis in Syrian Kurdistan, also known as Rojava, inside sources told Rudaw on Sunday on condition of anonymity.
According to a military source, YPG fighters are in partial control of the strategic town and it is expected to be fully liberated from ISIS within a day.
Another YPG official spoke to Rudaw on condition of anonymity and claimed "many of the jihadis have already left the town, but they booby trapped the area before leaving. It may take us longer to fully recapture Gire Spi."
Gire Spi had as of late become a hub for ISIS activity in the region because of its strategic location, connecting the Kobani canton in the north with Cizire in the northeast.
Kurdish forces declared autonomy in the three cantons of Afrin, Cizire and Kobani in Rojava after government forces withdrew from the area in the wake of the Syrian Civil War, now in its fifth year.
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[AnNahar] The Lebanese army detained a Lebanese and Four Syrians suspected of having links to terrorist groups, the military command said Sunday.
According to a communique, an army unit detained in the northeastern border town of Arsal Saturday compatriot Abdul Rahman Mohammed Ghdadi on charges of transporting three Syrians from the outskirts of the town into Leb.
The three Syrians are suspected of belonging to a terrorist group, the statement said.
Ghdadi was also driving a pickup truck without obtaining the necessary legal permits or license plates.
An army patrol also detained in the al-Faour town Syrian national Ahmed al-Mohammed for belonging to a terrorist group.
He has confessed to communicating with some of its members.
The five detainees along with the confiscated items were handed over to the competent authority for investigation.
The statement didn't specify which terror group the suspects belong to.
But definitely not Hizb'allah, because they're The Resistance.
Several suspected jihadist members have been locked away Drop the gat, Rocky, or you're a dead 'un! in recent months throughout Leb.
[EN.ZAMANALWSL.NET] Syrian state television ... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe?
and an official say two bombs have went kaboom! in government-held neighborhoods in the central city of Homs, wounding more than two dozen people.
The TV report said the first attack Sunday was a boom-mobile outside a school that maimed 27 passers-by.
A local official in Homs said Sunday's second blast was a bomb placed inside a taxi that maimed five students from Homs' Baath University on the busy Tijara Street. The official spoke on condition of anonymity as he wasn't authorized to speak to journalists.
No one immediately claimed the bombings, though government-held neighborhoods in Homs have been targeted by repeated kabooms that killed and maimed dozens over the past months.
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[al-Alam] Three sides including Kurdish YPG, small Rebel groups and ISIS terrorist engage in fighting around Turkish border.
The Syrian Kurdish YPG militia said it began an advance towards an ISIS-held town at the Turkish border on Saturday, thrusting deeper into the terrorist's stronghold of Raqqa province.
Redur Xelil, the YPG front man, told Rooters the YPG and smaller "Syrian Arab rebel groups" fighting alongside it had begun the move towards Tel Abyad after encircling the ISIS-held town of Suluk 20 km to the southeast.
The advance raises the prospect of a big battle at the Turkish border between the well-organized YPG militia and ISIS in Tel Abyad which is important to ISIS as the nearest border town to its de facto capital of Raqqa city,Daily Stars reported.
The Sick Man of Europe Turkey...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... says thousands of people have already fled across its border to escape fighting between the YPG and ISIS near Tel Abyad.
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The ISIS/ISIL to attack Turkey followed by Russia???
Beirut -- Kurdish forces closed in on a strategic Daesh-held border town in northern Syria on Sunday, prompting an exodus of fearful civilians from surrounding villages. Backed by allied rebels and air strikes by a US-led coalition, Kurdish militia pressed their offensive on Tal Abyad, used by the Daesh group as a gateway from neighbouring Turkey.
Late Saturday, the Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) advanced to within five kilometres (three miles) of Tal Abyad, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. The militia also seized at least 20 villages southwest of the border town, the Britain-based monitoring group added.
“They are on the eastern outskirts of Tal Abyad, but the southwestern front is much more difficult because it’s more populated,” said Observatory director Rami Abdel Rahman.
A Kurdish activist who visits the front line daily said the area’s mixed population was seeking refuge wherever it could.
“Tal Abyad is almost completely surrounded,” Arin Shekhmos told AFP.
An AFP correspondent on the Turkish side of the border reported that thousands of would-be refugees were queueing behind the barbed wire seeking asylum.
Another Kurdish activist in the symbolic battleground town of Kobane further west, liberated from Daesh by the Kurds earlier this year, said authorities there had set up a camp for the displaced.
“We are waiting for the whole border area to be liberated — from northeastern Syria all the way to Kobane,” Mustafa Ebdi told AFP.
Tal Abyad lies on the border between mainly Kurdish Kobane and Syria’s most populous ethnic Kurdish region — Hasakeh province — in the northeast. Both Ebdi and the Observatory said the Kurds had already occupied the nearby town of Suluk, denying Daesh access to Tal Abyad from the east.
“Daesh has completely withdrawn from Suluk. The Kurds are combing through it now and clearing the mines and booby-trapped vehicles there,” Abdel Rahman said.
He told AFP that US-led air strikes had been key in forcing the militants to withdraw.
On Saturday, the coalition said it had struck three Daesh tactical units near Kobane and had destroyed one of the group’s fighting positions.
To the west in Aleppo province, coalition raids killed at least 12 Daesh fighters as they fought a rebel alliance for control of a supply route from Turkey, Abdel Rahman said.
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[Ynet] A 17-year old who left northern England to join 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.... was reported to have become Britannia's youngest jacket wallah when he went kaboom! in a car in northern Iraq, British media said after the bully boyz posted pictures on social media.
The young man, who was named as Abu Yusuf al-Britani, was shown standing next to a black vehicle in photographs posted on Islamic State-affiliated social media accounts, the Guardian newspaper reported. The posts said he then took part in a suicide kaboom in Iraq's Salahuddin province.
He is believed to be Talha Asmal, a teenager who left West Yorkshire in March, and was thought to have joined Islamic State, according to a statement from his family.
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aye a Yorkie, right up there with Capt. Cook, Joseph Priestly and Constantius Chlorus.
Ah Well, maybe Guy Fawkes.....
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[Ynet] US-led forces conducted 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.... targets in seven Iraqi cities on Saturday, the US military said.
The strikes destroyed buildings, excavators, heavy machine guns and a tunnel system and struck Islamic State tactical units and rocket-firing and mortaring positions, the Combined Joint Task Force said on Sunday.
The strikes occurred near djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... , Sinjar, Tal Afar, Baiji, Falluja, Baghdadi and Makhmur, it said in a statement.
One strike was conducted in Syria, near Aleppo, it said.
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[al-Alam] These images show ISIS Armed terrorist walking in border close to turkey's soldiers.
Thousands of people have already fled across border to escape fighting between the YPG and ISIS near Tel Abyad at The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... 's border.
Yesterday The Syrian Kurdish YPG militia said it began an advance towards an ISIS-held town at the Turkish border, thrusting deeper into the terrorist's stronghold of Raqqa province.
While Kurdish fighters advanced Saturday to the outskirts of a key Syrian border town, Turkish forces sought to prevent thousands fleeing the fighting from crossing the frontier, AFP reports.
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When do you suppose the Turkish leadership will realize that ISIS will bite the hand that feeds it...just ask KSA.
[al-Alam] ISIS release a 29 minutes movie like past footage shows a part of its savagery and crimes against humanity and war crimes in djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... .
In this movie you see beheading, executions, whippings, throwing people from rooftop, Blasts and other war crimes.
This documentary released on the anniversary of the capture of Mosul by ISIS.
Many expert believed that ISIS is composed of a secret cooperation between CIA and MOSAD, moreover Wahhabi school in 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... helped it for recruitment forces and absorbing devil minds. ISIS hit most damages to Islam and other religion and minority in Syria and Iraq and other countries and expanding its savagery.
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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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The U.S military launched weekend airstrikes targeting and likely killing an al-Qaida-linked militant leader in eastern Libya who has been charged with leading the attack on a gas plant in Algeria in 2013 that killed at least 35 hostages, including three Americans.
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[Ynet] A 17-year old who left northern England to join 
