[Khaama (Afghanistan)] Afghan cops have detained a Pak doctor who was treating Taliban in eastern Nangarhar The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country.. province.
A statement issued by the police headquarters of Nangarhar province identifies the doctor as Tariq Jamal.
The statement further adds that Jamal was detained among 11 suspects from the jurisdiction of Shirzad and Hirsarak districts during military operation yesterday.
Including two Chechen nationals, nine bully boyz were killed and 18 others maimed in the operation that is underway under the command of 201st Seelab Corps, the blurb states.
Hundreds of service members from NDS, army and police are participating in this operation that started few days before and will continue for one month.
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[ALMANAR.LB] At least five suspected Taliban members have been killed and two others have been injured in two US drone strikes in eastern Afghanistan over the course of two days, Afghan security officials said on Tuesday.
The World Bulletin news website cited provincial police chief, General Abdul Habib Saeedkhil, a US drone opened fired at a suspected Taliban hideout in Shigal district's Shonkorok Valley on Monday that left at least three bully boyz dead.
Another drone attack in Nazian district of Nangarhar The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country.. province killed two bully boyz and maimed two others on Sunday, Hazrat Hussain Mashriqiwal of the provincial police office, said.
Mashriqiwal added that Afghan cops were also engaging with bully boyz in an operation in the same district.
According to local officials, US-led international forces have carried out 17 drone strikes in the past one month in eastern Nangarhar province.
"At least 245 Death Eaters, including Taliban and ISIL [acronym of the so-called '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.... of Iraq and the Levant'] fighters have been killed in the past one month by drone strikes," front man for provincial governor, Ahmad Zia Alizai, said. "150 of those killed were ISIL affiliated fighters," Alizai added.
A suspected ISIL leader Hafiz Saeed was killed along with 30 of his fighters in a US drone strike in Nangarhar on July 10.
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[ALMANAR.LB] The Takfiri ...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who must be killed... terrorist group, ISIL (so-called 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.... in Iraq and Levant), claimed Wednesday to have beheaded a Croatian hostage kidnapped in Egypt, posting a purported picture of the victim's body on ISIL-affiliated Twitter accounts.
The Croat, Tomislav Salopek, was kidnapped last month west of the capital Cairo. The Takfiris had issued a 48-hour deadline that ended last Friday threatening to kill him if Moslem women prisoners were not released from Egyptian jails.
The picture's authenticity could not be immediately verified.
His abduction and purported killing were unprecedented in Egypt, which is battling an ISIL insurgency in the eastern Sinai Peninsula.
State-run Croatian news agency HINA quoted a foreign ministry source as saying it "does not have confirmation that kidnapped Croatian citizen Tomislav Salopek has been killed."
The picture was posted on ISIL-affiliated Twitter accounts with the caption: "Execution of prisoner from Croatia -- which has participated in war on Islamic State -- after deadline ended," referring to ISIL.
Salopek, a 31-year-old father of two, had been working with French geoscience company CGG when kidnapped from a car roughly 22 kilometers west of Cairo, security sources told AFP.
Al Ahram pointed out it's Egyptian IS affiliate Ansar Bayt al Maqdis, not ISIS proper.
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[AnNahar] Chad's President Idriss Deby declared Tuesday that efforts to combat neighboring Nigeria's 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... jihadists had succeeded in "decapitating" the group and would be wrapped up "by the end of the year".
Addressing news hounds in the capital N'Djamena on the 55th anniversary of Chad's independence from La Belle France, Deby said: "Boko Haram is decapitated. There are little groups (of Boko Haram members) scattered throughout east Nigeria, on the border with 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... . It is within our power to definitively overcome Boko Haram."
"The war will be short, with the setting up of the regional force, it will be over by the end of the year," Deby added, referring to a new five-country force aimed at ending Boko Haram's bloody six-year Islamist insurgency that he said would be "operational in a few days".
Benin, Cameroon, Chad, Niger and Nigeria have all pledged troops towards the new force.
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Deby further claimed that Boko Haram was no longer led by the fearsome Abubakar Shekau and that his successor was open to talks.
Talks are lovely, of course, especially if there are especially nice tea cakes and caviar in the offing, but surrender's the thing, not a mere hudna while the Lions of Islam rest and rearm.
"There is someone apparently called Mahamat Daoud who is said to have replaced Abubakar Shekau and he wants to negotiate with the Nigerian government.
"For my part, I would advise not to negotiate with a terrorist," Deby, whose country has been spearheading the regional fightback against Boko Haram, said.
While claiming progress in the fight against the jihadists, who have repeatedly hit border areas of Cameroon, Chad and Niger, and wrought havoc in northeast Nigeria ... a particularly crimson stretch of Islam's bloody border... , Deby admitted that jacket wallahs still posed a threat.
In the past few week, suicide bombers, many of them women, have staged several attacks in Nigeria, Cameroon and Chad.
The challenge, Deby said, was to "avoid terrorist acts and that's why we must organize at the regional level to prevent bomb-making materials and other explosives entering our countries."
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Much of this may be bluster but the Boko Haram's worst nightmare occurred when Chadian troops entered the fray. Boko Haram is no way the match for the Chad force which is composed in great part by Toubou and Zaghawa, two ethnicities that were born to fight. Many are Sufi of the Sanussi tariqa, and heterodox Muslims. Thus, they are not easily suborned as the Islamists in Khartoum well know.
[YEMENONLINE.INFO] Saudi-backed forces loyal to Yemen's exiled government captured more territory from Iran-backed rebels Tuesday as they pressed an advance that has seen them retake large parts of the country's south.
Aid agencies voiced alarm over the "catastrophic" humanitarian situation in the impoverished nation, devastated by months of fighting.
The gains by forces backing President Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi have been aided by weapons and troops from Gulf countries, as Saudi-led coalition warplanes continue to pound rebel positions.
The Popular Resistance Committees, comprising pro-government fighters, Sunni tribes and southern separatists, seized overnight the town of Utmah, about 100 kilometres (60 miles) south of capital Sanaa, military officials said.
The town is in the Shiite majority province of Dhammar, which borders Sanaa province, where Iran-backed rebels have held the capital since September.
Meanwhile, ...back at the comedy club, Boogie sadly admitted that he was a better peeping Tom than he was a comedian... fierce festivities between local pro-government militia and the rebels rocked Arhab, just 25 kilometres north of Sanaa, military sources said.
"Sanaa is the real target" of the advancing pro-Hadi forces, said analyst Mustafa al-Ani, from the Gulf Research Centre.
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[Dhaka Tribune] A police probe into reports that Niladri Chatterjee Niloy had been rebuffed by police as he attempted to file a general diary (GD), has admitted that the slain blogger had made at least one visit to a cop shoppe.
Despite finding evidence from an analysis of Niloy's phone records, the probe body could not confirm the reason for his visit to the station.
Known as Niloy Neel on blogging platforms and on Facebook, Niladri posted accounts of his difficulties with filing a GD despite telling police that he feared he was in danger.
He was hacked to death with machetes by four person or persons unknown at his home in Dhaka around 1:30pm last Friday.
A police official asking not to be named, said Niloy's cell phone showed evidence of activity in the Khilgaon cop shoppe area on the date when it is claimed he attempted to file a GD.
"However, some people are alive only because it's illegal to kill them... that does not prove he was there to file a GD. We are still investigating."
A three-member police probe body led by Tareq Bin Rashid, additional deputy commissioner of Motijheel division police, submitted its preliminary report to the commissioner of Dhaka Metropolitan Police.
The probe body recommended that action be taken against the Khilgaon cop shoppe officer-in-charge and duty officer who were on duty when Niloy visited.
Anowar Hossain, deputy commissioner of Motijheel division police, said a preliminary report had been sent tot the deputy commissioner of DMP headquarters containing proof that Niloy had been at the cop shoppe.
"If it is proven that Niloy was there to file a GD and the police refused to take it, those responsible will be held to account," he said.
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I'd look to see where the cops were at 1:30PM last Friday. Perhaps machete training?
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[AnNahar] The leader of a Caucasus Islamist group in Russia's restive Dagestan ...a formerly inoffensive Caucasus republic currently bedevilled by low-level Islamic insurgency, occasional outbreaks of separatism, ethnic tensions and terrorism, primarily due to its proximity to Chechnya. There are several dozen ethnic groups, most of which speak either Caucasian, Turkic, or Iranian languages. Largest among these ethnic groups are the Avar, Dargin, Kumyk, Lezgin, and Laks. While Russers form less than five percent of the population, Russian remains the primary official language and the lingua franca... region has been killed in a mountain raid that included air strikes, Russian security services and Islamists said Tuesday.
Four people died in the operation by Russia's special forces and military, Dagestan's interior ministry said.
The current leader of the Caucasus Emirate group, Magomed Suleimanov, was among those killed, the National Anti-terrorist Committee (NAK) said in a statement to Russian news agencies.
Insurgent website Kavkaz Center also said that Suleimanov, 39, was killed in the course of a two-day raid near the mountain village of Gimry which included strikes from helicopters.
The Caucasus Emirate group had claimed several major attacks on Russian soil in recent years, including the Domodedovo airport bombing, which killed 27 people, and more recently twin blasts in the southern city of Volgograd which killed 34.
Suleimanov's biography on myrmidon websites says he was educated in the Al-Fatih Islamic Institute in Damascus after which he began recruiting fighters in his home village Gimry.
He orchestrated several attacks in the region, including a suicide kaboom that killed respected Moslemholy man Said Afandi in his home along with seven others in 2012.
He has only been the head of the Caucasus Emirate group since July, after a hiatus of more than a year since its longtime leader Doku Count Doku Umarov ... Self-styled first emir of the Caucasus Emirate. Count Doku has announced that his forces will not target civilians, but qualified that statement by saying there aren't any civilians in Russia... was killed in March 2014.
Besides lack of leadership, the Caucasus Emirate group, which was formed in 2007, has been weakened by an exodus of fighters joining 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 in Syria and switching allegiance to IS leader His Supreme Immensity, Caliph of the Faithful and Galactic Overlord, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi ...formerly merely the head of ISIL and a veteran of the Bagram jailhouse. Looks like a new messiah to bajillions of Moslems, like just another dead-eyed mass murder to the rest of us... In June, turbans in four Caucasus regions pledged allegiance to the IS, which established its own governor for the Caucasus, Rustam Aselderov.
[Ynet] Spain's Interior Ministry says police have tossed in the slammer Keep yer hands where we can see 'em, if yez please! a man suspected of advocating terrorism and selling clothes carrying propaganda 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.... gang.
A ministry statement Wednesday said the Spanish national ran a shop and an online outlet through which he sold clothes, including baby onesies, with jihadi group emblems, and T-shirts with images of Islamic State group attacks. He was arrested in the northwestern town of Naron.
Additional details at 10:20 a.m. ET from Fox News Latino, including that the shopkeeper was also a fan of Syrian rebel group Harakat Sham al Islam here.
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[Hurriyet Daily News] At least 13 suspected members 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.... of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) were detained in operations across The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... on Aug. 12.
Police detained the suspects in coordinated dawn raids in the capital Ankara, Istanbul, the province of Hatay near the Syrian border, and the Central Anatolian province of Kirikkale, Anadolu Agency reported.
Police are still hunting for another three suspected ISIL members. Twelve of the detained suspects were seized in Ankara, while one was detained in Hatay. The police are searching for the remaining suspects in Istanbul, Kirikkale and Ankara.
The authorities had announced on Aug. 11 the arrest of 23 foreign nationals, including women and kiddies, seeking to cross into Syria to join ISIL via the southeastern border town of Kilis. The suspects were reportedly from China, Indonesia, Russia and Ukraine.
Turkey is currently pressing a two-pronged "anti-terror" offensive against ISIL Death Eaters in Syria and outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) Death Eaters in northern Iraq and the southeast, amid a wave of violence inside Turkey. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan ... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him... on Aug. 12 said "effective operations" have been carried out against ISIL jihadists, although Ankara has so far concentrated the campaign mainly against the PKK.
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seems the turks have
priority 1 - jail people opposed to erdogan
priority 2 - kill kurds
priority 3 - isis
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lord garth, what's the verb for number 3? Support, cheer, shake head at..............?
[Hurriyet Daily News] Iran says it has closed its biggest ground crossing with The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... in the wake of a series of violent attacks on Iranian vehicles.
"The Gurbulak-Bazargan crossing has been unilaterally closed in the direction from Iran to Turkey," Iranian Road and Urban Planning Deputy Minister Davud Kesaverziyan said in a written statement on Aug 12, citing an attack on an Iranian truck in Turkish territories.
Kesaverziyan said the closing was decided upon Turkey's request and the door was still open from Turkey to Iran.
Kesaverziyan has met with Turkish Ambassador to Iran Riza Hakan Tekin on a series of recent violent attacks on Iranian vehicles, he added.
Iran denied claims it had closed its main border crossing into The Sick Man of Europe Turkey Wednesday after an Iranian truck was torched in a fresh attack on vehicles entering from the Islamic republic.
"All the country's land borders... including the one in Bazargan, are open and traffic is passing through," interior ministry Director General Majid Agha-Babaie said.
"None of the border (crossings) are closed and none will be," he added in remarks carried by state news agency IRNA.
Earlier, road traffic organization chief Davoud Keshavarzian was quoted as saying the crossing at Bazargan in the northwest had been closed to traffic into The Sick Man of Europe Turkey but not from the opposite direction.
He said that came following a new attack Tuesday evening on an Iranian truck in Turkey.
Another official quoted by IRNA said Turkish vehicles were crossing the border headed home, but that Iranian drivers were refusing to enter Turkey.
Keshavarzian did not say who carried out the attack or what the motive was, but there has been growing unrest in Turkey in recent weeks involving Kurdish separatists.
He said the driver of the torched truck was not killed, adding that he had spoken to the Turkish ambassador and asked that "the Turkish government ensure the safety of Iranian drivers in Turkey as Iran does for Turkish drivers."
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[Hurriyet Daily News] One soldier was killed and five members of security forces were maimed yesterday in another outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) attack in the southeastern province of Diyarbakir, the General Staff has stated.
PKK murderous Moslems staged an armed attack on a gendarmerie post in the Sur district of Diyarbakir at 1.10 p.m. with rocket propelled grenades and long-barreled weapons.
One specialized sergeant was killed and four soldiers, along with a temporary village guard, were maimed. The condition of two of the maimed personnel was reported as critical.
Meanwhile, ...back at the desert island, Irene was indignant at the thought of doing such a thing without benefit of clergy... Turkish jets carried out Arclight airstrikes on suspected PKK targets in the southeastern province of Sirnak, the military said Aug. 11.
"Two F-16 jets targeted two Dochka [anti-aircraft gun] positions belonging to the separatist terror organization," said the General Staff in a statement on its official website, referring to the PKK.
The operation followed a string of attacks against Turkish security forces on Aug. 10, which killed five coppers and one soldier.
Before the launch of the Arclight airstrikes, one police officer was also maimed late on Aug. 11 in attack staged by the PKK in the southeastern province of Mardin, while one PKK myrmidon was captured dead.
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[ALMANAR.LB] Pak security forces said Wednesday they had foiled a plot to bomb Independence Day celebrations in Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... after arresting a Taliban gang in the city.
Militants had been planning to detonate a van loaded with explosives in the country's largest city during Friday's celebrations marking independence from Britannia in 1947, a statement from the military said.
"In an intelligence-based operation security forces have... foiled a terrorist bid planned to sabotage 14 August celebrations in Karachi," the statement said.
The military released photos showing four men detained in the operation along with the van, a cycle of violence and bomb-making equipment.
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[DAWN] At least four policeman were killed on Wednesday when unidentified armed persons opened fire on a police mobile van in the Zaman Town locality of Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... 's Korangi area, DawnNews reported.
DawnNews quoted SSP Korangi Naeem Ahmed Sheikh as saying that Assistant Sub-Inspector (ASI) Aqeel and three other cops was struck down in his prime.
Local news channels quoted witnesses as saying that the coppers were having lunch at a roadside hotel when unidentified cycle of violence-riding gunnies opened indiscriminate fire on them.
The attackers managed to escape from the site and took away the coppers's official weapons.
All victims were shifted to Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre (JPMC).
Sindh Chief Minister Syed Qaim Ali Shah took strong notice of the coppers's murders.
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[DAWN] At least three security personnel were killed when an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) went off on Wednesday in Sandana area of Khyber Agency's Tirah Valley.
According to a security official, the bomb which had been planted on a roadside, went kaboom! when security personnel were on a routine patrol of the area, where the army is currently involved in Operation Khyber-2.
As a result of the IED attack, three security personnel, including a Pakistain Army captain were killed in the attack.
The area is off-limits to journalists, making it difficult to independently verify the number and identity of the dead.
Khyber Agency is included in Pakistain's seven semi-autonomous regions governed by tribal laws and lies near the Afghan border. The Taliban and other Al Qaeda-linked groups who stage attacks in both Pakistain and Afghanistan are also known to have strongholds in the zone.
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[Reuters] At least 60 people were killed and 200 injured in an explosion on Thursday at a market in Baghdad's Sadr City district.
Police officer Muhsin al-Saedi said, "A refrigerator truck packed with explosives blew up inside Jamila market at around 6 a.m. Many people were killed and body parts were thrown on top of nearby buildings."
Smoke rose from charred debris. Rescuers pulling bodies from the rubble waded through sheet metal that had formed the roofs and walls of vendors' stands. Angry people gathered at the site of the blast, some crying the names of their missing relatives and others cursing the government.
"We hold the government responsible, fully responsible," witness Ahmed Ali Ahmed said, calling on the authorities to send army and Shi'ite militias to man checkpoints in the capital.
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Sorry, Hemingway - just not in the mood for your rote drivel.
[RUDAW.NET] A mass grave of 150 ISIS forces of Evil was found in southeastern djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... province on Wednesday, Saeed Mamuzini, a media officer for the Kurdistan Democratic Party's (KDP) Branch 17 branch in Mosul, told Rudaw.
Mamuzini said the grave site was found by a shepherd who was recently nabbed Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw! 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.... holy warriors.
The mass grave reportedly included more than 150 bodies of ISIS fighters, mostly foreigners, buried near Mosul-Baghdad highway.
In July, another ISIS mass grave was found in northwestern Mosul province, Mamuzini said.
"The mass grave was discovered by the civilians inside Mosul [city]. The mass grave included 72 bodies of ISIS holy warriors, mostly foreigners," he said.
"Those ISIS fighters have been killed during the US-led coalition Arclight airstrikes following Peshmerga attacks on ISIS military bases and weapons depots," Mamuzini added.
The city of Mosul fell after an ISIS attack across much of western Iraq. The defeat was a humiliation for the Iraqi Army, with many troops known to have abandoned their weapons and uniforms as they fled the ISIS onslaught.
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Nuke them all, let God sort them out
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[RUDAW.NET] Coalition warplanes and Peshmerga forces have destroyed heavy-weapons depots 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.... (ISIS) on the western Dijla front, inflicting a heavy blow on the group's ability to engage in heavy festivities, a Kurdish official said Wednesday.
"On Tuesday, at around 5:50, the US-led coalition warplanes and the Peshmerga destroyed ISIS military bases as well as weapons depots containing heavy weapons in the village of Ashqi close to the Kaske two-sided road on the western Dijla front," said Brig. Dilshad Maulood, media officer of the Zeravani Peshmerga command.
He told Rudaw that heavy weapons storage facilities were targeted, undercutting the group's fighting capacity. He claimed that was a "major blow" to the myrmidons.
The key western Dijla front is located west of djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... , where Peshmerga and coalition warplanes have been targeting ISIS movements and positions. The attacks are part of plans to weaken the gunnies ahead of an anticipated massive assault to free the city, which ISIS seized in June last year.
Meanwhile, ...back at the revival hall, the congregants were being herded into the paddy wagon... the US military said Tuesday that coalition forces have carried out 20 Arclight airstrikes, bombing 10 ISIS-held cities and towns in Iraq and an equal number in Syria.
A bomb-making facility run by the group was destroyed in Arclight airstrikes on Monday on the Makhmour front and the gunnies were attacked in the nearby village of Kodila Shian, where ISIS casualties were still unknown, according to Peshmerga front man Col. Mala Mahdi.
The destruction of the bomb facility followed an ISIS missile attack on Makhmour last week, in which a 20-year-old woman was reportedly killed and two other women were badly maimed.
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Okay. Air strikes are in the air. Peshmerga is Infantry--always capitalize Infantry--so how did they do the op together? Spotters? Somebody teach the Kurds how to call in tacair?
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[AFP] A Filipino village chief held hostage by the Abu Sayyaf has been found beheaded on a highway on the remote southern island of Jolo. Rodolfo Boligao's handcuffed remains were found on Tuesday evening, with his severed head placed next to his body, said Chief Inspector Walter Anayo, police chief of Maimbung town. A piece of paper with the victim's name written on it was placed on top of the corpse.
Senior Superintendent Mario Buyuccan said, "It appears he was beheaded right there on the road. The body was intentionally left in the middle of the road so that people could find it."
Abu Sayyaf militants grabbed Boligao along with two members of the coast guard from the port city of Dapitan in May and demanded ransom. The government rejected the ransom demand and the fate of the coast guard members is not known.
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[RUDAW.NET] 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 moved large numbers of imported muscle and weapons into the Syrian city of Deir Ezzor to capture a neighborhood still under regime forces, activists reported Wednesday.
The jihadi group, known as ISIS or IS, has brought in "huge military reinforcement and non-Syrian fighters to the city of Deir Ezzor," the UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) said.
"Reliable sources informed SOHR that IS brought military reinforcement to its-held areas in the city of Deir Ezzor" in eastern Syria, it added. "The reinforcement contains ammunition, equipment, cannons as well as non-Syrian bad boys."
The reinforcements were brought in for an attack on the al-Jora neighborhood, which together with the city's al-Qusour district have been under control of regime forces and under siege since the start of this year, the sources said.
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[RUDAW.NET] Peshmerga officials say they have asked international experts to examine maimed Peshmerga soldiers who they fear were exposed to chemical weapons by 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.... Lion of Islams.
Muhammad Khoshawi, a Peshmerga commander, told Rudaw a group of US and French experts had arrived in the area to take samples and establish facts after a Tuesday night mortar attack on Kurdish positions in Makhmur, some 35 kilometers (22 miles) southwest of Erbil.
"Last night at least 45 mortar rounds were fired at our positions, which we believe were loaded with chemicals, since the wounds are different," Khoshawi, whose forces patrol the area, said.
Burn wounds on the bodies of a number of Peshmerga were examined by the experts and sent to a laboratory for further studies, according to Khoshawi.
He said Peshmerga forces in the area were instructed to use gas masks in case of mortar attacks until results are verified in the laboratory.
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Lulz
Splish splash I was takin a bath
Right in the grand canal!
Bing bang I saw the BRIC gang!
I went and sold my yuan
Too late
I seed my fate and put my dancin shoes on!
[ALMANAR.LB] Terrorists launched rocket shells on Damascus on Wednesday, killing at least five civilians and injuring dozens others.
"The shells, which were fired by snuffies positioned in the Eastern al-Ghouta, left five civilians dead and 55 others injured," official news agency, SANA, quoted a source at Damascus Police Command as saying.
The source noted that most of the victims are women and kiddies, SANA added.
Meanwhile, ...back at the alley, Bugs Moroni was holding Slats from behind while his brother Greasy Thumb was pounding his face into paste ... the so-called Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Britannia-based monitoring group, also said rocket shells were launched on Damascus, but reported different corpse count.
The observatory said more than 50 missiles were fired at several central neighborhoods.
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[ALMANAR.LB] Syrian Army and the popular committees thwarted attempts by terrorist forces of Evil to penetrate Kfarya and Foua towns in the province of Idlib.
Field sources said that the forces of Evil launched several attacks on several fronts in the two towns, stressing that the attacks were failed.
Many bad boyz were potted and injured as the popular committees repelled the attacks, the sources added, noting that they managed to capture a tank of forces of Evil in Deir Zoghb, the sources added.
Fighters of the committees also managed to pull the corpses of the Takfiri ...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who must be killed... forces of Evil along with their commanders, according to the sources.
As they failed to penetrate the fronts of the towns, forces of Evil launched dozens of rocket shells on the towns, killing and injuring a number of civilians.
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[Ynet] The United States and its allies targeted 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.... forces in Syria with nine air strikes on Tuesday, and also conducted 10 strikes against the murderous Moslem group in Iraq, according to a statement released on Wednesday.
In Syria the coalition forces primarily attacked Islamic State targets near Al Hasakah, with five strikes hitting tactical units and destroying fighting positions, bunkers and a structure, the Combined Joint Task Force said in the statement. The forces also conducted three air strikes near Aleppo and hit a bridge near Dayr Az Zawr.
Air strikes in Iraq were spread throughout the country. Near Ramadi, three strikes hit tactical units and destroyed an improvised bomb, the statement said. Forces also pursued Islamic State targets near Al Huwayjah, Bayji, Makhmur, Sinjar and Tal Afar.
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back to 19, huh?
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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
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
"For my part, I would advise not to negotiate with a terrorist," Deby, whose country has been spearheading the regional fightback against Boko Haram, said.
[AnNahar] The leader of a Caucasus Islamist group in Russia's restive 
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[Hurriyet Daily News] One soldier was killed and five members of security forces were 
[Reuters] At least 60 people were killed and 200 injured in an explosion on Thursday at a market in Baghdad's Sadr City district.
een found beheaded on a highway on the remote southern island of Jolo. Rodolfo Boligao's handcuffed remains were found on Tuesday evening, with his severed head placed next to his body, said Chief Inspector Walter Anayo, police chief of Maimbung town. A piece of paper with the victim's name written on it was placed on top of the corpse.
