[Reuters] Dozens of Taliban fighters were stranded on a river island on the border between Afghanistan and Turkmenistan on Saturday after fleeing army troops led by the Afghan vice president, the government said, though the Taliban denied they were stuck.
Taliban fighters fled on Thursday to the banks of the Amu River, one of the longest in Central Asia, deserting motorbikes and using fishing boats to reach the island, said Sultan Faizy, spokesman for Vice President General Abdul Rashid Dostum.
"They have no choice but to surrender or starve," he said, adding that Afghan troops had not advanced so as not to enter Turkmenistan. There is another choice worth consideration: an Arc Light strike on the island. Or maybe two of them. Just make sure no bombs fall in Turkmenistan or Erdogan will complain.
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Turkmenistan is headed by President Gurbanguly BERDIMUHAMEDOW (since 14 February 2007, when he was elected with 97% of the vote.) Erdogan heads Turkey, which does not border Afghanistan.
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Or use my favorite fantasy. Low pass by a KC-137 emptying its onboard refueling tanks. Except instead of jet fuel have the dumping used bacon grease
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I mentioned Erdogan because Turkey sometimes takes the side of other nations with ethnic connections to Turks, not because I thought he was the head of Turkmenistan.
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Stranded
Stranded on a toilet bowl
Stranded
Stranded
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What do you do when you're stranded
And there ain't nothing on the roll?
To prove you're a man
You must wipe it with your hand
Stranded
Stranded on a toilet bowl!
Nearly a dozen of people suspected to be Al shabaab members have been detained in a joint security sweep by Govt and AMISOM troops in Bardere city, located in south west of Somalia.
Confirming the episode, Garad Ahmed Warsame who is the deputy police boss of Bardere said that the allied troops have carried out an operation in the city and netted Al shabaab suspects.
“We are interrogating several youths who were arrested in the security operation at the city’s police station on suspicion of being Al shabaab elements,” said the police officer while speaking to Radio Shabelle.
Somali Govt troops have been conducting operations aimed to boost up the overall security of the town and its nearby villages after several attacks by Al shabaab militants.
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[AlAhram] A parliamentary candidate of the Salafist Nour Party, the only Islamist group running for parliament, was rubbed out Saturday while leaving his house in the North Sinai city of Al-Arish, security sources told Al-Ahram Arabic website.
Mostafa Abdel-Rahman, a pharmacist, was the only candidate running for Nour Party in North Sinai. He was also the general secretary of the party in the governorate.
Eyewitnesses told security sources that two unknown assailants riding a cycle of violenceshot up Abdel-Rahman.
No group has yet grabbed credit for Abdel-Rahman's liquidation.
The Salafist Nour Party is the only Islamist-based party that supported the ouster of Islamist president Mohammed Morsi in July 2013.
They were also supporters of the "roadmap" that was implemented following Morsi's ouster and entails three stages: a constitutional referendum, presidential polls and parliamentary elections.
The Nour Party, the political arm of the Salafist Call, are supporters of Egypt's current president, Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi, and are the only Islamist grouping participating in the parliamentary elections.
Egypt's parliamentary elections started in their first phase on 18-19 October in 14 governorates. Elections in the rest of Egypt's governorates (13 in total including North Sinai) will take place 22-23 November.
Also on Saturday, a low ranking police officer and two conscripts were killed and eight conscripts injured following the kaboom of a roadside kaboom targeting an armored police vehicle on the ring road of Al-Arish.
Founded after the 2011 uprising that toppled longtime autocrat Hosni Mubarak ...The former President-for-Life of Egypt, dumped by popular demand in early 2011... , Al-Nour won about a quarter of the vote in the country's first parliamentary election held later that year. But with memories of Morsi's ouster and the bloody crackdown on his supporters still fresh, Al-Nour alienated much of its base and is viewed as a traitor by the Brotherhood, which just a few years ago was the country's most organized political force.
Al-Nour's Secretary-General Galal Morra dismissed speculation that Abdel-Rahman was killed because the Al-Nour Party supports the Egyptian military. "We did not betray anyone and we don't know who did this or why they did it," he said.
[IsraelTimes] Ajacket wallah'> exploding trollop female suicide bomber blew herself up in the northeastern Nigerian city of Maiduguri on Saturday, killing three people and injuring several others, residents said.
The bombing in the city's Dala Yazaram neighborhood happened a day after at least 55 people were killed in attacks in northeast Nigeria ... a particularly crimson stretch of Islam's bloody border... , where jihadist group 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... is seeking to create a hardline Islamic state.
Although no group has grabbed credit for Saturday's blast, immediate suspicion fell on Boko Haram.
A local resident said he saw twoexploding trollop female suicide bombers arrive in the area, but one was stopped by people nearby while the other blew herself up.
"Three people have been killed and many injured. One of the bully boyz was tossed in the calaboose Keep yer hands where we can see 'em, if yez please! before she could detonate," Shuaibu Umara, a security guard at a nearby petrol station, told AFP.
In a conflicting account, the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) said one person, a member of a civilian vigilante group assisting the military in the fight against Boko Haram, was killed and 10 injured in the blast.
NEMA front man Sani Datti said there had been fourexploding trollop female suicide bombers who targeted Dala Ajeri but were intercepted by vigilantes.
"Three of theexploding trollop female suicide bombers detonated the kabooms in their bodies immediately and the fourth one was intercepted but later died," Datti said in a statement.
Maiduguri has now been hit seven times this month, killing 79 people, according to an AFP tally, underscoring an increased risk to civilians after similar strikes in neighboring states and near the capital Abuja.
On Friday, two kabooms destroyed mosques in Maiduguri and nearby Yola, capital of Adamawa state, leaving at least 55 people dead and more than 100 injured.
The Yola kaboom took place shortly after the imam had finished a sermon to inaugurate the new mosque.
Boko Haram has regularly targeted mosques and religious leaders who do not share their holy warrior ideology.
NEMA's Adamawa coordinator Sa'ad Bello said Saturday the toll from the mosque attack had risen to 30 from 27 on Friday, with 93 others injured.
Yola has been seen as a relatively safe haven from the Boko Haram insurgency, which has ravaged the northeast for the last six years, leaving at least 17,000 people dead and more than 2.5 million homeless.
The military has claimed a series of successes against the jihadists, saying Saturday that troops had destroyed Boko Haram camps and enclaves at the border towns of Kerenowa and Chikun Gudu as well as neighboring villages in Borno state.
"During the operation which is ongoing, troops discovered and destroyed over 20 well fortified terrorist camps in the general area of Kerenowa," the army said.
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Mediated talks between the Yemeni government and Al Qaeda to persuade the militants to give up their weapons or move out of the southern port city of Aden have failed, Yemeni security officials in government-controlled Aden and tribal mediators said Saturday.
Did you try shooting them?
Tribal and public figures accepted by both sides, who have been involved in mediation talks, told The Associated Press the discussions began about three months ago, after government forces pushed Houthi rebels out of Aden.
After the Houthis were expelled in July, Al Qaeda took advantage of the security vacuum as pro-government forces moved outside Aden to challenge the Houthis, as clashes raged between the two sides in other parts of the country.
Yemen has been embroiled in fighting between Houthis and allied army units against forces loyal to the internationally recognized government as well as southern separatists and other militants.
Al Qaeda militants had been fighting alongside pro-government forces without revealing their affiliation, focusing on capturing and storing weapons during the clashes with the Houthis, a security official in Aden said. Security officials said Al Qaeda and other extremist groups in Aden obtained more than 55 armored vehicles and 22 tanks, captured during the fighting.
Aden's governor, Gaafar Mohamed Saad, issued a ban Friday against carrying weapons in the streets. The decree, which went into effect Saturday, stipulates security forces would immediately confiscate illegal weapons.
Officials in Aden said Al Qaeda held large armed parades in the city in the past two days.
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[AnNahar] 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 grabbed credit for the bombing of the main Shiite shrine in the Bangladeshi capital Saturday that killed one person and maimed nearly 80, as thousands gathered for the annual Ashura procession.
The rare attack on Bangladesh's tiny Shiite Muslim community comes just weeks after an Italian aid worker and a Japanese farmer were rubbed out in attacks also claimed by the Islamic State (IS) jihadist group -- although authorities reject the claims.
Officers said a 14-year-old boy was struck down in his prime after three small bombs were thrown at the complex of the Hossaini Dalan, the main Shiite site in the old Mughal quarter of Dhaka, at about 2:00 am Saturday (2000 GMT Friday).
"There were some 20,000 people in and outside the building at that time. They were preparing to hold the annual Muharram mourning procession when the three (bombs) were went kaboom!," deputy commissioner of Dhaka Police Mofiz Uddin Ahmed told Agence La Belle France Presse.
The IS group later claimed the killing on Twitter, according to the SITE Intelligence Group, a U.S. monitoring organization, but police said they had found no evidence to show the jihadists were behind the blasts.
"So far we have not found any link to any myrmidon group in the attack," Dhaka police front man Muntashirul Islam told AFP.
The attacks come as Shiites around the world mark the holy month of Moharram. Pakistain's Shiites have also suffered sectarian violence this week after two suicide kabooms killed at least 27 people.
In Bangladesh, television showed live footage of the chaos in the aftermath of the blasts with fleeing people holding flags and ambulances taking the injured to hospital.
Police said around 80 people were maimed in the attack on the 17th century religious site, at least one critically.
The Rapid Action Battalion, the country's elite security force, said it believed the bombs used were improvised bombs (IEDs).
"We've recovered similar IEDs from the Islamist turbans in the past," RAB deputy front man Major Maqsudul Alam told AFP.
- Blast hit Ashura mourners -
Authorities have yet to make any arrests in connection with the blasts but three people have been taken in for questioning, police inspector Mohammad Murad told AFP.
Home Affairs minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal told local media that authorities had video footage of the blasts and he hoped they could quickly track down the attackers.
Ashura marks the climax of the holy month of Muharram when Shiites hold processions and gatherings to mourn the martyrdom of the Prophet Mohammed's grandson Imam Hussain at the Battle of Karbala in Iraq in 680 AD.
Witnesses told the mass-circulation daily Prothom Alo that many mourners fell to the ground as loud kabooms went off at the main gate of the Hossaini Dalan, the most important prayer and congregation site for Bangladesh's Shiites.
Roni, who uses one name, said mourners dressed in black were holding prayers just before the procession when he heard 8-10 kabooms and saw a fire.
Security was stepped up at Shiite mosques across the country immediately after the attack and mourners in Dhaka's Mohammadpur neighbourhood banned women and kiddies from the procession.
Defying the attack, about 20,000 Shiites continued the procession in Dhaka, police and an AFP photographer at the scene said, cutting their bodies with knives and iron chains in a religious ritual.
"We've been observing this mourning procession here for centuries. But we've never seen any incident like this. We demand a quick and fair investigation into the blasts," a leader of the Shiite community at Hossaini Dalan told news hounds.
The kabooms come as tensions run high in Bangladesh after the Islamic State group claimed its first attacks in the mainly moderate Sunni Muslim-majority country of 160 million people.
While the blasts are believed to be the first attack on Shiites in Bangladesh, in the past two years banned Islamist myrmidon groups have killed more than a dozen Sufi Muslims and attacked Hindus and Christians.
The killing of four atheist bloggers this year has also undermined government efforts to play down the threat posed by hardliners, experts say.
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[AlAhram] Russian security forces killed a holy warrior linked to 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 the North Caucasus republic of 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... early on Saturday, the government's Anti-Terrorist Committee (NAK) said, according to news agencies.
Special forces and police found Abdula Nustafaev in a house in the village of Gimry and he was killed when he refused to surrender and opened fire, Interfax reported.
NAK, which coordinates anti-terrorism operations, said Nustafaev had been behind an kaboom at Irganaiskaya power plant in Dagestan in September 2010 and involved in numerous attempts on the lives of law enforcement officers and civilians.
He swore fealty to Islamic State in 2015, NAK added.
Russia is struggling to quell a simmering Islamic insurgency in the North Caucasus, where some rebels have sworn allegiance to Islamic State.
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[Hurriyet] Turkish police has been put on alert to capture four suspects, who are 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) and have entered The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... from Syria for a major attack, Anadolu Agency reported.
According to the report, intelligence units have found out that the suspects, one of them a foreign national, have recently entered the country.
The suspects were instructed to make a major attack, such as hijacking a plane or a ship, or attack the crowd during a rally.
Three of the suspects are members of the "Dokumacilar," an gunnies group based in the southeastern province of Adiyaman under probe for recruiting turbans for ISIL.
Yunus Emre Alagöz, one of the jacket wallahs in the Oct. 10 Ankara attack, and his brother Abdurrahman Alagöz, who killed 33 students in a similar attack in Suruc on July 20, were both members of "Dokumacilar" group.
The fake identity cards used by the four suspects have been released to the media. According to the information, Ömer Deniz D, born in Adiyaman in 1993, uses a fake ID under the name Emre Kaya, Savas Y., born in Adana in 1983, carries an ID with the name Hamza Tonbak.
Walentina S., who was born in Kazakhstan in 1995 and is the only female member of the terror group, carries and ID with the name Yildiz Bozkurt, while 20-year-old Muhammet Zana A. from Adiyaman uses the name Murat Özalp.
Authorities have asked the public to be careful and inform the authorities if they see the suspects.
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US Defence Secretary Ashton Carter said on Friday he expected more raids targeting the Daesh group similar to the mission that freed dozens of captives but left an American commando dead in Iraq.
Carter's comments came as President Barack Obama tapped veteran Iraq expert Brett McGurk to coordinate the troubled US-led campaign against the self-proclaimed Daesh group, replacing General John Allen, who served in the post for a year.
On Thursday, US Special Operations Forces and Kurdish forces stormed an Daesh-run prison near Hawijah in northern Iraq, freeing some 70 captives who were facing imminent execution. Of those prisoners, more than 20 were members of the Iraqi security forces. Five Daesh militants were also captured and several others killed, the Pentagon said.
The raid marked an apparent break with the stated role of US forces, who are in Iraq to support government forces but do not directly engage in combat in line with Obama's "no boots on the ground" policy. But Carter said it was likely not a one-off, noting that a "significant cache" of intelligence had been retrieved.
"I expect we'll do more of this kind of thing," Carter said.
"One of the reasons for that is that you learn a great deal because you collect the documentation, you collect various electronic equipment and so forth... So the sum of all this will be some valuable intelligence."
Carter said some of the captives rescued confirmed they had expected to be executed that day, with their graves already dug.
"Not only did our support help prevent another mass killing, we enabled those partners of ours to deliver Daesh a clear defeat," he said.
The operation near Hawijah was part of a broader United States-led campaign that began in June last year targeting Daesh, which has sought to carve a state out of large parts of Iraq and Syria.
The disparate international coalition has sometimes struggled, with the White House reluctant to dramatically gear up US involvement and key members of the grouping holding divergent aims and differing degrees of commitment.
The task has only become more complex since Russia and Iran intervened to prop up the Syrian government and deepen ties with Baghdad.
McGurk had most recently been Allen's deputy, focusing largely on efforts to work with Sunni tribal leaders and the Iraqi government to take back Ramadi.
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Obama:
"I had no prior knowledge, nor gave approval for this operation.
Oh. It was successful?
Then it was my operation"
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Mr.Obama hasn't said anything, preferring that SecDef does all the talking.
It may be that circumstances warrant the increased SOCOM acivity. Bit it also sounds like Mr. Obama is trying not to anger his base, and placate the center-left and internationalists, who want robust-yet-detached action in the region.
[Rudaw] ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - Two 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) forces of Evil surrendered to Peshmerga forces near Gwer late Friday, said Sirwan Barzani, commander of the front some 50 miles south of Erbil.
"Last night, at around 10pm, two ISIS forces of Evil surrendered to the Peshmerga in the village of Sultan Abdulla," said Barzani.
To make sure those who surrender are not disguised jacket wallahs, Barzani told Rudaw, the Peshmerga ask the ISIS forces of Evil to get undressed and leave clothes and possessions behind.
"They know if they stay with the group their lives would be at stake or they may be killed on day in assaults," Barzani said of the growing number of ISIS defections.
Four other ISIS forces of Evil surrendered to the Kurdish forces near Gwer earlier this month.
"We fled for two reasons, fearing death and starvation," One of the four ISIS forces of Evil told Rudaw. "There is no trust within the organization [ISIS], if they suspect a krazed killer they will kill him right away."
With several forces of Evil handing themselves over to the Peshmerga on the Kirkuk front the beginning of October the number of ISIS defectors this month adds up to 15.
"At around 5:30 am on Sunday, three ISIS forces of Evil who were Kurdish nationals arrived at a Peshmerga front line in Kirkuk to surrender," Brigadier General Kakamand Kak Rash, commander of the Peshmerga's Emergency and Defense Forces in Kirkuk, ... a thick stew of Arabs, Turkmen, Kurds, and probably Antarcticans, all of them mutually hostile most of the time... told Rudaw.
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It's all fun and games and rape and beheadings til your side starts losing
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Prey they all loose (no not misspelled).
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"There is no trust within the organization [ISIS], if they suspect a krazed killer they will kill him right away."
Considering it's ex-Saddam Russian Soviet-trained Baathists running Islamic States' Eastern Front with a mixed bag force, it's not surprising.
(IraqiNews.com) Anbar – The commander of Anbar Operations Maj. Gen. Ismail Mahlawi announced on Thursday the arrival of large military reinforcements north of Ramadi, pointing out that the aim of these forces is launching a major attack against ISIS.
Mahlawi said in an interview for IraqiNews.com, “military reinforcements including tanks, artillery, rocket launchers and other weapons arrived in the northern axis of the city of Ramadi,” noting that “those reinforcements are from the Joint Operations in Baghdad.”
Mahlawi added, “The aim of these reinforcements is to launch a major attack on ISIS in Albu Farj areas.”
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(IraqiNews.com) Dohuk – Witnesses said Saturday that the Turkish warplanes attacked the border areas with Iraq north of the province of Dohuk.
One of the witnesses, called Salman Saleh, informed IraqiNews.com, “The Turkish warplanes launched, today, an attack on PKK positions in the border areas,” noting that, “The bombing included areas in Derlok in the district of Amadiyah north of Dohuk.”
He added, “Smoke rose from the areas that were bombed,” pointing out that “The attack lasted for more than half an hour,” without mentioning the size of the losses caused by the attack.
(IraqiNews.com) Anbar – Joint Operations Command announced on Saturday the killing of 12 senior leaders of the ISIS organization, including Arabs and foreigners, in addition to wounding a “substantial” number of militants by an aerial bombardment in western Anbar.
The command said in a statement received by IraqiNews.com, “The warplanes carried out air raids against a shelter for ISIS belonging to the so-called Wilayat Baghdad in the city of al-Qaim,” adding that, “The operation resulted in killing dozens of elements of the ISIS gangs, including leaders, in addition to injuring a large number of them.”
The statement added, “The most important figures among the ISIS dead were Abu Ali al-Salamani, Muntasir al-Haradani (also known as Abu Omar al-Ansari), Sabah Fallah, Abu Turab al-Muhajir from eastern Asia, Abu Jarah al-Iraqi, Abu Ibrahim al-Shami, a Syrian national,” pointing out that, “Abu Obaida al-Saudi, Abu AbdulRahman, an Arab national, Abu Sulaiman al-Kuwaiti, Omar al-Satouri (Abu Ishaq al-Shami), Mohamed al-Mashadani (Abu Suhaib) and Khaled al-Zahrani were also among the dead.”
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[Ynet] A 16-year-old attempted to stab guards at a checkpoint while pretending to be a candy salesman, while a man in Jerusalem reported being attacked with a knife, and a woman was nabbed Keep yer hands where we can see 'em, if yez please! near Kedumim with a knife in her possession.
A 16-year-old Paleostinian attacker attempted to stab security guards at a checkpoint near Jenin in the West Bank Saturday morning as US Secretary of State John F. I was in Vietnam, you know Kerry Former Senator-for-Life from Massachussetts, self-defined war hero, speaker of French, owner of a lucky hat, conqueror of Cambodia, and current Secretary of State... arrived in Jordan to discuss finding a path to restore calm in East Jerusalem and the West Bank.
Muhammad Zakarnah, the Paleostinian attacker, was reported masquerading as a Krembo (a type of Israeli candy: A biscut topped with whipped cream, covered in chocolate) salesman before ditching his wares and charging at the guards with a knife in his hand in between waiting vehicles.
The guard who stood before the attacker saw the knife, pulled his gun, and fired on the Paleostinian, killing him on the scene.
Big.-Gen. (ret.) Kamil Abu Rokun, head of the Crossing Authority in the Ministry of Defense, praised the performance of security personnel, and specifically the guard's swift response to the attacker, "We've drilled this situation and those like it several times recently, due to the intensifying security situation.
"Security personnel acted just as we expected of them. The Gilboa crossing is mainly used on weekends, allowing thousands of Israeli vehicles to enter Jenin for trade purposes. This attempted terrorist attack hurts the Paleostinians and the Paleostinian economy first and foremost."
The crossing where the attack occurred is operated by Defense Ministry guards, and next to it is a crossing occasionally staffed by IDF soldiers. This is the first time in the current terror wave that snuffies attempt to attack guards who are stationed at West Bank crossings. The Gilboa crossing, which is the northernmost entrance to Jenin and the northern West Bank was closed after the attempted attack.
On Saturday, reports emerged of a foiled stabbing attack in Jerusalem. A Jewish man approached a number of coppers on Shivtei Israel Street, claiming that an arab man tried to stab him. The man said he fought his attempted stabber, who dropped the knife and escaped. The man gave the officers the knife. Police then began searching for the suspected attacker.
On Sunday evening, a Paleostinian woman was arrested near the settlementof Kedumim, when a knife was found in her bag.
Tel Aviv police arrested a 17-year-old Palestinian teen clutching a screwdriver in the south part of the city on Saturday afternoon, following a report that he was behaving suspiciously.
Local officers were dispatched to the site at around 3 p.m., after a call was made to the police hotline, where they found the youth with screwdriver in hand. The police officers maintained a safe distance from the teen until the situation was brought under control, Channel 2 television reported. There were no reports of injuries.
The youth, from the village of Yatta in the Hebron area of the West Bank, was transferred to the Shin Bet internal security service, who will investigate whether he had actually been planning to carry out an attack.
During his arrest, the teen told police that he “wanted to die because his uncle had also been killed.”
[ABS-CBN] After days after pursuing the perpetrators of the killing of Loreto Mayor Dario Otaza and his son, troops encountered the suspects in Buenavista, Agusan del Norte on Friday morning.
Information was received from local residents that members of the New People's Army responsible for the brutal murders were hiding in their community. Upon reaching the area, suspected militants indiscriminately fired upon soldiers despite the presence of civilians. Troops outmaneuvered the militants, pushing them to retreat.
Residents saw several NPA militants drag four of their injured comrades out of the area. One soldier was also injured in the exchange of fire.
Meanwhile, charges of robbery and kidnapping with murder have already been filed against Rene Catarata, also known as Rene/Dodong/Hector Tindugan, and eighteen other men. Witnesses positively identified the suspects as members of the NPA in Caraga. Catarata is the Front Secretary of NPA Guerrilla Front 34 under North Eastern Mindanao Regional Committee and allegedly one of the responsible for a series of lumad killings, ambush incidents, extortion, and illegal recruitment.
[Bangkok Post] A religious teacher was detained by authorities for questioning in connection with a six bombs that shook Khok Pho district in Pattani province on Tuesday night.
A combined military and police force on Wednesday night searched a rented house in Muang district of Pattani and took Mahama Tahir to an interrogation center in Nong Chik district for questioning. Images from a security camera showed Mr. Mahama walking at a spot where one of the bombs went off on Tuesday night. The blasts wounded three people.
Mr Mahama is a religious teacher at a private Islamic school in Pattani's Yarang district.
[ARA News] QAMISHLI – The radical group of Islamic State (ISIS) is trying to fortify its locations in the southern countryside of Hasakah, northeastern Syria, local activists reported on Saturday.
The move comes after ISIS received information about possible attacks by the Kurdish forces of the People’s Protection Units (YPG) and allied groups for “liberating” the group-held town of al-Hawl in Hasakah province on the Syrian-Iraqi border.
Speaking to ARA News in Hasakah, media activist Mohamed Haskawi said that the YPG and allied Arab and Christian groups prepare to storm the town of al-Hawl –a main stronghold for ISIS in Hasakah province.
“Under air cover by the U.S.-led coalition forces, the YPG forces and allies seek to attack al-Hawl and its outskirts in a bid to retake the town from the terror group,” the source added.
“ISIS fortifies its positions in al-Hawl town eastern Hasakah, mobilizing fighters as well as bringing in additional reinforcements from Shaddadi city in anticipation of possible attacks on the town by the Kurds and allied forces,” local sources from the city of Shaddadi told ARA News. More at the link
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[ARA News] ALEPPO – Subsequent to fierce battles with pro-regime forces, militant fighters of the radical group of Islamic State (ISIS) were able to seize Friday large parts of the southern countryside of Aleppo, local activists reported.
ISIS targeted the regime’s communities and armored vehicles with a number of car bomb attacks, deploying snipers along the Khanasser-Othreya highway in a bid to block the road outright.
Speaking to ARA News in Aleppo, media activist Wael Mohammed said that ISIS militant fighters conducted car bomb attacks against gatherings of the regime’s forces near Khanasser-Othreya highway, which led to the outbreak of fierce clashes between the two sides.
“The clashes ended with ISIS’ control over large parts of the highway, preventing civilian buses and trucks carrying fuel and food to the regime-held areas in the western neighborhoods of the city (Aleppo),” Mohammed reported.
Khanasser-Othreya highway is deemed as the only supply line of the regime’s army and its allies in Aleppo.
Mohammed pointed out that the pro-Assad forces, backed by members of the Palestinian group Liwaa al-Quds, are striving to regain the areas fell to the hardline group in a an attempt to reopen the ISIS-controlled key road of Khanasser-Othreya.
Cutting off a key supply line of pro-Assad forces, from which they receive fuel and food from the coastal region and Hama province, means besieging these forces –which are in control of several neighborhoods inside Aleppo.
[ARA News] QAMISHLI – The Kurdish Self-Defense Forces were able to foil a car bomb attack led by ISIS near a town in Raqqa province, eastern Syria, the Kurdish military leadership said Saturday.
“ISIS terrorists tried to launch a car bomb attack on our locations near the town of Suluk, adjacent to the village of Abu Hermel, but the SDF was able to thwart the attack,” the Media Center of the People’s Protection Units (YPG) said in a statement.
“The SDF destroyed an ISIS-led vehicle with a rocket, killing its entire crew,” the statement read.
The YPG’s leadership added “ISIS terrorists attacked our headquarters with mortars near Qara Qozak, southwest of Kobane, but our forces have responded strongly to the attack.”
Separately, a fighter of the SDF was reportedly killed Wednesday in an explosion of a land mine (planted by ISIS) in Hasakah province, northeast Syria. More at the link
[AnNahar] Syrian troops backed by Russian air strikes battled 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 fighters on Saturday in a bid to restore a key supply line to second city Aleppo, a monitoring group said.
At least 28 IS fighters and 21 troops and militia have been killed in the battle for the road that leads to the government-held sector of Aleppo city, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
The jihadists' cutting of the highway from the rest of government-held territory on Friday dealt a blow to the regime, which has launched multiple ground offensives since Russia began an air campaign on September 30.
Aleppo was Syria's pre-war economic hub but it has been ravaged by fighting since mid-2012 and is divided between government control in the west and rebel control in the east.
The surrounding countryside is controlled by a patchwork of gangs, including Islamist and moderate rebels as well as IS and its jihadist rival, Al-Qaeda affiliate Al-Nusra Front.
With the support of Russian air strikes, the army has recaptured territory south of the city in recent days and is seeking to break an IS siege of the Kweyris airbase to its east.
The festivities to the south of the city have killed at least 16 rebels since Friday, the Observatory said.
The army has also been on the attack in Hama and Homs provinces further south.
Twelve rebels and 14 troops and pro-government militia were killed in the fighting in Hama province, the Observatory said.
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Any southward attack is a diversion intended to draw rebel forces away from the real attck target north of AlpoAleppo.
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