The National Directorate of Security (NDS) – Afghanistan’s intelligence agency says it has freed eight more hostages of the group of 31 kidnapped by gunmen in February.
A statement released by NDS states that the release of five men, two women and a young boy was secured on Tuesday.
“Our countrymen would be reunited with their families in capital and provinces at soonest convenience,” the statement adds.
19 members of the group were freed earlier and officials have not yet said anything about the fate of the rest of four hostages.
Meanwhile, the statement rejects Taliban claim of executing members of Daesh group for having hand in beheading seven civilians in Zabul province.
“Today, Taliban have been divided in different groups and fighting each other, the mentioned people have been eliminated in internal clashes,” the press release states. “For covering up their atrocities and crimes, these terrorists resort to such propagandas.”
Reports published earlier suggested that Taliban have hanged eight members of IS-Khorasann or Daesh group who were responsible for the killing of seven civilians in southern Zabul province.
The four men, a child and two women were kidnapped from Ghazni province
The National Directorate of Security (NDS) has arrested three members of Haqqani terrorist network in Khost province.
A statement released by the national intelligence agency on Tuesday states that Rahim Khan, Naim Khan and Najibullah were planning attacks and transporting weapons and ammunition to terrorist groups in Khost province.
According to the statement, the group was involved in a number of attacks on civilians and military in Musakhil District.
NDS raided two weapon catches belonging to Spin Ghar, a commander of Haqqani network, based on the information provided by the group.
A suicide vest, RPG 7, 40 different types of weapons including 20 Kalashinkovs and four pistols, ammunition, four transmission sets and military equipment were recovered from these depots.
A footage released by NDS shows three young boys identified as the arrested Haqqani men confessing to their crimes.
Saiqa special forces brigade claim to have captured three camps near Benghazi airport today. They had been held by the Benghazi Revolutionaries’ Shoura Council (BRSC), the umbrella organisation of Islamist forces including Ansar Al-Sharia which are still fighting the army for control of the city.
Meanwhile air force jets were again involved in intensive strikes today, mainly in the city centre, as clashes continued between the army and the militants. At least one soldier is said to have been killed in the fighting.
The militants’ casualties are, as usual, unknown.
Over the past week, casualties were reportetdly down, with only one other soldier killed and five others wounded, mainly in clashes in Hawari, Leithi and the city centre.
According to Jalaa hospital, a man and his wife were also killed when a missile struck their home in Hadaiq district.
Of the three camps Saiqa says it captured today, two are in Sidi Faraj between Benina and Hawari, and the third at Mahashhash inside Buatni. All three originally belonged to the air force. So far nothing has been said about handing them back to it.
Yesterday, Saiqa celebrated the reopening of its training department at its camp on the city’s Airport Road, with games and a small ceremony. Saiqa was forced to abandon the camp in July last year, after a nine-day a concerted onslaught on it by the BRSC in which 63 Saiqa soldiers died. The camp was partly last November, but it took several more months to completely clear it.
Egyptian police said on Monday they killed a top Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) group operative in the capital implicated in a string of attacks including the murders of a Croat and an American.
An interior ministry statement said Ashraf Ali Ali Hassanein al-Gharabli was shot dead in an exchange of fire after police tried to arrest him.
Hassanein was one of the most sought after militants in the country, and had featured in a wanted notice by police as early as January 2014, months into a militant insurgency centred in the Sinai Peninsula.
He was also implicated in the bombing of the Italian consulate in Cairo last July.
A police official told AFP he had been the right-hand man of Hisham al-Eshmawi, a feared former commando who is believed to have spearheaded a string of bombings and assassinations in the capital for the militant Ansar Beit al-Maqdis group.
In November 2014, the group pledged allegiance to ISIS, prompting Eshmawi to abandon it, and leaving Hassanein as one the group’s top operatives west of Sinai.
The interior ministry statement said police had managed to track down Hassanein in the capital, but when they tried to arrest him as he drove a car in a north Cairo suburb he opened fire.
“He sensed them and shot at them, in an attempt to flee, requiring the police forces to exchange fire with him leading to his death,” the ministry statement said.
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[AlAhram] Two Indians and a Saudi policeman were maimed by gunfire in the east of the kingdom as authorities hunted suspects linked to unrest by minority Shias, the interior ministry said on Tuesday.
A police traffic patrol "came under heavy fire from a farming area" in the Shia-populated Qatif district on Monday evening, the ministry's front man said.
The Indians were passers-by, he said, adding that they were in stable, pH balanced condition in hospital.
An official at the Indian embassy did not immediately have details of the incident.
The ministry front man did not identify the perpetrators but warned the public not to provide assistance to people on a list of 23 wanted suspects issued in 2011 after Shia unrest.
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... 's Shia minority, who complain of marginalisation in the Sunni-dominated kingdom, began protests that year in Eastern Province, where most of them live.
Many suspects on the wanted list have already been detained or killed in shootouts.
Last month, Saudi Arabia's Supreme Court confirmed a death sentence against Shia holy man Nimr al-Nimr, a leader of anti-government protests convicted of sedition and other crimes.
Activists are calling for the sentence not to be carried out, saying Nimr engaged only in peaceful opposition.
He is one of seven Shias sentenced to death in connection with Shia unrest since 2011, activists say. Three of the convicts were under the age of 18 at the time of their arrests.
Over the past year, Saudi Shias have been targeted by suicide kabooms and shootings 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 considers them heretics.
In the latest attack, a gunman killed five Shias in the Qatif area last month during commemorations of Ashura, one of the holiest observances of their faith.
One of two American contractors who were detained when they arrived in Yemen last month has died in custody, a U.S. official told AFP on Tuesday.
In the custody of whom?
Officials have been guarded in their comments about the case, citing privacy concerns, and the circumstances of the death are not yet clear.
Last month, the United Nations said two contractors working for a company that maintains a hotel in Yemen used by U.N. staff had been detained in Sanaa. On Tuesday, United Nations spokesman Stephane Dujarric said: "We have been informed by the State Department of the death of one of the contractors.
"Obviously we send our deep condolences to his family, to his wife, to his children," he added. "The other contractor as far as I understand remains in custody, but I have nothing to share with you as to discussions that may be going on."
The pair had arrived at the airport on October 20 and were taken into custody by local authorities.
The U.S. State Department has not publicly confirmed that the detainees are Americans, but has said it is "aware of reports" that two U.S. citizens were taken.
Arab coalition warplanes, heavily, flew over Yemen’s capital Sanaa on Tuesday, leaving streaks of smoke behind them, a Yemeni news network reported on Wednesday.
Masdar Online published pictures of the smoke lines which it said were posted on social media networks by Sanaa residents who witnessed the heavy sorties.
The report said the Iranian-backed Houthis and their allies, who control Sanaa, opened fire against the planes but they continued to fly over the capital most of the day.
It said the coalition planes also made sorties over the nearby governorate of Amran in Northwest Yemen, drawing anti-aircraft gunfire from the coup rebels.
It did not mention reasons for such heavy flights by the coalition jets over those two provinces, the main stronghold of the insurgents.
Military sources said the planes could be identifying possible targets in Sanaa, which the Saudi-led coalition said would be attacked and seized shortly.
Arab coalition forces sent more armored vehicles to the Southwestern Yemeni town of Taiz on Monday as part of ongoing reinforcements in preparations for a final offensive to eject the Iranian-backed coup rebels, a Yemeni news network reported on Tuesday.
Four armored vehicles roared into the city on Monday morning to join other vehicles and military equipment sent by the coalition, which is led by Saudi Arabia and comprised of the UAE and other Gulf and Arab countries.
Masdar Press said the latest dispatch would support positions by the national Yemeni army and resistance as the clock begins ticking for the final battle.
It said the Houthis and their allies continued to shell the besieged city from their positions on hilltops on Monday, adding that the shelling targeted civilian areas.
Yemeni Vice President and Prime Minister Khalid Bahah told a Saudi TV channel on Sunday that the battle for Taiz would not be affected by UN peace moves and that the city would be liberated with days or weeks.
Meanwhile, more Sudanese troops arrived in Yemen to join the coalition forces fighting to end the coup and restore the legitimate government.
Military sources said the new batch, the second sent by Sudan which is a member of the coalition, would be deployed in areas assigned for them. They said the first batch, which arrived on October 22, was deployed in Aden to support operations by the coalition and national army in maintaining security.
“The Sudanese forces are a qualitative addition to the coalition. They will be involved in securing liberated areas and in military operations,” coalition spokesman Brigadier Ahmed Asiri said.
Police arrested 11 people, suspected to members of the banned militant organisation Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB), in a raid in the Uttara area of the capital last night.
Police say that the JMB members were using a house in Uttara as a base for carrying out acts of subversion and violence. Police also say that they also sized a large quantity of books on Jihad and some bomb-making material in the raid.
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Russia has arrested a suspected associate of Taliban who hails from Tajikistan.
According to a spokesman of the country’s Interior Ministry spokesman, the suspected terrorist was previously placed on Interpol’s wanted list.
Asaladdin Nurov, a 28-year-old Tajik citizen was detained and 10 foreign-language books seized following a search of the flat he had been renting in the Urals city of Yekaterinburg.
Nurov is suspected to have been part of illegal armed formations on the Afghan-Pakistani border, and had been internationally wanted “for a considerable length of time,” Valery Gorelykh told RIA news.
The suspect is reported to have undergone training at a “militant” camp near the Pakistani city of Peshawar in 2009, and had previously studied at an Islamic educational facility in Iran for three years, TASS news agency reported.
According the information released by the ministry, Nurov is could be handed over to Tajik officials
[AnNahar] Australian police used tear gas to put down a two-day riot at a migrant detention center Tuesday, where detainees, reportedly armed with machetes, chainsaws and petrol bombs, were running amok.
Reinforcements were sent to the remote Christmas Island facility after violence erupted and fires were set in a protest triggered late Sunday by the unexplained death of a man.
"The department can confirm all areas of the Christmas Island Immigration Detention Facility are under the full and effective control of service providers and department staff," the Immigration Department said in a statement.
Five detainees were being treated for non-life threatening injuries, while Immigration Minister Peter Dutton said the damage bill would be well over Aus$1 million (U.S.$700,000).
Police used tear gas and bean-bag rounds -- designed to deliver an immobilizing but not lethal blow -- to subdue rioters.
"Some force was used with a core group of detainees who had built barricades and actively resisted attempts to secure compounds, including threatened use of weapons and improvised weapons," the department said.
"A full survey of damage to the center is yet to be completed, but some common areas appear to be severely damaged."
The disturbance at the Indian Ocean center began after an escaped asylum-seeker, named in Australian media as Iranian-Kurdish man Fazel Chegeni, was found dead.
Reports said his body was discovered at the base of a cliff. The government has said there were no suspicious circumstances.
Detainees, some of whom are non-resident criminals awaiting deportation, have complained about their treatment at the facility.
One man, New Zealander Tuk Whakatutu, said earlier Tuesday the detainees had retreated into one of the detention center's compounds after they were surrounded by police in riot gear.
Whakatutu said most were hoping for a peaceful resolution but a hard-core group of 20 to 30 young men, mainly New Zealanders and Pacific islanders, were "tooled up" and determined to fight.
"I want nothing to do with it but, all the young fellas are gee-d up and all they want to do is go to war with them," he told Radio New Zealand via telephone, with sirens blaring in the background.
"They've got petrol bombs, they've got machetes, they've got chainsaws, iron bars, they've got all sorts."
The unrest at Christmas Island came as the United Nations ...an organization originally established to war on dictatorships which was promptly infiltrated by dictatorships and is now held in thrall to dictatorships... ' top human rights ...not to be confused with individual rights, mind you... body took Australia to task over hardline policies on asylum-seekers, whom it has pushed back by the boatload and incarcerated in offshore camps.
Under Canberra's tough immigration rules, asylum-seekers arriving by boat are processed on isolated Pacific islands -- Nauru and Papua New Guinea's Manus Island -- rather than the Australian mainland.
As well as asylum-seekers, Christmas Island's facility is also used to hold non-citizens awaiting deportation, including criminals, after Canberra began canceling visas of those with convictions.
Dutton said there were now 199 men being held at the center including armed robbers, child sex offenders, rapists, drug convicts and violent offenders, including two locked up for manslaughter.
He said there would be a review of security arrangements following the incident but stressed the melee was confined to the facility, and never breached the perimeter fence.
"There are lessons to be learned, no doubt," he said. "If we need to provide additional security, that's exactly what we'll do."
[Hurriyet] Three outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) gunnies were detained on Nov. 10, on the 77th anniversary of the death of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, the founding father of the Republic of The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... , for planning a kaboom in the Aegean province of Izmir.
Izmir counter-terrorism police detained the three PKK Lion of Islams, who had been followed since July, as they were heading to a forested area to collect explosives they had hidden there, including 17.5 kilograms of C-4 plastic explosives and 10 hand grenades.
Ibrahim Ates, one of the Lion of Islams, had traveled to Izmir many times from southeastern Diyarbakir province for logistic preparations for the attack, while Mervan Aksoy and Baris Ildem hid the explosives in the forested area, according to reports.
Meanwhile, ...back at the abandoned silver mine, the water was up to Jack's neck and still rising. And then he smelled the smoke... authorities said the interrogation of the gunnies was continuing.
[AlAhram] Kurdish Death Eaters fired on a military convoy in southeast The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... on Tuesday and killed one soldier, security sources said, as the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... urged Ankara to stem the violence and revive peace talks.
Turkey's mainly Kurdish southeast has been rocked by a steady stream of festivities with Death Eaters which has killed hundreds since a two-year hold ceasefire between the state and Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) Death Eaters broke down in July.
The latest PKK attack occurred before dawn as the convoy, escorted by a police vehicle, entered Yuksekova district in Hakkari province near the Iranian border, said the sources, adding one police officer was maimed. The armed forces confirmed in a statement that a soldier had died.
[Hurriyet] A total of 19 soldiers were maimed on Nov. 10 in an outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) mine attack near the Silvan district in the southeastern province of Diyarbakir.
PKK turbans detonated explosives placed on the road during the passing of a military convoy heading toward Silvan from Diyarbakir, where a curfew had entered its 8th day. Nineteen gendarmerie special operation soldiers were maimed by the kaboom, with one in a critical condition.
A wide-scale operation has been launched in the region to apprehend the PKK turbans responsible for the attack.
[Hurriyet] Turkish police have detained 18 Death Eaters suspected of recruiting jihadists for the al-Qaeda-linked al-Nusra ...formally Jabhat an-Nusrah li-Ahli sh-Sham (Support Front for the People of the Levant), also known as al-Qaeda in the Levant. They aim to establish a pan-Arab caliphate. Not the same one as the Islamic State, though .. ... in anti-terror operations in The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... 's central Anatolian Konya province.
Anti-terror police in Konya have launched simultaneous operations on 18 addresses linked to al-Nusra on Nov. 10, after technical and physical surveillance of suspects.
Eighteen suspected Death Eaters were detained in the raids, including two women and an unidentified number of Death Eaters who crossed into Turkey after being injured fighting the war in Syria.
Police have seized organization documents in raids while the suspects are accused of recruiting Death Eaters to fight in the ranks of al-Nusra.
Detained persons were brought to the anti-terror branch in the province after undergoing medical examinations at the Konya Research and Training Hospital.
Meanwhile, ...back at the dirigible, Cynthia backed into the galley, the barbecue fork held in front of her. Jack! she called. Where the hell are you?... 20 people who were detained on Nov. 6 in an operation into 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.... and Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) in the southern province of Antalya were released by a court on Nov. 10.
On Nov. 6, Antalya police detained 20 people, including two women, in Antalya as part of operations conducted ahead of the G-20 summit scheduled to take place in the city. The court ordered the deportation of a Russian citizen, the release of three suspects on probation and the release of the rest of the suspects.
[Brietbart] Mounting suspicion that a Russian Metrojet airliner was destroyed over Egypt by a terrorist bomb, planted by an ISIS "inside man" at the airport, has led to concerns by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security over possible security flaws at American airports. No need for 'worry'...TSA is on the job.
This is somewhat unusual since, as CNN points out, "The U.S. has spent billions of dollars beefing-up screening of passengers with scanners and background checks." Transportation Security Agency receives an annual budget of over $7 billion. It is fair enough to perform a review of security practices, to increase public confidence that nothing like the appalling situation at Egypt's Sharm el-Sheikh airport exists here, but the concerns cited by CNN run considerably deeper than that:
The worries in the U.S. lie partly in the fact that the Transportation Security Administration, which oversees air travel security, relies on the operators of the nation's more than 450 airports to do the vetting of aviation workers. The airports use TSA contractors to do background checks, including checking terrorism databases, legal immigration status and criminal histories.
A U.S. official with knowledge of American aviation security and its vulnerabilities says that while U.S. security is viewed as the gold standard, the screening of workers poses cause for worry.
"(The TSA) checkpoint is only one part of it. You can lock that front door all you want, if you've left the back window open it doesn't really matter," the official said.
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I'd be happy to see someone in TSA at Hartsfield-Jackson in Atlanta catching a restful nap, as opposed to playing grab arse, or 'shuck'n & jiv'n.'
If you REALLY want to see the TSA and a moronic Federal gov't jobs programme at it's very best, visit Hartsfield-Jackson. The rest of the airport and it's 30,000+ employees is your standard, local-level crony jobs scam.
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The worries in the U.S. lie partly in the fact that the Transportation Security Administration, which oversees air travel security, relies on the operators of the nation's more than 450 airports to do the vetting of aviation workers.
Translation: We must have a new Federal Agency to operate all the airports, with 'screened and vetted' airport employees assigned with their appropriate GS/WG classification.
AFSCME representatives will be standing by, of course, to make sure no inappropriate action or questioning takes place during the process...
[FOX] The California college student who stabbed four people last week was carrying an image of the black flag of ISIS according to a report Tuesday, as well as a handwritten manifesto with instructions to behead a student and multiple reminders to pray to Allah, yet authorities continued to insist Faisal Mohammad's motives had nothing to do with radical Islam.
The 18-year-old, who was killed by a campus police officer to end the Wednesday morning attack, was a loner who was incensed at being booted from a study group, according to Merced County Sheriff Vern Warnke. But the extreme way Mohammad dealt with his rage, the presence of the printout of Islamic State's black flag and the deadly plans spelled out in the two-page document he carried could indicate there was more to the attack than simple rejection. Behold the Melissa Click phenomena. No known treatment has yet been discovered. Her radical, lawless ideology led to the loss of her job title. Faisal Mohammad's led to the loss of his life.
"This fits exactly with what ISIS is looking for, individuals to go and do an act of terrorism unilaterally," said Patrick Dunleavy, former deputy inspector general of the New York State Police Criminal Intelligence Unit and author of the 2011 book "The Fertile Soil of Jihad: Terrorism's Prison Connection. "The fact that he may have been kicked out of a study group does not preclude this being a lone wolf act. It only needs some sort of trigger, which could be totally unrelated to Islam, that causes him to act on his rage and attribute it to Allah." If we only had some sort of campus Federal force which could sit in on classes, monitor lesson plans and speech, help enforce Affirmative Action, report on un-progressive activities. It's got to start early. I recommend pre-K. Technology should be leveraged, CCTV, etc. As fewer and fewer people read, the books are just not getting the job done.
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Also, unconfirmed reports by Merced County News Television report Matthew Gonzalez states that he was on an FBI terrorist watchlist. Gonzalez was one of the first to make the claim of an ISIS flag printout being found on the perp. At that time, it too was unconfirmed. Key paragraph is here: "A witness who wishes to remain anonymous stated that they had seen what appeared to be a picture of an ISIS flag which was pulled out of the suspect’s pocket. Two of my law enforcement sources have verified that this is in fact true and that the UC Chancellor along with the FBI and DHS have instructed our local media and our local law enforcement leaders to feed the current narrative that FM was a disgruntled student instead of what he actually was… an extremist Muslim bent on attacking American students in the name of ISIS. And their reasoning for not informing Merced County residents or our out-of-town students and their parents about these potential threats to their lives? According to all three law enforcement sources the information was withheld because it would be bad for business. Protecting four innocent people’s lives and the truth was bad for business." This report is still online at MCN Televsion news, orinisal publish was Nov 6 2015
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"Pulled out of a pocket" and just which cop put it there to be "Found".
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There is something about the name mohammed. I cant put my finger on it.
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"Pulled out of a pocket" and just which cop put it there to be "Found".
Sure, James. The Merced County Sheriff's Department just knew his name was "Mohammed," and they just happened to have a spare Islamic State flag in one of their cars. Right next to the drop gun in the trunk.
I'd call you an idiot, but that'd be an insult to honest idiots everywhere.
QUETTA: A journalist was abducted by 10 armed persons within the precincts of Shahbaz Town police in Quetta on Tuesday. Afzal Mughal, a resident of Shahbaz Town, was working as sub-editor in a local news agency.
His wife lodged a complaint with the local police that ten masked men broke into her house at midnight and held hostage family members at gunpoint. She told police the armed men tortured her husband and kidnapped him. The police have registered a case and started investigation.
QUETTA: The bullet-riddled bodies of two men were found dumped in Baghau area of Barkhan district on Tuesday.
According to officials, a Levies team took the bodies to a hospital morgue for autopsy and identification after receiving information about their presence in the area.
BADIN: Pakistan Rangers Sindh personnel on Tuesday arrested two Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) leaders hours after rival local leader Zulfiqar Mirza’s caravan was allegedly attacked in Tando Bago town of Sindh's Badin district.
Rangers raided a local PPP camp office and arrested Atta Hussain Jamali, a district council from UC Mir Ghulam Mohammad Khan Talpur and his nephew Khan Sahib Jamali, who is the PPP candidate from Ward Numner 3 of Tando Bago town in Badin district.
Three armed party activists were also taken into custody from the camp office.
Earlier in the day, the caravan of former Sindh home minister and disgruntled PPP leader Dr Zulifiqar Mirza came under fire on Dei-Tando Bago road.
Dr Mirza escaped the gun attack unhurt but later during a press conference blamed PPP leaders including MNA Kamal Khan, Haji Sain Bux Jamali and others for the attack.
Dr Mirza alleged that the PPP leadership wanted bloodshed during the local body elections in the district.
“They think I am a coward who would run away. Tell them, I will never stop fighting against the corrupt,” said Mirza.
Dr Fehmida Mirza, Zulfiqar Mirza's wife and former NA speaker, talking to local media demanded a thorough probe into the incident and held SSP Badin Ibrar Hussain Nekokar responsible for the mess in the district.
On the other hand, Haji Sain Bux Jamali, while talking to Dawn.com, said armed supporters of Dr Mirza opened straight fire on his supporters at his farmhouse near his village Sono Khan Jamali.
He claimed that after the incident some of his supporters staged a demonstration to register their protest against the attack.
(IraqiNews.com) Kirkuk – A security source in Kirkuk announced on Tuesday, that 18 ISIS militants were killed in an aerial bombing that targeted ISIS gatherings southwest of the province.
The source said in an interview for IraqiNews.com, “The international coalition bombed, this afternoon, a number of ISIS gatherings, including the so-called al-Hisba Office and areas in Hawija (55 km southwest of Kirkuk),” adding that, “The bombing resulted in the killing of 18 elements of the organization.”
(IraqinNews.com) Baghdad – The leadership of al-Hashed al-Shaabi militia in Anbar province announced on Tuesday the killing of seven members of the ISIS organization in al-Karma District east of Fallujah.
The commander of the 2nd regiment of al-Hashed al-Shaabi, Colonel Ahmed Karim Bedaiwi, said in an interview for IraqinNews.com, “forces from al-Hashed al-Shaab, in cordination with the army, had managed to repel an ISIS attack that targeted al-Kbishat area in al-Karma District (19 km east of Fallujah), killing seven members of the organization.”
Bedaiwi also added, “the security forces destroyed three vehicles that were carrying ISIS elements as well as weapons.”
(IraqiNews.com) Nineveh – A security source in Nineveh province announced on Tuesday, that an armed force has attacked several headquarters belonging to the ISIS organization south of the province, indicating that the attack killed seven members of the organization.
The source said in an interview for IraqiNews.com, “an armed group stormed three ISIS headquarters in the village of Kashaf in Qayara area south of Mosul,” adding that, “the armed attack resulted in the killing of seven members of the organization.”
(IraqiNews.com) Anbar – The commander of al-Jazeera and al-Badiya Operations Command announced on Tuesday the killing of more than a hundred elements of the ISIS in an aerial bombardment in western Anbar, noting that the operation resulted in the destruction of a number of boats and booby-trapped vehicles.
Maj. Gen. Ali Ibrahim Dbon said in a press statement, “The coalition warplanes, based on intelligence information, carried out a number of air raids that targeted ISIS gatherings and sites in Albu-Hayat area in Haditha District, killing 115 elements of the organization, in addition to destroying six booby-trapped vehicles and five boats.”
On Tuesday, a source in the Interior Ministry announced, that seven people had been either killed or wounded in the explosion of an explosive device north of Baghdad.
The source said in an interview for IraqinNews.com, “A bomb exploded this morning near the industrial area in Husseinya al-Rashidiya north of Baghdad, killing two people and wounding five others.”
The source, who asked anonymity, added: “the security forces rushed to the scene and transported the wounded to a nearby hospital to receive treatment and the bodies of the dead to the forensic medicine department, while cordoned off the area and prevented approaching it.”
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A local source in Nineveh province said on Monday, that the leader of the “ISIS” Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi has arrived in the province coming from the Syrian area of Albu Kamal accompanied by leaders of Arab and foreign nationalities.
The source, who requested anonymity, told IraqiNews.com, “This evening, al-Baghdadi as well as a group of the Arab and foreign leaders of the ISIS organization arrived in Nineveh coming from the area of Albu Kamal,” noting that, “His arrival was not in the form of a large convoy.”
The source also added, “Al-Baghdadi entered Nineveh amid complete secrecy.”
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[IsraelTimes] Shin Bet says terror group's leaders in Qatar, Gazoo sponsored Qalqilya network; 'bigwigs' among detainees
Israeli security forces uncovered a Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, cell in the West Bank and jugged Keep yer hands where we can see 'em, if yez please! some 24 operatives overnight Monday, the Shin Bet said in a statement.
The detainees, who were not named, were apprehended in a joint operation with the Israel Police and Israel Defense Forces, and "included "senior Hamas officials, some of whom have been tossed in the slammer Youse'll never take me alive coppers!... [BANG!]... Ow!... I quit! in the past, some more than once, for their Hamas activity, including military activity," the security agency said.
According to the Shin Bet, the group was receiving funding from Hamas leaders in Qatar ...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates... and the Gazoo Strip.
Some NIS 35,000 ($9,000) was also seized in the raid.
The Shin Bet said the incident underlined Hamas's ongoing efforts to organize cells in the West Bank "with the ultimate goal, among many, of carrying out attacks and military activities against Israeli targets."
In response, Hamas said the arrests "would not cause the intifada to fail."
"It only drives us to continue to make Israel pay for its crimes," the terror group said.
The crackdown took place near the city of Qalqilya, which borders the Israeli town of Kfar Saba.
[IsraelTimes] Paleostinian teen armed with knife runs at guards; moments later, Paleostinian enjugged Youse'll never take me alive coppers!... [BANG!]... Ow!... I quit! for attempted attack near Qalqilya
Border Police rubbed out a Paleostinian teenager Tuesday afternoon as he attempted to stab officers near the East Jerusalem village of Abu Dis, in the third stabbing attack of the day against Israelis. According to police, officers approached the man at the Kiosk Junction in order to search him. He then pulled out a knife and ran at the guards who shot and disarmed him on the spot.
"He mumbled something to me, I was sure that he had come to ask for assistance, he suddenly pulled out a knife and ran at me," described one of the officers.
The assailant died of his wounds at the site. No other injuries were reported. He was later identified as a 16-year-old from the West Bank city of Jenin, the Walla website reported.
Also Tuesday afternoon, a Paleostinian was arrested in Ras el-Tira near the northern West Bank city of Qalqilya for allegedly attempting to stab an IDF soldier. According to initial reports on Channel 10, the attacker was participating in a riot at the site. No IDF soldiers were hurt in the incident. There was no immediate word on the condition of the attacker.
The attacks come on the heels of two earlier incidents in Jerusalem. In the northeastern neighborhood of Pisgat Ze'ev, two Paleostinian youths stabbed a security guard at a light rail station, moderately wounding him. The injured guard fired at his two attackers, wounding the younger one, aged 11. Passengers subdued the second attacker, aged 13, as he attempted to flee.
Minutes later, a Paleostinian assailant attempted to stab security guards at the Damascus Gate of the Old City, who shot and disarmed him. The attacker, a 37-year-old East Jerusalem resident, was taken to Hadassah Mount Scopus Hospital at death's door where he died of his wounds. Police released footage of the attack caught on security cameras.
Also Tuesday, a Molotov cocktail was thrown at a bus traveling on Route 443, in the West Bank northwest of Jerusalem. The bus sustained damage but there were no injuries, according to Israel Radio.
In a separate incident, a man has was lightly injured in a stone throwing attack in the West Bank outside Ramallah. He was treated at the entrance to the Psagot settlement.
Following Tuesday's attack in Pisgat Ze'ev, politicians worked on bills to lower the minimum age under which an assailant may receive a prison sentence. Currently, minors under the age of 14 cannot be sent to prison, though some are sent to a home for troubled youth.
MK Anat Berko (Likud) submitted the bill on Monday, before the train attack took place, and requested that the legislative process be accelerated. The bill proposes that the minimum age for a prison sentence be waived in cases of minors who commit crimes with a nationalist motive.
"The recruiters take advantage of the loophole in the law, knowing that the children won't be sent to prison," said Berko, a professor of criminology whose expertise is in Paleostinian suicide kabooms. "Even the children know that, so it is easier to convince them to go out and attack."
Berko called for "urgently closing the loophole that could cost human lives." In the meantime, police said heightened security will be maintained in Jerusalem and the West Bank amid a probe to determine if Tuesday's attacks were independent or coordinated.
The two attackers were Muawiya and Ali Alqam, residents of the Shuafat refugee camp. A source told Ynet that their uncle is a well-known figure in the camp and that this uncle has over the past six weeks called for terrorism against Jews and escalation of festivities.
ALEPPO – Syrian regime army forces broke a siege imposed by militants of the Islamic State (ISIS) on a key military air base in Aleppo, a military source said on Tuesday.
The Kweyris air base, a major military base for Syrian regime troops in the northern province of Aleppo, has been under ISIS siege for more than a year. Dozens of pro-regime forces broke into the air base after fiere battles with ISIS militants.
“We were finally able to break this barbaric siege on Kweyris airport,” a spokesman for the Syrian army told ARA News in Aleppo.
“Our forces bombed positions of the terrorists on the western side of the airport, before being able to lift the siege,” he said.
The source added that dozens of ISIS militants were killed in Tuesday’s operation.
TEL ABYAD – At least four civilians were killed and two more wounded Tuesday after militants of the radical group of Islamic State (ISIS) pounded a village near the city of Tel Abyad (Gire Spi) in Raqqa province, northeast Syria, military sources reported.
Speaking to ARA News, spokesman of the Kurdish YPG forces in Tel Abyad Habun Osman said: “The terrorist group (ISIS) has bombed the village of Skahrat al-Abed Sheikh (25 km south of Tel Abyad) and caused the death of four civilians and the injury of several others.”
The YPG’s Media Center said Tuesday in a statement, of which ARA News received a copy, saying: “Around 12:00 pm, ISIS terrorists bombed the village of Skahrat al-Abed Sheikh with mortars, killing four innocent citizens, including a child, and wounding at least two others.”
“Mohammed as-Salo, 65, Hussein Ramadan, 55, Khalid Issa al-Hamoud, 32, and the 6-year-old child Hassan Mohamed Ramadan have lost their lives in the ISIS-led bombing on the village of Skahrat al-Abed Sheikh,” said the YPG leadership, which is in control of Tel Abyad and its countryside.
In June, the Kurdish YPG forces, supported by the U.S.-led coalition’s warplanes, were able to expel ISIS extremists from Tel Abyad and its surroundings north of Raqqa, after two years of control by the radical group.
Tel Abyad lies some 85 kilometers (50 miles) north of the ISIS’ de facto capital Raqqa. The border city has served as a primary conduit for incoming weapons and militants, as well as for the exportation of oil to the black market through Turkey; so the major ISIS supply line to Raqqa has been cut off by Kurds last June.
[ARA News] The French army has stepped up its bombing campaign against the Islamic State group’s oil infrastructure with two new strikes in eastern Syria, Defence Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said Tuesday.
“We struck again twice last night in the Deir Ezzor region, firstly on an oil distribution station and secondly on a gas separation plant,” Le Drian told journalists on the sidelines of a forum on African peace and security in Dakar, Senegal.
Along with a bombing sortie the day before, it was part of France’s third wave of strikes in Syria since President Francois Hollande decided in September to join the campaign there against ISIS.
On Monday, Le Drian announced a strike on an oil supply centre near Deir Ezzor, on the border between Iraq and Syria.
The two previous waves targeted training camps for foreign jihadists who were suspected of preparing attacks in France.
Hollande said on Thursday last week operations would be expanded to include “all those sites from which terrorists could threaten our territory”.
The president also said France would deploy its nuclear-powered aircraft carrier — the flagship of the French navy — to boost operations against ISIS in Syria and Iraq.
Le Drian said on Monday that France was broadening its operations to target the distribution capabilities of ISIS, which derives a significant portion of its revenue from the oil trade.
At least 22 people were killed in mortar fire on Tuesday on Syria's coastal city of Latakia, in one of the bloodiest shellings there since the country's war began, state media reported. The toll rose to "22 people killed and 62 wounded" in the attack on eastern neighbourhoods of the regime bastion, state television said.
Latakia lies in the heartland of the minority Alawite sect to which Syria's ruling clan belongs and has been largely spared attacks during four and a half years of civil war. A rare car bombing in September killed 10 people and wounded dozens in Hamam Square in the provincial capital.
Rebels, including Al Qaeda's Syria affiliate, have long targeted the region, in part for its symbolic value as a regime stronghold.
According to a Syrian security source, Tuesday's attack took place near Latakia's Tishreen University, "where many students were gathered".
Syrian state television broadcast video footage of blood-stained streets littered with broken class and mangled cars.
Meanwhile, one person was killed and five wounded in a mortar attack on residential areas of Damascus, state television said. According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights at least 10 mortar rounds struck various neighbourhoods of the capital.
Another four people, including a child, were killed in government rocket fire on the flashpoint town of Douma, east of Damascus. Douma lies in the opposition bastion of Eastern Ghouta, which is regularly bombarded by regime forces.
Suspected Russian strikes on the town last week killed at least 23 civilians.
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BADIN: Pakistan Rangers Sindh personnel on Tuesday arrested two Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) leaders hours after rival local leader Zulfiqar Mirza’s caravan was allegedly attacked in Tando Bago town of Sindh's Badin district.
(IraqiNews.com) Kirkuk – A security source in Kirkuk announced on Tuesday, that 18 ISIS militants were killed in an aerial bombing that targeted ISIS gatherings southwest of the province.
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