[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The United States forces based in Afghanistan conducted a new Arclight airstrike on the hideout 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 Syria (ISIS) terrorist group 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 of Afghanistan.
According to the local security officials, the latest Arclight airstrike was carried out by the US forces using unmanned aerial vehicles.
The officials further added that the Arclight airstrike carried out on Wednesday in the vicinity of Khogyani district left at least 22 ISIS gunnies dead or maimed.
The provincial police commandment in a statement confirmed the Arclight airstrike and said the gunnies were targeted in Wazir Tangi area of Khogyani.
The statement further added that 14 ISIS gunnies were killed and 8 others were maimed in the Arclight airstrike.
According to the provincial police commandment, some weapons and ammunition and explosives belonging to the terror group were also destroyed in the air raid.
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] At least seven Taliban ...Arabic for students... bully boyz were killed during a joint operation of the Afghan security and Special Operations Forces in central Maidan Wardak province of Afghanistan.
The provincial police commandment said the military commission chief of the group was also among those killed and at least five others were maimed.
The police commandment in a statement said the operations were conducted in Deh Afghanan village and Qala-e-Ziarat located in the center of the province.
The statement further added that the Taliban leader killed during the operation has been identified as Qari Noor Aqa who was actively in charge of the group’s military commission in this province.
According to Maidan Wardak police commandment, at least 50 Taliban bully boyz have been killed or maimed during the operations of the Afghan forces in this province during the past one month.
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[AnNahar] The French army said Thursday it had eliminated an "armed terrorist group" linked to al-Qaeda in northern Mali, killing 15 jihadists.
Army front man Patrick Steiger said troops from La Belle France's regional Barkhane anti-terror operation carried out a joint strike against the group with French special forces about 100 kilometers (60 miles) northeast of Kidal.
The operation, backed by fighter jets and helicopters, took place overnight Monday.
It "allowed us to take 15 members of this katiba out of action", Steiger said, using a local word for a Death Eater unit.
The group was a branch of Ansar Dine ...a mainly Tuareg group that controlled areas of Mali's northern desert together with Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) and MUJAO in early 2012... , which has links to the regional al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQMI) group, he added, saying weapons and ammunition including assault rifles and grenades were destroyed in the raid.
La Belle France has had some 4,000 soldiers deployed in the Sahel region ... North Africa's answer to the Pak tribal areas... -- a vast stretch of territory on the edge of the Sahara Desert -- since 2014.
The announcement in Gay Paree came as the Mali-based branch of al-Qaeda, Nusrat al-Islam wal Moslemeen, claimed an attack in the north that killed two soldiers.
U.S. monitoring group SITE said the claims were made on the Telegram messenger channel of the group's so-called al-Zallaqa Media Foundation.
The creation of Nusrat al-Islam wal Moslemeen was announced on March 2 as a fusion of Ansar Dine, the al-Murabitoun of Mokhtar Belmokhtar and the "Emirate of the Sahara," a branch of AQMI.
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[PRESSTV] Three United Nations ...a formerly good idea gone bad... soldiers were killed and two others maimed by an bomb as they were escorting a convoy in northern Mali on Thursday, the peacekeeping mission in the West African nation said.
More than 80 members of the UN mission, known as MINUSMA, have been killed since 2013 in attacks by bully boy groups active in the country's north and center.
The mission said in a statement that the peacekeepers' vehicle struck the bomb between the northern towns of Tessalit and Aguelhok around 2:30 p.m. (1430 GMT). It did not identify the nationalities of the soldiers involved.
"I condemn with the greatest energy such abject acts, whose only objective is to destabilize the country and harm the grinding of the peace processor underway in Mali," said interim mission chief Koen Davidse.
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Outraged fathers. Again.
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[AnNahar] At least eight soldiers were killed in heavy fighting when 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... raided a military camp and looted food from villagers in northeast Nigeria ... a particularly crimson stretch of Islam's bloody border... , a military source disclosed on Thursday.
The attack in Sasawa village, some 45 kilometers (28 miles) from the Yobe state capital, Damaturu, happened at about 5:00 pm (1600 GMT) on Tuesday.
It was the third Boko Haram attack on the military in the remote region in the last two weeks, after a relative lull during the rainy season, which ended last month.
The front man for 3 Division Nigerian Army in Damaturu, Colonel Kayode Ogunsanya, on Wednesday confirmed the attack, saying only that there were "casualties on both sides".
But a military commander in the city said the corpse count had risen.
"So far we lost eight men in the Boko Haram terrorist attack on the 233 Battalion in Sasawa village: seven soldiers and the field officer," he told AFP on condition of anonymity.
"Their bodies have been recovered. But many others are still missing. It is not clear whether they are dead or alive."
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Boko Haram attacks on military bases were a frequent tactic as the group gained in size and strength, using the weapons and ammunition seized to capture swathes of territory.
But such attacks and hit-and-run raids on remote villages reduced drastically after 2014, as a military counter-offensive was launched.
The government in Abuja maintains the fight-back has left the jihadists a spent force.
Yet sporadic strikes -- and suicide kabooms against civilian "soft" targets such as mosques and camps for the displaced -- indicate the group remains a threat.
A local chief in the Sasawa area said the jihadists arrived in six pickup trucks and stormed the military encampment, triggering a shootout that lasted for six hours.
"When the button men realised they would be subdued, they sent for reinforcements and more fighters arrived in three trucks," he said, asking to remain anonymous for fear of reprisals.
They overran the base, forcing the soldiers to withdraw. Rebel fighters then moved into the village, which had been deserted by residents to escape the fighting.
Another local resident, Aisami Gremah, supported the chief's account.
He added: "They (Boko Haram) loaded grains from the recent harvest into the pick-up trucks and moved towards Kareto and Magumeri in neighbouring Borno state."
Crops that had been left out to dry on farms outside nearby Tungushe village were set on fire, he said.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] A senior Houthi ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The Yemeni government has accused the Houthis of having ties to the Iranian government, which wouldn't suprise most of us. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews ... militia leader was killed along with a number of his other soldiers in Hajja province in north-west Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of. Except for a tiny handfull of Jews everthing there is very Islamic... by an Arab Coalition air strike on Thursday.
A Yemeni military source confirmed that Houthi leader Ibrahim Abdullah al-Moayed, one of the most prominent field commanders in the Saada battlefront.
A fifth military region command statement issued by the media center said that coalition aircraft targeted al-Moayad and his soldiers in the Mazraq area, while heading towards the Alba front after attending a meeting with militia leaders.
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[DAWN] A Pak man wanted by Interpol for "70 contract murders" has been nabbed Drop the rod and step away witcher hands up! in Hungary among a group of migrants colonists caught trying to reach Austria, police said on Wednesday.
The 35-year-old Pak man was discovered when the group was apprehended near Hungary's southern borders on Tuesday, police in Bacs-Kiskun county told AFP in a statement.
"Pakistain has issued an international arrest warrant for murder for (the man) who was then arrested," said the statement, without providing further details.
Detectives in nearby Austria said that the man, who is allegedly known as the "Pak butcher", is a professional gunman accused of "around 70 contract murders" in Pakistain.
The migrants colonists were being smuggled to Austria before being caught at Boly, which is 175 kilometres (109 miles) south of Budapest and near Hungary's borders with Croatia and Serbia, said the statement by the Austrian Federal Criminal Bureau.
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You must be a mean mutherfucker to get the nickname "pak butcher". Hell, what bout 70 percent of ppl in Pakistain has killed somebody.
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#1 You must be a mean mutherfucker to get the nickname "pak butcher"
Or non-ISI approved
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[IsraelTimes] Report says 2 suspects were conducting reconnaissance on house of prayer in Ahmedabad before being nabbed
Two men associated with 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.... terror group were tossed in the clink Drop the heater, Studs, or you're hist'try! in India for allegedly planning to attack a local synagogue.
The anti-terrorism squad in the western Indian state of Gujarat ...where rioting seems to be a traditional passtime... arrested the men, residents of the port city of Surat, on Wednesday. They are accused of planning to attack the synagogue in the Khadia area of Ahmedabad, the largest city in Gujarat.
The suspects did reconnaissance on the Magen Abraham synagogue on September 12 and were planning either an kaboom or shooting there, the Times of India reported. The men allegedly are IS operatives and reportedly had been in touch with an Indian IS handler based in Afghanistan.
One of the men was arrested at his workplace and the other at his home, according to the report. Law enforcement seized cellphones, laptops and other electronic devices from both locations.
The state anti-terrorism squad told the newspaper that the two men had been on their radar for some time and were taken into custody as they were preparing to carry out the attack. The men had planned to escape to Syria via Jamaica following the attack in order to join IS, anti-terrorism officials told the newspaper.
The men reportedly were trying to radicalize youths in India via social media and meetings.
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planning attack on Indian synagogue
probably drooled over getting a two-fer
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Zummar (IraqiNews.com) Fifteen people of Kurdish and Shia-led troops were killed and injured during confrontations that occurred on Thursday in northwest Mosul, an informed source said.
“The confrontations that occurred today in Zummar left two personnel killed and six others wounded of Peshmerga’s fourth brigade. They were transferred to Duhuq hospitals,” the source told Alghad Press.
“Clashes also left four personnel of al-Hashd al-Shaabi [Popular Mobilization Forces], including leaders, killed and others wounded in al-Jazrawiya village.
In related news, a Peshmerga source said chief of Kurdistan Democratic Party’s Sinjar branch was killed in artillery shelling in Zummar.
“Wahid Bakuzi was killed as artillery shelling targeted Peshmerga locations in Zummar, the source told AlSumaria News.
“Two personnel of Bakuzi’s guards were killed in the shelling,” the source, who preferred anonymity, added.
Earlier on the day, the Kurdistan Region Security Council said Iraqi troops have launched an attack against Peshmerga troops deployed in Zummar.
KRG offered on Wednesday to impose a ceasefire and resort to dialogue to defuse the military and political standoff with Baghdad.
Anbar (IraqiNews.com) Iraqi troops have liberated several regions in western Anbar as part of the offensive launched earlier on Thursday to liberate the two Islamic State’s bastions in the province, military media said.
In a statement released, the Defense Ministry’s War Media Cell said, “Al-Jazeera Operations liberated Rawa crossroads as well as al-Hasa, the residential complex of al-Hasa and al-Jibab region.”
Moreover, “troops tightened control on pivotal establishments and residential areas there,” the statement said, indicating troops’ ongoing advance.
Speaking on condition of anonymity, a military source told AlSumaria News that Jibab region was freed after IS militants fled toward Qaim.
Early on Thursday, The Iraqi Prime Minister Haidar al-Abadi has announced launch of operations to liberate Qaim and Rawa towns.
Hundreds of thousands of messages were airdropped on Wednesday on the two towns informing civilians that security troops are coming to free them and urging them to stay away from the enemy.
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Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) Three persons were wounded in a bomb blast in northern Baghdad, a police source said on Thursday.
Speaking to AlSumaria News on Thursday, the source said, ” a bomb placed near stores in Shat al-Taji region, exploded in the evening leaving three persons wounded.”
“Security forces cordoned off the blast scene . The transferred were taken to hospital for treatment,” the source, who preferred anonymity, added.
[ALMASDARNEWS] The Iraqi Armed Forces launched their long-awaited Syrian border offensive, today, targeting 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.... ’s last major stronghold near Syria’s Deir Ezzor Governorate.
Led by a plethora of Hashd al-Sha’abi and army units, the Iraqi Armed Forces began the offensive by storming the Islamic State’s positions at several sites in southwest Iraq, including the H-2 Airbase, and al-Husseiniyeh and al-Nadiatiyah villages.
Not long after launching their assault, the Iraqi Armed Forces imposed full control over the H-2 Airbase and several villages, killing scores of Islamic State turbans in the process.
With the Islamic State pocket south of al-Qa’im nearly cleared, the Iraqi Armed Forces should be able to reach the aforementioned city in the coming days.
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Rif Dimashq (Syria News) Several civilians were killed, while others were injured, on Thursday, in an artillery shelling conducted by the Syrian regime forces on the villages and towns of eastern Ghouta, in Rif Dimashq Province, local sources told Qasioun News.
The sources informed that 5 civilians were killed in a Syrian regime artillery shelling that was carried out on the residential neighborhoods of Douma City, while another civilians was killed in the city of Saqba, in Rif Dimashq Province.
Furthermore, Syrian regime forces bombarded the town of Ayn Tarma, in the outskirts of eastern Ghouta, using heavy artillery and rocket launchers, while clashes broke out between the Syrian rebels and regime forces in the same time.
It is noteworthy that the Syrian regime forces, backed up by the army’s 4th brigade, are planning to enter the area of eastern Ghouta, in Rif Dimashq Province; thus, escalated their attacks and shelling over the area.
The Syrian rebels inflicted heavy human and material losses on the Syrian regime troops, especially the troops stationed in Jobar neighborhood in Damascus.
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[ALMASDARNEWS] Syrian Arab Army (SAA) entered the Ummal District of Deir Ezzor after advancing from the nearby Industrial Zone, a military source told al-Masdar News.
Led by the elite Tiger Forces, the Syrian Arab Army entered the Ummal District after overrunning the front-lines 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) near the Industrial Zone axis.
Once Tiger Forces entered the Ummal District, they quickly seized the municipal post office and imposed fire control over the al-Safa Mosque.
According to the military source, the Syrian Army is pushing towards the municipal stadium in a bid to encircle the strategic Old Airport District, which is considered one of the Islamic State’s last strongholds in Deir Ezzor.
From Iraqi News: Syrian regulars, rebels attack ISIS positions in Deir Ezzor
Deir Ezzor (Syria News) Syrian Democratic Forces militia (SDF) launched, on Thursday, an extensive assault on the Islamic State strongholds, north of Deir Ezzor, sources told Qasioun News.
The sources informed that the Syrian Democratic Forces attacked and recaptured the Islamic State-held village of Rabidah, west of the Khabour River, in addition to some parts of Jdaidat Akidat Village, north of the Euphrates River, located in the northern countryside of Deir Ezzor.
Furthermore, the Syrian army forces, backed by the Lebanese Hezbollah militia, retook the T2 base and Kam Oil Field, based on an agreement with the Islamic State militia, the sources added.
It is noteworthy that the Islamic State militia has recently lost its biggest and largest strongholds in Syria, and withdrew to the city of Albukamal and its outskirts, east of Deir Ezzor.
[ALMASDARNEWS] The Syrian Arab Army (SAA) has liberated Saqr Island in Deir Ezzor this afternoon, following a 15 hour operation against 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) that began last night.
Led by the elite Tiger Forces, the Syrian Army advanced from the recently liberated Industrial District and its corresponding dock, entering Saqr Island from its western flank.
Once the Tigers crossed the Euphrates and entered Saqr Island, the remaining Islamic State turbans attempted to hold their posts near Central Park, but were ultimately forced to withdraw.
With Saqr Island’s liberation today, the Syrian Arab Army has now successfully secured the Industrial District and taken control of one of the Islamic State’s largest supply hubs.
Deir Ezzor (Syria News) Informed sources informed, on Thursday, that the Syrian army forces had taken the village of Hawija Sukkar, in the eastern countryside of Deir Ezzor, Qasioun News reported.
The sources revealed that Syrian army forces recaptured Hawija Sukkar Village, in the eastern countryside of Deir Ezzor, after battles with the Islamic State group
The army forces chased the Islamic State fighters in the area, the sources explained. Several members of the Islamic State group were either killed or wounded during the clashes.
The Syrian army and its allied militias inflicted heavy human and material losses on the Islamic State group in the vicinity of Jafra Village, east of Deir Ezzor.
Earlier today, Syrian regime has announced completely recapturing the city of Ma’dan, on the southern bank of the Euphrates River, located between the provinces of Deir Ezzor and Raqqa.
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[ALMASDARNEWS] The prominent commander of the Tiger Forces, Major General Suheil al-Hassan, He is the very model of a modern major general!
will lead the Syrian Arab Army’s (SAA) upcoming offensive to liberate 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) stronghold of Albukamal, a military source told al-Masdar News this morning.
According to the source, General Hassan was informed this week that his Tiger Forces will lead the offensive from the T-2 Pumping Station to the border-city of Albukamal; however, this will not commence until Deir Ezzor City is liberated.
The source added that the Russian High Command want General Hassan to lead the operation and this was agreed upon by the Syrian Arab Army’s High Command.
If the operation proves successful, the Syrian Arab Army will be able to cutoff the Islamic State’s most important supply route from the Iraqi city of al-Qa’im.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
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Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The United States forces based in Afghanistan conducted a new 
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... 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...
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He is the very model of a modern major general!
