[KhaamaPress] At least four Death Eaters affiliated 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.... of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) terrorist group were killed in the latest US Arclight airstrike in eastern Kunar province ... which is right down the road from Chitral. Kunar is Haqqani country..... of Afghanistan.
The 201st Silab Corps of the Afghan Military in the East said Thursday that the US military carried out airstrike on ISIS hideout in the past 24 hours using unmanned aerial vehicle.
The source further added that the latest airstrike was carried out in Lechalam area located in Manogi district and as a result four Death Eaters have been killed.
According to the Silab Corps of the Afghan National Army, at least one turban was also maimed during the same airtrstrike.
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[KhaamaPress] The US military is partnering with the Afghan national defense and security forces to bolster the security of capital Kabul.
The commander of the US Forces in Afghanistan and the NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It's headquartered in Belgium. That sez it all.... -led Resolute Support Mission Gen. John Nicholson has said efforts are underway to harden the security of Kabul in a bid to protect the people and international community in the capital city.
"The goal was to establish an inner-ring of security along with an outer-ring of security, and clear everything in between," Gen. Nicholson was quoted as saying in a report by Rooters.
He also added that a group of newly arriving U.S. Army advisers would partner with some of the Afghan troops securing Kabul. Commandos would carry out intelligence-driven raids throughout the city.
[KhaamaPress] The Afghan Military has deployed additional Special Operations Forces and Warrior helicopters to northern Faryab province of Afghanistan.
The 209th Shaheen Corps of the Afghan Military in the North said the additional fresh forces and modern military equipment including warrior helicopters belonging to the Special Operations Forces recently arrived to Faryab airport.
The fresh foces and helicopters will be used to conduct counter-terrorism operations against the bad boy and terrorist groups in the North.
This comes as the counter-terrorism and clearance operations are already underway in the key northenr provinces including Faryab where the anti-government armed murderous Moslem and terrorist groups are attempting to expand their foothold and insurgency activities.
[DAWN] An Afghan man taken hostage by the Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... made a dramatic escape by stealing a gun while his captors were praying and shooting dead seven of them and wounding 18 others, officials said Thursday. Ooh! Ooh! We seen dis movie! It had Bruce Stallone in it, or somebody!
Awal Khan and a local police officer were kidnapped on Wednesday as they were driving in the eastern province of Paktika ...which coincidentally borders South Wazoo... , provincial deputy security chief Abdul Rauf Masood told AFP.
Paktika is a Taliban stronghold bordering Pakistain.
The officer was killed and 36-year-old Awal taken to a Taliban compound in Gomal district where he was held for hours.
During afternoon prayers, Awal, who Masood said was handcuffed at the time, grabbed a weapon belonging to one of his captors and opened fire.
"Awal Khan sprayed bullets on all of them, killing seven and wounding 18 others," provincial governor front man Mohammad Rahman Ayaz told AFP.
Taliban front man Zabihullah Mujahid confirmed to AFP that the group had kidnapped the two men and that Awal had opened fire on the bully boys, killing three of them.
Awal then fled in a pickup truck belonging to his kidnappers, Ayaz said.
His brother, a local police commander, shared details of the incident with authorities.
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Sounds like he can get his twenty in by fiat. Go home and relax on a pension.
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Awal, who Masood said was handcuffed at the time, grabbed a weapon belonging to one of his captors and opened fire ... killing seven and wounding 18 others
Sounds like a combo of Rambo, Chuck Norris and Bruce Lee.
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[Libya Observer] The Libyan coastguards said they had seized a fuel-smuggling vessel by the name Lamar and carrying the flag of Togo with 8 Greek crewmembers aboard.
The front man of the Libyan Navy, Ayoub Qassim, told news hounds Thursday that the vessel was intercepted inside Libyan waters ‐ 8 miles off northern Farwa island.
"The ship has no authority to sail in the Libyan waters." Qassim explained.
He added that the vessel was taken to the Tripoli ...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn... Naval Base and its case will be lodged at the Attorney General’s Office.
The Head of the Investigations Bureau of the Attorney General’s Office al-Siddiq al-Sour disclosed Wednesday that Libyan authorities are cooperating with countries in southern Europe ...also known as Moslem Lebensraum... in order to report on foreigners involved in fuel smuggling from Libya.
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[Libya Observer] The military prosecutor of the Presidential Council, Masoud Erhouma, was kidnapped from in front of his house in Tripoli ...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn... 's Salah Eddine area this evening by unknown button men, sources close to his family reported.
"My father and his driver as well as the bodyguard were kidnapped by button men before arriving to our house in Tripoli." Erhouma's son, Fadil, explained.
He added that the gang was in three cars and they kidnapped the military prosecutor 200 meters away from the house while he was coming back from work.
Meanwhile, ...back at the Hubba Hubba Club, Big Shirley was still trying to snatch Nunzio bald-headed. She was already halfway there... the Chief of Tripoli Public Prosecution, Nouri al-Wahishi, confirmed that Erhouma was detained Thursday as per an arrest warrant by al-Zawiya prosecution department.
Al-Wahaishi denied to Alnabaa TV Channel any prior knowledge to the reasons of or the people behind the detention, saying it could be for 2011 revolution matters, as Erhouma is accused of cracking down on protesters at the time.
On November 16, 2017, the PC Head, Fayez al-Sirraj, appointed Erhouma as military prosecutor.
Erhouma is from al-Rajban, which is a western district that is known for supporting Dignity Operation of Khalifa Haftar ...Self-proclaimed Field Marshal, served in the Libyan army under Muammar Qadaffy, and took part in the coup that brought Qadaffy to power in 1969. He became a prisoner of war in Chad in 1987. While held prisoner, he and his fellow officers formed a group hoping to overthrow Qadaffy. He was released around 1990 in a deal with the United States government and spent nearly two decades in the United States, gaining US citizenship. In 1993, while living in the United States, he was convicted in absentia of crimes against the Jamahiriya and sentenced to death. Haftar held a senior position in the anti-Qadaffy forces in the 2011 Libyan Civil War. In 2014 he was commander of the Libyan Army when the General National Congress (GNC) refused to give up power in accordance with its term of office. Haftar launched a campaign against the GNC and its Islamic fundamentalist allies. His campaign allowed elections to take place to replace the GNC, but then developed into a civil war. Guess you can't win them all... . He was appointed deputy defense minister of the Interim Government in al-Bayda. He resigned in late 2015.
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[CNN] The US military revealed for the first time Wednesday that US troops were involved in a firefight in Niger in December, just months after a Green Beret-led team was ambushed by ISIS militants in October, an attack that left four US soldiers dead.
In a statement provided to CNN by Pentagon spokeswoman Maj. Sheryll Klinkel, the US military said that "during a mission in the Lake Chad Basin region the morning of Dec. 6, a combined force of Nigerien and US military members came under fire from a formation of violent extremists."
The military stressed that US troops were not seeking combat and that the joint US-Nigerien mission was aimed at setting "the conditions for future partner-led operations against violent extremist organizations in the region," adding that "no aspect of this mission focused on pursuing enemy militants."
"With that said, our forces do operate in unstable areas and are occasionally exposed to danger from enemy forces. When such a situation occurs, our personnel are authorized to respond to threats and violence appropriately," the statement added.
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My orders in Angola and Rhodesia were to avoid contact, if you can't avoid contact don't take any prisoners, and above all else do not leave witnesses.
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Looking through the archives, it was originally thought the October 4th ambush was by Al Qaeda in North Africa’s Mali branch, Jama'at Nusrat al-Islam wal-Moslemin (JNIM), but later ISIS in the Greater Sahara — which apparently had been in existence for about two years, led by a certain Adnan Abu Walid al-Sahrawi — posted a video claiming credit. So heaven only knows who attacked our guys in December.
Mali militia says it has American vehicle and weapons
Good article, Skidmark. It’s nice there are people like those Tuaregs about.
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What the hell are they doing there? It's not our fight and not our job. Get them out!
Same reason that our guys are in Afghanistan. To prevent jihadists from using the place as a training ground for foreign operations like the one on 9/11. Green Berets are much harder targets than the civilians who were slaughtered at the WTC, and they are trained and compensated to take the risk.
[Breitbart] Police in Colombia locked away ... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not... a Cuban national illegally present in the country on Tuesday after communications with 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.... -affiliated individuals through the encrypted app Telegram revealed he was plotting a jihadist attack on the capital, Bogotá.
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[TheLocal.de] On Tuesday morning, officers in three German states raided properties belonging to "Osmanen Germania" - a Ottoman Turkish nationalist biker gang with suspected links to The Sick Man of Europe Turkey’s President.
The early morning searches were centred around the western state of North Rhine-Westphalia, where police raided 41 different properties. In some instances special forces led the operations, as the bikers are considered potentially dangerous.
Police in Hesse also swooped on ten of the gang's properties, while the Stuttgarter Zeitung has reported that police in Baden-Wurttemberg were involved in raids in four towns and at a prison where some of the gang's leaders are serving time.
The Interior Ministry said that they had the strong suspicion that the gang’s activities and aims were illegal.
"The federal government and the states showed with these operations that we don’t tolerate criminality, regardless of what part of society it comes from," said acting Interior Minister Thomas de Maizière.
The interior minisrty in NRW has previously alleged that the "Osmanen Germania" have links to The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... ’s ruling AKP party and to people in Ottoman Turkish President Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First ... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey... ’s inner circle.
Osmanen Germania are registered as a Verein (club) with the stated purpose of providing boxing training to vulnerable young people. But the Interior Ministry claims that their real purpose is to control the streets through violence and to grow their power against other biker gangs.
The Interior Ministry said that Tuesday’s measures were not aimed at a ban on the "Osmanen Germania", but at this stage it is hoped that evidence collected during the raids will provide more clarity on their activities.
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[DAWN] At least two persons were killed and seven members of a family were maimed when an kaboom occurred inside a house in Balochistan ...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it... 's Kila Saifullah district on Thursday, DawnNewsTV reported.
The injured, which included women and kiddies, were shifted to District Headquarters Hospital in Kila Saifullah.
The house collapsed as a result of the kaboom and several people were reportedly trapped under the debris.
"Some people are still trapped under the debris of the damaged house," said Deputy Commissioner Killa Saifullah Shafqat Anwar Shahwani.
"The rescue operation is still underway as more casualties are feared," Shahwani added.
The nature of the blast currently remains unknown and the law enforcement agencies are trying to ascertain its cause.
Police and personnel of other law enforcement agencies reached the site of the incident to start a probe following the blast, which was heard far and wide and caused panic in the area.
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[TheGuardian] A HH-60 helicopter crashed near al-Qaim, a town in Anbar province, according to a US official
A US military aircraft carrying US service members crashed in western Iraq, US Central Command said in a statement late on Thursday.
“Rescue teams are responding to the scene of the downed aircraft at this time,” the statement said.
The aircraft is thought to be a HH-60 helicopter, which crashed near al-Qaim, a town in Anbar province close to the Syrian border, according to a US official citing initial reports.
The helicopter was carrying seven people and fatalities were “likely”, the official told Reuters.
The mayor of al-Qaim, Ahmed al-Mahlawi, also told Reuters there were seven people on board.
Seven US troops were killed when the helicopter carrying them crashed in western Iraq, a US defense official said Friday.
"There were seven people aboard, they are all believed to be dead," the official said, adding they were US service members.
"It was a routine troop transport operation going from Iraq to Syria, nothing out of the ordinary."
A Pentagon statement said the crash involved a Sikorsky HH-60 Pave Hawk and did not appear to be a result of enemy activity.
An accompanying US helicopter reported the crash and a quick reaction force comprised of Iraqi Security Forces and Coalition members secured the scene.
"This tragedy reminds us of the risks our men and women face every day in service of our nations. We are thinking of the loved ones of these service members today," Brigadier General Jonathan Braga said.
"We are grateful to the Iraqi Security Forces for their immediate assistance in response to this tragic incident."
The identities of those killed will be released after next of kin are notified.
Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) Baghdad Operations Command announced in a statement that security troops managed to kill two suicide kaboomers in al-Tarmiyah region, north of the capital.
The attackers, according to the statement, "was planning for a terrorist attack to target civilians."
Moreover, two suicide attacks were thwarted in north of Baghdad, while four people were maimed as a bomb kaboom took place in west of the capital.
"A bomb went off near a market in al-Radwaniya region, west of Baghdad, leaving four people maimed," a security source told IkhNews website on Thursday.
Diyala (IraqiNews.com) Four 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.... members were killed in a security operation launched in Diyala province, a security source was quoted saying on Thursday.
"A military operation was launched early today by army troops, backed by al-Hashd al-Shaabi (Popular Mobilization Forces) to purge the desert regions in Sinsil village in Muqdadiya town in Diyala," the source told IkhNews website.
The operation, according to the source, "left four IS members killed, while others turned in themselves to PMFs."
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Salahuddin (IraqiNews.com) The pro-government forces have repulsed an attack by Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... members who infiltrated into north of Salahuddin, killing all of the attackers, a security source was quoted saying on Thursday.
Speaking to AlSumaria News, the source said, "troops of the 51st brigade of al-Hashd al-Shaabi (Popular Mobilization Forces) repelled an attack by bandidossnuffies who sneaked into al-Meseihli village in Shirqat. All of the attackers were killed."
Among the attackers, according to the source, who preferred anonymity, "were two Islamic State attackers who came from southwest of Hawija in Kirkuk."
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Kirkuk (IraqiNews.com) Iraqi troops have killed 80 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.... Lions of Islam during the last three weeks as operations continue to clear Kirkuk from remnant Death Eaters, a commander was quoted saying in a statement on Thursday.
Abu Hossam al-Sahlani, commander of Kirkuk operations at the Popular Mobilization Forces, said troops killed 80 members of the krazed killer group over the past 20 days.
He said the troops have also managed to seize large quantities of ammunition the group was using for terrorist plots.
Iraqi troops reinforced their presence in Kirkuk and launched operations to purge the province from remaining Death Eater cells following an ambush set up by the Lions of Islam in mid February left 27 mobilization members dead mid February.
Iraq declared victory over Islamic State Lions of Islam and the recapture of all of the group’s strongholds in December, but forces continue to hunt for remnant Lions of Islam hiding at desert areas. IS Lions of Islam have also staged occasional attacks against civilians and security forces, which stoked fears that the group my still pose a coppersace even after security forces had retaken all of its strongholds.
In October, Iraqi forces took over Kirkuk from Kurdish Peshmerga groups which held the province since the emergence of IS Lions of Islam in 2014.
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Anbar (IraqiNews.com) Seven Iraqi soldiers were killed, while seven others were maimed in an armed attack, carried out by unidentified button men, west of Anbar, news agencies quoted a security source from the province as saying on Thursday.
"Army troops carried out a wide-scale operation in the desert, southeast of Rutba, when 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.... gunnies attacked them," the source said.
The army, according to the source, who asked to remain anonymous, "killed several gunnies during the confrontations."
Earlier today, six IS members were killed in Arclight airstrike launched by the Iraqi jets in west of Anbar, the Iraqi News Agency reported.
"Iraqi military jets shelled a secret tunnel of IS in al-Kaara region in Qaim town, leaving six gunnies killed and two vehicles destroyed," a source from al-Hashd al-Shaabi (Popular Mobilization Forces) said.
The shelling took place during an operation to comb border exits, he added.
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Two IDF soldiers were killed and two injured after a Palestinian drove his vehicle into them outside the Mevo Dotan settlement in the northern West Bank on Friday in a terror attack.
The ZAKA emergency response organization reported that one of the victims was pronounced dead at the scene and according to Magen David Adom, paramedics were treating two victims in moderate to serious condition. All of the victims were in their 20s and evacuated by helicopter to the Rabin Medical Center in Petach Tikva.
The attack occurred on the 585 highway near the entrance to the West Bank settlement of Mevo Dotan some 10 kilometers southwest of Jenin. The driver, who fled from the scene, was captured by Israeli security forces shortly after the attack and was lightly injured, he was evacuated to the Hillel Yaffe Medical Center in Hadera.
The terrorist is 26 years old Allah Kabhha from the village of Barta'a in the West Bank, Israeli security services stated.
[IsraelTimes] Army describes early-morning assault as 'very serious' despite lack of Israeli casualties; military still unsure who's behind it, but attacks Hamas, a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",, Islamic Jihad positions
An initial investigation of Thursday morning’s attack on a military patrol outside the Gazoo Strip revealed that in addition to the two improvised bombs detonated along the security fence, an anti-tank missile was also apparently fired at the troops, the army said.
The army described the early-morning attack as "very serious," despite the fact that no soldiers were maimed and no significant damage was caused to the vehicle.
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[IsraelTimes] Vessels mostly staying away from American ships, though unclear why behavior changed, Mattis says; Yemen coast being used as weapons proving ground
Iranian naval vessels in the Persian Gulf have become less provocative toward US ships, Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said Thursday, even as he blasted Tehran’s behavior elsewhere in the region.
Mattis said ships from both the regular Iranian navy and the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps have curtailed the sorts of incidents that had become almost routine over the past few years, and are now staying away from American ships.
"In the Gulf itself, they are not coming in as close to our ships, the provocative actions in the Gulf seem to have relented somewhat," Mattis said.
"They are not doing as many bellicose confrontations and that sort of thing."
The change comes despite increased rhetoric from Washington about Iran’s "malign influence" in the region and US President Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... ’s continual railing against the Iran nuclear deal.
Earlier, Commander Bill Urban, front man for the Navy’s Bahrain-based Fifth Fleet, said there had been no "unsafe or unprofessional" interactions with the Iranians at sea since August 14, 2017 when an Iranian drone with no lights on flew close to US aircraft operating in the Gulf.
It "is a substantial period time since then, and something that we think is great," Urban told news hounds.
"We have seen an across-the-board change in behavior."
Last year and in 2016, the US Navy frequently complained about the behavior of Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps vessels, which would often shadow and steer toward American ships.
In at least one incident, US sailors had to fire flares and warning shots before the Iranians turned away.
Urban said that since then, the Iranians have stopped approaching so closely.
Mattis, a longtime Iran hawk, accused Tehran of "destabilizing" behavior across the region and said that off the Yemen coast around the Bab-al-Mandab strait, the Islamic Theocratic Republic is testing a number of offensive capabilities.
"It’s where you find (Iran’s) radars, their ballistic missiles, anti-ship cruise missiles," Mattis said.
"We’ve found their mines, their explosive boats all being tested, increased capability being demonstrated down there."
Fifth Fleet and its associated task forces continually patrol the Gulf and inspect some of the ships passing through the region.
In 2016, sailors seized weapons apparently headed from Iran to Yemen, including machine guns and rocket launchers.
Urban said task forces this year have seized record amounts of heroin, much of which may have been grown in Afghanistan to fund the Taliban ...Arabic for students... For the first eight months of 2017, the Navy recorded 14 instances of what it describes as "unsafe and/or unprofessional" interactions with Iranian forces. It recorded 35 in 2016 and 23 in 2015.
The incidents at sea almost always involved the Revolutionary Guard, a paramilitary force that reports only to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Some analysts believe the incidents are meant in part to squeeze moderate President Hassan Rouhani’s administration after the 2015 nuclear deal.
Of the incidents at sea last year, the worst involved Iranian forces capturing and holding overnight 10 US sailors who strayed into the Islamic Theocratic Republic’s territorial waters.
Iranian forces in turn accuse the US Navy of unprofessional behavior, especially in the Strait of Hormuz, the mouth of the Persian Gulf, through which a third of all oil traded by sea passes.
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I had no idea Mattis had such a sense of humor.
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The change comes despite increased rhetoric from Washington about Iran’s "malign influence" in the region and US President Donald Trump’s continual railing against the Iran nuclear deal.
"Despite" is the wrong word for this sentence. The appropriate expression is "due to".
Butterfield is the eponym for "The Butterfield Effect", used to refer to a person who "makes a statement that is ludicrous on its face, yet it reveals what the speaker truly believes", especially if expressing a supposed paradox when a causal relationship should be obvious.[5][6] The particular article that sparked this was titled "More Inmates, Despite Drop In Crime" by Butterfield in the New York Times on November 8, 2004.[7]
[DAWN] A Ottoman Turkish-led offensive to capture the Kurdish-majority enclave of Afrin in northern Syria has forced 30,000 civilians from its main city in 24 hours, a monitor said on Thursday.
"More than 30,000 people were displaced since yesterday (Wednesday) as a result of Ottoman Turkish bombardment against the city," the Britannia-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
"They went to areas controlled by the Syrian regime and to the outskirts of the city" under the control of Kurdish militia, the monitoring group said.
On January 20, The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... launched a major ground and air offensive on the Afrin enclave, with the support of Syrian Arab rebel proxies.
It claims to have now almost completely encircled the region's main city of Afrin.
An AFP correspondent inside the city saw hundreds of families cramming into the back of pick-up trucks and onto tractor-drawn carts as they prepared to leave the city via the only remaining exit.
Those who stayed behind formed long queues outside shops to buy bread and various food goods in preparation for a fully fledged siege by Ottoman Turkish and allied forces.
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[DAWN] The Syrian regime and allied forces have taken control of more than two-thirds of the rebel enclave of Eastern Ghouta on the outskirts of Damascus, a monitor said on Thursday.
"The regime controls more than 70 per cent of besieged Eastern Ghouta," Rami Abdel Rahman, the head of the Britannia-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, told AFP.
Earlier, Syria's army had captured the key town of Hammuriyeh in a southern pocket of Eastern Ghouta after rebels pulled back and thousands of residents fled.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said Hammuriyeh fell to regime forces after rebels from Faylaq al-Rahman withdrew.
[IsraelTimes] More than 12,000 people poured out of Syria’s Eastern Ghouta, a monitor says, calling it the "largest displacement" since government troops launched their assault on the rebel enclave.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says residents were fleeing battlefront towns in a southern pocket of Eastern Ghouta after regime forces opened up a corridor into loyalist territory.
The mass exit comes hours after Syrian government forces blanketed the town with Arclight airstrikes and rocket fire.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
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...also known as Moslem Lebensraum...
...Self-proclaimed Field Marshal, served in the Libyan army under Muammar Qadaffy, and took part in the coup that brought Qadaffy to power in 1969. He became a prisoner of war in Chad in 1987. While held prisoner, he and his fellow officers formed a group hoping to overthrow Qadaffy. He was released around 1990 in a deal with the United States government and spent nearly two decades in the United States, gaining US citizenship. In 1993, while living in the United States, he was convicted in absentia of crimes against the Jamahiriya and sentenced to death. Haftar held a senior position in the anti-Qadaffy forces in the 2011 Libyan Civil War. In 2014 he was commander of the Libyan Army when the General National Congress (GNC) refused to give up power in accordance with its term of office. Haftar launched a campaign against the GNC and its Islamic fundamentalist allies. His campaign allowed elections to take place to replace the GNC, but then developed into a civil war. Guess you can't win them all...
[Breitbart] Police in Colombia 
... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey...
Seven US troops were killed when the helicopter carrying them crashed in western Iraq, a US defense official said Friday.
