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Syrian rebels start pull-out from south Damascus
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Afghanistan
Taliban leaders and militants suffer heavy casualties in Badakhshan
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] Several Taliban
...Arabic for students...
local leaders and snuffies were killed during separate operatiosn and festivities in northeastern Badakhshan province of Afghanistan.

The 209th Shaheen Corps of the Afghan Military in the North said at least 14 snuffies were killed and 25 others sustained injuries during the operations in Mangal village in Tashkan district.

The source further added that 15 snuffies were killed and 7 others were maimed during a separate operation in Kohistan
...a backwoods district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa distinguished by being even more rustic than is the norm among the local Pashtuns....
district.

According to the Shaheen Corps, key Taliban group leaders identified as Abdul Bari, Mawlavi Ataullah, and Mawlavi Hedayatullah were among those killed.

In the meantime, at least four snuffies were killed and two others including a commander of the group identified as Mullah Salam were maimed during a clash in Shuhada district, the Shaheen Corps added.
Posted by: Fred || 05/04/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Taliban


NDS forces thwart deadly attacks in Kabul city
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The operatives of the Afghan Intelligence, National Directorate of Security
...the Afghan national intel agency...
(NDS), have foiled deadly attacks plotted by the anti-government armed murderous Moslems to target Kabul city.

According to a statement by NDS, a group of at least seven murderous Moslems were tossed in the calaboose
You have the right to remain silent...
in connection to the attack plots.

The statement further added that the murderous Moslems were tasked to target the Ghazi Amanullah Khan hosptial as well as another health facility belonging to a security institution.

The NDS also added that the detained individuals have confessed that they were trained in Ashab-ul-Jinnah, Hashemiya, Ashab-ul-Safa, Mansoori Lashkar, and Omari Lashkar religious seminaries.

They have also added that the seminaries or religious Madrasas are located in Chaman area of Pakistain.

According to the detained individuals, the Madrasas are run by a key Taliban
...the Pashtun equivalent of men...
commander'>Taliban Überstürmbannführer
Mawlavi Ahmad Kandahari and that they were sent from the same area for the attacks in Kabul city.
Posted by: Fred || 05/04/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Taliban


Africa Subsaharan
Death toll from Central African church attack reaches 26
Further developments on this story from two days ago.
[AlAhram] Ten more people have died from wounds sustained during Tuesday's attack on a church in Central African Republic, the Red Thingy said on Thursday, bringing the toll to 26.

Unidentified armed assailants attacked the Notre Dame de Fatima church in the capital Bangui with grenades and guns during morning mass, initially killing at least 15 and critically wounding scores of others.

The number of dead is expected to rise further, said Antoine Mbao Bogo, president of the Central African Republican Red Thingy.

"We have counted 99 seriously maimed, some of whom are being treated. And some are dying because the there was nothing to be done, despite the work of the doctors," he said.

The attack adds to a list of recent deadly festivities in Central African Republic where state control is breaking down and inter-faith violence that has long blighted the country threatens to flare again.

Mainly Moslem Seleka
...a 'mainly' Moslem rebel force in the Central African Republic that overthrew the govt, imposed a regime of rapine and looting on the country's non-Moslem population, and was then tossed by France. They still exist, getting funding and weapons from somewhere or other, licking their wounds, complaining about the oppression of Moslems, and occasionally raping and looting someone...
rebels ousted President Francois Bozize in 2013, sparking retaliation killings by "anti-balaka" gangs, drawn largely from Christian communities.

Tuesday's church attack occurred on the edge of the mainly Moslem PK5 neighbourhood where 21 people were killed last month when UN peacekeepers and local security forces clashed with criminal gangs.
Posted by: trailing wife || 05/04/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Seleka

#1  Does anyone remember the last time Christians attacked a mosque?
Posted by: Alistaire Untervehr8459 || 05/04/2018 9:44 Comments || Top||


Europe
One Killed in Shooting in Amsterdam
[AnNahar] One person was killed and another injured in a shooting in Amsterdam, a major tourist hub, Dutch police said Thursday.

"There was a shooting on Wednesday evening in the Krootstraat street in the southeast of Amsterdam. There were two casualties," they said in statement said.

One of the victims died, the other was injured and taken to hospital for treatment, it added.

There was no apparent terror link to Wednesday's incident.

Amsterdam has been the scene of an escalating gang war between criminal groups involved in drug trafficking.
We know the various jihadi groups including Al Qaeda in North Africa, the Taliban, and Hizb’allah are involved in drug trafficking. And we know that Muslim colonists form gangs and engage in all sorts of misbehaviours in Europe. What odds, dear Reader, that at least some of the Amsterdam gang members are Moslem colonists and/or jihadis?
Several people have been killed in a string of violent incidents since the fights began in 2012.

"A suspect has been tossed in the clink
Drop the rod and step away witcher hands up!
and fingerprints were taken at the scene of the crime," Thursday's police statement said.

A shooting in downtown Amsterdam in January left a 17-year-old boy dead and two other people injured.

In March 2016, the decapitated head of a man was found at the entrance to a hookah bar known to police as being a hangout for city criminals, the day after his body had been found in a burnt-out car.
Posted by: trailing wife || 05/04/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under: Narcos

#1  What odds, dear Reader, that at least some of the Amsterdam gang members are Moslem colonists and/or jihadis?

Gosh, Auntie tw, that seems like important information. Wouldn't the news media mention it if it were so?
Posted by: SteveS || 05/04/2018 8:16 Comments || Top||

#2  If the Dutch only had “sensible” gun control laws, this would never happen. /sarc/
Posted by: Lowspark || 05/04/2018 14:07 Comments || Top||

#3  What? Don't they have to do this like 34 more times to make gun control Chicago this month?
Posted by: P2kontheroad || 05/04/2018 18:22 Comments || Top||


Germany arrests suspected member of Islamic State group
[IsraelTimes] German authorities say they have incarcerated
Book 'im, Mahmoud!
a 25-year-old Syrian man on suspicion of being a member 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....
Death Eater group.

Federal prosecutors say Faisal A.H., whose full name was withheld on privacy grounds, was detained yestersay in the southwestern city of Tuebingen.

Prosecutors say the man is suspected of joining a militia in 2013 that fought against the Syrian government. Later that year the militia merged with the Islamic State group.

Prosecutors said A.H. was initially considered to be a government collaborator by IS, but after undergoing religious "re-education" and swearing allegiance to the group he was made to spy on people in the town of Tabqa and help clear homes seized by IS.

He allegedly left Syria for Germany at the end of 2014.
Posted by: trailing wife || 05/04/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State


Iraq
2 IS members killed as paramilitaries repulse attack in Salahuddin
Salahuddin (IraqiNews.com) Two Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
Death Eaters were killed as the pro-government paramilitary troops repulsed an attack in Salahuddin province, SNG website reported on Thursday.

"Troops of al-Hashd al-Shaabi (Popular Mobilization Forces) managed, today, to foil an attack by Islamic State members near Biji town, north of Salahuddin," a security source said.

PMFs, according to the source, "managed to kill two IS members while repulsing the attack."
Posted by: trailing wife || 05/04/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State


20 IS members, planning to target elections, arrested in Nineveh
Nineveh (IraqiNews.com) Police troops have locked away
Book 'im, Mahmoud!
20 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....
bandidos bandidos bad boys as they were planning to carry out terrorist operations during the parliamentary elections in Nineveh, a security source said on Thursday.

"Information from the intelligence helped in arresting 20 turbans who were planning to carry out terrorist operations during elections in djinn-infested Mosul
... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn...
city and its vicinity," the police source told Alghad Press.

The troops, according to the source, "managed to arrest the turbans in several regions in al-Shuhadaa al-Thaniya district in Mosul."

Moreover, the Nineveh Police Command announced arresting an IS member in an operation in west of Mosul.

Maj. Gen. Hamad Namis al-Jabouri, the commander, said troops arrested "IS member, known as Khaled al-Loweizi, in the market of Sumar district in west of Mosul."
Posted by: trailing wife || 05/04/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State


Civilian killed in armed attack, east of Baghdad: Source
Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) A civilian was killed by button men in armed attack in Baghdad, a security source said on Thursday.

Speaking to Alghad Press, the source said, "unidentified button men opened fire against a civilian near his house in al-Hubaibya region, east of Baghdad."

The attack, according to the source, "left the civilian immediately killed."
Posted by: trailing wife || 05/04/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:


Iraq sentences 8 foreign female terrorists to life over joining Islamic State
Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) An Iraqi court has sentenced eight female gunnies to life over belonging to Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
In a statement issued on Thursday, Abdul Satar Bayraqdar, spokesperson for the High Judicial Council, said, "the Central Criminal Court decreed sentencing eight foreign female gunnies from different countries, including The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire....
, Azerbaijan, Uzbekistan and Syria, to life."
Posted by: trailing wife || 05/04/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State


Four civilians profoundly wounded in bomb blast, west of Anbar
Anbar (IraqiNews.com) Four civilians were maimed in a blast caused by a bomb from the remnants of war against Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
in west of Anbar, a security source from the province said on Thursday.

"A bomb from the remnants of war against Islamic State went off as some civilians were passing by al-Majmaa region, in central Rawa town, west of Anbar, leaving four civilians profoundly maimed," the source told BasNews. "They were transferred to hospital for treatment."

Security troops, according to the source, who preferred anonymity, "headed to the accident spot and combed the area fearing other blasts that could target more civilians."

The source added that "war remnants are still in some regions of Anbar due to the difficulty of locating them at the residential areas and main streets as well as desert and agricultural areas."

A total of 68 Iraqis were killed and another 122 injured in acts of terrorism, violence and armed conflict in Iraq in April, according to casualty figures recorded by 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...
Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI).
Posted by: trailing wife || 05/04/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State


Six policemen killed, wounded in Islamic State attack, northwest of Diyala
Diyala (IraqiNews.com) Six policemen were killed and wounded in an attack, northwest of Diyala, carried out by Islamic State members, who claimed responsibility of it later, BasNews reported on Thursday.

Gunmen attacked a checking point in Wadi al-Awsag region, in the vicinity of Jalawla town, northeast of Baquba on Wednesday, local sources said.

Security sources, according to the sources, managed to repel the attack following clashes that lasted for two hours. Four policemen were killed, while two others were wounded.

The militant group then claimed responsibility for the attack. Few days ago, the group threatened to target the balloting stations during the parliamentary elections, slated for the 12th of May.
Posted by: trailing wife || 05/04/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
IDF shoots, arrests Palestinian damaging Gaza fence
[IsraelTimes] Knife found in suspect's possession; in separate incident, group of young men reportedly drag away portion of a secondary security fence near Khan Younis

Israeli troops on Thursday shot a Paleostinian man, injuring him, as he attempted to damage the security fence around the northern Gazoo Strip, in the latest incident along the tense border, the army said.

The soldiers nabbed
Youse'll never take me alive coppers!... [BANG!]... Ow!... I quit!
the suspect and provided him with medical treatment, according to the Israel Defense Forces.

"A wire-cutter and knife were found in the suspect’s possession," the army said.

He was taken to Beersheba’s Soroka Medical Center by helicopter at death's door, with a gunshot wound to the knee, according to a hospital spokesperson.

"He is being treated now in the trauma center," she said.

In addition to this incident in northern Gazoo, a group of Paleostinian youths on Thursday morning dragged away a portion of a secondary barrier set up by the IDF in the buffer zone between southern Gazoo and the border with Israel, the Paleostinian Ma’an news reported.

According to the outlet, the young men brought the barbed wire back to their town ‐ Khusa’a, east of Khan Younis ‐ apparently as some kind of trophy.

An army spokesperson said she was "unaware" of the incident.

In a bid to keep Gazooks away from the main security fence, the IDF set up a number of secondary barriers, in the form of coils of barbed wire, in the buffer zone between the Strip and the Israeli border.

On Thursday morning, the Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason,-run Gazoo health ministry reported that another Paleostinian, 19-year-old Anas Shawqi Abu-Aser, had died of wounds sustained during last week’s riot.

This brought the casualty count in the border festivities to 45 Paleostinian dead and over 1,500 injured by live fire since March 30, according to the Hamas health ministry.

These protests were originally described by their Paleostinian organizers as nonviolent, but Hamas later took charge of them. Rioters have burned tires, hurled Molotov cocktails and rocks at Israeli troops, and repeatedly attempted to sabotage the security fence.

Israeli troops have used both less-lethal weapons and live fire to drive back protesters, prompting international ‐ and, to a lesser extent, domestic ‐ accusations of excessive force.

The Israeli military maintains that its use of live rounds is within the boundaries of Israeli and international law.
Posted by: trailing wife || 05/04/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Hamas


Shin Bet busts Hamas scheme pumping €150K to West Bank university
[Ynet] Following wave of arrests of Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, members in Ramallah, security services discover thousands of euros intended to stage terror activities were funnelled to head of Hamas-affiliated student group at Bir Zeit University; money was transferred by terrorist released as part of Shalit deal.

The Israel Security Agency (Shin Bet), has carried out a wave of arrests tossed in the calaboose
... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not...
of Hamas members in the Ramallah area who are suspected of having received tens of thousands of euros, which were hidden throughout the West Bank and were designated for Hamas activities, it was cleared for publication Thursday.
Continued on Page 49
Posted by: trailing wife || 05/04/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Hamas


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Syrian rebels start pull-out from south Damascus
[AlAhram] Syrian rebels began pulling out of an enclave they have surrendered in south Damascus on Thursday, but a few fighters in another besieged area near Homs shelled government areas after their groups agreed to quit.

The enclaves in south Damascus and near Homs are the only two besieged areas still held by rebels, though they still control large tracts of northwest and southwest Syria, lying along its international borders, which are not surrounded by the army.

Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad
Lord of the Baath...
has focused on dislodging rebels from their remaining besieged pockets since driving them from eastern Ghouta last month after a fierce offensive.

Syrian state television
... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe?
showed footage of buses arriving at Beit Sahm, driving through narrow streets surrounded by soldiers and with concrete buildings above showing scars of war.

It later reported that the first batch of buses had departed, carrying fighters and their families from the area.

Some 5,000 fighters and their family members are expected to leave Beit Sahm, Babila and Yalda neighbourhoods for the opposition areas in northern Syria, it reported, following an earlier group which left the enclave on Monday.

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....
(IS) gunnies holding another part of the same enclave are still fighting after weeks of intense bombardment in the area of al-Hajar al-Aswad and Yarmouk Paleostinian refugee camp.

On Wednesday, turbans in the biggest of the remaining besieged areas, located between the cities of Hama and Homs around the towns of Rastan, Talbiseh and Houla, also agreed to surrender.

However,
you can observe a lot just by watching...
a small number of them rejected the deal and shelled government areas late on Wednesday and early on Thursday, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights war monitor and two local sources said.
Posted by: trailing wife || 05/04/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Syria

#1  Are these the good rebels or the bad rebels?
Posted by: SteveS || 05/04/2018 8:10 Comments || Top||


Militants agree to return area near Homs to government
[PRESSTV] Militants have agreed to disarm and hand the territory under their control near Syria’s third largest city of Homs back to the Damascus government under a new evacuation deal.

The two sides reached the deal on Wednesday thanks to mediation by Russia, Rooters reported. In line with the deal, the faceless myrmidons would also be surrendering their heavy weaponry.

The locations which are subject to the agreement include the towns of Houla, Rastan, and Talbiseh and the villages around them.

The enclave is situated on a main highway linking the cities of Homs and Hama. As part of the agreement, the highway will reopen in three days.

The latest deal, like previous ones, gives the faceless myrmidons two options: either accept the state rule and stay in the area or leave along with their families for other myrmidon-held areas, which are yet to be freed.

Rooters cited a myrmidon source as saying that those refusing to lay down arms would be taken to a myrmidon stronghold in the north of the country near the Ottoman Turkish border, adding that their evacuation is expected to begin on Saturday.

According the Syria’s official SANA new agency, the faceless myrmidons have also agreed to provide maps of the minefields in the area.
Posted by: Fred || 05/04/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:



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