[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The Afghan Military in the North says the Farah city has been fully cleared of the Talibs but clearance operations are still being conducted to ensure the remaining turbans are eliminated.
The 207th Zafar Corps of the Afghan Military in the West said the holy warriors have been suppressed both inside the city as well as in the outskirts of the capital of Farah.
The source further added that the civilians have not been harmed during the operations and no government infrastructure or compound has received any damages.
A front man for the Chief Executive Javid Faisal also confirmed that the holy warriors have been fully driven out of the city.
Provincial governor Abdul Basir Salangi confirmed that the holy warriors were driven out of the city in the early hours of Wednesday morning.
According to Salangi, at least twenty people including several security personnel have bit the dust during the festivities with the Taliban ...Arabic for students... turbans.
He said the Talibs have also suffered casualties during the festivities but did not elaborate further regarding the exact number.
The governor of Farah also added that the Talibs from the other provinces including Helmand ...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan... had also participated in the attack on Farah city.
Posted by: Fred ||
05/17/2018 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[0 views]
Top|| File under: Taliban
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The Ministry of Defense (MoD) claims that the Talibs have suffered heavy casualties during the attack on Farah city.
According to a statement by MoD, the Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... turbans launched a coordinated attack at 2:00 am on Tuesday, initially launching their attack from Shebkoh district and managed to seize some parts of Farah city after intruding into the city from its northern parts.
The statement further added that the Afghan national defense and security forces responded to the attack with the ground and air offensive, leaving at least 198 turbans dead.
The ministry of defense also claims that scores of Talibs have also sustained injuries during the festivities with the security forces.
MoD also added that the Afghan forces successfully repulsed the Taliban attack and inflicted casualties on them despite they attempted to use the civilian homes as shelter against the security forces.
In the meantime, MoD says the city has been fully cleared of the Talibs but clearance operations are still being conducted in the outskirts of the city.
Posted by: Fred ||
05/17/2018 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[0 views]
Top|| File under: Taliban
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] U.S. forces conducted an Arclight airstrike killing an al-Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent (AQIS) leader, Hazrat Abbas, and his bodyguard, in Sherzad district, Nangahar province, Afghanistan, Apr. 23, 2018, according to a report by the Resolute Support Mission.
The report further adds that Abbas, a senior AQIS and Tehrik-e-Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... Pakistain (TTP) commander, controlled fighting forces in both Pakistain and Afghanistan. Abbas’ forces were responsible for numerous attacks and kidnappings on both sides of the border.
Abbas’ integration and command of multiple organizations highlights the relationships between terrorist organizations in Afghanistan and the surrounding region, specifically how regional terrorist groups shelter and facilitate global threat networks, the report added.
Posted by: Fred ||
05/17/2018 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[4 views]
Top|| File under: al-Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani ...former chancellor of Kabul University, now president of Afghanistan. Before returning to Afghanistan in 2002 he was a scholar of political science and anthropology. He worked at the World Bank working on international development assistance. As Finance Minister of Afghanistan between July 2002 and December 2004, he led Afghanistan's attempted economic recovery until the Karzais stole all the money. .. offered his apologies to the families of the victims of the tragic Arclight airstrike in northern Kunduz province.
The Office of the President, ARG Palace, said President Ghani met with the tribal elders, religious scholars, and families of the victims who were killed in the tragic incident in Dasht Archi district.
A statement by ARG Palace stated that President Ghani offered his condolences regarding the civilian casualties in the tragic incident.
President Ghani also hailed the families of the victims for their patience and resiliance which led to the prevention of further tragic incidents after the airstrike.
He said the government and ministry of defense leadership apologizes regarding the civilian deaths in the airstrike.
This comes 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... Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) had earlier said that the latest findings by the mission indicate that 36 non-combatants were killed and 71 others were maimed in the airstrike in Dasht Archi district.
However, facts are stubborn; statistics are more pliable... the Ministry of Defense (MoD) in a statement, said the intelligence reports received by the ministry indicates that several Talibs including 18 of their commanders were killed in the raid.
The statement further added that a member of the Quetta Council of the Taliban ...Arabic for students... Mulah Baryal was also among those killed and several others including 12 commanders of the group were maimed.
In the meantime, MoD confirmed the deaths of 9 civilians while stating that 55 others sustained injuries in the airstrike.
Posted by: Fred ||
05/17/2018 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[0 views]
Top|| File under: Taliban
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The US Military in Afghanistan has released a new video which shows the deadly Arclight airstrikes annihilating the Taliban ...Arabic for students... Death Eaters after the group launched a major offensive with an aim to capture the key western Farah city.
According to the US Military, at least 28 Taliban Death Eaters were killed during the airstrikes carried out in Farah province.
No further details have been given regarding the airstrikes which were apparently carried out in support of the Afghan forces who were battling hundreds of the Taliban Death Eaters in Farah city.
The Ministry of Defense of Afghanistan (MoD) earlier said that the Taliban Death Eaters launched a coordinated attack at 2:00 am on Tuesday, initially launching their attack from Shebkoh district and managed to seize some parts of Farah city after intruding into the city from its northern parts.
According to a statement by MoD, the Afghan national defense and security forces responded to the attack with the ground and air offensive, leaving at least 198 murderous Moslems dead.
The ministry of defense also claims that scores of Talibs have also sustained injuries during the festivities with the security forces.
MoD also added that the Afghan forces successfully repulsed the Taliban attack and inflicted casualties on them despite they attempted to use the civilian homes as shelter against the security forces.
In the meantime, MoD says the city has been fully cleared of the Talibs but clearance operations are still being conducted in the outskirts of the city.
Posted by: Fred ||
05/17/2018 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[0 views]
Top|| File under: Taliban
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] A heavy kaboom was foiled in capital Kabul after the security forces discovered and defused an improvised bomb planted by the Death Eaters under a culvert on a main road in Qarabagh district.
The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) officials said the improvised bomb was discovered and defused before the Death Eaters manage to detonate it.
The anti-government armed turban groups including Taliban ...Arabic for students... snuffies have not commented regarding the report so far.
Posted by: Fred ||
05/17/2018 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[0 views]
Top|| File under: Taliban
[AA.TR] At least 44 suspects have been locked away Drop the heater, Studs, or you're hist'try! across The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... for their alleged links to Fetullah Terrorist Organization (FETO), the group behind the 2016 defeated coup attempt, security sources said Wednesday.
In western Manisa province, the arrests came after the Chief Public Prosecutor's Office issued warrants for eight suspects, the sources, who spoke on condition of anonymity due to restrictions on talking to the media, said.
They were accused of being FETO members and using FETO's encyrpted smart phone messaging app, ByLock.
Fourteen suspects were also arrested in Bolu, Istanbul, Ankara and Eskisehir.
In southern Antalya province, 22 suspects were arrested on the charge of using ByLock.
The suspects were held during simultaneous operations in Ankara, Izmir and Hatay.
FETO and its U.S.-based leader Fetullah Gulen orchestrated the defeated coup of July 15, 2016, which left 250 people martyred and nearly 2,200 injured.
Ankara also accuses FETO of being behind a long-running campaign to overthrow the Ottoman Turkish state through the infiltration of Institutions, particularly the military, police, and judiciary.
Posted by: Fred ||
05/17/2018 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[0 views]
Top|| File under: Sublime Porte
[DAWN] Security forces intercepted and killed a 'high-value target' of the Lashkar-e-Jhangvi ... a 'more violent' offshoot of Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistain. LeJ's purpose in life is to murder anyone who's not of utmost religious purity, starting with Shiites but including Brelvis, Ahmadis, Christians, Jews, Buddhists, Rosicrucians, and just about anyone else you can think of. They are currently a wholly-owned subsidiary of al-Qaeda ... (LeJ) said to be involved in the killings of over 100 members of the Hazara ...a grouping of Dari-speaking people of Sino-Tibetan descent inhabiting Afghanistan and Pakistain. They are predominantly Shia Moslems and not particularly warlike, which makes them favored targets... community as well as police personnel, Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) reported early Thursday.
Col Sohail Abid of Military Intelligence was martyred in the shootout. Four other soldiers were maimed, two of whom are said to be at death's door.
"Security forces conducted an intelligence-based operation in Killi Almas area of 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... on pointation from apprehended high-value target about the presence of jacket wallahs along with other faceless myrmidons in hideouts," ISPR reported
According to the statement, three faceless myrmidons ‐ two suicide bombers and one high-value target identified as Salman Badeni ‐ were killed after an intense shootout.
The two suicide bombers were of Afghani nationality, ISPR said. One injured Lion of Islam is in military custody.
A combing operation is ongoing in the area.
Posted by: Fred ||
05/17/2018 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[1 views]
Top|| File under: Lashkar e-Jhangvi
Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) Iraqi security authorities said Wednesday they incarcerated Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out! an 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.... member while trying to sneak into the country coming from Syria.
The Security Media Center’s spokesperson, Brig. Gen. Yahia Rasoul, said the terrorist was arrested after troops ambushed him while coming from Syria’s Dashisha, a village near the Iraqi borders.
He added that the krazed killer confessed to the interrogators he was a senior member of the myrmidon group.
Posted by: trailing wife ||
05/17/2018 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[0 views]
Top|| File under: Islamic State
Nineveh (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.... (IS) forces of Evil were jugged ... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not... Wednesday in the group’s former stronghold of djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... , the security department in Nineveh said.
"The pair were found to have pledged allegiance to Islamic State and worked for its Shar’ia (legitimacy) Diwan during the group’s capture of Mosul city in 2014," Alghad press quoted the department as saying in a statement.
"The two were referred to a Nineveh investigative court for interrogation as they will be tried on terror charges pursuant to article 4/1 of the anti-terrorism law," the statement read.
Posted by: trailing wife ||
05/17/2018 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[0 views]
Top|| File under: Islamic State
Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) Over thirty people were killed and injured as a kaboom took place in north of Baghdad, a security source said on Wednesday.
Speaking to Almaalomah website, the source said "a suicide kaboomer blew up himself in Heseiwa region in Tarmiyah district, north of Baghdad."
The corpse count, according to the source, "went up to seven civilians, while the injured number reached 25 civilians."
"Security troops cordoned off the blast scene. The victims were taken to hospital, while the maimed were transferred to nearby hospital for treatment," the source added.
Earlier today, the Iraqi Security Media Center was quoted saying that an attacker targeted a "mourning ceremony" in Tarimiya, leaving a number of civilians dead and maimed.
Kirkuk (Iraqinews.com) – A four-year-old child was killed while his father was wounded after unidentified gunmen opened fire at them during Kurdish celebrations of election win.
“The child and his parents were found inside their own car in the Shorja neighborhood in northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk with the father suffering from a fatal shot and the mother going into a coma. Their child, 4, was killed in the attack,” a security source told Baghdad Today.
The slain child was identified as Harim Ghonbar Mohamed Amin, the source pointed out.
Kirkuk (IraqiNews.com) Iraqi security officials have denied news that election employees were trapped in Kirkuk by armed groups, saying that government forces are in control.
Maan al-Saadi, a senior security official assigned with law enforcement in Kirkuk, said in a statement that the Counter-Terrorism Service remains in charge of securing ballot boxes, stressing that the situation in the province was “stable and there is no need for worrying”.
Earlier in the day, Riyad al-Badran, a senior official at the High Elections Commission, said employees in Kirkuk were taken hostage by political groups, which caused the ballot boxes there to be blocked from the commission’s main office in Baghdad.
Kirkuk has seen tensions since the Iraqi parliamentary elections were held last Saturday, with Arabs and Turkmen opposing the results which showed the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan leading the results.
Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi, initially calling for respect for results nationwide, later stated it was permissible to recount the votes manually in Kirkuk to address objections.
Kirkuk, with a mixed Kurdish, Arab and Turkmen population, has been at the heart of sovereignty disputes between the Iraqi government and the Kurdistan Region authorities. Iraqi troops took over the province in October in response to a local referendum in which Kurds voted for independence from Iraq.
Posted by: trailing wife ||
05/17/2018 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[0 views]
Top|| File under: Govt of Iraq
[IsraelTimes] An Israeli news crew reporting from Istanbul’s Taksim Square was attacked by several people angry over Israeli military actions in Gaza, Hadashot news says.
Hadashot reporter Ohad Hemo says he and producer Oded Bino were unharmed in the incident.
Hemo tells the broadcaster the incident began when a man noticed him speaking Hebrew and began yelling “murderer, murderer.” Other people surrounded the two, and one man began pushing them.
Hemo said they would report the incident to police.
[IsraelTimes] A synagogue in a southern suburb of Paris canceled an event featuring the city’s chief rabbi.
The Yaguel Yaacov synagogue in Montrouge does not give a reason for nixing the event with Rabbi Michel Gugenheim, but it comes amid fears of anti-Semitic violence at anti-Israel protests in and around Paris.
The event planned for this evening was postponed abruptly hours before it was scheduled to begin. The Consistoire, French Jewry’s organization responsible for religious services, sent out an email to all of the recipients of its correspondence telling them the event had been postponed indefinitely.
Currently, an anti-Israel protest rally is planned for this evening at Republique Square, which is located about a mile away from the hotel where the CRIF event is scheduled to take place. Another rally is being organized in the northern suburb of Stains, by its mayor, Azzedine Taibi.
[IsraelTimes] Israeli ambassador Simona Frankel has been summoned by Luxembourg for admonishment, Israel’s Foreign Ministry says.
On Tuesday, Frankel, who is also envoy to Belgium, was called in by Brussels for a dressing down over comments she made on a local radio station claiming all Gazans who had been killed in Monday’s violence had been terrorists.
It’s not immediately clear if Luxembourg has summoned Frankel for the same reason. The ministry says it will provide details later.
Easy words for someone who does not have to live with the result.
[IsraelTimes] A senior Sunni holy man in Leb has called on all Moslems to wage jihad, or holy war, in support of the Paleostinians after the US decision to move its embassy in Israel to Jerusalem.
Mohammed Rashid Kabbani, the former top Sunni religious authority, or mufti, in Leb, also said it is not sanctioned religiously for the Paleostinians or any Arab or Moslem country to "surrender, reconcile or make peace deals or give up any inch" of historic Paleostine.
Kabbani, who still has clout in the community, also said it is not acceptable for them to "recognize so-called Israel."
Kabbani’s comments appear to be a jab at US plans for a peace deal. They are reportedly supported by 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... , which has used its control of holy sites in Mecca and Medina to brand itself the protector of Islam around the world, and which has special clout among Sunnis.
[Ynet] After he was expelled from Turkey, Ambassador Eitan Na'eh made to go through strict security check at airport in front of Turkish media cameras, which were especially invited to cover his departure; Foreign Ministry summons no.2 Turkish diplomat in Israel for reprimand, asked to show ID at entrance.
#3
On Tuesday, Frankel, who is also envoy to Belgium
The most important thing to remember about Belgium is that the beer & the chocolates come from the Dutch part - not, the ruling, French part. The most important thing to remember about Luxembourg is that there's Luxembourg.
#5
It is very interesting that Hamas has stated that the people killed were either Hamas members or Islamic Jihad members. Israeli snipers are really good.
[IsraelTimes] Army says military base and weapons factory targeted in response to shots fired from across border that hit nearby Israeli homes in Sderot
Israel carried out a series of Arclight airstrikes on Hamas, a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth", "terror targets" in the northern Gazoo Strip overnight Wednesday-Thursday, the IDF said, in response to machine gun fire that struck several homes in the Israeli city of Sderot, apparently fired from across the border.
An army statement said the "terror targets belonging to Hamas" included four site on a Hamas military base and three at a weapons factory.
The strikes came in response to three separate cross-border exchanges earlier Wednesday, including shots said to have been fired from Gazoo that hit residential buildings in Sderot causing damage but no injuries, the army said.
According to the city of Sderot, the shots from Gazoo were aimed at an army aircraft that had been flying overhead, and the bullets struck the homes as they fell back down to earth.
"A short while ago, shots were fired at an [Israel Defense Forces] aircraft. Rounds hit a number of homes in Sderot," the city said in a statement.
Earlier in the day, shots were fired at Israeli soldiers stationed on the border, according to the army. There were no reports of injuries.
In response, an IDF tank fired on a Hamas military position in the northern Gazoo Strip, the military said.
A few hours after the machine gun fire hit the Sderot homes, Israeli troops on the border were again shot at, that time near southern Gazoo, the army said.
In response, an Israeli tank destroyed two Hamas observation posts in southern Gazoo, according to the IDF.
The bullets that hit Sderot, a city in southern Israel that has frequently been the site of rocket attacks over the past 20 years, were large caliber rounds that were fired from a heavy machine gun by members of a terrorist group in Gazoo, the IDF said.
The army would not immediately comment on whether the aircraft had been hit in the shooting attack.
"The IDF sees this as a serious event and holds Hamas responsible for everything that occurs in the Gazoo Strip," the army said.
[Ynet] The IDF has pulled back soldiers stationed in Israeli communities in the Gazoo perimeter and generally thinned its numbers in the region, following a status evaluation that no further border protests are expected soon.
[IsraelTimes] 'They're the ones controlling the Strip, ruling it. Everything that happens goes through them,' the man says in an interrogation video released by the IDF
The Israeli military on Wednesday released footage from the interrogation of a Paleostinian man who was tossed in the calaboose Drop the gat, Rocky, or you're a dead 'un! as he infiltrated into Israel from the Gazoo Strip on Tuesday, in which he claims that Hamas, a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth", is leading the recent border riots in order to stave off an uprising.
Continued on Page 49
#6
So, Comrade, your proles are revolting?
Those children you're molding are molting?
Encourage the faithful
("This choir is disgraceful!"),
Proclaim the hood blues, and keep scolding.
[Defense One] Earlier this month at an undisclosed location in the Middle East, computers using special algorithms helped intelligence analysts identify objects in a video feed from a small ScanEagle drone over the battlefield.
A few days into the trials, the computer identified objects ‐ people, cars, types of building ‐ correctly about 60 percent of the time. Just over a week on the job ‐ and a handful of on-the-fly software updates later ‐ the machine’s accuracy improved to around 80 percent. Next month, when its creators send the technology back to war with more software and hardware updates, they believe it will become even more accurate.
It’s an early win for a small team of just 12 people who started working on the project in April. Over the next year, they plan to expand the project to help automate the analysis of video feeds coming from large drones ‐ and that’s just the beginning.
"What we’re setting the stage for is a future of human-machine teaming," said Air Force Lt. Gen. John N.T."Jack" Shanahan, director for defense intelligence for warfighter support, the Pentagon general who is overseeing the effort. Shanahan believes the concept will revolutionize the way the military fights.
"This is not machines taking over," he said. "This is not a technological solution to a technological problem. It’s an operational solution to an operational problem."
Called Project Maven, the effort right now is focusing on helping U.S. Special Operations Command intelligence analysts identify objects in video from small ScanEagle drones.
#7
Without safeguards, that which has been developed to ferret out the enemy can be turned against citizens. Look at the abuses from the last administration turned against citizens and Trump: weaponizing agencies against citizens, unmasking, spying on a Potus candidate, real collusion and more.
[DAWN] Four men who attacked an Indonesian police headquarters with samurai swords were rubbed out on Wednesday and one officer also died, authorities said, days after a wave of deadly suicide kabooms 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.... (IS) group rocked the country.
The latest assault in Pekanbaru on the island of Sumatra ‐ also claimed by IS ‐ saw a group ram a minivan into a gate at the station and then attack officers with samurai swords, according to the country's national police.
It was not clear if Wednesday's incident was linked to the earlier attacks which saw two families who knew each other and belonged to the same religious study group stage suicide kabooms at churches and a cop shoppe in Surabaya, Indonesia's second biggest city.
The attacks have put Indonesia on edge as the world's biggest Moslem majority country starts the holy fasting month of Ramadan from Thursday.
This week's bloody violence is putting pressure on politicians to pass a stalled security law that would give police more power to take pre-emptive action against people suspected of planning terror attacks.
Posted by: Fred ||
05/17/2018 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[0 views]
Top|| File under: Islamic State
[AnNahar] The United States and the Arab Gulf countries on Wednesday imposed new sanctions targeting Hizbullah ...Party of God, a Leb militia inspired, founded, funded and directed by Iran. Hizbullah refers to itself as The Resistance and purports to defend Leb against Israel, with whom it has started and lost one disastrous war to date, though it did claim victory... Secretary-General His Eminence Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah The satrap of the Medes and the Persians in Leb... , his deputy Sheikh Naim Qassem ... the Grand Vizier of the Hezbullies... and other bigwigs of the Iran-backed Lebanese group.
"Today, the seven member nations of the Terrorist Financing and Targeting Center (TFTC) took significant actions to disrupt an Iranian-backed terrorist group by designating the big shotship of Lebanese Hizbullah," the U.S. Treasury said in a statement.
"The U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) in partnership with the Kingdom of 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... , the co-chair of the Terrorist Financing Targeting Center (TFTC), and the other TFTC member states ‐ the Kingdom of Bahrain, the State of Kuwait, the Sultanate of Oman, the State of 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. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi... , and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) ‐ designated members of Hizbullah’s Shura Council, the primary decision-making body of Hizbullah," the statement added.
It identified the targeted officials as Nasrallah, Qassem, Mohammed Yazbek, Hussein al- Khalil and Ibrahim Amin al-Sayyed.
In addition, TFTC member states also designated "key Hizbullah-affiliated individuals and entities," identifying them as Talal Hamiyeh, Ali Youssef Sharara, Spectrum Group, Hassan Ibrahimi, Maher Trading, Hashem Safieddine, Adham Tabaja, al-Inmaa Group, and al-Inmaa Engineering and Contracting, all of whom were previously designated by the U.S.
"The TFTC again demonstrated its great value to international security by disrupting Iran and Hizbullah’s destabilizing influence in the region. By targeting Hizbullah’s Shura Council, our nations collectively rejected the false distinction between a so-called 'Political Wing' and Hizbullah’s global terrorist plotting," said U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Steven T. Mnuchin.
"Under the dictates of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps-Qods Force (IRGC-QF), Secretary General and head of the Shura Council Hassan Nasrallah is prolonging the human suffering in Syria, fueling the violence in Iraq and Yemen, putting the Lebanese state and the Lebanese people at risk, and destabilizing the entire region," Mnuchin charged.
The U.S. Treasury noted that this is the second TFTC designation action since the center was announced on May 21, 2017.
It said that the TFTC is "a bold and historic effort to expand and strengthen the seven member states’ cooperation to counter the financing of terrorism," adding that the TFTC "facilitates coordinated disruptive actions, sharing of financial intelligence information, and member state capacity-building to target terrorist financing networks and related activities that pose national security threats to TFTC members."
The Treasury added that these designations "are in furtherance of the goal of addressing the totality of Iran's malign activities and regionally destabilizing behavior, including that of Hizbullah."
[ALMASDARNEWS] The Russian Aerospace Forces unleashed a massive assault over the southern part of Damascus this morning, targeting several terrorist positions belonging to the so-called 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).
According to a military report from a source on the ground, the Russian and Syrian forces launched their biggest attack of the offensive this morning, causing several kabooms that could be heard throughout the capital city.
The joint Russian-Syrian attack primarily targeted the ISIS-held areas inside Hajar al-Aswad, Yarmouk Camp, and al-Tadamon.
At the same time, the Syrian Arab Army’s 42nd Brigade of the 4th Mechanized Division, alongside Liwaa al-Quds ...the Jerusalem Brigade is a Paleostinian-Syrian pro-Government group that operates in Aleppo, formed in 2013. The group is composed of predominately Sunni Paleostinians from the al-Nayrab district as well as the former refugee camp Handarat. It is believed to be the largest Assadist auxilliary force operating in storied Aleppo... , stormed the Islamic State’s last positions along the southwestern axis of 30th Street.
Intense festivities are now ongoing at this aforementioned axis and several other areas around ISIS-held southern Damascus.
Posted by: Fred ||
05/17/2018 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[6 views]
Top|| File under: Islamic State
[ALMASDARNEWS] The Syrian military’s offensive in northern Latakia has been postponed due to the recent developments in the northern part of Aleppo city.
According to a military source, the recent attacks by Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham in Aleppo city has forced the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) and their Russian counterparts to beef up their numbers in the scenic provincial capital.
Furthermore, the Russian and Ottoman Turkish delegations at the Astana Peace Conference are currently discussing a plan to reopen the Aleppo-Gaziantep Highway, which is partially blocked by HTS in Kafr Hamra.
HTS has long been a problem in northwest Aleppo, as their forces continue to wreck havoc on the al-Zahra Association Quarter and its nearby districts in Aleppo city.
Posted by: Fred ||
05/17/2018 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[4 views]
Top|| File under: Govt of Syria
[ALMASDARNEWS] A homegrown rocket fired 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.... in southern Damascus hit a crowded district in Damascus, killing and injuring scores.
The bloody attack comes as thousands of people went out shopping to prepare for the holy month of Ramadan which begins tomorrow.
Panic prevailed as a huge thud rocked Victoria Bridge district, sending huge plumes of smoke into the sky.
According to government sources, 2 non-combatants were killed, 19 others maimed in the attack.
Meanwhile, ...back at the dirigible, the gondola was dangling by a single thread of rope.
Jack! Cynthia cried. I just realized I'm afraid of heights! I don't even like high heels!... battles rage in the southern outskirts of the capital with the Syrian forces advancing into the ISIS-held districts.
Posted by: Fred ||
05/17/2018 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[4 views]
Top|| File under: Islamic State
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
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
...former chancellor of Kabul University, now president of Afghanistan. Before returning to Afghanistan in 2002 he was a scholar of political science and anthropology. He worked at the World Bank working on international development assistance. As Finance Minister of Afghanistan between July 2002 and December 2004, he led Afghanistan's attempted economic recovery until the Karzais stole all the money. ..
... a 'more violent' offshoot of Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistain. LeJ's purpose in life is to murder anyone who's not of utmost religious purity, starting with Shiites but including Brelvis, Ahmadis, Christians, Jews, Buddhists, Rosicrucians, and just about anyone else you can think of. They are currently a wholly-owned subsidiary of al-Qaeda ...
Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) Iraqi security authorities said Wednesday they 
Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) Over thirty people were killed and injured as a 
...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. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi...
...the 
