[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The Afghan Air Force carried out an airstrike targeting a Humvee armored personnel carrier captured by the Taliban militants in western Farah province.
The 207th Zafar Corps of the Afghan Military in the West said the airstrike was carried out in the vicinity of Bala Bolok district.
The source further added that the airstrike left at least four militants dead while three others sustained injuries.
A pickup vehicle was also destroyed during the airstrike together with the captured Humvee armored personnel carrier, the Zafar Corps said.
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Humvee APC. That's some good Journolism right there
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You mean Humvee is not just another word for jeep, Frank?
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The civilians, militants, and security personnel suffered casualties after a clash broke out between the Afghan forces and the Pakistani militants in eastern Nangarhar province of Afghanistan.
The provincial government media office in a statement said the incident took place in Khogyani district late on Tuesday night.
The statement further added that three Taliban insurgents including two Pakistanis were killed during the clash.
At least two civilians were also killed after the militants opened fire on the security forces, the provincial government said, adding that a local police also lost his life and three others sustained injuries.
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] Reports emerging from Faryab province indicate that the protesters set the provincial government compound on fire after attacking several government and security compounds in this province.
The eyewitnesses in the area are saying that the angry protesters and supporters of Junbish Milli commander Nizamuddin Qaisari attacked the provincial government, provincial intelligence compound, and the provincial security compound earlier today.
According to the eyewitnesses, the protesters also set on fire several vehicles belonging to the security forces.
They also added that the Afghan forces responded to the aggression of the protesters, leaving at least three dead and at least seven others wounded.
The local government and security officials have not commented in this regard so far.
But the provincial public health officials are saying that the dead body of one protester has been taken to the hospital along with seven others who have sustained injuries.
The protests against the apprehension of commander Qaisari turned violent earlier today as the protesters were attempting to storm in the government compounds.
The local government and military officials confirmed that Commander Nizamuddin Qaisari was arrested following a scuffle in a military compound on Monday evening.
A provincial council member of Faryab Tahir Rahmani confirmed that Commander Qaisari has been arrested by the Special Forces of the Afghan Military.
He said Commander Qaisari started verbal clash with the participants of a security meeting in Maimana city which resulted into a armed clash.
According to Rahmani, at least four security guards of commander Qaisari were killed and at least four others were wounded.
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] At least seven Taliban militants including a key leader of the group were killed or wounded during the airstrikes conducted by the Afghan Air Force in northern Faryab province of Afghanistan.
The 209th Shaheen Corps of the Afghan Military in the North said the airstrikes were conducted in the vicinity of Pashtun Kot district.
A statement by the Shaheen Corps stated that the Afghan Air Force fighter planes carried out airstrikes at around 5:40 pm local time on Tuesday.
The statement further added that the airstrikes left at least three Taliban militants dead while at least four others sustained injuries.
According to the Shaheen Corps, a senior leader of the group identified as Mullah Samad also famous as Jawid was among those wounded.
Mullah Samad is among the prominent leaders of the Taliban who was appointed as the deputy shadow governor of the group, Shaheen Corps said.
The statement by Shaheen Corps also added that eight motorcycles belonging to Taliban were also destroyed during the same airstrikes.
The airstrikes on Wednesday were carried out as part of the ongoing Esar-5 operations, the Shaheen Corps added.
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] Militants affiliated with the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria Khurasan and Taliban group suffered heavy casualties during the separate airstrikes conducted in eastern Kunar and Nangarhar provinces.
The 201st Silab Corps of the Afghan Military in the East said at least three militants including two ISIS Khurasan affiliates and a Pakistani Taliban militant were killed in Kunar.
The source further added that the militants were killed in a drone strike conducted in Pech Dara area of Kunar province on Tuesday.
In the meantime, Silab Corps said at least seven ISIS Khurasan militants were killed in a similar airstrike conducted in Deh Bala district of Nangarhar.
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[RADIOSHABELLE] A witness says a powerful landmine explosion struck a military convoy carrying African Union peacekeepers in Southern Somalia on Tuesday night.
The attack took place in Shalanbood town, near the port city of Marka, Lower Shabelle regional capital early in the evening after troops came under IED blast.
Al-Shabab said a roadside bomb has ripped through two of the military personnel carriers and inflicted casualties on the AU soldiers, but, the number has not been verified until now.
Meanwhile, the African Union mission in Somalia, known as AMISOM has not yet released own statement in relation to the attack on the peacekeepers in Lower Shabelle region.
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Instead of using AU for their troops they should use Pb then it will not attract the greedy bankster ghouls!
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[RADIOSHABELLE] Al-Shabaab said it has carried out an attack against Jubbaland forces’ military base located on the outskirt of Kismayo, the regional capital of Lower Jubba province on Tuesday.
The attack has left at least three regional state force members dead, while dozens wounded, according to a statement released by the Al-Shabaab militant group.
The ambush which occurred Baarka village led to a deadly gunfight between the militants and Jubbaland troops who managed to repel the attack and secured their base’s control.
The authorities in Kismayo say the state forces have inflicted losses on Al-Shabaab attackers, denying claims that 3 soldiers on their side were killed in the confrontation.
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[RADIOSHABELLE] Six Kenyan police officers were injured on Tuesday evening after the vehicle in which they were travelling in ran over an improvised explosive device (IED) in Garissa country near the Somali border.
David Kerina, Garissa County Police Commander, confirmed the incident at Masalani area after police officers from Ijara camp were attacked by people believed to be al-Shabab while they were escorting a bulldozer to Sangailu police camp in Holugho Division.
He said the vehicle ran over the IED leading to a blast and injuries. It was badly damaged. Kerina said police officers exchanged heavy gunfire with militants who fled after being overpowered.
“The officers have been injured although they are all out of danger and they have been airlifted to Nairobi for specialized treatment,” Kerina told Xinhua by phone.
Independent sources however told Xinhua that the driver of the vehicle is believed to be in critical condition. No arrest was made. The militants also stole an AK 47 rifle and a pistol belonging to the police inspector.
It is believed that the explosive was set up on the road by al-Shabab terrorists operating in the area which is near to the Kenya-Somalia border.
Islamist militants have staged a string of attacks in Kenya, including the April 2, 2015 massacre at Garissa University that left 148 students dead and a 2013 assault on Nairobi’s Westgate shopping mall that killed 67.
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[PRESSTV] A recent report has revealed that Yemeni army soldiers and fighters from allied Popular Committees killed and injured dozens of Saudi soldiers in the kingdom’s southwestern border regions in June as part of their retaliatory raids against the Riyadh regime’s aerial bombardment campaign.
Yemen’s Arabic-language al-Masirah television network, citing unnamed Saudi social media activists, reported that Yemeni forces and their allies fatally shot 30 troopers in the regions of Jizan, Najran and Asir last month.
Another 46 also sustained injuries in retaliatory attacks.
This is while the Saudi Press Agency asserted that only 26 soldiers had been killed in clashes with Yemeni troops and allied fighters.
Yemeni army troopers and Popular Committees fighters also launched a salvo of Katyusha rockets at a gathering of Saudi-sponsored militiamen loyal to Yemen's former president Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi at al-Sadis military base in Saudi Arabia’s southern border region of Najran.
An unidentified number of Saudi mercenaries lost their lives and sustained injuries in the attacks.
Saudi fighter jets also carried out ten airstrikes against residential buildings and farming lands in the Baqim district of Yemen’s northwestern province of Sa’ada, though no immediate reports about possible casualties and the extent of damage caused were immediately available.
Additionally, Saudi warplanes launched four air raids against Kitaf wa al-Boqe'e district in the same Yemeni province. No fatalities were quickly reported.
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[AnNahar] The French government called for calm Wednesday after the killing of a 22-year-old man by police sparked riots in the western city of Nantes, highlighting the simmering tensions between youths and security forces in deprived urban areas.
Rioters set fire to cars and a medical centre in the city on Tuesday night after news spread that an officer had rubbed out the 22-year-old, named by local newspaper Ouest La Belle France as Bubakar, after stopping his car over an infraction.
Youths clashed with police in the northwestern neighbourhood of Breil where the killing took place, lobbing molotov cocktails, before the unrest spread to two other poorer districts with a history of gang violence.
Burned-out cars littered the streets on Wednesday morning.
Interior Minister Gerard Collomb condemned the violence, adding that "all the necessary resources are being mobilised" to "calm the situation and prevent any further incidents".
Local police chief Jean-Christophe Bertrand said the youth had hit a policeman with his car, lightly injuring him, after a squad stopped the vehicle at around 8.30 pm for an alleged infraction and tried to take him to the cop shoppe for identification.
"One of his colleagues then fired, hitting the young man who unfortunately died," Bertrand told news hounds.
He was hit in the carotid artery and declared dead on arrival at hospital, police sources said.
Judicial police and a national watchdog which investigates claims of police wrongdoing are investigating to clarify "the facts and determine in what circumstances the policeman used his weapon," said Pierre Sennes, public prosecutor for Nantes.
He said on Wednesday that the young man had been wanted by police in Creteil, near Gay Paree, for robbery and other offences.
- 'I saw everything burning' -French police have a long history of strained relations with youths in poor, immigrant-heavy suburbs -- not least since the death of two teenagers, electrocuted while hiding from officers, sparked nationwide riots in 2005.
The assault of a young black man by police -- which led to officers being charged, including for rape after a truncheon was shoved up the youth's anus -- sparked fresh unrest last year.
In January, the government vowed a crackdown on urban violence after shocking video footage emerged of a policewoman being beaten by a crowd of youths in the Gay Paree suburbs on New Year's Eve.
Breil, the Nantes neighbourhood where the young man was rubbed out Tuesday, is a socially mixed district home to a large housing estate with a history of gang violence.
Police had boosted their presence in the area after a series of violent incidents on June 28.
Malakoff and Dervallieres, the other neighbourhoods hit by riots on Tuesday, have been plagued by drugs and poverty for years.
They fall into a category of problem neighbourhoods which are set to receive extra police help from next September under reforms by President Emmanuel Macron.
Steven, 24, who lives in Breil, told an AFP journalist that he had "heard kabooms" and headed to investigate.
"I saw everything burning. There were fires in the bins, the cars. They were breaking everything. It lasted ages," he said.
Neighbourhood residents were in shock on Wednesday morning at the young man's death.
"That guy, he always had a smile on his face," a young man who gave his name as Chris told Ouest La Belle France.
"He was a sweet guy. We have lost a friend, a brother."
He added: "I knew him well. He was from Gay Paree but he'd lived here for a while, he had family here. For us, he was a kid from the neighbourhood."
Nationally, French police have complained of coming under increasing strain in recent years, with a parliamentary report released Tuesday detailing high suicide rates within the force.
[DAWN] A suspected US drone strike on Wednesday killed an alleged Pakistani Taliban commander and his lover associate near the Afghan border, security officials said.
The drone targeted commander Qari Abdullah Dawar, as he was walking with his associate near their mountain hideout located on zero point on the Pak-Afghan border near North Waziristan.
According to the officials, the slain militants were from the Gul Bahadur group, which had carried out attacks inside Afghanistan.
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Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) Twelve people were killed and injured as kabooms took place inside a birds market, west of Baghdad, a security source said on Wednesday.
Speaking to Alghad Press website, the source said "One person was killed, while 11 others were maimed in two kabooms in al-Sho’ala region."
According to the source, "two bombs targeted stores that sell birds."
Earlier today, a source said two kabooms in al-Sho’ala city left a victim and seven injured people. This came after preliminary results showed only two people were maimed.
Baghdad has recently seen significant security stability, however, some kabooms take place in sporadic regions across the capital every now and then.
Salahuddin (IraqiNews.com) Iraqi forces killed three Islamic State militants north of Salahuddin province, a security source was quoted saying on Wednesday.
Iraqi website al-Maalomah quoted the source saying that “a group of the Popular Mobilization Forces killed three Daesh militants who were attempting to sneak into villages near the Makhoul Mountains (north of the province)”. He added that operations were ongoing to purge desert areas from terrorist cells.
Iraqi forces have recently launched fresh offensives to purge the borders between Salahuddin and neighboring provinces from remnant Islamic State cells, following a series of attacks on security forces and kidnappings of civilians, especially at the province of Kirkuk.
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Diyala (Iraqinews.com) – Iraqi troops destroyed on Wednesday eight hotbeds of the terrorist Islamic State group and detonated 29 explosive charges in Diyala.
“All the explosives, including 21 bombs and eight explosive belts, were detonated at the site with no damage reported,” Iraqi website Alghad Press quoted Spokesman for the Iraqi Security Media Council Brig. Gen. Yehia Rasool as saying.
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Finally they are together and separately falling on the turbans like wolves on a fold.
[PRESSTV] Iraqi government forces, backed by allied voluntary fighters from Popular Mobilization Units, have mounted a large-scale offensive in the central part of the war-ravaged Arab country to hunt down the remnants of the ISISTakfiri ...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who must be killed... terrorist group.
The media bureau of Iraq's Joint Operations Command (JOC) said in a statement on Wednesday that army, federal police, special forces, Kurdish Peshmerga forces and Hashd al-Sha’abi fighters had launched "a vast operation to clear out the region east of the Diyala-Kirkuk" highway.
The statement added that the operation, dubbed "Vengeance for the Martyrs," is backed by Iraqi Air Force fighter jets and helicopter gunships.
Iraqi government forces and their allies cleared large part of the area during the early hours of the offensives, destroying nine Lion of Islam hideouts and a car rigged with explosives.
One ISIS terrorist was killed and nine suspects were captured as well. Iraqi troops also discovered a ISIS medical center and a base for training Lion of Islam Lion of Islams, the JOC noted.
Separately, Hashd al-Sha’abi said in a statement that members of the Interior Ministry's elite rapid response force had arrived at the defensive lines of Peshmerga forces after clearing five villages near Hamrin mountain range from ISIS Takfiris.
The troops found eight boom belts, defused 21 roadside kabooms and destroyed eight terrorist hideouts.
On June 30, Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi, who is also the commander-in-chief of Iraqi forces, pledged to hunt down ISISLions of Islam across Iraq after recent attacks and abductions carried out by the terrorist group.
Kirkuk (Iraqinews.com) – Federal police forces have launched a wide-scale security campaign in response to recent attacks launched by Islamic State (IS) group on the villages of Kirkuk, a security source was quoted as saying.
“The campaign was mounted in southern and western Kirkuk with the aim of eliminating IS militants, who take shelter in this area,” the source told Iraqi website Alghad Press.
The source added that the campaign was launched “in the aftermath of attacks launched by Islamic State militants on a number of villages” where they set up fake checkpoints wearing military uniforms.
Kirkuk officials always urge reinforcing military troops in the south and west of the province, as the region still has Islamic State members who escaped during liberation of Hawija to remote areas.
Erbil (Iraqinews.com) – President of the Kurdistan Democratic Party Masoud Barzani met on Wednesday with a leader of Iraqi Shia cleric Muqtada al-Sadr’s Sairoon coalition, which came first in the May 12 parliamentary elections, where they discussed the formation of the new Iraqi government.
According to a statement issued by the media office of the Kurdistan Democratic Party, Barzani met today “at his residence in Erbil with Raid Fahmi, the leader in al-Sadr’s Sairoon coalition and the secretary general of Iraqi Communist Party.”
“The two sides probed the formation of the new Iraqi government,” the statement read, adding that Fahmi expressed, during the meeting, his desire for “all Iraqi parties to be able to take part in the political life in Iraq following the announcement of official results of parliamentary elections.”
Barzani, meanwhile, stressed the importance of forming the “new Iraqi government based on the three principles of partnership, consensus and balance.”
Kirkuk (Iraqinews.com) – Iraqi police forces killed on Wednesday five Islamic State terrorists and destroyed 10 of their hotbeds in Kirkuk, a police chief was quoted as saying.
Iraqi website Alghad Press quoted commander of the Iraqi Federal Police Maj. Gen. Raed Shaker Jawdat as saying that the troops also “destroyed five booby-trapped vehicles, seized a mortar and raided an IS training camp in al-Orouba village in Kirkuk.”
“Four IS tunnels were destroyed and 10 suspects were arrested during the security campaign as well,” Jawdat pointed out.
Federal police launched a wide-scale security campaign in Kirkuk earlier in the day.
[Rudaw] Iraqi Security Forces (ISF) have launched a sweep up operation on the Kirkuk-Khurmatu-Kifri road in a bid to capture ISIS and ‘White Flags’ militants in the unstable area.
“The Iraqi forces have started an operation on the Kirkuk-Khurmatu-Kifri road to sweep up the area,” Mala Karim Shukr, head of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK)’s Hamrin office, told Rudaw.
One member of the ISF was killed and seven more were injured in a bombing in the village of Palkana, Shukr said.
“The operation is a sweep up and it is for capturing ISIS and White Flags members in Hamrin,” Shukr added.
The White Flags is thought to be one of a number of groups to emerge from the fragments of ISIS following its ejection from Iraq’s major urban centers.
Although the Iraqi government declared the defeat of ISIS in December 2017, there have been sporadic military confrontations between ISIS remnants and ISF including the Kurdish Peshmerga — around Makhmour and in the Hamrin mountains in Saladin province.
The operation comes as the Iraqi Army and the federal government bolster efforts to secure the dangerous stretch of road, which sees frequent ISIS kidnappings and assassinations.
Last week ISIS executed six members of the security forces it had kidnapped in the area, prompting the Iraqi government to respond by executing 12 convicted terrorists.
“With the supervision and coordination of the Joint Operations Command, the army, federal police, rapid response [forces], Hashd al-Shaabi, the Diyala and Saladin police sectors, and in coordination with the Peshmerga forces, with the backing of air forces, the army’s air force and the Coalition forces, initiate a wide operation to cleanse the area located to the east of Kirkuk-Diyala road,” Amid Yahya Rasul, spokesperson for the Joint Operations Command, said in a statement on Wednesday.
“The federal police, within the ‘Avenging the Martyrs’ operation to cleanse the areas located to the east of the Diyala road, which started this morning, managed to kill a terrorist, destroy a VBIED [vehicle-borne improvised explosive device], find a 120 mm mortar, destroy nine foxholes, detain nine suspects, a medical center and another for training Daesh elements.”
“Rapid Forces Division, within the ‘Avenging the Martyrs’ operation for cleansing the areas located to the east of the Diyala road and Salahaddin, managed to accomplish its goals and reach Peshmerga lines, find eight explosive vests, two bazookas, destroys eight foxholes, demine 21 planted bombs, and cleanse the Agha Mishit, Shirawa, Palakana, al-Nahran and Pilka villages,” the statement added.
A high ranking Hashd al-Shaabi official was killed on the Tuz Khurmatu-Kirkuk road on Monday, the group’s media announced in a statement. Maj. Gen. Ali Khalifa was assistant commander of East Tigris Operations for the Shiite militia forces. No details about how he died were immediately released.
Showing a reasonable preference that the wolves in Iraqi uniforms fall only on non-Kurdish folds...
[Rudaw] Peshmerga officials stationed near Kirkuk rejected a request from a visiting Iraqi Army delegation on Wednesday to enter Kurdish controlled territory to carry out an operation against ISIS elements.
“A delegation from the Iraqi Joint Forces visited us ... asking us to allow them to carry out raids [against ISIS] in Laylan, Qarahanjir and Shwan areas in Kirkuk,” said Brig. Gen. Saed Idris, the deputy commander of the Brigade 1 of the Peshmerga.
Qarahanjir and Shwan are under the control of the Kurdish Peshmerga forces.
This is the first such meeting between Kurdish and Iraqi forces in Kirkuk since the October 16 events, which saw the Peshmerga pull out its forces in the face of a major offensive backed by Baghdad.
The Iraqi Army and Shiite Hashd al-Shaabi paramilitias are trying to halt the reemergence of ISIS in Kirkuk and other Sunni dominated areas.
Kurdish forces are keen to maintain control over the areas they still hold and are wary of any encroachment by the Iraqi Army and Hashd al-Shaabi.
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[PRESSTV] A Palestinian teenager has succumbed to wounds he received during clashes with Israeli troops in the besieged Gaza Strip, says the Palestinian Health Ministry.
"Mahmud al-Gharabli, 16, died after being injured in the head east of Gaza City on May 14," said ministry spokesman Ashraf al-Qudra on Wednesday.
Protests along the Gaza fence since March 30 have led to clashes with Israeli forces, where at least 135 Palestinians, including 14 children, have been killed. Palestinian protesters demand their right to return to their homeland. Over 15,000 Palestinians have also sustained injuries.
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[IsraelTimes] Damascus relaunches offensive to take rebel-held Daraa and Quneitra, bordering Israel and Jordan
Syria’s regime and its ally Russia resumed air strikes on the south of the country on Wednesday after rebels said talks over a government takeover had "failed."
Seven years into Syria’s devastating civil war, Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad
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More on this story from yesterday about the death of Baghdadi’s boy.
[APNEWS] The Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... group says the son of its top leader His Supreme Immensity, Caliph of the Faithful and Galactic Overlord, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi ...the head of ISIS, or what remains of it, and a veteran of the Abu Graib jailhouse. Looks like a new messiah to bajillions of Moslems, like just another dead-eyed mass murder to the rest of us. So far he has been killed at least four times, though not yet by a stake through the heart... has been killed fighting Syrian government forces.
The announcement of the death of the al-Baghdadi’s young son appeared on the group’s social media accounts late Tuesday. It included a picture of a young boy carrying a rifle and identified him as Huthaifa al-Badri.
The statement, dated this month, said he was an elite fighter, known as an "inghimasi," who was killed while fighting Syrian and Russian troops at a power station in the central Homs province. It did not specify when he was killed.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a war monitoring group, said the most recent IS operations in the area were in the first two weeks of June.
Al-Baghdadi has been reported killed or maimed on a number of occasions but is widely believed to still be alive. Little is known about al-Baghdadi’s family, but a woman and a child who were said to be his wife and daughter were detained in Leb in 2014.
IS has been driven from nearly all the territory it once controlled in Syria and Iraq, though it still maintains a presence in the Syrian desert and remote areas along the Syria-Iraq border.
Russian forces killed the son of Islamic State group leader His Supreme Immensity, Caliph of the Faithful and Galactic Overlord, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi in a missile attack on a Syrian cave in which he was hiding, Iraqi intelligence said Wednesday.
IS's propaganda outlet Amaq said Hudhayfah al-Badri was killed in an "operation against the Nussayriyyah and the Russians at the thermal power station in Homs", in a statement published Tuesday alongside a photo of a young man holding an assault rifle.
Nussayriyyah is the term used by IS for the Alawite religious minority sect of Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad The Scourge of Hama... Iraq's Falcon's intelligence cell said Russian forces on Monday fired three missiles at a cave in Homs that held 30 "terrorist leaders" and several of Badri's bodyguards.
It said 11 people were killed in the attack.
"Badri wasn't even a fighter... he was an icon that was moved from one place to another as a form of psychological propoganda for the rest of the organization," the Falcons said on Wednesday.
On June 22, Badri escaped an Iraqi air force raid that killed two of his bodyguards, including Saud Mohammed al-Kurdi, also known as Abu Abdallah, who was married to Baghdadi's daughter Duaa.
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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 Afghan armed forces suffered casualties in an attack by the Taliban militants on a security post in Kabul.
[DAWN] A suspected US drone strike on Wednesday killed an alleged Pakistani Taliban commander and his 
Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) Twelve people were killed and injured as 
...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who must be killed...
Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir 
...the head of ISIS, or what remains of it, and a veteran of the Abu Graib jailhouse. Looks like a new messiah to bajillions of Moslems, like just another dead-eyed mass murder to the rest of us. So far he has been killed at least four times, though not yet by a stake through the heart...
