[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The Afghan military in the East says infighting among the Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... and ISIS Khurasan continue in eastern Kunar province ... which is right down the road from Chitral. Kunar is Haqqani country..... of Afghanistan as the latest festivities have left more than ten bully boyz dead or maimed.
The 201st Silab Corps of the Afghan Military in the East says a clash broke out in Chapara Dara district between the two sides, leaving at least seven ISIS bully boyz dead.
The source further added that the clash took place in Wich Naw and Niazi Gani areas on Friday.
The Silab Corps said Thursday that three ISIS Khurasan bully boyz were killed and a Taliban bad boy was maimed during a similar clash in Chapa Dara district a day earlier.
The anti-government armed bad boy groups including Taliban and ISIS bully boyz have not commented regarding the report so far.
The infighting among the Taliban and ISIS Khurasan bully boyz continue amid ongoing operations against the two groups in Kunar and other parts of the country.
Both the Afghan and US forces conduct ground operations and Arclight airstrikes to suppress the bad boy groups in Kunar and other restive provinces.
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"Let's you and him fight"
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The Afghan armed forces have rescued at least seven civilians kept prisoners inside a Taliban-run cell in southern Uruzgan province.
The Ministry of Defense (MoD) said the civilians were rescued during an operation conducted in Charchino district.
According to a statement released by the Ministry of Defense, at least eight militants were also killed during the clashes with the Afghan forces.
The statement further added that a vehicle, six motorcycles, 4000 kgs of explosives, munitions, drugs, and weapons were also destroyed during the same operation.
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] At least ten Afghan coppers were killed or maimed in an ambush by the Talibs in southeastern Ghazni province of Afghanistan.
The local officials are saying that the incident took place earlier today in the vicinity of Waghez district.
A front man for the provincial government Arif Noori said a group of armed murderous Moslems ambushed the police forces in Waghez district earlier today, sparking festivities between the two sides.
He said at least four coppers, including a commander of the Police Special Forces, were killed and at least six others were maimed during the festivities.
Noori further added that the six Talibs were also killed and at least seven others sustained injuries after the Afghan forces responded to the ambush of the Talibs.
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[All Africa] At least 13 people were killed in a complex attack launched by Somali hard boy group Alshabaab targeting the interior ministry headquarters in the capital Mogadishu.
Among the dead are three 3 faceless myrmidons who were bumped off by Somali special forces in a heavy exchange of fire that followed two VBIED kabooms.
Two employees from the ministry of interior have been confirmed dead among them a senior staff.
Four government soldiers were killed in the attack.
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The faceless myrmidons are said to have disguise themselves as Somali security agents and accessed a security checkpoint before the VBIED kaboom and exchange of fire.
Alshabaab grabbed credit for the attack.
This is the first major attack by the Alqaeda affiliated group in the capital recently.
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[Libya Observer] Clashes between a notorious gang led by Ghaniwa al-Kikly and an gang that defected from under his command took place on Saturday at al-Hadba in Abu Salim, 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... The al-Kikly-led group attacked the defectors led by Mahmoud Buazza, who was al-Kikly's sidekick.
According to sources from the area of festivities, Buazza was killed in the fighting as he was hit in the head by gunfire, then died in the hospital.
The fighting was prompted by a previous dispute by al-Kikly and Buazza as the former accused him of a coup attempt, knowing that al-Kikly heads a security apparatus of the Interior Ministry and his gang controls Abu Salim and al-Hadba areas in Tripoli.
Several injuries were reported by eyewitnesses, let alone material damage as well as blockade of several roads in the capital, including Airport Road.
They added that fighting ceased after al-Kikly's gang controlled the positions of Buazza.
No official numbers of deaths or injuries were recorded in the capital.
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[LIBYANEXPRESS] On 4 July 2018, Pre-Trial Chamber I of the International Criminal Court (“ICC” or the “Court”) issued a second warrant of arrest for Mahmoud Mustafa Busayf AL‑WERFALLI (“Mr. Al-Werfalli”) for his alleged responsibility for murder as a war crime in the context of the non-international armed conflict in Libya.
The Chamber found that there were reasonable grounds to believe that Mr. Al‑Werfalli directly committed murder as a war crime in the context of an eighth incident which took place on 24 January 2018, when Mr. Al-Werfalli allegedly shot dead 10 persons in front of the Bi’at al-Radwan Mosque in Benghazi, Libya. The Chamber found the case against Mr. Al-Werfalli to be admissible before the Court, due to the lack of investigative activities in Libya.
This second warrant of arrest complements a first warrant of arrest issued by Pre‑Trial Chamber I on 15 August 2017 for Mr. Al-Werfalli’s alleged responsibility for directly committing and ordering the commission of murder as a war crime in the context of seven incidents, involving 33 persons, which took place from on or before 3 June 2016 until on or about 17 July 2017 in Benghazi or surrounding areas, in Libya.
The situation in Libya was referred to the ICC Prosecutor by the United Nations Security Council in its Resolution 1970 dated 26 February 2011. On 3 March 2011, the Prosecutor announced the decision to open an investigation in the situation in Libya.
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[LIBYANEXPRESS] Unidentified button men killed two workers and kidnapped two others at a water plant in southeastern Libya early on Saturday, the second attack targeting water facilities in two days, officials said.
"An armed attack was carried out by terrorist groups on the Tazirbu site causing havoc, looting, killing and terrorising families, children and the workers who ensure the supply of water to cities," said a statement from the Man-made River Project.
An engineer and a guard were killed and two guards were kidnapped in the raid. The assailants also stole cars and supplies from the site, the statement added.
On Friday, members of an unidentified gang kidnapped three Filipinos and one South Korean employed as technicians at the al-Hassouna plant, part of the same water network connecting desert wells to towns and cities in northern Libya.
It was not clear who carried out either of the attacks, but gangs including Islamist turbans linked to al Qaeda and ISIS have a presence in Libya, especially in remote desert areas.
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[VoiceofEurope] For the 4th consecutive night since Tuesday, violence, lootings and anarchy struck the French town of Nantes. Riots are getting larger and spread to other suburbs of the city.
During the night between Friday to Saturday, 7 cars were set ablaze in the suburbs of Orvault, Rezé, Breil and Bellevue. Police forces were also targeted as rioters threw Molotov Cocktails at them in the Breil and Bellevue areas.
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...It was the French who coined the term, 'a whiff of grapeshot'. And if pushed far enough, they'll remember it.
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I wonder...? How spontaneous was this? Did the Paymasters in the Middle East lose control -OR- was this deliberate? Question, questions, questions...
[DAWN] At least seven people including the candidate of Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal (MMA) were injured when his convoy came under bomb attack in Bannu of Saturday, DawnNewsTV reported.
According to police, the MMA’s candidate from the PK-89 constituency, Sherin Malik was campaigning for elections in Takhti Kheil area of Bannu when a blast occurred targeting his convoy.
The MMA leader along with six other people suffered injuries and were rushed to nearby DHQ hospital.
According to police, the explosive was planted in a motorcycle which was detonated remotely.
There has been no immediate claim by any militant groups for the blast.
Earlier this month, at least 10 people were injured in a blast at the election office of a Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) candidate in Razmak tehsil of North Waziristan tribal district.
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[PRESSTV] Two Filipino women have been kidnapped on a road linking the Iraqi capital Baghdad to the Kurdish city of Erbil, security and local officials say.
The women were traveling to northern Iraq with three other Filipino nationals on Saturday when their car broke down, Reuters reported.
When the two women exited the car, unidentified men driving a yellow car pulled over and took them, a security source said.
The identity and motivation of the kidnappers is still unknown and no group has claimed responsibility for the kidnapping yet.
There has been a surge in violence and abduction incidents by remnants of the Daesh Takfiri terrorist group in the area over the past weeks.
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Baghdad (Iraqinews.com) ‐ An Iraqi tribal commander and one of his lover companions were seriously maimed Saturday in a kaboom in northern Baghdad, a security source was quoted as saying.
"A bomb went off near the house of a commander of the Tribal Mobilization Forces in al-Taji district in northern Baghdad, leaving him and one of his lover companions injured," the source told Baghdad Today website.
A security force cordoned off the blast site and carried the injured to a nearby hospital for treatment, according to the source, who spoke on condition of anonymity.
Anbar (IraqiNews.com) A civilian was killed, while another was injured in a kaboom, west of Anbar, a security source from the police of the province said on Saturday.
"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.... went off as a vehicle was passing at the eastern axis of Rutba town, west of Anbar, leaving a civilian killed and another injured," the source told BasNews.
War remnants, according to the source, who preferred anonymity, "still exist at several regions at west of Anbar."
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Nineveh (IraqiNews.com) Several 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.... leaders were tossed in the slammer You have the right to remain silent... , while stash of weapons were confiscated, northwest of djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... , a police commander said on Saturday.
Speaking to BasNews website, Maj. Gen. Hamad Names al-Jabouri said "security troops of Nineveh Operations Command started an operation in al-Atshana village in Badush town to comb the region."
Troops, according to Jabouri, "confiscated a weapon stash in al-Atshana mountain as well as trench that had food commodities, pots, medicines and digging tools in Badush, west of Mosul."
Moreover, Jabouri added that troops "arrested around 13 leaders, possessing weapons. They were taken to Nineveh Operations Command headquarters for investigations."
Police also "arrested five Islamic State members, wanted for judiciary, two of whom worked for the group’s security department, while the three others were fighters within the group." They were arrested in al-Intissar district, southeast of Mosul.
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Baghdad (Iraqinews.com) ‐ Three farmers were killed Saturday in a kaboom southwest of Kirkuk, ... a thick stew of Arabs, Turkmen, Kurds, and probably Antarcticans, all of them mutually hostile most of the time... a security source was quoted as saying.
"A bomb went kaboom! today afternoon in al-Riyadh district in Hawija, southwest of Kirkuk, leaving three farmers dead," the source told Iraqi website Baghdad Today.
A security force carried the bodies into the forensic medicine department, according to the source, who spoke on condition of anonymity.
No group has so far grabbed credit for the attack, but 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) krazed killer group, in most cases, is responsible for attacks targeting crowded areas, including markets, cafes and mosques across Iraq.
Diyala (Iraqinews.com) ‐ Three Iraqi guards were killed and maimed Saturday after a group of suspected 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 attacked an oil pipeline in Diyala.
"A security man guarding an oil pipeline in Soussa, 50 km west of Baqubah, was killed and three others were maimed in an attack by a group of IS suspects," Alsumaria News TV channel quoted a security source as saying.
The source gave no further details about the attack.
Earlier in the day, an Iraqi civilian was reportedly maimed after a bomb went kaboom! in an agricultural land in Baqubah.
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Diyala (Iraqinews.com) ‐ Iraqi warplanes targeted on Saturday a gathering of 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 in Diyala province, leaving three of them dead.
Spokesman for the Iraqi Security Media Council Brig. Gen. Yehia Rasool said that "the Iraqi Air Force killed three IS holy warriors and destroyed one of their hotbeds near A’isha camp in eastern Anjana on the road linking Baghdad to Kirkuk in Diyala."
The Iraqi fighter destroyed two Islamic State armored vehicles in the Arclight airstrike, Iraqi website Baghdad Today quoted Rasool as saying in a statement.
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[Ynet] Hamas, a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth", leader Ismail Haniyeh ...became Prime Minister after the legislative elections of 2006 which Hamas won. President Mahmoud Abbas dismissed Haniyeh from office on 14 June 2007 at the height of the Fatah-Hamas festivities, but Haniyeh did not acknowledge the decree and continues as the PM of Gazoo while Abbas maintains a separate PM in the West Bank... 's niece was seriously maimed on Friday during "March of Return" protests on the Gazoo border.
The niece, 38-year-old Zahadia Khaled Haniyeh,
...oughtn’t she be a grandmother by now, much too busy to hang out in the middle of a riot?
suffered a gunshot wound to her stomach while she was taking part in the protests on the border fence.
Her uncle came to visit her at the al-Shifa Hospital in Gazoo City on Saturday morning. He also visited other Paleostinians maimed in the protests.
"The Paleostinian people will continue with the marches despite the many maimed, until the land is purified of the filth of the occupation," Ismail Haniyeh said.
During the weekend, Fatah and Hamas representatives were in Egypt for talks in an effort to restart the reconciliation process between the two warring factions, after it had reached a dead end in recent months.
Oh? Odd how no one else seems to have noticed. It’s almost as if they have no faith that anything meaningful will come from the exercise.
The UN's envoy to the Middle East Nickolay Mladenov, who also took part in the talks, said the Egyptian effort is beginning to bear fruit.
"Everyone is focusing on preventing the escalation and easing the suffering of the people, alongside reaching a political solution to the situation," Mladenov said.
[IsraelTimes] Two fires blazed near Israeli communities near the Gazoo Strip Saturday afternoon, caused by incendiary kites flown into Israel from the territory.
A large fire was raging near Kibbutz Or Haner, Channel 10 news reported. Nine firefighting teams were at the scene, with the support of four firefighting aircraft.
A second fire was reported near Kibbutz Nir Am.
Officials said there was no current danger to the communities themselves.
The fires continued to rage over the weekend, with 18 blazes breaking out on Saturday in the Shaar HaNegev, Eshkol and Sdot Negev regional councils. All of the fires were put out.
[IsraelTimes] Suspect taken for questioning and said to tell cops he was planning to carry out a stabbing attack
Police on Saturday said they foiled an attempted stabbing attack, detaining a Paleostinian man carrying a knife and a meat cleaver near a West Bank settlement.
The man was stopped by traffic police near the settlement of Beit El in the northern West Bank. As he was acting suspiciously, officers searched his vehicle and found the weapons.
The man, a 28-year old from the village of Dura, near Hebron in the southern West Bank, was taken for questioning. He told police he was planning to carry out a stabbing attack, police said.
Earlier in the day, border police at the Shuafat checkpoint near Jerusalem nabbed Youse'll never take me alive coppers!... [BANG!]... Ow!... I quit! a Paleostinian who tried to go through the metal detector while carrying a knife.
In figures published this week the Shin Bet security service said that there was a drop of 40 percent in the number of terrorist attacks nationwide documented in June, when 220 such incidents were registered.
The first half of June was Ramadan, a Moslem month-long holiday when observant worshipers fast from sunrise to sundown. Ramadan usually features a spike, not a decrease, in terrorist activity. Israeli security services massively increased their presence in Jerusalem in June to prevent disturbances.
[AnNahar] Iran has executed eight people convicted over two deadly attacks 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.... group in Tehran last year, the judiciary's news agency said Saturday.
The Iranian men were convicted of collaborating directly with the IS jihadists who carried out the attacks on June 7, 2017, Mizan Online reported.
"They supported them financially and procured arms, while being informed of the aims and the intentions of the terrorist group," the agency said.
It did not specify when the executions took place, but the Tasnim news agency said the sentences were carried out on Saturday.
IS grabbed credit for the dual attack on Iran's parliament and the shrine of revolutionary leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini that killed 17 people and maimed dozens.
The assault was the first and only claimed by the Islamic State group in Tehran.
Iran was targeted for supporting Iraqi and Syrian authorities in their fight against IS and other jihadist groups.
Five assailants died, either in suicide kabooms or killed by Iranian security forces.
Legal proceedings continue for others allegedly involved in the attacks, Mizan Online said.
Iran executed eight Kurds on Saturday for being complicit in the 2017 attacks on the Parliament and Mausoleum of Ruhollah Khomeini.
More than 26 people have been charged. Some had been active in the ISIS conflict, according to Iranian intelligence, then entered the country from Iraq in mid-February 2017 and remained holed-up in the Kurdish city of Kermanshah until 24 hours before the attacks.
The Kurdistan Region shares a border with Iran. The KRG immediately condemned the "terrorist acts" and sent its condolences.
Iran carries out the second-most capital punishment executions per year in the world.
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Where's the usual caterwauling infants?: HRW, MSF, UN, ....
Oh, right. It's not the US or Jooooos
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Daraa (Syria News) Assad forces and its allied militias attacked the opposition-held areas in Daraa, using ground-to-ground missiles, Enab Baladi News reported on Friday.
The news outlet revealed that, today, more than 15 ground-to-ground missiles were fired on the neighborhoods of Daraa, since the early morning; however, no casualties were reported.
The shelling also extended to the town of Tafas, in the western countryside of the province, in addition to several cities and towns in the eastern countryside.
Meanwhile, ...back at the Senate, Odius Sepulcher called for war against the Visigoths... pro-regime media outlets pointed out that regime artillery troops are carrying out heavy shelling on the opposition’s headquarters in Daraa al-Balad.
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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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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The Afghan armed forces have rescued at least seven civilians kept prisoners inside a Taliban-run cell in southern Uruzgan province.
[LIBYANEXPRESS] On 4 July 2018, Pre-Trial Chamber I of the International Criminal Court (“ICC” or the “Court”) issued a second warrant of arrest for Mahmoud Mustafa Busayf AL‑WERFALLI (“Mr. Al-Werfalli”) for his alleged responsibility for murder as a war crime in the context of the non-international armed conflict in Libya.
[DAWN] At least seven people including the candidate of Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal (MMA) were injured when his convoy came under bomb attack in Bannu of Saturday, DawnNewsTV reported.
[PRESSTV] Two Filipino women have been kidnapped on a road linking the Iraqi capital Baghdad to the Kurdish city of Erbil, security and local officials say.
...became Prime Minister after the legislative elections of 2006 which Hamas won. President Mahmoud Abbas dismissed Haniyeh from office on 14 June 2007 at the height of the Fatah-Hamas festivities, but Haniyeh did not acknowledge the decree and continues as the PM of Gazoo while Abbas maintains a separate PM in the West Bank...
