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Afghanistan
Taliban commander, 2 accomplices killed during a clash with armed forces in Faryab
[KhaamaPress] A local commander of Taliban
...the Pashtun equivalent of men...
and his two lovers fighters were killed during a clash with the Afghan armed forces in northern Faryab province of Afghanistan.

The 209th Shaheen Corps of the Afghan Military in the North in a statement said the clash took place 3:30pm on Sunday in the vicnity of Almar district.

The statement further added that the commander of Taliban, Qari Sefat, was killed with his two accomplices during the clash.

The anti-government armed bully boy groups including Taliban have not commented regarding the report so far.

Faryab is among the relatively volatile provinces in North of Afghanistan. The Talibs are active in some of districts and often attempt to carry out attacks against the government and security forces.

In the meantime, the Afghan forces are busy conducting counter-terrorism operations to suppress the anti-government armed bully boyz in Faryab and other restive provinces in the North.
Posted by: trailing wife || 01/01/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Taliban


Senior police official killed in Takhar bomb explosion
[KhaamaPress] An kaboom took place near provincial police commandment’s compound in northeastern Takhar province of Afghanistan earlier today amid reports a number of people have been killed or maimed in the incident.

Provincial governor’s front man Jawad Hejri confirmed the incident and said Col. Mohamamd Omar, the district police chief of Darqad has died and three others have sustained injuries in the kaboom.

A security official had earlier also confirmed that the police chief of Darqad district has been killed in the kaboom and three civilians have sustained wounds.

The official further added that the incident took place at around 10:00am local time after explosives planted in a vehicle went off.

No individual or group has so far grabbed credit behind the incident.

Takhar is among the relatively calm provinces in northeastern parts of the country but the anti-government armed forces of Evil including Taliban
...the Pashtun equivalent of men...
are attempting to expand their foothold and insurgency in some remote districts of the province.
Tolo News adds that it was a magnetic IED.
Posted by: trailing wife || 01/01/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Top ISIS-K leader Qari Riaz killed in coalition airstrike in Nangarhar
[KhaamaPress] A top leader 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....
of Iraq and Syria Khurasan (ISIS-K) has been killed in a coalition forces Arclight airstrike in eastern Nangarhar
The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country..
province of Afghanistan.

The 201st Silab Corps of the Afghan Military in the East said the ISIS-K leader Qari Riaz was killed in Chaparhar district on Friday.

According to a statement released by 201st Silab Corps, Qari Riaz was responsible for planning and coordinating major attacks in the country.

The statement further added that the killing of Qari Riaz will result into the failure of ISIS-K destructive activities and attacks which normally claimed that the lives of the ordinary civilians.

This comes as another senior ISIS-K leader Amir Aziz Azam who was in charge of the media activities of the terror group was killed few days earlier in a similar airstrike.

Nangarhar has been among the relatively calm provinces in the East but the ISIS-K and Talibs have been attempting to expand their foothold in this province during the recent years.

Both the Afghan and coalition forces conduct regular airstrikes and ground operations to suppress the anti-government armed myrmidons.
Posted by: trailing wife || 01/01/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State


Six Civilians Killed In Paktia Operation: Residents
[ToloNews] A family in Paktia province claims that they have lost six members in a night raid by "campaign forces" in Zurmat district in the province.

The family said that Naeem Farooqi, a tribal elder and member of Paktia peace committee, was killed along with his three sons and two of his brothers in this operation.

Paktia deputy governor Abdul Wali Sahi confirmed that non-combatants were killed during the operation.

"Certainly, it is a crime. Killing civilians is a crime even if there is the presence of the enemy during the operations," he said.

"We are very saddened about the fact that why these types of operations are carried out without the consolation with local officials," Sahi added.

He said the operation was carried out without coordination with the local officials.

"They came at night and said that US forces’ comrades have come and killed six members of our family," said victims’ family member Ehsanullah.

Residents in Zurmat district of Paktia gathered in Gardez city where they asked the Afghan government to launch an investigation into the incident.

Family members of the victims who brought the bodies of those killed in the operation in front of office of Paktia governor’s office, warned that they will not bury the bodies until government arrests the perpetrators behind the incident.

It is said that "campaign forces" are trained and supported by the US and they conduct joint operations with the US forces.
Posted by: trailing wife || 01/01/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:


Britain
UK counter-terrorism police probe New Year's Eve stabbings in Manchester
MANCHESTER, England (Reuters) - British counter-terrorism police are investigating an attack by a man armed with a kitchen knife at Manchester Victoria train station that injured three people, including a police officer, on New Year’s Eve.

Greater Manchester Police said they were keeping an open mind about the motive, adding there was no intelligence to suggest a wider threat.

A witness, a BBC producer who was at the station, said the man was armed with a large knife who linked his actions to "bombings in other countries". The suspect was arrested "within minutes", police said, and was being questioned in custody.

Those injured, a woman and a man in their 50s, were in a serious but not life-threatening condition, police said. A male police officer in his 30s who sustained a stab wound to his shoulder was released from hospital early on Tuesday morning.

Posted by: Besoeker || 01/01/2019 06:28 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  UK "Police Probe" means cover up.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 01/01/2019 9:54 Comments || Top||

#2  They're vigilantly looking for anyone who connects this to Islam.
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 01/01/2019 10:45 Comments || Top||

#3  Try a "Roswell" Probe
Posted by: Procopius2k || 01/01/2019 11:03 Comments || Top||

#4  Fairly fun forty seconds of piffle. Bit cringey at the end, but... four thousand views in six months? Another fine list you've gotten me onto.

Posted by: Slemble Scourge of the Gepids3557 || 01/01/2019 21:17 Comments || Top||

#5  Another fine list you've gotten me onto.

It’s only because we love you, Slemble Scourge of the Gepids3557. ;-) But looking at the names at the end of your video, it is a very fine list indeed.
Posted by: trailing wife || 01/01/2019 22:39 Comments || Top||


Knifeman 'shouts Allahu Akbar' in Manchester station rampage: Anti-terror police quiz man for attempted murder after three stabbed
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • Two members of the public and one British Transport Police officer were injured

  • The knifeman was armed with a 'long knife' and has been arrested by police

  • Police said the attack happened just before 9pm Monday evening in the station

  • Several police officers were quickly on the scene and tasered the knifeman

  • BBC journalist Sam Clack claimed he heard the attacker screaming 'Allah', video posted on Snapchat after the man's arrest showed him shouting 'Allahu Akbar' as he was forced into the back of a police van

  • Knifeman said, 'As long as you keep bombing other countries this sort of s**t is going to keep happening.'
Update from the article at 11:40 a.m. ET:
Anti-terror officers raided the 25-year-old suspect's home in the Cheetham Hill area of the city today as they confirmed two of the victims will be in hospital 'for some time'.

Neighbours of the property raided say they believe it is home to a Somali couple and four of their five children, who all moved to the UK from the Netherlands around 12 years ago.

Footage of the aftermath of the 'frenzied' attack at Manchester's Victoria Station last night shows a man being pinned down by five police officers, with blood stains on the pavement.

Another video shows the suspect shouting 'Allahu Akbar', meaning 'God is most great' in Arabic, as he was put in the back of a police van. He was also heard screaming: 'Long live the Caliphate', a reference to the enclave carved out by terror group ISIS.

Nousha Babaakachel, a neighbour of the home raided, said a Somali family live at the address.

She said the couple have two sons are at university, one working at Manchester Airport and the youngest son is back in Somalia. They also have a daughter.

Both parents attend a local mosque, Ms Babaakachel said.

Witnesses to last night's events have praised the British Transport Police officer who was stabbed in the shoulder after 'bravely and immediately' confronting the attacker during a routine patrol.

BTP Assistant Chief Constable Sean O'Callaghan said: 'I am incredibly proud of the four officers who were immediately on scene last night, detaining a man who was wielding a knife.

'They were fearless, running towards danger and preventing further harm coming to passengers.
Posted by: trailing wife || 01/01/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under: Moslem Colonists

#1  What oh what could be his motivation? We'll probably never know...
Posted by: Frank G || 01/01/2019 4:47 Comments || Top||

#2  Tear down the terror center he went to (also known as mosque) and remove citizenship from family (and boot them out) and this will happen less.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 01/01/2019 6:48 Comments || Top||

#3  Do you suppose the "Allan's Snackbar" screamer just might be a (gasp) Islamic terrorist?

The PC MSM really sucks and does very little to serve any useful purpose. Worse than that they cover up the truth and cover for criminals.

The "Daily Mail" tends to be better than the U.S. media.
Posted by: JohnQC || 01/01/2019 9:05 Comments || Top||

#4  The updated article now reveals the a 25 year old Somali, a long term resident, dunnit.
Posted by: trailing wife || 01/01/2019 11:46 Comments || Top||

#5  Britain has zero need for any somalis.

If they were all returned to somalia, only their absence at the benefitz office and the lack of khat chewing would be noticed.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 01/01/2019 14:26 Comments || Top||

#6  A word from the pointily shod
And the plods on the auntie-tea squad:
Your Muslim relations'
Bizarre imprecations,
In Asian, are just, "OMG!!!!"
Posted by: Otto Thrimp6231 || 01/01/2019 21:37 Comments || Top||


Europe
Malta rescues 180 refugees as weather deteriorates
[PRESSTV] Malta has pulled 180 refugees to safety from two boats in distress, while 49 more were stuck in limbo at sea as the weather worsened in the Mediterranean.

An army patrol boat picked up 28 refugees from a dinghy some 71 nautical miles southwest of Malta before plucking another 152 people from a wooden boat to the south.

The rescues followed the recovery by Malta Sunday of 69 refugees on a wooden boat which had run into trouble.

Meanwhile,
...back at the game, the Babe headed for second base. He almost made it. Then Sheila slapped him....
the UN's refugee agency said time was "running out" for 49 people rescued by NGO boats but denied a safe port in Europe, some of whom have been stranded at sea for over a week.

The NGOs -- the German Sea-Eye and Dutch Sea-Watch -- called for "an immediate solution for those being held hostage by European States, who are denying them a safe port."

"With the weather conditions forecast to worsen this evening, a solution must be found by the end of 2018 in order to prevent placing people's heath at further risk," they said in a joint statement.

The German-flagged Professor Albrecht Penck ship has 17 refugees from West Africa on board who were rescued on Saturday in international waters off Libya.

At the same time, the Dutch-flagged Sea-Watch 3 has 32 refugees rescued on December 22و including three young children, three unaccompanied adolescents and four women from Nigeria, Libya and Ivory Coast.

While Italia, Malta, Spain and the Netherlands have refused to accept the Sea-Watch 3 refugees, several German cities have offered to take them in.

Posted by: Fred || 01/01/2019 00:48 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under: Moslem Colonists

#1  Pick them up and rescue them back to Libya.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 01/01/2019 9:48 Comments || Top||


Amsterdam's Schiphol airport evacuated as armed police tackle man 'with knife who said he had bomb'
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • The man was said to have entered Departure Hall Three of the famous airport Monday evening

  • Soon after he claimed to have a bomb he was wrestled to the ground by police

  • The Dutch armed police later said in a statement the situation is 'under control'
Posted by: trailing wife || 01/01/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:


India-Pakistan
Woman killed, 9 injured in 'ruthless' firing by Indian troops across LoC
[DAWN] A woman was killed and nine other people, including two police constables, were maimed in Azad Jammu and Kashmire (AJK) on Monday as Indian troops resorted to "ruthless" mortar shelling from across the restive Line of Control (LoC), officials said.

The target on the last day of 2018 was Athmuqam, the otherwise rarely hit district headquarters of the picturesque Neelum Valley, located some 80 kilometres northeast of state capital Muzaffarabad.

"First they [Indians] fired some shells on Pakistain Army posts, but suddenly they started pounding civilian installations with mortar shells," said Akhtar Ayub, an Athmuqam based disaster risk management officer.

Video footages shared by some Athmuqam residents in WhatsApp groups showed people running to safety amid the thunder of shelling and clouds of smoke.

Ayub said Indian troops targeted the entire one-kilometre radius of Athmuqam, overlooked by Indian gun positions atop lofty mountains across the unmarked dividing line.

"The shelling was so indiscriminate that we thought they [Indians] will devastate everything existing on the ground," said Abbas Mir, a schoolteacher, whose car’s windowpane was smashed by the splinters of a shell.

Samiya Amir, an AJK University Neelum campus student, said they were on the third floor of a building when the shelling began.

"All of us rushed to the ground floor where we remained confined over the next three hours in a state of fear and anxiety," she added.
Posted by: Fred || 01/01/2019 01:09 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistan

#1  Almost like there was a reason for such indiscriminate firing, like Pak intrusions....
Posted by: Frank G || 01/01/2019 4:46 Comments || Top||

#2  Trump should share border wall technology with India.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 01/01/2019 9:56 Comments || Top||


Iraq
Seven security men killed in sniper attacks by Islamic State over 3 months: source
Diyala (IraqiNews.com) ‐ An Iraqi governmental source said on Monday that 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....
snipers rubbed out seven coppers in Diyala province over the past three months.

Speaking to the Arabic-language Baghdad Today news website, the source said that seven army and police personnel were killed in sniper attacks by Islamic State in al-Waqf basin, 25 km northeast of Baqubah, in the past three months.

The source warned that the security situation in Diyala is still unstable due to the presence of Islamic State cells in several villages, calling on the government to immediately intervene to put an end to the terrorist attacks in the province.
Posted by: trailing wife || 01/01/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State


Terrorist attack targets power transmission line in Iraq
Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) ‐ Unidentified button men have blown up a high voltage pylon in al-Nahrawan neighborhood, southeast of Baghdad, causing a power outage there, the Electricity Ministry said on Monday.

"A high-voltage power transmission line in al-Nahrawan neighborhood has been out of service due to a terrorist attack," Shafaq News quoted the ministry as saying in a statement, clarifying that unidentified button men planted a bomb under a pylon, causing a malfunction in the engines of the Kasibah power plant.

Electricity engineers have rushed to the site of the kaboom in order to carry out essential maintenance work and bring the damaged pylon back to service, the statement added.

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) bad boy group, in most cases, is responsible for attacks targeting crowded areas, including markets, cafes and mosques across Iraq.
Posted by: trailing wife || 01/01/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State


Iraqi army destroys six terrorist hotbeds, detonates three explosives in Nineveh
Nineveh (IraqiNews.com) ‐ The Iraqi army destroyed on Monday six 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....
hotbeds and detonated three explosive charges in Tal Afar district in Nineveh.

Speaking to the Arabic-language Alghad Press website, front man for the Security Media Center Maj. Gen. Yahya Rasool said that a force from Salahuddin Operations Command carried out a security operation in al-Salam village, south of Tal Afar, managing to destroy six terrorist hotbeds.

"The troops also detonated three explosive charges," he said.
Posted by: trailing wife || 01/01/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Fatah accuses Hamas rivals of detaining 500 members in Gaza
[IsraelTimes] Paleostinian Authority President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas
... a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial...
’ Fatah party says the rival Hamas, the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood, movement has detained hundreds of its members in Gazoo.

The arrests come as Fatah prepared to mark the 54th anniversary of its founding.

The movement says that Gazoo’s Hamas rulers have banned pro-Abbas loyalists from organizing events to mark the occasion and rounded up 500 activists.

The Hamas-run Interior Ministry denies the accusations, saying it only summoned 38 local Fatah leaders "to maintain order."

Hamas also is allowing supporters of Abbas’s rival in Fatah, Mohammed Dahlan, to light torches and stage marches.

Fatah and Hamas have been bitter rivals since Hamas, an Islamic krazed killer group, toppled Abbas’ forces and seized control of Gazoo in 2007.
Posted by: trailing wife || 01/01/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under: Fatah


Southeast Asia
Two killed, 32 injured in Mindanao mall blast
Happy New Year from the Religion of Peace™
[Express] Two people were killed and 32 wounded after an explosion rocked a busy shopping center in Cotabato City in Mindanao, after an unidentified male was seen dropping a wrapped box before fleeing in the area, according to witnesses. Local media reports said that the unidentified male was seen dropping a box outside the busy South Seas Mall.

Cotabato Philippine National Police spokesman Roel Zafra said the blast took place at 1:50pm local time. The explosion rocked the city as it prepared for its New Year’s Eve celebrations.

Two people have been pronounced dead, while another 32 injured people were rushed to a variety of hospitals, including the Cotabato Medical Specialist Hospital, Maternity Hospital and Cotabato Medical Center Hospital.

Zafra said initial investigations have revealed that an unidentified male dropped a wrapped box in the area. Local reports saud that seconds later, the box exploded. The PNP said the type of explosive is yet to be determined but that it was dropped in the mall’s baggage area.

Police are trying to determine "if the blast was caused by an improvised explosive device or illegal powerful firecrackers that accidentally went off in the area."

Meanwhile, in a Facebook post, Cotabato Mayor Frances Cynthia Guiani-Sayadi said, "I strongly condemn the bombing incident that happened in front of South Seas Mall today, a day before the New Year, the took away several innocent lives and injured dozen others. This is not just another terroristic act but an act against humanity. I cannot fathom how such evil exists in this time of merry making."
Posted by: ryuge || 01/01/2019 10:24 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Iraqi warplanes hit strategic Daesh position in eastern Syria, kills 30 commanders
[PRESSTV] Iraqi military aircraft have pounded a strategic position of the ISIS Takfiri
...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 in Syria’s eastern province of Dayr al-Zawr after Syria's president, Bashir al-Assad, allowed Iraqi fighter jets to conduct Arclight airstrikes against the Lions of Islam in Syria without waiting to be granted formal authorization for the assaults.

The media bureau of Iraq’s Joint Operations Command, in a statement released on Monday, announced that Iraqi F-16 fighter jets had bombed and destroyed a two-story building on the outskirts of the village of Sousa, killing 30 ISIS commanders as they were holding a meeting.

The statement added that the aerial assault was carried out following close surveillance by the Iraqi Intelligence Service.

Posted by: Fred || 01/01/2019 01:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State

#1  Abdul__ "Damn these sensitivity training sessions anyway"
Achmed__ "Naw, it's a good way to meet chicks,,,,wait. Do you hear something?"
Posted by: Gerthudion Trotsky1845 || 01/01/2019 8:53 Comments || Top||

#2  Are the militaries doing more of the heavy lifting in Iraq and Afghanistan? Far better-trained and organized? Stabilizing?

If so, that seems like a very good thing. Where we wanted to be sometime ago.
Posted by: JohnQC || 01/01/2019 8:56 Comments || Top||


2018 death toll Syria war’s lowest at under 20,000, monitor says
[IsraelTimes] Syria’s nearly eight-year-old conflict saw its lowest annual corpse count in 2018 as the regime reasserted its authority over swathes of territory, a war monitor says on Monday.

A total of 19,666 people were killed this year as a result of the conflict, which erupted in 2011, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitoring group reported.

"2018 was the lowest annual toll since the start of the conflict," Observatory chief Rami Abdel Rahman tells AFP.

The Britannia-based monitor relies on a vast network of sources across Syria to document the war that broke out after the brutal repression of nationwide anti-regime protests in 2011.

The corpse count for 2017 stood at more than 33,000 and the highest annual figure was reached in 2014 ‐ the year 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....
jihadist group proclaimed a "caliphate" over large parts of Syria and neighboring Iraq ‐ when 76,000 people were killed.

Among those killed in 2018 were 6,349 civilians, 1,437 of them children, Abdel Rahman says.
Rudaw has more, including two cute bar graphs breaking down the deaths by group and by year since 2011, concluding:
According to the Observatory, the government and its allies now controls 60.2 percent of Syrian territory, while the SDF hold 28.8 percent.

The Kurds last week asked for the regime's help against the threat of a Ottoman Turkish offensive, a move that will put pay to their ambitions of increased autonomy.

By comparison, the US-based Armed Conflict Location and Event Data Project puts the number of conflict-related deaths in Afghanistan at more than 40,000 this year.
Posted by: trailing wife || 01/01/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The globalist approach (endless chaos) didn't work?
Posted by: JohnQC || 01/01/2019 8:57 Comments || Top||



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Tue 2019-01-01
  Iraqi warplanes hit strategic Daesh position in eastern Syria, kills 30 commanders
Mon 2018-12-31
  2 killed, dozens wounded in bombing near Philippines mall
Sun 2018-12-30
  Morocco arrests Swiss-Spaniard over beheaded tourists
Sat 2018-12-29
  Death toll in IED attack on Vietnamese tourists bus in Giza, Egypt rises to four; 10 injured
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  Arab Israeli who glided into Syria to join Islamic State jailed for 3.5 years
Thu 2018-12-27
  Israel announces it has found and destroyed another Hezbollah tunnel
Wed 2018-12-26
  Nigerian army says 14 personnel killed in Boko Haram ambush
Tue 2018-12-25
  Daesh’s second-in-command killed in eastern Syria: report
Mon 2018-12-24
  Libya complains about weapons cargo from Turkey, new investigation launched
Sun 2018-12-23
  Somalia blast kills at least 16 near presidential palace
Sat 2018-12-22
  Nine new arrests in Morocco over murder of Scandinavian hikers
Fri 2018-12-21
  ISIS Blamed for Murder of Scandinavian Women on Camera in Morocco
Thu 2018-12-20
  Yemen's warring sides accuse each other of violating ceasefire
Wed 2018-12-19
  Jihadist Migrant Plotted to Bomb Vatican, Italian Churches at Christmas
Tue 2018-12-18
  KDF Arrests Al Shabaab Members Planting Explosives In Lamu County

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