[ToloNews] Security officials in Helmand ...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan... province said Sunday that Ibrahim Rahmat, a key Taliban ...Arabic for students... key commander, was killed during a foreign forces Arclight airstrike in Nahri Saraj district.
In addition, the Ministry of Defense claimed on Monday that 22 hard boyz including a Taliban local commander were killed and eight maimed in Afghan airstrikes in Ab Band, Andar, Qarabagh districts and Ghazni city, in Ghazni province.
During the air strikes two vehicles, weapons and ammunition were destroyed, MoD said.
No further details were provided regarding the operations and military casualties.
[KhaamaPress] The local security officials in southern Kandahar province have said that a big shot of the Taliban ...Arabic for students... group has been tossed in the calaboose You have the right to remain silent... during the operations of the security forces in this province.
Provincial Police Chief of Kandahar Gen. Tadin Khan said the shadow governor of Taliban for Jaldak and Tarnak areas of Shahr-e-Safa city of Zabul has been arrested during the an operation which was conducted in Arghistan district of Kandahar.
Gen. Tadin Khan did not disclose further information regarding the identity of the detained Taliban Überstürmbannführer but added that he was arrested while attempting to cross-border and flee to Pakistain.
He also added that the deputy of the detained Taliban Überstürmbannführer was also killed along with four other Talibs and some weapons and munitions were confiscated.
The anti-government armed forces of Evil including Taliban have not commented regarding the report so far.
[KhaamaPress] The Talibs have suffered heavy casualties during the operations of the Afghan armed forces in northeastern Takhar and northern Kunduz provinces.
The 209th Shaheen Corps of the Afghan Military in the North in a statement said at least 10 Talibs were killed and 15 others were maimed during the operations of the Afghan Police and Afghan Intelligence led by the Afghan Army in Khwajah Ghar, Dasht-e-Qala, Yangi Qala, and Khwajah Bahauddin districts of Takhar province.
The statement further added that the operations are being conducted in the framework of Toofan-24 operations.
The Afghan forces also received artillery and close air support during the operations, the 209th Shaheen Corps said adding that the operations will continue until the mentioned areas are fully cleared of krazed killers.
According to 209th Shaheen Corps, the security personnel have not suffered casualties during the operations.
In the meantime, the 209th Shaheen Corps said the Afghan Air Force carried out Arclight airstrikes using MD-530 helicopters against the krazed killer in Hazrat Sultan area located in the lovely provincial capital of Kunduz which left two turbans dead and three others maimed.
The anti-government armed krazed killer groups including Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... have not commented regarding the operations so far.
ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkey ordered the arrest of 1,112 people over suspected links to the network of U.S.-based Muslim cleric Fethullah Gulen, who is accused of orchestrating an attempted coup in 2016, broadcaster CNN Turk reported on Tuesday.
The operation was among the biggest that have been launched against alleged supporters of Gulen since the failed putsch, in which 250 people were killed. Gulen, a former ally of President Tayyip Erdogan, has denied involvement in the coup attempt.
CNN Turk said the operation was centered on the capital, Ankara, but was spread across 76 provinces. No further details were immediately available.
More than 77,000 people have been jailed pending trial since the coup attempt and widespread arrests are still routine. Authorities have suspended or sacked 150,000 civil servants and military personnel.
Erdogan’s critics accuse him of using the failed putsch as a pretext to quash dissent. Turkish authorities say the measures are necessary to combat threats to national security.
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Failed Putsch? Actually, the false flag operation (astoundingly bad, probably fake, coup setup) was a rather successful "putsch" by little Hitler Erdogan.
[DAWN] Five Kashmiris were killed in fighting with government forces in Indian Kashmiree on Sunday, reports said, triggering anti-India festivities in which at least 10 civilians were maimed.
The fighting began after Indian government forces cordoned off a village in the Himalayan region's southern Kulgam area. Exchange of gunfire was reported in which five armed Kashmiris were killed.
According to the Kashmire Media Service, a search operation was jointly carried out by the personnel of Indian army’s 9 Rashtriya Rifles, Central Reserve Police Force and Special Operation Group of police. A house was also destroyed by Indian troops during the aggression by Indian forces.
It said the dear departed Kashmiris were identified as Waseem Bashir Rather, Zahid Parray, Idrees Butt, Aaqib Nazir, and Pervez Butt.
The Kashmire Media Service also reported that mobile phone and Internet services were suspended in the district. Train services have also been suspended in south Kashmire, it said.
The fighting sparked protests and festivities as hundreds of residents tried to march to the site of the clash in solidarity with the Kashmiri fighters. The protesters were chanting slogans and demanding end to India's occupation of the region.
Indian forces fired shotgun pellets and tear gas at the protesters, who threw stones and snowballs at them. At least 10 civilians were maimed and were taken to hospitals, medics and local residents said.
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[AlMasdar] The U.S. military sent a large number of reinforcements to the Iraqi-Syrian border as the Iranian-backed Hashd al-Shaabi forces prepare to start a new operation in this region.
According to Ottoman Turkish state-owned Anadolu News Agency, the U.S. military sent reinforcements to the western countryside of the al-Anbar Governorate, which borders Syria’s Deir Ezzor and Homs provinces.
Citing an Iraqi official, the Anadolu report alleged that the U.S. military forces were redeployed to this area to block the expansion of the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) troops along the Syrian-Iraqi border.
With the Syrian Arab Army and Hashd al-Shaabi preparing to launch a joint offensive in southeast Syria, the U.S. Armed Forces at the nearby al-Tanf Base will likely be watching closely to ensure the pro-government troops don’t move into their zone of influence.
[Rudaw] Hashd al-Shaabi’s security directorate continued its crackdown on headquarters of groups it claims were masquerading as members of the Popular Mobilization Forces. It shut down five offices in the last two days.
On Monday, the security directorate of the Hashd al-Shaabi Commission announced in a statement the closure of two "fake headquarters" of groups pretending to be Hashd units in Baghdad. The two groups are the Kutlat Daam al-Dawla (Faction of Supporting the State) in Karrada and Kataeb al-Nukhba al-Qitali (The Elite Fighting Battalions) in the al-Dawra area.
"The two headquarters were closed upon the discovery of light and heavy weapons, military uniforms and ranks, badges and fake documents," the statement detailed.
On Sunday, the Hashd closed three more headquarters and detained the leaders.
"In continuation of the national campaign to close fake headquarters and clear al-Hashd of those pretending to be affiliated with it, the security directorate of al-Hashd today closed three fake headquarters," the commission stated on Sunday.
The closures were based on court orders, Hashd claimed.
One of the headquarters raided was that of the Iitilaf Squr Dawlat al-Iraq (Coalition of Iraqi State Hawks) in Karrada. There, the Hashd confiscated records of real estate dealings for state property in the name of the Hashd al-Shaabi. The second headquarters raided on Sunday was al-Intifadha al-Shaabanyah (the Shaabaniyah Uprising) in the al-Bab al-Sharqi area. There, they detained a man named Ali al-Sakry who was reportedly pretending to be a lieutenant general. The third headquarters was in the al-Saadun area where "fake documents" in the name of Hashd and alcohol were found.
Hashd said it will strike with an "iron fist" all those involved in these "fake" units of their forces and called on people to report suspicious activity.
There are tens of militias with thousands of members aligned within the Hashd al-Shaabi.
This crackdown within the Hashd began last week with the arrest of Aws al-Khafaji, head of a brigade that the commission said was not related to them. Khafaji had accused Hashd elements of killing his cousin, an author who was critical of Iran, which is the powerful backer of the Hashd al-Shaabi.
djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... (IraqiNews.com) ‐ Iraqi troops freed on Monday six Yazidi women along with their children from 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.... captivity in Mosul city, the Security Media Center said.
The Yazidi women, in addition to their six children, had been taken captive during the Islamic State’s capture of Mosul city from 2014 to 2017, Alghad Press website quoted the center as saying.
The freed Yazidis had been handed over to their families in Sinjar district in Nineveh, according to the center.
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Diyala (IraqiNews.com) ‐ An Iraqi border guard was killed and another injured in festivities with 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.... murderous Moslems near a security checkpoint on the border between Iraq and Iran, a security source said.
Speaking to al-Kishla News website, the source said that IS murderous Moslems launched an attack on a security checkpoint on the outskirts of Khanaqin in northeastern Diyala.
Fierce festivities erupted afterwards between the security forces and the IS turbans, leaving a border guard dead and another maimed, the source added.
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[IsraelTimes] Spokesman says one of the dead was an officer in Hamas, the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®, security forces, second was a civilian; source of gas unclear.
An officer in the Hamas security forces and a Paleostinian civilian died late Sunday after inhaling poisonous gas inside a tunnel along the border between Egypt and the Gazoo Strip, Iyad al-Bozm, a front man for the Interior Ministry in the coastal enclave said in a statement on Monday.
Bozm, whose ministry is run by the terror group, said the officer was on "a security mission to inspect the tunnel," but did not state clearly what the civilian was doing in it.
He did not comment on the origin of the substance, but a Paleostinian security source said the Egyptian military has used gas to halt the use of illegal tunnels it finds along the border.
The Egyptian army could not be reached for comment Monday, but in 2010 Cairo denied similar charges after the deaths of four Paleostinians in a border tunnel.
Egypt has demolished hundreds of tunnels between its territory and Gazoo in the past several years, but smugglers of commercial goods and weapons are still believed to operate a number of subterranean passageways there.
In February 2017, three Paleostinians died from inhaling toxic gas in a tunnel between Egypt and Gazoo, which they were repairing after Egyptian military blew it up, Paleostinian authorities said at the time.
Bozm said that the members of the Hamas-run Civil Defense succeeded in extracting the bodies of the officer and the civilian from the tunnel.
He also noted that two other members of the security forces were rescued and transferred to a local hospital for treatment, but he did not say if they were in the tunnel or who saved them.
The ministry front man identified the officer as 39-year-old Abdel Hamid al-Aker and the civilian as 28-year-old Subhi Abu Qirshein. He said Aker held the rank of major.
A video posted on Quds News Network, a Paleostinian news site, appeared to show the bodies of Aker and Abu Qirshein arriving at a hospital in the coastal enclave.
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Goat farts.
Trust me, they are stinky.
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The only thing worse, doubting Thomas,
Than goat farts, I solemnly promise,
Is foul, fatal flatus
("But why do they hate us?")
Of goats who have eaten bad hummus.
[IsraelTimes] Security forces stopped two Paleostinian brothers as they tried to slip past security checks at the Tomb of the Patriarchs in Hebron on Monday and then discovered one of them was carrying a knife concealed in some papers, police said.
The siblings, aged 18 and 19 from the nearby Paleostinian city of Yatta, were taken away for questioning as to the motive for their actions, Border Police said in a statement.
Security forces became suspicious of the pair when they noticed them milling around near one of the security check posts at the entrance to the holy site, located in the West Bank city. Officers at the scene stopped them as they tried to bypass security and enter the compound.
During a search of their possessions one of the suspects was found to have a knife hidden in a bundle of papers he was holding, police said.
The Tomb of the Patriarchs is sanctified by Jews and Moslems as the burial place of biblical patriarch Abraham and others.
[Aljazeera] Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL, also known as ISIS) snipers and landmines have slowed a US-backed ground force as it pushes to retake the armed group's last enclave in eastern Syria.
Black-smoke clouds rose over ISIL's final territory in Deir Az Zor province on Monday as coalition fighter jets fired missiles in support of the Kurdish-led militia known as the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF).
The SDF launched an offensive on Saturday attempting to expel about 600 ISIL fighters from a 4sq km area in Baghouz village, near the Iraqi border on the eastern banks of the Euphrates River.
The US-led coalition maintained a steady beat of bombings on the enclave after an early morning ISIL counterattack caused several SDF casualties.
"[ISIL] launched a counterattack on our forces and we are now responding with rockets, air attacks and direct clashes," said SDF spokesman Mustafa Bali.
About 1,500 civilians had fled the enclave on Monday. "It seems there are still many civilians inside Baghouz," Bali said. "We are compelled to go cautiously and accurately in this battle."
Bali said there were "dozens of SDF hostages" captured by ISIL.
[IsraelTimes] US-led coalition air strikes on the last jihadist pocket in Syria on Monday killed 16 civilians, including at least seven children human shields, a war monitor says.
Nineteen fighters from 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 were also killed in festivities with the coalition-backed Kurdish-led force spearheading the offensive against the jihadists, the Britannia-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says.
According to reports, the Syrian Democratic Forces suffered as many as 20 casualties during the battle, as the Islamic State managed to hold their ground throughout the attack.
[AlMasdar] ISIS fighters are resorting to increasingly desperate measures to disguise themselves in an attempt to escape Kurdish fighters in southeast Syria, an unnamed YPG commander has told the Daily Star.
"You think of it, they do it," the commander said.
"It’s crazy right now, they’re really desperate. They are trying to blend in because there are so many [civilians]," he added.
Earlier, the Syrian Democratic Forces, the umbrella organization which includes the YPG, reported that over 20,000 civilians had fled the area in recent days amid the battle between gunnies and the militia.
The YPG commander confirmed that fighters "have been trying to escape in women’s clothes," explaining that "some of them dress as women because we don’t ask the women to raise their hijab."
Other jihadists resorted to posing as members of civilian families, the commander said. "They go into random families and scare them."
"The families are afraid to say, ’oh no, I don’t know him’. They also say, ’they forced me, let me pass by and I will tell you where they are’. At this point, it doesn’t really matter what they say because we know where they are. There’s only one place they can be," the commander added, referring to the terrorists’ complete encirclement by the militia.
This isn’t the first reported case of ISIS fighters trying to flee the Syrian and Iraqi war zones in disguise. In 2015, shortly after the beginning of the Russian air campaign against the terrorists, hundreds of fighters in northern Syria reportedly shaved their beards and fled to The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...just another cheapjack Moslem dictatorship, brought to you by the Moslem Brüderbund.... The Russian Air Force then began monitoring terrorist efforts from the de facto ISIS capital of Raqqa to flee as civilians. Later, the Iraqi Army temporarily banned the burqa and niqab in liberated djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... for security reasons amid fears that gunnies were disguising themselves as women to escape.
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[AlMasdar] The Syrian Arab Army (SAA) continued their military campaign in northwestern Syria on Monday, targeting several areas controlled by the Ottoman Turkish-backed rebels in northern Hama.
According to a military report from northern Hama, the Syrian Arab Army targeted a number of dens and trenches located near the town of al-Janabah.
The Syrian Arab Army’s attack would then spread to the checkpoint near Massasneh; this would result in a fierce exchange between the military and Jaish al-Izza.
Jaish al-Izza responded to these attacks by firing a number of artillery shells towards the Syrian Arab Army’s positions north of Mhardeh.
Another attack was reported by the Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) near the town of al-Habbit, which is located inside the designated buffer zone in northern Hama.
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[IsraelTimes] Syrian state media claims IDF targeting hospital and observation post with tank shells; Israeli military does not comment.
Israeli forces shelled the Syrian city of Quneitra, Syrian state media reported Monday night.
Could be remnants of ISIS or Al Nusra, the lads of the Palestine Liberation Army — attached to Assad’s forces — feeling their oats, someone showing off for visiting Iranian officers, or just a bit of misplaced guns3x aimed too close to the Israeli lines and needing pushback...
According to the state-run SANA news agency, Israeli tank shells targeted a hospital in Quneitra and a nearby observation post.
Quneitra lies just across the border on the Golan Heights, in the demilitarized zone between the countries.
The Israeli military did not immediately respond to the report.
According to SANA, the shelling caused material damage but no casualties.
Quneitra was re-gained by Bashir al-Assad's regime forces in July 2018, having been held by a rebel faction for the majority of the country's seven-year-long civil war. The area sits some 500 feet from the 1974 internationally-mediated ceasefire line.
In late December, IDF forces fired at armed suspects approaching the Israeli border from Syria.
The Syrian military has been placed on their highest alert level after a brief Israeli attack targeted their positions in the al-Quneitra Governorate.
According to a military source in Damascus, the Syrian military’s air defense forces were placed in a ready position to confront a potential Israeli attack on the western part of the country.
The source said while it is highly unlikely that the Israeli military will strike again, they wanted to take all precautionary measures to ensure they are able to foil an attack.
Earlier in the day, the Israeli military launched three separate strikes that targeted three different Syrian Arab Army sites.
The first attack targeted a Syrian Army garrison at a large hilltop; the second strike targeted the Quneitra Hospital, which was later turned into a base by Jabhat al-Nusra ...formally Jabhat an-Nusrah li-Ahli al-Sham (Support Front for the People of the Levant), also known as al-Qaeda in the Levant. They aim to establish a pan-Arab caliphate. Not the same one as the Islamic State, though .. ... ; and the third attack targeted another garrison at Jabata al-Shaab.
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ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkey ordered the arrest of 1,112 people over suspected links to the network of U.S.-based Muslim cleric Fethullah Gulen, who is accused of orchestrating an attempted coup in 2016, broadcaster CNN Turk reported on Tuesday.
[DAWN] Five Kashmiris were killed in fighting with government forces in Indian 
[AlMasdar] The U.S. military sent a large number of reinforcements to the Iraqi-Syrian border as the Iranian-backed Hashd al-Shaabi forces prepare to start a new operation in this region.
[IsraelTimes] Spokesman says one of the dead was an officer in 
[Aljazeera] Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL, also known as ISIS) snipers and landmines have slowed a US-backed ground force as it pushes to retake the armed group's last enclave in eastern Syria.
[IsraelTimes] US-led coalition air strikes on the last jihadist pocket in Syria on Monday killed 16 civilians, including at least seven 
[IsraelTimes] Syrian state media claims IDF targeting hospital and observation post with tank shells; Israeli military does not comment.
Quneitra lies just across the border on the Golan Heights, in the demilitarized zone between the countries.
