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Afghanistan
Special Forces kill, detain 38 Taliban militants in Daykundi and Wardak provinces
[KhaamaPress] The Afghan Special Forces killed 33 Talibs and arrested 5 others during the operations in Daykundi and Wardak provinces.

The military officials said Thursday the Special Forces also destroyed two caches of weapons during the same operations.

The officials further added that the Special Forces killed 30 of the holy warriors during a raid in Gizab district of Daykundi province.

The Special Forces also arrested one hard boy an destroyed a cache of weapons during the same raid, the officials added.

The officials also added that the Special Forces killed 3 other holy warriors in Sayed Abad district of Wardak, detained 4 others and destroyed a small cache of weapons.

The Taliban
...the Pashtun equivalent of men...
group has not commented regarding the operations so far.
Posted by: trailing wife || 11/01/2019 00:08 || Comments || Link || [12 views] Top|| File under: Taliban

#1  [KhaamaPress] Afghan Special Forces killed 33 Talibs and arrested 5 others during the operations in Daykundi and Wardak provinces.

Taliban seldom let themselves be captured alive. I'm the 5 captured were their dancing boys.
Posted by: jpal || 11/01/2019 17:41 Comments || Top||


31 Taliban militants, civilians killed, wounded as explosives-laden vehicle goes off in Jawzjan
[KhaamaPress] An explosion in northern Jawzjan province killed or maimed at least 31 people including many Talibs and ordinary civilians.

The 209th Shaheen Corps in a statement said the incident took place at around 3:00 pm on Wednesday in Bazarak Jangal Aregh Village of Mardian district.

The statement further added that the Talibs were transporting roadside kabooms and kabooms and were their way from Chahar Bolak district of Balkh province to Mardian district.

However,
Caliphornia hasn't yet slid into the ocean, no matter how hard it's tried...
the explosives went off prematurely killing 15 Talibs and 2 civilians, the 209th Shaheen Corps added.

The explosion also maimed 14 other people including Talibs and ordinary civilians.

The Taliban
...Arabic for students...
group has not commented regarding the incident so far.
Posted by: trailing wife || 11/01/2019 00:08 || Comments || Link || [13 views] Top|| File under: Taliban


Bangladesh
1971 WAR CRIMES: SC upholds Jamaat leader Azhar’s death penalty
[Dhaka Tribune] The Supreme Court has upheld the death sentence
...the barbaric practice of sentencing a murderer to be punished for as long as his/her/its victim is dead...
of former Jamaat-e-Islami
...The Islamic Society, founded in 1941 in Lahore by Maulana Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi, aka The Great Apostosizer. The Jamaat opposed the independence of Bangladesh but has operated an independent branch there since 1975. It maintains close ties with international Mohammedan groups such as the Moslem Brotherhood. the Taliban, and al-Qaeda. The Jamaat's objectives are the establishment of a pure Islamic state, governed by Sharia law. It is distinguished by its xenophobia, and its opposition to Westernization, capitalism, socialism, secularism, and liberalist social mores...
assistant secretary general ATM Azharul Islam awarded to him for his crimes against humanity committed during the 1971 Liberation War.
Continued on Page 49
Posted by: Fred || 11/01/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [10 views] Top|| File under: Jamaat-e-Islami

#1  Azhar was the president of the then Jamaat student wing Islami Chhatra Sangha and commander of the notorious al-Badr militia in Rangpur district during the 1971 war, when he led the genocide of over 1,400 people, rape of many women, abduction and torture.

VERY Islamic
Posted by: Frank G || 11/01/2019 4:34 Comments || Top||

#2 
"Rape her, Qasim !"

"But Sir ! I've... I've already raped two women today. I... just don't think..."

"By Allan, you will rape this infidel now or I will shoot you for desertion !"
Posted by: Dron66046 || 11/01/2019 4:57 Comments || Top||

#3  "By Allan, you will rape this infidel now or I will shoot you for desertion !"

How times have changed.
Now he's going to be killed for Insertion!
Posted by: Skidmark || 11/01/2019 10:29 Comments || Top||


Europe
Mosque evacuated over bomb threat in Germany's Cologne
[DAILYSABAH] Germany's largest mosque in the western city of Cologne
...the largest city in North Rhine-Westphalia and the fourth populated city in Germany....
was evacuated on Thursday following a telephone bomb threat.

Cologne Central Mosque
...one of the series of mosques built by the Diyanet İşleri Türk İslam Birliğ department of the Turkish government’s religious department for the further aggrandizement of Sultan Recep Tayip Erdogan I “the much beloved” in recent years...
officials told Anadolu Agency that the mosque complex, which houses the headquarters of Ottoman Turkish-Moslem umbrella group DITIB, was evacuated this afternoon after receiving a bomb threat via telephone.
Posted by: Fred || 11/01/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [13 views] Top|| File under: Moslem Colonists

#1  Good work. Keep it up.
Posted by: Uleck Spererong9442 || 11/01/2019 7:53 Comments || Top||

#2  Which mosque did the threat come from? Was it someone warning about a devotional project they'd accidentally left behind?
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 11/01/2019 8:23 Comments || Top||

#3  SundayFriday-school shop class leftover.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 11/01/2019 8:51 Comments || Top||

#4  Turkish mosque. So it could have been Gulenists, Kurds, Shiites, ISIS, anti-colonists, or the child of a member who hadn’t done his religious instruction homework.

From Wikipedia, a list of the mosques in Germany. Scroll down for the key to the groups who founded them — lots of Ahmaddiyas, for some reason.
Posted by: trailing wife || 11/01/2019 14:26 Comments || Top||

#5  How did that fire start at Notre Dame?
Posted by: Regular joe || 11/01/2019 17:37 Comments || Top||


Iraq
Iraqi President Salih says PM Abdul-Mahdi willing to resign, vows early polls
[DAILYSABAH] Iraq's president on Thursday called for the drafting of new election law and said he would approve early elections once it is enacted, bowing to anti-government protesters while insisting that the sweeping changes they are demanding be carried out in a constitutional way.

Iraq has seen two waves of mass protests this month, with at least 250 protesters killed in festivities with security forces in Baghdad and across the Shiite-majority south. The protesters have demanded the resignation of the government and the overhaul of the political system put in place after the 2003 U.S.-led invasion

In a prime-time address, President Barham Salih expressed support for the protesters and their demands. He said Prime Minister Adel Abdul-Mahdi is prepared to resign once politicians agree on a replacement.
Abdul-Mahdi: "Say what?"
The process he laid out could take weeks or months, and it was unclear whether it would meet the demands of the protesters.

The demonstrators meanwhile clashed with security forces on a second bridge leading to Baghdad's heavily-fortified Green Zone, with at least one person killed and more than 60 maimed.

Demonstrators have gathered in the Iraqi capital's Tahrir Square since the protests resumed nearly a week ago and have repeatedly clashed with security forces on the Joumhouriya Bridge. The festivities have now spread to the nearby Sanak Bridge, which also leads to the Green Zone, where the government is headquartered.

Posted by: Fred || 11/01/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iraq


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
IDF responds to Gaza rocket fire, strikes two Hamas posts
[Jpost] An IDF tank and aircraft struck two military posts belonging the Hamas, a regional Iranian catspaw, terrorist organization in the northern Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamaswith about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response...
Strip as a response to rocket fire from Gaza on Thursday evening, the IDF Spokesperson's Unit said in a blurb.

A projectile fired from Gaza reportedly fell in open territory in southern Israel, according to media reports. The IDF said that the Iron Dome intercepted one of the projectiles and claimed that incident is currently under investigation.

A rocket alert was heard in southern Israel on the Gaza border communities of Alumim and Be'eri, shattering the relative calm in recent months between the Hamas-run enclave and the Jewish state.
Posted by: trailing wife || 11/01/2019 01:20 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under: Hamas

#1  10 rockets tonight, interceptions by Iron Dome. Iran has spun up their puppet's attacks as predicted
Posted by: Frank G || 11/01/2019 19:01 Comments || Top||

#2  Any return fire at all? Just curious.
Posted by: jpal || 11/01/2019 20:25 Comments || Top||


All Israeli air defenses on alert amid fears of possible Iranian attack
[ALMASDARNEWS] Israeli Air Force chief Amikam Norkin stated on 30 October that all layers of the country’s missile defences, including long-range Arrows and Patriots, the medium-range David’s Sling, and short-range Iron Dome, are "on alert". According to the military official, this state of readiness is linked to general expectations that Iran
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan, the abbreviation IRGC is a cognate form of Stürmabteilung (or SA), the term Supreme Guide is a cognate form of either Shah or Führer or maybe both, and they hate Jews Zionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol...
could launch a massive attack against Israel.

According to the Times of Israel, the Israeli military believes Tehran may try to retaliate for Tel Aviv’s continual strikes against Iran’s alleged proxies in the region. Norkin stated that the Islamic Theocratic Republic’s response might not only include regular missiles, but also cruise missiles and drones similar to those used in the attack against Saudi Aramco facilities in September, attributed by some countries to Iran.

"The challenge of air defence has become more complicated. Joining the threat of missiles and rockets are now attack drones and cruise missiles", Norkin said.
The attack on the Saudi refineries, which crippled the nation’s crude output for weeks, was claimed by Yemen
...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of...
i Iran's Houthi sock puppets
...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The legitimate Yemeni government has accused the them of having ties to the Iranian government. Honest they did. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews They like shooting off... ummm... missiles that they would have us believe they make at home in their basements. On the plus side, they did murder Ali Abdullah Saleh, which was the only way the country was ever going to be rid of him...
fighters, but the US accused Iran of being behind the strike, while Riyadh reported finding debris of drones and missiles made in the Islamic Theocratic Republic following the attack. Tehran denies any involvement.

Posted by: Fred || 11/01/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
US Conducts First NE Syria Border Patrol since Pullback
[AnNahar] US forces patrolled part of Syria's border with The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...Qatar's satrapy in Asia Minor...
on Thursday in the first such move since Washington withdrew troops from the area earlier this month, an AFP correspondent reported.

Five armoured vehicles bearing US flags patrolled a strip of the frontier north of the town of Qahtaniyah, an area where regime forces were expected to deploy as part of a deal with Turkey, the correspondent said.

The patrol was accompanied by Kurdish fighters of the Syrian Democratic Forces, the main US ally in the years-long battle against the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really 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 western pols talk they're not really Moslems....
group.

US forces used to patrol the section of border north of Qahtaniyah before Washington announced its pullback on October 6.

The Britannia-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said it is part of an eastern stretch of the frontier where US forces are seeking to maintain a presence.

"They want to prevent Russia and the regime from reaching parts of the border that lie east of the city of Qamishli," the de-facto capital of Syria's Kurdish minority, Observatory head Rami Abdul Rahman said.

The patrol follows the arrival of US reinforcements in Syria from neighbouring Iraq in recent days, in what has been seen as a reversal of US President Donald Trump
...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States...
's pullout order.

Washington has begun reinforcing positions in Deir Ezzor province with extra military assets in coordination with the SDF to prevent the Islamic State group and other actors from gaining access to oil fields in the area, a US defence official has said.
The Times of Israel has a brief video here.
Posted by: trailing wife || 11/01/2019 00:55 || Comments || Link || [15 views] Top|| File under: Sublime Porte

#1  I see a lot or radio antennas. Somewhere, five miles up, somebody's stooging around in circles HOPING for a call.
Posted by: Richard Aubrey || 11/01/2019 19:09 Comments || Top||


Hizbullah Fires Missile at Israeli Drone over Nabatiyeh
[AnNahar] Hizbullah
...Party of God, a Leb militia inspired, founded, funded and directed by Iran. Hizbullah refers to itself as The Resistance and purports to defend Leb against Israel, with whom it has started and lost one disastrous war to date, though it did claim victory...
on Thursday said its fighters used the "appropriate weapons" to confront an Israeli drone over south Leb, "forcing it to leave Lebanese airspace."

The Israeli army had earlier acknowledged that one of its drones came under fire in Lebanese airspace.

In a statement, the Israeli army said an anti-aircraft missile was "launched over Lebanese territory" toward the drone, but the aircraft was not hit.

Leb's state-run National News Agency said a large explosion was heard near the southern town of Nabatiyeh and that Israeli spy aircraft were flying overhead at the time. The area is a stronghold of Hizbullah.

Israel is technically at war with Leb and in recent weeks tensions spiked after two drones packed with explosives targeted Hizbullah's stronghold in Beirut's southern suburbs in August.

Earlier this month, the Lebanese Army accused Israel of having sent a reconnaissance drone over the same area.

Hizbullah vowed to take down Israeli drones overflying Leb following the August incident, and on September 9 claimed it had downed and seized one.

The Israeli army confirmed that one of its devices "fell" in Leb, but it has not commented on the August 25 incident.
Posted by: trailing wife || 11/01/2019 00:54 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under: Hezbollah


3 injured in bombing in Hasakah city
[Rudaw] Three people are said to have been injured due to a cycle of violence bombing in the Salihyah neighborhood of Hasakah on Thursday morning.

This follows a boom-mobile explosion which left at least five people dead in a busy market in the Ottoman Turkish-controlled enclave of Afrin, also on Thursday.

According to Rudaw's news hound on the ground, a cycle of violence laden with bombs went kaboom! in the area at 11:30 local time.

The cycle of violence targeted a pick-up truck carrying Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) fighters.

The cycle of violence also damaged a nearby minibus. As a result, one SDF member was reportedly injured, in addition to two civilians. The injuries, however, are not said to be serious.

Hawar News, media close to the Kurdish forces in Northern Syria reported 4 civilians injured, in addition to a "military member" of an unknown force. The outlet that the four were all IDPs from border town of Darbasiyah who had recently arrived into Hasaka.

According to local security elements, a suspect has been detained.

Kurdish internal security forces (Asayish) say they don't know who is responsible for the attack. However,
a lie repeated often enough remains a lie...
many have warned of retaliatory attacks due to killing of Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really 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 western pols talk they're not really Moslems....
group (ISIS
...embracing their inner Islamic Brute...
) leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.

On Sunday morning, October 27, a US-special forces raid into Baghdadi’s compound ended up with the self-declared caliph detonating a boom jacket, killing himself and three two children.

Hasakah has been relatively safe, with IDPs escaping the Ottoman Turkish incursion fleeing to the area.
Posted by: trailing wife || 11/01/2019 00:07 || Comments || Link || [10 views] Top|| File under:


Five dead in Afrin blast
[Rudaw] At least five people were killed in a dawn bombing in the Ottoman Turkish-controlled Kurdish enclave of Afrin in northwest Syria on Thursday, according to several sources.

"The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) observed the earth-shattering kaboom of a bomb-laden vehicle in the fruit bazaar Afrin city to the north of Aleppo, martyring five people and injuring 10 more, with some in being in a critical condition," the UK-based war monitor said.

A gas station also went kaboom!, adding to extensive material damage, added SOHR.

SOHR numbers differed from those revealed by rebel media. Effect Media Network, a pro-armed opposition news outlet, reported nine killed and 30 injured in the bazar explosion.

A source who spoke to Rudaw from Afrin said that the earth-shattering kaboom took place at 6:50 AM.The boom-mobile is said to have targeted the security headquarters of the Sham Front, a jihadist group within the Ottoman Turkish-backed forces, and killed seven of their fighters.

According to the source, six more were maimed, one of whom was a civilian. No one has grabbed credit so far.

Hawar News, media close to the ruling Kurdish authorities in northern Syria, did report the earth-shattering kaboom, but did not include numbers of casualties.

The Kurdish enclave of Afrin was ruled by Kurdish authorities when the Syrian regime withdrew from the Kurdish-majority northern areas of Syria.

The town was isolated from the rest of Kurdish areas by a Ottoman Turkish-controlled zone in Northern Aleppo.

In early 2018, The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...just another cheapjack Moslem dictatorship, brought to you by the Moslem Brüderbund...
launched "Operation Olive Branch" incursion into the town, forcing Kurdish forces to withdraw, and displacing over 200,000 local civilians.

The city has allegedly faced a widespread ethnic cleansing campaign by Ottoman Turkish-backed groups as hundreds of thousands of Syrian Arabs from elsewhere in the country have been resettled there.

Since then, general lawlessness, and crimes such as looting, arbitrary kidnappings, and liquidations by Ottoman Turkish-backed groups have overtaken the city.

This explosion is not the first explosion to strike the town.

The attacks comes at a time when Ottoman Turkish-backed groups, some of whom who had fought in Afrin, continue their onslaught on Kurdish-controlled territories in northern Syria.

Despite a Ottoman Turkish deals with Russia and the US, and the subsequent withdrawal of Kurdish fighters from the border, Ottoman Turkish-backed groups continued their offensive into northern Syria, especially around the town of Tel Tamr.

While Ottoman Turkish-backed fighters are fighting to take over Kurdish-controlled territories, the Syrian regime and the Russian air force have been trying to take over the hills of Kabani in northwestern province of Latakia, in a bid to gain strategic high ground against Idlib.

Idlib is dominated by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, formerly al-Nusra, before that it was called something else
...al-Qaeda's Syrian affiliate, from which sprang the Islamic State...
, an gang of rebels and jihadists formerly affiliated with al-Qaeda and known as 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 .. ...

...currently Al Nusra is yet another client of Sultan Erdogan’s neo-Ottoman efforts.
Syrian forces are preparing to start their Idlib offensive in the near future. Syrian regime troops are yet to make meaningful advance, and rebel media have reported the dismantling of at least two regime tanks in the fighting for the strategic hills that overlooks the critical Jisr al-Shogour in northwest of Idlib province.
Al Ahram adds:
Similar car blasts frequently hit crowded civilian areas in the mainly Arab populated towns near the border with The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire...
under the control of Ottoman Turkish-backed forces.

Residents and rebels in the rebel-held northwest blame the YPG for the attacks.

The Kurdish-led forces say they are engaged in a guerrilla campaign against Ottoman Turkish forces but deny they target civilians
Posted by: trailing wife || 11/01/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [10 views] Top|| File under: Sublime Porte


Syrian Army reinforcements pour into northwest Hasakah to halt militant advance
You’ve got this, Bashir Assad.
[ALMASDARNEWS] The Syrian Arab Army (SAA) has sent several units of reinforcements to the northwestern countryside of the al-Hasakah Governorate on Thursday.

According to reports from northwestern al-Hasakah, the Syrian Army reinforcements poured in from several areas across northern Syria, as they attempt to halt the hard boy advance near the key town of Tal Tamr.

The Syrian Army reinforcements were sent to this front following a successful counter-attack by the military and allied Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) north of Tal Tamr last night.

A source from the army said the military is hoping to forestall the hard boy advance, while further securing the territories around Tal Tamr’s northern and western countrysides.

The Ottoman Turkish-backed gunnies have captured several areas between Ras al-’Ayn and Tal Tamr over the last week, but this is mostly due to the fact they possess heavier weapons and air support from the Ottoman Turkish Armed Forces.

Posted by: Fred || 11/01/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under: Sublime Porte


18 Syrian soldiers captured by militants in northern Syria have been released
That seems wise...
[ALMASDARNEWS] The Ottoman Turkish-backed forces of Evil have released 18 Syrian Arab Army (SAA) soldiers that were captured in the Ras al-’Ayn countryside this past week.

According to reports, the soldiers were released to the Russian military police near the city of Ras al-’Ayn in the northwestern countryside of the al-Hasakah Governorate this evening.

The reports said some soldiers had minor wounds from battle, but they have received some treatment for their injuries.

This agreement to release the 18 Syrian Army prisoners was brokered by the Russian military police, as they called on their Ottoman Turkish partners to help return these soldiers.
Posted by: Fred || 11/01/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under: Sublime Porte


Russian air defenses intercept enemy objects over Latakia
[ALMASDARNEWS] The Russian air defense successfully intercepted several enemy objects that were seen flying towards the Hmeimim (var. Khmeimim) Airbase in southwestern Latakia this evening.

According to local reports, the enemy objects, which are suspected attack drones, made their way towards the Hmeimim Airbase’s northeastern perimeter before they were shot down by the Russian air defenses.

In a short video released by the Jableh News Network, the Russian air defenses can be seen intercepting these enemy objects before they could reach the Hmeimim Airbase
Posted by: Fred || 11/01/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11 views] Top|| File under: al-Nusra


Turkish-backed militants handover 11 towns to Russian military in Al-Raqqa
[ALMASDARNEWS] Syrian armed forces demanded from FSA gangs to leave 11 settlements in Ayn Issa area of Tal Abyad district and to hand them over to the Russian military police.

"The FSA groups have departed from these 11 villages per the request of The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire...
’s armed forces and handed them over to the Russian military police", the source said.
The Ottoman Turkish military had informed the FSA that those settlements were not part of the safe zone’s border, the source explained.

On 9 October, Turkey launched Operation Peace Spring in northeastern Syria to clear the area of Kurdish units and ISIS
...embracing their inner Islamic Brute...
* terrorists. The United States and Turkey came to an agreement on 17 October for a 120-hour ceasefire in the area to allow the withdrawal of the Kurdish fighters.

As the five-day ceasefire came to an end, Erdogan and Russian President Vladimir Putin
...President-for-Life of Russia. He gets along well with other presidents for life. He is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substance. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to him. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substances...
reached a deal to pull the Kurdish fighters back and establish joint patrols in the operation zone along the Ottoman Turkish border.

Posted by: Fred || 11/01/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under: Sublime Porte

#1  Recep not as crazy as he pretends to be?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 11/01/2019 15:34 Comments || Top||


8 civilians killed, 14 injured in suspected YPG attack in Syria's Afrin
[DAILYSABAH] Eight non-combatants were killed and 14 others were maimed in a suspected terrorist attack by the PKK-linked People’s Protection Units (YPG) in the northwestern Syrian city of Afrin near the Ottoman Turkish border, reports said on Thursday.

The explosion was caused by a bomb-laden vehicle, which went kaboom! in the city’s vegetable market at 7 a.m. local time, reports said.

The injured civilians, including two children, were immediately rushed to the hospital.

A fire also broke out at the market, reports added.

YPG faceless myrmidons occasionally carry out such attacks targeting civilians.
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Two weeks of WOT
Fri 2019-11-01
  Iraqi President Salih says PM Abdul-Mahdi willing to resign, vows early polls
Thu 2019-10-31
  Confirmed: The Emir is dead! Long live the new Emir!
Wed 2019-10-30
  Islamic State Promises Big Announcement
Tue 2019-10-29
  Trump: Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi’s number one replacement has been terminated by American troops.
Mon 2019-10-28
  Baghdadi's aide was key to his capture - Iraqi intelligence sources
Sun 2019-10-27
   ISIS Leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi Killed
Sat 2019-10-26
  Pentagon chief: US troops, armored vehicles going to Syria oil fields
Fri 2019-10-25
  DOJ Review of Russia Probe Origins Is Now Criminal Investigation
Thu 2019-10-24
  California authorities seize enough fentanyl to make 4 million lethal doses
Wed 2019-10-23
  Senior ISIS leader surrenders to Afghan forces in Nangarhar province
Tue 2019-10-22
  Mexico sends in troops after failed 'El Chapo' son arrest
Mon 2019-10-21
  Spokesman: Governor of Wardak Survives Car Bomb
Sun 2019-10-20
  Kurdish politician appeals to Israel for help in northern Syria
Sat 2019-10-19
  Blasts collapse roof at Afghan mosque, killing at least 62 at Friday prayers
Fri 2019-10-18
  Heavy fighting between Turkish/SNA and YPG/SDF


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