An interesting photo of surrendered men at the lnk.
[KhaamaPress] A group of 62 ISIS holy warriors including Pak and Ottoman Turkish nationals surrendered to Afghan forces 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.
The local officials said the bad boys, including 30 Paks and 2 Ottoman Turkish nationals surrendered to Afghan forces in Achin district of Nangarhar.
Tamim Arif Momand, the deputy provincial governor of Nangarhar said the holy warriors surrendered amid ongoing counter-terrorism operations.
Momand furhter added that ISIS holy warriors have lost capability to resist the Afghan forces.
Sulaiman, one of the holy warriors of ISIS said he joined the terror group in Afghanistan five years ago and participated in several fights.
The holy warriors also handed over several weapons including Ak-47s, PKMs, pistols and munitions, the provincial government added in its statement.
This comes as the ministry of defense had earlier announced that more than 600 ISIS holy warriors and their family members have surrendered to Afghan forces during the recent weeks.
Are they moving with families to winter quarters, or is something truly significant going on? This is really strange.
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I too think something truly significant is going on. The Afghan govt is suddenly succeeding in a campaign all the powers of the west took a decade at. 'Huge numbers', 'great casualties' and 'heavy losses to' are being reported every hour.
Some of the men in the photo appear absolutely non-compos mentis if you know what I mean. I'm not against good news, mind you; but in my dealings with this particular animal, I've learned honesty is only a last, desperate afterthought.
Oh maybe I'm just too cynical. Forget what I said.
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Are they moving with families to winter quarters,
Winter quarters are in Pakland.
Normally you don't have to 'destroy' AQ or ISS, just reduce them in effectiveness in order to allow 'nature' to take its own course in creating a stronger predator to move in.
The problem is Pakistan. They are the center of gravity for these outfits. The Deep State has played the game of bribery so long with little effect. Looks like Trump is starving them now of resources. They're seeking a replacement in China. Notice we don't see a lot about how the Chinese are treating their Muslims in much of that Pak-Chinese dialogue.
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ISIS is being attacked from all sides - US, Afghan, Taliban, AQ. Even the Paks don't want them.
Anyone here knows what it is?
Looks like an RPD light machine gun w/ a 100 round drum magazine. It's ancient but US forces sure could have used something like it in Korea or Vietnam.
[KhaamaPress] The Special Forces killed 26 Talibs during the operations in three provinces in the past 24 hours, the military officials said.
The officials further added that the Special Forces killed 12 Talibs during a raid in Kunduz city of northern Kunduz province.
The Special Forces also destroyed a small cache of weapons during the same operation.
In a separate operation the Special Forces killed 11 Talibs and destroyed a small cache of weapons during a raid in Alingar district of Laghman ...Afghan province with a population of about 445,600, which is multi-ethnic and mostly a rural society. During the invasions of Alexander the Great, the area was known as Lampaka, wich is apparently Olde Macedonian for Laghman.The city of Mihtarlam serves as the bucolic capital of the province. The population is half Pashtun, the remainder Tadjik and Pashai. It had a repution for great wealth until it was conquered in the tenth century by Abu Mansur Sabuktigin.
He conquered it and set fire to the places in its vicinity which were inhabited by infidels, and demolishing the idol-temples, he established Islam in them, He marched and captured other cities and killed the polluted wretches, destroying the idolatrous and gratifying the Musulmans. After wounding and killing beyond all measure, his hands and those of his friends became cold in counting the value of the plundered property.
After that it was mostly notable for the production of dirt, rocks, and holy men... , the officials said, adding that the Special Forces killed 3 Talibs in another raid in Alisheng district of the province.
The Special Forces also destroyed a small cache of weapons in Alisheng and a separate weapons cache in Sayyid Karam district of Paktiya, the officials said.
The Taliban ...Arabic for students... group has not commented regarding the operations so far.
[KhaamaPress] A court sentenced a soldier of 209th Shaheen Corps to death for deliberately shooting and killing an Army officer in North of Afghanistan.
According to a statement released by 209th Shaheen Corps, the Court sentenced Syed Musa to death on charges of deliberate murder of Major Hashmatullah late in the month of October.
The statement further that Syed Musa broke into the room of Major Hashmatullah late in the month of October and shot the Major six times in the chest using his M16 assault rifle.
Syed Musa committed the crime after he did not receive his salary for three months for being absent from duty, the statement added.
One of those “ghost soldiers”?
Meanwhile, ...back at the Council of Boskone, Kinnison began his slow infiltration of the sewer system... the court added that the convict has the right to file an appeal as per Article 48 of Penal Code of the Military. Right after he's been executed
[KhaamaPress] The security forces conducted multiple Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s in Ghazni, Helmand ...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan... and Laghman ...Afghan province with a population of about 445,600, which is multi-ethnic and mostly a rural society. During the invasions of Alexander the Great, the area was known as Lampaka, wich is apparently Olde Macedonian for Laghman.The city of Mihtarlam serves as the bucolic capital of the province. The population is half Pashtun, the remainder Tadjik and Pashai. It had a repution for great wealth until it was conquered in the tenth century by Abu Mansur Sabuktigin.
He conquered it and set fire to the places in its vicinity which were inhabited by infidels, and demolishing the idol-temples, he established Islam in them, He marched and captured other cities and killed the polluted wretches, destroying the idolatrous and gratifying the Musulmans. After wounding and killing beyond all measure, his hands and those of his friends became cold in counting the value of the plundered property.
After that it was mostly notable for the production of dirt, rocks, and holy men... provinces of Afghanistan in the past 24 hours killing at least 19 Talibs.
The military officials said Tuesday an airstrike in Deh Yak district of Ghazni province killed one krazed killer of Taliban ...Arabic for students... group.
The officials further added that three airstrikes in southern Helmand proivnce killed 7 murderous Moslems of Taliban.
The security forces conducted the airstrikes in Marjah and Lashkar Gah districts and Nawah-Ye Barekzai of Helmand province, the officials added.
Another airstrike in Alingar district of Laghman province killed 8 Talibs, the officials said, adding that a similar air raid killed 3 Talibs in Alisheng district of the province.
The Taliban group has not commented regarding the airstrikes so far.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Thousands of villagers have been displaced following days of attacks by armed "bandidos" on 10 remote communities in central Nigeria, emergency services said Tuesday.
Gunmen on cycle of violences stormed into a string of villages in the Shiroro district of Niger state from Friday to Monday, shooting and torching homes and forcing residents to flee.
"We have so far documented 4,000 people displaced by the bandidos," Niger State Emergency Management Agency (SEMA) front man Ibrahim Audu Hussein told AFP.
"The IDPs (internally displaced persons) are sheltered in a camp in nearby Kuta district," said Hussein, warning the number could increase as more people were arriving at the camp.
Emergency workers were yet to deploy to the affected communities as the assailants were still in the villages, he said.
"We don’t have casualty details because the area is still too dangerous for our men to enter," Hussein said.
"We are waiting for security clearance to go and evacuate casualties if there are any."
Attacks by armed gangs -- called "bandidos" by the authorities -- have been widespread in central and northwestern Nigeria.
In June at least 40 people were killed when button men raided eight communities in Shiroro district, stealing livestock and burning homes.
The attackers are believed to launch attacks from Rugu forest which straddles Zamfara, Katsina, Kaduna and Niger states.
Authorities in several states have tamped down the violence by offering peace talks and an amnesty.
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[Figaro International] Très chers lecteurs,
They were fathers, husbands, brothers, children, comrades, Frenchmen. On Monday evening, thirteen of our soldiers died in an accident during a fight against the jihadists in Liptako Malian. They died because they considered it honorable to fight jihadist organizations "who declared war on us in 1995" (Michel Goya). They took great risks for a cause that goes beyond our small immediate interests and that can be hard to understand ...
- Valentin Duval, 24, member of the commando mountain group of the 4th Gap fighter regiment (Motto: "Always ready, always willing").
- Pierre Bockel, 28 years old, pilot of the 5th combat helicopter regiment of Pau (motto: "Honor and fatherland"), son of former minister Jean-Marie Bockel, he was going to be a father.
- Julien Carette, 35, mechanic, 5th Combat Helicopter Regiment of Pau, in concubinage, father of two children.
- Romain Chomel de Jarnieu, 34 years old, 4th Gap fighter regiment.
- Benjamin Gireud, 32, pilot, 5th combat helicopter regiment of Pau.
- Jérémy Leusie, 33, Chief of Staff, 93rd Mountain Artillery Regiment of Varces (Currency: "Rock and Fire"), pacsé.
- Andrey Jouk, 43, sergeant-chef, 2nd foreign engineer regiment of Saint-Christol (Currency: "Lorraine keeps me"), married, father of four children.
- Antoine Serre, 22 years old, sergeant, 4th Gap fighter regiment, pacsé.
- Romain Salles de Saint Paul, 35, Master Corporal, 5th Combat Helicopter Regiment of Pau, married, father of two children.
- Alexandre Protin, 33 years old, quartermaster-in-chief, 4th regiment of Gap hunters, in concubinage.
- Alex Morisse, 31 years old, pilot, 5th combat helicopter regiment of Pau, pacsé.
- Nicolas Mégard, 35, captain, combat helicopter regiment of Pau, married, father of three children.
- Clément Frison-Roche, 27 years old, captain, 5th combat helicopter regime of Pau, married, father of a seven-month-old daughter.
They fought for us. To stabilize a region and prevent jihadism from spreading further.
The drama immediately revived the debate around the presence of La Belle La Belle France in the Sahel. If the military mission is very well conducted by our 4500 soldiers, the political relay is null. The Malian authorities are not doing enough, and they are even tempted to negotiate with jihadist groups.
Let us pay tribute to these soldiers, have a thought for their families and friends who will mourn as they can, supported by the Army.
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A sad but but sharply focused example of why one should not stereotype European nations' soldiers as being irresolute just because those nations politicians are. Goodspeed, hommes courageux...
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Well said. In my admittedly limited experience, Le Francais were tough and resourceful and usually badly equipped. Never confuse the soldier on the ground with the coward in Paris.
[DAWN] Jamaat Ulema-e-Islam ...a Pak religious party. It is usually part of the govt, never part of the solution... -Fazl (JUI-F) leader Mufti Kifayatullah was injured in an attack on Baidra road in Mansehra ...a city and an eponymous district in eastern Khyber-Pakthunwa, nestled snug up against Pak Kashmir, with Kohistan and Diamir to the north and Abbottabad to the south... early Wednesday morning.
Along with Kifayatullah, two of his sons ‐ Shabbir Mufti, Hussain Mufti ‐ and friend Jan Mohammad were also injured in the attack. They were taken to King Abdullah Teaching Hospital.
Police front man Mohammad Sohail confirmed the attack and said more information will soon be shared with media.
According to medics, the injured JUI-F leader had sustained injuries on his back, hand and other parts of his body.
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[Aljazeera] Israeli aircraft attacked several sites linked to the military wing of Gaza’s Hamas early on Wednesday in what it said was a response to rocket fire from the Palestinian enclave.
The Israeli military said the targets of the multiple air raids in the southern Gaza Strip included a weapons manufacturing facility.
At least two Hamas sites were hit, in addition to one for allied group Islamic Jihad, a security source in Gaza told AFP. There were no reports of injuries.
The air attacks came shortly after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu threatened to "respond vigorously to any attack".
"If someone in Gaza thinks that he can raise his head after Operation Black Belt, he is sorely mistaken," Netanyahu said in a statement, referring to two days of exchanges between Israeli forces and Palestinian fighters two weeks ago that was the worst such cross-border conflict in months.
Late on Tuesday, the Israeli military had said it identified two projectiles fired from the Gaza Strip, with missile defences intercepting one.
The rockets caused sirens to sound around the Israeli town of Sderot, close to the border with Gaza.
The attack was the second incident this week, and rattled the shaky ceasefire brokered by Egypt and the United Nations earlier this month that ended the latest round of fighting.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Militants in the 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 fired two rockets at Israel on Tuesday, one of which was intercepted by the Iron Dome anti-missile system, the Israeli army said.
Sirens sounded around the Israeli town of Sderot, close to the border with the Paleostinian enclave.
"Two (rocket) launches were identified from territory in the Gaza Strip toward Israeli territory," the Israeli army said in a statement, adding that one of the projectiles was intercepted.
It did not say what happened to the second rocket.
The latest rocket fire comes after a brief flare-up between Israel and Hamas, a regional Iranian catspaw,-ruled territory ended just under two weeks ago.
On November 12, Israeli fire killed a top Islamic Jihad ...created after many members of the Egyptian Moslem Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the assassination of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah... commander, sparking immediate retaliatory rocket fire from the group, which is allied to Hamas.
The Israeli military said around 450 rockets were fired at its territory in that episode and air defenses intercepted dozens of them.
After two days of festivities which killed 34 Paleostinians and no Israelis, a ceasefire began on November 14.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Clashes erupted on Tuesday between supporters of the Free Patriotic Movement Despite its name a Christian party allied with Hizbullah, neither free nor particularly patriotic... (FPM) and supporters of the Kataeb Party in the town of Bikfaya, near the residence of former President Amine Gemayel, in Mount Leb.
The festivities started when a convoy of President Michel Aoun ...president of Leb, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Hizbullah... ’s Free Patriotic Movement supporters attempted to drive through the area which is historically known as a stronghold of the Gemayel family.
According to local Lebanese media the Army intervened to push back local residents as the convoy of the FPM supporters was trying to drive through and supporters of the Kataeb started criticizing President Aoun.
The Lebanese Red Thingy reported that 10 people were maimed in the festivities, five were transferred to a hospital for treatment.
Leb’s Defense Minister Elias Bou Saab told a local Lebanese TV that the scuffle was unfortunate, and that Lebanese people should rely on the army.
Earlier in the day, supporters of Shia groups Hezbollah and Amal attacked anti-government protesters in a public square in Baalbek city, east of Leb, destroying tents used as a gathering place by the protesters and chanting religious slogans.
Gun shots were also had gun sex from a convoy of cars carrying Hezbollah flag, resulting in injuries to 15 people.
Late on Monday night, festivities erupted between supporters of Leb’s caretaker Prime Minister Saad Hariri ...Second son of Rafik Hariri, the Leb PM who was assassinated in 2005. He has was prime minister in his own right from 2009 through early 2011. He was born in Riyadh to an Iraqi mother and graduated from Georgetown University. He managed his father's business interests in Riyadh until his father's assassination. When his father died he inherited a fortune of some $4.1 billion, which won't do him much good if Hizbullah has him bumped off, too.... , and Shia groups Hezbollah and Amal in Beirut, state news agency NNA reported.
The festivities marked the second consecutive night of violence linked to Leb’s political crisis, threatening to tip largely peaceful demonstrations directed at the country’s ruling elite in a more bloody direction.
With the Iranian security officials pledging revenge against the protesters, the mass incarceration of protesters in Tehran and other cities continue with the citizens being charged with “creating traffic” and “blocking the roads”.#IranProtests#Arrestshttps://t.co/zPDrxjI17Q
The attack took place in the Tal Halaf village west of the city of Ras al-Ayn, which is now controlled by the Turkish military after its offensive in October, the ministry said on its official Twitter account, blaming Syrian Kurdish fighters.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Britain-based war monitor, confirmed the attack and the death toll.
“Most of those killed were pro-Turkish factions,” it said. “The car bomb targeted a gathering near a market of the town of Tel Halaf.”
Fighting is ongoing in Ain Issa and Tel Tamr between Turkish-backed factions and the SDF.
The Syrian Observatory also confirmed Tuesday’s blast in downtown Afrin.
“The explosion injured at least eight people and caused material damage,” the war monitor said, reporting the blast took place on al-Siyasiyyeh Street in the middle of the city.
Afrin has been held by Turkish-backed militia groups as part of the Olive Branch Operation since March 2018.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] 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 JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... has frozen the assets of "key" Iran International staff for the news channel’s coverage of the recent anti-government protests in the country, the Iranian judiciary’s news agency Mizan reported on Tuesday.
Launched in 2017, Iran International is a London-based, Persian-language news channel.
Mizan accused Iran International of planning terrorist attacks, attempting to overthrow the regime, and encouraging "thugs" to destroy public property.
"On this basis, Iran has imposed legal restrictions on key and effective" members of Iran International in regard to their assets in their home country," added Mizan.
Iran International says that since anti-government protests began in Iran, families of its staff in the country have been subject to harassment from Iran’s Ministry of Intelligence.
Iran International had protested what it described as "illegal and inhumane behaviour" towards the families of its staff in Iran and said that it will pursue a complaint against the Iranian regime through international bodies in a recent statement.
The statement said that in some cases, relatives of Iran International staff were taken off the streets and from their workplace by agents of the Ministry of Intelligence and told to contact Iran International staff and tell them to stop working with the news channel.
Iran International says the families of its staff in Iran are being targeted due to the channel’s coverage of the anti-government protests in the country - coverage that drew "millions of viewers" in Iran, according to the channel.
Relatives of Iran International staff in Iran are "innocent and have no control over their loved ones who work in the media abroad and should not be held hostage," reads another part of the statement.
Protests in Iran began on November 15 in several towns after the government announced gasoline price hikes of at least 50 percent. They spread to 100 cities and towns and quickly turned political with protesters demanding brass hats step down.
The Iranian government responded by shutting down the internet and with lethal force.
This is not the first time Iran has resorted to harassing the staff Persian-language media outlets abroad.
In August 2017, Iran froze the assets of more than 150 BBC Persian staff in Iran.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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...a city and an eponymous district in eastern Khyber-Pakthunwa, nestled snug up against Pak Kashmir, with Kohistan and Diamir to the north and Abbottabad to the south...
...Second son of Rafik Hariri, the Leb PM who was assassinated in 2005. He has was prime minister in his own right from 2009 through early 2011. He was born in Riyadh to an Iraqi mother and graduated from Georgetown University. He managed his father's business interests in Riyadh until his father's assassination. When his father died he inherited a fortune of some $4.1 billion, which won't do him much good if Hizbullah has him bumped off, too....
...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 
