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Good morning
James Mattis: Joe Biden Must Eliminate
‘America First' from U.S. Foreign Policy
Wednesday November 25th, 2020

jean-rutherford.
Terror attack kills 1 in Afrin, northwestern Syria
President Ilham Aliyev and First Lady Mehriban Aliyeva visited the liberated city of Agdam
Hulusi Akar: Patrol service will be conducted between the observation posts which will be established in Karabakh
Senior FETO terrorist suspects nabbed across Turkey
Twin blasts in Afghan province of Bamiyan kill 14 people, injure 45 -officials
Saudi Arabia demands SecurityCouncil stop ''the Iran-backed Houthis' threat to global energy security''
Female social worker in Seattle was stabbed to death

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#1  The old Vaseline on the camera lens effect. Very artsy.
Posted by: jpal || 11/25/2020 17:26 Comments || Top||

#2  Have things finally gotten to the point to where Dims in mass can now be sent to prison?

Evidence and whistleblowers are pouring in from EVERY WHERE!
Posted by: Ebbomoger Speaking for Boskone4589 || 11/25/2020 23:43 Comments || Top||


Afghanistan
Germany Starts Reducing Troops in Kunduz: Report
[ToloNews] Germany is reducing its military presence in the northern province of Kunduz that was planned by NATO
...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A collection of multinational and multilingual and multicultural armed forces, all of differing capabilities, working toward a common goal by pulling in different directions...
’s mission in Kabul in late summer, Germany’s military said as quoted by Rooters.

The reduction is not a reaction to the United States’ announcement last week that it will cut US forces in Afghanistan to 2,500 from 4,500 by mid-January, a front man for Germany’s Joint Operations Command said quoted by Rooters.

Germany started to redeploy its around 100 troops from the camp in Kunduz, which is located inside a larger Afghan base, about a week ago, the German military front man said.

If military advisers were needed in Kunduz in future, German troops would be flown there from a large base in Mazar-e-Sharif, capital of northern Balkh province where around 1,000 German soldiers are stationed, he said.

With roughly 1,200 troops, Germany has deployed the second largest military contingent in Afghanistan after the United States.

German Defence Minister Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer said earlier on Tuesday, Berlin expected to learn more details on the planned US withdrawal from Afghanistan in the coming days, he Rooters reported said.

"When the Americans specify over the coming days what troops they intend to pull out and which locations will be affected, we will see what short term effects the drawdown will have for our mission there," she said.

On November 18, US acting Defense Secretary Christopher Miller said that US troop presence in Afghanistan and Iraq will be reduced to 2,500 in each country by mid-January.
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Kid Took Mortar Shell for Toy Dies with Father
[KhaamaPress] Local officials in Baghlan province say a father and son were killed and two other children were maimed when a mortar shell went kaboom! in the Khenjan district of the province.

A front man for the Baghlan governor, Zarmina Amani, told Khaama Press, that a man and his child were killed and two other children were maimed in a mortar shell explosion in the Khenjan district of the province.

Amani adds that this incident occurs when the children of this family bring home a mortar shell mistaken for toy and after hitting the shell with stones, the blast occurred.

Baghlan is located in the northeast of the country and is one of the key provinces connecting the eight northern provinces with the center of Afghanistan (Kabul).

This province is one of the most insecure provinces in the country where Taliban
...Arabic for students...
fighters have a large presence.

On the other hand, MoD reports that in Yakhchal village of Panjwai District, Kandahar, three Talibs were killed and three others were maimed.

Two other Taliban forces of Evil were reportedly killed while planting roadside kabooms in Zherai district of Kandahar province.

According to MoD’s bulletin, the group of Taliban fighters was attacked by Arclight airstrike
...KABOOM!...
s in the Zari district of Balkh province yesterday.

In this incident, six Taliban forces of Evil were killed and four others were maimed in the airstrikes.

This comes as MoD reports a major Taliban commander was arrested in Pashton Zarghon district of Herat
...a venerable old Persian-speaking city in western Afghanistan, populated mostly by Tadjiks, which is why it's not as blood-soaked as areas controlled by Pashtuns...
province. He was involved in massive insurgency operations in the region. Afghan commandos detained the commander as he was planning to attack ANA outposts.
Posted by: trailing wife || 11/25/2020 00:10 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under: Taliban


Twin blasts in Afghan province of Bamiyan kill 14 people, injure 45 -officials
[APA.AZ] Twin explosions in the central Afghan province of Bamiyan killed at least 14 people and wounded 45 more, provincial officials said on Tuesday, as the international community pledged assistance for Afghanistan at a conference in Switzerland, APA reports citing Reuters.

The two bombs, hidden at the side of a road in a main bazaar in Bamiyan city, killed 12 civilians and two traffic policemen, said Zabardast Safai, the police chief of the province.

The other 45 people injured were mostly from a nearby restaurant and shops, Safai added.
Al Ahram adds:
Bamiyan
...a place in Afghanistan that used to have some historically interesting statues of the Buddha carved into a mountainside. Then the holy men showed up and now all they have is some big holes...
has been seen as the country's safest province due to its remote location in the central mountains. The dominant local tribe, the Hazara
...a grouping of Dari-speaking people of Sino-Tibetan descent inhabiting Afghanistan and Pakistain. They are predominantly Shia Moslems and not particularly warlike, which makes them favored targets...
, opposed the Taliban
...Arabic for students...
, mostly ethnic Pashtuns who massacred thousands of Hazara during their rule.

The Taliban, which has been waging an insurgency against the foreign-backed Kabul administration since being toppled in late 2001, denied involvement in the bombings.

Hazaras are mostly Shi'ite Moslems. Minority Shi'ites have been repeatedly attacked by Sunni turbans, especially 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....
fighters in Afghanistan.

Nearly 6,000 Afghan non-combatants were killed or maimed in the first nine months of this year as heavy fighting between government forces and Taliban holy warriors rages on despite efforts to find peace, according to the United Nations
...boodling on the grand scale...
Posted by: Fred || 11/25/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under: Taliban


Africa North
Cairo court orders seizure of funds belonging to 285 Muslim Brotherhood members
[AlAhram] The defendants also include Egyptian actors Hesham Abdullah, Hesham Abdel-Hamid and Mohammed Shoman, who are runaways who have worked at pro-Brotherhood TV channels

The Cairo Court for Urgent Matters has ordered the seizure of funds owned by 285 people affiliated with the outlawed Moslem Brüderbund group, including a number of public figures who currently reside abroad.

These figures include pro-Brotherhood TV presenters Moataz Matar and Mohammed Nasser, both of whom reside in The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor...
, and Abdullah El-Sherif, who resides in Qatar
...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi...
The court order also includes Egyptian actors Hesham Abdullah, Hesham Abdel-Hamid and Mohammed Shoman, who are runaways who have worked at pro-Brotherhood TV channels.

The decision also includes three entities that are affiliated with the group, which has been designated a terrorist organization by Egypt since late 2013.

The 285 defendants are barred from dissipating their properties, funds in their bank accounts, or stocks and bonds registered in the Egyptian exchange.
Posted by: trailing wife || 11/25/2020 03:04 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Muslim Brotherhood

#1  The Muslim Brotherhood from its inception has attracted the well-to-do and highly educated. Its charities have helped the poor, but offspring of the lower classes have never made their way to the top of its ranks.
Posted by: b || 11/25/2020 8:29 Comments || Top||


Libya’s GNA Deputy Education Minister Referred to Prosecutor General
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Posted by: Fred || 11/25/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Muslim Brotherhood


Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
Hulusi Akar: Patrol service will be conducted between the observation posts which will be established in Karabakh
[APA.AZ] "Our cooperation with Russia on ceasefire control mechanisms in Karabakh continues," Turkish National Defense Minister Hulusi Akar said, APA reports quoting Turkish NTV. He noted that a patrol service will be conducted between the observation posts which will be established in Karabakh.
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Europe
Swiss police identify arrested assailant in knife attack as jihadist
[Jpost] Ticino cantonal police said the attack was over and the suspect, a 28-year-old who lives in the area, was in jug.

Swiss police have identified a Swiss woman who knifed a victim in the neck and grabbed another by the throat in a Lugano department store on Tuesday as a known jihadist.

Federal prosecutors have called the incident in the Italian-speaking southern canton of Ticino a suspected terrorist attack and taken charge of the investigation.

"The assailant is know to Fedpol from police investigations in 2017 with a jihadist background," the Federal Office of Police tweeted.

The suspect, a 28-year-old who lives in the area, was in jug after passersby subdued her until police could arrive. Swiss media cited witnesses as saying she called out that she belonged to jihadist group 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....
during the attack.

One victim sustained serious but not life-threatening injuries and another was lightly injured.

Neutral Switzerland
...home of the Helvetians, famous for cheese, watches, yodeling, and William Tell...
has so far been spared the kind of large-scale jihadist attacks that prompted La Belle France and Germany this month to push for tighter European Union
...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing...
borders after suspected Islamist bandidos Lions of Islam killed eight people in Gay Paree, Nice and Vienna within a month.

But it has identified hundreds of residents deemed a threat and bandidos Lions of Islam who have traveled to war zones.

Two men arrested in the town of Winterthur near Zurich this month over possible links to a jihadist shooting attack in Vienna that killed four people on Nov. 2
...that would be Kujtim Fejzulai, 22, the dual Macedonian-Austrian citizen of Albanian ethnicity who ran around a few blocks of Jewish Vienna in a fake bomb vest shooting at people for nine whole minutes before the police shot him down like a rabid dog. As is usual with jihadi lone wolves, he had equally malevolent friends. And, it now appears, so does our spunky girl jihadi — or should it be jihadess?
visited the attacker in July.

In September, a man Swiss media dubbed the "Emir of Winterthur" and described as a leading Islamist bully boy in Switzerland was sentenced to 50 months in prison for ties to Islamic State.
That’s very probably the unnamed Ethiopian imam of the An’Nur mosque, about whom no more is revealed by a cursory search of Rantburg’s archives ...
Federal prosecutors have said that a fatal stabbing of a Portuguese man in September in the town of Morges, in western Switzerland, was still being investigated for a possible "terrorist motive." A Swiss-Ottoman Turkish national has been arrested.
An earlier Jerusalem Post article described the attack:
A Swiss woman attacked two other women in a supermarket in southern Switzerland on Tuesday, regional police said, adding that "terrorist motives" could not be excluded.

Police in Switzerland's Italian-speaking Ticino region said they had been alerted to a stabbing in a department store in the city of Lugano shortly before 2:00 pm (1300 GMT).

Initial investigations had established that a 28-year-old Swiss woman had attacked two other women, attempting to choke one with her hands, and injuring a second by cutting her neck with a knife.

Other shoppers managed to subdue the attacker, who was arrested, the police statement said.

An initial medical evaluation showed that one of the victims had suffered serious but not life-threatening injuries, while the other had minor injuries, police said.

Regional police said it did "not exclude terrorist motives", adding that it was working with federal authorities and the local Lugano police on the case.

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Paris police under fire for forcing migrants from tent camp
[AlAhram] Police lifted tents with migrants colonists inside, shaking them until they tumbled to the ground, and those who resisted were kicked or beaten with batons, according to the head of Doctors Without Borders in La Belle France, Corinne Torre.

Gay Paree police are under government orders to explain themselves after officers were filmed tossing migrants colonists out of tents while evacuating a makeshift camp in the French capital.

Aid groups were working Tuesday to find temporary lodging for a few hundred migrants colonists forcibly removed from the short-lived camp on the Place de la Republique in eastern Gay Paree on Monday night.

Some images of the evacuation filmed by journalists and activists shocked even La Belle France's tough-talking interior minister, Gerald Darmanin, who tweeted that he ordered the Gay Paree police chief to provide a report Tuesday on what happened.

Police lifted tents with migrants colonists inside, shaking them until they tumbled to the ground, and those who resisted were kicked or beaten with batons, according to the head of Doctors Without Borders in La Belle France, Corinne Torre.

Images shared online showed activists and local officials shouting and trying to block police from dislodging the migrants colonists. Torre, who witnessed the evacuation, said several people sought treatment for injuries from her aid group, known by its French acronym MSF.

The Gay Paree police headquarters said the Republique camp was evacuated because it was illegal and ``invited'' the migrants colonists to seek lodging elsewhere offered by the state or aid groups.

Aid groups and Gay Paree politicians said they set up the tents to call attention to the plight of hundreds of migrants colonists who were kicked out of another camp in the shadow of La Belle France's national stadium last week and have been sleeping in the streets since then for lack of other options.

Most are from Afghanistan, Somalia and Eritrea
...is run by the People's Front for Democracy and Justice (PFDJ), with about the amounts of democracy and justice you'd expect from a party with that name. National elections have been periodically scheduled and cancelled; none have ever been held in the country. The president, Isaias Afewerki, has been in office since independence in 1993 and will probably die there of old age...
. Some have been refused asylum while others are in bureaucratic limbo while they try to apply, Torre said.

The rough evacuation came the day before La Belle France's parliament is set to vote Tuesday on a draft law meant to expand some police powers and provide greater protection to police. It notably makes it a crime to publish images of coppers with intent to cause them harm, a measure that has prompted repeated protests by civil liberties campaigners and media freedom groups.
Posted by: trailing wife || 11/25/2020 01:15 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under: Devout Moslems

#1  Camp des Saints diables
Posted by: Gruck Flusong9737 || 11/25/2020 1:18 Comments || Top||


#3  MSF is an abbreviation, not an acronym. Geeesh.

Posted by: Clem || 11/25/2020 7:08 Comments || Top||


Fifth Column
Antifa in Portland are calling for comrades to organize their own riots this Thanksgiving in order to dismantle white supremacy & capitalism
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Posted by: Fred || 11/25/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Antifa/BLM

#1  We're going to Grandma's for Thanksgiving!
Posted by: Wholuse Oppressor of the Esquimeaux9833 || 11/25/2020 3:37 Comments || Top||

#2 
American Parents it is time to discontinue the support and feeding these whiny given everything growing up Brats. Change the Locks on the basement doors. Quit giving these 18+ years old a place to riot, loot, pillage and protest your way of life from.

Because while they are enjoying the fruits of your Hard Work and earning a living to your family ... they are protesting the very thing that has put a roof over their head, 3 meals a day and cloths on their Butts.

We did not raised a complete generation of too lazy to think and work for themselves? There are a lot of great 18+ still out there.

Sooner or later American citizens that still make up a major part of Lib-land will get fed-up and Berserker go on them.

Remember
STOLEN
NOT WON
Posted by: JUST SAYING || 11/25/2020 3:42 Comments || Top||

#3  Im thinking Thief-in-Chief and Comrade Harris?
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 11/25/2020 11:47 Comments || Top||

#4  I wonder what the non-astroturf response to racist fascist antifa will be.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 11/25/2020 12:49 Comments || Top||

#5  I'm all for a turkey shoot.
Posted by: Rex Mundi || 11/25/2020 23:57 Comments || Top||


Isabel Rosa Araujo, formerly Philip Vincent Haskins-Delici, has called for comrades to kill Andy Ngo
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Posted by: Fred || 11/25/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under: Antifa/BLM

#1  Why the Portuguese name?!
Posted by: Thorong Grundy1520 || 11/25/2020 4:25 Comments || Top||

#2  Mr Ngo is a great truth reporter.
He reports all the stuff that does not fit the PBS Judy Woodruff and Yamiche Alcindor anti Trump media narrative.
Ngo was also there at the million man march Trump rally in Washington DC Saturday.
Ngo was interviewed on the Larry Elder Salem Radio Network show exposing how the DC police let the Trump supporters be caught up in exit streets by Antifa mobs so they could be attacked while the DC police stood by.
Then Ngo exposed who the perp's were by publishing there identity.
The PBS narrative will be now that Biden has brought unity there won't be any [reported] violence any more since that's no longer the narrative.
Posted by: boomerc || 11/25/2020 6:05 Comments || Top||

#3  Given the new YouTube rule that people in its videos may not be identified, Mr. Ngo’s job will become more difficult — should that rule be allowed to stand, that is.
Posted by: trailing wife || 11/25/2020 10:33 Comments || Top||

#4  Why the Portuguese name?!

If you can self-identify as another sex, race or species, why not Portuguese? Aside from that Vasco da Gama business.
Posted by: SteveS || 11/25/2020 11:31 Comments || Top||

#5  Isabel Rosa Araujo, formerly Philip Vincent Haskins-Delici

More names than The Devil.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 11/25/2020 16:08 Comments || Top||


The Grand Turk
Senior FETO terrorist suspects nabbed across Turkey
[AA.TR] Ottoman Turkish security forces arrested several suspects for their alleged links to the Fetullah Terrorist Organization (FETO), the group behind the 2016 defeated coup, sources and authorities said on Tuesday.Acting on intelligence, gendarmerie command teams in the southeastern Gaziantep province captured a FETO/PYD suspect identified by the initials M.F.C. — wanted on charges of armed terrorist group membership — in the Islahiye district, the Gaziantep Governorate said.

The PYD is another name for the YPG/PKK, a branch of the terrorist group PKK, which is responsible for over 40,000 deaths in its 30-year terror campaign against The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire...
The suspect was in the top red category of the Interior Ministry’s wanted holy warriors list, said a written statement.

The suspect testified that he earned a doctorate in the US between 2011 and 2016 and was a financial expert.

Prosecutors continue his judicial proceedings, the statement added.

NORTHWEST AND NORTHEAST
Separately, three FETO suspects, including a lawyer allegedly responsible for FETO-linked students in the Istanbul metropolis, were caught in the northwestern Edirne province fleeing to Greece.

The suspects — sought on charges of armed terrorist group membership — were caught by provincial gendarmerie teams near a restricted military zone near the village of Kadidondurma in Meric, said the source, who asked not to be named due to restrictions on speaking to the media.

Two female suspects, identified by the initials O.Y. and B.B., were transferred to the courthouse and later remanded in jug.

Legal procedures for the senior FETO member are ongoing, the source added.

Also, two FETO/PYD suspects — both active-duty soldiers — were taken into custody after warrants were issued by prosecutors in the western Afyonkarahisar province.

The suspects, identified by the initials M.K. and M.A. — both accused of communicating with FETO members by payphone — were nabbed by anti-terror police teams in simultaneous operations in the northeastern Gumushane province and northern Tokat provinces.
Posted by: Fred || 11/25/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under: Sublime Porte


India-Pakistan
Daesh Karachi chief killed by security forces in Bajaur operation
[DAILYTIMES.PK] Security forces have killed two bandidos hard boyz linked with banned outfit ISIS during an Intelligence Based Operation (IBO) in Bajaur district of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, the military’s media wing said on Monday.According to the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR), the bandidos hard boyz have been identified as Zubair and Aziz-ur-Rehman, who was the chief of the banned outfit in Sindh. Many other bandidos hard boyz were also arrested during the Bajaur operation, the military’s media wing said.

The terrorist commanders have been identified as Zubair and Aziz-ur-Rehman. ISIS commander Aziz-ur-Rehman was chief of the banned outfit in Bloody Karachi
...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous...
The security forces also arrested various other bandidos hard boyz during the Bajaur operation.

The law enforcement agencies in operation yesterday had foiled terrorism plot and arrested three bandidos hard boyz of the banned Tehrik-e-Taliban
...Arabic for students...
group in Karachi.

According to a spokesperson of paramilitary Rangers, in an intelligence-based joint operation, Sindh Rangers and Police conducted raid in Gulshan-e-Maymar in Karachi and arrested three bandidos hard boyz affiliated with banned Tehrik-e-Taliban group.
Posted by: Fred || 11/25/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State


CTD officials foil suicide attack on Lahore police station
[DAILYTIMES.PK] Officials from the Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD) on Tuesday said they foiled a possible krazed killer attack by killing a suspected would-be jacket wallah when he tried to sneak into a cop shoppe near Lahore.

According to a statement released by police, the suspected krazed killer was killed in an exchange of fire early on Tuesday when he shot at guards after being asked to halt at the premises of the cop shoppe in the village of Burki.

The man was wearing an explosive vest and he had two grenades in his pockets, the statement said. Police released pictures of an explosive vest, two grenades and a pistol, saying the suspect was carrying them.

Officials provided no further details and said a search operation was underway in the area.

Security forces in Pakistain are often targeted by bully boyz who want the government to end its support to Washington in its ’war on terror’. In October 2009, bully boyz attacked a police training facility in another village near Lahore, killing more than 30 people.

The latest development comes a day after the military said troops in the tribal areas killed two bully boyz during a raid on a krazed killer hideout in Bajaur.

According an Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) blurb, a major terrorist network was neutralised near Tangi village.

It said Zubair and Fida, the two bully boyz killed, were involved in terrorist activities in Bajaur and Bloody Karachi
...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous...
. They were also involved in terrorist incidents against law enforcement agencies, government officials and civilians.

The ISPR said that the network was coordinating terrorist activities in various areas of Pakistain and receiving direct orders from their RAW
... India's Research and Analysis Wing, Pakistain's equivalent of the Boogie Man...
-sponsored leadership from across the border.
Posted by: Fred || 11/25/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Devout Moslems


Iraq
Turkish Air Force carries out airstrikes over northern Iraq
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Posted by: Fred || 11/25/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Sublime Porte


Huge KDP reinforcements in Kurdistan’s Choman district in north Erbil province where Qandil, the seat of PKK, is located
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Posted by: Fred || 11/25/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iraq


Clashes erupted between the demonstrators and the riot forces in Basrah
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Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Injuries as Palestinians clash with troops in Jordan Valley
[IsraelTimes] One Israeli soldier and two Paleostinians have been injured in festivities in the Jordan Valley during a march condemning the Israeli government’s demolition of a Paleostinian hamlet in the area.

Israel demolished Khirbet Humsa earlier this month, rendering 73 residents homeless. Israeli authorities say the small hamlet was built illegally in a military firing zone, an opinion upheld by the High Court.

The festivities take place close by the Tayaseer checkpoint near the Paleostinian city of Tubas northeast of Nablus.

One Israeli reserve officer was lightly maimed in the head by a stone thrown by Paleostinians, the IDF says.

The Paleostinian official WAFA news agency says that six demonstrators were struck by tear gas canisters fired into the crowd by troops. Two people were taken to a hospital with light wounds after being struck in the abdomen and the head.

Fatah deputy Mahmoud al-Aloul called for the march yesterday, telling Voice of Paleostine Radio: "We will reach the areas which the occupation has threatened. We will reach Khirbet Humsa, which the occupation destroyed. We will make clear that our Paleostinian nation is ready to resist against every plot and attempt to expel us."
Posted by: trailing wife || 11/25/2020 12:05 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Kurdish and Turkey-backed fighters clash in Syria, 11 killed
Follow up to this tweet from yesterday.
[AlAhram] The Monday night festivities near the town of Ein Issa were triggered by an attack by The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...Qatar's satrapy in Asia Minor...
-backed button men on SDF positions

Clashes between Kurdish fighters and Turkey-backed opposition button men in northern Syria left at least 11 fighters dead in some of the most intense fighting in weeks between the two sides, an opposition war monitor and a Kurdish front man said Tuesday.

Exchange of fire and shelling between the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces and Turkey-backed opposition button men who identify as the Syrian National Army have not been uncommon since Ottoman Turkish troops invaded parts of northern Syria in October of last year.

The Monday night festivities near the town of Ein Issa were triggered by an attack by Turkey-backed button men on SDF positions, according to the Britannia-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, an opposition war monitor. The Observatory said Turkey-backed fighters lost 11 button men in the battle and an unknown number of SDF fighters were also killed or maimed.

An SDF front man who goes by the name of Mervan Qamishlo confirmed the festivities, saying that the group's fighters were repelling a Turkey-backed attack. He did not comment on how many SDF button men were killed.

A front man for the Turkey-backed fighters did not respond to requests for comment.

Turkey says Kurdish fighters in Syria are linked to the Kurdistan Workers Party, or PKK, that has led a decades-long insurgency in Turkey's mainly Kurdish southeast region and is considered a terrorist organization by Turkey, the United States and the European Union
...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing...
The U.S.-backed SDF played a major role in defeating 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 in Syria that lost its last sliver of land in March last year. The SDF is holding thousands of IS snuffies in jails it runs.
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#1  North of Raqqah and Tabqah Dam. Well inside Syria and a harbinger of more trouble to come.
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At least eight said killed in Syria strike attributed to Israel
[Ynet] Human rights monitor says all casualties were pro-Iranian foreign fighters in IAF attack on Syrian military base south of Damascus, where Iranian Revolutionary Guards have long been entrenched in a rugged area.

The British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said Wednesday that at least eight pro-Iranian foreign fighters were killed in an air strike near Damascus on Tuesday night that Syria attributed to Israel.

The Syrian news agency SANA report, which quotes an unidentified military official, said the warplanes struck locations south of the capital shortly before midnight, from the Israeli side of the Golan Heights.

The strike targeted an military base in Jabal Mane Heights near the town of Kiswa, where Iranian Revolutionary Guards have long been entrenched in a rugged area almost 15 km (9.3 miles) south of the center of Damascus.

Earlier, SANA said Syria’s air defenses responded to incoming missiles.
Later reports on SANA and Syrian Al-Ikhbariya TV said Israeli warplanes struck in a village in Quneitra province on the edge of the Golan Heights and in southwest of Damascus. They offered no details.
Israel last week acknowledged attacking Iran-linked targets on the Syrian side of the Golan Heights after spotting a cell planting roadside bombs near one of its positions.

Israel seized the Golan Heights from Syria in the 1967 Six-Day War and later annexed it in a move that is not internationally recognized. It says it targets mostly sites of Iranian units and the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah in Syria, seeking to curb Tehran’s influence near its borders.

Such attacks have increased in recent months. Iran is a key ally of Syrian President Bashar Assad in the country’s civil war.
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Turkish military prepares to withdraw from strategic area in Aleppo
[ALMASDARNEWS] On Tuesday morning, a large number of various vehicles entered the Ottoman Turkish observation post area, which the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) has besieged in the Rashideen 5 area of Aleppo.

According to the reports from the Aleppo Governorate on Tuesday, the Ottoman Turkish military has begun loading the vehicles with equipment in what appears to be preparations for a complete withdrawal from the strategic Rashideen 5 area.

Local sources reported that the number of vehicles that arrived there on Tuesday exceeded 30, with most of them being trucks used for transporting equipment.

While the Ottoman Turkish military does not discuss these withdrawals, they have already begun dismantling their observation posts in several areas under the control of the Syrian Arab Army.

The first withdrawal took place in October, when the Ottoman Turkish Armed Forces dismantled their observation post in the town of Morek.

The Ottoman Turkish military would follow this up by withdrawing their forces and equipment at four more observation posts in the Hama, Aleppo and Idlib governorates.

Per the September 17th, 2018 agreement, the Ottoman Turkish military is allotted 12 observation posts in northwestern Syria; however, they have established more than 50 across the northern part of the country.
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Turkish-backed forces loot church in northeastern Syria
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SANA reports Israeli attacks in the Jabal Al-Mana area near the village of Ruhaina, south of Quneitra
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]

The Times of Israel adds:
Syrian state media reported that Israel had attacked targets in southern Syria just after midnight Tuesday.

The official SANA news agency reported "Israeli aggressions" in the countryside south of Damascus and on a village just south of Quneitra near Israel’s border with Syria in the Golan Heights.

There were no immediate details on the targets of the strikes or reports of casualties. However,
by candlelight every wench is handsome...
the Ynet news site, without citing sources, said the targets likely belonged to the Lebanese terror group Hezbollah.

There was no comment from the Israel Defense Forces. The IDF generally maintains a policy of ambiguity regarding its activities against 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 the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate Jews Zionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol...
and its proxies in Syria, refusing to publicly acknowledge its actions.

The reported strike comes a week after a rare strike claimed by Israel in response to what Jerusalem said was a failed Iranian explosives attack on the Golan Heights.
More from the Jerusalem Post:
The first strike was reported near the village of Rwihinah, south of Quneitra, along the border with Israel. Soon afterwards, a strike was reported near Jebel el Mania, south of Damascus. Only material damages were reported in the alleged Israeli airstrikes, a military source told SANA.
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Two offices opened in Afrin to register those wishing to settle in Karabakh
[AFRINPOST.NET] Afrinpost learned from its sources that the Ottoman Turkish occupation authorities, recently opened two offices in the center of the occupied Kurdish region of Afrin in northern Syria, for families wishing to register their names in preparation for their transfer to the "Nagorno Karabakh / Artsakh" region, with the aim of final settlement in the areas occupied by Azeri army after battles with the Armenian army.The sources confirmed that the first office is located in People Credit Bank in the old Afrin district, which Ottoman Turkish intelligence transferred to its headquarters, while the second office is located in the "former Ronahi Press" site located next to the "Avrin / al-Shifa Hospital now" in the New Afrin neighborhood, which is a center for Ottoman Turkish intelligence too.

The sources indicated that the two offices are witnessing a turnout of Turkmen families, especially those from the province of Homs, and family data are taken in preparation for transferring them to the Qarabag region, which the Azerbaijani army occupied a large part of it constitutes the majority of the red Kurdistan region, after battles that lasted for three weeks with Armenian army.

The sources pointed out that the so-called "Abu Tharwat", an employee of the Ottoman Turkish intelligence, comes from the countryside of Azaz, runs the first office, while the second man, called "Khiru," who is a Turkoman from one of the villages of al-Ra’i district, as they promote the plan in coordination with the Islamic militias that contain in its ranks armed Turkomans.
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Terror attack kills 1 in Afrin, northwestern Syria
[AA.TR] At least one person was killed in a terror blast in northwestern Syria on Tuesday, according to local sources.An explosives-laden vehicle blew up in the opposition-held city of Afrin, leaving 13 others injured, Anadolu Agency learned from sources on the ground.

Apart from the casualties, material damage was also reported in the area, including Ottoman Turkish humanitarian agency Humanitarian Relief Foundation’s Afrin office.

Though no group has grabbed credit for the attack, it is likely carried out via the YPG/PKK terrorists.

Earlier in the day, at least five non-combatants were killed and 18 others injured when attackers detonated an explosive-laden vehicle in the al-Bab district of the Aleppo province, according to Anadolu Agency news hounds on the ground.

Afrin was largely cleared of YPG/PKK murderous Moslems by The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire...
in 2018 through its anti-terror offensive Operation Olive Branch, but they still act as sleeping cells.

YPG/PKK murderous Moslems continue to carry out attacks but do not claim responsibility, as they end up harming civilians, according to local security sources.

The YPG/PKK terror group, attacking from Syria's adjacent Tal Rifaat and Manbij regions, often targets Jarabulus, Azaz, Afrin, and al-Bab.



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