[Washington Examiner] The Taliban attacked Kandahar air base Wednesday, where several hundred U.S. troops are based, but the Department of Defense refused to call the attack a violation of the Doha peace agreement and downplayed it amid diplomatic talks. See also: "It's NOT a crisis at the border"
The United States and the Taliban signed a peace agreement in February 2020 that required the group waging war on the Afghan government to refrain from striking U.S. and coalition troops. In the intervening 13 months, the Taliban have largely avoided directly targeting American troops, and there have been no U.S. casualties, but their campaign of violence has escalated.
With a backdrop of a deteriorating security situation in the country, the U.S. is just three weeks away from a deadline to withdraw fully from the country — something President Joe Biden has said would be "hard to meet."
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Ep. 46 — Waiting for a withdrawal decision
By Thomas Joscelyn & Bill Roggio | April 5, 2021
https://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2021/04/ep-46-waiting-for-a-withdrawal-decision.php
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So, it wouldn't be a violation of the peace agreement if we shot some of them? Or does this work only one way?
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If we called it a violation of the peace deal, we would have to do something about it, but we didn't, so it's not, and we don't.
[KhaamaPress] Security officials in 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.. says at least two non-combatants were killed in an IED explosion in Nangarhar province.
Attaullah Khogyani, Nangarhar front man told the media that the incident happened at around 6:00 am on Wednesday morning in Jalalabad city.
According to Khogyani, at least two civilians are dead and 18 others including three coppers are maimed in the blast.
Nangarhar is located in the east of the country and is one of the most insecure provinces in the country, where the Taliban ...Arabic for students... , ISIS, and other krazed killer groups are active in many parts of the region.
This comes as unknown button men shod dead, Mohammad Ismail Sahak, the head of the administrative office of the National Statistic and Information Authority in the Qala-e-Wazir area of Paghman district of Kabul province.
The incident occurred on Wednesday morning.
Security officials have not yet confirmed the incident.
A happily busy day for the good guys in Afghanistan.
[KhaamaPress] The Ministry of Defense in a released statement on Wednesday said at least 68 Taliban ...mindless ferocity in a turban... snuffies were killed and 74 others were maimed in government offensive operations in the past 24 hours.
The operations were reportedly conducted in 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... , Faryab, Farah, Badakhshan, Kunduz and Kandahar provinces.
Fawad Aman, deputy front man for the Ministry of Defense tweeted on Wednesday that 211 Taliban placed IEDs were also discovered and defused in different parts of the country in the past 24 hours.
MoD in another released statement indicated that Afghan national defense and security forces backed by air support launched several operations in Arghandab and Zherai districts of Kandahar province.
The operations resulted in 19 Taliban killed and further 12 others were maimed, also some of their weapons and ammunition were also destroyed by the Afghan security force members, the statement read.
Afghan National Army (ANA) also discovered and defused 59 Taliban planted bombs in both of the districts.
Meanwhile, ...back at the pond, the radioactive tadpoles grown into frogs. Really big frogs, in fact... MoD stated on Tuesday that the Afghan Air Force target a Taliban gathering in Imam Sahib district of Kunduz province in which 17 of the holy warrior fighters were killed and 15 others were maimed.
The Taliban has not yet commented on the casualty figure published by the government defense ministry.
This comes as the Ministry of Interior Affairs said a jacket wallah was killed before reaching his target in the Panjwai district of Kandahar province.
A Taliban explosive-laden vehicle was bumped off before it could reach and cause chaos in the region, MoI stated on Wednesday.
The statement added that a Taliban mine planter was killed and another was captured in festivities between the ANP and the krazed killers.
The incident happened before the Taliban affiliates could place a bomb in the PD9 of Kandahar city.
[KhaamaPress] Amrullah Saleh, the First Vice President on Wednesday said that Afghan cops have detained 11 Taliban ...mindless ferocity in a turban... cell members who were responsible for many IED attacks, including the murder of former Afghan Journalist Yama Siawash.
Saleh hinted that the find and capture operation was launched after a tip from an informant
*Ring ring* “Mahmoudullah the Weasel here. Listen carefully — I will meet you at the brickyard at midnight to lead you to the secret hideout of the men who killed that journalist with the funny name. Wear a red cockade in your hat and I’ll find you.”
led security officials to "identify, locate and apprehend" Talib "terror" cell involved in numerous bombings and murder of prominent figure Yama Siawash on November 7th.
Security force members also found dozens of magnetic bombs and IEDs belonging to the group.
"We have invited media community, human rights When they're defined by the state or an NGO they don't mean much... organizations, civil society activists and advocacy groups to see the files, interview the gunnies and fulfill the wish of the grieving families," he tweeted.
I’m sure that’s a torture forbidden by the Geneva Conventions...
Yama Siawash, media adviser of the Central Bank and former TOLOnews presenter along with Hamdullah Anas, the deputy head of the Central Bank office, and Aminnulah the bank’s driver were murdered in a magnetic IED explosion in Makroryan-e-Chahar area in Kabul city.
Despite peace efforts at least 11 human rights defenders and media workers were murdered in Afghanistan since September 2020, and a total of 65 human rights defenders and media professionals were assassinated from January 2018 to January 2021, a UNAMA report indicated.
Human Rights Watch has recently blamed Taliban for their attacks on media workers including women.
The watchdog reported that "the Taliban commanders and fighters have engaged in a pattern of threats, intimidation, and violence against members of the media in areas where the Taliban have significant influence, as well as in Kabul."
#Antifa in Portland announced a riot in support of Adam Toledo, an armed teen in Chicago who was shot dead by police. They're meeting at Tom McCall Waterfront Park in downtown on Wednesday night. #AntifaRiots#PortlandRiotspic.twitter.com/YGOQv6AgP4
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So WTF does this event in Chicago have to do with you scumball antifa in Portland ? Nothing - Zero in on your own issues, like staying alive, you are all targets of your own making, if your could be purged, you will be purged by your neighbors.
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Spent a few mins reading up on "Adam Toledo", to see what type of kid we were discussing.
What I quickly noticed instead was the usual MSM agenda "canned" response to paint a problem Teen as a Angel and to incite others for more followup headlines and AD'$.
Remember this is Chicago. A Far Left city where owning a firearm legally is next to impossible. I know, because my now expired IL. State Patrol issued Firearm Permit excluded the city of Chicago. It is a well known Far Left Socialist-Democrat City constantly in the news for shooting, drugs and racial issues. An for some reason constantly used by Liberals and Socialists and Race Baiters as an example of where the US society and politics needs to be headed.
Examples: USA-TODAY used lines like:
"Adam Toledo ... who dreamed of becoming a police officer..." - they failed to mention he was a 13 yr/old carrying firearm & a possible drug runner.
"...the need to change Chicago police foot pursuit policy " - which to me means ... if they run, let them go.
"police ... issued an "officer safety alert" and said the Narcotics Division had received information about retaliation." - So was this a Teen who wanted to be a police officer or a drug gang related teen and the Police line was fiction and tossed in for sympathy?
Note: this happened in a largely Latino neighborhood after the department’s ShotSpotter system detected 8 gunshots. Causing CPD to arrive. At which time the Teen and a 21-year-old man hauled a$$. At some point the Teen draw down on the officer. At which point the officer shot the armed teen once in the chest killing the teen. - Why was a 13 yr/old so far from home and in a different ethnic community.
- Why run when the Police/Narcs pull up?
- Why & How was he armed?
- Where did he get the firearm?
- Why is it a 13 yr/old teen "possible" gang member is armed? But "Citizens" are denied the right to self defense
Then the USA Today article tosses in for good measure a link named: "White officers use force more often, Chicago police study finds" - But failed to mention of the 12,000 +/- LEO's CPD over 1/2 are White Officers followed by Black & Hispanic just about equally match and Asian.
BTW: In a FOXNEWS Report
it seems the Chicago Mayor had seen the Police Cam Video.
Because faced with Visual Facts she changed her tune: "Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot on Monday vowed to hold the adults responsible for "putting a gun into the hands" of 13-year-old Adam Toledo..."- We now know the Teen was in fact ARMED and it was likely a good shoot.
[DW] A court has sentenced four men to life for their roles in a 2016 suicide kaboom in central Istanbul that killed 12 German tourists. Eighteen other suspects were acquitted on the grounds of a lack of evidence.
A Ottoman Turkish court sentenced four men to life in jail on Tuesday for their roles in a suicide kaboom in Istanbul in January 2016.
The incident, on the city's historic Sultanahmet square, killed 12 German tourists and maimed 16 other people.
The jacket wallah was Turkman-Syrian Nabil Fadli, 28, who had crossed into Turkey to request asylum just a month before he mingled in a crowd of tourists with malicious intent.
The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire... 's government blamed the so-called 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.... for the incident, but the group has never grabbed credit.
...suggesting it was some other jihadi group based in Syria, which then, as now, was an endless list...
FOUR SUSPECTS RECEIVE LIFE SENTENCES
The four suspects, already in jail, received aggravated life sentences. The Istanbul court that handed out the sentences ruled that the attack represented "an attempt to violent mostly peacefully overthrow the constitutional order," the private DHA news agency reported.
Aggravated life sentences are the most severe prison terms possible in Turkey since it abolished the death penalty in 2002; there is no chance for parole.
Additionally, each was also sentenced to 328 years for aiding deliberate murder with terrorist intent, among other charges, according to state news agency Anadolu.
A LONG-RUNNING COURT CASE
Tuesday's sentences are final after an appeals court overturned a 2018 verdict against a total of 26 suspects.
One further suspect was sentenced to over six years in jail for membership in a terrorist organization.
The court acquitted 18 further suspects, citing lack of evidence.
Meanwhile, ...back at the Alamo, Davy was counting their remaining cannon balls and not liking the results... a trial in absentia will continue against three suspects who are runaways, Anadolu said.
In 2018, Ottoman Turkish judges sentenced three Syrian nationals to life in prison for their involvement in the bombing. But an appeals court overturned that verdict for several reasons, including that the sentences were deemed too lenient.
The court did not state the nationality of those handed the sentences on Tuesday.
Turkey witnessed several attacks in 2016 blamed either on Islamic State or Kurdish murderous Moslems.
— Asharq Al-Awsat English (@aawsat_eng) April 7, 2021
A Ottoman Turkish court on Wednesday sentenced four former soldiers to life in jail for their roles in a failed 2016 bid to oust President His Enormity, Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First ...Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey. In Anatolia did Recep Bey a stately Presidential Palace decree, that has 1100 rooms. That's 968 more than in the White House, 400 more than in Versailles, and 325 more than Buckingham Palace, so you know who's really more important... , state news agency Anadolu reported.
They were jugged Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out! as part of a trial of 497 suspects in Ankara looking into the presidential guard's actions during the coup attempt, which included a raid on the state broadcaster.
Ankara has long blamed Fethullah Gülen ... a Turkish preacher living in Pennsylvania whom the current govt of Turkey considers responsible for all the ills afflicting Turkey and possibly the entire world. Gülen and Erdogan used to be really good friends, but only one of them could be sultan, and Gülen lost... , a former ally of Erdogan who lives in Pennsylvania, and launched a widespread crackdown on his network, which Ankara refers to by the acronym ’FETO’. Gulen denies any involvement.
Since the failed coup, The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...just another cheapjack Moslem dictatorship, brought to you by the Moslem Brüderbund... has detained some 292,000 people over suspected links to Gulen and has suspended or sacked more than 150,000 civil servants. Hundreds of media outlets have been shut and dozens of opposition politicians have been jugged Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out!
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Expenses are mounting up, cash flow from Libya has been cut off — a prudent future sultan would feel a need to shore up the privy purse.
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Turkey issued a new presidential decree to freeze/seize assets of terrorists. The list is predominantly those accused of FETÖ membership, but includes a list of ISIS members.
Of the less than 20 foreign ISIS members listed, 8 of those were given Turkish citizenship. pic.twitter.com/seELyiazDE
[OneIndia] A Pak smugglers was rubbed out in a joint operation by the Border Security Force and Amritsar police near the Kakkar border outpost on the India-Pakistain border in Ajnala sub division of Amritsar district today.
22 kilograms of heroin and two AK-47 rifles were recovered from across the barbed wire fence. A mobile phone, plastic pipe being used by the smugglers to push in the contraband through the fence was also recovered.
The police said two Indian nationals were involved in getting the consignment from Pakistain. They are Jagdish Bhura and Jaspal Singh. Bhura is living in Belgium at present and has been involved in terror acts in India, the police said, while adding that both have been in touch with the ISI.
Not just an international drug pipeline, but tools of Pakistan’s jihad against India as well.
[Mail] The RAF has helped clear a stronghold of the ISIS in Iraq after a 10-day operation using missiles and bombs, according to the Ministry of Defence.
The air force worked in conjunction with Iraqi Security Forces ground troops and other coalition aircraft to clear ISIS forces from the Makhmur mountain region, south west of Erbil in northern Iraq, the MoD said in a statement.
The operation came to a head on March 22 when ISIS extremists were confirmed to be based in a network of caves in the Makhmur mountains.
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[AlAhram] The Iraqi aircraft, in coordination with the Counter-Terrorism Service, conducted Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s on IS group hideouts in Himreen mountain range, leaving 60 IS Death Eaters killed, front man of the Iraqi military, said on Wednesday
A total of 60 Death Eaters of 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.... (IS) group were killed in earlier airstrikes in a mountainous area in Salahudin province, north of Iraq's capital Baghdad, the Iraqi military said on Wednesday.
The Iraqi aircraft, in coordination with the Counter-Terrorism Service (CTS), conducted airstrikes on IS group hideouts on March 25
Wait — that’s two weeks ago. We used to get more timely reports before Iraq News stopped updating their English language website.
in Himreen mountain range, leaving 60 IS Death Eaters killed, Yahia Rasoul, front man of the Commander-in-Chief of the Iraqi forces, said in a statement.
On March 24, Rasoul said in a statement that the Iraqi security forces, backed by US-led coalition and Iraqi aircraft, launched the offensive on March 9 and continued for 14 days in the Makhmour mountain range in Iraq's northern province of Nineveh, destroying 120 IS group positions and killing 27 IS bully boys.
Impressive numbers!
According to Rasoul, March's offensive forced the IS Death Eaters to flee to alternative hideouts in Himreen Mountain in Salahudin province.
The mountains and vast rugged areas north of Baghdad have witnessed intense activities of the IS Death Eaters during the past months, despite repeated military operations to hunt them down.
[PRESSTV] The United States and Iraq announce in a joint statement that they have agreed on the withdrawal of "all" American combat troops from the Arab country’s soil, with Washington attributing the prospect to sufficiency of the Iraqi military’s combat capability.
The agreement was arrived at following the first-ever "strategic dialogue" to take place between the two sides under US President Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. The very model of probity.... , AFP reported, citing the statement.
The US had taken all of the forces out of Iraq under former president Barrack Obama. The same American commander-in-chief, however, flooded the country with military forces again in 2014 as part of a Washington-led coalition under the pretext of battling the Takfiri ...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who must be killed... terrorist group of ISIS.
The terror outfit had emerged amid the chaos and sectarian violence that had resulted from the 2003-then US-led military intervention.
Obama’s successor and Biden predecessor Donald Trump ...Perhaps no man has ever had as much fun being president of the US... took down the number of the forces to 2,500 by January 15. Many, however, downplayed the drawdown as a gesture aimed at boosting Trump’s re-election chances that he would very likely reverse if he was chosen president again.
The US would retain a training mission in Iraq, the statement added. "The parties confirmed that the mission of US and Coalition forces has now transitioned to one focused on training and advisory tasks, thereby allowing for the redeployment of any remaining combat forces from Iraq," it read.
The statement alleged that the Iraqi forces had now outgrown American assistance due to the "success" of Washington and Baghdad’s "strategic partnership."
Wednesday’s statement, however, came after constant pressure from many Iraqi factions, influential personalities, and the general public on the country to follow up a law passed by the parliament early last year that had ordered withdrawal of all US-led forces.
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good. pull the out then
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[NPASYRIA] On Wednesday, armed opposition groups bombed sites of the Syrian government forces on the contact lines in the southern countryside of Idlib, northwest Syria.
Al-Fateh al-Mubin Operations Room targeted the government forces’ positions in the village of al-Dar al-Kabira in Zawiya Mountain, southern countryside of Idlib, with heavy artillery shells and Grad rockets ...Soviet-developed 122-mm rockets, usually launched from trucks. Newer versions are reported to have a range of up to 30 km.... , local source told North Press.
The targeting resulted in direct casualties among the government forces, the source added.
Areas of northwest Syria are included in the ceasefire agreement signed by The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire... and Russia in March 2020, after a military campaign in the region.
The al-Fateh al-Mubin Operations Room includes 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... , Jaish al-Izza and National Front for Liberation affiliated with the Syrian National Army.
[NPASYRIA] On Wednesday evening, Syrian government forces targeted residential neighborhoods of the city of Afrin, northwest Syria, with several artillery shells, in coincidence with Ottoman Turkish shelling of villages in the northern countryside of Aleppo.
A private source told North Press that the government forces stationed in the town of Nubl, north of Aleppo, shelled the residential neighborhoods of Afrin with 6 artillery shells.
The bombing focused on Afrin-Jinderes Road, in addition to targeting Mazot Road to the west of the city, without any casualties reported, the source added.
In the same context, the same source mentioned that the Ottoman Turkish forces stationed in the Scientific Research Center on Azaz-Yahmol road bombarded the villages of Deir Jamal, Soghana, Ebbin, Umm Hosh and Aqiba in Shahba areas and Sherawa district, north of Aleppo, with several artillery shells.
On February 17, Afrin was subjected to a similar bombardment by the government forces targeting the city center and the Villat Street, causing a number of civilian casualties.
The city of Afrin and its environs have been under the control of the Ottoman Turkish-backed armed opposition groups since March 2018.
[NPASYRIA] On Wednesday, unidentified button men assassinated Fayez al-Kheleif, Minister of Higher Education in the Salvation Government, the civilian wing of 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... (HTS), days after news of his abduction.
Local sources told North Press that the Syrian Civil Defense teams found the body of al-Khleif, near the village of al-Tawama in the western countryside of Aleppo.
Al-Kheleif was kidnapped four days ago, and signs of torture were seen on his body.
Al-Kheleif was missed on April 3, after leaving his home in al-Dabbit neighborhood in Idlib, while on his way to work at the headquarters of the Salvation Government, according to the sources.
Al-Kheleif came from the village of al-Rasafah, east of Idlib, and held a Ph.D. in pesticide residues analysis from the Faculty of Agriculture at Cairo University in 2015.
He worked as a lecturer at the Institute of Agricultural Technology at the University of Idlib in 2015 and 2016 before he was appointed as Minister of Agriculture, and then, Minister of Higher Education of the Salvation Government.
Until now, no party has grabbed credit for the liquidation of al-Kheleif, as informed sources confirmed to North Press that the HTS General Security Service started investigating the incident.
[NPASYRIA] On Wednesday, unknown persons attacked a patrol of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in the town of al-Shuhail in the eastern countryside of Deir ez-Zor, east Syria, wounding 5.
"The SDF patrol was heading towards a river crossing in al-Shabaka neighborhood of al-Shuhail town when it was attacked by unknown persons," a military source told North Press.
During the attack 5 SDF members were maimed, and they were hospitalized for treatment.
The eastern countryside of Deir ez-Zor has been witnessing liquidations, and widespread and intense bombings in recent period targeting SDF members, vehicles and military points.
They may not be quite as vile as ISIS, but that doesn’t put them on the side of the angels.
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The Tahrir is the same thing. They're all die hard sunnis, wannabe takfiris with a 'better sense' of how Mohammed will be pleased. Left to their own devices, every sunni is the same. I don't understand why the world expects one moslem to somehow be better at civilization than another.
Horrifying videos shows children at a school in HTS-controlled Idlib made to line up so that teachers can beat them. (Just one of the many atrocities western journalists aren’t shown on their propaganda tours.) pic.twitter.com/URICQV1J6x
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Teachers in the land of the primative = Assholes, but what else did you expect, the enlightened ?
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Spare the rod, and spoil the child. IMO, derived from my experiences as a high-school teacher, western civilization started declining when corporeal punishment in schools was abolished.
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This is nothing. I have been hit all across the bod with a slim cane by a jesuit with the smell of tobacco and an air of eminence around him. And we al cried when he passed away. Mrs 66046 too fully supports g(r)rom's holistic educational approach. And her class is the better for it.
This current, Behaviourism based psychiatry and schooling will only produce delinquents and ingrates, fodder for the antifas. I suppose the level of delinquency prevalent in Idlib can only be known to the locals. Ms Snell needs to mind her own business.
#UPDATE: Reported video from the possible Israeli airstrikes in Damascus tonight, unclear if from air defences or missile strikes pic.twitter.com/SWSmBoEsFQ
The Britannia-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which has had its credibility questioned in the past, said the air strikes had targeted "military positions" near Damascus.
Later they added the strikes hit several positions near the city and "destroyed an arms depot that belongs to the Iranians."
This was the first reported Israeli strike in almost a month, since an alleged strike on reported weapons depots near the Damascus airport.
In February Israeli strikes also reportedly targeted the area of Damascus International Airport, through which 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 JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... had allegedly been flying advanced munitions, as well as military sites around the Damascus suburb of el-Kisweh, a long-time base of Iranian operations. The strikes came days after drones reportedly bombed a shipment of advanced weapons that were being transported through Iraq into eastern Syria by Iranian proxies.
The IDF has launched hundreds of strikes in Syria since the start of the civil war in 2011 against moves by Iran to establish a permanent military presence in the country and efforts to transport advanced, game-changing weapons to terrorist groups in the region, principally Hezbollah.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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[Washington Examiner] The Taliban attacked Kandahar air base Wednesday, where several hundred U.S. troops are based, but the Department of Defense refused to call the attack a violation of the Doha peace agreement and downplayed it amid diplomatic talks.
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