Just a quick note to let y’all know I spoke briefly with Fred last night. If all goes well he’ll be released from rehab at the end of next week. He’s proud of the long scar down the center of his chest, and in our brief conversation showed no signs of the aphasia that showed up in the first few days after the mild stroke that followed the heart surgery. He looks forward to rejoining us as soon as he is able, and appreciates the prayers and good wishes.
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Thanks, TW, and still praying for Fred!
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Great news and so glad to hear he's on the mend. He needs to make sure and enjoy his time off from riding herd on all of us 'crazed troublemakers' here.
On Monday, the city of Al-Zawiya witnessed violent clashes between a militia affiliated with the Awlad Saqr tribe, and another affiliated with Awlad Al-Shawsh, resulting in a number of civilian casualties and injuries.
In these clashes, three civilians were killed, as well as the militiaman Badr Kardamin, from the Awlad Saqr. Nine others were wounded, with their injuries varying from medium to critical.
One of the civilians killed was a bride from the Al-Toumi family, and was travelling to Al-Zawiya with her mother, who suffered injuries to her face.
Light, medium, and heavy weapons were used during the clashes. These erupted after Kardamin stole two trucks loaded with cigarette shipments from the Al-Shawsh militia.
The Government of National Unity (GNU) has reportedly failed to intervene, after civil mediation efforts failed to end the fighting.
Over the past months, violent clashes have taken place in western Libya, the most recent of which was in November. This was between the militias of Mohamed Bahrun (Al-Far) who is affiliated with the Ministry of Interior in Al-Zawiya, and the Stabilization Support Agency (SSA), led by Abdel-Ghani Al-Kikli (Ghneiwa), affiliated with the Presidential Council in Al-Zawiya.
Days before, a major oil refinery in the city, with a capacity of 120,000 barrels per day, was severely damaged as a result of the fighting.
[SaharaReporters] Troops of 27 Task Force Brigade of the Nigerian Army have neutralised Boko Haram/Islamic State West Africa Province terrorists in an ambush staged at one of the insurgents’ notorious crossing points at the outskirts of Girboa village, Yobe State.
The Nigerian Army disclosed this in a Twitter post on its verified page on Wednesday.
It added that several weapons were also recovered from the terror group.
“Troops of 27 TF Brigade in conjunction with Civilian JTF on Tuesday 1 Feb 2022 laid an ambush on BHT/ISWAP terrorists at the outskirts of Girboa village, Yobe State. During the encounter, some terrorists were neutralised while others fled in disarray, weapons were also recovered,” the tweet read.
The terror group has caused over 100,000 deaths and displaced millions of individuals mainly in Adamawa, Borno, and Yobe States.
Suspected cult members have murdered a retired Assistant Commissioner of Police in Imo State, Christian Kpatuma.
The retired police officer cum lawyer was, on Wednesday, killed at his residence in Agwa, Oguta Local Government Area of Imo State.
The murder of the police chief, popularly known as ’Hippies’ has caused apprehension among residents of the area. Cult members are said to have taken over the Agwa community.
"Agwa people now live in great fear, in spite of the fact that her well-meaning sons and daughters suffered to build a Police Divisional Headquarters (adjudged to be the best in Imo State), which was commissioned barely three days ago together with a Vigilante Service. I am greatly pained," he said.
[IsraelTimes] DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The US military launched interceptor missiles during an attack by Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of... ’s Iran's Houthi sock puppets ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The legitimate Yemeni government has accused the them of having ties to the Iranian government. Honest they did. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews They like shooting off... ummm... missiles that they would have us believe they make at home in their basements. On the plus side, they did murder Ali Abdullah Saleh, which was the only way the country was ever going to be rid of him... rebels that targeted the United Arab Emirates during a visit by Israel’s president, the second-such time American troops have opened fire, officials said.
The acknowledgements by the White House and Pentagon late Monday represent a widening American involvement in Yemen’s yearslong war, a conflict that US President Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. The guy who lost Afghanistan, aka Biden's Bungle... declared nearly a year ago "has to end."
While the US has ended offensive support to the Saudi-led coalition fighting on behalf of Yemen’s exiled government, its involvement in defending the UAE comes as the rebel Houthis have declared al-Dhafra Air Base in Abu Dhabi a target.
Al-Dhafra hosts some 2,000 American troops and has served as a major base of operations for everything from armed drones to F-35 stealth fighters.
Speaking from the White House, press secretary Jen Psaki ...a valley girl who woke up one morning and found she was spokeswoman for the U.S. Department of State under Obama. A new American success story, under Biden she became spokeswoman for the whole administration, and she was even able to get her sister a job... said the US military "responded to an inbound missile threat on the UAE.
"This involved the employment of Patriot interceptors to... (support) efforts by the armed forces of the UAE," Psaki said. "I would say we are working quite closely with them."
At the Pentagon, press secretary John Kirby said that "US Patriots were fired, but it was the Emirati surface-to-air missiles that actually engaged the targets."
Asked if that would include targets outside of al-Dhafra, Kirby said: " If we can help defend our Emirati partners, we’re going to do that."
Biden also mentioned the attack on the UAE at the White House during a visit by 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... ’s ruling emir, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, saying that "America will have the backs of our friends in the region."
The Emirati military, as with a similar attack last week, did not acknowledge that the American military opened fire. The autocratic UAE, a federation of seven sheikhdoms on the Arabian Peninsula, has threatened criminal charges against anyone filming an attack or outgoing interceptor fire.
The UAE’s state-run WAM news agency reported Monday’s interception, saying "the attack did not result in any losses, as the remnants of the ballistic missile fell outside the populated areas." It wasn’t immediately clear where the remnants fell, though American Patriot missiles are thought only to be deployed at al-Dhafra.
The attack came just before President Isaac Herzog’s visit to Dubai Expo 2020.
[AlAhram] The United States will deploy a guided missile destroyer and state-of-the-art fighter jets to help defend the United Arab Emirates after a series of missile attacks by Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of... i rebels, a US statement said Wednesday.
The deployment, to "assist the UAE against the current threat", follows a phone call between Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin and Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Zayed al-Nahyan, the US embassy in the UAE said.
The UAE, part of the Saudi-led coalition fighting Yemen's Iran-backed Iran's Houthi sock puppets ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The legitimate Yemeni government has accused the them of having ties to the Iranian government. Honest they did. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews They like shooting off... ummm... missiles that they would have us believe they make at home in their basements. On the plus side, they did murder Ali Abdullah Saleh, which was the only way the country was ever going to be rid of him... rebels, suffered three missile attacks last month with the first killing three oil workers.
The second targeted Al Dhafra air base, where US forces are stationed, prompting them to fire Patriot interceptors to help shoot down the missiles as air crews scrambled to bunkers.
The guided missile destroyer USS Cole will partner with the UAE Navy and make a port call in Abu Dhabi, the statement said, while the US will also deploy fifth-generation fighter planes.
Other actions include "continuing to provide early warning intelligence", it added.
[JPost] The drone attack comes days after the Houthis launched a ballistic missile towards Abu Dhabi during President Isaac Herzog's official visit.
The defense ministry in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) said it intercepted and destroyed three hostile drones that penetrated the gulf country's airspace over unpopulated areas on the early morning of Wednesday.
Righteous Promise Brigades, an Iraqi-based militant group, took responsibility for the attack on the UAE.
UAE's defense ministry added that it is taking "all necessary measures to protect the state and its territory."
The Gulf state has been the target of several ballistic missiles and drone attacks over the past month, all claimed by the Houthis, a Yemeni rebel group backed by Iran.
On Sunday night, during Israeli President Isaac Herzog's official visit, Emirati air defenses intercepted a ballistic missile launched by the Iran-backed Houthis over Abu Dhabi. In response, the Saudi-led coalition launched a series of intense airstrikes on Sana’a, Yemen’s capital, early on Monday morning.
Syrian air defenses were also activated in response to an alleged Israeli missile barrage targeting the vicinity of the capital Damascus, hours after the attack on Abu Dhabi.
The Ottoman Turkish Ministry of Defence issued details about the "Winter Eagle" Operation in Iraq and Syria against Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK).
"Around 60 aircraft were involved in the operation, including warplanes and armed and unarmed drones," the Ministry said in a statement.
"Our warplanes targeted sites in Qarajiq, at a depth of 165 km, Sinjar, at a depth of 85 km in northern Iraq, and Derik, at a depth of 9 km in northern Syria."
The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire... 's Defense Ministry added, "utmost sensitivity was shown" regarding the security of the civilians during the operations. It said Turkey would "continue the fight against terrorism for the security of our country and our nation with determination until the last terrorist is neutralized."
Today, Ottoman Turkish warplanes and drones have attacked Kurdish Death Eater training camps, shelters, and ammunition storage areas in northern areas of Iraq and Syria, Turkey's Defence Ministry said on Wednesday.
The Ottoman Turkish 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 there are in the White House, 400 more than in Versailles, and 325 more than Buckingham Palace, so you know who's really most important... said that the Ottoman Turkish forces struck PKK positions in three areas as part of the "Winter Eagle" Operation in Iraq and Syria.
Speaking at the General Assembly of the Young Businessmen Confederation of Turkey, Erdogan stressed, "When I said that we would enter the hideouts of murderous Moslems in Gabar, Gudi, Tendurik and Bestelar Dilarar (regions in northern Iraq, eastern and northeastern Turkey), some mocked. Now we have entered their nests."
He added, "Last night, we bombed targets in three different locations, and they could not even find a hole to escape to."
Iraq's Defense Ministry condemned what it called a Ottoman Turkish infiltration into Iraqi air space as a violation of its illusory sovereignty.
The PKK has led an insurgency in southeast Turkey since 1984, killing tens of thousands of people. Turkey and its allies consider the group a terror organization, including 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... .
[Dawn] Terrorists attempted to attack security forces' camps in Balochistan ...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it... 's Panjgur and Noshki in two separate attacks late on Wednesday evening, the military's media wing said.
In a statement, the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) said "both attacks have been successfully repulsed while inflicting heavy casualties to terrorists".
In Panjgur, snuffies tried to enter a security forces' camp from two locations, the statement read.
"However, nothing needs reforming like other people's bad habits... timely response by troops foiled terrorist attempt. During intense exchange of fire one soldier has been martyred. Terrorists have fled while their casualties are being ascertained."
In Noshki, according to the ISPR, snuffies attempted to enter a Frontier Corps ...a provincial paramilitary force. Total manpower is about 80,000. They are tasked to help local law enforcement in the maintenance of law and order, and to carry out border patrol and a..the Antwerp-based Salafist organization that had campaigned to introduce Sharia law to Belgium before single-handedly making Belgium the highest per capita supplier of jihadis to Syria in Europe. There was a big trial in Antwerp in 2015, but most of those convicted were in absentia...nti-smuggling operations.... (FC) camp which was "promptly responded", adding that four snuffies have been killed.
The statement said one officer was injured during the shootout and that "intermittent firing" was continuing.
Earlier, an FC spokesperson had confirmed two blasts near the camps at Panjgur and Noshki. He had said the blasts were followed by firing, which was ongoing.
The banned Baloch Liberation Army (BLA) grabbed credit for the attacks in a statement.
Today's incidents are the latest in a string of attacks in Balochistan and come a week after ten soldiers were martyred in a terrorist attack on a security forces' checkpost in the province's Kech district.
The UN Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI) stressed the need to protect citizens against the Ottoman TurkishArclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s and address the problems through talks.
"Following airstrikes in Ninewa with civilian casualties reported, we reiterate that Iraqi illusory sovereignty and territorial integrity must be respected at all times. Local populations must be protected; disputes should be addressed through dialogue and cooperation." The Mission said on Twitter.
Today, Ottoman Turkish warplanes and drones have attacked Kurdish bad boy training camps, shelters, and ammunition storage areas in northern areas of Iraq and Syria, The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire... 's Defence Ministry said.
"Around 60 aircraft were involved in the operation, including warplanes and armed and unarmed drones," the Ministry said in a statement.
"Our warplanes targeted sites in Qarajiq, at a depth of 165 km, Sinjar, at a depth of 85 km in northern Iraq, and Derik, at a depth of 9 km in northern Syria."
Turkey's Defense Ministry added, "utmost sensitivity was shown" regarding the security of the civilians during the operations. It said Turkey would "continue the fight against terrorism for the security of our country and our nation with determination until the last terrorist is neutralized."
The Ottoman Turkish 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 there are in the White House, 400 more than in Versailles, and 325 more than Buckingham Palace, so you know who's really most important... said that the Ottoman Turkish forces struck PKK positions in three areas as part of the "Winter Eagle" Operation in Iraq and Syria.
Speaking at the General Assembly of the Young Businessmen Confederation of Turkey, Erdogan stressed, "When I said that we would enter the hideouts of turbans in Gabar, Gudi, Tendurik and Bestelar Dilarar (regions in northern Iraq, eastern and northeastern Turkey), some mocked. Now we have entered their nests."
He added, "Last night, we bombed targets in three different locations, and they could not even find a hole to escape to."
Iraq's Security Media Cell. Affiliated with the Defense Ministry condemned "the Ottoman Turkish infiltration into Iraqi air space as a violation of its illusory sovereignty."
The PKK has led an insurgency in southeast Turkey since 1984, killing tens of thousands of people. Turkey and its allies consider the group a terror organization, including 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... .
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[IsraelTimes] Shots were fired from a passing car Wednesday night at an Israel Defense Forces position near the northern West Bank city of Nablus, the military said.
The military said no soldiers were maimed in the shooting and searches for the shooter were underway.
This incident follows an uptick in attacks in the area in recent weeks.
On Saturday night, an IDF vehicle was damaged in a shooting attack in the northern West Bank. The incident occurred on a road between the settlement of Yitzhar and the illegal Gilad Farms outpost, near Nablus.
No injuries were reported.
The military vehicle — which had soldiers in it at the time of the attack — was struck with several bullets, according to the army.
The suspected Paleostinian button menexpeditiously departed at a goodly pace.
Last week, a drive-by shooting targeted a military post between the settlements of Itamar and Elon Moreh in the northern West Bank, according to the IDF.
No injuries were reported in that shooting as well, and the alleged button men fled toward Nablus.
[IsraelTimes] Interior of Fadi Abu Shkhaydam’s home is demolished and entrance sealed; police say officers were attacked during operation
Security forces demolished on Tuesday the home of a Paleostinian terrorist who killed a South African immigrant to Israel in a deadly terror attack last November in Jerusalem’s Old City.
Fadi Abu Shkhaydam shot up a number of Israeli men in the alleyways of the Old City, killing Eliyahu Kay and injuring four others, two of them seriously. Border Police officers returned fire, killing the attacker.
On Tuesday, officers demolished the interior of Abu Shkhaydam’s home and sealed the entrance — a practice sometimes used by security forces when an attacker lives in an apartment rather than a house.
Police said around 150 officers were involved in the operation to demolish the home. In a statement, police said that the officers came under attack on the scene, and that "means of dispersal" were used.
The military initiated the process of demolishing Abu Shkaydam’s home in East Jerusalem’s Shuafat refugee camp shortly after the attack. His family appealed the decision in court, but their requests were rejected.
Abu Shkhaydam had five children — three boys and two daughters — and taught Islamic law at a boys high school, for which he received a salary from the Jerusalem municipality.
According to Israeli authorities, he was a member of Hamas, the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®,’s civilian branch, rather than its armed wing.
On November 21, 2021, he drew a submachine near the Chain Gate, which leads to the holy Temple Mount site, and opened fire on passersby, fatally wounding Kay and seriously wounding two others. Kay, who was employed at the Western Wall as a tour guide, had been walking to work when he was killed.
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razing his home gets him sympathy
The way to handle this is to raise the homes of the mayor, and of all his immediate neighbors, leaving his home intact.
This will make the neighbors and mayor very angry at him, and will make others not want to imitate him.
They are not really concerned about what he did;
they support him out of pity for his punishment.
[IsraelTimes] Court rules Ahmad Asafra guilty in stabbing death of Dvir Sorek outside of West Bank yeshiva, even though he was not present at the time of the attack
An Israeli military court on Monday convicted a Paleostinian of killing an Israeli teenager in 2019.
Ahmad Asafra was convicted of intentionally causing the death of Dvir Sorek. The charge is equivalent to murder in the West Bank military court.
Asafra was also convicted of two other charges of attempting to cause intentional death and a series of security offenses, the Israel Defense Forces said in a statement. He has not been sentenced yet.
The court determined that Asafra was the commander of a Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, terror cell that carried out the stabbing attack. The court accepted the prosecution’s position that Asafra was guilty of the attack, although he was not present during the stabbing.
Another member of the cell, Yusef Zohar, was not present during the attack, but was convicted of a number of security offenses and was sentenced to life imprisonment plus 15 years.
In December, Qassem Asafra and Nasir Asafra were sentenced to life imprisonment for the attack. The pair are cousins; it’s unclear how they are related to Ahmad Asafra.
Qassem Asafra was also convicted of an attempt to kill two Israelis in a 2011 terror attack in Beersheba, which he had not been caught for at the time.
Sorek, 18, was stabbed to death near the West Bank settlement of Migdal Oz in August 2019. He was a yeshiva student enrolled in a program known as hesder that combines Torah study with military service. He was off-duty at the time of his killing.
Sorek’s body was found on a road leading to the religious seminary where he was studying.
The attackers expeditiously departed at a goodly pace but were apprehended in the town of Beit Kahlil after a 48-hour manhunt.
The attackers told Sherlocks they killed Sorek due to "the suffering of the Paleostinian people" and "the situation at al-Aqsa [Mosque]," according to transcripts of their interrogation obtained by the Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper.
They planned the murder ahead of time, drove to an intersection and waited for an Israeli to attack, they said.
Nasir Asafra attacked Sorek after he got off a bus, first attempting to subdue him with a stun gun, then repeatedly stabbing him in the chest, he said.
"He tried to defend himself by covering his face and upper body with his hands. Then he remained still and didn’t move and I got into the car," the attacker told Sherlocks.
[PJMedia] In a pre-dawn attack in northwestern Syria, American special forces commandoes, backed by helicopter gunships, armed Reaper drones, and attack jets, assaulted a compound in Syria belonging to Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurayshi, the ISIS terrorist leader who succeeded Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. The Pentagon announced that al-Qurayshi died when he detonated a bomb at the beginning of the attack killing himself and his family, including children.
“Thanks to the skill and bravery of our armed forces, we have taken off the battlefield Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurayshi — the leader of ISIS,” Mr. Biden said in a statement. “All Americans have returned safely from the operation.”
The raid follows the end of the largest U.S. combat involvement with the Islamic State since the jihadists’ so-called caliphate was destroyed three years ago.
New York Times:
American helicopters ferried the commandos into position after midnight, surrounding a house in Atmeh, a town close to the border with Turkey in rebel-held Idlib Province, according to eyewitnesses, social media reports and the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a conflict monitor based in Britain.
A long, tense standoff ensued, with loudspeakers blaring warnings in Arabic for everyone in the house to surrender, neighbors said. After about two hours, the house’s occupants had not emerged and a major battle erupted, with heavy machine gun fire and apparent missile strikes that damaged the house, collapsed some of its walls and blew out its windows.
Al-Qurayshi kept an extremely low profile since taking over for al-Baghdadi. Apparently, not low enough.
He had not appeared in public, and rarely released any audio recordings. His influence and day-to-day involvement in the group’s operations was not known and it is difficult to gauge how his death will affect the group.
His killing, however, is a significant blow just as the group had been trying to reassert itself in Syria and Iraq.
ISIS had been trying to reorganize in recent months and they looked to expand their forces considerably by breaking thousands of their members out of prison. The Jan. 20 attack triggered a 10-day battle that spilled into the surrounding streets of Hasakah in northeastern Syria and drew American and British forces back into combat in support of their Kurdish allies.
Washington Post:
By the time the fighting was finished and the devastated prison was back in the hands of the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces, more than 500 people were dead, about three-quarters of them suspected militants, the SDF reported. And scores, maybe hundreds, of prisoners had escaped, free to raise the Islamic State’s black flag and fight again.
So despite being without their putative leader, Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurayshi, the terrorists accomplished exactly what they wanted to. They augmented their forces and gave potential recruits a rallying cry by re-engaging U.S. forces.
ISIS is not done terrorizing the region yet. It would help if the Syrian civil war would end so that ISIS territory could be reclaimed and ISIS terrorists expelled. But ISIS thrives on chaos, and they’re now trying to make their presence known in Afghanistan thanks to the botched U.S. withdrawal.
Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurayshi detonated a bomb that killed him and family members - including his wife and two children - as American forces approached a house in the village of Atmeh, in the rebel-held province of Idlib, a US official said.
Al-Qurayshi was among at least 13 people including four women who died during the operation, which lasted two hours.
A lieutenant described as a "deputy" and his wife, along with a child, were gunned down after the couple opened fire on US troops, Pentagon press secretary John Kirby said during a defence briefing on Thursday.
At least six children were also among the dead, with one girl badly injured as the violence unfolded, children's charity UNICEF said in a statement.
Mr Kirby said the mission was "successful", adding there were no US military casualties.
Ten people including a man, woman and eight children were safely evacuated during the operation, which was "months in the making".
Al-Qurayshi was identified by his finger prints and DNA analysis, the Pentagon briefing was told.
Mr Kirby said he could not confirm whether a £10m bounty on the IS leader's head can or will be claimed.
Al-Qurayshi, also known as Amir Muhammad Sa'id Abdal-Rahman al-Mawla, was named as the second leader of IS after founder Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was killed in October 2019.
Residents told of the relentless gunfire and explosions that jolted Atmeh, near the Turkish border, in northwest Syria - which is home to many camps for people displaced from the country's civil war.
Biden announces that US Special Forces have eliminated Baghdadi successor and ISIS Leader Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurayshi in raid in Syria last night. pic.twitter.com/W5JsReA5K3
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Also find it curious that both ISIS honchos were killed near the Turkish border in areas controlled by Turkish paid forces. No Raqqa for these high Rollers.
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not directly related but my wife spent about a week watching the 2017 series Black Crows which is a Saudi financed, Lebanon produced drama about ISIS (very anti ISIS)
acting was pretty stiff, dialogue clumsy but noteworthy that the Saudis would spend $$$ to do this and furthermore show the sincere religious devotion of the ISIS people
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This is from the Daily Mail, so some of you may not want to read the incendiary prose.
[Rudaw] The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor... ’s bombardment of Derik town in northeast Syria (Rojava) in recent days is the declaration of war against the Kurdish forces, said Mazloum Abdi, general commander of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), late Wednesday.
Turkey announced Winter Eagle Air Operation against the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) in Iraq’s Shingal and Makhmour towns and against the People’s Protection Units (YPG) in Rojava’s Derik town early Wednesday. The Ottoman Turkish army targeted both forces in these areas late Tuesday, killing several civilians in Makhmour camp.
The YPG is the backbone of the US-allied SDF.
"Ottoman Turkish bombardment of Ain Diwar and Derik has resulted in the martyrdom of civilians and fighters and also hit public infrastructure, including a water dam and power station," Abdi said in a tweet. "This attack amounts to a declaration of war, endangers civilians, and undermines our fight against ISIS [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.... ]."
"With the rising threat of terrorism, our Coalition partners bear a large part of the responsibility to prevent such Ottoman Turkish attacks," noted the commander.
SDF said in a statement earlier in the day that Turkey’s bombardment of Derik on Tuesday killed four of its members and maimed five civilians.
"It is pretty obvious that the attacks of the Ottoman Turkish occupation state were not conducted without the knowledge of the international coalition forces. Therefore, the Ottoman Turkish occupation state, through the silence of the international coalition forces, seeks to legitimize its attacks and shell our people, our villages, and our infrastructures with its employees," it said.
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ALEPPO NORTHERN COUNTRYSIDE, Syria (North Press) – One man died under torture in a jail run by the Turkish-backed Sultan Shah Suleiman faction in Afrin region in Aleppo northern countryside, north Syria.
Yesterday, Rezan Khalil from Sheilh Hadid district, northwest of Afrin died because he was beaten on his head which led to hemorrhage of the brain, a local source told North Press.
Sultan Shah Suleiman faction had arrested Khalil before but released him after his family paid a ransom. Then, members of the faction arrested him for the second time.
The Turkish-backed Syrian opposition factions controlled Afrin in March 2018.
The Turkish-backed Syrian factions continue arresting, kidnapping and intimidating residents of Afrin with the aim to extort ransom for their release.
TEL TAMR, Syria (North Press) – A member of the Syrian government forces was wounded on Wednesday by the Turkish forces and the affiliated armed opposition factions bombardment of the countryside of Tel Tamr town, north of Hasakah, northeast Syria.
A member of the government forces was hospitalized after sustaining injuries to his foot as a result of Turkish shelling of Umm al-Keif village, west of the town, a medical source at the Martyr Legarin dispensary in Tel Tamr told North Press.
The populated villages of Kozaliya, Tel Shnan, Umm al-Keif, Tel Juma’a and Tawila in the western and northern countryside of the town were hit with a barrage of artillery and mortars by Turkish forces this evening.
The bombing also caused material damage to the residents’ property, according to a source in the Tel Tamr Military Council (a military formation affiliated with Syrian Democratic Forces-SDF).
Simultaneously, the villages of al-Asadiya, Dada Abdal and al-Bobi, in the town of Abu Rasin, were intensely bombed by the Turkish forces.
The de-escalation zone in northwest Syria witnessed on Wednesday mutual shelling between Turkish-backed opposition factions and the Syrian government forces.
The opposition factions’ sites in the villages and towns of al-Ziyara, al-Enkawi, al-Zaqqum, al-Qarqur and Qleidin in the Ghab Plain, west of Hama, with dozens of missile and artillery shells by the government forces, North Press reported military sources of the opposition.
Similarly, the opposition factions’ gatherings in the villages and towns of Fatterah, Kafr Oweid, Sfuhen, Kansafra and Fleifel in Zawiya Mountain, south of Idlib, were hit with heavy artillery and rockets by the government forces, the sources added.
Coincidently, the gatherings of the opposition factions in the towns of Kafr Ta’al and Kafr Noran and the village of Tedil, west of Aleppo, were hit with artillery shells and missile by government forces stationed in the Regiment 46. The Kabina area, north of Lattakia, was also hit with similar shelling by the government forces, according to the same sources.
Meanwhile, the opposition factions announced bombing the government forces’ sites in the town Quptan al-Jabal west of Aleppo and the Malajah area, south of Idlib, the sources indicated.
The escalation that northwest Syria is witnessing came in tandem with news that Turkish forces had reinforced their points near the lines of contact with the government forces south of Idlib.
Two died and scores were maimed in the Ottoman Turkish aerial attack on the Martyr Rustom Judy camp of the internally displaced Kurds in Makhmour, the camp's security body said on Wednesday.
The command of the camp's security body said that two of its members were killed in a Ottoman TurkishArclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... yesterday, Monday.
"The civilians immediately flocked to the site to offer aid. However, ars longa, vita brevis... Ottoman Turkish warplanes attacked them, injuring dozens," the command said.
A security commander in Sinjar, who preferred to remain anonymous, told Shafaq News Agency that Ottoman Turkish warplanes conducted more than 50 airstrikes between 10:00 pm and 03:00 am on Jal Meeran, Shello, and Khana Sur.
The attack was by far the most violent mostly peaceful since the beginning of the Ottoman Turkish attacks on Sinjar. It caused massive losses among the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) fighters, according to the source.
Ottoman Turkish Air Force has struck targets of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) and the People's Defense Units (YPG) in the Kurdistan Region and parts of northern Syria.
The Ottoman Turkish Ministry of Defense said in a statement on Wednesday that Operation Winter Eagle was carried out against PKK/YPG sites in Derik, Sinjar, and Karachak.
"During the operation, caves, shelters, hideouts and ammunition depots were targeted," The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor... 's Anadolu News Agency (AA) said.
"Operation Winter Eagle was launched in accordance with international law, Article 51 of the UN Charter and UN Security Council resolutions on the fight against terrorism," the ministry added.
"Efforts to fight against terrorism for the security of the country and nation will decisively continue until the last terrorist is neutralized," AA quoted the Ministry.
Turkey's Communications Director Fahrettin Altun said on Twitter that the country's "strategy of eradicating terrorism at its source" has contributed to border security, territorial integrity, and national unity.
Since 2016, Ankara has launched a trio of transborder operations against anti-Ankara parties in the Kurdistan Region and northeastern Syria: Euphrates Shield (2016), Olive Branch (2018), and Peace Spring (2019).
[REGNUM] The artillery of the Turkish army carried out an attack on the positions of the Kurdish detachments of the People's Self-Defense Forces (SNS) in northern Syria near the city of Manbij. This was reported on February 2 by the Kurdish news agency Firat.
Turkish artillery strikes were a response to shelling by the SNA troops of the city of Al-Bab, located 44 km north of Aleppo, where nine members of the Syrian opposition groups supported by Ankara were killed the day before, during shelling on February 2, another 32 were injured.
The Turkish army fired 19 shells at the village of Sheikh Nasser, and another 19 shells were detonated in Es-Sayyad and Yalanli. Information about possible civilian casualties and destruction of civilian infrastructure has not yet been received.
Earlier , REGNUM reported that the Turkish army launched a military operation, code-named "Winter Eagle". The purpose of the operation was the shelter of Kurdish partisans in the vicinity of the cities of Derik, Sinjar and Karachak - in Iraq, as well as the territory of the Syrian provinces of Hasakah and Raqqa.
Yousif Ibrahim no longer travels by night along the roads around his hometown of Jalawla in northeastern Iraq. He fears getting caught up in attacks by Islamic State.
"The police and army don't come into our area much anymore. If they do, they get shot at by militants," said the 25-year-old, who sells fish for a living in a nearby market.
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