The #Yemen’s Hajjah in the last 24 hours, in an attempt to deter the Iran-backed #Houthi militia, the official Saudi Press Agency reports.https://t.co/qyxFJmF2Sg
The Arab Coalition has conducted 28 targeted strikes in 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 Hajjah in the last 24 hours, in an attempt to deter the 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... militia, the official Saudi Press Agency reported on Wednesday.The targeted strikes resulted in the destruction of 14 "military vehicles," according to SPA, and caused casualties among the Houthis.
No fatalities were reported by SPA.
The operation comes during a time when tensions are rising with Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthis.
On February 21, Saudi Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. Fifteen of the nineteen WTC hijackers were Saudis, and most major jihadi commanders were Saudis, to include Osama bin Laden. Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman quietly folded that tent in 2016, doing terrible things to the guys running it, and has since been dragging the kingdom into the current century... ’s air defenses have intercepted a drone targeting King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz Airport in the city of Jizan.
At least 16 people of different nationalities were maimed as a result of the attack, the coalition said, adding that three of them were at death's door.
Earlier on February 18, the Arab Coalition destroyed an explosives-laden boat launched by Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthis in the south of the red sea.
The coalition added that the boat came from Yemen’s main Red Sea port of Hodeidah.
"The Houthi’s use of Hodeidah port threatens freedom of navigation and global trade," the Arab Coalition said in an earlier statement carried by SPA.
These attacks have invited global condemnation and high-level talks are underway to find a solution to the recurring issue.
The Arab Coalition routinely carry out targeted strikes in Yemen against the Iran-backed Houthi militia to deter the rising wave of violent mostly peaceful acts against Saudi Arabia, and more recently, the UAE.
The coalition maintains that the operations are conducted in line with international humanitarian law.
Shafaq News / The Security Media Cell announced today that Iraqi aircraft bombarded two caves in which ISIS terrorists were hiding in Kirkuk.
The Cell said a statement that the Iraqi F-16 launched an airstrike targeting two caves according to accurate intelligence information provided by the Counter-Terrorism service.
F-16 jets launched an Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... on two suspected ISIS hideouts in Kirkuk’s Qushqaya area, the media cell said in a tweet.
The operation resulted in the death of five ISIS suspects, including two leaders, state media reported Iraq's top military spokesperson Yehia Rasool as saying.
Shafaq News / Explosive devices and ammunition belonging to a sleeper cell were seized in Diyala today, a security source reported.
The source told Shafaq News agency that a joint security force launched an unannounced combing operation in al-Hadid bassin (10 Km northeast of Baquba), which was one of the most prominent headquarters of al-Qaeda following 2006.
The force found explosive devices and ammunition hidden underground, according to the source, who noted that they belong to a sleeper cell trying to destabilize the situation in the governorate.
Since last year, Diyala is going through a hard situation amid continuous ISIS attacks that resulted in dozens of casualties.
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Shafaq News / The Iraqi military intelligence service announced the death of a terrorist who attempted to clash with the security forces in a village in Mandali, Diyala.
In a statement, the service said that a special force affiliated with it monitored two terrorists planning to attack a security point in Mandali, 93 Km east of Baquba.
One of the terrorists was killed, while the other managed to flee and the security forces are currently trying to pursue him, according to the statement.
Shafaq News/ Turkey's warplanes reportedly bombed as site of the anti-Ankara Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) in the north of the Kurdistan Region's capital city, Erbil, earlier today, Wednesday.
Eyewitnesses told Shafaq News Agency that the Turkish airstrikes targeted PKK sites near Mergahush and Rusour in the sub-district Sidekan, north of Erbil.
The eyewitnesses were not able to discern the nature or the size of damages sustained by the sites.
In July 2015, a two-and-a-half year-long ceasefire broke down, and the almost four-decade-long conflict between Turkish security forces and militants of the PKK, recognized as a terrorist organization by Turkey, the U.S. and the EU, entered one of its deadliest chapters in nearly four decades.
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).
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Shafaq News/ On Wednesday, Iraqi F-16s bombarded two ISIS hideouts, where the terrorists are believed to be holed up.
The spokesperson for the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces, Maj. Gen. Yahya Rasool said that a force of the Counter-Terrorism Service, backed by the Iraqi aircraft, raided two terrorist organization sites in Qoshkaya of Al-Dibs district in Kirkuk Governorate.
The operation was based on intelligence provided by the Global Coalition and the Iraqi Aviation to the Counter-Terrorism Service.
The attack killed five ISIS members and eradicated the two caves. Rasool said.
He added, "The terrorists nicknamed Abu Al-Zubayr, Rimah, Abdul Rahman, Abu Khattab, and Abu Junaid." They were all militants.
Recently, ISIS became more active in Kirkuk, and the Iraqi Army carried out many operations against it in collaboration with the US-led Coalition.
Earlier this month, Iraqi warplanes destroyed a pivotal headquarters of ISIS in Kirkuk.
The Security Media Cell (SMC) said that the Iraqi F-16 fighter jets bombed a site of the terrorist organization in the Zghaytoun valley, southwestern Kirkuk.
"The airstrike was carried out following intel provided by the Counter-Terrorism-Services (CTS) in cooperation with the targets designation panel of the Joint Operations Command," the SMC said.
In 2017, Iraq declared final victory over ISIS after Iraqi forces drove its last remnants from the country, three years after the militant group captured about a third of Iraq's territory.
Yet, ISIS still has sleeper cells in several Iraqi Governorates.
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[IsraelTimes] State media claims most missiles shot down by air defenses, hours after Israel warns Syrian troops near border that they will be targeted for working with Hezbollah.
Three Syrian soldiers were killed on Thursday morning in an Israeli air strike near the capital Damascus, Syria’s state media said.
The alleged strike came hours after Israel apparently dropped leaflets on Syrian army positions warning that they could be targeted for collaborating with Iran-backed terror group Hezbollah.
"The Israeli enemy carried out an air assault with several missiles," state media SANA reported, adding three soldiers were killed.
There was also unspecified material damage, it said.
It claimed Syrian air defense intercepted most of the missiles in the attack, which occurred about 1:10 a.m.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which has an extensive network of sources in across the country, reported that explosions were heard in Damascus and its suburbs "after the interception of Israeli missiles by the Syrian regime’s anti-aircraft defense."
Video published by SANA purported to show a missile being shot down.
As a rule, Israel’s military does not comment on specific strikes in Syria, but has admitted to conducting hundreds of sorties against Iran-backed groups attempting to gain a foothold in the country.
Early Wednesday morning, Israel allegedly fired surface-to-surface missiles at an observation post and "finance building" near the border town of Quneitra on the Syrian Golan Heights.
Israel later dropped leaflets on the area warning Syrian soldiers that they could be targeted for working with Hezbollah.
"To the leaders and members of the Syrian army, we have warned you and continue to warn you, we will not stop as long as your cooperation with Hezbollah continues" the flyer read.
The flyer named the Hezbollah official that the IDF believes is facilitating the relationship between the Iran-backed terror group and the Syrian military, Jawad Hasham, the son of Hajj Hasham, who leads Hezbollah’s efforts along the Syrian border.
Strikes this month attributed to Israel also targeted a Syrian military post on February 17 and anti-aircraft batteries at the start of the month.
The flyers, which were written in Arabic and addressed to “Syrian [Arab] Army soldiers,” matched the style of similar leaflets that have been dropped in Syria in the past and included the silhouette of an eagle — the symbol of the IDF’s 210th “Bashan” Division, which is tasked with defending Israel’s frontier with Syria and the Golan Heights. The IDF refused to comment on the matter.
In the pamphlet, the Israeli military appeared to take responsibility for the overnight strikes. The IDF generally does not publicly acknowledge strikes it has carried out in Syria in recent years, under its general policy of ambiguity regarding its efforts against Hezbollah in the country.
“To the leaders and members of the Syrian army, we have warned you and continue to warn you, we will not stop as long as your cooperation with Hezbollah continues” the flyer reads.
The flyer said Syrian soldiers “repeatedly” allowed Hajj Jawad Hashem “to breach the infrastructure of the Syrian army, including… in the finance building and Rwihinah base,” where the overnight strikes took place.
“Those who cooperate with Hezbollah… are targets,” it warns.
The IDF has repeatedly accused Syrian dictator Bashar Assad’s military of actively assisting Hezbollah and warned it against this, both through flyers dropped along the border and through overt, public appeals, in some cases naming the Syrian and Hezbollah officials involved, including officers from Syria’s 90th Brigade and 1st Division.
[AnNahar] The Internal Security Forces have thwarted a plan by 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 to carry out three suicide kabooms targeting Shiite religious compounds in Beirut's southern suburbs, the interior ministry said Wednesday.
"A terrorist group had recruited young Paleostinian men in Lebanon Hezbollahstan ...The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years. It produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. That's three statements. Only the first is subjective.... to carry out major bombing attacks using boom belts" and other munitions, Interior Minister Bassam Mawlawi told a presser.
"Three separate targets were to be hit at the same time," the ministry said, in an operation Mawlawi said would have caused a large loss of life.
Lebanon's Internal Security Forces (ISF) said the instructions for the bomb plot came from an IS operative based in the Paleostinian refugee camp of Ain al-Hilweh, who is in touch with fellow Sunni snuffies in Syria.
The instructions were passed to an undercover ISF agent who had successfully managed to infiltrate IS networks in Lebanon.
Indeed? Betcha his name was Mohammed or one of its variants.
On February 7, the ISF agent was instructed to prepare attacks on a Shiite religious compound in the al-Laylaki neighborhood, the Imam al-Kazem compound in Haret Hreik and the al-Nasser mosque in Beirut's Ouzai suburb, the ISF said.
He was given three explosive vests and other weapons to conduct the attacks on February 16, the ISF added.
Beirut's southern suburbs, a stronghold of Hizbullah ...Party of God, a Leb militia inspired, founded, funded and directed by Iran. Hizbullah refers to itself as The Resistance and purports to defend Leb against Israel, with whom it has started and lost one disastrous war to date, though it did claim victory... , saw a wave of bombings in 2013 and 2014 carried out by al-Qaeda linked Death Eaters in retaliation for Hezbollah's intervention in the civil war in neighboring Syria on the side of the Damascus government
According to the ISF, the planned attack by IS was meant to "pay homage" to the group's slain leader Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurashi, killed in a U.S. raid on his home in rebel-held northwestern Syria last month.
But homage was prevented, by definition with Allah’s approval. Something to ponder while flying high on Captagon
#Daraa governorate, southern #Syria, has recently witnessed several killings of former opposition members, who either reconciled with the government forces or rejected reconciliation. https://t.co/lr0hZFJhWj
DARAA, Syria (North Press) – A young man was shot to death, yesterday, by unknown individuals in the eastern countryside of Daraa, south Syria.
The 22-year-old Omar Abu Safi was killed by unknown persons in al-Harak city, in the eastern countryside of Daraa, a local source told North Press.
“Abu Safi was with three other young men who were survived,” the source said.
Abu Safi was not involved in the military formations of the opposition factions, according to the same source.
Daraa has recently witnessed several killings of former opposition members, who either reconciled with the government forces or rejected reconciliation.
MANBIJ, Syria (North Press) – A suspected Turkish drone bombed on Wednesday the outskirts of the village of al-Jat on the front line between the Manbij Military Council and the Turkish-backed factions north of Manbij.
“The drone was launched from the Turkish base in the village of Qirata, north of Manbij, and targeted the outskirts of the village of al-Jat,” North Press reported a military source.
No casualties or material damage were reported by the source.
The village of al-Hussan, northeast of the city of Manbij, was bombed on Wednesday by the Turkish forces and the affiliated opposition factions, but no casualties or material damage were reported.
on Tuesday, the villages of Arab Hassan and al-Mahsinli in the northwestern countryside of Manbij were bombed by a Turkish drone without causing any damage.
Reporting by Saddam al-Hassan
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ALEPPO NORTHERN COUNTRYSIDEO, Syria (North Press) – On Wednesday evening, the vicinity of the city of al-Bab, east of Aleppo, and its countryside were hit with several Russian air raids.
“The Russian warplanes targeted the north of the city of al-Bab with several raids,” a local source told North Press without revealing the targeted places.
The missile strike was accompanied by dropping the light bombs on the city’s sky and its countryside, according to the source.
According to the source, Tarhin camp, near the city of al-Bab, was targeted in the city’s countryside, without information on the extent of the damage caused by the bombing.”
“The sound of an explosion that shook the city’s neighborhoods was heard, the source of which was a fake raid by Russian aircraft on the city,” the source said.
Since 2017, the city of al-Bab has been under the control of the Turkish-backed opposition factions.
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