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5 Members of Family Beheaded in Herat, 2 Girls Killed in Balkh
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Afghanistan
5 Members of Family Beheaded in Herat, 2 Girls Killed in Balkh
[Tolo] Religion of Peace™
Five members of a family were beheaded by unknown individuals in Anjil district in the western province of Herat, officials said—while two young girls have been killed by unidentified gunmen in the northern province of Balkh.

The officials in Herat said that the victims included three children, one man and one woman. According to the officials, the incident took place on Friday night in Surma village of Anjil district in Herat.

"Five corpses were brought into the hospital, which included children aged four, six and eight. A 20-year old woman and an old man," said Mohammad Aref Jalali, head of the provincial hospital.

"Five of them were martyred by unidentified individuals. Five of them from one family," said Abdul Sabor, a relative.

Also, two young girls from Sholdera district of Balkh were found killed in Balkh's capital Mazar-e-Sharif.

The motive behind the incident is uncertain, the local officials said, saying an investigation is underway to arrest the perpetrators.

"Two young girls were killed in Balkh. The two girls were taken by unidentified gunmen from Sholdara district to the Mazar-e-Sharif city. They were killed by these individuals," said Asif Waziri, commander of the provincial security department. "We are in contact with the families of the girls."

According to Waziri, one of the girls was shot and killed and another one of them was apparently choked.

Family members of the two girls declined to comment. The residents called for the perpetrators to be held accountable.

"Those who commit such crimes should be arrested immediately and brought to justice," said Rafiullah, a resident of Mazar-e-Sharif.

Earlier, there had been rumors that several civil society activists have been killed by the security forces in Balkh, but the provincial security department denied it.
Posted by: Frank G || 03/06/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under:

#1  It's almost as dangerous as Chicago or Baltimore.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 03/06/2022 6:55 Comments || Top||


Explosion kills three, wounded 20 worshipers in Paktia province
[Khaama] Local officials of the southeastern Paktia province said that a bomb explosion at the gate of a mosque in Dand Patna district killed three worshipers and wounded more than 20 more.

The blast took place in the Kharoti residence of the district after hundreds of people were coming out of the mosque finishing the Friday prayer.

Local residents say that those wounded have been dispatched to local hospitals in Samkani district and to the provincial hospital in the capital Gardiz while those in serious condition were sent to Kabul.

The motive behind the blast is not disclosed yet nor has someone claimed responsibility for the incident.

Head of information and culture directorate Khaliqyar Ahmadzai told reporters that they have started investigations about the explosion.

It is the first bomb blast in the southeastern Paktia province following the Taliban takeover in August last year.
Mosques are Sunni. Majlises (if I spelt that right) are Shiite, because they aren’t allowed to use the same Arabic word for their place of worship — it would somehow pollute it in majority Sunni eyes were a Shiite to do so.
Posted by: Frank G || 03/06/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [13 views] Top|| File under:


Blacklisted Sarajudin Haqqani appears for first time

[Khaama] feeling cocky with all the eyeballs on Ukraine...
Leader of Haqqani network
...the most dangerous of the Talib factions, specializing in jacket wallahs, kidnapping Westerners for ransom, assassinating Afghan high officials, and big, showy attacks. Also, under contract to their Pakistan ISI paymasters, attacking Indian infrastructure and construction projects in Afghanistan. The clan territory is in Afghanistan’s eastern mountains, but they most recently left behind their base in Miram Shah, North Waziristan...
and acting Minister of Interior Affairs of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan Sarajudin Haqqani appeared to media for the first time during a graduation ceremony of police in Kabul on Saturday, March 5, 2022.

Sarajudin Haqqani is still wanted by the FBI accused him of terror attacks.
They’re offering $10 million just for information that would lead to his arrest.
Though he had meetings with foreign diplomats and local officials across Afghanistan, his photo did not appear on media and his face was shown blurred.

Chief spokesperson of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan Zabiullah Mujahid said that his photo can be made public now.

In the graduation ceremony, 377 police officers-males and females- were given documents after completion of their bachelor’s degree.

Meanwhile, national police were also given uniforms for the first time.

Earlier, people would complain about the Taliban affiliates wandering around the cities without donning a specific uniform. Terror groups and thieves robbed people and houses impersonating the Taliban.
Posted by: Frank G || 03/06/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [10 views] Top|| File under: Taliban/IEA


Africa Horn
Suspected Al-Shabaab militants arrested near Kenya-Somalia border
[Garowe] Police in Kenya are interrogating two men suspected to be al-Shabaab
...... an Islamic infestation centering on Somalia attempting to metastasize into Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, and similar places, all of which have enough problems without them...
members, in the latest significant development which bolsters the fight against the al-Qaeda linked group which dominates large swathes of rural Somalia.

According to the police, the two men were arrested during a security operation in Garissa County which is in the northeastern part of the country. A top regional official confirmed the arrest of the Death Eaters.

Garissa County Commissioner Boaz Cherutich said the police recovered three firearms, 98 bullets, and five magazines following a sting operation conducted in Modika area in the outskirts of Garissa town on Wednesday night.

The bigwig said the two suspects will be arraigned in court once investigations are complete and warned that the government will not relent in its efforts to rid the area of illegal gangs marauding with firearms.

Kenya has been an al-Shabaab hotbed, especially for the last seven years, with the forces of Evil often targeting the capital Nairobi and northeastern parts. Kenya Defense Forces have been operating in Somalia since 2011.
Posted by: trailing wife || 03/06/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under: al-Shabaab (AQ)


Africa North
Oil Pipelines Attacked in Libya


ibya’s Sirte Oil and Gas Company announced that criminal groups had attacked crude oil and gas pipelines, belonging to the company. This led to the loss of 1,600 barrels per day of oil, and the closing of several wells to fix the damage.

The company said in a statement on Friday that its, “properties and production lines in various locations and fields are still subjected to systematic tampering and deliberate corruption.”

“The company’s oil and gas transmission lines in the South Zaltan and Al-Lahib fields were attacked, resulting in the loss of more than 1,600 barrels of crude oil,” the statement explained.

“About four kilometers of pipelines were stolen from well 52-C on Thursday. The criminals also tried to steal the 4-inch gas lifting line, and deliberately punctured it from four points in order to empty it of its gas content,” the statement added.

Posted by: badanov || 03/06/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [10 views] Top|| File under:


Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
Dagestani charged with nexus with terror organization
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[KavkazUzel] A criminal case has been initiated against a resident of Izberbash, suspected of participating in the activities of a terrorist organization and an illegal armed group. Investigators believe that the suspect in 2016 provided medical care and looked after wounded members of a terrorist organization as a nurse. 

The Investigative Department of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation for Dagestan opened a criminal case against a 20-year-old resident of the city of Izberbash, suspected of committing crimes under part 2 of article 205.5 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (participation in the activities of a terrorist organization) and part 2 of article 208 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (participation in an illegal armed formation ).  

According to part 2 of article 205.5 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, participation in the activities of a terrorist organization threatens up to twenty years in prison, and according to part 2 of article 208 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, participation in an illegal armed formation is punishable by imprisonment for up to fifteen years.

The case was initiated based on the materials of the FSB of Russia for Dagestan, the Investigative Department of the Sledkom of the Russian Federation for Dagestan writes today on its website.

According to the investigation, the suspect, knowing from the media and from the Internet that the international organization "Islamic State" 
...if only all our reports from that part of the world so helpfully mentioned the banned terror organization that caused the reported individual to be arrested/killed/put on trial/convicted by the authorities...
was recognized as a terrorist organization and its activities were banned on the territory of Russia by the decision of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation, took part in its activities in 2016 , as well as in the activities of an illegal armed group, provided medical assistance and looked after wounded members of a terrorist organization as a nurse.

Investigators are establishing the whereabouts of the suspect, the investigation of the criminal case is ongoing, the department informed.

At the end of 2016, while in the city of Raqqa in Syria, the suspect looked after the wounded members of the Sabri group as a nurse.
Posted by: badanov || 03/06/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [12 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State


India-Pakistan
Pak drone fired at by BSF
[OneIndia] The Border Security Force (BSF) shot up a suspected Pak drone along the International Border (IB) here on Saturday, officials said as a massive search operation was launched to ensure no weapons or narcotics were dropped by it, PTI reported.

A BSF spokesperson said alert troops of the force fired at the suspected flying object when it entered the general area of Arnia around 4.10 am.

"The humming sound of a suspected drone was heard in the morning at 4:10 am by alert troops of the BSF in the general area of Arnia. The troops fired towards the direction of the sound," the spokesperson said.

He said the area was cordoned off with the help of police, and a joint search operation was underway.

The officials said BSF troops fired around 18 rounds within a span of 10 minutes after picking up the movement of the drone.

This comes 10 days after police recovered a huge consignment of arms and ammunition dropped by the Lashkar-e-Taiba
...the Army of the Pure, an Ahl-e-Hadith terror organization founded by Hafiz Saeed. LeT masquerades behind the Jamaat-ud-Dawa facade within Pakistain and periodically blows things up and kills people in India. Despite the fact that it is banned, always an interesting concept in Pakistain, the organization remains an blatant tool and perhaps an arm of the ISI...
(LeT) and its offshoot, The Resistance® Front, by a drone in the same area in R S Pura sector.

The seizure on February 24 included a pistol with two magazines and 70 rounds, three detonators, three remote-controlled IEDs, three bottles of explosives, one bundle of cortex wire, two-timer IEDs and six grenades.

In the past one year, security forces have shot down two drones and seized their payloads, including rifles, improvised bombs (IEDs), sticky bombs and narcotics, in Jammu region.
Posted by: trailing wife || 03/06/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistan

#1  one bundle of cortex wire, two-timer IEDs and six grenades

Cortex wire is especially ghastly since it contains cerebral tissue. But two-timer IEDs are the worst. You never know where their loyalties lie.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 03/06/2022 13:48 Comments || Top||

#2  :-)
Posted by: Frank G || 03/06/2022 14:04 Comments || Top||

#3  Sticky bomb too
Posted by: M. Murcek || 03/06/2022 14:06 Comments || Top||

#4  ^ yeah that too.

I can only imagine this poor flying beast of burden carting around all this shit for the mullahs. It's a chinese commercial photography drone. Been seen twice now.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 03/06/2022 14:10 Comments || Top||


Iraq
PMF thwarts an ISIS attack in Saladin


Shafaq News/ A force from al-Hashd al-Shaabi (Popular Mobilization Forces-PMF) engaged with a group of ISIS militants near Makhoul hills, northern Saladin, a security source revealed on Saturday morning.

The source told Shafaq News Agency that a force from the 51st brigade's second regiment of the PMF identified a group of ISIS militants approaching the "Fertilizers" area near the Makhoul hills, a hotspot of extremist Islamist groups.

The force, according to the source, opened fire towards the ISIS group, forcing it to retreat.

"The terrorist group was plotting an attack on the PMF forces stationed near Makhoul, but surveillance foiled their intentions," he said.

Posted by: badanov || 03/06/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State


Along with other family members, wanted terrorist captured in Fallujah


Shafaq News/ A person wanted by the Iraqi security forces for connections to the extremist group of ISIS has been reportedly arrested in the east of al-Anbar, western Iraq.

A source told Shafaq News Agency that wanted terrorist who left Saladin under the radar was seeking to rent a house in Fallujah using a fake ID.

The arrestee, who is wanted in accordance with Article 4/Terrorism, was captured along with other members of his family after thorough surveillance.

Posted by: badanov || 03/06/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
ISIS claims operations against SDF in Deir ez-Zor


MANBIJ, Syria (North Press) – The village of al-Jat in the northern countryside of the city of Manbij in northern Syria, was hit with thermal missiles by the Turkish forces bombed on Saturday evening.

“The Turkish forces stationed in the village of Qiratiya, northeast of Manbij, bombed the village of al-Jat with two thermal missiles,” a military source told North Press.

No material damage or casualties were caused, as the missiles fell in farmland, the sources added.

On Wednesday, the Turkish forces bombed the villages of al-Tokhar al-Kabir and Aoun al-Dadat with mortar shells, and no material or human losses were recorded.

” More than 25 Turkish shells hit the villages of the front lines,” the media center of the Manbij Military Council said on Tuesday.

Turkey has recently escalated its bombardment of the villages of Manbij, especially those located on the line separating the Manbij Military Council and the Turkish-backed opposition factions.

Reporting by Saddam al-Hassan

Posted by: badanov || 03/06/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under: Sublime Porte


Mutual shelling continues between government and opposition in the northwest


DLIB, Syria (North Press) – On Saturday, several places in the de-escalation zone in northwest Syria witnessed exchange of shelling between Turkish-backed opposition factions and the government forces.

From Jurin camp, the government targeted the town of al-Ziyara, the village of al-Sarmania and the outskirts of the town of al-Enkawi in the Ghab Plain, west of Hama, with heavy artillery and missiles, opposition military sources told North Press.

The opposition factions’ sites in the villages and towns of Kansafra, al-Fatira, Sufuhn, al-Ruwaiha and outskirts of al-Bara, in the Zawiya Mountain area, south of Idlib, were hit similarly hit by the government forces, the sources said. Meanwhile, al-Fatah al-Mubin Operations Room announced that it had bombed the government forces’ sites in the villages of al-Malajah and al-Dar al-Kabira in Zawiya Mountain, with mortar shells.

The areas of northwest Syria are included in the de-escalation agreement signed between Russia and Turkey in March 2020, but the region witnesses almost daily military escalation and mutual bombing between the two sides of the conflict.

Reporting by Bara’ al-Shami

Posted by: badanov || 03/06/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [14 views] Top|| File under: Ottoman Proxies


SDF denies connection with a drone fell in Aleppo


QAMISHLI, Syria (North Press) – The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) denied on Saturday that it had to do with a homemade drone that crashed north of the town of Qabasin in the eastern countryside of Aleppo.

Social networking sites published pictures of a homemade drone, which they said it had crashed north of the town of Qabasin, and claimed that it belonged to SDF.

“These photos and new are fake. They are just a play that the mercenaries of the Turkish occupation resort to as a way to prove obedience to the occupation officers,” said Farhad Shami, director of the media center of the Syrian Democratic Forces, on his Facebook page.

Shami indicated that these media outlets will continue to spread this “fake news” to cover up the “recruitment of mercenaries” to participate in hostilities in Ukraine.

On Friday, the Violations Documentation Center in Northern Syria said that the Turkish army and intelligence held more than one meeting with leaders of Turkish-backed opposition factions in the areas of Azaz and Afrin in the northern countryside of Aleppo, and asked them to recruit members to transport them to Ukraine.

Reporting by Adnan Hamo

Posted by: badanov || 03/06/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [13 views] Top|| File under:


ISIS claims operations against SDF in Deir ez-Zor


DEIR EZ-ZOR, Syria (North Press) – On Saturday, ISIS, through media close to it, claimed two operations against the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in the town of al-Busayrah, 35 km east of Deir ez-Zor, east Syria.

ISIS close Amaq News Agency published a statement in which it said that ISIS militants attacked a military checkpoint of SDF with rocket-propelled grenades and machine guns at the entrance to the village of Mashikh, west of al- Busayrah.

The attack damaged the SDF checkpoint, while ISIS militants withdrew, according to Amaq.

The statement was followed by another one, in which ISIS claimed it had stormed the house of a member of the Syrian Democratic Forces and shot him , which led to his injury, while the militants of the organization fled.

Recently, the eastern countryside of Deir ez-Zor has witnessed the increase in cases of killing of SDF members, employees of the Autonomous Administration, tribal dignitaries and civilians.

Two days ago, unidentified gunmen stormed an SDF members’ house in the town of Abu Hamam in the eastern countryside of Deir ez-Zor, and shot him dead with a silencer pistol.

Reporting by Omar Abdulrahman

Posted by: badanov || 03/06/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [17 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State


#2  An interesting link, No Fortunate Son. ISIS isn’t likely to gain much traction in that part of the world, nor does it seem likely to me that the war itself will spread beyond Ukrainian battlefields — though my opinion os worth what you just paid for it. But goodness knows there are plenty of ISIS sympathizers among the Moslem colonists recently arrived in the West, who may respond to this particular nudge as they did not do to previous ones, being generally content with general boyish harassment of the natives to show them their place in the new order.
Posted by: trailing wife || 03/06/2022 23:04 Comments || Top||

#3  What is happening today, the direct bloody war between the Orthodox crusaders – Russia and Ukraine – is but one example of God’s punishment for them

They're right, in a way. This can be seen as God's punishment for the Woke crusaders of America and Europe, who bear the ultimate blame for this crisis.

As Mearsheimer makes clear was our many foolish liberal internationalists, later dubbed Woke, administrations arrogant and unholy drive to push NATO and its Woke wickedness right up to the edge of Russia's capital that caused this.
Posted by: No Fortunate Son || 03/06/2022 23:21 Comments || Top||



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