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Africa Subsaharan
Boko Haram, ISWAP Terrorists Abduct Health Worker In Borno


One Mr Bulama Geidam, a health worker assigned to the General Hospital Gubio, in the Gubio Local Government Area of Borno State has been abducted by the members of the Islamic State of West African Province faction of the Boko Haram terrorists.

The ISWAP insurgents attacked Gubio early hours of Wednesday, carting away a load of food items and fuel from a humanitarian truck.

Confirming the abduction, the state Commissioner for Health, Juliana Bitruce, described the incident as “unfortunate and disturbing.”

According to the News Agency of Nigeria, the Commissioner said that the abducted health worker was among those who remained at their duty posts despite the palpable insecurity within the area.

“The ministry will write to officially inform all the concerned security agencies, including the Theater Command, Operation Hadin Kai,” she said.

The commissioner prayed for the safe release of the health worker.

Posted by: badanov || 03/17/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11 views] Top|| File under: Boko Haram (ISIS)


Gunmen Attack Security Operatives In Imo, Kill Two Prison Warders


Some unidentified gunmen have killed two officers of the Nigerian Correctional Service (NCS) in Okigwe town in Imo State.

The incident happened at the Umulolo section of the town in the early hours of Wednesday.

The officers were attached to Operation Search and Flush, a joint security task force established by the Imo state government.

Other security operatives also sustained different injuries.

The incident is the latest in a string of terror assaults in Imo State.

Gunmen have been targeting residents in recent months, not sparing security operatives.

Posted by: badanov || 03/17/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [10 views] Top|| File under:


Caribbean-Latin America
Mexico extradites cartel leader 'El Huevo' to the United States after his apprehension sparked an attack on American consulate and Mexican military facilities
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • Cartel del Noreste (Northeast Cartel) and Tropas del Infierno (Troops from Hell) gang leader Juan Treviño, also known as 'El Huevo or 'The Egg,' was extradited from Mexico to the United States on Tuesday
  • Around here, 'huevos' doesn't mean 'eggs'.
  • Treviño was arrested Sunday in the northern Mexico border state of Tamaulipas

  • He is accused by the U.S. Department of Justice of crimes that include money laundering and drug trafficking

  • Treviño, who has dual U.S.-Mexican citizenship, was turned over to U.S. federal agents in Tijuana
Posted by: Skidmark || 03/17/2022 08:14 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Narcos

#1  We don't have "Ukrainian Nazis" on our border, we have just as nasty cartel thugs, just as murderous and tribal as anything elsewhere. So, by the Putin Doctrine we can invade Mexico? /Rhet question
Posted by: Procopius2k || 03/17/2022 9:30 Comments || Top||

#2  "The Egg"?
Does he hatch?
Posted by: ed in texas || 03/17/2022 10:20 Comments || Top||

#3  He scrambled to escape the law, but once caught, he cracked quickly...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 03/17/2022 10:23 Comments || Top||

#4  We've done it before.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 03/17/2022 10:28 Comments || Top||

#5  I mean, I could understand as huevos, as in "he's got b@lls".
But singular?
Posted by: ed in texas || 03/17/2022 11:02 Comments || Top||

#6  No we have Vladimir Putin ass kissing Russian propaganda inside our nation by some Americans though
Posted by: Omaing Stalag1261 || 03/17/2022 11:22 Comments || Top||

#7  We need to control our borders and cut off the flow of drugs, trafficked humans and laundeted money. The dirty money taints everything in our country. Our betters are more concerned with the shutting down of free speech and individual rights of citizens.
Posted by: JohnQC || 03/17/2022 11:25 Comments || Top||

#8  "Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador has faced criticism from his detractors for his security policy, based on the slogan 'Hugs, not bullets."
Posted by: Flusoth Dark Lord of the Antelope1658 || 03/17/2022 11:30 Comments || Top||

#9  So, by the Putin Doctrine we can invade Mexico? /Rhet question

At least Putin would have sense enough to stay out of it.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 03/17/2022 11:54 Comments || Top||

#10  We could definitely invade Mexico if the Chinese had staged a coup in Mexico City, set up their own PLA military bases near the Rio Grande and announced their intention to take back Texas
Posted by: Chusock Gruck2723 || 03/17/2022 11:59 Comments || Top||

#11  All but the announcement.
Posted by: Skidmark || 03/17/2022 13:31 Comments || Top||


India-Pakistan
J&K cops gun down 3 terrorists involved in killing of sarpanch
[OneIndia] The security forces have shot full of holes three gunnies in an encounter that broke out in Jammu and Kashmir
...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it Azad (Free) Kashmir. The remainder they refer to as "Indian Occupied Kashmir". They have fought four wars with India over it, the score currently 4-0 in New Delhi's favor. After 72 years of this nonsense, India cut the Gordian knot in 2019, removing the area's special status, breaking off Ladakh as a separate state, and allowing people from other areas to settle (or in the case of the Pandits, to resettle) there....
early this morning.

The encounter broke out at the Nowgam area of Srinagar. The operation was carried out by the Jammu and Kashmir police and the security forces. The police said that the gunnies who were killed belonged to the Lashkar-e-Tayiba and The Resistence Front.

They were involve3d in the recent killing of Khanmoh's sarpanch Sameer Bhat. The security forces managed to trap the gunnies after cordoning off the area.

In the encounter a total of 3 bad boyz were potted. The forces also recovered incriminating materials including arms and ammunition, the Kashmir Zone Police said in a tweet.
Posted by: trailing wife || 03/17/2022 01:33 || Comments || Link || [14 views] Top|| File under: Lashkar e-Taiba


Iraq
Two ISIS members arrested in Erbil
[Rudaw] The Kurdistan Region’s counter terrorism department confirmed on Wednesday the arrest of two 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....
(ISIS) members in Erbil, a day after other ISIS suspects plotting a suicide kaboom were arrested in Kirkuk.

The statement did not specify the conditions under which the two men were arrested, only mentioning that they were "active members of ISIS" and wanted by the Iraqi counter-terrorism service (CTS).

On the request of the Iraqi CTS, the two arrestees were turned over to their department, according to the statement.

In coordination with Sulaimani’s internal security forces (Asayish), the Iraqi forces arrested on Tuesday three ISIS suspects in Kirkuk,
... a thick stew of Arabs, Turkmen, Kurds, and probably Antarcticans, all of them mutually hostile most of the time...
who were plotting to carry out a suicide attack during the month of Ramadan.

Dozens of ISIS suspects have been arrested across Iraq and the Kurdistan Region since last summer.

Two highly sought members were arrested in Kirkuk in early January, two days after three suspects of the terror group were arrested near Erbil.

Several other ISIS suspects, including a health worker, were arrested in Kirkuk in December.

In its propaganda magazine on Thursday, ISIS claimed to have conducted 14 attacks in Iraq from March 3 to March 9, killing and injuring 11 people.
Posted by: trailing wife || 03/17/2022 01:46 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State


Within hours, two attacks target the US-led Coalition in Iraq


Shafaq News / On Tuesday, an explosion targeted a convoy carrying logistical support equipment for the US-led Coalition in Basra, southern Iraq.

A security source told Shafaq News Agency that an explosive device blew up near the Jreishan border crossing without causing causalities.

Hours later, another device exploded near a convoy on Samawa Highway, southern Iraq.

There was no claim for responsibility.

The Iraqi authorities issued several warnings of repeated targeting of foreign forces and diplomatic missions in the country.

On January 5, the Iraqi parliament voted by the majority to end the foreign military presence on the country's territory, following the Iranian Quds Force commander, Qassem Soleimani, and the deputy head Al-Hashd Al-Shaabi, Abu Mahdi Al-Muhandis, in an American airstrike near Baghdad International Airport.

Washington accuses armed Iraqi factions linked to Iran of being behind the attacks

Posted by: badanov || 03/17/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran Proxies

#1  One of these "convoys" is going to get wiped out.
Then who are you going to call?
Posted by: bman || 03/17/2022 11:49 Comments || Top||


Iraqi soldier was killed in an explosion in Kirkuk


Shafaq News/ On Tuesday, one Iraqi soldier died, and others were injured in an explosion in the southwest of Kirkuk governorate.

The source told Shafaq News Agency that an explosive device blew up on a vehicle of the Federal Police in Al-Rashad district, southwest of Kirkuk.

The attack killed an Iraqi soldier and injured two others, according to the source.

Posted by: badanov || 03/17/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under:


CTS thwarts an ISIS suicide attack


Shafaq News / The Spokesman for the Commander in Chief of the armed forces, Maj. Gen Yahya Rasool, revealed that the Counter-Terrorism service had thwarted an ISIS suicide attack that the organization was planning to carry out during the month of Ramadan.

Rasool said in a statement that the service, in cooperation with the Asayish forces, was able to discover the terrorist plan and thwart it.

The two terrorists who were supposed to carry out the attack were attested, in addition to the person who was responsible for taking them to the targeted area.

Posted by: badanov || 03/17/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State

#1  You're under attest!
Posted by: Phineper Snore5683 || 03/17/2022 4:03 Comments || Top||


Two children killed in an explosion in Saladin


Shafaq News / Two children were killed in an explosion in al-Shirqat district, Saladin, a security source reported.

The source told Shafaq News agency that a war remnant blew up today, killing two children.

The security forces have opened an investigation into the incident, the source added.

Posted by: badanov || 03/17/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [10 views] Top|| File under:


Eight ISIS terrorists arrested today


Shafaq News / The spokesman for the Commander in Chief of the armed forces, Maj. Gen Yahya Rasool, announced today arresting eight ISIS terrorists in six Iraqi governorates.

Rasool said in a statement today that two terrorists were arrested in Baghdad, while four others were arrested in a military campaign that covered al-Anbar, al-Fallujah, Saladin, al-Shirqat, Diyala, Kirkuk, and Hawija.

In coordination with the Asayish forces in al-Sulaymaniyah, two terrorists were arrested, according to Rasool.

The statement noted that the Counter-Terrorism service is continuously carrying out successful military missions, indicating that its members receive advanced mental and physical training.

Posted by: badanov || 03/17/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [10 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Turkish drone wounds civilians in Manbij


MANBIJ, Syria (North Press) – Two people were wounded, yesterday, as a suicide drone exploded in the village of al-Hoshariya northeast of Manbij city, north Syria.

A brother of one of the wounded said that his brother “Ali al-Taha, who hails from al-Jat village, sustained a shrapnel injury in his right foot while he was selling vegetables in al-Hoshariya village, due to the explosion of the drone near him. He is now in a good health condition and he returned home.”

The drone was launched from the Turkish base overlooking al-Hoshariya village, located at the northern part of the village, a military source said.

The source did not mention the name of the other wounded person or any information about him.

On Saturday, the Turkish forces targeted the village of Boghaz in the eastern countryside of al-Bab with mortar shells.

Reporting by Saddam al-Hassan

Posted by: badanov || 03/17/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under: Sublime Porte


Government forces killed in Deir ez-Zor


DEIR EZ-ZOR, Syria (North Press) – Two Syrian government soldiers were killed, on Wednesday, in an IED explosion that targeted their car in a town east of Deir ez-Zor, east Syria.

An IED unknown individuals planted in a dirt route, which leads to a military point of the Air Force Intelligence, exploded when a military vehicle loading logistical supplies passed by, a military source of the 4th Armored Division affiliated with the Syrian government in al-Asharah town, 55 kilometers east of Deir ez-Zor, told North Press.

The explosion claimed lives of two soldiers, who hailed from the eastern countryside of Deir ez-Zor, who were inside the car, in addition to damaging the car, the source added.

Despite the intensive combing campaigns, areas in the Syrian desert and the eastern countryside of Deir ez-Zor increase concerns of Iran-backed militias and the government forces because those areas occasionally witness operations launched by the Islamic State Organization (ISIS) sleeper cells causing massive loses for the government forces and the militias.

On March 7, several government forces’ members were killed and wounded in a missile attack carried out by unknown on a military point of the government forces in the town of Boqrus east of Deir ez-Zor, east Syria.

Reporting by Omar Abdurrahman

Posted by: badanov || 03/17/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [14 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State


Turkish drone bombs a civilian car in Syria’s Ain Issa


QAMISHLI, Syria (North Press) – On Wednesday, a Turkish drone bombed a car in the western countryside of Ain Issa town, north Syria.

“A Turkish drone bombed a civilian car in the village of Hoshan, west of Ain Issa, causing only material damage,” the media center of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) said.

On Tuesday, a Turkish drone targeted the hill of the town of Tel-Rifaat in the north countryside of Aleppo, but no casualties were reported.

On Saturday, three children were injured in the bombing of the Turkish forces and Turkish-backed opposition factions on the village of al-Heisha in the western countryside of the town of Ain Issa.

The town of Ain Issa and the surrounding villages are daily bombarded by the Turkish forces and the opposition factions.

Reporting by Muhammad al-Qadi

Posted by: badanov || 03/17/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under: Sublime Porte


Dozens of shells fell on the village of al-Hoshan and the M4 highway


AIN ISSA, Syria (North Press) – On Wednesday evening, Turkish forces and Turkish-backed opposition factions bombed the western countryside of Ain Issa town and the M4 highway, north of Raqqa, north Syria, with missiles and heavy weapons.

“The village of al-Hoshan and the M4 highway were bombed by the Turkish forces and opposition factions. The shelling came in tandem with the flight of the Turkish drone over Ain Issa town,” a military source told North Press.

“Dozens of shells fell on the village of al-Hoshan and the M4 highway by the Turkish forces stationed in the adjacent villages,” the source added.

The bombing also resulted in material damage to the property of the residents of those villages, according to the source.

Hours ago, a civilian car was bombed by a Turkish drone in the vicinity of the village in the countryside of Ain Issa, causing only material damage.

The town of Ain Issa and the surrounding villages are daily bombarded by the Turkish forces and the opposition factions.

Reporting by Gulistan Muhammad

Posted by: badanov || 03/17/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [12 views] Top|| File under: Sublime Porte



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