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Africa North
Libyan Children Killed by Landmine


Two Libyan boys were killed after a landmine exploded in Al-Talhaya area of Benghazi on Thursday, according to Al-Hadath TV.

The two Libyan brothers, Youssef Al-Jazoi (10 years) and Abdul-Rahman (7 years), were immediately transferred to the Al-Jalaa Hospital in Benghazi, but they were dead upon arrival, a local medical source added.

The source claimed that the accident occurred as a result of the explosion of a landmine planted by the terrorist group,”Benghazi Shura Council,” years ago during its operations against the Libyan National Army (LNA).

The LNA managed to expel the terrorists from the eastern region and pursue their remnants.

Read the rest at the link
Posted by: badanov || 03/20/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Africa Subsaharan
Gunmen Bomb Imo State Police Station, Kill Officers On Duty
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]

Some gunmen in the early hours of Saturday set ablaze the Umuguma Divisional Police Headquarters situated in the Owerri West Local Government Area of Imo State.

The gunmen also killed two police constables who were on duty.

SaharaReporters learnt that the attackers stormed the division with guns and explosive ordinance disposals and they immediately opened fire at the divisional headquarters after blocking the roads leading in and out of the station and including the one close to the LGA council headquarters.

Residents of the area said the sounds of the weapons the attackers came with frightened them as they ran into bushes out of fear of being hurt by stray bullets and weapons.

A resident of the area who doesn't want to be mentioned said, “These guys are mean. On arrival, they blocked the roads, threw their dynamite into the police station and equally opened fire. They now waited to attack officers who ran out for safety.

“Unfortunately, two police constabularies by name Ifeanyi and Iyke were killed.
Posted by: Fred || 03/20/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11 views] Top|| File under: Banditti

#1  Fixed position etc, etc, etc.
Posted by: Canuckistam sniper || 03/20/2022 20:41 Comments || Top||

#2  Well if I wasn't so old and dotery and wobbly I would have signed it as "Canuckistan" rather than "Canuckistam". JEEZ but I hate this agwing thing.
Posted by: Canuckistan sniper || 03/20/2022 20:47 Comments || Top||

#3  *hug*
Posted by: trailing wife || 03/20/2022 21:55 Comments || Top||


Terrorists Kill Five People, Abduct 17 Others In Fresh Attacks On Kaduna Community
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]

Suspected forces of Evil have killed five people including a teacher and a 70-year-old man across three villages of Dogo Dawa, Layin Mahuta and Tabanni in the Birnin-Gwari Local Government Area of Kaduna State.

Ibrahim Abubakar Nagwari, Chairman, Birnin-Gwari Vanguards for Security and Good Governance, said during the separate attacks, which happened between Monday to Friday, 17 people were also kidnapped by the terrorists.

Nagwari also disclosed that 32 out of the 46 residents from attacks at Ungwan Bula and Ijinga three weeks ago were set free by the bandidos after paying N16m ransom demanded.

He added that on March 14, the forces of Evil struck along the Dogo Dawa-Zaria Road in the Eastern part of Birnin-Gwari, where one Haruna Tanko Dogo Dawa was killed and eight other people were kidnapped.

Nagwari further revealed that between Wednesday and Thursday, one Alhaji Abdullahi Abubakar, a school teacher, was killed along Layin Lasa-Tabanni while a 70-year-old man was killed and "women kidnapped at Layin Mahuta Tabanni, two other people were kidnapped by the bandidos at old Tabanni."

He said, "We thank you for your usual support and solidarity within Birnin Gwari general area.

"In the last working days of the week, fatal security breaches were recorded mostly in the eastern part of Birnin Gwari by armed bandidos, notably Dogo Dawa, layin Mahuta and Tabanni in which five people were killed, 17 others were kidnapped from Monday 15 to Friday 18 March, 2022.

"On Tuesday, March 14, 2022, Haruna Tanko Dogo Dawa and two others were cruelly murdered in the eastern part of Birnin Gwari by armed bandidos along Dogo Dawa-Zaria, eight other people were kidnapped on the same route.

"At Layin Mahuta(Tabanni), one Alhaji Abdullahi Abubakar, a school teacher, was killed along Layin Lasa-Tabanni Road on Wednesday, March 16, 2022. While on Thursday, March 17, 2022, a 70-year-old man was killed and seven women kidnapped at Layin Mahuta Tabanni, two other people were kidnapped by the bandidos at old Tabanni."

Meanwhile,
...back at the alley, Bugs Moroni was holding Slats from behind while his brother Greasy Thumb was pounding his face into paste ...
the chairman said no fewer than 32 people out of the 46 abductees from Ungwan Bula and Ijinga had regained their freedom three weeks after abduction, after paying N16m ransom.

"In Randagi general area, bandidos have released 32 people out of 46 abductees from attacks on Ungwan Bula and Ijinga three weeks ago, after paying N16m. Birnin Gwari-Kaduna Road remained quiet during the period under review.

"We urge security personnel to always respond to distress calls around Dogo Dawa, Kuyello, Tabanni and Kutemeshi wards in Birnin Gwari," he added.

There was no official confirmation from either the state government or the state police command.
Posted by: Fred || 03/20/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under: Boko Haram (ISIS)


Boko Haram Terrorists Plant Explosives In Communities For Attacks, Niger State Governor Laments
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]

Niger State governor, Abubakar Sani Bello, has revealed that security personnel in the state detected newly planted explosives by Boko Haram terrorists in Galadima-Kogo, Shiroro Local Government Area of the state.
Posted by: Fred || 03/20/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under: Boko Haram (ISIS)

#1  Good band.
Posted by: Dale || 03/20/2022 11:43 Comments || Top||


Arabia
Huthis attack Aramco facility in Saudi
[IsraelTimes] 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...
s
targetted a facility run by oil company Aramco in Jizan, southern 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...
, the Saudi-led military coalition fighting the rebels 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...
says in a statement.

The rebels also target a desalination plant in al-Shaqeeq, says the coalition statement, quoted by the Saudi Press Agency (SPA).
Posted by: trailing wife || 03/20/2022 08:47 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under: Houthis


Explosion targets Southern Transitional Council rally in Yemeni city of Ataq
[HODHODYEMENNEWS.NET] A violent mostly peaceful explosion has targeted a demonstration held by the UAE-backed Southern Transitional Council (STC) in Shabwah province.

This was reported 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...
News Portal, based on testimonies of local sources.

According to local sources, unknown button men threw bombs at the STC’ demonstration in the city of Ataq.

Security forces tried to block the demonstration against the announcement of the Political Bureau of Tariq Saleh (also known as Tariq Afash), the nephew of the late President former President-for-Life Ali Abdullah Saleh
... Saleh initially took power as a strongman of North Yemen in 1977, when disco was in flower, but he didn't invite Donna Summer to the inauguration and Blondie couldn't make it...
The STC fears that the Political Bureau will represent an end to its future in the oil-rich province, as the STC aspired to acquire it to boost its gains in eastern Yemen.
Posted by: Fred || 03/20/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [14 views] Top|| File under:


Fifth Column
Florida cell of violent antifa group, Youth Liberation Front, has put out a call to action in the state to oppose the anti-child grooming bill
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]

Posted by: Fred || 03/20/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under: Antifa/BLM

#1  I don't think your bullshit will go as well in the south as it did in Portland othercities.
Posted by: Chris || 03/20/2022 9:01 Comments || Top||

#2  My guess as well Chris. I can't imagine why.
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/20/2022 9:06 Comments || Top||

#3  ....You don't want to mess with Florida Man(TM)....

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski || 03/20/2022 16:10 Comments || Top||

#4  Contrary to what some outside the state might imagine, not everyone in Florida thinks Disney is a net plus here. The notion that whatever the mouse wants is fine with all Floridians is probably not particularly accurate.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 03/20/2022 16:23 Comments || Top||


Antifa in Seattle are threatening to shoot up a March for Freedom rally on 3-26 in Westlake Plaza
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]

Posted by: Fred || 03/20/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [10 views] Top|| File under: Antifa/BLM

#1  So why hasn't twatter disabled these accounts?
Posted by: Chris || 03/20/2022 9:02 Comments || Top||

#2 
Given Anti-FArt and BLoM both have met the Federal Legal description for Domestic Terrorist.

Why aren't we seeing Leadership level arrests?

Is it because they proved to be a great help and support for the LSD's in the last election?

Note: Actually after re-reading 18 USC § 2331 section 5
it sure sounds like Congress doesn't it?
Posted by: NN2N1 || 03/20/2022 9:36 Comments || Top||

#3  Anybody else want to negotiate?
Posted by: Canuckistan sniper || 03/20/2022 20:44 Comments || Top||


Great White North
Canadian mosque worshippers attacked with bear spray
[IsraelTimes] Worshippers at dawn prayer in a suburb of Toronto tackle and subdue a 24-year-old man who allegedly entered their mosque and attacked people with bear spray, according to local police.

Peel Regional Police say the man walked into the Dar al-Tawheed Islamic Centre in Mississauga, Ontario, and allegedly "discharged bear spray towards people in the mosque while brandishing a hatchet" just before 7 a.m.

Speaking on behalf of the mosque, Nadia Hasan of the National Council of Canadian Moslems says a group of about 20 men were praying when the man sprayed them.

"Some of the men turned around and they very bravely decided that they were not going to let him attack them," she says. "They tackled him to the ground and apprehended him until the police showed up."

Mohammad Moiz Omar
Green on green? Mentally ill? Woke up bilious that morning and felt a need to share? So many possibilities...
of Mississauga has been arrested. Police say they’re considering "all possible motivations" for the incident, and charges are pending.
Posted by: trailing wife || 03/20/2022 09:00 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under: Moslem Colonists

#1  Bear spray!! man that's the good stuff.
Posted by: Dale || 03/20/2022 11:38 Comments || Top||

#2  Not the right kind of Mooselimbs.
Posted by: Canuckistan sniper || 03/20/2022 20:49 Comments || Top||

#3  Some crazy stuff going on up there in the north lately. Oh Canada, WTF?
Posted by: SteveS || 03/20/2022 21:09 Comments || Top||

#4  Dammit. Swore I wasn't gonna laugh, but that nonchalant "while brandishing a hatchet" snuck up and got me. And then the name.
Posted by: Bob Poodle7892 || 03/20/2022 21:37 Comments || Top||


India-Pakistan
J&K cops net Lashkar operative, seize arms, ammunition
[OneIndia] Security forces on Thursday arrested a terrorist associate of 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) in Baramulla district of 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....
and seized arms and ammunition, police said, according to news agency PTI.

Acting on specific information regarding movement of anti-national elements in Karhama, Kunzer area of Baramulla, a cordon and search operation was launched by security forces there, a police front man said.

During the search, one terrorist associate of proscribed terror outfit LeT/TRF (The Resistance® Front - a front of the LeT) was arrested by the joint search party, he said.

The front man identified the arrested as Waseem Ahmed War, a resident of Karhama Kunzer.

Incriminating materials, arms and ammunition including a hand grenade, two AK-47 magazines and 20 live rounds were seized from his possession, he said.

A case has been registered and investigation has been initiated.
Posted by: trailing wife || 03/20/2022 02:55 || Comments || Link || [11 views] Top|| File under: Lashkar e-Taiba


CRPF trooper injured as militants lob two grenades in south Kashmir’s Shopian, Tral
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]

Three CRPF troopers were maimed after holy warriors lobbed two grenades at the security forces in south 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....
’s Shopian and Tral areas on Saturday evening, police said.

"In Shopian, at about 1950hrs holy warriors had lobbed a grenade on CRPF camp of 178Bn. In this terror incident one CRPF personnel has received minor splinter injuries, " a police front man said.

"Meanwhile,
...back at the pie fight, Bella opened her mouth at precisely the wrong moment...
in Awantipora at about 1955hrs holy warriors had lobbed a grenade on CRPF camp of 180Bn at Nowdal Tral in which two CRPF personnel received minor splinter injuries, " it added.

Police have registered cases in the twin grenade attacks and launched investigation.
Posted by: Fred || 03/20/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistain Proxies


ANF Recovers 1,750g Heroin, Arrests 6 Persons
[NATIONPK] The Anti Narcotics Force (ANF) in its operations conducted in different areas on Saturday managed to recover over 1,750 grams heroin and 2,500 Xanax tablets besides netting six accused.

According to ANF Headquarters front man, ANF Rawalpindi and ANF Intelligence conducted an operation at an office of a courier company in Airport Housing Society, Rawalpindi and recovered 1750 grams heroin from a parcel booked for United Kingdom and arrested three accused namely Ismail, owner of the company, Nabeel and Raza Hussain. In another raid, ANF conducted an operation at entry gate of Islamabad International Airport and recovered 2500 Xanaz (Alprazolam tablets). The ANF also arrested three accused namely Abdul Qadeer Khan, Sanaullah and Adnan Khan. Qadeer Khan was going to Dammam via Dubai from Islamabad..
Posted by: Fred || 03/20/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under: Narcos


Police Arrest 4 People Involved In Gun Sex And Fireworks
[NATION.PK] Police have arrested four persons involved in aerial firing and fireworks thereby violating marriage laws and recovered sophisticated weapons and ammunition from their possession during crackdown, informed police spokesman here Saturday. During course of action, Kahuta Police conducted a raid at a wedding ceremony and held accused Abdul Wajid, Ahsan Ali, Abdul Rehman and Adnan and recovered two rifles and two pistols from their custody. Police have registered separate cases against all of them and further investigation is in progress.
Posted by: Fred || 03/20/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under:


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Israeli jogger lightly hurt in Jerusalem stabbing attack, assailant shot
[IsraelTimes] A 35-year-old Israeli man was lightly hurt when out jogging on Saturday morning in a stabbing attack on Jerusalem’s Hebron Road, near the Cinematheque and the First Station restaurant and shopping area, police and medics said.

According to Israel Police, the assailant stabbed the jogger at the intersection of David Remez Street and Hebron Road, south of the Old City. The jogger struggled with his attacker and fought him off, sustaining light injuries.

The 28-year-old Paleostinian assailant, from the adjacent neighborhood of Abu Tor, was shot by coppers. According to the Magen David Adom emergency service, the suspect was at death's door.

Magen David Adom medics said they found the Israeli man sitting on the sidewalk, fully conscious.

Both the stabbing victim and the suspect were taken by medics to Jerusalem’s Shaare Zedek Medical Center.

The attack and the moment the assailant was shot were filmed from several angles. The assailant is seen pulling out a knife and attacking a man who is running across the street. They tussle, and the jogger manages to repeatedly fend off his attacker, who continues the attack until a passerby arrives. At one point the victim manages to throw the knife away, which a passerby then picks up, as the victim flees.

The suspect is then seen stumbling and dropping to his knees as a passerby pushes him to the ground. Shortly after, the suspect is seen walking toward officers, as one fires a single shot. The suspect then falls to the ground, as the officer who opened fire tells his colleagues to "cease."
Or, more clearly: "head shot"
Posted by: trailing wife || 03/20/2022 09:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

#1  How much money will his family receive for his crime?
Posted by: Vespasian Ebboting9735 || 03/20/2022 10:59 Comments || Top||


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
ISIS affiliates arrested in al-Hol in an ongoing security operation
[Rudaw] The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) and the internal security forces (Asayish) have arrested several 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) suspects and affiliates in a large-scale ongoing military operation in al-Hol camp in northeast Syria (Rojava), a conflict monitor reported on Saturday.

The security forces have arrested several ISIS-affiliated men of different nationalities on Friday, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) said, as the operation entered its fourth day.

SOHR did not disclose the exact number of those detained.

The SDF and Asayish launched a large-scale security operation at the camp after two ISIS-affiliated women beat feet from the fifth section of al-Hol on Wednesday as the escape alerted the forces.

The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) arrested thousands of ISIS fighters and their wives and children when they took control of the group’s last stronghold in Syria in March 2019. Most of these people are held at al-Hol, which is home to more than 60,000 people - mostly women and kiddies of different nationalities.

Security forces arrested 14 Iraqis for committing violations at the camp in late November.

Al-Hol has been branded a breeding ground for terrorism, with human rights
...which are usually open to widely divergent definitions...
groups warning of squalid conditions at the camp.

There have been repeated calls from Kurdish and US officials asking the international community to repatriate their nationals from al-Hol, but only a few countries have responded positively as they are worried about security concerns.

Four Swedish nationals, including two children from ISIS families, were repatriated from the camp on Wednesday.
Posted by: trailing wife || 03/20/2022 02:24 || Comments || Link || [14 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State

#1  and packed into white vans and given white helmets and sent to ukraine !
Posted by: Sluse Grealet9429 || 03/20/2022 10:10 Comments || Top||


HTS continues mounting arrests in northwest Syria


QAMISHLI, Syria (North Press) – Areas run by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS, formerly al-Nusra Front) in Idlib governorate and the countryside of Hama and Latakia have recently witnessed an increase in arrests against journalists and civilians in a way similar to that of the Syrian government’s Shabiha (state sponsored militias) without clear charges and reasons for the arrest.

Many international and local organizations reported about the arrest of activists, media workers and residents by HTS for criticizing its policies and that of the Salvation Government (the civil wing of HTS).

Meanwhile, HTS continues to tighten the screw on residents of the areas it runs by threatening with arrest and terrifying them by force of arms urging some to say, “HTS and the regime are of the same coin.”

On March 8, The public security organ of HTS arrested the media activist Mohammed Sbeh along with his wife at a checkpoint in Sarmada town north of Idlib, northwest Syria.

HTS members stormed his house, confiscated all his media equipment and his mobile phone, and arrested his wife, who was released hours later, local sources told North Press then.

HTS follows a gang- style policy in arresting the residents and activists not showing legal arrest warrants.

HTS arrested 13 civilians and journalists during the past two months, according to human rights activists.

Earlier in March, the HTS arrested the media activists Ghayath Bakir from his house in Binnish city north of Idlib on the back of a post on Facebook calling for starting new frontlines to restore areas that government has seized recently.

Reporting by Nawar Sattouf

Posted by: badanov || 03/20/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [10 views] Top|| File under: Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (al-Nusra)


Asayish demines 60kg mine in Raqqa


RAQQA, Syria (North Press) – The Internal Security Forces of North and East Syria (Asayish) announced on Saturday that mine action team demined a landmine, left by the Islamic State Organization (ISIS) in Raqqa, north Syria.

The Asayish posted on their official website that the mine was near a gas station in the south side of the city.

The mine was stuffed with up to 60 kg of TNT, according to Asayish.

Since last year, combat engineers have defused 79 land mines, 87 shells, 365 grenades, 12 explosive belts, and 25 missiles, all were remnants left by ISIS, Asayish told North Press.

Reporting by Zana al-Ali

Posted by: badanov || 03/20/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State


IED blast kills, wounds government soldiers in Syrian desert


DEIR EZ-ZOR, Syria (North Press) – Two soldiers of the Syrian government forces were killed and two others were wounded on Saturday as an IED exploded in their vehicle in the eastern countryside of Homs, central Syria.

“An IED exploded in a military vehicle that was driving some soldiers of the 11th Infantry Division near the 55-km de-confliction zone, which is adjacent to the US-led Global Coalition’s al-Tanf US military base,” a military source of the Fourth Armored Division said.

The soldiers were combing the border areas with the coalition’s base in the Syrian desert at the time of the explosion.

The dead soldiers, who were a staff sergeant and a petty officer, were sitting in the first row while the injured soldiers, who had shrapnel, were in the back, the source added.

The Syrian desert and the eastern countryside of Deir ez-Zor constitute source of concern for the Iranian-backed militias and the government forces. Sleeper cells of the Islamic State Organization (ISIS) occasionally carry out operations against them causing multiple losses despite heavy security campaigns and combing operation.

On March 16, two Syrian government soldiers were killed in an IED explosion that targeted their car in al-Asharah town, 55 kilometers east of Deir ez-Zor.

Reporting by Omar Abdurrahman

Posted by: badanov || 03/20/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [10 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State


We are coming , Damascus and Aleppo: HTS in video


IDLIB, Syria (North Press) – A video clip circulated by activists on social media on Saturday shows members of the Public Security Service of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (formerly Jabhat al-Nusra) in one of the main squares in the city of Sarmada, north of Idlib, saying, “We are coming, Damascus, we are coming, Aleppo.”

This came after HTS graduated dozens of groups from military and Sharia courses, some of which were attended by the leader of the organization, Abu Muhammad al-Julani.

“Our goal is not to pave a road or open a road, but rather our eyes are on Aleppo and Damascus and the liberation of all of Syria,” al-Julani said in January in a speech during the opening of the Aleppo-Bab al-Hawa road that connects the cities of Dana and Sarmada.

However, his statements aroused the ridicule of the residents at that time, as they believed that, instead of liberating Damascus, al-Julani had first to return thousands of civilians to their villages and towns, which government forces controlled without fighting or battles at the end of 2019, especially in the northern Hama and southern Idlib countryside.

“The priorities of HTS are not to confront the regime, but to work to open new fronts and restore the areas it lost,” al-Julani said in July.

Tahrir al-Sham, which first appeared in Syria at the end of 2012, controls the Idlib region and parts of the countryside of Aleppo, after expelling other Turkish-backed opposition factions.

Reporting by Baha’ al-Noubani

Posted by: badanov || 03/20/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under: Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (al-Nusra)



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2Banditti
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1Sublime Porte
1Houthis
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1Lashkar e-Taiba
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Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.

Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has dominated Mexico for six years.
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