[KhaamaPress] Several thousand Tehrik-e-Taliban ...mindless ferocity in a turban... Pakistain aka Pak Taliban fighters are reportedly preparing military attacks against Pak government forces on Afghan soil, according to Pak newspapers.
According to the Express Tribune, Pakistain Taliban fighters have assembled in Afghanistan for their long-running struggle against the Pak government, citing a report by the UN Security Council monitoring team on Friday.
According to the report, Pak Taliban fighters make up the majority of foreign combatants in Afghanistan.
The report emphasizes that the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistain (TTP) group benefits the most from the Taliban’s presence in Afghanistan, and that the Taliban’s rise to power has empowered them.
In a 25-page report, the UN Security Council described the presence of several thousand Pak Taliban fighters as a serious threat.
According to a UN report released recently, the al-Qaeda leader has also pledged his loyalty to the Taliban leader.
The report raises concern that the Taliban is once again turning Afghanistan into a terrorist "safe haven."
The Taliban, on the other hand, has refuted the allegations, claiming that no imported muscle are present in Afghanistan.
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[KhaamaPress] Four members of the National Resistance® Front were killed during a clearing operation by the Taliban ...Arabic for students... forces in Badakhshan province’s Tagab district, according to Taliban security officials.
The incident occurred this morning, Tuesday, 31st May, according to the Bakhtar state news agency.
The National Resistance® Front’s hideout has also been demolished in the area, according to the news agency.
The Taliban’s Director of Information and Culture in Badakhshan, Moizuddin Ahmadi, confirmed the report, adding that their air force commander was also participating in the operation.
The Taliban’s allegation of killing four National Resistance® Front members and demolishing of the group’s hideout has elicited no response from the National Resistance® Front.
The Resistance® Front, on the other hand, recently claimed to have killed Taliban fighters in an ambush in Panjshir province.
According to Ali Maysam Nazari, the Resistance® Front’s head of foreign relations, the Front’s forces killed more than 15 Taliban fighters on the outskirts of Panjshir yesterday.
The Taliban have yet to respond to the resistance’s assertion.
Earlier this month, In a statement, Sebghatullah Ahmadi, a front man for the National Resistance® Front, claimed that 22 Talibs had been killed in battles with the front, but local Taliban leaders in Panjshir refuted the claims, claiming that only three had been maimed.
[HODHODYEMENNEWS] Violent clashes erupted on Monday between Shabwah tribes and Saudi-led coalition forces recruits from the Al-Hassan tribes in Abidah valley southeast of Ma’rib city, tribal sources said.
The clashes broke out against the background of the killing of a recruit in Shabwah by Al-Qaeda.
The sources pointed out that the tribes were able to cut the main lines between Abidah valley and the city of Ma’rib, as well as the international line linking the city and Al-Abr area and the border crossing in Al-Wadeah.
The clashes resulted in deaths and injuries on both sides, the sources added.
Denmark’s supreme court on Tuesday overturned a lower court ruling ordering the government to compensate 18 civilians tortured during the Iraq war in a joint operation by Iraqi forces and a Danish battalion.
A total of 23 Iraqi plaintiffs had sued Denmark after they were arrested and subjected to “torture and inhumane treatment” in 2004 during operation “Green Desert” near Iraq’s main port city of Basra.
The supreme court ruled that since the Danish troops neither took part in nor were aware of the torture, the defense ministry was not obliged to pay compensation.
An appeals court in Copenhagen had ruled in 2018 that although the Danish soldiers did not join in the torture, they failed to prevent the abuse.
It said they were aware the prisoners faced a “real risk” of being physically abused by the Iraqi security forces, and ordered the Danish state to pay 18 of them 30,000 Danish kroner ($4,300, 4,000 euros) in damages.
But the supreme court instead found “the Danish forces had no command over the Iraqi military and police forces, that the operation was Iraqi-led, and that the Danish forces’ participation in and conduct of the operation was in accordance with the mandate they were sent under.”
“The Danish forces had no concrete and current reason to believe that the Iraqi parties would be subjected to abuses,” the court said in a written statement.
It concluded therefore that “the defense ministry is not liable for assaults committed by Iraqi special forces following the military operation with the participation of Danish forces.”
Experts have said they hope the verdict will clarify what responsibility soldiers have when participating in military missions abroad.
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[REGNUM] On May 31, the head of the EU mission in Kosovo, Tomasz Šunyog , together with the mayor of Vushtrin, Ferit Idrizi , visited the Serb-populated village of Jobulja.
According to the Albanian news agency Telegrafi, cases of inter-ethnic clashes have become more frequent in the village since the pandemic.
Shunyog spoke with representatives of the local Serb population and stated that the European Union stands for equal rights for representatives of all nationalities living in Kosovo.
[ToloNews] The US special envoy for Afghanistan, Thomas West, held separate meetings with a number of Afghan figures including politicians, journalists and women activists in The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the decaying remnant of the Ottoman Empire... Some of the politicians who met with West said that overcoming the current Afghan crisis and the formation of an inclusive government were the main focus of the talks.
"The proposal of the High Council of Resistance® and Rescue of Afghanistan and politicians was to continue the Doha negotiation, reach a political path, an interim government, and an election," said Iqbal Safi, a former member of the parliament.
Negotiate with whom, exactly? The Taliban have already taken over, set up their “interim” government, and have no plans for an election.
The Islamic Emirate said the commission of "Return and Communications with Former Afghan Officials and Political Figures," will address the concerns of Afghans abroad.
"The Commission of Return and Communications with Former Afghan Officials and Political Figures was established for this purpose, to consider the problems of those who have concerns and compel them to return to the country," said Bilal Karimi, deputy front man for the Islamic Emirate.
The US special envoy has yet to make any comment about the meetings with the Afghan politicians, journalists and women's rights activists.
Earlier, West said he met with the chairman of the High Council for National Reconciliation, Abdullah Abdullah ...the former foreign minister of the Northern Alliance government, advisor to Masood, and candidate for president against both Karzai and Ghani. Dr. Abdullah was born in Kabul and is half Tadjik and half Pashtun. He also held the meaningless salaried sop position as CEO of Afghanistan, while Ghani was president...
The question was asked the other day about where Dr. Abdullah Abdullah might currently be found. This appears to be the answer.
Muhammad Mohaqiq, leader of the People’s Islamic Unity Party of Afghanistan said on Facebook that West had met with the representatives of political parties and members of the Resistance® Council.
The council was formed several days ago by the Afghan political parties that are in Turkey.
"This is a strong signal to the Taliban ...Arabic for students... ... that there should be an inclusive government that can represent the reality of Afghanistan," said Sayed Javad Sijadi, an international affairs analyst.
[IsraelTimes] A senior member of The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor... ’s main opposition party is tossed in the clink Drop the rosco, Muggsy, or you're one with the ages! following a conviction for having insulted 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... and other public officials.
The sentence against Canan Kaftancioglu, who leads the Republican People’s Party (CHP) in Istanbul, also bans her from running in next year’s legislative and presidential elections.
On May 12, the Supreme Court ...the political football known as The Highest Court in the Land, home of penumbrae and emanations... of Appeals confirmed Kaftancioglu’s conviction on three counts including over an anti-Erdogan tweet.
Although her sentence was for four years, 11 months and 20 days, party officials tell AFP she may well be released far sooner, as can happen for sentences shorter than five years.
Kaftancioglu, a doctor by profession, played a key role in the surprise victory of the CHP’s Istanbul mayoral candidate Ekrem Imamoglu in 2019 — the first time Erdogan’s party had lost power in Turkey’s biggest city for 25 years.
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[OneIndia] A woman teacher was shot at by turbans in the Gopalpora area of Kulgam district 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.... on Tuesday. She later succumbed to her wounds.
"It happened around 10am. I saw a teacher shot in her head. Another teacher picked her up for help, I informed Police," Gopalpora village head told news hounds.
"We want justice. Govt should do something about assassinations. Security should be given to migrant employees there (Kashmir division)"," said a relative.
"I don't know what to say. She was my sister-in-law & was here 2 months back. She had said everything is fine and there is no threat to her. Suddenly sometime back she had said it was a little fearful. Today it became clear," said another relative of the teacher who was rubbed out.
"KulgamTerrorIncidentUpdate: Injured lady teacher, a Hindu & resident of Samba (Jammu division) succumbed to her injuries. Terrorists involved in this gruesome terror crime will be soon identified & neutralised. @JmuKmrPolice (sic)," read another post.
As per reports, as many as 17 Kashmiri Pandits (KPs) and non-locals have been killed by hard boyz in Kashmir after the special status of J-K was revoked in 2019. In 2021, three KPs, one Sikh and five non-local laboures were killed. Ten KPs and non-local labourers have been shot at and injured by turbans in South Kashmir and Srinagar so far this year.
Three Kashmiri Hindus have been targeted since March this year. Two of them --Satish Kumar Singh and Rahul Bhat, a revenue department employee - were killed in the attacks. A Kashmiri Pandit, Bal Krishan, who did not migrate in the 1990s and ran a medical shop, was also shot at and injured in Shopian in April.
Last week, TV artist Amreen Bhat died after 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... turbans shot up her in the Chadoora area of Budgam.
Individuals claiming that they belong to the Peshmerga forces opened fire today on a security point of the Iraqi army in Kirkuk, a security source reported.
The source told Shafaq News agency that the three perpetrators refused to show their ID cards, which prompted an Iraqi soldier to contact his supervisor, before one of them opened fire on the security point.
One of the perpetrators was injured after the soldiers responded to the attack, according to the source.
[IsraelTimes] Military says incident south of Bethlehem appears to be a stabbing attempt; alleged attacker dies after being shot, says PA
A Paleostinian woman armed with a knife approached a soldier stationed in the southern West Bank before being shot and killed, the Israeli military and Paleostinian health officials said Wednesday morning.
The Israel Defense Forces said in a statement that the woman was holding the knife in her hand as she neared a soldier close to the Al Aroub refugee camp, south of Bethlehem.
The military said that troops responded to the apparent attempted stabbing with gunfire.
The Paleostinian Authority Health Ministry identified the alleged attacker as Ghufran Haroun Hamed Warasneh, a former security detainee. The ministry said the bullet entered her body under her left arm and exited on the right side.
No Israelis were maimed in the incident.
Tensions have risen sharply between Israel and the Paleostinians in recent months against the backdrop of a number of terror attacks in Israel and the West Bank that left 19 dead.
The Israeli army stepped up its West Bank activities in an attempt to crack down on the spiraling violence. At least 30 Paleostinians have been killed since mid-March, many in festivities sparked by Israeli raids.
Some were button men involved in firefights with Israeli soldiers, while others took part in violent mostly peacefulfestivities. Still others were apparently uninvolved bystanders.
The Palestinian health ministry said the woman died from a bullet to her torso, identifying her as Ghofran Warasnah. The Palestinians' official news agency Wafa said she was 31.
The Palestinian Prisoners Club said she was a journalist who had been imprisoned by Israel in the past.
[IsraelTimes] Court also orders Ahmad Asafra to pay $450,000 to Dvir Sorek’s family; in February he was found guilty, though not present at the time of the attack
An Israeli military court on Tuesday sentenced a Paleostinian man to life in prison for killing an Israeli teenager in 2019.
Ahmad Asafra was handed an additional 25-year sentence and ordered to pay NIS 1.5 million ($450,000) to the family of Dvir Sorek.
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 not in the military at the time of his killing.
In February, Asafra was convicted of intentionally causing the death of Sorek, as well as a series of security offenses. The main charge is equivalent to murder in the West Bank military court.
The court determined that Asafra was the commander of a Hamas, one of the armed feet of the Moslem Brüderbund millipede, 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 at the time of 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. Qassem Asafra was handed an additional 40-year sentence, and Nasir Asafra an additional 20 years. 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, for which he had not been caught at the time.
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.
[IsraelTimes] The Israel Defense Forces says troops detained eight Paleostinians suspected of involvement in terror activities during overnight raids across the West Bank.
Two weapons were seized in the town of Bayt Rima in the central West Bank, the IDF adds.
Near Nablus, shots were heard as troops operated in the area, the military says, adding that no injuries were caused.
[IsraelTimes] A Paleostinian teen from the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Jabel Mukaber sought to commit a stabbing attack in the Old City yesterday, police say.
In a statement, Israel Police say officers noticed the 15-year-old acting suspiciously near the Damascus Gate entrance. The officers chased the teen through the Old City’s alleyways, eventually arresting him near an entrance to the Temple Mount.
During the chase, the suspect threw away a bag he was carrying. It was later found by officers, with a large knife in it, police say.
Police say that during the suspect’s interrogation "suspicion arose that he intended to carry out a stabbing attack."
— NORTH PRESS AGENCY - ENGLISH (@NPA_English) May 31, 2022
Unknown gunmen assassinated on Monday a lawyer in the eastern countryside of Daraa, southern Syria.
Unidentified gunmen, riding a motorcycle, shot dead the lawyer, Abdullah Oqla Abu al-Hayal, in the village of Saida, in the eastern countryside of Daraa, a local source told North Press.
Abu al-Hayal is from the village of Nada in the eastern countryside of Daraa and lives in Saida, according to the source.
In a separate incident, an explosive device exploded in the town of al-Musaifra, in Daraa countryside.
The explosive device targeted Ahmad Imad al-Issa, member of Abu Ali al-Lahham group, an armed group affiliated with the Military Security Branch of the government forces in Daraa, a local source told North Press.
However, al-Issa survived, according to the source.
— NORTH PRESS AGENCY - ENGLISH (@NPA_English) May 31, 2022
On Monday, the Russian Reconciliation Center for Syria, affiliated with the Russian Defense Ministry, announced that it had recorded five cases of shelling by militants of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS, formerly al-Nusra Front) in the de-escalation zone, northwest Syria.
The deputy head of the Russian Reconciliation Center Rear Admiral Oleg Zhuravlev said, “During the last day, five cases of shelling by the terrorist group Jabhat al-Nusra (al-Nusra Front) were recorded in the de-escalation zone.”
“Two shelling operations were recorded in Aleppo Governorate, two in Idlib Governorate, and one in Hama,” he added.
On May 15, the Russian Reconciliation Center announced that a Syrian soldier was wounded in shelling by HTS militants in the de-escalation zone in Idlib.
— NORTH PRESS AGENCY - ENGLISH (@NPA_English) May 31, 2022
On Tuesday, unknown gunmen shot to death two members of Iranian-backed militias in a city east of Deir ez-Zor Governorate, eastern Syria.
“Unknown gunmen, who were riding a motorbike, opened fire on a military vehicle of the IRGC in the vicinity of the city of Abu Kamal on the Syrian-Iraqi border, which resulted in the killing of two members,” a military source of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) told North Press.
The source, who preferred not to be named for security reasons, said that the two members were Iraqis and they were heading to a bakery to bring bread for the other members.
Iraqi Hezbollah, perhaps.
After the operation, the two gunmen ran away towards the Iraqi border, according to the source.
The Iranian-backed militias control vast areas of the countryside of Deir ez-Zor and Syria’s Badia.
The Syrian Badia region is a source of concern for the Iranian-backed militias and the government forces, where ISIS sleeper cells launch operations that inflict heavy losses on the forces and militias, despite the intensive security campaigns to comb the Badia.
— NORTH PRESS AGENCY - ENGLISH (@NPA_English) May 31, 2022
On Tuesday, Turkish forces shelled several villages in the northern countryside of Aleppo, mostly inhabited by the displaced people of Afrin region.
“Several shells fell on the villages of Sha’allah and Zoyan, in the northern countryside of Aleppo. No details have been provided of the continuous shelling so far,” a military source told North Press.
Eight shells fell on the village of Aqiba, north of Aleppo Governorate, and two artillery shells hit the village of Umm Hawsh near a medical center, an eyewitness told North Press.
The northern countryside of Aleppo Governorate, also known as Shahba region, houses IDPs of the Kurdish city of Afrin which was occupied in 2018 by Turkey following a military operation called “Olive Branch” to push away the Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) under the pretext of maintaining Turkish national security.
The operation caused the displacement of about 300,000 of the original inhabitants of the Kurds of Afrin who have been taking shelter in 40 villages and five camps in Shahba region since then.
On Monday, the Turkish forces shelled the vicinity of al-Wahshiya village, causing extensive damage to pistachio trees in the vicinity of the village, in the northern countryside of Aleppo.
Spokesman for the Syriac Military Council of the #SDF said that Turkey escalates its shelling of areas in #NE_Syria after failing to launch a new military operation. https://t.co/QVGTY4bhk8
— NORTH PRESS AGENCY - ENGLISH (@NPA_English) May 31, 2022
Matai Hanna, the spokesman for the Syriac Military Council of the SDF, said on Tuesday that the Turkish escalation on the contact lines in northeast Syria is a reaction to Turkey’s failure to obtain the green light to start a new military operation.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on May 23 that Turkey would soon launch a new military operation into northern Syria to create a 30-kilometer (19-mile) “security zone” along the border.
However, the Turkish government postponed, two days ago, the military operation indefinitely.
Hanna said Turkey is trying to exploit the world’s preoccupation with the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, to displace the indigenous population of northeast Syria.
According to human rights reports, approximately 300,000 people from Sere Kaniye (Ras al-Ain) and Tel Abyad residents were displaced from their homes as a result of Turkey and its affiliated opposition factions (SNA) invading northeast Syria in 2019.
Hanna stated that the Turkish forces do not abide by the ceasefire agreement they signed with the American and Russian sides in 2019.
Following the Turkish “Peace Spring” military operation in October 2019, which resulted in the occupation of the two cities of Tel Abyad, north of Raqqa, and Sere Kaniye (Ras al-Ain), north of Hasakah, Turkey signed two ceasefire agreements, one with Russia and the other with the US.
The agreements stipulate halt of all hostilities there and the withdrawal of the SDF 30 km in depth away from the Turkish border in addition to conducting Turkish-Russian joint patrols in order to monitor the implementation of the agreements.
For days, the Turkish forces have escalated bombing villages in the northern countryside of Aleppo and in the town of Tel Tamer, north of Hasakah, northeast Syria.
The Turkish bombing resulted in great destruction in the Assyrian Church in the town of Tel Tawil. A number of schools, homes and property of local residents were also damaged, in addition to an unprecedented wave of displacement from those villages.
Turkey has given way to extremist organizations, consisting of leaders of the second and third ranks of ISIS, and other organizations, to carry out kidnappings, killings and torture within the areas under its control, according to Hanna
The spokesman for the Syriac Military Council held the Russian forces responsible for the Turkish attacks, saying: “The Russian guarantor does not take a serious attitude to stop the violations and war crimes committed by Turkey.”
Hanna drew attention to the need for the international community and countries concerned with the Syrian issue to hold Turkish forces that commit inhumane crimes accountable.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
...mindless ferocity in a turban...
...Arabic for 
...the former foreign minister of the Northern Alliance government, advisor to Masood, and candidate for president against both Karzai and Ghani. Dr. Abdullah was born in Kabul and is half Tadjik and half Pashtun. He also held the meaningless salaried sop position as CEO of Afghanistan, while Ghani was president...
...the political football known as The Highest Court in the Land, home of penumbrae and emanations...
...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it 
