[TOLO] You can just smell the Biden stink on this
Officials from the Ministry of Public Works (MoPW) have held talks with a technical team representing a number of Ukrainian companies about establishing railways in Afghanistan.
Although the ministry has not specifically said in which parts of the country the railways will be built, it said on Monday that a technical team of Ukrainian companies has come to Kabul and met with the ministry’s officials, having shown an interest in building railways in the country.
"The Ukrainian delegation had a meeting with the ministry’s leadership team. They discussed the transit of goods, enhancing the capacities of railways’ engineers, the security of the Mazar-Hairatan railway, and building railways," Hamidullah Misbah, the spokesman of the ministry said.
Meanwhile, a number of economic analysts said connecting Afghanistan to other countries through railways will result in an increase of transit and trade.
"We should have railways in most of our provinces. Most of our borders (ports) should be connected through railways with the neighboring countries and from there with the world," said Khairuddin Mayel, deputy head of Afghanistan Chamber of Commerce and Investment (ACCI).
According to the ACCI, by the extension of railways in the country, Afghanistan’s exports will increase and goods’ exports will become easy and quick.
"The extension of the railway is in the interest of the people of Afghanistan. We want our railway to extend. After sea shipping, railway is the cheapest and quickest means of transportation," said Mohammad Yunus Momand, ACCI acting director.
Currently, Afghanistan is connected to Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan through the Hairatan-Aqina railway in the north, and to Iran through the Khawaf-Herat railway in the west.
According to officials, efforts are underway to connect Afghanistan to South Asia via railway.
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For what? So the girls can get to school.
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Sure Karzai Concrete and Gravel, inc. has already won the bid.
[Garowe] The United Nations ...boodling on the grand scale... [UN] Panel of Experts is now investigating a Ottoman Turkish ship that was sighted along Somalia's coastline which is under the control of al-Shabaab
Further investigations show the ship was owned by Insan Hak ve Hurriyetleri ve Insani Yardim Vakfi, or IHH, an al-Qaeda linked Humanitarian Relief [organization] before being sold to Koza in 2018.
...... the personification of Somali state failure... murderous Moslems, a group that has killed thousands of people in its terror attacks.
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The United Nations Office of Counter-Terrorism says the Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL or ISIS), a terrorist group, is expanding its affiliates and network beyond Syria and Iraq to Africa.
The Under-Secretary-General of the UN office of counter-terrorism, Vladimir Voronkov told the Security Council on Wednesday that the epicentre of ISIL terrorist group – officially known as Da’esh – activities now appeared to be in the African continent.
The under-secretary-general said that the terrorist activities were gaining ground in the Central and West Africa, which he said continues at an “unsettling” scale and pace.
According to him, the terrorist activities intensifying in Central and West Africa – especially Nigeria, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Mali and Niger and attacks increasingly reported in the border area between Mozambique and Tanzania.
Pointing to potential spill-over effects that could reach even beyond the continent, he urged countries to use every tool at their disposal to sustain important gains made against the group.
He added that a subsequent targeted attack reportedly resulted in the death of the ISIL/Da’esh leader, Amir Muhammad Sa’id Abdal-Rahman al-Salbi, widely known as Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Quraishi.
While that victory marks perhaps the most significant recent blow to the group’s leadership in years, the UN counter-terrorism warned that ISIL/Da’esh is known for its ability to re-group and even intensify its activities.
"We have learned over the past two decades that counter-terrorism is a long-term game and that there are no quick fixes," he stressed.
Citing the need for both military counter-terrorism operations and more comprehensive measures with a focus on prevention, he urged states to use all tools at their disposal, adding, "As we begin a new decade of counter-terrorism, it is time to ask ourselves difficult questions and search for honest answers."
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well, muslims are like cockroaches
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[Rudaw] The United Kingdom’s refusal to repatriate British nationals believed to be associated with the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... (ISIS) - and actively stripping the citizenship of at least 19 Brits stranded in northeast Syria - poses a serious security risk, a cross-party group of MPs and peers concluded in a report published on Thursday. The highly critical report recommends that Britannia immediately repatriates its citizens, regardless of gender or age, in stark contrast to the government’s current approach.
Eight months after the All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Trafficked Britons in Syria launched their inquiry, hearing from a range of experts including former security officials, human rights ...which are often intentionally defined so widely as to be meaningless... organizations including Human Rights Watch and Save the Children, as well as families of individuals themselves currently detained in northeast Syria (Rojava), the seventeen-member group found significant failures in the government’s approach to the trafficking of vulnerable women and kiddies, in particular.
In addition to finding that British officials did not do nearly enough to identify these at-risk individuals, many of whom were under-age at their time of travel, the report explicitly criticises the security risk that leaving the detention of suspected ISIS forces of Evil - and their families - to the Kurdish-led authorities poses; a warning played out in Hasaka, northeast Syria, in recent weeks, as well as suggestions that justice may be served in Syria.
"The APPG is deeply concerned by the UK Government’s public statements that express support for prosecutions of British nationals in the region. Multiple experts, including representatives of the US Government, told the inquiry that trials in the region are untenable, impractical, and unrealistic," the report said.
"Authorities in NES cannot try them as they are non-state actors; and transfer to Iraq or Assad's Syria would expose British nationals to the risk of torture, the death penalty , and serious fair trial violations. This would do nothing to achieve justice for the victims of ISIS."
According to the APPG’s findings, approximately twenty British families are detained in camps in northeast Syria; around 50 people, half of whom are children. Sixty-three percent of British women in the camps, the Reprieve investigation found, are victims of trafficking to or within Syria; 44 percent having been coerced by a male partner or relative.
And so forth.
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On the side of Islamic terrorists, always against their own people. Why am I not surprised?
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Our governments no longer worry about the governed (not suggesting these particular ones are or aren't worth the worry). I take nothing for granted any longer.
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[REGNUM] The reason for the evacuation of the building of the Murmansk airport was a fake explosive device found on one of the passengers. This was reported to a REGNUM correspondent by the press service of the airport.
"At the entrance to the terminal building, a suspicious object, a dummy explosive device prohibited for air transportation, was found on the passenger," the press service said.
As REGNUM reported , the work of the airport was suspended from 19:00, evacuation was carried out, sappers arrived at the scene. At the moment, the work of the airport has been restored.
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[REGNUM] Three teenagers in the Krasnoyarsk Territory were found guilty of committing crimes against public safety. This was reported to REGNUM on February 10 at the Main Investigation Department of the TFR for the Krasnoyarsk Territory and Khakassia.
Three 15-year-old teenagers were convicted, according to the department. They were found guilty of undergoing training for the purpose of carrying out terrorist activities (Article 205.3 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation), on four counts under Part 2 of Art. 223.1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (“Illegal manufacture of explosives and explosive devices”), for three episodes under Part 2 of Art. 222.1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (“Illegal storage and carrying of explosives and explosive devices”).
The case was initiated on the materials of the regional department of the FSB. According to investigators, in the period from October 2019 to June 2020, teenagers in Kansk united in a group "for the subsequent joint implementation of terrorist activities in the city." They communicated in one of the social networks and instant messengers, adhered to "the ideas of anarchism, the violent change of the state and political structure existing in Russia in the form of the elimination of state institutions of governance."
The defendants divided roles among themselves and studied independently, reading forbidden literature, recognized as extremist by a court decision. They also watched videos on the manufacture of explosives and explosive devices.
Teenagers independently made explosives and explosive devices, trained using them in an abandoned house, on wastelands and construction sites. The department emphasized that they were preparing "to commit a terrorist act by blowing up the building of the police or the FSB."
The court appointed one of the teenagers five years of imprisonment in an educational colony with a fine of 30 thousand rubles.
Two teenagers who cooperated with the investigation were released from criminal liability under Art. 205.3 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation. They were sentenced for illegal manufacture, storage and carrying of explosives and explosive devices - three years and four years of probation with a two-year probationary period.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] A suspected ISIS jacket wallah accused of being a key member of an attack on Gay Paree, in which 130 people died, today told a packed courtroom he should not be sent to prison for the rest of his days because 'I didn't kill or wound anyone'.
Salah Abdeslam,
...the only surviving button man of the Paris attackers — because his suicide vest failed to blow up — the boy who ran with all the other petty criminals in the notoriously Salafist Molenbeek neighbourhood until he grew up to transfer that sense of entitlement to membership in ISIS has already been sentenced in Belgium in a separate trial. It appears he has abandoned the habit of silence that got him twenty years for that one...
32, is facing multiple life sentences for charges including murder, attempted murder and hostage taking.
But the French Moroccan national on Wednesday said he had deliberately pulled out of the November 2015 rampage in which other faceless myrmidons including his brother were blown to pieces.
And he insisted he was now being 'made an example of' and did not deserve to spend the rest of his life in prison.
'I want to say today that I didn't kill anyone, and I didn't hurt anyone,' Abdeslam told a specialist court set up at the Palais de Justice in central Gay Paree.
'It's important for me to say this, because since the beginning of this case, people have not stopped slandering me.'
Abdeslam added: 'In the future, when someone gets into an underground train or a bus with a suitcase stuffed with 50 kilogrammes of explosives, and at the last minute decides 'I'm not doing this,' he will know that he can't, because otherwise he will be locked away or killed.'
Abdeslam has in the past described himself as a 'soldier with 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.... ' and part of the 'commando unit' that attacked the Stade de La Belle France national sport stadium, six restaurants and bars, and the Bataclan music hall.
He is now one of 20 defendants facing various charges related to the attacks, in a mammoth trial — the biggest in French history — that began in September.
Prosecutors allege that Abdeslam's explosive vest malfunctioned and that he then bravely ran away from the French capital in the hours after the Friday 13thattack.
In court today, Abdeslam denied ever having gone abroad from his home in Belgium to fight or train with ISIS.
He admitted being a 'member of Islamic State', adding 'I support IS, I am for them, I love them.'
But he said he was 'not initially motivated by religion,' but instead wanted to oppose Syrian dictator Bashir al-Assad.
'I knew that the Syrians were suffering and I was in comfort, busy enjoying life while they were being massacred, I felt guilty,' he said.
Fourteen suspects are in the dock in Gay Paree, with six others being tried in their absence, five of them presumed dead in Iraq or Syria and the last in prison in The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor... Abdeslam is alleged to have been central to the international logistics operation that underpinned the ISIS attack.
He is believed to have escorted the three bombers who blew themselves up at the Stade de La Belle France in Gay Paree.
Abdeslam, 32, reiterated his claim of belonging to the Islamic State group, saying he pledged allegiance to the group "48 hours before the attacks" — though later claiming he had pledged "without even knowing it."
‘ROAD TRIP’
Abdeslam has so far largely refused to answer Sherlocks’ questions since his March 2016 arrest in Belgium, where police found him after months of searching for the men behind the massacres.
He has claimed he discarded his boom jacket and fled the French capital in the chaotic aftermath of the bloodshed, eluding an intense manhunt to return to Molenbeek, the Brussels district where he grew up.
The questioning focused initially on Abdeslam’s background and events before the attacks. Prosecutors have already established that he spent much of his youth as a pot-smoking fan of nightclubs and casinos.
Yet as questioning began by presiding judge Jean-Louis Peries, Abdeslam often gave offhand answers that verged on insolence.
Asked about a suspiciously short trip to Greece a few months before the attacks with one of his co-defendants, where Sherlocks say they might have met IS operatives, Abdeslam said it was just a "road trip."
"We stopped in Italia, ate pasta, then went to Greece and visited some islands and that’s it," he said.
"You think everything is linked to the Islamic State, but people also have a social life."
He also claimed he learned only months after that his brother Brahim, who detonated his suicide belt in a bar during the Friday night attack in Gay Paree, had traveled to Syria in early 2015.
Abdeslam’s mother, sister and ex-fiancée had also been scheduled to take the stand on Wednesday, but the presiding judge informed the court that they would not be coming, without giving further details.
#4
Wouldn;t it be easier and cheaper in the long run to just put the vest back on him, stake him out in a field somewhere and keep triggering the vest until it went "BANG"?
[JPost] The UN has allegedly covered up the murder of two humanitarian workers in Syria by President Bashar al-Assad's regime.
The United Nations has allegedly concealed the murder by the regime of President Bashar Assad of two humanitarian staffers who were part of a relief convoy between the Syrian cities of Aleppo and Homs in 2016.
A year-long investigation into alleged UN misconduct in Syria can now reveal that UN officials in 2016 appeared to have worked at cross purposes and did not publicize an internal UN message saying that Assad’s military had killed two aid workers.
A UN source in the Middle East said the reluctance to investigate and report the alleged murder of aid workers can be explained by the global organization’s fears it would be banned from conducting future relief missions in the Syrian Arab Republic.
Mohammad Al Abdallah, a Syrian human rights and democracy researcher and activist who is executive director of the Washington-based Syrian Justice and Accountability Center, said the UN had accepted a "poisoned and unhealthy" relationship with the Damascus government, in which the Syrian regime has allowed them to access places where they operate in exchange for dealing with the regime or concealing its violations.
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Say it ain't so. The UN corrupt, I will not tolerate such blasphemy.
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Shafaq News/ ISIS may be poised to recover operational capacity at the borders of Diyala with Baghdad amid worrisome movement of the extremist group's militants in dozens of abandoned villages in the area, a local official revealed on Thursday.
The administrator of Kanaan sub-district, Mahdi Abdul-Karim al-Shammari, told Shafaq News Agency, "the southern territories of Kanaan and Buhriz districts, southeast Baqubah, are ticking bombs that jeopardize the flank of Baghdad."
"ISIS militants heatmap is glowing as noticed recently with the increasing frequency of the attacks waged recently against the security forces stationed in the area," he explained, "more than 30 evacuated villages have become a safe haven for the terrorist groups."
Al-Shammari called for deploying advanced technology, including drones and long-range surveillance cameras, to "contain a growing threat to both Baghdad and Diyala at the same time."
ISIS has fallen far from its 2015 peak, when it was on the offensive against its many enemies and controlled a militant proto-state spanning Iraq and Syria. Faced with an overwhelming military campaign waged by an array of local and international foes, ISIS lost its last territorial foothold in Iraq in 2017 and in Syria in early 2019. In both countries, it has survived by shifting from semi-conventional warfare to hit-and-run insurgency.
In Iraq, the group operates as small, largely autonomous guerrilla units spread across the country’s most inhospitable terrain, including its mountains and deserts. From these hideouts, ISIS militants emerge to prey on rural areas, kidnapping and extorting residents and killing state representatives. The group’s operations are simple; it has only infrequently carried out more complex or large-scale attacks.
Iraq has changed in ways that might prevent ISIS from returning in force. The nationwide sectarian polarisation from which ISIS benefited has faded. Additionally, now that many Sunni Arabs have experienced the dual trauma of ISIS’s draconian control and the military campaign to recapture their home areas from ISIS, most want nothing more to do with the group. The Iraqi security forces, for their part, have curbed their excesses and forged a more functional relationship with Sunni Arabs.
Yet despite these reasons for optimism, there are also threats. Securing peripheral areas still bedevilled by ISIS will be a major challenge. The government has yet to rebuild and jump-start the economies of these and other areas that were damaged by the war against ISIS, discouraging the displaced from returning. Healing society’s wounds seems similarly difficult.
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Roza Barakat's tormentors have been defeated, but the horrors she endured still hold her captive.
She was 11 years old when she was captured and enslaved by the Islamic State group, along with thousands of other Yazidi women and girls taken when the militants overran northern Iraq in their brutal 2014 campaign.
Torn from her family in the town of Sinjar, the enclave of the ancient religious Yazidi minority, she was taken to Syria, sold multiple times and repeatedly raped. She bore a child, a boy she has since lost. Now, at 18, she speaks little of her native Kurdish dialect, Kurmanji.
With the defeat of IS in 2019, Barakat slipped into the shadows, opting to hide in the turmoil that followed the worst of the battles. As IS fighters were arrested, their wives and children were packed into detention camps. Barakat was free, but she couldn't go home.
"I don't know how I'll face my community," she told The Associated Press, speaking in Arabic, as she nervously played with the ends of her long dark braid, the red polish on her dainty fingers fading.
For years, her IS captors told her she would never be accepted if she returned. "I believed them," she said.
Barakat's tale, corroborated by Yazidi and Syrian Kurdish officials, is a window into the complicated realities faced by many Yazidi women who came of age under the brutal rule of IS. Traumatized and lost, many struggle to come to terms with the past, while the Yazidi community is at odds over how to accept them.
"What do you expect from a child who was raped at 12, gave birth at 13?" said Faruk Tuzu, co-chair of Yazidi House, an umbrella of Yazidi organizations in northeastern Syria. "After so much shock and abuse they don't believe in anything anymore, they don't belong anywhere."
The AP does not typically identify people who say they are victims of sexual assault unless they grant permission.
Barakat spoke to the AP from a safe house run by Tuzu's group just a few days after the leader of the Islamic State group, believed to have played a key role in the enslavement of Yazidi women, was killed in a U.S. raid in northwestern Syria.
She shrugged off the news, saying it doesn't make a difference.
IS first sold Barakat to an Iraqi from Tal Afar, a man older than her father. She shudders as she recounts how he "made me call his wife 'mother.'" After a few months she was sold to another man.
Eventually, her IS captors gave her a choice: Convert to Islam and marry an IS fighter, or be sold again. She converted, she says, to avoid being sold. She married a Lebanese they chose for her, a man who ferried food and equipment for IS fighters.
"He was better than most," she said. At 13, she gave birth to a son, Hoodh. At the peak of the militants' self-proclaimed "caliphate," they lived in the city of Raqqa, the IS capital.
Once, she begged her husband to find out what happened to her older sisters who had been taken just like her. She had lost hope that her parents were still alive.
Some weeks later, he told her he found one of her sisters, holding up a photo of a woman in Raqqa's slave market where Yazidi girls were sold.
"How different she looks," Barakat remembers thinking.
[Jpost] Israel’s Transportation Ministry has approved the first certification for unmanned aerial systems to operate in civilian airspace.
The certification was issued by Israel’s Civil Aviation Authority (ICAA) for the Hermes Starliner unmanned aerial system (UAS), developed and manufactured by Elbit Systems. Its receipt completes UAS compliance with NATO standardization for approval to fly in civilian airspace.
[Jpost] hyperbole
Israel’s Transportation Ministry has approved the first certification for unmanned aerial systems to operate in civilian airspace.
The certification was issued by Israel’s Civil Aviation Authority (ICAA) for the Hermes Starliner unmanned aerial system (UAS), developed and manufactured by Elbit Systems. Its receipt completes UAS compliance with NATO standardization for approval to fly in civilian airspace.
[Rudaw] The Iraqi National Security Advisor claimed on Thursday that 20 "dangerous" members of the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... (ISIS) managed to escape during a prison break attempt in Hasaka, northeast Syria (Rojava) late last month.
Qassim al-Araji received the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... Ambassador to Iraq Ville Varjola on Thursday, where he called on European countries to repatriate their ISIS-affiliated nationals in Rojava’s al-Hol camp, according to a statement by Araji.
ISIS attacked al-Sina’a prison in Hasaka on January 20 with explosive-laden vehicles and other weapons. This caused over a week of intense festivities between ISIS fighters and the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF). The prison was retaken by the SDF with the support of the global coalition against ISIS, and the recaptured prisoners were transferred to another prison.
"Twenty dangerous murderous Moslems managed to escape from Hasaka prison," he claimed.
The SDF held over 4,000 ISIS prisoners, including minors, before the attack. The forces said that 121 of its fighters, prison guards and civilians as well as 374 ISIS members were killed in the festivities without confirming any alleged escapes.
Rudaw English has approached the SDF for comment regarding Araji’s claim.
The Hasaka prison break attempt has alerted Iraqi and Kurdistan Region governments who share borders with Rojava.
QAMISHLI, Syria (North Press) – The Islamic State Organization (ISIS) is likely to choose a battle-hardened veteran from Iraq as new leader of ISIS and successors of Abu Ibrahim al-Qurayshi.
On February 3, al-Qurayshi blew himself along with members of his family up during a raid by US special forces on his place of residence in Atmeh town in Idlib city, northwest Syria.
Fadhil Abu Rgheef, an Iraqi expert who advises its security services, as saying there were at least four possible frontrunners, according to the Daily Mail.
“These include Abu Khadija, whose last known role was Iraq leader for Islamic State, Abu Muslim, its leader for Anbar province, Abu Salih, of whom there’s very little information but was close to Baghdadi and Qurayshi, and there’s also Abu Yasser al-Issawi, who is suspected to be still alive. He’s valuable to the group as he has long military experience,” Rgheef said.
Issawi’s death was reported in an air strike in January 2021 at the time the Iraqi forces and the US-led military coalition were fighting ISIS in Iraq and Syria.
But an Iraqi security official confirmed there were strong suspicions that Issawi is still alive, according to the Daily Mail.
None of the four potential successors to al-Qurayshi had been captured by US forces, one security official and one army colonel told Reuters.
Both ISIS leaders Baghdadi and Qurayshi, were members of al Qaeda in Iraq from the start, and they did time in US detention in the mid-2000s.
The new leader would be a veteran Iraqi jihadist. “If they choose one in the coming weeks they’ll have to choose someone from among the same circle… the group that was part of the Anbari group which operated under (the name) of ISIS since the early days,” Hassan Hassan, editor of New Lines magazine which has published research on al-Qurayshi, said.
Reporting by Sara Youssef
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Could anyone tell me how to get 1 of these analyst jobs? I can state the obvious.
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The Turkish-backed armed Syrian opposition factions continue to seize the homes of the indigenous people of #Afrin, northern #Syria, and sell or rent them to settlers. #Turkey#SNAhttps://t.co/JDYpUPPj59
ALEPPO NORTHERN COUNTRYSIDE, Syria (North Press) – A member of the Turkish-backed al-Hamza Division factions sold a house owned by an indigenous resident in the village of Kafr Zeit, in the city of Afrin, north of Aleppo, north Syria for $1,500.
A member of al-Hamza Division, hails from Rif Dimashq, sold a house of Walid Nebo, located in al-Ashrafiya neighborhood in the city of Afrin, a local source told North Press.
The faction member had sold Nebo’s house to another member of the same faction, who hails from the town of Tel al-Daman in the southern countryside of Aleppo, the source added.
The Turkish-backed armed Syrian opposition factions continue to seize the homes of the indigenous people of Afrin, and sell or rent them to settlers, according to human rights and press reports.
In 2020, the Human Rights Organization-Afrin documented the seizure of 250 homes belonging to the indigenous people of Afrin by Turkish-backed factions.
The city of Afrin and its villages, north of Aleppo, have been controlled by Turkish forces and the affiliated factions since March 2018.
Since then, the region has been witnessing ongoing security chaos accompanied by infighting among militants of the Turkish-backed factions, arrests, and kidnappings amid the factions’ disability to settle the security and spread safety.
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
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...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 
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] A suspected ISIS 
...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor...
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