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[REGNUM] Menacing clouds began to hang over Afghanistan and Pakistan and almost direct signs of the implementation of the geopolitical scenario of the collapse of the two states appeared.
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...the closure of the checkpoint "impedes trade on both sides of the border and blocks an important commercial artery and trade route from Pakistan to the countries of Central Asia."
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I have noted that Regnum is a Russian site whose authors must either be paid substantially for their silly propaganda, or be on the pipe. To give Russia a leading role in the future of Afghanistan is absurd given unforgettable lessons Moscow learned in the period 1979-1988. Nearer to home the Russians continually have their fingers burned in Chechnya and Daghestan. Should the Russian military fail in Ukraine it is predictable that the two regions separatist movements will revive.
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^^^ And the US didn't appear to learn any lessons from its escapade in AFG, either. The MIC and the corrupt politicians made out like bandits, but VA facilities have their fair share of physically and mentally f'ed up soldiers if they aren't asking for money at traffic lights.
whose authors must either be paid substantially for their silly propaganda, or be on the pipe.
Normally we aren’t that interested in how Russia thinks the world works. But just now they are reasserting themselves in Rantburg’s areas of interest, so we must.
[Rudaw] The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor... ’s defense ministry claimed Saturday its forces have killed 261 Kurdish fighters in the Kurdistan Region and northern Syria since the year began, pledging to continue operations against the groups despite Ankara reeling from the effects of a deadly quake.
"Since January 1 in the north of Iraq and Syria, we have neutralized 261 terrorists," Ottoman Turkish Defense Minister Hulusi Akar said, referring to the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) and the People’s Protection Units (YPG).
The PKK is a Kurdish group that has waged an armed insurgency against Turkey for decades and designated a terrorist organization by Ankara alongside another group Turkey claims to be its Syrian offshoot — the YPG.
"We have demolished terror nests, lairs, and shelters of terrorism, and we will continue to destroy them," Akar added, claiming that Turkey is not eyeing "anyone’s land in any way" but conducts such operations only to "ensure the security" of its borders.
Following two devastating quakes that struck Turkey and Syria and killed around 50,000, the PKK declared a ceasefire within Turkey’s borders in order to focus all resources on rescue efforts.
However, a good lie finds more believers than a bad truth... as Turkey’s south — home to a large Kurdish population - continues to be gripped by the disastrous earthquake, the country carried out two deadly dronezaps on vehicles in northeast Syria (Rojava), controlled by the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) — a US-backed multiethnic force which the YPG are the core component of, killing at least two.
The SDF in northern Syria fought the lion’s share of the battle against 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 ultimately territorially defeated the terror group in 2019.
The People’s Defense Forces (HPG), the armed wing of the PKK, reported on Saturday that the Ottoman Turkish army had carried out 90 attacks on the force in the Kurdistan Region in two days.
In their annual casualty figures for 2022, the Ottoman Turkish interior ministry claimed that its forces inflicted 1,220 casualties on a "number" of terror groups including the PKK, while the PKK claimed that 2,942 Ottoman Turkish soldiers were killed during their attacks against the Ottoman Turkish army.
Last October, PKK-affiliated Firat News Agency (ANF) published several videos purportedly showing Ottoman Turkish soldiers targeting its fighters with chemical weapons ...have not been used since WWI except for in Iraq, by the late, unlamented Saddam Hussein and in Syria, but really, honest, not by the Syrian government. And in Germany in WWII, but that was against civilians. Lots of them, just one of many reasons Hitler's also late and unlamented except among devout Moslems... , adding that Turkey has used banned bombs and chemical substances at least 2,476 times in six months.
The Ottoman Turkish defense ministry later deemed the claims that its soldiers used chemical weapons against the PKK "completely baseless and untrue."
More than 500 villages have been emptied in the Kurdistan Region over three decades of the Turkey-PKK conflict.
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[IsraelTimes] Ben Gvir says initial passage on day of deadly West Bank attack ‘symbolic’; AG said to oppose legislation, which is expected to be softened; Netanyahu allegedly tried to delay vote.
[IsraelTimes] /Deputy health minister suggests someone seeking to shut down female education responsible for contaminating water, causing respiratory illness
[NPASyria] Dozens of Iraqi families left on Sunday Hawl camp in northeast Syria to return to their country.
A source in the camp’s administration told North Press that 154 Iraqi families, a total of 581 people, left Hawl camp after coordinating with Iraqi authorities.
This is the second batch of Iraqi families to leave the camp since early 2023. In 2022, six groups, a total of 925 people, left the camp, the Iraqi Ministry of Displacement and Migration told North Press.
Hawl Camp, 45 km east of the city of Hasakah, is a house for 55.829 individuals, including 28.725 Iraqis, 18.850 Syrians and 8.254 of foreign nationalities, according to the latest statistics obtained by North Press.
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[Rudaw] Iran ...They hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... released a Spanish woman who were tossed into the calaboose in the country since November, Spain’s foreign minister confirmed on Sunday.
Ana Baneira Suarez, 24, was detained in November amid the nationwide protests that engulfed Iran over the death of a young Kurdish woman, Zhina Amini, while in police custody two months prior. The circumstances and reasons behind Baneira’s arrest were never confirmed by Iranian authorities.
"She was freed yesterday but we did not want to make it public until her plane took off," Spanish Foreign Minister Jose Manuel Albares said, as cited by Spain’s state-owned RTVE. Baneira flew home from Tehran via Dubai.
Albares added that he had spoken to her and that she was "well", adding that she was on her way to her hometown in northwestern Spain.
He stated that during her detention, the Spanish ambassador in Iran had visited her several times and that he had asked his Iranian counterpart to release her.
Another Spanish national still remains detained in Iran. Santiago Sanchez was arrested in October as he was trekking and documenting his journey from Madrid to the World Cup in Doha. Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) at the time reported that he had been arrested in the Kurdish city of Saqqez after visiting Amini’s grave.
The Spanish foreign ministry reassured that they continue working to secure Sanchez’s release. "Today is a happy day but the happiness will be complete once Santiago is free," Albares said.
There are a number of dual and foreign nationals being held in Iranian prisons on charges of spying for foreign governments with rights groups accusing Tehran of using them as bargaining chips to gain concessions from world powers.
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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.
...have not been used since WWI except for in Iraq, by the late, unlamented Saddam Hussein and in Syria, but really, honest, not by the Syrian government. And in Germany in WWII, but that was against civilians. Lots of them, just one of many reasons Hitler's also late and unlamented except among devout Moslems...
...They hate 
