[ToloNews] The Ministry of Virtue and Vice of the Islamic Emirate said that in the past year, nearly 11,000 complaints have been registered with them, of which more than 7,000 of them have been addressed.
Speaking at the Government Accountability Program for the Nation, Akif Muhajir, a front man for the Ministry of Vice and Virtue, said these complaints have been made about a variety of topics, including dowry, inheritance, forced marriages, and other problems.
"In the past year, 10,875 complaints have been received in the nation's capital and provinces, of which 7,915 have been addressed," he stated.
The spokesperson said 570 individuals who were underage were also kicked out of the security forces.
Akif Muhajir added that the ministry also stopped purchasing and selling alcoholic drinks and illegal substances in some parts of Kabul.
"When we came to power, selling wine had started to become a normal thing in some parts of Kabul," he said.
According to the front man, women's parks and women's beauty salons have closed since residents have not implemented Sharia laws.
Meanwhile, ...back at the shootout, Butch cautiously raised his hat over the edge of the horse trough on the end of a stick...... Saeed Ahmad Shahid Khail, a deputy in the ministry of virtue and vice, claimed that over the previous 20 years, the previous government's personnel were accountable to foreigners not to the residents.
"In the past 20 years, accountability programs have been held here, the media was participating, and these programs have been published, and it wasn't reporting to the nation, it was reporting to America," he said.
The officials of this ministry noted that 11 restrictions have been imposed by them on the citizens of the country in the last one year.
[Garowe] The crackdown against al-Shabaab ...... an Islamic infestation centering on Somalia attempting to metastasize into Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, and similar places, all ofwhich have enough problems without them... holy warriors could be edging closer, several sources have indicated, with warplanes sighted in central parts of the country where President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud authorized combing before the second phase of operations kick off in Jubaland and Southwest states.
According to locals, warplanes have been spotted hovering around Elbur and Galhareeri in central Galmudug ...a semiautonomous region in central Somalia, bordering Puntland on the north. Galmudug is not trying to obtain international recognition as a separate nation, but rather considers itself autonomous within the larger Somali federalism, for what that's worth... state, which is considered a strategic area for al-Shabaab. The first phase was conducted in these regions leaving close to 3,000 holy warriors dead, the government confirmed.
Residents who spoke to Garowe Online said a number of people have already started leaving their homes for fear of military bombardments which could be activated soon. On Sunday, the defense ministry asked the people in al-Shabaab areas to leave soon as the government plans to begin a full-scale air/ground offensive in the coming days.
President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud visited Galmadug to lay strategy on the offensive, noting that locals can also join the war by initiating operations along with the Somali National Army and foreign troops. The US Africa Command and the African Union ...a union consisting of 53 African states, most run by dictators of one flavor or another. The only all-African state not in the AU is Morocco. Established in 2002, the AU is the successor to the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), which was even less successful... Transition Mission in Somalia [ATMIS] were instrumental in the war.
Already, some other troops have headed to Jubaland and Southwest states before the mission is activated, warning that locals associated with al-Shabaab will also be held liable during the offenses. The government has given room for amnesty to those willing to defect from the group and openly recant their association.
The second phase of operations against the group is believed to be the last and final assault against the group which has wreaked havoc on innocent civilians and members of security teams in Somalia. The al-Shabaab have been using Improvised Explosive Devices [IEDs] to wage their attacks against the al-Qaeda-linked group.
Besides military operations, the government is also pursuing the group's sources of revenue, including bank accounts and mobile money transfer firms which have been used previously to aid violent mostly peaceful extremism activities across Somalia. Previously, a number of bank accounts and mobile money transfer firms have been closed due to association with al-Shabaab.
[An Nahar] The United Arab Emirates has denied a report No, no! Certainly not! claiming weapons were found in its aid shipments to refugees of the Sudan war, arguing it "does not take sides" in the conflict.
Fighting since April 15 between the forces of rival Sudanese generals vying for power has killed at least 3,900 people, according to conservative estimates by the Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project.
Observers say that both army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and his former deputy Mohammed Hamdan Daglo, who commands the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), are supported by foreign powers, with neighbouring Egypt backing Burhan and the UAE providing support for Daglo.
In a statement on Sunday, UAE foreign ministry communications director Afra Al Hameli said "the UAE has not supplied arms and ammunition to any of the warring parties in Sudan since the outbreak of the conflict".
A report on Thursday by US publication the Wall Street Journal cited officials in Uganda who said they had discovered weapons on an Emirati aid flight to Sudanese refugees in Chad on June 2.
Hameli "expressed the UAE's categorical refutation of the claims and allegations in the story", the statement said.
"The UAE does not take sides in the current conflict engulfing Sudan, and seeks an end to the conflict and calls for respecting Sudan's illusory sovereignty."
According to the Wall Street Journal, "instead of the food and medical supplies listed on the aircraft's manifest, Ugandan officials said they found dozens of green plastic crates in the plane's cargo hold filled with ammunition, assault rifles and other small arms".
The Ugandan officials told the newspaper the Emirati plane, stopping in Entebbe on the way to its final destination, "was allowed to continue its trip to Amdjarass International Airport in eastern Chad".
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[AlAhram] The leaders of Egypt, Jordan, and Paleostine have stressed the importance of stopping Israeli settlement activities, the confiscation of Paleostinian lands, the forced displacement of the Paleostinian people from their homes, and the change of the character and identity of the city of Jerusalem.
That’s nice. Maybe if you win the next war you’ll be able to do more than talk about it.
This came during a tripartite summit in Egypt's New Alamein city on Sunday, in the presence of Egypt's President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi, Paleostinian President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas ...aka Abu Mazen, a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial. While no Yasser Arafat, he has his own brand of evil, just a little more lowercase.... "Abu Mazen," and Jordan's King Abdullah II.
In a statement released by the Egyptian presidency following the meeting, the Arab leaders condemned the illegal escalation of Israeli practices that undermine the rights of the Paleostinian people.
Israel's actions violate the rules of international law, undermine the internationally agreed upon two-state solution, and lead to the dissemination of violence and chaos, read the statement.
The leaders also condemned the violation of the existing legal and historical status quo in the city of Jerusalem and its holy sites.
They called for a halt to the frequent incursions into the al-Aqsa Mosque.
The leaders affirmed that the entire 144-dunam area of the al-Aqsa Mosque complex is designated as an exclusively Moslem place of worship and that the Jordanian Ministry of Endowment and Islamic Affairs is exclusively responsible for managing and administrating al-Aqsa Mosque complex and other endowments in Jerusalem.
The leaders also totally rejected any attempts to temporally or spatially divide al-Aqsa Mosque.
They also urged Israel to de-escalate the situation to revive peace negotiations and release the illegally withheld Paleostinian funds.
The statement also emphasized the priority the three countries give to the necessity of ending the Israeli occupation of Paleostinian territory within a clear timeframe.
It also stressed the importance of protecting the Paleostinian people's right to self-determination and the establishment of their independent state within the 4th June 1967 borders with East Jerusalem as its capital.
El-Sisi and Abdullah II reaffirmed their full support of President Mahmoud Abbas's efforts in defending the interests of the Paleostinian people, calling on all Paleostinian factions to reconcile, unite and build on the outcome of their latest meeting in Cairo in July.
They stressed that peace cannot be achieved except by implementing UN resolutions and the relevant Security Council resolutions.
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[Regnum] General Abdurahman Tchiani , head of the ruling National Council for the Defense of the Fatherland (CNSP), ruling in Niger after the coup, agreed to start negotiations with the leaders of the Economic Community of West African Countries (ECOWAS) . This was announced on August 14 by the Al Jazeera TV channel.
Rebel-appointed Prime Minister Ali Mahamane Lamine Zein confirmed that Niger's new leadership is "optimistic" about starting talks with the ECOWAS group in the coming days.
In turn, the Nigerian edition of Cable indicated that Tchiani expressed his desire to diplomatically resolve the situation in the country that arose as a result of a coup d'état and the removal of Niger's President Mohamed Bazum from power . The rebel leader explained to the Nigerian delegation that "the coup was well-intentioned" and that the conspirators "strike to avert an imminent threat that would affect both Nigeria and Niger."
Earlier, IA Regnum reported that the rebels who seized power in Niger are going to file charges of high treason against the overthrown President Mohamed Bazum.
It was noted that ECOWAS postponed "for technical reasons" indefinitely the meeting of the heads of the general staffs of the states that are part of this community. The event was supposed to discuss further plans for the activation and deployment of the organization's reserve forces.
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[Regnum] In Stockholm, the police detained a man who tried to prevent the burning of the Koran. This was reported on August 14 by the newspaper Aftonbladet.
“Police have detained a man in connection with a Quran-burning demonstration in Stockholm,” the statement said.
According to the police, an unknown person tried to disrupt the demonstration, he ran up to the organizers of the action, Salvan Najem and Salvan Momika, and accused them of terrorism.
As reported by IA Regnum, on June 28, the police of Stockholm on the Islamic holiday Eid al-Adha allowed an action with the burning of the Koran. Initially, the organizers were refused due to possible threats and terrorist attacks, but they appealed the decision in court, which sided with them.
The action aroused the indignation of Islamic countries - in Baghdad, protesters broke into the territory of the Swedish embassy and demanded the expulsion of the ambassador of the kingdom from the country. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan called the action of burning the Koran vile and said that the enemies of Islam and humanity are trying to organize provocations under the protection of the police, but will not be able to realize their ambitions. NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg considered the burning of the Koran legal and said that it was not legally illegal.
On August 13, Swedish national security adviser Henrik Landerholm said that abroad, Swedes and companies associated with the kingdom should be careful because of the actions with the burning of the Koran in the country.
[NPASyria] A German official of Kurdish heritage said on Sunday that she was arrested for hours when she traveled to The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor... in early August for social media posts she made in 2019.
Gökay Akbulut, 40, is a member of the German parliament for the far-left Die Linke party.
Rooters reported, citing Akbulut as saying, that she was arrested in Antalya Province on allegations of "terror propaganda."
Akbulut previously criticized the Ottoman Turkish government on her official website for "waging a brutal war against the Kurdish population inside and outside its borders."
Ottoman Turkish authorities released Akbulut shortly after she contacted the German Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
It is not clear for which social media posts she was arrested. However she added that she would still travel to Turkey and express her opinion about the Ottoman Turkish government.
Akbulut has previously demanded to lift the ban imposed on the activities of Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) in 1993. The PKK has been in the EU list of terrorist organizations since 2022.
In recent years the relations between Germany and Turkey witnessed tension due to German criticism of the policies of Erdogan’s government abroad and at home.
Turkey always suppresses those who express their opinions that go against the Ottoman Turkish government.
In April, the Ottoman Turkish authorities carried out raids and arrested at least three Kurdish journalists, accusing them of having ties to the PKK.
In May, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) called on the Ottoman Turkish authorities to stop using the courts to muzzle opposition media outlets.
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.. Hizb ul Mujahideen (HM), the militant wing of Jamaat i-Islami, on Pakistan’s ISI payroll for the purpose of conquering Indian Kashmir...
terrorist, hoisting a national flag at his residence in Jammu and Kashmir ...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it Azad (Free) Kashmir. The remainder they refer to as "Indian Occupied Kashmir". They have fought four wars with India over it, the score currently 4-0 in New Delhi's favor. After 72 years of this nonsense, India cut the Gordian knot in 2019, removing the area's special status, breaking off Ladakh as a separate state, and allowing people from other areas to settle (or in the case of the Pandits, to resettle) there.... has gone viral.
A widely circulated video on social media showed Rayees, the sibling of Hizbul terrorist Javid Mattoo, proudly waving the Tricolour from his residence's window.
Speaking to ANI, he said that he hoisted the flag without any pressure. Mattoo also claimed that he is not in touch with his brother.
"I waved the Tiranga from my heart. There was no pressure from anyone...Saare jahaan se achha Hindustan hamara, hum bulbule hain iske ye gulistan hamara. There is development. For the first time I am sitting at my shop on 14th August, it used to be shut for 2-3 days. The previous political parties were playing games...My brother became one (a terrorist) in 2009, we don't know anything about him after that...If he is alive, I urge him to come back...The situation has changed, Pakistain can't do anything...Hum Hindustani theyy, hain aur rahenge," he told the news agency.
[GEO.TV] At least two people bit the dust while more than 80 sustained injuries due to gun sex in different areas of Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... during the Independence Day celebrations.
Revellers resorted to gun sex at midnight to celebrate the 77th Independence Day of Pakistain.
According to rescue sources, the firing incidents took place in different areas including Lyari, Garden, Landhi, Korangi, Mehmoodabad, New Karachi, Bilal Colony, and Garden which resulted in more than 80 injuries.
Meanwhile, ...back at the shattered spaceship, Fffflirgoll the Arcturan slithered stealthily toward the control room, where the humans had barricaded themselves... a woman was killed after a bullet hit her from an unknown direction in the city's Numaish Chowrangi area.
The rescue sources added that 24 injured have been shifted to Civil Hospital, 29 to Jinnah Hospital and 30 to Abbasi Shaheed Hospital.
The nation is celebrating Independence Day today with a renewed pledge to work with the spirit of the Pakistain Movement to make the country a true Islamic welfare state. The day began with a thirty-one-gun salute at the federal capital and a twenty-one-gun salute at the provincial headquarters.
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[Jpost] An explosion was reported at an ammunition warehousenortheast of Damascus on Monday night, according to opposition media outlets.
Ambulances and firefighters arrived at the scene after the explosion, according to the Capital Voice news site. State news sources have not confirmed the reports.
The reports come just two days after explosions were reported at warehouses belonging to the Fourth Division of the Syrian military due to a "malfunction."
[NPASyria] 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 in the White House, 400 more than in Versailles, and 325 more than Buckingham Palace, so you know who's really more important... adopted a tripartite mechanism to include Syria’s Aleppo Governorate to the "de-escalation zone" in northwest Syria, Ottoman Turkish media reported on Sunday.
The de-escalation zone includes Idlib Governorate and parts of the countryside of Aleppo, Hama, and Latakia. In March 2020, Russia and The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire... reached an agreement in Moscow regarding the "de-escalation zone" in northwest Syria that stipulated a ceasefire, the establishment of a safe corridor, and the conduct of joint patrols on the M4/Aleppo-Latakia Highway. The areas is militarily controlled by the Ottoman Turkish forces and their affiliated armed opposition factions, also known as the Syrian National Army (SNA). Politically and administratively, it is run by the Interim Government and the Syrian National Coalition (SNC).
The Ottoman Turkish Sabah newspaper reported that Erdogan issued instructions to form a tripartite mechanism including the Ministry of Interior, Justice and Development Party (AKP), and the AKP bloc in the Parliament to "encourage" Syrian refugees in Turkey to return to Syria.
According to the newspaper, Turkey is negotiating with Russia and Syrian government on the return of Syrian refugees to Aleppo, claiming the key point of the talks is to "revitalize" social and commercial life there and creating job opportunities for the returning refugees.
Turkey claims that its mechanism would revive the commercial and social aspects of life in Aleppo, according to the newspaper.
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[An Nahar] The Hezbollah ammunition truck that overturned Wednesday in Kahale was headed for the festivities-hit Paleostinian refugee camp of Ain el-Helweh near Sidon, Paleostinian sources said.
Oh?
The truck contained "boxes of machine-gun and anti-aircraft gun ammunition," the sources told the Nidaa al-Watan newspaper in remarks published Monday.
Machine gun ammunition makes sense, but why anti-aircraft ammo?
The truck "came from the Bekaa and was headed for the Ain el-Helweh camp south of Sidon," the sources added, noting that "this move was aimed at shoring up the arms depots that belong to Hezbollah’s allies in the camp after they were depleted in the camp’s latest festivities."
Hezbollah had announced in a statement that the truck belonged to it without revealing what it was carrying. The truck and its cargo were eventually seized by the army and taken from Kahale to the nearby Defense Ministry.
A Hezbollah member and a resident of Kahale, both of whom were armed, were killed in an exchange of gunfire after the truck flipped over on the international highway that passes through the town.
The violence started after some residents learned that the truck belonged to Hezbollah. They surrounded it and demanded to know what was inside before a fistfight ensued between two individuals.
Footage available online also shows Kahale residents hurling rocks at the overturned truck and its Hezbollah guards and the Hezbollah members brandishing weapons and shooting in the area. Another video shows a short-distance exchange of gunfire between Hezbollah members and Fadi Bejjani, the Kahale man who was killed in the violence. The identity of the individual who fired the first shot is still unclear.
[An Nahar] Libya's judicial authorities have formally asked Leb ...an Iranian colony situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozeen flavors of Christians. It is the home of Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers... to release one of the late dictator Muammar Qadaffy ...a proud Arab institution for 42 years, now among the dear departed, though not the dearest... 's sons, held without charges in Lebanon since 2015 because of his deteriorating health, officials said Monday.
The health of Hannibal Qadaffy has been deteriorating since he went on hunger strike on June 3, to protest his detention without trial. He was taken to hospital at least twice since then and has been only drinking small amounts of water.
According to two Lebanese judicial officials, Libya's prosecutor general al-Sediq al-Sour sent a request earlier this month to his Lebanese counterpart, Ghassan Oueidat, regarding Hannibal Qadaffy. The officials spoke to The News Agency that Dare Not be Named on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to talk to the media.
The note stated that Lebanon's cooperation in this matter could help reveal the truth regarding the fate of a prominent Lebanese Shiite holy man, Moussa al-Sadr, who went missing in Libya in 1978.
It questioned why Qadaffy was being held and asked that he be either handed over to Libya or be allowed to return to Syria, where he had been living in exile with his Lebanese wife, Aline Skaff, and children until he was kidnapped and brought to Lebanon eight years ago.
The Lebanese prosecutor then referred the case to Zaher Hamadeh, the investigative judge in the missing holy man's case, who is studying the Libyan request and would respond in time.
Hannibal Qadaffy has been detained in Lebanon since 2015 after he was kidnapped by Lebanese Lions of Islam demanding information on the whereabouts of the holy man. Lebanese police later announced it had picked up Qadaffy from the city of Baalbek in northeastern Lebanon, where he was being held. He has since been held in a Beirut jail.
The disappearance of al-Sadr in 1978 has been a long-standing sore point in Lebanon. The holy man's family believes he may still be alive in a Libyan prison, though most Lebanese presume al-Sadr is dead. He would be 94 years old.
He was the founder of the Amal movement, currently headed by Speaker Nabih Knobby Berri ...Speaker of the Lebanese parliament, head of the Amal Shiite party aligned with Hezbollah, a not very subtle sock puppet of the Medes and Persians... Most of al-Sadr's followers are convinced that Muammar Qadaffy ordered al-Sadr killed in a dispute over Libyan payments to Lebanese militias.
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...... an Islamic infestation centering on Somalia attempting to metastasize into Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, and similar places, all ofwhich have enough problems without them...
...aka Abu Mazen, a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial. While no Yasser Arafat, he has his own brand of evil, just a little more lowercase....
...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor....jpg "Kashmir")
...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it 
[GEO.TV] At least two people 
...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 in the White House, 400 more than in Versailles, and 325 more than Buckingham Palace, so you know who's really more important...
...an Iranian colony situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozeen flavors of Christians. It is the home of Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers...
