[Khaama Press] At least four people including archeologists were killed or maimed in an kaboom in Kabul city earlier this today, the security officials said.
The incident took place in the vicinity of Bani Hesar area of the city after an kaboomdestroyed the vehicle of the archeologists.
The Kabul Security Commandment officials confirmed that one archeologist was killed in the blast and three others including their driver were maimed.
The officials further added that the maimed individuals have been shifted to the hospital for treatment but there are no reports regarding their health condition.
The Ministry of Information and Culture also confirmed that one archeologist was killed and two others were maimed along with their driver in the kaboom.
A front man for the Ministry of Information and Culture Mohammad Sabir Momand confirmed that the archeologists were on their way to Pashtun-infested Logar province when their vehicle was targeted in the blast.
No individual or group has so far grabbed credit behind the incident.
[Khaama Press] The Afghan Special Forces conducted raids on Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... compounds in central Maidan Wardak province to degrade the abilities of the group to conduct attacks in Kabul using their hideouts in the neighboring province.
"8th Special Operations Kandak Commandos, advised by U.S. Special Operations Forces, conducted raids on suspected Taliban compounds in Sayyidabad district, Wardak province, Afghanistan, May 24-25, 2018," the Resolute Support Mission stated in a short statement posted with the video of the Special Forces operation.
The source further adds that "The Taliban uses Wardak’s close proximity to Kabul to plan their high profile attacks; clearing their compounds and seizing their weapons disrupts their ability to carry out attacks on innocent Afghans."
This comes as the murderous Moslem groups are attempting to carry out terrorist related activities in key provinces and cities of the country, including Kabul.
A group of at least ten hard boyz launched a coordinated attack near the Ministry of Ministry of Interior compound at around 12:10 pm local time on Wednesday as they were attempting to storm into the main compound of the ministry.
However, a poor excuse is better than no excuse at all... the ministry said the Afghan forces reacted on time and quickly to suppress the attack and managed to eliminate all the hard boyz involved in they manage to enter the compound of the ministry.
According to the ministry of interior the hard boyz managed to reach to the entrance gate of the ministry compound by disguising themselves in military uniforms and using armored vehicles.
[Khaama Press] The Talibs have killed two members of the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're 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 the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... of Iraq and Syria ‐ Khurasan (ISIS-K) during a clash in eastern Kunar province ... which is right down the road from Chitral. Kunar is Haqqani country..... of Afghanistan.
The 201st Silab Corps of the Afghan Military in the East said the latest infighting between the two sides took place on Friday in the vicinity of Noor Gul district.
The Silab Corps did not disclose further information in this regard with the Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... and ISIS-K Lions of Islam yet to comment regarding the incident.
In the meantime, the Silab Corps said the Afghan forces have placed in durance vile You have the right to remain silent... seven suspects during an operation in Sia Gerd district of Parwan province.
Parwan is among the relatively calm provinces in North of Afghanistan but the anti-government armed Lions of Islam are active in some remote districts of the province.
The Lions of Islam often carry out insurgency and terrorist related activities, including roadside kabooms, coordinated attacks, and suicide kabooms in this province.
[Khaama Press] The Talibs suffered heavy casualties after ambushing a convoy of the Afghan Intelligence, National Directorate of Security ...the Afghan national intel agency... (NDS), in western Farah province.
According to a statement released by NDS, the Special Forces of the Directorate were on their way to Helmand ...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan... when they were ambushed in the vicinity of Farah province.
The statement furhter added that the NDS Special Forces responded to the ambush, leaving at least sixteen bully boyz dead.
The National Directorate of Security (NDS) also added that some weapons and munitions belonging to the Talibs were also confiscated following the clash.
The anti-government armed bad boy groups including Talibs have not commented regarding the report so far.
Both Farah and Helmand are among the relatively volatile provinces in the Western and Southern parts of the country.
[Khaama Press] An elder man was killed along with 17 ISIS Khurasan bandidosbully boyz during the operations in eastern Nangarhar The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country.. province of Afghanistan.
The provincial government media office in a statement said the operations were conducted in the vicinities of Loi Payin, Camp Payin and Gorgori areas.
The statement further added that seven bandidosbully boyz affiliated with the terror group were killed during the operations which were conducted with the help of close-air support.
According to the provincial government, the operations are still being conducted against the terror group in various parts of Haska Mina district and some parts of the district have been cleared of the murderous Moslems.
The provincial government, in the meantime, said a elder man was killed and at least four others including women and kiddies were maimed during the same operations.
The statement by the provincial government added that a woman is also missing and efforts are underway to confirm her whereabouts.
No further details have been regarding the circumstances surrounding the civilian casualties during the operations.
This comes as the Afghan forces are busy conducting counter-terrorism operations against the ISIS-K and bandidosbully boyz affiliated with the other groups in some remote parts of the province.
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[AlAhram] A US air strike in Somalia killed 12 bully boyz from the Shabaab, an al-Qaeda affiliate that launches regular attacks on targets in the African nation, the United States Africa Command said on Friday.
It said US forces conducted the strike on Thursday in conjunction with Somalia's government about 30 miles (48 kilometers) southwest of Mogadishu.
The Shabaab was pushed out of Somalia's capital in 2011, and subsequently from other towns and cities, by soldiers from 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... Mission in Somalia (AMISOM).
But the Islamists still hold sway in large parts of the countryside. They launch regular gun and kabooms on government, military and civilian targets in Mogadishu as well as ambushes on military convoys and outposts.
Somali commandos often carry out operations side-by-side with the American forces that train them. Air assaults and missile strikes have increased in recent months.
This was the 11th American strike against the Shabaab since the beginning of the year.
[AlAhram] Somalia's murderous Moslem Islamist group al-Shabaab ... Somalia's version of the Taliban, functioning as an arm of al-Qaeda... has retaken a small town in the centre of the country after it was abandoned by government troops, residents said on Saturday.
Fighting broke out in the town of Muqokori, about 300 kilometres north of the capital Mogadishu, late on Friday, almost a month after government troops ousted the holy warriors.
"Al-Shabaab attacked from various sides. After one hour of fighting, the government forces left and al-Shabaab seized control," Hussein Nur, a local elder, told Rooters by phone.
The murderous Moslem group claimed that 47 government soldiers had died in the fighting.
"We have their dead bodies," said Abdiasis Abu Musab, al-Shabaab's military operations front man, adding they had captured four vehicles and dozens of weapons.
The military said the gunnies were not in full control. and that soldiers had been withdrawn for strategic reasons.
"There were only a few soldiers there and they left the town for tactical reasons," Major Abdullahi Aden told Rooters, adding their positions were being reinforced. Aden did not give details of casualties.
Separately, the group also attacked a military base in the semi-autonomous region of Puntland ...a region in northeastern Somalia, centered on Garowe in the Nugaal province. Its leaders declared the territory an autonomous state in 1998. Puntland and the equally autonomous Somaliland seem to have avoided the clan rivalries and warlordism that have typified the rest of Somalia, which puts both places high on the list for Islamic subversion... the same day, killing several soldiers.
[Libya Observer] A woman was killed and 5 others maimed in gunfire outside Ganan cop shoppe, 30km south of Ajdabiya, on Saturday.
The victims are family members from the southern city of Kufra who were passing by the cop shoppe driving a Hyundai Verna when the firing occurred.
Ganan cop shoppe reported that "ISIS button men attacked the station at Saturday dawn and set fire at the police cars, while a family passing by was caught up in the gunfire."
No coppers were killed or maimed.
Meanwhile, ...back at the shootout, Butch shot Black Bart's gun out of his hand...... local sources from Ajdabiya said that "the coppersshot up a Hyundai Verna car after being suspected of being terrorists", killing a woman and wounding 5 others ‐ 3 men and 2 women.
The sources claimed that Ganan cop shoppe fabricated the "ISIS attack" and set their 3 cars on fire to evade social and tribal responsibility.
Mehmed Magharef Hospital in Ajdabiya confirmed the arrival of the casualties and released their names to the public.
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Mad, bad, or migrant committing sudden jihad? The Germans seem to have decided that unless the miscreant is connected, they will not call it terrorism, though we at Rantburg strongly disagree.
[DailyMail]
Police shot at the man after he brandished a knife at the cathedral's altar
The suspect, 53, from Austria, was taken to hospital along with a police officer
Around 100 people were evacuated from the tourist site at around 4pm today
The incident is not believed to be terror-related, officer in serious condition
[AlAhram] Air strikes by Ottoman Turkish warplanes "neutralised" at least 15 holy warriors of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) in northern Iraq as well as in The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...just another cheapjack Moslem dictatorship, brought to you by the Moslem Brüderbund.... 's eastern provinces of Tunceli and Siirt, the military said on Saturday.
The strikes were carried out on Friday and Saturday, it said on Twitter.
Turkey regularly carries out air strikes on PKK targets over the border in northern Iraq, where the group is based in the Qandil mountains.
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[PRESSTV] At least four people have been injured in a renewed police crackdown on protesters in the main city of Srinagar in Indian-controlled Kashmire.
All those injured in the violence on Saturday were protesters mourning the death of a young man who had been run over by a paramilitary vehicle a day earlier.
Police used tear gas and chili spray grenades to disperse thousands of mourners taking part in a funeral procession.
However, nothing needs reforming like other people's bad habits... Kashmire inspector general of police S.P. Pani claimed that police’s use of force came after protesters hurled rocks at officers and troops. "There were some incidents of stone pelting in downtown but our (coppers) exhibited restraint and used minimum force," Pani said.
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[DAWN] A suspected suicide kaboomer was killed in an exchange of fire with security personnel near a Rangers check post located in Manghopir area on the outskirts 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... on Saturday, DawnNewsTV reported.
According to the Rangers spokesperson, the "suspicious man" was trying to cross into Sindh from Balochistan...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it... near Northern Bypass when Rangers personnel spotted him during a search operation.
On this, the suspect shot up the security personnel, as a result of retaliatory fire the explosive jacket of the attacker went kaboom!. Two Rangers personnel also sustained injuries as a result of the kaboom.
Sector Commander Brigadier Naseem Pervez said that soldiers of Rangers’ 71 Wing foiled the suicide attack.
Later the bomb disposal officials cleared the site of the incident saying that the detonators were not properly connected to the explosives strapped to the suspect's body due to which it couldn't explode completely.
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Tikrit (IraqiNews.com) Three people were maimed in a booby-trapped car kaboom in Tikrit, Salahuddin province, a security source said on Saturday.
"A controlled kaboom of a vehicle occurred as it was parked in the yard that faces the old recruitment building in Tikrit," the source told Alghad Press. "It left three people maimed."
Salahuddin (IraqiNews.com) Four Iraqi soldiers were killed in a bomb blast, north of Salahuddin province,a security source said on Saturday.
Speaking to Baghdad Today website, the source said “a bomb went off, today, targeting a vehicle carrying four conscripts on board as they were trying to repel the attack against al-Hakna village in Shirqat, which left all the personnel killed.”
The victims, according to the source, “were transferred to forensic medicine department.”
Salahuddin (IraqiNews.com) A family, composed of 12 members, was killed by an Islami State member in Salahuddin, a security source from the province said on Saturday.
Speaking to AlSumaria News, the source said “Islamic State member infiltrated, early today, to al-Farhatiya village, north of al-Dolou’iya town in Salahuddin. He killed a family composed of 12 members in the village.”
Security troops, according to the source, “cordoned off the accident scene and transferred the victims to forensic medicine department.”
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Nineveh (Iraqinews.com) – Iraqi security forces unearthed on Saturday seven secret tunnels that were used by Islamic State (IS) militants in different parts in Nineveh.
“The tunnels were located in Zummar and Qarah Tabbah districts in Nineveh with one of them containing Afghan uniforms
...why Afghan uniforms??
and a grenade,” Iraqi website Alforat News quoted Spokesman for the Iraqi Security Media Council Brig. Gen. Yehia Rasool as saying.
The troops also found five explosive belts in Mosul’s western side, Rasool added.
Violence and armed conflicts left 94 Iraqis dead during the month of May, the United Nations said in its monthly casualty count as the the security situations continues to sway after the defeat of Islamic State militants.
In its report, the United Nations Assistance Mission in Iraq (UNAMI) said 163 others were wounded.
It noted that “the figures include ordinary citizens and others considered civilian at the time of death or injury, such as police in non-combat functions, civil defence, personal security teams, facilities protection police and fire department personnel.”
It added that “Baghdad was the worst affected Governorate, with 117 civilian casualties (45 killed, 72 injured), followed by Diyala with 9 killed and 35 injured, and Kirkuk with 20 killed and 16 injured”.
Baghdad (Iraqinews.com) – Iraqi military said on Friday that its forces arrested two terrorists in western Mosul city, where the former self-styled caliphate of Islamic State was established in 2014.
“Troops of the 20th division of Iraqi military intelligence managed to capture two terrorists after besieging them in Rajm Hadid district in Western Mosul,” Iraqi news website Alghad Press quoted Iraqi intelligence as saying in a statement.
“The forces acted on precise intelligence data as they made the arrest pursuant to article 4/1 of the anti-terrorism law,” the statement read.
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Nineveh (IraqiNews.com) Iraqi troops backed by U.S. advisers have taken hold of the borderline between Syria and Iraq’s Nineveh province, a police commander was quoted saying.
Hamad al-Names, commander of Nineveh police, told BasNews website that Iraqi army forces have entered three villages to secure the borderline extending from Sinjar desert to Baaj desert, west of djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... The forces will establish a permanent military base at sinjar mountain, according to Names.
A U.S.-led coalition backed Iraqi forces’ operations against IS in 2014, but declared last April the end of its land operations and shifting to training and consultancy missions.
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[IsraelTimes] Israeli troops opened fire on two Paleostinians spotted crossing into Israeli territory from the Gazoo Strip on Saturday afternoon, the army said, amid heightened tensions along the Gazoo border.
The Israel Defense Forces said troops patrolling the area saw the "terrorist cell" as it breached the border along the southern portion of the border fence. Soldiers shot up the Paleostinians, who fled back into Gazoo.
The army said the Paleostinians were seeking to damage "security infrastructure" in Israel.
So much for the hudna Egypt worked so hard to impose — as the Gazans restart their uneven tit for tat with Israel
[IsraelTimes] Sirens blare in southern Israel throughout night, sending thousands of Israelis to bomb shelters; one rocket said to land in open area
The Iron Dome missile defense system intercepted three projectiles fired at southern Israel by terrorist groups in the Gazoo Strip, with another apparently landing in Israeli territory, in four separate attacks in the predawn hours of Sunday, the army said.
Thousands of Israelis were sent rushing to bomb shelters throughout the night as sirens were repeatedly triggered to warn them of incoming fire.
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From a game theory perspective, Disproportional Response is just a variation of Tit For Tat that signals to your opponent you are very displeased with his choice. Last thing you want is failure to communicate, right?
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How many times have we seen the 'all sides but one terrorist sign hudna' ploy?
'Disproportionate response' is appropriate when dealing with Perfidious Opponents -- they are going to lie, they are going to cheat. The only tactic is to make them Fear your (à la the Mongols) response.
[IsraelTimes] IDF says Paleostinian man rubbed out after trying to run over troops with small tractor in West Bank city; no soldiers injured
Israeli troops thwarted an attempted car-ramming attack Saturday in the southern West Bank city of Hebron, the army said.
The driver of the vehicle tried to run over soldiers stationed on a road leading to the Tomb of the Patriarchs but was rubbed out by troops, according to the Israel Defense Forces.
The army said the Paleostinian assailant first attempted to run over an officer and another soldier with a small tractor.
"The force performed the protocols for stopping a suspicious person, during which the terrorist turned around and continued to drive in order to run over civilians passing by," the IDF said.
"Another soldier standing on the roof of a nearby building identified the threat toward the civilians on the road and shot up the terrorist, from which he was killed," it added.
The army said the attacker was a 35-year-old from the nearby village of Beit Ummar. Paleostinian media named him as Rami Sabarnah.
No soldiers were maimed during the incident, the IDF said.
[Bangkok Post] A former village chief was gunned down on the way to a local tea shop after returning from a village mosque in Narathiwat province on Wednesday night.
Police spokesman Theerapong Pimpa said Arseng Madeeya was gunned down in Sungai Padi district at around 8pm. The victim, who was an ex-assistant Bue Ra-ngae village leader, was shot three times. He was found lying in a pool of blood near a motorcycle. Security forces found seven spent M16 cartridges scattered over the area.
An investigation found that Mr Arseng had worked in Kelantan in Malaysia and recently took leave to return home at Bue Ra-ngae village. Before the attack, he rode a motorcycle to go to a local mosque for prayers and later went to a village tea shop. On the way, an unknown number of armed men with M16 rifles ambushed him. Rungruang Thimabut, chief of Sungai Padi district,...
said on Thursday that Mr Arseng had been expelled from the assistant village head post for his alleged involvement in the illicit drug trade. After that, he went to work in Malaysia before being shot dead.
Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) The U.S.-led Coalition has brought additional military reinforcements to northeast of Syria, in the wake of remarks by the Syrian President threatening the Syrian Democratic Forces, an informed Kurdish source said on Saturday.
Speaking on condition of anonymity to BasNews website, the source said deploying French troops "in Deir az-Zour as well as the air cover by the U.S.-Coalition shows readiness to respond to whatever violation by the region against its allies, the Syrian Democratic Forces."
"La Belle France recently deployed missiles in Deir az-Zour countryside, fearing progress by the regime forces or its militias against eastern Euphrates region, controlled by SDF," he added.
The missiles, according to the source, "were previously used against the locations of the regime or its militias inside Deir az-Zour."
The U.S. State Department previously said it does not seek fighting Syrian or Iranian troops, however, it will use necessary and proportional force to defend the U.S. troops or its partners in war against Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're 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 the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... in Syria.
In a televised interview on Thursday, Assad expressed readiness for negotiations with the Syrian Democratic Forces, or else he would use force against them to get out of the regions they control.
Confrontations broke out recently between SDF and Syrian regime forces in Deir az-Zour, east of the country, in the wake of progress by the latter toward Eastern Euphrates.
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Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) An Iraqi Yazidi activist has revealed places where Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're 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 the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... keep Yazidi women and kiddies at underground prisons in Syria.
Speaking to the Russian Sputnik news agency, Hussein Ali al-Khansouri said Islamic State holds no less than 2000 people at regions of Sousa, Hegeen, Shoafa and Baguz in Syria’s Deir az-Zour province as well as Desheisha region, near borders between Syria and Iraq. Among the abductees are Yazidi women and kiddies.
"At Desheisha only, there are are more than 300 Yazidi children and adults, who were kidnapped by IS in August 2014," he said.
All the above mentioned regions, according to Khansouri, "are being shelled by the U.S.-led Coalition as well as French jets, especially near Desheish and Hegeen."
In February, Eidan al-Sheikh Kalo, head of the Yazidi affairs department in Duhuk, said the total number of Yazidi survivors who were held by IS since August 2014 reached 3,259 persons, with 2,076 females. The total number of Yazidi men and women who were held by IS since 2014 eached 6,417 persons, including children.
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[PRESSTV] A dozen civilians have bit the dust when the US-led coalition purportedly fighting the ISISTakfiri ...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who must be killed... terrorist group carried out a series of Arclight airstrikes on Syria’s northeastern province of Hasakah.
The so-called Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Saturday that at least 12 people had been killed the previous night as airstrikes and artillery fire by the Western military contingent struck the village of Hidaj, which is located in the southern sector of the province and controlled by ISIS.
The Britannia-based monitor added that the civilians, including two women and their children, belonged to the same family.
The Observatory further noted that the latest deaths brought to "20 the number of civilians killed by the coalition over the past 24 hours east of the Euphrates River."
Eight non-combatants were killed on Thursday, when the US-led coalition bombarded an area in Syria’s eastern province of Dayr al-Zawr.
Local sources told Syria’s official news agency SANA on May 1 that 25 people had been killed in US-led aerial attacks against al-Fadhel village near al-Shaddadi town in the southern part of Hasakah province, located 650 kilometers northeast of the capital Damascus.
The sources added that there were two elderly men among the dear departed, noting that the fatalities mainly consisted of women and kiddies.
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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.
Somalia's version of the Taliban, functioning as an arm of al-Qaeda...
