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ISIS leader involved in murder of US aid worker Peter Kassig killed
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Afghanistan
Militant involved in target killings eliminated in Lashkargah city
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] A Lion of Islam who was involved in murder has been eliminated during an operation of the Afghan forces in Lashkargah city, the placid provincial capital of Helmand
...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan...
province.

The Ministry of Interior (MoI) in a statement said another accomplice of the Lion of Islam was also maimed during the same operation.

The statement further added that the murderous Moslems were involved in the murders of security personnel, tribal elders, and religious scholars.

According to the Ministry of Interior, the two murderous Moslems belonged to the group of Mullah Manan, the shadow governor of the Taliban
...the Pashtun equivalent of men...
in Helmand.

The Afghan forces also confiscated a weapon and a cycle of violence during the operation, the Ministry of Interior added.

The anti-government armed Lion of Islam groups including Talibs have not commented regarding the killing of Mullah Manan’s two murderous Moslems so far.

Helmand has been among the relatively volatile provinces in the South but the security situation in some of its districts has tanked sharply during the recent months.
Posted by: Fred || 12/03/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Taliban


Afghan Special Forces arrest notorious irresponsible commander in Takhar
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The Afghan Special Forces have tossed in the calaboose
Into the paddy wagon wit' yez!
a notorious commander of irresponsible gang in northeastern Takhar province of Afghanistan.

Commander Naweed alias commander Naweed Khanabadi was arrested from Taloqan city after remaining under the siege of Special Forces inside a hospital for almost thirty hours.

A front man for Takhar Security Commandment Khalil Asir confirmed that commander Naweed was arrested on Sunday.

According to reports, commander Naweed had arrived in Taloqan city along with his six comrades for the treatment of one of his maimed comrades.

However,
a clean conscience makes a soft pillow...
the security officials are saying that commander Naweed had fled Khanabad district and had arrived in Taloqan city after engaging in a shootout with the security forces.

The officials are saying that commander Naweed surrendered to the Special Forces after remaining under siege for almost thirty hours.

Commander Naweed is accused of leading a group of irresponsible gunnies who are involved in extortion, harassment of the people, and other illegal activities.

Posted by: Fred || 12/03/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under: Taliban


64 militants killed, wounded in Afghan, foreign forces operations in Ghazni
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The Afghan Military in the Southeast claims that 64 bully boyz have been killed during the operations of the Afghan and foreign forces in Ghazni province.

The 203rd Thunder Corps of the Afghan Military in the Southeast in a statement said the Afghan and coalition forces carried out Arclight airstrikes in Andaar, Deh Yak, Qarabagh, and Geru districts, leaving at least 35 bully boyz dead.

The statement further added that at least 17 bully boyz were also maimed during the same operations.

According to 203rd Thunder Corps, the military commission chief of the group for Deh Yak Hazrat Khalid and two other group leaders were among those killed.

In the meantime, a mini-van packed with explosives was destroyed in an airstrike of the coalition forces in Deh Yak district, the 203rd Thunder Corps said, adding that the Afghan forces also conducted operations first lane of Kabul-Kandahar highway in Qarabagh district, leaving at least 7 bully boyz dead and 5 more maimed.

Posted by: Fred || 12/03/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Taliban


Taliban militant killed in D.I. Khan encounter
[DAWN] A suspected Taliban
...Arabic for students...
holy warrior was killed and three security personnel were maimed in an encounter in the Daraban area of Dera Ismail Khan
... the Pearl of Pashtunistan ...
on Saturday.

According to sources, security forces launched an operation in the Gara Alam locality on information about the presence of Talibs there.

On seeing members of security forces encircling the area, the holy warrior opened fire and lobbed hand grenades at the security forces.

The security forces returned fire, triggering a shootout which continued for 14 hours before the holy warrior was killed.

He was identified as Abdul Hakeem, son of Abdur Rehman. He hailed from Gandapur tribe of Kulachi tehsil of Dera Ismail Khan. He was wanted by police in a number of terrorist acts.

Three security personnel, who were maimed in the encounter, were taken to hospital.
Posted by: Fred || 12/03/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: TTP


US airstrike kills key Taliban leader in Afghanistan
[DAWN] A senior Taliban
...mindless ferocity in a turban...
military commander has been killed in a US Arclight airstrike in Afghanistan, officials said on Sunday.

Abdul Manan, who was the Taliban's 'shadow governor' in the southern Helmand
...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan...
province, died of wounds sustained during an airstrike late on Saturday said Omar Zwak, a front man for the official governor of the province.

Manan's death was also confirmed by the Taliban who in a statement described it as a "big loss" for the group but vowed that it will not affect their military operations.

Helmand ‐ the region that supplies the largest share of Afghanistan's opium crop ‐ has been the scene of bitter fighting for years with 10 out of 14 districts of the province either controlled or contested by the Taliban.

As a senior Taliban leader, Abdul Manan had led the insurgency group's expansion as it expanded control over the opium-rich province in recent years.

Afghan interior ministry front man Najib Danish said Manan was the Death Eaters' top military leader in southern Afghanistan and his death was a major blow to the Taliban.

"His death will lower the morale of the enemy, and result in (the) improvement of security in Helmand and other southern provinces," Najib Danish told AFP.

Danish said that 32 other Taliban fighters were also killed in the airstrike.

A US force front man in Afghanistan confirmed the airstrike had killed the Taliban shadow governor.

"The Taliban should consider intensifying peace talks, not the fight. They're going to have trouble intensifying the fight when their fighters and leaders are under constant assault," Col Dave Butler said in a statement.

Abdul Manan was on the blacklist unveiled mid-October by the Riyadh-based Terrorist Financing Targeting Center (TFTC), which imposed financial sanctions on nine individuals, including six Taliban members.
Posted by: Fred || 12/03/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under: Taliban


Africa Horn
One Dead, Two Injured In Mogadishu Bomb Explosion
[RADIOSHABELLE] A suicide boom-mobile has gone off at a checkpoint near Somalia’s parliament and interior ministry in the capital Mogadishu on Sunday afternoon, killing at least one and injuring 2.

The bomb went kaboom! at the heavily guarded area and a police checkpoint.

The latest reports said a civil servant was killed after a bomb under his car went off while driving on the busy Makka Al Mukarama road in Mogadishu.

The police sealed off the scene following the kaboom and removed the wreckage of the car from the area, allowing then the public movement and transportations.

Al-Shabaab
... the Islamic version of the old Somali warlord...
is blamed for the attack targeting the government official.
Posted by: Fred || 12/03/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: al-Shabaab (AQ)


Africa Subsaharan
Boko Haram raid kills two soldiers in NE Nigeria
[AlAhram] Boko Haram
... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality...
jihadists killed two soldiers and seriously maimed five militia members in separate attacks in the troubled northeast of the country, military and militia sources told AFP Sunday.

Gunmen from Boko Haram faction 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....
West Africa Province (ISWAP) attacked a remote base in Buni Gari village, in Yobe state, 60 kilometres (37 miles) from the state capital Damaturu on Saturday, with six of the attackers killed.

"We lost two soldiers in the attack and six bandidos murderous Moslems were also killed and their bodies recovered by soldiers," a military officer told AFP.

Air support and reinforcements from a military base in the nearby town of Buni Yadi "effectively routed" the jihadists, said the officer. He asked not to be named because he was not cleared to speak about the incident.

A member of the militia fighting beside the troops confirmed that the bodies of two soldiers and six jihadists had been recovered after the shootout, which lasted less than an hour.

Buni Yadi district is a known ISWAP stronghold

Around the same time in Maiduguri, capital of neighbouring Borno state, ajacket wallah'> exploding trollop female suicide bomber
seriously maimed five members of the local militia at a checkpoint.

Civilian militia members had stopped two exploding trollop female suicide bombers at Muna Garage security checkpoint, but one managed to detonate her boom jacket, militia leader Babakura Kolo said.

"The bomber and her accomplice were killed in the blast while five of our colleagues were maimed," Kolo said.

"The explosives on the other bomber did not detonate and were defused by a bomb squad," he said.

The attack bore the hallmark of the Abubakar Shekau
... the lunatic leader of Boko Haram who has been reported dead at least eleven times, pledged his body and soul to ISIS, told his fighters to hang it up once or twice, and been fired by the Caliph and refused to step down ...
faction of Boko Haram, notorious for using suicide bombers to attack military and civilian targets.

Boko Haram has in recent months intensified attacks on military targets in Borno and Yobe states.

The two states, along with nearby Adamawa state, have born the brunt of nine years of jihadist violence that has claimed 27,000 lives and forced 1.8 million people to flee their homes.

Since July, AFP has reported 18 attacks on military bases in Borno and Yobe, and ISWAP has grabbed credit for most of them.
Posted by: trailing wife || 12/03/2018 01:12 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under: Boko Haram (ISIS)


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Israeli forces teargas Palestinian protesters in Nablus
[AA.TR] Scores of Paleostinians suffered temporary asphyxiation on Sunday by teargas fired by Israeli forces in the West Bank city of Nablus.

Israeli soldiers used teargas canisters and rubber bullets to disperse demonstrators, who marched toward Hawara checkpoint south of Nablus, according to an Anadolu Agency correspondent in the area.

Paleostinian protesters hurled stones at Israeli soldiers, the correspondent said.

According to medics, dozens of demonstrators affected by teargas were treated on the spot.

There was no comment from the Israeli military on the report.

Sunday’s rally was staged to protest recent Israeli violations in the occupied city of East Jerusalem.

Israel recently incarcerated
Youse'll never take me alive coppers!... [BANG!]... Ow!... I quit!
Jerusalem governor Adnan Gaith and several members of Paleostinian group Fatah before an Israeli court on Sunday ordered their conditional release.

Posted by: Fred || 12/03/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Hamas


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
US-led coalition attacks Syrian Army in Homs province
[PRESSTV] Syria says the United States-led coalition alleging to be fighting Takfiri
...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...
forces of Evil in the Arab country has attacked the positions of the country’s army in a central province.

"A military source said on Sunday that at around 8 PM, the US-led alliance forces fired several rockets at army positions in al-Ghurab mountain south of al-Sekhneh, causing only material damage," the official Syrian Arab News Agency reported, citing a military source. The area is located in Homs province.

According to a so-called monitoring group, the coalition forces at a US military base in al-Tanf region fired "more than 14 missiles" at a Syrian army convoy as it was passing through the desert in the far east of Homs province.

"The group was lost in the middle of the desert around 35 kilometers from the al-Tanf base," the UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights told AFP.

The coalition invaded Syria without a United Nations
...an organization conceived in the belief that we're just one big happy world, with the sort of results you'd expect from such nonsense...
mandate in 2014 under the pretext of defeating the Takfiri terror group of ISIS. It sustains its operations although Syria and its allies defeated the outfit late last year.

In September, the monitor said US Arclight airstrikes had killed 3,331 civilians in Syria since they began.

Posted by: Fred || 12/03/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Syria


ISIS leader involved in murder of US aid worker Peter Kassig killed
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] A senior ISIS leader who was involved in the murder of former US Army Ranger Peter Kassig, was killed in a dronezap in Syria on Sunday, Fox News reported citing the US-led coalition said.

Abu al Umarayn
...sometimes spelt Abou al Oumarayn...
is believed to have been involved in the beheading of Kassig, a US aid worker who was kidnapped by ISIS in Oct. 2013 as he was on his way to Deir Ezzour in eastern Syria to deliver food and medical supplies to refugees.
The Times of Israel adds:
Peter Kassig, aged 26 at the time of his death, founded a humanitarian organization in 2012 and adopted the name Abdul Rahman after his conversion to Islam.
Posted by: Fred || 12/03/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State



Who's in the News
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4Govt of Iran
3Sublime Porte
2Muslim Brotherhood
1Govt of Syria
1Hamas
1Houthis
1Islamic State
1Palestinian Authority
1Tehreek-i-Labbaik Pakistan
1Tin Hat Dictators, Presidents for Life,
1TTP
1al-Nusra
1al-Shabaab (AQ)
1Boko Haram (ISIS)
1Govt of Pakistain Proxies

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Two weeks of WOT
Mon 2018-12-03
  ISIS leader involved in murder of US aid worker Peter Kassig killed
Sun 2018-12-02
  TLP leader Khadim Hussain Rizvi booked under treason, terrorism charges: information minister
Sat 2018-12-01
  Bush the Elder dies at 94
Fri 2018-11-30
  Around 70 militants killed, wounded in 4-day operations in Kunduz
Thu 2018-11-29
  28 ISIS-K, Taliban militants killed in Afghan and U.S. forces operations
Wed 2018-11-28
  Over 200 TLP activists booked under sedition, other charges in Rawalpindi
Tue 2018-11-27
  Somali Muslim Arrested for Attempting to Mow Down Jews With Car in Front of L.A. Synagogue
Mon 2018-11-26
  ISIS-K spokesman killed in Afghan Special Forces operation in Nangarhar
Sun 2018-11-25
  Federal officials close border into Mexico amid migrant protests
Sat 2018-11-24
  U.S. Airstrikes Kill 50 Al-Shabaab Jihadis in Somalia
Fri 2018-11-23
  Terror attack on Chinese Consulate in Karachi foiled; 2 policemen martyred
Thu 2018-11-22
  PA court sentences Palestinians to 15 years hard labor for selling land to Jews
Wed 2018-11-21
  US military says strikes killed over 30 suspected militants in Somalia
Tue 2018-11-20
  Daesh suffers devastating defeat as Syrian Army liberates entire Al-Safa region
Mon 2018-11-19
  Key Taliban commanders among 7 detained by Afghan Commandos in Takhar


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