[ArianaNews] Pak forces shot up an Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA) check post in Kandahar province on Wednesday night and Thursday morning, local officials said.
Officials said that there had been a short clash between IEA forces and Pak forces in Spinboldak district of Kandahar.
Officials said Pak forces opened fire on the IEA at a check post for no reason.
IEA forces responded by firing back on Thursday morning.
According to officials, no damage nor casualties were reported.
Pak forces also fired off two mortars from across the Durand Line, officials said.
Officials said that due to the shelling, Chaman-Spin Boldak was closed for the movement of travellers for the moment.
However, if you can't say something nice about a person some juicy gossip will go well... Haji Zaid, the front man for the provincial governor’s office, confirmed the incident but said that at the moment the situation is under controll and the crossing has been reopened for the public.
PAKISTAN/AFGHANISTAN SKIRMISH AT SPIN BOLDAK GATE – Conflicting reports about a confirmed skirmish at the Spin Boldak crossing have been surfacing since late yesterday evening. Taliban and Pakistani security forces exchanged fire for up to an hour and 1 Afghan woman was reportedly killed with a further 8 non-combatants wounded. The gate was closed for a time but is now allowing only commercial traffic to cross. The situation remains tense.
ANOTHER CLASH OVER LAND REFORM IN GHAZNI – Confirmed reports that another clash between local residents and people attempting to occupy land occurred in Ghazni. The clash has claimed the lives of 3 unidentified Afghans and another 5 were reportedly wounded. It is not clear who initiated the violence. A local source said the Taliban at a nearby garrison were reluctant to intervene in the dispute.
PHONE ROUNDUP IN PANJSHIR – Local sources say the Taliban in select areas of Panjshir are now inspecting people’s phones at checkpoints and while they conduct foot patrols. If the phone has a camera, it is seized from its owner. Early reports indicate the phones are taken when visiting a bank, at checkpoints, or by patrolling security personnel. It is not clear how widespread the practice is but most observers think it is in response to the recent visit by the UN Special Rapporteur.
REGIONAL SECURITY GROUP WARNS OF TERRORISTS STAGING NEAR TAJIK/AFGHAN BORDER – Ruslan Mirzayev, Director of the Executive Committee of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization’s Regional Anti-Terrorism Structure (RATS) reportedly told select journalists the organization believed that approximately 13,500 members of terror groups are bivouacked along the Tajik border. The remarks came on Tuesday at a regional terrorism conference held in Dushanbe.
KYRGYZ COUNTERNARCOTICS OFFICE SAYS DRUGS SHIPMENTS FROM AFGHANISTAN ON THE RISE – The Kyrgyz Chief of the Department of the State Service on Drug Control (Ministry of Internal Affairs), Aidar Shigaev told a regional group meeting in Uzbekistan that drug trafficking through his country had increased. He went on to say his agents have noticed the narcotics are both old stocks and freshly refined. He concluded by saying that in addition to hashish and heroin, synthetically produced drugs were being seized in ever-increasing numbers.
CONFLICT TRACKER Baghlan: Resistance Forces said to have killed between one and twelve Taliban, wounding 8 more in Banu. Among the dead is believed to be the security commander for Banu. Maidan Wardak: Taliban security forces were said to have been conducting a clearing operation in Behsud district, wounding 8 non-combatants. Homes wre reportedly burned as well. Uruzgan: The ALM reported a successful targeted assassination of Qari Nasir in Gaizab district, Nasir was the Talib military commander of the district.
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PHONE ROUNDUP CONFIRMED – Immediately before our publication deadline, we received several Taliban text messages and a voice message from a known Taliban leader ordering the security forces in Panjshir to confiscate people’s cell phones. In the voice message, the unnamed Taliban official orders troops to punish those found with phones. While we have yet to receive reports of personal violence, our analysis suggests the information to be valid. At-risk Afghans in Panjshir are urged not to carry their cell phones on their persons for the immediate future.
UN SURVEYS PANJSHIR FOR WAR CRIMES – Richard Bennett, UN Special Rapporteur for Afghanistan toured the Province and attempted to gain insight into the alleged mistreatment of non-combatants and the execution/torture of supposed Resistance collaborators. Local observers claim that residents in Panjshir had organized protests to coincide with the visit. A source in the Ministry of the Interior claimed the leadership has been very concerned about the visit and has been meeting in a restricted office with members of the Ministry of Defense. His report is expected sometime next week.
TAJIKISTAN SAYS 3,000 TERRORISTS CURRENTLY HOLD AFGHAN PASSPORTS – The Tajik government continued its criticism of the Taliban regime by claiming they had issued over 3,000 Afghan passports to terror groups in the country. The claim was made by the Minister of the Interior yesterday and may corroborate the analysis conducted by the Afghan Digest in March 2022. Following closely on the heels of the Minister’s remarks, President Emomali Rahmon called for the establishment of a ‘security belt’ around Afghanistan.
TTP AMBUSHED PAKISTANI MILITARY IN N. WAZIRISTAN – A band of TTP militants used an improvised explosive device to ambush a Pakistani military roving security patrol in N. Waziristan. All the occupants were believed to have been killed in the blast but the number of dead is currently unknown.
TALIBAN RECRUITMENT EFFORT IN PANJSHIR – Taliban security force personnel in Panjshir are reportedly going door-to-door in select communities with offers to join their ranks. They have promised 13,000 Afghanis to each soldier who signs up. Whether that figure is a one-time bonus or the monthly pay is unknown. Sources in the Ministry of Defense have long insisted the pay for the Taliban troops has been irregular and some of the local Commanders often steal the funds for themselves. It is not currently clear how successful the recruitment effort has been.
FOOTBALL BANNED IN BAGDHIS – Taliban leaders in Baghdis Province have purportedly stated that the sport has no religious basis and have prohibited it. This information has not yet been verified.
CONFLICT TRACKER Badakhshan: A roadside bomb was detonated in Argo district Wednesday evening, The blast killed 1 Talib fighter and wounded 2 more. No group has claimed credit for the attack. Badakhshan: A NRF platoon reportedly ambushed and killed 5 Talib snipers in Shiwa. According to a witness, 3 of the Taliban were foreigners, but did not specify their homeland. Kabul: A roadside bomb was detonated in the Niaz Bey neighbourhood of the fifth police district. The blast killed one non-combatant and may have injured others, No group has claimed responsibility.
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FOREIGN TALIBAN SYMPATHIZERS HELPING TARGET AFGHANS ONLINE – Sources within the Ministries of the Interior and Defense are claiming that many pro-Taliban online users are assisting the Taliban by copying information from social media accounts and infiltrating online groups, posing as anti-Taliban sympathizers and collecting information. While not a new phenomenon, it comes at a time when online social activism is running high with the #stophazaragenocide and #stoptajikgenocide movements in full swing.
PANJSHIRI AND HAZARA ARRESTS EXPECTED TO CONTINUE – While the visit of the UN Human Rights reporter was expected to force a halt to arrests in Northern and Western Kabul, sources and eyewitnesses say the practice has continued. It is not clear if ethnic minorities are being taken for registration or imprisonment. At-risk Afghans are cautioned to avoid going out if at all possible and to avoid wearing ethnically distinct clothing until the activity ceases.
[Garowe] Amid intensive clan mobilization and coordinated operations against al-Shabaab ...... Somalia's version of the Taliban ...Arabic for students... , functioning as an arm of al-Qaeda... , the al-Qaeda-linked group executed retaliation on Wednesday in central Somalia, waging two separate attacks which left at least 21 people dead.
In the first explosion just near the main bridge to Jalalaqsi town where Djiboutian military's Forward Operating Base is located within HirShabelle, the bandidosbandidos bad boys activated a boom-mobile but the soldiers manning the security check acted swiftly.
The bandidosbandidos bad boys were targeting the Forward Operating Base manned by the Djiboutian troops but their intentions were countered, although senior officers were killed in the attack, including the major of the town who happened to be at the site.
"At around 2:30 p.m., a vehicle arrived at the checkpoint, one of the soldiers collecting taxation pointed a gun and stopped it," said Mire Hussein Siyad, deputy district commissioner of Jalalaqsi.
"When the gun was pointed at [it], the vehicle went kaboom!," Siyad told VOA Somali.
The explosion, he noted, killed at least 15 people including the town mayor Adan Mohammed Isse, and Mohammed Nur Agajof Dabaashe, the district commissioner. Dabaashe was recently replaced as Jalalaqsi commissioner, but he had not handed over responsibility yet, Siyad said.
Also killed in the deadly attack were soldiers at the checkpoint and a number of civilians including hawkers in the streets of the town. A tall building near the checkpoint was badly damaged and two officers serving in 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 maimed.
The attack, Siyad claimed, was targeting the main bridge as a tactic to paralyze the movement of the soldiers who have been pursuing the bandidosbandidos bad boys on several fronts across the Horn of Africa nation. The crackdown has mainly focused on central and southern Somalia.
Separately, six people were killed on the main bridge connecting Buloburde to the rest of the country after the al-Shabaab used a three-wheeled cycle of violence to bomb the bridge in an attack that saw four civilians dead. Two soldiers within the vicinity also went titzup.
The district commissioner of Bulobarde, Ahmed Mahad Nur, told VOA Somali that two men riding the cycle of violence drove it onto the bridge. He said one of the men jumped off before the earth-shattering kaboom while the second one detonated the explosive-laden cycle of violence and died in the blast.
"They wanted to bring down the two bridges at the same time," Siyad said. "It’s the most crucial bridge between the central and southern regions," said Nur.
The two towns are situated in the Hiiraan region where clan mobilization and coordinated operations by the military have been taking place, claiming the lives of hundreds of al-Shabaab terrorists. The bandidosbandidos bad boys are said to have been on Dire Revenge missions.
[HODHODYEMENNEWS] A security bigshot loyal to Saudi-led coalition survived on Thursday an liquidation attempt with an bomb in Shabwah province, eastern Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of... Local sources reported that unidentified button men believed to be affiliated with the UAE-backed militia, targeted the car of the former security director, Awad Thiban al-Marzoqi, with an bomb while he was passing on the main street in al-Nasab neighborhood in the center of Ataq city, the capital of Shabwah.
The sources confirmed that the bombing resulted in the killing of al-Marzaki’s son, Mubarak, and the injury of son of his brother, Ahmed Thiban, who were subsequently transferred to the hospital for treatment.
Shabwah has been witnessing insecurity and chaos after the UAE-backed militia took control of the province at the beginning of this year and expelled Islah Party holy warriors from it in early August
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[IsraelTimes] Man accused of helping find weapons for jihadist button men in 2015 Gay Paree assaults was originally handed a 30-year sentence in December 2020
A man accused of helping find weapons for the jihadist button men who attacked the Charlie Hebdo ...A lefty French satirical magazine, home of what may well be the majority if the active testicles left in Europe... magazine and a Jewish supermarket in La Belle France eight years ago was given a life sentence after his appeal trial, a judicial source said Thursday.
Ali Riza Polat,
...born in Istanbul, he moved with his family to France at age three, and grew up in the same Paris suburb as his dear friend Mr. Coulibaly, where he early embarked on a life of drug dealing and petty crime. He claims to have converted to Islam (from what?) in 2014. His major triumph appears to have been marrying his defense lawyer, Isabelle Coutant-Peyre, who once defended Carlos the Jackal ...
37, who contests the charges of complicity in a terrorist attack, was originally handed a 30-year sentence in December 2020.
A second suspect who appealed his 20-year sentence for conspiring with the attackers, Amar Ramdani,
...described as intelligent — whatever that means to a French jury — the Algerian immigrated to France at the tender age of six, but only made the acquaintance of his dear friend while working together in the prison laundry two years before the events in question...
41, was again found guilty but saw his sentence reduced to 13 years.
Twelve people were massacred at Charlie Hebdo’s Gay Paree offices on January 7, 2015, by the brothers Said and Cherif Kouachi, who said they were acting on behalf of al-Qaeda to avenge the paper’s decision to publish cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed.
A day later, Amedy Coulibaly killed a 27-year-old police officer during a traffic check outside Gay Paree, before killing four Jewish men during a hostage-taking at the Hyper Cacher supermarket on January 9, claiming to act in the name 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.... terror group.
All three were killed by police, and in December 2020 a French court convicted 14 people of helping to carry out the attacks. Polat and Ramdani were the only ones to appeal their convictions.
Polat’s new sentence carries a minimum jail time of 20 years before he can be eligible for parole.
The Charlie Hebdo and Hyper Cacher killings marked the start of a deadly wave of Islamist attacks around Europe, in particular the harrowing killing spree a few months later at the Bataclan concert hall and at Gay Paree bars and cafes in November 2015.
[ShabelleMedia] Two people were killed and another maimed in a stabbing on Tuesday in southwestern Germany, police said. The suspected assailant was detained.
Police said that they were alerted to the stabbing in a suburb of the city of Ludwigshafen on Tuesday afternoon.
The 25-year-old suspect, a Somali citizen, initially expeditiously departed at a goodly pace and was detained in a drugstore.
Officers used their firearms in the process and he was maimed, but not in life-threatening condition, police said.
Police later said the victims who were killed were two German men, aged 20 and 35. The severely injured person is a 27-year-old German.
Since then it has emerged that the high-spirited youngster attempted to dismember and slit the throats of at least some of his victims, and shouted “Allahu Akhbar” during the act.
German and Ukrainian fatally attacked with machete in Ludwigshafen by a Somali denied asylum
A German (35) and a Ukrainian (20) died at the scene and another person seriously injured on Tuesday, October 18, 2020 during a knife attack in Ludwigshafen/Oggersheim. Police officers were able to fire shots at the suspect (Somali, 25 years) before arresting him; he shouted “Allahu Akhbar”.
Sources report that the perpetrator tried to cut off body parts using a machete and stabbed the neck and heart areas.
Before the act, the Somali tried to visit his children who live with his ex-girlfriend. When he didn’t succeed, he freaked out and, according to the Bild newspaper, made threats with a machete and shouted in front of the apartment.
He then killed his two victims. They are said be two painters. He then ran into a drug store and seriously injured his third victim.
The injured Somali attacker is currently in a hospital. He is scheduled to appear in court on Wednesday.
Bild reports: The victims (20, 35) are painters; one is said to have rushed to help the other. Both died from their stab and slash injuries. A neighbor: “A painter was thrown to the ground and then his left hand or arm was severed.”
Immediately after the crime, the armed attacker ran across a residential area, past shops and a kindergarten. In a drugstore 500 meters away on Comeniusstraße, the alleged killer stabbed another victim (27), seriously injuring the man.
[Rudaw] Seven members of the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) were detained by Sulaimani’s security forces on Thursday following a kaboom on a vehicle believed to be affiliated to The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the decaying remnant of the Ottoman Empire... , according to an HDP official.
A bomb went kaboom! to a vehicle in Sulaimani city on Thursday after the driver started the car. Two people, believed to be affiliated to the Ottoman Turkish government, were maimed in the incident, according to information obtained by Rudaw. However, a person who gets all wrapped up in himself makes a mighty small package... the security forces have not commented on the attack. A local health official told Rudaw that no one has been hospitalised.
Moslem Kaplan, head of HDP office in Sulaimani, told Rudaw’s Hemin Baban late Thursday that seven of its members have been detained by local security forces (Asayish).
"We are refugees and live like refugees. Our members should not be detained every time an incident and explosion takes place or someone is murdered. These incidents have nothing to do with us. It is a shame that Sulaimani’s Asayish is detaining our members while we do not know why they were detained," he said.
The two injured have not been identified and Asayish has not commented on the raids on HDP members.
Kaplan also said that Asayish raided the houses of their members, their workplace and the HDP office to detain them.
A number of HDP members have been killed in Sulaimani, with the party accusing Ottoman Turkish intelligence.
Kaplan asked why the murderers of their members have not been arrested "while they have been identified in CCTV" but their own members are detained.
[Shafaq News] An Iraqi soldier has been reportedly killed in an attack waged by a group of ISIS Lions of Islam in northern Baghdad, a security source reported on Thursday.
The source told Shafaq News Agency that the attack targeted a unit from the Iraqi army in the sub-district of al-Tarmiyah.
"A soldier was killed and two others were maimed in the blitz attack," the source said.
"The army force clashed with Lions of Islam and forced them to retreat," the source continued, "a safe house was found near the area where the encounter took place."
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[ALARABIYA] Two people were maimed in a boom-mobileing in the northern Iraqi city of Sulaimaniya on Thursday, police and hospital sources said, a relatively rare attack in a major city in Iraq’s semi-autonomous Kurdistan region.
Police cordoned off a street in central Sulaimaniya where the parked boom-mobile had went kaboom! and "an immediate investigation has been initiated" to determine the target of the attack, said a security source.
[IsraelTimes] Indictment alleges the trio, 2 of whom worked for Cellcom, provided terror group with large volume of information in order to carry out cyberattack on crucial infrastructure.
Three men from northern Israel were indicted on Thursday for allegedly sending a large volume of sensitive information to the Hamas, a regional Iranian catspaw, terror group in The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor... , and for plans to sabotage Israel’s cellular network in a future war.
According to the charge sheet, the trio were accused of committing "grave security offenses" and rendering the infrastructure of one of the country’s largest telecommunications companies vulnerable to a potential cyberattack.
One of the accused — identified only by the Hebrew initials of his first and last names, Resh Ayin — had worked for cellular giant Cellcom since 2004 as a software engineer, the indictment said.
In 2017, out of "ideological identification with Hamas and its goals," he met officials from the Paleostinian terror group while visiting Turkey, according to a joint statement by the Israel Police, the State Attorney’s Office and the Shin Bet security agency.
Resh Ayin was accused of handing the group sensitive information on communications infrastructure in Israel, which he had come across as part of his work.
In 2020 and 2021, Resh Ayin held further meetings with Hamas officials in Turkey, and at Hamas’s request, the employee asked another defendant — a freelance adviser to Cellcom on computer and communications networks, identified by his initials Shin Ayin — to hand him information on the infrastructure’s weak points, while noting this was for use by Hamas.
The two employees had also conspired since 2015 to try to paralyze Cellcom’s networks in wartime, being aware that the networks are used by military and police forces, authorities said.
"The two worked to prepare and accumulate technological means in advance, which would allow them, on a ’day of action,’ to penetrate computer and information systems, including their critical components, and run software that would disable or severely disrupt the activities of Cellcom’s communications network," the statement said.
They were indicted in the case along with Resh Ayin’s brother, who allegedly also met Hamas officials at least three times.
The three "endangered national security in a concrete and grave way," the statement said, but their plans were foiled by the security services.
The defendants’ full names and many other details were barred from publication by a court order.
Cellcom said in a statement that it "strongly condemns" the former employees’ actions.
"After a thorough examination, there is no indication of harm to our customers and there is no fear of a leak of personal information about customers," the company said.
Communications Minister Yoaz Hendel said his office would hold a "comprehensive investigation" into the "serious" case to understand its scope.
"The telecommunications companies in Israel are an attractive target for cyberattacks and therefore in the last year we have expanded regulation over the issue in order to protect the information of millions of customers and essential infrastructures," he added in a post on Twitter.
Turkey has long had close ties with the Gazoo ...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamaswith about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... Strip-based Hamas, and hosts terror group officials and units in the country.
In July, a Paleostinian man was indicted for allegedly establishing a kindergarten and a soup kitchen on orders from Hamas in Turkey, in order to strengthen the terror group’s influence in East Jerusalem.
And in March, four residents of East Jerusalem were indicted over alleged ties to Hamas and meeting with officials of the group in Turkey, with police prosecutors charging some with having planned terrorist attacks.
Defense Minister Benny Gantz’s office announced Thursday that he was slated to travel to Turkey next week for an official trip.
Gantz’s office said he was expected to meet with his Ottoman Turkish counterpart, Hulusi Akar, during the trip which was to begin Wednesday.
The planned trip comes two months after Dror Shalom, who heads the ministry’s Political-Military Bureau, met with Ottoman Turkish defense officials to "renew the lines of security relations between the countries," the ministry said.
During Shalom’s meetings in Turkey, issues that would be discussed between Gantz and Akar were agreed upon, the ministry added.
[IsraelTimes] Muhammad Fadi Nori, 16, was reported shot in abdomen near al-Bireh; troops detain seven wanted Paleostinians overnight; shots fired at Nablus-area military post.
A Paleostinian teenager critically hurt in festivities with Israeli troops last month succumbed to his wounds on Thursday morning, Paleostinian health officials said.
According to the Paleostinian Health Ministry, 16-year-old Muhammad Fadi Nori was shot in the abdomen at the entrance of the town of al-Bireh in the evening hours of September 28.
Another man, 26, was also hurt in the festivities, the ministry reported at the time.
The Israel Defense Forces told The Times of Israel that troops had used riot dispersal means, including the firing of a Ruger rifle, against Paleostinians hurling Molotov cocktails and stones, as well as setting fire to trash bins.
The .22-caliber round from a Ruger rifle is considered less lethal than the larger caliber rounds typically used by the military. Human rights groups have condemned the use of the rifle for riot control, as it can still kill.
The military said it was aware of Nori’s death and was investigating the matter.
Seven wanted Paleostinians were detained in overnight arrest raids across the West Bank, the IDF said Thursday morning.
The IDF said Paleostinian button men also shot up a military post near Nablus overnight.
"IDF forces responded by returning fire at the source of the shooting and began scanning the area. There were no casualties," the military said.
An armed Paleostinian faction calling itself the Lion’s Den grabbed credit for the shooting in a statement.
Israel imposed a closure on Nablus last week, not long after an Israeli soldier was killed in a shooting attack claimed by the group.
Some routes have been left open, through which Paleostinians may enter and leave Nablus following "a strict security check."
Shops, offices and schools have been closed across the occupied #WestBank as Palestinians go on strike to protest #Israel’s killing of a man suspected of a deadly attack against Israeli forces.https://t.co/jMhG4ji37u
[Jpost] Iranian security forces continued their brutal crackdown on protesters, beating and shooting at demonstrators.
Anti-government protests in Iran continued throughout the country on Thursday night and Friday, with videos showing large crowds chanting and blocking roads in Tehran and initial reports indicating that Starlink satellite internet service terminals have been smuggled into the country.
Video shared on social media showed protests in Mahabad, Tabriz, Tehran and Isfahan, among other locations.
One video reportedly from Tehran showed a large crowd of protesters blocking a road and burning what appeared to be a dumpster, while another video from Iran's capital showed a woman chanting "death to the dictator" from a loudspeaker on the roof of a building, with an unseen crowd repeating the slogan.
Another video from Qom showed a man knocking a headdress off of a religious man walking through the city. A number of videos from throughout Iran also showed women walking in public without wearing hijab, with one video showing women eating at the Palladium Shopping Center in Tehran without headscarves.
Another video from Tehran published on Wednesday showed two women offering hugs to passersby with a sign reading "a hug for a sad nation."
GOVERNMENT CONTINUES TO INTENSIFY VIOLENT CRACKDOWN ON PROTESTERS
Videos shared on social media in recent days continued to show a heavy government crackdown on protesters, with security forces firing tear gas and live bullets towards residential buildings in multiple cities. One video showed security forces beating protesters with batons in Rasht in northern Iran.
The exact number of casualties remains unclear, but has been reported as over 240 by Iranian opposition-affiliated human rights organizations.
The Organizing Council for Protests of Oil Contract Workers reported on Thursday that over 250 workers in the petrochemical industry had been arrested amid strikes and protests in the past two weeks.
Moeen Nehzati, an Iranian who recently moved to the US to begin university studies, tweeted this week that the "crackdown in Iran is way worse than you think, even if you've been following the news."
Nehzati stressed that most news agencies are only reporting what they can verify, but a lack of reporters on the ground and Iranians fears of talking to foreign press make verifying much of the information about the protest nearly impossible. The Iranian student added that the casualty numbers are higher than being reported, but many of the relatives of those killed are unwilling to speak publicly or to foreign press.
Voice of America journalist Shahed Alavi tweeted on Thursday that a doctor treating political prisoners at the Evin Prison saw at least 20 dead bodies in a van after a fire tore through the prison on Saturday.
INTERNET ACCESS HEAVILY RESTRICTED IN IRAN
Iranian authorities continued heavy restrictions on internet access on Thursday and Friday, with the widely cited 1500tasvir Twitter account reporting in recent days that the condition of internet access was even worse than it has been in the past month.
The internet restrictions have made it exceedingly difficult for reports and footage from the protests in Iran to be published on social media, meaning that the full extent of the ongoing protests is unclear.
On Thursday video and photos were shared on social media purporting to show Starlink satellite internet service equipment being set up in Iran, although reports conflicted on whether the equipment was set up in Ahvaz or Tehran.
Firouz Naderi, an Iranian-American who formerly served as the director of Solar System Exploration at NASA, tweeted on Wednesday that middle men were trying to sell Starlink terminals on the black market in Iran for $2,000-$3,000, despite about three dozen terminals having been donated for free with paid subscriptions.
PROTESTS SET TO CONTINUE IN COMING WEEK
Next week, Iranians will mark 40 days since the killing of Mahsa Amini, an important marker in Shi'ite mourning rituals.
Demonstrations will also be held in Berlin on Saturday in support of Iranian protesters.
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Women. Oppressed islamic women. Aah the sheer moslemnicious flavour of such a revolt. What's not to love? Where else would you hear such lively slogans? Nay, not in Toronto. Nor shall you read such a placard in Paree for that matter.
[IsraelTimes] Russia has drawn down forces in Syria, including removing a sophisticated air defense system that has been a major threat to Israeli Air Force operations in the country, according to a Wednesday night report. Yassss. How many Jooo jets did they shoot down?
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... which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize... said the development could open the door for Jerusalem to upgrade its level of support for Kyiv, as Russia’s presence in Syria has been a major consideration for Israel’s position on the matter.
The transfer of the S-300 anti-aircraft system out of Syria comes amid a larger Russian drawdown in the country as it seeks to bolster its faltering offensive against Ukraine, according to a senior Israeli defense official and two senior Western diplomats cited by The Times.
In August, satellite images captured by Israeli firm ImageSat International appeared to show an S-300 battery being moved from Masyaf in northwest Syria to a port at Tartus and then on to Novorossiysk, a Russian port on the Black Sea near Crimea.
The officials offered different estimates on how many troops have been pulled from Syria. Two put the number at a couple of battalions, or 1,200-1600 soldiers, while the third said the number was much higher. The senior Israeli defense official said the withdrawn troops had been replaced with military coppers.
The three officials said the redeployment would decrease Russian leverage on Israel, and this may lead Jerusalem to reconsider its support for Ukraine.
Kyiv has repeatedly pressed Israel to supply it with air defense systems and military equipment.
Though it has on several occasions harshly criticized Russia’s actions in Ukraine, Jerusalem has so far avoided providing direct military aid to Kyiv — neither offensive arms nor advanced defensive technology — in an attempt to avoid sparking a crisis with Moscow.
The Israeli position is believed to be based on its desire to maintain freedom of operations in Syria, as well as to avoid causing problems for Russia’s large Jewish community.
Moscow has already moved to curb Jewish institutions in the country: Over the summer Russia’s Justice Ministry filed a petition to liquidate the Russian offices of the Jewish Agency for Israel — a semi-governmental organization that encourages and facilitates Jewish immigration — in what analysts view as a reaction to Israel’s criticism of the invasion.
Kurdish authorities in northeastern #Syria are to hand over around 40 Russian children, who are relatives of suspected #ISIS group members, for repatriation, according to a Kurdish official.https://t.co/NQivGJmYiI
Kurdish authorities in northeastern Syria are to hand over around 40 Russian children, who are relatives of suspected ISIS group members, for repatriation Thursday, a Kurdish official said.
"Today (Thursday), around 40 Russian children will be transferred to a Russian government delegation," the official told AFP, speaking on condition of anonymity ... for fear of being murdered... Authorities are to hold a presser later Thursday about the returns.
The Kurdish administration holds thousands of Syrians and foreigners with alleged ties to ISIS in its custody, after spearheading a US-backed campaign that stripped ISIS of its last territory in Syria in 2019.
Alleged imported muscle are held in jails, while women and kiddies with ties to the group live in camps for the displaced.
The Russian repatriations follow a similar move by La Belle France, which announced it had repatriated 40 children and 15 women from camps in Syria Thursday.
Syria’s Kurds have repeatedly urged the international community to repatriate foreign nationals held in overcrowded camps.
But their calls have largely fallen on deaf ears with only limited numbers, mostly children, allowed to return as home countries fear security threats and a domestic political backlash.
Nearly 4,500 Russians went to fight alongside ISIS, and Moscow was the first to organise returns from Syria and also Iraq.
At least 341 Russians, many of them orphans, were repatriated between 2018 and late 2021, following the first returns of women and kiddies spearheaded by Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov.
A Russian delegation in Syria Thursday took 38 children from families of suspected Islamic State (IS) group members for repatriation, a Kurdish official and AFP correspondents said.
Kurdish authorities in northeast Syria handed over the children, "most of whom are orphans", to the Russian delegation, Kurdish foreign affairs official Khaled Ibrahim told a press conference in the city of Qamishli.
The children were taken from the Kurdish-run Al-Hol and Roj camps to the regime-controlled Qamishli airport, where they boarded a plane under heavy Russian security, AFP correspondents said.
France on Thursday repatriated 40 children and 15 women with suspected links to the Islamic State (ISIS) from the notorious al-Hol camp in northeast Syria’s (Rojava), the French foreign ministry said on Thursday.
This marked the largest such transfer since July when France, following pressure from campaigners, returned 35 children and 16 mothers from the Syrian camps, according to AFP.
The children were handed over to child protection services and will have medical as well as social care follow-ups, according to the foreign ministry statement, while the women were handed over to the authorities.
Last month the European Court of Human Rights condemned France for refusing to repatriate two of its citizens from Syria who traveled to the war-torn country to join their husbands who were Islamic State (ISIS) members.
The French government has been criticized by rights groups for its slow process of repatriating its citizens from camps in Syria, usually repatriating them in small numbers.
The refusal of the repatriation of the two French citizens by authorities was carried out “without any formal decision or judicial review ensuring lack of arbitrariness,” the France-based court stated, further calling on authorities to review the request of the women’s parents to repatriate their children.
While France has not yet assessed the repatriation request, the EU court has ordered the French government to pay 18,000 euros and 13,200 euros to each of the two parents of the women respectively.
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