[FoxNews] It's the third major fentanyl bust by Border Patrol between ports of entry this month.
Border Patrol agents based in the San Diego Sector seized 232 pounds of fentanyl with a street value of about $3 million from a single vehicle, officials announced on Monday.
The massive drug bust took place during a traffic stop in San Clemente, a wealthy enclave about 75 miles inland from the U.S.-Mexico border in San Diego, multiple Border Patrol sources told Fox News.
It's the third major fentanyl bust so far this month by Border Patrol between ports of entry, meaning that the drugs were successfully smuggled past CBP in a vehicle or were backpacked into the U.S. by mules.
Border Patrol agents in Yuma, Arizona, seized 93 pounds of fentanyl from a single smuggler on Feb. 15, while agents seized 24 pounds of fentanyl from a group of smugglers on Feb. 14 near Nogales, Arizona.
Border Patrol Chief Raul Ortiz noted that the 232 pounds of fentanyl seized in Monday's bust was enough to kill 50 million people.
Trafficking of fentanyl, a dangerous opioid 50 times more powerful than heroin, has surged in recent years.
Seizures of fentanyl by CBP jumped from about 4,800 pounds in 2020 to 14,700 pounds last year. At least 12,500 pounds of fentanyl have already been seized in the first four months of fiscal year 2023, which began last October.
Drug overdose deaths involving fentanyl, meanwhile, jumped about 22% in 2021 over 2020. The drug was involved in about two-thirds of the record 106,699 drug overdose deaths nationwide in 2021.
Fentanyl and the precursors used to manufacture it typically originate in China and make their way into the United States via the border, which is suffering a historic crisis in illegal crossings that began to surge after Biden's election. The powerful opioid goes by several street names, according to the Drug Enforcement Agency, including Apace, China Girl, China Town, China White, Dance Fever, Goodfellas, Great Bear, He-Man, Poison, and Tango & Cash.
[ToloNews] The Islamic Emirate reported that two members of ISIS were killed and another was arrested Sunday night as a result of an operation at their hideout in the Zakirn township in Kabul's PD17.
The Islamic Emirate's deputy spokesperson, Bilal Karimi, added that this group had a destructive purpose but was stopped before reaching its target.
"Last night, Islamic Emirate forces carried out an operation on a ISIS hideout in the Khairkhana area of Zakrin in Kabul city, as a result of which two ISIS members were killed, and one was arrested. The forces of the Islamic Emirate have also obtained a lot of weapons and ammunition rounds," Karimi noted.
Several residents of PD17 said that these people had rented and resided at the home for eight months, and they added that there have been financial losses due to damage from the fighting.
"These people were residing in a home that the owner had rented them for about eight months. The owner of the home didn't let us know, and one of these individuals had a Zaranj cycle of violence, as if he was working in the market," said Zainullah, a people’s representative in PD17.
"We have financial losses, but happily no one was hurt. When I got home from work, the residence of these people was surrounded," said Zabiullah, a resident of PD17.
"In order to prevent the spread and rise of this group, it is vital to fight in a coordinated manner and build a regional consensus against them," said Sadiq Shinwari, a military analyst.
Earlier this month, the forces of the Islamic Emirate conducted a military operation against a ISIS hideout in the Karte-Now area of Kabul, which resulted in the deaths of three and the injury of one of the group's members.
One of the killed snuffies was Qari Fateh, known as the intelligence chief and a former minister of war of the IS-Khorasan province, said Mujahid.
The statement also said that Qari Fateh was the main criminal mastermind for the ISK and was responsible for planning several attacks, including those on Russian, Pakistain, and Chinese diplomatic missions in Kabul.
Mujahid also confirmed the killing of Rjaz Ahamd Ahangar, also known as Abu Osman, the so-called first Amir of the Islamic state Hind province and a big shot of the ISK in southern Afghanistan along with two others members of the group.
The statement also said that several other ISIS members, including foreign nationals, have been detained who planned deadly attacks in recent days.
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TAJIKISTAN AND AFGHANISTAN BUILD UP FORCES ALONG SHARED BORDER – Sources on both sides of the border say that military and police units have been reinforced steadily over the past week. They attribute the moves to two reasons:
A precautionary measure in advance of the anticipated Spring Campaign season by the Resistance.
An effort to halt drug smuggling across the border.
SEARCHES IN PD11 HAVE LIMITED OBJECTIVE – In yesterday’s reporting, a source said searches would be carried out in PD 11 in Kabul. An update clarified that only a Mosque and a nearby house were searched. Apparently, the Imam was asked to provide a list of former police and military personnel who worship at the facility. It is not clear if any names were supplied to the Taliban representatives.
IRANIAN DIPLOMAT ARRESTED IN MAZAR-I-SHARIF – Seyed Anwar Amiri, an employee of the Iranian consulate in Balkh Province was arrested by the Taliban yesterday on unspecified charges. He was taken into custody by intelligence officers from the General Directorate of Intelligence and is currently being held at an unidentified location.
AFGHANISTAN WOMEN’S MOVEMENT MEMBERS PURPORTEDLY ARRESTED – Zarifa Yaqoubi and an unspecified number of her colleagues were reportedly detained by the Taliban after announcing the launch of their movement at a press conference in Dasht Barchi. This information has yet to be confirmed.
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[KhaamaPress] In an overnight raid in the Kabul capital city of Afghanistan, Taliban ...Arabic for students... security forces killed two 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.... of Khorasan group bully boys; they captured a third, according to a government front man on Monday.
The Islamic State, also known as the Islamic State in Khorasan province, is the main adversary of the de facto government led by the Taliban.
According to Zabihullah Mujahid, the Taliban government spokesperson, the operation was conducted in a residential area and targeted IS holy warriors who were preparing to organize strikes in the capital city of Kabul.
After the Taliban seized control of the country in August 2021, the bully boy group has increased its attacks targeting Taliban forces, citizens, foreign nationals and properties.
Last week, a suicide kaboom occurred in Faizabad city of Badakhshan; a day before, a kaboom was reported in the Taloqan capital city of Takhar province; at least four people were killed, and several others were maimed.
In addition, insecurity has increased in the neighbouring country, Pakistain. As a result, a high Pak delegation came to Kabul last week to discuss IS-Khorasan and TTP bully boys.
Meanwhile, ...back at the chili cook-off, Chuck reached for the green sauce... operations against IS-K and other holy warriors have been stepped up by Afghanistan’s de facto government. Abu Osman, a Kashmiri senior associated with the IS-K, was recently killed in Afghanistan’s Kunar region during an operation.
Since the return of the Taliban to power in the country, the IS-Khorasan group has been the main security challenge and adversary to the government amid a severe humanitarian crisis in the country.
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[ShabelleMedia] An AU convoy was targeted in a kaboom in southern Somalia on Monday, the latest in a series of attacks by al-Shabaab ...... Somalia's version of the Taliban ...Arabic for students... , functioning as an arm of al-Qaeda... in the Horn of Africa nation.
The blast from an IED struck Ugandan soldiers travelling in an armored convoy on the outskirts of the port city of Marka, the placid provincial capital of Lower Shabelle region.
The troops fired randomly at every direction in response to the attack and there were no reports of casualties as result of the fire towards the nearby civilians.
Confirming the incident, a resident told Radio Shabelle by phone that the IED struck one of the armored vehicles in the convoy that was towed to Marka from the area.
No group has so far grabbed credit for the attack but such incidents bore the hallmarks of al-Shabaab bombings in the Long-chaotic country.
The volatile Lower Shabelle is the most militarized region in Somalia where US has a base to launch dronezaps against al-Shabaab as AU and SNA battling the group on the ground.
On Sunday, ATMIS — AU mission said three soldiers died and 8 others maimed after a helicopter crash in American base in Baleddogle in the same region during a training.
[HODHODYEMENNEWS] The leading member of the UAE-backed Southern Transitional Council (STC), Ahmed Lamlas, survived on Sunday an liquidation attempt in central Aden, southern 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... Informed sources in the city confirmed that Lamlas, who is occupying a position as minister and governor of Aden province in the government loyal to the Saudi-led coalition, was subjected to heavy gunfire while his convoy was passing near al-Ful roundabout in Crater area.
No human losses were reported as a result of the shooting.
The sources pointed out that armed members of the group accompanying Lamlas, who is from Shabwah province, closed the entrances to the area, indicating that the attackers fled to an unknown destination, without revealing who was behind the attack.
This liquidation attempt on Lamlas happened after the commander of the so-called "anti-terrorism forces," Shalal Shaye, threatened him last week with physical liquidation.
Lamlas was the subject of a botched liquidation attempt in October 2021, when a boom-mobilewent kaboom! in the Hajif section of al-Tawahi district, killing and injuring six people, including members of his security detail.
[Shafaq News] Two al-Qaeda members were killed by a US drone in 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... Sources told Sputnik that the US air strike shook a house in the Houson al-Jalal region in the Wadi Abeda district, east to Maareb, killing two and injuring another.
The incident is the last in a series of similar strikes on al-Qaeda in Yemen.
Last January, a drone struck a vehicle carrying three al-Qaeda turbans near a fuel station in the Wadi Ubaidah district in Marib province.
Local media said Hassan al-Hadrami, an al-Qaeda explosives expert, was among those killed in the attack.
For years, the US carried out Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s against al-Qaeda elements in Yemen, some of which killed prominent leaders of the terrorist organization.
[BBC] Police in Ecuador have found almost 8.8 tonnes of cocaine in a shipment of bananas bound for Belgium.
Police commander Fausto Salinas said the drugs would have been worth an estimated $330m (£275m) had they reached their destination.
Ecuador has become one of the main transit countries for cocaine produced in neighbouring Peru and Colombia.
Last year, more than 200 tonnes of the drug were seized in the Andean country, much of it in the port of Guayaquil.
With Ecuador the world's largest exporter of bananas, smugglers often try to hide their illegal consignments among the fruit which is shipped from Guayaquil to destinations all over the globe.
This latest haul was found inside a container full of banana cases destined for Belgium.
The seizure coincides with a visit by Belgium's Interior Minister Annelies Verlinden and European Commissioner for Home Affairs Ylva Johansson to Ecuador and Colombia. How conveeenient!
The two officials want to strengthen cooperation with the two South American nations in the fight against drug trafficking.
Belgium has become the country where the largest quantities of cocaine have been seized within the European Union in recent years, with the port of Antwerp the main entry point for the illegal drug.
The director of the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction, Alexis Gosdeel, said earlier this month that the "growing flow of cocaine now threatens the entire European Union".
"I am deeply concerned that the expanding EU cocaine market is bringing a rise in violence and corruption on public institutions and governance," he warned.
In Ecuador, violence linked to drug smuggling has skyrocketed as powerful Mexican cartels have infiltrated local gangs to gain control of the lucrative business.
Prisons are overflowing and fights between rival gangs behind bars have left scores dead.
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[KavkazUzel] A court in Khasavyurt sentenced local resident Nuriddin Madadov to a fine for posting Islamic State symbols on a social network.
Madadov's case was considered by the Khasavyurt City Court.
The court established that the Dagestani posted a picture with Arabic symbols in white and black and a white uneven circle on the Odnoklassniki social network, Kavkaz. Realii writes on February 26.
In his explanation, Madadov stated that he did not know that this symbol was related to the "Islamic State," he refused to testify in court, referring to Article 51 of the Constitution of the Russian Federation.
The court imposed a fine of 1,500 rubles on a Khasavyurt resident.
Earlier, the "Caucasian Knot" wrote that in early January, a court in Chechnya sentenced a local resident Khasein Khaidaev to a fine, accused of publishing a picture with the flag of a terrorist organization on a social network.
It is worth noting that most of the atrocities attributed to the Russian Army have been committed by Kadyrov's Akhmat Brigade.
[KavkazUzel] The FSB included in the list of terrorist organizations the military wing of the Ingushgroup of Batalkhadzhins, whom Ramzan Kadyrov declared his brothers.
The "Caucasian Knot" has reported that on December 12, 2022, it became known that in exchange for support from Ramzan Kadyrov, the Batalkhadzhins formed detachments to participate in the military operation in Ukraine. The Batalkhadzhinsky Rapid Response Detachment (BOBR) became part of the Akhmat special forces and is already taking part in the military operation, the head of Chechnya confirmed the next day.
The formation of such detachments is beneficial to the Batalkhadzhins, who attracted the close attention of the security forces, said the head of the Association of Muslims of Ingushetia, Musa Abadiyev, and political scientist Ali Magamadov.
On November 1, 2022, security forces searched the house of Akhmed Belkhoroev, who is a relative of the arrested head of the Accounts Chamber, Mustafa Belkharoev. Mustafa Belkharoev's house had also been searched a few days earlier. Later, it became known about the arrest of a relative of the Belkharoevs, a former member of the parliament of Ingushetia, Mikail Aliyev. On November 3, 2022, the head of Chechnya stood up for the Belkharoev family . He stated that the term "batalkhadzhin terrorist society" is absurd, and the Belkharoevs will always be his close brothers.
Today's publication of the printed issue of Rossiyskaya Gazeta, which reports on changes in the federal list of terrorist organizations as of February 13, drew the attention of the Telegram channel "Search of Ingushetia" by publishing a photocopy of the publication.
"Officially, from December 16, 2022, the military wing of the Batal-Khadzhi vird is a terrorist community. Changes have also been made on the website of the FSB of Russia. From now on, persons providing financial, informational or other assistance to the organizers, leaders and members of this community are subject to criminal liability," - according to the publication of the telegram channel.
In the Unified Federal List of Terrorist Organizations, which is published on the FSB website, the Batalkhadzhi organization is listed at number 46.
The list includes "The fighting wing of the group (vird) of followers (muids, murds) of the religious movement of Batal-Khadzhi Belkhoroev (Batal-Khadzhi, Batalkhadzhins, Belkhoroys, the tariqat of sheikh ovliya (ustaz) Batal-Khadzhi Belkhoroev)". This was done by the decision of the Southern District Military Court dated November 28, 2022, which entered into force on December 16, 2022, the published list explains.
Recall that Batal-hadji Belkhoroev is an Ingush sheikh, the founder of one of the Kadiri branches (virds). The brotherhood of Batalkhadzhins, according to sources for 2019, numbered about 5,000 people. The core of the vird are the direct descendants of the sheikh, their cell is distinguished by great cohesion. The leaders of the Batalkhadzhins are friendly with the head of Chechnya, but this does not prevent them from taking their own position on issues important for Ingushetia, the "Caucasian Knot" report " Batal-khadzhi and his followers " says.
In 2021, the head of the Accounts Chamber of Ingushetia, Mustafa Belkharoev, complained that after the detention of his son Alikhan in the case of the murder of the head of the regional ETC, Ibragim Eldzharkiev, he was subjected to severe torture. Alikhan Belkharoev himself spoke about torture. After that, the security forces conducted two searches in the house of the head of the Accounts Chamber of Ingushetia, Mustafa Belkharoev, in two months. Lawyer Timur Idalov called these searches revenge on the father and son Belkharoev .
On December 12, 2022, the Investigative Committee announced that the investigation into the criminal case of Khasan Polonkoev and 10 others accused of the murder of Ibragim Eldzharkiev had been completed. Investigators consider Polonkoev the organizer and leader of the terrorist community operating in Ingushetia, and the rest of the accused are members of this community. The defendants pleaded not guilty in court .
Earlier, after the murder of Eldzharkiev, sources suggested that he was killed as a result of a blood feud against the backdrop of his conflict with the Batalkhadzhins, one of whose leaders, Ibragim Belkharoev, was killed in 2018. However, investigators stated in January 2020 that Ibragim Eldzharkiev's professional activities were the motive for the murder, and versions of religious motives and revenge were not confirmed .
The head of the Ingush CPE, Ibragim Eldzharkiev, was shot dead in Moscow on November 2, 2019, along with his brother Akhmed Eldzharkiev. The main facts about the murder of Ibragim Eldzharkiev and the conclusions of the investigation are collected in the brief information of the "Caucasian Knot" " The main thing about the murder of Ibragim Eldzharkiev."
[Dawn] Two Pakistain Army soldiers were martyred in the Spinwam area of North Wazoo tribal district during a shootout with terrorists, the military’s media affairs wing said on Monday.
The statement issued by the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) identified the deaders as 25-year-old Sepoy Imran Ullah from Bajaur and 21-year-old Sepoy Afzal Khan from Upper Dir.
"On 26 February, an exchange of fire took place between bully boyz and security forces in the general area of Spinwam, North Waziristan district. Own troops effectively engaged the terrorists’ location," the ISPR said.
"Resultantly, two bad boyz were potted, while two bully boyz were apprehended. Weapons and ammunition were also recovered from the terrorists," it stated, adding that the killed bully boyz remained actively involved in terror activities against security forces and innocent citizens.
The military’s media wing said sanitisation of the area was being carried out to eliminate other bully boyz in the area.
[Dawn] Five people were killed and 13 maimed in a kaboom inside the Rakhni market in 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... ’s Barkhan on Sunday morning, police and health officials said.
Barkhan District Health Officer Dr Abdul Hameed confirmed the corpse count to Dawn.com, adding that the injured persons had been moved to the Rakhni Hospital.
"One of the injured has died during treatment. The number of dead has increased to five while 13 are injured. The condition of eight injured is critical and they have been shifted to Dera Ghazi Khan for medical assistance," he said.
According to Barkhan Deputy Commissioner Abdullah Khoso, the blast occurred when an improvised bomb (IED), planted on a cycle of violence, went kaboom!.
Khoso said the police have arrived at the site and cordoned it off. "Teams have begun collecting evidence from the site," he added.
Unverified videos making the rounds on social media show volunteers carrying bloodied victims away as a crowd gathers at the purported site of the blast. Mangled cycle of violences and charred vegetables can be seen strewn about on the road.
There was no claim of responsibility as yet.
The blast comes on the heels of attacks in KP and areas bordering Afghanistan. Since the talks with the outlawed Tehrik-e-Taliban ...Arabic for students... Pakistain (TTP) broke down in November last year, the turban group has intensified its attacks while gunnies in Balochistan have also stepped up their violent mostly peaceful activities and formalised a nexus with it.
[Shafaq News] The Federal Intelligence and Investigations Agency within the Ministry of Interior decalred the capture of three dangerous faceless myrmidons in the bustling capital city of Baghdad.
According to a statement released by the agency, the intelligence forces have managed to apprehend three wanted terrorists, who were deemed as high-risk threats to national security. Among them was a notorious terrorist nicknamed Elias Abu Wahib, a prominent figure in bad boy circles who had been carefully monitored by the intelligence agency following his escape to a neighboring country.
In addition, the forces were able to capture another dangerous individual known as Abu Anas, who was found to have been operating within the ranks of ISIS, specifically within the self-proclaimed "State of the South."
Furthermore, a third terrorist was apprehended, who had been providing critical logistical support to members of ISIS in what was known as the "Diyala sector."
It is worth noting that this individual also acted as a support and surveillance element within the orchards of the same governorate, providing valuable information about the movements of security forces in the area.
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[Shafaq News] A civilian was killed in an attack waged by faceless myrmidons affiliated with the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... (ISIS) Death Eater group in Diyala's Hemrin lake, a local official reported on Monday.
"ISIS faceless myrmidons attacked a boat carrying two fishermen in the Hemrin lake," the administrator of Diyala's northeastern sub-district of al-Saadiyah, Ahmed al-Zarkoushi, told Shafaq News Agency, "one of the fishermen died in the attack, while the other was injured."
"The security forces evacuated the victim and the injured person, and launched a search campaign in the vicinity of the lake," he said.
"Directives from the security authorities ban fishing activities in the lake, and the fishermen have pledged to avoid fishing cruises in it," he concluded.
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[Rudaw] The Shingal Resistance® Units (YBS) on Monday announced that two of its commanders were killed in a Ottoman Turkish drone attack in Shingal while going to a wake, adding that a fighter was injured too.
YPS, which is affiliated to the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), said in a statement that three of its members were on the way to the wake of two people in Shingal when they came under a drone attack by Ottoman Turkish forces.
Two commanders - Seed Ali Bada (aka. Pir Chako) and Khayri Khidir Khalaf (aka. Agir Jafri) - were killed in the attack and an unnamed fighter was injured. Pir Chako joined the group in 2016 and the other one joined it when the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... (ISIS) attacked Shingal in 2014, according to the statement.
However, Caliphornia hasn't yet slid into the ocean, no matter how hard it's tried... the Erbil-based counterterrorism forces said a YBS commander and two fighters were killed in the assault.
PKK is an gang struggling for the increased rights of Kurds in The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire... . Ankara has listed it as a terrorist group. The All-Yazidi YBS was formed by the PKK immediately after ISIS controlled Shingal and killed and kidnapped thousands of Yazidis.
Turkey considers the YBS as an offshoot of the PKK and has targeted its positions in Shingal numerous times, killing dozens of its members, including top commanders.
YBS has controlled parts of Shingal since ISIS was defeated in the town but the presence of this force and several other forces in the district has been blamed for insecurity which has prevented thousands of its residents, who fled Shingal in 2014 due to ISIS war, from returning.
There have been no comments from Turkey regarding the attack.
"At 12:10, a Turkish drone targeted a vehicle of YBS militants at Khanasur complex in the Sinjar district, resulting in the deaths of a commander and two party members," the statement said.
Earlier today, a source revealed that a Turkish drone bombed a vehicle carrying PKK fighters on the road linking the Bharava village and the Khanasur complex in the west of Sinjar's district of Sunouni.
The YBS, which is a predominantly Yazidi force, was formed in 2014 to drive out ISIS members from the area after the withdrawal of the Iraqi army. Since then, it has remained a powerful local force in the area.
Sinjar (Shengal in Kurdish) is run by an autonomous administration affiliated with the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) as The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor... claims. The area has its own military body called Shingal Protection Units (YBS in Kurdish).
Turkey regularly carries out attacks on the northern areas of the Kurdistan region, as well as it carries out from time to time air strikes air in Iraq, most of which are concentrated in the areas of Shengal and Makhmur camp in Nineveh Governorate.
On May 1, 2022 Sinjar District witnessed tension on the back of the deployment of Iraqi military units in different areas especially in the vicinity of Snuny, north of Sinjar Mountain.
The aim of deploying Iraqi military units was to impose military control over the area, remove barriers set up by the YBS, and remove the gangs, according to a security agreement signed between Baghdad and Erbil in 2020.
Residents of the Yazidi majority Sinjar region, which is located on border with Syria, went through disastrous massacres at hands of the Islamic State (ISIS) in 2014.
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[IsraelTimes] 27-year-old pronounced dead in the hospital hours after being shot near Jericho; 2 other Israeli-owned cars come under fire, with no injuries; gunmen set fire to own vehicle, flee
An Israeli-American man was shot and killed in a terror attack near Jericho in the West Bank on Monday, the military and medics said, a day after two Israeli brothers were killed in a similar attack. The fatality was named as Elan Ganeles, an Israel Defense Forces veteran originally from West Hartford, Connecticut.
According to the IDF, multiple gunmen arrived by car on the Route 90 highway, close to the Nevo military base, and opened fire at an Israeli-owned vehicle. The terrorists then continued driving and opened fire at another car near the Beit Ha’arava Junction, before continuing and shooting at a third car nearby, the IDF said.
The Magen David Adom ambulance service said medics were called to the scene after receiving reports of a car crash. When first responders arrived they found the 27-year-old Ganeles in critical condition suffering from gunshot wounds. The victim was taken by MDA to the Hadassah Hospital Mount Scopus in Jerusalem, where he was later declared dead.
“The injured person was evacuated during resuscitation efforts which also continued at the hospital, but unfortunately the staff had to pronounce him dead,” the hospital said in a statement.
US State Department Spokesman Ned Price revealed that the victim was a dual Israeli-American citizen.
“We condemn the horrific killing of two Israeli brothers near Nablus (yesterday) and the killing today of an Israeli near Jericho,” Price said during a daily press briefing.
The Israeli consulate in San Francisco identified the victim as Ganeles, a recent graduate of Columbia University in New York.
The motorists in the second Israeli-owned car that came under gunfire in the area continued driving until reaching the nearby Almog Junction and reported the incident to authorities. The Rescuers Without Borders emergency service said none of the passengers was hurt. The service said no Israelis were hurt in the third car that came under fire in the area.
IDF and police said the gunmen set fire to their car as they fled the area.
“We identified smoke and approached a vehicle on fire… and we realized that it is the vehicle of the terrorists,” one officer who was at the scene said in remarks provided by police.
He said one of the gunmen aimed his gun at them, “and we immediately fired at the terrorists.”
The police officers attempted to pursue the attackers, but they fled toward the Jericho area.
“IDF soldiers are conducting searches and setting up road blocks and checkpoints in the area,” the military said.
Palestinian media outlets reported increased Israeli military activity in the Jericho area, with some roads being closed.
In a separate attack on Monday night, an Israeli family came under fire while driving near the Palestinian town of Qusra, the military and medics said. According to Rescuers Without Borders and the IDF, the car driving between Qusra and the settlement of Migdalim was hit with at least four bullets. The gunmen, who fired from a passing vehicle, fled the scene.
The service said the driver, a young woman, was very lightly hurt after being scratched in the hand, apparently by glass shrapnel. Her three young children in the car were being treated for anxiety.
The IDF said it had launched a manhunt for the attackers.
The military has bolstered the West Bank with an additional four infantry battalions following the attack and subsequent rioting by settlers in Huwara.
In recent months, Palestinian gunmen have repeatedly targeted military posts, troops operating along the West Bank security barrier, Israeli settlements and civilians on the roads.
Tensions between Israel and the Palestinians have been high for the past year, with the IDF conducting near-nightly raids in the West Bank amid a series of deadly Palestinian terror attacks. However, the nightly raids have been on pause since Wednesday, ahead of and following a Jordan-hosted meeting between Israeli and Palestinian officials on Sunday whose goal was to restore calm to the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
[IsraelTimes] A 17-year-old was arrested Monday at a kibbutz in northern Israel for allegedly uploading a video to TikTok threatening to kill Jews and praising the terrorist that killed two Israeli brothers in the West Bank town of Huwara on Sunday.
A Beersheba resident who saw the video, in which the suspect threatened to "slaughter" any Jews that visited the popular Asi Stream at Kibbutz Nir David, alerted the police regarding the threats, according to the Ynet news site.
Police later located and arrested the suspect on the the kibbutz premises with the assistance of a helicopter.
According to Hebrew media reports, the suspect did not have his phone with him at the time of his arrest and denied uploading the video. However, death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate... police reportedly discovered the phone in nearby bushes.
The suspect, a resident of the central Arab Israeli town of Taybeh, was taken to a local cop shoppe for further questioning.
[NPASyria] The Russian Military Police (MP) conducted on Monday a joint patrol with the Ottoman Turkish forces in the western countryside of Kobani, northern Syria.
This is the 128th patrol between the two forces in the region since the signing of the Russian-Ottoman Turkish ceasefire agreement in northeast Syria.
In October 2019, following the so-called Ottoman Turkish military operation "Peace Spring" in areas of northeast Syria which resulted in the occupation of Tel Abyad, north of Raqqa, and Sere Kaniye (Ras al-Ain) north of Hasakah, the Ottoman Turkish president signed two ceasefire agreements, one with Russia and the other with the US.
The ceasefire agreements stipulating halt of all hostilities there and the withdrawal of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) 30 kilometers in depth away from the Ottoman Turkish border in addition to conducting joint patrols with Russia in order to monitor the implementation of the agreements.
The patrol, which consisted of eight Russian and Ottoman Turkish military vehicles accompanied by two Russian helicopters, set off from the village of Ashma, 20 km west of Kobani.
The joint patrol roamed the villages of Charqli Fouqani, Jebneh, Bayadiyah, all the way to the village of Zor Maghar, which is located off the city of Jarabulus on the eastern bank of the Euphrates River.
Then, it turned back towards the east, and passed through the villages of Bayadiyah, Jebneh, Mishko, Binder, Qaraqoy Tahtani, Qola, Sousan, all the way to the checkpoint of the Internal Security Forces of North and East Syria (Asayish) near the Izaa (Radio Station), west of the city of Kobani.
After that, it returned to its starting point in the village of Ashma, passing through the villages of Seftek, Boban, Khorkhoy, Dikmadash, Qaran, Charqli Fauqani.
The Ottoman Turkish military vehicles returned to The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor... through the gate near Ashma, while the Russian military vehicles returned to their position near the town of Sirrin south of Kobani.
On Feb. 20, the Russian and Ottoman Turkish forces conducted the 127th joint patrol in the eastern countryside of Kobani.
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[NPASyria] Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, formerly al-Nusra, before that it was called something else ...al-Qaeda's Syrian affiliate, from which sprang the Islamic State... (HTS, formerly al-Nusra ...formally Jabhat an-Nusrah li-Ahli al-Sham (Support Front for the People of the Levant), also known as al-Qaeda in the Levant. They aim to establish a pan-Arab caliphate. Not the same one as the Islamic State, though .. ... Front) announced on Sunday the death of ten Syrian government soldiers in the Latakia countryside.
HTS launched, for the first time in about a month, a limited operation against government forces positions in the village of al-Rabiaa, behind contact lines in the northern countryside of Latakia, northwest Syria.
The operation resulted in the death of ten government soldiers, and the destruction of three 152-caliber cannons and ammunition, according to the HTS-affiliated Amjad Agency.
The agency added that the operation did not result in any casualties among the ranks of HTS. State outlets did not report any injuries or deaths among government forces so far.
This HTS attack is the first of its kind since the earthquake hit southern The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the decaying remnant of the Ottoman Empire... and north Syria on February 6. The attack occurred despite calls by the United Nations ...where theory meets practice and practice loses... to cease military operations and focus on delivering aid to quake-affected people.
[NPASyria] On Monday, Syrian government forces shelled with artillery shells a number of areas in north Idlib, weeks after the disastrous earthquake that hit north Syria on February 6.
A local source told North Press, "Syrian government forces based in Saraqib launched a violent mostly peaceful shelling after noon time against posts held by the armed opposition factions on the outskirts of Kafraiya, Ma’arrat Misrin, Binnish and the Sarmada-Idlib highway."
The source said that material damage was caused, but that no human losses were reported.
Tens of families fled makeshift camps within the scope of the targeted area, he added.
Areas in northwest Syria repeatedly witness military escalation and mutual shelling between parties of the conflict. Howev
[NPASyria] The Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... (ISIS) claimed on Monday responsibility for targeting fighters of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in a town in eastern Deir ez-Zor, east Syria.
ISIS-affiliated Amaq news agency published a statement saying the group’s button men targeted SDF fighters in the town of Abu Hardub in the eastern countryside of Deir ez-Zor.
The targeting was carried out by pistols and resulted in killing a fighter and injuring the other, the statement said.
On February 22, ISIS grabbed credit for attacking an SDF checkpoint near the town of Daman, in al-Suwar district, 70 km north of Deir ez-Zor.
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[Shafaq News] On Monday, 22 truffle hunters were killed and injured east of Hama.
The State News Agency SANA reported that two landmines of ISIS remnants went kaboom! in the eastern countryside of Salamiyah city, killing ten people and injuring 12 others.
Earlier this February, Fifty-three citizens collecting truffles also died in an ISIS attack southeast of al-Sukhna City in the eastern countryside of Homs.
Many Syrians, including women and kiddies, forage for desert truffles, which are in season from February to April, to sell between $5 and $10 in a country where the average monthly salary is around $18.
The Syrian desert is renowned for producing some of the best quality truffles in the world.
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Nobody knows the truffles I've seen!
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First we had memes about children digging up lithium for EV car batteries. Can "They Died for Your Truffles" be far behind?
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