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Was there ever equestrian Venus
Whose freeness compared with our Lina's?
When she rose from her mare
All the horsemen would stare
Till she fell like a fair she-Silenus!
EXPLOSION REPORTED IN WEST KABUL – An unverified report of a large explosion was reported in the Pule Surkh neighborhood of Kabul yesterday. No details or confirmation of the blast has yet been made. Taliban security personnel were filmed converging on the area but it is not clear what transpired.
EVICTIONS OF FORMER ANSF FAMILIES REPORTED IN HERAT – A protest took place in Herat (Ghand 11 neighborhood) on Wednesday after several families were removed from their homes. The protestors say they were evicted because their relations served in the Afghan military under the former regime. A local eyewitness told reporters that the families were replaced by people deemed loyal to the Taliban.
PAKISTANI SECURITY FORCES NEUTRALIZE 2 TERRORISTS IN BALOCHISTAN – Government officials announced the successful conclusion of a two-day counter-terrorism operation in the Kech District of Balochistan. The raid took place in the Mazaband Range and was carried out on 10-11 August. 2 terror suspects were killed in a shootout and 1 was wounded. Security personnel recovered a substantial cache of arms and ammunition that was reportedly being assembled for a major terror attack. All the men involved in the incident were thought to have participated in the attack that killed 12 Pakistani soldiers in July. As of publication, it was not yet known to which terror group the men belonged.
POLITICIZATION OF THE AFGHANISTAN ISSUE HAS ‘JUMPED THE POND’ – The US is not the only nation to have targeted the Afghanistan issue for political messaging. Europe is also beginning to see political groups and individuals incorporate Afghanistan into its messaging. Although, the US seems to be focused on the past while Europe is looking at the future.
AFGHAN REFUGEES IN THE UK FACE A TOUGH DILEMMA – Thousands of Afghan refugees in the United Kingdom are facing major hurdles to secure housing as they are being forced out of the hotels they have been residing in. British Veteran groups and NGOs are struggling to assist Afghans with finding places to live. The official government deadline for the refugees to leave their hotels is 31 August and many Afghans are having very little luck with even scheduling a viewing for an apartment or home. Some of the refugees have already been evicted from their hotels (roughly 1 in 5 families) and have been forced to seek public assistance through homeless programs in different councils around the country. Some attribute the issues to a lack of housing even before the resettlement program began with a lack of understanding on the part of landlords and letting agencies that the Afghans have been granted indefinite leave to remain. For its part, the British government established a 285 million GBP fund for councils willing to provide housing for Afghan refugees.
CONFLICT TRACKER Khost: Fighters from the Khost AFF reportedly carried out an RPG attack against Taliban personnel occupying a house in Lerwan, Dara Chakhfalak. While casualties were reportedly inflicted, a form count has not been provided. Kabul: Afghanistan Liberation Movement (ALM) units claim to have killed 7 Taliban in the Red Bridge section of Kabul at approximately 2000hrs local time. The operation targeted a security checkpoint. Apparently, the Taliban closed the roads around the Pol Sohrh and De Buri intersection in response to the attack.
[AFRICANEWS] A certain calm reigned Thursday in the Æthiopian region of Amhara, according to residents interviewed by AFP, the day after the announcement of the " liberation" of several large cities after several days of fighting between the federal army and local militias.
On Wednesday evening, the Æthiopian government announced that six towns had been "freed from the threat of bandidos": the regional capital Bahir Dar, Gondar, Lalibela, Shewa Robit, Debre Berhan and Debre Markos. Curfews have been imposed in these six cities.
The region was placed under a state of emergency last Friday after renewed fighting between the federal army and local fighters, including the nationalist Amhara Fano militia, threatened to set northern Æthiopia ablaze again, just nine months after the end of a devastating conflict in the neighbouring region of Tigray.
No official report of these festivities has been communicated, but two doctors from Bahir Dar and Gondar told AFP that they had seen many civilians dead or injured in their establishments.
"The ENDF (the Æthiopian army, editor's note) has regained ground in many places and controls the big cities," a humanitarian worker based in Dessie, in eastern Amhara, told AFP on Thursday. "But many districts are still in the hands of Fano fighters in the South Wollo region (where Dessie is, editor's note). Fano also controls a large part of the countryside in these areas," he said.
As access to the region is restricted, it is impossible to independently verify the situation on the ground. According to residents interviewed by AFP, the army has taken over the streets of the main cities since Wednesday, after the Fano militias withdrew.
In Bahir Dar, the situation was "extremely calm" on Thursday, said a resident, who gave only his first name, Tesfahun, for security reasons. "The ENDF is surveying the city. (...) There are door-to-door checks by the soldiers in search of possible suspects", he added.
On Wednesday evening, several churches hosted burial ceremonies for civilians, he said. In Gondar, the region's second city, life has not yet resumed despite the departure of Fano fighters, who have retreated "to the forests on the outskirts of the city", according to a tuktuk driver, Simachew.
Transport has not restarted, electricity services are not working," detailed a 62-year-old resident, on condition of anonymity. "We are waiting to see what will happen, sitting inside our homes".
In Lalibela, a tourist site renowned for its rock-hewn churches listed as UNESCO World Heritage Sites, the city is also idling.
"People went out this morning to go to church but since then they have mostly stayed at home," said a trader in his thirties, although "banks, government institutions and restaurants have largely reopened. ".
The national company Æthiopian Airlines announced that it had resumed flights Thursday morning, briefly suspended, to two of the four airports in the region, Bahir Dar and Gondar.
Tensions in Amhara have been growing since April, after Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed announced that he wanted to dismantle the "special forces", paramilitary units created by many regional states over the past fifteen years.
[Rudaw] Life jackets were prohibited to be taken on board a boat that capsized near Italia despite taking the perilous journey from Libya to Europe, a survivor said on Thursday, recalling his 20-hour long battle for survival in the sea.
Ibrahim Ali, a survivor from the Kurdish town of Tel Aran near the city of Kobane in northern Syria, boarded the boat from Libya’s al-Zawiyah city on July 29 and was promised to be taken to Italia. Although a fee of $5,000 was agreed upon to be taken on what Ali was told would be a "VIP" boat, the smugglers changed the vessel once they left the Libyan maritime borders.
"We boarded plastic car tires with us in case such an event happens, we floated above the water around 45 kilometers away from Lampedusa [Island] when Italian guards came to rescue us," Ali told Rudaw’s Dilbixwin Dara, adding that they were rescued at around 6 am on August 1.
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[Regnum] Five fighters of the National Guard of Niger were victims of an attack by the French military, which took place on August 9 in this African country, the ActuNiger portal reported on August 11, citing the command of this type of troops.
In addition, four more soldiers of the National Guard were injured. Two victims are in serious condition in a hospital, which is located in the capital of the Republic of Niamey.
The wounded were visited by members of the delegation of the National Council for the Salvation of the Motherland (NCSR), a body formed by the military that seized power in Niger.
As IA Regnum reported, on August 9, the official representative of the NSSR, Amadou Abdraman, said that the French military violated the airspace of Niger and attacked the fighters of the presidential national guard. He clarified that the participants in the attack “released the detained terrorists” and took off a military plane from N'Djamena (Chad).
After that, according to Abdraman, the NSSR announced an increase in the level of threat in the country. The rebel spokesman also warned that France was preparing a plan to destabilize Niger . He added that for these purposes, Paris plans to use its military contingent, which is stationed in this African republic.
[Breitbart] Terrorists reportedly identified as “Fulani militia” stormed two villages in central Plateau state overnight Thursday, killing 21 people and making a mockery of government checkpoints set up after police received tips that local “bandits” were organizing an attack.
Nigerian media identified the affected areas as two villages in Heipang, Plateau, with a large population of internally displaced civilians. Plateau is part of Nigeria’s “Middle Belt” region that divides that Muslim-majority north from the Christian-majority south and has experienced years of radical jihadist attacks meant to eradicate the Christian population. The attackers are largely young men belonging to the majority-Muslim Fulani ... a peculiarly brutal tribe of Moslem herdsmen infesting Mali, Niger, Nigeria, and probably other places that are light on law and order and heavy on tribal identity... ethnic group; locals say they arrive on motorcycles or on horseback and steal locals’ homes and farmland by attacking with gunfire, machetes, and other weapons.
Christian aid groups in the region have documented organized attempts to displace Christian populations, which are typically made up of members of smaller ethnic groups with no significant federal-level political power, and replace them with Muslims. The Catholic organization Aid to the Church in Need denounced in a report published in June that Fulani terrorists were attempting to “wipe away Christianity” from the Middle Belt, killing over 7,600 people between January 2021 and June 2022. The Nigerian government and some international actors such as the United Nations have described the situation as a conflict over land fueled by “climate change,” as the Fulani are typically herders while many Christians are farmers. Local Christians have viscerally rejected the dismissal of religious persecution as a factor in the attacks, however.
The incident in Heipeng reportedly occurred between 1 a.m. and 3 a.m. local time Thursday morning, though Nigerian government reports described the events as transpiring on “Thursday night.” Initial reports indicated that 17 people, mostly villagers who had already been displaced by similar violence from their original homes, were killed as Fulani terrorists opened fired on the community. Later reports identified four members of a local vigilante militia organized in light of the lack of police protection who also died in the attacks. Another 13 people were reportedly critically injured.
“The Heipang community has lost more than 100 villagers in attacks over the past two decades, with no arrests,” the global aid organization International Christian Concern revealed on Thursday, citing local sources. “Villagers in Heipang and Mangu blame radicalized Fulani militants and herders for causing the attacks on the mostly Christian farming communities.”
Reports from Nigerian media appeared to agree that the assailants were Fulani terrorists, though they differed in their descriptions. The Premium Times described the attackers as “Fulani militia alongside bandits;” the Nigerian Guardian used the term “suspected Fulani militia.” This Day used the terms “gunmen” and “bandits” without elaborating.
Father Remigius Ihyula, a Catholic priest in neighboring Benue state, explained to Breitbart News in an interview in July that Nigerian media often obscure the identity of Fulani jihadist attackers out of fear of being targeted.
“In fact, people were even warned not to say they are Fulani herdsmen who have been causing these atrocities such that when you open the general media they are talking about bandits — bandits or they say ‘unknown gunmen’ or things like that,” Father Ihyula explained, “so you read about bandits. It’s rubbish: they are Fulani men going about with cattle and with guns and killing people and the government won’t do anything about it.”
In this week’s attack, the government claimed to set up checkpoints early this week in response to threats to villages targeted, but the terrorists simply went around them.
“There was an early warning signal that some bandits could launch attacks, which prompted the operation to mount checkpoints in the area,” Nigerian Captain Ola James, a spokesman for the Special Task Force deployed to combat Fulani terrorism in the Middle Belt, told reporters following the attack, “But the bandits followed another route and attacked the community. We have deployed our men to restore law and order in the area.”
Plateau State Governor Caleb Mutfwang issued a statement of condolence following the attack and only vaguely acknowledged the military’s failure to aid local authorities in preventing the raids.
“The Governor appeals to security agencies to redouble their efforts and put an end to the senseless killings of innocent people in the rural communities of Mangu and Barkin-Ladi,” the governor’s statement read. “He emphasized the importance of peace and unity among all citizens, regardless of faith or ethnicity, for the development and growth of the state and expressed his sympathy to the affected communities and families of the deceased, assuring them of the government’s commitment to addressing the issues.”
Muslim groups not aligned with the Fulani also condemned the government. The Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria (MACBAN) issued a statement distancing themselves from Thursday’s “barbaric” attack and stating explicitly, “we are blaming the security for not responding on time. This must be stopped.”
[AFRICANEWS] The government of Burkina Faso ...The country in west Africa that they put where Upper Volta used to be. Its capital is Oogadooga, or something like that. Its president is currently Blaise Compaoré, who took office in 1987 and will leave office feet first, one way or the other... resulting from a coup d'etat has decided to suspend "until further notice" the broadcasting of Radio Oméga, one of the most listened to in the country, after the broadcast Thursday of an interview "enamelled with insulting remarks against the new Nigerien authorities".
The government "assumes full responsibility for the decision to suspend from this Thursday, August 10 and until further notice, the broadcasting of Radio Omega programs in the name of the best interests of the Nation", indicates the Minister of Communication Rimtalba Jean Emmanuel Ouedraogo in a blurb.
This decision follows the broadcast on Radio Oméga of an interview, during the program "L'invité de la drafting", with the spokesperson of a movement recently created in Niger which wishes to restore President Mohammed Bazoum, tossed by a coup on July 26.
Radio Omega, a subsidiary of the Omega Media group which also has a television channel, owned by journalist and former Foreign Minister Alpha Barry, had ceased broadcasting after the release of the blurb, AFP noted.
She denounced Friday an "unfair and unfounded decision", and will "use all avenues of appeal". She considers that this suspension "without notice and without prior notification of the structure in charge of media regulation is a flagrant violation of the laws in force and an unacceptable attack on freedom of expression and freedom of the press".
The radio also claims that its suspension comes after "numerous death threats against Radio Oméga leaders and journalists from people presenting themselves as supporters of the government and who insistently call for the suspension of our programs".
In the interview incriminated by the government, Ousmane Abdoul Moumouni, pro-Bazoum, would have made "insulting remarks against the new Nigerien authorities", according to Mr. Ouédraogo.
According to the Burkinabè government, Ousmane Abdoul Moumouni's organization "clearly militates for violence and war against the sovereign people of Niger" and the will of his movement is to put President Bazoum back in power by "all means".
The transitional authorities of Burkina Faso, who came to power by a coup in September 2022, very quickly showed their solidarity with the soldiers who took power in Niger.
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[AlAhram] In a brief statement, U.N. spokesperson Farhan Haq said that all "available information suggests that all five colleagues are in good health."
The five men were workers with the U.N. Department of Security and Safety, Haq said.
[Newsmax] Follow-up to our previous story Ecuador’s transformation into a major drug trafficking hub and the ensuing three-year surge of violence is weighing on the nation following the killing of a presidential candidate whose life’s work was to fight crime and corruption.
Six Colombian men were arrested Thursday in connection with the fatal shooting of Fernando Villavicencio a day earlier in the capital, Quito. He was not a front-runner in the race, but his assassination in broad daylight less than two weeks before the special presidential election underscored the challenge Ecuador’s next leader will face in any attempt to curb gangs and cartels whose activities have claimed thousands of lives.
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[KavkazUzel] A resident of Volgograd was detained on suspicion of transferring money to the Hayat Tahrir al-Sham terrorist organization * and arrested for two months, the FSB reported.
A court in Volgograd arrested for two months a resident of Volgograd, accused of complicity with the Hayat Tahrir ash-Sham* organization. A criminal case has been initiated against him under the article on promoting terrorist activities (Part 1.1 of Article 205.1 of the Criminal Code of Russia), TASS reported today with reference to the press service of the FSB department of Russia in the Volgograd region.
“It has been established that a 41-year-old man transferred funds to a member of the international terrorist organization Hayat Tahrir Ash-Sham * for the purchase of ammunition, medicines and essentials. <…> The Central District Court of Volgograd chose a measure of restraint in the form of detention for period of two months," the publication says.
The "Caucasian Knot" also wrote that Maxim Mitin, a resident of Volgograd, found guilty of financing the terrorist organization Hayat Takhri Ash-Sham*, was sentenced to eight and a half years in prison.
[GEO.TV] Two murderous Moslems were bumped off while another was injured during an intelligence-based operation (IBO) conducted by security forces in the Mazaband Range area of Kech District 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... , the military’s media wing said in a statement on Friday.
The Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) said that the operation was launched on August 10-11 and a "large cache of arms and ammunition" were also recovered during the clampdown.
It said that the killed murderous Moslems were behind the "targeting of innocent civilians and law enforcement agencies".
"The security forces remain committed to eliminating the menace of terrorism and thwart nefarious designs of the enemies of Pakistain at all costs," the ISPR added.
The operation comes days after army chief General Asim Munir said the recent surge in terrorism was a "futile effort" by murderous Moslems to resume talks and warned them to submit to the "writ of state of Pakistain before they are decimated".
According to the ISPR, the army chief issued the warning when he met the tribal elders and notables from the newly merged districts of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa. The "interactive session" was held during the chief of army staff’s (COAS) visit to Beautiful Downtown Peshawar ...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistain's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire... .
[Shafaq News] The Counter-Terrorism Group (CTG) in the Kurdistan Region disclosed on Friday that a Ottoman Turkish military drone targeted a vehicle for the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) in the Sulaymaniyah Governorate, near the district of Nalpariz.
According to a statement, the Agency explained that the Ottoman Turkish army drone attacked the vehicle transporting PKK fighters along the road to the Nalma region, adjacent to the Nalpariz district. The strike claimed the lives of a senior PKK official, a fellow combatant, and the driver of the targeted vehicle.
Rescue teams and law enforcement swiftly arrived at the scene, managing to quell the fire and retrieve the remains of the dear departed.
The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor... 's operations against the PKK have encompassed various cross-border aerial and ground operations in northern Iraq. The country's military endeavors have also extended to Syria, where operations were conducted to displace Syrian Kurdish fighters, regarded by Ankara as an extension of the PKK, from its borders.
[IsraelTimes] Agency says man, who has family in Israel, was instructed by Iran’s security services to spy on various targets in country; was given empty tissue box to hide spy tech
A Jewish Iranian man was questioned at Ben Gurion Airport and deported on Friday over suspicions of attempting to carry out espionage on behalf of Iranian intelligence, Israel’s Shin Bet security agency said.
The man, who has relatives in Israel, was detained by Shin Bet agents early Friday morning upon landing, the service said. The agency claimed that the man admitted to being in Israel to spy for Tehran and was promptly sent back to Iran
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How is it that that Shin Bet gets involved with someone who is not a spy?
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That’s what happens, Otto Gurly-Brown9938, when a civilian is blackmailed into attempting work properly left to the professionals. One hopes, honestly, that the Iranian spy agency was testing the system rather than so incredibly inept as to mean this to be a serious attempt. Truly, a tissue box hiding a variety of James Bond tools — how could they expect that not to be noticed when he arrived at Ben Gurion airport
[An Nahar] Paleostinian President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas ...aka Abu Mazen, a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial. While no Yasser Arafat, he has his own brand of evil, just a little more lowercase.... has fired most of the governors in the occupied West Bank, responding to long-standing demands for a political shake-up as frustration grows with the semi-autonomous Paleostinian Authority.
Abbas issued a decree dismissing the governors of eight provinces under Paleostinian administration in the occupied territory. The upheaval included the restive northern cities of Nablus, Jenin and Tulkarem, the focus of a recent surge in Paleostinian militancy that has undermined the authority's leadership. Only three areas — including Ramallah, the seat of the Paleostinian Authority — retained their governors. The president's office said that he would form a committee to suggest replacements.
Although the decision is unlikely to have an immediate impact on the ground, experts said it signals Abbas' recognition of the authority's deepening unpopularity and his desire to show that he is heeding calls for change in the face of mounting difficulties. Meet the new boss, same as the old boss
"It gives the authority a new face, which is important particularly as the governors are in charge of all security matters," said political analyst Jehad Harb. "But it won't change anything really. (Abbas) is trying to rebuild some public trust, but it will take much more."
Paleostinians have not had the chance to vote in national elections since 2006. Abbas' original four-year term technically ended in 2009.
Although governors said they had expected an overhaul for years given growing demands for change, many said Thursday's decree took them by surprise. Yet none expressed dissent with the decision of the president, who rule has become increasingly autocratic in the past years.
"I can understand how fresh blood is important," said Jihad Abu al-Assal, the governor of Jericho and the Jordan Valley. "This is the president's decisions and even if we don't understand all the reasons for it, we will comply."
The move comes as the secular nationalist Fatah party, which runs the internationally recognized Paleostinian Authority, grapples with mounting crises — internal and otherwise.
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[An Nahar] The Israeli military stormed into a refugee camp in the northern occupied West Bank on Friday, sparking a firefight with Paleostinian button men and killing a Paleostinian man, medics said.
The raid into the Tulkarem refugee camp was the latest deadly Israeli military operation into Paleostinian cities and towns following a monthslong surge of violence that has escalated regional tensions, highlighted the weaknesses of the Paleostinian Authority and helped fuel rising militancy in the restive occupied territory.
The Israeli military said that Paleostinians hurled bombs, fireworks and stones at troops, who fired back. Paleostinian button men also blocked the roads, opened fire and burned tires in the cramped alleys of the camp, the army said. The Paleostinian Red Islamic Thingy said that one man was killed and three others were maimed by Israeli fire.
The Tulkarem branch of a loosely organized Death Eater group known as the Lion's Den — which emerged in the northern city of Nablus last year — identified the man killed as Mahmoud Jarad and claimed him as a member.
Israeli-Paleostinian fighting in the West Bank has surged to levels unseen in nearly two decades, with more than 160 Paleostinians killed by Israeli fire since the start of 2023, according to a tally by The News Agency that Dare Not be Named.
Israel says most of those killed have been Death Eaters, but stone-throwing youths protesting the raids and others not involved in the confrontations have also been killed.
At least 26 people have been killed in Paleostinian attacks against Israelis during that time.
Israel says the raids are essential to dismantle Death Eater networks and thwart future attacks. The Paleostinians see the violence as a natural response to 56 years of occupation, including stepped-up settlement construction by Israel's government and increased violence by Jewish settlers.
The Paleostinian Authority’s official news agency, Wafa, said 23-year-old Mahmoud Jihad Jarad was brought to the Tulkarem Governmental Hospital after being fatally shot in the chest, where he was pronounced dead. He's dead, Jim! A Telegram account thought to be tied to the al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades claimed Jarad as a member and a "fighter" in the terror group, adding that he was killed while clashing with Israeli forces.
Hmmm — so which does he belong to: Lion’s Den or Al Aqsa Martyr’s Brigade? Or possibly both, depending on which has work for him that day....
Among the other four maimed men in the Tulkarem Camp, one was reported by Wafa to be at death's door.
A spokesperson for the Israel Defense Forces told The Times of Israel that troops were conducting "proactive activity" in Tulkarem, when Paleostinian rioters and gunman attacked forces.
"Suspects threw stones and explosives, set tires on fire, and launched fireworks at IDF soldiers," the military spokesperson said.
The IDF said Paleostinian button men blocked roads and shot up Israeli forces, causing damage to a number of military vehicles.
Troops returned fire at the button men, the spokesperson said, adding that a number were hit.
No soldiers were hurt during the festivities.
Also Friday, Paleostinian button men opened fire from a vehicle at an IDF post near the West Bank town of Yabed, close to Jenin, the military said.
The IDF said troops returned fire at the button men who fled and later found dozens of shell casings in the area from which the assailants opened fire.
[NPASyria] Unknown button men killed on Friday a member of 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) and injured four others in the western countryside of Aleppo, northwest Syria.
An exclusive source from the HTS said unknown button men, riding cycle of violences, attacked a military checkpoint of the HTS on the road between the town of Darat Izza and the village of Gazawiya in the west of Aleppo.
The attack resulted in the killing of a member of the HTS and the injury of four others, the source told North Press.
Recently, attacks against the HTS posts have increased. On August 6, unknown button men attacked a checkpoint of the group, killing one member and injuring three others in the south of Idlib.
The HTS, rebranded in 2017, controls the city of Idlib and western Aleppo Governorate, under the guise of the Salvation Government.
[An Nahar] At least 23 Syrian soldiers have been killed in the conflict-torn country's east in an attack on an army bus blamed on 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.... group jihadists, a monitor said Friday.
IS "members targeted a military bus" in Deir Ezzor province on Thursday, said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, as remnants of the jihadist group escalate their attacks.
The attack killed "23 soldiers and maimed more than 10 others", some of whom at death's door, said the Britannia-based group which relies on a wide network of sources inside Syria.
The Observatory said "dozens of (other) soldiers" were missing.
Despite losing their last piece of territory in Syria in 2019, IS has maintained hideouts in the vast Syrian desert from which it has carried out ambushes and hit-and-run attacks.
Its members in recent weeks have increased their attacks in Syria's north and northeast.
Ten Syrian soldiers and pro-government fighters were killed earlier this week in an IS attack in the former jihadist stronghold of Raqa province, the Observatory said Tuesday.
The gunnies reportedly ambushed an overnight bus belonging to the army in al-Mayadeen desert in the countryside of eastern Deir ez-Zor province.
The attack was the second of the jihadist group on the Syrian army within a week. On Tuesday, SOHR reported that ISIS killed 10 Syrian soldiers and maimed six in Raqqa.
According to data from SOHR, at least 188 Syrian soldiers, 157 civilians, 37 pro-Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... militia members, and 20 ISIS fighters have been killed in festivities in the Syrian desert since the start of the year.
Civil war broke out in Syria in 2011 after the government’s brutal crackdown on protests and the security situation continues to be fragile ever since. The conflict then erupted into multiple fronts with the emergence of ISIS, constant fighting between Kurdish forces and The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire...
and Ottoman Turkish-backed proxies, Israeli attacks on pro-Iran factions, and tit-for-tat attacks between the US and Iran. Russia has also backed the Syrian government, while about a thousand US troops are stationed in Syria to fight ISIS remnants.
Sana news agency quoted a military source saying a "terrorist" group had attacked a military bus on Thursday in the steppe desert on the road from the T2 pumping station - which lies close to the Iraqi border south of the city of Deir al-Zour - leaving a number of army personnel dead and injured.
The T2 pumping station was an IS stronghold until its capture by the Syrian army in 2017.
[An Nahar] Days of fighting in the largest Paleostinian refugee camp in Leb ...an Iranian colony situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozeen flavors of Christians. It is the home of Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers... displaced several hundred families, destroyed up to 400 houses and left half the camp still off-limits and considered "a hot area," a senior U.N. official said.
This is why no one in their vicinity gets to have nice things.
Dorothee Klaus, Director of the U.N. agency for Paleostinian refugees in Lebanon, said she was able to visit part of the Ain el-Helweh camp for the first time earlier this week and met with traumatized children and women, some whose hair turned white during the hostilities.
The fighting between members of Paleostinian President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas ...aka Abu Mazen, a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial. While no Yasser Arafat, he has his own brand of evil, just a little more lowercase.... ' Fatah group and forces of Evil of Islamic groups at Ain el-Helweh near the southern port of Sidon that began July 30 and ended Aug. 3 left 13 people dead and dozens maimed.
Klaus said "the camp remains unstable," with the Lebanese military barring access to half the camp because armed fighters are still positioned there and it's not safe though hostilities have ceased.
She told U.N. journalists at a video presser that the U.N. agency, known as UNRWA, has reopened services in about 50% of the camp which includes one health center, but a school complex for over 3,000 children was also damaged.
"We've been collecting garbage, disinfecting, and started removing rubble," she said, and when the other half of the camp reopens the first thing will be to remove unwent kaboom! ordnance and remnants of war.
Ain el-Helweh, which is home to over 50,000 Paleostinian refugees, is one of a dozen refugee camps in Lebanon. The country has between 200,000 and 250,000 Paleostinian refugees, half living in camps and the rest in the vicinity, she said.
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