TALIBAN AND PAKISTANI FORCES EXCHANGE FIRE AT BORDER – Reports of a cross-border exchange of fire between both Pakistani and Taliban border elements near the Chaman Spin Boldak crossing caused a temporary closure of the border today. At least 2 people were killed and another was wounded during the incident, both of those who died were Pakistani nationals and one was said to be a child. Pakistani authorities have called on the Taliban to hand over those responsible to face justice.
TALIBAN TELL PAKISTAN THE PLAN TO EVICT AFGHANS IS UNACCEPTABLE – The Taliban roared back at Pakistan over claims that Afghan nationals in Pakistan constituted a threat to national security and pointed to the decades that Afghans have resided in Pakistan without taking part in anti-government sentiment. The Taliban’s chief spokesman, Zabihullah Mujahid called the threat of deportation…unacceptable. For its part, Pakistan pointed to those militants it has either killed or captured in recent attacks along the frontiers and claimed that over 35% of them were Afghan citizens. Both sides are making preparations to deport/receive the Afghans as plans have been announced to establish refugee camps in Afghanistan and committees are being formed in Pakistan to carry out the deportations.
AFGHAN EMBASSY IN NETHERLANDS OFFERS CONSULAR SERVICES – The Taliban’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced that the Afghan consulate in Amsterdam had reopened and was already assisting Afghan citizens in the Netherlands with consular functions. The consular section will be open Monday through Wednesday and Thursdays will be reserved for those Afghans who make appointments to be seen.
THE US WALKS A FINE LINE WITH BI-LATERAL RELATIONS WITH PAKISTAN OVER DEPORTATION THREATS – A State Department spokesman deflected questions over what the US was planning to do with regard to the threat of deporting Afghans from Pakistan on 1 November. At a briefing on Tuesday, the spokesman said only that “Pakistan has been an important partner when it has come to the resettlement of Afghans who are fleeing and looking to resettle.” The administration has made it clear that it would like to be free of the problem of the refugees but has also voiced a commitment to make good on promises to evacuate those with valid claims for asylum, parole, and special immigrant visas.
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Nuristan: NRF forces launched two separate attacks against Taliban personnel yesterday. The first attack targeted a Taliban checkpoint in Mandol and lasted well into the night. The second attack targeted a building used by the Taliban in Doab. Additional skirmishes were reported but not confirmed at several checkpoints in the province. 2 Talib fighters were killed and 5 were wounded in both operations.
[GEO.TV] Afghan cops Wednesday opened "unprovoked and indiscriminate" fire on pedestrians crossing the Chaman border and martyred two Pak civilians, including a child, the military's media wing said.
In a statement, the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) said the unfortunate event took place at 4pm at the Friendship Gate of the border crossing along the Pakistain-Afghanistan border ...also known as Pashtunistan, home of ignorance, poverty, and automatic weapons... 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 incident occurred at the outbound gate located on the zero line," the statement said, noting that two Pak citizens — including a 12-year-old — embraced martyrdom, while another child was injured.
In response, Pak troops exercised extreme restraint and avoided any exchange of fire in the presence of innocent passengers to avoid collateral damage, the ISPR statement said.
The Chaman border has been, over the years, repeatedly closed and then re-opened after Afghan forces resorted to such extreme measures, with the Pak side stressing restraint.
In today's statement, the ISPR said Islamabad has approached Kabul's authorities to inquire about the reason behind such an irresponsible and reckless act and to apprehend and hand over the culprit to Pak authorities.
The military said that the Afghan government is also expected to exercise control over its troops and impart discipline to act responsibly in order to avoid the recurrence of such incidents in the future.
"Pakistain remains committed to [contributing] towards peace, prosperity, and development through positive and constructive bilateral relations, however, such unpleasant occurrences have the potential to harm the sincere intent and purpose."
The bodies of the dear departed, meanwhile, have been shifted to the DHQ Hospital Chaman, and the injured child, who was immediately evacuated by security forces, is under treatment.
The development comes a day after Pakistain told hundreds of thousands of Afghans living illegally in Pakistain to leave voluntarily until November 1 or face deportation.
[AFRICANEWS] Ten non-combatants were killed and 11 injured Tuesday in Khartoum in a bombardment by paramilitary forces that hit homes, a mosque and a medical center, activists said.
According to a local resistance committee, one of the groups that organize mutual aid between residents in the country at war, "shells fell in the al-Samrab district, in the north of Khartoum".
"Shells hit houses, a mosque and a medical centre," this source told AFP by telephone in Port Sudan ...a Moslem country located in the Horn of Africa. It is noted for its affinity for rule by ex- or current generals, its holy men, and for the oppression of the native Afro population by its Arab conquerors. South Sudan, populated mostly by the natives, split off from Sudan proper, which left North and South Darfur to be oppressed by the guys with turbans... , in the east of the country. "Ten non-combatants were killed and 11 injured in the bombardment carried out by the Rapid Security Forces (RSF)," she added.
Started on April 15, the war between the army led by Abdel Fattah al-Burhane and the FSR of Mohammed Hamdan Daglo, two generals fighting for power, left around 7,500 dead, according to an estimate by the NGO Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project. This assessment is nevertheless considered to be largely underestimated due to the difficulties of access in the field.
The conflict has also left more than five million displaced and refugees and worsened the humanitarian and health crisis in the country, one of the poorest in the world now ravaged by dengue and cholera.
So far, all diplomatic efforts undertaken by several parties, including the United States and Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... , have failed to end the fighting.
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[ShabelleMedia] Suspected KDF jets launched an aerial bombing operation against al-Shbaab’s main headquarters in Southern Somalia amid a ground offensive.
It has been reported that drones tossed several missiles in the Bu’ale district, Middle Jubba region and the reports added that some of the missiles struck al-Shabaab ...... al-Qaeda's tentacle in East Africa... meeting places.
It is not known the official casualty number caused by last night’s Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s in the Bu’ale district, and there is no independent source that can confirm it as the city’s communication was out of service at the time of the attack.
The attacks are believed to have been carried out by Kenyan warplanes, which often carry out attacks in areas and districts in the regions of Juba and Gedo.
Jubaland and the federal government of Somalia did not issue a statement regarding the airstrikes last night in the town of Buale, which serves as al-Shabaab’s biggest base in Somalia.
Kenyan troops are operating in Jubaland state as part of the AU mission in Somalia. On October 16th, 2011, Kenya Defence Forces moved into Southern Somalia to pursue the bully boy group Al-Shabaab after a series of kidnappings of tourists along the border.
[ShabelleMedia] The Ottoman Turkish-trained special police [Haram’ad] conducted a security operation in the southern town of Afgoye, which lies 30 kilometers west of Mogadishu.
The officials said the police targeted houses suspected to be al-Shabaab ...... an Islamic infestation centering on Somalia attempting to metastasize into Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, and similar places, all ofwhich have enough problems without them... hideouts, where a number of alleged Death Eaters have been rounded up during the sweep in the strategic city.
Women were among the five people arrested by the police, who have been taken into a custody for questioning. It’s not the first time the police carrying out such operations.
In the past few days, the government forces stepped up operations against al-Shabaab as part of wider offensive aimed at eliminating the Death Eaters from the whole country.
Afgoye which is located in Lower Shabelle region is key to the security of Mogadishu as it is on a highway that connects the capital to al-Shabaab controlled areas in southern Somalia.
[ShabelleMedia] The Intelligence Agency (NISA) said it has arrested Sufyaan Sheikh Ahmed, (Taakeeye) who was accused of spreading Death Eater ideas against the peace and stability of Somalia.
A blurb from NISA said that Sufyaan Sheikh Ahmed, (Taakeeye) was also supporting the al-Shabaab ...... al-Qaeda's tentacle in East Africa... group which the government knows as the Khawarij group.
NISA said Sufyaan, a resident of Nairobi, Kenya, was brought down from Mogadishu and began investigations and interviews related to the relationship between al-Shabaab, other networks linked to it, and individuals who share this ideology that the government considers dangerous. Somali nation.
The National Intelligence and Security Agency (NISA) has said that it is committed to targeting both domestic and foreign individuals who have overt and covert involvement in so-called terrorism.
[Garowe] After weeks of heavy artillery and gunfire exchange, the African Union ...a union consisting of 53 African states, most run by dictators of one flavor or another. The only all-African state not in the AU is Morocco. Established in 2002, the AU is the successor to the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), which was even less successful... Transition Mission in Somalia [ATMIS] troops have managed to seize a strategic forest from the al-Shabaab ...... the personification of Somali state failure... bad boys, in yet another notable milestone in the fight against the al-Qaeda-linked group.
In a statement published by ATMIS, the mission team confirmed that Ugandan and Burundi contingents participated in the operation, which targeted the Cali Fooldhere forest within the Middle Shabelle region, within the HirShabelle state of Somalia.
During the operation, the forces managed to confiscate Vehicle Borne Improvised Explosive Devices, ATMIS said. The forest is used by the Death Eaters to hide the vehicles used in the attacks besides helping them on matters of logistics and planning.
"The Cali Fooldhere forest has particularly over the years become a strategic location where the snuffies wage deadly attacks and conceal ammunition including vehicles for Vehicle Borne Improvised Explosive Devices," said Lt. Gen Sam Okiding, the Force Commander.
[AFRICANEWS] Gunmen in Nigeria have kidnapped five female students from a university in the northwestern Katsina state. This marks the second such abduction of students in the region within a month.
Kidnappings for ransom by gangs are widespread in northwest Nigeria due to high levels of poverty, unemployment, and the proliferation of illegal firearms.
The incident occurred early on Wednesday at the Federal University in Dutsin-Ma town, as confirmed by Katsina police spokesperson Abubakar Sadiq. The police are taking immediate action, deploying all available resources to ensure the safe rescue of the victims. Additionally, one suspect is already in jug.
This incident follows a similar abduction on September 22, when at least 24 female students were taken from their hostel at the Federal University Gusau in Zamfara state. Fortunately, 16 of them were successfully freed three days later during a rescue operation conducted by security forces.
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[HODHODYEMENNEWS.NET] A security commander in the "Security Belt" factions affiliated with the UAE-backed Southern Transitional Council (STC), was assassinated on Wednesday in Abyan ...a governorate of Yemen. The region was a base to the Aden-Abyan Islamic Army terrorist group until it dropped the name and joined al-Qaeda. Its capital is Zinjibar. In March 2011, al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula declared the governate an Islamic Emirate after seizing control of the region. The New York Times fastidiously reported that those in control, while Islamic hard boyz, are not in fact al-Qaeda, but something else that looks, tastes, smells, and acts the same. Yemeni government forces launched an effort to re-establish control of the region when President-for-Life Saleh was tossed and the carnage continues... province, 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... , local sources said.
According to the sources, unknown button men believed to belong to al-Qaeda targeted a vehicle of the security belt sector’s commander, Salem Ali Sal’an in the coastal area of Shuqra, with an bomb while he was passing on the main road, which led to his death instantly.
The attack also resulted in the injury of eight of his lover companions, the sources said.
The sources added that the earth-shattering kaboom came after an attempt to assassinate the commander, Fadl Baash, who was appointed by the government loyal to the Saudi-led coalition as commander of the "Special Forces" in the center of the city of Zinjibar of Abyan, with a boom-mobile last week.
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[GEO.TV] Two people were martyred and three were maimed in a roadside explosion 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 Chaghi area on Wednesday, official said.
According to the Levies force, the blast took place in Chaghi bazaar — at a distance of 60 kilometres from Dalbandin near the Pak-Afghan border — when a security forces vehicle was passing by.
Security forces have surrounded the area, while the maimed have been moved to Dalbandin hospital for medical treatment, Levies said.
The attack comes days after more than 60 people died in two separate suicide kabooms in Balochistan's Mastung and Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa's Hangu city on September 29.
Meanwhile, ...back at the chili cook-off, Chuck slipped the habañero into the roasted jalapeño... a patrolling post in the Kundal area of Punjab’s Mianwali district also came under attack by 10 to 12 snuffies on Sunday. One policeman was martyred as security forces successfully repelled the attack killing two terrorists.
Pakistain has witnessed a significant spike in the form of the recent wave of terrorist attacks across the country.
According to a statistical report released by the independent think tank Pakistain Institute for Conflict and Security Studies (PICSS), at least 271 krazed killer attacks took place during the first half of 2023, resulting in the loss of 389 lives and injuring 656 individuals. Terror activities in the country soared by 79% during the period.
In light of the increase in attacks, Interim Interior Minister Sarfraz Bugti announced the November 1 deadline for the illegal "aliens", including Afghan illegal immigrants colonists, to leave the county voluntarily.
The caretaker interior minister revealed that Afghan nationals were responsible for 14 of the 24 suicide kabooms in the country this year.
Bugti said some 1.73 million Afghan nationals in Pakistain had no legal documents to stay, adding a total of 4.4 million Afghan refugees living in Pakistain.
"Safety and security of the people of Pakistain is the prime responsibility and foremost priority of the government," he said.
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[Shafaq News] The Mawat District Administration in Sulaymaniyah Governorate announced on Wednesday that several areas were targeted in a series of Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s carried out by Ottoman Turkish warplanes.
The strikes, which occurred at 0700 pm, targeted three areas in Mawat District, according to Kamran Hassan, the Mayor of Mawat.
Although no human casualties have been reported, the repeated bombings have caused widespread panic among citizens, mainly due to the proximity of the airstrikes to residential areas.
A security source confirmed that the Ottoman Turkish aircraft conducted the aerial bombardment, targeting locations believed to be affiliated with the Kurdistan Workers' Party.
This incident follows similar attacks on the same area on Tuesday, where Ottoman Turkish warplanes launched air strikes. The Ottoman Turkish Defense Ministry grabbed credit for these operations.
The Ministry had earlier revealed details of a substantial air operation conducted in the Kurdistan Region, which destroyed 20 sites associated with the PKK.
Ottoman Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan, during a presser in Ankara, declared that all infrastructure, superstructure, and energy facilities affiliated with the Kurdistan Workers' Party in Iraq and Syria have become legitimate targets for Ottoman Turkish forces.
Fidan's statement came after a recent terrorist attack in Ankara, which he claimed was orchestrated by individuals trained in Syria.
In the Ankara attack, two gunnies targeted the General Directorate of Security of the Ministry of Interior. One assailant detonated an bomb while security forces neutralized the other. Two Ottoman Turkish security personnel sustained minor injuries during the incident.
The Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) later grabbed credit for the attack.
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[Shafaq News] A security source reported on Wednesday that Ottoman Turkish artillery conducted military strikes on locations belonging to Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) members in the village of "Sikiri", located on the slopes of Mount "Meteen" overlooking the Amedi district in the northern Duhok governorate. Meanwhile, ...back at the precinct house, Fat Tony demanded his rosco back. He didn't say please... villagers expressed their fear of the ongoing shelling.
The source explained that "the shelling resulted in fires in the farmlands of the village, and we do not have precise details about the losses incurred by these attacks."
The source added that "Ottoman Turkish forces established a new military base a week ago on the summit of Mount Meteen in the area of Surê Sikiri after violent mostly peacefulfestivities erupted between PKK murderous Moslems and Ottoman Turkish forces in this region."
Residents of the village of "Sikiri" expressed their "concerns about the continuous escalation of Ottoman Turkish shelling targeting the vicinity of their village every day."
Bashir Sikiri, one of the village residents, told Shafaq News Agency, "The mutual shelling between PKK murderous Moslems and the Ottoman Turkish army has greatly impacted the locals. We cannot go to our farms, and we cannot raise our livestock. We are completely trapped."
Sadiq Nahili added, "The village has become almost deserted due to the shelling, with only three families remaining. Just two days ago, a shell fell near our house, luckily, no one was injured, but this incident caused fires in our orchards and farms."
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[Shafaq News] The Security Media Cell announced that four forces of Evil were apprehended in al-Sulaymaniyah and Kirkuk.
In a statement, the Agency said, "Coordinated efforts between the Federal Counter-Terrorism Service and the Counter-Terrorism Regiment in al-Sulaymaniyah led to the arrest of a terrorist in the governorate. Meanwhile, ...back at the hoedown, the fiddler suddenly struck a sour note. The dancing stopped abruptly. Everyone looked at Bob... in Kirkuk Governorate, based on intelligence from the Asayish Sulaymaniyah Directorate, three forces of Evil were apprehended."
[Rudaw] The Internal Security Forces (Asayish) of northeast Syria (Rojava) announced that four civilians were maimed as a result of a suspected Ottoman Turkishdronezap in Hasaka province on Wednesday.
"Today... a Ottoman Turkish occupation drone targeted a construction materials factory in the town of al-Safia, with three shells," said the Asayish in a statement, adding that four civilians sustained different injuries as the result of the attack.
The four civilians were sent to a hospital to receive treatment, according to the internal security forces.
The Asayish are a police and security force predominantly in Rojava that is affiliated with the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), which fought the lion’s share of the battle against 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)and defeated the terror group in 2019.
Ottoman Turkish forces frequently conduct dronezaps on targets in northern Syria on the grounds that they have links with the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) and pose a threat to The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor... .
The Ottoman Turkish defense ministry has not commented on Wednesday’s dronezap. However, nothing needs reforming like other people's bad habits... Ottoman Turkish state media reported that the country’s intelligence killed a YPG member in Hasaka, accusing him of planning a kaboom in Istanbul last year.
According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR), a UK-based war monitor, Turkey has carried out 51 dronezaps on areas controlled by Kurdish forces in northern Syria since January, and the attacks have resulted in 62 deaths, including 13 civilians. 22 of those attacks have targeted Hasaka.
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[HODHODYEMENNEWS.NET] Dozens of foreign-sponsored Takfiri ...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who must be killed... holy warriors have been killed and maimed after Syrian army forces carried out a string of military operations against terrorist bases and arms depots in the northwestern province of Idlib.
Syria’s official news agency SANA, citing a statement issued by the Syrian Ministry of Defense on Tuesday, reported that the strikes were in retaliation for the recent terrorist attacks on the positions of Syrian army troops and government-held towns.
The statement said the operations destroyed the headquarters and weapons caches of members of the so-called Ansar al-Tawhid (Supporters of Monotheism) Takfiri group.
Dozens of terrorists, among them high-profile commanders, were among the fatalities, it added.
Syrian government troops also intercepted and shot down two combat drones operated by holy warriors over an area in the neighboring Aleppo province.
The operation came after Russia’s Defense Ministry warned that members of Takfiri terrorist outfits were planning to stage attacks in Syria’s northwestern provinces of Latakia, Idlib and Aleppo against the positions of Syrian and Russian military forces.
Deputy Chief of the Russian Reconciliation Center for Syria Major General Oleg Yegorov said on Tuesday that the center had received information that the Death Eaters were set to carry out the assaults.
He said Russian and Syrian forces would adopt proper measures to repel the attacks.
[An Nahar] The wife of slain Lebanese Forces A Christian political party founded by Bashir Gemayel, who was then bumped off when he was elected president of Leb... member Elias Hasrouni, Yvette Sleiman Hasrouni, has died of her wounds following a car crash, the National News Agency reported on Tuesday.
The woman, who hailed from the southern town of Ain Ebel, had been rushed to the Salah Ghandour Hospital in Bint Jbeil suffering a hemorrhage and requiring large quantities of blood, NNA said.
Her husband Elias had been initially thought to have died in a car crash before video footage showed that he was kidnapped and murdered by a group of men.
The LF has accused Hezbollah of being behind the murder and of obstructing the investigations into the incident.
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Her husband Elias had been initially thought to have died in a car crash before video footage showed that he was kidnapped and murdered by a group of men.
Only one 'car crash' team was available for deployment. Gemayel was handled in a more traditional method.
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