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Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
Russian Def Min: Central Asia Threatened by Terrorists 'In Afghanistan'
2024-04-28
[TOLONEWS] At the Shanghai Cooperation Organization's defense ministers' meeting in Kazakhstan, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu claimed that the main threat to Central Asia originates from terrorists bully boyz based in Afghanistan.

The Russian Defense Minister also spoke at the meeting about America's efforts to regain influence in the region following its withdrawal from Afghanistan.

Sergei Shoigu said, "The main danger to Central Asia comes from extremist turban terrorist groups based in Afghanistan, and the United States is trying to influence the region after its 2021 withdrawal from Afghanistan."

The Islamic Emirate has repeatedly stated that Afghan soil will not be used against any country.

Some military experts believe that there are no terrorist groups in Afghanistan.

Abdul Hadi Quraishi, a military affairs expert, told TOLOnews: "Russia and China should be assured that there is no threat from Afghan soil against Central Asia and the member countries of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, and it is the policy of the Islamic Emirate that Afghan soil does not pose a threat to any country in the world and will not do so."

Hekmatullah Hekmat, a military affairs expert, said: "Afghan soil is currently not hosting any terrorist groups, and it is the hope of the current government's officials to maintain their neutrality in such interactions and consider national interests."

The Islamic Emirate has consistently called the claims of terrorist groups' presence in Afghanistan unfounded.

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Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Palestinians say 11 killed, 102 hurt in Nablus clashes between gunmen, Israeli forces
2023-02-23
[IsraelTimes] Firefights erupt as military surrounds house where senior Lion’s Den member was hiding out with two other button men

Ten Paleostinians were killed as heavy shootouts broke out between Israeli forces and button men Wednesday in Nablus after the military entered the northern West Bank city to arrest a number of terror suspects.

The Paleostinian Authority’s health ministry said that in addition to 11 people confirmed dead, 102 Paleostinians were hurt in the festivities, seven of them seriously. It did not specify the involvement among those killed and maimed.

The ministry identified them as Adnan Saabe Baara, 72, Anan Shawkat Annab, 66, Abdul Hadi Abdul Aziz Ashqar, 61, Mohammad Farid Shaaban, 16, Tamer Nimr Minawi, 33, Mohammad Khaled Anbousi, 25, Musab Munir Awais, 26, Hussam Bassam Isleem, 24, and Mohammad Abdul Fattah, 23, Walid Riyad Dkhail, 23, and Jaser Jamil Qanier, 23.

The Israel Defense Forces said troops had entered Nablus to arrest Isleem, a senior member of the Lion’s Den terror group, who was allegedly the third member of a cell that killed Staff Sgt. Ido Baruch during a shooting attack in October. The other two were detained last week.

A military source told The Times of Israel that soldiers surrounded a home where three suspects, all members of the Lion’s Den terror group, were holed up, demanding they turn themselves in. Officers of the elite police Yamam unit fired missiles at the building, to flush the men out in a technique known as "pressure cooker."

Two of the suspects were killed inside the building, while the third was rubbed out while he tried to escape.

Soldiers later found two firearms and ammunition in the building, the IDF said.

The IDF named the other two Lion’s Den members as Fattah and Dkhail. The military said Fattah was also affiliated with the Paleostinian Islamic Jihad
...created after many members of the Egyptian Moslem Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the assassination of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah...
, and all three men had participated in shooting attacks against Israeli forces in the northern West Bank.

Lion’s Den and the Islamic Jihad later claimed six of the fatalities as members.

Clashes erupted elsewhere in the city. The IDF said troops came under "massive gunfire," and responded with live fire at button men.

The IDF was anticipating a response to the deadly raid, a senior military official told news hounds.

"The resistance in Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamaswith about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response...
is watching the enemy’s escalating crimes against our people," Abu Obeida, front man of the Gaza-ruling Hamas, the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood, terror group’s military wing, said in a statement.

No Israeli troops were hurt in Wednesday’s raid, which came after a similar daytime operation in Jenin last month when ten Paleostinians, including an elderly woman, were killed amid fierce festivities between Israeli troops and button men.

That raid was met with international expressions of concern and Paleostinian calls for outside intervention. A day later, seven people were rubbed out in Jerusalem’s Neve Yaakov neighborhood in the deadliest Paleostinian terror attack since 2008.
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Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Palestinian man shot dead amid clashes with Israeli forces near Jenin
2023-01-15
[IsraelTimes] Media reports say troops detain at least one suspect in Qabatiya; local wing of Paleostinian Islamic Jihad
...created after many members of the Egyptian Moslem Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the assassination of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah...
claims to open fire at soldiers.


Two Paleostinians were killed on Thursday amid festivities with Israeli troops during a daytime military raid in the West Bank city of Qabatiya, south of Jenin, the military and Paleostinian health officials said.

Border Police officers entered Qabatiya to arrest Muhammad Alawneh, a wanted Paleostinian allegedly involved in terror activities and planning further attacks, according to a joint statement by police, the military, and the Shin Bet security agency.

The statement said that Alawneh and an additional suspect expeditiously departed at a goodly pace as troops sought to arrest him. The officers opened fire as they arrested Alawneh, and the second suspect was hit by the troops’ gunfire.

Another armed man shot up troops from a passing vehicle amid the operation, the statement said. The soldiers returned fire, hitting the man, before seizing his M16 assault rifle.

The statement added that several more Paleostinians, who allegedly hurled stones at the troops during the raid, were shot.

According to the Paleostinian Authority Health Ministry, Habib Mohammed Abdul Rahman Kamil, 25, was shot in the head by the troops during the festivities in the area and later died.

A second Paleostinian, 18-year-old Abdul Hadi Fakhri Youssef Nazzal, died several hours after being critically hurt in the festivities, the ministry said.

It was not immediately clear if two slain Paleostinians were involved in the gunfire, the violent mostly peaceful riots, or if one of them was the second suspect that initially fled with Alawneh.

The ministry said another three Paleostinians were maimed in the festivities.

In a statement, a local wing of the Paleostinian Islamic Jihad claimed to have targeted troops in the area.

No Israeli soldiers or officers were hurt during the raid, officials said.

Kamil and Nazzal were the fourth and fifth Paleostinians killed by Israeli forces in less than two days, after a man was rubbed out after allegedly hurling cinderblocks at troops in the Qalandiya refugee camp early Thursday, an alleged Paleostinian stabber was rubbed out in the South Hebron Hills on Wednesday afternoon and a Paleostinian gunman was killed in festivities with the IDF in Nablus in the morning.

Samir Awni Harbi Aslan, 41, was killed as troops detained six wanted Paleostinians in the refugee camp north of Jerusalem early Thursday. The IDF said another 11 Paleostinians were arrested elsewhere across the West Bank overnight, with some violent mostly peaceful incidents.

In a separate raid on Thursday morning, the IDF, Border Police, and Shin Bet security agency said troops arrested a member of the Lion’s Den terror group in the West Bank city of Nablus as local button men attempted to target the forces.

Forces from an elite Border Police unit detained Iyad an-Nasser Shbaro, 33, along with four other suspects, and seized two makeshift submachine guns and an bomb, according to the joint statement.

In all, 22 Paleostinians who were arrested in the West Bank over suspected terror activities were taken to be questioned by the Shin Bet security agency.
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Southeast Asia
Analysts: Malaysia Must Clarify Whether Envoy’s ‘Promise’ to Taliban Had Govt OK
2022-02-10
[BenarNews] A controversy over Malaysia’s envoy to the Middle East purportedly promising aid to the Taliban
...the Pashtun equivalent of men...
government in Afghanistan refuses to die down.

Abdul Hadi Awang, the envoy who also leads the Malaysian Islamic Party (PAS), said Tuesday through his representative that his meeting with a senior Taliban official in Doha last week was just a "dialogue." He indicated that any discussion about aid was akin to Malaysia’s donation to the U.N. for humanitarian efforts in Afghanistan.
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Afghanistan
Military Aircraft, Vehicles Were Taken Out of Country
2021-09-22
[ToloNews] Officials from the Cultural Commission of the Ministry of Information and Culture of the caretaker cabinet on Tuesday said military equipment of the former government had been transferred out of Afghanistan.

Footage published on social media showed several Afghan air force helicopters in Uzbekistan and images also showed Humvees and Ranger trucks being transferred into Iran.

Noor Mohammad Mutavakil, a member of the Cultural Commission, said some of the military hardware transferred into 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 Jews Zionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol...
has been returned to Afghanistan. However,
ars longa, vita brevis...
he did not say who had transferred the hardware out of the country.

"Requests should be made for its return because it belongs to our people--if it is tanks or helicopters. Some hardware has been brought back from Iran," he said.

Meanwhile,
...back at the wrecked scow, Agent 49 felt gingerly for his head. It was still there. He had been hoping differently...
a number of MPs and former military officers said military hardware belongs to the people and no one should be allowed to take it out of the country.

Sayed Ahmad Silab, an MP, said that following the collapse of the former government after Ashraf Ghani
...former chancellor of Kabul University, ex-president of Afghanistan. Before returning to Afghanistan in 2002 he was a scholar of political science and anthropology. He worked at the World Bank working on international development assistance. As Finance Minister of Afghanistan between July 2002 and December 2004, he led Afghanistan's attempted economic recovery until the Karzais stole all the money. When Biden abandoned the country left with a helicopter, four cars, and part of the national treasury...
fled, dozens of helicopters and hundreds of Humvees were transferred out of the country. "The Islamic Emirate should bring back the military hardware from the neighboring countries," he said.

"This is the third time that our air and land forces have disintegrated. It is a loss, and I am very worried," said Abdul Hadi Quraishi, a former military officer.

Based on available figures, Afghanistan had 160 fighting helicopters and 22,176 armored Humvees when the former government was in power. Now, however, it is not clear how much of this hardware remains inside the country and how much has been transferred out.
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Afghanistan
Pakistan, UAE provide more humanitarian aids to Afghanistan
2021-09-11
[KhaamaPress] Pakistain provided its second consignment of humanitarian aid to the people of Afghanistan in Kandahar province.

As per the statement of the Pak embassy in Kabul, the consignment is comprised of food ingredients, medicines, and utensils.

It is Pakistain’s second tranche of humanitarian assistance in two days and is said to continue in Khost and Balkh provinces.

The country’s first consignment of aid was handed over to the officials of the ministry of public health in Kabul International Airport on Thursday which included 30 tonnes of medicines and food.

In the meantime, UAE’s plane loaded with tonnes of food ingredients landed in Kabul International Airport on Friday and the relief assistance was handed over to the officials of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan.

It is the country’s seventh consignment of humanitarian assistance since the Taliban
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took over power in Afghanistan.

The tranche which includes flour, rice, and other food ingredients is donated by Afghan traders based in UAE.

Officials of IEA thanked the countries for humanitarian aids and added that all countries are welcomed to provide Afghanistan’s people with aid of such.

The aids are provided at a critical time as the UNAMA has called on the international community to provide the people of Afghanistan with relief assistance and withhold potential humanitarian crises.
Tolo News quantifies:
Haji Obaidullah, head of the Association of Afghan Businessmen in UAE, said the UAE aid--consisting of food and medicine--will continue coming to Kabul until the end of September.

“They have coordinated this with us and soon the aid will reach the families in need,” he said.

Earlier this week Bahrain sent 30 tons of food and medicine to Afghanistan.

Meanwhile, Abdul Hadi Hamdan, who is in charge of Kabul airport, said that food, clothing and medicine provided by various countries had arrived at the airport, and he said the airport will soon become operational for civilian flights as well.

“So far, those flights that carry humanitarian aid have landed at the airport,” Hamdan said.

Meanwhile, officials of the Pakistan consulate in Kandahar say that 12 tons of food and medicine provided by Pakistan arrived in Kandahar on Friday.
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Afghanistan
Dozens of ANDSF members, civilians freed from Taliban jail
2021-05-27
[KhaamaPress] Afghan army’s 217th Pamir corps in a released statement on Wednesday said 62 ANDSF and civilians were freed from Taliban
...Arabic for students...
prison during a special operation in Baghlan province.

Abdul Hadi Nazari, a front man for the 217th Pamir corps said that members of the (KKA) special unit carried out a special operation on Tuesday night on a Taliban prison in the village of Nowruzak in Baghlan-e-Markazi district of Baghlan province.

He said 36 Afghan government forces and 26 civilians were released from the Taliban jail following the night raid.

According to Nazari at least four Talibs were killed, all of the four killed bandidos Death Eaters used to guard the prison.

The corps’ front man also added that a number of bombs and ammunition belonging to the Taliban were also destroyed.

According to reports the entire prison was also damaged following the rescue mission.
Related:
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Baghlan: 2021-05-25 Fighting Persists in Laghman Despite Clearing Operations
Baghlan: 2021-05-25 ANDSF freed captured security personnel, repelled Taliban attacks
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Baghlan-e-Markazi district: 2021-05-25 Commandos Free 8 Captives of Taliban in Baghlan
Baghlan-e-Markazi district: 2021-05-08 Security Forces Advancing in Baghlan: Defense Ministry
Baghlan-e-Markazi district: 2021-05-07 Baghlan: 2 Bases Fall to Taliban in Baghlan-e-Markazi District
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Afghanistan
Taliban-Designated Governor for Laghman Killed in Pakistan
2021-03-01
Afghan follow up to yesterday’s report from the killing ground in Pakistan.
[ToloNews] Afghan officials on Sunday said that the Taliban
...the Pashtun equivalent of men...
’s designated governor for Laghman
...Afghan province with a population of about 445,600, which is multi-ethnic and mostly a rural society. During the invasions of Alexander the Great, the area was known as Lampaka, wich is apparently Olde Macedonian for Laghman.The city of Mihtarlam serves as the bucolic capital of the province. The population is half Pashtun, the remainder Tadjik and Pashai. It had a repution for great wealth until it was conquered in the tenth century by Abu Mansur Sabuktigin.
He conquered it and set fire to the places in its vicinity which were inhabited by infidels, and demolishing the idol-temples, he established Islam in them, He marched and captured other cities and killed the polluted wretches, destroying the idolatrous and gratifying the Musulmans. After wounding and killing beyond all measure, his hands and those of his friends became cold in counting the value of the plundered property.
After that it was mostly notable for the production of dirt, rocks, and holy men...
known as Abdul Hadi Pashaeewal
...spelt Abdul Hadi Pashaiwal in the Pakistani dialect...
was killed in an attack by unidentified gunnies near his residence in the city of 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...
on Saturday evening.

The Taliban has not confirmed the incident.

"His killing in Pakistain has a negative impact in terms of morale (on their fighters) because it raises the question among them about why it happened there. It is obvious that their foundation is there (in Pakistain) and it will influence their ranks," Laghman police chief Manzoor Stanekzai said.

Sources said that Pashaeewal was a resident of Alishang district in Laghman and was assigned as designated governor for Laghman for the past one year and he was a member of the Taliban’s military commission.

Sources said that at some point he came to an area near the city of Mehtarlam, the center of Laghman province.

Laghman residents said they are concerned about the security situation in the province.

Local officials and activists said the death of the Taliban member would have a good impact on security if the news were true.

"The threats are there. Security forces are traveling in big convoys," said Mohammad Zahir Husainkhil, a member of Laghman's provincial council.

"Clashes happen in areas near the city. In some cases, armed opposition fighters roam in villages on the outskirts of (Mehtarlam) city," said Hanifullah Ghamkhwar, a civil society activist in Laghman.

Taliban front man Zabiullah Mujahid said that so far they have not gathered the required information about the incident.
Related:
Laghman: 2020-12-25 Officials Seize Explosive-Laden Vehicle in Laghman
Laghman: 2020-12-18 AIHRC: 400 Civilians Killed, Wounded Over 3 Months in East
Laghman: 2020-12-07 Female Deputies Appointed for 8 Provinces
Related:
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Related:
Mehtarlam: 2020-10-15 Laghman Blast Claims 2, Injures Six
Mehtarlam: 2020-10-07 Laghman Governor Survives Suicide Attack, 8 Killed: MoI
Mehtarlam: 2020-05-03 Explosion close to a prison leaves 3 dead in Laghman province of Afghanistan
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Afghanistan
Kabul: 4 govt employees assassinated, deputy minister kaboomed
2021-02-10
Four Govt Employees Killed in Kabul

[KhaamaPress] Four employees of the Ministry of Rural Rehabilitation and Development (MRRD) were killed in an attack by unidentified button men in Kabul on Tuesday, police confirmed in a statement.

The incident happened at around 09:20 am local time in Bagh-e-Daud area in Kabul’s PD5 after the button men opened fire on a vehicle carrying the employees, police said.

Police said an investigation has started into the incident.

Security sources said that the employees worked for the rural rehabilitation and development directorate in Maidan Wardak province and that Reyaz Ahmad, the acting head of the department, is also among the victims.

No group has grabbed credit for the attack.

Targeted attacks have recently increased in Kabul.

The US Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) said in a report released on January 30 that the Taliban
...Arabic for students...
and Deash have increased targeted liquidations outside of Kabul and that the Taliban attacks in the Afghan capital are on the rise, with increasing assassinations of government officials, civil society leaders and journalists.

"Five journalists were killed in the last two months of 2020, as well as a number of civil-society leaders," the report says.

The report says that violence trends high levels of bad boy and holy warrior violence continued in Afghanistan this quarter despite renewed calls from US officials for all sides to reduce violence in an effort to advance the ongoing grinding of the peace processor between the Taliban and the Afghan government.

Resolute Support, the NATO
...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A single organization with differing goals, equipment, language, doctrine, and structure....
-led mission in Afghanistan, reported 2,586 civilian casualties from October 1 to December 31 last year, including 810 killed and 1,776 maimed, according to SIGAR report.

The report says the proportion of casualties caused by IED increased by nearly 17 percent in this quarter, correlating with an increase in magnetically attached IEDs or "sticky bomb" attacks, the report said.

Kabul blast injures two individuals

[KhaamaPress] Abdul Hadi Rafiee, deputy minister of agriculture for administration and finance, was targeted in a magnetic IED in Kabul on Monday.

The explosion occurred at around 11:20 am at Omid-e-Sabz township in PD6 of Kabul city.

Some media outlets indicate that there were no casualties but security sources told news agencies that the earth-shattering kaboom left two people maimed.

Targeted IED blasts and killings have escalated across the country as peace talks have stopped in Qatar
...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi...
, in fact, violence has raged after the US-Taliban
...Arabic for students...
agreement and intra-Afghan talks.
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Afghanistan
Four Killed in Kabul Security Incidents in Last 24 Hours
2020-12-06
[ToloNews] Four people were killed in security incidents in Kabul in the last 24 hours, according to eyewitnesses and victims' relatives.

In one of these incidents, unknown armed killed Abdul Jamil Hafifi, member of the Supreme Court, in Kabul’s PD8. His brother was maimed in this incident, his family said.

His family said that security agencies have "failed" to prevent such incidents in the city.

"They attacked my brother and martyred him. When I raised my voice, they opened fire on me and my foot was injured," said Abdul Qayum, brother of Abdul Jamil Afifi.

"The security agencies and the intelligence agencies are totally ’failed’," said Sayed Abdul Hadi, a relative of Afifi.

In another incident, three people were killed in a clash in Kabul’s PD6. Meanwhile,
...back at the alley, Slats grabbed for his rosco...
and three people were maimed in a shootout in Prozje Jadid area in Kabul’s PD15.

Kabul residents called on the government and security agencies to prevent murders and security incidents.

"A clash started here. Then we heard a shootout. We saw three people lying on the ground when we arrived at the scene. Bullets hit their feet," said Abdul Hameed, a Kabul resident.

"Hashish, drugs and K tablets are sold in markets. Why the government remains silent? Why the government is not ensuring people’s safety?" asked Fahim, a resident of Kabul.

This comes as First Vice President Amrullah Saleh in his daily meetings with security officials vowed to prevent crime incidents in the city and ensure the safety of the people.
Related:
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Africa North
Haftar's militias abduct representative of British Arab Commercial Bank in Libya
2019-08-18
[Libya Observer] Warlord Khalifa Haftar
...Self-proclaimed Field Marshal, served in the Libyan army under Muammar Qadaffy, and took part in the coup that brought Qadaffy to power in 1969. He became a prisoner of war in Chad in 1987. While held prisoner, he and his fellow officers formed a group hoping to overthrow Qadaffy, so it's kind of hard to describe him as a Qadaffy holdover. He was released around 1990 in a deal with the United States government and spent nearly two decades in the United States, gaining US citizenship. In 1993, while living in the United States, he was convicted in absentia of crimes against the Jamahiriya and sentenced to death. Haftar held a senior position in the anti-Qadaffy forces in the 2011 Libyan Civil War. In 2014 he was commander of the Libyan Army when the General National Congress (GNC) refused to give up power in accordance with its term of office. Haftar launched a campaign against the GNC and its Islamic fundamentalist allies. His campaign allowed elections to take place to replace the GNC, but then developed into a civil war. Guess you can't win them all...
's militias have been kidnapping, Abdul Hadi Tughar, the representative of the British Arab Commercial Bank in Libya, an affiliate of the Libyan Foreign Bank, for about a month now.

Sources close to Tughar confirmed that an gang from Haftar's militias took him from his home in Qasr bin Ghashir; an area south of Tripoli
...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn...
that has been under control of Haftar's forces for four months now.

Haftar's militias have continued to detain bloggers, activists, and officials in Qasr bin Ghashir area of Tripoli, the last of them was Abdul Hadi Tughar and before him was the High Council of State (HCS) member, Muhammad Abu Ghumajeh.

Detentions and acts of violence committed by Haftar's forces against Tripoli's residents continue in the light of the absence of any international deterrence towards such incidents.
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Khalifa Haftar: 2019-08-14 Southern Transitional Council of #Yemen, a separatist militia backed by the UAE, Hani Bin Breik says they are ready to support Khalifa Haftar
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Tripoli: 2019-08-16 Mitiga Airport shut down due to shelling
Tripoli: 2019-08-14 Libya officials: Fighting around Tripoli resumes, truce over
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Afghanistan
Uruzgun: Talib op center airstruck, Afghan SF storm Talib Red Unit hideout
2019-03-17
Precision airstrikes destroy Taliban operational center in Uruzgan

[KhaamaPress] An operational center of Taliban
...mindless ferocity in a turban...
was destroyed in multiple precision Arclight airstrikes which were carried out in Tarinkot city, the quiet provincial capital of Uruzgan province.

“Nine Taliban fighters were killed and one militant operations center destroyed by airstrikes in Tarin Kot district, Uruzgan province, March 15, 2019,” informed military sources said Saturday.

The sources further added “After multiple hours of monitoring and tracking Taliban fighters entering a building known for staging and planning future attacks against Afghan civilians, the building was destroyed by multiple precision airstrikes.”

The anti-government armed militants including Taliban have not commented regarding the airstrikes so far.

Uruzgan is among the relatively volatile provinces in South of Afghanistan. The anti-government armed militants are active in some of its districts and often attempt to carry out attacks against the government and security institutions.

Afghan Special Forces storm Taliban Red Unit commander’s hideout in Uruzgan

The Special Forces of Afghan Intelligence or National Directorate of Security (NDS) stormed a hideout of a commander of the Red Unit of Taliban
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in Uruzgan killing at least 22 militants and confiscating large amount of weapons, munitions, and explosives.

According to a statement released by NDS, the raid was conducted in the vicinity of Tarinkot city, the provincial capital of Uruzgan province.

The statement further added that the hideout belonged to a commander of the Red Unit of Taliban identified as Mullah Aminullah.

The National Directorate of Security also added that 22 militants were killed during the raid and another suspect identified as Abdul Hadi son of Dost Mohammad was arrested.

In addition to this, the NDS Special Forces confiscated 50 kilograms of explosives, a Dshk heavy machine gun, a PKM machine gun, 4 improvised explosive devices, 6 hand grenades, a radio set, 2 military uniforms, a Fielder type vehicle, a motorcycle, and hundreds of rounds of munitions.
...and a partridge in a pear tree.
The anti-government armed militants including Taliban have not commented regarding the operation so far.
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