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[AlAhram] The Ministry of Interior released a statement on Monday saying that the accounts circulated by satellite TV channels affiliated with the terrorist-designated Moslem Brüderbund of the recent death of a man in Minya governorate in Upper Egypt were erroneous.
On Sunday, some social media accounts and TV channels affiliated with the terrorist-designated Moslem Brüderbund shared a video purportedly showing a verbal confrontation between residents of the village of Shalqam in Bani Mazar province in Minya and police forces following the death of the citizen.
In its statement, the interior ministry said the man, a drug pusher who was facing a sentence of 19 years in jail for eight convictions on dealing narcotics charges, died after a shootout with police.
Sensing an ambush for his arrest by the authorities, the man shot up the police who returned fire, injuring the culprit in his left arm, the statement explained.
The man was transferred to a hospital for treatment but died there, added the statement.
The authorities seized a quantity of Hashish and a firearm found on the man, it said.
The authorities also arrested three other individuals holding a quantity of narcotics purchased from said individual, according to the statement.
The public prosecution has not issued any statements on the incident yet.
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Minya and Assuit in Upper Egypt are peculiarly lost cities. Very very Islamic (often Muslimeen or Muslim Brothers, but not necessarily radically Ilamist). They make life difficult for Coptic citizens and Egyptian police alike. Educated Egyptins from Alexandria and Cairo consider them promitives. As for their use of hashish. That is common no matter where one is in Egypt.
[GreaterKashmir ...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it Azad (Free) Kashmir. The remainder they refer to as "Indian Occupied Kashmir". They have fought four wars with India over it, the score currently 4-0 in New Delhi's favor. After 72 years of this nonsense, India cut the Gordian knot in 2019, removing the area's special status, breaking off Ladakh as a separate state, and allowing people from other areas to settle (or in the case of the Pandits, to resettle) there.... ] Quoting a statement issued by PRO (Defence) Jammu, news agency GNS reported that the slain was identified as Hizb-ul-Mujahideen commander Muneser Hussain.
"The killed (militant) has been identified on the basis of Police records as Muneser Hussain son of Sattar Mohammad of Bagyladra Poonch,"Lt Col Suneel Bartwal said, in the statement.
In 1993, he said, Hussain went to PoK, came back in 1996 and again returned to PoK in 1998."He has criminal masterminded [a] number of attacks on SFs [security forces]. As per police records, his family of two wives and children are residents of Surankote, Poonch."
Hussain was a close associate of Maulana Dawood Kashmir (TuJ) who in turn is a close associate of Syed Salahuddin ...the aging, morbidly obese chief of Hizbul Mujaheddin and the titular head of the United Jihad Council in idyllic Kashmire. Originally owned body and theoretical soul by Jamaat-e-Islami he and his organization are currently controlled by Pakistain's ISI. Salahuddin's hobbies include crocheting doilies shaped like the Taj Mahal, combing his enormous beard, and eating.... , he said.
"Recently high-level meeting of HM group took place in Islamabad which he attended. Agenda of meeting was revival of HM in Rajouri Poonch," he said, adding, "From this we can make out that Muneer Hussain along with his body guard was sent with the agenda of reviving HM in Rajouri Poonch / South of Pir-Panjal (SPPR)."
The PRO said that Hussain was given a larger leadership role of "Tanzeems and told to revive terrorism South of Pir Panjal"
Hussain, he said, was the senior most leader of HM. "He is the most dreaded (militant) killed in the last 10 years in Rajouri/Poonch."
He said it was evident that Pak is trying to send old krazed killer "veterans" to JK to motivate and recruit youth thus making "desperate attempts to revive" militancy.
[Dawn] Four people were martyred and two injured in separate attacks in North Wazoo and 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 Monday, local officials and police confirmed.
In the first attack, a couple was martyred in a kaboom targeting security forces in Saidgai area of North Waziristan near the Pak-Afghan border.
A Bomb Disposal Unit was carrying out a search operation in the area when a jacket wallah, travelling in a vehicle let 'er rip. While the security officials remained unhurt, a husband and wife sitting on the roadside bit the dust.
"Said Muhammad and his wife Dilbar Jana were sitting on the roadside when the attack took place," local officials said, adding the couple was probably waiting for a passenger van.
Separately, a Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) constable was martyred and a Jamaat Ulema-e-Islam ...the political wing of the Pak Taliban... -Fazl (JUI-F) activist sustained injuries in two firing incidents in the district.
According to local police, the CTD constable, identified as Taskeenullah, was going to his village when unknown Lions of Islam shot up him in the Tapi area. The attackers managed to flee as the police launched an investigation into the attack.
The injured JUI-F activist was identified as Javed Noor who was in charge of the party’s social media. He was immediately shifted to a hospital.
Meanwhile, ...back at the shootout, bullets whapped! around Butch as he tried to tie his scarf around his shoulder as a tourniquet...... in Badhber on the outskirts of Peshawar, one police constable was martyred and two sustained injuries in a late-night Death Eater attack.
According to Peshawar police, a police mobile came under attack on Afridi Road within the jurisdiction of Badhber cop shoppe. The three cops, ASI Farid Khan and constables Ghulam Hussain and Yar Muhammad, riding in the van sustained injuries.
"The area was immediately cordoned off and the injured police cops were shifted to the hospital," read a statement issued by the city police. Later, Constable Muhammad departed this vale of tears in the hospital.The funeral prayer of the martyred constable was offered at Peshawar’s police headquarters.
Iraq's Federal Intelligence Agency has apprehended two senior persons with links to 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) krazed killer group in the volatile governorate of Kirkuk.
"Based on accurate intelligence information, intelligence teams in Kirkuk were able to apprehend two individuals under the provisions of Article Four of the Anti-Terrorism Law," the agency said in a blurb.
The two detainees, according to the blurb , held critical roles within the ISIS network.
"One was responsible for what is known as the 'Islamic Police' and was in charge of rigging and blowing up the houses of security forces members. The other participated in battles against Peshmerga forces, dressed in Kandahari attire," the agency statement read.
Upon investigation and confrontation with evidence and information, the defendants openly admitted to their criminal activities, the statement concluded.
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[An Nahar] Israeli troops have killed three alleged Paleostinian holy warriors in the northern West Bank, further escalating a wave of violence in which two other people, including a young Paleostinian man believed to have been bumped off by bad boy Jewish settlers, were killed over the weekend.
The Israeli army said it shot the three men near the Jenin refugee camp — the site of a large-scale military operation last month. It said the three men had just exited the camp and were on their way to carry out an attack and that an M-16 rifle was recovered from their vehicle.
The Hamas, a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth", and 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... turban groups condemned the killings, though it was not immediately known if the three men belonged to either organization. Israel identified the leader of the group as Naif Abu Tsuik, 26, saying he was a "leading military operative" from the camp.
The Jenin camp is known as a turban stronghold. Last month, the army carried out a two-day offensive in the camp, killing 12 Paleostinians, including at least eight turbans, and causing widespread damage to the densely populated area. An Israeli soldier also was killed in the fighting.
But the offensive appears to have done little to halt a broader wave of violence that began in early 2022 and has gained momentum since Israel's new hard-line government took office in December. The government is dominated by ultranationalist West Bank settler leaders and other allies with close ties to the settler movement. A growing number of Israeli voices have said their presence in the government has worsened the tense atmosphere by emboldening young turban settlers to attack Paleostinians.
The Israeli news site Ynet reported Sunday that Ronen Bar, head of the Shin Bet internal security agency, recently warned Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that settler violence was becoming a strategic threat and raising the likelihood of Paleostinian attacks in retaliation. The report drew angry condemnations from leading members of the government.
The report said that Bar issued his warning before a Friday night incident in which armed settlers stormed into a Paleostinian village and killed a 19-year-old man. On Saturday, a Paleostinian gunman shot and killed an Israeli security guard in central Tel Aviv before another guard shot and killed the attacker.
Two Israeli settlers have been arrested in the Friday night shooting of 19-year-old Qusai Matan in the village of Burqa.
The army said the Israeli settlers arrived in the area to herd sheep, leading to festivities between Israelis and Paleostinians from the village. Israeli media reported that one of the suspects in the incident, Elisha Yered, was a former aide to an ultranationalist politician in the "Jewish Power" party, one of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's key coalition partners.
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Clearing out another inch in the shallow end of the gene pool.
[NPASyria] The city of Afrin, northwest Syria, witnessed on Sunday at night a military tension between Sultan Murad faction and the Ninth faction, affiliated with Ottoman Turkish-backed armed opposition factions, aka Syrian National Army (SNA).
This came a few days after the killing of a leader of the Ninth faction in the city of Jarablus, east of Aleppo Governorate.
A source in the Syrian opposition told North Press that the city witnessed a military tension between the two factions after the killing of the leader Abu Arab at the hands of gunnies of Elite Army/Jaish al-Nukhba, affiliated with the Sultan Murad faction in Jarablus.
The Ninth faction brought military reinforcements and deployed dozens of its gunnies on the entrances of Afrin and in the western neighborhoods of the city, according to the source.
The Ninth faction has given the Sultan Murad faction 24 hours to hand those involved in killing the leader over to them, otherwise, it will attack the military posts of Jaish al-Nukhba in the countryside of Aleppo, the sources added.
The SNA-held areas live in a state of security chaos represented in repeated murders and infighting between the SNA factions.
Afrin has been under the occupation of The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the decaying remnant of the Ottoman Empire... and the SNA factions since 2018 following a military operation dubbed "Olive Branch" against the Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) under the pretext of preserving Turkey’s national security.
The operation caused the displacement of about 300,000 of the original inhabitants of the Kurds of Afrin who have been taking shelter in 42 villages and five camps in Aleppo northern countryside, locally known as Shahba region, since then.
[NPASyria] Militants of 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) seized on Monday morning three oil tankers belonging to Syrian government forces in eastern Homs Governorate, central Syria.
A military source from the government forces in the eastern countryside of Homs stated that ISIS gunnies attacked three oil tanker trucks on the main road in the desert of Palmyra, central Syria. The trucks were leaving Palmyra and heading towards Homs.
The attackers who were carrying ISIS flag managed to seize the oil tanker trucks after the escape of two vehicles accompanying them, the source told North Press.
The government forces conducted patrols accompanied by helicopters in the desert at the aim of tracking the trucks. However, it's easy to be generous with someone else's money... all attempts were in vain, the source noted.
The Syrian Desert covers nearly half of the area of Syria and is distributed over the governorates of Deir ez-Zor, Raqqa, Aleppo, Homs, Hama, Rif Dimashq, Suwayda, and Palmyra.
The Iranian-backed militias and Syrian government forces control large areas of the Syrian Desert and the eastern countryside of Deir ez-Zor, which constitutes a source of concern as it witnesses intensive operations by ISIS sleeper cells.
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[NPASyria] Ottoman Turkish Intelligence, in coordination with Military Police, affiliated with Ottoman Turkish-backed armed opposition factions, aka Syrian National Army (SNA), arrested on Monday eight individuals in the countryside of Hasakah Governorate, northeast Syria.
An exclusive source told North Press that a security unit of the Ottoman Turkish Intelligence supported by the Military Police raided five houses in the village of al-Mabrouka in the countryside of Sere Kaniye (Ras al-Ain), north of Hasakah, and arrested eight individuals who had arrived from areas held by Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (AANES) on charges of terrorism.
Those who were arrested headed to the SNA-held areas for the purpose of crossing to The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire... , the source added.
The detained individuals are reported to be from the governorates of Homs, Raqqa, and Deir ez-Zor, the source noted.
The Ottoman Turkish forces and the SNA occupied Sere Kaniye and Tel Abyad after the so-called "Peace Spring" military operation in October 2019.
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[NPASyria] Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, formerly al-Nusra, before that it was called something else ...al-Qaeda's Syrian affiliate, from which sprang the Islamic State... (HTS) arrested on Monday a media activist in north Idlib, northwestern Syria, soon after he returned from The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...just another cheapjack Moslem dictatorship, brought to you by the Moslem Brüderbund... A local source reported to North Press that General Security Service (GSS) of HTS arrested Youssef al-Moa’athen, a media activist and an IDP from the countryside of Damascus, in Killi town, north of Idlib city.
The source added that al-Moa’athen, who hails from the town of Kafr Batna in the Eastern Ghouta in Rif Dimashq, was arrested a few days after his return from Turkey.
A source added that the GSS arrested him in front of his house along with his son, but later released the child.
The source pointed out that his family requested the giving back his belongings, especially his laptop, but their efforts were in vain.
HTS continues to launch campaigns against activists and opponents in the region, particularly those affiliated to Hizbut Tahrir ...an al-Qaeda recruiting organization banned in most countries. It calls for the reestablishment of the Caliphate... , an Islamic political party. HTS arrested more 40 members of the party in the last three months.
[NPASyria] On Sunday, Salvation Government, the civil wing of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS – formerly al-Nusra Front), imposed Islamic attire and sex segregation on school students in the city of Idlib, northwest Syria.Education ministry, affiliated with the HTS, said, in a statement, all educational institutions in Idlib must abide by the new rules.
The ministry also ordered removing all haram drawings [forbidden by Islam] on schools walls.
All female teachers and employees must stick to the Islamic dress, the statement read.
[NPASyria] Four people were maimed on Monday, including two children, in shelling by Syrian government forces against Ottoman Turkish-backed factions and 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) in the eastern countryside of Idlib, northwest Syria.
A source told North Press that the Syrian government forces targeted by artillery shells the armed opposition factions and HTS on the outskirt of Nayrab town and the village of Maara, in east of Idlib.
"The shelling — which caused four injuries, including two children — is still ongoing against the outskirt of Kafr Nouran town in western Aleppo, and the vicinity of al-Bara and al-Majdaliya towns, in southern Idlib," the source added.
The source stated that both children were seriously injured, adding they were transferred to Idlib hospitals. Meanwhile, ...back at the shootout, another bullet hole appeared in Butch's hat...... HTS Death Eaters shelled back, using artillery and rockets, the town of Kafr Nabl, south of Idlib, and the vicinity of Base 46 and Urem town in western Aleppo.
Northwestern Syria is witnessing an escalation of skirmishes between the Syrian government forces, HTS, and Syrian opposition factions. These festivities have led to casualties among civilians in the countryside of Aleppo, Idlib, and the western countryside of Hama.
[NPASyria] Ottoman Turkish forces sent on Sunday a new military convoy included logistic and military equipment to de-escalation zone in northwest Syria, in light of renewal of military escalation between conflicting parties.
A military source in the Syrian opposition told North Press that a Ottoman Turkish military convoy included 12 trucks and armored vehicles entered the Syrian territory via Kafr Lossin border crossing with The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire... The reinforcements headed to the Ottoman Turkish military posts in the city of Jisr al-Shughur west of Idlib, northwest Syria, which is witnessing constant military escalation.
The convoy included nine armored vehicles and three trucks that were loaded with ammunition and logistics, according to the source.
On July 27, the Ottoman Turkish forces sent a convoy of military and logistic equipment to the de-escalation zone.
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The hats, utterly baffling unless they are meant to provoke laughter?
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Majestic moustaches and frowns
Fill the mosques in all Ottoman towns
As the faithful who dare
Raise their eyebrows and stare.
"Can't have caliphate, cats, without crowns!"
[NPASyria] Two civilians, including an Iraqi woman, were injured on Monday by Turkish border guards while attempting to cross into Turkey from the Tel Halaf village west of Sere Kaniye city (Ras al-Ain), in northern Hasakah, northeastern Syria.
A source told North Press that an Iraqi woman named Aqeela al-Rawi, 42, was shot by Turkish border guards alongside a young man named Mutaz al-Daafis while attempting to cross the Turkish border with a group of others who managed to escape.
The source added that a Turkish-backed faction transported the injured individuals to a hospital in Sere Kaniye, where they were placed under surveillance for further investigation after receiving treatment.
Turkish border guards have tightened the screws on the border, shooting Syrians and detaining them while attempting to cross the border towards Turkey.
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Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[REGNUM] Syrian Defense Ministry reports four soldiers killed in Israeli attack
Four Syrian soldiers were wounded, and the same number died as a result of Israeli shelling of the outskirts of Damascus on August 7, the Syrian Ministry of Defense said.
“Our air defense systems intercepted the aggressor’s missiles, shooting down some of them. The attack resulted in the death of four servicemen and the injury of four more, and also caused material damage,” the Syrian department said in a statement.
According to the Syrian Ministry of Defense, the Israeli Air Force fired rockets from the occupied Syrian Golan on the morning of August 7 at several targets in the vicinity of the city of Damascus.
As reported by IA Regnum , on the night of August 7, explosions thundered in the vicinity of Damascus. It is assumed that the suburbs of Damascus were attacked by Israeli aircraft from the air. The attack is reflected by air defense systems.
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...the aging, morbidly obese chief of Hizbul Mujaheddin and the titular head of the United Jihad Council in idyllic Kashmire. Originally owned body and theoretical soul by Jamaat-e-Islami he and his organization are currently controlled by Pakistain's ISI. Salahuddin's hobbies include crocheting doilies shaped like the Taj Mahal, combing his enormous beard, and eating....
...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...
...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 
...the decaying remnant of the Ottoman Empire...
...al-Qaeda's Syrian affiliate, from which sprang the Islamic State...
...al-Qaeda's Syrian affiliate, from which sprang the Islamic State...
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire...
