[Garowe] The Somali National Army [SNA] has repulsed would-be al-Shabaab ...... Somalia's version of the Taliban, functioning as an arm of al-Qaeda... 's devastating attack, the military said on Monday, in the latest successes by the national army, which has been fighting to neutralize the group whose grip across the country is still firm and unpredictable.
According to military sources, the al-Shabaab's planned attack at Dara Nicma was repulsed following a tip-off from members of the public who have been working closely with security forces. The government has repeatedly emphasized the need for close collaboration between civilians and members of the forces in the al-Shabaab war.
The terror group said it captured the key town but, the defense ministry rejected the claim, saying the area remains "under our unwavering control". The two have been of strategic importance with the al-Shabaab taking it over multiple times before losing subsequent battles to Somali National.
According to reports, the snuffies were planning to attack the SNA base within the vicinity but the strategy was counterproductive, leading to quick response from security teams that were patrolling the area. The al-Shabaab has been effective in launching counterattacks.
The al-Shabaab snuffies have been losing significant territories to the Somali government in recent weeks, with the loss at Dumaaye village being the most fatal in recent days. According to the government, the Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... left over 178 holy warriors dead, but al-Shabaab denies the claim.
[AFRICANEWS] Eritrea ...is run by the People's Front for Democracy and Justice (PFDJ), with about the amounts of democracy and justice you'd expect from a party with that name. National elections have been periodically scheduled and cancelled; none have ever been held in the country. The president, Isaias Afewerki, has been in office since independence in 1993 and will probably die there of old age... n soldiers continued to rape and execute civilians in Tigray after the signing of an agreement ending the conflict in this region of northern Æthiopia, Amnesia Amnesty International (AI) said in a report published on Tuesday.
The conflict in northern Æthiopia, which pitted the rebel authorities of Tigray against the Æthiopian federal government, supported by militias from the neighbouring regions of Amhara and Afar as well as the army of Eritrea, has been marked by countless atrocities attributable to all the belligerents.
"The Eritrean Defense Forces (EDF) committed war crimes and possibly crimes against humanity" in Tigray "just before and just after the signing" on November 2, 2022 of the agreement ending two years of conflict, explains AI, based on 49 interviews carried out by telephone with survivors, relatives of victims or witnesses.
Around the town of Kokob Tsibah, approximately 20 km from the border with Eritrea, Eritrean soldiers "held captive at least 15 women for almost three months in their camp", between November 1, 2022 and January 19 2023, date on which Eritrean forces left the area, according to the NGO.
"During their captivity, these women were repeatedly raped by members of the EDF, in conditions amounting to sexual slavery. They also suffered physical and psychological violence and were deprived of food, water and care", details AI.
Eritrean soldiers in Kokob Tsibah also "engaged in gang rape and rape of women held prisoner in their own homes".
Amnesty also claims that Eritrean forces summarily executed more than 40 civilians in total in and around the localities of Kobob Tsibah and Mariam Shewito, around 100 km further west and around 60 km from the Eritrean border.
Witnesses, survivors and relatives of victims claimed that Eritrean forces executed at least 20 civilians, mainly men, in Mariam Shewito between October 25 and November 1, 2022, and 24 civilians in Kobob Tsibah between November 2022 and January 2023.
Amnesia Amnesty International denounces "the stubborn resistance of the Æthiopian government to regional and international investigations", which "obstructs justice being done for the crimes and human rights One man's rights are another man's existential threat. violations committed by Eritrean forces".
The Æthiopian federal authorities claim to be working on a "transitional justice" mechanism provided for in the peace agreement, intended to identify and judge those responsible for the multiple atrocities recorded in Tigray, but also in Amhara and Afar.
Led with an iron fist by Issaias Afeworki since its de facto independence from Æthiopia in 1991, Eritrea, an internationally recognized state two years later, is one of the most closed and repressive countries in the world.
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[AFRICANEWS] Fifty-three members of the security forces have been killed in an attack by suspected jihadists in northern 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... , the army said on Tuesday.
Seventeen soldiers and 36 civilian volunteers for the army died on Monday while repelling an "attack," the army general staff said in a statement.
The unit had been deployed in the town of Koumbri in Yatenga province to help the resettlement of residents forced out of the area by jihadists more than two years ago, it said.
About 30 members of the security forces were maimed, the army added.
It said that several attackers had been "neutralised" in a counter-operation and their combat equipment destroyed.
Operations are still under way in the area, it said.
Burkina Faso saw two military coups last year, triggered -- as in neighbouring Mali and Niger -- by anger at failures to stem a jihadist insurgency that has claimed thousands of lives.
Since 2015, more than 16,000 civilians, troops and police have died in jihadist attacks in Burkina Faso, according to a count by an NGO monitor called the Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (ACLED).
More than 5,000 have died since the start of this year.
More than two million people have also been displaced within Burkina Faso, making it one of the worst internal displacement crises in Africa.
On June 26, three attacks killed 31 soldiers and 40 auxiliaries in Centre-North province.
In August, two attacks in Centre-East province killed five police and around 20 others.
The authorities, for their part, say more than 65 jihadists were "neutralised" between August 7 and September 1.
The country's strongman is Captain Ibrahim Traore, who took power in September 2022 at the age of just 34, making him the world's youngest leader outside of royalty.
He has promised a return to democracy with presidential elections by July 2024
Relations between the junta and La Belle France broke down after the takeover, prompting French forces that had been helping the under-equipped Burkinabe army to quit the country in January.
Traore last week held talks with a Russian delegation on development and military cooperation.
On Monday, his foreign minister, Olivia Rouamba, held talks in Tehran with President Ebrahim Raissi in which she said she hoped for "stronger bilateral cooperation" with Iran.
Many of the casualties among the security sources are Volunteers for the Defence of the Fatherland (VDP) -- civilians who are given two weeks' military training and work alongside the army, typically carrying out surveillance, information-gathering or escort duties.
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State Investigation Agency (SIA), the anti-terror arm of the J&K Police, has arrested eight absconding hard boyz and their associates involved in serious crimes of terrorism and disruptive activities.
The SIA on Thursday said that the TADA cases were registered around three decades ago in different Police Stations of district Doda and chargesheeted in the TADA Court, Jammu.
"These absconding hard boyz had managed to escape from the clutches of law for decades by going underground and remaining untraced for sometime and then resurfaced to enjoy normal family life at their native or some distant places. Some of these terrorist absconders have managed to get government services and contracts, others found engaged in private businesses and even working in the court," the SIA officials said here.
The arrested persons include Adil Farooq Faridi son of Abdul Ghani Faridi of House No 230, Sahidi Chowk Jammu (government employee presently posted in JKBOSE, Jammu); Muhammad Iqbal alias Javed, son of Sikander Khan of Asthan Mohalla, Doda; Mujahid Hussain alias Nisar Ahmad, son of Abdul Rasheed Gathwan of Asthan Mohalla, Doda; Tariq Hussain, son of Ghulam Ali Misger of Barshalla, Doda; Ishtiaq Ahmad Dev alias Ajaz, son of Muhammad Ayoub Dev of Sah Mohalla, Doda; Ajaz Ahmad alias Muhammad Iqbal, son of Abdul Rehman of Dandi Bhaderwah; Jameel Ahmad alias Jugnu alias Chika Khan, son of Faiz Ahmad of Kursari, Bhaderwah; and Ishfaq Ahmad, son of Ghulam Ahmad Sheikh of Bun Doda (working as writer in Court Complex Doda).
"They will be produced before the TADA and POTA Court Jammu in pursuance of warrants issued against the aforementioned absconder terrorists," they said.
The SIA officials said that these terrorist absconders were involved in kidnapping for ransom and threat to kill one Ghulam Muhammad Wani of Doda at gunpoint (Case FIR No 158/1992 under Sections 3, 4 of TADA, 364 RPC, 3/25 Arms Act of Police Station Doda), kidnapping for ransom and killing of Muhammad Sadiq and Tariq Hussain of Doda from their home on April 23, 1994 night. Tariq Hussain was later killed and Muhammad Sadiq seriously injured. (Case FIR No 48/1993 under Sections 3 and 4 of TADA, 302 and 307 of Ranbir Penal Code, and 3/25 of the Arms Act, Police Station Doda).
"It also included instigating people by setting false narrative during the prayer of Shab-e-Qadr in Jamia Masjid Doda and other mosques of Doda, atrocities committed on the innocent people of Kashmir ...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.... and motivated them to observe strike in Doda at the gunpoint by these hard boyz (Case FIR No 58/1991 under Sections 3 and 4 of TADA, 153/194-A of RPC of Police Station Doda), and recovery of huge cache of arms and ammunition on June 22, 1994 concealed by these hard boyz under the ground at Shambaz area (Case FIR No 101/1994 under Sections 3 and 4 of TADA and 3/25 of the Arms Act of Police Station Doda)," they said.
The SIA said that in pursuance of its larger objective and mandate of achieving zero terrorism in J&K, it had initiated a special drive to trace and produce before the concerned court all absconders of terrorism related cases for facing trial under law.
Good job, guys — you are to be congratulated.
"The SIA has so far verified and identified 369 (215 in Jammu and 154 in Kashmir) absconders out of 734 absconders (317 in Jammu and 417 in Kashmir) in 327 TADA and POTA cases. Of the 369 verified absconders, 127 remained untraced, 80 have died and 45 are residing in Pakistain or PoK and other countries abroad and four are lodged in jail," the SIA officials said. "How these absconder hard boyz managed to escape from the law and live normal life at their native place without being traced for so long and other aspects of larger criminal conspiracy and nexus thereof and role of insiders if any will also be investigated by the SIA."
Police on Friday said that a Court convicted a terrorist associate of Bijbehara, Anantnag and awarded him a fine to the tune of Rs one lakh.
A police statement said that the conviction came after completion of trial in case FIR No. 33/2019 under section 18, 20, 38, 39 UA(P) Act of Police Station Srigufwara.
The terrorist associate identified as Shahid Fayaz Tarray son of Fayaz Ahmad Tarray resident of Shalagam Bijbehara has been convicted under Section 39 of UA(P) Act.
On 23/07/2019 an information was received by Police Station Srigufwara that some unknown hard core terrorist associates of proscribed terrorist outfit JeM are facilitating the snuffies to carry out terrorist acts, motivating youth to join terror ranks and are organising terror module to pay every possible help to strengthen the terror web within the jurisdiction of Police Station Srigufwara etc. On receiving this information, a case FIR No. 33/2019 under section 18, 20, 38, 39 UA(P) Act was registered and investigation was taken up, the statement said.
During the course of investigation, some suspected hard core terrorist associates were zeroed and were questioned. Subsequently on 06/08/2020, a checkpoint was established at Darigund Srigufwara during which Shahid Fayaz Tarray son of Fayaz Ahmad Tarray resident of Shalagam Bijbehara was apprehended and was immediately taken into custody and recoveries were made from him.
The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has arrested two persons who had allegedly harboured Lions of Islam involved in the five civilian killings in Dhangri village of Rajouri in January this year.
The duo identified as Nisar Ahmed alias Haji Nisar and Mushtaq Hussain was formally arrested by the NIA on Thursday in the case RC-01/2023/NIA/JMU.
"They were produced before the NIA Special Court, Jammu, on Friday and were sent to 12 days NIA custody," the NIA officials said. "Incidentally, both the accused were currently lodged at Central Jail, Kot Bhalwal, Jammu, in another case registered at Police Station Gursai, Mendhar, Poonch."
On January 1, 2023, five persons were killed and others seriously injured in an attack by unknown terrorists.
"The case was initially registered as FIR No 01/2023 at PS Rajouri under Section 302, 307, 120-B, 452, and 323 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC), Sections 13, 16, and 18 of UA (P) Act 1967, and Sections 7 and 27 of the Arms Act," the NIA officials said.
They said that the probe agency had taken over and re-registered the case on January 13.
"Investigations by the NIA revealed that both the arrested accused persons were involved in harbouring Lions of Islam who had carried out the shocking killings of the civilians," the NIA said. "They had provided logistics support to the Lions of Islam for more than two months and sheltered them in a hideout, which was constructed by the arrested accused persons on the directions of Pakistain based Lashkar-e-Taiba ...the Army of the Pure, an Ahl-e-Hadith terror organization founded by Hafiz Saeed. LeT masquerades behind the Jamaat-ud-Dawa facade within Pakistain and periodically blows things up and kills people in India. Despite the fact that it is banned, always an interesting concept in Pakistain, the organization remains an blatant tool and perhaps an arm of the ISI... (LeT) handlers Saifullah alias Sajid Jutt, Abu Qatal alias Qatal Sindhi, and Muhammad Qasim.
"During the course of investigations of the case pertaining to the killing of innocent civilians at Dhangri in Rajouri, a team of NIA officials camped for quite sometime in the hilly terrain of Rajouri, Poonch, and Reasi districts and examined a large number of suspicious entities and later zeroed in on the two accused persons who had provided the hideout," the NIA said. "The case is being investigated further."
[Shafaq News] A Ottoman Turkish drone conducted an Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... targeting a vehicle near a local building occupied by members of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) in the border region of Qandil, adjacent to the Kurdistan Region.
Delshir Ibrahim, the Mayor of Qandil, informed Shafaq News agency that a Ottoman Turkish drone struck a stationary vehicle near the Qandil municipality building on Tuesday evening.
Ibrahim noted that the attack resulted in a fire erupting in one of the municipality's oil barrels, but fortunately, no human casualties occurred as a result of the strike.
The Qandil Mountains are located in the Kurdistan Region at the confluence of the Iraqi, Iranian, and Ottoman Turkish borders, extending about 30 kilometers into Ottoman Turkish territory and approximately 150 kilometers from Erbil, the capital of the Kurdistan Region.
The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the decaying remnant of the Ottoman Empire... claims that PKK members use the Qandil Mountains as a major stronghold and a safe haven.
[Rudaw] The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire... ’s defense ministry announced on Tuesday that a soldier was killed in the mountains of the Kurdistan Region by the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) a day prior.
The ministry said in a statement that a sergeant was killed and another was maimed on Monday when an bomb detonated in the Claw-Lock operations areas within the borders of the Kurdistan Region.
PKK-affiliated Firat News Agency (ANF) reported that the group targeted five Ottoman Turkish army positions on Monday and killed four soldiers in the Zap region.
[IsraelTimes] A Border Police officer was lightly hurt during an exchange of fire with a Paleostinian gunman who had attempted to carry out a terror shooting at a rest stop in the Jordan Valley on Tuesday afternoon, the military and police said.
According to a Border Police front man, members of the Matilan counterterrorism unit were conducting searches near the Argaman junction, close to the West Bank settlement of the same name, in the northern Jordan Valley, when they came under fire.
The Paleostinian gunman was rubbed out, and one officer was lightly hurt in the exchange.
The Israel Defense Forces said the forces had been searching for a Paleostinian gunman involved in a terror shooting attack at the same junction several hours earlier.
Initially, the IDF suspected the first attack was related to a criminal dispute between the gunman and a Paleostinian who worked at a rest stop at the junction.
In the first shooting, the gunman had opened fire three times — twice in the air and once at a shipping container — before his gun apparently jammed. He then expeditiously departed at a goodly pace, prompting the military’s searches.
No injuries were caused in the first attack.
The military said that during the searches for the gunman, Matilan officers came under fire and killed the assailant.
The Paleostinian Authority health ministry named the assailant as 17-year-old Muhammad Zubaidat from Jericho.
[IsraelTimes] A Paleostinian woman from the Jenin area in the northern West Bank was arrested after attempting to stab a police officer in Jerusalem’s Old City on Monday night, law enforcement officials said.
Police said the 44-year-old pulled out a knife in the Bab Hutta neighborhood, near the Lion’s Gate entrance to the Old City, and tried to stab an officer guarding the area.
The officer was unharmed, as the knife did not penetrate a protective vest he was wearing.
He subdued the assailant without gunfire,
Other officers quickly reached the scene and detained her.
There were no injuries in the incident, police said. police said.
[IsraelTimes] IDF says troops responded with crowd dispersal means and sniper fire against rioters on security barrier
Dozens of Paleostinians rioted in the 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... Strip on the border with Israel on Tuesday afternoon, setting off a large bomb, footage showed.
The Israel Defense Forces said in a statement that troops responded with crowd dispersal means against the rioters, as well as sniper fire in some cases.
The IDF said the dozens of rioters set off a number of explosives and hurled grenades at the border barrier in the northern part of the Gaza Strip.
No soldiers were hurt, the IDF said in a statement. There were no reports of injuries on the Paleostinian side either.
In footage shared by Paleostinian media outlets, a large bomb could be seen being detonated on the fence. Another clip shared online, apparently from the IDF’s thermal cameras, showed the blast from the Israeli side of the border.
The IDF did not immediately respond to requests for comment on whether or not it officially issued the footage.
The rioting Tuesday comes after hundreds of Paleostinians in the Gaza Strip violent mostly peacefully protested on the border on Friday, hurling bombs and attempting to break through the security barrier. Nine Paleostinians were reported maimed by Israeli fire in those riots.
The recent riots followed a report on Thursday claiming that the Hamas, a regional Iranian catspaw, terror group, which rules the Strip, was considering a resumption of regular protest marches along the border and other activities against Israel.
Weekly protests along the frontier began at the end of March 2018 and continued almost every Friday until the end of 2019, with the demand that Israel lift its restrictions on the movement of people and goods into and out of the coastal enclave and a call for the return of Paleostinian refugees and their descendants to lands that are now a part of the Jewish state.
Israel says its blockade of Gaza is necessary to prevent Hamas from freely arming itself for war and attacks.
The weekly protests on the border in 2018 and 2019 frequently involved violence, including the hurling of explosives, rocks and Molotov cocktails at IDF soldiers, as well as attempts to storm and sabotage the border fence, and in some cases live fire toward Israeli soldiers. Troops often responded with rubber-coated bullets and tear gas, as well as live fire. More than 200 Paleostinians were killed at the demonstrations and thousands were maimed.
In addition, Paleostinians regularly flew helium balloons into Israel carrying explosives and incendiary devices, sparking fires that destroyed large swaths of foliage.
While Hamas is said to now consider resuming the "Marches of Return," as they came to be known, no official statement has yet been published by the terror group on its future plans.
[IsraelTimes] Officials say trio behind string of shootings, bombing attacks in West Bank; one involved in launching rockets at settlements and towns bordering security barrier
The Israeli military arrested three members of the Hamas terror group during a raid in the Jenin refugee camp in the northern West Bank on Monday morning, marking the first overt entry of forces to the camp since a major operation was carried out in the area two months ago.
In a joint statement, the Israel Defense Forces, Shin Bet security agency, and Border Police said troops entered the camp and nabbed Abdullah Hassan Mohammed Sobeh, Ward Sharim, and Mus’ab Ja’aydah.
Security officials said Sobeh, a senior member of Hamas from the West Bank town of Burqin — close to Jenin — had been wanted by Israel for months for his involvement in a string of attacks.
Sobeh was accused of being involved in shootings, pipe bomb attacks, vehicle-borne explosive device attacks, and the firing of improvised rockets at West Bank settlements and Israeli towns from the Jenin area.
A group calling itself Al-Ayyash Battalion — apparently named for a notorious Hamas bombmaker killed by Israel — has claimed to have launched several rockets at settlements and towns in northern Israel in recent months, publishing footage of the mostly unsuccessful attempts.
Military sources described Sobeh as one of the better-known names on the defense establishment’s wanted list, with the army having long attempted to apprehend him, and said he was behind significant attacks such as rocket fire in recent months and a botched car bomb near the settlement of Mevo Dotan last year.
[Rudaw] At least four members of the internal security forces (Asayish) of the Kurdish administration in Syria were killed when unidentified button men attacked their patrol near Manbij in northern Syria, a war monitor reported on Tuesday as hostilities surge in the area.
The Asayish patrol was attacked on Monday midnight in a hit-and-run attack by unknown button men armed with machineguns in Hamir Labidah village, 15 kilometers south of Manbij city, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a UK-based war monitor said.
Four Asayish members were killed in the attack, the monitor said.
The attack comes amid a surge in hostilities in territories controlled by the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in Syria, with Ottoman Turkish-backed Arab fighters launching attacks on Kurdish-controlled villages in Manbij and Arab tribal fighters clashing with the SDF in Syria’s eastern Deir ez-Zor province and northeast Syria’s (Rojava) Hasaka province.
On Monday, the SDF’s Manbij Military Council thwarted an attack by the Ottoman Turkish-backed Syrian National Army near the village of Arab Hassan, killing five fighters and injuring 15.
The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the decaying remnant of the Ottoman Empire... has long viewed strategic Manbij, located at a crossroads connecting Aleppo, Raqqa, and the Kurdish-administered northeast, as a key zone to launch its next military operation in northern Syria to seize it from Kurdish forces. Last year, President His Enormity, Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First ...Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey. In Anatolia did Recep Bey a stately Presidential Palace decree, that has 1100 rooms. That's 968 more than in the White House, 400 more than in Versailles, and 325 more than Buckingham Palace, so you know who's really more important... labeled the city and Tal Rifaat as Ankara’s next targets in order to complete its long-desired 30-kilometer "safe zone" along its southern border.
[Rudaw] Iranian authorities on Tuesday arrested the uncle of Zhina (Mahsa) Amini, the young Kurdish woman whose death last year sparked the nationwide Woman Life Freedom protests, according to human rights ...which are usually open to widely divergent definitions... monitors.
Safa Aeli, Amini’s uncle, was apprehended in Saqqez and taken to an unknown location, reported the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN). Multiple vehicles of security personnel carried out the arrest of 30-year-old Aeli, according to Hengaw Organization for Human Rights.
Amini died on September 16, 2022 while in the custody of Tehran’s morality police after she was arrested for allegedly violating the mandatory dress code by improperly wearing her hijab. Thousands of people protested for weeks after her death, chanting "Jin Jiyan Azadi" (Woman Life Freedom). As authorities cracked down, protest demands for greater freedoms grew to calls for the overthrow of the regime. Women took a lead role in the protests, removing their headscarves in defiance of the hijab law. Thousands of people were arrested and hundreds killed.
Ahead of the anniversary of Amini’s death, Iranian authorities are trying to suppress any renewed protests or commemorations. At least 72 family members of people killed in the protests have been arrested in the last five months and "there has been a notable increase in the pressure exerted by security institutions" on the families, according to Hengaw.
"The families have been threatened not to publish any calls to organise events to mark the anniversary," reported KHRN.
The father and sister of Mohammad Hassanzadeh, who was killed in the protests, were arrested, Hengaw reported on Tuesday.
Human Rights Watch last month condemned Iran’s crackdown and "arbitrary arrests" ahead of the protest anniversary.
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... has accused foreign countries of supporting the unrest and "riots."
The Iranian parliament has introduced a stricter hijab law. The "Bill to Support the Family by Promoting the Culture of Chastity and Hijab" proposes fines or imprisonment for women who refuse to wear the hijab. Insulting the hijab would also be banned.
Media based outside Iran have said that the town of Saqez is under particular scrutiny ahead of the anniversary, with hotels told not to accept outsiders and new security cameras being set up including around Amini’s grave.
The [original] protests shook Iran’s Islamic authorities but have now subsided in the face of a crackdown in which rights groups said hundreds were killed and the UN tallied thousands arrested.
Activists say those arrested in recent weeks include Mashallah Karami, the father of Mohammad Mehdi Karami, 22, one of seven men to have been hanged so far in cases related to the protests.
[Rudaw] Days of deadly clashes in Syria’s eastern Deir ez-Zor province between Kurdish-led, US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) and local Arab fighters are culminating in a looming battle as the SDF attempt to retake the last town held by tribesmen, a war monitor said on Monday.
Tensions in Arab-majority Deir ez-Zor province have surged for over a week after the SDF arrested Ahmed Khbeil, better known as Abu Khawla, commander of the SDF-linked Deir ez-Zor Military Council, and four of his colleagues, accusing him of collaborating with the Syrian government, drug trafficking, and failing to curb an increase of Islamic State (ISIS) activities in the area.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR), a UK-based war monitor, said on Monday that fighters of the SDF have launched an offensive and began shelling Dhiban town, considered the last stronghold of local Arab fighters, after negotiations for their surrender failed.
The town is being shelled from several fronts, with the SDF calling on civilians to leave as fighting ensues.
The violence in Kurdish-controlled Deir ez-Zor since clashes erupted on August 27 has killed at least 71 people so far, including 39 local fighters, 23 SDF members, and nine civilians, while nearly a hundred have been injured, according to SOHR.
According to the SDF, the clashes intensified when pro-government forces from the west of the Euphrates crossed into SDF-held territories to partake in the clashes and deepen unrest in the area.
The SDF has rejected any accusations of disputes with Arab tribes, saying that the clashes are instead against collaborators of the Syrian government and “beneficiaries” of Khbeil, who profited from his alleged drug trafficking and mismanagement.
Chaos in Al-Hol Camp: Clashes Between Tribes and SDF Spark Turmoil in Syria 🇸🇾. Recent confrontations led to unrest, prompting the flight of some women towards Idlib amid fears of tribal control and potential reprisals. Read more: https://t.co/5DuFCaTEMQpic.twitter.com/692FRNZdDy
Recent armed confrontations between tribal groups and the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) have triggered turmoil in the al-Hol camp, resulting in the flight of some women, including Moroccans, towards Idlib, according to sources from the families of Moroccans stranded in Syria.
Reports from Hespress newspaper indicate that the unrest in northeastern Syria has created an opportunity for smugglers, who have received substantial sums of money from women seeking to be smuggled to Idlib on the Syrian-Ottoman Turkish border.
The women reportedly feared that tribal factions would take control of the region, prisons, and camps, subjecting them to potential Dire Revenge and unfair trials.
Oh dear. The poor darlings.
The stranded individuals were apprehensive about the prospect of a weakened Kurdish presence in the area, potentially allowing ISIS elements to infiltrate and detain them, despite the Kurds imposing restrictions by closing markets and withholding water.
#Turkey deports more than 360 Syrian refugees, including women and children, to #Syria via Tel Abyad and Bab al-Hawa border crossings.https://t.co/PSmZBmetPQ
Russian warplanes renew airstrikes on areas held by the #HTS in the countryside of #Idlib Governorate, NW #Syria, amidst ongoing mutual shelling between the conflicting parties in the de-escalation zone. #Russiahttps://t.co/pzellVe6Kp
[An Nahar] UNIFIL front man Andrea Tenenti has noted that nothing will change in the work of the U.N. peacekeeping force with the latest renewal of its mandate, adding that partnership with the Lebanese Army will continue.
In an interview with al-Hurra television, Tenenti pointed out that the U.N. resolution that extended the Force’s mandate contains the same wording that was used in 2006.
Acknowledging that UNIFIL is not working in a 100% safe area of operations, Tenenti said the Force will continue its mission despite the recent "crimes" that have been committed against its members, in reference to the December incident in the town of al-Aqbiyeh that left a UNIFIL peacekeeper dead.
As for the two tents that Hezbollah has erected in the occupied Shebaa Farms and the containers belonging to an environmental group accused of being an arm of Hezbollah, Tenenti said the tents are a violation of Resolution 1701 that ended the 2006 war, noting that UNIFIL is working on removing them.
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[REGNUM] Since mid-August, in northeastern Syria, in the zone of control of the Kurdish SDF (Syrian Democratic Forces - ed.) and the US-led international coalition, an internal crisis has been brewing, which has already developed into full-scale clashes.
The reason is the arrest by the Kurds of the head of the "Military Council of Deir az-Zor" Al Habil on August 27. This was the trigger for breaking the delicate balance formed by the Americans in the territories of the self-proclaimed administration of northeastern Syria.
The situation was immediately taken advantage of by other opponents of the SDF - Arab groups from the Turkish zone of occupation in northern Syria and in Idlib. They hit the outskirts of Manbij and some Kurdish posts along the important M4 highway, which crosses the north of the country from the Mediterranean Sea to the border with Iraq. At the time of this writing, the SDF had to retreat.
In Deir az-Zor (the southern part of the territory controlled by the Kurds), the situation began to take shape for the SDF even worse. Groupings of local Arab tribes have already captured more than a dozen settlements and checkpoints and continue to advance.
To an outside observer, the unfolding clashes might seem like a bolt from the blue, but this is not so.
Firstly, this time bomb was planted by the Americans themselves when they began to try in their style to create an Arab-Kurdish federation as a counterbalance to the government of Damascus. Now they are calling in every possible way not to exaggerate the inter-ethnic nature of the confrontation, but, as they say, the facts are there, and these statements only make the opposite stronger.
Representatives of local tribes rebelled against the Kurds who came to them from the north.
The Arabs consider them outsiders, whom they tolerated because of the Americans (to be precise, because of the international coalition against ISIS (an organization whose activities are banned in the Russian Federation) - ed.), hoping to the last to get their "piece of the pie" from located here oil and gas wells.
Of course, this “bomb” might not explode or lie still for a long time if the Americans had not withdrawn themselves from the control of the occupied territory and had not given everything at the mercy of the Kurdish administration, limited themselves to sluggish responses to the shelling of pro-Iranian units and the periodic bombing of the Iranian corridor to Iraq in city of Abu Kemale.
The Kurds, over time, acted more and more straightforwardly and harshly, justifying themselves by fighting the sleeping cells of ISIS, criminals and drug dealers, and at the same time with too frisky local leaders.
Another important reason is the general deterioration of the economic situation on both banks of the Euphrates, since the Syrian currency continues to circulate even on Kurdish territory.
If the Americans forced the Kurds to share oil revenues with local sheikhs, then perhaps the drop in living standards would not be so noticeable, and the elites, who receive their share of the rent, would restrain their fellow tribesmen. But this, as you understand, did not happen.
Also, the Americans, due to their own domestic political turmoil, from the freeze in the Trump era to the confusion of the Biden administration, have not approved a coherent plan or roadmap to restore the economy of the territory under their control. Just as they have not decided on the international status of northeastern Syria, without which it is impossible to attract the investments necessary for the economy of the region.
In many ways, this "neglect" is due to the fact that for the Americans, Syria, in principle, has always been in the background compared to the same Iraq and Iran.
What threatens the current escalation for Russia?
Indirectly, tension will increase on the line of contact with Idlib in mountainous Latakia and Aleppo. Now the militants, apparently succumbing to the general euphoria of the uprising, have stepped up pressure in these areas. But, probably, after some time, they will come to a realization, and perhaps someone will tell you that it is better not to scatter your strength and focus on the SDS. At least at this stage.
Also, if the offensive against Manbij and, further, Raqqa is successful, there will be a threat of cutting off the supply routes to those few points of deployment of the Russian Armed Forces, which are based in the depths of Kurdish territory and are engaged in demonstration patrols, sometimes together with the Turks.
Otherwise, for Russia, the current turbulence of the American system, based on the Kurdish forces of the SDS, only plays into the hands of Iran, and even more so of Turkey.
For the Turks, the SDF is a principled adversary, one might even say an existential one.
The Turkish project to create a continuous security zone along the border deep into Syrian territories stalled mainly because of the Americans and partly Russia, representing the interests of Damascus. In these circumstances, the current conflict will provide new opportunities for this project to resume and increase its influence.
Iran will also look with gloating glee at the efforts of the United States and, taking the opportunity, strengthen its position on the so-called. "Iranian corridor" to Iraq in the area of Abu Kemal.
But intervention in the hostilities unfolding between the Kurds and Arabs would not be the best solution, no matter how great the temptation.
After the 2017 memorandum between the command of the Russian Aerospace Forces and the Kurdish leadership, when Russia sought to get ahead of the United States in this area and occupy the territory, but was actually deceived, it would be naive to believe that the next agreement will be implemented.
The rich oil fields beyond the Euphrates are still tenaciously controlled by the Americans and the Kurds, and they will not be given away just like that, within the framework of any agreement, even under the pressure of circumstances. Rather, this is the last thing that will be left in the event of an evacuation. Because it is, in fact, the economic basis of the self-proclaimed autonomy and a good bonus in illegal trade.
Much more useful than military intervention is to focus on problems inside the part of Syria controlled by the official government, since rising prices and a deepening economic crisis also create unpleasant points of tension and escalation, as, for example, in Suwayda.
We should not delude ourselves with the fact that the Syrian American group, i.e. the grouping of the international coalition, with the support of tens of thousands of SDF fighters, will so easily surrender their positions to the Arab rebels. Despite the pressure from both the south and the north, there is reason to believe that the system built by the United States, with losses, but will stand.
Another thing is that it will be more difficult to justify and explain to voters in the United States why, after defeating ISIS, the coalition continues to fight with someone there. But this is the concern of American politicians.
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