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Niak is a variant form of the name Nyack. The name's meaning is 'one who is persistent'
[Al Ahram] Tunisian forces launched air strikes against Islamist militants in the Mount Chaambi area near the Algerian border on Monday, an army source said. The source also said several militants had been killed and four were arrested in the same region on Sunday. He gave no death toll.
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[Ynet] Suspected Islamic forces of Evil wearing army fatigues bumped off 44 people praying at a mosque in northeast Nigeria ... a particularly crimson stretch of Islam's bloody border... , while another 12 civilians died in an apparently simultaneous attack, security agents said Monday.
The attacks were the latest in a slew of violence blamed on religious faceless myrmidons in this West African oil producer, where the radical Boko Haram ... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality... group, which wants to oust the government and impose Islamic law, poses the greatest security threat in years.
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[Al Ahram] A court in China's Xinjiang has sentenced two people to death and another to life imprisonment over deadly violence in the far western region where the government often blames what it calls Musselmen separatists for causing unrest.
Twenty-one people were killed in a confrontation between police and residents in April that involved axes, knives and at least one gun and culminated in a house being burned down, in what authorities called a "terrorist attack".
In July 2009, Xinjiang's capital, Urumqi, was the scene of festivities between majority Han Chinese and minority Uighurs that killed nearly 200 people. In late June, 35 people died in another outbreak of violence.
Many Uighurs, Musselmens who speak a Turkic language, complain of restrictions on their culture, language and religion. China says it grants them wide-ranging freedoms.
A court in the southern city of Kashgar found the five defendants, all of whom appeared to be Uighurs judging by their names, to be guilty of crimes including involvement in terrorism and intentional homicide, the Xinjiang government said in a statement on its news site (www.tianshannet.com).
Two defendants were given nine-year jail sentences.
The Xinjiang government did not name any group responsible for the violence, but China has blamed previous incidents in energy-rich Xinjiang - on the borders of Afghanistan, Pakistain, and India - on Islamic separatists who want to establish an independent East Turkestan.
Dilxat Raxit, front man for the exiled World Uyghur Congress, said previously that the violence was sparked by the shooting and killing of a young Uighur by "Chinese armed personnel", prompting the Uighurs to retaliate.
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The two armies have been exchanging fire on the front line since Tuesday, straining the cease-fire that has largely held for nearly a decade.
Clashes flared along the 740km LoC that divides Kashmir on August 6 when five Indian soldiers were killed in the Poonch region. New Delhi blamed the attack on the Pakistan army. Islamabad denied involvement.
While tit-for-tat shelling and machine gun fire are common along the LoC the current round of fighting is one of the most intense since a cease-fire signed in 2003. It has been linked to protests in both countries and rowdy scenes in India's parliament. Under pressure from opposition politicians, the government has hinted at retaliation.
While tit-for-tat shelling and machine gun fire are common along the LoC the current round of fighting is one of the most intense since a cease-fire signed in 2003.
On Monday, a Pakistani army official said a civilian was killed as a result of "unprovoked Indian shelling" in the Battal, Chirikot and Satwal sectors.
Islamabad summoned India's deputy high commissioner (ambassador) to Pakistan to register its concern over the death, the Pakistani foreign office said. It also called for strengthening military mechanisms to stop truce violations.
A spokesman for the Indian Defence Ministry offered a different version of events on the Kashmir frontier. He said Indian posts came under heavy mortar and automatic weapon fire overnight in the same area and that India "responded effectively." He said no damage or injuries were reported on the Indian side.
[An Nahar] Bombers killed 24 people in Iraq on Monday, 16 of them in a suicide kaboom on a cafe north of Storied Baghdad ...located along the Tigris River, founded in the 8th century, home of the Abbasid Caliphate... , officials said.
The other bombings hit a football field and a market, the latest in a upsurge of violence that has killed more than 3,400 people so far this year, according to an Agence La Belle France Presse tally.
Militants have carried out a number of attacks on cafes in recent weeks, especially during the Mohammedan holy month of Ramadan, when many Iraqis went to cafes after breaking their daytime fast.
This Ramadan, which ended last week, was one of the deadliest for Iraq in years, with more than 800 people killed in attacks.
The jacket wallah struck a cafe in the town of Balad at around 6:30 pm (1530 GMT), also wounding more than 35 people, municipal council chief Faris Jaafar said.
In Muqdadiyah, also north of Storied Baghdad, a bomb went kaboom! near a football field, killing four people and wounding 14, among them three children.
And in the nearby Diyala placid provincial capital Baquba, a bomb went kaboom! in a market, killing four people and wounding 20.
The attacks came a day after al-Qaeda front group the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant claimed attacks that killed more than 70 people on Saturday.
"The Islamic State mobilized... in Storied Baghdad and the southern states and others to convey a quick message of deterrence on the third day of Eid al-Fitr," the group said, referring to the holiday marking the end of Ramadan.
"They (Shiites) will not dream of security during night or day, during Eid or other" days, it said.
The attacks came just weeks after assaults on prisons near Storied Baghdad, also claimed by the al-Qaeda front group, freed hundreds of prisoners including leading myrmidons.
The brazen assaults highlighted both the growing reach of forces of Evil in Iraq and the rapidly worsening security situation.
Analysts, as well as global police organization Interpol, had warned that the jailbreaks could lead to a rise in attacks, as the escapees were said to include senior al-Qaeda myrmidons.
Violence in Iraq has increased markedly this year, with analysts saying the upsurge is driven by anger among the Sunni Arab minority that the Shiite-led government has failed to address, despite months of protests.
With the latest violence, attacks in Iraq have killed 3,404 people since the beginning of the year, according to figures compiled by AFP -- an average of 15 people killed each day.
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At least one rocket was fired towards the Israeli resort city of Eilat and was intercepted by Iron Dome, Arutz Sheva reported.
At least one rocket was fired towards the Israeli resort city of Eilat on Monday night. Sirens were heard throughout the city shortly before 1:00 a.m. Local residents reported hearing explosions following the sirens. The Iron Dome anti-missile system, which was just recently deployed near Eilat, reportedly intercepted the rocket before it could explode in a populated area. There were no reports of physical injuries or damages.
The IDF and the police are searching the area to determine whether any rockets exploded inside the city, but so far have not located any remains of rockets.
Last week, Israeli authorities shut down Eilat's airport for several hours over unspecified security concerns. An Egyptian source later said that the airport has been shut because Egypt sent a warning about an attack originating in the Sinai.
The Iron Dome battery was placed near Eilat in July, after several rockets had been fired at Israel's southernmost city from the restive Sinai. A few weeks earlier, Israeli security forces located the remains of a Grad missile that was fired towards Eilat.
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Can iron dome be modified so that it automatically sends a rocket back to the source of the one it intercepts (or detects)? That could be an effective deterrent to rocket attacks.
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Screw sending back a rocket. Send the launch coordinates to a MRLS battery and have them lay a full barrage on the area. Sure it'll trash the neighborhood, but it gets the point across. Once you're just bouncing the rubble and there's no where above ground to hide, targeting gets alot easier.
[Al Ahram] Nearly 60 Syrian soldiers and jihadists have been killed in three days of fighting in Deir Ezzor, the largest city in eastern Syria, where rebels have made advances, an NGO said Monday.
At least 33 fighters of the Al-Qaeda-affiliated Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS) and Al-Nusra Front have been killed since Saturday, according to the Syria Observatory for Human Rights.
The group, which relies on a network of activists, doctors and lawyers on the ground, said 25 regime forces were also killed in the festivities.
"The festivities are very intense, the fighters are using several tanks they have, while the army is shelling pockets" of jihadists, Observatory director Rami Abdel Rahman told AFP.
The jihadist fighters are concentrating their efforts on the district of Huweika, home to several government buildings and security headquarters.
Syria's state news agency SANA said Monday the army had "killed faceless myrmidons in the Senaa neighbourhood and other bad boyz were potted when a car they rigged with explosives detonated."
On Saturday, jihadists seized the local headquarters of the ruling Baath party in Deir Ezzor, prompting regime shelling.
"They (rebel fighters) have advanced in various districts, but without taking anything completely," said Abdel Rahman.
Control of the city remains divided between rebels, most of them jihadist fighters, and the regime. But the front line is in flux, according to the Britannia-based Observatory.
Despite setbacks around the capital Damascus and in Homs province of central Syria, jihadist rebel fighters have made advances in Deir Ezzor and the coastal province of Latakia.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
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At least one rocket was fired towards the Israeli resort city of Eilat and was intercepted by Iron Dome, Arutz Sheva reported.
[Al Ahram] Nearly 60 Syrian soldiers and jihadists have been killed in three days of fighting in Deir Ezzor, the largest city in eastern Syria, where rebels have made advances, an NGO said Monday.
