MUQDISHO, Somalia -- One person has been killed and two others were wounded after a suspected suicide car bomber detonated his explosives-laden vehicle during a hot pursuit by soldiers in the Somali capital, officials said Wednesday Garowe Online reports. Pursuit doesn't get much hotter, does it?
Intelligence sources said the car bomber who was on the radar-list has probably detonated his car packed with explosives around the popular Maka Al-mukarramah hotel in Mogadishu.
One soldier was killed by the blast and two nearby pedestrians were wounded in the bombing which officials described as 'foiled' one.
No group has immediately claimed the responsibility for the blast.
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WANLAWEYN, Somalia -- Somalia’s Al Qaeda linked Al Shabaab militants poured into key town between Mogadishu and Baidoa late on Tuesday night, Garowe Online reports.
Residents who woke up to gun fire said that militants chanting Takbir [Greatness of God proclamation] forced their way into Wanlaweyn district, occupying police station during the mid-night raid.
Wanlaweyne is said to have remained in the hands of Al Shabaab fighters for two hours.
After which they bravely ran away...
A soldier was killed in brief gun-battle, with another source disclosing that two vehicles were confiscated.
Lower Shabelle Governor, Abdulkadir Mohamed Nur Siidi unveiled that the thrust into the town came after Drone strikes hit militant positions. Somali government forces aided by African union peacekeepers reached Wanlaweyne on Wednesday morning.
The seized town serves as a key interconnector between Mogadishu and Bay regional capital of Baidoa.
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DHOBLEY, Somalia -- Somali government forces in Lower Jubba region town of Dhobley apprehended four foreign recruits sneaking from Kenya into Al Shabaab camps overnight on Tuesday, Garowe Online reports.
Somali National army commander in the strategic border town, Haybe Ahmed Abdullahi told the media that they captured two Kenyan and two Tanzanian nationals along with two Somalis on their way to Al Shabaab-held areas in Jubaland. He added that foreign recruits were holding papers identifying their Al Shabaab-controlled destinations.
Kenyan authorities previously cracked down on alleged Al Shabaab indoctrination camps, sending dozens of suspects into custodies.
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[Ynet] Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're 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 the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... 's Egyptian affiliate claims responsibility for Tuesday attacks in Sinai that killed 2 and maimed dozens
Islamic holy warriors attacked an army checkpoint in northern Sinai near the border with Gazoo early on Wednesday, killing an officer, officials said.
The attack came as Egypt's Islamic State affiliate, which is based in the restive peninsula, grabbed credit for two attacks the previous day.
In Wednesday's attack, holy warriors opened fire on the checkpoint in el-Baraham near the border town of Rafah, triggering a shootout that killed 26-year-old Capt. Ayman Hassan, said medical and security officials.
Meanwhile, ...back at the saloon, Butch got the bill for the damage caused by the fist fight, the mirror broken in the shootout, and drinks for everyone...... the Islamic State affiliate in Egypt - previously known as Ansar Beit al-Maqdis - grabbed credit for Tuesday's attacks that killed two and maimed dozens in restive Sinai. In one of the attacks, a jacket wallah drove a stolen water tanker packed with explosives up to the police compound in the city of el-Arish. His refusal to slow down at the gate prompted police to fire at the vehicle, setting off the explosives inside.
Egypt has been battling an Islamic insurgency in northern Sinai for years, but attacks against army and police there have dramatically increased since the 2013 ouster of Islamist President Mohammed Morsi.
The military has undertaken a major offensive against holy warriors in restive Sinai - where Egypt's Islamic State affiliate is based - and declared a state of emergency, along with a dusk-to-dawn curfew.
[Iran Press TV] Niger says it has killed more than 500 members of the 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... terrorist group since February 2015.
A good start. The other armies killed their myriads of myrmidons as well, coming hot out of the box.
Niger's police front man Captain Adili Toro said on Wednesday that some 513 snuffies had been killed since February 8, adding this number does not take into account those killed in land and air operations launched on Sunday jointly by the armies of Niger and Chad against Boko Haram murderous Moslems in Nigeria.
Niger has also lost 24 soldiers in the operations that have also killed at least one civilian and maimed 38 soldiers, Toro stated.
On March 8, Nigerien and Chadian military forces launched a joint operation against the Takfiri ...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who must be killed... terrorist group in northeastern Nigeria.
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[WSJ] Turkish foreign minister says the suspect is thought to have helped schoolgirls join Islamic State in Syria The rest of the story is on some site without a paywall, I'll betcha.
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[ARA] The Turkish Foreign Ministry announced Wednesday that units of the Turkish border guards tossed in the calaboose Youse'll never take me alive coppers!... [BANG!]... Ow!... I quit! 16 Indonesian nationals before crossing into Syria illegally.
The front man of the Turkish Foreign Ministry, Tanju Bilgic, said in a presser in Ankara that the arrested Indonesians were taking the route "usually used by jihadists" to join the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're 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 the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... group (IS/ISIS) in Syria.
Bilgic stressed that the border guards arrested a group of 16 Indonesians from three families who were about to cross the border into Syria, pointing out that the initial information confirmed that the Indonesian embassy had been in touch with the group.
The Indonesian Embassy in Ankara did not provide any information to the Turkish authorities about the arrested group , according to the Turkish Foreign Ministry.
The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... is considered a key conduit for imported muscle who join the IS ranks.
Both La Belle France and Britannia have said on previous occasions that Turkey did not take appropriate action to prevent more than 700 French and 500 British nationals from joining the radical group.
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[NationalPost] After landing at Toronto's Pearson airport on April 3, 2013, Jahanzeb Malik told the border officer who questioned him he had been teaching in Libya. He told the Canadian Security Intelligence Service the same story.
But they apparently didn't buy it because the RCMP's national security unit in Toronto soon launched an undercover investigation that found he had been up to something far more sinister in the North African desert: attending a training camp.
At an immigration hearing on Wednesday, the Canada Border Services Agency also alleged that Mr. Malik, who first came to Canada in 2004 as a student, was an ISIS supporter and had plotted to bomb the U.S. consulate and financial buildings in Toronto.
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Another paki wannabe terrorist thinking he is fighting for Allah.i wonder which country produces the most oversea terrorists? must be a toss up between Pakistan and Saudi.
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[Iran Press TV] A massive bomb kaboom has rocked India's restive northeastern state of Manipur, leaving at least four people dead and 15 others injured, security sources say.
Indian police sources said on Wednesday that an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) went off at a crowded marketplace in the heart of Imphal, the state capital of Manipur, which borders Myanmar.
"A powerful IED was planted," said A.K. Singh, a senior state police official, adding, "Most of the victims were either shoppers or vendors."
Police sources confirmed that four bodies had been recovered from the blast site. The corpse count is expected to rise as some of the seriously injured are said to be at death's door.
Singh also said the injured have been shifted to local hospitals with multiple wounds, with "at least six of them having serious multiple injuries."
No group has yet grabbed credit for the attack. Dozens of hard boy groups have been active in northeastern India since the country became independent in 1947.
The hard boys, who are supported by tribal groups and landless farmers, have fought against the central government in New Delhi for many years. They are seeking independence or more autonomy for various ethnic, cultural or political groups.
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[Iran Press TV] At least 17 people have bit the dust in the latest spate of terror attacks in and around the Iraqi capital city of Baghdad.
According to Iraqi police and medical sources, the deadliest attack on Wednesday occurred when a boom-mobile went off in the Hurriya district of Baghdad, leaving nine dead and 30 others injured.
In another bombing near a car park in al-Obeidi neighborhood east of Baghdad, two people were killed and seven maimed.
A police patrol near Zeidan, west of the capital, stuck a roadside kaboom while another went kaboom! in Taji to the north. The blasts left four people dead.
Meanwhile, ...back at the revival hall, the pastor had finally been wrestled from the pulpit. Y'got the wrong guy! he yelled just before Sergeant Malone's billy club landed... an attack by unknown gunnies on a home in Jisr Diyala, a suburb on Baghdad's southeastern edge, killed the owner of the house and his son.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attacks. However, denial ain't just a river in Egypt... Iraqi officials usually blame such assaults on the ISIL Takfiri ...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who must be killed... terrorists.
According to the UN Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI), a total of 1,103 Iraqis bit the dust last month, while 2,280 others were maimed as a result of attacks in the country.
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Baghdad -- Iraqi security forces and militias fought their way into Saddam Hussein’s home city of Tikrit on Wednesday, advancing on two fronts in their biggest counter-offensive so far against Daesh militants.
A little faster than we all thought might happen...
Army and militia fighters captured part of Tikrit’s northern Qadisiya district, the provincial governor said, while in the south of the Tigris river city a security officer said another force made a rapid push towards the centre.
“The forces entered Tikrit general hospital,” an official at the main military operation command centre said. “There is heavy fighting going on near the presidential palaces, next to the hospital complex.”
Daesh fighters stormed into Tikrit last June during a lightning offensive that was halted just outside Baghdad. They have since used the complex of palaces built in Tikrit under Saddam, the executed former president, as their headquarters.
More than 20,000 troops and Iranian-backed Shia militias known as Hashid Shaabi, supported by local Sunni tribes, launched the offensive for Tikrit 10 days ago, advancing from the east and along the banks of the Tigris.
On Tuesday they took the town of Al Alam on the northern edge of Tikrit, paving the way for an attack on the city itself.
“The governor of Salahuddin announces the purging of half of Qadisiya district, the largest of Tikrit’s neighbourhoods,” a statement from governor Raed Al Jubouri’s office said.
The army and militia fighters raised the national flag above a military hospital in the section of Qadisiya they had retaken from the militants, security officials said.
After pausing while helicopters attacked Daesh snipers and positions, the ground forces were progressing steadily, taking “one street every 30 minutes”, the security official said. He said there was fierce fighting around Tikrit police headquarters just south of Qadisiya.
To the northwest, troops and Hashid Shaabi fighters clashed with Daesh militants in the industrial zone, he added.
Another official said later on Wednesday that six soldiers and militia fighters were killed by sniper fire in Qadisiya in the evening. He said the advance had been halted by a combination of sniper fire and heavy fighting, and the attacking forces were waiting for militia reinforcements.
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Baghdad -- The Daesh group launched a coordinated attack on government-held areas of the western Iraqi city of Ramadi on Wednesday, involving seven almost simultaneous suicide car bombs, police said.
If at first you don't succeed...
At least 10 people were killed and 30 wounded in the attack, according to initial reports by police and hospital sources in the city, capital of Anbar province.
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[ARA] Since Tuesday, the international coalition forces carried out 15 Arclight airstrikes against the radical group of the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're 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 the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... (IS/ISIL) in Syria and Iraq.
The U.S.-led coalition conducted 13 raids against the holy warriors in Iraq, while two others hit the group's locations in Syria, according to a statement by the Combined Joint Task Force.
"Five of the strikes in Iraq were centered on the Islamic State-held city of djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... and three each were aimed near Fallujah and al Qaim, destroying buildings, vehicles and artillery," the Combined Joint Task Force said in a statement issued on Wednesday.
"The Syrian strikes destroyed two Islamic State vehicles near Kobane and hit multiple oil pump jackets near al-Hasakah," the statement added.
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[AnNahar] The Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're 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 the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... jihadist group launched a major offensive Wednesday to try to capture a strategic town on the Syrian-Turkish border, leaving dozens dead in festivities, a monitor said.
"Fighters from the Islamic State group started a huge assault towards Ras al-Ain and were able to take over a village nearby," the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
The offensive is a preemptive strike against Kurdish militia who were planning an attack on the IS-held town of Tal Abyad farther west along the border, Observatory head Rami Abdel Rahman told AFP.
Tal Abyad is an Arab and Kurdish town in the Syrian province of Raqa used by IS jihadists as a gateway from The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... .
At least 12 fighters from the Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG), which control Ras al-Ain and the surrounding villages, were killed in the IS onslaught, according to Abdel Rahman.
"This is a big hit to the morale of Kurdish fighters," he said.
He was unable to give an exact corpse count for the jihadists but said that including IS casualties scores had been killed.
A front man for the Democratic Union Party (PYD), the YPG's political arm, confirmed an intense battle was raging around the town.
Ras al-Ain, in Hasakeh province, was the scene of major fighting in 2013 before Kurdish forces ousted rebels and Al-Qaeda-linked jihadists from the town, which has a border crossing with Ceylanpinar in Turkey.
Kurdish fighters are also locked in festivities with IS around the strategic town of Tal Tamr, just southeast of Ras al-Ain, which lies near a key road that links to their Iraqi bastion of djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... to the east.
The IS offensives come just weeks after Kurdish militia backed by Iraqi peshmerga fighters and Syrian rebels drove the snuffies out of Kobane farther west along the Turkish border.
The town, which was devastated by months of fighting and U.S.-led coalition air strikes, became a prominent symbol of resistance against the jihadists.
Kurdish and allied forces have since taken much of the surrounding countryside in northern Aleppo province and have begun pushing east into neighboring Raqa province, home to IS's self-proclaimed "capital."
IS has seized large parts of Syria and neighboring Iraq and imposed a harsh interpretation of Islamic law.
Foreign jihadists have flocked to Syria, often crossing over from Turkey, since the country's conflict began in March 2011 as a popular revolt which later escalated into a full-blown civil war.
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IS needs Turkey for the inflow of recruits. we need to cut off this supply asap.
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[AnNahar] The General Security detained a jacket wallah at Beirut's Rafik Hariri International Airport on her way to Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... , media reports said on Wednesday.
According to As Safir newspaper, Fatima al-Khalida was traveling to Riyadh when the General Security members detained her upon a document circulated by the Lebanese Army.
Al-Khalida is reportedly one of the suicide bombers who were going target the Iranian Embassy ...You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy!... based on a scheme prepared by Saudi national Abou Hamza al-Muhajir.
Al-Akhbar newspaper said that the General Security will refer the detainee, al-Khalida, to the army for further investigation.
Al-Muhajir was a senior aid to slain leader of al-Qaeda in Iraq Abou Musab al-Zarqawi.
Al-Muhajir assumed the leadership of al-Qaeda branch in Iraq after the death of Zarqawi in an Arclight airstrike in 2006.
In 2010, the U.S. military confirmed the death of al-Muhajir in the western Iraqi province of Anbar.
[ARA] As violence intensified around Aleppo, the Turkish authorities closed two crossings on Wednesday in the southern province of Hatay at the Syrian border for security concerns.
The border crossings of Oncupinar and Cilvegozu were closed, and the Turkish border guards reportedly prevented dozens of Syrians from entering The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... ."Turkey has some security concerns and it is natural for measures to be taken based on the threat assessment conducted. This is what is also expected by the international community," a Turkish official told Rooters, without specifying when those crossings would be reopened.
According to the Turkish government, the movement of humanitarian aid's vehicles won't be affected by the crossing's closure.
Turkish officials also confirmed that Syrians who hold valid passports will still be able to enter Syria from Turkey.
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[ARA] Subsequent to fierce battles against murderous Moslems of the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're 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 the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... group (IS/ISIS), the Iraqi army supported by the Shiite militia of the Popular Mobilization Forces was able to control large parts of the Qadisiyah area in the city of Tikrit (180 km northwest of the capital Baghdad), Iraqi military sources reported on Wednesday.
The Iraqi forces also took control of the town of al-Alam north of Tikrit after fierce festivities with the radical group.
The governor of Salahuddin province in central Iraq, Raed al-Jubouri, said in a statement on Wednesday that the Iraqi government forces backed by the Shiite militias were able to purge most of the Qadisiyah area (the largest district in the city of Tikrit) of IS terrorists.
Al-Jubouri added that the government troops were also able to control the village of as-Samra northeast of Tikrit, in addition to tightening its grip on the town of al-Alam.
Local military sources reported heavy fighting in the vicinity of Tikrit, pointing out that government forces couldn't make significant progress in the southern and western suburbs of the city.
"The landmines planted by IS Lions of Islam prevented government forces from advancing in the western suburbs, while the U.S.-led international coalition's warplanes continued bombing IS strongholds there," an Iraqi officer told ARA News on the condition of anonymity.
"IS jihadists blew up a vital bridge over the Tigris River, which may delay the progress operations in the western parts of Tikrit," the source said.
At least five members of the government forces were killed in recent fighting in Tikrit, while 19 others were maimed, according to medical sources in the war-torn city.
Noteworthy, the city of Tikrit, the hometown of former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, has been under IS control since June 2014. The Iraqi government --with the help of the Iranian-backed Popular Mobilization Forces-- has mobilized approximately 200,000 fighters in the area to regain control of the city.
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[AnNahar] Forces fighting the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're 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 the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... group have cut critical communication and supply lines used by the faceless myrmidons between Syria and Iraq after a two-week operation, the U.S.-led coalition said Tuesday.
Backed by air strikes, the forces "overcame ISIL (IS) resistance" in northeastern Syria near the strategic town of Tal Hamis -- once an IS stronghold -- and "denied the terrorist group its freedom of maneuver in the area," the Combined Joint Task Force said in a statement.
During the operation, which ended Saturday, the IS group lost access to primary travel routes it has previously used to move personnel and materials into Iraq.
"Anti-ISIL forces were able to seize critical portions of route 47 in Syria, a key ISIL communications and supply line leading into Iraq," it added, noting that 94 villages were freed from the clutches of the bad boys.
The coalition said "multiple" IS weapons systems, vehicles and fighting positions were also destroyed.
"This operation demonstrated the ability of anti-ISIL forces to further degrade Daesh influence in this region," Combined Joint Task Force commander Lieutenant General James Terry said in a statement, using an Arabic acronym for the IS group, which commands vast areas of Iraq and Syria.
"The determination of these anti-ISIL forces and our precision air strikes enabled us to deny Daesh this key terrain in Syria."
Kurdish forces seized Tal Hamis on February 27 with the help of Arab fighters, but fighting then continued in the area.
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