[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The former Afghanistan's Caped PresidentHamid Maybe I'll join the Taliban Karzai ...A product, probably the sole product, of the Southern Alliance... visited Iran and criticized the US counter-terrorism mission in Afghanistan as he was speaking during a conference in Tehran.
The office of the former President, ARG Palace, in a statement said the former president in his speech at Institute for politicla and international studies, said the US counter-terrorism policy in Afghanistan has not only resulted into eradicationof terrorism but has resulted into more violence led by the other terrorist groups, including the ISIS group.
Karzai further added that the US forces arrived in Afghanistan to fight terrorism with the support of the international community and regional countries.
However, it was a brave man who first ate an oyster... he said if the US policies have failed, then Washington should start negotiations with the other countries and powers, including China, Russia, Iran, and India to resolve the issue.
He also insisted that the main and key issues of the country should be discussed in the traditional Loya Jirga, grand council of the tribal elders, and the Afghan people should decide regarding their future and fate.
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Am I the only one who thinks Karzai and 0bumhole have a lot in common?
What a lovely thought for a Saturday! Here's hoping it is true.
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The relations between Pakistain and the notorious Haqqani terrorist network have started to deteriorate amid rising US pressures and recent political and security developments, it has been reported.
Pakistain and Afghan officials privy of the development have said the relations between the network and Islamabad have deteriorated after Washington increased pressures on Pakistain to take actions against safe havens of the terror groups in its soil.
A Pak politician with intimate knowledge of Islamabad’s decade-old covert support for the Afghan krazed killer group has confirmed to Gandhara that the relations between Haqqanis and Pakistain have deteriorated.
"Definitely there are strains in the relationship between Rawalpindi and the Haqqani network," the source speaking on the condition of said.
Quoting key interlocutors in Pakistain’s western Federally Administered Tribal Areas, the politican further added that tensions between the network and Islamabad spurred by Islamabad’s repositioning after Washington’s demand to end bad boy sanctuaries on its territory.
"Rawalpindi wanted to stagger the network’s operations across the border to avoid U.S. retaliation," he said.
Accordign to the politician, the Haqqanis were also roiled over Pakistain’s recent rescue of North American hostages because they had wanted to exchange them for their own imprisoned bad boys.
An Afghan official privy of the developments also confirmed the reports of the deteriorating relations however warned against reading recent developments as proof that Islamabad would abandon the network it has cherished as an ally through cycles of Afghan war since the 1970s.
But he says U.S. and international diplomatic pressure on Islamabad and aggressive Afghan and U.S. attacks on the bandidos krazed killers might prompt the bandidos krazed killers to take stock.
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POPCORN! GET YA POPCORN HEREEEEE
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[Al Jazeera] Iraq's prime minister has ordered a temporary halt to a military operation in the country's north aimed at wresting back territory held by Kurdish security forces.
In a statement on Friday, Haider al-Abadi ordered government forces to suspend their operations for 24 hours to enable the deployment of other forces in coordination with Kurdish forces in the disputed areas and along the country's borders.
The suspension of the movement of troops will allow a technical team from the two sides to jointly work for the deployment, al-Abadi said.
"This is aimed at preventing a showdown and bloodshed between people of the same country."
Al-Abadi's decision came a day after government forces and Kurdish forces clashed near the northern city of djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... Last week, Iraqi forces retook the oil-rich region of Kirkuk, ... a thick stew of Arabs, Turkmen, Kurds, and probably Antarcticans, all of them mutually hostile most of the time... which had been held by the Kurds since the Iraqi army fled from advancing ISIS fighters in 2014.
The show of force came after the secession referendum of September 25, in which 92 percent of Kurds supported independence from Iraq, prompting tension between the two sides.
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[Dhaka Tribune] The Myanmar army, Tatmadaw, has said they have withdrawn some troops from Rakhine state after claiming that peace and stability have been restored in the aftermath of the post August 25 military crackdown.
A statement from the military read that the latter had to "carry out area clearance operations in response to the attacks launched by the Arakan Rohingya Salavation Army (ARSA) terrorist groups against 30 police outposts and an army unit base in Buthidaung and Maungdaw townships," reports Myanmar Times.
The operations in the area were necessary because "the rule of law and community peace and tranquillity" were disrupted, the statement added.
It also said that "engagements were on the decrease after 5 September" and since the areas in northern Rakhine state are quite stable in terms of rule of law, some of Tatmadaw columns have been withdrawn from the two townships.
The military crackdown by the Myanmar army has resulted in severe criticism from the international community over serious human rights ...which are usually entirely different from personal liberty... violation, with the UN even labelling the operations as "ethnic cleansing". Both the Myanmar government and army deny these accusations.
The crackdown since late August has seen more than 600,000 people of the Moslem majority Rohingya ethnic minority community flee over to Bangladesh from Rakhine.
On October 23, the US State Department had announced withdrawal of military assistance to Myanmar military, on the ground that it used disproportionate force in counter-terrorism operations. That also includes travel ban to the military leadership.
Similarly, the EU has suspended earlier this month invitations to senior Myanmar officials to its member states. It also said it was considering imposing economic sanctions against Myanmar if humanitarian situation in Rakhine state does not improve.
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Can I take it that there are no more Muslims in the area?
[ALMASDARNEWS] Russia’s UN envoy, Vasily Nebenzya, on Thursday warned the United States against comments on the future of Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Supressor of the Damascenes... and his family.
"I think that we should not make predictions on anyone’s future. Time will show if someone has the future or not," Nebenzya said after the UN Security Council session on Syria.
The comment was made in response to a statement by US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, who said Washington "wants a whole and unified Syria with no role for Bashir al-Assad in the government."
"It is our view and I have said this many times as well that we do not believe that there is a future for the Assad regime and Assad family," he continued. "The reign of the Assad family is coming to an end."
French envoy Francois Delatre, who chairs the UN Security Council this month, refrained from making any comments on the US top diplomat’s statement. Instead, he said that the Security Council members have shown unity on the Syrian issue.
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Russia’s UN envoy tells US to abstain from comments on Assad’s future
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I don't give a rat's ass about Assad's future. Ooops! I guess that's a comment. Sorry, Vlad.
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Assads are the oldest remaining terrorist ruling family in the Middle East. They should have been toppled in 2014 but for Obama's kowtowing to Iran.
[ALMASDARNEWS] The rebel groups in the eastern region of the Qalamoun Mountains will visit Damascus City next week to discuss terms of reconciliation with the government, Russian media reported on Friday.
According to the Russian media, 11 officials representing the armed groups in the eastern Qalamoun will travel to Damascus next Sunday to negotiate with the government.
The government gave the armed groups a number of terms to adhere to:
To negotiate with no preconditions
All rebel fighters turn in their weapons and go back to civilian lives
Turn in remaining military equipment to the Syrian Army in Jaroud, Al-Nasriyah, and Al-Dumayr
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[ALMASDARNEWS] The Syrian Arab Army’s (SAA) High Command has announced a new commander of their elite 30th Division of the Elite Republican Guard in Aleppo.
General Malek ’Aliya was named the commander of the 30th Division after completing several successful missions for the Syrian Army in a number of province.
As commander of the 30th Division, General ’Aliya will be tasked with leading the operation in the western part of Aleppo City; in particular, the New Aleppo, Layramoun, and al-Zahra’a areas.
The Syrian Army is gearing up to launch two offensives in Aleppo, which will focus on the western and southern parts of the province.
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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
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[Al Jazeera] Iraq's prime minister has ordered a temporary halt to a military operation in the country's north aimed at wresting back territory held by Kurdish security forces.
Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir 
