[Khaama (Afghanistan)] At least nineteen Death Eaters were killed during the operations conducted by the Afghan and US forces in southern Helmand ...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan... province of Afghanistan.
According to the local officials, the operations were conducted in Marjah and Nahr-e-Saraj disricts of Helmand in the past 24 hours.
The provincial government media office in a statement said the Afghan Air Force carried out Arclight airstrikes on Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... hideouts in Marjah district, leaving at least four dead.
The statement further added that a PKM machine gun, a rocket launcher, and four Ak-47 assault rifles were also confiscated during the operations.
In the meantime, the US military carried out airstrikes on Taliban hideouts in Sangin, Marjah, and Nahr-e-Saraj districts, the statement said.
According to the provincial government, at least fifteen Death Eaters were killed and another bad boy was maimed during the airstrikes.
The anti-government armed bad boy and terrorist groups including Taliban murderous Moslems have not commented regarding the report so far.
This comes as counter-terrorism operations are underway in various provinces of the country as the anti-government armed bad boy groups are attempting to expand their insurgency activities in some of the key provinces including Helmand in the South.
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] Two top leaders 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.... of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) terrorist group were killed in a joint operation of the Afghan Special Forces and the US military in North of Afghanistan.
The NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It's headquartered in Belgium. That sez it all.... Special Operations Component Command in a report said, recent Afghan Special Security Forces offensive operations enabled by U.S. Arclight airstrikes eliminated 15 ISIS-K fighters in Jowzjan and Sar-e Pul provinces, Afghanistan, Mar. 16, 2018.
The report further adds that a U.S. airstrike killed ISIS-K Khitaba (platoon-sized) commanders Omair and Abu Samaya as they met in Sar-e Pul. Omair and Samaya replaced Khitab Aka, ISIS-K’s lead controller of imported muscle, captured in Jowzjan, Jan. 28. Unable to take root in Afghanistan, ISIS-K relies on external support of fighters and equipment for survival in northern Afghanistan.
Later that night, ASSF conducted a raid on the ISIS-K headquarters in Jowzjan, eliminating 13 terrorists. The ASSF conducted the raid in an area ISIS-K believed to be a safe haven for the reception of their imported muscle and weapons.
"The capability and capacity of the ASSF will ensure Afghanistan cannot again be used as a safe haven from which trans-regional murderous Moslems can threaten the U.S. and international partners," said Gen. John Nicholson, NATO Resolute Support commander.
Over the last two months, ASSF and U.S. targeting of ISIS-K resulted in the removal of more than more than 140 ISIS-K fighters, according to the report.
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[ARABNEWS] Afghan officials say bombs attached to cycle of violences have killed four people in separate attacks.
One struck outside a sports stadium in eastern Nangarhar The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country.. province, killing three on Monday. Akramuddin, a provincial police official, says the kaboom occurred as former warlord Gulbuddin Hekmatyar ... who used to be known in intelligence circles as The Most Evil Man in the World but who now seems merely run-of-the-mill evil... was holding a rally at the stadium in Jalalabad, the province’ capital.
Akramuddin, who like many Afghans uses only one name, says the blast took place as the rally ended. Ten people were maimed.
Hekmatyar, previously a declared terrorist by the United States, signed a peace deal with President Ashraf Ghani ...former chancellor of Kabul University, now president of Afghanistan. Before returning to Afghanistan in 2002 he was a scholar of political science and anthropology. He worked at the World Bank working on international development assistance. As Finance Minister of Afghanistan between July 2002 and December 2004, he led Afghanistan's attempted economic recovery until the Karzais stole all the money. .. in 2017 and was removed from the list.
The second cycle of violence bomb went kaboom! in western Herat ...a venerable old Persian-speaking city in western Afghanistan, populated mostly by Tadjiks, which is why it's not as blood-soaked as areas controlled by Pashtuns... province. Spokesman Jelani Farhad says one person was killed and seven were maimed.
[Al Jazeera] In the early hours of Saturday, as farmers watered their crops in Afghanistan's eastern province of Nangarhar The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country.. , a unit of the Afghan security and intelligence forces carried out a deadly raid.
At least seven farmers were killed in the assault on two villages in the province's Chaparhar district.
"We heard helicopters coming our way where we had been watering our crops from midnight. We heard them at around 4am. The helicopter fired exactly two times," said Mohammed Razaq, a farmer who was present at the time of the raid in Mano, one of the two villages attacked.
"I lost two of my cousins in the attack," he told Al Jazeera.
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[AlAhram] Egyptian Armed Forces front man Tamer El-Refaie has said in a statement that 36 takfiri ...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who most be killed... s were killed and 345 were tossed in the calaboose Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out! by army and police forces during the last five days of the counterterrorism Operation Sinai 2018, which started on 9 February in Sinai and other parts of the country.
The Arabic word "takfiri" refers to holy warrior Sunni Moslems who accuse other Moslems and followers of other religions of being infidels, often as a justification for using violence against them.
"One officer and three soldiers were killed during operations, while another three officers, a non-commissioned officer and five soldiers were maimed," the front man said.
The statement added that six takfiris were killed during a shootout with police forces in the North Sinai capital of El-Arish.
Air forces destroyed 12 targets used as shelter by gunnies and as well as a booby-trapped vehicle whose driver attempted attack a security checkpoint west of El-Arish.
The army has also located and destroyed 17 vehicles, 67 cycle of violences, and 93 IEDs, in addition to confiscating large amounts of TNT, plastic explosives, ammunition and firearms.
The operation targets "terrorist and criminal elements and organizations" in northern and central Sinai, as well as parts of the Nile Delta and the Western Desert, the army said at the start of the operation.
The front man said that counterterrorism forces from the army, along with police forces and border guards, are continuing combing operations in pursuit of any gunnies or criminal elements.
The border guards, in cooperation with forces tasked with securing the Suez Canal waterway, are continuing their mission to protect navigation and tighten security measures at the crossings leading into the Sinai Peninsula.
[DAWN] A court in Bangladesh sentenced seven holy warriors to death on Sunday after finding them guilty of killing a shrine worker in 2015, court officials said.
Bangladesh is facing what appears to be a growing threat of murderous Moslem violence and has seen a string of incidents in recent years.
Shrine caretaker, Rahamat Ali, 60, was hacked to death in November 2015 in the northern district of Rangpur. Six others accused of the attack were acquitted by the court.
The convicted men were members of the Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh The JMB is said to be the youth front of Al Mujahideen, the parent organization that began working toward establishing Bangladesh as an Islamic state in the mid 1990s, which remains obscure and probably defunct today. Other organizations, such as Jama'atul Jihad, JMB, Jagrata Muslim Janata Bangladesh (JMJB), Harkat-ul-Jihad-al-Islami (HUJI), Hizbut Tawhid, Tawhidi Janata, Islami Jubo Shangha, Islami Shangha, Al Falah A'am Unnayan Shanstha and Shahadat-e al Hiqma are believed to be part of the Al Mujahideen network. The JMB at its peak was reported to contain at least 100,000 members, and an alleged 2,000-man suicide brigade, few of whom actually exploded. JMB allegedly received financial assistance from individual donors in Kuwait, UAE, Bahrain, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and Libya. Reports have claimed that funding of JMB by international NGOs like Kuwait based Society of the Revival of Islamic Heritage (RIHS) and Doulatul Kuwait, Saudi Arabia based Al Haramaine Islamic Institute and Rabita Al Alam Al Islami, Qatar Charitable Society and UAE-based Al Fuzaira and Khairul Ansar Al Khairia. The top leadership of JMB was captured in 2005 and hung in 2007, which pretty much shot their bolt. group, public prosecutor Rathish Chandra Bhowmik told news hounds.
Police believe the same group, which has pledged allegiance to the murderous MoslemIslamic 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, was responsible for the most recent serious attack, when button men stormed a restaurant in the diplomatic quarter of Dhaka in July 2016, killing 22 people, most of them foreigners.
IS and Al Qaeda have claimed a series of killings of liberals and members of religious minorities in Bangladesh in the past years.
Authorities have consistently ruled out the presence of such groups, blaming domestic holy warriors instead. However, death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate... security experts say the scale and sophistication of the restaurant attack suggested links to a wider network.
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Kirkuk (IraqiNews.com) A security personnel was killed, while two others were wounded in an ambush launched by Islamic State members, northwest of Kirkuk, a security source from the province said on Monday.
Speaking to Alghad Press, the source said, “IS members set up an ambush to trap Tribal Mobilization Forces near a checkpoint in al-Dibis town, northwest of Kirkuk.”
“Troops were engaged in clashes with the militants, leaving a personnel killed and two others injured. Confrontations are ongoing,” the source said.
Kirkuk (IraqiNews.com) Five people were killed and injured as Islamic State members attacked a village, west of Kirkuk, a security source from the province said on Monday.
“IS members set up an ambush near al-Heleiwat village in al-Zab town, west of Kirkuk, killing two villagers and wounding three others,” the source told Alghad Press.
“As the people heard the shooting, they headed to the accident place. They managed to transfer the victims and the injured to Kirkuk Public Hospital,” he added. “The militants, who set up the ambush, ran away.”
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Nineveh (Iraqinews.com) – Two senior Islamic State (IS) leaders were arrested Monday in Mosul city as Iraqi troops continue to hunt for dormant IS cells across the country, a military official was quoted as saying.
Colonel Haseeb Maarouf from the Nineveh Operations Command told Basnews that the army’s 20th brigade arrested the Islamic State’s so-called finance minister in a military operation in northern Mosul.
“Another IS leader, who was in charge of planting bombs in the eastern and northern axes of Mosul, got nabbed in the clampdown as well,” Maarouf said, adding that the two were taken to the command’s headquarters for interrogation.
Maarouf further highlighted that a large cache of explosive materials and weapons were seized in the military operation.
Mosul (IraqiNews.com) The military intelligence department has announced arresting an Islamic State terrorist cell in south of Mosul.
In a statement on Monday, the department said military troops “depended on accurate intelligence information to arrest members of a terrorist cell in al-Qayyarah, south of Mosul.”
The cell, according to the statement, “was planning to carry out several operations during the coming period of time.”
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Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) Five people were maimed in two kabooms that took place in south of Baghdad, a security source was quoted saying on Monday.
"A bomb, placed on the side of the road in al-Sayyid Abdullah region in al-Mahmoudiya district, south of Baghdad, went off leaving three civilians maimed," the source told Baghdad Today website.
Moreover, the source added that "a kaboom occurred in Hour Rajab region in al-Doura district, south of Baghdad, leaving two people injured."
Anbar (Iraqinews.com) – Paramilitary troops of al-Hashd al-Shaabi are reluctant to withdraw from Anbar province following the declaration of victory over Islamic State (IS) militants across Iraq last year, a security source was quoted as saying Monday.
The source, who spoke on condition of anonymity, told al-Quds al-Arabi that the pro-government troops, also known as Popular Mobilization Forces (PMFs), were “planned to leave Anbar after eliminating all IS cells in the province last November, but they did not.”
He pointed out that the presence of those troops in Anbar is no longer necessary as there are enough army and police forces, who can face any possible threat by IS militants in the liberated areas.
Despite the crushing defeat of Islamic State in December, the PMFs reject to leave liberated areas under the pretext that there are still explosive bombs and booby-trapped houses there.
Popular Mobilization Forces, an alliance of volunteer Shia paramilitary forces, actively backed the Iraqi government’s military campaign against IS since 2014, when they were formed upon a top Shia clergy edict to counter the militant group.
PMFs won official recognition as a national force late 2016, becoming under the command of the prime minister, who defended the troops against domestic and foreign accusations of committing human rights violations.
Anbar (IraqiNews.com) The Joint Operations Command has announced arresting two Islamic State members in an airstrike in Anbar province.
In a statement, Brig. Gen. Yehia Rasool, spokesperson for the command, said, “an airstrike was carried out in the desert in Anbar by the army’s elite Counter-Terrorism Service, depending on information from the Iraqi intelligence services.”
“The operation was backed by the Iraqi fighter jets. Two IS members were arrested,” he added.
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Ebil (Iraqinews.com) ‐ Ottoman Turkish troops, backed by air coverage, have been deployed in northern Iraq amid violent festivities with fighters of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), Arabs Today news website reported Monday.
"The forces are now stationed in the sub-district of Sidakan, northeast of the Kurdistan Region’s capital, and have already set up fixed barracks in the border triangle between Iraq, Syria and The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...just another cheapjack Moslem dictatorship, brought to you by the Moslem Brüderbund.... ," Krmanj Izzat, the mayor of Soran city, said.
Izzat expected Ottoman Turkish troops not to leave their positions in Iraq soon.
Meanwhile, ...back at the pie fight, Bella opened her mouth at precisely the wrong moment... Sidakan Mayor Ihsan Chalabi pointed out that the Ottoman Turkish troops penetrated deep into his district "by 15 kilometers and established some 12 barracks in the area."
He noted that heavy weapons and jet fighters were used in the festivities between the Ottoman Turkish troops and PKK fighters.
Turkey’s move in Iraq is part of Ankara’s efforts to fight PKK members in northern Iraq and it comes one day after Ottoman Turkish President 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... announced wresting control of the Kurdish-majority Syrian city of Afrin after two months of heavy fighting.
More than 1,500 Kurdish fighters have been killed in a two-month assault by Ottoman Turkish forces and allied Syrian rebels on the Kurdish enclave of Afrin, Al Arabiya quoted the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights as saying.
Most of them were killed air strikes and artillery fire. Also, over 400 pro-Ankara rebels had been killed since January 20, the observatory said.
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Doesn't anybody in our government feel any need to do the right thing and knee-cap the little bastard?
More on this story from yesterday. No, the miscreant is not named Mohammed in any of its many variants, but one of his fellows is.
[Ynet] Romain Franck, a driver in the French consulate in east Jerusalem, joined an arms smuggling network, helping them transport weapons from Gazoo to the West Bank in return for thousands of shekels; he used his diplomatic vehicle to avoid physical search at the border crossing.
Romain Franck, a French national, and five others were indicted Monday afternoon for smuggling weapons from Hamas, a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth", in the Gazoo Strip to the West Bank.
Franck, 24, a driver in the French Consulate in east Jerusalem, used his diplomatic vehicle to avoid security checks at the Erez border crossing.
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[ALMASDARNEWS] Video footage has been released by opposition sources showing the deployment of a large Ottoman Turkish Army convoy ‐ escorted by rebel forces ‐ to the Jabal (Mount) Anak area near Anadan town, just north of Aleppo city in Syria.
According to reports, the convoy was over one hundred vehicles in size ‐ consisting of self-deploying bridging equipment, armored personnel carriers, armored cars, lorries, fuel trucks and excavators.
Also in tow with the military column was about about a company of Ottoman Turkish troops; these servicemen will most likely act as the security forces which maintain watch over the frontline areas opposing Syrian Army lines.
The deployment of additional Ottoman Turkish forces to the Anadan region is part of an ongoing de-escalation scheme brokered between Moscow and Ankara that is aimed at ending all offensive action by both the Syrian Army and armed rebel groups throughout the country’s northwest
Clerly, so long as Putin and Erdogan agree, the opinion of Assad doesn’t matter in the least.
The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...just another cheapjack Moslem dictatorship, brought to you by the Moslem Brüderbund.... ’s role in all of this is to establish ’observation points’ with its own military to monitor the ceasefire.
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anadan is about 8 miles NNW of Aleppo
furthest south Turkish troops have gone
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The Turkish Lira is getting weaker as erdogan's operation goes on.
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#2 - A good way to see this graphically in on x-rates.com. Select EURO as the numerator and Turk Lira as the denominator, select Graph, and extend it out to 1-year. I've also found this useful to track the effect of the Russian sanctions, post Ukraine.
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Remember how the Uncle Sam opened up a can of Raid on the Russian unit near Manbij without any statements from Trump, meaning he had delegated responsibility for force protection to the local commander? Gotta wonder if the Turks will overstep and get something similar inflicted upon themselves. Except the Turks will lose a lot more than a few hundred guys, given the amount of hardware and personnel they've massed.
[ALMASDARNEWS] Over the last several days, the Syrian Air Force has increased the number of attacks it generally carries out across rebel-held areas of Daraa province.
Whilst no secret, and with video evidence to support accusations that such strikes are taking place, opposition sources have made a particularly big deal of the bombings by government airpower.
In particular, Syrian warplanes have been targeting rebel positions and movements in and around the myrmidon-controlled town of Busra al-Hariri (shown in both videos below), right on the frontier with Syrian Army lines.
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[ALMASDARNEWS] Even though the Islamist groups in East Ghouta pocket are desperately fighting off, the government forces keep on grabbing more territories in the heavily-contested enclave.
The battle-hardened Tiger Forces have reportedly stormed the town of Hazah located to the northwest of the recently-liberated Kafr Batna and entered the eastern neighborhoods amid heavy festivities with Faylaq al-Rahman murderous Moslems.
The hardly-attained advance was made as Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham group (an al-Qaeda affiliate and a close ally to Faylaq) attempted to curb the Army troops by detonating a VBIED along the road linking Kafr Batna to Hazah.
No casualties reported due to the suicide kaboom.
In besieged Harasta suburb, a group of HTS Lions of Islam attacked the Syrian Army points with the objective to make their way into the remaining rebel-held towns of East Ghouta (where their main ally is positioned i.e. Faylaq al-Rahman).
The assault ‐ definitely thwarted by the Syrian Army units ‐ was launched after Ahrar al-Sham ...a Syria jihadi group made up of Islamists and salafists, not that there's that much difference, formed into a brigade. They make up the main element of the Islamic Front but they don't profess adoration of al-Qaeda and they've been fighting (mainly for survival) against the Islamic State. Their leadership was wiped out at a single blow by a suicide kaboom at a crowded basement meeting in September, 2014... group (the largest in Harasta) approved an evacuation deal to the country’s north as per an agreement with the Russian side.
In neighboring Douma, heavy festivities broke out in the northern outskirts of al-Riyhan town where the Army troops managed to score a slight advance and recapture some new farms.
This was reported in conjunction with heavy Arclight airstrikes and artillery shelling that targeted Jaish al-Islam ...Liwa al-Islam (Brigade of Islam) was established by Zahran Alloush, the son of Saudi-based religious scholar Abdullah Mohammed Alloush, after Syrian authorities released him from prison in mid-2011 where he had been serving time for his Salafist activism. The group claimed responsibility for carrying out the July 2012 Damascus bombing that killed Defense Minister Dawoud Rajiha, Deputy Defense Minister Asef Shawkat, and Assistant Vice President Hassan Turkmani. It was a driving force behind actions in the Damascus region. It cooperated and conducted joint operations with al-Nusra. In Sptember 2013 Saudi Arabia engineered Liwa al-Islam's merger with fifty other more or less Salafist groups as a counterweight to al-Nusra, which the Learned Elders of Islam considered was growing too powereful... in and around its heartland of Douma.
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[ALMASDARNEWS] Huge number of ISIS jihadists have engaged in an onslaught against the Syrian troops positioned in a desert area near the frontiers with Iraq.
The attack, which mainly targeted the Syrian Army and pro-government fighters in the T2 Pumping Station, have been repelled with the attackers enduring heavy losses.
Raw footage was posted online showing fighters of the pro-Syrian Army al-Baqir Brigade clashing with 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.... holy warriors in a battlefield located to the south of the T2 station.
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[Al Jazeera] Kurdish fighters in the northwestern Syrian region of Afrin have vowed to continue fighting The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... 's forces and Turkey-backed rebel groups, by shifting from direct confrontation to guerrilla tactics.
Meanwhile, ...back at the game, the Babe headed for second base. He almost made it. Then Sheila slapped him.... the Free Syrian Army ... the more palatable version of the Syrian insurgency, heavily influenced by the Moslem Brüderbund... (FSA) rebels and Ottoman Turkish forces, who gained complete control of the city of Afrin on Sunday, continued their activities to secure the city, with troops searching for landmines and other bombs in the area.
"Our forces are present all over Afrin's geography. These forces will strike the positions of the Ottoman Turkish enemy and its mercenaries at every opportunity," Othman Sheikh Issa, a representative of the Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG), said in a televised statement on Sunday evening.
"Our forces all over Afrin will become a constant nightmare for them," he added.
"Many of the bandidosgunnies had turned tail and run away already," President 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... said in a speech in western Turkey on Sunday after he announced that Afrin's city centre was captured at 8:30am local time (05:00 GMT) on the same day.
He said 3,603 "bandidosgunnies had been neutralised" in Afrin since the launch of the cross-border operation on January 20.
[Al Jazeera] The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the decaying remnant of the Ottoman Empire.... 's disaster management agency has distributed more than 30 tonnes of humanitarian aid throughout Afrin since Ankara launched military operations in the northwestern Syrian region on January 20.
According to a statement sent by the AFAD Authority to Al Jazeera on Monday, the agency plans to set up camps to house 170,000 people around Syria's Idlib province, as well as Ottoman Turkish military and allied rebel-controlled areas to the east.
The camps will assist civilian movement towards these areas, AFAD said.
Ottoman Turkish forces and the Free Syrian Army ... the more palatable version of the Syrian insurgency, heavily influenced by the Moslem Brüderbund... (FSA) fighters started the military operation into Afrin in late January to remove a US-backed Kurdish militia - known as the People's Protection Units (YPG) - near its border. Ankara describes the gang as "terrorists".
FSA fighters, backed by Turkey's special forces and heavy weapons, captured the centre of Afrin on Sunday after the YPG, which controlled the city, pulled out.
[ARABNEWS] Syria's foreign ministry on Monday slammed The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... 's takeover of Afrin, demanding it "immediately" pull its forces from the northwestern city.
Ankara and allied rebel groups captured the city from the Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG) on Sunday, after a two-month offensive on the broader Afrin region.
The foreign ministry in Damascus sent two letters on Monday to the United Nations ...an organization which on balance has done more bad than good, with the good not done well and the bad done thoroughly... , protesting the capture as "illegitimate".
"Syria condemns the Ottoman Turkish occupation of Afrin and the crimes it is committing there, and demands the invading forces immediately withdraw from the Syrian territory they occupied," the ministry said in its letters, according to state news agency SANA.
"Turkey's behavior and attacks do not only threaten citizens and the unity of Syria's land and people -- they also prolong the war on Syria," it added.
Damascus has repeatedly criticised Turkey for its military operations on Syrian soil, accusing it of supporting "terrorist" groups.
This may be the explosion Ulaigum Ebbineng7056 posted about yesteday in a comment attached to this article, wherein he reported 35 bad guys blown up.
[AlAhram] A bomb blast in a four-storey building in the town of Afrin in northwest Syria killed seven civilians and four Free Syrian Army members overnight, state-run Anadolu news agency reported on Monday.
The explosion hit after the Syrian rebels swept into the town with Turkish forces on Sunday, declaring full control after an eight-week campaign to drive out Kurdish YPG forces.
Anadolu said the bomb, which it described as planted by terrorists, exploded as the Syrian fighters conducted a search. It ripped out a hole four metres (4.37 yards) deep and badly damaged other buildings and vehicles, it said.
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] At least nineteen 
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] Two top leaders of the 
...former chancellor of Kabul University, now president of Afghanistan. Before returning to Afghanistan in 2002 he was a scholar of political science and anthropology. He worked at the World Bank working on international development assistance. As Finance Minister of Afghanistan between July 2002 and December 2004, he led Afghanistan's attempted economic recovery until the Karzais stole all the money. ..
...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who most be killed...
[DAWN] A court in Bangladesh sentenced seven 
... 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...
...Liwa al-Islam (Brigade of Islam) was established by Zahran Alloush, the son of Saudi-based religious scholar Abdullah Mohammed Alloush, after Syrian authorities released him from prison in mid-2011 where he had been serving time for his Salafist activism. The group claimed responsibility for carrying out the July 2012 Damascus bombing that killed Defense Minister Dawoud Rajiha, Deputy Defense Minister Asef Shawkat, and Assistant Vice President Hassan Turkmani. It was a driving force behind actions in the Damascus region. It cooperated and conducted joint operations with al-Nusra. In Sptember 2013 Saudi Arabia engineered Liwa al-Islam's merger with fifty other more or less Salafist groups as a counterweight to al-Nusra, which the Learned Elders of Islam considered was growing too powereful...
