[Khaama (Afghanistan)] A number of civilians were maimed in eastern Kunar province ... which is right down the road from Chitral. Kunar is Haqqani country..... during the latest wave of artillery shelling from the other side of Durand Line, the local officials said Tuesday.
Provincial police front man Faridullah Dehqan confirmed that nearly 300 rounds of artillery shells have landed in three districts of Kunar province in the past 24 hours.
The Kunar governor’s front man Abdul Ghani Mosamim also confirmed the shelling and said at least two civilians were maimed in Dangam district.
According to Mosamim, the artillery shells landed in three districts of Kunar including Dangam, Shiltan, and Sarkano districts.
However, facts are stubborn; statistics are more pliable... another security official says at least five civilians have been maimed during the latest shelling and hundreds more have been force to abandon their homes.
This comes as Mr. Dehqan said Monday that more than 150 rounds of artillery shells landed in Shiltan and Dangam districts during the latest wave of the shelling.
He also confirmed that the shelling has not inflicted any casualty on the local residents but the has caused property damages.
The local officials said last week that more than 100 artillery shells have landed in various parts of Dangam district in the past 24 hours.
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] Militants affiliated 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.... of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) terrorist group launched a coordinated attack on security posts in Darzab district of northern Jawzjan province.
According to the local security officials, the attack was launched late on Monday night which continued for several hours.
District police chief Mohammad Ismail confirmed the attack but added that the Lions of Islam of the terror group faced a strong resistance from the security and defense forces.
He did not disclose further information regarding the possible casualties during the clash but he said the authorities have requested air support to eliminate the terrorists.
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[Libya Herald] Libya’s Presidency Council, headed by Faiez Serraj, in his guise as Commander-in-Chief of the Libyan Armed Forces, launched an anti-terror military campaign entitled ’’Nation’s Storm / National Storm’’.
Serraj heads Libyan forces based in western Libya. He and his Presidency Council are recognized by the international community.
Starting Monday, the military operation aims to target ISIS/ISIS terror remnants and dens starting from the 60km checkpoint east of Misrata to the outskirts of Bani Walid, Tarhuna, Khoms and Zliten.
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[AlAhram] Yemen's Houthi ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The Yemeni government has accused the Houthis of having ties to the Iranian government, which wouldn't suprise most of us. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews ... group hit a Saudi oil tanker off the main port city of Hodeidah on Tuesday, the Saudi-led coalition said, in an attack that could complicate a new United Nations ...where theory meets practice and practice loses... push to end a war that has killed more than 10,000 people.
The Iranian-aligned Houthis said they had targeted a coalition warship in response to an air strike on Hodeidah on Monday that killed at least a dozen civilians, including seven children.
Tensions have been rising in recent days after the Houthis, who control most of northern Yemen, launched a series of missile strikes on 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... , including the capital Riyadh, in recent days.
In a statement carried by Saudi media, the coalition said the oil tanker was in international waters when it came under "Houthi-Iranian attack" at around 1330 local time (1030 GMT).
A coalition warship conducted a "swift intervention" foiling the attack, it said, without identifying the type of weapon used in the assault. "As a result of that attack, the tanker was subjected to a slight but ineffective hit and it resumed its naval course northwards, escorted by a coalition warship," the statement said.
A European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... naval force that operates in the region confirmed the ship was underway, adding that the crew were safe and unharmed.
The media department of the Houthi-run Yemeni military said naval forces had "targeted a battleship belonging to the coalition in response to the bombardment of displaced people in Hodeidah". It gave no further details.
[SABANEWS.NET] Warplanes of the US-backed Saudi-led aggression coalition waged eight raids on Hajjah province, an official told Saba on Tuesday. The aggression raids targeted Haradh and Mide districts.
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[SABANEWS.NET] The army and popular committees carried out an offensive on the aggression mercenaries' sites in the district of al- Masloob in Jawf province, a military official told Saba. The attack inflicted heavy losses on the enemy, said the official. "How heavy?"
"Very heavy."
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[SABANEWS.NET] The army and popular Committees carried out an unique attack on the locations of the US-backed Saudi-led aggression mercenaries in Nehm district, a military official told Saba. The attack targeted the enemy in Sawdah hill, killing and injuring dozens.
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[DAWN] Four members of a Christian family and five others bit the dust in separate incidents in the city on Monday, showing an uptick in violence that authorities appeared to be powerless to control.
While the Christian family, who belonged to Punjab 1.) Little Orphan Annie's bodyguard
2.) A province of Pakistain ruled by one of the Sharif brothers
3.) A province of India. It is majority (60 percent) Sikh and Hindoo (37 percent), which means it has relatively few Moslem riots.... and had come to Quetta to see relatives, fell victim to a assassination, the cause of the death of others was said to be the usual tiresome primitives' penchant for mindless violence.
Police officials said five members of the Christian family were travelling in an auto-rickshaw when button men on two cycle of violences opened fire on them and fled.
According to AP, the Death EaterIslamic 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 grabbed credit for the attack on the Christian family in a statement carried by its Aamaq news.
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Diyala (IraqiNews.com) A woman and three children were killed and injured as a mortar missile fell on a house, northeast of Baquba, Diyala, an official said on Tuesday.
"A woman was killed, while three of her children were maimed as a mortar missile fell on her house at the outskirts of al-Saa’idat village, south of Qurret Tabbah town," Raheem Aziz, head of the town, told AlSumaria News.
Baghdad (Iraqinews.com) ‐ One civilian was maimed Sunday in a boom-mobile blast in southwestern Baghdad, a security source was quoted as saying.
Speaking to Alghad Press, the source said, "An explosive charge fixed into a car went off in al Radwaneya neighborhood in southwestern Baghdad, leaving the car’s driver maimed."
"The driver was carried to hospital for treatment, while a probe was opened to identify those standing behind the terrorist attack," the source added.
Anbar (IraqiNews.com) Three Islamic State members, including a senior leader, were killed in a security operation, north of Ramadi, Anbar, a source was quoted saying on Tuesday.
Speaking to BasNews website, the source said, Anbar police “managed to destroy a rest house in al-Bou Theyab region, north of Ramadi, leaving three suicide attackers, including Omar Safwak, known as al-Chichani.”
“Troops destroyed a huge amount of weapons and explosives that were at the rest house, where the attackers were hiding,” the source said.
Security forces, according to the source, “will continue the operations in search for other hideouts for the militants in the al-Jazeera desert.”
Anbar (Iraqinews.com) – About 400 Islamic State (IS) militants managed to sneak from Syria into the Iraqi province of Anbar as they currently plan to resume their terrorist activities from there, a security source was quoted as saying Tuesday.
“Intelligence information confirmed that there are about 400 IS extremists, including foreign fighters, in Wadi Hauran and Wadi al-Qadhf in western Anbar, who managed to infiltrate into Iraq coming from Syria earlier,” the source said.
The source warned that the IS infiltrators are now “planning to resume their terrorist activities by targeting recently-liberated areas in western Anbar.” He further accused the U.S.-led international coalition of failing to target those extremists despite confirmed reports about their presence in Anbar desert.
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Nineveh (IraqiNews.com) Security services have jugged Drop the rod and step away witcher hands up! 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.... member senior member, along with his brother in south of djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... , a security source from Nineveh police said on Tuesday.
"Security services arrested the group’s mufti (religious politician) of executions along with his eldest brother, who was tasked with the collective executions of police personnel in south of Mosul," Cap. Omar Saeed told BasNews.
Each of Hajim and Sultan Abu Theeb, according to Saeed, were arrested from their house in al-Shura region, south of Mosul.
"The arrests were carried out with assistance of the residents depending on intelligence information offered to Nineveh police," he added.
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[Ynet] An IDF force found a bag containing Molotov cocktails near the Gazoo security fence, which was apparently left behind by rioters last Friday.
The IDF said that "finding the Molotov cocktails is another proof that the disturbances on Friday were a cover for terrorist acts under whose auspices murderous Moslems attempted to carry out attacks against IDF forces and Israeli citizens."
[Ynet] Gazoo residents begin amassing mirrors, tires in preparation of next border protest to counter Israel's snipers in light of Friday's festivities, during which 17 protesters were rubbed out.
Due to the IDF's use of snipers during Friday's March of Return riots along the Gazoo security fence, protesters are resorting to the use of mirrors to blind IDF soldiers and to burning tires to create thick smoke to obscure them from sight.
Israel has drones as well as spotters. Will the tire smoke be equally effective for both?
Several thousand Paleostinians remain in tent camps along the Gazoo border, continuing their protest for what they describe as a right of return for refugees and their descendants to what is now Israel.
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Actually, it's too bad nobody makes imagers with the ability to have modulated pixels so you could filter images based on multiple modulated light sources. (sort of each pixel being smart and having fast fourier analysis ability)
[IsraelTimes] Dead man identified as 25-year-old Ahmed Arafa, a member of the DFLP terrorist group
A Paleostinian man was rubbed out by Israeli forces as he broke through the Gazoo security fence on Tuesday, as tensions continued days after at least 16 people were reported killed in a mass border demonstration.
The Hamas, a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",-run Gazoo health ministry identified the dead man as 25-year-old Ahmed Arafa, saying he was shot in the chest during festivities east of Bureij in central Gazoo. The military wing of the DFLP (Democratic Front for the Liberation of Paleostine
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Asked what the IDF was anticipating for this upcoming Friday, when Hamas has called for renewed festivities on the border, the defense minister said he "didn’t want to make an assessment. We are prepared for every scenario."
"Pain"
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Now that it has been proven to one thing really really good, watch for the pentagon weenies to start adding on to make it a one size fits all POS, sort of like a water based lawndart......
[WashingtonExaminer] President Trump said Tuesday that ally Saudi Arabia might have to pay if it wants a continuing U.S. military presence in Syria.
"We’ve almost completed that task [of defeating ISIS] and we’ll be making a determination very quickly, in coordination with others in the area, as to what we’ll do," Trump said during a White House press conference with leaders from three Baltic nations. "Saudi Arabia is very interested in our decision, and I said, ’Well, you know, you want us to stay, maybe you’re going to have to pay.’"
The administration is set to make a decision on keeping troops in the war-torn country after nearly four years of war, and is now consulting with allies about the future, Trump said.
Defense Secretary Jim Mattis and former Secretary of State Rex Tillerson had pledged an enduring presence in Syria last year as the U.S. and its allies remain on the verge of defeating the Islamic State there, but Trump has thrown the prior plans into doubt with calls to leave in recent days.
"I want to get out. I want to bring our troops back home," Trump said. The SDF said they will continue to work with US forces as well as Saudi Arabia to counter the influence of Iran/Russia/Turkey if the Saudis provide the dough.
The Saudis are long-time U.S. allies that are concerned about growing Iranian influence in Syria, Iraq, and throughout the region. The U.S. is now providing military aid to the kingdom in its proxy war with Iran in Yemen, but Trump stressed the costs of that aid at the briefing.
"We do a lot of things in this country, we do them for a lot of reasons, but it is very costly for our country, and it helps other countries a hell of a lot more than it helps us," Trump said.
The Obama administration launched a war in 2014 against the Islamic State after the group flourished in the chaos of the Syrian civil war and then surged over the Iraq border in a bid to overtake Baghdad.
Critics blamed the growth of the group on the Obama administration's decision to pull all U.S. troops out of Iraq in 2011. But the return of troops also opened a new chapter in a long U.S. war that began with an invasion in 2003.
About 5,600 troops were assisting Iraqi forces against the Islamic State this year, though some are transitioning out to support Trump's new Afghanistan strategy, and about 2,000 troops in Syria. Remaining ISIS fighters along the two countries' border region are estimated at about 3,000.
Trump railed against the ongoing U.S. intervention in the Middle East and its growing cost, calling it a waste of resources.
"Think of it, $7 trillion over a 17-year period. We have nothing. Nothing except death and destruction. It's a horrible thing. So it is time. It is time," he said. "We were very successful against ISIS. We'll be successful against anybody militarily. But sometimes it is time to come back home. And we're thinking about that very seriously."
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What are we, mercenaries? US troops out of Syria immediately. Job's done, time to go home. While they're there there's a risk of war with Russia which we must not take.
"it helps other countries a hell of a lot more than it helps us"
No shit, Trump, now get our boys home.
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I was wondering why President Trump was talking about getting out of Syria all of a sudden.
Trump sounded like he was abandoning Syria like Obama abandoned Iraq leaving it to Iranian militias and to ISIS.
ISIS led to Iran and Russia in Syria.
Then the US went into Syria to support the Kurds fight against ISIS.
Now Turkey is threatening our allies the Kurds.
Now that the Kurds have had to stop fighting ISIS in order to fight Turkey and its sunni allies, ISIS is now making a comeback.
Iran, Russia, Turkey and Syria are all bad actors.
If the US abandons Syria and the Kurds now, ISIS will make a comeback.
And Iran, Russia and Turkey will fill the power vacuum and threaten our allies the Kurds and Israel.
The US should block Russian influence in the Middle East and China influence in the South Pacific.
We must defend our allies there or we will be in trouble if we are weak.
We and our allies have as much at stake in these areas as Saudi Arabia so we are not just mercenaries.
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War between good and evil never ends HM. Never has, never will. It is not about the US punching your mental tar baby, it is about powerful evil societies declaring their fatwas on civilization.
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[WashingtonExaminer] President Trump said Tuesday that ally Saudi Arabia might have to pay if it wants a continuing U.S. military presence in Syria.
