[KhaamaPress] More than twenty anti-government armed Death Eaters were killed during the operations conducted by the Afghan Special Forces in various provinces of the country in the past 24 hours.
According to the informed military sources, the Afghan Special Forces conducted a raid in Khogyani district of Nangarahr province killing a Taliban ...Arabic for students... commander, Shir Zaman, and one of his fighters.
The sources further added that the Afghan Special Forces conducted a multi-day operation in Qarabagh district of Ghazni province, killing 7 Taliban fighters. Over 50 Taliban fighters have been killed in Ghazni this week.
An air strike killed 1 Taliban fighter in Sayyidabad district of Wardak province, the sources said, adding that 11 fighters were killed in Wardak last week.
The sources also added that the Afghan Special Forces conducted a raid in Tarin Kot district of Uruzgan killing 3 Taliban fighters while a similar air strike in Zurmat district of Paktia province killed 4 Taliban fighters and maimed another.
The Afghan Special Forces conducted a raid in Sabari district of Khost province ... across the border from Miranshah, within commuting distance of Haqqani hangouts such as Datta Khel and probably within sight of Mordor. Khost is populated by six different tribes of Pashtuns, the largest probably being the Khostwal, from which it takes its name... killing 2 Taliban fighters while the 215th Corps Brigade is conducting a multi-day clearance operation in Helmand ...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan... killing 3 Taliban fighters and destroying 3 roadside kabooms, the sources added.
The Afghan Special Forces also conducted a raid in Murghab district of Badghis provincekilling 3 Taliban fighters and wounding another.
[KhaamaPress] The shadow district chief of Taliban ...Arabic for students... for Lalpur district of 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 has been killed during a raid conducted by the Special Forces of the National Directorate of Security ...the Afghan national intel agency... The provincial government media office in a statement said Sunday that the shadow district chief of Taliban for Lalpur district Sher Zaman was killed during a raid of the NDS Special Forces on Saturday night.
The statement further added that another comrade of Sher Zaman was also killed during the operation and two others were placed in durance vile Please don't kill me! The NDS Special Forces also confiscated some weapons, munitions, and drugs during the operation, the provincial government said in its statement.
The anti-government armed forces of Evil including Taliban have not commented regarding the report so far.
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You can knock the Taliban (TaliPak? PakiBan?) all you want, but you have to admit there's plenty of opportunity for advancement in the organization.
[KhaamaPress] The Afghan forces have repulsed two separate attacks by Talibs on security outposts in eastern Laghman ...It has a population of about 445,600, which is multi-ethnic and mostly a rural society. During the invasions of Alexander the Great, the area was known as Lampaka, wich is apparently Olde Macedonian for Laghman.The city of Mihtarlam serves as the bucolic capital of the province. The population is half Pashtun, the remainder Tadjik and Pashai. It had a repution for great wealth until it was conquered in the tenth century by Abu Mansur Sabuktigin.
He conquered it and set fire to the places in its vicinity which were inhabited by infidels, and demolishing the idol-temples, he established Islam in them, He marched and captured other cities and killed the polluted wretches, destroying the idolatrous and gratifying the Musulmans. After wounding and killing beyond all measure, his hands and those of his friends became cold in counting the value of the plundered property.
After that it was mostly notable for the production of dirt, rocks, and holy men. and 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.. provinces.
The 201st Silab Corps of the Afghan Military in the East in a statement said the Talibs launched attacks on security outposts in Alisheng district of Laghman province on Saturday night which was repulsed by the security forces.
The statement further added one Taliban ...Arabic for students... bully boy was killed and two others were maimed during the festivities with the security forces.
The Talibs launched similar attacks on security outposts in Durbaba district of Nangarhar province which was also repulsed by the security forces, the 201st Silab Corps added.
According to the statement by 201st Silab Corps, at least three Talibs were maimed during the clash with the security forces in Durbaba district.
The anti-government armed murderous Moslems including Taliban have not commented regarding the festivities so far.
[KhaamaPress] At least four Talibs were killed and six others were maimed during the Arclight airstrikes of the Afghan Air Force in northeastern Takhar province of Afghanistan.
The 209th Shaheen Corps of the Afghan Military in the North in a statement said the airstrikes were carried out late on Saturday night in the vicinity of Dasht-e-Qaladistrict.
The statement further added that the hideouts of the Talibs were targeted in the airstrikes at at around 11:40pm local time leaving 4 turbans dead and six others maimed.
At least three hideouts and three fighting positions of the group were also destroyed during the same airstrikes.
The anti-government armed turbans including Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... have not commented regarding the airstrikes so far.
[RADIOSHABELLE] Somali police have said the law enforcement agencies successfully detained two men in connection with the killing of a federal politician in Mogadishu on Saturday evening.
Gen. Abdullahi Hassan Barisse, a police commissioner said the police captured the car suspected to have been used for the attack.
Gen. Barisse noted that the forces conducted thorough operations to hunt down the perpetrators of the attack.
"The police locked away Book 'im, Mahmoud! two suspects and a car which is thought to have been used to carry out the attack," he said.
The commissioner called on the public to work with the security forces to enhance the security of the city.
Two young men armed with pistols have assassinated a veteran MP, Osman Elmi Boqorre.
The killing of MP Boqorre was claimed by al-Shabaab ... the Islamic version of the old Somali warlord... saying their fighters had executed the liquidation of the veteran politician.
"Members of our Mujahidiin shot and killed the longest-serving member of the parliament of the apostate government," the statement reads in part.
Late Boqorre was a former deputy speaker of parliament and oldest member of the current house of the people.
He was a major in the Somali army who fought in Somalia-Æthiopia war of the 1970s.
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...that would be the Ruritaneans, once again meddling, as they are so often wont to do, with such effective effect...
have launched an overnight Arclight airstrike targeting al-Shabaab ... an Islamic infestation centering on Somalia... bully boyz in southern Somalia, the latest in a series of aerial bombings in the country, some claimed by the US military.
Sources said the fighter jets bombed Awdheegle and Janaale towns in Lower Shabelle region, close to the Somali capital, Mogadishu.
There was no immediate confirming of the casualties of the attack.
At least seven missiles fired by the warplanes were reported to have stricken residential areas in Awdheegle, but, details of the losses remained sketchy.
A heavy shootout erupted between bully boyz and foreign forces in the town of Janaale following the undercover raid which comes amid joint military operation by Somali and AU troops in the region.
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[DAWN] Sudan’s President Omar al-Bashir Head of the National Congress Party. He came to power in 1989 when he, as a brigadier in the Sudanese army, led a group of officers in a bloodless military coup that ousted the government of Prime Minister Sadiq al-Mahdi and eventually appointed himself president-for-life. He has fallen out with his Islamic mentor, Hasan al-Turabi, tried to impose shariah on the Christian and animist south, resulting in its secessesion, and attempted to Arabize Darfur by unleashing the barbaric Janjaweed on it. Sudan's potential prosperity has been pissed away in warfare that has left as many as 400,000 people dead and 2.5 million displaced. Omar has been indicted for genocide by the International Criminal Court but nothing is expected to come of it. , facing deadly protests, on Friday declared a state of emergency for a year, disbanded the federal government and replaced all state governors with senior army officers.
Al-Bashir who seized power in a 1989 coup also said that he will postpone pushing for constitutional amendments that would allow him to seek a third term in office.
Facing genocide charges, al-Bashir’s rule has been rocked by civil wars and increasing street demonstrations. A heavy security crackdown has left scores of protesters dead. At least 57 people have been killed since December.
"Our country is passing through a difficult and complicated phase in our national history," al-Bashir said in a speech aired live from the presidential palace in Khartoum. "We will get out of it stronger and more united and determined."
In a rare acknowledgement, al-Bashir described the demands of the protesters as "legitimate" but said there are attempts to exploit the youth protests "to take the country to the unknown." The state of emergency will give the security forces a free hand in cracking down on protesters and carrying out detentions, and places heavier restrictions on the press and opposition parties.
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[PULSE.NG] Burkina Faso ...The country in west Africa that they put where Upper Volta used to be. Its capital is Oogadooga, or something like that. Its president is currently Blaise Compaoré, who took office in 1987 and will leave office feet first, one way or the other... , part of a joint French-led military campaign against jihadists in the Sahel, is on the frontline of the Islamist Death Eater insurgency that has gripped parts of west and central Africa.
During last week's operations, special forces, army and air force units hit murderous Moslems in Kombienbiga, Kabonga and other eastern regions between Tuesday and Wednesday, an army statement said.
"This operation has taken out 29 bandidosmurderous Moslems and recovered an important quantity of weapons and ammunition as well as destroying a large stock of food supplies," it said.
A security source said most of the murderous Moslems were killed in air strikes on their hideouts and rest in clean-up sweeps by ground forces.
Militant raids began in the north of Burkina Faso in 2015 before spreading to the east, leaving more than 300 dead so far, according to AFP estimates.
The capital Ouagadougou has been hit three times in the past three years, killing at least 60 people, including in a coordinated attack last March targeting the French embassy and the country's military headquarters.
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[DAWN] A flight bound for Dubai from Bangladesh's capital, Dhaka, made an emergency landing on Sunday in Chittagong, Bangladesh, after a man attempted to hijack the plane, officials said.
The suspect, a Bangladeshi, asked to speak to the country's prime minister before dying from injuries in an exchange of gunfire with military commandos, officials said.
The flight, operated by state-run Biman Bangladesh Airlines, took off from Dhaka at 4:35pm for the trip to Dubai via Chittagong.
The pilot made the emergency landing in Chittagong about 40 minutes later, after a crew member reported "suspicious behaviour" by the man, said Rezaul Karim, an official with the Bangladeshi military's inter-service public affairs office.
All 143 passengers and seven crew members aboard the Boeing 737-800 were safely evacuated, Air Vice Marshal Mofidur Rahman said at a news conference broadcast live on Somoy TV.
The commandos fired at the suspect after he shot at them when they asked him to surrender, army Maj Gen Motiur Rahman told news hounds, according to ATN TV news. He said that the suspect was carrying a pistol, but did not say where the shooting took place.
The army official said the suspect, whose name has not been released, asked to speak to his wife and to Prime Minister the loathesome Sheikh Hasina ...Bangla dynastic politician and current Prime Minister of Bangladesh. She has been the President of the Bangla Awami League since the Lower Paleolithic. She is the eldest of five children of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the founding father of Bangla. Her party defeated the BNP-led Four-Party Alliance in the 2008 parliamentary elections. She has once before held the office, from 1996 to 2001, when she was defeated in a landslide. She and the head of the BNP, Khaleda Zia show such blind animosity toward each other that they are known as the Battling Begums.. . The suspect died before reaching the hospital, he said.
The suspect appeared to be "mentally imbalanced", said Air Vice Marshal M. Naim Hassan, chairman of the Civil Aviation Authority. "I am saying this because of his behaviour. He wanted to talk to the prime minister."
The Daily Mail says he is 25. Perhaps one day this nutter will grow a name.
Update from the Daily Mail at noon ET:
A 25-year-old man who was shot dead when trying to hijack a Bangladesh Airlines flight using a toy gun, had been having 'troubles with his wife', police say.
The man, named only as Mahadi, used the gun to take a crew member hostage while also demanding to speak with the Prime Minister of Bangladesh, Sheikh Hasina.
Bangladesh’s elite police unit, the Rapid Action Battalion, meanwhile identified the suspect as Mohammad Polash Ahmed from Narayanganj, just outside the capital Dhaka.
"His details matched a criminal on our database," the RAB says in a statement, adding he was tossed in the calaboose Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw! in 2012 over an abduction case and served 20 days in prison. Now he's really dead, beyond all cares and woe.
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[Al Jazeera] At least five people have been killed in Indian-administered Kashmire as a shootout erupted between two Indian soldiers and three rebels in volatile Kulgam district in southern part of the region.
Dilbagh Singh, the state police chief, told Al Jazeera that the violence came after Indian security forces launched an operation against the rebels in Kulgam's Turigam village on Sunday afternoon.
"In the operation, we lost a police officer, Aman Thakur and one army soldier, who was injured and departed this vale of tears. The shootout is almost over," he said.
Singh also said that the rebels killed in the incident belonged to Jaish-e-Muhammad (JeM), a Pak gang.
"Two of them are foreigners, according to our preliminary information, and the identity of the third is not known yet," he said.
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[DAWN] BAHAWALPUR: In pursuance of the federal government’s announcement following a decision made by the National Security Committee, the Bahawalpur district administration, after taking over the control of a seminary and a mosque said to be associated with the leadership of the proscribed organization Jaish-e-Mohammad ...literally Army of Mohammad, a Pak-based Deobandi terror group founded by Maulana Masood Azhar in 2000, after he split with the Harkat-ul-Mujaheddin. In 2002 the government of Pervez Musharraf banned the group, which changed its name to Khaddam ul-Islam and continued doing what it had been doing before without missing a beat... (JeM), appointed administrators on Saturday to look after the two institutions.
According to the district administration, Mohammad Ali, district Auqaf administrator, and Ghulam Abbas, regional Auqaf administrator, have been assigned the duty to supervise the administrative affairs of Jamia Masjid Subhan Allah and Madressah al-Sabir, respectively.
Jamia Masjid Subhan Allah is located in the thickly populated area of the industrial area in Model Town-B of Bahawalpur while Madressah al-Sabir is situated on Bahawalpur-Ahmed East highway on the outskirts of the city.
Deputy Commissioner of Bahawalpur Shozeb Saeed, accompanied by other government officials, on Friday night visited the two institutions linked with Maulana Masood Azhar ...One of the major players in Pak terrorism. In early 1994, India incarcerated him for his terrorist activities. In 1995, foreign tourists were kidnapped in Jammu and Kashmir. The kidnappers included the release of Masood Azhar among their demands. One of the hostages managed to escape but the rest were eventually killed. In 1999, he was freed by the Indian government in exchange for passengers on hijacked Indian Airlines Flight 814 that had been diverted to Kandahar. The hijackers were led by Masood Azhar's brother, Ibrahim Athar. Once he was handed over to the hijackers, they fled to Pak territory despite the fact that Islamabad had earlier stated that any of the hijackers would be jugged at the border. The Pak government had also previously indicated that Azhar would be allowed to return home since he did not face any charges there. Shortly after his release, he made a public address to an estimated 10,000 people in Karachi, firing up the rubes against America and India... , who led the JeM which was banned by the government in 2002.
Since then, special branch of police, Counter-Terrorism Department and other law enforcement agencies have regularly been monitoring the mosque and the madressah, particularly after introduction of the National Action Plan (NAP) against terrorism in 2015.
Maulana Azhar hit the headlines when he was released from an Indian jail in exchange of the passengers of a hijacked plane of the Indian Airlines in 1999.
The district administration on Saturday arranged a visit to Madressah al-Sabir by an electronic media team which found no evidence that the seminary was involved in terrorist activities, as claimed by Indian media. The media team was told that over 600 students were being imparted religious education by about 70 teachers at the seminary.
A contingent of personnel of law-enforcement agencies has been deployed at the seminary.
An interior ministry front man has said the takeover of the two institutions was aimed at expediting the implementation of the NAP. He denied Indian media reports that the seminary was involved in terrorist activities.
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[DAWN] One person was killed and nine others injured in an kaboom in Balochistan ...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it... 's Dera Murad Jamali city on Sunday.
An improvised bomb planted in a cycle of violence parked outside a shop in the Mazdoor Chowk area detonated, leaving one person dead and nine others injured, police officer Hyder Shah told DawnNewsTV.
All the victims are civilians. Police were not able to immediately ascertain the intended target of the blast.
The maimed have been transported to a hospital for medical treatment.
A total of 119 people ‐ including 15 police personnel ‐ were killed and 114 injured in terrorism-related incidents in Balochistan during 2018. Twenty-five murderous Moslems were also killed in encounters and 55 jugged Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw! in 1,245 intelligence-based operations (IBOs) in the province.
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Their headline. The poor woman wasn't retarded, she was just dumb.
[The News (Pak)] A 22-year-old Pak woman who was shot by the Indian Border Security Force personnel died at a hospital in Amritsar, media reports said on Saturday. "Oh! I feel dead! Am I dead yet?"
Gulshan Bibi, suffering from a psychological disorder, was the resident of Narowal. She mistakenly crossed the Pakistain-India border and was killed by the Indian armed forces which declared her a terrorist. "She ain't no terrorist!"
"Well. I'm scared of her!"
"Me, too!"
"So am I!"
"You're her Mom!"
"She still gives me the willies!" "I'm dead now, ain't I?"
"No, when you're dead you won't feel like that."
"What will I feel like?"
"Dead."
Indian media outlets quoted their army as saying she was mentally fit. "Yep. Had a mind like a steel trap, she did."
"Whut kinda steel trap?"
"A sink trap."
The BSF took her to the Guru Nanak Civil Hospital where she succumbed to her wounds. "Look, am I dead yet? Cause if not, I'm goin' for a cuppa coffee."
"Any time now."
"I hope it's soon. I really need the money."
"You need what money?"
"The life insurance, you know."
"What are you gonna buy with it?"
"I've always wanted a golf cart."
"You play golf?"
"Dunno. Never had a cart."
Gulshan Bibi's family has appealed to Prime Minister Imran Khan ... aka Taliban Khan, who is the lightweight's lightweight... to have her body returned to Pakistain. Her uncle told a private television channel on Saturday that she had left their house at night three days ago and crossed the border near a check-post. You guys mind if I shortcut through here?"
"You'd have to be a retard to do somethin' like that."
He asked the premier for help in bringing the body back so her funeral rites could take place. "Will I be dead by then?"
"If you ain't, don't let on. Otherwise they'll drone on for hours."
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With so much inbreeding going on for centuries , wouldn't a large portion of the population be considered retarded?
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In awe, as always. Totally OT, for SM (and the ancestor's interest in the RK arts thing), from the Greeting Card Division...
A sketch, problematic, discarded;
Apprentices, smart and retarded:
One saw a disaster;
The other surpassed her,
Wrapped up what their master had started.
[Rudaw] Iraq’s Directorate of Military Intelligence announced Sunday the capture of two senior ISIS members, one of them the so-called "Emir of Battles" and the other an official of the group’s putative Islamic Police.
In a readout posted on its Facebook page, the directorate announced intelligence officers of Division 15 had captured "a dangerous terrorist" who goes by the nom de guerre Abu Abdalaziz.
According to the post, Abo Abdalaziz worked as an official in the "Islamic Police", which imposed the group’s strict religious code.
He was captured "in an ambush set up for him in the al-Iiyadhiyah sub-district in the Tel-Afar district of djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... ," it said.
Abo Abdalaziz had fled Iraq when Iraqi, US-led coalition, and Peshmerga forces advanced on the group’s strongholds, but recently returned through the Kurdistan Region’s Duhok province, it said.
The other ISIS member tossed in the slammer You have the right to remain silent... was the so-called "Emir of Battles", the statement said, without providing his name. He had participated in several battles against Iraqi forces in Anbar province, it said.
"He was captured after he had crossed the border and sneaked in from Syria ... escaping from our heroic forces during the liberation operations," the statement said.
He returned to Iraq and was arrested in Naaim village in Mosul’s Rabiyah sub-district.
He is one of the most dangerous holy warriors to have participated in a number of battles against our security forces," the statement added.
The unnamed jihadist participated in the long battle of Beiji refinery in 2014, two battles in Area 600 in Beiji district, a battle in Shirqat district, and in the Fosfat area in Anbar’s al-Hasiba, the statement said, adding he has four brothers, all members of ISIS, in Syria and The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...just another cheapjack Moslem dictatorship, brought to you by the Moslem Brüderbund.... Although the final territorial defeat of ISIS in Syria is about to be announced by the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) and the US-led coalition, ISIS is returning to its earlier insurgency tactics in both Iraq and Syria.
According to US military officials who spoke to CNN last week, thousands of ISIS fighters have slipped into Iraq in recent months.
Now they are terrorizing villages, ambushing security forces, and roaming freely in the night around the mountain ranges in Hamrin, Qarachogh, and Makhoul. They have resorted to killing and kidnapping in a bid to increase their funds and force the population not to cooperate with Iraqi security forces.
Most of these areas fall in the disputed territories between Iraqi and Peshmerga lines.
Kurdish officials warned that Iraq’s offensive into the disputed territories in October 2017 and the resulting Peshmerga withdrawal would give ISIS breathing space to regroup.
Peshmerga and Iraqi forces are now in talks to form a joint operations room. However, alcohol has never solved anybody's problems. But then, neither has milk... UN officials and other experts have warned that completely defeating ISIS will take many years, and the grievances that allowed it to take root have not be resolved.
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[IsraelTimes] Israeli security forces foiled an apparent plot to smuggle 37 handguns into Israel from Jordan earlier this month, in an operation that has been kept under a gag order until today, police say.
On February 7, Border Police officers spotted the main suspect, a Paleostinian man from the Nablus area, as he attempted to cross into northern Israel from Jordan wearing a large backpack.
The border guards, assisted by the Israel Defense Forces, incarcerated Drop the rod and step away witcher hands up! the man shortly after he crossed into the northern Jordan Valley and found inside his bag the 37 pistols of various types, police say.
Police arrested three other Paleostinian suspects ‐ also from the Nablus area ‐ whom they believe were planning to pick up the suspect after he crossed the border.
[IsraelTimes] IDF troops tossed in the calaboose Drop the rosco, Muggsy, or you're one with the ages! two unarmed Paleostinians who crossed into Israeli territory from the northern Gazoo Strip, the army says.
The suspects were picked up shortly after they breached the security fence. They were handed over to the Shin Bet security service for questioning.
[IsraelTimes] Israeli security forces arrest two Paleostinian women at a checkpoint outside Ramallah in the West Bank, according to a police statement.
A woman from Nablus aroused suspicion of guards at the Qalandia checkpoint when she approached the crossing in the vehicle lane, and refused to stop when asked, the statement says. Security forces arrest her after firing in the air.
Earlier in the day, police say a Paleostinian woman from the Ramallah area was tossed in the slammer Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw! at the Qalandia crossing after Israeli security forces found a knife in her belongings.
Both women are taken for questioning by the border police.
[IsraelTimes] More than 20 non-combatants were killed earlier today in central Syria when a landmine left behind by jihadists went kaboom! under a van, the state news agency SANA says.
The ordnance left behind by 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 in the town of Salamiyeh killed farmworkers who were heading to a region in the Hama province to pick truffles, SANA said, citing local police.
It was the second such incident since February 8 when a landmine that had been planted by IS in rural Hama went kaboom! killing seven civilians, SANA says.
IS had a presence in Hama’s countryside before the Syrian army drove the jihadists from the area in 2017.
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[PULSE.NG] US-backed Syrian forces warned Sunday they were struggling to cope with an outpouring of foreigners from 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's imploding "caliphate", urging governments to take responsibility for their citizens.
The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces have evacuated nearly 5,000 men, women and kiddies from the jihadist redoubt since Wednesday, moving closer to retaking the last sliver of territory under IS control.
"The numbers of imported muscle and their relatives that we are holding is increasing drastically," Kurdish foreign affairs official Abdel Karim Omar told AFP.
"Our current infrastructure can't handle the mass influx", he said.
Syria's Kurds have repeatedly called on foreign countries to repatriate their citizens, but most have been reluctant to allow battle-hardened jihadists and their relatives back home due to security concerns.
At the height of its rule, IS imposed its brutal interpretation of Islamic law across territory straddling Syria and Iraq that was roughly the size of the United Kingdom.
But more than four years after IS declared a cross-border "caliphate", the jihadists have lost all but a tiny patch of land in the village of Baghouz near the Iraqi border.
After years of fighting IS, Syria's Kurds say they hold hundreds of suspected IS fighters and their relatives.
"As thousands of foreigners flee ISIS's crumbling caliphate, the burden which is already too heavy for us to handle is getting even heavier," SDF front man Mustefa Bali said on Twitter late Saturday, using an Arabic acronym for IS.
"This will remain as the biggest challenge awaiting us unless governments take action and fulfil their responsibilities for their citizens," he said.
No evacuations were reported from the enclave on Saturday, but the two batches that left on Wednesday and Friday included Europeans, Iraqis and nationals of former Soviet countries, according to the SDF.
CRAMMED PRISONS
Around 46,000 people, including a large number of foreigners, have streamed out of IS's shrinking territory since early December, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Britannia-based war monitor.
While civilians are trucked north to Kurdish-run camps for the displaced, suspected jihadists are sent to SDF-controlled prisons.
Omar said SDF "detention centres can't accommodate all the fighters" coming out of the last IS pocket.
The evacuation of men, women and kiddies has put a strain on Kurdish-run camps for the displaced, especially the Al Hol camp, which now shelters more than 40,000 people.
"There is a lot of pressure on us, especially in Al Hol, where in addition to the relatives of IS fighters you have a large displaced population," Omar said.
On Thursday, nearly 2,500 evacuees arrived at Al Hol, compounding already dire conditions inside the crammed settlement, the UN's humanitarian coordination office OCHA said.
"Thousands more are expected in coming hours/days at al-Hol camp, putting a further strain on basic services," it tweeted Friday.
"This sudden influx presents huge challenges to the response -- additional tents, non-food items, water and sanitation and health supplies are urgently needed."
The International Rescue Committee on Friday said 69 people, mostly children, had died on the way to al-Hol, or shortly after arriving in past weeks.
SECURITY CONCERNS
The battle for Baghouz is now the only live front in Syria's war, which has killed more than 360,000 people and displaced millions since 2011.
The SDF say they are trying to evacuate remaining civilians through a corridor before pressing on with a battle to crush the jihadists unless holdout fighters surrender.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[KhaamaPress] More than twenty anti-government armed 
[KhaamaPress] The shadow district chief of 
...It has a population of about 445,600, which is multi-ethnic and mostly a rural society. During the invasions of Alexander the Great, the area was known as Lampaka, wich is apparently Olde Macedonian for 
the Islamic version of the old Somali warlord...
an Islamic infestation centering on Somalia...
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...Bangla dynastic politician and current Prime Minister of Bangladesh. She has been the President of the Bangla Awami League since the Lower Paleolithic. She is the eldest of five children of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the founding father of Bangla. Her party defeated the BNP-led Four-Party Alliance in the 2008 parliamentary elections. She has once before held the office, from 1996 to 2001, when she was defeated in a landslide. She and the head of the BNP, Khaleda Zia show such blind animosity toward each other that they are known as 
[DAWN] BAHAWALPUR: In pursuance of the federal government’s announcement following a decision made by the National Security Committee, the Bahawalpur district administration, after taking over the control of a seminary and a mosque said to be associated with the leadership of the proscribed organization 
...One of the major players in Pak terrorism. In early 1994, India incarcerated him for his terrorist activities. In 1995, foreign tourists were kidnapped in Jammu and Kashmir. The kidnappers included the release of Masood Azhar among their demands. One of the hostages managed to escape but the rest were eventually killed. In 1999, he was freed by the Indian government in exchange for passengers on hijacked Indian Airlines Flight 814 that had been diverted to Kandahar. The hijackers were led by Masood Azhar's brother, Ibrahim Athar. Once he was handed over to the hijackers, they fled to Pak territory despite the fact that Islamabad had earlier stated that any of the hijackers would be jugged at the border. The Pak government had also previously indicated that Azhar would be allowed to return home since he did not face any charges there. Shortly after his release, he made a public address to an estimated 10,000 people in Karachi, firing up the rubes against America and India...
[Rudaw] Iraq’s Directorate of Military Intelligence announced Sunday the capture of two senior ISIS members, one of them the so-called "Emir of Battles" and the other an official of the group’s putative Islamic Police.
