[KhaamaPress] The U.S. Special Representative for Afghanistan Reconciliation Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad on Monday met with the head of the political office of Taliban ...mindless ferocity in a turban... Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar in Qatar ...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi... Ambassador Khalilzad in a Twitter post announced this afternoon "Just finished a working lunch with Mullah Beradar and his team. First time we’ve met. Now moving on to talks."
He has not disclosed further information regarding the meeting which has been described as an introductory meeting.
In a separate Tweet post, Ambassador Khalilzad announced earlier that "Arrived in #Doha to meet with a more authoritative Taliban delegation. This could be a significant moment. Appreciate #Qatar for hosting & #Pakistain in facilitating travel. Now the work begins in earnest."
Taliban front man Zabiullah Mujahid also confirmed the meeting between Ambassador Khalilzad and Mullah Baradar in Qatar and added that the fifth round of the talks will kick off on Tuesday.
[PULSE.NG] Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir on Monday banned unauthorised rallies, as he announced a slew of new measures to end demonstrations that have rocked his rule for weeks. Betcha he doesn't authorize any rallies against him.
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[AnNahar] U.S. President Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... announced Monday that an American had been freed after being held hostage in Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of. Except for a tiny handfull of Jews everthing there is very Islamic... for 18 months.
Danny Burch has been "recovered and reunited with his wife and children," Trump said in a tweet.
Trump did not say who had been holding Burch but he expressed appreciation for the "support of the United Arab Emirates in bringing Danny home."
According to Burch's family, the Texas native, who has lived in Yemen for more than two decades, was kidnapped in the capital Sanaa in September 2017.
A number of foreigners have been kidnapped in Yemen by the country's heavily armed tribes for use as bargaining chips in local disputes and there have also been some kidnappings by al-Qaeda.
In a telephone call with AFP at the time of his kidnapping, Burch's wife, Nadia Forsa al-Harazi, urged Huthi Iranian catspaws to secure the release of her husband.
She said her husband had lived in the capital for more than 20 years and the couple had three children.
Trump said "recovering American hostages is a priority of my (administration)."
"With Danny's release, we have now secured freedom for 20 American captives since my election victory," he said. "We will not rest as we continue our work to bring the remaining American hostages back home!"
[DAWN] Britannia on Monday said it will ban the political wing of Hezbollah, making membership of the movement or inviting support for it a crime.
The decision follows outrage over the display of the Hezbollah flag, which features a Kalashnikov assault rifle, at pro-Paleostinian demonstrations in London.
"Hezbollah is continuing in its attempts to destabilise the fragile situation in the Middle East," Home Secretary Sajid Javid said in a statement.
"We are no longer able to distinguish between their already banned military wing and the political party. Because of this, I have taken the decision to proscribe the group in its entirety," he said.
The ban is subject to a vote in parliament this week.
Hezbollah is a Shia bully boy movement established in 1982 during the Lebanese civil war.
Its capture of two Israeli soldiers in 2006 sparked a 34-day war in which 1,200 people were killed.
The movement, now a major political party in Leb, holds three cabinet posts.
"It is clear the distinction between Hezbollah's military and political wings does not exist," Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt said in Monday's statement.
"This does not change our ongoing commitment to Leb, with whom we have a broad and strong relationship," he said.
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[AnNahar] La Belle France will continue to distinguish between Hizbullah ...Party of God, a Leb militia inspired, founded, funded and directed by Iran. Hizbullah refers to itself as The Resistance and purports to defend Leb against Israel, with whom it has started and lost one disastrous war to date, though it did claim victory... 's military and political wings, French President Emmanuel Macron said Monday, after Britannia said it will outlaw the political wing.
Speaking at a joint presser with his Iraqi counterpart Barham Saleh, Macron said Gay Paree will still "communicate and exchange viewpoints with the political movement that is represented in parliament."
"We will continue this differentiation," the French president added, noting that "it is not up to La Belle France and other foreign forces to know which political forces represented in Leb's parliament will be good or not."
"It is up to the Lebanese people to decide on this," he said.
Earlier on Monday, Britannia said it will ban the political wing of Hizbullah, making membership of the movement or inviting support for it a crime.
The European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... put the armed wing of Hizbullah on its terrorism blacklist in 2013, due to Hizbullah's alleged role in blowing up an Israeli tour bus in Bulgaria. But unlike the United States, the EU differentiates between the group's military and political wings.
[DW] Germany deported a key suspect in the 2016 Berlin Christmas market attack before he was questioned, according to leaked documents. But authorities denied reports that Bilel Ben Ammar worked for Moroccan intelligence.
German authorities deported a Moroccan secret agent to hide his involvement in the December 2016 Christmas market attack in Berlin, according to an internal document leaked to the German magazine Focus.
However, sources within German security forces have since told public broadcaster ARD that they had no evidence that Ammar worked for any foreign intelligence agency, and were angered at the suggestion that German authorities may have protected him.
Bilel Ben Ammar, himself considered a radical Islamist who was once believed to be planning a separate attack in Berlin, was an associate of Anis Amri,
...the very connected known wolf who’d been in and out of European prisons since arriving in 2011, then registered for asylum in 2015 under at least 14 names. When his asylum request was finally rejected, he decided to make the Germans pay before they got around to deporting him, after which he fled to the comforting arms of his fellows in Italy. Quite a few of his connections from Berlin's ISIS-linked "Fussilet" mosque and elsewhere were subsequently arrested as well...
the Tunisian man who drove a stolen truck into a crowded Christmas market in central Berlin. The attack killed 12 people, injuring 60 more, while Amri himself was killed by police a few days later in Italy.
According to the document seen by Focus, Ammar met Amri a day before the attack, and took photos of the market in its aftermath, which he sent to an unknown phone number two hours later.
Ammar may even have helped the attacker to escape; CCTV footage mentioned in the document showed a man "with the appearance of Ben Ammar" hit a man on the head with a piece of wood in order to clear a path for the escaping attacker. The man is still in a coma now, Focus reported.
All this would be new evidence for the parliamentary committee tasked with investigating the attack, whose members have no knowledge of the video, though they did not rule out that it exists.
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Apparently someone is leaking new information concerning the Berlin attack to the German press.
Is this the Trump administrations response to the release of Yilmaz?
High ranking officials in the interior ministry, one of whom is the current German ambassador to the US, discussed Ben Ammars's swift deportation in January of 2017, according to leaked emails.
Speedy deportation was favored because the circumstances (Ben Ammar had assumed 12 identities in Germany) of the case would lay the foundation for 'incitement' i.e. for valid and devastating criticism of Merkel's political decisions.
Also it was revealed that, for unknown reasons, German federal police was ordered to stop looking for Ben Ammar from November 26 2016 onwards. This order was given at the request of the Berlin's state police's islamism department.
Pres Trump insists to Governors that there's an emergency on the southern border, He cites drug smuggling and human trafficking. Says his Admin has just started a "47-mile patch" of border wall and expects well over 200 miles under construction "pretty soon." pic.twitter.com/kZrmXF6kir
[OneIndia dot com] India's share water into Pakistan from three Indus rivers would be reduced and the government has decided to divert water from these rivers to improve the availability of water in the Yamuna, Union Minister Nitin Gadkari said on Thursday. At a rally in Uttar Pradesh's Baghpat on Wednesday, he had said that once the dams are built, Yamuna river will have more water.
"After formation of India and Pakistan, India and Pakistan got the right to use waters in three rivers each. The water from our three rivers is going to Pakistan. Now, we are planning to build a project and divert the water from these three rivers into Yamuna river. Once this happens, Yamuna will have more water," news agency ANI quoted Nitin Gadkari as saying.
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[DAWN] The Pak armed forces are fully prepared to give a "befitting response" to India if it resorts to any aggression or misadventure, the military's media wing said on Monday.
The statement was the outcome of a meeting between the army and air chiefs of the country, which followed a visit by Chief of the Army Staff (COAS) Gen Qamar Javed Bajwa to the Air Headquarters in Islamabad.
During their meeting, Gen Bajwa and Chief of the Air Staff Air Chief Marshal Mujahid Anwar Khan deliberated upon the operational environment in the region including "threat and response", said a tweet by Inter-Services Public Relations chief Maj Gen Asif Ghafoor.
"Pak Armed Forces are fully prepared for a befitting response to any Indian aggression or misadventure," the tweet said.
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Are the Paks going g to blow up an equal number of terrorists?
[DAWN] The Pakistain Rangers Sindh on Monday announced that they have nabbed Drop the rosco, Muggsy, or you're one with the ages! eight suspected 'hitmen' allegedly involved in attacks on Muttahida Qaumi Movement ...English: United National Movement, generally known as MQM, is the 3rd largest political party and the largest secular political party in Pakistain with particular strength in Sindh. From 1992 to 1999, the MQM was the target of the Pak Army's Operation Cleanup leaving thousands of urdu speaking civilians dead... -Pakistain (MQM-P) and Pak Sarzameen Party's (PSP) workers and leaders.
On Dec 9, 2018, an IED blast had taken place at the Mehfil-e-Milad organised by MQM-P in Gulistan-e-Jauhar, injuring seven persons.
Shortly after, on Dec 23, multiple button men had resorted to indiscriminate firing on PSP's office in Gulbahar in which two workers had died while two others were maimed. Meanwhile, ...back at the mall, Clarissa spent the day shopping for new underwear. Tonight was going to be a special occasion... on Feb 11, several suspects had attacked an office of a union council belonging to MQM-P in New Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... in which an activist named Shakeel Ansari had lost his life and another was hurt.
Colonel Faisal Awan, during a presser at the Rangers headquarters in Karachi, said that the arrested individuals tie in with the aforesaid attacks. He said that the suspects were being operated by a South Africa-based individual named Mohammed Saleem Baloch alias Belgium, under the direct supervision of MQM founder the increasingly rotundAltaf Hussain ...The head of MQM in Pakistain, who has lived in London and hasn't laid eyes on Pakistain since Caesar made corporal. Judging from the size of him, he may be a Hutt... The paramilitary force official said that the "team of hitmen" was also being aided by "some women" in the city.
Colonel Awan said that the team was formed in 2018 to target opponents of MQM-London, especially PSP and MQM-P workers and leaders, in an attempt to "sabotage peace and undermine growing political, economic and commercial activities in the city," which he said had become possible after the Rangers-led operation in 2013.
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Ameer JI Pakistan has written a letter to Foreign Minister Qureshi to boycott OIC's ministerial conference in Abu Dhabi due to Indian participation. OIC contact group meeting on Kashmir has already been summoned on request of Pakistan which is silent on invitation to India. pic.twitter.com/ri44P1h5yW
[IsrqelTimes] French citizens accused of terrorism transferred to Baghdad for trial as Gay Paree rocked with controversy over its nationals fleeing collapsing ’caliphate’.
By pledging to try 13 French 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 fighters, Iraq has assumed the role of judge and jailer for the suspected jihadists ‐ thereby saving Gay Paree the controversy of repatriating them.
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[Rudaw] At least 130 Iraqis held on ties to ISIS by the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) were transferred to Iraqi Security Forces over the weekend, increasing the most recent figure to 280.
The alleged ISIS member were handed over to the Iraqi Army "to take legal action," according to a statement from the Iraqi Security Media Cell (SMC).
It detailed that in total, the SDF have detained 500 Iraqis in Syria. Upon their return to Iraq, their identities are verified, checked into a database, submitted to the judiciary and arrest warrants issued when required.
Only Iraqi nationals were included in the handover.
Previous transfers have occurred in the Euphrates River Valley near the Iraqi city of al-Qaim in Anbar province and near al-Boukamal in Deir ez-Zor governorate, including a 150-person transfer last week.
The move comes amid an announced US military pullout from Syria that was slowed on Friday following an announcement by President Donald Trump that a few hundred US forces would remain with the SDF in Syria.
The United States has repeatedly called on countries to repatriate ISIS suspects and bring them to justice through their own court systems.
The SDF claims it holds around 20,000 alleged ISIS members and their families hailing from primarily Syria, Iraq, Europe, and Russia.
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Paris (IraqiNews.com) – Iraqi President Barham Saleh said on Monday that the trial of Islamic State detainees who were handed over to Iraq last week by the Syrian Democratic Forces will be held in Iraq.
“They are accused of having commanded operations against Iraqis and Iraqi installations in Iraq, and they will be tried according to Iraqi law,” Reuters quoted Saleh as saying at a press conference in Paris with his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron. “We are acting within the confines of international law on this matter.”
Saleh did not explicitly say whether the detainees were French.
“All those accused of having committed crimes in Iraq, against the Iraqi people or against Iraqi installations in Iraq, we will seek to prosecute them,” the Iraqi president said.
Macron, meanwhile, said that it would be up to the local government in Iraq to decide whether to prosecute the Islamic State detainees there.
“The exchanges between the Iraqi security forces are part of bilateral relations that they maintain with Iraq in the fight against the jihadist enemy,” Macron said of the SDF. “In this context, the decisions that were made are not to be commented on, and it is not up to me to confirm the identity of such or such person.”
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Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) – The U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces on Monday handed over 14 foreign Islamic State militants to Iraq, a security source was quoted as saying.
Speaking to Iraqi website Baghdad Today, the source said that the IS fighters are of French nationality.
It was unclear if they will be deported to their country, the source added.
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[IsraelTimes] Senior Israeli cyber official tells Bloomberg that the military detected and thwarted 2017 attempt by Tehran to hack country’s missile warnings.
The Israeli military detected and blocked an attempt by Iran to infiltrate its missile warning system in 2017, preventing a potentially life-threatening situation in which Israeli citizens could no longer rely on the sirens that alert them to an incoming attack, a senior cyber defense official told the Bloomberg news outlet on Monday.
The Iranian effort was first spotted in 2017 and, once its target was understood, the Israel Defense Forces worked to block the cyber attack and track the hackers, Brig. Gen. (res.) Noam Sha’ar, the outgoing head of the cyber defense division of the military’s Cyber Defense Directorate, told the website.
"We dealt with them and built another barrier and another monitoring system to make sure we could stop them if they tried again," Shaar told Bloomberg.
Israeli and Western defense officials have long warned that Iran was a world leader in cyber warfare capabilities, having invested considerable money and resources in the field.
Last month, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the Islamic Theocratic Republic "attacks Israel on a daily basis."
"We monitor these attacks, we see these attacks and we foil these attacks all the time," Netanyahu told a gathering of government officials, cybersecurity experts and entrepreneurs at the CyberTech conference.
Meanwhile, ...back at the Council of Boskone, Kinnison began his slow infiltration of the sewer system... Tehran’s nuclear program has allegedly been the target of several attacks by Israel and the United States, including the powerful Stuxnet virus, which took aim at Iran’s nuclear program, according to foreign reports.
Also last month, cybersecurity specialists warned of large-scale attacks on key aspects of the internet’s infrastructure, threatening the global system of web traffic, with some pointing the finger at Iran.
According to cybersecurity firm FireEye, the attacks might date back to at least 2017 and appeared to be coming from Iran.
The list of targets included website registrars and internet service providers, particularly in the Middle East, according to FireEye’s senior manager of cyber espionage analysis, Ben Read.
"We’ve seen primarily targeting of email names and passwords," Read said last month. "There is evidence that it is coming out of Iran and being done in support of Iran."
Israel’s cyber industry is second only to that of the US, taking 20 percent of the overall venture-backed cyber investments worldwide, according to an analysis by PitchBook and the Start-Up Nation Central database.
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[Rudaw] US-backed forces evacuated over 40 truckloads of people 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 last Syria redoubt on Monday, as they sought to clear out civilians before a final push to crush the jihadists.
The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) have slowed down their offensive on the final pocket due to the presence of civilians, with just a scrap of the IS "caliphate" remaining from a territory that once spanned Syria and Iraq.
An AFP correspondent saw more than 46 trucks crammed with men, women and kiddies, approaching an SDF outpost, 20 kilometres (12 miles) north of the jihadist redoubt.
One vehicle was packed with women clad in black and men who covered their faces. Wounded people were also among the latest evacuees.
Holdout IS fighters and civilians, mostly relatives of jihadists, are trapped in less than half a square kilometre in the village of Baghouz near the Iraqi border.
The Kurdish-led SDF evacuated nearly 5,000 men, women and kiddies from the jihadist redoubt on Wednesday and Friday, but none over the weekend.
Earlier on Monday, SDF front man Mustefa Bali, told AFP that thousands remained inside the IS pocket.
"According to what we heard from those who have left, there are nearly 5,000 people still inside," Bali said.
At the SDF screening point outside the village, SDF fighters expressed hopes that Monday’s arrivals would be the last one.
The SDF screens those exiting at an outpost outside the village to weed out potential IS fighters.
After being vetted, women, children, and men not suspected of belonging to the bully boy group are transported north to the Kurdish-run camp of al-Hol, while suspected jihadists are sent to SDF-held detention centres.
The Observatory on Monday said that 1,400 people, mainly IS relatives, were secretly transported from orchards on the outskirts of Baghouz to neighbouring Iraq over the past 24 hours.
The Kurdish foreign affairs official did not confirm the transfer, but denied that the SDF was responsible.
"In principle, we do not hand over any person passing through our territories to Iraqi authorities or any other party," Omar said.
Such transfers can only happen if they were trucked from Baghouz "by another party", he explained, without specifying.
Baghdad on Sunday said the SDF have transferred 280 Iraqi nationals accused of fighting alongside IS to Iraqi authorities.
Fourteen suspected French jihadists were among those transferred, an Iraqi government source told AFP on Monday.
Hisham al-Hashemi, an Iraqi expert with intimate knowledge of the issue, said the transfer had taken place in coordination with the US-led coalition fighting IS.
CRITICISM OF INTERNATIONAL RESPONSE
The mass outpouring of men, women and kiddies from the IS foothold has overwhelmed the Kurdish-run al-Hol camp, six hours north of Baghouz.
"The international community is not currently taking responsibility towards the large number of people leaving the last IS pocket, especially children," Omar said.
The International Rescue Committee said Friday that new arrivals had pushed the camp’s population to over 45,000, exacerbating already dire conditions at the crammed facility.
At least 78 people, mostly children, have died on the way to the camp or shortly after arriving in recent weeks, the IRC said.
A warehouse fire on Friday caused by a gas cylinder kaboom "destroyed 200 family tents" and five larger ones and injured 16 workers, it said.
The UN’s humanitarian coordination office OCHA on Friday warned the camp was struggling to keep up with the flood of evacuees.
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[IsraelTimes] US-backed forces evacuated over 40 truckloads of people 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 last Syria redoubt on Monday, as they sought to clear out civilians before a final push to crush the jihadists.
The Syrian Democratic Forces has slowed down its offensive on the final pocket due to the presence of civilians, with just a scrap of the IS "caliphate" remaining from a territory that once spanned Syria and Iraq.
An AFP correspondent saw at least 46 trucks crammed with men, women and kiddies approaching an SDF outpost, 20 kilometers (12 miles) north of the jihadist bastion.
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There have been rumors for some timee now that the Iranian regime has quietly decided to leave the nuclear deal. Zarif resignation could be sign that interal efforts to change that have failed. If the case, the corresponding announcement may be imminent
[Haaretz] Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif stepped down on Monday, announcing his resignation on Instagram.
"I am apologizing to you for all the shortcomings ... in the past years during my time as foreign minister ... I thank the Iranian nation and officials," he wrote on his Instagram page jzarif_ir.
Iran's state-run IRNA news agency confirmed the resignation, citing Abbas Mousavi, a government spokesman. There was no immediate reason offered for what prompted Zarif's resignation.
Iran's semi-official Tasnim news agency said "some sources have confirmed Zarif's resignation," but it was not clear whether President Hassan Rohani would accept it.
Zarif played an important role in striking the 2015 nuclear deal between Iran and six world powers. But he came under attack by anti-Western hardliners in Iran after the United States pulled out of the agreement last May and reimposed sanctions that were lifted under the deal.
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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
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
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...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi...
[PULSE.NG] Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir on Monday banned unauthorised rallies, as he announced a slew of new measures to end demonstrations that have rocked his rule for weeks.
...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of. Except for a tiny handfull of Jews everthing there is very Islamic...
The decision follows outrage over the display of the Hezbollah flag, which features a Kalashnikov assault rifle, at pro-Paleostinian demonstrations in London.
[DAWN] The Pak armed forces are fully prepared to give a "befitting response" to India if it resorts to any aggression or misadventure, the military's media wing said on Monday.
[DAWN] The Pakistain Rangers Sindh on Monday announced that they have 
...The head of MQM in Pakistain, who has lived in London and hasn't laid eyes on Pakistain since Caesar made corporal. Judging from the size of him, he may be a Hutt...
[Haaretz] Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif stepped down on Monday, announcing his resignation on Instagram. 
