[ToloNews] Figures collected by TOLOnews show that 79 people were killed and 83 more were maimed in separate security incidents in the country over the last week, a slight increase compared with the data front a week prior to this.
The findings show that 43 security force members, 25 civilians and 11 babus government employees were killed in different security incidents from March 13 to March 19 while 25 security force members and 58 civilians were maimed during this period.
In the latest incident on Thursday, a bus carrying babus government employees was targeted by a kaboom in north of Kabul in which four non-combatants were killed and at least a dozen more were maimed, according to police.
The findings show that 69 civilians and security force members were killed and 80 more were maimed in security incidents across the country from March 5 to March 12.
Afghan civilians make up the main victims of the conflict.
[ToloNews] The National Directorate of Security ...the Afghan national intel agency... (NDS) in a statement on Friday reported that at least 18 ISIS suspects were arrested during a special operation by Afghan forces in Faryab province.
The suspects were involved in preaching in support of ISIS among the public to encourage them to join ISIS ranks, the statement said.
Faryab’s religious scholars called for the punishment of those working for ISIS.
But families of some of the suspects have rejected their members were promoting ISIS.
"The religious scholars have always said that those who are working for ISIS or with kidnappers should be hanged," said Ghulam Nabi Ghafoori, the deputy head of Faryab Ulema Council.
Meanwhile, ...back at the pie fight, Bella went down under the weight of the custard... concerns are also on the rise among the public in Faryab following reports that ISIS was trying to increase its influence in the area.
"The presence of ISIS in some districts of Faryab particularly in the suburbs of the city has created major apprehensions among the people," said a resident in Faryab Abdul Saboor.
Faryab is a vulnerable province in the north of Afghanistan, which in recent months has witnessed a spate of deadly bombings and attacks.
[LIBYAREVIEW] On Thursday, the United Nations ...where theory meets practice and practice loses... Support Mission In Libya (UNSMIL) voiced its deep concern over the safety of Abdel-Khaliq Mohammed Misbah Ibrahim, a Libyan Foreign Bank official who was arbitrarily arrested in central Tripoli ...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn...
In a statement, the mission called on the judicial authorities to immediately intervene to release Ibrahim or to produce him before a competent court without delay. This is in line with Libya’s national and international human rights ...which are usually open to widely divergent definitions... obligations.
Furthermore, it called on the new Government of National Unity (GNU) to prioritize the release of all persons illegally detained in Libya, both in official detention centers as well as those arrested by gangs.
Last October, Head of the Libyan Media Office Mohammed Baio, and his two sons were kidnapped in Tripoli by an armed militia, before being released in November. The United States and UNSMIL condemned the unlawful detention, and reaffirmed their support for the rule of law, the protection of journalists, and the freedom of expression of all Libyans.
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[ENGLISH.AAWSAT] An liquidation attempt targeting the convoy of 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... i Minister of Civil Service and Insurance Abdel Nasser al-Waly in the southern city of Aden has ramped up pressure on the new power-sharing government to speed up the implementation of the military and security stipulations of the Riyadh Agreement.
"It is clear that there is a plot to confuse the situation in Aden," a Yemeni government official, speaking under the conditions of anonymity, told Asharq al-Awsat.
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[ALMASDARNEWS] The Ansarallah Movement (var. Iran's Houthi sock puppets ...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 legitimate Yemeni government has accused the them of having ties to the Iranian government. Honest they did. 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 They like shooting off... ummm... missiles that they would have us believe they make at home in their basements. On the plus side, they did murder Ali Abdullah Saleh, which was the only way the country was ever going to be rid of him... forces) attempted to advance inside a strategic district located in the Marib Governorate on Thursday, prompting intense festivities between their troops and the 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... i government forces.
According to local reports on Thursday, the Ansarallah Movement attempted to capture the Aydat al-Ra’a area in the western part of Marib’s Sirwah District; however, Leb ...an Iranian colony situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozeen flavors of Christians. It is the home of Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers... ’s al-Mayadeen TV reported that the Ansarallah Movement was able to capture some sites in the Aydat al-Ra’a.
Meanwhile, ...back at the saloon, Butch got the bill for the damage caused by the fist fight, the mirror broken in the shootout, and drinks for everyone...... al-Mayadeen further reported advances at the al-Bara’a area of the Sirwah District, but did not specify the sites that were captured by the Ansarallah Movement.
"The Yemeni army and the popular committees liberated several sites in the al-Bara’a region in the Sirwah District," al-Mayadeen TV added.
The Ansrallah Movement has been attempting to capture several remaining sites under the control of the Yemeni government forces around Marib, a move that has been heavily criticized by the Arab Coalition.
Should the Yemeni government forces lose the administrative capital of Marib and its adjacent oil fields, it would strike a major blow to the latter’s economic capabilities, along with a major city in northern Yemen.
[ALMASDARNEWS] The Ansarallah Movement (Iran's Houthi sock puppets ...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 legitimate Yemeni government has accused the them of having ties to the Iranian government. Honest they did. 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 They like shooting off... ummm... missiles that they would have us believe they make at home in their basements. On the plus side, they did murder Ali Abdullah Saleh, which was the only way the country was ever going to be rid of him... forces) announced on Friday evening that it had targeted the Saudi King Khalid Air Base with two drones.Al-Masirah TV quoted the front man for the Ansarallah-aligned 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... i armed forces, Yahya Sare’a: "The Air Force is targeting King Khalid Air Base in Khamis Mushait with two drones."
Sare’e reported that the dronezaps hit their intended targets; however, it should be pointed out that the Saudi Ministry of Defense has yet to corroborate these claims.
The front man added: "The targeting of King Khalid Air Base comes in response to the escalation of aggression and its comprehensive siege."
Earlier today, the Ansarallah Movement announced a powerful attack using six drones on the Saudi Aramco facilities near the Saudi capital city of Riyadh.
The official Saudi Press Agency later quoted a source in the Ministry of Energy that said the attack took place on Friday morning, stressing that it did not result in injuries or deaths, and the oil supply and its derivatives were not affected.
The source emphasized that "the Kingdom strongly condemns this cowardly attack, and affirms that the terrorist and sabotage acts, which are repeatedly committed against vital installations and civilian sites, the last of which was the attempt to target the Ras Tanura refinery and the Saudi Aramco residential neighborhood in Dhahran."
The source renewed a call on the world’s countries and organizations to stand "against these terrorist and sabotage attacks, and to confront all parties that carry them out or support them."
“An official source at the Saudi Ministry of Energy: Control of the fire in the refinery, no injuries or deaths, and the supply of petroleum and its derivatives were not affected,” they would add.
Earlier today, the spokesperson for the Houthi-aligned Yemeni armed forces, Yahya Sare’e, announced that the Ansarallah Movement (Houthi forces) targeted the Saudi Aramco facilities near Riyadh with six drones.
Sare’e said that the Houthi drones hit their intended targets, causing significant damage to the sites; this was not corroborated by the Saudi Ministry of Defense.
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Possibly it happened. Possibly the Turks did it themselves for the propaganda value.
[AnNahar] Ottoman Turkish officials on Friday accused Greek coastiess of handcuffing seven migrants colonists and throwing them into the Aegean Sea without life jackets, resulting in at least three deaths.
In the latest dispute about so-called "pushbacks" of people seeking refuge in Europe, Ottoman Turkish Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu tweeted images that he said showed The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire... 's rescue of two of the migrants colonists.
"Greek coastiess battered seven migrants colonists, took their belongings, tied their hands in plastic cuffs and threw them in the sea without life jackets," Soylu tweeted.
The Ottoman Turkishcoasties later issued a statement saying they had rescued three people and found the bodies of two others, while a third died in hospital.
"The search for the last missing person continues," the Ottoman Turkishcoastiess said.
The images tweeted by Soylu showed one of the apparent survivors saying in rudimentary Ottoman Turkish that his group was arrested on the Greek island of Chios on Thursday.
"They took our phones and our money, then beat us," the man says in the clip.
Greece denies violating the law while protecting its coasts.
A probe into allegations of illegal migrant pushbacks on the Greece-Turkey maritime border concluded this month that the EU's border agency Frontex needed to make "urgent improvements" in its transparency.
The final report said poor reporting practises meant that Sherlocks could not clearly determine if pushbacks had occurred in five of the cases under review.
Pushbacks prevent asylum-seekers from making claims for protected status, and if practised indiscriminately can constitute a violation of core EU human rights ...which are usually open to widely divergent definitions... laws and the 1951 Geneva Convention.
Greek Migration Minister Notis Mitarachi told AFP this week that his country protects its borders "in accordance to European regulations and international law."
"We haven't returned boats. We have prevented boats from entering European and Greek territory, but this is something allowed by the regulations," Mitarachi said.
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#Antifa in Portland have announced "direct actions" (riots) for Friday & Saturday night.
On 19 March, they're meeting at Tom McCall Park at 8 pm. On 20 March, they're meeting at Jamison Square in the Pearl District (same area they riot in continuously) at 8:30 pm #PortlandRiotspic.twitter.com/WHkc0mxDxd
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#1
Something is really screwed up in this country.
When Rioting/Looting, Assaulting/Murderous Racist like the ANTI-FA / BLM Gangs are called Peaceful Protesters and are said to just be seeking Social Justice. An Illegals entering the country are treated as welcomed visitors and given free medical care, food and housing.
But Pro-USA, Pro-Constitution Groups seeking Legal accountability of Federal Officials, the Dept of Justice, demanding an Honest Election review and the Bill Of Rights be followed. Are categorized as threats to DC Elites and labeled Domestic Terrorists.
The next 2 years, until 2022 elections, will be a serious challenge for the USA. Because it is clear those DC Elites in charge will not allow Legal Recourse or Fair and Impartial Justice.
Even 2 years out, the honesty of the next election itself is already in question.
#4
#1 Yes. This is why the absentee ballot scam is so critical for the Uniparty.
We cannot expect to halt this insanity through elections. The fix is in. And anyone who calls them out publicly on this obvious fraud is now guilty of heresy, a thoughtcrime punishable with all the social economic and prosecutorial power that these insane people can bring to bear upon their enemies.
What recourse is left to us?
How, absent a democratic process that no longer functions, do we take back our Republic?
#6
From the beginning, they should have hauled them all out to the remotest place in the state where a large stockpile of gallon water jugs had been set up. Tell them to walk back, oh, and the locales have been told that a massive prison break has occurred and to take all precautions necessary if strangers show up.
[AnNahar] Ottoman Turkish police on Friday detained several pro-Kurdish party officials and a human rights When they're defined by the state or an NGO they don't mean much... activist, as prosecutors increase the pressure on the country's third-largest party.
A top public prosecutor on Wednesday demanded the dissolution of the leftist opposition Peoples' Democratic Party ...every time you hear the phrase white people, white supremacy,white anything but paint, you're listening to a Democrat. Ask him/her/it to reimagine something for you; they do that a lot, though not well. They can hear a dog whistle a mile or two away. They invented the spoils system and Tammany Hall, and inspired the addition of the word (Thomas) Nasty to the English language. They want to stop continental drift and repeal the law of unintended side effects... (HDP) over alleged links to Kurdish krazed killers.
The move followed the expulsion of an HDP MP from parliament on the same day.
Officers detained 10 people in Istanbul, including three HDP district chairs in the city, state news agency Anadolu reported, over suspected Kurdish krazed killer links.
Police were on the hunt for five others, the agency added.
Ozturk Turkdogan, head of the Ankara-based Human Rights Association (IHD), was also detained on Friday in the Ottoman Turkish capital and his house was raided, the organization said.
"Our lawyers are trying to obtain information about this case. His arrest is a blatant human rights violation. He must be released now," the IHD tweeted.
The Ankara chief public prosecutor's office on Friday said it had issued 12 detention warrants for suspects over their alleged ties to the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK).
Ankara says the HDP is the political front for the PKK, which the party denies.
The PKK is blacklisted as a terrorist organization by Ankara and its Western allies, and has waged an insurgency against the Kurdish state since 1984.
Ottoman Turkish media reported that police had also launched an operation to capture 15 suspects accused of making social media propaganda for the PKK in the southern province of Adana.
The indictment to dissolve the HDP put before the Constitutional Court also seeks to ban 687 party members from engaging in politics for five years.
The court took the first step on Friday with the appointment of a rapporteur to conduct the investigation and prepare a report for the court's 15 judges.
It is the latest in a series of crackdowns on the HDP since 2016 during which a majority of its elected mayors have been dismissed and replaced by government-appointed trustees.
Alex Hundert (@alexhundert), a Canadian militant #antifa wanted by police, has been arrested in Toronto. Ontario Provincial Police has described Hundert as an "anarchist" with a history of inciting "unlawful, violent behavior." https://t.co/LehNLwQmrg
[FRONTPAGEMAG] The Soros DA in question is LA's George Gascon in close competition with SF's Chesa Boudin for the title of the worst pro-crime DA. While Gascon was backed by Soros, he was also funded by a variety of entertainment industry figures, including the wife of the Netflix CEO and Steven Spielberg, and his time in office has been characterized by a thuggery nearly as ruthless as the criminals he was selected to protect.
The targets of Gascon's thuggery were the prosecutors trying to do their job.
There have been some horrifying things that happened on Gascon's watch, but this might be yet another low.
Doyle has been a prosecutor in the L.A. County DA’s office for the past 34 years and had no blemishes in his personnel file until last December when Gascón ruled him insubordinate his first week in office...
At the time, Doyle was the head deputy district attorney in the Compton office and he was prosecuting this case against three anti-police protesters, Emanuel Padilla, Christopher Berg and Jasmine Lomax, all of whom had been charged with trying to derail a train at a protest near the Compton Sheriff’s Station on November 15...
Padilla, Lomax, and Berg were all later charged with felony attempted train wrecking, a charge that could carry life without parole, as well as a lesser felony count of unlawful obstruction of a railroad track, which carries a two to four-year sentence in county jail...
The next day, just hours after Gascón was sworn in, Doyle tells FOX 11 that he got a phone call from Mario Trujillo, a close ally of Gascon who serves on his executive staff.
"He told me that the DA has authorized me, Mario Trujillo, to direct you to dismiss the Padilla case for further investigation," Doyle said. "And I said, Mario, I know the case very well, what further investigation does the DA want? And he said I don’t know. And I told him I’m not comfortable dismissing what I know to be a good case, a viable prosecution, without knowing the reason why, and he said, well can you just dismiss it today and we’ll find out the reasons later? And I said no."
Now the interesting part of this is a jailhouse phone call. All of Gascon's abuses are for the most part legal. Voters chose to listen to the BLM/Soros/Netflix propaganda and made a deal with the devil by electing Gascon. But the phone call points to something potentially different.
FOX 11 has obtained some of Emanuel Padilla’s jail calls, recorded days before Gascón took office and dropped the entire case. In one call, Padilla is talking to his wife and an acquaintance about whether he should hire a high priced defense attorney, or if he should use his personal attorney, Jorge Gonzalez, a friend of Gascón’s who contributed $1,000 to Gascón’s race for DA, according to campaign finance records.
"In the meantime, Jorge might be able to get you out, the fact that he knows Gascón is pretty fu**ing big," the unknown acquaintance says."Yeah, agreed," Padilla replies.
[Unintelligible] what good is that gonna be in the end, it’s not the same as having Gascón’s ear, or having Jorge [Gonzalez] just fu**ing text him, cause he’s told me, I knew him before this, he’s shown me how he texts with him, so that’s like, uh, you know, having a good mechanic versus your best friend whose married to a mechanic at this point I think. He told me that he’s spoken to him, and when he brought it up to Gascón, Gascón said he had already started reading about what’s been happening because it’s been everywhere."
Gascon intervening extraordinarily on behalf of a case represented by a donor raises a whole bunch of interesting questions.
[Rudaw] ERBIL, Kurdistan Region — Turkish warplanes targeted a civilian vehicle in northeastern Erbil province late on Friday, injuring two passengers, a local official and a border guard told Rudaw.
A civilian vehicle carrying four passengers was targeted by the Turkish army in Sinin village in the Sidakan subdistrict near the border with Iran, Sidakan Mayor Ihsan Chalabi told Rudaw’s Bakhtiyar Qadir.
The vehicle was a Toyota Hilux pickup.
Two of the passengers were injured, according to an officer from the Iraqi border guard who spoke to Rudaw on condition of anonymity. More at the link
[IsraelTimes] A Paleostinian was rubbed out by Israeli soldiers Friday when festivities erupted during a demonstration in the West Bank, the Paleostinian health ministry said.
"A citizen who was shot in the head with live ammunition died," the ministry said, adding the incident happened in the village of Beit Dajan, near Nablus.
The Israeli army said in a statement: "Live fire was shot in the air by IDF forces in response to massive stone-throwing by Paleostinian protesters, but the reason for the protester’s death is unknown. Riot dispersal means were also used."
Atef Yussef Hanaysheh, 42, was killed in a clash between Israeli soldiers and Paleostinians demonstrating against Israeli settlement activity, said Beit Dajan Mayor Abdelrahman Hanani.
"The soldiers fired when we approached a wildcat settlement near the village," he told AFP, using a term for outposts not officially recognized by the Israeli government.
A spokesperson for the Hamas, the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®, terror group, Hazem Qassem, said that the incident was a "new Zionist crime, and [part of] the brutal and never-ending terror committed by the occupation against our Paleostinian people."
"Zionist crimes will always be [the] fuel for our people’s unstoppable fighting revolution unless the occupier leaves all of our Paleostinian lands," Qassem added.
Paleostinians gather on Fridays across the West Bank to protest against the expansion of Israeli settlements, which they claim are illegal under international law.
The demonstrations are sometimes marred by festivities with the Israeli army.
Excluding Israeli-annexed East Jerusalem, around 475,000 Israeli settlers live in the West Bank, a territory with more than 2.8 million Paleostinian inhabitants.
[BenarNews] Philippine security forces rescued three Indonesian hostages and captured an alleged Abu Sayyaf ...also known as al-Harakat al-Islamiyya, an Islamist terror group based in Jolo, Basilan and Zamboanga. Since its inception in the early 1990s, the group has carried out bombings, kidnappings, murders, head choppings, and extortion in their uniquely Islamic attempt to set up an independent Moslem province in the Philippines. Abu Sayyaf forces probably number less than 300 cadres. The group is closely allied with remnants of Indonesia's Jemaah Islamiya and has loose ties with MILF and MNLF who sometimes provide cannon fodder... Death Eater who was escorting them in the far southern island group of Tawi-Tawi, the military said Friday.
Lt. Gen. Corleto Vinluan Jr., commander of Western Mindanao Command (Westmincom), said the victims were rescued after a boat capsized Thursday night in waters off a small island called Pasigan.
"It turned out that three of the recovered persons were Indonesian kidnap victims and the other was an Abu Sayyaf," Vinluan said.
The Marine Battalion Landing Team identified those rescued as boat captain Arsyad bin Dahlan and his crewmen Riswanto bin Hayono and Arizal Kastamiran.
Troops were conducting rescue and retrieval operations to locate Muhammad Khairul, another Indonesian captured last year who was believed to be with this compatriots when the boat sank.
Officials identified the alleged Abu Sayyaf member, a Filipino, as Sahud Salisim (alias Ben Wagas).
Indonesian consular officials met with and identified the three men, who were in good health, said Judha Nugraha, director for protection of Indonesians overseas at the foreign ministry in Jakarta. The men were to be flown to Manila before returning to Indonesia.
The three Indonesians were part of a group of five working for a Malaysian fishing firm who were captured by Abu Sayyaf members in waters off Tambisan island in the Malaysian state of Sabah in January 2020, according to authorities.
One of the victims was killed by his abductors, authorities said, while trying to escape in Patikul, Sulu province, on Sept. 29, 2020. Original reports said the victim, identified as La Baa, was found sprawled on the ground after suffering gunshot wounds.
"He was not shot as it turns out, but had sustained an injury to the head caused by a blunt object which could have possibly caused his death," Vinluan told BenarNews on Oct. 2, 2020. "What is still correct, however, is that he was executed as his Abu Sayyaf captors fought with the military."
On Friday, Brig. Gen. Arturo Rojas, commander of the Joint Task Force Tawi-Tawi, said that Abu Sayyaf members were taking their hostages to Tawi-Tawi because of ongoing military operations in Sulu.
"However, there's no worse danger than telling a mother her baby is ugly... while sailing, the water craft described as a ’Jungkong’ [a small wooden motorized boat] ... was hit by big waves and capsized," Rojas said.
The military rescued four people while another person on the boat, identified as Bensal Jakare, of Indanan town in Sulu, was rescued by a passenger boat.
[NPASYRIA] On Friday, an inter-clan fighting erupted in the village of al-Taigahi of the town of al-Shuhail, 40 km east Deir ez-Zor, casualties reported.
"The inter-clan fighting erupted among the cousins of the al-Kassar clan, where the two parties used machine guns," a local source told North Press.
"The fighting led to the killing of a person and the injury of three others who were hospitalized to al-Shuhail," the source added.
The source pointed out that the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) interfered and resolved the dispute.
On March 18, a person was killed due to an inter-clan fighting in al-Sousah town, 120 km east Deir ez-Zor.
On February 26, a number of clans’ notables and sheikhs held a reconciliation between two clans in the town of Garanij, east Deir ez-Zor.
The inter-clan fighting in Deir ez-Zor has been erupted more than once during the last months which left several casualties.
[NPASYRIA] On Friday evening, the Media Center of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) issued a statement on the recent military developments in the town of Ain Issa, north of Raqqa, northern Syria.
"On March 19, the Ottoman Turkish occupier army and the affiliated mercenaries have intensified their offensives on Ain Issa town, M4 Highway, and Sayda and Me’allek villages," the statement said.
"Our forces responded to the offensive and as a result, festivities erupted which led to the killing of 3 mercenaries," the statement added.
In the afternoon, an armored vehicle was destroyed and 13 "mercenaries" were killed, according to the SDF-Media Center statement.
The statement pointed out that the Ottoman Turkish-backed Death Eaters bombed the villages surrounding Ain Issa, which led to the killing of a child and the injury of several civilians.
"During the festivities, two of our fighters were martyred and one was maimed," the statement noted.
The statement concluded that the bombardment is still ongoing.
The town of Ain Issa and other areas northern Syria are subjected to continuous bombardment by the Ottoman Turkish forces and the affiliated gangs from time to time causing casualties among civilians.
[ALMASDARNEWS] The Ottoman Turkish army stationed in northern Syria launched an artillery attack on several sites belonging to the Kurdish-led People’s Protection Units (YPG) in the northern countryside of the Aleppo Governorate last night.
The Ottoman Turkish media reported that Ottoman Turkish army artillery units and rocket launchers stationed in the areas of Azaz and Afrin targeted several sites belonging to the YPG near the town of Tal Rifa’at in northern Aleppo.
This attack comes after a number of projectiles were fired from Syrian territory toward the city of Kilis in southern The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire... , in an accident that did not result, according to the Ottoman Turkish authorities, in any casualties.
Most of the lands in northern Aleppo are under the control of Ottoman Turkish forces and their allied militias; however, the YPG still maintains a presence in the Tal Rifa’at and Manbij areas.
Turkey has demanded in the past that the YPG fully withdraw from Manbij and Tal RIfa’at; however, per Ankara, this has not been done.
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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
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
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.
[ToloNews] Figures collected by TOLOnews show that 79 people were killed and 83 more were 
[ToloNews] The 
[ALMASDARNEWS] The Ansarallah Movement (var. 
...an Iranian colony situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozeen flavors of Christians. It is the home of Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers...
...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the 
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire...
...every time you hear the phrase 
[FRONTPAGEMAG] The Soros DA in question is LA's George Gascon in close competition with SF's Chesa Boudin for the title of the worst pro-crime DA. While Gascon was backed by Soros, he was also funded by a variety of entertainment industry figures, including the wife of the Netflix CEO and Steven Spielberg, and his time in office has been characterized by a thuggery nearly as ruthless as the criminals he was selected to protect.
[NPASYRIA] On Friday, an inter-clan fighting erupted in the village of al-Taigahi of the town of al-Shuhail, 40 km east Deir ez-Zor, casualties reported.
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire...
