[KhaamaPress] Security sources on Saturday told media that "Mahmood Rahman, a university lecturer was targeted in an unknown button men attack in Kabul city.
According to the sources, the named professor was bumped off at around 6:40 am local time on Saturday in PD19 of Kabul province.
Kabul police said an investigation underway into the incident and efforts are ongoing to identify the button men.
No group or individual has so far grabbed credit for the attack.
The victim reportedly lectured students at Islamic University in the city.
[KhaamaPress] Four members of one family were killed when a Taliban ...Arabic for students... mortar shell hit a house in the Shirzad 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 on Friday night.
Ataullah Khogyani, a front man for Nangarhar governor said Saturday, that the incident took place in Shahbaz Khel village of Shirzad district.
According to Khogyani, the mortar shell hit a house belonging to a man named Sardar Malik in which three women and a child were killed.
Locals in the area also claimed that the shell was fired by the Talibs.
Taliban have not yet commented on the incident.
Nangarhar is one of the most insecure regions in Afghanistan where the Taliban and other murderous Moslem groups have massive influence in various parts of the region.
[ToloNews] Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... attack an outpost of the Afghan National Army in the city of Ghazni on Friday night that led to hours of heavy festivities between the two sides, a provincial council member Khaliqdad Akbari said.
The outpost has fallen to the Taliban, he said, adding that the festivities continued until Saturday morning.
Meanwhile, ...back at the Senate, the partisans of Honorius went for their knives and the partisans of Stilicho went for the doors... a source from Ghazni said that at least 30 army soldiers are missing following the festivities. The source said the soldiers were stationed at the outpost.
[ToloNews] Two army soldiers were killed and 25 more were maimed in a kaboom at an Afghan National Army division at Bagram Airfield, Parwan province, on Friday evening.
The army soldiers were busy in prayer when the earth-shattering kaboom happened.
The type of blast is not known so far, but sources said that the earth-shattering kaboom was due to a bomb that was already planted in the area.
Officials from ANA’s Division in Bagram meanwhile rejected the claim of casualties and said that 18 soldiers sustained minor injuries in the earth-shattering kaboom.
Follow up to yesterday’s report, which gave preliminary death counts between 21 and 30, and 60-90 injured.
[ToloNews] The corpse count from Friday’s truck bombing in Pul-e-Alam City, the center of Pashtun-infested Logar province rose to 26 as rescue workers worked throughout the night to recover those trapped under the rubble.
A 40 days old toddler was also among those maimed in the blast.
Most of those killed and maimed in the blast were students and civilians.
Meanwhile, ...back at the shootout, bullets whapped! around Butch as he tried to tie his scarf around his shoulder as a tourniquet...... Acting Minister of Interior Hayatullah Hayat said that another 25 non-combatants were killed and 56 more maimed in separate Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... attacks in other parts of the country in less than 24 hours before the start of withdrawal of foreign forces from the country.
"Overall, the Taliban is a group that has foreign support. Any attack and killing that are occurring here, without any doubt, the Taliban and their backers in the region are behind them," said Hayat.
On Friday, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) said that around 334 migrants of different African nationalities had been rescued off the coast of Libya.
“Some 340 refugees and migrants have been returned today to Tripoli by Libyan Coast Guard,” UNHCR tweeted.
“UNHCR and IRC (International Rescue Committee) provided urgent medical and humanitarian assistance to all survivors before being taken to detention,” UNHCR said.
Libya has become a preferred point of departure for thousands of migrants who attempt to cross the Mediterranean Sea to reach European shores.
According to the International Organization for Migration (IOM), more than 6,000 migrants have been rescued off the Libyan coast this year, including women and children.
In 2020, a total of 11,891 migrants were rescued and returned to Libya, the agency estimated, adding that 381 migrants died and 597 went missing on the central Mediterranean route during the same period.
Rescued migrants end up inside overcrowded reception centers across Libya, despite repeated international calls to close those centers.
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#Tunisia: 14 #Tunisian undocumented migrants were rescued by a Navy unit backed by an #Italian reconnaissance aircraft and naval unit, after they called for help on the international waters off Tunisian coasts Friday, MoD said in statement Saturday. #TAP_Enpic.twitter.com/6flKXwsLjD
[PRESSTV] A ranking commander of the bully boys, who fight for the Saudi Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. Fifteen of the nineteen WTC hijackers were Saudis, and most major jihadi commanders were, to inclid Osama bin Laden. Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman quietly folded that tent in 2016, doing terrible things to the guys running it, and has since been dragging the kingdom into the current century... -led coalition 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... , and a ringleader of the ISISTakfiri ...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who must be killed... terrorist group are killed in festivities with Yemen’s defense forces in the west-central Yemeni province of Ma’rib.
The commander was identified as Saleh Dirham Ramadi of Brigade 129 of the bully boy divisions that have been aiding the coalition on the ground since it began its war on Yemen in March 2015, the Yemen News website reported on Saturday.
The website also named the ISIS member as Saif San’ani, saying he used to act as the deputy of the terror group’s senior intelligence official in Yemen.
ISIS and its fellow Takfiri terror group of al-Qaeda have been trying to establish sweeping control over Ma’rib’s Province under widely-reported support from the coalition.
The coalition has been trying unsuccessfully to restore power to Yemen’s former Riyadh-allied officials.
Tens of thousands of Yemenis have died during the war and a simultaneous siege that the Saudi-led allies have been enforcing on Yemen.
The Yemeni forces that comprise the country’s army and Popular Committees have, however, never laid down their arms in their purpose to rid the country of the aggressors’ presence.
Last year, they liberated a strategic military base to the west of Ma’rib, a development that was followed by their overwhelming focus on the city and its surrounding province.
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Iran PressTV, Sonny. The national news agency, like Deutsche Welle, Xinhua, and Agence France Presse.
London: “No justice, no peace!” BLM, #antifa & far-left chant American BLM slogans for May Day. They also shout about killing a proposed bill, but the chants have a double meaning in urging violence against police (known colloquially in UK as “the bill”). pic.twitter.com/HMXJ068Zhf
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Putting aside the extortionate proposition of that chant, they seem to always be ignorant of the fact that the "peace" they speak of is as subjective as the "justice" they clamor for.
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Put a bit differently: The chant assumes that the chanters have a monopoly on violence. But of course if the people being chanted at -- police, armed citizens -- offer any violence to the chanters, the script flips and the chanters become helpless victims of brutality. "What did you think 'no peace' means, you morons?"
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Holy State, or Holy King, or Holy People's Will ...
[AlAhram] The maritime rescue group SOS Mediterranee said a ship it operates, Ocean Viking, pulled the migrants colonists to safety four days ago from two rubber dinghies
Two Italian ports faced an influx of hundreds of migrants colonists on Saturday, as a charity ship sailed toward a Sicilian port with 236 people rescued in the Mediterranean from traffickers' boats, while Italian coasties and border police brought 532 others to a tiny island.
The maritime rescue group SOS Mediterranee said a ship it operates, Ocean Viking, pulled the migrants colonists to safety four days ago from two rubber dinghies. Upon instructions from Italian authorities, the Ocean Viking was sailing to Augusta, Sicily, with its passengers, who it said included 119 unaccompanied minors.
SOS Mediterranee said some passengers told rescuers they were beaten by smugglers based in Libya and forced to embark on the unseaworthy dinghies despite high waves.
On Italia's southern island of Lampedusa, which is closer to North Africa than to the Italian mainland, Mayor Salvatore Martello said migrants colonists from four boats that needed rescue stepped ashore overnight. They were brought to safety by Italian coasties and customs police boats.
Separately, an Italian navy vessel rescued 49 migrants colonists, Italian state TV reported.
Still in the central Mediterranean Sea on Saturday was another charity boat, Sea-Watch 4, which with 308 people aboard who had been rescued in four separate operations from trafficker-launched vessels, Sea-Watch said in a statement. The first rescue, of 44 people, took place on Thursday, it said.
Sea-Watch 4 has requested a port to disembark the migrants colonists from both Italia and Malta.
``The fact that we, as a civil rescue ship, saved so many people from distress at sea in such a short time again demonstrates the fundamental rescue gap European states have created at the world's most dangerous maritime border,'' said Hannah Wallace Bowman, the head of mission for Sea-Watch 4.
Warmer weather in the spring often increases the number of vessels launched toward Europa ...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum... by Libya-based migrant traffickers.
Last month, SOS Mediterranean personnel and a merchant ship spotted several bodies from a shipwrecked dinghy, believed to have been carrying 130 migrants colonists. People on the boat had appealed for help in the waters off Libya, but no coasties vessels from Libya, Italia or Malta came to their aid, the group said. No survivors were found.
Humanitarian groups have been urging European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... nations to resume the deployment of military vessels on rescue patrols in the Mediterranean. After hundreds of thousands of rescued migrants colonists, many of them ineligible for asylum, were brought to Italia by ships from the coasties, navy, border police and other nations, large-scale rescue operations in the sea north of Libya were ended.
Italia has been equipping and training the Libyan coasties to rescue migrants colonists in their search-and-rescue area and to discourage traffickers.
Human rights groups and U.N. agencies have denounced inhumane treatment at Libyan detention centers, where migrants colonists rescued or intercepted by the Libyan coasties are taken. They say migrants colonists endure beatings, rapes and insufficient rations.
On Friday, the United Nation's child welfare agency said a total of 125 Europe-bound children were among those intercepted at sea earlier in the week by Libyan authorities off the Mediterranean coast. UNICEF said most of those rescued were sent to overcrowded detention centers with no or limited access to water.
``Europe can no longer remain passive in the face of recurring shipwrecks while consciously upholding a system of unspeakable abuse by supporting forced returns to Libya,'' SOS Mediterranee said.
The risk migrants colonists run of perishing at sea is high. UNICEF says at least 350 people, including children and women, have drowned or gone missing in the Mediterranean since January.
According to the Italian Interior Ministry, as of Friday, 9,000 migrants colonists had reached Italia by sea this year.
Both Italian and Maltese governments in recent years have claimed that private charity boats effectively facilitate trafficking by rescuing migrants colonists at sea. At times, rescue vessels, including commercials ones, have been kept waiting for long stretches before a safe port was assigned.
[DW] Over 100 migrants colonists were saved in the Mediterranean on Friday due to the efforts of German NGO Sea-Watch and the Italian navy. The migrants colonists were adrift at sea in rubber boats.
The Sea-Watch 4 rescue ship took in 77 people including 11 women and a baby, according to the NGO's official Twitter account. The ship recently departed the Spanish port of Burriana after it was detained by Italian authorities for months.
The Sea-Watch 4 rescued another 40 people on Thursday, with the vessel now having 121 migrants colonists on board.
In a separate mission, the Italian navy said Friday it rescued nearly 50 people from a dingy that was floating north of 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... , Libya.
On Sunday, the Italian coasties said it had also rescued over 100 migrants colonists on a fishing boat.
WHY ARE MIGRANTS COLONISTS TRAVELING ACROSS THE MEDITERRANEAN?
According to the UN, some 480 people have perished in the central Mediterranean so far this year. The migrants colonists are fleeing instability in Libya and other African countries, and also seeking better economic opportunities in Europe.
UN children's agency UNICEF said Friday that children and unaccompanied minors frequently attempt the dangerous journey across the Mediterranean. The agency said there are 65,000 underage migrants colonists living in Libya, who are frequently threatened with abuse and exploitation by traffickers and other nefarious actors.
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[ENGLISH.AAWSAT] The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...just another cheapjack Moslem dictatorship, brought to you by the Moslem Brüderbund... added cryptocurrency trading platforms to the list of firms covered by anti-money laundering and terrorism financing regulation, it said in a presidential decree published early on Saturday.
The Official Gazette said the country's latest expansion of rules governing cryptocurrency transactions would take immediate effect and cover "crypto asset service providers", which would be liable to the existing regulations.
Last month Turkey's central bank banned the use of crypto assets for payments on the grounds such transactions were risky. In the days that followed two Turkey-based cryptocurrency trading platforms were halted under separate investigations.
The probe into one of them, Thodex, led to the jailing on Thursday of six suspects including the siblings of its chief executive, Faruk Fatih Ozer, who Ottoman Turkish authorities are seeking after he traveled to Albania
The six people formally arrested included Ozer's brother and sister, as well as senior company employees, the spokeswoman for Istanbul's Anadolu prosecutor's office said, Rooters reported.
Most of those detained over the past week have been released. Others, including seven on Thursday, were let go with judicial control measures.
The Thodex platform, which had been handling daily crypto trade worth hundreds of millions of dollars, said on its website last week it would be closed for four to five days due to a sale process.
Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu said this week Turkey sent units to four countries to search for Ozer, including Albania.
"When he is caught with the red notice, we have extradition agreements with a large part of these countries. God willing he will be caught and he will be returned," he said in a televised interview with broadcaster NTV.
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[AnNahar] Eighteen Iraqis, the majority military personnel, were killed overnight Friday to Saturday in separate jihadist attacks mainly in the greater Baghdad area, security sources told AFP.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attacks, but they are in line with the modus operandi of the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really 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 western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... group, which still has sleeper cells in Iraq despite its territorial defeat in 2017.
One attack targeted troops in Tarmiya, an agricultural suburb 20 kilometres (12 miles) north of the Iraqi capital.
"IS fighters attacked an Iraqi army convoy at night and killed two officers and two soldiers," a security official said, on condition of anonymity.
Reinforcements were dispatched to the area but also came under fire, with "an officer and two soldiers" killed, the source said.
A member of tribal fighters integrated into the regular forces that were then deployed to the scene was also killed, "along with a civilian caught in the crossfire", the source added.
Further north, in the central Alton Kubre region, "six peshmerga (Kurdish fighters) were killed when Islamic State group jihadists attacked their military position with light arms", another security official told AFP.
Alton Kubre is a disputed area claimed by both the federal government in Baghdad and the autonomous Kurdistan authorities.
Another attack took place in the western desert bordering Syria, a third security source said.
"An officer and a soldier were killed in a bomb explosion while an army convoy was en route to Akashat," he said.
A soldier was also killed in a kaboom in Diyala province, which borders Baghdad to the east, according to another official, who added that two other fighters were also maimed in a separate attack.
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[SHAFAQ] Iraqi security forces launched on Saturday a comprehensive operation within the Tigris River strip separating Diyala and Saladin to clear the areas from which rockets are launched on the Balad airbase.
A source told Shafaq News Agency that the military operation was launched on the outskirts of al-Khalis district on two axes from the village of Zanboor. The first axis extends towards al-Jizani and the second towards al-Dujma.
The source added that the operation also cleared the lands between the two axes to pursue the terrorists’ cells, destroy their dens, and impose security and stability.
"The other objective of the operation is to prevent gangs from launching rocket attacks on the Balad airbase from the agricultural areas located on the Tigris River and belonging to the al-Khalis district."
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[SHAFAQ] Two ISIS attacks targeting the security forces and the Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF) were thwarted in Diyala Governorate.
A security source told Shafaq News Agency that PMF repelled an attack by ISIS elements on a security post in the Kabashi area on the outskirts of al-Saadiya district.
The attack did not cause any causality.
In another incident, the source reported that ISIS elements also attacked a security point for the Commando Brigade of the Diyala Operations Command in Buhriz district, but the security forces thwarted the attack without any human losses.
ISIS carried out almost daily night attacks in Diyala under an operation called "Ramadan incursions" which killed and injured many civilians and security forces.
Meanwhile, ...back at the precinct house, Sergeant Maloney wasn't buying it. It was just too pat. The whole thing smelled phony, kind of like a dead mackeral but without the scales... the Military Intelligence Directorate announced that a member of ISIS sleeper cells in al-Bu Hardan village in al-Qaim district , al-Anbar was arrested today Saturday.
The arrested was providing ISIS with security information.
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[SHAFAQ] Iraqi authorities received yesterday Friday intelligence about an ISIS attempt to launch a suicide kaboom on a Shiite shrine in the capital, Baghdad.
According to Intelligence, "on April 29, an ISIS supporter, who lives in al-Tarmiyah, visited the shrine of Imam al-Kadhim in Baghdad to explore the entrances and exits of the shrine as a part of the preparations to carry out a terrorist operation."
The Intelligence indicated that "A jacket wallah will be brought from Fallujah to Tarmiyah and then to Kadhimiya to launch the attack inside the Shrine."
It indicated that "ISIS leadership planned to carry out the operation on last Friday or the next few days."
Al-Qassam Brigades displayed their homemade Merkava IV battle tank in the northern #Gaza Strip on Friday. The tracks don't turn, nor does the turret and it doesn't fire but the militant group had produced several of these trainer tanks over the years. pic.twitter.com/zJjue2KHuC
On the grounds of the al-Aqsa Mosque yesterday, groups of Palestinians lauded the so-called Palestinian Resistance. "Move forward O' al-Qassam Brigades" and "O' our beloved al-Qassam, strike and destroy Tel-Aviv." pic.twitter.com/jR3VgcFK7D
[NPASYRIA] On Saturday, the co-chair of the Water Directorate in Kobani, northern Syria, Khalisa Haj Abdulqader, said that The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire... ’s holding of the Euphrates water has deprived some neighborhoods of drinking water due to the lack of quantities coming from the river.
"Water reaches the neighborhoods for only two hours a day due to Turkey’s holding of the water of the Euphrates River," she added.
Residents of some neighborhoods have to buy water from the tankers at 1,000 Syrian pounds per barrel of 220 liters, according to Haj Abdulqader.
She indicated that the health aspect is the most affected by the issue of low water level, as it leads to increased water pollution, which threatens a humanitarian disaster.
The water level in the Euphrates has decreased by 7 meters, and it is now more like a stream, Haj Abdulqader explained.
To secure drinking water, residents of the eastern and western countryside of Kobani depend on groundwater wells.
For more than three months, Turkey has limited the flow of the Euphrates into Syria, depriving large numbers of people of usable water. Turkey reduced the flow of water from the Euphrates River into northeast Syria’s dam gradually, reducing the amount of water received to unprecedented lows.
Turkey keeps water in six dams, the largest of which is Ataturk Dam, the second largest in the Middle East, with a storage capacity of 48 billion m³, violating the international agreement they signed with Syria in 1987 which stated that Syria’s share of water coming from Turkey is 500 m³ per second.
The water flow to the Euphrates River is now limited to less than 200 cubic meters, according to the General Administration of Dams in Northeastern Syria.
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[SANA.SY] Ottoman Turkish occupation forces and their mercenaries of terrorist organizations renewed on Saturday their attacks with rocket and artillery shells on a number of villages in northern Aleppo countryside.
Local sources told SANA that several rocket and artillery shells, launched by Ottoman Turkish occupation forces and their mercenaries, fell on the villages of Daghlbash to west of the city of al-Bab, Ayn Daqnah , and the vicinity of Meng Military Airport, Mara’anaz and Okaiba, north of Aleppo city.
The sources indicated that the attacks caused material damage to private and public properties.
On Thursday, Ottoman Turkish occupation forces and Lions of Islam attacked residential areas in the villages of Ain Dagna and Baylounieh in the northern countryside of Aleppo.
A terrorist affiliated to Ottoman Turkish occupation shot to death in Ras al-Ayn
Meanwhile, ...back at the buffalo wallow, Standing Buffalo watched the circling Commanches and asked himself What would Geronimo do?... a terrorist affiliated to Ottoman Turkish occupation was shot to death in Ras al-Ayn in Hasaka countryside.
Local sources told SANA that one of Ottoman Turkish occupation mercenaries linked to the so-called "Hamza Brigade", was shot to death in al-Mahatta neighborhood near the silos of Ras al-Ayn city in the northwestern countryside of Hasaka.
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...the Pashtun equivalent of men...
...the Pashtun equivalent of men...
...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. Fifteen of the nineteen WTC hijackers were Saudis, and most major jihadi commanders were, to inclid Osama bin Laden. Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman quietly folded that tent in 2016, doing terrible things to the guys running it, and has since been dragging the kingdom into the current century...
...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who must be killed...
[AlAhram] The maritime rescue group SOS Mediterranee said a ship it operates, Ocean Viking, pulled the 
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