There are unconfirmed reports that Chinese military planes have landed at Bagram airbase in Afghanistan
New images from Afghanistan show that power has been restored to the base and multiple sources alleged military planes arrived at the former US stronghold
It comes after Yun Sun, Director of the China Program at Stimson Research Center, said China would be 'eager' to occupy the airfield and seize any equipment left over by the US
The move would be an attempt to strengthen ties with the Taliban and embarrass America
[AlAhram] Afghan interpreters who worked for the Netherlands have been summoned to appear in court by the Taliban ...mindless ferocity in a turban... who have threatened their families, Dutch public television NOS reported on Friday
The interpreters are in hiding but their family members will be held responsible if they fail to show up in court "and severely punished to teach other traitors a lesson," said a letter from the Taliban, which was aired by the broadcaster.
NOS said the recipient, who worked for the EU's policing agency Europol in Afghanistan, was accused of taking "dishonourable and forbidden money" from foreigners.
"We will take Dire Revenge. If we are not able to get hold of you, we will settle scores with your near ones," said another letter to an interpreter whom the Taliban accused of being responsible for the deaths of some of their fighters.
All indications show that the letters, which bear official seals, were despatched by the Taliban, NOS said.
It said it had contacted about 10 interpreters or people who had worked for the Dutch and who all said their situation was becoming increasing difficult.
The Taliban in June urged interpreters who had worked for foreign forces to repent but urged them to stay on in Afghanistan after the withdrawal of foreign forces and assured them they would not be harmed.
Just after taking power, the Taliban declared a general amnesty for Afghan government and military officials.
But despite their pledges not to avenge themselves, a confidential United Nations ...an organization conceived in the belief that we're just one big happy world, with the sort of results you'd expect from such nonsense... report said the Taliban were tracking down people who worked with foreign forces.
[ToloNews] The deputy governor for Panjshir province, Malang Shah Rohullah, denied reports of assassinations of former military personnel in the province.
Speaking to TOLOnews, he added that the fighting has ended in Panjshir and the resistance front’s forces have no presence in the area right now.
TOLOnews news hound, Abdulhaq Omeri, visited Panjshir province reported that he has seen wreckage of destroyed and burned military equipment at the edge of roads, which indicates severe fighting between the Islamic Emirate and resistance front forces in Panjshir.
Panjshir's deputy governor further said that the Islamic Emirate is endeavoring to restart state offices for public services. He said: "In the first days, we heard of some disorders, then we started investigations which showed the reports were not correct. One day we received a report that seventeen people were killed in a place, we rapidly visited the area, and the report was not correct."
As the TOLOnews news hound arrived, several residents from Anaba district came to Panjshir’s center to share their problems with local officials.
"Military forces are in our valley, which causes fear. People cannot go to their homes or their farms to work. They have to leave the area," resident Rassol Khan told TOLOnews.
Several residents claimed that Islamic Emirate forces have searched people’s houses in the province and beat some of the residents.
"They told me that you are loyal to Ahmad Massoud, you are baking bread for them. Where are your weapons? Give them to us or we will kill you. Then, they searched my house and found nothing," said resident Imam Jan.
"They searched my house many times. They are coming all the time, in the night and during the day, saying we are under threat," another resident told TOLONews.
The Islamic Emirate’s local officials stated that three helicopters had been destroyed by resistance front’s forces, however the front’s forces have not commented on this.
It looks like outside of Panjshir all anti-Talib kinetic actions will be blamed on ISIS..
Four Killed in Attack in Nangarhar
[ToloNews] At least four people were killed in a assassination in 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 Saturday evening, officials said, with one source saying a child was among those killed.
Local officials confirmed the attack and said it occurred in District 3 of Jalalabad city, the provincial center of the province.
According to the officials, those killed were two civilians and two force members of the Islamic Emirate.
According to a source, a child was among those killed.
So far no group has grabbed credit for the attack.
Two other civilians were wounded in the attack, said Mohammad Hanif, a cultural official for the city's surrounding province, Nangarhar.
No one claimed responsibility for the shooting, but the Islamic State group, which has a strong presence in Nangarhar and considers the Taliban an enemy, has previously claimed several attacks against them, including several killings in Jalalabad.
The two civilians killed were Sayed Maroof Sadat, a former spokesman for the Nangarhar department of agriculture, and his cousin, Sharif Sadat told the AP. Sadat's son was among the two wounded, he added.
Since the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan in mid-August, attacks by IS militants against them have increased. The rise has raised the specter of a wider conflict between the two extremist groups.
On Friday, Taliban fighters raided a hideout of the Islamic State group north of Kabul, killing and arresting an unspecified number of militants, a Taliban spokesman said. IS activity in Nangarhar province has also led to Taliban crackdowns there.
Kapisa: Unidentified gunnies target Talibs in car
[KhaamaPress] Sources in Kapisa province say that gunmen targeted a ranger car of the Taliban and killed at least five members of the Taliban but the latter has not commented on the issue yet.
ISIS-K is now believed to be the biggest threat to the Taliban in Afghanistan that can endanger the security of the country and the Taliban government in the meantime.
The Taliban has repeatedly said that the group is not a threat to them and they have the ability to eliminate ISIS-K in Afghanistan.
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It's a lot easier being a guerilla group on the offensive, choosing the place and time of attack, than the authorities in defense who have to be all places at all times. Taliban will have to remember that ;-)
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It's a lot easier being a guerilla group on the offensive, choosing the place and time of attack, than the authorities in defense who have to be all places at all times. Taliban will have to remember that ;-)
That's true only when you're fighting Western troops, who are averse to collective punishment as a matter of policy. We've had this collective amnesia imposed upon us about the efficacy of large-scale massacre as a means of quashing revolts. But its effectiveness remains time-tested.
Both Communist and anti-Communist regimes resorted to it during the Cold War. Communist regimes achieved more decisive outcomes because they were more ruthless, and their per capita body counts higher. Ultimately, rubble doesn't make trouble.
A major crackdown in western #Libya results in the detention of 4,000 #migrants, including hundreds of women and children, officials say.https://t.co/ZKHxKj0NJD
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Two rival Libyan factions wound up a meeting in Morocco without any sign of agreement on a disputed electoral law, ahead of polls scheduled for December 24.
They did, however, jointly appeal for international support for the oil-rich North African country’s political process following years of unrest.
Representatives of the upper house, based in 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 Libya’s west, held two days of talks in Morocco’s capital Rabat with the Libyan parliament, whose seat is in the eastern city of Tobruk.
"We call on the international community to support the electoral process in Libya... and to send international observers to guarantee that this important event takes place smoothly," said El Hadi Ali Elsaghir, a member of parliament, at the close on Friday.
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Gargaresh, a hub for migrants and refugees, is 12 k (7.5 miles) west of Tripoli, the Libyan capital. The town has seen several waves of raids on migrants, but the latest one was described by activists as the fiercest so far. Since 2011 that ousted and killed dictator Moammar Gadhafi, Libya has emerged as the dominant transit point for migrants fleeing Africa and the Middle East. Human traffickers have benefited from the chaos and smuggled migrants through the country's border with six nations. They then pack migrants into ill-equipped rubber boats...
[AlAhram] A peacekeeper died Saturday and four others were seriously injured in Mali's volatile north near the Algerian border when an improvised bomb went off, the UN said.
"One dead and three seriously injured after one of our teams hit an improvised bomb near Tessalit", close to the Algerian border, the UN peacekeeping mission in Mali, Minusma, said.
"This incident is a sad reminder of the permanent danger hanging over our peacekeepers and of the sacrifices made for peace in Mali", head of Minusma El-GhassimWane was quoted as saying in a statement.
"Today's cowardly attack only strengthens Minusma's determination to support Mali and its people in their quest for peace and stability," he said.
In April, four Chadian peacekeepers from Minusma were killed in a jihadist attack on their camp in Aguelhok, also in northeastern Mali.
Minusma, deployed in Mali since 2013, is currently the deadliest United Nations ...an organization conceived in the belief that we're just one big happy world, with the sort of results you'd expect from such nonsense... peace mission in the world, with 145 killed in hostile acts recorded as of August 31, according to UN statistics.
[AlAhram] Two soldiers in 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... were killed on Saturday in a kaboom in the southwestern Cascades region near the Ivory Coast border, security sources said.
The explosion is the latest in a series of attacks generally attributed to jihadists.
"A team on a security mission was the target of a terrorist attack on Saturday. Two elements were killed by a homemade device which went kaboom! as they passed by," a security source told AFP.
Another source confirmed the "loss of two soldiers".
Elsewhere, in eastern Sakoani two more soldiers were maimed in another explosion.
Earlier this week, five soldiers on patrol in the north of the country were killed by an improvised bomb.
A jihadist insurgency in neighbouring Mali spilt over into Burkina in 2015.
The gangs are linked to al-Qaeda and the so-called 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.... More than 1,500 people have died in the attacks in Burkina Faso and at least 1.4 million people forced to flee their homes. Most of the attacks have been in the north and east, near the borders with Mali and Niger.
[AlAhram] A local jihadist leader and 18 rebels were killed during a military strike on their base in Mozambique's insurgency-hit north, a bloc of southern African nations said Saturday.
Al-Qaeda-linked jihadists have been terrorising Mozambique's gas-rich Cabo Delgado region since 2017, raiding villages and towns in a bid to establish a caliphate.
Local jihadist leader Rajab Awadhi Ndanjile was killed along with 18 other fighters in an offensive on September 25 on the turbans' base in the Nangade district of Cabo Delgado, the Southern African Development Community (SADC) regional grouping said.
Many members of the 16-nation bloc have deployed troops in Mozambique to fight the holy warriors.
SADC said Ndanjile recruited and indoctrinated fighters and was involved in the first attack in the region and "subsequent attacks on villages" as well as the "abduction of women and kiddies".
In July, Rwanda sent 1,000 troops to Mozambique, the first country to do so. Several other SADC members followed suit.
South Africa has deployed nearly 1,500 soldiers in the neighbouring country.
The insurgency has killed more than 3,300 people -- half of them civilians -- and displaced at least 800,000 from their homes over the past four years.
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King Khalid Air Base in Khamis Mushayt, SAUDI ARABIA
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[AlAhram] 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 has grabbed credit for killing a member of Pakistain's minority Sikh community earlier in the week in the northwestern city of Beautiful Downtown Peshawar ...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistain's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire... An IS statement issued late Friday described Satnam Singh, 45, as ``polytheist'' and said he was rubbed out by IS members.
Pak officials have denied any organized IS presence in the country but the bully boy group has claimed a number of attacks on security forces, mosques, political rallies and religious minorities in recent years.
Police said Singh was bumped off Thursday in Peshawar, the scenic provincial capital of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province bordering Afghanistan. The button menexpeditiously departed at a goodly pace.
Singh, an herbalist, had lived in the city for the past 20 years and ran a small clinic selling herbal medicine.
The assailants shot up Singh inside the clinic, according to Sardar Harpal Singh, a local community leader. He denounced the incident and demanded the arrest of those involved in the killing. The two are not related.
The majority of Sikhs migrated from what is now Pakistain to neighboring India in 1947, the year British rule of the subcontinent ended and Pakistain was created as a homeland for Moslems in the region. Thousands of them stayed in Pakistain, where they generally live peacefully. But isolated attacks on religious minorities including Sikhs have continued.
[IsraelTimes] Suspects taken in for interrogation by Israel’s security services; incident follows death of Paleostinian man also seen approaching border this week.
Israeli troops apprehended two Paleostinian men who tried to cross from the Gazoo ...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamaswith about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... Strip into Israel carrying hand grenades, the Israeli military said Saturday.
The two were taken in for interrogation by Israel’s security services, according to the announcement. "We wuz bird hunting. Like them other fellas this week"
On Thursday, Israeli troops fired at a Paleostinian man who was seen approaching the border, killing him, according to the Hamas, the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®,-run Gaza Health Ministry.
The military said troops fired at the man after he was seen approaching the border with two other men in a suspicious way by IDF troops watching the area through surveillance cameras.
"IDF monitors saw three suspects approaching the security fence in the northern Gaza Strip, as one of them was seen digging in the ground while carrying a suspicious bag," the military said Thursday, without further clarifying.
"After he was spotted, IDF troops who were on the scene shot up the suspect," the IDF said.
The military said it was aware of the Paleostinian reports that the man had been hit by the gunfire and died, but would not comment further.
Gaza health officials identified the dear departed as Mohammad Abd al-Karim Abu Ammar, 40, saying that he had been shot in the neck by live bullets.
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[REGNUM] Terrorists from "Jabhat al-Nusra" delivered missiles with toxic substances to the front line in the Syrian provinces of Idlib and Hama. SANA reports this on October 2, citing sources.
It is noted that "foreign experts" helped the terrorists to equip the missiles with "chlorine and sarin", the weapons were delivered to several areas in the south of Idlib and the Al-Gab valley in the Hama province.
According to sources, the weapons that were transferred to their destinations in two ambulances belonging to the "White Helmets" could be used by terrorists to "accuse the Syrian army of using weapons prohibited by the international community."
As REGNUM reported , in July, Deputy Head of the Russian Center for the Reconciliation of Warring Parties (CPVS) in Syria, Rear Admiral Vadim Kulit said that the militants of the Hayat Tahrir Al-Sham group, also known as the name "Jabhat al-Nusra," they are preparing a staged chemical attack in the "Idlib" zone.
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...mindless ferocity in a turban...
[AlAhram] A peacekeeper died Saturday and four others were seriously injured in 
...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 
[AlAhram] A local jihadist leader and 18 rebels were killed during a military strike on their base in 
...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistain's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire...
[IsraelTimes] Suspects taken in for interrogation by Israel’s security services; incident follows death of Paleostinian man also seen approaching border this week.
Terrorists from "Jabhat al-Nusra" delivered missiles with toxic substances to the front line in the Syrian provinces of Idlib and Hama. SANA reports this on October 2, citing sources.
