1/ With all eyes on Ukraine, #taliban started large-scale operation in Kabul, Panjshir and few more provinces, supposedly searching for Daesh and #NRF supporters. Reportedly abducted many Panjshiris from Kheir Khana and Karte Parwan areas of Kabul.This morning broke into my house pic.twitter.com/JpWFIUTufd
[Garowe] For the first time in 2022, the US Africa Command returned with a bang in Somalia, waging the first-ever Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... in the troubled Horn of Africa nation, which targeted al-Shabaab ...... Somalia's version of the Taliban ...Arabic for students... Continued on Page 49
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One of Putin's complaints is the way our military goes tearing around the world, implementing regime change in countries where we have no business. But, oh my, how terrible it is when he pushes back.
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[DW] Medical charity Doctors Without Borders has confirmed the kidnapping of five of its members in northern Cameroon ...a long, narrow country that fills the space between Nigeria and Chad on the northeast, CAR to the southeast. Prior to incursions by Boko Haram nothing ever happened there... . The identities of the kidnappers and motive are not yet known.
A group of gunnies have kidnapped five staff members working for Doctors Without Borders, known by the French acronym MSF, in northern Cameroon.
According to a statement issued by the medical charity on Thursday night, gunnies broke into the MSF base in Fotokol, situated in the remote northern border area with neighboring Nigeria.
MOTIVE FOR KIDNAPPING UNKNOWN
"Five members of our team were taken away after the break-in. Neither the identity nor the motives of the perpetrators are known at this time," MSF told DW in an emailed response.
The organization said that its teams were "mobilized to support our five colleagues."
News agency AFP cited a local administrative official as saying that three of the aid workers are from Chad, one is from Senegal ... a nation of about 14 million on the west coast of Africa bordering Mauretania to the north, Mali to the east, and a pair of Guineas to the south, one of them Bissau. It is 90 percent Mohammedan and has more than 80 political parties. Its primary purpose seems to be absorbing refugees... , and the fifth is French-Ivorian.
The source also said two Cameroonian security guards were among those kidnapped and that the army had launched a search for the missing members of staff.
CAMEROON'S TROUBLED NORTH
Though the identity of the kidnappers remains unknown, there have been a number of attacks targeting civilians and soldiers by Islamist groups.
Boko Haram ...not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality... 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.... West Africa Province are known to launch attacks in the area including in the nearby Lake Chad region.
In September 2019, a suspected Boko Haram attack near Fotoko, claimed the lives of six Cameroonian soldiers.
In August 2021, 26 Chadian soldiers were killed while on patrol in neighboring Chad.
The violence has spawned a regional humanitarian crisis, and hundreds of thousands of people have been displaced and dispersed in neighboring countries.
MSF has been helping to assist displaced people and refugees, providing treatment to tens of thousands of people.
Coupled with the Islamist insurgency, Cameroon is also trying to tackle murderous Moslems from the country's Anglophone minority who are fighting for the establishment of a separate state.
MSF also told DW that it would only be releasing limited information on the situation at this time.
Some Nigerian soldiers have been injured and several others missing after an ambush by militants from the Islamic State-backed faction of Boko Haram, the Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP), formerly known as Jamā'at Ahl as-Sunnah lid-Da'wah wa'l-Jihād in Borno State.
Basheer Sambar, brother of one of the soldiers affected said the attack took place in Maiduguri on Thursday.
Boko Haram and its offshoot, Islamic State West Africa Province, have killed thousands and displaced millions in northeastern Nigeria.
The Nigerian military has repeatedly claimed that the insurgency has been largely defeated and frequently underplays any losses.
In the past months, soldiers have been targeted by insurgents.
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Ukraine will not be connecting its electricity grid to the Belarus grid after it had completed testing, its energy minister told Ukrainian TV on Saturday.
Earlier, Ukraine has started testing its power grid in a step to link it up with a European network and decouple from a grid linked to Belarus and other former Soviet States.
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Shafaq News / A civilian was killed in an ISIS attack in al-Anbar, a security source reported.
The source told Shafaq News agency that ISIS terrorists attacked a gas station in al-Rutba district, and opened fire on civilians' cars and security points.
A civilian was killed in the attack, and the security forces have launched a searching campaign to pursue the terrorists, according to the source.
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[IsraelTimes] In Israeli news, four Border Police officers were lightly hurt during riots in the Paleostinian town of Abu Dis, north of Jerusalem during overnight arrests, law enforcement officials say.
As troops entered the town to arrest a "terror suspect," dozens of Paleostinians hurled stones and an improvised bomb (IED) at a police vehicle, causing it damage, police say.
Police say the officers responded with riot dispersal means and warning shots, and the suspect was taken for further investigation. The maimed officers did not require hospitalization.
Also overnight, troops shot and seriously injured a Paleostinian who hurled an IED at soldiers manning the Jalamah checkpoint in the northern West Bank, the Israel Defense Forces says. The soldiers are unharmed, the military says.
The suspect was taken for medical treatment by the Red Islamic Thingy, Paleostinian media reports say.
DEIR EZ-ZOR, Syria (North Press) – On Thursday, a member of the Military Discipline forces of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) lost his life of his wounds in an attack by unidentified gunmen, targeting their car in the town of eastern Deir ez-Zor, east Syria.
“Tow SDF members lost their lives, and another one was seriously wounded. The injured member was transported to al-Omar Field Hospital for treatment, but he died there,” the source said.
Recently, the city of Hajin has witnessed relative calm compared to the neighboring villages and towns.
In a similar incident, a member of the SDF lost his life and another one was wounded in an armed attack that targeted their car in the town of al-Shuhail, east of Deir ez-Zor, on February 17.
DARAA, Syria (North Press) – On Friday, unknown gunmen shot dead a former commander of an opposition military groups, in the western countryside of Daraa, south Syria.
Khaled Sultan Mehamid, a former opposition leader, was shot dead by unidentified individuals, who were riding a motorbike, near the town of al-Yadouda west of Daraa, a local source told North Press.
Mehamid was leading one of the military groups affiliated with The Army of the Revolution, which consisted of several military formations affiliated with the opposition operated in southern Syria, the source added.
The source pointed out that Mehamid, who hailed from the town of Atman north of Daraa, alongside others were submitted to the settlement agreement in 2018, after which he did not join any military formations.
Assassinations dominate the scene in Syria’s southern governorate of Daraa, most of which are filed against unknown persons and they target former members of the opposition factions and those who have been subject to settlement agreements, the last of whom was Mos’ab al-Bardan, who was assassinated on February 10, 2022.
DEIR EZ-ZOR, Syria (North Press) – On Friday, two children lost their lives in a landmine explosion of ISIS remnants in the city of Deir ez-Zor, eastern Syria.
“The two children, Abdullah Sawadi, 8, and Ibrahim al-Khalaf, 13, lost their lives while playing with a mine of ISIS remnants,” said Muhammad Subhi, a resident of al-Karaj al-Qadim neighborhood in the city of Deir ez-Zor.
“The two children were playing with the mine trying to clean it to sell it to a peddler as a piece of copper,” Subhi added.
War remnants significantly spread in Deir ez-Zor area, ISIS last stronghold, and they pose a risk on the people, especially the children.
On February 22, three people lost lives, including two children, and another child was wounded in a landmine explosion of ISIS remnants in Khasham town, east of Deir ez-Zor.
AIN ISSA, Syria (North Press) – On Friday, Turkish forces and affiliated armed Syrian opposition factions targeted the countryside of Ain Issa town, north of Raqqa, northern Syria, with shells and heavy weapons.
“The Turkish forces and the affiliated factions shelled al-Hoshan village and M4 Highway, west of Ain Issa,” a military source of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) told North Press.
“Dozens of shells fell down on the village that is adjacent to Ain Issa town,” locals said.
The shelling coincided with the flight of Turkish drones over the area.
On February 13, the Turkish shelling of M4 Highway led to the killing of a person and caused damage to the civilians’ property in Ain Issa.
From time to time, the Ain Issa town and other regions in north and northeast Syria are shelled by Turkey and its affiliated factions.
Reporting by Gulistan Muhammad
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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.
...not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality...
