[KhaamaPress] A group of Taliban ...Arabic for students... members stormed Tamaddon TV network’s compound in Kabul on Tuesday, and harassed the employees of the media organization, according to official sources.
Islamic Emirate members entered the compound at around 4:30 pm on Tuesday and conducted a search operation in all the departments, according to Afghan Independent Journalist Association (AIJA).
The primary assessment of AIJA indicates that the armed members who raided Tamaddon TV Network belonged to the ministry of interior. AIJA reported that the employees were verbally abused, and the Taliban members took with them two vehicles of the agency which had legal licenses.
Hujjatullah Mujadidi, Head of the Afghan Independent Journalist Association met with Kabul Police Chief Commander Khalid Zadran at the Tamaddon TV compound and shared the complaints with the relevant authorities. Mr. Zadran assured that a comprehensive investigation is underway and the findings will be shared with the head of Tamaddon TV and AIJA in a timely manner.
Besides condemning the incident in which journalists and media workers were harassed, AIJA has asked for a thorough investigation and suggested the relevant organizations to prevent such raids in the future. It is also stated that in case of violation of rules by media outlets, relevant entities (Ministry of Information and Culture and Media Violation Commission) should take action.
Previous also, the Taliban members had stormed media organizations in Afghanistan — threatened media workers and journalists. On certain occasions, they even detained and persecuted journalists.
Taliban authorities have warned the media outlets that their publications and programs should be Islamic, and avoid using negative thoughts against the ruling regime.
Since the Taliban’s return to power in August 2021, the group is accused of arbitrary arrest and abuse of dozens of journalists and media workers. The group has imposed tough restrictions on media outlets, especially on women journalists.
In 2006, the Tamaddon TV network was founded by Ayatullah Asif Mohseni, a prominent Shia leader in the country who died in 2019. The network airs programs in Farsi and Pashto.
BLAST REPORTED IN TAKHAR – A bomb blast was reported in Taloqan City. Several different reports arrived claiming it may have targeted the Police Headquarters or a house nearby. There were no reports of casualties as of publication. An earlier attack in Takhar was said to have been carried out by the NRF.
GUNFIRE REPORTED NEAR RUSSIAN EMBASSY – Several reports indicated that the shooting had taken place near the Russian Embassy in Kabul. The incident was over quickly but an eyewitness said it looked as if the Taliban had fired at the Embassy Guards. No reports about casualties have been received. Some observers believe the incident was prompted by the anniversary of the Soviet withdrawal.
PAKISTAN CRACKS DOWN ON FORGED TRAVEL DOCUMENTS – 5 Afghans were detained at the Peshawar Airport when their passports turned out to be forged. Agents of the Federal Investigation Authority (FIA) announced they had stopped the men after their passport numbers were registered under another name. The incident is the second such incident at the airport in Peshawar this month.
CHINESE EMBASSY CLOSES PORTION OF EMBASSY IN PAKISTAN – Chinese diplomats announced the closure of the Chinese consular office in Islamabad. While the official reason claimed the closure was due to ‘technical reasons’, most analysts believe the recent tide of anti-China sentiment was responsible.
CONFLICT TRACKER Takhar: An NRF team reputedly ambushed a Taliban car yesterday afternoon in the Rostaq district. 2 Taliban were reportedly killed and 3 others wounded. Takhar: Possibly related to the NRF attack in the province, a blast was reported Taloqan City. Conflicting reports say it targeted a police facility or a house. There was no information provided about casualties. Kabul: A Syrian ISIS member was reportedly killed by Taliban security forces in the Karte Nu neighborhood of Kabul. Abu Muawiya Shishani was the identity provided by sources.
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SECURITY OPERATION PLANNED FOR 2 UNNAMED DISTRICTS IN KABUL – GDI agents have received information from ISIS-affiliated militants arrested on Monday about two additional safe houses in unspecified locations in Kabul. A source close to the situation said that raids were being planned and surveillance of the houses (1 may be an apartment) has been ongoing for nearly 36 hours. Attempts to determine the locations of the imminent raids have been unsuccessful.
[ShabelleMedia] Three officers drawn from the Border Patrol Unit of the Administration Police died and one was maimed after the vehicle they were travelling in was struck by an improvised bomb (IED) at Dadaab area on the Garissa-Dadaab highway.
The four officers on board were taking the vehicle to Garissa for a mechanical check-up when the attack happened.
The injured officer was admitted at the Garissa County Referral Hospital before being airlifted to Nairobi for specialised treatment.
Police suspect that al-Shabaab ...... the Islamic version of the old Somali warlord... bully boyz were responsible for the Tuesday morning attack.
In January, four people including engineers from the Kenya National Highway Authority (KeNHA) died in the same county from a kaboom caused by an improvised bomb while on an inspection tour of the Lapset corridor.
[ShabelleMedia] The Minister of Information Da’ud Aweys Jama gave details of the army operations against al-Shabaab ...... an Islamic infestation centering on Somalia attempting to metastasize into Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, and similar places, all of which have enough problems without them... to the local media on Wednesday.
Jama said that the SNA has killed more than 200 al-Shabaab fighters in the operations currently underway in four out of the country’s five regional states.
"The army has achieved major victories in the fight. An operation in Mudug region killed around 120 members of al-Shabaab, and many others were maimed," said the Minister.
He indicated that in another operation that took place in the same region with the help of the Galmudug ...a semiautonomous region in central Somalia, bordering Puntland on the north. Galmudug is not trying to obtain international recognition as a separate nation, but rather considers itself autonomous within the larger Somali federalism, for what that's worth... soldiers killed 50 snuffies and captured new areas from al-Shabaab.
The Minister added that another planned operation by the armed forces with the support of foreign partners in the Lower Shabelle region killed 18 al-Shabaab members.
The statement comes as the operations against al-Shabaab enter the second phase with president Hassan Sheikh vowing to bring an end the group’s presence in Somalia this year.
Somalia started an all-out war against al-Shabaab in August last year following a deadly siege at Hayat hotel in Mogadishu which killed more than 20 people.
The group frequently targets hotels and restaurants in seaside capital city, where Somali officials and security officers are known to gather.
[Garowe] At least four coppers were killed in Kenya's porous Garissa County in Dadaab, one of the world's most populous refugee camp which hosts thousands of refugees mainly from the war-torn Somalia, a country which has been witnessing instability for the last three decades.
According to Kipkirui Siele, the Deputy County Commissioner, the incident occured along Dadaab-Garissa Highway in Northeastern Kenya. The vehicle, he said, accidentally ran over an Improvised Explosive Device [IED] before being dismantled by a powerful explosion.
Those travelling in the vehicles were mainly members of the elite Border Patrol Uni, an elite squad from the General Service Unit [GSU] which is tasked to patrol the border. The officers from Abdi Suku camp were reportedly travelling to Garissa town.
"We have reports of a police vehicle hit by an explosive but I am yet to know the exact number of casualties," Mr Siele said by phone.
A damaged police vehicle made rounds on social media as Kenyans condemned the incident which left huge depression on the rise. Several such incidents have been reported in different parts of the country over the years, the enemy being terror group al-Shabaab ...... the personification of Somali state failure... The incident also comes almost a week after the country's Interior Minister Kithure Kindiki promised to open the Kenya-Somalia border which had been closed for several months. The opening, he said, is meant to reduce increasing cases of smuggling of counterfeits to Kenya.
Intensified attacks along Garissa and Lamu Counties have forced the government of Kenya to suspend construction of a road that links the Port of Lamu to Æthiopia and Southern Sudan commonly called Lapsset which is set to open up the region to Central Africa.
A security operation was launched in the area to flush out the turbans believed to be operating from Boni Forest in Lamu County.
Since September, at least 30 deaths have been recorded in suspected terror attacks on the project and its workers, seven of them in December alone. There have been seven attacks since December 8, which left at least 14 people dead and valuables destroyed.
In Somalia, security forces have been pursuing al-Shabaab turbans for the last six months, killing over 600 of them throughout the same period. The Death Eaters, intelligence officials say, have started crossing over to Kenya to avoid the crackdown, which is believed to be most organized in recent years.
Kenya is one of the countries which deployed her troops to Somalia and the team, which is serving under African Union ...a union consisting of 53 African states, most run by dictators of one flavor or another. The only all-African state not in the AU is Morocco. Established in 2002, the AU is the successor to the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), which was even less successful... Transition Mission in Somalia [ATMIS], is set to leave once the local forces take over security responsibilities. Generally, there are 3,500 KDF soldiers in Somalia of the 22,000 strong AU force.
[Shafaq News] The Iraqi Directorate of Military Intelligence announced, on Wednesday, the arrest of four persons on charges of terrorism in the Saladin and al-Anbar governorates.
The Directorate explained that the hard boyz were apprehended in the districts of Ramadi, Samarra, Tikrit ...birthplace of Saddam Hussein... , and al-Rutba and handed over to the relevant authorities.
n Tuesday, the Security Media Cell announced the killing of three hard boyz in Wadi al-Shay in the Kirkuk district after "continuous field follow-up for more than three days and a successful ambush."
The Iraqi forces also killed six hard boyz in the governorates of Kirkuk and al-Anbar and arrested others outside the borders.
The Security Media Cell stated that a force of the Intelligence Agency killed three terrorists, one of whom was wearing an boom belt.
Three others were rubbed out in Wadi al-Shay in Kirkuk.
The Iraqi Intelligence Service also arrested several ISIS leaders through a security operation outside the Iraqi borders.
The Agency explained that the Iraqi forces tracked these hard boyz in many countries and then arrested them in a non-neighboring country.
Iraq celebrates the fifth anniversary of its liberation and victory over ISIS.
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The Agency explained that the Iraqi forces tracked these hard boyz in many countries and then arrested them in a non-neighboring country.
[ShafaqNews] ISIS gunnies are using bombs and booby traps to secure their hideouts and impede the security forces' campaigns in the "hot areas", two local officers in Diyala said on Tuesday.
Authorities in Iraq use the term "hot area" to imply that the area in question is infested by terrorist groups.
The director of the Qara Tappa sub-district, Wasfi Murtada al-Tamimi, told Shafaq News Agency, "ISIS members often plant bombs along the pathway the security forces use in the littoral triangle between the Narin sector, the outskirts of Jalawla, and the Hemrin lake."
"They hide behind a wall of bombs and booby traps to prevent the security forces from reaching their hideouts," he added, "many security operations ended up with casualties due to hidden bombs."
The director of al-Saadiya sub-district, Ahmed Thamer al-Zarkoushi, said that the borders of al-Saadiya with the Hemrin lake are "fully secured".
"All the bombs sporadically found here and there are war remnants," he explained.
"ISIS hotbeds are found outside the lake's territory, near the far northeastern borders of the sub-district," he added.
Diyala, which stretches from the Iranian border to just north of the capital, Baghdad, is crossed by the Hamrin mountain chain, infamous for its longstanding use as a hideout for Death Eater groups even before ISIS existed.
It was east of Diyala's capital city, Baquba, that the Jordanian-born leader of al-Qaeda in Iraq at that time, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, was killed in a 2006 Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... In recent years, Diyala has been one of the Iraqi governorates with the highest number of attacks by ISIS cells.
While security issues have been left to fester in the governorate and must be addressed, there are also major concerns about sectarian killings.
Sunni Arabs in general across Iraq experienced major displacement during the ISIS occupation of their hometowns and the subsequent fight against the international terrorist group. ISIS was declared defeated by the Iraqi government in December 2017.
Many from areas previously under ISIS control have still not returned home almost five years later, or have no homes to return to. In some cases, such as Jurf al-Sakr (now renamed Jurf al-Nasr), they are not being allowed back into the area by Shiite armed forces that have claimed the area for themselves.
Such situations — which have deprived many of their lives, homes, and livelihoods — are being used for propaganda purposes by ISIS or others seeking to place collective blame on already suffering communities.
[IsraelTimes] Police detained a relative of a terrorist who carried out a deadly car-ramming attack in Jerusalem on Friday, over his alleged intentions to also commit a terror attack.
According to police, the suspect, a 22-year-old from East Jerusalem’s Issawiya neighborhood, allegedly expressed intentions to carry out an attack similar to his relative, Hussein Qaraqa.
Qaraqa rammed his car into pedestrians at a bus stop in Jerusalem’s Ramot neighborhood on Friday, killing three people including two young brothers.
Police say the suspect was found yesterday afternoon along with his brother, 31, on a bus near the Beitunia checkpoint, north of Jerusalem.
Both were detained, and their remand has been extended by a Jerusalem court until February 19.
[An Nahar] Demonstrators in northern Lebanon Hezbollahstan ...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... on Wednesday blocked several roads in protest at the unprecedented dollar rate surge and the dire economic situations.
In the city 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... , several roads were blocked as some protesters opened fire in the air.
Others meanwhile blocked the international al-Beddawi highway in both directions, placing cars, tankers, trash bins, rocks and tires in the middle of the road.
The international Minieh road was also blocked in the town of Bhannine.
The black market dollar rate had reached a record high of LBP 77,000 in recent hours.
The unofficial rate has been steadily surging in recent weeks despite the arrest of top exchangers and currency speculators, with the central bank refraining from taking any measures to control the market.
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[NPASyria] On Tuesday, members of Jaish al-Sharqiyah (al-Sharqiyah Army), a faction of the Ottoman Turkish-backed Syrian National Army (SNA), seized humanitarian aid sent from the Kurdistan Region of Iraq (KRI) to people of disaster-stricken Jindires, in Afrin, northwest Syria.
A source told North Press, "Members of the faction assaulted the convoy that came from the KRI and plundered its humanitarian aid, which was provided by the Barazani Charity Foundation to those affected by the disastrous earthquake that hit the region."
The source added that the faction opened fire with the aim of terrorizing the residents who gathered at next to the convoy in order to receive humanitarian aid.
The source continued, "The local council interfered and has suspended the distribution of aid until further notice, waiting for calm to prevail."
Aid convoys continue to enter the region from several crossings in northern Aleppo and Idlib.
Work on removing rubble is still ongoing in Jindires, which incurred tremendous damage due to the February 6 earthquake that destroyed over half of the town and killed hundreds of its residents.
[NPASyria] On Tuesday, Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, formerly al-Nusra, before that it was called something else ...al-Qaeda's Syrian affiliate, from which sprang the Islamic State... (HTS, formerly al-Nusra ...formally Jabhat an-Nusrah li-Ahli al-Sham (Support Front for the People of the Levant), also known as al-Qaeda in the Levant. They aim to establish a pan-Arab caliphate. Not the same one as the Islamic State, though .. ... Front) installed a number of checkpoints near the town of Jindires west of the city of Afrin, north of Aleppo.
An exclusive source told North Press the HTS installed the checkpoints east of the town.
The source added that the HTS installed a temporary checkpoint within the town "under the pretext of banning thefts by Ottoman Turkish-backed Syrian opposition factions, also known as Syrian National Army (SNA), further it aims at expanding its influence in the region."
The past few days, the region witnessed the entry of hundreds of aid trucks and cars coming from many other regions in addition to relief aid, and rescue and emergency teams from Arab countries.
At dawn on Feb. 6, a 7.8-magnitude earthquake hit Syria and The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire... , killing tens of thousands and injuring many more. The earthquake also caused immense destruction of buildings, trapping thousands under the rubble.
Local and international saving-life aid continues to flock to the region to help those affected by the earthquake amid talks on ongoing thefts by the Ottoman Turkish-backed SNA factions, according to the source.
On October 13 of 2022, the HTS took full control of Afrin, following the withdrawal of Third Legion from the city toward Azaz.
On October 17, the festivities between both sides came to a halt after Ottoman Turkish intelligence intervened and ordered the HTS to hand over the security and military posts in the villages of Kafr Janneh and Qatmah to Hayat Thaeroon for Liberation which remained neutral during the festivities.
On Oct. 21, on the back of Ottoman Turkish mediation, the HTS withdrew hard boyz and heavy weaponry from Kafr Janneh, Afrin and Jindires to its areas of control in the countryside of Idlib.
On October 25 of the same year, Military columns of the HTS withdrew from areas in Afrin and its countryside towards Idlib, while maintaining its security forces there.
However, by candlelight every wench is handsome... North Press, through correspondents and sources, monitored that the withdrawal was pro forma imposed by Turkey following international rejection for al-Nusra’s expansion in areas north of Aleppo.
On Jan. 20, 2018, the Ottoman Turkish forces and the SNA launched the so-called "Olive Branch" military operation to push away the Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) under the pretext of protecting "Ottoman Turkish national security."
The operation caused the displacement of about 300.000 of the original inhabitants of the Kurds of Afrin who have been taking shelter in 42 villages and five camps in Aleppo northern countryside, locally known as Shahba region, since then.
[NPASyria] The US military announced on Wednesday that it had shot down an Iranian drone hovering over the Conoco oil field in the countryside of Deir ez-Zor in northern Syria, where an American military base is located.
"US forces in Syria engaged and shot down an Iranian-manufactured UAV attempting to conduct reconnaissance of Mission Support Site Conoco," US Central Command (CENTCOM) tweeted.
The US forces were able to finish the Iranian drone without further details, and the American army has not reported any response against the Iranian-backed bully boyz deployed west of the Euphrates River in Deir ez-Zor held by the Syrian government forces.
“On February 14th, at approximately 2:30 PM local time, US forces in Syria engaged and shot down an Iranian-manufactured UAV attempting to conduct reconnaissance of Mission Support Site Conoco," read a statement from CENTCOM.
Hundreds of US troops stationed in eastern Syria have fought alongside the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) against ISIS.
Tit-for-tat attacks between the US and Iran ...The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both... playing out in Iraq and Syria have simmered down over the past year. In August, US forces launched Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s targeting facilities used by Iranian-backed militias in Deir ez-Zor in an attack it said was in retaliation to an attack on a US base.
Iran responded to the attack by calling on the US to leave Syria "immediately," while deeming the offensive a "violation of illusory sovereignty, independence, and territorial integrity" of the war-torn country.
In November, at least 15 pro-Iran fighters were killed in Deir ez-Zor on a strike targeting their convoy along the Iraqi-Syrian border, but the US denied any involvement in the strike.
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