[ToloNews] The Islamic Emirate in a statement announced that key members of ISIS have been killed.
According to a statement, Qari Fatih, the head of the security department of this group was killed in an operation in PD17 of Kabul.
Qari Fatih has been involved in numerous events including attacks on diplomatic locations and mosques in Kabul, the statement said.
"He was a ISIS member and before that he was head of the east zone and currently he was head of security," said Bilal Karimi, deputy front man of Islamic Emirate.
The statement mentioned that in another operation of the security forces, Ijaz Amin Ahangar, the head of ISIS in the Indian subcontinent, was killed along with two others 15 days before in Kabul.
Taliban forces killed Qari Fateh, the regional ISIS intelligence and operations chief, during a raid in Kabul over the weekend, Zabihullah Mujahid, the main spokesman for the Taliban government, said in a statement.
Earlier this month in a separate operation in Kabul, three ISIS members — including senior ISIS leader Ijaz Amin Ahingar — were killed.
Mujahid said that a number of other ISIS members, including foreign nationals planning deadly attacks, also have been detained in recent days.
Posted by: trailing wife ||
03/01/2023 02:03 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[11125 views]
Top|| File under: Islamic State
TALIBAN LEADERS CLAIM TO HAVE KILLED 2 SENIOR ISIS LEADERS IN A SECURITY OPERATION IN KABUL – The Taliban announced they had killed 2 senior ISIS leaders in a recent Kabul security operation. Qari Fateh, the military leader of the terrorist group and one of the reputed masterminds of the attacks on diplomatic, religious, and other Taliban facilities. The identity of the other fatality has not been released. An ISIS-K leader appeared to have confirmed the losses in a social media post that has since been deleted.
SIGNIFICANT UPTICK IN REPORTED HOMICIDES OVER THE LAST TWELVE DAYS – Most of the murders that have been reported have not resulted in arrests. While all the victim’s identities are not known, at least 8 had served in the military under the former regime. The crimes are similar in that most of the bodies are discovered and dumped in areas of cities where low vehicle and pedestrian traffic occurs. Based on a sampling of several national news outlets, we assess that 32 murders have been reported over the last twelve days. All of the victims were males. In 19 of the cases, the victim’s bodies were dumped in the aforementioned manner. It is possible that a systematic program has been launched. Only 4 of the cases resulted in the apprehension of suspects and family members and friends say that no investigations are being actively pursued in the majority of the cases. It is possible that an official or, an organized crime plot is underway.
TALIBAN SECURITY FORCES BRACE FOR SPRING VIOLENCE – As March arrives, sources say the Taliban are preparing for a renewed onslaught of fighting as Resistance groups may have chosen the month as the official launch of the Spring Campaign season. While intermittent attacks continued throughout the Winter, most were focused on limited objectives and did not escalate into major engagements.
The National Resistance Front (NRF), arguably the largest and most organized of the militia groups, was said to have actively recruited new fighters throughout the winter months and rumors of arms shipments and supply deliveries from ‘external partners’ have persisted. Other groups, such as the Afghanistan Liberation Movement (ALM) and the Afghanistan Freedom Front (AFF), were also said to have rallied more fighters to their respective causes. It is not clear how many Resistance fighters are arrayed in opposition to the Taliban at this time. However, the spate of attacks that took place over the latter part of Winter leads us to believe that coordination between the groups is increasing.
For its part, the Taliban has adhered to a regular schedule of training new recruits. The recruits attend three months of training with a sizable portion dedicated to ‘religious studies’.
...at the end of which, the lads ae fondly known as cannon fodder.
The total end-strength estimates of the Taliban Ministry of Defense vary widely with most analyses suggesting the number lies somewhere between 70,000 and 100,000.
There has been little change reported to the tactical disposition of the Taliban forces since the conclusion of hostilities in Panjshir at the end of 2022. The only significant troop displacements that occurred over the Winter were in response to Pakistani reinforcements along the Durand Line (Spin Boldak in particular) and the recent reinforcement of the border with Tajikistan. The Taliban made several announcements concerning the reconstitution of some air assets, but sources familiar with the program say that bench stocks of replacement parts are running low and the repair work has been executed to very low standards. Likewise, the Taliban’s vehicle fleets are beginning to eat through repair parts at an alarming rate and the losses from attrition and frequent wrecks have taken a heavy toll on available means of transportation. If 2023 proves to be as active as 2022 was, Taliban Commanders will be forced to improvise in order to move their forces around the country.
CONFLICT TRACKER Takhar:: NRF fighters launched a night attack against the building housing the Taliban’s security forces command staff in Dasht Qala district. Four rockets were fired at the building. Some damage was reported, but no information on casualties.
NEXT 24 HOURS
HELMAND ROUNDUP TO CONTINUE – The searches for former ANDSF personnel in Helmand are expected to continue throughout the week. The Taliban have reports of three large arms caches in the Province and are concerned the weapons and ordinance will be moved soon and distributed among Resistance militias. It is thought that nearly 100 ANDSF personnel have been detained and interrogated to try and find the locations of the weapons, but these efforts have yet to produce results. At-risk Afghans residing in the Province should be aware of these search operations and former ANDSF personnel would be wise to consider leaving for a time.
[ShabelleMedia] The Somali military said two al-Shabaab ...... the personification of Somali state failure... commanders were captured during an operation carried out on the outskirts of the southern port city of Kismayo ...a port city in the southern Lower Juba province of Somalia, at the extreme southern end of the country (always assuming Somalia can be called a country). It is the commercial capital of the autonomous Jubaland region.... The national army commanders confirmed the arrest of the murderous Moslems to the state media. The operation happened in a remote village along Jubba river on Tuesday morning.
The two al-Shabaab operatives fell into the SNA while transporting weapons to bad boy stronghold in the nearby areas, where attacks against military bases are orchestrated.
The capture deals a major blow to al-Shabaab which is current facing military pressure and offensive from multiple fronts, including Jubaland, HirShabelle and 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... states.
In Bar-Sanguni, about 50 kilometers [32 miles] north of Kismayo saw a heavy military operation today, where joint Jubaland and SNA forces are hunding down the bad boys.
Jubaland state said it began offensive to retake areas still remained under al-Shabaab control, including entire Middle Juba region, which houses the top leaders of the group.
#Tunisian security forces arrested another prominent opposition figure on Monday, in an escalating campaign of detentions targeting rivals of President Kais Saied. pic.twitter.com/uNNl1f8uYO
[NPASyria] A Danish court sentenced a 38-year-old woman to four years in prison and removed her Danish citizenship on charges of promoting 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.... (ISIS) in Syria.
She promoted ISIS "by acting as a housewife and wife of persons that were active in IS, helped ISIS maintain and consolidate its position in the area," according to the Court of Kolding in southern Denmark.
According to local media outlets, the woman entered Syria with her husband and six children in 2015, where she lived as a mother and housewife in Raqqa city, which served as the capital of ISIS’ proclaimed caliphate.
The court also ruled that the woman, who also has a Bosnian citizenship, should be deported from Denmark with a permanent entry ban. The verdict can be appealed within the next 14 days.
The woman was repatriated from Roj camp in northeastern Syria in October 2021.
On November 18, 2022, a court in Copenhagen sentenced another Danish woman to three years behind bars for supporting ISIS in Syria.
Posted by: trailing wife ||
03/01/2023 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[11128 views]
Top|| File under: Islamic State
The death toll from the shipwreck off southern #Italy of a wooden boat carrying migrants climbed to 63, local media reported Monday. pic.twitter.com/W6x1f9lqpJ
[GreaterKashmir] Police on Monday said that its State Investigation Unit attached four houses for providing wilfully shelter to TRF/ LeT in Central Kashmir ...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it Azad (Free) Kashmir. The remainder they refer to as "Indian Occupied Kashmir". They have fought four wars with India over it, the score currently 4-0 in New Delhi's favor. After 72 years of this nonsense, India cut the Gordian knot in 2019, removing the area's special status, breaking off Ladakh as a separate state, and allowing people from other areas to settle (or in the case of the Pandits, to resettle) there.... ’s Srinagar district.
Quoting a handout GNS reported that the police said that its Special Investigation unit (SIU-II) Srinagar today attached 04 residential houses , 3 located at Barthana Qamerwari and 1 at Sangam Eidgah Srinagar for providing shelter to holy warriors.
The residential houses belonged to Mst shaheena /Asif Nath wife & son of Mohd Yunis Nath, Altaf Ahmed Dar son of Mohd Abdullah, Mudasir Ahmed Mir son of Mohd Sultan resident of barthena Qamerwari and Abdul Rehman Bhat son of Abdul Salam bhat resident of Sangam Eidgah in presence of Executive Magistrates and other witnesses.
Pertinent to mention that cop shoppe Parimpora on 28 05 2022 had recieved a reliable information and started the paperwork but haven't done much else under FIR No 127/2022 u/s 153A 153 B 505 IPC and in its continued investigation, a module was found involved in hiding & providing logistical support to active forces of Evil of TRF/LeT outfit. Which resulted in the arrest of the involved persons, he said.
Also during the investigation it was found that the forces of Evil had been sheltered in the said residential houses.
Besides,the chargesheet of the case was presented before Honble court u/s 7/25 AAct and 13 16 18 19 20 38 &39 UA(P) Act on 02 Dec 2022 against 13 accussed persons including active forces of Evil of TRF/ LeT for the logical judicial determination
The investigation of the said case is still going on u/s 173(8), he said.
Citizens are again requested not to provide shelter or logistics to forces of Evil failing which law will take its own course, he said.
[GreaterKashmir] A terrorist, who was involved in killing of Kashmiri Pandit Sanjay Sharma, was killed in a shootout with the police and security forces in south Kashmir ...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it Azad (Free) Kashmir. The remainder they refer to as "Indian Occupied Kashmir". They have fought four wars with India over it, the score currently 4-0 in New Delhi's favor. After 72 years of this nonsense, India cut the Gordian knot in 2019, removing the area's special status, breaking off Ladakh as a separate state, and allowing people from other areas to settle (or in the case of the Pandits, to resettle) there.... 's Pulwama district on Tuesday, officials said.
"Awantipora EncounterUpdate:
Killed terrorist identified as Aqib Mustaq Bhat of Pulwama (A category). He initially worked for HM terror outfit, nowadays he had been working with TRF. Killer of late Sanjay Sharma neutralised," said ADGP Kashmir, Vijay Kumar. The encounter had started during the night in Pandgampora area of Awantipora.
[GreaterKashmir] Terrorists on Sunday shot dead a civilian in the Achan area of south Kashmir’s Pulwama district.
"Terrorists fired upon one civilian from minority namely Sanjay SharmaS/O Kashinath Sharma R/O Achan Pulwama while on way to local market. He was shifted to hospital however, he succumbed to injuries. There was Armed guard in his village. Area cordoned off. Details shall follow, " Kashmir Zone Police said in a tweet.
Meanwhile, the whole area has been cordoned off to nab the attackers.
The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire... has captured a senior commander of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) in transborder intelligence action, Ottoman Turkish media said on Tuesday.
The PKK commander, identified as Ramazan Gunes and codenamed "Sores/Soresger," was apprehended in northeastern Iraq and moved across the borders to Turkey.
The Ottoman Turkish National Intelligence Agency had been monitoring Gunes for nearly a year and located him in Iraq's governorate of Suleymaniyah, the state-owned Anadolu news agency said.
Reports said Gunes was involved in a series of 12 attacks attributed to the PKK/KCK between 2011 and 2017 in the Cukurca district of Hakkari province in southeastern Turkey.
These attacks, according to the aforementioned reports, resulted in the death of 57 soldiers, a policeman, and two village guards.
Gunes, who joined the group in 2008, is said to have operated in the Hakkari province, as well as in Iraq and Syria for several years.
Posted by: trailing wife ||
03/01/2023 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[11127 views]
Top|| File under: Sublime Porte
[IsraelTimes] Forces searching for gunman who shot 2 brothers to death in Huwara and pair who killed Israeli-American near Jericho, among other suspects in shooting attacks in region.
After a brief lull in West Bank operations, Israeli troops detained eight wanted Paleostinians during overnight raids, as manhunts continued for a number of Lions of Islam who killed three Israelis in recent shooting attacks, the military said Tuesday morning.
Violence has spiked since two Israeli brothers from the West Bank settlement of Har Bracha were shot to death on Sunday in the nearby Paleostinian town of Huwara. Settlers seeking Dire Revenge rampaged through Huwara hours later, further inflaming the volatile situation. One Paleostinian was killed and hundreds more were hurt amid the violence.
Continued on Page 49
[NPASyria] A major Russian military convoy entered on Tuesday into the northern countryside of Aleppo, locally known as Shahba Region, via al-Ziyara crossing.
The Russian forces conducted a patrol on the contact lines with areas under the control of The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire... and its affiliated factions.
Ottoman Turkish forces and their affiliated armed opposition factions, also known as Syrian National Army (SNA), are controlling the city of Azaz and its countryside in the east of Shahba Region, north of Aleppo.
An exclusive source told North Press that 15 cars and an armored vehicle accompanied by two Russian helicopters roamed the positions of the Russian forces in the town of Tel Rifaat and the villages of Harbel, al-Wahshiya, Faisal Mill.
Several cars and an armored vehicle carrying Russian and Syrian commanders entered the Russian base in the village of al-Wahshiya in Tel Rifaat countryside and returned after half an hour, the source added.
The town of Tel Rifaat, 35 km north of Aleppo city, has been a shelter for Afrin displaced people since 2018 following the Ottoman Turkish invasion of Afrin and its countryside which resulted in the displacement of about 300.000 of the original inhabitants.
There are 1.662 displaced families from Afrin and 35 displaced families from Idlib live in Tel Rifaat, according to statistics carried out by Autonomous Administration of Afrin, which is currently operating in the northern countryside of Aleppo.
There are also 630 families that include about 3.000 people of original residents in the town, according to the same source.
Posted by: trailing wife ||
03/01/2023 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[11123 views]
Top|| File under: Sublime Porte
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.
[AfghanDigest] LAST 24 HOURS
...... the personification of Somali state failure...
...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 
...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it 
...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it 
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire...
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire...
