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Abu Abdullah	Abu Abdullah	al-Qaeda	Afghanistan/South Asia	Algerian	Arrested	Big Shot	20020529
		in charge of Islamic schools in eastern Afghanistan during the Taliban rule, but fled to Pakistan when the U.S.-led coalition began air strikes. Abdullah is married to a Pakistani woman, and has lived in Peshawar since December, they said. Abu Abdullah is also an alias of Osama bin Laden.
	Abu Abdullah	Ansar al-Sunna	Iraq				20051221	Link
	Abu Abdullah	Friends of Shariah	Britain				20050705
	Abu Abdullah	Ansar al-Islam	Iraq				20051221	Link
	Abu Abdullah	al-Qaeda in Iraq	Iraq-Jordan		Deceased		20040601	Link
		He had a direct hand in numerous terrorist activities in the area, including kidnappings, suicide bombings and attacks on Coalition Forces. In 2005, he facilitated the movement of weapons and foreign fighters into Mosul for al-Qaeda in Iraq operations.
Abu Abdullah Ahmed al-Oram	Abu Abdullah Ahmed al-Oram	al-Qaeda	Iraq-Jordan				20050831
Abu Abdullah Ashafi	Abu Abdullah Ashafi	Ansar al-Islam	Axis of Evil				20021223
Abu Abdullah Hasan bin Mahmud	Abu Abdullah Hasan bin Mahmud	Ansar al-Sunna	Iraq-Jordan				20040212
Abu Abdullah al-Hassan bin Mahmoud	Abu Abdullah al-Hassan bin Mahmoud	Ansar al-Sunna	Iraq-Jordan				20040220
Abu Abdullah al-Hassan bin Massud	Abu Abdullah al-Hassan bin Massud	Ansar Al-Sunna	Iraq				20040205
Abu Abdullah al-Shafei	Abu Abdullah al-Shafei	Ansar al-Islam	Iraq				20051221	Link
Abu Abdullah al-Shafie	Abu Abdullah al-Shafie	Ansar al-Sunnah	Iraq				20060703	Link
Mullah Abu Abdullah El-Shafei	Mullah Abu Abdullah El-Shafei	Ansar Al-Islam	Axis of Evil				20021212
	Mullah Abu Abdullah El-Shafei	Al-Tawheed Movement	Axis of Evil				20021212
Tariq Abu Abdullah	Tariq Abu Abdullah	Iraqi Insurgency	Iraq-Jordan				20040311

Israel-Palestine-Jordan

IDF says artillery unit killed at least 7 Hamas operatives who took part in Oct. 7 massacre

2024-12-04

[IsraelTimes] The IDF says that a recent series of strikes carried out by the 990th Reserve Artillery Regiment in the central Gaza Strip killed numerous Hamas operatives including at least seven who participated in the October 7 onslaught.

The artillery unit is part of the 99th Division, which took responsibility for the Netzarim Corridor area last month.

The IDF names the October 7 Hamas terrorists who were killed in the recent strikes as: Abd al-Razak, a Nukhba Force operative and an engineering specialist in the Central Camps Brigade; Marzouk Alhor; Abd Abu Awd Yusri; Omar Abu Abdullah; Ahmed Zahad, a Nukhba operative; and Maad Abu Gharbua.

The army says that the division’s 179th Reserve Armored Brigade and 551st Reserve Paratroopers Brigade carried out several raids in the Netzarim Corridor area, during which buildings used by Hamas were demolished.

Numerous weapons were also located during the raids, the IDF adds.

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Syria-Lebanon-Iran

HTS executes foreign, Syrian ex-members

2023-04-04

[NPASYRIA] 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) executed, on Sunday, eight former members in an infamous prison under its control in Idlib, northwestern Syria.

The extrajudicial execution was carried out at Prison 107, managed by the HTS’ General Security Apparatus, without clarifying the reasons for their arrest and execution.

A source in the prison told North Press that Abu Mohammad al-Julani, HTS’ leader, suddenly ordered executing the eight persons without a verdict from the court.

Abu Muhammad al-Azari, Abu Abdullah al-Russi, Abu Layth al-Azari, Sayf al-Din al-Filastini, Abu Zayd al-Masri, with three young men from the eastern countryside of Hama, were executed. The detainees’ relatives were notified after midnight, he added.

The source noted that the firing squad conducted the execution. The bodies of the foreigners will be buried, whereas the bodies of the Syrians will be handed over to their relatives after 72 hours of the execution.

The detainees were previously in the General Security Apparatus of the HTS since 2017.

In a previous report, a military source of HTS’ Red Bands, one of the most brutal faction in its ranks, told North Press that there are between 900 and 1,200 imported muscle within the HTS ranks from Chechnya, Tajikistan, and East Turkestan [China], in addition to Moroccans, Algerians, Libyans and several from Iraq and Egypt.

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Afghanistan

Daily Evacuation Brief March 9, 2023

2023-03-09

[AfghanDigest] LAST 24 HOURS

FINANCE MINISTER STEPS DOWN – Hedayatullah Badri, the Minister of Finance for the Taliban has resigned from his position. Sources told AMU TV that the cause of his departure was related to differences with the Supreme Leader. If this report is true, he is believed to be the highest-ranking Taliban official to resign since they took power.

RAID IN MAZAR-I-SHARIF KILLS 8 – Taliban forces reportedly raided a house in Police District 7 of Mazar-i-Sharif on the night of 7 March and killed 8 men they said were ‘rebels’ and ‘kidnappers’. There was concern that photos from the scene that were distributed by the Taliban had been staged and the weapons that were placed in the hands of the dead looked unnatural and were extremely clean. There has been speculation that the Taliban may have staged a similar incident in a security clearing operation in Herat.

ISIS-K CLAIMS ATTACK THAT KILLED THE CHIEF OF THE WATER DEPARTMENT IN HERAT – Nader Kakar and 2 friends were killed in a targeted attack in Herat City yesterday by an unidentified gunman. 3 others were injured in the attack and it is not known if the gunman was apprehended. Kakar was serving as the head of the water department in Herat and had previously led the same department in Kandahar. ISIS-K claimed credit for the attack on its website, The Khorasan Diary. However, there has been some speculation the murders were carried out by another group.

THE UNITED NATIONS WARNED THAT A DROP IN AID IS COMING DUE TO GENDER BANS – The UN envoy in Afghanistan warned the Taliban that aid was likely to be cut as a result of the draconian policies in place for women. A source in Kandahar said the Supreme Leader dismissed the threat as ‘rhetoric’.

CONFLICT TRACKER
Kabul: A Taliban GDI agent, Abu Abdullah Abuzar, was reportedly assassinated by an NRF team last night in the Qala Vahed area, He was believed to have been serving in Police District 5

NEXT 24 HOURS

PESHAWAR’S COUNTER-TERRORISM DEPARTMENT ISSUES ALERT OF IMMINENT TTP ATTACK – The Department issued the alert to all police and military forces and also posted copies of it on their social media site. The Department said it expects an action similar to the January Police Mosque bombing. The warning states that a threat of a ‘high-intensity’ attack was expected within the coming days and that the following would be likely targets:

Police gatherings

Police stations

Police establishments

Police lines

Traffic headquarters

While the threat is expected in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province, it could easily focus somewhere else in the country. At-risk Afghans are advised to avoid Police facilities or checkpoints until the threat has passed.

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Syria-Lebanon-Iran

How map of factional influence in Syria's Afrin is drawn?

2022-12-08

[NPASYRIA] In Afrin region, northwest Syria, ~~Ottoman~~ Turkish-backed armed opposition factions belong to two main legions of the Syrian National Army (SNA); the First Legion, the Second Legion following the withdrawal of the Third Legion, amid presence of the security apparatus of 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).

On October 13, the HTS took control over Afrin following festivities with the Third Legion that was forced to retreat towards the city of Azaz and its countryside.

Since then, Afrin has been under the control of several factions in the security and military arenas, the most notable faction is the security apparatus of the HTS that has been controlling every aspects of the security in the city of Afrin and its countryside. The body is led by Abu Abdullah al-Iraqi and Abu Muhammad al-Abdeli.

Ahrar al-Sham
...a Syria jihadi group made up of Islamists and salafists, not that there's that much difference, formed into a brigade. They make up the main element of the Islamic Front but they don't profess adoration of al-Qaeda and they've been fighting (mainly for survival) against the Islamic State. Their leadership was wiped out at a single blow by a suicide kaboom at a crowded basement meeting in September, 2014...
has military points and offices in the city of Afrin and the villages of Basouta, Jindires and Bulbul with no more than 400 personnel led by Abu Ubayda al-Sheikh.

Afrin has been 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 the SNA factions since 2018 following the so-called Olive Branch operation against the Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) under the pretext of preserving ~~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 40 villages and five camps in Shahba region since then.

Sham Legion, led by Munzur Sarar al-Ikhwenij, is a main faction in the area and mostly supported by the HTS in Deir Balout, Jindires, Mabata, Basouta, Rajo and Kafr Janneh. The faction has military offices, olive refineries, drugs manufacture and coal factories in addition to a security apparatus.

Sultan Murad Division which is led by Fahim Issa and commanded by Nasser al-Nahar and Abu Walid al-Azi, is a main faction within the Third Legion that operates in Rajo, Kafr Janneh, Mabata, Afrin, Katmeh and Sharran.

The group has a security apparatus that is linked directly to the ~~Ottoman~~ Turkish Intelligence Services (MIT) being the most pet faction to receive support from the ~~Ottoman~~ Turkish side. It has about 800 security and military personnel operating in Rajo and Basouta.

Sultan Suleiman Shah Division (al-Amshat) led by Muhammad al-Jassem al-Turkmani, who owns the biggest drug manufacture in the area of Sheikh Hadid in the countryside of Afrin, the main bastion of al-Amshat.

In addition, it has offices in Mabata, Afrin city, Sharran, Midan Ikbes, Maydanki and Bulbul. However,
there's more than one way to stuff a chicken...
there are no more than 300 fighters. It belongs to the Second Legion which is affiliated with the HTS.

The main secret supportive faction of the HTS in providing both ammunition and weapon in coordination with Sham Legion is al-Hamza Division, known otherwise as Saif Abu Bakr Division which has nearly 400 turbans in the whole of Afrin.

The division operates in 16 military posts in Raco and its countryside in addition to a security apparatus, ten security and military posts in Bulbul, and a drug manufacture in the village of Burj Abdullah, southwest of Afrin city which is also home to offices of al-Hamza Division. In Jinderis there are two points of the division besides Marata, Katmeh and Mashaleh.

Although they are affiliated with the Third Legion, Faylaq al-Majd (Glory Corps) and Division 51 observed neutrality in the recent struggle against HTS, and preserved their presence in the area of Raco in the northern camp added to military posts on several sections on the border with Turkey besides others in Katmeh and Sharran.

While Faylaq al-Rahman, Liwa al-Montaser, 9th Armoured Division, Suqour al-Sham Brigades and Liwa al-Fajr are all affiliated with the Second Legion which is subject to Fahim Issa, leader of the legion and that of Sultan Murad Division.

It is deployed in areas in Kafr Safra, Basouta, Ain Dara, Kerzayhel, Marata,, Mabata, Maydanki, and Sharran in both security and military offices.

However,
there's more than one way to stuff a chicken...
the most influential force in the region is HTS’ security apparatus. Its turbans wear the uniform of Ahrar al-Sham or of al-Amshat.

Civilian and military polices receive orders from the MIT directly to which it is affiliated solely and upon its instructions it behaves.

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Syria-Lebanon-Iran

ISIS security personnel employed within HTS and SNA

2022-12-08

[NPASYRIA] The fighting of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) supported by air force of the US-led Global Coalition to Defeat ISIS against 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) forced its leaders, security emirs and jurists to join 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) and Syrian National Army (SNA) where they have been leading security and high-profile statuses as ~~Ottoman~~ Turkish intelligence services (MIT) merely preserve silence.

An HTS security source told North Press there was a bottomless list of ISIS emirs and leaders serving within the opposition factions, saying, "I will mention some of these who are deeply connected to the ~~Ottoman~~ Turkish intelligence services."

Abu al-Mughira al-Shami, his real name is Mahmoud Taha from the town of Qara, some 100 km north of Damascus, Syria’s capital. He is a prominent security figure running jails 106 in the northern section including Dana, Sarmada, and up to Atmeh camps in Idlib Governorate. Al-Shami had a record of violations against locals in the city of al-Bab when ISIS was controlling the city. He was occupying a post in the security apparatus of the group under Abu Hamed al-Jazrawi and Abu Sufyan al-Tunisi. Afterwards, he went to Manbij, Raqqa and then Deir ez-Zor under blows received by the Global Coalition and the SDF. He was able to reach al-Ra’I town and Idlib. By mediations and approaches to the HTS’ emirs in 2018 he was able to join the security apparatus of the HTS and has become a prominent figure since then.

Abu Udayy al-Jazrawi whose real name is Azam al-Dowsari. He was in charge of the kidnapped Yezidi girls and women in the city of Abu Kamal and Iraqi al-Qaim within the so-called Vilayet al-Furat at the time. He has a record of tens of reported violations against Yezidis. Right now, he is working with Hayat Zakat (an alms body) of the Salvation Government, the civil wing of the HTS. In 2017, he reached Idlib in cooperation with Ahrar al-Sharqiya faction, namely Abu al-Walid Shaqra, in return for $12.000. He has a merchant’s card to go freely to ~~The Sick Man of Europe~~ Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire...
along with Abu Adel Saksouk, owner of Saksouk Company for Exchange and Money Transfer.

A most sharia law jurist in HTS right now is Hish al-Homsi who was under ISIS’ Abu Ubaida al-Rawi. His real name is Omar al-Rawi a jurist in Shaddadi sector in the so-called "Wilayat al-Baraka" (Hasakah Governorate). He is a graduate of Abu Sufyan al-Bahreni, a most prominent jurist in Raqqa along with Abu Fatima al-Qahtani and Othman al-Najeh al-Jazrawi. They were responsible for executions, beatings, and disappearances under baseless grounds.

Right now, he is running courses in the military camps of the HTS for gunnies affiliated with al-Fateh al-Mubin Operations Room. He is also teaching them suicides and infiltrations in Idlib and Aleppo fronts. He reached Idlib in 2019 escaping from Raqqa, which was besieged by the SDF in 2017, to Syrian government-held area in Homs eastern countryside, then to Hama, and from Hama to Idlib in cooperation with officers in the government forces who were lured by large sums of money. He joined HTS with support given by Mazhar al-Weysi, a prominent jurist in the Shura Council.

The source told North Press there was also Manhal al-Tirkawi known as Abu Riyadh al-Tirkawi. He leads the so-called Khaled Ibn al-Walid Battalions in Sere Kaniye (Ras al-Ain) in the northern countryside of Hasakah. He was a "most prominent arms dealer and a smuggler. He had a high position within the sleeper cells of ISIS in Raqqa and Deir ez-Zor. He used to secure every kind of weapons and orchestrated movement of the group’s leader between Syria and Turkey."

Right now, "he is enjoying a high position with SNA and had strong relations with ~~Ottoman~~ Turkish intelligence," the source noted. Despite his work in armament and recruitment between 2014 and 2018 in both Syria and Iraq in cooperation with Abu Ja’far al-Iraqi and Abu Hafs al-Shami, "He still lives on the lam as a military leader in Sere Kaniye and owns farms and real estates in Afrin of ownerships seized by SNA."

Both Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi and Abu Abdullah al-Qurashi were killed by the Global Coalition in areas under the Syrian opposition in Idlib close to the border with Turkey.

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Arabia

Saudi-led coalition reportedly imprisoned puppet governor of Ma'rib

2022-11-06

[HODHODYEMENNEWS] The Islah party, (the 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...
i branch of the Moslem Brüderbund), said on Saturday the Saudi-led coalition is detaining Sultan al-Arada, the governor of Ma’rib in the puppet government

Media outlets published the demands of Abdullah Bin Aboud al-Sharif, the son of the head of Islah branch in Ma’rib, to speed up the return of al-Arada, who is detained in Soddy 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. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face...
, considering his return to the city more important than the authority of the Riyadh-formed Presidential Council.

The presence of a Sultan inside Ma’rib is necessary and more important than others; let the Council goes to hell. Ma’rib is first and foremost Abu Abdullah, Abdullah Bin Aboud al-Sharif wrote on his twitter account, addressing Sultan al-Arada.

Al-Arada is one of the eight council members detained by the coalition since they were summoned weeks ago.

Ma’rib is witnessing military developments, indicating Islah’s fears of repercussions on its influence in the oil province.

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Israel-Palestine-Jordan

Qassem Soleimani provided Gaza with ‘all classic weapons and long-range missiles’: PIJ leader

2021-01-03

[AlMasdar] The Secretary-General of the Paleostinian Islamic Jihad
...created after many members of the Egyptian Moslem Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the assassination of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah...
, Ziyad al-Nakhalah,

...also spelt Ziad al-Nakhala, in 2018 he succeeded Ramadan Abdullah Shallah (also in the Rantburg archives as Ramadan Shallah, Ramadan Abdullah Mohammad Shallah, and Abu Abdullah) following that gentleman's stroke. Mr. Shallah was a PhD economist who was on the FBI most wanted list until he died in 2020, possibly in Florida. Back in 2003 Mr. Shallah was indicted in absentia of running a PIJ jihadi cell in Florida connected to PIJ Majlis Shura (governing council) secretary and U of S. Florida computer engineering professor Sami al Arian...

said on Friday, in an interview carried by RT Arabic, that Major General Qassem Soleimani

, who was assassinated in Baghdad, had provided 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...
with "all classic weapons and long-range missiles."

He explained that Soleimani sent 10 ships loaded with weapons to Gaza,

...we seem to have missed that report, unless by ships he means rowboats ...

in addition to transferring missile technology to the PIJ and Hamas, the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood, fighters in Gaza after they were trained on it in Iran
Iran

...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. 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. They hate ~~Jews~~ ~~Zionists~~ Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol...
until it achieved self-sufficiency, as the two movements now have their experts. They themselves are now training Paleostinian engineers and technicians locally, Nakhalah said.

Nakhalah asserted that the accumulation of Paleostinian experience in this field has reached the point of innovation, as "our fighters in Gaza and the manufacturing units make progress in the arms industry every day."

During his visit to the Iranian capital, on Friday, in a ceremony commemorating the first anniversary of the liquidation of Qassem Soleimani and Abu Mahdi al-Mohandis, Nakhalah reiterated his assertion that "Qassem Soleimani sent us missiles that struck the capital of the Zionist entity, and these missiles are still doing their work" and that this Iranian leader was present. On all the battlefronts and in the Paleostine front in particular."

He explained, "Qassem Soleimani was assassinated because he was an obstacle to the United States and Israel in their efforts to reform the region."

Commenting on the recent Paleostinian military maneuvers in Gaza, Nakhalah told al-Mayadeen TV that it was "conducted with live weapons" from beginning to end, and that it was a message to Tel Aviv, despite its attempt to minimize it to reassure the Israelis, explaining that "long-range missiles have been tested. Its range exceeded approximately 100 km in the maneuver."

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Africa North

LNA Kills ISIS 'Emir' in Southern Libya

2020-09-25

[LIBYAREVIEW] On Monday, the Spokesman for the Libyan National Army (LNA), Major General Ahmed al-Mismari announced the killing of an ’emir’ of the Islamic State

Whoa — impressive!

the LNA front man said. al-Mismari pointed out that al-Iraqi entered Libya on 12 September 2014, alongside Abdulaziz Al-Anbari, with forged Libyan passports through ~~The Sick Man of Europe~~ Turkey
...just another cheapjack Moslem dictatorship, brought to you by the Moslem Brüderbund...
At the time, al-Anbari was an emir of IS in Libya. Abu Abdullah was assigned as an assistant to him by ISIS leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. al-Iraqi became the leader of the terrorist organization, after the LNA killed al-Anbari in the eastern city of Derna in 2015. The investigation revealed his identity as Abdullah al-Rabai, an Iraqi Kurd. al-Mismari explained that the Emir of IS in Libya, was killed in a 7-hour battle with LNA forces.

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Africa North

Libyan Army kills emir of ISIS in southern Libya

2020-09-18

[ALMASDARNEWS] The Libyan National Army (LNA) front man, Major General Ahmed al-Mismari, announced the killing of the emir 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....
(ISIS/ISIS/IS/ISIS) terrorist organization in Libya, Abu Abdullah, in a specific operation west of Sabha
...After the Libyan Civil War, Sabha grew in importance as a slave auctioning town. However, an investigation by the National Commission for Human Rights in Libya (NCHRL) revealed that while there was illegal slavery, reports were exaggerated, as slave auctions were rare and not made public. This was a great comfort to everyone but the slaves peddled in secret. The city was later seized by forces loyal to the Libyan National Army (LNA) and its leader Khalifa Haftar in January 2019, probably for its collection of MiG-25 aircraft....
.

According to Mismari, the LNA received information about an Islamic State terrorist cell in the neighborhood Kafi of Sabha, pointing out that the "116th Infantry Battalion clashed with the group in a battle that lasted seven hours straight."

He said, "The battle ended with the elimination of nine gunnies and the arrest of two women, one from Benghazi named Sana Abdul-Hadi Salem, born in 1980, the wife of the ISIS terrorist Othman al-Abbar, who was killed in the operation, and the other woman is the wife of the emir of ISIS in Libya, and she is an Egyptian named Najla Mahmoud Afifi Hussein."

The Libyan National Army front man pointed out that several other people had been arrested, including a Libyan, three Saudis, an Egyptian, a Sudanese, a Nigerian, and another from the Ivory Coast.

Previously, the Libyan National Army killed two Islamic State gunnies in southern Libya, including an Australian national, after a brief clash with the group.

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Africa North

Libya's Interior Ministry arrests ISIS media expert

2020-04-29

[Libya Observer] The Libyan Interior Ministry of the Government of National Accord (GNA) arrested Tuesday the media expert of ISIS terrorist groups in Sirte, Saied Abdelkareem, (A.K.A. Abu Rami) who is a 34-year-old Sudanese national, born in Sirte.The Ministry said the Anti-Crime-Terrorism Deterrence Apparatus detained the ISIS murderous Moslem after a security operation that had been ongoing for weeks.

Abu Rami was part of Ansar al-Sharia
...a Salafist militia which claims it is not part of al-Qaeda, even though it works about the same and for the same ends. There are groups of the same name in Libyaand Yemen, with the Libyan versions currently most active. Tunisia's Shabaab al-Tawhid started out an Ansar al-Sharia and changed its name in early 2014. It still uses the old name now and then, probably because the stationery's not all used up and the web site hasn't expired yet...
's media teams from 2012 to 2014, then he pledged allegiance to ISIS and worked at ISIS-linked al-Bayan Radio in Sirte as a video and news editor and presenter.

Abu Rami was part of the team of ISIS big shot Ahmed al-Himmali (Abu Abdullah) who was the leader 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...
ISIS sleeper cell that carried out attacks in 2014 and 2015 before he was killed by al-Bunyan al-Marsous forcs in Sirte Liberation battles in 2016.

The Interior Ministry said it had found with Abu Rami an archive for information about the activities of ISIS when they were controlling Sirte, adding that he was later sent to the Public Prosecution for further legal procedures.

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Syria-Lebanon-Iran

Former Syrian opposition leader: Groups that Turkey depends on are fake

2020-03-18

[NPASYRIA] ~~Ottoman~~ Turkish forces in Idlib were surprised that a number of the members of the gangs that it depended on in their recent battle with Syrian government forces are "fake", according to what a former leader of the armed opposition said on Tuesday.

In an interview with North-Press, Muhammad Abu Abdullah, former leader in the Syrian opposition, said that ~~Ottoman~~ Turkish-backed gangs are groups use "fake" numbers.

Abu Abdullah said that ~~The Sick Man of Europe~~ Turkey
...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor...
was surprised by those groups on which it relied, such as the National Front for Liberation, as it found that the numbers of their members are on papers only, and the remaining groups utilized only a small percentage of their strength in the battle launched by Turkey on the first of this month, in anticipation of being eliminated by other groups, including ones backed by Turkey.

On the first of this month, ~~Ottoman~~ Turkish Defense Minister Hulusi Akar announced a military operation against Syrian government forces in Idlib after the latter attacked the ~~Ottoman~~ Turkish forces and the affiliated gangs in Idlib on February 27.

On March 5, an agreement between the Russian and ~~Ottoman~~ Turkish presidents was reached in Moscow, which stipulated a ceasefire in Idlib and the start of Russian-~~Ottoman~~ Turkish patrols on the M4 highway.

Regarding the protests on M4 highways, Abu Abdullah said that "they are run by the groups, and that they must demand people to go back to their homes and the [Syrian] regime forces must withdraw to Sochi borders."

Abu Abdullah pointed out that one of Sochi articles, which includes the dissolution of 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), was the main instigator for the protests that took place in Arihah.

He said that opening the highway and conducting the patrols means the implementation of Sochi Agreement points on the ground, the most prominent of which is the dissolution of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, "which the latter does not want," according to Abu Abdullah.

Observers see that the protests that took place in Arihah on the M4 highway to prevent Russian-~~Ottoman~~ Turkish patrols determined by the agreement, was a reason for Russia to resume the military operations in Idlib.

In a statement issued on Sunday, the Russian Ministry of Defense stated that the first joint patrol with Turkey was conducted on a side of M4 highway in Idlib.

"Additional time has been given to the ~~Ottoman~~ Turkish side to take special procedures to neutralize "terrorist" formations and to ensure the security of joint patrols on the M4 highway," Russian Ministry of Defense said.

The statement noted that, "In order to carry out their provocations, the snuffies attempted to use civilians as human shields, including women and kiddies."

According to the agreement, the schedule of Russian-~~Ottoman~~ Turkish patrols on M4 highway will continue for 15 days, as the first patrol took place on March 15.

According to Abu Abdullah, "if Syrian government forces and Iranian groups try to violate the ceasefire agreement, this will be in our favor, because they will be violating the orders of the Russians, and Turkey will put all its might into Idlib."

Dozens of residents of Idlib and armed opposition groups staged a protest on M4 highway, where they blocked the road by setting fire to tires in order to prevent the Russian-~~Ottoman~~ Turkish joint patrol.

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LNA arrest Sudanese ISIS’ Doctor in Libya.

2020-03-01

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#LNA Units operating in the south of the country arrest the Sudanese (Omar Fadel Al-Saeed Muhammad Al-Amin), Abu Abdullah, who is the #ISIS’a Doctor in #Libya. pic.twitter.com/eJ5vsjzp8W
— M.LNA (@LNA2019M) February 29, 2020

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