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Israel-Palestine-Jordan
IDF soldier killed in Gaza fighting, another succumbs to wounds sustained on Oct. 7
2024-11-27
[IsraelTimes] Druze leader mourns Sgt. Tamer Othman, says state must ensure community held as ‘equal partners’; sister of Sgt. First Class Yona Betzalel Brief says heart ‘shattered’

An Israel Defense Forces soldier was killed during fighting in the northern 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 a rusty iron fist by Hamas with 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 while another died from wounds sustained during Hamas
..the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®,...
’s October 7, 2023, onslaught, the military announced Tuesday.

The slain soldier, named as Sgt. Tamer Othman, 21, of the Kfir Brigade’s Nahshon Battalion, from Kafr Yasif was killed in battle on Tuesday, the IDF said in a statement.

His death brings Israel’s toll in the ground offensive against Hamas in Gaza and in military operations along the border with the Strip to 381. The toll includes a police officer killed in a hostage rescue mission and a Defense Ministry civilian contractor.

Druze spiritual leader Sheikh Mowafaq Tarif mourned Othman’s death in a statement, saying his community continued to pay a "heavy price" in the ongoing war, losing the best of its youth.

He urged the country’s leaders to "get up and take action," and ensure Druze soldiers are held as "equal partners" in the country, in an apparent allusion to grievances between the community and the government, among them over the controversial 2018 Jewish Nation-State Law.

The Druze community has charged that the 2018 law that designates Israel as the nation-state of the Jewish People is exclusionary and has called for it to be amended.

The military also announced Tuesday the death of Sgt. First Class Yona Betzalel Brief, 23, a combat medic with the Duvdevan commando unit, from Modiin, who had been critically maimed fighting murderous Moslems who burst across the border on October 7.

Hamas-led murderous Moslems killed some 1,200 people, mostly civilians, during the brutal onslaught, while taking 251 hostages to Gaza and starting the ongoing war.

A service to pray for Brief’s recovery, which was meant to be held at the Western Wall Tuesday night, was canceled after the announcement.

His sister Libby wrote on Facebook that God had caught up to Brief after a year of him trying to flee his fate.

"Someone wake me up from this nightmare, my heart has been shattered into millions of pieces," she wrote.

Modiin Mayor Haim Bibas wrote in a post that Brief "fought for his life with the same strength and determination that distinguishes him as a soldier."

Separately on Tuesday morning, a reservist noncommissioned officer with the 8163rd Combat Engineering Battalion was seriously maimed in central Gaza, the military said.

Later on in the day, one rocket launched from the northern Gaza Strip struck an open area near Kfar Aza, the military said. There were no injuries.

HEAD OF HAMAS ROCKET UNIT KILLED
The IDF announced Tuesday that the head of Hamas’s East Jabalia Battalion’s rocket unit was recently killed in an Arclight airstrike
...KABOOM!...
in the northern Gaza Strip.

In a statement, the military said that the Israeli Air Force carried out the strike against rocket unit head Ahmed Abd Halim Abu Hussein in cooperation with the 215th Artillery Regiment, the Military Intelligence Directorate, and the Shin Bet.

It said that Abu Hussein was "responsible for planning numerous rocket and mortar launches toward Israel and IDF troops operating in the Gaza Strip.

Several other Hamas operatives were killed in the attack, the IDF says, including one who "participated in the murderous massacre on October 7."

A separate airstrike in southern Gaza killed 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...
terrorist Basel Kamel Salim Nabahin, who also participated in the massacre, the IDF said Tuesday.

A recent airstrike in the southern Gaza Strip killed a Paleostinian Islamic Jihad terrorist who participated in the October 7 onslaught, the IDF says.

The PIJ operative is named as Basel Kamel Salim Nabahin.

Gaza’s civil defense agency said Tuesday that 22 people were killed in Israeli airstrikes and shelling of the Paleostinian territory, including 11 killed by a strike on a school-turned-shelter for displaced civilians.

The army said it struck "Hamas murderous Moslems who were operating inside a command and control center in Gaza City," adding that it "was embedded inside a compound that previously served as the ’Al-Hurriya’ School."

Earlier on Tuesday, the agency said 11 people were killed in overnight Israeli air strikes and shelling.

In the northern city of Jabalia, seven people were killed and several maimed in an airstrike on a residential building, civil defense front man Mahmud Bassal told AFP.

Another person was killed in a strike on a house in nearby Beit Lahia, which along with Jabalia has been the focus of a major Israeli military operation since October 6.

The attacks come amid Israel’s offensive in the northern Gaza areas of Jabilia and Beit Lahia, launched on October 6 to stop Hamas from regrouping. The military has said that tens of thousands of residents have complied with orders to evacuate the areas.

Additionally, on Tuesday, two people were killed in shelling at the Nuseirat camp in central Gaza, Bassal said.

In the southern city of Rafah, an airstrike killed one person and maimed several, he added.

Amid the dire humanitarian situation in the enclave, Jordanian military planes dropped aid to northern Gaza for the first time in five months, an official source said.

Two C-130 planes belonging to the Jordanian air force dropped nearly seven tons of food and essential relief to areas the UN agencies identified as most in need and facing hunger, the source told Rooters.

The Hamas-run health ministry in Gaza said Tuesday that at least 44,249 people have been killed in more than 13 months of war, though the toll cannot be verified and does not differentiate between civilians and fighters. Israel says it has killed some 18,000 combatants in battle as of November and another 1,000 murderous Moslems inside Israel on October 7.

Israel has said it seeks to minimize civilian fatalities and stresses that Hamas uses Gaza’s civilians as human shields, fighting from civilian areas including homes, hospitals, schools, and mosques.

Adding to the miseries of Gaza’s 2.3 million people, most of whom have been repeatedly displaced, heavy winter rain flooded hundreds of tents across the enclave, spoiling food and sweeping away plastic and cloth sheeting that had protected them against the elements.

The Paleostinian Civil Emergency Service said thousands of displaced people were impacted by the seasonal flooding and demanded new tents and caravans from aid donors to shield them.
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Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Hamas shooting Gazan civilians who try to evacuate Jabaliya, IDF paramedic says
2024-10-23
[IsraelTimes] Cpl. Shai Gilboa photographed providing medical assistance to a Palestinian woman injured in the face by Hamas gunfire while trying to get to a designated safe zone

Civilians in 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 a rusty iron fist by Hamas with 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...
are being shot by Hamas
..the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,...
holy warriors while trying to evacuate from Jabaliya in the north of the Strip amid a renewed IDF offensive, an Israeli paramedic charged in an interview Monday, after she was photographed providing medical treatment to a Paleostinian woman suffering from wounds to the face.

Cpl. Shai Gilboa, who is serving as a paramedic in the IDF’s 9th Battalion, told Channel 12 that a photograph of her tending to a woman with an injury on her lower face was the result of Hamas’s attempts to prevent civilians from heeding Israeli orders to evacuate to designated safe zones as fighting rages anew across northern Gaza.

"Our battalion went into action to exert as much military pressure as possible on Hamas terrorists, who held the civilian population in the area and forbade them from evacuating to a safe area," Gilboa recounted.

During the operation, she said, holy warriors in the area had opened fire and maimed some of the Gazooks who were trying to flee.

"The maimed came to us and we provided them with first aid in the field, which mostly entailed stopping the bleeding," she said.

From there, she explained, they were evacuated from the area and directed toward "local medical forces" in the area for further treatment.

She said that while her battalion’s primary objective is to "fight against and subdue" Hamas activity in northern Gaza, they are also determined to evacuate as much of the civilian population to safety as possible.

Asked whether the civilians speak to the troops, and what the relationship is between the Israeli forces and the Paleostinians in the war-torn areas they are sent to operate in, Gilboa admitted that the language barrier was one of several reasons that interactions tended to be limited.

"But they smile at us, they wave goodbye at us," she said, "they curse Hamas in front of us."

"Not only are they not afraid of us, a lot of them are on our side," she added.

The IDF said earlier this week that hundreds of Paleostinian civilians have listened to calls for them to evacuate Jabaliya in recent days amid a renewed IDF offensive aimed at preventing Hamas from regrouping in the area.

The evacuations were taking place despite the Hamas-run interior ministry ordering civilians earlier this month to ignore the instructions to relocate to other safer areas in the Strip, because "the occupation is conducting continued bombing and killing every day in the areas it claims to be safe."

The terror organization further accused Israel of carrying out an intentional "massacre against the civilians" in Jabaliya as a way to punish them for refusing to leave their homes.

Reports of Hamas harming civilians trying to flee to safer areas of Gaza are not new, and the IDF has for years accused the terror group of using human shields and embedding its operatives deep within the civilian population to protect itself amid fighting with Israel, and says that it seeks to avoid civilian casualties.

IDF says at least 18 terror operatives killed in Oct. 17 strike on ex Gaza school
[IsraelTimes] The military says an airstrike on October 17 on a former school in the northern Gaza Strip, which was used by terror operatives, killed at least 18 members of Hamas and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad.

According to a joint IDF and Shin Bet statement, the command post embedded within the Abu Hussein School was being used by the terror operatives to plan and carry out attacks against Israel and troops in Gaza.

The IDF and Shin Bet name 18 members of Hamas and Islamic Jihad killed in the strike.

Palestinian media reported 24 dead and 150 wounded in the strike.

The statement says the operatives were behind rocket fire on Israel, and were planning additional attacks in recent days. The army says it worked to mitigate civilian harm in the strike, including by using a precision munition, aerial surveillance, and other intelligence.

IDF: 3 Hezbollah regional unit commanders killed in airstrikes in recent days
[IsraelTimes] Three Hezbollah regional unit commanders were killed in Israeli airstrikes in the past two days, the IDF says. According to the military, strikes carried out by fighter jets in the previous 48 hours targeted and killed the commanders of Hezbollah’s Jibchit, Jouaiyya and Qana areas. The commanders were responsible for rocket and missile fire on Israeli towns from their respective areas, the IDF says.

Meanwhile, in the past day alone, the military says that some 70 Hezbollah operatives were killed in airstrikes and ground operations in southern Lebanon. Troops also located and destroyed tunnels and caches of weapons, the IDF adds.

Dozens of terror suspects detained in northern Gaza, says IDF
[IsraelTimes] Dozens of suspected terror operatives have been detained by Israeli troops amid an ongoing operation in northern Gaza’s Jabaliya, the IDF says. The suspects were detained as the army ordered Palestinian civilians to evacuate the area, where heavy fighting is taking place.

In the past day, the IDF says troops killed numerous gunmen and seized weapons during the operation in Jabaliya.
Related:
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Jabaliya: 2024-10-20 IDF says hundreds of Gazans evacuating from Jabaliya amid offensive there against Hamas
Jabaliya: 2024-10-20 50 said killed as IDF strikes terror targets in Gaza, tightens grip on Strip’s north
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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Aqil's replacement as Radwan force was trained in Iran
2024-09-23
Good to know.
[Ynet] According to the Al-Hadath network in Saudi Arabia, Ibrahim Aqil, who was killed on Friday in Beirut along with the top commanders of Hezbollah's elite Radwan unit, will be replaced by his deputy - Ali Reda Abbas. Ali Mussa Daqduq, who previously established a Hezbollah-operated unit on the Syrian Golan Heights will act as his second in command. His son was killed there in an Israeli airstrike.

According to the Saudi outlet, Abbas who is known as Abu Hussein Barish will be named the new commander of the Radwan Force.

...Over the years Abbas held numerous military positions, was trained in Iran and was one of Hezbollah's notable operations officers in southern Lebanon.

Al-Daqduq, was accused of kidnapping and killing five American soldiers in Karbala, Iraq in 2007. He returned to Lebanon after being released from prison in 2012 after an Iraqi court acquitted him of involvement in those crimes.
Released not because he didn’t do it, perhaps, but because he has friends in high Iranian places.
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Ali Mussa Daqduq 08/05/2012 Executioner of Captured American Troops to Be Set Free Thanks To Obama

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Iraq
Kata'ib Hezbollah announces suspension of offensive operations in agreement with Iraqi government
2024-02-01
[HODHODYEMENNEWS.NET] Iraqi resistance group Kata’ib Hezbollah [Hezbollah Brigades] announced the suspension of all its military operations against US troops in the region, in a decision aimed at preventing "any embarrassment" to the Iraqi government, Secretary General of Kata’ib Hezbollah, Abu Hussein al-Hamidawi said in a statement.

Although it will suspend operations on US "occupation forces" in the region, Kata’ib Hezbollah said it would "continue to defend our people in 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 Hamas with 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...
in other ways".

Al-Hamidawi added that Kata’ib Hezbollah would temporarily engage in "passive defense" in response to any potential US action against the group.

The decision follows the killing of three US troops in a drone attack near the Jordan-Syria border. The Pentagon said a final assessment has not been made on who was behind the operation.

US occupation forces in Iraq and Syria have come under attack more than 160 times since the start of the "Israeli" entity’s war against the besieged Gaza Strip in the aftermath of the retaliatory Operation al-Aqsa Flood carried out by Paleostinian resistance faction on October 7.

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Israel-Palestine-Jordan
IDF soldier wounded in car-ramming at army post near Hebron; attacker ‘neutralized’
2023-12-31
The number of neutralized attackers is adding up.
[IsraelTimes] Reservist seriously hurt, taken to hospital for treatment; attack takes place near site of similar assault Friday, where 5 soldiers were hurt

An Israeli soldier was seriously maimed in a car-ramming attack at a army position in the southern West Bank, the military and medics said Saturday.

The Israel Defense Forces said the attack took place near the al-Fawwar refugee camp south of Hebron, not far from the site of a car-ramming attack Friday in which five soldiers were maimed.

It said troops "neutralized" the assailant in the attack, and later confirmed that a reservist of the 7018th Battalion was seriously maimed in the attack. He was taken to Soroka Medical Center for further treatment.

In Friday’s attack, near Adorayim Junction, one soldier was listed at death's door, while the other four were light-to-moderately hurt, according to the IDF. All five were taken to hospitals in Israel for treatment. Troops operating in the area shot and killed the assailant, identified as Amr Abd al-Fattah Abu Hussein by the Paleostinian Authority Health Ministry.

Earlier this week, two people were maimed in a stabbing attack at a checkpoint between Jerusalem and the Gush Etzion settlement bloc in the West Bank. The Magen David Adom ambulance service said Thursday its medics treated a woman, later identified as a Border Police officer in her 20s, and a 25-year-old civilian security guard, at the Mazmuria checkpoint near the southern Jerusalem neighborhood of Har Homa. Health officials said both were hospitalized and were in light-to-moderate condition.

The alleged assailant, a 24-year-old East Jerusalem resident, was rubbed out by security forces at the scene, police said in a statement.

According to a Times of Israel news hound who witnessed the attack, the assailant got out of a car and attacked officers guarding the checkpoint, before being shot by those he’d stabbed.
Related:
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Fawwar refugee camp: 2020-05-14 Palestinian teen killed in clashes with IDF amid uptick in West Bank violence
Fawwar refugee camp: 2015-11-26 Soldier seriously wounded in stabbing attack near Hebron
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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Hezbollah's Mohammad Raad: The Father Who Joined Ranks of Martyrs' Families
2023-11-24
[ENGLISH.ALMANAR.LB] Despite the tempest of loss, smiling Hezbollah MP Mohammad Raad stood firmly, as he received the body of his son, who was martyred in an Israeli strike on south Leb
...an Iranian satrapy currently ruled by Hassan Nasrallah situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozen flavors of Christians, plus Armenians, Georgians, and who knows what else? It is the home of the original Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers...
late Wednesday.

Abbas, also known with his nom de guerre, "Siraj", was martyred along with four other Hezbollah fighters in an Israeli strike on the southern town of Beit Yahoun.

"He pursued a path and arrived. My only issue with him is that he preceded me. He surpassed me. May Allah accept him and brighten his face," MP Raad said about his son, Abbas, who walked the path of honor and freedom.

"We are firm on this path. We congratulate our martyr ’Siraj’ on this elevation," said the Hezbollah MP who emerged as a pillar of strength in face of the grief.

"We extend our congratulations to Sayyed Hasan Nasrallah who taught us how to be patient, steadfast, strong, and keen to pursue the path of freedom," MP Raad told al-Manar before dawn on Thursday.

Earlier on Wednesday, Hezbollah’s Islamic Resistance® mourned "with full pride and honor the loss of five of its dedicated mujahideen All the Way to al-Quds," a statement by the party’s Military Media Center read.

Among the deaders were Abbas Mohammad Raad "Siraj" from Jbaa, Khalil Jawad Shahimi "Siraj" from Markaba, Ahmed Hassan Mustafa "Malak Houla" from Houla, Mohammad Hassan Ahmad Sherri "Karbala" from Khirbet Salam, and Bassam Ali Kanjo "Abu Hussein Thaer" from Shaqra.

The five deaders were laid to rest in their hometowns on Thursday.

Related:
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Mohammad Raad: 2022-08-04 Clergy, bags of cash set off new sectarian brawl in Lebanon
Mohammad Raad: 2019-12-20 Hezbollah bloc nominates Hassan Diab to head next gov’t
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Hezbollah: 2023-11-22 US considers re-designating Iran-backed Houthis in Yemen as terror group
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Hasan Nasrallah: 2023-10-27 Hamas Deputy Chief Underscores, via Al-Manar, Coordination with Hezbollah in Gaza Battle Since Day One
Hasan Nasrallah: 2023-07-23 Hezbollah Leader Warns Sweden: Escalating Path of Quran Desecration is Declaration of War against Islam
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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Suspected ISIS leader arrested in Hasaka
2023-05-17
[Rudaw] The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) on Monday announced that they had dismantled an alleged 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) cell in the countryside of northeast Syria's (Rojava) Hasaka with the support of the global coalition, apprehending the leader of the cell and one of his lover companions.

The SDF accused the detainee of being "directly responsible" for the group’s activities in south of Hasaka and north of Deir ez-Zor, saying he had been actively planning attacks against security forces and civilians and posed a threat to the region’s stability.

"The operation was supported by air surveillance and ground support by the international coalition forces," said the SDF in a statement, adding that weapons and technical equipment were found at the site of the operation, as well documents confirming the suspect’s affiliation to the hard boy group.

The US-led coalition is yet to comment on the operation.

At least 13 suspected ISIS operatives were killed in April in operations carried out by the global coalition and local forces in Iraq and Syria, with an additional 28 suspects also arrested during that month, according to a report by the US Central Command (CENTCOM).

The coalition said late last month that ISIS activities in Syria and Iraq had significantly decreased since the beginning of the year.

Successive leaders of the group have been targeted in their hideouts in Syria. Earlier this months, The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the decaying remnant of the Ottoman Empire...
announced it had killed suspected ISIS chief Abu Hussein al-Qurayshi during an operation in Jindires, northwest Syria.
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Rojava: 2023-05-07 13 ISIS turbans toes up in Syria, Iraq during April, 28 more tied up: US army
Rojava: 2023-05-06 SDF says two fighters killed by Turkish drone in Hasaka
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Hasaka: 2023-05-08 New Zealand repatriates ISIS child from AANES regions
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Terror Networks
13 ISIS turbans toes up in Syria, Iraq during April, 28 more tied up: US army
2023-05-07
[Rudaw] United State-led coalition and local forces killed 13 suspected 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) operatives in Syria and Iraq in April, US Central Command (CENTCOM) announced on Friday.

Another 28 ISIS suspects were detained during joint operations between the coalition and their Iraqi and Syrian partners, CENTCOM said in its review of anti-ISIS activities for the month.

"These operations showcase our enduring commitment to the lasting defeat of ISIS and the continued need for targeted military efforts to prevent ISIS members from conducting attacks and regaining a foothold. We remain focused on building local partner forces’ capabilities to prevent ISIS resurgence," read the statement.

In Iraq, nine suspected ISIS operatives were killed and seven others were detained during 25 partnered operations, while in Syria four were killed and 21 were arrested in ten raids, including a US-only operation.

The coalition said late last month that ISIS activities in Syria and Iraq had significantly decreased since the beginning of the year, describing the latest Islamic holy month of Ramadan as "one of the most peaceful."

"During Ramadan we observed a significant reduction in the number of ISIS attacks compared to previous years. We assess this is due to the increased operations by our partners," CENTCOM said on Friday.

The coalition advises and provides aerial assistance to Peshmerga forces and the Iraqi army as well as the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in the fight against ISIS. The SDF have carried out a string of raids on ISIS in northeast Syria (Rojava), in coordination with the global coalition.

Successive leaders of the group have been targeted in their hideouts in Syria. On Sunday, The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...just another cheapjack Moslem dictatorship, brought to you by the Moslem Brüderbund...
announced it had killed suspected ISIS chief Abu Hussein al-Qurayshi during an operation in Jindires, northwest Syria the day before.

Farhad Shami, head of the SDF’s media centre, took to Twitter after Ankara's announcement and claimed that Qurayshi had been under the protection of Ottoman Turkish forces who control northwestern Syria.

Washington has said it is unable to confirm Turkey’s claim.
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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Turkish raid prompted ISIS leader to detonate suicide vest: Report
2023-05-04
Even more on this story.


[Shafaq News] ISIS leader Abu Hussein al-Qurashi
,,,somewhat more fully Abu al-Hussein al-Husseini al-Qurashi...
's six-month rule ended when he detonated a boom jacket during a Ottoman Turkish special forces raid in northwest Syria on Saturday after refusing to surrender, a senior Ottoman Turkish security official said.

The third ISIS leader to die by detonating an explosive vest during a raid since 2019, Qurashi leaves behind an organization that once ruled millions of people via its control of a third of Iraq and Syria but has now been forced underground.

The four-hour raid, led by The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire...
's National Intelligence Organization (MIT), saw special forces blast their way through a perimeter fence, back door and walls of his hideout in a two-storey building near the town of Jandaris, the security official said.

Two Syrian security sources said Ottoman Turkish-backed Syrian gangs set a perimeter around the area while Ottoman Turkish special forces, who one source said earlier entered Syria in armoured vehicles, raided the house.

The MIT declined to comment for this report. Ottoman Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Sunday Qurashi "was neutralized" as part of the intelligence forces' operation.

Images of the site provided by the security official showed a red-roofed building with most of the walls on its ground floor blown out.

Metal and cinderblock debris lay scattered on a paved patio with a small fountain, and on the brick-red soil of an adjacent field planted with olive trees.

The MIT, which the Ottoman Turkish source said had been following Qurashi for a long time, conducted the covert operation after determining he would soon relocate, the official said, adding that Qurashi detonated his boom jacket when he realised he would be captured.

There were calls for Qurashi to surrender but no response, the source said.

Like his predecessor, Qurashi never made a public address, a marker of how far the group's reach has fallen since former leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi climbed the pulpit of a crowded mosque in Iraq in 2014 to declare his self-styled caliphate.

'LAST SAFE HAVEN'
Qurashi was the latest in a series of senior ISIS members to be either captured or killed in Syria's northwest, a sliver of territory held by rival militias, including hardline gangs and jihadist factions backed by Turkey.

The area has become the most significant ISIS safe haven in the region after the group was territorially defeated in Iraq in 2017 and Syria in 2019, with members and supporters slipping across the remote 600-km (370-mile) Iraqi-Syrian border.

Navvar Shaban, of the Omran Center for Strategic Studies, said: "There are a lot of sleeper cells in these areas that can facilitate more ISIS officials coming into these zones, and plenty of checkpoints at which they can pay money to get through easily."

An Iraqi intelligence official said: "The only safe haven for the senior ISIS (ISIS) leaders is in Syria, and specifically in areas bordering Turkey."

Iraqi intelligence cooperation with Turkey played a major role in recent operations targeting senior ISIS members, according to the source and a second Iraqi intelligence official focused on key IS leaders' activities in Iraq, Syria and Turkey.

The cooperation helped Turkey determine the approximate whereabouts of Qurashi in Syria

They said Turkey facilitated the entry of Iraqi agents into northwestern Syria, who then lured senior ISIS leader Khaled al-Jabouri from Turkey to Syria where he was killed in a U.S. dronezap last month.

In the process of that operation, Ottoman Turkish-backed gangs detained two ISIS members, based in Afrin and a village near Jandaris, who had aimed to provide Jabouri with a message from Qurashi, the sources said.

"This was a red flag that Qurashi was highly likely hiding in this area," one of the sources said.

The U.S. had also helped with the provision of intelligence obtained by advanced systems that could intercept ISIS communications in Syria, the source said.

A spokesperson for the U.S.-led anti-ISIS coalition said they do not comment on the military operations of other nations. A Ottoman Turkish security official declined to comment on any Iraqi intelligence involvement in the operation.

SUCCESSION
With Qurashi gone, analysts expect ISIS to eventually announce a new leader.

He would become the fourth in as many years, presiding over a group that has seen a significant reduction in activities across the areas it operates, chiefly the Middle East and Africa.

The Iraqi intelligence officials said ISIS's new leader would likely be an Iraqi, like his predecessors, but there were only a handful of leaders left who were eligible to take over the role, three of whom were known to Iraqi intelligence.

Hassan Hassan, the author of a book on ISIS and editor of New Lines magazine which publishes work on the group, said ISIS previously built up leadership profiles to prepare followers for succession but had not been able to do so in recent years.

"ISIS no longer has the type of credible leaders it can advertise, at least internally, and the security situation has also become too complicated for it to prioritise that aspect," he told Rooters.

"The last leader was the hardest for even Iraqi and American intelligence to guess, and this applies even more to the coming one," he said.

ISIS has not confirmed or commented on the killing of its leader.

ISIS murderous Moslems continue to wage Death Eater attacks and a U.N. report published in February said ISIS is estimated to have 5,000 to 7,000 members and supporters spread between Syria and Iraq, roughly half of them fighters.
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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Two suspected ISIS smugglers arrested in Rojava
2023-05-03
[Rudaw] The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) on Tuesday announced the arrest of two suspected 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) operatives who are accused of smuggling weapons to the group's cells in the notorious al-Hol camp in northeast Syria (Rojava).

The SDF, with the aerial support of the global coalition against ISIS, conducted a raid in Hasaka city where the camp is located, arresting two ISIS operatives identified as Saeed Hussein al-Hamawi and Ali Mohammed Gahanam by the coalition.

"With air surveillance provided by the international coalition forces, our forces successfully apprehended the terrorist who was responsible for supplying weapons to active terrorist cells in the al-Hol camp, enabling them to carry out killings and liquidations. Additionally, he was involved in smuggling other cell members from the camp to different areas," said the SDF in a statement.

"During the operation, our special units also apprehended another suspect who was working with the detained cell member," it added.

The coalition said in their statement that "SDF coordinated the deliberate targeting of these ISIS members to further disrupt ISIS capabilities, degrade their support networks, and improve security and stability within al-Hol IDP camp."

The arrests followed a wave of crackdowns on the group by the SDF in northeast Syria, in coordination with the global coalition.

The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor...
on Sunday announced it had killed the suspected leader of ISIS, Abu Hussein al-Qurayshi, during an operation in Syria the day before.

Farhad Shami, head of SDF media centre, took to twitter after Ankara's announcement and claimed that Qurayshi was killed in Jindires, adding that he had been protected by Ottoman Turkish forces stationed there.
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The Grand Turk
Turkey offers details of ISIS chief's death in Syria
2023-05-02
More on this story from yesterday.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire...
released new details Monday about its successful operation against the ISIS global chief, saying he died by setting off a boom jacket to avoid being detained.
At least he had the courage of his convictions, though he won’t have nearly as much fun in Hell as he would have had if he’d died whole instead of widely scattered.
President His Enormity, Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First
...Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey. In Anatolia did Recep Bey a stately Presidential Palace decree, that has 1100 rooms. That's 968 more than in the White House, 400 more than in Versailles, and 325 more than Buckingham Palace, so you know who's really more important...
announced Sunday the death of the "suspected leader of [ISIS], codename Abu Hussein al-Qurashi".

Turkey's Anadolu state news agency gave his full name as Abu al-Hussein al-Husseini al-Qurashi,
...that’s even worse than his nom de guerre. Does he have no personal name, something his mother or wife might call him in moments of tenderness or extreme annoyance?
saying he joined ISIS in 2013 and quickly rose through the krazed killer group's ranks.

Ottoman Turkish media also released images of a fenced-off building in the middle of a field where it said Qurashi was hiding in Syria's Afrin province.

A section of the two-story house was sheared off, apparently from blasts.

ISIS announced the death of its previous leader, Abu Hasan al-Hashimi al-Qurashi, on November 30.

Anadolu said Turkey's MIT intelligence agency conducted a four-hour operation during which it located and surrounded al-Hussein al-Husseini on Saturday.

MIT agents blasted apart a stone wall that surrounded the house, before entering it through a rear entrance and side windows.

Al-Hussein al-Husseini set off his boom jacket when he realized he was about to be captured, Anadolu said, adding that no Ottoman Turkish operatives were killed or injured.

An AFP correspondent in northern Syria said the operation had targeted an abandoned farm that was being used as an Islamic school.
All those human shields did no good when the kids went home for the weekend.
Turkey has deployed troops in northern Syria since 2020, and controls entire zones with the help of Syrian proxies.

At its height, when it controlled swathes of Iraq and Syria, the ISIS group grabbed credit for a series of attacks in Europe.

In October 2019, Washington announced it had killed ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi in northwestern Syria, and several of the group's top commanders have since been killed in raids.

Despite having been driven out of much of the territory it once controlled, the group still launches attacks in Syria.
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Abu Hussein al-Qurashi: 2023-05-01 Islamic State leader in Syria killed in Turkish raid — Erdogan
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Abu al-Hussein al-Husseini al-Qurashi: 2022-11-30 BREAKING: Islamic State says leader killed ‘in combat with enemies of God’
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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Islamic State leader in Syria killed in Turkish raid — Erdogan
2023-05-01
[IsraelTimes] Figure going by Abu Hussein al-Qurashi ’neutralized’ by intel agents, Ottoman Turkish president says after operation at abandoned farm in country’s northeast

The suspected leader 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....
group has been killed in Syria in an operation carried out by The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire...
’s MIT intelligence agency, Ottoman Turkish President His Enormity, Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First
...Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey. In Anatolia did Recep Bey a stately Presidential Palace decree, that has 1100 rooms. That's 968 more than in the White House, 400 more than in Versailles, and 325 more than Buckingham Palace, so you know who's really more important...
said Sunday.

"The suspected leader of ISIS, codename Abu Hussein al-Qurashi, has been neutralized in an operation carried out yesterday (Saturday) by the MIT in Syria," he announced on television.

The Islamic State group announced the death of its previous leader, Abu Hasan al-Hashimi al-Qurashi, on November 30, replacing him with Abu Hussein al-Qurashi.

An AFP correspondent in northern Syria said Ottoman Turkish intelligence agents and local military police, backed by Turkey had on Saturday sealed off a zone in Jindires, in the northwest region of Afrine.

Residents told AFP that an operation had targeted an abandoned farm that was being used as an Islamic school.

The United States carried out a helicopter raid in northern Syria in an operation in mid-April, saying the Islamic State group had been planning attacks in Europa
...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum...
and the Middle East.

US Central Command said they had killed a big shot of the IS group in the operation.

Despite having been driven out of much of the territory it once controlled, the Islamic State group still launches attacks in Syria.
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