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Arabia

Several wounded as STC mercenaries attack in Abyan province

2023-01-25

by Emad Almarshahi

A number of citizens, including a child and women, were injured on Monday when the UAE-backed Southern Transitional Council (STC)’s militia bombarded citizens’ villages in Mudiya district of Abyan province, southern Yemen.

Informed sources stated that groups of the STC militia coming from Dhalea province and Yafea area in Lahj province, led by Mukhtar Al-Nubi, bombed a number of areas, including Al-Baqira village east of Mudiya, with mortars and machine guns, which resulted in the injury of several civilians, including a 3-year-old child and women and caused severe damage to citizens’ homes.

The tribesmen targeted the militia in response to the bombing of their villages and terrorizing their children and women, according to the sources.

This came after the STC militia launched a military campaign on the areas of Al-Mahzera and the villages of Al-Fathan tribes, storming homes and arresting several residents, including three from Al-Mahzera, which led to clashes that left nearly 4 dead and wounded during the past hours of Monday.

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Afghanistan

Daily Evacuation Brief September 19, 2022

2022-09-19

LAST 24 HOURS

ONE YEAR OF GIRLS BANNED FROM SCHOOL — The United Nations and other international organizations released statements marking the one-year anniversary since Afghan girls’ were officially barred from attending secondary schools in Afghanistan. The statements sought to shame the Taliban regime and pleaded for a rollback of the unpopular policy. The Taliban has not responded.

CONFERENCE OF EXILES INSPIRES OFFENSIVE — The conclusion of the conference of exiled Afghan leaders seems to have been the catalyst for a new round of Resistance attacks in Afghanistan. Groups loosely aligned with the NRF also executed targeted operations against high-value targets in provinces around the country. It is unclear if Resistance groups will continue to put pressure on the Taliban over the coming week.

ZAKIR CONFIRMED ALIVE, INJURED — A Taliban spokesman has denied reports that the Taliban’s special commander in Panjshir, Abdul Qayyum Zakir, was killed but acknowledged that he was injured. However, Zakir’s deputy, Molavi Haroon, was confirmed to be killed in fighting in the 1st district. It was not clear exactly when the injury and killing took place. Zakir is said to be recuperating in a heavily guarded hospital in an undisclosed location.

FIRE IN KABUL MARKET — A large fire consumed several shops in a bustling clothing market in Kabul early on Sunday morning. Local eyewitnesses say the fire was contained quickly and was not allowed to spread into the general market.

CONFLICT TRACKER
Helmand: Taliban repeatedly attacked suspected terrorist safehouse in an undisclosed location. Early reports claim 4 civilian women were killed and 4 more civilians maimed in the attack.
Badghis: Two Talib commanders, Qari Nasir and Sayyid Agha were reportedly killed by the NRF in Jund district.
Panjshir: Noted Talib commander Maulvi Habibullah Sheeran (a.k.a. Zarkqwi) was reportedly killed in battle with the NRF at an undisclosed location in the province. He was considered a favourite of senior Taliban leadership.
Panjshir: NRF commander Sahib Mohammad Kabir Foulad is said to have led an arrack in an unidentified Talib position. The NRF claim to have killed 8 Talibs while taking no casualties.
Kandahar: The militant wing of the NLF claims to have assassinated 3 Talib security forces personnel in Kandahar city during the evening. Among the dead is Talib commander Maulvi Shafi Amr. The killings may have taken place on a bypass road around the city.
Takhar: Unidentified gunmen were said to have shot and killed 1 Taliban security forces member in Dasht-e-Qala district yesterday evening. No group has claimed responsibility, and the circumstances around the killing are unknown.

NEXT 24 HOURS

TALIBAN LEADER SHAKEUP RUMORS — There are several uncorroborated rumors of an impending shakeup in the senior leadership at the Ministry of Defense. No specific names or positions have been mentioned, but a source claims that Taliban leadership in Kandahar has ordered the dismissal of 5 senior figures and their replacements are en route from Kandahar. The source continued to say that the Panjshir campaign (codename: Operation Al-Fath) has been an embarrassment to the regime, and the recent positive press coverage given to the NRF leader in Austria has convinced Supreme Leader Akhundzada that a change was needed.

INDIA ADVOCATES FOR SIKHS STUCK IN AFG— India is expected to make a plea to the Taliban for several Sikhs to be allowed to travel out of Afghanistan. The Sikhs were recently denied permission to exit because the Taliban said they were carrying holy documents that were considered blasphemous.

INTERESTING ARTICLES
Afghan Zarqawi is shot dead in Panjsher valley of Afghanistan

[Modern Diplomacy] According to intelligence information, the leading Taliban commander Maulvi Habibullah Sheeran, who was known as Zarqawi, a resident of Zhrhai District, Kandahar Province, in the southwestern zone of the Taliban was killed in Panjshir battle.

Meantime, the intelligence report indicates, Mullah Abdul Qayyum Zakir, the general military officer of Panjshir and Andrab and the deputy of the Ministry of National Defense, was injured in Panjshir on Friday, September 16 at 3:25 p.m.

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Afghanistan

2 Killed, 20 Wounded in 2 Gunmen Attacks in Herat

2022-07-05

[ToloNews] At least two people were killed and at around 20 were maimed in two separate attacks by unknown button men in Herat
...a venerable old Persian-speaking city in western Afghanistan, populated mostly by Tadjiks, which is why it's not as blood-soaked as areas controlled by Pashtuns...
city, officials said on Monday.

The first attack targeted a vehicle of the Herat air force in PD 4 and the second attack targeted a vehicle carrying personnel from the 207 Corps in PD8 of Herat city.

At least two students were also maimed in the attack.

The security department said that one of the attackers was killed by the security forces but another one escaped.

The maimed were brought to a hospital.

"Several gunnies attacked a 207 Corps vehicle and two personnel were killed and several others were maimed. The security forces reached the area and killed the attackers. The MoD expresses deep condolences for the martyred and wishes urgent recovery for the injured," said Enayatulah Khawarazmi, MoD front man.

The witness said that attackers succeeded in escaping from the area after the attack.

"They attacked a bus and once the bus stopped they threw grenades inside. While the Islamic Emirate forces were coming out, they opened fire on them," said Enayatullah, a witness.

The attack has raised severe concerns among the residents of Herat.

"We were inside the shop when the gunfire happened," said Abdul Satar, a resident of Herat.

"Unfortunately, the people of Afghanistan will be victims of insecurity and violence and it will cause further poverty and misery in Afghanistan," said Hassan Hakimi, a civil rights ~~activist ~~muppet~~~~.

No one has so far grabbed credit for the attack.

Khaama Press names the 207th as the Al Farooq Corps, adding:

Previously, an attack by a group called the Afghanistan Freedom Movement in northern Balkh province, targeted Taliban’s 209 Al-Fath Corps that resulted in the injuries of three people.

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Africa North

Nine people executed in Egypt over Kerdasa police killings in 2013

2021-04-27

The process most definitely being the punishment, by the time they were hanged — Egyptian soldiers generally not being sharpshooters — they were no doubt grateful the ordeal was over.

[AlAhram] The retrial followed a 2014 mass trial that saw preliminary death sentence
...the barbaric practice of sentencing a murderer to be punished for as long as his/her/its victim is dead...
s against 183 people

Nine people were executed on Monday over their involvement in an attack on Giza’s Kerdasa cop shoppe in August 2013 that killed several coppers, sources said.

The execution was carried out at Wadi al-Natrun prison in the early hours of Monday.

Monday’s execution comes nearly three years after Egypt’s Court of Cassation upheld death sentences against 20 defendants after a Cairo Criminal Court sentenced the defendants to death in a retrial in 2017.

Prosecutors charged the defendants with storming the Kerdasa cop shoppe in Giza on 14 August 2013, killing 12 coppers and two civilians and mutilating their bodies, attempting to murder 10 other coppers and destroying the cop shoppe.

The defendants were also charged with torching several police vehicles and being in possession of heavy firearms during the attack.

The attack on the station followed the forced dispersal of sit-ins in support of late ousted Islamist president Mohammed Morsi in Cairo in August 2013.

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Syria-Lebanon-Iran

“Al-Fath al-Mubin” factions shell regime forces’ positions with Grad missiles

2021-04-01

[PUBLISH.TWITTER]

#SOHR East of #Idlib | “Al-Fath al-Mubin” factions shell regime forces’ positions with Grad missiles https://t.co/GP7KHSOsmU
— المرصد السوري لحقوق الإنسان (@syriahr) March 31, 2021

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Afghanistan

Taliban: 15 killed, equipment seized as post overrun in Nad Ali

2020-03-17

[al-Emarah] Amid ongoing Al Fath operations Mujahideen carried out assaults on a hireling check post in Nad Ali district limits overnight. Details say, attacks of heavy and light arms resulting in the post was overrun completely after killing 15 puppets and seizing 1 PKM machine gun, 1 RPG launcher, 1 sniper gun, 1 LMG machine gun, 2 rifles and other equipment.

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Afghanistan

8 police killed as post overrun in Lashkergah

2020-02-24

[al-Emarah] Amid ongoing Al Fath operations Mujahideen carried out attacks on a hireling check post in Babaji area, PD4 of capital Lashkargah.

The post was overrun after killing 8 puppets and destroying a ranger pickup parked inside as well as seizing 1 RPG launcher, 2 mortar tubes, 2 rifles and other equipment.

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Afghanistan

6 killed as check post overrun in Helmand

2020-02-12

[al-Emarah] Mujahideen carried out attacks on a hireling check post in Khoshak Abi area of capital Lashkargah late last night, amid ongoing Al Fath operations.

Details say, firefight of heavy and light arms, resulting in the post was overrun completely after killing 6 puppets and seizing a PKM machine gun, 1 RPG launcher along with other equipment.

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The Grand Turk

Erdogan: "Our God commands us to be violent to the kuffar"

2019-11-17

[IsraelNationalNews] On October 25, a leader of a NATO member nation openly incited violence against non-Muslims.

On that day, Turkey’s president Recep Tayyip Erdogan attended the Friday prayers at the Great Camlica Mosque in Istanbul. He was accompanied by Istanbul’s governor Ali Yerlikaya, mayor Ekrem Imamoglu, Istanbul’s chief of police Mustafa Caliskan and the head of the Istanbul branch of the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP), Bayram Senocak.

After the prayers, the hafiz of the mosque recited the Koranic Verse Al-Fath, which means "victory, triumph, conquest" in English. Then Erdogan took the microphone, reciting a part of the verse in Arabic and then in Turkish. He told the congregants:

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Afghanistan

8 Taliban militants killed, 17 captured during a clash with the Afghan forces in Zabul

2019-04-26

[KhaamaPress] The Afghan Military in the South has announced that 8 Talibs were killed and 17 others were captured during a clash with the security forces in southern Zabul province.

The 205th Atal Corps in a statement has said during a joint clearing operation from the Afghan Special Forces and the 205th Corps, 17 faceless myrmidons have been captured in Nawbahar district in Zabul province.

The statement further added that the security forces encountered heavy festivities with the Taliban
...mindless ferocity in a turban...
which resulted in eight Taliban killed and an additional five were maimed.

Zabul Province has seen an increase of Taliban activity since the announcement of their spring offensive, Al Fath, however Zabul security forces have taken steps under the security plan Operation Khalid, like this recent operation, to lower violence across the province and prevent future attacks from the Taliban.

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Afghanistan

179 militants killed in North since the launch of Taliban’s spring offensive: military

2019-04-16

[KhaamaPress] The Afghan Military in the North has announced that 179 Talibs including 15 commanders of the group hailing from Afghanistan as well as abroad have been killed in Northern and Northeastern provinces of the country since the group announced the launch of its spring offensive "Al-Fath".

The announcement was last Friday, 12 April. It sounds like all parties involved have been busy since then.

The 209th Shaheen Corps in a statement said the ~~bandidos~~ Lions of Islam were killed during the festivities in Badakhshan, Kunduz, Baghlan, Balkh, Sar-e-Pul

...a city and eponymous province in northern Afghanistan, population about 500,000. Demographically it is majority Tadjik and Uzbek. There are small Pashtun, Arab, and Hazara

...a grouping of Dari-speaking people of Sino-Tibetan descent inhabiting Afghanistan and Pakistain. They are predominantly Shia Moslems and not particularly warlike, which makes them favored targets...
communities, of which the Hazaras mostly don't bother anyone...
, and Faryab provinces.

The statement further added that 77 ~~bandidos~~ Lions of Islam including their 6 commanders were also maimed during the same festivities.

According to 209th Shaheen Corps, Talibs intensified their attacks in northern parts of the country after announcing their spring offensive but the Afghan armed forces effective responded and repulsed the attacks with the resistance of the ground forces and ~~Arclight~~ airstrike

s carried out by the Air Forces.

The 209th Shaheen Corps also confirmed that 7 security personnel also bit the dust during the festivities and 11 others sustained injuries but the civilians have not suffered casualties so far.

The anti-government armed ~~bandidos~~ Lions of Islam including Taliban
...Arabic for students...
have not commented regarding the report so far.

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Iraq

Iraqi forces capture al-Fatha region in Salahuddin

2017-10-03

Salahuddin (IraqiNews.com) Iraqi troops have managed to retake a region from Islamic State in Salahuddin and raise the Iraqi flag on the highest peak of a mountain there, news agencies reported on Monday.

“Al-Fatha region, northeast of Tikrit, has been liberated. The Iraqi flag has been raised on the highest peak of Hamreen mountains,” Wanas al-Jabbara, commander of the 88th brigade of the Tribal Mobilization Forces, was quoted saying. Troops reached its targets after killing four militants and seizing their militants.

“Liberation of al-Fatha will make declaration of Salahuddin as an IS-free province a matter of time. Troops deployed in the region will reinforce others coming toward Hawija,” he added.

Al-Fatha is considered a pivotal region as Tigris passes through it between Makhoul and Hamreen mountains. On its west bank, where IS still exists, Biji refineries and electricity generation stations are located.

Late September, Federal Police announced liberation of eastern Shirqat, after Iraqi Prime Minister Haidar al-Abadi and the Joint Operations Command announced earlier the same month the launch of first phase of operations to liberate Hawija and western Shirqat.

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