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French army says senior Al-Qaeda leader killed in Mali
2022-03-08
[AlAhram] La Belle France's army said Monday that its anti-jihadist force in Mali had killed Yahia Djouadi, a "big shot" of al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) responsible for finance and logistics.

La Belle France's army said Monday that its anti-jihadist force in Mali had killed Yahia Djouadi, a "big shot" of al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) responsible for finance and logistics.

Djouadi, an Algerian also known as Abu Ammar al-Jazairi, was killed overnight from February 25 to 26 around (160 kilometres (100 miles) north of Timbuktu in central Mali, the army said in a statement.

His death "once again weakens al-Qaeda's governance" in Mali, it added, calling him "a major link in northern Mali and especially the Timbuktu area" to the Qaeda-aligned GSIM group.

A former "emir" of al-Qaeda's Libyan operations, Djouadi fled to Mali in 2019 and settled in the Timbuktu region, helping organise the group and coordinating supplies, financing and logistics, the army said.

It added that he was killed by ground forces supported by a Tiger attack helicopter and two drones.

La Belle France is preparing to redeploy some 2,400 troops away from Mali to other countries in the Sahel region
... North Africa's answer to the Pak tribal areas...
 facing cross-border jihadist insurgencies, after falling out with the military junta in Bamako.

While the pullout is set to stretch over six months, the army said that "operations continue against armed terrorist groups, especially against the top leaders of al-Qaeda, GSIM and the Islamic State in the Greater Sahara
...he succulent fruit of the union of splinter factions from Mokhtar Bekmokhtar'sal-Mourabitunes and MUJAO. Once the dust had settled and the smell of gunsmoke had dissipated, they became the Islamic State in Mali, then adopted their present clever name. They are headed by Adnan Abu Walid Saharaoui. It operates along the borders of Burkina Faso
...The country in west Africa that they put where Upper Volta used to be. Its capital is Oogadooga, or something like that. Its president is currently Blaise Compaoré, who took office in 1987 and will leave office feet first, one way or the other...
, Niger, and Mali...
 (ISGS) group."

French forces first intervened in Mali in 2013, but disputes between Gay Paree and Bamako since a 2020 coup have prompted the military government to turn to other allies like Russia's Wagner paramilitary group.

Even with international allies on the ground, the Malian state has struggled to reassert control of territory from the jihadist insurgency that began in the country's north in 2012 and has since spread to neighbouring Niger and Burkina Faso.

The fighting has claimed thousands of lives and forced hundreds of thousands of people to flee their homes.
Deutsche Welle adds:
La Belle France has said forces from its Operation Barkhane contingent killed a senior regional al-Qaeda leader in an overnight raid near Timbuktu last week. Meanwhile,
...back at the shootout, Butch clutched at his other leg......
 two UN peacekeepers have died in an explosive attack.

On Monday, two members of the UN's Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA) force were killed in a roadside kaboom when the vehicle they were traveling in hit an improvised bomb.

"This morning, a supply convoy ... struck an improvised bomb north of Mopti," MINUSMA front man Olivier Salgado wrote on Twitter. Four other peacekeepers were maimed in the attack.

The nationalities of those killed and injured in the attack were not immediately released.

FUTURE OF UN PEACEKEEPING MISSION IN DOUBT
Western nations participating in the international mission have said the shifting situation on the ground may in fact compromise the 13,000-strong contingent, the annual mandate of which must be renewed this June. As with the French deployment to Mali, UN troops have been on the ground in the Sahel since 2013 in an effort to halt the advance of Islamic fighters who began seriously challenging governments and civilians in the region in 2012.

MINUSMA troops have been heavily dependent upon French air and medical support throughout their mission. La Belle France's withdrawal from Mali, as well as the recent coup, has caused contributing nations such as Germany, Sweden and Denmark to rethink their commitment to it.
Related:
Yahia Djouadi: 2013-06-17 Qaida N. Africa Branch Confirms Death in Mali of Leader Abou Zeid
Yahia Djouadi: 2012-02-20 AQIM emir believed dead in ANP airstrike
Yahia Djouadi: 2012-01-30 AQIM replaces Sahara emir
Related:
Operation Barkhane: 2022-02-13 French forces 'neutralize' 40 militants in Burkina Faso
Operation Barkhane: 2021-10-22 French Army Kills Senior al-Qaeda Member, 4 Other Terrorists, in Mali Airstrike
Operation Barkhane: 2021-09-16 French soldiers kill Islamic State leader in Western Sahara, Macron says
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Israel-Palestine-Jordan
IDF troops apprehend two Gaza men with hand grenades near border
2021-10-03
[IsraelTimes] Suspects taken in for interrogation by Israel’s security services; incident follows death of Paleostinian man also seen approaching border this week.

Israeli troops apprehended two Paleostinian men who tried to cross from the 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...
 Strip into Israel carrying hand grenades, the Israeli military said Saturday.

The two were taken in for interrogation by Israel’s security services, according to the announcement.
"We wuz bird hunting. Like them other fellas this week"
On Thursday, Israeli troops fired at a Paleostinian man who was seen approaching the border, killing him, according to the Hamas, the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®,-run Gaza Health Ministry.

The military said troops fired at the man after he was seen approaching the border with two other men in a suspicious way by IDF troops watching the area through surveillance cameras.

"IDF monitors saw three suspects approaching the security fence in the northern Gaza Strip, as one of them was seen digging in the ground while carrying a suspicious bag," the military said Thursday, without further clarifying.

"After he was spotted, IDF troops who were on the scene shot up the suspect," the IDF said.

The military said it was aware of the Paleostinian reports that the man had been hit by the gunfire and died, but would not comment further.

Gaza health officials identified the dear departed as Mohammad Abd al-Karim Abu Ammar, 40, saying that he had been shot in the neck by live bullets.
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Israel-Palestine-Jordan
IDF troops shoot dead Gaza man, say he had ‘suspicious bag’ as he neared border
2021-10-02
[IsraelTimes] Incident ends relative lull in violence along frontier; Hamas praises Palestinians who attacked Israeli forces in Jerusalem, West Bank and were shot dead.

Israeli troops shot and killed a Palestinian man who approached the central Gaza border on Thursday morning, the Hamas-run Gaza Health Ministry said.

The Israel Defense Forces said troops fired at the man after he was seen approaching the border with two other men in a suspicious way by IDF troops watching the area through surveillance cameras.

“IDF monitors saw three suspects approaching the security fence in the northern Gaza Strip, as one of them was seen digging in the ground while carrying a suspicious bag,” the military said, without further clarifying.

“After he was spotted, IDF troops who were on the scene opened fire at the suspect,” the IDF said.

The military said it was aware of the Palestinian reports that the man had been hit by the gunfire and died, but would not comment further.

Gaza health officials identified the deceased as Mohammad Abd al-Karim Abu Ammar, 40, saying that he had been shot in the neck by live bullets.

According to Gaza media, Abu Ammar had approached the border while “bird-hunting” east of el-Bureij refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip.

“Mohammad was attempting to safeguard his children and family’s daily bread by going to hunt birds, as per the season. But the merciless occupation, which we and the world know well, has no pity. The martyr Mohammad was innocent,” his cousin told Palestinian journalist Hassan Islayeh.

He was fatally wounded and pronounced dead a short time later in a nearby hospital, official Hamas media reported.

The incident came amid a relative lull in violence along the border, following a tense period earlier this month that saw repeated rocket attacks and the launching of balloon-borne incendiary devices from the Strip into Israel.

Two other Palestinians were killed on Thursday during confrontations with Israeli forces. Israel Police said Israa Khazimiyah, a 30-year-old woman from a town outside Jenin, tried to carry out a stabbing attack and was shot and killed in Jerusalem’s Old City. A member of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad terror group, Alaa Zayud, 22, was killed in a predawn shootout with Israeli soldiers near Jenin.

Gaza’s Hamas rulers publicly mourned the two deceased Palestinians, calling them “our people’s heroic martyrs.”

“We repeat that only armed resistance and comprehensive confrontations with the occupation can stop its aggression and expel its settlers from our occupied land,” the terror group said in a statement.
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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
CENTCOM says coalition SDF raid an ISIS position in DeirEzzor Province, Syria
2020-05-23
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Arabia
US drone strike kills 3 high-ranking Al-Qaeda commanders in Yemen
2019-04-02
[ALMASDARNEWS] A U.S. predator drone killed three high-ranking commanders belonging to the al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula
...the latest incarnation of various Qaeda and Qaeda-allied groups, including the now-defunct Aden-Abyan Islamic Army that boomed the USS Cole in 2000...
 (AQAP) group that is currently operating in Yemen.

According to reports, the U.S. dronezap killed the following al-Qaeda commanders: Abu Ammar al-Hadrami, Abu Abdullah al-Monzari, and Abu al-Fahtani.

The U.S. drone attack reportedly took place inside Yemen’s al-Sawma’ah District, which is located in the southern part of the country.

The al-Sawma’ah District is located in the eastern countryside of the al-Bayda Governorate; it currently has a large presence of al-Qaeda gunnies.

Over the last few months, there have been several reports of intense festivities between the al-Qaeda and Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're 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 the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
 (ISIS/ISIS/IS/ISIS) factions inside the al-Bayda Governorate.

Due to the ongoing civil war in Yemen, the two terrorist groups have been able to carve out their own pockets in the al-Bayda Governorate.

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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
IS Kills Druze Woman Captured in Syria Attack
2018-10-03
[AnNahar] The Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're 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 the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
 group has killed a woman from a group of Druze hostages it seized during a deadly attack in Syria's Sweida province, a source and a monitor said Tuesday.

The 25-year-old was among more than 30 people IS jihadists kidnapped as they launched the deadliest attack to hit Sweida's Druze minority since the start of Syria's seven-year civil war.

In the attack on July 25, IS waged a series of suicide kabooms, shootings and stabbings that left more than 250 people dead across the southwestern province, most of them civilians.

It later emerged the jihadists had also kidnapped the group, mostly Druze women and their children, during the attack.

A source familiar with negotiations with the group told AFP that "relatives of Tharwat Abu Ammar were told Tuesday that she had been executed" by IS.

The jihadists also sent a picture of her, covered in blood, to a negotiator, the source said.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights war monitor said she had been shot in the head.

Like the other hostages, Abu Ammar came from the remote village of al-Shabaki in the province's eastern countryside, according to the Sweida 24 news agency.

The agency's head Nour Radwan told AFP that IS had killed her parents during the attack on the village.

IS claimed the Sweida attack via the Telegram messaging app, but it has not mentioned the captives or published pictures or videos of them on its social media channels.

In August, the group executed a 19-year-old male student among the captives, Radwan told AFP.

The following week, a 65-year-old Syrian woman among the captives died, with IS telling negotiators an illness caused her death.

IS has been in talks with Syria's government and its ally Russia to swap the hostages for jihadists held by the regime.

There is little information on what conditions the hostages are being kept in, including whether they are subject to torture or other abuses.

Sweida province is the heartland of the country's Druze minority, which made up around three percent of Syria's pre-war population -- or around 700,000 people.
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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Syrian military to ISIS: Release Sweida prisoners or we will destroy you
2018-08-06
[ALMASDARNEWS] The Syrian Arab Army (SAA) has issued a final ultimatum to the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're 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 the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
 (ISIS) in regards to the 30+ prisoners that are held captive by the terrorist group.

According to a military source in Damascus, the Syrian Arab Army is not going to pay the ransom sum that the Islamic State demanded.

The source said that Syrian Army negotiators told the Islamic State that if they do release the 30+ prisoners in the coming days, they will be destroyed.

In order to pressure the Syrian military to pay the ransom, the Islamic State executed one of the kidnapped civilians from the al-Sweida Governorate on Thursday.

The Syrian Army was hoping to do a prisoner exchange with the terrorist group, especially after they captured over 200 members of the ISIS-affiliated Jaish Khaled bin Walid forces.

However,
it was a brave man who first ate an oyster...
 ISIS was reportedly not interested in a prisoner exchange and demanded the Syrian Arab Army pay the ransom.

ISIS is currently trapped inside the Badiya al-Sham region of northeast al-Sweida, as they no longer have any outlet to retreat from.

ISIS video allegedly shows hostage from Syria’s Sweida before decapitation

[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] ISIS has executed one of dozens of Druze hostages abducted from Syria's southern province of Sweida last month, a Syrian news outlet and a monitor said Sunday.

The terrorist group killed the 19-year-old male student on Thursday after kidnapping more than 30 people, mostly women and children, from a village in Sweida during a deadly rampage on July 25, the head of the Sweida24 news website Nour Radwan said.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Britain-based war monitor, said it was the first execution since the kidnappings.

Quoting relatives, Radwan said the young man was taken from the village of Al-Shabki on July 25 along with his mother.

Videos Of The Execution
His family received two videos, the first showing him being decapitated and the second of him speaking before being killed as well as images of his body after his death, Radwan said.

Sweida24 posted online part of a second video, which was seen by AFP, showing a young man who appeared to be sitting on the ground in a rocky landscape.

His is wearing a black T-shirt and his hands are tied behind his back.

The video could not be independently verified.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Britain-based war monitor, said it was the first execution since the kidnappings.

On July 25, ISIS carried out a series of attacks in Sweida's provincial capital and several villages that killed more than 250 people, mostly civilians.

It was the deadliest attack ever to target the mostly government-held province and the secretive Druze religious minority that populates it.
During the attack the jihadists abducted 36 Druze women and children from a village in Sweida's east, the Observatory said at the time.

Four women had since escaped while two had died, leaving 14 women and 16 children in ISIS captivity, according to the Observatory.

At the time, another 17 men were unaccounted for but it was unclear if they were also kidnapped.

On Friday, a top Druze religious leader said regime ally Russia was in talks with the jihadists over their release.

Sweida had until last week largely remained isolated from Syria's seven-year conflict.

Druze, which made up three percent of Syria's population before 2011, are considered Muslim but IS see them as heretics.
Rudaw adds:
Suwayda24 posted one video showing a young man in a black T-shirt and running pants with his hands bound. The man, who identifies himself as Muhannad Toukan Abu Ammar, was taken hostage from al-Shabki village on July 25, he said in a video posted on the news site. Arabic media reported that Russia was negotiating with ISIS for the release of the hostages.

Regime loyalists were initially faulted for their failure to act after the first abductions. On Friday, the regime sent reinforcements to eastern parts of the province, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights has reported.

The UK-based Observatory reported on Sunday that a 19-year-old boy from the province was executed on Thursday. It also reported that more than 50 fighters loyal to Khalid bin Walid al-Mabie from southwest Daraa have been executed.

Syria's state-run SANA news agency reported on Saturday that Damascus is supporting the formation of four municipalities in Suwayda, and additionally local council elections on September 16.
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Southeast Asia
ARSA open to surrender, but only under UN supervision
2017-10-22
[Dhaka Tribune] It has been nearly two months, 57 days to be precise, since the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (ARSA) attacked Myanmar armed forces outposts, igniting the biggest humanitarian crisis in the region in decades. Nearly 590,000 refugees have fled to Bangladesh after the government forces began massacring village after village.

While refugees keep pouring into Bangladesh, ARSA has gone quiet. When they first appeared as Haraqah al-Yaqin in October 2016, the same scenario played out. A well-coordinated attack on Myanmar police camps put them on the map, but no other known operations took place till August 2017.

ARSA chief Ata Ullah Abu Ammar Al Jununi remains on the run with his guerillas in the hills and forests of Rakhine, which prevents him from communicating to direct queries. In his lieu, there are four deputies who are empowered to speak on his behalf and operate as they see fit per Ata Ullah’s orders. Maulvi Mostakim and Maulvi Noman coordinate recruitment and financing from Malaysia, Abul Kalam Haidery operates in Soddy Arabia
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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Syria: Ahrar al-Sham warns against Russian intervention
2016-05-04
[AA.TR] The deputy commander of the 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...
 Syrian opposition group has warned Russia and Iran against beefing up their support for the Assad regime.

In a special interview with Anadolu Agency, Abu Ammar said his group, which was established in 2012, has blocked the aims of Moscow in Syria, which were to regain all areas under the control of the opposition.

Abu Ammar also rejected any Russian role in finding a peaceful end to the years-long conflict.

"How can Russia sponsor a political solution when it is the one killing on the ground," he said. "How can we believe Moscow’s intentions to reach a political settlement in Syria when it continues to assault Syria with bombs."

Abu Ammar said the cessation of hostilities agreement has failed because of the Assad regime’s military escalation.

The agreement was signed in February between the U.S. and Russia, the co-chairs of the International Syria Support Group (ISSG).
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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Russian planes strike school in Syria's Aleppo, killing 3
2016-01-14
[AA.TR] Three children were killed and another 25 people injured on Wednesday when Russian warplanes targeted a primary school in the Syrian city of Aleppo, according to local Civil Defense sources.

The sources, who are based in the targeted area, said that Russian Arclight airstrikes had been carried out in Aleppo's Zibdiya district.

Following the strikes, Syrian Civil Defense teams rushed to the area to help the victims.

"Russian warplanes, which have been targeting civilian areas, have now begun striking schools," local activist Ahmed Abu Ammar told Anadolu Agency, going on to note that a school in Anjara and a mosque in Aleppo had both recently been targeted by Russian warplanes.

He described the Russian strikes on residential areas as "Dire Revenge" for the Assad regime's recent failure to make significant military gains in Aleppo province.

On Monday, 17 people were killed and another 25 injured when Russian warplanes targeted a school in Anjara, a town in western Aleppo.
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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Armed Syrian opposition rejects Russian offer of support.
2015-10-31
[Rudaw] Syria's armed opposition groups called Russia "an enemy of the people" and expressed distrust of Moscow's intention of aiding rebels fighting the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're 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 the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
 group (ISIS).

Comments by various Syrian opposition groups followed a declaration by Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, saying this week that his country was "ready to help not only the Syrian army, but all opposition units confronting bully boyz on the ground in Syria."

"We do not trust them (Russians)," said Ahmed Joaiwir, a military leader of Liwa' 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...
, one of the groups fighting ISIS. He said that was because Russia had first tried to fight the opposition to Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad
Terror of Aleppo ...
"But they failed, and our mujahideen were able to destroy them. They (Russia) got the opposite of what they aimed for. Now they want to work with those who Russia calls terrorists, but {ISIS} is a creation of Russian intelligence," he added.

Among the several influential armed Syrian opposition groups, some have united under the banner of the Supreme Military Council of Free Syrian Army
... the more palatable version of the Syrian insurgency, heavily influenced by the Moslem Brüderbund...
, while others act independently.

Abu Yusuf al-Adnani, a military leader of the al-Jabha al-Shamiya opposition, called Russia "an enemy of the Syrian people."

"We don't want Russia's help and they are not welcome," he declared. "Russia had not even recognized the Syrian opposition, but after its major loses Russia decided to recognize the Syrian opposition," al-Andnani said.

Russia's first Arclight airstrikes in Syria were on opposition groups opposed to Assad. The rebel groups accused Russia of targeting the opposition instead of ISIS.

According to Yassir al-Ta'I, head of public relations at the Free-fighters Movement of Levant, "Lavrov's statement is the best evidence of the mess the Russia has got itself into."

"Before, they used to say that there is no free army and no revolution, but now they offer to provide air cover for the revolutionaries against ISIS. We tell Mr. Lavrov: your interests are protected with the Syrian people and not al-Assad's regime," he said.

Abu Ammar, a military leader at the First Regiment gang, told Rudaw that "Russia is a terror state and aids bully boyz worldwide."

Russia officials have reported they have begun contacting the Syrian opposition.

Russian statements about working with the opposition are seen as a change in policy. Only two weeks before the start of Russian Arclight airstrikes in Syria, President Vladimir Putin
...Second and fourth President and sixth of the Russian Federation and the first to remain sober. Putin is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from polonium poisoning. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to Putin. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead...
 named the Syrian army and Kurdish forces as the only forces "truly fighting ISIS."
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Iraq
Baghdad booms bundled
2015-10-13
(IraqiNews.com) Baghdad – A source in the police announced on Monday, that a civilian was killed and four others were wounded in a bomb blast south of Baghdad.

The source said in an interview for IraqiNews.com, “a bomb exploded, today, in al-Makasib area in Radwaniyah south of the capital Baghdad, killing one civilian and wounding four others.”

The source, who asked not to be named, added, “security forces cordoned off the scene, while the body of the dead man was transferred to the forensic medicine department and the wounded to the nearest hospital for treatment.”

4 more kaboomed in Mahmoudiya

(IraqiNews.com) A source in the Iraqi police said on Monday, that a person has been killed and three others were wounded in a car bomb in Mahmoudiya south of the capital Baghdad.

The source informed IraqiNews.com, “A car bomb exploded, this evening, in Mahmoudiya, killing one person and wounding three others,” pointing out that, “The injured were rushed to a nearby hospital and the body of the dead man to the forensic medicine department.”

9 ISIS Air-Zapped

(IraqiNews.com) The Falcons Intelligence Cell announced on Monday the killing of nine ISIS leaders during the aerial bombing that targeted the convey of the ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, while also added that the bombing resulted in the death of a large number of al-Baghdadi bodyguards.

The cell said in a statement received by IraqiNews.com, “Further to a statement by The Falcons Intelligence Cell of the Interior Ministry issued on Sunday about the operation that targeted the convey of the criminal Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi and a group of ISIS leaders in the region of Karabilah by the air force; the operation resulted in killing a number of leaders belonging to ISIS and bodyguards of al-Baghdadi.”

The statement added, “Abu Azzam al-Iraqi, the special security committee official in Iraq and the Levant, Abu Marwa al-Ansari, a military leader, the so-called Haji Abu Ammar, one of al-Baghdadi, military advisers, Abu Saad al-Anbari, Walid Ahmed Saleh Karbouli (also known as Abu Hussein), Abu Abdullah al-Saudi, Abu Banan al-Gazrawy, Abu Qatada al-Shaiybani and Abu Ahmed al-Shami were among the dead.”
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