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Syria-Lebanon-Iran

Israeli forces shell military ‘structures’ in Golan Heights, drone-zap 2 Islamic Jihadis farther down the border

2023-09-22

It was a busy day at the other end of Israel.

[NPASyria] On Thursday, an Israeli army spokesperson stated that Israeli forces had targeted Syrian military structures in the Golan Heights, southern Syria. The spokesperson clarified that the presence of these military installations violated the disengagement agreement between both parties.

The Israeli shelling took place after an Israeli drone attack that resulted in the killing of two members 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...
movement in the Golan Heights earlier today.

The spokesperson added that army tanks targeted two temporary buildings used by the Syrian forces in the Ain Eltinah area, clarifying that their presence violated the disengagement agreement between Israel and Syria.

"The strike was carried out after IDF [Israeli defense forces] soldiers identified the two structures in the area of the security zone yesterday," the spokesperson said in a statement.

The spokesperson further added that Israeli army will not accept any violation the 1974 agreement.

The agreement signed on May 31, 1974, is considered the final measure taken to end the War of Attrition between both parties, during which combat operations between Syrian and Israeli forces resumed in the Golan Heights. Negotiations were held to achieve disengagement between the two parties under the auspices of the US during the tenure of Secretary of State Henry Kissinger. The document was signed in Geneva at that time.

Update from the Times of Israel at 10:20 a.m. EDT:

In Syria, the pro-government Sham FM radio station said Israel’s military struck an area on the edge of the Golan Heights in the village of Hadar. It said there were no casualties.

A video published by the Israel Hayom daily showed the strikes.

Earlier Thursday, Syrian opposition media reported that an Israeli dronezap killed two people near the southern Syrian town of Beit Jinn, close to the Israeli border.

It was unclear if the two strikes were related.

More from Al Ahram:

Also on Thursday, Syrian media reported that Israeli drones targeted two people riding a cycle of violence in the Syrian capital of Damascus.

The Britannia-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, an opposition war monitor, said the Israeli strike killed two members of Islamic Jihad, a Paleostinian hard boy group backed by Iran, near the village of Beit Jin in southern Syria.

Islamic Jihad official Ismail Abu-Mujahed denied that any of their operatives were killed in southern Syria.

Two men were killed in an alleged Israeli drone strike in southern Syria on Thursday, media outlets affiliated with Syria’s opposition reported.

According to the reports, the strike took place near the town of Beit Jinn, around 10 kilometers (six miles) from the Israeli border in the Golan Heights.

The two men were reportedly riding on a motorcycle when they were struck by a missile.

They were named in unverified reports as Ali Okasha Abu Jarrah and Zaher as-Saadi Abu Alaa, and their affiliations were not known. Rumors on social media said they were members of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, but sources in the terror group told the Lebanese al-Ahed newspaper there was no truth to this.

There was no immediate comment from Syrian authorities or pro-government media outlets on the alleged strike.

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Iraq

Four terrorists arrested in Baghdad

2022-09-16

[Shafaq News] Iraq's federal police on Wednesday said it has arrested four terrorists, including a senior commander, in a security operation in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad.

An official statement said that the operation was supervised by the intelligence chief in the federal police agency and the commander of the 17th brigade.

According to the statement, the suspicious group were spotted on the pilgrimage road near al-Dawra area in Baghdad and joint security force managed to detain its members.

The arrestees, the statement said, were wanted pursuant to Article 4/Terrorism for ties to the terrorist organization of ISIS.

The agency said that the group was led by the infamous terrorist, Abu Jarrah. The arrestee served in the Abu Hamza al-Muhajer camp and was a commander of several terrorist groups.

In the same context, three holy warriors were captured by joint forces from the 6th, 10th, and 16th brigade in Nineveh's village of Badosh, al-Anbar's Fallujah,

... the City of Mosques, which might have somthing to do with why it's not called Center of Prosperity or a really nice place to raise your kids...
and Baghdad's Ibrahim bin Ali, all of whom are wanted for charges related to terrorism.

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Iraq

2 senior IS Arab members killed in western Mosul

2017-04-06

[Iraq News] Two senior Arab 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....
members were killed in Iraqi ~~Arclight~~ airstrikes on western djinn-infested Mosul
... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn...
, according to a statement on Wednesday by the military intelligence service.

Iraqi fighter jets bombarded al-Haramat district in western Mosul, killing the pair, according to the statement. Those were Hashem (Abu Abdullah) Abdel-Wahab, a Saudi national in charge of IS accoةmodations in Haramat, as well as Saab Khleif, aka Abu Zoheir, a Tunisian who was the district’s military commander.

Earlier on Wednesday, Federal Police chief, Shaker Jawdat, said in statements his forces had killed 30 Islamic State members, including the commander of the group’s "special forces", Abdel Qader Saleh, aka Abu Jarrah, near the fifth bridge linking the western area with the east.

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Iraq

Police, PMUs say killed 60 IS militants west of Mosul

2017-04-06

[Iraq News] Iraqi police forces and allied paramilitary troops said Wednesday they killed 60 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....
murderous Moslems, including a senior commander, in western djinn-infested Mosul
... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn...
Federal Police chief Shaker Jawdat said in statements his forces killed 30 Islamic State members, including the commander of its "special forces", Abdel Qader Saleh, aka Abu Jarrah, near the fifth bridge linking the western area with the east.

He said Abu Jarrah was the leader of Jaish Dabeq (Army), an Islamic State sub-division.

Also in western Mosul, pro-Iraqi government paramilitary troops said they killed 30 other IS murderous Moslems. al-Hashd al-Shaabi (Popular Mobilization Units), said through their media service that troops, backed by Iraqi fighter jets, bombarded IS locations in Sallal and Kum al-Habib villages, causing the deaths and damages to combat equipment on the group’s side.

Dozens of IS faceless myrmidons of diverse nationalities were killed in security strikes in western Mosul over the past two days, including booby-trapping officials and children fighters recruiters.

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Bangladesh

Chittagong JMB chief sent to Durance Vile for 10 years*

2008-09-10

A court here yesterday awarded 10 years' imprisonment to Javed Iqbal alias Mohammad, 28, Chittagong divisional chief of outlawed Jamaatul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB), in a case filed in connection with countrywide serial blasts on August 17, 2005.

Judge Shafiqul Islam of the Divisional Speedy Trial Tribunal gave the verdict, sentencing Mohammad to jail for bombing at GEC intersection in the port city as part of the serial blasts. The court also fined him Tk 5,000, in default he is to suffer another year in jail.

Two other accused--Abu Jarr and Delwar Hossain Jahid--were acquitted of the charge. The court exempted JMB kingpins Abdur Rahman, Siddiqur Rahman alias Bangla Bhai and Ataur Rahman Sunny from the case since they were executed in the judge killing case last year.

Javed Iqbal has so far been awarded 124 years' imprisonment in different terms in nine cases. He ~~has the death sentence on 12 systems~~ is also an accused in seven other cases, which are now under trial at different courts in Chittagong.

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Iraq

Top Qaeda militant arrested in western Iraq

2008-04-10

Iraqi police on Wednesday arrested a senior militant and close aide of Al-Qaeda in Iraq chief Abu Ayyub al-Masri in western Iraq's Anbar province, the provincial police chief said.

Major General Tareq al-Youssef said Nazal Sabar al-Jughaify, also known as Abu al-Jarrah, was arrested in the town of Haditha after police ambushed him following a tipoff from local citizens.

"Abu Jarrah is one of the main financiers of Al-Qaeda in Iraq and also a senior lieutenant of Abu Ayyub al-Masri," Youssef told AFP in the provincial capital of Ramadi.

Youssef said Jughaify, an Iraqi, had returned recently from Syria.

Anbar province was a former stronghold of Al-Qaeda-led insurgents fighting US forces.

But since September 2006, the local Sunni Arabs from the province, who were the main supporters of the militant group, have sided with the US military in fighting the group.

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Israel-Palestine

Gun-battles erupt between rival Palestinian groups

2004-10-20

At least six Palestinians were wounded, one seriously, in a gun battle that erupted between rival Palestinian Authority security forces in Gaza City on Monday. In a separate incident in the northern Gaza Strip, a Hamas activist was killed during an armed clash with members of Islamic Jihad. Eyewitnesses said the Gaza City clashes started around noon, when members of the Preventive Security Service affiliated with former security minister Muhammad Dahlan opened fire on a number of security officers from Military Intelligence, headed by Gen. Musa Arafat. The confrontation began when Preventive Security personnel tried to arrest Muhammad Abu Jarrar, a top Military Intelligence officer, at his home. Jarrar and some members of his family opened fire at the force, seriously wounding Tamer Daghmash.

In the evening, the clashes spread to other parts of Gaza City, with both sides using hand grenades and assault rifles. Daghmash's friends attacked Military Intelligence headquarters, wounding two officers. In retaliation, scores of Military Intelligence officers attacked the Preventive Security headquarters. The tension started on Saturday, when Arafat's security officers kidnapped a member of the Preventive Security in response to the abduction of one of their men a few days earlier. The two kidnapped men complained that they had been tortured. The armed clashes ended on Tuesday morning, following the intervention of senior Fatah officials. Tensions have been running high between the two security services since the appointment of Arafat as overall commander of the PA security forces in the Gaza Strip last July. Dahlan's supporters have launched a series of attacks on Arafat's men and offices in different parts of the Gaza Strip. Earlier this month, Arafat narrowly escaped an assassination attempt when a car bomb was detonated near his convoy. No group claimed responsibility, although many Palestinians believe that Dahlan's supporters were behind it.

In other scenes of lawlessness in the West Bank, gunmen belonging to the Aksa Martyrs Brigades closed down the offices of the Palestinian Legislative Council and PA Tax Authority in Jenin. They entered the offices and ordered all workers to leave within 10 minutes before closing them indefinitely. Zakariya Zubeidi, commander of the Aksa Martyrs Brigades in Jenin, said the move was to protest against the failure of the PA to pay salaries to the families of Palestinians killed in the violence. "The Palestinian parliament has approved a series of laws that harm the monthly fees allocated for the victims of the intifada and the families of the martyrs," he said. "This is at a time when senior PA officials are wasting public funds and spending money on themselves." He also accused the tax department of deducting almost half of the payments sent to the families.

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