[Garowe] The Somali National Army (SNA) killed seven al-Shabaab ...... Somalia's version of the Taliban ...mindless ferocity in a turban... , functioning as an arm of al-Qaeda... bully boyz in a security operation in the country’s southern state of Jubbaland on Sunday, local media reported.
The special forces also destroyed the turban group’s hideouts in four villages in the state, SNA commanders who led the operation told Radio Mogadishu.
The commanders said they will not halt the operation until all bully boyz are wiped out.
Somalia has stepped up security operations against al-Shabaab in the central and southern regions. However, man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them... the terrorist group still controls large swaths of rural areas where they ambushed military forces.
[IsraelTimes] Prosecutors say pair, who intended to join 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.... , also planned attacks against British, Russian and French diplomats in Pretoria
A South African court convicted and tossed in the clink Drop the rod and step away witcher hands up! twin brothers for terrorism on Monday over plans to attack the US embassy in Pretoria and join the Islamic State group, local media reported.
Tony-Lee Thulsie and Brandon-Lee Thulsie, both 28, were arrested in South Africa in July 2016 and have been held in jug since.
The South African brothers pleaded guilty earlier Monday as part of a plea bargain with the prosecution, according to local media.
Hours later the Johannesburg High Court slapped Tony-Lee with an 11-year jail term while his brother Brandon-Lee was sentenced to eight years.
Both pleaded guilty to planning to travel to Syria to join IS, the media reports said.
Tony-Lee also admitted to planning a terrorist attack in South Africa, they added.
Prosecutors said attacks also had been planned against US, British, Russian or French diplomats in Pretoria as well as Jewish institutions.
The United States added the pair to its terror blacklist in 2017.
The arrests of the brothers in 2016 were the first in South Africa relating to alleged IS membership.
South Africa has so far been spared the jihadist attacks that have struck several other countries on the continent, including its eastern neighbor Mozambique.
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Of the many bastards of Thulsa Doom,
one gent settled in the rainbow gloom,
and had a son who had a son, who then
had a son which was useless and
took up the dread Dar-ul-uloom.
What ignominy for the snake king,
more than his noggin's artless taking;
that his name was turned into Thulsie!
Was it shame, or sheer moslem whimsy?
Whatever... he tosses now in his sloom.
Some suspected bandits, in the late hours of Sunday, attacked Okene Area Command of the Nigeria Police Force in Kogi State.
According to Kingsley Fanwo, the state Commissioner for Information and Communications in the state, the attack by the gunmen numbering above 30 was repelled by security operatives.
Fanwo further revealed that one of the attackers was shot dead while others escaped with gunshot wounds.
He said, “The Kogi State Government wishes to report that the Okene Area Command of the Nigerian Police Force was attacked by gunmen numbering over 30 in the late hours of Sunday February 6, 2020.
"However, they were shown the strength and efficacy of the Kogi security architecture as the local hunters, men of the State Vigilante Service collaborated with other security operatives to spontaneously foil the attack.
"The superior firepower of the combined security network of the state ensured one of them was gunned down immediately while others ran away with various degrees of gun wounds. Two of their motorcycles were recovered as well as various arms and ammunition. Also, explosives meant to shatter the command were immediately detonated by experts.
"The onslaught against the gunmen was coordinated by the Executive Chairmen of Local Government Areas in Kogi Central and the SSA on Security to the Governor in charge of Kogi Central.
"This is the second time in less than two months that Kogi proved impregnable to criminals as tens of them lost their lives in the attack on Yagba West LGA of the state last December.
"No innocent lives were lost, instead, the criminals were the ones that received gun wounds and lost one of them on the spot. We call on traditional medical homes and other medical facilities to report anyone with gun wounds to the nearest security formation as our local hunters are giving them a run for their money in the bush right now. We shall keep you updated on developments."
A Priest, Rev Fr Joseph Shekari of a Catholic parish located in Chawai, in the Kauru Local Government Area of Kaduna State has been kidnapped by gunmen suspected to be terrorists on Sunday night.
It was learnt that a yet-to-be-identified cook working in the parish house was also killed during the attack.
The cook was killed when the marauders stormed the place at 11:30pm on Sunday, PUNCH reports.
Gunmen suspected to be bandits had also in September 2021, abducted Rev. Father Luka Yakusak, a priest in charge of St. Matthew Catholic Church at Anchuna village, Zango-Kataf local government area of Kaduna State, at his residence.
The Nigerian Army has said another 104 members of the Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) and Boko Haram have surrendered to Nigerian troops.
This was contained in a post shared on the Twitter handle of the Nigerian Army on Monday.
In the post, the Nigerian Army said the 104 terrorists consisted of their wives and other family members.
The terrorists surrendered on Saturday to the troops of 25 Task Force Brigade Damboa, Borno State on Saturday, February 5.
It reads, “ISWAP fighters and their families numbering 104 comprising 22 males, 27 females and 55 children surrendered to troops of 25 Task Force Brigade Damboa, Borno State on Saturday 5 February 2022."
Some months ago, the news circle was dominated by reports of repeated surrenders of Boko Haram terrorists to the Nigerian military.
In August 2021, the Nigerian Army gifted clothes and food items to over 1,000 Boko Haram and Islamic State West African Province fighters whom the military claimed had surrendered to troops in Borno State during a clearance operation.
Since then, at least 18,000 Boko Haram fighters and their families have surrendered to the army following the death in May of their leader Abubakar Shekau.
Shekau blew himself up to avoid capture during infighting with the rival Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) faction in his Sambisa Forest enclave.
ISWAP split from Boko Haram in 2016 to become a dominant group in Nigeria with ties to the so-called Islamic State.
Many Maiduguri residents fear jihadists are surrendering not out of remorse, but in desperation to escape ISWAP rivals who were executing Boko Haram militants for refusing to yield to the group.
There are concerns over the security situation in Kwara state following the influx of criminal groups from Zamfara, seeking refuge in the state.
In a report by SB Morgen Intelligence, which will be released on Tuesday, February 8, 2022, the North Central states have witnessed some of the worst violence by organised armed groups in recent years, with varying security challenges.
According to the report, the criminal gangs have been moving to Kwara State, blending with the already existing local Fulani population.
However, the criminals were to later launch attacks on the Fulani brothers before they begin to launch a full-scale attack on the native residents.
“One of the most prominent of such cases happened on 2nd June 2021 when the head of the Fulani Bororo community in Oro-Ago, Irepodun Local Government Area of Kwara State, Alhaji Sheidu Madawaki, was murdered by unidentified gunmen.
“Mr Madawaki had paid a courtesy visit to the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) office a few days before 'to establish a synergy on how to improve and sustain the existing peaceful coexistence in the kingdom'.
“Madawaki’s cordial relationship with local law enforcement may have put a target on his back by criminal groups who viewed him as an informant for the government,” the report said.
The report says there is a worrisome trend that insecurity and violent uprising in Kwara State may boil over to the situation in Oyo State, particularly Ibarapa.
The criminal Fulani gangs, according to the report launched attacks on the predominantly agrarian and pastoral communities in Kwara State almost at the heat of the conflict in Igangan in Ibarapa Local Government Areas of Oyo state which shares a land boundary with Kwara.
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[KavkazUzel] A military court in Rostov-on-Don sentenced four inmates of the Stavropol colony to lengthy prison terms for participation in the Islamic State terrorist organization.
In May 2020, Akhmed Musalaev, who is serving a sentence in a colony in the Stavropol Territory, recorded an audio message about joining the ranks of IS and sent it to a member of a terrorist organization for subsequent transmission to the leader.
From May to June 2020, Akhmed Musalaev persuaded Akhmed Tokaev, Said Mazhaev and Gasan Magomedov, who were serving sentences with him, to participate in IS, the Southern District Military Court established.
Then, according to the investigation, Akhmed Musalaev created an IS cell on the territory of the colony. In the cell, Musalaev carried out general leadership, among his tasks was to maintain communication with the IS member in Syria, he also had to report on the activities of the cell. Tokaev and Mazhaev were responsible for searching for possible candidates for joining a terrorist organization, and Magomedov was responsible for raising money, TASS reported today with reference to the press service of the court.
All four were found guilty of committing crimes under article 205.4 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation "Organization of a terrorist community and participation in it", article 205.5 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation "Organization of the activities of a terrorist organization and participation in the activities of such an organization." Akhmed Musalaev was also found guilty under article 205.1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation "Assistance to terrorist activities."
The convicts, depending on the role and degree of guilt of each, were assigned the following terms: Akhmed Musalaev: 17 years in prison, Akhmed Tokaev: 13.5 years, Gasan Magomedov and Said Mazhaev: 2.5 years each, he said today with reference to the press court service "Interfax".
Earlier, the "Caucasian Knot" wrote about other cases when prisoners in the colony were convicted for participation in a terrorist community.
So, on August 30, 2021, a military court in Rostov-on-Don sentenced Robert Emirgamzaev, a native of the Kizlyarsky district of Dagestan, to five and a half years in a special regime colony, finding him guilty of participating in an IS cell in a Kalmyk colony.
And on June 22, 2021, the court sentenced Michael Labazanov to 15 years in prison, finding him guilty of involvement in a terrorist organization for recruiting prisoners there while serving a criminal sentence in the Stavropol Territory.
Three individuals were arrested by Spain’s National Police on 1 February, on charges of financing terrorism in Libya, according to a report by Euro Weekly News.
The detainees were detained in Valencia, Barcelona, and Girona.
The suspects used a complex business network to mask their economic transactions, and provide funds to a terrorist militia in Libya, related to IS. The investigation began two years ago when counter-terrorism specialists discovered a person related to the leadership of a Libyan militia, linked to IS
Officers from the Provincial Information Brigades of San Sebastian, Bilbao, and Valencia collaborated at a national level. As well as working with Europol at an international level.
On Friday, the detainees were placed at the disposal of the Head of the Central Court of Instruction No1 of the National Court. The leader of the network was sentenced to prison
During the operation, three homes were searched in Barcelona, and Sant Adri del Besos, along with a commercial establishment in Badalona. Two high-end vehicles have also been confiscated.
Numerous documentation, effects, and technical documents are being analyzed by investigators. A large sum of cash has been seized, of which €20,000 was located in one of the vehicles.
Libya has been embroiled by lawlessness since the 2011 fall of long-time leader Muammar Gaddafi, with an array of armed groups vying for control.
IS took advantage of the chaos to seize parts of the country’s north and west. A string of offensives saw it defeated in 2018.
The group continues to carry out small-scale raids.
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[Dawn] Two Frontier Corps ...a provincial paramilitary force. Total manpower is about 80,000. They are tasked to help local law enforcement in the maintenance of law and order, and to carry out border patrol and anti-smuggling operations.... (FC) personnel were maimed in a kaboom on Quetta's Sariab Road on Monday, an FC spokesperson said.
The personnel were on routine patrol in a village when the bomb — fitted in a cycle of violence on the side of the road — exploded remotely as they approached the site, the spokesperson said.
The injured officials have been shifted to the FC hospital, he added.
A large number of security personnel along with a bomb disposal squad reached the site immediately after the earth-shattering kaboom, he said, adding that the area was cordoned off and a search operation was initiated.
There has been an uptick in violence in Balochistan ...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it... with several attacks and explosions reported since the start of the year.
At least 13 bad boyz were potted and seven security personnel, including an officer, martyred during armed attacks on two security forces' camps in the province's Naushki and Panjgur districts last week.
Balochistan Home Minister Mir Zia Langove had said at the time that several threats had been issued in February. "We had threats from ISIS and so-called nationalists," he had said.
Last month, 17 people, including two coppers had been injured in a grenade attack in Dera Allahyar town of Jaffarabad district.
Prior to that, three Levies Force personnel along with a Bugti clan elder were martyred and eight others injured in twin kabooms in Sui area of Dera Bugti.
SHEIKH RASHID ALLUDES TO RISE IN ATTACKS
Over the weekend, Interior Minister Sheikh Rashid — while making an apparent reference to the recent rise in terrorism incidents and attacks on security forces — said that incidents that had taken place over the past week could further increase.
"I do not want to comment on the talks here. The Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... have intervened but the incidents that occurred in the past week could increase. They could rise [further]," he said while addressing a ceremony held in Rawalpindi on Saturday.
Rashid did not elaborate further on this comment, which was, apparently, also an allusion to the end of a month-long ceasefire between the government and proscribed Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistain (TTP) in December last year.
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Wishing all our old Frontier Corps 'friends' in Chaman and vicinity the best of all futures in their decades long relationship with the Taliban. Have a nice day ***holes.
Srinagar Feb 7: Police on Monday claimed to have killed a militant in a gunfight between militants and security forces in Nambal area of Awantipora in south Kashmir’s Pulwama district on Monday evening.
"Awantipora Encounter Update: One terrorist killed. Search going on. Further details shall follow, " a police spokesman said.
The identity of the slain militant was not immediately known.
The encounter broke out this evening after security forces cordoned the area following inputs about the presence of militants there.
ERBIL, KRG, Iraq (North Press) – The Iraqi forces announced, Monday, announced the capture of three ISIS members working for what they name the logistical support detachments of ISIS with two IEDs, in Nineveh governorate western Iraq.
“A force of the national security apparatus in Nineveh governorate managed to capture an ISIS cell of three members working for what named the logistical support detachments, near one of the city exits linked with Saladin governorate,” the security media cell said.
The force, conducted the operation, seized two cans contained 10 kg of C4 explosive, some wires and smartphones used to make and explode IEDs all were in their car, according to the media cell.
The ISIS cell confessed transporting food and explosives to other cells among governorates.
Reported by Hozan Zubeir
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Shafaq News / A police officer was killed and three others were injured in an ISIS attack in al-Abbara district, northeast of Baquba, a security source in Diyala reported.
The source told Shafaq News agency that Brigadier General Khairallah Al-Tamimi, Director of al-Abbara Police Department, was among the injured.
ISIS attacked earlier today a point of the federal police forces in al-Abbara.
Al-Abbara witnesses continuous attacks and security breaches due to the presence of ISIS strongholds in its orchards and agricultural villages.
Shafaq News/ An "RPG" missile targeted a hall that receives supporters of the Tishreen Revolution in Kufa.
A security source told Shafaq News that unidentified men fired an RPG at Al-Naranj hall in Kufa district, Najaf governorate.
"The attack caused material damage to the building, without any human losses."
According to our source, the Hall is a place for frequent meetings of supporters of the October Revolution
In October 2019, mass demonstrations engulfed Baghdad and southern Iraq as citizens protested widespread corruption, unemployment, and poor public services. Nearly 500 people were killed.
The Tishreen (October) uprising became the largest and longest-lasting social movement since 2003. The protests caused the resignation of Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi.
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Shafaq News / A land mine exploded in Sinjar today, injuring a 16-years-old boy.
According to one of the boy's relatives, the mine exploded in Qandila area, noting that it was planted by ISIS terrorists back when they took control of Sinjar.
Shafaq News / The Security Media Cell announced launching a military operation carried out by a joint force from the Peshmerga and Federal forces, to address security gaps on the borders separating Kirkuk, Nineveh, and the Kurdistan region.
The Cell said in a statement that the operation covers wide areas and mountains, to pursue ISIS terrorists and clear the areas of war remnants.
According to the statement, the operation was planned and launched following several meetings and agreements between military commands in Baghdad and Erbil.
The Cell said that the joint operations command adopted a new style in this operation, and the forces were able to reach areas that had never been reached before.
Peshmerga Ministry: the first phase of the military operation has been completed successfullyhttps://t.co/pHIwDDWuKi
Shafaq News / The Ministry of Peshmerga announced that the first phase of the operation launched today has been completed successfully.
The Ministry in a statement that the Iraqi and Peshmerga forces launched the operation earlier today, following a series of meetings between Federal and Peshmerga commanders.
Earlier today, the Security Media Cell announced launching a military operation carried out by a joint force from the Peshmerga and Federal forces, to address security gaps on the borders separating Kirkuk, Nineveh, and the Kurdistan region.
The Cell said in a statement that the operation covers wide areas and mountains, to pursue ISIS terrorists and clear the areas of war remnants.
According to the statement, the operation was planned and launched following several meetings and agreements between military commands in Baghdad and Erbil.
The Cell said that the joint operations command adopted a new style in this operation, and the forces were able to reach areas that had never been reached before.
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[Rudaw] At least one member of the Iraqi security forces was killed and four others were maimed in a 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) attack in Diyala province on Sunday night.
Telegram channels affiliated with the Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF) on Sunday said that ISIS snuffies had attacked Iraqi security forces in Diyala province, during which five members of the Iraqi security forces were maimed.
The groups later reported the death of one of the injured and identified him as a commander in the forces.
According to a report published last month by Combating Terrorism Center at West Point, there is little evidence of a significant ISIS resurgence in Iraq, with the snuffies increasingly isolated from the population.
"The Islamic State’s insurgency in Iraq underwent a steep decline over the last 20 months," the global security think-tank stated. "A comprehensive analysis of attack metrics shows an insurgency that has tanked in both the quality of its operations and overall volume of attack activity, which has fallen to its lowest point since 2003."
The terror group launched over 257 offensives, killing 387 and injuring 518 people, including Iraqi and Kurdish fighters over the past year
In its propaganda magazine on Thursday, ISIS claimed to have conducted 19 attacks in Iraq from January 27 to February 2, killing and injuring 30 people.
IDLIB, Syria (north Press) – On Sunday, Russian warplanes bombed the sites of Turkish-backed opposition factions south of Idlib, northwest Syria.
The vicinity of the town of Kafr Shalaya in the Zawiya Mountain, south of Idlib, was hit with three Russian airstrikes, opposition military sources told North Press.
The opposition factions’ sites surrounding the town were also bombed by Russia, but no casualties were reported, the sources added.
“The raids coincided with intense flight by Russian reconnaissance over the area,” the sources noted.
In a related context, two people were wounded as a result of the Syrian government artillery shelling of the opposition sites in the vicinity of the town of Kansafra, south of Idlib, the sources said.
On Saturday, a person was wounded of varying severity by artillery shelling carried out by the government forces on the opposition sites in the town of al-Wasata, west of Aleppo.
Meanwhile, the government forces’ sites near the village of al-Shekh Aqeel in the western countryside of Aleppo were bombed with heavy artillery and missiles by al-Fateh al-Mubin Operations’ Room, according to the sources.
After months of military escalation, the de-escalation zones in northwest Syria witnessed, over the last few days, relative calm between the two sides of the conflict.
Reporting by Samir Awad
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DERI EZ-ZOR, Syria (North Press) – On Sunday evening, members of the Islamic State Organization (ISIS) assaulted a group of the National Defense Forces (NDF) killing two soldiers and wounding five others in al-Masrab desert in the west of Deir ez-Zor city.
The NDF is affiliated with the Syrian government forces.
Members of ISIS fired rocket-propelled grenade (RPG) at a group of the NDF and the two parties engaged in clashes with light and medium weapons, a military source told North Press.
The government forces sent reinforcement from Deir ez-Zor to the scene in support of the NDF, the source said.
The ISIS attack killed two soldiers of the NDF and wounded five others, a medical source in the military hospital of Deir ez-Zor told North Press.
On February 2, two soldiers of the government forces were killed and three were wounded as ISIS members attacked government military sites in the Jabal al-Bishri situated between Raqqa and Deir ez-Zor.
Reporting by Abdulhamid al-Hussein
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TEL-TAMR, Syria (North Press)-Turkish forces and the Turkish-backed armed factions bombarded on Monday the countryside of Zargan (Abu Rasin) and Derbasiya towns north of Hasakah, northeast Syria with heavy weapons.
The Turkish forces targeted the surrounding area of Dada Abdal, al-Asadya, al-Bubi and Tel Ziyab villages, north and west of the region, with a barrage of artillery shells, a security source told North Press.
A similar bombardment targeted the villages of Chatale, Kerbash, Birknes in the western countryside of Derbasiya, coincided with Turkish drones hovering over the area.
Several houses in the aforementioned villages were damaged in the shelling, but no causalities were reported.
The shelling also lead to the closure of the main road links between the towns of Zargan and Kasrah.
The area is witnessing an uneasy calm amid Turkish drones flights.
Reporting by Dilsoz Youssef
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People of Ain Diwar village, which was bombed by #Turkey, told the American patrol that the Turkish bombing hinders them from taking care of their agricultural land, their only source of livelihood. #NE_Syria#AANES#SDFhttps://t.co/dH7nd2HceO
DERIK, Syria (North Press) – On Monday, an American patrol headed to the village of Ain Diwar in the countryside of Derik, far northeast Syria, to check the destruction caused by the Turkish bombing days ago.
An American patrol of four military armored vehicles arrived in the village of Ain Diwar. The troops walked through the village and visited the houses that had been bombed.
On February 2, the village of Ain Diwar was bombed by Turkish forces.
Two civilians were wounded, two houses were destroyed and five other houses were burnt in the Turkish bombardment.
The patrol members talked with the residents about the points from which the Turkish shells are launched, which randomly targeted civilians’ property.
The villagers who spoke to the patrol members said “it is the planting season and it is necessary to sprinkle fertilizer on the agricultural land on the border,” but they fear being targeted by the Turkish side.
The residents of the village called on the patrol members to maintain a constant presence in the border area to avoid being targeted by Turkey.
The patrol members checked the destroyed houses, photographed the bombing sites and collected some shrapnel from the place and the bombing sites.
In a related context, a Russian patrol passed through the same village his morning without inspecting the bombing sites.
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Citizens gathered in front of government headquarters in #Deir_ez_Zor, east #Syria, in response to the killing of a woman and the wounding of others by stray bullets by government forces.https://t.co/T2nOMGlbuJ
DEIR EZ-ZOR, Syria (North Press) – In order to support smugglers, the Syrian government forces randomly targeted military points of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), leading to the loss of a woman her life and the injury of three people, including two children on Monday in a town east of Deir ez-Zor, east Syria.
A clash with automatic weapons broke out between smugglers and SDF members, after which the government forces fired intense random bullets to support the smugglers and those working for the government forces, a local source from the town of Dhiban, east of Deir ez-Zor, which is run by the government forces, told North Press.
“A woman lost her life and three others, including two children, were wounded by indiscriminate bullets fired by the government forces,” the source added.
“The clashes, which lasted for more than two hours, were followed angry crowds in front of the government headquarters in response to the killing of the woman and the injured.”
Iranian-backed factions along with the government forces run areas in the eastern countryside of Deir ez-Zor, west the Euphrates River.
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The mutual shelling continues between the government and the opposition, with Russian raids from time to time on opposition sites. #Idlib#Syriahttps://t.co/abdY3vBRuJ
IDLIB, Syria (North Press) – The de-escalation zone in northwest Syria witnessed on Monday mutual shelling between the Syrian government forces and the Turkish-backed armed opposition factions.
The opposition factions’ sites in the towns of al-Fatira, Kafr Oweid, Sufuhn, Benin and Harsh Benin, south Idlib, were bombed by the government forces stationed in the cities of Kafr Nabl and Marat al-Numan, military sources of the Syrian opposition told North Press.
However, no information on casualties or material damage was reported, the sources added.
Meanwhile, the government forces’ sites in the village of al-Malajah, south of Idlib, were bombed by al-Fateh al-Mubin Operations Room, North Press reported a source in the National Liberation Front.
The gatherings of the Syrian government forces in the town of Urm al-Soghra and the Sheikh Aqil , west of Aleppo, were also hit with heavy guns by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham.
Media outlets close to the Syrian government revealed the killing of an officer in south of Idlib called Majd Suhail Burhan.
The areas of northwest Syria daily witness mutual bombardment between the Syrian government forces and Turkish-backed opposition factions, accompanied by sporadic Russian air raids on the latter’s areas.
[Rudaw] Suspected Ottoman Turkish artillery shells on Monday targeted several villages in northern Hasaka in northeast Syria (Rojava), severely damaging civilian houses, as reported by a local media outlet.
Alleged Ottoman Turkish artillery hit at least three villages in al-Darbasiyah sub-district in Hasaka, Hawar News Agency (ANHA) said. There are no reports of casualties.
Hasaka has previously been targeted by The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire... as it often launches attacks in the region, killing and injuring civilians and security forces.
Rojava saw 47 Ottoman Turkish ground attacks and incursion attempts, as well as 89 drone offensives, over the past year, killing and injuring hundreds, the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) said in its annual report in January.
The recent offensive in Hasaka comes days after Ankara launched a new operation, dubbed Winter Eagle, in the border areas of Syria and the Kurdistan Region.
Suspected Ottoman Turkish drones also targeted a vehicle transporting three members of the Kurdish Women’s Protection Units (YPJ) on Thursday, killing one person.
At least one person was injured in Hasaka’s Zirgan district in another suspected Ottoman Turkish attack last month.
Turkey has conducted three military operations in northern Syria since 2016, two of them against Kurdish fighters who Ankara considers a branch of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) and a threat to its national security. It has previously threatened to launch a new offensive in Rojava.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
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...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 
...the Pashtun equivalent of men...
...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 
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire...
