[Rudaw] The dead body of a Kurdish man was discovered on Wednesday while covered in shrapnel outside the town of Shiladze, Duhok province, with his family claiming that he was killed in an alleged Ottoman Turkish attack.
Hussein Haider Piro (52) had left his home on Tuesday morning to go fishing in the village of Sita, which has been largely abandoned out of fear of Ottoman Turkish incursions nearby.
"I was the first who went to the place [the village]. At first, we discovered his vehicle. We checked the car and it was not damaged at all. At around 12:30 am [on Wednesday] we discovered the body. There were many wound signs on his body, all shrapnel signs. When we discovered the body, it was badly hit," Edris Hussein, Hussein's cousin told Rudaw.
Since April, The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...just another cheapjack Moslem dictatorship, brought to you by the Moslem Brüderbund... has been carrying out intense security operations, dubbed as Claw-Lightning and Claw-Thunderbolt, targeting the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK).
Several civilians have been killed while scores of villages in Duhok province have been evacuated.
""We kept waiting for him. So when we didn't hear from him, we informed all of them [their relatives], and they went to the spot to look for him. A rocket had hit his chest." Hadiya Shaaban, Hussein's wife said.
Located in northern Duhok province, Shiladze has been on the frontlines of the Turkey-PKK conflict for years. Residents here say they have been neglected by the government.
According to data from local authorities, a total of 353 villages have been abandoned.
Shafaq News/ On Thursday, the Iraqi security forces killed ISIS members east of Saladin Governorate.
A source told Shafaq News Agency that forces from Saladin command raided ISIS hideouts in Wadi Diaba, east of al-Dur district within the Metebije sector.
The Iraqi air forces also struck the hideouts intensively, which killed several SIS members.
In 2017, Iraq declared final victory over ISIS after Iraqi forces drove its last remnants from the country, the militant group captured about a third of Iraq's territory.
The war has had a devastating impact on the areas previously controlled by the militants. About 3.2 million people remain displaced.
Yet, ISIS still has sleeper cells in several Iraqi Governorates.
Recently, the terrorist organization has become more active, as sleeper cells target civilians and security forces, especially in the governorates of Kirkuk, Saladin, and Diyala, known as "the Triangle of Death."
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Shafaq News / Iraqi forces discovered today, Thursday, 36 artifacts in a tunnel previously used by ISIS terrorists, east of Mosul, a security source reported.
The source told Shafaq News agency that ISIS terrorists stole the artifacts during Nineveh's invasion by the terrorist organization back in 2014.
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Shafaq News / The Security Media Cell reported today that ISIS's "Wali" (ruler) of al-Anbar was killed in an airstrike in Rutba district.
The Cell said in a statement that after intelligence follow up to locate the terrorist, Iraqi aircraft managed to target the vehicle that was carrying The Wali of al-Anbar, Muthanna Khidr Kamel Shatran, nicknamed Abu Maluka, in addition to one of his assistants.
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[IsraelTimes] Israeli forces on Thursday downed a drone that Lebanon Hezbollahstan ...a formerly French, now an Iranian colony situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. ... ’s Hezbollah terror group flew over the border, the military said.
The incident occurred a day after Hezbollah chief His Eminence Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah ...The satrap of the Medes and the Persians in Leb... said his group has been manufacturing military drones in Lebanon and has the technology to turn thousands of missiles in its possession into precision-guided munitions.
A statement from the Israel Defense Forces said air control units tracked the unmanned aircraft "throughout the incident" before shooting it down.
It did not specify how the drone was brought down as it entered Israeli airspace.
"The IDF will continue to operate in order to prevent any attempt to violate Israeli illusory sovereignty," the statement said.
In an image posted on Twitter by Avichay Adraee, the military’s Arabic-language spokesperson, the drone appeared to be a commercially available quadcopter manufactured by Chinese company DJI.
Without citing a source, Army Radio claimed the drone likely belonged to the terror group’s elite Radwan Unit.
A security source said last month that at least some of the drones Hezbollah apparently uses for surveillance purposes were commercially available devices.
There was no immediate statement from Hezbollah nor affiliated media outlets on the drone downing.
Separately, the IDF said Thursday evening that a drone that flew over the border with 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 earlier that day, was downed by troops.
It was not immediately clear what type of drone it was, or how it was brought down in the second incident. The army said the aircraft fell on the Paleostinian side of the fence, in the southern part of the coastal enclave.
At least 74 drones flown by Hezbollah crossed into Israeli territory last year, compared to 94 in 2020 and 54 the year before that, according to the Walla news site. Most of the drones were downed.
Lebanon regularly complains about Israeli surveillance drones invading its airspace, but the IDF maintains that such incursions are necessary to track the activities of the Hezbollah terror group, which the Lebanese government is meant to keep in check.
[IsraelTimes] Two being questioned by Shin Bet, joining two others arrested earlier in connection with alleged attack in East Jerusalem neighborhood that sparked days of festivities
Two suspects were arrested in connection with the alleged Molotov cocktailing of a Jewish home in the contested East Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah last week, police said Thursday.
The suspects join two others arrested earlier this week over the alleged arson attack, which touched off a fresh round of violence in the neighborhood that Israeli leaders have warned could snowball into a larger regional conflagration.
"Following a covert operation, two additional suspects believed to be involved in the serious incident were arrested last night in East Jerusalem," police said in a statement.
The suspects, both in their 20s, were being questioned by the Shin Bet following their arrest. Authorities did not say where they were from.
Police are expected to ask the court to deny bail until the investigation is complete.
Two other suspects were arrested earlier this week, with officers finding eight Molotov cocktails, gloves and a knit cap while searching the home of one of the suspects.
During festivities between Arab and Jewish residents last Friday, a Molotov cocktail was allegedly thrown at a Jewish family home in Sheikh Jarrah, which has been a locus of tensions due to a push by right-wing Israelis to evict Paleostinians from homes they claim belonged to Jewish families before 1948.
No injuries were reported in the fire. However, a woman is only as old as she admits... the house was badly damaged and police said an officer was lightly hurt from smoke inhalation after entering the home.
Citing initial findings from the scene that raised suspicion of arson, police said the Jerusalem district commander had ordered a "substantial" increase in police presence in Sheikh Jarrah, also known as the Shimon Hatzaddik neighborhood, including of undercover officers and special forces.
An Arab resident of Sheikh Jarrah and a neighbor of the Jewish family told Hebrew-language news site Ynet that "it didn’t seem like [the suspects] wanted to scare" the Jewish family," but "to actually burn them alive."
In May, the pending evictions of several Paleostinian families from the neighborhood helped fuel festivities in Jerusalem that kicked off an 11-day conflict between Israel and 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... -ruling Hamas, the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood, terror group, as well as deadly bouts of street violence between Arabs and Jews inside Israel.
[IsraelTimes] Security service says suspect is veteran Hamas, the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®,, member, trained to operate anti-tank missiles; he has provided interrogators with intel on locations of Gazoo tunnels, weapons caches
A Gazook man with a permit to enter Israel for medical treatment used his access to scout for potential recruits for the Hamas terror group, the Shin Bet security service said Thursday.
Hamas member Ahmad Abu al-Nour, 27, was arrested on January 24, and has since provided interrogators with vast intelligence about the terror group, the Shin Bet said.
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[Rudaw] The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) said on Wednesday that it carried out two military and security operations against 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) sleeper cells in the eastern province of Deir ez-Zor, killing a "dangerous" member of the group and arresting another.
"The first operation was conducted in the Jazrat al-Milaj, in which our forces managed to neutralize a dangerous terrorist leader called Abu Hamza Shamia who was responsible for planning and committing a terrorist act, on February 10, targeting a post belongs to the Deir Ezzor military council in the al-Zir village, Deir Ezzor eastern countryside, [which] led to the martyrdom of five fighters," the US-allied force said in a statement.
It added that Shamia was "responsible for preparing and planning terrorist acts targeting our fighters and tribal leaders in the region during the past period."
The second operation was also carried out in the same province, arresting Shukri Kamal Khalil who the SDF claims was responsible for the distribution of ammunition and explosives to ISIS fighters in the province. "Large quantities of weapons, ammunition, and narcotics were confiscated," it said.
The new operations come days after the SDF arrested an ISIS financier in Raqqa city. According to the SDF, Mohammed Ahmed Karz admitted to funding and financing ISIS cells in northeast Syria, as well as their families in al-Hol camp.
In an incident that is not the first of its kind, a Turkish drone bombed the vicinity of a Russian base in #Syria’s #Tel_Tamr, without a response from the Russian side. https://t.co/Yjgojj9Nt3
TEL TAMR, Syria (North Press) – On Thursday evening, a Turkish drone bombed the vicinity of the Russian base in the countryside of Tel Tamr town, north of Hasakah, northeast Syria
The vicinity of the Russian base, north of Tel Tamr, was bombed by a Turkish drone, while no response was made by the Russian side to the bombing, an informed source told North Press.
“The bombing resulted in material damage in the targeted place,” the sources said.
Meanwhile, the northern countryside of Tel Tamr witnessed sporadic shelling by Turkish forces, but no further information was reported about the bombing.
It is noteworthy that this is not the first time that the vicinity of the Russian base is bombed by Turkish forces, as it was bombed more than once during the last year.
Reporting by Dilsoz Youssef
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A Syrian military helicopter crash-landed in a rugged mountainous area during a training mission in the country's northwest on Thursday, leaving two of the five crew members dead.
State media quoted an unnamed military official as saying that the helicopter faced technical problems while flying over the coastal province of Latakia and crash-landed in a mountainous area.
The official said two crew members were killed while three survived, and provided no detail on their condition.
A photo of the helicopter released by state news agency SANA showed its charred remains.
Syria's conflict began in March 2011 and has killed nearly half a million people and displaced half the country's pre-war population of 23 million.
Syrian government forces now control much of the country with the help of Russia and Iran, the main backers of President Bashar Assad. U.S. and Turkish troops have a presence in the country's north and east.
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