[8am] Local sources in Nangarhar The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country.. have reported the liquidation of Asad Afridi, a prominent commander of the Tehrik-e-Taliban ...Arabic for students... Pakistain (TTP), in an aerial attack conducted by Pak forces within the province.
Pakistan, you say? Fascinating!
Sources revealed to Hasht-e Subh on Saturday, August 19, that the Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... occurred around 9:00 AM last Thursday in the Rina Parchaw area of Lalpoor district in Nangarhar, near the Durand border.
The sources further confirmed that Asad Afridi’s guards were also among the casualties of this attack.
Both the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistain and the Pak government have yet to issue statements regarding this incident.
However, death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate... Pak media outlets have corroborated this development.
Rina Parchaw is situated in the vicinity of the Durand border and remains an active area for TTP fighters.
This incident follows another airstrike by Pak forces in the Khost province ... across the border from Miranshah, within commuting distance of Haqqani hangouts such as Datta Khel and probably within sight of Mordor. Khost is populated by six different tribes of Pashtuns, the largest probably being the Khostwal, from which it takes its name... approximately six days ago.
FORMER CANADIAN AND AUSTRALIAN AMBASSADORS CALL FOR ESTABLISHING TIES WITH TALIBAN – Arif Lalani, a former Canadian Ambassador to Kabul, and Nicola Gordon-Smith, a former Australian Ambassador to the country both say it is time to reopen diplomatic facilities in Kabul. Their arguments highlight the inability of sanctions to moderate the Taliban domestic policies that have resulted in gender apartheid and a steady roll-back of human rights across society.
TALIBAN CALLS FOR INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION AND REMOVAL OF SANCTIONS ON INDEPENDENCE DAY – Yesterday marked the 104th anniversary of Afghanistan’s independence from Great Britain. The Taliban used the day to implore the world to ‘work with them’ and to remove the sanctions on the country. While the Taliban attempted to use the day as a center stage for its propaganda, human rights critics seized the moment to point out that King Amanullah Khan implemented education reforms for both boys and girls shortly after casting off the British yoke.
IRAQ ANNOUNCED THAT IT IS PROVIDING GRATIS VISAS FOR PAKISTAN, LEBANON, AFGHANISTAN, AND YEMEN – With Arbaeen approaching, the Iraqi Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced it would provide free visas for pilgrims from several countries. Afghanistan was specifically mentioned and it is thought that Iran will similarly offer free transit visas for Afghans to make the Arbaeen pilgrimage. Iraqi diplomatic facilities in Iran and Pakistan have the details for applying for the visas and the government of Iran is expected to announce its free transit visa program in the coming days.
AFGHAN REFUGEE IN UK JAILED FOR SEXUALLY ASSAULTING 12-YEAR-OLD ALBANIAN REFUGEE GIRL – Sakhidad Ahadi was sent to jail for reportedly raping a 12-year-old Albanian refugee girl who was staying in the same government-sponsored hotel at the time the crime was committed. Ahadi had been seeking asylum in the UK since shortly after the fall of Kabul and the offenses took place in December of 2022. He was first arrested in January of 2023 and now faces at least 8 years in prison before he can be considered for parole.
PAKISTANI BUSINESS OWNERS AND UNION LEADERS CALL FOR THE REOPENING OF THE ANGOOR ADDA BORDER CROSSING – Union leaders, trade representatives, and business owners attended a meeting at the Rustam Bazar to discuss the continued closure of the Angoor Adda border crossing. The crossing has been closed for several months in response to increased terror activity. The group called a press conference and demanded the Pakistani government reopen the crossing on an emergency basis so that trade could be resumed.
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PARWAN SECURITY OPERATION RAMPING UP – Sources in Kabul say that Taliban security forces have moved approximately 300 men to Parwan in an effort to reinforce the local Taliban units in the Province that came under attack recently by Resistance forces. In addition, the local GDI offices have received additional personnel from the Ministry of the Interior who have participated in several of the clearing operations in Kabul in 2022 and 2023. Sources say that house-to-house searches will begin today in certain areas and that additional road checkpoints are being planned to try and interdict Resistance forces.
UPDATE: Somalia National Army forces destroy Al-shabaab hideouts during an operation in the forest located between Barak-Sheik Amir and Hussein-Agey in Galgadud region. pic.twitter.com/WCs4UlGeo0
UPDATE: Five Al-shabaab militants killed by the Somali National Army in an operation at Gariley and Ali-Yabaal areas in Galgadud region; Defence Ministry Spokesman Gen. Abdullahi Ali Anod said the operation also destroyed the militants' bases in Jir-jir Hiray forest. pic.twitter.com/X1eCCx33tA
[Garowe] The al-Qaeda-linked terror group; al-Shabaab ...... Somalia's version of the Taliban, functioning as an arm of al-Qaeda... suffered immense losses on Friday during an operation conducted by the Somali National Army [SNA], army officials confirmed, with the country gearing up for the second phase of the crackdown which will focus on southern parts.
In three sites controlled by the al-Shabaab within Buq Aqable, Hiran region, at least 18 snuffies were killed in the operation, which also left about 20 vehicles used by the group badly dismembered. The country is preparing for the final phase but much of the focus has been in central regions where the first phase was conducted.
Within the past week, the government also reported new operations in two other al-Shabaab-controlled towns - Bulo Fulay [Bay region] and Galhareri [Galgudud]. The operation in Galhareri was also reported by al-Shabaab, who claimed that the national army had suffered losses.
Later on Friday, the al-Shabaab admitted that the army targeted regions in Hiiraan, but claimed that civilians were affected in the operation. Usually, the group does not admit casualties whenever it suffers losses in operations conducted by the national army and foreign soldiers.
This comes are President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud pledged to eliminate al-Shabaab within the next few months. During a Town Hall meeting on Thursday evening, Hassan Sheikh said his government will either eliminate the group or they will remain in small pockets where they can’t hurt the government. According to him, the federal government of Somalia has changed tactics from solely focusing on capturing towns and villages to "sweeping" the snuffies from the countryside so that they don’t get the opportunity to attack government forces from behind.
[Garowe] Police in Mandera on the night of Friday, August 18, 2023, successfully repulsed an attack at the Anti-Stock Theft Unit (ASTU) Elram Camp.
In a police report seen by Nairobi News, the suspected Al-Shabaab ...... al-Qaeda's tentacle in East Africa... bandidosmurderous Moslems attacked the camp by firing bullets and also using Rocket Propelled Grenades (RPGs).
"The attack was from the eastern parts of the camp at about 200 meters. They fired into the camp. The militia strength is not known," the report read in part.
Police say that the attack lasted about 10 minutes but it was well repulsed as the officers there were on a high alert after receiving an intel on a possible attack there.
The RPGs caused fire both inside and outside the camp and the officers were unable to contain it due to the dry vegetation around the station.
"Neither injuries nor casualties were reported during the incident. More details will be sent on the same," the report further read.
Mandera County has seen an upsurge in al shabaab attacks bearing the fact that it lies in the border between Kenya and Somalia.
On July 5, 2023, Al-Shabaab bandidosmurderous Moslems killed two coppers in an incident that left four officers hospitalized.
On July 4, 2023, Al-Shabaab bandidosmurderous Moslems also rubbed out a police reservist identified as Mohamud Abdullahi.
Suspected al-Shabaab turbans carried out the attack on Elele-Takaba road in Mandera County.
The incident occurred as officers from the Quick Response Unit (QRU) were patrolling Mandera County following intelligence reports that suspected al-Shabaab fighters had been spotted at the Kenyan border.
Armed with rocket-propelled grenades, the bandidosmurderous Moslems attacked the officers, killing one on the spot and injuring others.
"Another officer died in the attack and a team of officers is already on the ground combing the area to flush out the suspected bully boys," Mandera County Commissioner Amos Omariba, told the media then.
At the time of the attack, Interior CS Kithure Kindiki had been holding meetings with top security agencies in the North Eastern region over the terror attacks.
“Awwwwwright, you guys — line up! ISWAP in a line on my right, Boko boys on my left — in a line, you idiots! Look down at the ground, it’s painted there in white so all you have to do is stand on it! Jesus, Mary and Joseph, I haven’t seen a dumber group since I was teaching Boot Camp! ....Everybody on your line? Okay, now turn your back to the other team, and step out: ONE. TWO. THREE.... No, Abu Yusuf, it does not matter what foot he’s using. Pay attention to your own feet and let everyone else worry about theirs. Aaaaand halt! (Yes, I know they’re supposed to make two straight lines, Lieutenant, but some things are beyond expectation.) Aaaaaannd turn!”
At this point our hero was felled by a stray bullet, so he missed getting hit in the crossfire. The exercise, it was later reported, achieved 150% death rate between both parties and nearby civilians.
[AlAhram] 129 Egyptian migrants colonists who had been abandoned in a bus during an unauthorized attempt to enter the United States were rescued in Veracruz, Eastern Mexico, according to a report released by the Mexican government on Wednesday.
The Federal Migration authorities got a call early on Tuesday morning reporting the whereabouts of a passenger bus on the old Las Choapas-Nanchital road.
When the agents arrived, they confirmed that a total of 137 foreigners who could not prove their regular stay in the Mexican areas had been left on the bus (129 Egyptians and 8 Mauritanians).
According to the report, there were two minors and a family of two among the 129 Egyptians.
According to the article, the foreigners were wearing bracelets with their own names on them during the rescue, which is a telltale sign of human trafficking organizations.
All of the adult foreigners were transported to the Acayucan Migration Station, where they received medical attention in addition to continuing with their administrative immigration process.
The Protection Office for Girls, Boys, and Adolescents (NNA) was informed, and the family and unaccompanied minors were moved to the Girls, Boys, and Adolescents Referral Office.
Data from the US government that was made public on Friday shows a 33 percent increase in arrests for unlawfully entering the US from Mexico between June and July.
Families travelling with children were more prevalent in July compared to June, virtually doubling the number of arrests to 60,161.
CURBING IRREGULAR MIGRATION
Egypt has been working to address irregular migration since announcing its first national strategy to do so in 2016.
The plan has several different angles. It includes Law 82/2016, which makes smuggling of migrants colonists a crime and lays forth harsh punishments. In 2022, the law was strengthened, increasing fines and punishing people who commit crimes but do not report them.
The approach also includes measures to increase household incomes and create jobs in the governorates that are the main sources of irregular migrants colonists in order to address the problem's core causes.
As part of its cooperation with Egypt on reducing irregular migration, the EU earlier in June gave 80 million euros to Egypt for border management, search and rescue, and anti-smuggling activities.
[Dawn] Security forces have killed two forces of Evil during an intelligence-based operation (IBO) in the Bara area of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa’s Khyber district, the military’s media wing said on Saturday.
The Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) blurb said security forces conducted the operation on the reported presence of forces of Evil in the area on the night between August 18 and 19.
"During the conduct of the operation, intense fire exchange took place between own troops and forces of Evil and resultantly two forces of Evil were sent to hell.
"The killed forces of Evil remained actively involved in terrorist activities against security forces as well as [in the] killing of innocent citizens," the ISPR said.
It added that sanitisation of the area was being carried out to eliminate any other forces of Evil found in the vicinity.
"Locals of the area appreciated the operation and expressed their full support to eliminate the menace of terrorism," the blurb reads.
Security forces had killed two forces of Evil earlier this week in a similar operation, which was conducted in the Ramzak area of North Wazoo on the night of August 14 and 15.
On August 13, a soldier was martyred and four bad boyz were potted during an exchange of fire in the Charmang valley of Bajaur district.
[Dawn] ThePunjab 1.) Little Orphan Annie's bodyguard
2.) A province of Pakistain ruled by one of the Sharif brothers
3.) A province of India. It is majority (60 percent) Sikh and Hindoo (37 percent), which means it has relatively few Moslem riots.... Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) on Saturday said it has arrested 13 alleged Lions of Islam including "three key ISIS commanders" during an intelligence-based operation from different cities of the province.
In a statement issued today, the CTD said the arrested suspects from Lahore, Bahawalpur, Gujranwala, Rawalpindi, Chinot, Qasor, Multan ...Home of the Multan Sultans... , and Mandi Bahauddin had intended to carry out terrorist activities.
It further said explosives, detonators, improvised bombs, and cash was also recovered from them.
It further said cases were registered against them and investigations were under way. Separately, the CTD added that 34 suspects were rounded up during 339 combing operations this week while 4,113 people were also questioned.
The statement concluded that CTD was working towards the goal of a safer Punjab and authorities were determined to root out the scourge of terrorism.
Last week, the Punjab CTD said it had arrested 21 "terrorists", which included snuffies affiliated with the banned ISIS and the Tehrik-e-Taliban ...Arabic for students... Pakistain (TTP).
In July, the Punjab CTD conducted IBOs in various parts of the province resulting in the arrest of 17 snuffies associated with banned bully boy organizations.
According to a CTD spokesperson, 132 IBOs were carried out in Punjab, specifically targeting expected terrorism activities by defunct organizations, particularly against Chinese nationals and worship places during Muharram.
Continuing its crackdown on terror elements, the Special Investigation Unit (SIU) Awantipora conducted raid at Wopalwan Awantipora in connection with case FIR No. 01/2023 of GRP Awantipora, officials said today.
The raid was conducted in the residential house of accused namely Sheikh Sayurl Nisar son of Nisar Ahmed Sheikh resident of Wopalwan Awantipora and proper SOPs were followed, said an official.
"During the search, relevant information was gathered besides, Bank Pass books, Islamic Books of Jahad & other incriminating materials were recovered by the SIU Awantipora," he said, in a statement.
The official said that searches were conducted to collect more evidences of his involvement in other terror crimes.
[GEO.TV] At least 11 people have been killed in a terrorist attack in Shawwal tehsil of North Wazoo, Geo News reported Sunday.
Terrorists blew up a vehicle carrying labourers by detonating explosives, Deputy Commissioner Rehan Gul Khattak said. The blast left 11 labourers dead and two severely maimed.
Officials said the maimed and the bodies have been shifted to the hospital.
Government officials said the dear departed belonged to the South Waziristan tehsil of Makin and Wana.
Police officials said a private vehicle carrying the labourers hit a landmine in the Gull Meer Kor area, killing 11 workers and wounding two others. Soon after the incident, sources said, the injured as well as the bodies of the dear departed were shifted to hospital.
There were also reports that a total of 16 labourers were on their way to South Wazoo when an bomb went off near the vehicle.
The device exploded after being attached to the vehicle they were traveling in on Saturday evening, Rehman Gul Khattak, a senior government official for North Waziristan, said in a statement.
“The laborers were working at an under-construction post for the Pakistan army,” Khattack said.
The militant assaults have been focused in regions abutting Afghanistan, and Islamabad alleges some are being planned on Afghan soil — a charge Kabul denies.
Pakistan’s home-grown Taliban group, Tehreek–e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), has waged a growing campaign against security officials, including police officers.
Pakistan has seen a sharp rise in militant attacks since the Afghan Taliban surged back to power in neighboring Afghanistan in 2021.
Pakistan was once plagued by almost daily bombings, but a major military clearance operation in the former tribal areas starting in 2014 largely restored order. The seven remote districts that border Afghanistan, of which North Waziristan is one, were later brought under the control of Pakistani authorities after the passage of legislation in 2018. Analysts say militants in the former tribal areas have become emboldened since the return of the Afghan Taliban.
[GEO.TV] Security forces killed two Death Eaters during an intelligence-based operation (IBO) in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa’s tribal district, the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) said in a statement on Saturday.
The military’s media wing said on the night of August 18-19, security forces conducted the IBO on the reported presence of Death Eaters in Bara area of Khyber district.
"During the conduct of operation, intense fire exchange took place between own troops and Death Eaters and resultantly two Death Eaters were sent to hell," it added.
The killed Death Eaters remained actively involved in terrorist activities against security forces as well as the killing of innocent citizens, the ISPR said.
The statement said sanitisation of the area is being carried out to eliminate any Death Eaters found in the area.
"Locals of the area appreciated the operation and expressed their full support to eliminate the menace of terrorism," the ISPR statement said.
[GEO.TV] Chief Justice Designate Qazi Faez Isa on Saturday visited Jaranwala to meet and express solidarity with the Christian community after violent mostly peaceful attacks on their houses and churches over alleged blasphemy ...the act of insulting or showing contempt or lack of reverence to a deity, or sacred objects, or toward something considered sacred or inviolable. Some religions consider it to be a crime. In Pakistain you can commit blasphemy by looking cross-eyed at a Koran... allegations. You wanta express "solidarity?" Show up in church on Sunday.
On August 16, a crowd vandalised several churches and set scores of houses on fire in Jaranwala town of the industrial district of Faisalabad ...formerly known as Lyallpur, the third largest metropolis in Pakistain, the second largest in Punjab after Lahore. It is named after some Arab because the Paks didn't have anybody notable of their own to name it after... after holy men made announcements in mosques inciting the mob to attack the Christian community under allegations of blasphemy. "Disrespected our holy idols, they did! Shot the moon at our moon! Then tore up a koran and wrote dirty words on it!"
Paramilitary troops were called in to handle the violence and bring the situation under control, according to a government order seen by Rooters. Betcha no (zero) holy men were arrested.
The attack sparked outrage on social media and among political and religious figures in Pakistain, who condemned the incident, saying that there was no room for such extreme behaviour. Seems like there is, since there was.
The Supreme Court's judge arrived in Jaranwala with his wife and visited the Christian colony. And everybody was ever so glad to see him.
Justice Isa reviewed the situation of the houses and churches that were attacked earlier this week. And everything's all better now.
"Three days have passed since the incident and the streets are still not clean," said Justice Isa while expressing displeasure with the deputy commissioner and directing him to get the streets cleaned immediately. "Yeah. Clean up that wreckage!"
Expressing regret over the incident, the senior puisne I have no idea what that word means.
According to the internet, it’s a senior court judge in the British system who is under the chief justice. Pronounced puny, which goes to show.
judge met the victims, assuring them of all-out support. Just like they did the last time.
He told the Christian community that they have equal rights as everyone else, adding that all citizens are equal. "That's right. In Pakistain anybody can form a mob! And does!"
Speaking to the Christian victims, Justice Isa said that it was the duty of Moslems to catch the perpetrators if churches are attacked. He added that Christians have equal rights to build a church as Moslems have to build a mosque. Moslems have equal rights to burn a church, but Christians don't have equal rights to burn down a mosque.
During his visit, the judge and his wife also provided financial assistance to the victims and distributed food packages among them.
"I am here as a citizen and it is everyone's duty to help you," he told the victims. Why was it everyone's duty to burn the Christians' houses down?
Those things won’t burn themselves, you know.
34 NOMINATED, 600 UNKNOWN SUSPECTS BOOKED According to a The News report, the city's police have started the paperwork but haven't done much else against 34 and nominated 600 unknown under 18 sections of the Pakistain Penal Code (PPC) and Section 7 of the Anti-Terrorism Act (ATA) following the incident. But not 34 holy men. And the 600 unknown will probably remain unknown. And the 34 not holy men will get off for lack of evidence or misspellings on the paperwork. The publication further claimed that 29 nominated suspects have been arrested in connection with the Wednesday rampage. The other five are still in the mosques, discussing the whole thing with learned holy men.
The police on Thursday also nominated Ahle Sunnat Wal Jamaat ...which is the false nose and plastic mustache of the murderous banned extremist group Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistain, whatcha might call the political wing of Lashkar-e-Jhangvi... (ASWJ) Jaranwala President Mufti Mohammad Younis Rizvi and Tehrik-e-Labaik Pakistain (TLP) leader Syed Asifullah Shah in the case. My guess would be they weren't home if the cops arrived to arrest them.
Separately, caretaker Chief Minister Punjab 1.) Little Orphan Annie's bodyguard
2.) A province of Pakistain ruled by one of the Sharif brothers
3.) A province of India. It is majority (60 percent) Sikh and Hindoo (37 percent), which means it has relatively few Moslem riots.... Mohsin Naqvi said both individuals, accused of desecrating the Holy Koran, had been arrested by the Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD). They always manage to get those guys. 'SWIFT ACTION' Meanwhile, ...back at the revival hall, the SWAT team had finally arrived... Foreign Office Spokesperson Mumtaz Zahra Baloch had said Pakistain was fully determined to protect and promote the constitutionally-guaranteed rights and freedoms of individuals belonging to religious minorities. We can see that. This only happens once or twice a year. Maybe three times. Or four. Not that often, really.
In a statement, she said as a country following law and Constitution, Pakistain could not accept the intolerant and violent mostly peaceful incident in Faisalabad. In that case, let the "blasphemers" go and make sure nobody bothers them.
She said these acts are illegal and unconstitutional. But you have a blasphemy law, so holy men gotta use it now and then to show how powerful they are.
"Our law enforcement authorities took swift action yesterday. "Blindingly swift. We're talkin' speed of light here!"
They have been instructed by the prime minister to apprehend the culprits and bring them to justice," she added. "Caught those blaspheming boogers in a matter of short minutes!"
The Israeli leftwing’s weekly, US State Department funded, exercise in “Nice country ya got here — be a shame if something happened to it.”
[IsraelTimes] Over 100k in Tel Aviv, with Israeli Eurovision winner Netta Barzilai leading singing of national anthem; Lapid: ’Government attacked chief of staff because they hate the truth’
Protests against the government’s judicial overhaul were held throughout Israel on Saturday evening for the 33rd straight weekend. Some 100,000 people took part in the main rally in Tel Aviv, Channel 13 reported, citing data from the CrowdSolutions firm. Some protesters briefly blocked off the northbound route of Tel Aviv’s Ayalon Highway while carrying torches, but were dispersed by police. Protest organizers in Tel Aviv had only women speak in light of recent incidents of discrimination against women throughout the country.
Speakers included top doctor Prof. Idit Matot, and Maj. (res.) Ora Peled Nakash, Israel’s first female officer on a naval vessel. Eurovision winner Netta Barzilai sang the national anthem.
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[ENGLISH.AAWSAT] Two Israelis were killed in a suspected Paleostinian shooting attack on a car wash in a volatile stretch of the occupied West Bank on Saturday.
The Israeli military said it was searching for suspects and setting up roadblocks near the town of Hawara, a flashpoint area in the northern West Bank, which has seen repeated shooting attacks as well as a rampage by Jewish West Bank settlers who torched Paleostinian property.
The shooting attack came after Paleostinian official media said a 19-year-old Paleostinian died of his wounds following an Israeli military raid into the West Bank on Wednesday.
Israeli paramedics said Saturday that when they arrived at the scene, two Israeli males, aged 60 and 29, were found unconscious at the car wash in Hawara with gunshot wounds.
Videos circulating online from the car wash showed Israeli soldiers walking across a large pool of blood to help move two bodies on stretchers to awaiting ambulances.
The above is the response. The Times of Israel has the murder:
Two Israeli men, a father and son, were shot and killed in a terror attack in the northern West Bank town of Huwara on Saturday, the military and medics said.
The shooting occurred inside a carwash in the Paleostinian town, located south of Nablus.
The Magen David Adom ambulance service said its medics carried out resuscitation efforts on the pair after they were hit by gunfire. They were both declared dead at the scene shortly afterward.
The victims were later identified as Shay Silas Nigrekar, 60, and his 28-year-old son Aviad Nir, residents of Ashdod.
The Israel Defense Forces said it had launched a manhunt for the assailant and closed off a number of roads in the area.
The terrorist approached the carwash on foot and shot up the two Israelis from close range with a handgun, according to the IDF’s preliminary investigation. The terrorist then expeditiously departed at a goodly pace, apparently on foot.
The two men, who were not residents of the area, were believed by the army to have been in Huwara for a number of hours on Saturday before the attack, carrying out various personal errands. Some goods and services are cheaper in the West Bank than in Israel, drawing some customers across the border. The attack occurred as the pair were standing by their car while it was being washed.
A shuttle bus driver from Ashdod said he met the victims at a store that fixed air conditioners minutes before the shooting.
The driver, Avi Elharrar, told Channel 12 there hadn’t been many Israeli vehicles in the area.
"I was there with them and talked with them," the driver said. "They asked if I was also from Ashdod and we got to talking. We talked a little bit then the father said, ’I’m going to the carwash outside.’ He went out for a carwash. When we heard gunshots, we hit the gas and got away."
"There were gunshots and we immediately got out of there," he said. "I gave their friend a lift. I’m never going back there. It’s frightening."
The Hamas, a regional Iranian catspaw, and 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... terror groups praised the attack, calling it "heroic" and "a natural response to the crimes of the occupation."
[IsraelTimes] Settlers reportedly attack Paleostinian property in the West Bank, likely in Dire Revenge for a deadly terror shooting earlier in the day in the town of Huwara.
According to Paleostinian media reports, settlers throw rocks at homes in a neighborhood in Huwara, and at a vehicle near the town of Baytin, northeast of Ramallah.
Settlers also throw rocks at Paleostinian vehicles driving by the settlement of Yitzhar, north of Huwara, according to reports.
[NPASyria] On Friday night, armed festivities erupted in the town of Jindires in the west of Afrin, northwest Syria, between displaced people and a Ottoman Turkish-backed armed faction as members of the latter assaulted on the displaced.
Militants of Sultan Suleiman Shah (al-Amshat) faction assaulted on young men from the town of Ainjara, west of the city of Aleppo. As a result, the IDPs of Aijara, who are living in Jindires, gathered and clashed with the faction’s krazed killers, eyewitnesses told North Press.
Afrin has been under the occupation of The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire... and the SNA factions since 2018 following a military operation dubbed "Olive Branch" against the Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) under the pretext of preserving Turkey’s national security.
They said that intermittent festivities broke out between the two parties, where they used machine guns, without any reports on casualties.
The Ainjara IDPs demanded al-Amshat to hand over those who assaulted their relatives, and the latter agreed for fear of more escalation, according to the eyewitnesses.
On August 17, the US Department of the Treasury Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) designated Sultan Suleiman Shah Division (al-Amshat), Hamza Division, al-Amshat leader Muhammad Hussein al-Jassem (Abu Amsha), his younger brother Walid Hussein al-Jassem, Hamza leader Saif Abu Bakr, and the Istanbul-headquartered al-Safir Oto, a car dealership owned by Abu Amsha, for committing "serious human rights When they're defined by the state or an NGO they don't mean much... abuses" against the people of Afrin, mainly the Kurds.
On March 20, snuffies of Ahrar al-Sharqiya, a faction affiliated with the Ottoman Turkish-backed Syrian National Army (SNA), killed five Kurds and maimed others in Jindires for celebrating Newroz, a Kurdish national celebration.
The incident was followed by local and international angry reactions, calling for holding perpetrators accountable for the incident and removing the injustice in areas under the SNA factions’ control and demilitarize the region (northwestern Syria).
Following the incident, thousands of the people of Jindires and nearby villages took to streets, demanding perpetrators be held accountable and the expulsion of SNA factions from the region.
[NPASyria] Militants of the Ottoman Turkish-backed armed opposition factions, known as the Syria National Army (SNA), shot on Saturday at two young men in Raqqa Governorate, northern Syria.
The two young men were trying to leave the city of Tel Abyad and go to the areas held by the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (AANES). They were maimed and taken to Suluk Hospital, west of Tel Abyad, an exclusive source told North Press.
The city of Tel Abyad in the north of Raqqa has been under the occupation of the Ottoman Turkish forces and has been controlled by the SNA factions since 2019 following the so-called "Peace Spring" military operation that aimed to push away the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) under the pretext of protecting the Ottoman Turkish national security.
After that, the SNA handed over the two young men to the Civil Police faction for investigation. This is the second incident during August, the source said.
The two young men were forcibly deported from The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire... to Tel Abyad two weeks ago. They decided to flee the area as they were blackmailed by the SNA factions.
[NPASyria] Ottoman Turkish authorities deported on Saturday over 175 Syrian and Iraqi refugees to areas held by Ottoman Turkish-backed armed opposition factions, aka Syrian National Army (SNA), in northern Syria, through Tel Abyad and Bab al-Hawa border crossings with The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor... According to informed sources, the Ottoman Turkish authorities handed over 70 individuals to their affiliated Military Police via the Tel Abyad crossing in northern Raqqa Governorate, northern Syria, including 15 Iraqis who are currently undergoing security investigations.
Meanwhile, ...back at the abandoned silver mine, there was another explosion... the Ottoman Turkish authorities deported 105 Syrian refugees, including 27 women with their children, to areas under the control of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, formerly al-Nusra, before that it was called something else ...al-Qaeda's Syrian affiliate, from which sprang the Islamic State... (HTS — formerly al-Nusra ...formally Jabhat an-Nusrah li-Ahli al-Sham (Support Front for the People of the Levant), also known as al-Qaeda in the Levant. They aim to establish a pan-Arab caliphate. Not the same one as the Islamic State, though .. ... Front) in Idlib Governorate, northwest Syria.
The deportation process was carried out after collecting their biometric data, including eye and fingerprint scans, to ensure that they cannot return permanently without notifying their relatives residing in Turkey, according to the source.
[NPASyria] Ottoman Turkish authorities handed over on Saturday 14 Syrians to the Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, formerly al-Nusra, before that it was called something else (HTS) at Bab al-Hawa border crossing in Idlib Governorate, northwest Syria.
The Ottoman Turkish authorities arrested the Syrians seven days ago while trying to cross to The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor... from the village of Kherbet al-Joz, northwest of Idlib.
The 14 detainees were handed over to the security forces of the border crossing. They took their iris scans and finger prints to prevent them from entering Turkey, an exclusive source told North Press.
The source said the detainees included four security and military wanted bully boyz of the HTS, where they were arrested by the Ottoman Turkish authorities while trying to flee to Ottoman Turkish territory.
A source from the crossing told North Press that the number of those who were handed over by the Ottoman Turkish authorities to Bab al-Hawa crossing in August reached 119 people.
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[NPASyria] A fighter from Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) was killed on Saturday, while two others were maimed in an armed attack targeting their military vehicle in a town south of Hasakah Governorate, northeastern Syria.
A military source from the SDF in the town of al-Shadadi, south of Hasakah, stated that unidentified people riding a cycle of violence fired at a military vehicle with automatic weapons near the entrance of the village of Zayanat in Shadadi district.
The source added that the attack resulted in the killing of an SDF fighter, Sowadi al-Sarhan, 28, and the injury of two others.
On August 14, an SDF fighter was killed in an attack by unidentified individuals in the town of Shuhail in the eastern countryside of Deir ez-Zor Governorate, eastern Syria.
[ENGLISH.AAWSAT] A Syrian citizen suspected of being behind a deadly bombing that killed and maimed dozens near the capital, Damascus, last month did away with himself when button men tried to detain him in Leb ...an Iranian colony situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozeen flavors of Christians. It is the home of Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers... where he fled, state-run National News Agency reported Saturday.
The agency identified the man as Wissam Dalla and said that he entered Lebanon illegally and was staying with relatives in a Beirut southern suburb where he was planning another "terrorist attack."
The 23-year-old man jumped from the 7th floor of the building where he was staying late Friday night and later succumbed to his wounds in hospital, Rooters reported.
NNA said the dead man was suspected of links to the holy warrior ISIS organization.
A man suspected of involvement in an attack last month on a Shiite shrine in Syria died following a Hezbollah pursuit late Friday south of the Lebanese capital, the Iran-backed terror group said.
Wissam Dalla, a Syrian in his early twenties, "threw himself from the seventh floor" of a building where he had been staying with relatives "after learning his location had been discovered," Hezbollah said in a statement sent to AFP.
Dalla was "responsible for the earth-shattering kaboom in the Sayeda Zeinab area" south of the Syrian capital last month, the Shiite Moslem group added.
AFP was unable to independently confirm the allegations against Dalla.
Lebanese security forces played no role in the incident, a security source told AFP on condition of anonymity as they were not authorized to speak to the media.
Leb’s authorities did not immediately issue any statements.
On July 27, six people were killed and at least 20 others maimed when a bomb went kaboom! south of Damascus near the Sayeda Zeinab mausoleum, Syria’s most visited Shiite pilgrimage site, authorities said.
The Sunni Moslem bully boyIslamic 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.... group later claimed the blast, which came ahead of the annual commemoration of Ashura, a key event on the Shiite calendar.
Friday’s incident took place in Hay al-Sellom, an impoverished neighborhood in Beirut’s southern suburbs — a Hezbollah stronghold.
The group had pursued Dalla amid fears he could carry out another attack, the statement added, saying he was taken to the hospital but died.
[ENGLISH.AAWSAT] The Syrian group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, formerly al-Nusra, before that it was called something else ...al-Qaeda's Syrian affiliate, from which sprang the Islamic State... (HTS), formerly known as Jabhat al-Nusra ...formally Jabhat an-Nusrah li-Ahli al-Sham (Support Front for the People of the Levant), also known as al-Qaeda in the Levant. They aim to establish a pan-Arab caliphate. Not the same one as the Islamic State, though .. ... , announced on Thursday that it had suspended one of its leading commanders, Abu Maria al-Qahtani, over alleged improper use of external communications.
Goodness. Is he another spy for Turkey?
The announcement came amid reports saying the group has launched an arrest campaign against members suspected of dealing with the US-led international coalition, Russia or the Syrian regime.
An HTS statement on Thursday only confirmed that it suspended the duties of Abu Maria, whose real name is Muyassar ibn Ali al-Juburi, after "his name was mentioned in investigations" it recently conducted.
It stated that a special committee assigned by the HTS General Command, which is active in northwestern Syria, questioned Abu Maria and found that the man committed a mistake when "engaging in uncalculated communications, disregarding his sensitive position and without permission."
Meanwhile, ...back at the cheese factory, there was only one thought in the mouse's mind: I can do this! I can do this! Then the trap sprung... the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) said HTS commanders leaked information about communications between Abu Maria and members working for the international coalition, who were later arrested and held in Bab al-Hawa prison.
Not Turkey, then.
It added that HTS leader Abu Mohammad al-Julani had earlier warned the group’s security and military commanders from circulating any information about Abu Maria's case or leaking any details to media outlets or any other bodies, under penalty.
SOHR said disagreements erupted between al-Julani and a group of HTS top commanders, before the two sides took the decision of suspending the duties of Abu Maria in their controlled areas. Abu Maria is a member of HTS’ Shura Council and one of the first-line leaders in the group.
The US had classified Tahrir al-Sham as a terrorist faction, bearing in mind that under its former name, Jabhat al-Nusra, it was a branch of al-Qaeda in Syria.
[NPASyria] The General Security Service (GSS) of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), arrested on Saturday eight security bandidosDeath Eaters affiliated to Abu Maria al-Qahtani, a prominent leader within the HTS, who is under house arrest.
On August 17, leader of the HTS, Abu Muhammad al-Julani, imposed a house arrest on al-Qahtani on charges of intentions to overthrow al-Julani.
The HTS arrested eight men and transferred them to a security center known as the Central Security 107 in the city of Idlib, northwest Syria, to complete investigations with them, based on instructions by al-Julani, an exclusive source told North Press.
The raids, arrests, and security investigations are currently focusing on the figures and activities related to al-Qahtani, based on instructions issued by al-Julani, the source said.
The GSS also raided the homes and tents of the IDPs in Deir Hassan camp, north of Idlib, and arrested 20 people, including four women, on charges of launching demonstrations against the HTS.
Jihadist Abu Maria al-Qahtani, whose real name is Muyassar Ibn Ali al-Juburi, was born in Iraq in 1976 and later fought the US army in Iraq. During the Syrian conflict, he played a role in founding al-Nusra Front and later played a senior role in the HTS.
The HTS has been experiencing internal divisions for over two months, with one faction supporting al-Qahtani and another supporting al-Julani. These divisions became evident during a recent security campaign that targeted numerous leaders and bandidosDeath Eaters affiliated with the group, particularly within the GSS.
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The publication further claimed that 29 nominated suspects have been arrested in connection with the Wednesday rampage.
[ENGLISH.AAWSAT] Two Israelis were killed in a suspected Paleostinian shooting attack on a car wash in a volatile stretch of the occupied West Bank on Saturday.
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...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire...
...al-Qaeda's Syrian affiliate, from which sprang the Islamic State...
...an Iranian colony situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozeen flavors of Christians. It is the home of Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers...
...al-Qaeda's Syrian affiliate, from which sprang the Islamic State...
