[8am] Local sources in Takhar have reported that unidentified individuals set fire to a school in the province.
Sources informed Hasht-e Subh that on the night of Monday, September 11th, at 8:00 PM, unknown individuals ignited a boys’ and girls’ school located in the center of Dasht-e-Qala district, Takhar Province. The school was situated approximately 200 meters from the Taliban ...mindless ferocity in a turban... security command in the district.
According to sources, the school was known as "Engineer Hamed Shaheed School" and had served nearly three thousand students, both boys and girls, during the previous government’s tenure.
As of now, no individual or group has grabbed credit for this incident.
It is worth noting that on April 28th of this year, unidentified individuals also set fire to a school building in Ghazni Province.
BREAKING: At least 10 Al Shabab militants were killed and a vehicle-laden with explosives were destroyed in an airstrike near Runirgod town in Middle Shabelle region. pic.twitter.com/r5IBCoRfDC
Over 100 al-Shabaab ...... the personification of Somali state failure... turbans were killed in the last 48 hours, the Somali government has said as military operations in central regions intensified.
Information Deputy Minister Abdirahman Yusuf Al Adala told the media from the frontlines in Galmudug ...a semiautonomous region in central Somalia, bordering Puntland on the north. Galmudug is not trying to obtain international recognition as a separate nation, but rather considers itself autonomous within the larger Somali federalism, for what that's worth... that 120 turbans were killed in 17 separate operations in the last two days.
The minister noted that local communities and business people were providing support to the military in areas they are operating from.
The minister’s remarks follow the capture of Garas area in Galgadud region on Monday by Somali National Army.
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[Regnum] Rebels from northern Mali announced the capture of the town of Bourem in the east of the country, AFP reported on September 12, citing a rebel statement.
Mohamed El-Mawloud Ramadan , a spokesman for the rebels in the Permanent Strategic Forces (CSP) coalition, said that intense fighting took place in the Bourema area, resulting in control of the camp and various forward posts of the Malian armed forces.
However, the Malian authorities have not yet reported any fighting in the Bourema area.
As Regnum reported , on September 8, at least 49 civilians and 15 military personnel were killed in northeastern Mali due to two militant attacks. The first of these was carried out on a military camp in the Burem region, and the second on a ship that was transporting civilians across the flooded plain between the cities of Gao and Mopti. At the same time, the security forces managed to eliminate about 50 militants. In connection with the terrorist attacks, three days of national mourning were declared in the country.
On September 10, Russian President Vladimir Putin held telephone conversations with the President of the transition period of the Republic of Mali, Assimi Goita , during which he expressed condolences in connection with the terrorist attack in the northeast of this state.
Armed groups from northern Mali on Tuesday claimed they captured the key town of Bourem, between Gao and Timbuktu, before pulling out, fuelling fears of the collapse of a peace deal between the ex-rebels and government forces.
A senior army official said troops had regained control of its positions in Bourem with the help of air support.
The Permanent Strategic Framework (CSP), a coalition of armed factions that signed a peace agreement with the state in 2015, issued a statement Tuesday saying it launched an operation at Bourem, taking "control of the camp and various advanced posts" from the army and the allied Russian paramilitary group Wagner.
CSP front man Mohammed El Maouloud Ramadane said in the statement that "intense fighting" preceded the town's capture.
But the attackers then withdrew, the front man said. "Our aim is not to stay in the towns," he explained.
A local commander, who asked not to be named, added: "We have retaken control of the camp and area around Bourem after the air force intervened and combed the area."
"Unidentified gangs had encircled the camp and roamed through the town," local resident Mahamoud Ould Mety said by telephone.
"But the aircraft reacted against them".
An alliance of predominantly Tuareg gangs launched a revolt in 2012 against the state but signed a peace agreement three years later.
The fragile deal, known as the Algiers agreement, came under strain after the civilian government was toppled in 2020 and replaced by a junta.
'WAR' WITH THE JUNTA
One of its signatories, the Coordination of Azawad Movements (CMA), on Monday said it considered itself at "war" with the ruling junta.
The region, the cradle of a jihadist insurgency that has swept into three Sahel nations, has seen a resurgence of tension in recent weeks, triggered in part by the pullout of UN peacekeeping troops from Mali.
The CSP framework said on Tuesday it had acted in "legitimate defence in the face of provocations by murderous Moslems from the Malian army accompanied by the Wagner militia."
Bourem lies on the road between the ancient city of Timbuktu and Gao, close to the Niger River, heading towards the Tuareg fiefdom of Kidal further to the north.
Rivalries have recently intensified between the multitude of armed actors vying for control of the north.
They include jihadist groups fighting against the Malian army, jihadist groups fighting among themselves, Tuareg gangs fighting against jihadists and Tuareg groups fighting against the Malian army.
The tensions have led to a succession of attacks and festivities.
A suicide kaboom targeted a military base at Gao on Friday killing around 10 soldiers, the army said Tuesday. That incident came a day after deadly strikes by suspected jihadists on a northern army camp and a passenger boat killed 64 people.
In late August, the junta had called on the gangs to relaunch dialogue and the ailing peace deal, amid fears of fresh hostilities after the UN peacekeepers withdraw.
The former rebel groups worry that the pullout may give the junta a "pretext" to reoccupy zones which the peace accords had ceded from central control.
After the UN peacekeepers quit the Ber base near Timbuktu last month there were festivities between troops and jihadists, but also between the army and the CMA.
The Framework says that after the base was vacated, the army and Russian Wagner paramilitaries carried out summary executions and abuses such as arbitrary arrests and looting against locals.
The UN peacekeeping mission, known as MINUSMA, has until December 31 to exit Mali after a decade of struggling to stabilise the country.
Mali's ruling junta earlier this year ordered the 13,000-person mission to withdraw, following the pullout of French troops in 2022.
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[KavkazUzel] An acquittal for Abdulmumin Gadzhiev was unlikely, but given the lack of evidence of the charges, there was hope for a minimum sentence, so the court’s decision turned out to be unexpectedly harsh, said friends of the Dagestan journalist. In their opinion, an appeal against the verdict will not lead to acquittal or a significant reduction in the sentence.
As the "Caucasian Knot" wrote, on June 22, the prosecutor demanded that the journalist of the Chernovik newspaper Abdulmumin Gadzhiev, the head of the Ansar charitable foundation Abubakar Rizvanov and Kemal Tambiev be sentenced to 19 years in prison. The prosecution did not present convincing evidence in court, the defendants said in their final plea. Today the court sentenced Abdulmumin Gadzhiev to 17 years in prison, Abubakar Rizvanov to 18 years in prison, Kemal Tambiev to 17 years and 6 months in prison. Lawyers for the convicted said that the court's decision will be appealed .
[Dawn] A suspected bully boy was killed when an bomb he was trying to plant along the roadside went off in the early hours on Monday, the police said.
They said the incident took place at around 2am in Sultankhel area.
Local residents also confirmed the incident and said that they heard a huge bang at around 2am.
The police said that they cordoned off the locality after receipt of information about the incident, and also closed the main Beautiful Downtown Peshawar ...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistain's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire... -Torkham Road.
They said that the suspected bully boy died instantly in the blast, while they recovered a Kalashnikov, a hand grenade and a remote from near the body.
The body was first taken to the Landi Kotal Hospital for an appointment with Dr. Quincy, and later shifted to a morgue in Peshawar as it could not be identified.
The main road remained closed till 11am with local residents raising doubts about the local police’s ability to tackle such a situation. They alleged that the body of the suspected bully boy remained on the spot for nine hours.
[Dawn] Poppy crops cultivated on 70 acres of land and over two dozen factories producing drugs have been destroyed in Qila Abdullah, security forces have claimed.
A joint operation by the army, 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 a..the Antwerp-based Salafist organization that had campaigned to introduce Sharia law to Belgium before single-handedly making Belgium the highest per capita supplier of jihadis to Syria in Europe. There was a big trial in Antwerp in 2015, but most of those convicted were in absentia...nti-smuggling operations.... , Anti-Narcotics Force and Levies was launched in Gulistan and other areas of Qila Abdullah and Pishin districts bordering Afghanistan.
The operation was carried out to dismantle the operations of drug manufacturers and destroy factories and poppy and cannabis cultivation.
The efforts will continue till the complete elimination of drug business and manufacturing from the area, officials said.
Around 11 people, allegedly involved in running drug production factories, in different areas of Qila Abdullah district have been arrested," a security bigshot told Dawn on Sunday.
He added around 600 people were guarding these compounds being used for drug making.
[Rudaw] Ottoman Turkish air forces on Tuesday bombarded a mountain in Duhok province. Locals said the bombardment could be clearly seen from nearby villages.
Locals from the area told Rudaw’s Ayub Nasri that Ottoman Turkish forces bombed the mountain for nearly half an hour. Fayaq Balavayi, a villager, said "There are no civilians in the targeted area but the bombardment could be heard and seen in nearby villages."
Majd Barchi, another local, said this is the third successive night that Ankara bombed the mountain, adding that there are no civilians on the mountain because it is a prohibited area.
The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...just another cheapjack Moslem dictatorship, brought to you by the Moslem Brüderbund... has recently upped its attacks against the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) in the Kurdistan Region. It has also intensified its targeting of Kurdish fighters in northern Syria due to their alleged ties with the PKK.
Ottoman Turkish warplanes and drones bombarded the vicinity of Galala village ten times on September 1, the mayor of Mawat district, which includes the village in northern Sulaimani province, told Rudaw. The attack damaged farms and orchards and sparked a fire.
Kurdish civilians and rights organizations have criticized Turkey’s military campaign as civilian lives and property are frequently caught in the crossfire.
Ottoman Turkish fighters unleashed a barrage of strikes upon multiple regions within the jurisdiction of Amedi, located to the north of Dohuk.
A government official, speaking on the condition of anonymity, revealed that the Ottoman Turkish helicopters subjected the village of Kowani and areas within the Nahla region to relentless bombardment.
[IsraelTimes] The military and police announce that earlier this week, security forces foiled an attempt to smuggle bombs over the Jordanian border, believed bound for terror groups in the West Bank.
According to a joint statement, on Sunday, coppers and IDF soldiers located a suspicious bag on the border. Upon further inspection, it was revealed to contain six bombs.
No suspects were caught in the attempt.
The incident follows recent attempts to smuggle Iranian-made bombs, which appear to be knockoffs of the American Claymore mine, over the Jordan border and into Israel and the West Bank.
"Israel Police and the IDF will continue to act with determination to detect and thwart any intention to smuggle weapons by hostile terror elements abroad, which endanger the security of the State of Israel and its citizens, and to prosecute these operatives" the joint statement says.
[IsraelTimes] Paleostinian button men opened fire and hurled an bomb from a passing vehicle at the Jalameh checkpoint in the northern West Bank overnight, the Israel Defense Forces says.
The checkpoint was closed to traffic at the time, and no injuries were caused.
In another attack last night, a Paleostinian gunman opened fire near the settlement of Sal’it, south of the West Bank city of Tulkarem, the IDF says.
The military says troops returned fire at the armed suspect, and later found an abandoned gun in the area, suspected to have been used in the attack.
Separately, 16 wanted Paleostinians were detained during overnight raids across the West Bank, with festivities in some areas, the IDF says.
[Shafaq News] Iran’s theocracy is trying hard to both ignore the upcoming anniversary of nationwide protests over the country’s mandatory headscarf law and tamp down on any possibility of more unrest.
Yet the Sept. 16 death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini still reverberates across Iran. Some women are choosing to go without the headscarf, or hijab, despite an increasing crackdown by authorities.
Graffiti, likely against Iran’s government, is rapidly painted over in black by Tehran’s municipal workers. University professors have been fired over their apparent support for demonstrators.
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[IsraelTimes] The Hezbollah security forces have arrested a man suspected of spying for Israel, according to a report published in the Lebanese news outlet Al Jadeed.
The man, only identified by his initials M.T.D, is in his thirties and comes from the town of Majdal Zoun, in the Tyre district in southern 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... , but according to village residents lives in Germany.
The report published yesterday says he comes to Lebanon periodically, rents apartments and cars in the Tyre area, uses unregistered phone numbers, and provides coordinates of specific sites to his Israeli contacts.
The man was reportedly arrested upon his arrival at Beirut airport by Hezbollah security agents.
On August 25, Lebanese authorities said they arrested a couple at Beirut airport as they were trying to flee the country, who reportedly confessed they were spying for Israel inside the country.
Such claims are made regularly, but their veracity cannot be established. Lebanese security services have arrested dozens of people over the years on suspicions of collaborating with Israel, with some receiving jail terms of up to 25 years.
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...mindless ferocity in a turban...
...... the personification of Somali state failure...
...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistain's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire...
...just another cheapjack Moslem dictatorship, brought to you by the Moslem Brüderbund...
...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...
