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The Obama administration vetoed an agreement between Israel and Nigeria whereby Jerusalem would sell US-made Cobra helicopters to the African nation, The New York Times reported on Monday.
Washington blocked the transaction due to concerns that the Nigerian government was not doing enough to avoid civilian casualties in its war against the Boko Haram jihadist organization.
The unmanned aircraft fired four missiles at a vehicle in a desert area between the eastern province of Marib and the southern province of Shabwa, the source told AFP.
Obama on Sunday dismissed suggestions that deepening chaos in Yemen since the resignation of Western-backed President Abdrabuh Mansur Hadi last week had forced a change in Washington’s campaign against Al-Qaeda.
In the past year, several ISIS media outlets and forums have shown the terror organization using civilian drones to plan battles on the ground in Syria and Iraq.
And as it turns out, their favorite model is also one of the most popular drones in the US – the DJI Phantom. Last month in the Syrian city of Kobane, YPG fighters (the Syrian Kurds militia) allegedly shot down a few of these drones, supposedly used by ISIS.
Now an ISIS supporter has published new instructions on a popular ISIS forum.
This post provides technical instructions on how to operate DJI Phantoms for military uses, without risking the drone or the fighter operating it remotely.
An ISIS video showing battle plans on top of drone footage:
Kobani: drone view and fierce clashes between ISIS and YPG
https://www.youtube.com/watch?x-yt-ts=1421914688&v=CIjUHIu-7fc&x-yt-cl=84503534#t=19
Sixteen people were killed and 45 others injured during clashes between forces loyal to Libya’s Army Commander Khalifa Haftar and Takfiri militants in the Eastern city of Benghazi.
Boko Haram terrorists captured the Northeastern town of Monguno, including a military base, after a fierce battle with Nigerian troops, security sources said.
Some 200 local and foreign militants have been killed in a military operation in the northeastern Afghan province of Kunar where Pakistani officials believe fugitive commander of Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) Mullah Fazlullah and his loyalists maintain sanctuaries, Afghanistan’s top diplomat in Pakistan said.
“This is a proof that we believe terrorists are terrorists. There is no difference between good terrorists or bad terrorists,” Janan Mosazai, Afghanistan’s Ambassador to Pakistan, told journalists at the Afghan Consulate in Karachi on Saturday.
Mullah Fazlullah claimed responsibility for the methodical killing of over 150 people, mostly students, at the Army Public School (APS) in Peshawar on December 16. Pakistani military officials shared credible evidence with their Afghan counterparts that the handlers of the APS attackers were hiding in Afghanistan.
The Kunar operation followed visits to Kabul by senior Pakistani military officials, including army chief General Raheel Sharif, soon after the APS attack.
The frosty relations between Pakistan and Afghanistan began to thaw since the installation of a new unity government in Kabul, led by President Ashraf Ghani. The new Afghan leader visited Islamabad in November and said his administration believed in improving relations with Pakistan.
Ambassador Mosazai said his country was focusing on deepening state-to-state relations with Pakistan, and the two countries were also sharing intelligence to curb terrorism. He added that terrorism was the common enemy of both countries. “Terrorists have no nationality or religion. They are non-state actors,” he said, calling Pakistan and Afghanistan the biggest sufferers of the ‘war on terror’.
Following the APS massacre, the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa government announced plans to repatriate hundreds of thousands of Afghan refugees living illegally in the province. Ambassador Mosazai, however, clarified that Islamabad has assured that the repatriation of registered Afghan refugees would be “voluntary, dignified and gradual”.
“We are looking into reports of forced evictions but we have been assured by the Pakistani authorities that it would not happen,” he said. Sharing UNHCR figures, he said there were 1.6 million registered Afghan refugees in Pakistan, of which Sindh was hosting 65,000.
Ambassador Mosazai ruled out the involvement of Afghan refugees in major crimes. “There has been not a single major incident of crime or terrorism in Pakistan where Afghan refugees were involved or implicated,” he added. “For the past 35 years, Afghan refugees have lived in dignity and harmony in Pakistan, and there have been intermarriages and relationships.”
During his first visit to Karachi, Ambassador Mosazai met the Sindh chief minister, as well as MQM leaders at Nine Zero. He also visited the Baqai Medical University where Afghan students are studying on scholarships provided by the Pakistani government.
Source: tribune.com.pk
No sooner had Yemeni President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi announced his resignation than his country’s tenuous political fabric began to disintegrate.
Provinces across a nation barely held together by a complex web of tribal and religious alliances said they would no longer take military commands from Sanaa after the Iranian-allied Houthi group besieged Hadi’s home and palace this week.
The emerging fragmentation of the Arabian Peninsula country has sparked fears of the “Somalisation” of a state which is home to a revitalised al-Qaeda insurgency as well as a neighbour to top oil exporter Saudi Arabia.
For Washington, Yemen’s splintering would make it hard to carry out a counter-terrorism strategy against al-Qaeda plotters who have targeted it and its ally Saudi Arabia and claimed responsibility for the Jan. 7 Charlie Hebdo attacks in Paris.
Through Hadi, a supporter of US drone strikes on al-Qaeda, Yemen was a top US ally in the Washington’s fight against islamist militancy.
For Yemen’s neighbours, especially Saudi Arabia, the rise of the Houthis resembles yet another fallen domino in capitals where allies of regional rival Iran have risen to power – including Damascus, Beirut and Baghdad.
The Houthi fighters, a guerrilla force drawn from a minority that ruled a thousand-year kingdom in Yemen’s highlands until 1962, first seized the capital Sanaa in September.
They managed to coexist with Hadi until last week, when fighters crushed the president’s guards and deployed outside his home. Although Hadi signed a deal acceding to many of the Houthis’ demands, that attempt to defuse the crisis failed and he unexpectedly resigned soon afterwards.
His move sparked a chain reaction from other provinces, some home to powerful military divisions, to dissociate themselves with the capital, where the Houthis are ostensibly in control even if they have not quite figured out a way to govern.
“People are angry, people are scared. The worst is that it could turn into a civil war,” a diplomatic source said.
“It’s chaos,” said another diplomat.
In the southern city of Aden, once the capital of a Marxist independent South Yemen, the local security committee said it would no longer receive orders from the capital Sanaa.
Yemen’s north and south united in 1990 but civil war broke out four years later, with then-President Ali Abdullah Saleh crushing southern secessionists to maintain the union.
Now, various leaders of a long stagnant separatist movement have announced their secession. None speak for the entire region, comprised of eight provinces, sparking fears of further localised fighting among southerners.
In Aden, local groups raised the flag of the south in the general security building. In Mukallah, the capital city of the Hadramout province, militia fanned out across the city.
In Ateq, capital city of the restive Shabwa province, local media reports said joint patrols by a secessionist group and local security had also taken over security of the area.
In the eastern oil-rich province of Marib, which has emerged as a flashpoint between the Houthis and tribesmen in recent months, local political and security officials denounced the Jan. 19 events as a coup and said they would no longer take orders from Sanaa either.
Source: thenews.com.pk
About 2,000 vehicles that have been stolen in Turkey have been sent to Syria in the last two years, most of them having been sold to jihadists fighting in the neighboring country.
According to figures from the Police Department and the Gendarmerie Command, the 2,000 vehicles stolen in 2013 and 2014 were smuggled to Syria via using cloned license plates.
Most of the vehicles were either pick-up vans or panel vans which have been sold to fighter groups in the region, primarily the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL). Such vehicles have been used by fighter groups for carrying ammunition and fighters.
According to figures from the Public Security Department of the Police Department, approximately 63 vehicles are stolen every day in Turkey. Istanbul is the province where the most vehicles are stolen, with 26 vehicles stolen a day. In 2014, 23,000 vehicles were stolen across Turkey.
The newest models of luxury vehicles are also often stolen and smuggled to northern Syria and Iraq, according to data obtained by the police.
Car bomb attacks are frequently conducted in the Middle East, often with stolen vehicles. In February 2013, a bombing at Turkey’s Cilvegözü border gate with Syria killed 14 people, with Turkish authorities blaming Damascus for the attack.
Car bomb in town near Syrian border
The deadliest terror attack in Turkey’s history took place, which claimed more than 50 lives, in the Reyhanlı district in the southern province of Hatay on the border with Syria in 2013.
At the time, authorities insisted the suspects being tried for the attack are linked to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, not Islamist rebels, but some leaked documents cast doubt on the government’s claims, suggesting al-Qaeda-linked groups committed the attack.
Turkey faced four car bomb attacks in central Istanbul on Nov. 15, 2003, and Nov. 20, 2003, which left 57 people dead and hundreds wounded. Al-Qaeda claimed responsibility for the attacks on the Beth Israel and Neve Shalom synagogues, the HSBC bank headquarters and the British Consulate. British Consul-General Roger Short was among the victims.
There are around 3,000 people linked to ISIL in Turkey, official reports have suggested. The number is in addition to between 700 and 1,000 Turkish fighters in the group, whose potential return has concerned Turkey, Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu recently said.
Source: hurriyetdailynews
The Lebanese Army has announced arrest of 17 Syrian citizens for suspected engagement in terrorist activities as well as illegal entry into Lebanon, PressTV reported.
In a statement released on Sunday, the army stated that 12 of the Syria-based suspects were detained for attemps to organize a terrorist cell following a raid by the Lebanese troops in the al-Marj district of the Bekaa Valley.
The other five were taken into custody over illegal entry into the Lebanese territory.
On Friday, eight Lebanese soldiers were killed following fierce clashes with Syria-based Takfiri terrorists near the Syrian border.
Suspected ISIL terrorists launched a major attack on Lebanese army positions around Ras Baalbek, near the restive town of Arsal, where the foreign-backed militants killed and kidnapped two dozen Lebanese soldiers in August 2014.
Over the past months, Lebanon has been suffering from terrorist attacks by the Takfiri terrorists and random rocket attacks, viewed as a spillover of the conflict in Syria.
The violence fueled by Takfiri groups in Syria has so far claimed the lives of over 200,000 people since early 2011, according to reports. New figures show that over 76,000 people, including thousands of children, were killed across Syria last year.
Takfiri groups, with members from several Western countries, control parts of Syria and Iraq, and have been carrying out horrific acts of violence such as public decapitations and crucifixions against all communities such as Shias, Sunnis, Kurds, and Christians.
Source: trend.az
