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ISIS Ambush Attack Kills 8 Police Officers in Iraq
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At least eight police officers were killed in a Daesh ambush on a highway in Iraq, Saturday, according to a local police officer.
Diyala Police Captain Habib al-Shammari said the ambush took place at the Baghdad-Kirkuk highway.
The eight police officers were taken to a hill and were shot dead, he added.
Lt. Semir al-Hamidi said federal police and Hashd al-Shaabi forces had been sent to the area following the incident.
Established in 2014, Hashd al-Shaabi is an umbrella group of pro-government Shia militias formed for the express purpose of fighting Daesh.
Last December, officials in Baghdad declared that the Daesh terrorist group's military presence in Iraq had been all but eliminated.
It appears the notorious terrorist group, however, still maintains "sleeper cells" in certain parts of the country, including Diyala and the neighboring Saladin province.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/new-isis-propaganda-video-shows-niger-ambush-us-soldiers-killed/
ISIS propaganda video shows U.S. soldiers under attack in Niger
WASHINGTON -- The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) released a propaganda video Sunday to show how supposedly invincible they are. CBS News chose to air parts of the video that the militants captured from a helmet camera worn by one of the four soldiers killed in the ambush in Niger on Oct. 4, 2017 (please note: Viewer discretion is advised).
The Pentagon has yet to release a full account of the ambush, and we do not know if the enemy somehow doctored the video, but the video shows in a way no words can express just how outgunned and cut off the Americans were.
They were returning from what was supposed to have been a low-risk patrol made up of 11 American and 30 Nigerian soldiers when the ambush hit. At first, they tried to take cover behind their SUV. With one of the soldiers at the wheel, they ran alongside, attempting to escape the kill zone.
A framegrab of the propaganda video released by ISIS.
CBS News
They fired colored smoke grenades, which would provide some cover, and identify their position to any friendly aircraft overhead. But it would be two hours from the start of the ambush before French aircraft arrived on the scene. These soldiers were on their own. One of them went down. Another rushed to his side and then dragged him back to the cover of the SUV.
Their position at the SUV was about to be overrun, so they did the only thing they could -- ran to a location that might provide better cover. Except for the smoke from the grenades and a few scrub trees there was no cover and no escape.
The soldier wearing the helmet camera went down. Soon the camera stopped moving and some of the enemy fighters come into view. Then a final blast fills the frame from what apparently was a round fired at point blank range.
You would expect the enemy not to take prisoners but you would not expect American soldiers to be so exposed without any backup. The Pentagon's investigation into how that happened is expected to be released this week.
A look at the four U.S. soldiers killed in an ambush in Niger in Oct. 2017.
CBS News
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https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/09/world/asia/suicide-attack-kabul-hazaras.html
Hazaras Protest After an ISIS Attack Kills 10 in Kabul
By ANDREW E. KRAMERMARCH 9, 2018
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Afghan officials carried the dead body of a victim at the site of a suicide bombing in Kabul on Friday. Credit Omar Sobhani/Reuters
KABUL, Afghanistan — A suicide bomber killed 10 people when he set off explosives on Friday in a crowd of Shiite Muslims near a mosque complex in Kabul, the latest attack to target ethnic and religious minorities in the Afghan capital.
The Islamic State claimed responsibility for the strike, which also wounded 22 people, but a government spokesman blamed another terrorist group, the Haqqani network, a Pakistani-based organization affiliated with the Taliban.
The Hazaras are a long-oppressed minority in Afghanistan whose members tend to be Shiite, and the blast prompted a group to take to the street in protest of the security failures, marching and chanting near the site of the explosion before crews had finished cleaning up.
President Ashraf Ghani condemned the attack in a statement, saying Afghans would not be cowed by terrorism, but his words were likely to ring hollow with the Hazaras.
Several other attacks against the ethnic group in recent years have been attributed to the Islamic State, touching off large protests in Kabul by Hazaras, who say too little is done to protect them and destabilizing the government of Mr. Ghani.
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“Suicide attacks are a part of our daily life that we see but can’t do anything about,” said Hayad, who uses only one name, and is a resident of the Hazara neighborhood where the explosion took place. “The situation is critical and the government sleeps.”
The most lethal suicide bombing against Hazaras came in 2016, killing more than 80 people. The Islamic State claimed responsibility for that attack and for subsequent strikes on Shiite mosques, including the one on Friday.
Nasrat Rahimi, a deputy spokesman for the Interior Ministry, attributed the attack on Friday to the Haqqani network, which has carried out several deadly attacks in Afghanistan over the years, although the Taliban denied it was responsible.
A security guard, Ali Reza, said he saw the suicide attacker walk into a line of Hazaras waiting to enter a mosque complex for a ceremony commemorating a revered leader, Abdul Ali Mazari, a veteran of the 1980s war against the Soviet Union.
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In the aftermath of the blast, a chaotic scene formed on the street as police whistled at and kicked bystanders to turn them away from the site, although many refused to leave.
About an hour after the explosion, a hundred or so young Hazara men streamed out of the mosque complex and defiantly marched in the street, chanting, “God is great!”
Mohammad Salim Nazari, a member of the group, said participants decided to go ahead with a previously planned demonstration to honor the Hazara leader.
“I think the Afghan government is trying to provide security, but they cannot as the insurgents are very clever,” Mr. Nazari said. He said Hazaras were not the only ones who were threatened. “Every day they change their methods. All of Afghanistan is insecure.”
The protest went ahead even as police wearing blue surgical gloves were still retrieving human remains and carrying body bags to ambulances.
Outside the capital, Taliban attacks on police checkpoints and other sites killed 16 people on Friday, the authorities said.
http://english.alarabiya.net/en/New...ers-dead-in-ISIS-attack-on-Syria-capital.html
62 regime fighters dead in ISIS attack on Syria capital
Syrian and Russian soldiers are seen at a checkpoint near Wafideen camp in Damascus. (Reuters)
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A lightning assault by the ISIS group that put the militants in control of a southern part of the Syrian capital killed 62 regime fighters, a monitor said Wednesday in a new toll.
ISIS launched the surprise attack on Monday night to seize the Qadam neighborhood of Damascus.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights war monitor gave an initial toll on Tuesday of 36 pro-government fighters dead, but said that loyalists had retrieved additional bodies since.
"The toll has risen to 62, most of them local pro-regime fighters," said the Observatory, a Britain-based monitor which relies on sources inside Syria for its information.
"Regime reinforcements have gathered on the outskirts of Qadam, but the operation to recapture it has not yet started," said monitor chief Rami Abdel Rahman.
ISIS have maintained a presence in parts of Damascus, including in the Palestinian camp of Yarmuk and the neighborhoods of Hajar al-Aswad and Tadamun.
It launched its Monday night attack from Hajar al-Aswad, taking advantage of a temporary power vacuum in Qadam after Islamist and jihadist fighters evacuated the area under a deal with the regime.
That agreement saw most of them head to the northwestern province of Idlib, which is controlled by a group led by Syria's former Al-Qaeda affiliate.
Al-Watan, a Syrian daily close to the government, also reported Wednesday that regime forces had sent reinforcements to Qadam, but said ISIS had only taken "a few buildings in the district's east".
ISIS swept across swathes of Syria and neighboring Iraq in 2014, but has since lost most of that territory to different offensives in both countries.
In Syria, the extremists only control less than five percent of the country, according to the Observatory, including in pockets in the eastern desert near the Iraqi border.
Fighters who pledged allegiance to ISIS are also present in the southern province of Daraa.
Syria's war has killed more than 350,000 people, starting in 2011 with the brutal repression of anti-government protests before spiraling into a complex conflict involving world powers and militants.
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At least eight police officers were killed in a Daesh ambush on a highway in Iraq, Saturday, according to a local police officer.
Diyala Police Captain Habib al-Shammari said the ambush took place at the Baghdad-Kirkuk highway.
The eight police officers were taken to a hill and were shot dead, he added.
Lt. Semir al-Hamidi said federal police and Hashd al-Shaabi forces had been sent to the area following the incident.
Established in 2014, Hashd al-Shaabi is an umbrella group of pro-government Shia militias formed for the express purpose of fighting Daesh.
Last December, officials in Baghdad declared that the Daesh terrorist group's military presence in Iraq had been all but eliminated.
It appears the notorious terrorist group, however, still maintains "sleeper cells" in certain parts of the country, including Diyala and the neighboring Saladin province.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/new-isis-propaganda-video-shows-niger-ambush-us-soldiers-killed/
ISIS propaganda video shows U.S. soldiers under attack in Niger
WASHINGTON -- The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) released a propaganda video Sunday to show how supposedly invincible they are. CBS News chose to air parts of the video that the militants captured from a helmet camera worn by one of the four soldiers killed in the ambush in Niger on Oct. 4, 2017 (please note: Viewer discretion is advised).
The Pentagon has yet to release a full account of the ambush, and we do not know if the enemy somehow doctored the video, but the video shows in a way no words can express just how outgunned and cut off the Americans were.
They were returning from what was supposed to have been a low-risk patrol made up of 11 American and 30 Nigerian soldiers when the ambush hit. At first, they tried to take cover behind their SUV. With one of the soldiers at the wheel, they ran alongside, attempting to escape the kill zone.
A framegrab of the propaganda video released by ISIS.
CBS News
They fired colored smoke grenades, which would provide some cover, and identify their position to any friendly aircraft overhead. But it would be two hours from the start of the ambush before French aircraft arrived on the scene. These soldiers were on their own. One of them went down. Another rushed to his side and then dragged him back to the cover of the SUV.
Their position at the SUV was about to be overrun, so they did the only thing they could -- ran to a location that might provide better cover. Except for the smoke from the grenades and a few scrub trees there was no cover and no escape.
The soldier wearing the helmet camera went down. Soon the camera stopped moving and some of the enemy fighters come into view. Then a final blast fills the frame from what apparently was a round fired at point blank range.
You would expect the enemy not to take prisoners but you would not expect American soldiers to be so exposed without any backup. The Pentagon's investigation into how that happened is expected to be released this week.
A look at the four U.S. soldiers killed in an ambush in Niger in Oct. 2017.
CBS News
© 2018 CBS Interactive Inc. All Rights Reserved.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/09/world/asia/suicide-attack-kabul-hazaras.html
Hazaras Protest After an ISIS Attack Kills 10 in Kabul
By ANDREW E. KRAMERMARCH 9, 2018
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Afghan officials carried the dead body of a victim at the site of a suicide bombing in Kabul on Friday. Credit Omar Sobhani/Reuters
KABUL, Afghanistan — A suicide bomber killed 10 people when he set off explosives on Friday in a crowd of Shiite Muslims near a mosque complex in Kabul, the latest attack to target ethnic and religious minorities in the Afghan capital.
The Islamic State claimed responsibility for the strike, which also wounded 22 people, but a government spokesman blamed another terrorist group, the Haqqani network, a Pakistani-based organization affiliated with the Taliban.
The Hazaras are a long-oppressed minority in Afghanistan whose members tend to be Shiite, and the blast prompted a group to take to the street in protest of the security failures, marching and chanting near the site of the explosion before crews had finished cleaning up.
President Ashraf Ghani condemned the attack in a statement, saying Afghans would not be cowed by terrorism, but his words were likely to ring hollow with the Hazaras.
Several other attacks against the ethnic group in recent years have been attributed to the Islamic State, touching off large protests in Kabul by Hazaras, who say too little is done to protect them and destabilizing the government of Mr. Ghani.
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“Suicide attacks are a part of our daily life that we see but can’t do anything about,” said Hayad, who uses only one name, and is a resident of the Hazara neighborhood where the explosion took place. “The situation is critical and the government sleeps.”
The most lethal suicide bombing against Hazaras came in 2016, killing more than 80 people. The Islamic State claimed responsibility for that attack and for subsequent strikes on Shiite mosques, including the one on Friday.
Nasrat Rahimi, a deputy spokesman for the Interior Ministry, attributed the attack on Friday to the Haqqani network, which has carried out several deadly attacks in Afghanistan over the years, although the Taliban denied it was responsible.
A security guard, Ali Reza, said he saw the suicide attacker walk into a line of Hazaras waiting to enter a mosque complex for a ceremony commemorating a revered leader, Abdul Ali Mazari, a veteran of the 1980s war against the Soviet Union.
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In the aftermath of the blast, a chaotic scene formed on the street as police whistled at and kicked bystanders to turn them away from the site, although many refused to leave.
About an hour after the explosion, a hundred or so young Hazara men streamed out of the mosque complex and defiantly marched in the street, chanting, “God is great!”
Mohammad Salim Nazari, a member of the group, said participants decided to go ahead with a previously planned demonstration to honor the Hazara leader.
“I think the Afghan government is trying to provide security, but they cannot as the insurgents are very clever,” Mr. Nazari said. He said Hazaras were not the only ones who were threatened. “Every day they change their methods. All of Afghanistan is insecure.”
The protest went ahead even as police wearing blue surgical gloves were still retrieving human remains and carrying body bags to ambulances.
Outside the capital, Taliban attacks on police checkpoints and other sites killed 16 people on Friday, the authorities said.
http://english.alarabiya.net/en/New...ers-dead-in-ISIS-attack-on-Syria-capital.html
62 regime fighters dead in ISIS attack on Syria capital
Syrian and Russian soldiers are seen at a checkpoint near Wafideen camp in Damascus. (Reuters)
AFP Wednesday, 21 March 2018
Text size A A A
A lightning assault by the ISIS group that put the militants in control of a southern part of the Syrian capital killed 62 regime fighters, a monitor said Wednesday in a new toll.
ISIS launched the surprise attack on Monday night to seize the Qadam neighborhood of Damascus.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights war monitor gave an initial toll on Tuesday of 36 pro-government fighters dead, but said that loyalists had retrieved additional bodies since.
"The toll has risen to 62, most of them local pro-regime fighters," said the Observatory, a Britain-based monitor which relies on sources inside Syria for its information.
"Regime reinforcements have gathered on the outskirts of Qadam, but the operation to recapture it has not yet started," said monitor chief Rami Abdel Rahman.
ISIS have maintained a presence in parts of Damascus, including in the Palestinian camp of Yarmuk and the neighborhoods of Hajar al-Aswad and Tadamun.
It launched its Monday night attack from Hajar al-Aswad, taking advantage of a temporary power vacuum in Qadam after Islamist and jihadist fighters evacuated the area under a deal with the regime.
That agreement saw most of them head to the northwestern province of Idlib, which is controlled by a group led by Syria's former Al-Qaeda affiliate.
Al-Watan, a Syrian daily close to the government, also reported Wednesday that regime forces had sent reinforcements to Qadam, but said ISIS had only taken "a few buildings in the district's east".
ISIS swept across swathes of Syria and neighboring Iraq in 2014, but has since lost most of that territory to different offensives in both countries.
In Syria, the extremists only control less than five percent of the country, according to the Observatory, including in pockets in the eastern desert near the Iraqi border.
Fighters who pledged allegiance to ISIS are also present in the southern province of Daraa.
Syria's war has killed more than 350,000 people, starting in 2011 with the brutal repression of anti-government protests before spiraling into a complex conflict involving world powers and militants.
Last Update: Wednesday, 21 March 2018 KSA 18:02 - GMT 15:02
