Boko Haram has been forced out of most towns and has turned to assaulting remote villages and using suicide bombers to attack soft targets such as mosques and marketplaces.
More than 20,000 people have been killed in the 7-year-old Islamic uprising that has spread from Nigeria to neighbouring countries and driven 2.2 million people from their homes. Aid workers say there is a catastrophic humanitarian crisis in newly freed but still dangerous areas where half a million people are starving and babies dying daily. There has also been a resurgence of polio in areas that had been under Boko Haram’s control.
Kurdish Peshmerga forces have launched a fresh attack on Islamic State (IS) forces as part of a campaign to capture Mosul, the militants' de facto capital in Iraq, Kurdish officials say.
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The Peshmerga operation on Sunday was "one of many shaping operations that will also increase pressure on ISIL in and around Mosul," said an official from the Kurdistan Regional Security Council, using another acronym to refer to IS.
TRIPOLI (Reuters) - Libyan forces fighting to oust Islamic State from their former North African stronghold of Sirte said they had made advances on Sunday in a coastal neighborhood after staging attacks by land, sea and air.
Of particular concern is the small city of Bani Walid, which sits at a southern crossroads connecting Tripoli to Misrata. The conditions that gave rise to Islamic State in Sirte are ripe in Bani Walid, whose Warfalla tribe is spread between the two cities and have complained of disenfranchisement by the government in Tripoli and Misrata's powerful militia.
But Sirte residents also experienced the militants harsh punishment for violations of Islamic edicts, which involved frequent beheadings.
"In Sirte they told us 'the Islamic State fighters are our sons' and asked that we not harm them," said the Misratan military intelligence official. "Bani Walid will say the same, but when they start chopping off their heads, they will come to us begging for help."
Boko Haram has been forced out of most towns and has turned to assaulting remote villages and using suicide bombers to attack soft targets such as mosques and marketplaces.
ReplyDeleteMore than 20,000 people have been killed in the 7-year-old Islamic uprising that has spread from Nigeria to neighbouring countries and driven 2.2 million people from their homes.
Aid workers say there is a catastrophic humanitarian crisis in newly freed but still dangerous areas where half a million people are starving and babies dying daily. There has also been a resurgence of polio in areas that had been under Boko Haram’s control.
That guy is really good.
ReplyDeleteIn one word, what is it ?
A lament ?
ReplyDeleteDecapitated head left in cooler boxes outside Government buildings in Guerrero
http://www.borderlandbeat.com/2016/08/decapitated-head-left-in-cooler-boxes.html
Here we have good music and you come up with that.
DeleteShows where your head is at.
Delete• bobal Sat Sep 06, 09:22:00 PM EDT
If cousin Sally dies, I'll joyfully let ya all know.
Kurdish Peshmerga forces have launched a fresh attack on Islamic State (IS) forces as part of a campaign to capture Mosul, the militants' de facto capital in Iraq, Kurdish officials say.
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The Peshmerga operation on Sunday was "one of many shaping operations that will also increase pressure on ISIL in and around Mosul," said an official from the Kurdistan Regional Security Council, using another acronym to refer to IS.
"Beat Whitey" is not about race:
ReplyDeleteYou can learn about it in the previous thread.
DeleteYou're correct, Doug, it is about money and power.
Nothing more than that.
Now if YOU and YOURS want to make money and power into a racial issue, well, there are certainly others that will join your party.
But ... reality tells us that you are wrong.
Time for you to go to bed, Jack.
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Delete“Injustice in the end produces independence.”
― Voltaire
ReplyDeleteAll the Issues Favor Trump
Of course, he doesn't like to talk issues.
Aug 22, 2016 | By Jeffrey H. Anderson
http://www.weeklystandard.com/all-the-issues-favor-trump/article/2003805
DeleteAnd neither does Hillary, which is why Hillary will win.
Trump's negatives are higher than hers ...
Trump is distrusted by more people than Hillary is ... amazing, but true.
Electoral votes ...
Delete256 - Clinton/Kaine
128 - Toss Ups
154 - Trump/Pence
Needed to Win - 270
DeleteObama Job Approval
Gallup for 8/10 - 8/12 53% Approve / 43% Disapprove ... means Obama's approval = +10%
DeleteTrump will have dealt the GOP the "Dead Man's Hand" for most of the balance of 21st Century.
That's just the kind of dealer one finds in a Trump casino.
DeleteReading about the divisiveness which is rending the GOP asunder ... pure joy.
Looks like the GOP will lose the Senate in the Clinton romp ...
The House ... ?
You're rambling, Jack.
DeleteTime for you to get some rest, go to bed.
You just told us these elections in November will determine the fate of the GOP for the next 80 years, or more.
This is about as accurate as your prediction that ISIS would be totally gone from Iraq.....how long ago was that, Jack ?
Long, long ago....
And, something about this election:
The debate(s) will mean a lot....
Now, get some rest, Jack.
ReplyDeleteTRIPOLI (Reuters) - Libyan forces fighting to oust Islamic State from their former North African stronghold of Sirte said they had made advances on Sunday in a coastal neighborhood after staging attacks by land, sea and air.
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ReplyDeleteOf particular concern is the small city of Bani Walid, which sits at a southern crossroads connecting Tripoli to Misrata. The conditions that gave rise to Islamic State in Sirte are ripe in Bani Walid, whose Warfalla tribe is spread between the two cities and have complained of disenfranchisement by the government in Tripoli and Misrata's powerful militia.
ReplyDeleteBut Sirte residents also experienced the militants harsh punishment for violations of Islamic edicts, which involved frequent beheadings.
"In Sirte they told us 'the Islamic State fighters are our sons' and asked that we not harm them," said the Misratan military intelligence official. "Bani Walid will say the same, but when they start chopping off their heads, they will come to us begging for help."