Taliban and Pakistani Military Meet In North Waziristan - 12 Taliban and 4 Security Personnel Dead

Twelve Taliban are dead in Pakistan's North Waziristan tribal region so the day is starting out well for the whole world.

I gotta give the Pakistanis at least a little credit for continuing the operations in this bee's hive of Taliban jihadis.

The story comes from DAWN.

12 suspected militants, four soldiers killed in North Waziristan clash


DERA KHAN: At least 12 suspected militants and four security personnel were killed in an exchange of fire in Data Khel area of North Waziristan tribal region, according to an Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) statement.

The statement added that the militants fled from the scene leaving behind the bodies of three of their colleagues.

The details could not be independently verified.

North Waziristan is one of the seven regions in Pakistan's Federally Administered Tribal Areas (Fata) governed by tribal laws which is situated along the Pak-Afghan border and is rife with Taliban militant activity.

The Pakistan Army launched Zarb-i-Azb, a comprehensive operation in North Waziristan tribal region last summer to drive out Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) and other extremist militants who launch attacks on government and civilian targets, a week after the brazen insurgent attack on the country's busiest airport in Karachi.

Read: Preliminary phase of Shawal operation successful: army

Chief of Army Staff, General Raheel Sharif, visited troops on Friday and said the initial phase around the surrounding peaks of the Shawal Valley was successful and it was now time to begin a final push into the lower areas.

“We will not stop unless we achieve our end objective of a terror-free Pakistan,” he said.

The tribal region, which borders with Afghanistan, has been used as a base by militants over the years. According to the ISPR, troops have been deployed along its border with neighbouring agencies to block any movement of terrorists in and out of the region.

Many militants have fled to other parts of Pakistan, and some into Afghanistan, complicating the US-backed Kabul government's fight against its own Taliban insurgency.

Saudi Air Strike In Yemen Mountains Decimates Houthis - 23 Killed

I guess when a Saudi fighter jet bombs a Shiite Houthi munitions factory and kills 23 jihadis, the only thing better would be if the Saudi fighter jet crashed on the way back to Riyadh but we'll take what we can get.

The story comes from Times of India.

Saudi-led air strike on Yemen rebel bastion kills 23

SANAA: A Saudi-led air strike on a Huthi Shia rebel stronghold in Yemen's northern mountains killed 23 people early Saturday, tribal sources said.

The strike targeted a munitions factory in Saqayn, near Saada, the sources said.

Coalition aircraft also bombed the rebel-held capital Sanaa, targeting an arms warehouse and the air defence headquarters, witnesses said.

The coalition launched air strikes against the rebels in March, after the Huthis seized control of much of the country prompting President Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi to take refuge in neighbouring Saudi Arabia.

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U.S. Drone Kills 4 Al Qaeda Types In Yemen

From DAWN.

Drone kills 4 Qaeda suspects in Yemen: official


RIYADH: A Saudi and a Kuwaiti are among four suspected al Qaeda members killed in a US drone strike in southeastern Yemen, a local official said on Friday.

The dawn strike targeted their car as it left the base of the 27th Mechanised Brigade in the Hadramawt provincial capital Mukalla, the official told AFP.

Fighters from the Sunni extremist group seized the camp from forces loyal to President Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi in April, consolidating their grip on Mukalla.

They have exploited months of fighting between Hadi loyalists and Iran-backed Shia Houthi rebels to consolidate their grip on Yemen's southeast.

The official identified the victims as Shuaib al-Maliki of Saudi Arabia and the Kuwaiti Abdul Aziz al-Otaibi, along with two Yemenis.

Their deaths bring to 13 the number of suspected al Qaeda militants killed by similar strikes in Yemen over the past 10 days, and follows the death of the second-in-command of al Qaeda's global network.

The group confirmed on June 16 the killing by an American drone strike of Nasir al-Wuhayshi, who headed al Qaeda's Yemen branch.

Washington regards that branch, known as al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), as its most dangerous and has kept up a drone war despite the pullout of US troops from Yemen in March as the country's war worsened.

The US still has drones and other aircraft at bases in Saudi Arabia and Djibouti.

AQAP was behind several plots against Western targets and claimed the January massacre at French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo.

Since the war in Yemen worsened in March and a Saudi-led coalition began bombing the Shia Houthi rebels, jihadists from the Islamic State Sunni extremist group have also taken advantage of the chaos.

They have claimed a series of attacks including a car bomb in Yemen's capital Sanaa which killed at least 28 people on Monday.

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It's On - ISIS Threatens To Topple Hamas In Gaza

Grab your popcorn everyone, sit back and hopefully we will get to see the forces of Hamas and ISIS exterminate each other in Gaza.  Now THAT would make my day.

The story comes from Times of India.

Islamic State threatens to topple Hamas in Gaza


CAIRO: Islamic State insurgents threatened on Tuesday to turn the Gaza Strip into another of their Middle East fiefdoms, accusing Hamas, the organisation that rules the Palestinian territory, of being insufficiently stringent about religious enforcement.

The video statement, issued from an Islamic State stronghold in Syria, was a rare public challenge to Hamas, which has been cracking down on jihadis in Gaza who oppose its truces with Israel and reconciliation with the US-backed rival Palestinian faction Fatah.

"We will uproot the state of the Jews (Israel) and you and Fatah, and all of the secularists are nothing and you will be over-run by our creeping multitudes," said a masked Islamic State member in the message addressed to the "tyrants of Hamas".

"The rule of sharia (Islamic law) will be implemented in Gaza, in spite of you. We swear that what is happening in the Levant today, and in particular the Yarmouk camp, will happen in Gaza," he said, referring to Islamic State advances in Syria, including in a Damascus district founded by Palestinian refugees.

Islamic State has also taken over swathes of Iraq and has claimed attacks in Egypt, Libya, Tunisia and Yemen.

Hamas is an Islamist movement that shares the jihadis' hostility to Israel but not their quest for a global religious war, defining itself more within the framework of Palestinian nationalism.

Deemed a terrorist group by Israel, the United States and the European Union, and viewed by neighbouring Arab power Egypt as a regional security threat, Hamas's struggle against Islamic State-linked jihadis has not won sympathy abroad.

Israel's intelligence minister, Israel Katz, accused Hamas on Tuesday of partnering with Islamic State affiliates in the Egyptian Sinai - a charge long denied by the Palestinian group.

"There is cooperation between them in the realm of weapons smuggling and terrorist attacks. The Egyptians know this, and the Saudis," Katz told a Tel Aviv conference organised by the Israel Defense journal.

"At the same time, within Gaza, ISIS (Islamic State) has been flouting Hamas. But they have common cause against the Jews, in Israel or abroad."