ISIL claims responsibility for Russian church shooting in which five women were killed

February 19, 2018 By administrator

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ISIL has claimed responsibility for a deadly attack on an Orthodox church congregation in the North Caucasus region of Dagestan that left five women dead.

An unidentified gunman fired at worshippers leaving the church in the town of Kizlyar in the mainly Muslim region, th National reports, citing local press.

The regional internal affairs ministry said in a statement that the assailant used a hunting rifle, and that four women were killed on the spot, while the attacker was “eliminated”.

A fifth woman died of her injuries in hospital, health ministry spokeswoman Zalina Mourtazalieva told TASS news agency.

Two Russian police officers were injured in the attack.

According to a local official, the assailant was a local man in his early twenties, the Interfax news agency reported.

The Russian RBK daily quoted an Orthodox priest saying the attacker had fired on churchgoers following an afternoon service on Sunday.

“We had finished the mass and were beginning to leave the church. A bearded man ran towards the church shouting ‘Allahu Akbar’ [God is greatest] and killed four people,” Father Pavel told RBK.

“He was carrying a rifle and a knife,” he said.

Turkey’s beloved ISIL Burn Alive 2 Turkish Soldiers, Shoot Dead 2 Other Servicemen

December 22, 2016 By administrator

Deash terrorists have burned alive two Turkish captives and executed two more, posting the videos on social media.

Two servicemen, Serter Taş and Fethi Şahin, were set on fire by terrorists before dying. Daesh militants kidnapped the two men along the Syria-Turkey border approximately one year ago.

Daesh published a 19 minute video depicting the chained up soldiers, a portion of which has been subsequently published by media outlets. The Mirror has reported that the men seen in the footage were burnt in Syria, but that the location remains unclear.

Within an hour of the release of the video, the Turkish government reportedly blocked access to social media across the entire nation. Two more Turkish soldiers, Kıvanç Kaşıkçı and Muhamed Duran Keskin, died by gunshot wounds to the head after terrorists captured them just last month near al-Bab, approximately 40 km northeast of Aleppo. On August 24, Turkish forces with support of a US-led coalition aircraft began a military operation to clear Daesh from the Syrian border town of Jarabulus. The joint forces continued the offensive southwest after the city was retaken. Last year, Jordan retaliated for the execution of a Jordanian pilot, again burned alive, by killing four al-Qaeda operatives in Jordanian custody.

Energy minister’s leaked email Expose Turkey’s tacit support for ISIL

September 29, 2016 By administrator

email-turkey-isil A leaked email belonging to Berat Albayrak, Turkey’s energy minister and son-in-law of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, shows weapons supply routes to the terrorist Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) through the Turkish border, in a tacit acknowledgement of Turkish support for the extremist group.

Albayrak’s email account was hacked by RedHack, a Turkish Marxist-Leninist-Maoist computer hacker group on Friday, and the group threatened to disclose 20 GB of secret information if the Turkish government failed to release Alp Altınörs, deputy co-chairperson of the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), and prize-winning novelist and journalist Aslı Erdoğan by Monday.

The email was shared among a number of persons, including Cüneyt Arvasi, Halil Danışmaz, executive director of the Turkish Heritage Organization, a pro-Justice and Development party (AKP) institute in the US, Energy Minister Albayrak and his brother Serhat Albayrak.

The email provides information to the energy minister and says that ISIL will launch full-scale attacks in northern Syria against Kurdish militias that Turkey views as the enemy, after the August 2014 presidential elections in Turkey.

Maps of arms supply routes and jihadist crossings through the Turkish border to Syria are also attached to the email, the content of the email shows.

In a striking comment, the email says the war between the Turkish Armed Forces (TSK) and the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) had turned into another fight in Syria between ISIL and Kurdish militia the People’s Protection Units (YPG). The YPG is the Syrian extension of the PKK, which is listed as a terrorist organization by the US, the EU and Turkey.

In 2014, there was no actual fighting between the TSK and the PKK as a truce declared in 2013 was still in place despite some problems. The fragile two-year cease-fire collapsed last summer.

Albayrak: We’ve lost the Kurds

Just weeks before the Nov. 1 parliamentary elections last year, the energy minister said in an email sent to an advisor of President Erdoğan that the government has mostly lost the Kurds due to an escalation in the fighting in Turkey’s Southeast.

The PKK’s decision to bring the war to cities and towns triggered an intensification of fighting between security forces and the terrorist group, reducing cities to rubble.

The government’s heavy-handed response also worsened the conditions of civilians trapped in the urban fight.

Albayrak shared with the advisor a draft of field research conducted by the pro-government SETA think tank titled “Kurdish People and Turkey”.

“This is a draft version of field research about Kurds’ tendencies. Not the final version. We seem to have lost the Kurds. This is done. May Allah help our final situation,” Albayrak wrote.

Another field survey measuring voter behavior across the region shows that prior to the Nov. 1 elections, the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) had won 67.7 percent of the vote, while the AKP garnered 23.1 percent. The figure fueled government fears, but the election results saw the ruling AKP recoup some of the losses it sustained in the June 7 elections.

Source: http://www.turkishminute.com/2016/09/27/energy-ministers-leaked-email-reveals-turkeys-tacit-support-isil/

Italian newspaper: War in Karabakh showed that Baku sponsors ISIL

May 4, 2016 By administrator

Italian news paper The war in Nagorno-Karabakh showed that Azerbaijan is a state which behaves like ISIL. This has already been confirmed by the presence of the caliphate ex-fighters in the conflict zone. And this proves that the republic governed by dictator Aliyev is the most genuine sponsor of the Islamic State terrorists, Italian newspaper Sponda Sud writes.

The article reads:

“There exist no principles which can be followed during killings in war, but there are unwritten military rules: soldiers fight against other soldiers, but respect them and do not mistreat their bodies. Moreover, they do not open fire at civilians.

Azerbaijan showed that it neither follows the international values nor respects them. What does Europe do? Europe, the symbol of civilization which always fought against terrorism, is doing nothing now. When Armenians were burying their soldiers, the UN spoke about the union between civil societies at the VII International Humanitarian Forum, which was ironically held in Baku.

Apparently, there can be no ties between the civilization and beheading of a soldier. And after all this, Aliyev even awarded the soldier who did this, showing his army that this is the path to awards.

It is not the first time Baku has awarded killers. We recall Ramil Safarov. This name is associated with heroism and glory in Azerbaijan. Whereas Safarov axed sleeping Armenian soldier Gurgen Margaryan to death.

Azerbaijan supports terrorism. This is dangerous not only for Armenia and its Diaspora, but also for the entire Europe. Baku’s actions aimed at supporting terrorism should be stopped. Humanism is not merely words. It is not merely a topic of international conferences. It is first of all support to the countries which struggle for liberty and refuse violence.”

Thousands of Iraqi civilians flee Mosul, As Iraqi army launched a major offensive

March 28, 2016 By administrator

(AFP) MAKHMOUR— Thousands of desperate civilians were fleeing fighting Sunday on the new front opened by Iraqi forces against the Islamic State group south of the city of Mosul.

Families crammed in the back of pickup trucks, sometimes bringing dead and wounded with them, emerged from the dust after crossing the front line and were met by Kurdish forces.

Iraqi army troops and allied paramilitary fighters on Thursday launched a major offensive aimed at retaking the northern Nineveh province, the capital of which, Mosul, is the main hub of IS in Iraq.

The forces have been advancing from their base in Makhmur towards the town of Qayyarah, about 60 kilometres (35 miles) south of Mosul.

Growing numbers of civilians have been fleeing the advance to Makhmur where they are being assisted by Kurdish peshmerga forces.

“So far we have received around 3,000 people and the numbers are growing every day,” Ali Khodeir Ahmed, a member of Nineveh’s provincial council, told AFP in Makhmur.

“But there are no services offered to them by the Iraqi government, we have to put them up in a stadium in Makhmur,” he said.

The Iraqi government has described the advance as the first phase of what is expected to be a long and difficult operation to retake Mosul, the country’s second city and the largest urban centre in IS’s cross-border “caliphate”.

In the desert west of Makhmur, dust storms were whipped up by the line of vehicles fleeing IS-held territory, including a pickup carrying four women and 10 children in the back.

‘Entire families have died’

A bearded man in a yellow dishdasha traditional gown emerged from the dust, holding the body of a young girl wrapped in a blanket.

“She is dead, she is dead,” he cried, his face caked in dust.

His daughter, whose back was riddled with shrapnel when shells rained down on their escape, was covered in blood.

“Some entire families have died,” the father said.

The battle has so far focused on four villages west of Makhmur. Qayyarah, an area that includes a former air base and an oil facility, lies to the west, on the other bank of the Tigris River.

Smain Nuweis fled the village of Kharbardan with his family of seven squeezed into the back of his Opel.

“We have seen a lot of suffering,” the 28-year-old said. “And it got worse now with the shelling.”

“Daesh will not allow the people to flee, they want them to stay,” said Nuweis, using an Arabic name for IS.

The provincial council official urged the government to do more for the flow of displaced people, who were given little more than water upon reaching the peshmerga.

“We need to open camps and provide urgent assistance. These people’s situation is very bad, they were barely able to take any belongings with them,” said Ali Khodeir Ahmed.

More than 3.3 million people have been displaced by conflict in Iraq since the start of 2014, according to figures from the United Nations.

IS seized control of large parts of Iraq in 2014, with Iraqi forces collapsing in the face of a lightning advance. Backed by a US-led coalition, Iraq has been clawing back territory from the jihadists in recent months.

Turkish Daily Cumhuriyet: Expose Turkish border officers cooperate with ISIL

February 22, 2016 By administrator

Wiretapped telephone calls between a leading figure from the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) and several members of the Turkish military reveal cooperation between ISIL and the Turkish military in letting smugglers cross the Turkey–Syria border, a report by a Turkish daily has alleged.

Documents prepared by a prosecutor’s office contain a large number of transcripts of “friendly” telephone communications between military officers and Mustafa Demir, the ISIL member in charge of Turkey’s Syria border, the Cumhuriyet daily said on Monday.

The prosecutor’s documents reportedly say Turkish military officers also met with Demir on the border. The ISIL leader is indicated in the documents as the person behind the transportation of bombs from Syria to Turkey.

“The transcripts and the documents in the investigation revealed that Demir received money — purportedly for zakat [alms] — from smugglers at the border and cooperated with the officers as far as [border] crossings are concerned,” the report stated.

The Turkish government has long been accused by the opposition of turning a blind eye to ISIL’s activities in Turkey as well as of having helped ISIL in fighting against the Syrian government.

According to the report, the documents in question are from a file in an ongoing court case on ISIL at the Ankara 3rd High Criminal Court.

The issues alleged in the case came to light because of an investigation launched following information given by six Turkish citizens whose relatives joined ISIL, the report said.

Upon the application by the relatives, monitoring of the communications of 19 people started, and a prosecutor named Derda Gökmen reportedly filed a claim against 27 suspects.

Demir, who is currently in Syria, and İlhami Balı, another leading ISIL figure, are among the suspects, the daily said.

Noting Balı is the person who gave the order for Turkey’s deadliest ever suicide bomb attack in Ankara in October of last year, the report said Demir had also previously come to public attention due to his close links to Balı.

According to the report, the prosecutor, on the grounds that the transcripts also indicated a crime other than the one he was pursuing, launched yet another investigation on the link between ISIL terrorists and the Turkish military.

The prosecutor then reportedly, due to legal incompetence, referred the new investigation file to the prosecutor’s office of the Gaziantep 5th Armored Brigade Command.

The report also said the Ankara Chief Prosecutor’s Office had previously claimed, after some reports appeared in media outlets such as Cumhuriyet, that the phone calls are between military officers and smugglers, not ISIL members.

Below are transcripts of some phone calls Demir reportedly had with members of the Turkish military based on the investigation file.

Date: Nov. 25, 2014; 8:26 p.m.

A.A.: Was that you, the ones with a torch?

Mustafa: Well, with a little torch, where are you big brother? At the place where I told you to be?

A.A.: Yeah. We also saw you, your men…

Mustafa: Is it possible for you to arrange that I talk with the commander here, regarding the business here? What if we could establish a contact here as we helped you…

A.A.: Okay. If there are any needs [as far as your request is concerned], [tell them] to inform me here.

Mustafa: If it will be enough to contact you [to settle the issue], no problem.

A.A.: I’ll pass this now. I have two military posts [at the border] there. If worse comes to worst, I’ll tell that to the commander of the station and have him take a look…

**** ****
Time: 7:12 p.m.

Communication made by the telephone registered in the name of A.B.

A.B.: We’re where you gave [him] the vehicle, we are in the mine [field]. We’ve put on a light. We have stuff; come here from that side, the men are here…

Mustafa: Okay, big brother, [I’m] coming.

A.B.: Come urgently; I’m in the mine [field] with a torch. Come running.

Mustafa: Well, big brother, is it the place where I gave First Lieutenant Burak a car?

A.B.: Yeah, just a little further down from that place. Our two vehicles are on the Turkish side [of the border].

Mustafa: Okay.

A.B.: We are also in the mine.

Mustafa: I’ll right be there, big brother.

Source: zaman

Watch Ash Carter Lie About Why He Let Turkey Supply ISIL with Oil (Video)

February 3, 2016 By administrator

“Of course we knew about these trucks with stolen oil”…

One of the most embarrassing things to come out of the Russian military venture in Syria is the huge convoy supply lines of oil moving between Turkey and ISIS positions.

Watch America’s finest mumble their way through explanations of why they have let this go on for two years.

Priceless.

https://youtu.be/9MAmeAtzKms

Iraq denies Turkish forces in north clashed with ISIL ’recently’ “Turkey Fabrication”

January 9, 2016 By administrator

A member of the Kurdish Peshmerga forces stands guard at a security point on Bashiqa mountain, overlooking ISIL held territories of Mosul, in this March 2015 photo. (Photo: Reuters)

Iraq‘s joint operations command denied on Saturday that Turkish forces based in northern Iraq had been attacked by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) or had clashed with the militants, refuting a statement by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.

“The joint operations command denies there was a terrorist attack on the position of Turkish forces in Bashiqa by the terrorist Daesh (ISIL) recently,” said a news flash on state television, referring to a military base near Mosul.

“The joint operations command denies what was relayed in some media outlets from the Turkish president about clashing between the Turkish forces inside Iraqi territory and the terrorist Daesh whether in Bashiqa or any other areas,” another flash said.

Erdoğan said on Friday that an attack by ISIL on the military base where Turkish troops are training an Iraqi Sunni militia showed Turkey’s decision to deploy troops there was justified.

‘Saudi Executions Well in the Spirit of Daesh ISIL, Miss Only Video’

January 4, 2016 By administrator

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The mass execution Saudi Arabia has recently conducted is worthy of Daesh and perfectly in tune with its Wahabi teachings; all that remained missing was the video of the decapitations, according to Middle East correspondent Robert Fisk.

Perhaps that was exactly the point, the correspondent suggests.

“For this extraordinary bloodbath in the land of the Sunni Muslim al-Saud monarchy – clearly intended to infuriate the Iranians and the entire Shia world – re-sectarianised a religious conflict which ISIS (Daesh) has itself done so much to promote,” Fisk wrote in his article for The Independent.

One of 47 people executed, prominent Shia cleric Nimr al-Nimr, he suggests, would have got precisely the same treatment from the thugs of Daesh as he got from the Saudis – albeit without the mockery of the pseudo-legal trial which Sheikh Nimr was afforded and of which Amnesty complained.

The author also notes that all of the kingdom’s 158 executions last year were “perfectly in tune with the Wahabi teachings of Daesh,” also known as the Islamic State/ISIL/ISIS.

“Macbeth’s ‘blood will have blood’ certainly applies to the Saudis, whose ‘war on terror’, it seems, now justifies any amount of blood, both Sunni and Shia.”

The authorities’ whimsical suggestion that there was nothing sectarian about this most recent bloodbath – on the grounds that they beheaded Sunnis as well as Shias – was classic Daesh rhetoric.

Cleric Nimr al-Nimr, “was not just any old divine,” Fisk says. He spent years as a scholar in Tehran and Syria, was a revered Shia leader of Friday prayers in the Saudi Eastern Province, and a man who stayed clear of political parties but demanded free elections, and was regularly detained and tortured – by his own account – for opposing the Sunni Wahabi Saudi government.

The correspondent’s point of view is that the killings represent far more than just Saudi hatred for the cleric. It will reinvigorate the Houthi rebellion in Yemen, which the Saudis invaded and bombed this year in an attempt to destroy Shia power there. It has enraged the Shia majority in Sunni-ruled Bahrain. Additionally, Iran’s own clerics have already claimed that the beheading will cause the overthrow of the Saudi royal family.

These suggestions have already been supported by the apparent tensions in the region, including the cutting of diplomatic relations by Saudi Arabia and Bahrain with Iran.

“It will also present the West with that most embarrassing of Middle Eastern problems: the continuing need to cringe and grovel to the rich and autocratic monarchs of the Gulf while gently expressing their unease at the grotesque butchery which the Saudi courts have just dished out to the Kingdom’s enemies.”

These words have also been supported by a very cautious reaction from the US and EU, with the notable exception of UK Prime Minister David Cameron.

“Had ISIS chopped off the heads of Sunnis and Shias in Raqqa – especially that of a troublesome Shia priest like Sheikh Nimr – we can be sure that Dave Cameron would have been tweeting his disgust at so loathsome an act. But the man who lowered the British flag on the death of the last king of this preposterous Wahabi state will be using weasel words to address this bit of head-chopping,” the correspondent therefore says.

And with all the above in mind, the author therefore suggests:

“The question will be asked in both Washington and European capitals: are the Saudis trying to destroy the Iranian nuclear agreement by forcing their Western allies to support even these latest outrages?”

“In the obtuse world in which they live – in which the youthful defense minister who invaded Yemen intensely dislikes the interior minister – the Saudis are still glorying in the ‘anti-terror’ coalition of 34 largely Sunni nations which supposedly form a legion of Muslims opposed to ‘terror’.”

Erdogan poppet Barzani reject Russian claims of Turkey-bound ISIL oil tankers

December 27, 2015 By administrator

Iraqi Kurds have dismissed Russia‘s allegation that oil belonging to the radical terrorist Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) travels through Iraqi Kurdistan before ending up in Turkey.

Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) official Kifah Mahmoud said Russian claims about oil sales in the Kurdistan region do not reflect reality. “Our oil tankers go to oil refineries in Turkey through the Habur border gate.”

In an address to reporters on Friday, Gen. Sergei Rudskoy, director of the Main Operations Center of the Russian General Staff, said due to the increasing number of air strikes in Syria, oil smugglers traveling to Turkey have changed their route.

He claimed that the destination of the oil trafficking is Turkey and that ISIL terrorists, stripped of their usual route due to intensified air strikes in Syria, had changed their route to one traveling through the Iraqi cities of Mosul and Zakho.