An al-Shebaab attack on a Somali military base in Puntland has killed 38.
The killings took place when the Islamists attacked and took over the town of Af Urur.
"Now we confirm 38 people, mostly soldiers, died and 18 others were wounded. I believe some were captured alive and taken away," Major Mohamed Abdi, a Puntland military officer, told Reuters.
"Numerous, heavily armed al Shabaab fighters attacked us from every direction and after hours of fierce battle I was among those who ran for their lives."
Bari regional Governor Yusuf Mohamed told Reuters the Puntland military had recaptured the town.
The assault came days after Puntland sentenced to death five al Shabaab members arrested on April 26 as they drove a vehicle carrying barrels packed with explosives into Bosaso, Puntland's capital.
Af Urur lies about 100 km (60 miles) south of Bosaso, near the Galgala hills, an area controlled by al Shabaab. Its fighters have attacked and captured the town several times.
"Al Shabaab fighters killed local residents of the town including elders, women and children. It is the norm of al Shabaab to kill civilians when they are defeated," a statement from the Puntland president's office said.
Australia's states agreed to not give parole to anyone who's locked up for links to terrorism as a security measure.
"Exit muna si Polgas. Ang kailangan dito ay si Dobermaxx!"Valeria Collina, mom of one of the three men in the knife attack in Britain, blamed the Internet since it was easy to get extremist info.
Hong Kong/Singapore are getting more concrete bollards to deter vehicle attacks, although analysts from those places say that terrorists can find a way to do them in. Just a matter of time.
Related to that, HKPF got calls to a bomb attack that turned to be false since a mentally handicapped man placed a toy down, which was the suspected of having an IED.
"Exit muna si Polgas. Ang kailangan dito ay si Dobermaxx!"Duterte told a news conference in Cagayan de Oro City, about 100 km (62 miles) from the besieged town of Marawi, that he had "never approached America" for help.
When asked about U.S. support to fight the pro-Islamic State militants in Marawi City on the island of Mindanao, Duterte said he was "not aware of that until they arrived."
The cooperation between the longtime allies in the battle is significant because Duterte, who came to power a year ago, has taken a hostile stance towards Washington and has vowed to eject U.S. military trainers and advisers from his country.
It is unclear whether the pro-American military went over Duterte's head in seeking U.S. help.
The Philippines military said on Saturday U.S. forces were providing technical assistance but had no "boots on the ground", confirming a statement from the U.S. embassy in Manila which said the support had been requested by the government. [nL3N1J7054]
The seizure of Marawi on May 23 by hundreds of local and foreign fighters has alarmed Southeast Asian nations, which fear the ultra-radical group Islamic State is trying to establish a stronghold on Mindanao that could threaten their region.
The Pentagon, which has no permanent presence in the Philippines but for years has kept 50 to 100 special forces troops in the south of the country on rotational exercises, confirmed it was helping the Philippine military in Marawi.
It said in a statement on Saturday it was providing Philippine forces with security assistance and training in the areas of intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance. It said it had an additional 300 to 500 troops in the country to support regular training and activities, without giving further details.
A U.S. official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said support included aerial surveillance and targeting, electronic eavesdropping, communications assistance and training. A U.S. P-3 Orion surveillance plane was seen over the town on Friday.
Because of course he is, pathetic thug. Still at-least the US is allowed to assist their forces.
"Sandwiches are probably easier to fix than the actual problems" -Hylarn@The IRGC blaming SA for the attack in Iran
"These fireworks have no effect on Iran. They will soon be eliminated ... They are too small to affect the will of the Iranian nation and its officials," state TV quoted him saying.
Reuters biography of the Maute brothers.
Military spokesman Lieutenant Colonel Jo-Ar Herrera said the 'Maranao' clan, to which the Mautes belong, has a matriarchal tradition, and so their mother played a central role.
He said Farhana Maute, who according to the neighbor had furniture and used-car businesses, helped finance the group, and she drove recruitment and radicalization of local youths.
On Friday, she was stopped outside Marawi in a vehicle loaded with firearms and explosives and taken into custody. It was a major blow for the militants, according to Herrera, as she had been the "heart of the Maute organization".
A day previously, the brothers' father, an engineer, was arrested in Davao City, 250 km (155 miles) away.
Al Jazeera's documentary on the shifting targets of ISIS from the US/EU to Russia.
https://ph.news.yahoo.com/singapore-mother-arrested-offering-marry-fighter-114121431.html
Singapore Police Force arrested a Singaporean woman for planning to travel to Iraq and be the wife of a ISIL fighter under the ISA.
"Exit muna si Polgas. Ang kailangan dito ay si Dobermaxx!"I can't imagine how stupid one must be to want to marry an ISIS fighter, especially now that they're in shambles.
"Sandwiches are probably easier to fix than the actual problems" -HylarnThey are tampering with natural selection there.
Inter arma enim silent legesI had a thought: Is it possible that the chances of a person radicalizing and becoming any flavour of terrorist is a function of the contrast between that person and the surrounding social environmemt?
For example, a Muslim in an Islamophobic environment may be more likely to radicalize than in a Muslim place.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard FeynmanWhile it is definitely true that islamophobia helps terrorist recruitment, let's not forget that the majority of foreigners fighting for Daesh come from Tunisia and Saudi Arabia, places where I assume muslims aren't persecuted.
IIRC, pre-Arab Spring Tunisia was actually Islamophobic, in the sense that the reigning government was overtly antireligious under the guise of secularism (compare the recent trends by the current French government).
Meanwhile, Saudi Arabia has a different problem: Many people are smart/perceptive enough to realize that the House of Saud and the civil servants holding the highest executive government offices that aren't already held by royals are hypocrites who don't really care about Islam beyond their self-interest, and it's this hypocrisy as well as the rampancy of corruption and growing societal decadence that gives rise to the sort of bitter-minded people whom Daesh and its ilk can easily entice into joining their ranks.
Fiat iustitia, et pereat mundus.https://ph.news.yahoo.com/south-korean-professor-hurt-explosive-device-office-021803181.html
There's an IED attack in South Korea inside a university. The device is not that powerful, so it gave the professor some burn wounds.
"Exit muna si Polgas. Ang kailangan dito ay si Dobermaxx!"Shots fired at US GOP Congressional baseball practise, 6 hit, including Majority Whip Steve Scalise.
edited 14th Jun '17 5:02:08 AM by tclittle
"We're all paper, we're all scissors, we're all fightin' with our mirrors, scared we'll never find somebody to love."Sanders comdemned the guy after being told that he worked in his campaign.
https://ph.news.yahoo.com/australian-journalist-shot-war-torn-philippine-city-064613229.html
Australian journalist got shot in the neck and nearly got paralyzed. The AFP is still checking if it's from stray fire.
edited 15th Jun '17 2:42:50 AM by Ominae
"Exit muna si Polgas. Ang kailangan dito ay si Dobermaxx!"The security lapse affected more than 1,000 workers across 22 departments at Facebook who used the company’s moderation software to review and remove inappropriate content from the platform, including sexual material, hate speech and terrorist propaganda.
A bug in the software, discovered late last year, resulted in the personal profiles of content moderators automatically appearing as notifications in the activity log of the Facebook groups whose administrators were removed from the platform for breaching the terms of service. The personal details of Facebook moderators were then viewable to the remaining admins of the group.
Of the 1,000 affected workers, around 40 worked in a counter-terrorism unit based at Facebook’s European headquarters in Dublin, Ireland. Six of those were assessed to be “high priority” victims of the mistake after Facebook concluded their personal profiles were likely viewed by potential terrorists.
Some of the affected are now terrified of being caught and beheaded by terrorists.
edited 16th Jun '17 3:19:57 AM by M84
Disgusted, but not surprisedWTF yo.
https://ph.news.yahoo.com/russia-claims-killed-leader-al-baghdadi-073550636.html
Russian intelligence is checking on whether Russian fighters did do the deed or not.
"Exit muna si Polgas. Ang kailangan dito ay si Dobermaxx!"Again? This is, what, the sixth or seventh time someone's killed al-Baghdadi?
I'm starting to wonder if they have a bunch of backup Baghdadis.
edited 16th Jun '17 4:22:59 AM by M84
Disgusted, but not surprisedFacebook has an anti-terrorism unit? That sounds... surreal.
"We learn from history that we do not learn from history."Truly this is an interesting... timeline.
"Sandwiches are probably easier to fix than the actual problems" -Hylarnhttps://ph.news.yahoo.com/colombia-hunts-terrorists-deadly-mall-bombing-162237936.html
A bomb attack in downtown Bogota coincided with the launch of a revamped treaty between Bogota and FARC and ELN is already negotiating for a separate treaty.
"Exit muna si Polgas. Ang kailangan dito ay si Dobermaxx!"
The IRGC is blaming Saudi Arabia for the attack, which is now confirmed to have killed at least 12. Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, however, doesn't think much of the attacker's efforts either way.
"These fireworks have no effect on Iran. They will soon be eliminated ... They are too small to affect the will of the Iranian nation and its officials," state TV quoted him saying.
Khamenei added that Iran, which is helping Syrian President Bashar al-Assad fight rebels including Islamic State fighters, had prevented worse attacks through its foreign policy.
The powerful Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps accused Saudi Arabia of being behind the action, a rare such incident in Iran.
"This terrorist attack happened only a week after the meeting between the U.S. president (Donald Trump) and the (Saudi) backward leaders who support terrorists. The fact that Islamic State has claimed responsibility proves that they were involved in the brutal attack," a Guards statement said.
Saudi Foreign Minister Adel Al-Jubeir, speaking in Berlin, said he did not know who was responsible and there was no evidence Saudi extremists were involved.
Mobile phone footage recovered in Marawi City shows leaders of Daesh-aligned militants discussing their insurrection plans.
"We can jailbreak ... we can go inside schools ... we can take hostages," he said in a mix of regional languages and English. "But we need to seize a highway so people will be scared."
Seated at a table among them was Isnilon Hapilon, leader of the Abu Sayyaf group who was proclaimed by Islamic State last year as its "emir" of Southeast Asia. The U.S. State Department has offered a bounty of up to $5 million for his arrest.
Hapilon has formed an alliance with the Maute group, a tactically smart, social-media savvy outfit, and at least two other factions that have lined up behind the ultra-radical Islamic State.
"It was clear that these terrorists, the Maute group, their end goal is to make Marawi ... independent, or to separate from the republic," Senator JV Ejercito told Reuters.