Spanish police seize 20,000 military uniforms meant for ISIS fighters

Spanish police have managed to seize 20,000 military uniforms that were bound for Islamic State and al Nusra Front fighters. The items had been declared as second-hand clothes and a part of humanitarian aid to fool the customs officials and the sheer quantity was "enough to equip an entire army".
This has been reported in news.sky.com dated 4 March 2016.

The consignments of these military uniforms were discovered in three shipping containers in the eastern ports of Valencia and Alicante last month. It was an operation undertaken by officers to prevent smuggling of arms to jihadists. In a statement, the police have indicated that with the roughly 20,000 military uniforms and accessories, it would have been possible to equip an entire army. This army would be ready to enter into the combat role in any of the battlegrounds which jihadist terrorist organizations have round the world.
Seven people have been arrested in this connection - one of them was a man who dispatched "military material, money, electronic and transmission material, firearms and precursors for making explosives" to Syria and Iraq via a company. These would be shipped out to the terrorist groups under the guise of humanitarian aid.


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Leader of al-Nusra Front of al-Qaeda in Syria killed

The al-Nusra Front, the Sunni Islamic jihadist militia fighting against Syrian Government forces in the civil war, have confirmed the death of its leader Sheikh Abu Sulaiman Al Masri. Images of his body, showing a bloody head wound, have been shared online. He is believed to have been killed in the Syrian capital of Aleppo and, the cause of the death is yet to be confirmed.
This has been reported in dailymail.co.uk dated 23 October 2015.

The news of the death of the al-Nusra Front leader comes even as Syrian troops backed by Russian air strikes continue to wage a war against Islamic State group fighters in a bid to restore a key supply line to the capital. At least 28 IS fighters and 21 troops and militia have been killed in the battle for the road that leads to the government-held sector of the city – this has been indicated by the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
Al-Nusra is The Front for the Defence of the Syrian People and it is considered to be the second most powerful jihadist group in Syria after the Islamic State. Therefore, the death of its leader would come as a devastating blow to its operations in the war torn Middle Eastern country.
It may be recalled that it had first announced its existence four years ago. It was behind many of the suicide bombings that rocked Syria when civil war broke out in March 2011.
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34 killed in rebel attack in Syria – the explosion sounded like an earthquake

#syria #Aleppo #alqaida #SOHM #assadregime It was a deadly al-Qaida-linked terror attack on a Syrian regime intelligence headquarters in Aleppo and it was so massive that it measured 2.3 on the Richter scale and was initially registered as an earthquake as reported in dailymail.co.uk dated 5 March 2015.
The death toll in the attack was at least 20 regime security force members and 14 rebels. The incident occurred west of Aleppo which is the largest city in Syria and the frontline in battles between the Assad regime, the Islamic State, Western-backed rebel groups and the Al Qaeda-affiliated Nusra Front.
The attack is believed to be the work of al-Qaida affiliated Nusra front.
Their targets were apparently the air force intelligence offices. It seems the militants had used a tunnel to detonate bombs and the intensity of the resultant explosion was so huge that the European Mediterranean Seismological Centre labeled it as an earthquake. The intention could have been to storm the building and control it, but they failed. This is how Rami Abdel Rahman, the director of UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitoring group, sees the attack.
The attack has been termed as the worst reported violence in Aleppo since the rebels rejected a UN plan to freeze fighting in the northern city. Fighting in Aleppo, the commercial hub of Syria, had erupted in mid-2012, and the city is divided in two parts – the rebels are on the eastern side and the regime in the west.

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Al-Nusra front threatens over US airstrikes on ISIS positions

The Syrian militant group al-Nusra Front has denounced US-led air strikes as "a war against Islam" and, in an online statement, the al-Qaeda-linked group has called upon jihadists around the world to target Western and Arab countries involved bbc.com.
The threat comes as the US and other nations have widened air strikes against Islamic State (IS) fighters in Iraq and Syria and a Syrian activist group has indicated that overnight strikes have hit three local oilfields near the Syrian IS stronghold of Raqqa.
Moreover, the London-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, have added that one civilian was killed in a strike on a plastics factory on the outskirts of Raqqa.
The Pentagon had earlier confirmed that jets had hit Raqqa as well as IS positions near the Turkish border.
The US-led coalition consisting of about 40 countries, including Arab states, has vowed to destroy IS, which controls large parts of north-eastern Syria and northern Iraq. Incidentally, the group's brutal tactics, including mass killings, beheadings, and abductions of members of religious and ethnic minorities, have triggered the international intervention.
Britain has become the latest country to join the coalition - two of six RAF Tornados based in Cyprus have carried out their first combat mission but returned without carrying out any strikes. Later, two RAF planes took part in a further flight and later returned safely. Probably they are testing the waters before embarking on offensive actions.

Fighting breaks out in Golan Heights as UN tries to rescue 44 Fijian peacekeepers

The al-Nusra rebels, the Syrian wing of the al-Qaeda, stormed the Syrian side of the Quneitra border crossing and seized 44 Fijian peacekeepers who were working as part of a UN mission that has monitored the ceasefire on the strategic plateau since 1974 dailymail.co.uk.
Subsequently, the Syrian troops battled with the rebels near the armistice line with Israel on the Golan Heights, even as the United Nations pressed efforts to free the 44 peacekeepers held by the insurgents. The incident took place close to a stretch of the Levant occupied by Israel.
Several shells struck close to the ceasefire line as rocket, mortar and tank fire was exchanged – it was reported by Israeli public radio that one stray round had struck the occupied territory but caused no casualties.
Incidentally, Golan Heights is a 460 square mile region largely seized from Syria by Israel during the 1967 Six-Day War of 1967, then annexed in 1981 in a move never recognized by the international community.
The UN Disengagement Observer Force currently has 1,200 peacekeepers from the Philippines, Fiji, India, Ireland, Nepal and the Netherlands.
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