Ahlul Bayt News Agency – As the Peshmerga operation to liberate Sinjar continues in northern Iraq, scores of jihadists have reportedly been killed in the area, and hundreds injured.
Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) official from Mosul Saed Mamuzini said that the bodies of 157 dead IS militants were transferred to the Mosul coroner on Tuesday, Kiurdish Bas News reported.
Mamuzini pointed out that due to the large number of injured militants, civilian patients have been discharged from Mosul hospitals to free up beds.
Early morning Thursday November 12th, Kurdish Peshmerga forces, backed by international coalition airstrikes, started a huge operation to liberate the Yazidi town of Sinjar, west of Mosul, from IS.
Peshmerga Commander on the Sinjar frontline Sme Bosali confirmed that they have made significant gains so far.
Bosali added that Peshmerga and coalition warplanes have destroyed ten IS military vehicles along with military facilities in the area.
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Ahlul Bayt News Agency – The leader of Albu Nimir tribe in Anbar, Naeem Kawood, announced on Saturday the destruction of the ISIS headquarters in the area of Albu Hayat west of Ramadi, while pointed out to the killing of 250 ISIS elements in the region.
Kawood said in a statement that “A force belonging to al-Jazeerah and al-Badiyah Operations, with support from the 7th division of the army, and backed by fighters from the clan of Albu Nimir and al-Jaghaiyfa as well as other clans, had managed to destroy the headquarters of ISIS in the area of Albu Hayat in the city of Haditha (160 km west of Ramadi),” adding that, “250 ISIS elements had been killed, in addition to destroying 15 vehicles for the group, including a booby-trapped vehicle and another that was carrying weapons.”
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Ahlul Bayt News Agency – Head of The Centre for Arab Islamic Studies at Australian National University visited the cultural and the Quranic centers at Astan-e Quds Razavi as well as Mashhad’s Ferdowsi University in Iran.
Head of the Centre for Arab Islamic Studies at Australian National University Amin Saikal asked the Iranian officials to equip the Australian university with some copies of remarkable manuscripts kept at Astan-e Quds Razavi.
He admired the artistic value of these manuscripts.
He also asked mutual communication between the significant libraries in Australia as well the Central Library of Astan.
Saikal met the chief executive of the Center for Islamic Studies at Astan-e Quds Razavi Hojat ul-Eslam Shariati-Tabar.
Shariati-Tabar reciprocally asked him to introduce the real peaceful face of Islam to the people across Australia.Astan Quds Razavi is a “Bonyad” or autonomous charitable foundation in Mashhad, Iran.
It is the administrative organization which manages the Imam Reza (AS) Shrine and various institutions which belong to the organization.
Ahlul Bayt News Agency – Thousands of Palestinians gathered in the Hebron and Ramallah districts of the occupied West Bank Saturday for separate funerals of Palestinians shot dead by Israeli forces during clashes.
Near Hebron, mourners carried the body of Hassan Jihad al-Baw, 23, whowas shot in the heart on Friday in the town of Halhul and killed immediately, medics told Ma’an at the time.
The 23-year-old was given a symbolic military funeral that departed from Hebron’s al-Ahli hospital. Palestinian security forces took part in the funeral as his body was carried to his family home in Halhul.
Al-Baw’s relatives bid him a final goodbye before he was taken to Nabi Younis Mosque and then to the al-Shuhada cemetery where he was buried.
Mourners demanded international protection and a response to “Israeli violations and executions against Palestinians,” while stores in Halhul were closed in mourning for al-Baw’s death upon request of the Fatah movement in Hebron.
Clashes erupted after the funeral when Palestinian youths threw stones at an Israeli military checkpoint located at the southern entrance of Halhul, locals said.
Israeli forces opened fire, injuring five demonstrators with live fire, said Ramzi abu Yousif, the head of a health committee at the Halhul Medical Center.
Meanwhile in the Ramallah-area town of Budrus, mourners buried Lafi Yusif Awad, 22.
Awad was shot and killed by Israeli forces during clashes in the town Friday after the Israeli army said he attempted to grab a soldier’s weapon.
The funeral set off from the Ramallah Governmental Hospital and headed towards Budrus, around 30 kilometers away.
Awad’s body was carried on the shoulders of relatives to his home and then to the village’s cemetery.
Al-Baw and Awad were two of three Palestinians to die on Friday after being shot by Israeli military forces during clashes.
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Saudi Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir says his country will continue supporting the Takfiri militant groups operating to topple the Damascus government as long as Syrian President Bashar al-Assad is in power.
Speaking on the sidelines of the international peace talks on the Syria crisis in Vienna, Austria, on Saturday, Jubeir said the Riyadh regime only backs a political process that envisages President Assad’s removal from power.
“We will support the political process that will result in him (Assad) leaving or we will continue to support” Syria’s foreign-backed opposition in order to topple the Syrian leader “by force,” said the top Saudi diplomat.
The fresh round of talks on the Syria crisis opened in Vienna on Friday and ended on Saturday. Senior representatives from 17 countries, the United Nations, European Union as well as the Arab League were in attendance.
According to an official statement issued at the end of the meeting, the world diplomats seeking to find a solution to the Syria crisis would meet again in “approximately one month” to review progress towards a ceasefire and the start of a political process in the crisis-hit country.
The participants also agreed on a set calendar for a transition government in Syria within six months and elections in 18 months.
The parties to the international peace talks in Syria remain at loggerheads over the role that Assad would play in Syria’s political process.
While some countries, including the US and its allies, press for the removal of Assad as part of a solution to the Syrian crisis, others, notably Iran and Russia, say only the Syrian nation can decide over the matter.
Saudi Arabia has long been among the major supporters of the terror groups operating against the Syrian government since March 2011. The violence fueled by the foreign-backed Takfiris has so far claimed over 250,000 lives.
The previous round of talks on the crisis in Syria was held in the Austrian capital on October 30. At the end of the day-long talks, the participants agreed on respecting Syria’s national unity and sovereignty as well as uprooting terrorism in the violence-plagued Arab country.
Jubeir had repeated the same comments ahead of the October 30 round of Vienna talks, saying Riyadh sees no role for Assad in Syria’s political future.
However, Syrian Information Minister Omran al-Zoubi lashed out at the Saudi official for his statements, saying Riyadh is not qualified to participate in efforts to resolve the crisis in Syria as the kingdom is shedding the blood of people elsewhere.
Jubeir “who has no clue how diplomacy and politics work, should keep his mouth closed and keep his country out of a matter that is none of its business,” Zoubi added.
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Deputy Chief of Staff of the Iranian Armed Forces Brigadier General Massoud Jazayeri condemned recent terrorist attacks in Paris, but at the same time underlined that they were the outcome of the French government’s supports for the ISIL terrorist group.
“If the French government and other Western and regional supporters of Takfiri terrorism had had wisdom and foresight, they would have predicted such a crime in the heart of Europe,” Brigadier General Jazayeri said on Saturday.
From the beginning of spread of terrorist acts in Syria and other regional countries, “we repeatedly warned Europeans that terrorism would plague their countries,” he stated.
“We urged people (in Europe) to pressure their governments into giving up supporting terrorists in the (Middle East) region,” the commander added.
Late on Friday, a string of coordinated attacks in and around the French capital left at least 129 people dead and some 200 others injured.
A state of emergency has been declared in the European country shaken by the horrific attacks.
The West and its regional allies have been blamed for supporting the militants operating inside Syria for more than four years.
According to the United Nations, more than 250,000 people have been killed and one million wounded in the conflicts in Syria.
Leader of the military operations of the ISIS in Syria’s Palmyra has been killed in an airstrike by the Syrian air force near al-Shaer oilfield in Palmyra suburb in the Syrian central province of Homs, local sources reported.
A civil rights activist confirmed the death of the ISIS senior leader Hajj Hassan Salafi (aka Abu Abd al-Rahman al-Shami) earlier this week in a Syrian airstrike in ad-Duwwa district near al-Shaer oilfield.
“ISIS militants in Palmyra paid farewell to their commander Hajj Hassan Salafi on Wednesday after an airstrike by the Syrian air force,” he said.
“Salafi, who descends from the Bedouin clan of al-Fawaera in Homs, has led the ISIS military operations against Syrian troops in the province of Homs. He has been recently promoted by the terrorist group as leader of Palmyra operations,” the source said on the condition of anonymity.
“Salafi’s death is considered a heavy loss for ISIS, as he was one of the most committed leading members of the group in central Syria, especially that ISIS suffers internal rifts at the moment,” the source added.
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The French interior minister has given the go-ahead to local authorities across the country to impose a curfew in certain areas as part of security measures in the wake of shooting and bomb attacks in Paris, where over 120 people died.
Bernard Cazeneuve said on Saturday that local officials are allowed to introduce the curfews in areas which they deem necessary to prevent attacks similar to the deadly assaults in the capital on Friday.
The French interior minister, who was addressing the nation in televised remarks, said a series of increased security measures would also be introduced across France, including thousands more troops and police and special protection for certain public buildings. He said that demonstrations will be banned at least until Thursday.
French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve (AFP photo)
Cazeneuve did not elaborate where the curfews could be imposed.
French authorities have yet to reveal the identity or the nationality of Paris attackers, who were reportedly killed at the scenes.
Meanwhile, Prime Minister Manuel Valls said Saturday that France will hold a minute’s silence on Monday for the victims of the shootings and explosions on Friday as the nation is observing three days of mourning.
People wait to donate blood at the Hopital Saint Louis in Paris, France, on November 14, 2015, the morning after a string of attacks killed over 120 people in the French capital. (AFP photo)
Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said measures will be taken to boost protection of France’s official buildings abroad.
French President Francois Hollande said earlier in the day that the Takfiri Daesh terrorist group was behind the attacks. He said the attacks amounted to “an act of war.”
Shortly after the remarks by Hollande, Daesh in a statement claimed responsibility for the assaults.
Out of the roughly 200 people injured in the attacks, 80 individuals are reported to have been in a life-threatening condition.
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A string of coordinated attacks in and around the French capital of Paris has left 127 people dead and some 200 others injured, as a state of emergency is declared in the European country shaken by the horrific attacks.
Assailants struck at least six different venues, ranging from the national sports stadium to a pizzeria, late on Friday.
French President Francois Hollande said later on Saturday that the Takfiri Daesh terrorist group was behind the attacks. He termed the attacks “an act of war.”
Shortly after the remarks by Hollande, Daesh in a statement claimed responsibility for the assaults.
Hollande said 127 people had been killed in the incidents.
Emergency personnel arrive at the Stade de France in Saint Denis, suburban Paris, November 13, 2015. (Photo by AFP)
According to reports, out of the roughly 200 people injured in the attacks, 80 individuals are reported to have been seriously injured.
A total of eight assailants were also killed in the attacks, most of them by detonating their explosive belts.
An extra 1,500 soldiers have been mobilized to reinforce police in Paris, Hollande’s office said. Mayor Anne Hidalgo has also urged residents to stay at their homes.
The coordinated assaults came as France, a founding member of the US-led coalition conducting airstrikes against purported Daesh positions in Syria and Iraq, was already on high alert for terrorist attacks ahead of a global climate conference due to open later this month
Police cordon off a street following several attacks in and around the French capital, Paris, November 13, 2015. (Photo by AFP)
Hollande, meanwhile, cancelled his visit to the summit of the Group of Twenty (G20) international forum in Turkey and will be represented there by Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius and Finance Minister Michel Sapin.
Emergency declared, borders closed
Soon after the attacks, the French president declared a state of emergency in a bid to contain the security situation in the country.
“As I speak, terrorist attacks of unprecedented proportions are underway in the Paris area. There are dozens killed, there are many injured. It is a horror.”
He also said France’s borders have been ordered shut following the attacks.
“We must ensure that no one comes in to commit any act whatsoever, and at the same time make sure that those who have committed these crimes should be arrested if they try to leave the country,” the French president said in a brief televised statement.
French President Francois Hollande (C), surrounded by bodyguards, arrives at the scene of an attack in Paris, November 13, 2015. (Photo by AFP)
Meanwhile, condemnations and expressions of sympathy are pouring in for the French government and people.
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has sent a message to his French counterpart, condemning the attacks.
“In the name of the Iranian nation, itself a victim of the evil scourge of terrorism, I strongly condemn these inhumane crimes and condole with the bereaved French nation and government,” President Rouhani said in his message.
Other countries, including the United States, Russia, Britain, Germany, Spain, India, Australia, and Turkey, as well as the European Union (EU) have voiced their condemnation of the attacks.
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has also condemned the attacks in the French capital.
The United Nations (UN)’s Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has also condemned the attacks. So has the Vatican.
A number of countries, including China, have also said they are ready to work with France to combat terrorism.
Saudi Arabia, whose preachers officially preach Wahhabism, an extremely intolerant and violent ideology, has also said the Paris attacks show it is necessary to eradicate “threats to global security” through joint international efforts.
In the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks in the US, 15 assailants out of the total 19 were Saudi nationals.
Paris in the crosshairs
The French capital had been targeted in another series of terrorist attacks as recently as January 7, when gunmen attacked the Paris offices of French magazine Charlie Hebdo, killing 12 people and wounding 11 others.
The incident was followed by a series of sieges and shootings across Paris, resulting in the killing of more people and an extensive sense of insecurity in the country.
In a posthumous video released a few days later, Amedy Coulibaly, a gunman who killed four hostages in another terror attack at a Paris supermarket before he was slain by police, claimed he was acting on behalf of the Daesh Takfiri group in coordination with the two brothers who attacked Charlie Hebdooffices. He said the two brothers, Said and Cherif Kouachi, were affiliated with the al-Qaeda terrorist group.
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Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has condemned the string of coordinated terrorist attacks that killed at least 127 people in and around the French capital of Paris.
“What France suffered from – savage terror – is what the Syrian people have been enduring for over five years,” he said on Saturday, hours after the attacks in France.
The attacks in France were carried out late on Friday, when assailants struck at least six different venues in and around the French capital.
President Assad added in a meeting with a delegation of French lawmakers in the Syrian capital of Damascus that “mistaken policies” adopted by Paris have contributed to the “spread of terrorism” that led to the latest terror attacks in the European country.
Foreign-backed militants in Syria (File photo)
The Syrian leader further said that Paris terrorist attacks cannot be separated from the bombings that took place in the Lebanese capital of Beirut on Thursday and from what Syria has been enduring for the past five years.
On Thursday, a twin blasts claimed by Daesh Takfiri terrorists took 44 lives in the southern suburbs of Beirut.
The Syrian president said that he had warned “what would happen in Europe for the past three years” if its leaders continued with their policies but his warnings were not heeded.
“We said, don’t take what is happening in Syria lightly. Unfortunately, European officials did not listen.”
He also urged French President Francois Hollande to change his policy. “The question that is being asked throughout France today is, was France’s policy over the past five years the right one? The answer is no.”
Rescuers evacuate an injured person on Boulevard des Filles du Calvaire, close to the Bataclan concert hall in central Paris, early on November 14, 2015. (Photo by AFP)
Since March 2011, Syria has been beset by foreign-backed militancy, which has so far claimed the lives of over 250,000 people and displaced millions of others.
The militancy in the Arab country has intensified due to the activities of militants groups, including Daesh which has overrun about a third of Syria, where it is tyrannizing the civilian population.
France is among the Western countries that have been supporting the militants fighting against the Syrian government. As part of a US-led coalition, the country has also been conducting air raids against what it alleges to be Daesh positions in the violence-scarred Arab country.
President Assad complained back in May that the so-called coalition against Daesh does not aim to “do away” with the terror group, adding, “They want to use this terrorist structure for threatening and blackmailing other countries.”
Also on Saturday, Daesh released an undated video, threatening to attack France as long as the aerial campaign continued.
“As long as you keep bombing you will not live in peace. You will even fear traveling to the market,” said a Daesh member in the footage.
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