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The article is provided by  Islamic World News  exclusively for  SouthFront The al-Nasser Salah al-Deen Brigades has revealed its new missile, the Imad earthquake (Zelzal Imad). The al-Nasser Salah al-Deen Brigades is a military wing of the Palestinian Popular Resistance Committees. The group operates in the Gaza Strip The missile is named Zelzal Emad to commemorate the former chief-commander of the al-Nasser Salah al-Deen Brigades, Imad Hammad. The technical characteristics and operational range of the missile has not yet been announced.

File photo: Iraqi troops. Source: presstv.ir The Iraqi government is  going to take control of the borders of its Kurdistan Region “in coordination” with Iran and Turkey, the Iraqi Defence Ministry said in a statement on Friday. The ministray said that the implementation of central government decisions to take over control of all the border posts and airports was “going as planned in coordination with the relevant authorities and neighboring countries, and there is no delay in the procedures.” No details on the excat way how the military was planing to achieve its goal were provided. Meanwhile, the Iraqi media reported that an Iraqi military delegation visited the Kurdistan Region’s border from the Iranian side. Earlier this month, Turkey and Iraq held joint military drills on the Turkish side of  the Kurdistan border. The Iraqi government also imposed  a flights ban on the airspace over the Kurdistan Region  after the local government rejecte...

North Korea has again been observed moving several missiles from a rocket facility in the capital Pyongyang, according to a report late on Friday by South Korea’s Korean Broadcasting System (KBS)  rising speculation that the North is preparing to take more provocative actions.  The last time a similar report emerged was  at the start of September , which was followed just days later by a ballistic missile launch which flew over Japan. Officials did not say where the missiles were being moved, nor the make:  according to Reuters , the missiles could be either intermediate range Hwasong-12 or intercontinental ballistic Hwasong-14 missiles, according to the report, though the missile facility at Sanum-dong has been dedicated to the production of intercontinental ballistic missiles. As previously reported, South Korean official have speculated that the North could launch another nuclear or missile test to coincide with the anniversary of the founding of its com...

FILE IMAGE: aa.com.tr On Saturday, Deputy Chief of Staff of Iran’s Armed Forces Brigadier General Massoud Jazayeri announced that Iran and Iraq will hold joint military drills along their border with Iraq’s Kurdistan Region in the coming days. “The joint maneuver, [dubbed] Eqtedar (Strength), will be held by Iran’s Armed Forces and units of the Iraqi army along the two countries’ joint borders,” Brig. Gen. Massoud Jazayeri said after a high-level meeting of Iranian commanders. According to Brig. Gen. Jazayeri, high-ranking commanders of the Iranian Armed Forces attended the meeting that was headed by Chairman of the Chief of Staff Major General Mohammad Baqeri. Brig. Gen. Jazayeri said that the aim of the meeting was to discuss the Iraqi government’s official request to help it to impose its control on the Iraqi-Iranian border. “In line with the declared policies of the Islamic Republic of Iran to help safeguard Iraq’s solidarity and territorial integrity and follo...

What if you could control the weather?   It’s a question that has exercised mankind for millennia.   Now evidence has emerged that the US Intelligence community is funding climate research in what a leading climate scientist fears is a step towards controlling and weaponizing weather. Professor Alan Robock, a climate scientist at Rutgers University in New Jersey, has revealed in a recent conference of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in San José how three years ago he received a telephone call from two men who claimed to be working for the CIA.  Apparently they said: “we are working for the CIA and would like to know if some other country was controlling our climate would we be able to detect it?” Robock said he was scared by the call revealing that he thought that the CIA operatives were also wondering “if we wanted to control someone else’s climate could  they  detect it?” Further evidence of the CIA’s interest in clim...

Security forces inspect the site of a suicide attack outside the Shia mosque [Massoud Hossaini/AP] On September 29, an ISIS suicide bomber attacked a Shiite mosque in the Afghan capital Kabul, according to the ISIS-linked news agency Amaq. According to Amaq, 50 civilians were killed or injured in the attack. From its side, Afghanistan Interior Ministry spokesman Najib Danish said that the suicide bomber attacked a mosque in Qala-e-Fathullah area in Kabul city at around 2pm local time. According to Danish, 6 civilians were killed and 30 others were injured. Danish also announced that 3 suspects linked to the attack were arrested by the Afghan Police. In a separated development, the Taliban news agency Voice of Jihad announced that Taliban fighters attacked and captured a checkpoint of the Afghan Army in Kunsak area of Bala Baluk district in Farah province in western Afghanistan. Voice of Jihad said that 9 Afghan soldiers were killed, and 3 other were captured in the attack. ...

On Friday, ISIS fighters captured 5 checkpoints of the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) near al-Sukhnah town in the eastern Homs countryside, according to the ISIS-linked news agency Amaq. The media also claimed that ISIS fighters captured al-Qualya’a village and its gas station south of al-Sukhnah town. Moreover, Amaq even claimed that ISIS fighters capture the al-Hail gas field east of Palmyra city. Amaq went on and claimed that ISIS fighters attacked the SAA positions in al-Qaryatayn town southwest of Palmyra. Pro-government sources claim that at least the attack of ISIS sleeper cells on al-Qaryatayn have been repelled. On other frontlines, the situation remains unclear. Clashes near the T-3 station: According to Amaq, ISIS fighters killed 40 SAA soldiers around al-Sukhnah, and 34 other in the T-3 station on Friday. Amaq also said that ISIS captured the following weapons from the SAA: two battle tanks; two BMP-1 vehicles; two 122mm artillery pieces; two 23mm guns; a Korne...

FILE IMAGE: A Kurdish Peshmerga forces member (Photo by Dan Kitwood/Getty Images) The Iraqi Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) will declare an independence of Iraqi Kurdistan unilaterally, if the Iraqi Federal Government does not enter negotiations on the terms and condictions of this move, Vahal Ali, director of communications in the office of Kurdistan Region President Massoud Barzani said on September 29. Ali blamed the Iraqi government for a “very aggressive” stance towards the independence referendum as well as for Baghdad’s threats to cut the KRG oil pipeline to Turkey and  the air flights ban over the region , according to  the New York Times (NYT) . “We are hopeful that these are all temporary measures,” the NYT quoted Ali as saying. “ We want this to be a peaceful transition, but if Baghdad decides not, there is a lot we can also  do.” Barzani’s spokesman emphasized that Iraqi Kurds overwhelmingly voted in favor of independence ...