Srikandi גבורה . . .: June 2014

Saturday 14 June 2014

49 tentera Ukraine TERBUNUH sebagai pesawat PENGANGKUTAN DiJATUHKAN dalam LUGANSK . . .

Satu kebakaran yang didakwa bermula pada lokasi kemalangan pengangkutan tentera Ukraine dijatuhka/A fire that allegedly started at the crash site of the downed Ukrainian military transport. Still from YouTube video

Srikandi גבורה - Empat puluh sembilan tentera Ukraine terbunuh apabila tentera Il-76 pengangkutan jet mereka telah diambil oleh tentera militia tempatan sebelum ia bermula keturunan ke arah Lapangan Terbang Lugansk. Beberapa perkakasan dan bekalan ketenteraan telah hilang juga.

Angka kematian telah disahkan oleh pejabat Ukraine Ketua Pendakwa itu pada pagi Sabtu dalam satu kenyataan, yg berkata 9 anak kapal dan 40 tentera terbunuh.

Terdahulu Kementerian Pertahanan berkata tentera sedang diangkut ke Lapangan Terbang Lugansk untuk putaran bersama-sama dengan peralatan ketenteraan dan bekalan.

49 Ukrainian troops KILLED as TRANSPORT

Plane downed in LUGANSK . . .

Forty-nine Ukrainian troops were killed when their military Il-76 transport jet was taken down by local militia forces just before it started its descent toward Lugansk Airport. Some military hardware and supplies were lost as well.

The death toll was confirmed by the Ukrainian General Prosecutor’s office on Saturday morning in a statement, which said nine crew members and 40 troops were killed.

Earlier the Defense Ministry said the troops were being transported to the Lugansk Airport for rotation along with military equipment and supplies.

'Self-defense forces' Lugansk mengesahkan bahawa mereka menjadi dalang dalam menenggak pesawat pengangkutan.

"Ia dipukul dengan roket. Kami percaya terdapat pasukan tentera di atas kapal, "kata jurucakap Ibu Pejabat militia memberitahu RIA Novosti.

Il-76 adalah pesawat pengangkutan tentera berat yang biasanya mempunyai anak kapal 7 dan boleh mengangkut sehingga 167 askar dengan bersenjata.

Yang menenggak semalaman pesawat Jumaat nampaknya kehilangan tunggal terbesar tentera setia Kiev, yang telah melancarkan tindakan keras tentera di wilayah timur ingkar selama 3 bulan.

Lugansk self-defense forces confirmed that they were behind the downing of the transport aircraft.

“It was hit with a rocket. We believe there were military troops on board,” a spokesman for the militia HQ told RIA Novosti.

The Il-76 is a heavy military transport aircraft that usually has a crew of seven and can transport up to 167 soldiers with weapons.

The downing of the plane overnight Friday was apparently the biggest single loss of Kiev loyalist forces, which has been waging a military crackdown on defiant eastern provinces for three months.

Berikutan serangan itu, Presiden Ukraine Petro Poroshenko dipanggil pertahanan dan keselamatan kaumnya untuk perundingan.

"Semua mereka yg terlibat dlm perbuatan sinis keganasan sebesar ini mesti dihukum. Ukraine memerlukan kedamaian. Walau bagaimanapun, pengganas akan menerima jawapan seimbang," kata Poroshenko dalam satu kenyataan.

Sementara itu di rantau Donetsk, menembak semula pada Slavyansk dan Kramatorsk lewat pada hari Jumaat sebagai tentera Ukraine terus tindakan keras untuk angkatan diri dalam rizab timur, seorang wakil diri berkata.

Operasi ketenteraan Kiev di timur Ukraine telah menggiatkan. Pada hari Khamis, tentera Ukraine dilaporkan menggugurkan bom fosforus di bandar Slavyansk.

Following the attack, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko summoned his defense and security chiefs for consultations.

"All those involved in cynical acts of terrorism of this magnitude must be punished. Ukraine needs peace. However, the terrorists will receive a proportionate response," Poroshenko said in a statement.

Meanwhile in Donetsk region, shooting resumed in Slavyansk and Kramatorsk late on Friday as the Ukrainian military continued its crackdown on self-defense forces in the country's east, a self-defense representative said.

Kiev’s military operation in eastern Ukraine has been intensifying. On Thursday, the Ukrainian military reportedly dropped phosphorous bombs on the town of Slavyansk.

A Ukrainian military Il-76 jet (RIA Novosti/Natalia Seliverstova)

Banyak perkampungan Semyonovka, yang terletak di pinggir bandar Slavyansk, telah dibakar. Penduduk tempatan memberitahu RT bahawa tanah-tanah itu tidak berhenti membakar untuk beberapa ketika.

Penggunaan bom pembakar - direka untuk memulakan api dengan menggunakan bahan-bahan seperti napalm, fosforus putih atau bahan kimia berbahaya yang lain - adalah dilarang oleh PBB.

Moscow menuntut siasatan segera ke dlm penggunaan yg dilaporkan bom pembakar di Ukraine, Menteri Luar Rusia Sergey Lavrov berkata pada hari Khamis.

Much of the village of Semyonovka, located in the Slavyansk suburbs, was set ablaze. Local residents told RT that the ground didn't stop burning for some time.

The use of incendiary bombs – designed to start fires using materials such as napalm, white phosphorus or other dangerous chemicals – is strictly prohibited by the UN.

Moscow demanded an immediate investigation into the reported use of incendiary bombs in Ukraine, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said on Thursday.

‘Self-defense forces’ Gorlovka, E.Ukraine, TUNTUTAN Menembak JATUH Jet Pengebom KIEV . . .

FILE PHOTO (AFP Photo/Frederick Florin)

Srikandi גבורה - ‘Self-defense forces’ di bandar Gorlovka, timur Ukraine, berkata mereka telah dijatuhkan pesawat lain - seorang pengebom jet Sukhoi-24. Juruterbang masih hidup dan sedang diambil utk disoal siasat, saksi memberitahu RIA Novosti melaporkan.

Terdapat sejumlah 2 jet mengambil bahagian dalam pengeboman semalaman suatu balai polis tempatan.

Berita itu berikut laporan satu satah melaksanakan serangan sekitar pukul 4:30 pagi waktu tempatan (01:30 GMT), yang mengakibatkan kerugian di kalangan ‘Self-defense forces’ yang berpangkat, dan juga orang awam. 2 terbunuh dan 7 cedera dlm serangan itu, menurut laporan polis.

"Pesawat itu dijatuhkan di luar bandar Kayutovo, kita tahu pada masa ini bahawa juruterbang itu sedang diambil untuk disoal siasat oleh pihak polis," saksi membe-ritahu RT melalui telefon.

Saksi itu mengesahkan laporan polis mangsa yang dialami semasa malam ini terbang-dengan serangan, tetapi meletakkan bilangan yang tercedera 6 orang.

Tiada maklumat pada masa ini boleh didapati untuk keadaan fizikal juruterbang.

Terdapat juga laporan militia Ukraine menjalankan beberapa serangan udara di bandar jiran Druzhovka.

Self-defense forces in Gorlovka, E.Ukraine, CLAIM SHOOTING Down Kiev bomber JET . . .

Self-defense forces in the town of Gorlovka, eastern Ukraine, say they have downed another plane - a Sukhoi-24 bomber jet. The pilot is alive and currently being taken for questioning, witnesses told RIA Novosti reports.

There were a total of two jets taking part in the overnight bombarding of a local police station.

The news follows reports of the two planes performing an attack around 4:30am local time (01:30 GMT), which resulted in losses among the self-defense forces ranks, as well as civilians. Two have been killed and seven injured in the attack, according to police reports.

"The plane was downed just outside the Kayutovo township, we know at this time that the pilot is being taken in for questioning by the police," a witness told RT by phone.

The witness has confirmed police reports of casualties sustained during the night's fly-by attack, but put the number of injured at six.

No information currently is available as to the pilot's physical state.

There were also reports of Ukrainian militias carrying out several airstrikes on the neighboring town of Druzhovka.

Berikut adalah video daripada saksi selepas pengeboman awal pagi. Jalur-jalur hitam boleh dilihat di langit biru di sini . . .

Below is a witness video of the aftermath of the early morning bombardment. Black streaks can be seen across the blue sky here

READ MORE: http://on.rt.com/vzhv84

'PelBAGAI Kumpulan BOLEH MENYERTAI jihad ISIS DALAM PERJUANGAN terhadap KERAJAAN IRAQ' . . .

Srikandi גבורה - Agak mudah yang dengan pemberontak telah menguasai bandar-bandar utama di Iraq mencadangkan bekas pegawai tentera dan lain-lain mungkin telah bergabung dengan Golongan ini untuk menyasarkan kerajaan Syiah yang diterajui Perdana Menteri Nouri al-Maliki, Edmund Ghareeb memberitahu RT.

"Apa juga membuat ini menarik dan apa yang menimbulkan banyak soalan tentang apa yang berlaku sekarang ialah bahawa terdapat banyak daya juang di bawah nama ISIS (Negara Islam Iraq dan Levant)," kata Ghareeb, seorang profesor di Universiti Amerika, sambil menambah bahawa banyak kumpulan mempunyai musuh yang sama dgn Maliki.

Beliau menambah bahawa mungkin ada "pegawai Iraq, yang berasal dari tentera Saddam Hussein, yang datang dari kawasan Tikrit dan kawasan Mosul, dan mungkin yang menerangkan [bagaimana] taktik tentera yang digunakan, kerana ini sangat berkesan. Terdapat perancangan profesional di sini."

RT: Adakah adil untuk mengatakan, sebagai Presiden Barack Obama telah berkata, bahawa Iraq semata-mata bertanggungjawab bagi keadaan keselamatan sendiri?

Edmund Ghareeb: Jelas apa yg berlaku di Iraq adalah satu kejutan kpd pentadbiran [Obama], kerana saya pasti bahawa, mungkin, ia adalah satu kejutan kepada kerajaan Iraq juga.

Kepantasan dengan yang kuasa-kuasa ini dapat memajukan dan mengambil alih bandar seperti Mosul menimbulkan banyak soalan mengenai tentera Iraq, yang telah dilatih, ‘supposedly’, oleh Amerika Syarikat.

Mereka, sudah tentu, tidak mempunyai senjata yang canggih dari segi kapal terbang atau peluru berpandu. Tetapi ini adalah tentera di mana $ 25 billion telah dibelanjakan untuk membantu menyediakannya untuk tugas masa depan, untuk membantu melindungi kerajaan Iraq, dan penduduk Iraq.

Tetapi saya fikir apa yang berlaku di sini adalah bahawa ini menimbulkan semua soalan tentang cara kerajaan Amerika Syarikat sedang meninjau keadaan ini, dan sudah tentu, presiden masih mempunyai persepsi legasi beliau sendiri.

Presiden Obama, semasa beliau menjadi calon untuk jawatan presiden, berjanji untuk keluar dari Iraq. Dia tidak mahu untuk kembali ke Iraq. Pada masa yang sama, ini adalah keadaan yang kompleks dan sukar, dan dia tidak boleh kekal sama sekali tidak berhubung dengan keadaan ini.

Itulah sebabnya kita melihat sambutan ini, penilaian ini berhati-hati apa yang Amerika Syarikat boleh melakukan atau perlu lakukan. Sebaliknya, Presiden telah mengambil kira di atas negara realiti politik.

RT: Jika tentera Iraq dibiarkan sesuka mereka, mereka benar2 boleh mempertahankan Iraq dari serangan ini?

Edmund Ghareeb: Dalam satu tangan, anda mempunyai tentera yang mempunyai tempat di antara 250,000 dan 300,000 lelaki. Anda mempunyai pasukan keselamatan yang dekat dengan 900,000. Supaya hendaklah mencukupi untuk melindungi Baghdad dan melindungi beberapa bandar-bandar, walaupun terhadap serangan beberapa ribu atau seratus, dalam beberapa kes, pejuang.

Sudah tentu negara Islam Iraq dan Levant (ISIS) berpengalaman, ia terdiri daripada banyak pejuang keras. Apa juga membuat ini menarik dan apa yang menimbulkan banyak soalan tentang apa yang berlaku sekarang ialah bahawa terdapat banyak daya juang di bawah nama ISIS.

Apa yang kita lihat ialah pejuang berjuang di bawah panji-panji ISIS, dan pada masa yang sama, ia seolah-olah terdapat kumpulan-kumpulan lain. Anda mempunyai kuasa-kuasa bekas naib presiden Iraq, Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri, yang dari Naqshbandi, perintah Sufi.

Anda memdapati pegawai-pegawai Iraq yang berasal dari tentera Saddam Hussein, yang datang dari kawasan Tikrit dan kawasan Mosul, dan mungkin yang menerangkan [bagaimana] taktik tentera digunakan, kerana ini sangat berkesan.

Terdapat perancangan profesional di sini. Juga, Baathists, bekas Baathists, mungkin juga telah terlibat, dan juga suku kaum. Orang-orang ini mengambil pendirian bersama terhadap Perdana Menteri Maliki.

Mereka semua sedang menentang Maliki. Pada masa yang sama, saya tidak fikir kumpulan-kumpulan ini mempunyai objektif yang sama. Sebagai contoh, ISIS mahu mempunyai pemerintahan khalifah Islam.

Saya tidak fikir ini adalah semestinya dikongsi oleh beberapa kumpulan Sufi, dan ia tidak akan dikongsi oleh bekas pegawai-pegawai tentera Iraq, atau Parti Baath. Walau bagaimanapun, sekarang, mereka boleh bekerja bersama-sama terhadap Maliki.

Bagi Keadaan ini juga akan turun di Baghdad, saya tidak fikir ia akan mudah untuk kuasa ini untuk mengambil alih Baghdad, terutamanya jika ada pembelaan. Demografi Baghdad berubah sejak beberapa tahun yang lalu, dan ia adalah sebuah bandar yang kebanyakannya majoriti Syiah.

Pada masa yg sama, terdapat kuasa-kuasa profesional dan elit yg mempertahankan Baghdad, jadi ia tidak akan mudah. Walau bagaimanapun, hakikatnya ialah kuasa-kuasa ini bergerak.

Mereka telah tawan Mosul dan, dilaporkan, Tikrit - walaupun terdapat soalan tentang bahagian-bahagian itu - dan Baiji, yg merupakan sebuah bandar yg sangat penting di mana anda mempunyai kemudahan minyak di sana. Mereka mengambil bandar-bandar, dan itulah yang sangat penting.

'MULTIPLE GROUPs may be JOINING ISIS jihadists

in fight Against IRAQi GOVT' . . .

The relative ease with which insurgents have taken control of major cities in Iraq suggests former military officers and others may have joined forces with jihadists to target Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's Shiite-led government, Edmund Ghareeb told RT.

"What also makes this interesting and what raises a lot of questions about what's going on is that there are many forces fighting under the name of ISIS (the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant)," said Ghareeb, a professor at American University, adding that the many groups have a common enemy in Maliki.

He added that there could be "Iraqi officers, who are from Saddam Hussein's army, who come from the Tikrit area and the Mosul area, and probably that explains [how] military tactics were used, because these were very effective. There was professional planning here."

RT: Is it fair to say, as President Barack Obama has said, that Iraq is solely responsible for its own security situation?

Edmund Ghareeb: Clearly what's going on in Iraq was a surprise to the [Obama] administration, as I'm sure that, probably, it was a surprise to the Iraqi government as well.

The rapidity with which these forces are able to advance and take over a city like Mosul raises a lot of questions about the Iraqi army, which was trained, supposedly, by the United States.

They, of course, didn't have very sophisticated weapons in terms of airplanes or missiles. But this is an army where $25 billion was spent to help prepare it for future duties, to help protect Iraq's government, and the population of Iraq.

But I think what is happening here is that this all raises questions about the way the US government is looking at this situation, and, of course, the president still has his perception of his own legacy.

President Obama, when he was a candidate for the presidency, promised to get out of Iraq. He does not want to return to Iraq. At the same time, this is a complex and difficult situation, and he cannot remain totally out of touch with this situation.

That's why we're seeing this response, this careful evaluation of what the US could do or should do. On the other hand, the president has taken into account the political realities on the ground.

RT: If the Iraqi army is left to their own devices, can they really defend Iraq from this onslaught?

Edmund Ghareeb: On the one hand, you have an army that has somewhere between 250,000 and 300,000 men. You have security forces that are close to 900,000.

So that should be sufficient to protect Baghdad and to protect some of the cities, even against the onslaught of several thousand or hundred, in some cases, fighters.

Of course the Islamic state of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS) is experienced, it's composed of many hardened fighters. What also makes this interesting and what raises a lot of questions about what's going on is that there are many forces fighting under the name of ISIS.

What we are seeing is that the fighters are fighting under the banner of ISIS, and at the same time, it seems there are other groups. You have the forces of the former vice president of Iraq, Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri, who is of the Naqshbandi, the Sufi order.

You have Iraqi officers who are from Saddam Hussein's army, who come from the Tikrit area and the Mosul area, and probably that explains [how] military tactics were used, because these were very effective.

There was professional planning here. Also, the Baathists, the former Baathists, may also have been involved, as well as the tribes. These people have a common stand against Prime Minister Maliki. They're all opposed to Maliki. At the same time, I don't think these groups have the same objectives.

For example, ISIS wants to have an Islamic caliphate. I don't think this is necessarily shared by some of the Sufi groups, and it wouldn't be shared by the former Iraqi army officers, or the Baath Party. Nevertheless, right now, they may be working together against Maliki.

As for the situation also going down in Baghdad, I don't think it will be easy for this force to take over Baghdad, particularly if there is a defense. The demography of Baghdad was changed over the past several years, and it is mostly a Shiite majority city.

At the same time, there are professional and elite forces which are defending Baghdad, so it won't be easy. Nevertheless, the fact is these forces are moving. They've taken Mosul and, reportedly, Tikrit – though there is a question about parts of it – and Baiji, which is a very important town where you have oil facilities there. They are taking the cities, and that's significant.

OBAMA enggan MENGHANTAR pasukan TENTERANYA ke IRAQ, tetapi tidak akan menolak Serangan UDARA . . .

Presiden Amerika Syarikat, Barack Obama menyampaikan kenyataan mengenai keadaan di Iraq, sebelum berangkat White House South Lawn di Washington, 13 Jun 2014 (U.S. President Barack Obama delivers a statement on the situation in Iraq, prior to departing the White House South Lawn in Washington, June 13, 2014 (Reuters/Kevin Lamarque)

Srikandi גבורה - Amerika Syarikat mungkin mula menyediakan bantuan ketenteraan kepada kerajaan Iraq dalam masa beberapa hari, Presiden Barack Obama berkata Jumaat, sebagai pelampau terus merampas bandar-bandar utama terdapat di tengah-tengah kempen ganas menggiatkan pemberontakan.

Bercakap di luar White House, Presiden itu berkata beliau telah membincangkan krisis di Iraq dengan Majlis Keselamatan Negara beliau awal hari dan tidak lama lagi akan mendedahkan apakah tindakan, jika ada, Amerika Syarikat akan mengambil berhu-bung dengan keadaannya.

Sehari sebelumnya, beliau menjawab soalan mengenai krisis di sana degn mengatakan pentadbirannya adalah "bersedia untuk mengambil tindakan ketenteraan apabila keselamatan negara kami terancam."

Berat dalam Washington, DC pada hari Jumaat di kira-kira 12 tengah hari, presiden itu berkata beliau telah ditugaskan pasukan keselamatan negara dengan menyediakan pelbagai pilihan untuk dipersembahkan kepada beliau pada hari-hari yang akan datang.

"Kami tdk akan menghantar tentera Amerika Syarikat kembali ke dlm pertempuran di Iraq," kata Obama, selepas hari sebelumnya mengakui bahawa Baghdad tlh meminta Washington untuk mempertimbangkan melancarkan serangan udara pada sasaran yang berkaitan dengan kumpulan pengganas yang telah mendatangkan malapetaka terdapat di hari baru-baru ini.

"Adakah tidak akan membenarkan diri kita diseret kembali ke dalam situasi" serupa dengan apa yang berlaku kali terakhir tentera Amerika Syarikat menjadi terlibat di Iraq, katanya.

Jika Amerika Syarikat tidak membuktikan bantuan ketenteraan, bagaimanapun, Obama berkata beliau harapkan kerajaan Iraq untuk memainkan peranan untuk mencuba dan membawa kestabilan ke rantau ini.

"Tindakan ketenteraan jangka pendek, termasuk apa-apa bantuan yang kita mungkin memberikan, tidak akan berjaya," kata Obama Jumaat, melainkan jika kerajaan Iraq mengejar laluan diplomatik.

"Amerika Syarikat tidak hanya akan melibatkan dirinya dalam tindakan ketenteraan jika tiada pelan politik dengan rakyat Iraq yang memberikan kita beberapa jaminan bahawa mereka bersedia untuk bekerja bersama-sama," katanya.

"Ini seharusnya menjadi ‘wake-up call’: pemimpin Iraq perlu menunjukkan kesediaan untuk membuat keputusan yang sukar dan kompromi bagi pihak rakyat Iraq untuk membawa negara ini bersama-sama," kata Obama. "Dalam usaha itu, mereka akan mendapat sokongan dari Amerika Syarikat dan sekutu kami."

Satu kebimbangan utama, katanya, adalah bahawa Negara Islam Iraq dan militan Levant yang terkemuka pemberontakan yang mungkin menimbulkan risiko langsung kepada kepentingan Amerika di luar negara dan di rumah.

"Kami mempunyai kepentingan dalam memastikan bahawa kumpulan seperti ISIL, yang merupakan organisasi ganas dan telah dapat mengambil kesempatan daripada keadaan huru-hara di Syria, yang mereka tidak dapat bertapak yang lebih luas," katanya.

"Kami akan berunding rapat dengan Kongres membuat keputusan mengenai tindakan yang sesuai dan kami akan terus memastikan rakyat Amerika dimaklumkan sepenuh-nya," tambah presiden.

OBAMA refuses to Send troops to IRAQ, but

Won’t rule out Air STRIKES. . .

The United States may begin providing military assistance to the Iraqi government within days, President Barack Obama said Friday, as extremists continue to seize major cities there in the midst of an intensifying violent campaign of insurgency.

Speaking outside of the White House, the president said he has discussed the crisis in Iraq with his National Security Council earlier in the day and will soon reveal what action, if any, the US will take with regards to the situation. A day earlier, he answered a question about the crisis there by saying his administration is “prepared to take military action whenever our national security is threatened.”

Weighing in from Washington, DC on Friday at around 12 noon, the president said he has tasked his national security team with preparing a range of options to be presented to him in the coming days.

“We will not be sending US troops back into combat in Iraq,” Obama said, after a day earlier acknowledging that Baghdad has asked Washington to consider launching air attacks at targets pertaining to the terrorist groups who have wreaked havoc there in recent days. “Were not going to allow ourselves to be dragged back into a situation” similar to what happened the last time the US military became involved in Iraq, he said.

If the US does prove military assistance, however, Obama said that he’d expect the Iraqi government to do its part to try and bring stability to the region.

“Short term military action, including any assistance we might provide, won’t succeed,” Obama said Friday, unless the Iraqi government pursues a diplomatic route.

“The United States is not simply going to involve itself in a military action in the absence of a political plan by the Iraqis that gives us some assurance that they’re prepared to work together,” he said.

“This should be a wake-up call: Iraq’s leaders have to demonstrate a willingness to make hard decisions and compromises on behalf of the Iraqi people in order to bring the country together,” Obama said. “In that effort, they will have the support of the United States and our allies.”

A major concern, he added, is that the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant militants who are leading that revolt may pose a direct risk to American interests abroad and at home.

“We have an interest in making sure that a group like ISIL, which is a vicious organization and has been able to take advantage of the chaos in Syria, that they don’t get a broader foothold,” he said.

“We will consult closely with Congress as make determinations about appropriate action and we will continue to keep the American people fully informed,” the president added.

SERANGAN Cabang2 Al-Qaeda di IRAQ LIVE TERKINI . . .

Satu merebut imej yang diambil dari video propaganda yang dimuat naik pada 8 Jun 2014, oleh kumpulan jihad Negara Islam Iraq dan Levant (ISIL) didakwa menunjukkan militan ISIL memandu dalam kenderaan berhampiran bandar Iraq tengah Tikrit (An image grab taken from a propaganda video uploaded on June 8, 2014, by the jihadist group the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) allegedly shows ISIL militants driving in vehicles near the central Iraqi city of Tikrit (AFP Photo)

Srikandi גבורה - Militan Sunni radikal Al-Qaeda cabangnya, Negara Islam di Iraq dan Levant (ISIS/ISIL) adalah memajukan dan menawan bandar-bandar di utara Iraq. Golongan ini yang telah mengisytiharkan penawanan ibu kota Baghdad sebagai objektif keutamaan mereka.

SERANGAN Cabang2 Al-Qaeda di IRAQ LIVE TERKINI

Jumaat Jun 13

14:18 GMT:

Helikopter tentera Iraq dipecat roket di salah satu masjid terbesar di bandar Tikrit pada hari Jumaat, pegawai-pegawai dan saksi tempatan berkata. Ia tidak jelas jika terdapat mana-mana mangsa dalam serangan di Tikrit, tempat asal Saddam Hussein yang telah ditakluki oleh pemberontak awal minggu ini.

11:34 GMT:

Pemberontak Sunni berjuang militia Syiah Iraq di dua lokasi di wilayah Diyala pada hari Jumaat, sumber keselamatan & seorang pegawai tempatan memberitahu Reuters. Pertempuran berlaku pd Udhaim, kira-kira 90 km di utara Baghdad dan di Muqdadiya, 80 km timur laut ibu negara.

Al-Qaeda offshoot in Iraq offensive LIVE UPDATES

Radical Sunni militants of Al-Qaeda offshoot, the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIS/ISIL) are advancing and capturing cities in the north of Iraq. The jihadists have declared the capture of the capital Baghdad as their top priority objective.

Friday, June 13

14:18 GMT:

Iraqi army helicopters fired rockets on one of the largest mosques in the city of Tikrit on Friday, local officials and witnesses said. It was unclear if there were any casualties in the strikes on Tikrit, the hometown of Saddam Hussein which was overrun by insurgents earlier this week.

11:34 GMT:

Sunni insurgents fought Iraqi Shi'ite militia at two locations in Diyala province on Friday, a security source and a local official told Reuters. The clashes took place in Udhaim, about 90 km north of Baghdad and in Muqdadiya, 80 km northeast of the capital.

Pejuang Negara Islam Iraq dan Levant (ISIL) berkawal di pusat pemeriksaan di bandar Iraq utara Mosul, 11 Jun 2014 (Fighters of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) stand guard at a checkpoint in the northern Iraq city of Mosul, June 11, 2014 (Reuters)

10:25 GMT:

Iraq Grand Ayatollah Sistani, salah satu ulama yang paling berpengaruh di negara ini, menggesa rakyat Iraq untuk mengangkat senjata dan mempertahankan negara mereka.

10:11 GMT:

Golongan Sunni sedang membuat persediaan untuk serangan ke atas Samarra, rumah kepada yang dihormati Al-Askari Syiah kuil, serangan keganasan di mana pada tahun 2006 telah mencetuskan perang sektarian di Iraq. Militan telah mencuba untuk menangkap Samarra, 110km dari ibu negara, Baghdad, dua kali sejak dua minggu lepas.

Pasukan keselamatan puak tempatan telah ditolak cadangan militan untuk mening-galkan secara aman walaupun militan berjanji untuk tidak menghancurkan tempat itu. Satu letupan bom pada tahun 2006 menyebabkan pergaduhan besar-besaran di seluruh negara dan kematian puluhan ribu orang.

10:25 GMT:

Iraq’s Grand Ayatollah Sistani, one of the country's most influential clerics, urges Iraqis to take up arms and defend their country.

10:11 GMT:

Sunni jihadists are preparing for an assault on Samarra, home to a revered Al-Askari Shia shrine, a terror attack on which back in 2006 already sparked a sectarian war in Iraq. The militants have already tried to capture Samarra, 110km from the capital, Baghdad, twice over the last two weeks.

The local tribal security forces have turned down the proposal of the militants to leave peacefully though militants promised not to destroy the shrine. A bomb explosion in 2006 resulted in mass fighting throughout the country and the deaths of tens of thousands of people.

09:45 GMT:

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09:35 GMT:

Bilangan orang terbunuh selepas militan Sunni Islam menakluki bandar Iraq Mosul mungkin berjalan ke dalam beratus-ratus, berkata PBB jurucakap hak asasi manusia Rupert Colville. Pembunuhan termasuk pelaksanaan 17 orang awam bekerja untuk polis dan seorang pekerja mahkamah.

4 wanita telah membunuh diri selepas dirogol, manakala 16 Georgia telah diculik, dan banduan yang dikeluarkan oleh militan telah mencari untuk membalas dendam kepada orang-orang yang bertanggungjawab untuk pemenjaraan mereka, katanya.

"Kami juga telah ada laporan yang membayangkan kuasa-kuasa kerajaan juga komited yang berlebihan, khususnya serang pada kawasan awam pada 6 dan 8 Jun," katanya. "Terdapat dakwaan bahawa sehingga 30 orang awam mungkin telah dibunuh."

Sesetengah, 500,000 juga pelarian dalam konflik tersebut.

06:08 GMT:

Pemberontak di Iraq menyinggung perasaan mereka pada malam Khamis, mengambil kawalan 2 bandar2 di wilayah Diyala, kata Reuters. Pejuang dilaporkan menakluki bandar-bandar Saadiyah dan Jalawla selepas pasukan keselamatan meninggalkan jawatan mereka.

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23:58 GMT:

Sejak tahun lepas, Amerika Syarikat telah secara rahsia menerbangkan pesawat tanpa pemandu ke atas Iraq untuk mengumpul risikan mengenai pemberontak, pegawai tanpa nama memberitahu The Wall Street Journal.

Perisikan berkumpul dalam program ini terhad itu diberikan kepada kerajaan Iraq, yang memberikan persetujuan bagi penerbangan dan kini dikunci dalam pertempuran sengit di seluruh negara dengan Al-Qaeda cabang ISIS.

"Ia tidak suka melakukan apa-apa yang baik," kata seorang pegawai kanan Amerika Syarikat kira-kira data yang dikumpul pada pejuang Islam yang telah ditangkap Mosul dan Tikrit, antara kawasan-kawasan lain, di hari baru-baru ini.

22:26 GMT:

Jabatan Negara Amerika Syarikat berkata kontraktor Amerika di Iraq sedang dipin-dahkan buat sementara oleh majikan mereka kerana masalah keselamatan, Reuters melaporkan.

"Kami boleh mengesahkan bahawa rakyat Amerika Syarikat, di bawah kontrak kepada Kerajaan Iraq, bagi menyokong program Jualan Ketenteraan Asing Amerika Syarikat (FMS) di Iraq, sedang dipindahkan buat sementara oleh syarikat-syarikat mereka kerana masalah keselamatan di kawasan itu," kata Jabatan Negara. jurucakap Jen Psaki dalam satu kenyataan.

20:38 GMT:

Harga minyak telah mencecah paras tertinggi 9 bulan akibat daripada keganasan yang sedang berlaku di Iraq, menurut Reuters. Pejuang ISIS telah dikelilingi penapisan terbesar negara, di bandar utara Baiji, yang membawa kepada kebimbangan output terhad daripada pengeluar OPEC yang ke-2 terbesar.

"Takut adalah yang akan menyebabkan ancaman kepada eksport minyak Iraq," kata Christopher Bellew, seorang peniaga di Jefferies Bache. "Jika konflik ini tersingkir Iraq sebagai pengeksport, yang akan mempunyai impak yang besar ke atas harga."

19:41 GMT:

Turki telah dipanggil pada mana-mana rakyat di Iraq untuk meninggalkan negara ini. Kementerian Luar Turki telah mencadangkan bahawa tidak ada perjalanan ke jiran selatan, mengikut Hurriyet Daily News. Kenyataan itu berikut penculikan 80 warga Turki yang sedang diadakan di Mosul. Turki telah berikrar tindakan balas jika ada yang dicederakan.

19:33 GMT:

3 ‘planeloads’ rakyat Amerika sedang dipindahkan dari pangkalan udara Iraq, AP melaporkan. Asas ini terletak di sebuah wilayah Sunni di utara negara ini. Pegawai-pegawai bercakap kepada keadaan tidak mahu namanya disiarkan diberikan kepekaan keadaan.

16:45 GMT:

Presiden Amerika Syarikat, Barack Obama telah berkata bahawa dia menimbang kemungkinan pilihan yg dalam hal keadaan di Iraq. "Saya tidak menolak apa-apa," kata Obama kepada pemberita di White House.

16:44 GMT:

Naib Presiden Amerika Syarikat Joe Biden telah memanggil Menteri Iraq Perdana Menteri Nuri al-Maliki untuk membincangkan keadaan keselamatan di negara ini, kata seorang pegawai Amerika Syarikat kepada Reuters.

16:10 GMT:

Petang Khamis udara jatuh menyaksikan unit elit pendahuluan tentera Iraq di lapangan terbang dan pentadbiran pusat Mosul, yang telah ditangkap oleh militan Al-Qaeda, Al-Mayadeen saluran TV dilaporkan. Penganalisis tentera di Baghdad berharap ini akan memberi kelebihan tegas untuk tentera kerajaan. Tentera Iraq juga telah diperkukuh di wilayah jiran Salah ad Din, di mana pertempuran mengamuk di bandar itu yang strategik penting Sulaiman-Bek.

15:21 GMT:

Walaupun saham Eropah baki kedudukan, harga minyak telah mencecah paras 3 bulan pada kebimbangan mengenai keganasan di Iraq. "Selepas itu perhimpunan yang baik, ia bukan masa utk membeli sekarang, lebih baik hanya untuk duduk di atas keuntungan anda. Pasaran agak terdedah kepada berita negatif pada masa ini, "Philippe de Vandiere, penganalisis atAltedia Pelaburan Consulting di Paris kepada Reuters.

14:43 GMT:

Militan telah dikelilingi kilang penapisan minyak terbesar, polis Iraq dan orang dalam jurutera utiliti kepada Reuters. Militan Sunni tiba di tempat kejadian di lebih daripada 50 kenderaan yang berbeza selepas berundur pada Selasa.

12:58 GMT:

Wabak keganasan di Iraq adalah hasil daripada dasar double standard dan ‘inferens’ dalam hal-ehwal negara berdaulat, Kementerian Luar Rusia telah berkata dalam satu kenyataan.

"Daripada pengalaman beberapa tahun lalu dan perkembangan konflik di Syria, Iraq dan negara-negara lain di Timur Tengah, kesimpulan yang perlu diambil kira-kira bahaya memikat pelampau," kata Aleksandr Lukashevich, jurucakap Kementerian Luar Rusia .

12:34 GMT:

Penculik 28 pemandu Turki di Mosul Iraq menuntut $ 5 Juta tebusan untuk kebebasan tawanan mereka. Menurut maklumat dari Persatuan Pemandu Turki', militan yang ditangkap warga Turki milik ISIS, satu cabang Al-Qaeda. Syarikat Turki yang memiliki kapal tangki ditangkap sedang berunding dengan penculik. Trak telah menghantar minyak pemanasan ke loji kuasa berhampiran Mosul, tetapi stesen itu telahpun tawan oleh militan ISIS.

09:35 GMT:

The number of people killed after Sunni Islamist militants overran the Iraqi city of Mosul may run into the hundreds, UN human rights spokesman Rupert Colville said. The killings included the execution of 17 civilians working for the police and a court employee.

Four women had killed themselves after being raped, while 16 Georgians had been kidnapped, and prisoners released by the militants had been looking to exact revenge on those responsible for their incarceration, he said.

"We've also had reports suggesting that the government forces have also committed excesses, in particular the shelling of civilian areas on 6 and 8 June," he said. "There are claims that up to 30 civilians may have been killed."

Some, 500,000 were also displaced in the conflict.

06:08 GMT:

Insurgents in Iraq continued their offensive on Thursday night, taking control of two towns in the province of Diyala, says Reuters. Fighters reportedly overran the towns of Saadiyah and Jalawla after security forces abandoned their posts.

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23:58 GMT:

Since last year, the US has secretly flown unmanned drones over Iraq to gather intelligence on insurgents, anonymous officials told The Wall Street Journal.

Intelligence gathered in the limited program was supplied to the Iraqi government, which consented to the flights and is now locked in fierce battles across the nation with Al-Qaeda offshoot ISIS.

"It's not like it did any good,” a senior US official said about the data collected on Islamist fighters who have captured Mosul and Tikrit, among other areas, in recent days.

22:26 GMT:

The US State Department says US contractors in Iraq are being temporarily relocated by their employers due to security concerns, Reuters reported.

"We can confirm that U.S. citizens, under contract to the Government of Iraq, in support of the U.S. Foreign Military Sales (FMS) program in Iraq, are being temporarily relocated by their companies due to security concerns in the area," said State Dept. spokeswoman Jen Psaki in a statement.

20:38 GMT:

Oil prices have hit nine-month highs as a result of ongoing violence in Iraq, according to Reuters. ISIS fighters have surrounded the nation’s largest refinery, in the northern city of Baiji, leading to concerns of limited output from the second-largest OPEC producer.

"The fear is that will cause a threat to Iraqi oil exports," said Christopher Bellew, a trader at Jefferies Bache. "If this conflict knocked out Iraq as an exporter, that would have significant impact on prices."

19:41 GMT:

Turkey has called on any citizens in Iraq to leave the country. The Turkish Foreign Ministry has recommended that there is no travel to its southern neighbor, according to Hurriyet Daily News. The statement follows the abduction of 80 Turkish citizens who are being held in Mosul. Turkey has vowed retaliation if any are harmed.

19:33 GMT:

Three planeloads of Americans are being evacuated from an Iraq airbase, AP reported. The base is located in a Sunni territory in the north of the country. Officials spoke on the condition of anonymity given the sensitivity of the situation.

16:45 GMT:

US President Barack Obama has said that he is contemplating all possible options in regards to the situation in Iraq. "I don't rule anything out," Obama told reporters at the White House.

16:44 GMT:

US Vice President Joe Biden has called Iraq Prime Minister Minister Nuri al-Maliki to discuss the security situation in the country, a US official told Reuters.

16:10 GMT:

A Thursday afternoon air drop saw elite units of the Iraqi army advance on the airport and administrative center of Mosul, which has been captured by Al-Qaeda-linked militants, Al-Mayadeen TV channel reported. Military analysts in Baghdad hope this will give a decisive advantage to government forces. The Iraqi army has also been strengthened in the neighboring province of Salah ad Din, where a battle is raging for the strategically important town of Sulaiman-Bek.

15:21 GMT:

While European shares are remaining stead, oil prices have hit a three month high on anxiety over violence in Iraq. “After such a good rally, it's not the time to buy right now, it's better just to sit on your gains. The market is quite vulnerable to negative news at the moment,” Philippe de Vandiere, analyst atAltedia Investment Consulting in Paris told Reuters.

14:43 GMT:

Militants have surrounded Iraq’s largest oil refinery, police and an engineer insider the utility told Reuters. Sunni militants arrived at the scene in more than 50 different vehicles after having retreated on Tuesday.

12:58 GMT:

The outbreak of violence in Iraq is the result of a policy of double standards and inference in the affairs of sovereign states, the Russian Foreign Ministry has said in a statement.

“From the experience of the past few years and the development of conflicts in Syria, Iraq and other countries in the Middle East, a conclusion needs to be drawn about the dangers of courting extremists,” said Aleksandr Lukashevich, spokesman for the Russian Foreign Ministry.

12:34 GMT:

The kidnappers of 28 Turkish drivers in Iraq’s Mosul demand $5 million ransom for their captives’ freedom. According to information from the Turkish Drivers’ Association, the militants that captured Turkish citizens belong to ISIS, an Al-Qaeda offshoot. The Turkish company that owns the captured tankers is negotiating with the abductors. The trucks were delivering heating oil to a power plant near Mosul, but the station had already been captured by ISIS militants.