ISIS MengISYTIHARkan pembentukan NEGARA ISLAM di TIMUR Tengah, 'JIHAD Era Baru ANTARABANGSA' . . .

Para pejuang daripada Negara Islam Iraq dan Levant (ISIL) memegang bendera ISIL dan senjata di jalan di bandar Mosul (A fighter of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) holds an ISIL flag and a weapon on a street in the city of Mosul (Reuters/Stringer)

bOLLy ENn - Golongan ini ISIS telah mengisytiharkan jajahan yang menawan dari wilayah Diyala Iraq ke Aleppo Syria Negara Islam yang baru ‘Khalifah' yang Mereka lahirkan 'Iraq dan Levant' dari nama mereka & menggesa kumpulan radikal lain Sunni utk mengikrarkan bai’at kesetiaan mereka.

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ISIS mengumumkan bahawa ia kini perlu dipanggil 'Negara Islam' & mengisytiharkan ketua, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, sebagai "khalifah" kerajaan baru dan "pemimpin bagi umat Islam di mana-mana yang berada," kata kumpulan militan Sunni yang radikal di audio rakaman yang diedarkan dalam talian pada hari Ahad.

Ini adalah kali pertama sejak kejatuhan Empayar Uthmaniyyah pada tahun 1923 bahawa Khalifah - yang bermaksud pengganti kepada Nabi Muhammad - diisytiharkan. Keputusan itu dibuat berikutan mesyuarat Majlis Syura kumpulan itu pada hari Ahad, kata jurucakap ISIS Abu Mohammed al-Adnani.

ISIS Declares creation Of ISLAMIC State in Middle East, '

New Era of International JIHAD' . . .

ISIS jihadists have declared the captured territories from Iraq's Diyala province to Syria's Aleppo a new Islamic State - a ‘caliphate.' They removed 'Iraq and the Levant' from their name and urged other radical Sunni groups to pledge their allegiance.

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ISIS announced that it should now be called 'The Islamic State' and declared its chief, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, as "the caliph" of the new state and "leader for Muslims everywhere," the radical Sunni militant group said in an audio recording distributed online on Sunday.

This is the first time since the fall of the Ottoman Empire in 1923 that a Caliph – which means a political successor to Prophet Muhammad – has been declared. The decision was made following the group’s Shura Council meeting on Sunday, according to ISIS spokesman Abu Mohammed al-Adnani.

(Militan daripada Negara Islam Iraq dan Levant (ISIL) memandu di jalan di lokasi yang tidak diketahui di wilayah Salaheddin itu (Militants of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) driving on a street at unknown location in the Salaheddin province. (AFP Photo/HO/Walayat Salahuddin)

Negara Islam yang baru telah menandakan sempadannya, merangkumi wilayah yang ditangkap oleh kumpulan itu pada mengamuk berdarah, dari menentu wilayah Diyala Iraq untuk yang dilanda perang Aleppo Syria.

Kumpulan jihad juga telah mendakwa bahawa mereka kini negeri yang sah.

Negara Islam menggesa Al-Qaeda dan militan Sunni radikal lain di rantau ini dengan segera setia mereka, Menyambut Ketibaan dalam " jihad era baru antarabangsa."

"Shura [Majlis] dalam Negara Islam bertemu & membincangkan isu ini . . . Negara Islam memutuskan untuk menubuhkan pemerintahan khalifah Islam dan untuk menetapkan khalifah bagi negeri umat Islam," kata jurucakap kumpulan Adnani.

The new Islamic State has marked its borders, spanning the territory captured by the group in a bloody rampage, from Iraq's volatile Diyala province to Syria's war-torn Aleppo.

The jihadist group has also claimed that they are now a legitimate state.

The Islamic State has called on Al-Qaeda and other radical Sunni militants in the region to immediately pledge their allegiance, ushering in “a new era of international jihad.”

"The Shura [Council] of the Islamic State met and discussed this issue . . . The Islamic State decided to establish an Islamic caliphate and to designate a caliph for the state of the Muslims," said group spokesman Adnani.

Militan daripada Negara Islam Iraq dan Levant (ISIL) berdiri di sebelah kenderaan ditangkap ditinggalkan oleh pasukan keselamatan Iraq di lokasi yang tidak diketahui di wilayah Salaheddin (Militants of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) standing next to captured vehicles left behind by Iraqi security forces at an unknown location in the Salaheddin province (AFP Photo/HO/Walayat Salahuddin)

Beliau menyifatkan penubuhan khalifah itu sebagai "mimpi dalam semua umat Islam" dan "harapan semua jihad."

Kumpulan militan, terkenal dengan keganasan kejam, dipisahkan daripada Al-Qaeda pada awal 2014. Ia telah merampas bidang utama Iraq barat dan utara dalam beberapa minggu kebelakangan ini, melakukan pembunuhan beramai-ramai menentang Syiah Islam di rantau ini.

Baca lebih lanjut: Apa yang anda perlu tahu tentang ISIS dan apa yang berlaku di Iraq Read more: All you need to know about ISIS and what is happening in Iraq

ISIS sebelum ini membuat kenyataan bersumpah untuk pengepungan ibu kota Iraq Baghdad dan untuk berarak dan menawan tapak Syiah suci Najaf dan Karbala.

BACA LANJUT: Israel PM Netanyahu menyokong Kurdish kemerdekaan memetik huru-hara di Iraq Read more: Israeli PM Netanyahu endorses Kurdish independence citing chaos in Iraq

He described the establishment of the caliphate as "the dream in all the Muslims" and "the hope of all jihadists.”

The militant group, notorious for its brutal violence, separated from Al-Qaeda in early 2014. It has seized major areas of western and northern Iraq in recent weeks, committing mass murders of opposing Shia Muslims in the region.

Read more: All you need to know about ISIS and what is happening in Iraq

ISIS previously made statements vowing to siege the Iraqi capital Baghdad and to march and capture the holy Shia sites of Najaf and Karbala.

Read more: Israeli PM Netanyahu endorses Kurdish independence citing chaos in Iraq

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Perdana Menteri ISRAEL Netanyahu memetik menyokong KeMERDEKAan Kurdish HURU-hara di IRAQ . . .

Perdana Menteri Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu (Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (AFP Photo/Jack Guez)

bOLLy ENn - Memetik "runtuh" ​​Iraq di tengah2 pemberontakan ISIS dan keganasan sektarian, Perdana Menteri Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu telah disahkan kemerdekaan de facto daripada Iraq Kurd. Netanyahu juga telah dipanggil untuk menyokong "aspirasi Kurdish untuk kemerdekaan."

BACA LANJUT: ISIS mengisytiharkan pembentukan negara ISLAM di Timur Tengah, 'era baru jihad antarabangsa' READ MORE: ISIS declares creation of Islamic state in Middle East, 'new era of international jihad'

Pemimpin agresif Israel berkata pd hari Ahad bahawa Kurd adalah "berjuang orang2 yang telah membuktikan komitmen politik, kesederhanaan politik, dan memerlukan kebebasan politik," dilaporkan Reuters.

Bercakap kepada INSS pemikir Tel Aviv Universiti, Netanyahu menyifatkan keadaan di Iraq dan Timur Tengah secara umum sebagai "runtuh," kerana perselisihan antara Sunni dan Syiah Islam.

Di tengah-tengah pemberontakan baru2 ini Negara Islam di Iraq dan Levant (ISIS/ISIL) militan, Kurd telah merampas peluang untuk membawa negeri yang lama dicari bebas Kurdistan lebih dekat dengan realiti.

Angkatan tentera Peshmerga Kurdish tlh menjaga sempadan wilayah mereka dari ISIS, tetapi turut merampas bandar Iraq yg dipertandingkan Kirkuk, mengisytiharkan ia sebahagian daripada wilayah mereka.

ISRAEL PM Netanyahu Endorses KURDISH Independence Citing Chaos in IRAQ . . .

Citing the “collapse” of Iraq amid the ISIS insurgency and sectarian violence, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has endorsed the de-facto independence of Iraqi Kurds. Netanyahu has also called to support the “Kurdish aspiration for independence.”

READ MORE: ISIS declares creation of Islamic state in Middle East, 'new era of international jihad'

The hawkish Israeli leader said on Sunday that Kurds are “fighting people that has proved its political commitment, political moderation, and deserves political independence,” Reuters reported.

Speaking to Tel Aviv University’s INSS think-tank, Netanyahu described the situation in Iraq and the Middle East in general as a “collapse,” due to strife between Sunni and Shiite Muslims.

Amid the recent insurgency of the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIS/ISIL) militants, Kurds have seized the opportunity to bring a long-sought independent state of Kurdistan closer to reality. Kurdish Peshmerga armed forces have been guarding their provincial borders from ISIS, but also seized the contested Iraqi city of Kirkuk, proclaiming it part of their territory.

Tentera Peshmerga Kurdish bersedia untuk tembak meriam semasa pertempuran dengan militan Negeri Islam di Iraq dan Levant (ISIL) dalam Jalawla, wilayah Diyala 29 Jun 2014 (Kurdish Peshmerga troops prepare to fire a cannon during clashes with militants of the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) in Jalawla, Diyala province June 29, 2014 (Reuters/Stringer)

Sekarang, dalam pertembungan jelas terhadap sokongan masyarakat antarabangsa terhadap Iraq yg bersatu, pemimpin-pemimin Israel telah dipanggil untuk menyokong kemerdekaan de-facto Kurdis.

"Kita perlu . . . menyokong aspirasi Kurdish untuk kemerdekaan," Netanyahu dipetik sebagai berkata.

Kata-kata Netanyahu diikuti kenyataan-kenyataan ‘statements’ oleh pegawai-pegawai kanan Israel. Menteri Luar Israel, Avigdor Lieberman pada hari Khamis memberitahu Setiausaha Negara Amerika Syarikat John Kerry yang dia percaya "penciptaan sebuah negara Kurdish bebas adalah kesimpulan diketepikan," memetik Iraq "berpecah."

Sementara itu, Presiden Israel Shimon Peres memberitahu Presiden Amerika Syarikat, Barack Obama yang "orang Kurd telah, de facto, yang mencipta negara mereka sendiri, yang demokratik."

BACA LANJUT: Israel berkata perpecahan di Iraq boleh membawa kepada keadaan Kemerdekaan Kurdish READ MORE: Israel says disintegration in Iraq may lead to independent Kurdish state

Penduduk Kurdish 40 juta orang telah sejarah telah bertaburan antara Iraq utara, timur Syria, tenggara Turki & barat Iran - & telah menafikan kemerdekaan oleh setiap negara-negara.

Kurd mempunyai autonomi luas di Iraq, yang diperintah oleh Kerajaan Wilayah Kurdistan. Iraq adalah satu-satunya negara yang tlh menerima Kurdish sebagai rasmi. Turki dan Syria telah menghadkan penggunaannya.

'Deal atau tiada perjanjian dengan Palestin, IDF akan kekal'

Netanyahu pada hari Ahad juga disahkan secara rasmi apa yang dilaporkan dalam media Israel awal tahun ini, dlm hal kehadiran berterusan tentera di wilayah Palestin yang dijajah.

Dalam ucapan dasar malam Ahad, Netanyahu berkata bahawa akan perlu menjadi kehadiran jangka panjang Angkatan Pertahanan Israel (IDF) di Tebing Barat, wa-laupun selepas mana-mana perjanjian masa depan dengan Palestin, AP melaporkan.

Kedudukan kerajaan Israel mengenai isu itu datang berbeza dengan yang masyarakat antarabangsa, yang telah memanggil untuk pengeluaran IDF daripada Tebing Barat untuk membuat jalan untuk sebuah negara Palestin yang merdeka.

Now, in an apparent clash against the international community's support of a united Iraq, the Israeli leader has called to back the de-facto independence of Kurds.

“We should . . . support the Kurdish aspiration for independence,” Netanyahu was quoted as saying.

Netanyahu’s words followed similar statements by senior Israeli officials. Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman on Thursday told US Secretary of State John Kerry that he believes “the creation of an independent Kurdish state is a foregone conclusion,” citing Iraq’s “breaking up.” Meanwhile, Israeli President Shimon Peres told US President Barack Obama that “the Kurds have, de facto, created their own state, which is democratic.”

READ MORE: Israel says disintegration in Iraq may lead to independent Kurdish state

The 40 million-strong Kurdish population has historically been scattered between northern Iraq, eastern Syria, southeastern Turkey, and western Iran – and has been denied independence by each of those countries. Kurds have had the broadest autonomy in Iraq, ruled by the Kurdistan Regional Government. Iraq is the only country that has accepted the Kurdish language as official. Turkey and Syria have restricted its use.

‘Deal or no deal with Palestine, IDF will stay’

Netanyahu on Sunday also officially confirmed what was reported in Israeli media earlier this year, in regards to sustained military presence in the occupied Palestinian territories.

In a policy speech Sunday night, Netanyahu said that there would have to be a long-term presence of the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) throughout the West Bank, even after any future deal with the Palestinians, AP reported.

The Israeli government’s position on the issue comes in sharp contrast to that of the international community, which has been calling for IDF’s withdrawal from the West Bank to make way for an independent Palestinian state.

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SASARAN utk ISIS ‘Kumpulan yang PERTAMA RUSIA Su-24 jet tiba di IRAQ’ . . .

A Sukhoi Su-24 jet fighter (Reuters/Shamil Zhumatov)

bOLLy ENn - Yang pertama 10 Russia Sukhoi (Su-24) jet pejuang tiba di Iraq pada hari Sabtu, kata Kementerian Pertahanan negara. Perdana Menteri Iraq Nouri al-Maliki berharap jet akan membuat perbezaan utama dalam memerangi ISIS.

"Jet pejuang mendarat hari ini pada waktu pagi pada lapangan terbang udara tentera yang berbeza," MP Abbas al-Bayati memberitahu media Iraq.

Jurucakap rasmi bagi Kementerian Pertahanan Iraq, Mohammed al-Askari, juga mengesahkan maklumat, saluran TV Al Iraqiya melaporkan.

Jet pejuang akan ditempatkan di sebuah pangkalan udara yang terletak di bahagian selatan negara ini, PressTV dilaporkan, memetik sumber-sumber tentera.

Awal minggu ini, Perdana Menteri Maliki mendedahkan bahawa Iraq membeli jet dari Russia dan Belarus untuk membantu memerangi militan Sunni dari Negeri Islam di Iraq dan Levant (ISIS/ISIL).

Pada masa yang sama, Maliki mengkritik Amerika Syarikat untuk mengambil terlalu lama untuk menunaikan kontrak sendiri selepas Iraq dibeli F-16 jet dari Amerika.

Pada hari Jumaat, Iraq Tentera Udara Komander Hameed al-Maliki mengesahkan penghantaran MI-35 dan MI-28 pejuang helikopter Rusia untuk "menjaga momentum" dalam serangan terhadap ISIS, Ruptly dilaporkan.

Komander itu berkata bahawa dia menandatangani tiga kontrak dengan Rusia dan menekankan pentingnya helikopter sebagai "senjata anti-keganasan yang sangat baik."

Radikal Sunni Negara Islam di Iraq dan Levant (ISIS atau ISIL) telah mengambil bahagian yang besar di utara negara daripada kerajaan Syiah.

Beratus-ratus tentera Iraq telah dibunuh oleh pemberontak sejak militan Sunni mula serangan mereka pada 9 Jun, menurut tentera Iraq.

Bangsa-Bangsa Bersatu berkata lebih daripada 1,000 orang - terutamanya orang awam - telah terbunuh dalam lonjakan setakat ini.

Target ISIS: First batch of RUSSIAN Su-24 jets 

Arrives in IRAQ . . .

The first ten Russian Sukhoi (Su-24) fighter jets arrived in Iraq on Saturday, the country’s Defense Ministry said. Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki is hoping the jets will make a key difference in the fight against ISIS.

“The fighter jets landed today in the morning on different military airfields,” MP Abbas al-Bayati told Iraqi media.

The official spokesperson for the Iraqi Ministry of Defense, Mohammed al-Askari, also confirmed the information, Al Iraqiya TV channel reported.

The fighter jets will be stationed at an airbase located in the southern part of the country, PressTV reported, citing military sources.

Earlier this week, Prime Minister Maliki revealed that Iraq purchased jets from Russia and Belarus in order to help its fight against Sunni militants from the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIS/ISIL).

At the same time, Maliki criticized the US for taking too long to deliver on its own contract after Iraq purchased F-16 jets from America.

On Friday, Iraqi Air Force Commander Hameed al-Maliki confirmed the shipment of MI-35 and MI-28 Russian helicopter fighters to "keep the momentum" in the attacks against ISIS, Ruptly reported.

The commander said that he signed three contracts with the Russians and stressed the importance of the choppers as "excellent anti-terrorism weapons."

The radical Sunni Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIS or ISIL) has taken large parts of the country's north from the Shia government.

Hundreds of Iraqi soldiers have been killed by insurgents since the Sunni militants began their offensive on June 9, according to Iraqi forces.

The United Nations says more than 1,000 people – mainly civilians – have been killed during the surge thus far.

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TENTERA IRAQ tolak semula Militan ISIS di Tikrit sebagaimana PM di bawah TEKANAN untuk BERHENTI . . .

Pasukan keselamatan Iraq menyediakan semasa penempatan keselamatan intensif di pinggir bandar Samarra, 24 Jun 2014 (Iraqi security forces prepare during an intensive security deployment on the outskirts of the city of Samarra, June 24, 2014 (Reuters)

bOLLy ENn - Tentera kerajaan Iraq yang disokong oleh helikopter mula serangan satu pada hari Sabtu untuk merebut kembali Tikrit dari militan Islam Sunni, manakala pemimpin-pemimpin parti dikejar perbincangan utk mengakhiri pemerintahan Perdana Menteri Nouri al-Maliki, yang dilihat sebagai sangat memecah-belahkan.

Ahli-ahli politik di Baghdad dan di seluruh DUNIA telah memberi amaran bahawa selain mengambil kembali bandar-bandar ditawan oleh pemberontak dari Negara Islam Iraq & Levant (ISIS/ISIL), pihak berkuasa Iraq mesti cepat membentuk kerajaan yang mungkin dapat membawa perpecahan negara masyarakat bersama-sama.

Sejak awal Jun, Golongan ISIS telah ditakluki kawasan terutamanya Sunni di utara dan barat Iraq.

Tujuan ISIS 'adalah utk mewujudkan semula sebuah khilafah ala zaman pertengahan regangan dari Mediterranean ke Teluk. Mereka percaya bahawa umat Islam Syiah adalah bidaah yang harus dibunuh, dan sudah ada pengesahan bahawa mereka telah mengadakan hukuman besar-besaran tentera kerajaan Syiah, dan juga orang awam yang ditangkap di Tikrit.

Di medan perang, tentera Iraq telah memajukan pada Tikrit dari Samarra, & berpunca terlebih dahulu militan selatan ke arah Baghdad.

Pasukan khas Iraq berhawa jatuh penembak tepat dalam Tikrit Universiti pada hari Khamis, yang telah diambil alih oleh pejuang ISIS. Helikopter telah digunakan terhadap sasaran lain di bandar pada hari Sabtu, dan pejuang ISIS meninggalkan bangunan pentadbiran bandar utama.

Seorang pegawai kanan Iraq memberitahu AFP bahawa pasukan keselamatan beliau telah menyelaraskan dengan Washington, yang mempunyai penasihat ketenteraan atas alasan untuk membantu menolak belakang militan. Terdapat juga laporan Drone Amerika Syarikat terbang di atas bandar, tempat asal bekas diktator Saddam Hussein.

Iraqi troops push back ISIS militants in Tikrit 

as PM under pressure to quit . . .

Iraqi government forces backed by helicopter gunships began an offensive on Saturday to retake Tikrit from Sunni Islamist militants, while party leaders pursued talks to end Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki’s rule, which is seen as highly divisive.

Politicians in Baghdad and around the world have warned that as well as taking back cities captured by insurgents from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS/ISIL), Iraqi authorities must quickly form a government that might be able to bring the country's split communities together.

Since the beginning of June, ISIS jihadists have overrun mainly Sunni areas in the north and west of Iraq.

ISIS’ aim is to re-create a medieval-style caliphate stretching from the Mediterranean to the Gulf. They believe that Shiite Muslims are heretics that should be killed, and there is already confirmation that they have staged mass executions of Shiite government soldiers, as well as civilians captured in Tikrit.

On the battlefield, Iraqi troops have been advancing on Tikrit from Samarra, and have stemmed the militant advance south towards Baghdad.

Iraqi special forces air-dropped snipers inside Tikrit University on Thursday, which had been taken over by ISIS fighters. Helicopter gunships were used against other targets in the city on Saturday, and ISIS fighters abandoned the main city administration building.

A senior Iraqi official told AFP that his security forces were coordinating with Washington, which has military advisors on the ground to help push back the militants. There were also reports of US drones flying over the city, the hometown of former dictator Saddam Hussein.

Sebuah tank dari Iraq pasukan keselamatan rondaan semasa penempatan keselamatan intensif di pinggir bandar Samarra, 25 Jun, 2014. Tentera Iraq telah cuba untuk memajukan di Tikrit dari arah Samarra di selatan yang telah menjadi barisan tentera dalam pasir terhadap pendahuluan militan oleh radikal Sunni Negara Islam di Iraq dan Levant (ISIL) kumpulan selatan ke arah Baghdad (A tank from the Iraqi security forces patrols during an intensive security deployment on the outskirts of the city of Samarra, June 25, 2014. Iraqi troops were trying to advance on Tikrit from the direction of Samarra to the south that has become the military's line in the sand against a militant advance by the radical Sunni Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) group southwards towards Baghdad (Reuters)

Qassim Atta, jurucakap tentera Iraq, memberitahu pemberita pada hari Sabtu yang komander militan mula perjuangan kerana "semangat mereka tlh mula runtuh." Beliau menambah bahawa 29 pengganas terbunuh di Tikrit pada hari Jumaat.

Tetapi di selatan negara ini, adalah serangan militant ISIS. Dalam Jurf al-Sakhar - terletak 85 kilometer ke selatan Baghdad - sumber polis berkata bahawa 60 pejuang ISIS dan 15 pasukan keselamatan Iraq terbunuh dalam serangan ke atas sebuah kem tentera, tetapi militan berundur apabila mereka tidak dapat memegang jawatan-jawatan mereka.

PERBALAHAN POLITIK

Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani, seorang ulama Syiah yang kuat, campur tangan Jumaat dan menggesa parti politik Iraq bersetuju dengan Perdana Menteri baru, penceramah parlimen, dan Presiden sebelum badan perundangan baru dipilih memenuhi di Baghdad kelmarin.

Sementara itu, Raja Abdullah dari Arab Saudi berjanji Setiausaha Negara Amerika Syarikat John Kerry untuk menggunakan pengaruhnya untuk menggalakkan umat Islam Sunni untuk membuang berat badan mereka di belakang baru kerajaan, Iraq lebih inklusif, dalam usaha untuk melemahkan sokongan untuk pemberontak Sunni Islam.

Perkataan raja adalah peralihan ketara daripada keengganan Riyadh utk menyokong kerajaan baru kecuali Maliki berundur, yang membayangkan keresahan beliau tentang implikasi serantau kenaikan ISIS.

Satu ahli parlimen Syiah dari Perikatan Nasional, yang kumpulan semua pihak Islam Syiah, berkata sesi Perikatan - termasuk Negeri Maliki parti Undang-undang - akan diadakan sepanjang hujung minggu dan bahawa beberapa parti politik Sunni juga akan bertemu lewat pada hari Sabtu .

"72 jam akan datang adalah sangat penting untuk tampil dengan perjanjian untuk menolak proses politik ke hadapan," ahli parlimen, yang meminta utk disimpan tanpa nama, Reuters.

Sunni Iraq menuduh Maliki menolak mereka mengetepikan dan menindas masyarakat mereka, yang telah membawa banyak suku Sunni bersenjata untuk menyokong ISIS pemberontakan garis keras.

Presiden wilayah Kurdistan autonomi Iraq juga telah berkata bahawa Maliki harus pergi. Pihak Maliki memenangi kerusi terbanyak pada pilihan raya April dan telah menolak untuk kali ketiga sebelum serangan ISIS bermula. Kini, beberapa pegawai kanan dalam partinya mengatakan ada kemungkinan beliau digantikan.

"Ia adalah satu permainan kad dan Negeri Undang-undang memainkan permainan poker dengan baik. Bagi Perdana Menteri, ia akan turun ke wayar, "seorang pegawai kepada Reuters.

Sementara itu, di sempadan Iraq-Syria, pemberontak Islam lain telah mencabar cengkaman ISIS 'kuasa dan telah melancarkan serang-balas di bandar sempadan Albu Kamal.

Qassim Atta, a spokesman for the Iraqi military, told reporters on Saturday that militant commanders are starting to struggle because “their morale has started to collapse.” He added that 29 terrorists were killed in Tikrit on Friday.

But in the south of the country, ISIS militants were on the offensive. In Jurf al-Sakhar – located 85 kilometers south of Baghdad – police sources said that 60 ISIS fighters and 15 Iraqi security forces were killed in an attack on an army camp, but the militants retreated when they could not hold their positions.

POLITICAL WRANGLING

Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani, a powerful Shiite cleric, intervened Friday and urged Iraq's political blocs to agree on a new premier, parliament speaker, and president before the newly-elected legislature meets in Baghdad on Tuesday.

Meanwhile, King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia promised US Secretary of State John Kerry to use his influence to encourage Sunni Muslims to throw their weight behind a new, more inclusive Iraqi government, in an effort to undermine support for the Sunni Islamist insurgents. The king’s words are a significant shift from Riyadh’s unwillingness to support a new government unless Maliki steps down, which may reflect his disquiet about the regional implications of ISIS’ rise.

A Shiite lawmaker from the National Alliance, which groups all Shiite Muslim parties, said that a session of the Alliance – including Maliki’s State of Law party – would be held throughout the weekend and that a number of Sunni political parties would also meet later on Saturday.

“The next 72 hours are very important to come up with an agreement to push the political process forward,” the lawmaker, who asked to be kept anonymous, told Reuters.

Iraq’s Sunnis accuse Maliki of pushing them aside and repressing their community, which has led many armed Sunni tribes to support the hardline ISIS insurgency.

The president of Iraq’s autonomous Kurdistan region has also said that Maliki should go. Maliki’s party won the most seats in the April election and was pushing for a third term before the ISIS offensive began. Now, some senior officials in his party say there is a possibility of him being replaced.

“It’s a card game and State of Law plays a poker game very well. For the Prime Minster, it will go down to the wire,” one official told Reuters.

Meanwhile, on the Iraq-Syria border, other Islamist rebels have challenged ISIS’ grip on power and have launched a counter-offensive on the border town of Albu Kamal.

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Facebook dimanipulasi EMOSI PENGGUNA Sebagai Sebahagian daripada PERCUBAAN Psikologi - kajian

AFP Photo/Leon Neal

bOLLy ENn - Facebook menjalankan eksperimen psikologi ke atas pengguna dengan memanipulasi emosi mereka tanpa pengetahuan mereka, satu kajian baru mende-dahkan.

Penyelidik toyed dengan perasaan 689003 dipilih secara rawak berbahasa Inggeris pengguna Facebook dengan menukar kandungan berita mereka, menurut kertas yang diterbitkan ‘published’ dalam edisi Jun daripada 'Prosiding National Academy of Saintis jurnal (PNAS).

Dalam tempoh seminggu pd bln Januari 2012, penyelidik dipentaskan 2 eksperimen yg sama, mengurangkan bilangan kemas kini positif atau negatif dlm berita makanan setiap pengguna.

"Apabila ungkapan positif telah dikurangkan, orang yang dihasilkan jawatan positif lebih sedikit dan jawatan lebih negatif; apabila ungkapan negatif dikurangkan, corak yang bertentangan berlaku Keputusan ini menunjukkan bahawa emosi dinyatakan oleh orang lain di Facebook mempengaruhi emosi kita sendiri, yg menjadi bukti eksperimen untuk besar2. penularan melalui rangkaian sosial, "kata penulis kertas, yg termasuk penyelidik dari Facebook, Universiti Cornell, dan University of California.

"Kami juga memperhatikan kesan pengeluaran: Orang yang terdedah kepada posts emosi kurang (sama ada valensinya) dalam News Feed mereka kurang ekspresif keseluruhan pada hari-hari berikut."

Para penyelidik menunjukkan bahawa kajian yang berjaya adalah yang pertama untuk mencari yang mood diungkapkan melalui rangkaian sosial mempengaruhi emosi orang lain.

"Keputusan ini menunjukkan bahawa emosi dinyatakan oleh rakan-rakan, melalui rangkaian sosial dalam talian, mempengaruhi mood kita sendiri, membentuk, untuk pengetahuan kita, bukti eksperimen pertama utk besar2 penularan emosi melalui rangkaian sosial, & menyediakan sokongan utk tuntutan sebelum ini dipertandingkan bahawa emosi merebak melalui penularan melalui rangkaian."

Para pengguna Facebook tidak diberitahu eksperimen. Walau bagaimanapun, ber-gantung kepada terma Facebook perkhidmatan (yang tiap-tiap orang bersetuju apabila mereka mendaftar di rangkaian sosial), data pengguna boleh digunakan "untuk operasi dalaman, termasuk penyelesaian masalah, analisis data, pengujian, penyelidikan dan penambahbaikan perkhidmatan."

Para penyelidik berpendapat bahawa eksperimen mereka adalah konsisten dengan Dasar Penggunaan Data Facebook.

Kertas ini juga dinyatakan bahawa para penyelidik tidak pernah melihat kandungan jawatan sebenar; sebaliknya, mereka bergantung pd komputer yg dikira berlakunya perkataan positif dan negatif di lebih daripada 3 juta kemas kini status. Mereka jawatan terkandung sejumlah 122 juta perkataan; 4 juta daripada mereka yang positif (3.6%) dan 1.8 juta adalah negatif (1.6%).

Kepentingan penyelidikan telah dikurangkan kepada peratusan yang sangat kecil, sebagai "penularan emosi" dianggarkan hanya 0.1 peratus. Walau bagaimanapun, seseorang boleh berhujah bahawa dengan lebih daripada 1.3 bilion pengguna Facebook di seluruh DUNIA, bahawa peratusan kecil masih termasuk sejumlah besar orang.

Facebook manipulated users' emotions as part 

of psychological experiment - study

Facebook conducted a psychological experiment on its users by manipulating their emotions without their knowledge, a new study reveals.

Researchers toyed with the feelings of 689,003 randomly selected English-speaking Facebook users by changing the contents of their news feed, according to a paper published in the June edition of the journal 'Proceedings of the National Academy of Scientists' (PNAS).

During a week-long period in January 2012, researchers staged two parallel experiments, reducing the number of positive or negative updates in each user's news feed.

"When positive expressions were reduced, people produced fewer positive posts and more negative posts; when negative expressions were reduced, the opposite pattern occurred. These results indicate that emotions expressed by others on Facebook influence our own emotions, constituting experimental evidence for massive-scale contagion via social networks," said the authors of the paper, who include researchers from Facebook, Cornell University, and the University of California.

“We also observed a withdrawal effect: People who were exposed to fewer emotional posts (of either valence) in their News Feed were less expressive overall on the following days.”

The researchers indicated that the successful study is the first to find that moods expressed via social networks influence the emotions of others.

“These results suggest that the emotions expressed by friends, via online social networks, influence our own moods, constituting, to our knowledge, the first experimental evidence for massive-scale emotional contagion via social networks, and providing support for previously contested claims that emotions spread via contagion through a network.”

The Facebook users were not notified of the experiment. However, according to Facebook's terms of service (to which every person agrees when they register on the social network), users’ data may be used “for internal operations, including troubleshooting, data analysis, testing, research and service improvement.”

The researchers argue that their experiment was consistent with Facebook’s Data Use Policy.

The paper also stated that the researchers never saw the content of the actual posts; instead, they relied on a computer which counted the occurrence of positive and negative words in more than three million status updates. Those posts contained a total of 122 million words; four million of those were positive (3.6%) and 1.8 million were negative (1.6%).

The significance of the research was reduced to a very small percentage, as the “emotional contagion” was estimated at only 0.1 percent. However, one can argue that with more than 1.3 billion Facebook users worldwide, that small percentage still includes a significant amount of people.

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'PROVOKASI’ Moscow Kutuk SERANGAN Ukraine SEMPADAN PUSAT Pameriksaan RUSIA . . .

Still from YouTube video

bOLLy ENn - Peluru mortar dari Ukraine sekali lagi melanda negara Rusia, merosakkan bangunan di pusat pemeriksaan sempadan dan mewujudkan lubang di dalam tanah di dua buah kampung. Kementerian Luar Rusia telah membantah "provokasi," menuntut bahawa Kiev menyiasatnya.

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Sekurang-kurangnya 3 peluru telah dilancarkan di sempadan Rusia-Ukraine ke Rusia pada hari Sabtu, dgn satu letupan pusat pemeriksaan lintas batas di Wilayah Rostov.

"Hari ini, pada 28 Jun, Gukovo pusat pemeriksaan dikritik. Salah satu peluru melanda bangunan dan meletup, "kata jurucakap Pentadbiran (FSB) Pengawal Sempadan Per-khidmatan Keselamatan Persekutuan di Rostov Region, Vasily Malaev, memberitahu RT.

'PROVOCATION': MOSCOW Slams Ukraine’s Shelling 

Of RUSSIAN Border CHECKPOINT . . .

Mortar shells from Ukraine have again hit Russian territory, damaging a building at a border checkpoint and creating holes in the ground in two villages. The Russian Foreign Ministry has protested the “provocation,” demanding that Kiev investigate it.

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At least three shells were launched over the Russian-Ukrainian border into Russia on Saturday, with one blasting a border-crossing checkpoint in the Rostov Region.

“Today, on June 28, Gukovo checkpoint came under fire. One of the shells hit a building and exploded,” a spokesman for the Federal Security Service’s (FSB) Border Guard administration in Rostov Region, Vasily Malaev, told RT.

Bangunan ini telah rosak teruk, tetapi, bernasib baik, tiada siapa yang cedera dalam letupan itu, kata Malaev. Kira-kira 30 pelarian Ukraine telah melengkapkan dokumen mereka di pusat pemeriksaan di masa serangan itu dan telah dipindahkan bersama-sama dengan pengawal sempadan selepas serangan bermula.

Kementerian Luar Rusia balas dengan kenyataan memanggil kejadian yang berbahaya "provokasi" dan menuntut bahawa Kiev menyiasatnya.

"Sisi Russia kuat protes provokasi seperti sebelah Ukraine, yang fragrantly melanggar prinsip-prinsip asas undang-undang antarabangsa," kata kementerian itu dalam satu kenyataan, menuntut bahawa "siasatan menyeluruh ke dalam apa yang telah berlaku" dijalankan dan pelaku dihukum .

Mengingatkan bahawa kedua-dua warga Rusia dan pelarian Ukraine menyeberangi sempadan boleh datang di bawah bahaya, Moscow berkata kejadian itu adalah "yet pautan lain dalam rantai" pelanggaran gencatan senjata Ukraine yang melemahkan dialog Kiev dengan timur Ukraine dan satu resolusi aman konflik tersebut.

Kemudian pada hari Sabtu, Gukovo pusat pemeriksaan semula tugasnya walaupun kerosakan.

Dua lagi peluru meletup di kampung-kampung Vasetsky Khutor dan Shakhta-24, dgn lubang shell jelas kelihatan dilaporkan dari tempat kejadian. Futej dari kampung Gukovo juga menunjukkan penduduk tempatan memeriksa lubang besar di pintu pagar besi di kawasan kediaman, kononnya dicipta oleh shell atau serpihannya.

The building was severely damaged, but, luckily, nobody was injured in the blast, Malaev said. Some 30 Ukrainian refugees were completing their documents at the checkpoint at the time of the attack and were evacuated together with border guards after the shelling started.

The Russian Foreign Ministry responded with a statement calling the incident a dangerous “provocation” and demanding that Kiev investigate it.

“The Russian side strongly protests such provocations of the Ukrainian side, which fragrantly violate the underlying principles of international law,” the ministry said in a statement, demanding that “a thorough investigation into what has happened” be carried out and the perpetrators be punished.

Reminding that both Russian citizens and Ukrainian refugees crossing the border could have come under harm, Moscow said the incident is “yet another link in the chain” of Ukrainian ceasefire breaches which undermine Kiev’s dialogue with eastern Ukraine and a peaceful resolution of the conflict.

Later on Saturday, Gukovo checkpoint resumed its work despite the damage.

Two more shells exploded in the villages of Vasetsky Khutor and Shakhta-24, with clearly visible shell holes reported from the scene. Footage from Gukovo village also showed locals inspecting a large hole in an iron gate in a residential area, supposedly created by a shell or its splinter.

Seorang pegawai pengawal sempadan memberitahu RIA Novosti dia percaya tentera Ukraine berada di belakang serangan ini.

'Serangan bandar Lugansk' tentera Ukraine walaupun 

gencatan senjata

Serangan serentak dengan laporan pertempuran jelas di sempadan di Ukraine, dengan tembakan dan letupan dengan jelas mendengar di bandar Krasnopartizansk (Ukraine: Chervonopartyzansk).

Pengerusi Republik Lugansk Rakyat ini (LNR) Parlimen mengisytiharkan diri, Aleksey Karyakin, beritahu wartawan bahawa pagi Krasnopartizansk diserang oleh kuasa2 Ukraine pada hari Sabtu dalam pelanggaran jelas gencatan senjata yg berpanjangan.

"Walaupun perjanjian itu [pada gencatan senjata] yang kami sampai di satu mesyuarat semalam, pagi ini daya Ukraine mengebom bandar Krasnopartizansk," Karyakin dipetik sebagai berkata oleh RIA Novosti.

Tentera Ukraine memasuki bandar tetapi telah ditolak kembali dari kawasan itu oleh pertahanan diri, Karyakin sambil menambah bahawa kawasan itu kini "dikelilingi" oleh kuasa pro-Kiev.

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Menurut pegawai LNR, tentera Ukraine telah bertindak seolah-olah mereka "hidup kehidupan mereka sendiri, nampaknya sedar [Petro Poroshenko ini] perintah presiden Ukraine itu." Pada hari Jumaat Poroshenko memutuskan utk memanjangkan gencatan senjata itu sehingga 30 Jun.

Walaupun Poroshenko menyuarakan harapan bahawa gencatan senjata akan beker-jasama dan akan ada keperluan untuk "Plan B" dan penggunaan kekerasan, Kiev tlh mengumpul tenteranya di timur Ukraine sejak minggu lalu, menurut pihak berkuasa anti-Kiev.

Pertempuran telah rutin selama seminggu, dan laporan berasingan tentera Ukraine didakwa menembak kenderaan terus muncul.

Menurut Karyakin, ada "kes-kes kebakaran sniper di kenderaan awam" memandu ke arah pusat pemeriksaan Izvarino di sempadan dengan Rusia.

Yang dipertandingkan pintu sempadan Ukraine, ada juga yang tidak dikawal oleh kuasa ‘Self-defense’, telah menjadi salah satu mata pelajaran rundingan antara Kiev & wakil-wakil timur Ukraine.

Diri enggan menyerahkan pusat pemeriksaan, tetapi perjanjian wakil OSCE pe-mantauan berlalunya pelarian dan penghantaran bantuan kemanusiaan telah dicapai. Tiada pemerhati OSCE setakat ini tiba ke tempat pemeriksaan, menurut Karyakin.

Sementara itu, pada hari Sabtu Kiev enggan menerima 60 tan bantuan kemanusiaan untuk Ukraine tenggara dikumpul di Rusia, dengan Kementerian Luar Ukraine memetik yang dikatakan itu "ketidaktentuan destinasi akhir."

A border guard official told RIA Novosti he believes Ukrainian troops were behind the shelling.

Ukrainian troops ‘attack Lugansk town’ despite ceasefire

The shelling coincided with reports of apparent fighting over the border in Ukraine, with gunfire and explosions clearly heard in the town of Krasnopartizansk (Ukrainian: Chervonopartyzansk).

The chairman of the self-proclaimed Lugansk People’s Republic’s (LNR) parliament, Aleksey Karyakin, told journalists that Krasnopartizansk morning was attacked by the Ukrainian forces on Saturday in an apparent breach of the prolonged ceasefire.

“Despite the agreement [on a ceasefire] that we reached at a meeting yesterday, this morning Ukrainian forces shelled Krasnopartizansk town,” Karyakin was quoted as saying by RIA Novosti.

The Ukrainian troops entered the town but were pushed back from the area by the self-defense, Karyakin said, adding that the area is currently “encircled” by pro-Kiev forces.

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According to the LNR official, Ukrainian troops have been acting as if they were “living their own life, apparently oblivious of the Ukrainian president’s [Petro Poroshenko’s] order.” On Friday Poroshenko decided to prolong the ceasefire until June 30.

While Poroshenko voiced hopes that his ceasefire would work and there will be no need for “Plan B” and the use of force, Kiev has been amassing its troops in eastern Ukraine over the last week, according to anti-Kiev authorities.

Clashes have been routine during the week, and separate reports of Ukrainian troops allegedly firing at vehicles continued to emerge.

According to Karyakin, there are “cases of sniper fire at civilian vehicles” driving in the direction of the Izvarino checkpoint on the border with Russia.

The contested Ukrainian border checkpoints, some of which are controlled by the self-defense forces, have been one of the subjects of talks between Kiev and eastern Ukrainian representatives.

Self-defense has refused to surrender the checkpoints, but an agreement on OSCE representatives monitoring the passing of refugees and the delivery of humanitarian aid has been reached. No OSCE observers have so far arrived to the checkpoints, according to Karyakin.

Meanwhile, on Saturday Kiev refused to accept the 60 tons of humanitarian aid for southeastern Ukrainians collected in Russia, with Ukraine’s Foreign Ministry citing the alleged “uncertainty of its final destination.”

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