[ShabelleMedia] Sudan ...a Moslem country located in the Horn of Africa. It is noted for its affinity for rule by ex- or current generals, its holy men, and for the oppression of the native Afro population by its Arab conquerors. South Sudan, populated mostly by the natives, split off from Sudan proper, which left North and South Darfur to be oppressed by the guys with turbans... ’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs has officially lodged a complaint with the Federal Government of Somalia, accusing Puntland ...a region in northeastern Somalia, centered on Garowe in the Nugaal province. Its leaders declared the territory an autonomous state in 1998. Puntland and the equally autonomous Somaliland seem to have avoided the clan rivalries and warlordism that have typified the rest of Somalia, which puts both places high on the list for Islamic subversion... ’s regional administration of using Bosaso Airport as a hub for transporting mercenaries and military supplies to Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces (RSF).
In a formal letter, Khartoum claims that the airport has become a strategic point for the movement of fighters and arms, allegedly supporting the RSF, a paramilitary group that has been engaged in a violent mostly peaceful conflict with Sudan’s national army since the collapse of the country’s power-sharing agreement in 2023.
Sudan’s government argues that these operations are being carried out covertly and accuses Puntland authorities of either facilitating or overlooking the illicit activities. The RSF, led by General Mohammed Hamdan Dagalo (Hemedti), is battling for control of Sudan, causing widespread instability and displacement.
Somali officials have yet to publicly comment on the complaint, though diplomatic sources in Mogadishu suggest the government is actively investigating the allegations through its security and intelligence agencies. No response has been received from Puntland officials regarding the claims.
The complaint comes amid rising regional tensions, with concerns that Sudan’s ongoing conflict may have broader implications for neighboring countries. The Somali government, which has long struggled with its own security challenges, faces mounting pressure to clarify its position on the war in Sudan and prevent its territory from being used to fuel the conflict.
The matter is expected to be addressed in upcoming cabinet discussions in Somalia, with President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud and Foreign Minister Ahmed Moallim Fiqi likely to engage in talks on how to resolve the issue diplomatically.
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[TimesOfIndia] Punjab ...1. Little Orphan Annie's bodyguard
2. A province of Pakistain ruled by one of the Sharif brothers
3. A province of India. It is majority (60 percent) Sikh and Hindoo (37 percent), which means it has relatively few Moslem riots
.... police have busted espionage and arms smuggling operations linked to Pakistain, arresting two people and seizing a cache of explosives near the border, officials said on Sunday.
A 31-year-old woman, named Guzala, and her associate, Yameen Mohamad, both hailing from Malerkotla, were arrested for allegedly leaking classified military information to a Pakistain-based handler, said Punjab DGP Gaurav Yadav.
Guzala admitted to sharing troop movement details with an official at Pakistain's high commission in New Delhi in exchange for Rs 30,000 sent via UPI, according to Malerkotla SSP Gagan Ajit Singh.
Based on her disclosures, Mohamad was also taken into custody. Two mobile phones were seized.
Police started the paperwork but haven't done much else under sections of BNS and Official Secrets Act. The diplomat has also been named in the FIR.
[GEO.TV] At least two cops including a sub-inspector (SI) were martyred in a suicide kaboom in Beautiful Downtown Peshawar ...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistain's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire... 's Chamkani area, police officials said on Sunday.
The officials said that the earth-shattering kaboom was carried out near a police mobile van near Ring Road's Mandi, leaving two cops martyred and three others maimed.
The Senior Superintendent Police (SSP) Operations confirmed that it was a suicide kaboom that targeted the police vehicle.
The country witnessed a sharp increase in terror attacks in January 2025, surging by 42% compared to the previous month, according to data released by the Pakistain Institute for Conflict and Security Studies (PICSS), a think tank.
The data revealed that at least 74 bad boy attacks were recorded nationwide, resulting in 91 fatalities, including 35 security personnel, 20 civilians, and 36 bad boys. Another 117 individuals sustained injuries, including 53 security forces personnel, 54 civilians, and 10 bad boys.
Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (KP) remained the worst-affected province, followed by Balochistan ...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it... . In KP's settled districts, bully boyz carried out 27 attacks, resulting in 19 fatalities, including 11 security personnel, six civilians, and two bad boys.
The tribal districts of KP (erstwhile Fata) witnessed 19 attacks, leading to 46 deaths, including 13 security personnel, eight civilians, and 25 bad boys
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Pakistan armed forces fulfilled promises made after Indian aggression, which claimed lives of innocent civilians.
26 military installations, facilities targeted in India in retaliatory strikes.
Dozens of Pakistani armed drones hovered over major Indian cities, including New Delhi.
All targets carefully selected to avoid civilian casualties, focusing only on those directly involved in executing attacks against Pakistani civilians.
DG ISPR thanks Pakistani youth who became front-line soldiers as "information and cyber warriors".
Pakistan's response was ''textbook demonstration'' of tri-services jointness and operational excellence.
Pakistan navy prevented Indian warship from breaching maritime border: vice admiral
No Indian pilot in Pakistan army's custody, calls its social media chatter.
Pakistan never requested for ceasefire, rejecting claims by Indian military.
Indian-sponsored terror activity spikes during cross-border conflict.
India directly involved in fomenting terrorism in Pakistan.
No ceasefire violation committed by Pakistan armed forces.
"These cyber strikes targeted systems directly supporting Indian military operations and were designed to disrupt their warfighting capabilities without affecting civilian platforms," he added.
"Pakistain's armed response under Operation Bunyan-um-Marsoos included a broad array of high-value military targets in Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir ...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it Azad (Free) Kashmir. The remainder they refer to as "Indian Occupied Kashmir". They have fought four wars with India over it, the score currently 4-0 in New Delhi's favor. After 72 years of this nonsense, India cut the Gordian knot in 2019, removing the area's special status, breaking off Ladakh as a separate state, and allowing people from other areas to settle (or in the case of the Pandits, to resettle) there.... (IIOJK) and mainland India," he said.
Among the critical sites hit were Indian Air Force and aviation bases at Suratgarh, Sirsa, Poonch, Naliya, Adampur, Bhatinda, Barnala, Halwara, Awantipura, Srinagar, Jammu, Udhampur, Mamoon, Ambala, and Pathankot, all of which sustained major damage.
Other key targets included BrahMos missile storage facilities in Fayaz and Nagrota, identified as the source of earlier missile attacks on Pak soil. S-400 missile systems at Adampur and Poonch were also neutralised by the Pakistain Air Force.
Military logistics sites such as the Field Supply Depot in Uri and a radar station in Poonch were also targeted.
Command and planning hubs — 10th Brigade and 80 Brigade at KG Top and Nowshera — which were directly involved in planning attacks that killed Pak children were also destroyed, he added.
Furthermore, he said, intelligence fusion units and operational field elements in Rajouri and Nowshera, which were responsible for training and supporting proxy elements linked to terrorism in Pakistain were also destroyed.
"Military positions across the Line of Control responsible for unprovoked shelling on Azad Jammu and Kashmir were also heavily targeted, resulting in significant damage. Several of these enemy units reportedly raised white flags and requested restraint following the precision strikes," he added.
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[TimesOfIndia] In a major breakthrough, the National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Sunday arrested a key Khalistani operative in connection with the 2022 Khalistani terror conspiracy case.
The Khalistani operative, Kashmir Singh Galwaddi from Punjab ...1. Little Orphan Annie's bodyguard
2. A province of Pakistain ruled by one of the Sharif brothers
3. A province of India. It is majority (60 percent) Sikh and Hindoo (37 percent), which means it has relatively few Moslem riots...ll 's Ludhiana, is associated with foreign-based Babbar Khalsa terrorist Harwinder Singh Sandhu alias Rinda, news agency PTI quoted NIA officials as saying.
Galwaddi was arrested from Motihari, Bihar, in coordination with the local police. As per NIA, he is a "hardened criminal" and is among six people who had beat feet from a jail in Punjab's Nabha in 2016.
The anti-terror agency further said that since breaking out of the Nabha jail, Kashmir Singh had been "actively associated" with designated Khalistani terrorists, including Rinda. The former was a proclaimed offender in the NIA case for his role relating to involvement in conspiracy, providing shelter, logistics support and terror funds to aides of the Khalistani terrorists.
These aides had escaped to Nepal after carrying out various terror activities in India, including the rocket-propelled grenade attack at the Punjab Police Intelligence headquarters in Mohali in May 2022.
An NIA Special Court in Delhi had declared Kashmir Singh a proclaimed offender in the 2022 terror conspiracy case and issued non-bailable arrest warrants against him over the past two years.
A cash reward of Rs 10 lakh was also announced by the NIA for information leading to his arrest.
2022 KHALISTAN TERROR CONSPIRACY CASE
In August 2022, the NIA had registered the terror conspiracy case suo moto to probe the terrorist activities of the heads and members of proscribed terrorist organizations such as Babbar Khalsa, Khalistan Liberation Force and International Sikh Youth Federation, among others.
The investigations had exposed a terror-criminal nexus, suggesting that these groups, along with organised criminal gangs, were engaged in smuggling terrorist hardware such as arms, ammunition explosive, IEDs etc. from across the border for terror activities in various parts of the country.
In July 2023, the anti-terror agency chargesheeted nine accused, including Sandhu and another Khalistani terrorist, Lakhbir Singh alias Landa, in the terror case followed by two supplementary chargesheets against six others.
In August 2024, the NIA successfully secured the extradition of Landa's brother Tarsem Singh from the UAE and filed a third supplementary chargesheet in December.
[Rudaw] The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire... ’s military has intensified its operations against alleged Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) positions in the Kurdistan Region, with over 200 bombardments and assaults recorded in April alone, despite the PKK signaling it is considering a shift away from armed struggle, according to a conflict monitor.
Ottoman Turkish forces are carrying out aerial and ground bombardment of the Media area of Duhok province, the PKK-affiliated ANF news outlet reported on Saturday.
The escalation comes as Ankara awaits a formal decision from the PKK on whether it will disarm and dissolve itself. On Friday, the PKK said it had held a congress to consider a call from its incarcerated Keep yer hands where we can see 'em, if yez please! leader Abdullah Ocalan to lay down arms, dissolve the party, and pursue a political struggle. The group said it would announce its decision soon.
The PKK declared a unilateral ceasefire at the start of March while it considered Ocalan’s call for peace.
The US-based Community Peacemaker Teams (CPT), which monitors Ottoman Turkish operations in the Kurdistan Region, said in a post on X on Saturday that Ottoman Turkish attacks rose by 78 percent in April compared to previous months, reaching levels "similar to those seen prior to the ceasefire."
According to CPT, at least 210 military actions have been recorded across the Kurdistan Region since April, including 42 Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s, 153 artillery shellings, 14 helizaps, and one incident of small arms fire that damaged a civilian home. In total, three civilian houses have been destroyed and two damaged. The vast majority of these incidents occurred in Duhok province.
Ottoman Turkish officials have publicly continued their hardline stance on the PKK. Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan said that disarmament alone is "not enough" and President His Enormity, Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First ...Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey. In Anatolia did Recep Bey a stately Presidential Palace decree, that has 1100 rooms. That's 968 more than in the White House, 400 more than in Versailles, and 325 more than Buckingham Palace, so you know who's really more important... said Turkey is determined to rid itself of the "scourge of terror."
The PKK was founded in 1978 in response to oppression of the Kurdish population in Turkey. It initially struggled for an independent Kurdistan but now calls for greater political and cultural rights within Turkey. Ankara and its Western allies consider the group a terrorist organization.
A similar grinding of the peace processor begun between the PKK and the Ottoman Turkish state in 2013 collapsed two and a half years later.
[IsraelTimes] The Israeli Air Force struck over 50 targets in the Gaza Strip over the past day, the military says, including cells of terror operatives and buildings used by terror groups to plan and carry out attacks.
Additionally, the IDF says ground forces targeted a Hamas command center, caches of weapons, and sniper positions.
Hamas authorities reported 19 killed and dozens wounded during the previous 24 hours.
[IsraelTimes] An IDF soldier was killed in a clash with Hamas operatives in the Gaza Strip in recent weeks after his unit warned that its location had been compromised, Channel 12 reports.
According to the report, the unit had been conducting a planned ambush from inside a house in a Gaza neighborhood and had eliminated several terrorist operatives the day before the fatal encounter.
The soldiers later believed their position had been discovered and requested a relocation, telling higher command that “if we stay here — a disaster will happen,” but the request was reportedly denied.
The following day, a clash occurred inside the building, resulting in the unnamed soldier’s death.
Security officials tell Channel 12 that a situational assessment had concluded there was no intelligence confirming exposure of the force, leading to the decision to keep it in place.
In response, the IDF says: “The event is under operational investigation. The IDF shares in the grief of the bereaved families.”
[IsraelTimes] Remains found in ‘heart of Syria,’ in ‘covert, complex’ operation and brought to Israel for identification; officials vow to return 3rd missing soldier from 1982 battle of Sultan Yacoub
The Mosssd ...sees all, knows all, gets 'em all in the end... spy agency and the Israel Defense Forces recovered the remains of Sgt. First Class Zvi Feldman, who went missing in the First Leb ...home of the original Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade.... War’s battle of Sultan Yacoub in 1982, officials announced on Sunday.
The battle, nearly 43 years ago, was a skirmish between the IDF and the Syrian army in Lebanon’s Beqaa Valley. It claimed the lives of 21 Israeli servicemen, and more than 30 were maimed during it.
Feldman, a tank soldier, went missing during the battle along with Sgt. First Class Yehuda Katz and Sgt. First Class Zachary Baumel. Baumel’s remains were recovered and returned to Israel in 2019.
In a joint statement on Sunday, the Mossad and IDF said the body of Feldman was recovered from "the heart of Syria" in a special operation.
They said the "complex and covert operation" was made possible by "precise intelligence" and other capabilities, including "intelligence research and collection efforts and many activities and operations in enemy territory."
No further details were provided on the operation itself, but the military said the efforts to locate the body had been ongoing for decades.
The remains were brought to Israel for identification, and Feldman’s family was then notified.
"For decades, Zvika was missing, and the efforts to locate him, along with the other missing soldiers from that same battle, never ceased for a moment," Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a statement.
The Mossad, IDF, Netanyahu, and Defense Minister Israel Katz all said Israel would not stop its efforts until the remains of Katz are also returned.
"Just as we returned Zachary Baumel, and today Zvi Feldman, we continue to act in every way to also return Sgt. First Class Yehuda Katz and fulfill our duty for him and his family," the defense minister said.
Baumel’s body was recovered with Russian assistance from the Yarmouk refugee camp, home to one of the largest Paleostinian communities in Syria. In 2016, an Israeli tank lost in the battle was returned to Israel by Russia.
The IDF has been deployed to nine posts inside southern Syria since the fall of the Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Lord of the Baath... regime in December, mostly within a UN-patrolled buffer zone on the border between the countries.
Troops have been operating in areas up to around 15 kilometers (9miles) deep into Syria, aiming to capture weapons that Israel says could pose a threat to the country if they fall into the hands of "hostile forces."
[IsraelTimes] The operation to recover the remains of Sgt. First Class Zvi Feldman from Syria was carried out by non-Israeli Mossad agents, according to defense officials.
All named Mahmoud, Mohammed, and Muhamad, except for one single Abdul…
The team members operated deep inside Syria, dozens of kilometers from the Israeli border, to retrieve the body, risking their lives.
Defense officials say that the agents, operating on behalf of the Mossad, had a cover story and had been inside Syria for several years.
In the past five months, following the fall of the Bashar al-Assad regime, there were breakthroughs in Feldman’s case and an opportunity to recover his remains, the officials say.
The team of Mossad agents went to a graveyard several times, bringing back various findings that were brought to Israel for identification.
Eventually findings matched Feldman’s DNA. The team also found the remains of the tank soldier’s overalls.
Officials say the team operated “under fire” during the mission.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
...a Moslem country located in the Horn of Africa. It is noted for its affinity for rule by ex- or current generals, its holy men, and for the oppression of the native Afro population by its Arab conquerors. South Sudan, populated mostly by the natives, split off from Sudan proper, which left North and South Darfur to be oppressed by the guys with turbans...
...1. Little Orphan Annie's bodyguard
...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistain's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire...
...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it 
...Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey. In Anatolia did Recep Bey a stately Presidential Palace decree, that has 1100 rooms. That's 968 more than in the White House, 400 more than in Versailles, and 325 more than Buckingham Palace, so you know who's really more important...
...sees all, knows all, gets 'em all in the end...
