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This sort of expands my appreciation of tge concept of movie extras.
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"You can't tell the players without a scorecard"
A scorecard on a side panel would help readers who to root for.
Too many factions and places to be able to tell who, what and where.
◉ The Sudanese Armed Forces thwarted an attempted attack carried out by the Rapid Support militia to seize the city of Habila, confirming that the battle was decisively concluded before it reached the city. ◉ The @Jsamfdarfur announced that it… pic.twitter.com/mowI31kBQs
◉ The Sudanese Armed Forces thwarted an attempted attack carried out by the Rapid Support militia to seize the city of Habila, confirming that the battle was decisively concluded before it reached the city.
◉ The @Jsamfdarfur announced that it has established full control over the Kortala area.
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JNIM reportedly conducted simultaneous attacks this evening against the towns of Seguenega, Rambo and Kossouka, near Ouahigouya in northern JNIM reportedly conducted simultaneous attacks this evening against the towns of Seguenega, Rambo and Kossouka, near Ouahigouya in northern Burkina Faso, local sources also report that an attack near Yabonsongo was repelled by the army in the same area today.
🚨 #Mali | #Bougouni 27/01/2026 Une attaque est actuellement en cours entre Sido et Solo, dans la zone de Bougouni, contre un convoi de citernes de carburant. Plus de détails suivront.... pic.twitter.com/iVQroWvBoL
Bandits have ambush the mopol police unit operating in guga town katsina, reports indicate the incident happened along bakori - guga highway... 3 comfirmed casualties and multiple injured.. This area is under katsina state bandits dialogue 🙏🙏🙏 pic.twitter.com/DxKIuoFrET
NIGERIAN ARMY FOILS TERRORIST ESCAPE, RESCUES 11 KIDNAP VICTIMS AFTER 92 DAYS IN CAPTIVITY
In a sophisticated display of modern warfare and tactical precision, the Nigerian Army has recorded another major operational success with the rescue of eleven (11) kidnapped Nigerians… pic.twitter.com/mjNSvBowBE
NIGERIAN ARMY FOILS TERRORIST ESCAPE, RESCUES 11 KIDNAP VICTIMS AFTER 92 DAYS IN CAPTIVITY
In a sophisticated display of modern warfare and tactical precision, the Nigerian Army has recorded another major operational success with the rescue of eleven (11) kidnapped Nigerians during a late-night operation on 26 January 2026 along the Kaduna–Abuja Expressway corridor, reaffirming its resolve to deny criminal elements freedom of action.
Troops of the Forward Operating Base (FOB) Doka, leveraging high-definition, long-range CCTV surveillance, detected armed terrorists attempting to move their captives through the Gidan Duna–Amale bush track under the cover of darkness and immediately initiated a coordinated interception.
ISWAP suffers heavy losses in Timbuktu Triangle, lost 22 fighters in encounter with troops
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At least 22 fighters of the Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) have been killed, while several others were wounded, during recent clashes with Nigerian troops… pic.twitter.com/FOIHbmsGJD
ISWAP suffers heavy losses in Timbuktu Triangle, lost 22 fighters in encounter with troops
By: Zagazola Makama
At least 22 fighters of the Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) have been killed, while several others were wounded, during recent clashes with Nigerian troops in the Timbuktu Triangle area of Borno State, security sources confirm.
The sources told Zagazola Makama that the encounters occurred during sustained operations by troops of the Nigerian Army’s Special forces in the notorious Timbuktu Triangle axis.
According to the sources, those killed included a senior commander (Qaid) and two unit leaders (Munzirs), while many others escaped with injuries.
“ISWAP suffered significant casualties during the fighting. A Qaid and two Munzirs were among those neutralised, with several other fighters wounded,” the sources said, adding that efforts were ongoing to confirm the identities of the senior commanders killed in the operation.
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[Regnum] Three Azerbaijani citizens have been detained for plotting a terrorist attack on a foreign embassy. The State Security Service ( SSS ) of Azerbaijan reported this on January 27.
According to the report, three young men, motivated by religious hatred, were planning to carry out a terrorist attack on a foreign embassy in Baku. Beforehand, they contacted representatives of the Khorasan Province (a terrorist organization banned in Russia and part of the Islamic State (ISIS), a terrorist organization banned in Russia). The report did not specify which diplomatic mission was involved.
The armed attackers were detained by security forces as they approached the embassy building. Criminal cases have been opened against them under the article on preparations for terrorism motivated by religious hatred by a group of individuals. Investigative actions are ongoing, and the suspects have been taken into custody.
[Breitbart] French police have arrested two British activists allegedly seeking to prevent migrants from crossing the English Channel from the beaches of Calais.
Boulogne-sur-Mer prosecutor Cécile Gressier announced that two British men, aged 35 and 53, were arrested over the weekend over comments they made online concerning plans to prevent illegal migrants from using people smuggler-operated boats to reach England.
The pair were arrested on suspicion of “inciting hatred” and participating in a group planning violence. According to Le Figaro, the arrests are believed to be the first of their kind against British anti-mass migration activists.
The paper reported one of the suspects told his YouTube audience: “I’m going to guard the beaches tonight, if no one else wants to do it… If I see a dinghy, I’ll run and pierce it with all my might.”
The man called on his fellow countrymen to also come to Calais to help stop illegal migrant crossings of the Channel. In the video, he stressed that the actions must be carried out “without violence”.
“We can only take in so many, too many is too many, and this is too much, isn’t it? That’s why we’re doing this,” he is quoted as saying.
According to French authorities, the attempted disruption of the people smuggler trade in Calais came as part of the ‘Operation Overlord’ campaign organised by British activist Danny Tommo.
So the French position is that the illegal migrants have a legal right to migrate illegally to England? In a more sensible time that would be considered an act of war.
The campaign takes its name from a World War II Allied operation which saw the crossing of the English Channel and the liberation of Nazi-occupied Western Europe.
Last week, the Nord and Pas-de-Calais prefectures announced a ban on the group from gathering, and have since extended the ban through Wednesday.
Tommo claimed that the attention his group has garnered and the police presence on French beaches over the weekend to monitor the British activists resulted in a pause in prospective illegals attempting to reach Britain via the Channel.
“When pressure is applied by ordinary people, the authorities act immediately. And when they act at scale, the boats stop,” he wrote.
“It shows exactly what’s possible. If that same level of policing and pressure was applied every day to the illegal crossings, this crisis could be brought under control,” Tommo continued.
It comes after 41,472 illegal boat migrants crossed the English Channel from the beaches of France in 2025, the second-highest yearly total on record. This is despite successive British governments giving Paris hundreds of millions in funding to stem the tide of illegal migrants and to take down the people smuggling networks.
Meanwhile, the left-wing Labour Party government has rejected the notion of turning back the boats or leaving the deportation-blocking European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR), both of which have been advocated for by Nigel Farage’s Reform UK party.
"Signal, sir, from the Grande Blanchisserie:
'There's no double-V, anglais, en "Oui!"'"
As vaisseau-amiral
Pierces watery wall,
Whitehall sez, "Still our allies, IC!"
[FOX] Several of the agitators arrested outside a Minnesota hotel where they believed Border Patrol Commander Gregory Bovino was staying have criminal records, with one arrestee openly embracing a "disrupt disturb resist" slogan on Instagram.
The agitators were outside the SpringHill Suites by Marriott in Maple Grove, Minnesota, on Monday night where they had thought Bovino was staying. Arrests were made after authorities said the demonstration was "no longer considered peaceful," and declared it an unlawful assembly.
Maple Grove police said its officers were responding to reports of a protest at the hotel, adding that it escalated when agitators allegedly began damaging property and throwing objects at officers.
18 U.S. Code § 111 - Assaulting, resisting, or impeding certain officers or employees 1 to 8 years or Enhanced Penalty imprisoned up to 20 years.
Minnesota uses both statutory enhancements and the criminal history point system to increase penalties for repeat offenders. The more prior convictions a person has, the more severe the presumptive sentence under the Minnesota Sentencing Guidelines.
Higher fines
Longer jail or prison sentences
Felony charges where a first offense might be a misdemeanor
Longer probation periods
Harsher collateral consequences, such as license loss, employment barriers and FINES $$,$$$.00
ICE agents attempted to enter the Consulate of Ecuador in Minneapolis, Minnesota earlier today, according to footage obtained by several Ecuadorian outlets.
#1
Dronezap.
Otherwise we end up with a Julian Assange situation. that traitor hid out in that embassy for years. Brennan wanted to dronezap him but got overruled by JAGs.
#4
Sheltering Assange was an act of war and an abuse of diplomatic immunity.
Brennan declared Wikileaks a hostile foreign intelligence agency, which it was. It exposed critical national security secrets and did tremendous damage to American interests. The other traitor Snowden was even worse. They knew which airliner he was flying to Russia on and could have shot it down but didn't. That's how they knew to cancel his passport the moment he landed in Moscow.
Sure. Shoot down an airliner with hundreds of passengers?
Frank G is right, of course.
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That said, on 5 April 2024, the Mexican embassy in Quito was raided by Ecuadorian police and military forces. Mexico and numerous other countries decried the raid as a violation of the 1961 Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations and the 1954 Caracas Convention on Diplomatic Asylum.
Posted by: European Conservative ||
01/28/2026 4:49 Comments ||
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Just shut off the water, electric, and gas from the street.
#11
Maybe you should just start with a diplomatic request.
Posted by: European Conservative ||
01/28/2026 8:26 Comments ||
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Declare all personnel at the consulate as persona non grata. Then THEY have to leave the US. If Ecuador sends more people, Declare them persona non grata. Lather, rinse, repeat as necessary.
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Please note that the Vienna Convention is a mutual thing and vital to do diplomatic business in a less than free country. You don't want Chinese or Russian police to walk into the US embassy in Beijing or Moscow and arrest people.
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I am shocked that American government employees of any sort tried to force their way in to a diplomatic building of a foreign power. Is it possible the situation was misinterpreted?
On the other hand, I can’t imagine Antifa activists would be comfortable houseguests, whether short term or longer. If they really did offer refuge, I vote we leave to it and readdress in a month or so.
#18
Declare them all persona non grata, give them 72 hours to leave and break off all diplomatic relations with Ecuador. If they refuse, storm the place and arrest everyone as they are now invaders from a legal standpoint.
#19
What about dropping off 3 bus loads of potential deportees a day at the embassy gates. Overwhelm them with opportunities to pay for plane tickets. Heck - do the same at their other embassies and consulates across the country
#20
Unlike embassies, most consulates are little more than office buildings, and rarely have extensive living facilities. Merely waiting them out quietly should do the trick if they refuse to accept some deportation agreement. Ultimately, honoring diplomatic their sovereignty is important for us as well.
[IsraelTimes] Two Palestinians were wounded by IDF gunfire, one of them seriously, a short while ago in Dahariya, in the southern West Bank, the Palestinian Red Crescent Society says.
The IDF does not immediately respond to a request for comment.
The Red Crescent statement comes after Palestinian media reported clashes between locals and the IDF in Dahariya.
Footage published by some outlets earlier tonight showed two military vehicles driving around a traffic circle in the city, with blasts in the background that the outlets say are caused by stun grenades fired by Israeli troops.
[IsraelTimes] The Palestinian Red Crescent Society says its medics were stoned by settlers while trying to reach Khirbet al-Fakhit, one of the hamlets that make up Masafer Yatta south of Hebron, following a settler attack there.
The organization does not immediately say if there are injuries in Fakhit, where Palestinian media reports that settlers assaulted people and set fire to property.
Footage published on social media shows settlers around a flaming structure, reportedly in Masafer Yatta.
Separately, the Red Crescent reports a 13-year-old boy was evacuated to the hospital from the central West Bank’s Qalandiya refugee camp a short while ago after being hit in the foot by live IDF gunfire.
The IDF does not immediately respond to a request for comment on the incidents in Qalandiya or near Hebron.
[IsraelTimes] A 75-year-old tourist was arrested yesterday outside the Kirya military headquarters in Tel Aviv on suspicion of working for “hostile actors,” Ynet reports.
Generally that’s Iran nowadays.
He was arrested after Defense Ministry security guards spotted him wandering around the area for a long time, taking pictures of buildings and roads in the base’s vicinity.
Earlier today, his detention was reportedly extended until tomorrow by a Tel Aviv Magistrate’s Court judge. Police argued during his remand hearing that he was carrying out “preparatory work” for “hostile actors.”
The suspect also reportedly went on a nearby bridge to take pictures of the Defense Ministry headquarters.
Police seized a computer and a flash drive from the man’s home and are seeking to keep him in custody so they can search the contents of the two devices.
According to Ynet, security guards deleted pictures from his phone that they argued were taken within the base premises.
[IsraelTimes] Military names target of strike in Tyre as Hezbollah artillery commander who the terror group identifies as a former TV presenter and imam
Israeli Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s on Monday killed three Hezbollah operatives in southern Leb ...Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects.... , according to the Israel Defense Forces, including a former presenter on a television station affiliated with the terror organization.
A separate strike on Tuesday morning targeted another member of the terror group, the military said, without immediately providing further details.
Lebanon’s health ministry confirmed fatalities in Monday’s strikes, with one person killed in the coastal city of Tyre and two later in Kfar Rumman near Nabatieh.
The IDF identified the target of the strike in Tyre as Ali Nour a-Din, who it said headed an artillery team based out of a southern Lebanese village.
According to the IDF, Nour a-Din advanced numerous attacks on Israel during the 2023-2024 war, and recently worked to restore Hezbollah’s rocket capabilities in southern Lebanon.
"The terrorist’s activities constituted a violation of the understandings between Israel and Lebanon," the military added.
Hezbollah’s al-Manar identified as Nour a-Din having "previously worked at al-Manar channel as a presenter of religious programs, while Hezbollah’s media office said in a statement that he was also the imam of al-Hawsh, in the suburbs of Tyre. The Iran-backed terrorist group denounced the killing as a "treacherous liquidation."
Lebanese Information Minister Paul Morcos also condemned the strike, saying Israeli attacks "do not spare press and media personnel."
The second strike later on Monday near Nabatieh killed two Hezbollah operatives attempting to restore a subterranean facility belonging to the terror group, the military said.
The IDF said the efforts by the operatives to restore the underground site were a violation of the ceasefire between Israel and Lebanon and posed a threat to Israel.
On Tuesday, the IDF said it struck another Hezbollah operative in the town of Deir Qanoun. It did not immediately provide further details on the target.
[IsraelTimes] A Hezbollah operative who was involved in attempting to restore the terror group’s infrastructure in southern Lebanon was killed in an Israeli airstrike earlier today, the IDF announces.
The operative was targeted in the southern Lebanese town of Deir Qanoun.
The military says the operative’s activities constituted a violation of the ceasefire between Israel and Lebanon.
[IsraelTimes] Damascus thwarted today an attempt to smuggle weapons into Lebanon, state media reports, days after Israel struck several border crossings between the two countries, saying they were used by Hezbollah.
The official SANA news agency says security forces intercepted the shipment in a car in the Bureij area, near the border with Lebanon.
Quoting a security source, SANA says authorities seized “nine anti-tank guided missiles, 68 RPG rounds, two 107mm rockets, and five boxes of ammunition” before raiding the smugglers’ hideout in the nearby Nabek district.
Lebanon and Syria share a porous, 330-kilometre (205-mile) border that is notorious for smuggling.
Under deposed president Bashar al-Assad, Syria was a key node of Iran’s so-called “axis of resistance” against Israel and enabled the transfer of weapons and money from Iran to Hezbollah.
The terror group played a crucial role during Syria’s civil war, fighting alongside Assad’s forces and helping to keep him in power as he cracked down on a popular revolt.
The new government in Damascus, dominated by the Islamists who toppled Assad, has rejected Iranian influence and attempted to cut off the supply of weapons to Hezbollah.
#Syria 🇸🇾: New photo posted by members of the Syrian General Security Service (#GSS) in a town captured from Syrian Democratic Forces (#SDF).
A GSS member is carrying a rare M16A1 (Colt 603) assault rifle with obscured markings —likely LAF/FSI weapon smuggled from #Lebanon 🇱🇧. pic.twitter.com/lNnGrz4HOH
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.
[FOX] Several of the agitators arrested outside a 
...Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects....
