Sudan’s Ethiopia front has broken open in February 2026, as the Rapid Support Forces and SPLM-N (al-Hilu) launch a joint offensive in Blue Nile State, seizing Deim Mansour and advancing toward Kurmuk near the Ethiopian border. Sudanese officials say Ethiopia is hosting RSF… https://t.co/b2sE9AMy7Ipic.twitter.com/cKIu7K8mVs
Sudan’s Ethiopia front has broken open in February 2026, as the Rapid Support Forces and SPLM-N (al-Hilu) launch a joint offensive in Blue Nile State, seizing Deim Mansour and advancing toward Kurmuk near the Ethiopian border. Sudanese officials say Ethiopia is hosting RSF fighters and facilitating United Arab Emirates–supervised drone strikes. Analysts say the offensive is meant to divert Sudanese Army forces from Kordofan, where the Army has recently made gains breaking the sieges of Dilling and Kadugli.
The impact may be limited: Southern Blue Nile is Sudan’s wettest region, and once the April rains begin, terrain and supply routes become impassable. If the Army holds Kurmuk until then, the offensive is likely to stall.
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La population de Nioro du Sahel continue de lancer des appels de détresse. Depuis plus de deux semaines, la ville est encerclée par des groupes armés, notamment le JNIM, plongeant les habitants dans une situation critique.
The population of Nioro du Sahel continues to send out distress calls. For more than two weeks, the town has been encircled by armed groups, in particular JNIM, plunging the inhabitants into a critical situation.
While the people are demanding urgent help and calling on the military authorities based in Bamako to intervene, the latter appear to remain passive, preferring to feed public opinion with diversionary speeches, even going so far as to mention unrealistic projects such as bringing the sea from Senegal to Mali.
Yet what the population is asking for is clear: liberate the occupied areas so that they can live in peace, and not the importation of foreign armies or announcements with no real impact on their security.
This communication is perceived as an insult by those who know the reality on the ground. Courage to the people of Nioro du Sahel, abandoned yet still dignified, who continue to suffer in silence.
ISCAP kills 21 "fighting" Christians in northeast DRC, this new designation, as I reported a few months ago, comes as more Christian villages enter a jizyah treaty with IS, and become "friendly" or "dhimmi" Christians who are protected by the so-called Caliphate.
ISCAP kills 21 "fighting" Christians in northeast DRC, this new designation, as I reported a few months ago, comes as more Christian villages enter a jizyah treaty with IS, and become "friendly" or "dhimmi" Christians who are protected by the so-called Caliphate.
For a given value of protected that is perhaps more preyed upon than praying.
This designation was also adopted then by ISWAP and IS-Mozambique in recent months, likely indicating that both are following ISCAP in extending their "jizyah programme", we can notice that attacks on Christians by IS-Mozambique have significant decreased as the groups focuses on Rwandan and Mozambican military targets and offer protecting to Christian civilians in exchange of the jizyah tax.
Attacks against Congolese Christians however continue in full force against non-compliant villages.
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#Nigeria 🇳🇬: Islamic State - West Africa Province (#ISWAP) attacked Nigerian Army camp in the town of Auno in #Borno State.
Notably the #ISIS militants is armed with a rare #China-made 🇨🇳 CS/LR11 (AK-103) assault rifle in addition to common AKM(S) pattern rifles. pic.twitter.com/cDeg0NhZs4
[PJMedia] Another one bites the dust. Or should I say, second time's a charm?
The FBI reportedly arrested Nicolás Maduro's bagman, Alex Saab, around 2:00 to 2:30 a.m. on Wednesday morning.
Saab, a Colombian-Venezuela
...a country in Central America that sits on an enormous pool of oil. Formerly the most prospereous country in the region, it became infested with Commies sniffing almost unlimited wealth. It turned out the wealth wasn't unlimited, the economy collapsed under the clownish Hugo Chavez, the murder rate exceeded places like Honduras and El Salvador. A significant proportion of the populace refugeed to Colombia and points south... n businessman, is pretty well known as Maduro's primary money launderer, front man, and financial fixer, as well as one of Maduro's closest confidants.
He also served as the regime's "Minister of Industry and National Production" for a while, from October 2024 — shortly after Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. This Is A Man That Does Not Seem Demented... freed him from a federal prison — to January of this year, when Delcy Rodríguez fired him from his role in the current "government" that she is running on behalf of Donald Trump ...dictatorial for repealing some (but not all) of the diktats of his predecessor, misogynistic because he likes pretty girls, homophobic because he doesn't think gender bending should be mandatory, truly a man for all seasons... and Marco Rubio ...The diminutive 13-year-old Republican U.S. Senator from Florida, Secretary of State in the second Trump administration... Yes, you heard that correctly. He was already in a federal detention center in Miami once before, but Biden (or the Biden administration, let's face it) set him free.
I've written about this before, but just to recap, in 2020, Saab was arrested in Cape Verde when his plane stopped to refuel en route to Iran. In 2021, he was extradited to the United States and was held in Miami on fraud and money laundering charges.
But between 2022 and 2023, Biden made several deals with Maduro, including releasing his narco-nephews, who were also in federal prison, easing numerous sanctions, and allowing Saab to walk free as long as he promised to be a good boy. In exchange, Maduro handed over some United States hostages and promised free and fair 2024 elections, which we all know never materialized. Biden got suckered.
You can add this to the list of wins we've achieved so far in Venezuela that I wrote about here: Happy One-Month-Without-Maduro Anniversary! It's also a major blow to the regime's corruption apparatus and its relationships with adversaries, like Iran.
It's believed that Delcy and her brother, Jorge Rodríguez, who serves as the regime's "President of the National Assembly of Venezuela," cooperated with the FBI to make this happen and that Saab will be extradited to the United States in the day ahead.
In addition to Saab, Raul Gorrin, a Venezuelan businessman also identified as a frontman for Maduro, was reportedly arrested. According to Colombia One, he's the "owner of the channel Globovision, and sanctioned by OFAC for allegedly having paid bribes of up to US$159 million to Venezuelan officials."
It should be noted that Colombian media confirmed and broke the story of the arrests, while state-aligned journalists in Venezuela have denied it. No one from the United States has issued a statement.
If you're interested, here's some more on Saab's background:
Saab went from being a textile sector businessman in Barranquilla on the verge of bankruptcy to one of the bastions of the Venezuelan regime under the presidency of Nicolas Maduro.
This shift, according to experts on his personal and political trajectory, occurred because he then received help from the now-deceased Colombian politician Piedad Cordoba, who was always very close to the Venezuelan government, especially due to her mediating role with Colombian guerrilla groups.
Born in Colombia in 1971, Alex Saab partnered — according to U.S. Department of Justice documents — with various Venezuelan public entities, primarily in projects aimed at building social housing and providing subsidized food through the CLAP program (Local Committees for Supply and Production).
The Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) of the U.S. Department of the Treasury determined that Saab and his network established multi-million dollar contracts with the Venezuelan government for the sale of products, often at inflated prices.
These operations included the use of shell companies and financial movements across several jurisdictions, according to official reports published in 2019 and 2021 by the U.S. agency.
Consequently, Saab faced asset freezes in the U.S. due to judicial proceedings, and an Interpol red notice was issued for his capture, as he was accused of channeling more than US$350 million of funds related to Venezuelan public contracts to overseas accounts.
Saab has always denied any charges against him, and Maduro accused the United States of holding him as a political prisoner. He was treated to a hero's welcome upon his return to Venezuela, and, as I mentioned, eventually given a role in the regime's "government."
No new U.S. indictment has been announced, nor have U.S. officials confirmed the arrest.
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[Regnum] The court announced the testimony of a secret witness in the criminal case regarding the terrorist attack at Crocus City Hall.
A witness testified that a Turkish terrorist handler contacted Shamsiddin Fariduni (an individual listed as a terrorist and extremist in the Russian Federation) and referred him to Alisher Kasimov, a native of Kyrgyzstan, as someone who would rent him an apartment in the Moscow region. Four of the terrorists involved in the attack subsequently lived in this apartment before the Crocus attack.
"According to the witness, he learned this information personally from Fariduni himself," TASS quotes the trial participant as saying.
The terrorist attack at the Crocus Theater in Krasnogorsk occurred on March 22, 2024. Four terrorists stormed the building, where a concert by the band Piknik was scheduled to take place, opened fire on unarmed people, and started a fire. The gunmen then left the building and fled in a car. They were detained in the Bryansk region on the border with Ukraine. During interrogation, the perpetrators admitted that the attack on Crocus was organized by Ukrainian intelligence services.
[Breitbart] Far-left anarchist terrorists are suspected of a string of apparently coordinated sabotage attacks on Italian railway lines amid the opening of the Milan-Cortina Winter Olympic Games.
An investigation was launched by the Bologna prosecutor’s office, in conjunction with the DIGOS, Italy’s anti-terrorism police force, on Sunday morning into apparent infrastructure sabotage attacks that damaged rail lines in Bologna and Pesaro, disrupting trains across Italy.
According to a report from Corriere della Sera, investigators are currently considering it likely that anarchists were behind the attacks; however, there have yet to be any arrests or suspects publicly identified.
Prosecutors said that they are not ruling out any angle, including the potential of terrorist motivations.
Broadcaster RAI reports that a makeshift incendiary device was used to burn cables along the Bologna-Venice line near the Castel Maggiore station. A similar device that failed to trigger was found by forensic police on a line heading towards Ancona.
Meanwhile, a cabin used to operate a switch on the Ancona-Rimini line was struck in an apparent arson attack, requiring the local fire brigade to intervene.
The apparent coordination of the attacks suggests that a single group was behind the sabotage.
Italian Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini said, “If it is confirmed that the disruption on the high-speed line is the result of a premeditated attack, on the first day of the Olympics, let’s just say that someone wants to harm Italy.”
The Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport said that it plans on seeking financial damages from the perpetrators, saying in a statement: “Regarding the synchronized sabotages of railway lines that took place yesterday that caused delays and inconvenience to thousands of passengers for whom an investigation for terrorism has been opened, the MIT specifies that, once those responsible have been identified, the ministry will submit a claim for compensation for the millions in damages perpetrated.
“A decisive action is ready to put an end to such actions of unacceptable gravity that only create inconvenience to millions of Italians.”
The attacks are reminiscent of a series of arson attacks on France’s high-speed railway network just before the 2024 Summer Olympic Games.
Then-Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin said that the sabotage strikes were like the work of the “ultra-left”; however, authorities have yet to arrest those responsible.
The attack on Italy’s railways also came as thousands of leftists protested in Milan on Saturday against the Olympics, with some radical climate activists accusing the Games of being “unsustainable”.
[FoxNews] A chaotic scene unfolded in Milan Saturday as police deployed water cannons and tear gas against demonstrators just steps away from an Olympic ice hockey rink.
A group known as the Unsustainable Olympics Committee organized demonstrations highlighting concerns related to the environmental, economic and social impact of the 2026 Milan Cortina Winter Olympics.
Demonstrators also protested the presence of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Italy, The Associated Press reported.
The clash with police occurred near Milan’s Santagiulia Ice Hockey Arena, a newly built venue that has faced scrutiny over construction delays and rink-size concerns.
Global Guardian, an international security firm, issued a travel alert Saturday, according to AP.
"Anticipate heightened security and associated disruptions in the affected area over the next several hours," the security alert said. "Plot route bypasses. Avoid all protests."
The alert also said at least five individuals were taken into custody.
A group of masked protesters was seen setting off smoke bombs and firecrackers on a bridge overlooking a construction site approximately half a mile from the Olympic Village. An estimated 1,500 athletes are being housed at the Olympic Village for this year's Games.
Police vans behind a temporary metal fence secured the road to the athletes’ village, but the protesters veered away, continuing their apparent route toward the Santagiulia venue. A heavy police presence guarded the entire route.
There was no indication that the protest and resulting road closure interfered with athletes’ transfers to their events, all on the outskirts of Milan.
At a larger, peaceful demonstration, which police said numbered about 10,000, people carried cardboard cutouts representing trees felled to build the new bobsled run in Cortina. A group of dancers performed to the beat of drums. Music blasted from a truck leading the march, including a profanity-laced anti-ICE anthem.
"Let’s take back the cities and free the mountains," a banner by the Unsustainable Olympic Committee said. Another group called the Association of Proletariat Excursionists organized the cutout trees.
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.
...46th president of the U.S. 
