[Breitbart] Multiple reports in the past week have indicated that the U.S. military has deployed surveillance drones to operate in Nigeria, in conjunction with the nation’s government, to gather intelligence on the various jihadist terrorist groups in the country.
The Associated Press (AP) reported on Monday that the drones are MQ-9, or Reaper, drones that “can fly at altitudes over 40,000 feet and can loiter for more than 30 hours.” A Nigerian military official suggested that Reaper drones were flying in the country in a report published by the Agence France-Presse (AFP) on March 21. The AP cited an alleged American official as the source for its report, and added an official comment from the Pentagon’s African Command (AFRICOM) stating that the Americans are “working alongside their Nigerian counterparts to provide intelligence support, advisory assistance, and targeted training in support of the Nigerian Armed Forces.”
The AFP report, as relayed in Nigerian media, claimed that a limited number of American forces on the ground were helping the Nigerian military and the drones in question were being operated out of an air base in Bauchi state.
“U.S. support is designed to enhance Nigeria’s ability to independently detect, track, and disrupt terrorist activity,” Nigerian Major General Samaila Uba told AFP. “This partnership has improved intelligence sharing, operational coordination, and the overall effectiveness of Nigerian-led efforts against violent extremist organizations.”
AFRICOM Commander Gen. Dagvin R.M. Anderson revealed in February that the American government had deployed a “small U.S. team that brings some unique capabilities” to Nigeria’s fight against jihadist terrorism.
“That has led to increased collaboration between our nations, to include a small U.S. team that brings some unique capabilities from the United States in order to augment what Nigeria has been doing for several years,” he explained at the time. Reports do not indicate that the Americans are operating on the front lines of combat.
The deployment of the Reaper drones, the Nigerian outlet The Cable assessed on Wednesday, was a “quiet but consequential shift in West Africa’s security landscape.”
“In north-eastern Nigeria, where insurgents exploit mobility, fragmented terrain, and porous borders, this fills a long-standing operational gap,” the newspaper observed, adding that the growing Pentagon presence in Nigeria also benefitted America because, “following the withdrawal of U.S. forces from Niger in 2024, Washington lost a key surveillance hub in the Sahel. The relocation of ISR capabilities to Nigeria reflects an effort to maintain regional visibility rather than expand territorial influence.”
The use of some of the Pentagon’s most advanced technology in Nigeria follows a period of some tension between President Donald Trump and Nigeria’s President Bola Tinubu in the later months of 2025 following the American head of state’s decision to return Nigeria to the State Department’s list of Countries of Particular Concern (CPC) for religious freedom. The designation, which Trump announced on October 31, raised awareness of the “existential threat” that Christianity faces in Nigeria at the hands of a host of genocidal terrorist organizations, primarily Boko Haram in the northeast and the Fulani terrorists plaguing the Middle Belt region.
Nigerian officials initially responded to the designation by denying the existence of any discrimination anywhere in the country, in particular anti-Christian sentiment, despite human rights organizations for years ranking Nigeria as the deadliest place to identify as a Christian. Tinubu himself claimed in early November that “the characterization of Nigeria as religiously intolerant does not reflect our national reality.” Contrary to this claim, hundreds of Christians are killed annually in the country in attacks intended to exterminate them from their native land.
“Nigeria has been at the maximum violence score (16.7 out of 16.7) for eight consecutive years,” Ryan Brown, the Open Doors CEO, told Breitbart News in January. “During our most recent reporting period, 3,490 Nigerian Christians were killed because of their faith — the highest number of any country and an increase from 3,100 the previous year.”
In the face of Nigeria’s public refusal to acknowledge the problem, Trump announced on Christmas Day that he had ordered a “powerful and deadly strike” on jihadists in northwest Nigeria.
“I have previously warned these Terrorists that if they did not stop the slaughtering of Christians, there would be hell to pay, and tonight, there was,” Trump announced. “Under my leadership, our Country will not allow Radical Islamic Terrorism to prosper. May God Bless our Military, and MERRY CHRISTMAS to all, including the dead Terrorists, of which there will be many more if their slaughter of Christians continues.”
The Nigerian government later clarified that it had been notified and was cooperating with the United States — the strikes were not, it insisted, a unilateral American action or a violation of Nigeria’s sovereignty. Tinubu described the strikes as a sign of Abuja taking the jihadist threat seriously and collaborating productively with the United States.
“In collaboration with international partners, including the United States, decisive actions were taken against terrorist targets in parts of the Northwest on December 24. Our Armed Forces have since sustained operations against terror networks and criminal strongholds across the Northwest and Northeast,” Tinubu said in his end of year presidential address.
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Using a corrupt and amateur military for the mission on the ground is like pushing rope up a hill.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] A Chinese brother and sister have been charged over a chilling IED plot targeting a US Air Force base that serves as a nerve center for America's war with Iran.
A figure appearing in silhouette with a distorted voice claimed responsibility in a video sent to the Tampa Bay Times on Monday, warning that a bomb planted near the base on March 10 had failed to detonate but that 'we have taken actions to rectify this.'
'We have a newly improved design that we plan to use in the upcoming days,' the speaker said, adding the device had been planted 'in opposition to the war in Iran by the Epstein pedophiles of the US government.'
Alen Zheng, 20, and Ann Mary Zheng, 27, were charged Wednesday in separate federal indictments after the explosive device was found outside a gate at MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa on March 16.
The sister is in custody; the brother has fled to China, FBI director Kash Patel said.
MacDill hosts both US Central Command, which oversees Middle East operations, and US Special Operations Command, making it one of the most sensitive installations on US soil.
Alen Zheng is charged with attempting to damage government property, unlawfully making a destructive device and possessing an unregistered destructive device.
Ann Mary Zheng is charged with witness tampering and acting as an accessory after the fact in her brother's case.
She is accused of hiding or damaging a 2010 Mercedes-Benz to conceal evidence, court documents show. The brother and sister share an address in Land O' Lakes.
The alleged crimes took place between March 10 and 12, a few days before the device was found near the base's visitor center, according to the indictment unsealed Thursday.
The speaker in the video to the Tampa Bay Times also criticized Trump's immigration crackdown and ICE agents.
He claimed to represent an international outfit calling itself the 'New Weathermen Underground.'
MacDill has been on heightened alert since the war in Iran began; a separate threat against the base was made on March 18.
A separate man was arrested earlier this week on charges of making threatening calls to the base in the days after the device was found, though investigators have stopped short of linking him to any planted device. There was no immediate connection between the caller and the Zhengs.
The FBI and Department of Homeland Security have warned of potential retaliatory attacks since the war began, urging vigilance around military and government sites.
[AyPee] An Israeli bomb drops toward a target next to a tent camp in Deir al-Balah, central Gaza Strip, Wednesday, March 25, 2026. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana).
The photographer just happened to catch a bomb — nose down, fins up — falling in the background as in the foreground the huddle of tents lies quiet in the long morning shadows.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Iranian security forces opened fire on apartment buildings in Tehran after residents were heard chanting anti-regime slogans, opposition groups have claimed.
Footage shared by the citizen journalism news site Iran Wire claims to show residents of the capital's Chitgar neighbourhood chanting 'down with the IRGC' - referring to Iran's secuirty forces, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.
Two masked officers could then be seen pointing guns at windows as they fired at the homes of suspected dissidents.
Residents had been chanting anti-regime slogans in response to a pro-government march, with video showing supporters of the Islamic Republic waving flags as they paraded down the street.
It is unclear when exactly the video was taken, but it is believed to have been shot in recent days.
It comes as Iranians have reported a surge in security measures, nighttime patrols and pro-government rallies that they say are creating an atmosphere of intimidation amid the ongoing war, London-based broadcaster Iran International reports.
According to accounts shared with the Persian-language news outlet, the intensified measures are an attempt to control the population, with masked security forces seen carrying weapons like machine guns to instil fear.
Meanwhile, several checkpoints have been installed across Iranian towns and cities, with security forces pointing weapons toward passing cars.
Iranians have also reported an increase in nightly pro-government gatherings involving convoys of large vehicles, loudspeakers and armed escorts.
Across several locations, supporters of the Iranian regime have been heard chanting 'Death to America' and 'Death to Israel' as the war in Iran hits the one-month mark.
Iran on Wednesday dismissed an American plan to pause the war in the Middle East and launched more attacks on Israel and Gulf Arab states.
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said in an interview on state TV that his government has not engaged in talks to end the war, and we do not plan on any negotiations.'
That followed a report from Iranian state TV's English-language broadcaster quoting an anonymous official as saying Iran rejected America's ceasefire proposal and has its own demands to end the fighting.
Earlier, two officials from Pakistan, who transmitted the U.S. plan to Iran, described the 15-point proposal broadly, saying it addressed sanctions relief, a rollback of Iran's nuclear program, limits on missiles, and the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz, through which a fifth of the world's oil is shipped.
An Egyptian official involved in the mediation efforts said the proposal also includes restrictions on Iran's support for armed groups.
The officials spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss details not yet released.
President Donald Trump, speaking at a fundraiser Wednesday night in Washington, insisted that Iran still wants to cut a deal.
'They are negotiating, by the way, and they want to make a deal so badly, but they're afraid to say it because they figure they'll be killed by their own people,' said Trump, who added: 'They're also afraid they'll be killed by us.'
Iran has long insisted it won't discuss its ballistic missile program or its support of regional militias, which it views as key to its security. And its ability to control passage through the Strait of Hormuz represents one of its biggest strategic advantages.
Iran's attacks on regional energy infrastructure, along with its restrictions on the strait, have sent oil prices skyrocketing, putting pressure on the U.S. to find a way to end the chokehold and calm markets.
On Thursday, sirens over Israel warned of barrages of incoming Iranian missiles. In the United Arab Emirates, two people were reported killed, and three were wounded by falling shrapnel from a missile interception over Abu Dhabi.
Industry experts say Iran is implementing a 'de facto 'toll booth' regime,' with some ships paying in Chinese yuan to pass through the Strait of Hormuz, where 20% of all traded oil and natural gas is transported in peacetime.
Meanwhile, a strike group anchored by the amphibious assault ship USS Tripoli drew closer to the Mideast with some 2,500 Marines.
Also, at least 1,000 paratroopers from the 82nd Airborne have been ordered to the region.
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Y'all sure it wasn't Atlanta?
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[Regnum] Iran's armed forces launched a missile attack on Israel's largest thermal power plant, Orot Rabin, the Tabnak news agency reported on March 26.
"An Iranian missile hit a key Israeli power plant," reads a message on the Telegram channel.
The power plant is located near the city of Hadera on the Mediterranean coast.
The published footage shows a huge plume of smoke rising in the immediate vicinity of the plant. However, no direct missile hit on the power plant's facilities was recorded. Nevertheless, Israel is raising concerns about potential risks to the energy sector.
The Orot Rabin power plant is a key component of Israel's national grid, providing approximately 20-25% of the country's total electricity generation. Its failure threatens widespread power outages, particularly in central Israel, including Tel Aviv.
Iran appears to target Israeli power plant in missile attack, but misses
[IsraelTimes] An Iranian ballistic missile struck an open area in northern Israel on Wednesday in an attack appearing to target Israel’s largest power plant and the Israeli Air Force kept up its strikes on regime targets across Iran, even as diplomats worked in the background to end the nearly four-week war.The attack was the fourth round of missile fire from Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... at Israel since midnight, triggering sirens across central Israel and parts of the north.
Some of the missiles fired in the attack were likely intercepted by air defenses, according to the initial military assessments. Rescue forces responded to reports of missile fragments in several areas following the interceptions.
One of the missiles fell in an open area near Hadera, without causing any injuries. Shortly after, the Israel Electric Corporation said no damage was caused to its infrastructure in the attack.
Israel’s largest power plant, the Orot Rabin power station, is located in Hadera.
Iran has previously threatened to strike power and energy plants in Israel and across the Gulf, and last week forced the closure of the Bazan oil refinery in Haifa for several days due to damage caused by missile fragments.
State media, including the judiciary’s Mizan Online website, on Monday showed infographics of potential targets in Israel, including Orot Rabin and Rutenberg, Israel’s second-largest power plant.
Seven additional rounds of missile fire had targeted Israel by Wednesday afternoon, setting off sirens from the north to Eilat in the south. One ballistic missile salvo targeting Dimona, in southern Israel, coincided with Hezbollah rocket fire from Leb ...The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozen flavors of Christians, plus Armenians, Georgians, and who knows what else?... , which set off alerts in Ma’alot-Tarshiha and nearby towns in the Galilee.
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💥 CONFIRMED: Israeli forces report killing 30 Hezbollah operatives in southern Lebanon, including 10 members of the elite Radwan Force, during recent ground operations. Engagements involved tank fire, snipers, drone strikes, and coordinated airstrikes by troops from the 91st… pic.twitter.com/RPRtq0oBEa
💥 CONFIRMED: Israeli forces report killing 30 Hezbollah operatives in southern Lebanon, including 10 members of the elite Radwan Force, during recent ground operations. Engagements involved tank fire, snipers, drone strikes, and coordinated airstrikes by troops from the 91st “Galilee” Regional Division.
🚨 IDF STRIKES HEZBOLLAH HARD OFFICIAL IDF: Over 200 strikes carried out by Brigade 226 in Southern Lebanon. Terror cells eliminated. Weapons depots and Hezbollah infrastructure wiped out.
This is what a forward defense looks like. Hezbollah chose escalation on behalf of Iran,… pic.twitter.com/uZfX4odeGM
🚨 IDF STRIKES HEZBOLLAH HARD
OFFICIAL IDF: Over 200 strikes carried out by Brigade 226 in Southern Lebanon. Terror cells eliminated. Weapons depots and Hezbollah infrastructure wiped out.
This is what a forward defense looks like. Hezbollah chose escalation on behalf of Iran, now they’re paying the price.
The IDF will continue to act with force to protect Israeli civilians.
An Israeli soldier was killed and four others were maimed in a Hezbollah anti-tank missile attack in southern Leb ...The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers... , the Israel Defense Forces announced Thursday evening, the military’s second fatality of the day.
The slain soldier was named as Sgt. Aviaad Elchanan Volansky, 21, of the 7th Armored Brigade’s 77th Battalion, from Jerusalem. He is the fourth soldier to be killed in the conflict with Hezbollah that began on March 2, when the Lebanese terror group began firing rockets and drones at Israel amid the US-Israeli war with its sponsor, Iran.
Earlier in the day, the military said an IDF soldier was killed overnight during a firefight with Hezbollah operatives in southern Lebanon.
Throughout Thursday, Hezbollah fire continued to hit Israel, with the terror group launching more than 100 rockets and killing a man and seriously wounding another in the northern city of Nahariya.
Sirens sounded in the port city of Haifa later Thursday night.
Israel has responded to the attacks with heavy Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s on Hezbollah targets and by deepening its presence on the ground in Lebanon. Lebanese state media said Israeli strikes killed at least five people on Thursday, two of them in a raid on a building in the Nabatiyeh area in the south.
IDF SAYS TANK INTERCEPTED ONE MISSILE BEFORE SECOND HIT IT
Volansky, the second soldier killed by Hezbollah on Thursday, is the son of Defense Establishment Comptroller Brig. Gen. (res.) Yair Volansky, who previously commanded the 401st Armored Brigade.
According to an initial IDF probe, Hezbollah operatives launched two anti-tank missiles from an area north of the Litani River in the eastern sector of southern Lebanon, targeting an Israeli Merkava tank.
The first missile was intercepted by the Merkava’s TROPHY active protection system, while the second struck the tank, killing Volansky and wounding other crewmembers, according to the probe.
The IDF said two officers and two soldiers of the 77th Battalion were lightly maimed in the incident.
LEBANON SAYS IT WILL APPEAL TO UN OVER WAR
Lebanon meanwhile said it would complain to the United Nations ...a lucrative dumping ground for the relatives of dictators and party hacks... Security Council over the Israeli attacks. That statement came as the government is contending with internal divisions in its government after its decision this week to declare the Iranian ambassador persona non grata.
In response, two ministers from Hezbollah and two from its ally Amal boycotted Thursday’s cabinet session.
In a statement afterwards, the cabinet said Israel was "threatening Lebanon’s illusory sovereignty," and Lebanese Prime Minister Nawaf Salam said he had asked the foreign minister to "immediately file a complaint with the Security Council in this regard."
Dozens of protesters, meanwhile, gathered near Iran’s embassy on the outskirts of south Beirut, where Israel has repeatedly bombed in recent weeks, some waving Iranian or Hezbollah flags amid chants of "Death to America, death to Israel."
Visiting Egyptian Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty called for the immediate cessation of what he called Israel’s "aggression" on Lebanon.
HEZBOLLAH DENIES PRESENCE IN KUWAIT
Also Thursday, Hezbollah denied that it had any presence in Kuwait, a day after the Gulf country announced more arrests of people allegedly linked to the terror group.
"For the third time, Hezbollah reiterates its complete denial of the accusations" made by Kuwait’s interior ministry, the group said in a statement.
"Hezbollah has no presence in the state of Kuwait or any other country," the statement adds, calling the accusations "removed from reality and devoid of truth."
The view from Lebanon:
South under fire as Hezbollah clashes with troops in Qantara-Deir Seryan
[AnNahar] The Israeli army struck overnight into Thursday several villages and towns in south Lebanon including Srifa, Kafra, Shaqra, Majdalzoun, Kfar Remman, Bint Jbeil, Jibal al-Botom, Siddiqine, Ainata, Harouf and Arab Salim.
At least seven people were killed in the strikes and 16 others were wounded.
A strike on a building in Kfar Remman in the Nabatieh district killed two people.
AFP images showed a badly damaged building and smoke rising from the rubble, while rescue workers and firefighters worked at the scene.
Another strike in the border area of Bint Jbeil killed another three people, the agency said.
The Health Ministry said 22 people had been killed over the past 24 hours, raising the death toll to 1,094 people since the start of the war on March 2.
At least 121 children and 81 women were among the dead in Lebanon, the ministry said.
153 people were also wounded over the past day, raising the total number of injured to 3,119.
Israeli artillery also shelled al-Khiam, Kfar Hamam, Rashaya al-Fakhar, Wadi Slouki and Wadi al-Hujair as troops tried to advance deeper into south Lebanon.
Israeli troops had advanced from the southern border town of Taybeh toward Qantara and Deir al-Seryan near the Litani river as Israel said it wanted to take control of a strip up to the Litani River.
Hezbollah launched Wednesday more than 80 attacks on Wednesday, the largest daily number in the current war.
On Thursday, Hezbollah said its fighters have targeted Avivim, Malkia, Nahariya, Kiryat Shmona, Manara, Krayot, the Poriya Base and Mount Adir in north Israel with attack drones, rockets and advanced missiles, and attacked overnight into Thursday troops near Alma al-Shaab and in Raas al-Naqoura, al-Taybeh, Deir al-Seryan, and al-Qawzah.
Israel said one soldier was killed in the clashes in south Lebanon.
The Poriya Base near Lake Tiberias is a strategic site for Iron Dome missile defense batteries, which are positioned there to protect the Galilee region and the city of Tiberias from aerial threats.
#Iran / #Israel / #USA 🇮🇷🇮🇱🇺🇸: US forces reportedly air-dropped explosive devices in the city of #Shiraz in #Fars Province.
The Explosive Devices seem to be “BLU-91/B” Landmines —which are mostly deployed by CBU-89/B and CBU-78/B Cluster bombs of “GATOR” Mine System. pic.twitter.com/RmW81ZQrPN
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Iran's navy commander who oversaw the Strait of Hormuz blockade has been killed in an Israeli airstrike.
Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz announced Alireza Tangsiri's death in a video statement on Thursday.
He said: 'Last night, in a precise and lethal operation, the IDF eliminated the commander of the Revolutionary Guards' navy, Tangsiri, along with senior officers of the naval command.
'The man who was directly responsible for the terrorist operation of mining and blocking the Strait of Hormuz to shipping was blown up and eliminated.'
Defense Minister Israel Katz confirms: The commander of Iran’s IRGC Navy has been killed, along with all senior naval command officials. pic.twitter.com/ZCGCAQnwcH
About two weeks ago, Mojtaba Khamenei, Iran’s new supreme leader opened a premium account on X. Through this account, he is encouraging the continuation of the war and revenge against the United States. In other words, he is inciting violence. It goes without saying that Mojtaba…
…that Mojtaba himself, as well as the IRGC, are under sanctions.
A premium account costs about eight dollars. I recommend that X disclose from which bank account the Supreme Leader bypassed U.S. sanctions and managed to transact in dollars. X may be inadvertently facilitating payments in violation of sanctions.
At the same time, I would recommend that X review all accounts associated with Hamas, Hezbollah, the Houthis, and the IRGC that it maintains, to ensure they are not being used to circumvent sanctions.
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.
...The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozen flavors of Christians, plus Armenians, Georgians, and who knows what else?...
