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The Houthis launched a second attack on Israel and said they would continue shelling, IDF shot ‘em all down
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Chicago Mayor Pushes Reparations Amid $1B Budget Gap
Sunday 03/29/2026

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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
'Incredibly Problematic' - Iran
Destroys US AWACS Jet At Saudi Airbase
Europe
Trump Effect: E.U. to Tighten Borders,
Increase Illegal Migrant Deportations
Arabia
Visiting UAE, Zelensky announces defense
cooperation with Abu Dhabi amid Iran attacks
Europe
German city wary as Volkswagen weighs
shifting car plant to Iron Dome production
Europe
Paris cops thwart suspected
terrorist bombing near Bank of America
Syria-Lebanon-Iran
IDF found active Hezbollah tunnels
they built near church during ceasefire
A major solar ejecta could delay a lunar mission.

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Africa Subsaharan
Benin: Al-Qaeda in Sahel (JNIM) militants reportedly raided Burkinabe army barracks
Posted by: badanov || 03/29/2026 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1766 views] Top|| File under: al-Qaeda


Nigeria: 38 terrorists killed in ISWAP attack on a Nigerian army camp in Mandararigau

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The two latest victories of the Nigerian army in repelling ISWAP attacks, Mallam Fatori and Mandararigau, were made possible because of early warnings and troop preparedness.

They come immediately after the Nigerian army confirmed the deployment of US Air Force drones in the northeast, and according to Major General S. Uba, the American side has started providing actionable intelligence gathered during ISR missions to Nigerian army field commanders.

More at the link
Posted by: badanov || 03/29/2026 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1765 views] Top|| File under: ISWAP


Arabia
The Houthis launched a second attack on Israel and said they would continue shelling, IDF shot ‘em all down
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited
[Regnum] The Yemeni Shiite military-political movement Ansar Allah (Houthis) will continue shelling Israeli territory until Israel ceases its attacks on Iran and Lebanon. Houthi military spokesman Yahya Saria stated this on March 28 on the Al Masirah television channel.

"We conducted a second military operation as part of the 'Holy Battle of Jihad,' using cruise missiles and drones. It was directed against several important military targets of the Zionist enemy in southern occupied Palestine," Saria said.

He stressed that the Houthi military operations will continue in the coming days and will not end until the "criminal enemy ceases its aggression."

The Houthis also launched a ballistic missile attack on military targets in southern Israel on March 28. The attack occurred simultaneously with actions by

On March 27, Saria declared the movement's readiness to engage in a military conflict on Iran's side if one of three conditions was not met. These included the joining of third-party military alliances on the side of Israel and the United States, strikes against Iran or another Muslim country from the Red Sea, and further escalation of the confrontation with the Islamic Republic and its allied forces.

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The Houthis reported a missile attack on military bases in Israel.

Yemen's Ansar Allah (Houthi) movement launched a ballistic missile attack on military targets in southern Israel. The Houthis announced this in a statement on March 28.

It is noted that the attack was carried out simultaneously with actions by Iran and the Lebanese Hezbollah movement.

"Operations will continue until the declared objectives are achieved and aggression on all resistance fronts ceases," Al Masirah TV quoted the Houthi statement as saying on its Telegram channel.

On March 27, Yemeni Ansar Allah military spokesman Yahya Sariah stated the movement's readiness to engage in a military conflict on Iran's side unless one of three conditions is met. Sariah identified these as the joining of third-party military alliances on the side of Israel and the United States, strikes against Iran or another Muslim country from the Red Sea, and further escalation of the confrontation with the Islamic Republic and its allied forces.

The Times of Israel:
Yemen
...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of...
’s Iran's Houthi sock puppets
...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The legitimate Yemeni government has accused the them of having ties to the Iranian government. Honest they did. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews They like shooting off... ummm... missiles that they would have us believe they make at home in their basements. On the plus side, they did murder Ali Abdullah Saleh, which was the only way the country was ever going to be rid of him...
s launched a ballistic missile attack at southern Israel on Saturday morning, triggering sirens in Beersheba and surrounding areas, in the first offensive from the Iran-aligned group since the start of the war with Iran.

In a statement, the Houthis grabbed credit for the attack, saying they had targeted "sensitive Israeli military sites" with a "barrage of ballistic missiles."

The IDF said one ballistic missile fired from Yemen was successfully shot down by air defenses.

The ballistic missile set off sirens in southern Israel, and no injuries were reported.

Several hours later, a cruise missile launched from Yemen was shot down over the Red Sea, according to the IDF. No sirens sounded in Israel for that attack, as no towns were under any threat, the military said.

In the evening, a drone, suspected to have been launched from Yemen, was intercepted by air defenses over the southernmost city of Eilat, according to the IDF.
Clearly Allah does not want Iran and its satrapies to win. Why are these Twelver Shiites spending blood and treasure in opposition Allah’s will?

Posted by: badanov || 03/29/2026 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1831 views] Top|| File under: Houthis


#2  Why are these Twelver Shiites spending blood and treasure in opposition Allah’s will?

Maybe this?
Posted by: Procopius2k || 03/29/2026 12:06 Comments || Top||


#4  Maps are good to guide thinking.
Posted by: trailing wife || 03/29/2026 14:43 Comments || Top||


Europe
Paris cops thwart suspected terrorist bombing near Bank of America
Hopefully more will soon be revealed, so we know how to file this story.
[IsraelTimes] ‘Vigilance remains at a very high level,’ interior minister says, after announcing stepped-up security measures for Jewish, US and Iranian opposition targets due to war

French police have thwarted a suspected kaboom outside a Bank of America building in Gay Paree, authorities said Saturday. One suspect was detained and another escaped.

The national anti-terrorism prosecutor’s office, or PNAT, told The News Agency that Dare Not be Named that it has opened an investigation into alleged terrorism-related offenses.

The suspected offenses include attempted damage by fire or by a dangerous means, the manufacture of an incendiary or bomb, the possession and transport of such devices with the intent to prepare dangerous damage, and involvement in a terrorist criminal association.

A person was placed in police custody.

"Well done to the rapid intervention of a Gay Paree police prefecture unit, which made it possible to thwart a violent mostly peaceful act of a terrorist nature overnight in Gay Paree," Interior Minister Laurent Nuñez said.

"Vigilance remains at a very high level," Nuñez said. "I commend all security and intelligence forces, fully mobilized under my authority in the current international context."

RTL radio, citing police sources, reported that the incident took place early Saturday when coppers spotted two suspects carrying a shopping bag near the premises of the Bank of America in the 8th arrondissement of the French capital.

One of the suspects, holding a lighter, was attempting to ignite a device, RTL said, while the second suspect managed to escape. The Gay Paree police prefecture declined to comment.

Since the 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 Jews Zionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol...
war broke out, French authorities have increased personal protection of some figures from the Iranian opposition and stepped up security around sites that could be a target, including sites linked to US interests and to the Jewish community, Nuñez said earlier this week.
Posted by: trailing wife || 03/29/2026 2026-03-29 04:46 || Comments || Link || [1798 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran Proxies




Fifth Column
Mayhem erupts at No Kings protests across America as rioters pelt agents with rocks, tear gas is unleashed and rival mobs clash outside one of Trump's prized properties
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Nationwide 'No Kings' protests against Donald Trump have descended into chaos with cops forced to deploy tear gas against violent demonstrators hurling rocks in clashes across the country.

For the third time, millions gathered coast to coast on Saturday for coordinated demonstrations against the president, driven by anger over his immigration crackdown, rising costs and the ongoing war in Iran.

Organizers expect the rally to become the 'largest political protest' in American history.

On the West Coast, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said a swarm of around '1,000 rioters' surrounded the Edward R Roybal Federal Building in Los Angeles, according to Fox News.

The agency said individuals were throwing rocks, bottles and cement blocks at police officers, resulting in two officers needing medical treatment after being struck by debris.

DHS added that two individuals were arrested for allegedly assaulting federal law enforcement officers.

The announcement came amid reports of protesters hurling cement rocks at DHS agents, while others violently banged on the fence outside the Metropolitan Detention Center in Los Angeles.

In footage shared on X, officers responded to the massive crowd with tear gas, sending people scrambling to cover their faces as smoke blanketed the scene.

The Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) confirmed to Fox that 'multiple' people were arrested for failing to disperse, and that a 'tactical alert' was declared for the city, with tear gas deployed.

In Denver, another video posted to X showed a line of agents advancing on several protesters while tossing smoke bombs in their direction, which the protesters then picked up and threw back.

Colorado police confirmed to Fox that at least nine people were arrested during the city’s protest, noting that the demonstration remained peaceful until a small group of protesters blocked a road where officers were stationed.

Authorities declared an unlawful assembly and, after repeated orders to disperse were disregarded, deployed smoke to disperse the crowd. When a smoke canister was reportedly thrown back at officers, they responded with pepper balls.

Masked individuals reportedly tackled federal officers to the ground in Portland hours after more than a dozen demonstrations in the metro came to an end, according to Fox News.

In video obtained by the outlet, DHS officers were seen clashing with agitators as they shouted expletives outside the city’s ICE facility.

Words, including 'nazis,' were spray-painted on the building, according to Fox.

Additional footage of the incident showed a large group gathering around the brawl, with some individuals attempting to throw objects and move toward officers.

The caption claimed arrests were made, though it was unclear whether any occurred or how many.

Meanwhile, outside the Trump National Golf Course in Rancho Palos Verdes, California, a shouting match broke out between a 'No Kings' protester and a man wearing a shirt that read, 'DEPORT WHITE LIBERAL WOMEN,' according to KTLA.

The two men, mere inches apart, screamed at one another while others nearby tried to push the counter-protester back, shouting, 'Racist, go home!'

About twenty seconds later, the counter-protester walked away, yelling into a megaphone: 'This guy is fighting for illegal aliens,' while the other man was escorted off.

A separate incident in West Palm Beach, Florida, occurred after protesters appeared to chase a man wearing a 'Make America Great Again' hat, according to Fox.

In video obtained by the outlet, a man can be heard screaming at the counter-protestor, 'F*** off, f*** off,' while another added, 'Your whole f***ing party is nothing but f***ing hate. You're f***ing traitors.'

The verbal attack came from both sides, with 'No Kings' attendees calling the man’s group 'pedophile protectors,' while Trump supporters argued against illegal immigration.

New York also saw counter-protests across the city, with some participants defending the president by saying 'he’s not a king' and claiming their presence was their 'constitutional right,' according to Fox Digital.

'I'm here to show them that, first of all, the United States - the last time I checked - we don't have kings. That's the United Kingdom,' Trump supporter Ronan told the outlet.

More than 3,300 rallies erupted across all 50 states on Saturday, with organizers expecting the turnout to break records as the 'single largest nonviolent day of action' in US history.

'Trump wants to rule over us as a tyrant. But this is America, and power belongs to the people - not to wannabe kings or their billionaire cronies,' organizers told BBC.

Another protestor, who claimed the Trump administration is 'destroying our country,' added that the president 'can't bomb his way out of the Epstein files,' according to Fox.

'There's a lot of corruption in the White House,' a second attendee told the outlet. 'It's time to clean up.'

The nationwide protests are being funded by around 500 communist and socialist groups, bringing in an estimated $3 billion a year, Fox News Digital revealed on Saturday.

In June 2025, more than five million people attended No Kings demonstrations. Just months later, in October, that number swelled to seven million.

At this stage, a real-time headcount of this weekend’s protests is nearly impossible to determine, though estimates place attendance at at least eight million.

A White House spokesperson described the rallies as 'Trump Derangement Therapy Sessions,' insisting the only people who care are 'reporters getting paid,' according to the outlet.

Nevertheless, scenes of massive crowds have surfaced in major cities across Minnesota, California, Illinois, Washington DC, New York and Florida, with more than 40 protests planned in the small state of Vermont alone.

Protesters flooded the streets, suburbs and small towns, as crowds danced and waved signs on issues ranging from 'ICE Needs to Melt' to 'We Can't Afford the War or the Gas.'

From New York City, a bustling metropolis of nearly 8.5 million in a blue state, to the small eastern Idaho town of Driggs, with fewer than 2,000 residents, people rallied across the country - including in states Trump carried decisively in 2024.

'We've got to rise up,' Mitch Campbell, 72, told The New York Times during a protest in Oxford, Mississippi. He held a sign that read: 'No Kings Except Elvis.'

'It's reached a point now where - how can people ignore this?' he added. 'They're just trampling on the Constitution. Whether it's gas, or the tariffs, or cost of living, or whatever, I mean, we're just not paying attention.'

An estimated 200,000 people packed the Minnesota State Capitol, where Governor Tim Walz welcomed Bruce Springsteen and a roster of big‑name speakers and performers, from Bernie Sanders and Joan Baez to Maggie Rogers.

'This past winter, federal troops brought death and terror to the streets of Minneapolis,' Springsteen said on the St Paul stage. 'Well, they picked the wrong city.'

Jane Fonda, 88, who has conducted a rollercoaster half-century career in leftist activism alongside her movie stardom, was also among those in attendance.

She explained that she was 'not gonna make a speech 'cause we're running late and there's a bunch of people who have to catch planes.'

Instead, she read a statement from Renee Good's girlfriend Becca Good, who is often referred to as her 'wife' but to whom she was not legally married.

The crowd also marked the 'largest protest in Minnesota history,' according to The Washington Post.

On the West Coast, rallies took place in downtown Los Angeles, where over 40 protests were planned across multiple counties, drawing hundreds of thousands in Beverly Hills, Burbank, West Covina, West Hollywood, and Thousand Oaks.

Amid thousands of signs and American flags, a giant blimp of Trump as a diaper-wearing baby bobbed above the crowds.

'I'm very disturbed by the degradation of human beings and the destruction of our democracy under this Trump tyranny,' Rossana Foote, 62, told the Los Angeles Times, describing Trump's administration as 'inhumane.'

'We need to come together to show a strong voice, a strong movement that there are no kings, no one's above the law,' she added.

California protestors included Kathy Griffin, who recently declared herself 'un-canceled' after her career was torpedoed by a 2017 scandal over a video of her holding Trump's severed head in effigy.

The stand-up comic carried a sign that on one side denounced ICE as 'Trump's lawless militia' and on the other demanded 'Justice for Pretti and Good.'

In the suburb of Studio City, Annette Bening joined the demonstrators on the sidewalk, holding up a sign with a drawing of Mary Poppins.

'Super Callous Fragile Nihilistic Extra Halitosis,' the sign read, meant to be sung to the tune of Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious.

In the Big Apple, protesters marched south from Midtown carrying anti‑ICE, anti‑Trump and anti‑Iran signs alongside Manhattan's flashing billboards.

Donna Lieberman, executive director of the New York Civil Liberties Union, described Trump as the nation's 'Bully in Chief,' according to NBC 4 New York News.

'They want us all to be afraid to protest. They want us to be afraid that there's nothing we can do to stop them. But you know what? They are wrong - dead wrong,' she said.

In Glens Falls, 57‑year‑old Marsha Luzier stood among the crowd, one of many protesters who brought up the war in Iran - where at least a dozen US troops were wounded in a Friday Iranian strike on a base in Saudi Arabia.

Her partner, Jake Shumaker, 49, has a brother who is a combat veteran and was seriously injured after completing three tours in Iraq.

'Our military is being deployed for oil,' he told The Washington Post. 'Or to cover for the Epstein files - let's be honest.'

The Manhattan branch of the No Kings protests attracted such names as Padma Lakshmi, who gave a speech at a press conference during the event.

Robert De Niro, a longstanding fierce critic of the Trump administration, could be glimpsed wearing an: 'I [heart] NY' pin amid a column of marchers.

In the nation's capital, where Trump has reshaped the federal workforce and used his executive power to alter the city's landmarks, protesters held signs reading, 'Fight for democracy.'

'Earlier, I was afraid of losing my job,' federal worker Kim, 56, told The Washington Post.

'But after starting multiple wars and foreign invasions - and persecuting Americans and "to-be Americans" - that broke some terror water in me,' she added.

Demonstrations have broken out in Boston, Nashville and Houston, while smaller cities like Shelbyville, Kentucky and Howell, Michigan, also took part.

Crowds have also formed overseas. In Paris, London, and Lisbon, protesters carried signs labeling Trump a 'fascist' and a 'war criminal,' while calling for his impeachment and removal from office, according to BBC.

Protestors have also congregated in Rome, Madrid, Amsterdam, Sydney and Tokyo, among other big cities.

Trump’s approval ratings are at new lows and even parts of his MAGA base are expressing frustration.

Many object to a war with Iran that has killed 13 US service members and sent gas prices surging.

Related: See all the tweets from the No Kings protests here.

Posted by: Skidmark || 03/29/2026 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1807 views] Top|| File under: Antifa/BLM

#1  Time for a whiff of grapeshot?
Posted by: Grom the Affective || 03/29/2026 2:42 Comments || Top||

#2  Sedition. Aiding the enemy during wartime. We need to use our laws against antisemitism against them.
Posted by: Omans Slath8956 || 03/29/2026 3:02 Comments || Top||

#3  ^ Always with this classic libel of international Lawry, eh, Herb? Seasoned Salt graphic, please.
Posted by: Shinter Whaitle1745 || 03/29/2026 3:38 Comments || Top||

#4 
Since they are a party of LGBT?+Peds

Shouldn't we have a "No More Queens" protest day also?
🤔

With said. I'll ask the question. Who were their Kings QUEENS that organized a Nationwide Protest of the same theme, chants and signage?

Plus clued their national propaganda Media Arm for royal level organized coverage using the same basic NEWS coverage talking points?
Posted by: NN2N1 || 03/29/2026 6:05 Comments || Top||

#5  Seasoned Salt graphic, please.



Marvel Mighty Thor Mjolnir Hammer Replica Stainless Steel Meat Tenderizer
Posted by: Skidmark || 03/29/2026 7:14 Comments || Top||


#7  #6^

Start using non-lethal energy dye marking rounds aimed at vital/painful body areas & faces.

Arrest those with the dye markers for felonies.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 03/29/2026 8:30 Comments || Top||

#8  The longer the rioting and mayhem are permitted to continue, the worse it will get.
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/29/2026 8:37 Comments || Top||

#9  Arnon Milchan, Hollywood producer and dual US/Isreali citizen produced this movie.



Posted by: Fat Bob Smiter of the Giants9662 || 03/29/2026 9:13 Comments || Top||

#10  ^ Having nothing to do with anything:

[AI]
Tom Clancy Plane Crashes Capitol

**In Tom Clancy’s 1994 novel *Debt of Honor*, a Japanese commercial airline pilot deliberately crashes a Boeing 747 into the U.S. Capitol Building during a joint session of Congress**, killing the president, most of Congress, and the Supreme Court. The attack is carried out by a grief-stricken pilot avenging the deaths of his son and brother in a fictional U.S.-Japan conflict, and it thrusts Jack Ryan—newly appointed vice president—into the presidency.

**The novel gained significant attention after the September 11, 2001 attacks**, as its plot closely mirrored real-world concerns about aircraft being used as weapons.
- Clancy consulted with a U.S. Air Force officer while writing the scene, who admitted the military had no known plan for such an event.
- The 9/11 Commission Report later noted that officials had not seriously considered the possibility of suicide plane attacks, despite Clancy’s fictional depiction.
- Some officials, including counterterrorism expert Richard Clarke, acknowledged that awareness of such threats was influenced more by Clancy’s novels than intelligence warnings.
Posted by: Skidmark || 03/29/2026 9:37 Comments || Top||

#11  Via IMDB:
Arnon Milchan is widely renowned as one of the most prolific and successful independent film producers of his time, with over 100 feature films to his credit.

Notice that Milchan is a producer, *not* the director of the movie that is evidence of whatever it is evidence of.

The plot summary for The Medusa Touch:
A telekinetic novelist causes disasters simply by thinking about them.

"The first principle is that you must not fool yourself--and you are the easiest person to fool. So you have to be very careful about that."
-- Richard Feynman, really smart guy
Posted by: SteveS || 03/29/2026 10:14 Comments || Top||

#12  For half of the 20th century
Our secretive Hollywood gentry
Kept hidden the news
Of V-1s and V-2s,
Kamikazes and cars
And kabooms, foreign wars...
[Herb in deerstalker: "Jews! Elementary."]

Not that the cui bono take on almost anything isn't awful appealing, but sometimes, possibly, a flying car boom is just a flying car boom?
Posted by: Shinter Whaitle1745 || 03/29/2026 15:56 Comments || Top||

#13  *golf clap*
Posted by: Frank G || 03/29/2026 15:57 Comments || Top||

#14  Beautifully done in your personal Rantburg tradition, Zenobia F.
Posted by: trailing wife || 03/29/2026 22:04 Comments || Top||


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Islamic Resistance in Iraq Escalates: Coordinated strikes on multiple Jordanian airbases

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Islamic Resistance in Iraq Escalates: Coordinated Strikes on Multiple Jordanian Airbases

Baghdad (http://IraqiNews.com) – In a significant expansion of the ongoing regional conflict, the Islamic Resistance in Iraq (IRI) claimed responsibility for a wave of coordinated drone and missile strikes targeting five major military installations in Jordan early Saturday morning.

This marks the first time the umbrella group of pro-Iran militias has executed a synchronized, large-scale operation against multiple high-value targets outside of Iraq since the Epic Fury war began on February 28.

Posted by: badanov || 03/29/2026 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1775 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran Proxies


IDF Samaria Brigade with Yahalom and Border Police units demolishes terrorist abode in Nablus

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IDF forces from the Samaria Brigade, alongside Yahalom and Border Police units, demolished the Nablus apartment of the terrorist responsible for the deadly ramming attack at the Jit junction that killed Sgt. Maj. (res.) Inbar Avraham.

The IDF says it will continue counterterror operations across Judea and Samaria to deter attacks and protect civilians and soldiers.

Posted by: badanov || 03/29/2026 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1759 views] Top|| File under:


IDF operation in Shechem

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🚨 IDF OPERATION IN SHECHEM

IDF forces from the Shomron Brigade demolished the apartment of the terrorist who carried out the ramming attack at the Gitai Junction on September 28, 2025, in which Sgt. Inbar Avraham Kabi z”l was killed.

The overnight operation in Shechem was conducted יחד with Yahalom combat engineers and Border Police forces in Judea and Samaria.

The IDF states it will continue operating to thwart terrorism and deter attacks against Israeli civilians and soldiers.

Posted by: badanov || 03/29/2026 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1760 views] Top|| File under:


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
'Incredibly Problematic' - Iran Destroys US AWACS Jet At Saudi Airbase
[ZH] In a major feat that comes weeks after the White House claimed that Iran's ballistic missile capability had been "functionally destroyed," Iran has laid waste to one of only 16 American E-3 Sentry Airborne Warning and Control System (AWACS) aircraft in the world, sending $500 million worth of technology up in smoke and crimping the US military's ability to maintain situational awareness. The same attack also "damaged" several aerial refueling tankers and added a dozen service members to the tally of more than 300 who've been wounded in the month-long US-Israeli war on Iran. Thirteen have been killed.

In recent days, foreign satellite images showed what appeared to be major damage at Prince Sultan Air Base, a U.S. military base located in Al Kharj, Saudi Arabia.

The images show damage on the base's main apron, which holds high-value aircraft.
Posted by: Skidmark || 03/29/2026 09:22 || Comments || Link || [1795 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Only a ground invasion will destroy the launch sites of these ICBMs. It's only a matter of time before the tip one with a nuke.
THey won't bother with an airbase of a US ally, they'll hit New York like they did on 9/11.
Posted by: Fat Bob Smiter of the Giants9662 || 03/29/2026 11:15 Comments || Top||

#2  Implying Iran "hit New York like they did on 9/11" is complete bollocks.
Posted by: DooDahMan || 03/29/2026 11:19 Comments || Top||

#3  Typo, that was IraQ, not Iran.
We overthrew Saddam because he was about to give WMD to Al-Qaeda. Just in the nick of time, too.
Posted by: Fat Bob Smiter of the Giants9662 || 03/29/2026 11:26 Comments || Top||


IDF found active Hezbollah tunnels they built near church during ceasefire


A belated update from the Times of Israel, published yesterday at 1:19 p.m. Israel Time:
2 soldiers seriously hurt in Lebanon clashes as Hezbollah rockets and drones pound north

7 other troops moderately wounded; no injuries reported from rocket, drone fire; military says it killed two top Hezbollah communications unit members in Beirut strike

Two soldiers were seriously maimed and seven others were moderately hurt during festivities with Hezbollah in southern Leb
...The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. Only one of those statements is an exaggeration....
on Friday and overnight into Saturday, Israel Defense Forces said, as the terror group continued to pound northern Israel with rocket and drone attacks.

In an incident on Friday, two officers were maimed by anti-tank missile fire during an engagement with Hezbollah operatives. One of the soldiers was seriously maimed and the second was moderately injured, the military said.

In a separate incident overnight, an officer was seriously maimed and six troops were moderately hurt by Hezbollah rocket fire in southern Lebanon.

Four soldiers have been killed in Israeli operations inside Lebanon since hostilities resumed when the terror group began firing at Israel in response to the latter’s killing of Iran’s supreme leader Ali Khamenei
...the very aged actual dictator of Iran, successor to Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini...>
Meanwhile,
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Hezbollah continued to fire rockets at northern Israel, sending residents running for shelter.

In addition, at least two Hezbollah drones launched from Lebanon at northern Israel were intercepted by air defenses, according to the IDF. The drones triggered sirens across northern Israel, including in the Haifa Bay area. There were no reports of injuries.

Also Saturday, the IDF said it killed two top members of Hezbollah’s communications unit in a strike in Beirut overnight.

The strike in the Lebanese capital killed Ayyoub Hussein Yaacoub and Yasser Mohammad Mubarak, both senior members of the unit, which the military has said is responsible for "maintaining communication continuity" within Hezbollah and overseeing "the development, maintenance, and use of communication systems" used by the terror group.

The military said Yaacoub previously served in a senior role in Hezbollah’s rocket unit and was behind numerous attacks on Israel, while Mubarak held a position in the rocket unit alongside his role in the communications unit.

The strike came as the IDF said the Israeli Air Force and Israeli Navy hit dozens of Hezbollah sites across Lebanon overnight, including as part of support for ground troops operating in the south of the country.

The targets included weapon depots, rocket launchers, and buildings used by Hezbollah, the military said.

Lebanon’s state-run National News Agency reported "a series of strikes" at dawn on the town of Majdal Selm and "successive strikes" on the towns of Kafra, Hanniyeh, Touline, and Adloun. It added that several Israeli strikes also targeted the city of Nabatieh, hitting "residential and commercial buildings and a fuel station."

At the same time, the agency reported strikes on border towns, particularly Taybeh, along with "an attempt by enemy forces to advance toward the Litani area."

As the IDF has pushed forces into southern Lebanon, the military also said it has identified that Hezbollah is launching most of its rocket attacks on Israel from deeper within the country, including from areas north of the Litani River.

Hezbollah’s intensified rocket fire, which has targeted areas in Israel beyond the northern border communities, has killed two Israeli civilians and maimed dozens more. In addition, another civilian was mistakenly killed in the north by IDF artillery shelling.

The IDF believes Hezbollah still possesses thousands of short-range rockets, along with hundreds of longer-range projectiles, and has said that Hezbollah is launching most of its attacks from deeper within southern Lebanon, and not from close to the border.

The IDF said Friday that it has killed at least 770 Hezbollah operatives in Lebanon since hostilities resumed, including hundreds of members of the terror group’s elite Radwan Force.

The number only includes operatives that Israeli intelligence officers have definitively identified, meaning the true number of dead Hezbollah fighters is likely higher, IDF officials said.

According to a Friday statement by Lebanese authorities, Israeli strikes on the country in the same time period have killed at least 1,142 people, including 122 children, in tallies that do not differentiate between combatants and civilians.
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