[ShabelleMedia] Somali special forces conducted a planned security operation in areas under Buurhakaba district in the Bay region, targeting suspected al-Shabaab ... the Islamic version of the old Somali warlord... hideouts, military officials said Wednesday.
The operation was carried out by the Danab commandos of the Somali National Army, specifically the 165th Unit of the 16th Brigade, as part of ongoing efforts to strengthen security and dismantle hard boy networks in southern Somalia.
According to officers who led the mission, troops raided positions and locations where al-Shabaab fighters were believed to be hiding.
"The objective of the operation was to reinforce security, protect civilians and prevent destabilizing activities by enemy groups in the area," an officer involved in the operation said.
The officials did not immediately provide details on casualties or arrests resulting from the operation.
Security forces were continuing clearance and stabilization operations in the area to consolidate security gains and maintain stability, the officers added.
Somalia has intensified military operations against the al-Qaeda-linked al-Shabaab group in several regions as the government seeks to reclaim territory and improve security.
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[Regnum] A US Navy carrier strike group has entered the Caribbean Sea. US Southern Command (SOUTHCOM) announced this on social media on May 20.
The group includes the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz, the destroyer USS Gridley, and the supply tanker USNS Patuxent.
The carrier battle group entered the Caribbean Sea amid U.S. authorities' indictment of former Cuban President Raúl Castro. He is accused of involvement in the deaths of American citizens in 1996.
US President Donald Trump has ruled out any escalation between Washington and Havana. However, Trump has previously repeatedly threatened Cuba with military force. Earlier this year, he threatened to impose tariffs on imports from countries supplying fuel to the island. On May 1, the American leader announced his intention to address Cuba after the conflict with Iran ends.
On May 16, The New York Times reported that US authorities were considering conducting a similar operation against Raúl Castro as was carried out against Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro. Journalists indicated that, to implement this initiative, the US side intended to initiate criminal prosecution against the Cuban politician.
[Rudaw] Two drones launched 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... hit a base for the Komala Toilers of Kurdistan (Komala) dissident group near the Kurdistan Region’s eastern Sulaimani province on Wednesday, the party said in a statement, with no injuries recorded.
"The former headquarters of the Komala Toilers of Kurdistan in Banagawra [southeast of Sulaimani] was targeted tonight at 21:30 by two drones," the group said, adding that "the drones came from Iran."
Since the outbreak of the Iran war in late February, " the Islamic Theocratic Republic of Iran has targeted Komala positions and bases with more than 78 missiles and drones," the statement added.
A Komala official confirmed to Rudaw that no injuries were recorded.
The incident comes just days after four "Iranian missiles" struck another base belonging to the same Kurdish dissident group southwest of Sulaimani province on Monday, injuring at least two people, a party official then confirmed to Rudaw.
The US and Israel launched a large-scale aerial campaign against Iran in late February, striking thousands of targets across the country during six weeks of hostilities.
In response, Iran carried out thousands of drone and missile strikes across the Middle East, targeting alleged US assets - particularly in Gulf Arab states - as well as launching retaliatory attacks against Israel.
The Iranian response also involved Iraqi gangs aligned with the Tehran-led ’Axis of Resistance®,’ with several factions claiming responsibility for attacks on purported US targets in the region, including in Iraq and the Kurdistan Region.
Tehran also ramped up its attacks on Kurdish dissident groups in the Region.
The US and Iran later agreed to a Pakistain-mediated ceasefire on April 8, halting fighting to allow space for talks. While the first round of discussions concluded without a final agreement on April 11, a second round has yet to take place, as the war has yet to fully conclude.
Despite the truce, the Kurdistan Regional Government’s (KRG) Department of Media and Information in late April reported that since the outbreak of the war through the 20th of that month, the Region endured over 809 attacks. However,
the hip bone's connected to the leg bone... that number has since risen.
[IsraelTimes] The IDF says troops operating in northern Gaza killed a terror operative earlier today after he crossed the Yellow Line and approached forces in a manner that “posed an immediate threat.”
The operative was identified and killed by troops from the 14th Reserve Armored Brigade, the military says.
[IsraelTimes] The IDF says it destroyed a Hamas weapons depot in central Gaza overnight, saying the arms stored in the cache posed a threat to troops operating along the Yellow Line and Israeli civilians.
[IsraelTimes] Undercover troops from the IDF’s Duvdevan commando unit arrested two wanted Palestinians in separate operations in the West Bank within less than 12 hours, including one suspect accused of planning an imminent terror attack, the military says.
According to the IDF, one suspect was arrested in the northern West Bank town of Qabatiya. The military says he had been involved in advancing terror plots and was planning to carry out an attack in the “immediate future.”
In a separate operation, Duvdevan troops arrested another suspect in Nablus, who the IDF says was involved in “advancing terror activity.”
Hopefully the two of them are again chortling gleefully in private about how they’re fooling everyone into believing they have differences, as opposed to actually disagreeing on next steps.
[IsraelTimes] Revolutionary Guard says its ‘devastating blows will crush’ its ‘American-Zionist enemy’ if Trump resumes strikes, as Pakistani interior minister back in Iran for talks
US President Donald Trump ...Never got invited to a P.Diddy party... asserted Wednesday that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will do "whatever I want" when it comes to a potential military strike on Iran, in remarks made a day after the pair reportedly held a tense call on the subject.
Trump was asked by news hounds about his Tuesday phone call with the Israeli premier. "He’s a very good man, he’ll do whatever I want him to do. And he’s a great guy... Don’t forget he was a wartime prime minister," Trump responded.
Netanyahu has touted his close relationship with Trump, crediting it for a long list of pro-Israel decisions made by the US president. But it has also exposed Netanyahu to criticism that he is unable to push back on Trump as he has become so indebted to him.
Asked by The Times of Israel in March whether he alone would decide when the war with 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... ends or if Netanyahu would also have a say, Trump claimed that it would be a "mutual" decision," but when a ceasefire was announced several weeks later, Jerusalem was reportedly caught off guard.
Trump has still been careful not to criticize Netanyahu and has even lobbied for him to be pardoned by President Isaac Herzog in the ongoing corruption trial that the premier is facing.
Netanyahu is seen as supportive of resuming the war against Iran, as he has argued that war aims pertaining to Tehran’s nuclear and missile programs, along with its support for proxies, are still unmet. The premier has said he would accept those issues being address diplomatically but has expressed skepticism over whether Tehran is willing to negotiate in good faith.
Axios reported that during their Tuesday phone call, Trump updated Netanyahu on new mediation efforts by several Arab and Moslem states to reach a deal between the US and Iran.
The emerging proposal — reportedly drafted by Qatar ...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi... and Pakistain with input from regional mediators Saudi Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula, largely made up of sand and oil rigs. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual haj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. Formerly dictatorial and steeped in Olde Tyme Religion, deferring to Salafist holy men on all issues, it has now done a 180 and is making a serious effort to modernize, so as not to be left in the sand by its Gulf Arab neighbors. The holy men have been shoved to the background and the nation is now still dictatorial but somewhat rational. That doesn't make them trustworthy, but it's a start... , The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...just another cheapjack Moslem dictatorship, brought to you by the Moslem Brüderbund... and Egypt — would see Washington and Tehran sign a "letter of intent" that would officially end the war and open 30 days of negotiations on issues including reopening the Strait of Hormuz and limiting Iran’s nuclear program, a US source involved in the phone call told Axios.
The two leaders disagreed on the path forward during the call, as Netanyahu was highly skeptical of the framework, believing the US should continue applying military pressure on Iran to further weaken the regime by destroying its critical infrastructure, two Israeli sources said.
The US source said that Netanyahu’s "hair was on fire after the call," though Israeli sources noted that Netanyahu "is always concerned" about how negotiations with Iran will go, even during stages that previously failed.
The Prime Minister’s Office and the White House declined to comment to Axios on the report.
Mediators have been working over the last several days to bridge gaps on the last Pak proposal, and Qatar recently presented the US and Iran with a new draft, two Arab sources and an Israeli source told Axios, though a fourth Qatari source said there is no separate draft from Qatar and Doha is only aiming to improve the Pak draft.
The current efforts aim to secure stronger commitments from the Iranians regarding limiting their nuclear program and better guarantees from the US to gradually unfreeze Iranian funds kept abroad, according to the report.
Qatar sent a delegation to Tehran earlier this week for talks on the latest draft, as did Pakistain, the report added, while Iran’s Tasnim news agency claimed the US had submitted a new proposal via Pak mediators and that Tehran was reviewing the text.
Asked by news hounds on Wednesday if he is open to a limited Iran deal that would only open the Strait of Hormuz and extend the ceasefire, Trump said he is in no rush to reach an agreement: "We’d have to open the strait that would open immediately, so we’re gonna give this one shot. I’m in no hurry. Everyone is saying, ’Oh, the midterms.’ I’m in no hurry... Ideally I’d like to see few people killed, as opposed to a lot."
Hours earlier, though, he told news hounds that the war "will end very quickly.
Trump has given vague timelines for reaching a diplomatic solution with Iran, saying Tuesday that he could wait "two or three days" or for "a limited period of time," after announcing that he canceled a strike planned for Tuesday. In further remarks on Wednesday, he said the US was willing to wait a few days for the "right answer" from Iran, as talks are right "on the borderline."
"It’s right on the borderline, if we don’t get the right answers, it goes very quickly," he told news hounds just after stepping off Air Force One. "We’re all ready to go."
Trump said "we have to get the right answers [from Iran], so it’d have to be complete 100% good answers, and if we do, we save a lot of time, energy and lives." He added that it "could be a few days, but it could go very quickly," claiming the US was dealing with "people that are, I think, far more reasonable than the people that are really no longer with us... so hopefully those people will make a deal that’s going to be great for everyone."
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps issued its own warning to Trump on Wednesday, threatening major repercussions if the US resumes the war.
"If the aggression against Iran is repeated, the promised regional war will this time spread far beyond the region, and our devastating blows will crush you," said the IRGC, in a statement on its Sepah News website.
"The American-Zionist enemy... must know that despite the offensive carried out against us using the full capabilities of the world’s two most expensive armies, we have not deployed the full power of the Islamic revolution," it continued.
On Tuesday, US Vice President JD Vance told news hounds that "a lot of good progress is being made" in the efforts to reach a deal, adding, "We’re just going to keep working at it." At the same time, he warned Iran that the US military was "locked and loaded."
Also Tuesday, the US Senate advanced a war powers resolution, as a fourth Republican joined Democrats ...every time you hear the phrase white people, white supremacy,white anything but paint, you're listening to a Democrat. Ask him/her/it to reimagine something for you; they do that a lot, though not well. They can hear a dog whistle a mile or two away. They invented the spoils system and Tammany Hall, and inspired the addition of the word (Thomas) Nasty to the English language. They want to stop continental drift and repeal the law of unintended side effects... in their efforts to assert authority over the conflict, though support for passing the measure remains short of a majority.
Amid the tension, Pakistain’s interior minister headed to Iran on Wednesday for the second time this week, Iranian state media reported.
"Mohsin Naqvi traveled to Tehran to meet officials from the Islamic Theocratic Republic," Iran’s official IRNA news agency reported, citing diplomatic sources in Islamabad.
Pakistain has been mediating between Iran and the US, with Naqvi previously in Tehran on Saturday to "facilitate" the process, according to Iranian media.
Chinese President Xi Jinping, meanwhile, said further hostilities in the Middle East would be "inadvisable," calling for a ceasefire, as he spoke with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin ...President-for-Life of Russia. He gets along well with other presidents for life. He is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substance. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to him. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substances... in Beijing on Wednesday, according to Chinese state media.
"A comprehensive ceasefire is of utmost urgency, resuming hostilities is even more inadvisable and maintaining negotiations is particularly important," Xi told Putin, the Xinhua news agency reported.
GERMANY TO SEND TURKEY ADDITIONAL PATRIOT SYSTEM
Also amid the war in Iran, Turkey said on Wednesday that Germany would send it a Patriot missile defense system for a six-month deployment from June to replace a system deployed as part of NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Originally it was a mutual defense pact directed against an expansionist Soviet Union. In later years it evolved into a mechanism for picking the American pocket while criticizing the cut of the American pants... measures in southeast Turkey to bolster air defenses.
In March, Ankara said a US Patriot system was deployed to southeast Turkey, near a NATO radar base, in the face of missile threats from Iran. NATO defenses shot down four ballistic missiles launched from Iran during the war.
"In addition to the Spanish Patriot air defense system currently deployed in our country, one of the two additional Patriot systems deployed by NATO due to the conflicts between the US, Israel, and Iran will be replaced by a German system," the Ottoman Turkish Defense Ministry said in a statement.
"This replacement is planned to be completed in June, and the system is expected to remain operational for approximately six months," it said, adding that security evaluations will continue in coordination with allies.
JORDAN SHOOTS DOWN DRONE, ORIGIN UNKNOWN
Jordan, meanwhile, announced it had shot down a drone of unknown origin in its airspace on Wednesday. No casualties were reported.
"This morning, the Jordanian Armed Forces engaged with a drone of unknown origin that entered Jordanian airspace and was brought down in Jerash Governorate, without any injuries," the military said of an area located around 50 kilometers (30 miles) north of the capital Amman.
Though the Iran ceasefire has mostly held, drones have lately been launched from Iraq toward Gulf countries, including Saudi Arabia and Kuwait, apparently by Iran’s allies.
Trump and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said they launched the war in late February to curb Iran’s support for regional militias, dismantle its nuclear program, destroy its missile capabilities, and create conditions for Iranians to topple their rulers.
Iran responded to the attacks by firing on Israel, US forces, and neighboring Mideast countries. The regime also seized control of the Strait of Hormuz, and the US imposed a blockade on Iranian ships and ports.
The war has yet to deprive Iran of its stockpile of near-weapons-grade enriched uranium, though the US and Israel have said it will be removed from the country by force if not through a deal.
The Islamic Theocratic Republic’s holy manal leadership, which had faced a mass uprising at the start of the year, has so far withstood the onslaught.
I’m working hard on practicing trust — not my strength when it comes to politicians and jihadis.
[IsraelTimes] The Islamic Republic retains its highly enriched uranium stockpile, has 10 tons of lower-enriched uranium that nobody’s even asking for, and is holding the world to ransom at the Strait of Hormuz.
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All hope is not lost. While Trump will accept anything that he can present to American public as victory, the Aryans have the bit in their teeth and are running wild*.
*They lost a lot of face with the effortless way IDF sodomized them with a telegraph pole - and knocking down a couple of American planes doesn't make up for it.
[IsraelTimes] Defendant accused of participating in brutal beating of Palestinian poultry farmer, who remains in coma as result of violent ambush south of Nablus
A 25-year-old man from Jerusalem was indicted Wednesday on terror charges after allegedly taking part in three separate Jewish terrorist attacks on West Bank Paleostinians and their property, one of which left a man in a coma.
It marked a rare effort by Israeli authorities to prosecute an attack on Paleostinians by Jewish krazed killers. Settler attacks have taken place on a daily-basis in the West Bank with almost complete impunity, with critics accusing the government of turning a blind eye on such violence.
And Palestinian attacks on Jews have taken place nearly daily for decades. Recently the Jews started fighting back.
The defendant, Israel Grossman, was accused in the Jerusalem District Court of participating in the brutal beating of a Paleostinian man who worked on a poultry farm between Jalud and Qusra, villages south of Nablus.
The victim, 32-year-old Zahran Shanabla, suffered serious injuries to the head and remains hospitalized and in a coma as a result of the attack in April.
He was one of several workers on site at the time of the attack, found unconscious two hours after the beating, after he was feared missing or kidnapped.
Police announced the day after the April attack that they had arrested eight suspects aged 13 to 48, but Grossman was not one of them, having been nabbed in early May.
All eight were detained at the scene immediately following the attack on suspicion of assault and arson. One was found in possession of an army-grade M16 assault rifle, police said at the time.
In an earlier attack in February, Grossman allegedly vandalized property, smashed windows and set fire to a car in Jalud. Prosecutors said he and several other accomplices were masked and arrived in the town equipped with clubs and axes.
The gang roved around the village, causing damage to houses in their vicinity, until they centered their focus on one particular home, prosecutors wrote. Using their weapons, Grossman and his accomplices allegedly shattered eight windows and set a car on fire outside the house.
The indictment also implicated Grossman in an attack on security forces that took place in May, in which he tried again to reach the poultry farm in an ATV, while equipped with a weapon resembling a gun, pepper spray and an axe.
When police tried to arrest him, he fled and hit the forces with his vehicle, the indictment read. The government gifted settlers such ATVs last year, and many of them have been seen at the scene of attacks on Paleostinians.
Grossman was charged with a litany of offenses including arson, causing aggravated bodily harm with a terror motive, rioting and malicious property damage.
The IDF has faced criticism for often standing by while such settler attacks unfold — with troops sometimes actively participating — or failing to prosecute those responsible. In contrast, the army frequently arrests Paleostinians who are involved in violent mostly peaceful confrontations with settler attackers.
Earlier this month, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was reportedly told that up to 80 percent of incidents that Israeli troops in the West Bank record are Jewish attacks on Paleostinians.
Interesting phrasing. What percent of the incidents Israeli troops do not record are Palestinian attacks on Jews?
The statistic was shared with the premier by an officer in the IDF Central Command during a meeting on Jewish terrorism, the Kan public broadcaster said.
[IsraelTimes] The US military boarded Iranian-flagged commercial oil tanker M/T Celestial Sea in the Gulf of Oman today after suspecting it had violated a US blockade, U.S. Central Command says in a statement.
US forces released the ship, which was headed toward an Iranian port, after searching it and directing its crew to alter course, the statement says.
[Rudaw] At least one Syrian soldier was killed and several others were maimed on Tuesday when a booby-trapped vehicle detonated near a defense ministry building in Damascus, according to state media.
Syrian state television ... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe?
, citing the defense ministry, said an army unit "discovered an bomb prepared for detonation near a defense ministry building" in Damascus’ Bab Sharqi area.
"The device was dealt with immediately, and as it was being dismantled, a booby-trapped vehicle went kaboom! in the same area, which led to the martyrdom of one soldier and the injury of others with varying wounds," according to the defense ministry.
Earlier, Syrian state media cited a security source as saying the earth-shattering kaboom occurred near an armament management center in the Syrian capital.
The state-run Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) cited Najib al-Naasan, director of emergency services at the Syrian health ministry, as reporting that "the car explosion caused 12 injuries" and that "the maimed were transferred to nearby hospitals in the area and provided with the necessary medical treatment."
The incident comes as Damascus has, since the late 2024 ouster of longtime Syrian dictator Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Lord of the Baath... , witnessed occasional explosions and security violations.
[Rudaw] Israeli forces shelled Syria’s southern province of Quneitra on Tuesday, according to Syrian state media.
"Israeli occupation forces targeted the vicinity of agricultural lands in the village of Tarnaja in the northern countryside of Quneitra with three artillery shells," al-Ikhbariya TV cited its correspondent as saying.
No casualties have been reported.
The targeted area lies adjacent to the occupied Golan Heights, making it strategically significant.
There was no immediate comment from the Israeli military on the reported shelling.
Israel has carried out repeated operations in southern Syria in recent months, saying it aims to prevent hostile forces from establishing positions near its frontier.
Damascus has repeatedly condemned Israeli military activity inside Syrian territory, calling it a violation of illusory sovereignty and the 1974 disengagement agreement that established a UN-monitored buffer zone following the Arab-Israeli war.
The frontier has become increasingly tense as regional fighting involving Israel, Iran, and allied groups has spilled into several neighboring countries.
[IsraelTimes] Mohammad Rashid Mazaheri described Ali Khamenei as ‘only a dark and passing chapter’ in history; Iranian media says he was detained after trying to illegally leave country
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... has tossed in the slammer Drop the heater, Studs, or you're hist'try! a former goalkeeper for the national men’s soccer team after he published a post earlier this year deeply critical of then-supreme leader Ali Khamenei ...the very aged actual dictator of Iran, successor to Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini...> , his wife said.
The Mizan news agency of the Iranian judiciary confirmed that Mohammad Rashid Mazaheri was under arrest, but said he were tossed into the calaboose after seeking to cross the border illegally.
Mazaheri won a handful of caps for his country and was in the Iranian squad for the 2018 World Cup in Russia, but spent most of his international career in the shadow of Iran’s undisputed number one goalie in recent years, Alireza Beiranvand.
The player, who also kept goal for top domestic teams, had in February published a since-deleted Instagram post in which he described longstanding supreme leader Khamenei as "only a dark and passing chapter" in Iran’s history.
The post came after January mass protests, which resulted in a deadly crackdown by the Islamic Theocratic Republic’s security forces, but before the start of the US-Israeli war against Iran, in which Ali Khamenei was killed on the first day.
The Persian-language news site IranWire, which is based outside Iran, said Mazaheri’s home had been raided on February 25.
His wife Maryam Abdollahi wrote on Instagram on Tuesday that her husband was now being held "in very harsh solitary confinement" in Urmia in northwestern Iran.
"Rashid always stood up for what he believed was right, and now he is paying the price for that courage with imprisonment in solitary confinement," she said.
Mizan on Wednesday reported he was being held in a "general prison ward," without saying where.
It said Mazaheri was arrested "after attempting to leave the country illegally through Iran’s western borders by altering his appearance and bribing border officers."
The soccer scene in Iran is under intense scrutiny, with the Iranian men’s team due to play in the World Cup in the United States in June.
Iranian authorities earlier this month announced the seizure of assets linked to the former captain of the national soccer team, Ali Karimi, who now lives in exile and is a vehement critic of the Islamic Theocratic Republic.
Voria Ghafouri, a former national team player, was arrested during anti-government protests in 2022 during the last World Cup in Qatar ...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi... . A member of Iran’s Kurdish minority, he had bitterly condemned a crackdown on protesters.
[IsraelTimes] Two attacks on troops in south Lebanon cause range of injuries, commander of 401st Armored Brigade seriously hurt; IDF strikes Hezbollah weapons site in clinic
Ten IDF soldiers were maimed, including two seriously, in two separate explosive drone attacks launched by Hezbollah on troops operating in southern Leb ...home of the original Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade.... on Wednesday, as limited fighting with the Iran-backed terror group persisted despite a ceasefire.
In one of the incidents, the commander of the 401st Armored Brigade, Col. Meir Biderman, 41, was seriously maimed by an explosive drone, the IDF said.
The military said that Col. (res.) H., who currently serves as the brigade’s chief of staff, will temporarily fill his position.
A reserve lieutenant colonel serving in the 162nd Division was moderately maimed in the same incident, while an additional reservist sustained light injuries, according to the IDF.
In another Hezbollah drone blast, a female soldier was seriously maimed, a combat officer and two additional soldiers sustained moderate injuries, and two more were lightly maimed, the army said.
All of the maimed were evacuated to a hospital for treatment, and their families were notified.
Also on Wednesday, the IDF published footage of a strike it carried out earlier in the week on a Hezbollah weapons production site in the Tyre area of southern Lebanon that had been established inside a building previously used as a civilian clinic and located meters away from a mosque.
The IDF said secondary explosions were identified following the strike, indicating the presence of weapons inside the building.
The military echoed accusations it made earlier on Wednesday, when the IDF announced a separate strike on a civilian building allegedly housing Hezbollah surveillance equipment in southern Lebanon, with the military again accusing the terror group of using civilian infrastructure in operations against Israel.
According to the military, the surveillance system, which it struck on Tuesday, was used by Hezbollah operatives to monitor and direct activity against troops in the area.
In a separate incident, the unit also killed a Hezbollah operative who the IDF said was operating from a warehouse used to store weapons. The military said secondary explosions were also identified following that strike.
Later Wednesday, the Kan public broadcaster reported that the IDF is investigating a suspected looting incident involving a reserve battalion commander with the rank of lieutenant colonel, after troops allegedly took a generator from southern Lebanon and brought it back to Israel.
Kan reported that information recently reached the officer’s commanders alleging that the battalion commander, another officer and several soldiers loaded the generator onto their jeep while operating in Lebanon and drove it back into Israeli territory.
According to the report, the incident came to light after soldiers informed their commanders, who then instructed the battalion commander to return the generator to the location from which it had been taken.
Responding to the report, the IDF said the incident was carried out "without authorization and in violation of mandatory procedures," adding that the military "views any deviation from the orders and norms expected of its soldiers with great severity and acts accordingly."
The incident comes less than a month after IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir warned senior commanders that incidents of looting by troops "stain the entire IDF."
Twenty IDF soldiers and one Defense Ministry civilian contractor have been killed in southern Lebanon amid fighting against Hezbollah. Two civilians were also killed by Hezbollah rockets, and an Israeli civilian was mistakenly killed in the north by Israeli artillery shelling.
BREAKING: During the recent war, the UAE Armed Forces launched tens of Israeli-made Orbiter-X one-way attack drones at various civilian and military targets in Hormozgan province of Iran. At least two of them have been captured intact.
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BREAKING: During the recent war, the UAE Armed Forces launched tens of Israeli-made Orbiter-X one-way attack drones at various civilian and military targets in Hormozgan province of Iran. At least two of them have been captured intact.
According to the state media of the Islamic regime of Iran, these Orbiter-X drones were delivered by Israel during the second week of the war using commercial cargo aircraft, which airlifted them from Ovda AB in Israel to various Emirati bases.
These images released by the state media of the regime show two different variants of Orbiter-X drones in use of Emirati forces.
🚨 Armed clashes between the Iranian Army and the IRGC are reportedly erupting inside Iran.
According to Alhurra, citing informed military and political sources inside Iran, tensions between the regular Army and the IRGC have escalated into armed confrontations in Tehran,… pic.twitter.com/8YI94oHByP
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🚨 Armed clashes between the Iranian Army and the IRGC are reportedly erupting inside Iran.
According to Alhurra, citing informed military and political sources inside Iran, tensions between the regular Army and the IRGC have escalated into armed confrontations in Tehran, Tabriz, Isfahan, and Ahvaz following the death of Khamenei.
If true, this points to serious fractures inside the Islamic Republic’s military and security apparatus at one of the most dangerous moments in the regime’s history.
The backdrop here is important. The founder of the Islamic Republic, Ayatollah Khomeini, originally created the IRGC because he feared a military coup from the regular Iranian Army after the revolution.
Over decades, the regime transformed the IRGC into a parallel military empire, giving it far more funding, political influence, economic control, and ideological favoritism than the regular Army.
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Interesting if true.
How much damage did the US and Israel do to the IRGC during the bombing campaign and will we attack IRGC units to help the Iranian Army?
Also it seems the Iranian Kurds are getting restless.
IRGC vs the Kurds & the Iranian Army, supported by US & Israeli air power.
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 Islamic version of the old Somali warlord...
...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 
...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula, largely made up of sand and oil rigs. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual haj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. Formerly dictatorial and steeped in Olde Tyme Religion, deferring to Salafist holy men on all issues, it has now done a 180 and is making a serious effort to modernize, so as not to be left in the sand by its Gulf Arab neighbors. The holy men have been shoved to the background and the nation is now still dictatorial but somewhat rational. That doesn't make them trustworthy, but it's a start...
Lord of the Baath...
...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 
...home of the original Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade....
