Senegal: Army launches “Operation Karangue” on Mali border against rising terror threat; joint patrols also held with Mauritania. pic.twitter.com/HcLofUzztY
[IsraelTimes] IDF doesn’t launch interceptors at missile, UAV doesn’t reach Israeli territory; no sirens; Iran-backed Yemen rebels complain to UN over killing of PM, cabinet members in Israeli strikes
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... rebels fired two missiles at Israel early Tuesday morning, but they disintegrated over 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 Israel Defense Forces said.
The IDF did not fire any interceptors, nor were warning sirens sounded in Israel.
Later on Tuesday, the IDF said the Israel Air Force intercepted an unmanned aerial vehicle launched from Yemen, before it entered Israeli territory. No sirens were activated, in accordance with IDF policy.
The Iran-backed rebels, who have been firing missiles and drones at Israeli cities for nearly two years, have stepped up attacks since last week, when Israeli Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s killed the Houthi prime minister and several members of his cabinet.
The Houthi foreign ministry filed a complaint with the United Nations ...an organization which on balance has done more bad than good, with the good not done well and the bad done thoroughly... over the airstrikes on Monday, urging it to pressure Israel "to obey international law," Yemen’s al-Masira network, which is affiliated with the rebels, reported.
The request was reportedly sent to the UN secretary general, as well as the UN Security Council, UN member nations, the UN Human Rights Commission, and the UN representative in Yemen, along with the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... "The silence from the international community encouraged it [Israel] to this dangerous escalation that threatens security and stability," the Houthis wrote.
The Houthis further declared that their support of Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... "aligns with international law" and vowed to maintain their position until the war in the Paleostinian enclave ends.
Neither the UN nor the EU recognizes the Houthis as the legitimate government in Yemen, and the UN designates the Houthis as a terrorist organization. The Western-recognized Republic of Yemen, which is battling the rebels, is the country’s official representative at the UN.
The Yemen outlet Defense Line, which is not aligned with the Houthis, wrote in a post to Facebook that the rebels have imposed a strict "blackout" on the fate of several ministers believed hurt in the Israeli attack, as well as the condition of other military and security leaders.
On Monday, Israel successfully intercepted a drone fired by the Houthis before it reached Israeli territory, the IDF said in a statement. No sirens were sounded in Israel, the military noted.
Many Houthi drones fall short or disintegrate before reaching Israel.
The same day, the Houthis claimed to have fired a missile at an Israeli-owned tanker in the Red Sea, though the projectile missed.
It came as the Houthis held a funeral for their slain prime minister, Ahmed Ghaleb Nasser al-Rahawi, and other ministers killed in the Israeli strikes.
[Times of Israel] British police this week arrested a 26-year-old man suspected of shooting a teenage Jewish boy in the head with an air rifle in the city of Bournemouth, in an apparent antisemitic attack, according to reports in UK media.
The attack, which took place in the East Cliff neighborhood of the coastal city, took place on August 23, outside a synagogue in the area.
According to The Telegraph, the victim was shot by a man in a passing car, who shouted obscenities at the teen before firing his weapon.
The teen suffered minor injuries.
Days later, police arrested a man from Ferndown, Dorset, in connection with the shooting, and said they were treating the incident as a hate crime.
According to the report, the man is suspected of assault and possession of an imitation firearm in a public place, and has since been released on bail.
Rabbi Alan Lewis of the Bournemouth Hebrew Congregation told The Telegraph that the teen who was shot is a "religious Jew who was wearing a skull cap," and that it was "very obvious he was Jewish."
Dorset Police Detective Chief Inspector Nicola Jenkins said that the police "have been carrying out extensive inquiries as part of our investigation and have now made an arrest in connection with the incident," adding that she was asking anyone with information about the incident to come forward.
"We understand the concern that this incident has caused to members of the community and we are continuing to liaise with them to provide updates and reassurance. We are also continuing to support and update the victims with the progress of the investigation," she said.
[JewishNews/IsraelTimes] On Monday, 1st September 2025, at approx 12:20pm in the afternoon on Clapton Common E5, a man riding an e-scooter on the pavement carried out two unprovoked antisemitic attacks, a shocking act of rogue violence against women & girls.
👧 He rammed into a 21-year-old girl, shouting "F***ing Jew". She was admitted to hospital and left with a fractured arm, bruised leg & facial scar after being chased into the road.
👩👧 He then rammed into a 24-year-old woman with her 3-year-old daughter, knocking her over. The child was left shocked & traumatised.
🛡️ @Shomrim
volunteers followed the suspect, who was subsequently arrested by @MPSHackney
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⚖️ Arrested for Racially Aggravated Common Assault + Common Assault.
🚨On Monday, 1st September 2025, at approx 12:20pm in the afternoon on Clapton Common E5, a man riding an e-scooter on the pavement carried out two unprovoked antisemitic attacks, a shocking act of rogue violence against women & girls.
WATCH: The U.S. military struck a smuggling vessel in the Southern Caribbean, killing 11 members of the Tren de Aragua gang, which Washington designates as a Maduro-backed terror group.
Trump:
On my orders, U.S. forces conducted a kinetic strike…
#7
No vessel intercept, no helo-sniper shooting out the engines, instead a lethal kinetic strike, the message could not be clearer, game on and no Marquis of Queensbury rules. Outstanding!
[NYPOST] The bodies of a glamorous influencer, her husband, and her two children have been found wrapped in plastic and dumped in their pickup truck after they were executed in an apparent cartel hit in Mexico, authorities said.
TikTokker and singer Esmeralda Ferrer Garibay, 32, husband Roberto Carlos Gil Licea, 36, son Gael Santiago, 13, and 7-year-old daughter Regina were discovered murdered inside the abandoned gray Ford Ranger in Guadalajara on Aug. 22, prosecutor Alfonso Gutierrez Santillan said during a presser.
Using surveillance video, Sherlocks traced the route of the truck back to a nearby auto repair shop, where they discovered bloodstains, spent bullet casings and ballistic evidence indicating that the family was likely executed at the site before being driven to another location, Latin Times reports.
"While the forensic results are not yet in, ballistic and blood evidence almost certainly confirm they were murdered at that location," prosecutor Gutierrez Santillan said.
Two men at the auto repair shop were detained but later released after the Public Prosecutor’s Office found insufficient evidence, Diario de Yucatan reported.
In another shocking twist, the pair were kidnapped by gunnies minutes after leaving the prosecutor’s office.
The duo had met up with two acquaintances outside when they were intercepted, and three of the four were taken, while one managed to escape and is still on the lam, according to Mexican media reports.
The attackers lay in wait for the group for more than two hours before striking, suggesting a coordinated attack, prosecutor Blanca Trujillo told news hounds.
So far, it is unknown whether the attack was an act of retaliation for the murder of Ferrer Garibay and her family.
Authorities are waiting to interview the survivor.
The family’s identities were confirmed on Aug. 28, and the husband is thought to have been the target of the murders, Mexican outlet El Financiero reported.
Ferrer Garibay frequently flaunted her supposedly lavish lifestyle on social media, sharing videos of her Dior, Gucci and Louis Vuitton products, luxury cars, cosmetic surgery, and expensive vacations with her more than 44,000 TikTok followers.
She also recorded herself lip-syncing to narco-corridos, a notorious Mexican ballad style that glorifies the exploits of the narco mobs, while implying that her husband was a member of such a gang.
One viral video featuring the text, "Advantages of having a narco boyfriend," along with a clip of her posing with a Gucci handbag, was viewed almost 140,000 times.
So far, no evidence suggests that Ferrer Garibay or her husband were members of a narco mob.
Rather, the husband’s involvement in selling vehicles and tomato farming in Michoacan state is rumored to have made him the target of organized crime groups.
The family had recently moved to Guadalajara from Michoacan — one of the most dangerous regions of Mexico, according to the US State Department — for work opportunities.
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Protip: Never flash cash in Mexico.
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[Regnum] In the Novosibirsk region, two brothers suspected of drug trafficking set fire to their drug lab during their arrest. Law enforcement officers were in the house at the time, the regional department of the FSB of Russia reported on September 2.
The operatives detained two brothers in their private home in the village of Karpysak. They were engaged in the production and sale of mephedrone. During a search of the premises, a laboratory was found where more than 350 liters of chemical reagents and precursors were stored, as well as more than 40 kg of the finished drug. The total cost of the confiscated mephedrone, according to preliminary estimates, exceeds 30 million rubles.
According to law enforcement agencies, the men resisted arrest and tried to hide in a hiding place located in the basement. One of the attackers set the house on fire while the security forces remained inside. It is reported that none of the participants in the arrest operation were injured.
Both men were charged under Part 5 of Article 228.1 of the Russian Criminal Code (“Illegal production of narcotics on an especially large scale”), and one of them was additionally charged under Article 317 of the Russian Criminal Code (“Encroachment on the life of law enforcement officers”).
In June, in Domodedovo, Moscow Region, police stopped the activities of a drug lab, during a search of which over 1.3 tons of synthetic drugs worth more than 0.5 billion rubles were seized.
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[Regnum] Relatives of the defendants in the case of the terrorist attack in the Crocus City Hall concert hall do not want to communicate with their loved ones involved in the case. This was reported on September 2 by one of the participants in the trial.
“Apparently, the defendants’ relatives understand the current situation perfectly well and are not eager to communicate,” a participant in the trial told RIA Novosti.
According to the source, during the entire trial of the case, which is taking place in the Second Western District Military Court, only one lawyer has filed a motion to allow calls to the elderly parents of one of the defendants.
Earlier, on August 4, a criminal case began in Moscow against the perpetrators and accomplices of the terrorist attack in Crocus. More than 50 victims and their representatives participated in the trial, which was held behind closed doors. The court extended the arrest of the perpetrators and accomplices of the terrorist attack by six months. The prosecutor petitioned for an extension of the arrest terms.
The perpetrators of the terrorist attack in Crocus, Dalerdzhon Mirzoyev, Shamsiddin Fariduni and Muhammadsobir Faizov (individuals included in the Russian Federation list of terrorists and extremists) fully admitted their guilt.
The accomplices in the case of the terrorist attack in Crocus refused to fully admit guilt. And Isroil, Dilovar, Aminchon Islomov and Alisher Kasimov (individuals included in the list of terrorists and extremists in the Russian Federation) declared their innocence.
The terrorist attack in Crocus took place on the evening of March 22, 2024. The attackers broke into the building, opened fire on people, and then started a fire. As a result of the terrorist attack, 149 people were killed, one is missing, and 609 citizens were injured. Four terrorists were detained the next day in the Bryansk region, 100 km from the Ukrainian border. During the investigation, they admitted that the terrorist attack was organized by the Ukrainian special services. The organizers were put on the wanted list.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] A man has been shot dead by police in Marseille after five people were injured during a knife rampage this afternoon.
At least one of the victims was taken to hospital in critical condition after the incident outside a fast food restaurant in Bouches-du-Rhône on Tuesday.
A witness said he saw a man with 'two large butcher knives' at the scene. The Marseille public prosecutor said the suspect carried two knives and an iron bar.
Graphic footage of the incident showed the suspect shouting 'Allahu Akbar' [God is the greatest] before walking towards police and being shot several times.
A witness at the scene told French media that police 'tried to arrest [the perpetrator]' before 'the man tried to attack a police officer with a knife'.
'The officer shouted "stop, stop" before hearing gunfire.'
Marseille public prosecutor Nicolas Bessone said the suspect was 'a legal Tunisian national' who 'attempted to attack people...blindly and gratuitously' after he was evicted from a hotel in the Belsunce district for not paying his rent.
'On Tuesday, around 2:45 p.m., the individual returned, went up to his old room, and stabbed the person who was occupying the room,' he said.
The hotel manager and a guest were said to be among those injured in the fracas, before the perpetrator went into the street and threatened police officers, according to local media.
The hotel guest occupying the room is 'in a state of absolute emergency', the public prosecutor said.
Bessone said the man went on to the hotel lobby and stabbed the hotel manager 'one or more times' before chasing the manager's son down the street and stabbing him in the back.
Both are in 'relative emergency', he told reporters.
The man then went into a nearby bistro and tried to stab customers, the prosecutor said. He then carried on to Cours Belsunce and tried to attack others.
Police and firefighters were deployed to the scene and had set up a security perimeter by 4pm local time.
Umbrellas belonging to the restaurant were initially put out to cover the bodies while investigators worked on the scene.
The suspect was reportedly hit with an electric shock pistol before being shot.
He was pronounced dead shortly after being taken to hospital, at 3.26pm, French media reports.
The suspect, who has not been named, was identified only as a Tunisian national and legal resident of France.
Le Figaro reported that the suspect was known to territorial intelligence for an unknown reason, but not logged in the database for preventing 'radicalisation of a terrorist nature'.
All victims were injured by a long knife and treated by emergency services, Le Figaro reports.
Le Parisien, TF1 and Le Figaro reported that five people had been injured in the attack.
#Pakistan 🇵🇰: "Tehrik-i #Taliban Pakistan" (#TTP) carried out a grenade attack on a Pakistani military post in #Tank District.
The TTP militant, who threw a hand granade inside the post, is also seemingly armed with a common AKMS / Type 56-1 assault rifle as well. pic.twitter.com/1lc5mi4Mea
[GEO.TV] The corpse count from a suspected suicide kaboom on Quetta's Sariab Road rose to 13 late Tuesday, with several others injured, hospital officials said.
The explosion destroyed the busy area in the evening, leaving several of the maimedat death's door.
"The incident near Shahwani Stadium was apparently a suicide blast," a Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD) spokesperson said, adding that teams are collecting evidence from the scene.
Pakistain witnessed a surge in terror activities, particularly in its Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan ...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it... provinces, since 2021.
''We have confirmed 13 deaths, with several more injured,'' said Dr Hadi Kakar, MS of Civil Hospital Quetta. ''Five of the injured are at death's door.''
Balochistan Chief Minister Sarfraz Bugti, in a statement, condemned the blast in the strongest words, calling it a cowardly attack on innocent people.
He said those behind the bombing were enemies of humanity, spilling the blood of ordinary citizens to spread fear.
''We will crush their nefarious designs,'' Bugti vowed, adding that the attackers would be hunted down and punished.
The chief minister directed hospitals to give the injured the best possible treatment and told doctors and staff to remain on alert. ''No negligence will be tolerated,'' he warned.
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[GEO.TV] Six personnel of the Pakistain Army and the Federal Constabulary (FC) embraced martyrdom after Indian-sponsored Death Eaters attacked the FC Headquarters in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa's (KP) Bannu district, the Inter-Services Public Relations said on Tuesday.
According to the military's media wing, five armed assailants attempted to breach the facility's perimeter and later rammed an explosive-laden vehicle into the boundary wall, causing a part of it to collapse.
The blast also damaged nearby civilian infrastructure and injured three people.
"Displaying unwavering courage and professional excellence, own troops engaged the Kharjis with precision and eliminated all five khwarij belonging to Indian proxy, Fitna al Khwarij," the ISPR said.
Meanwhile,
...back at the argument, Livia had made her point with her knee to Jane's stomach... the military's media wing said, a clearance operation in the area would continue and perpetrators of this "heinous and cowardly act will be brought to justice".
"The security forces of Pakistain in step with nation remain steadfast in their resolve to eradicate Indian sponsored terrorism from the country and such sacrifices of our brave soldiers and innocent civilians further strengthen our unwavering commitment of safeguarding our nation at all costs," it added.
[IsraelTimes] IDF urges Gazans to evacuate to humanitarian area, but few of the million in Gaza City have left; tens of thousands of reservists called up for conquest of city set to start in mid-month
The prime minister and IDF chief vowed Tuesday to press on with the war against Hamas ..not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,... , as the Israel Defense Forces called up tens of thousands of reservists for the impending conquest of Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... City.
Premier Benjamin Netanyahu said the war was entering its "decisive stage," while IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir told troops that the Gaza City campaign was already moving forward, that operations would be intensified and expanded, and that the IDF would not accept anything less than the complete defeat of Hamas.
"We will not stop the war until we defeat this enemy," Zamir said during a visit to central Israel’s Nachshonim base, where he spoke with newly mobilized reservists and personnel from the Technological and Logistics Directorate.
"Hamas will have no place to hide from us. Wherever we locate them, whether they are senior or junior figures — we strike them all, all the time," he said. "We have already begun the Gaza maneuver. We are already entering places we have never entered before and operating there with courage, strength, valor, and an extraordinary spirit."
Both men’s speeches came as the IDF called up tens of thousands of reservists for the offensive in Gaza City, which Netanyahu has portrayed as Hamas’s last stronghold — having last year also presented Rafah as its last bastion.
The call-up — which has reportedly seen fewer soldiers report for duty as the war nears the two-year mark — was taking place as the IDF targeted Hamas commanders, and as Hamas-run Gazook authorities reported dozens killed across the Strip, including children allegedly struck by an IDF drone at a water distribution site.
The IDF said on Tuesday that troops in the enclave had killed dozens of terror operatives in the past month who had been planning attacks against IDF forces in the Strip’s north and center.
These included Ahmad Abu Daf, who was serving as a deputy company commander in the Zeitoun Battalion, and who helped lead dozens of attacks and ambushes against IDF forces, in addition to recruiting new operatives into Hamas. Another key operative killed was Taleb Sidqi Taleb Abu Atiwi, a team commander in Hamas’s elite Nukhba force who infiltrated Israeli territory during the terror group’s October 7, 2023, massacre, the army said.
The military also confirmed an earlier report that it had killed a Hamas terrorist who held Israeli hostages Emily Damari, Romi Gonen and Naama Levy. All three were released during a ceasefire at the beginning of the year.
The military also said Tuesday that the Air Force had struck and destroyed buildings in Shejaiya and Zeitoun, in the Gaza City area, that were used as meeting places for Hamas and Paleostinian Islamic Jihad ...created after many members of the Egyptian Moslem Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the assassination of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah... button men to plan attacks.
The IDF has urged civilians, aid groups and medical workers to evacuate the area as the offensive ramps up. And in a social media post on Tuesday, the IDF’s Arabic-language spokesperson Avichay Adraee urged all of Gaza’s residents to evacuate to a humanitarian zone in the Strip’s coastal area in preparation for the expansion of fighting in the northern city. The IDF is reportedly expected to launch its major operation to take over Gaza City in mid-September.
In a post on X, Adraee said that the coastal al-Mawasi area will see improved humanitarian services, including healthcare, water, and food.
He also warned that approaching or returning to combat zones or areas where IDF forces are operating endangers the lives of civilians.
Recent reports estimate that only some 10,000 of Gaza City’s roughly one million residents and displaced Gazooks have evacuated to the south in the three weeks since Israel announced it would empty the city of its civilian population.
Netanyahu said in a video address to the reservists on Tuesday that Israel was "moving toward total victory."
"What began in Gaza must end in Gaza," he said. "Now we stand before the decisive stage. I believe in you, I trust you, and the entire nation embraces you."
Netanyahu has claimed multiple times since the October 7 attack that Israel is nearing victory in the 23-month-old war. Zamir and other officials have warned that the Gaza City offensive could endanger hostages and soldiers, and urged Israel to agree to a temporary ceasefire and deal that Hamas said it accepted last month and that would release 10 of the some 20 living hostages believed to be held by the terror group. In total, terror groups in Gaza are holding 48 hostages.
Israel has not responded to that agreement, though Strategic Affairs Minister Ron Dermer, a Netanyahu confidant, reportedly told mediators that Israel has yet to rule it out.
Instead, recent cabinet meetings have focused on the Gaza City operation, which, according to a report Tuesday on the Kan public broadcaster, could cost NIS 25 billion ($7.4 billion).
Not having another 10/7: Priceless.
That price tag could necessitate cuts across other government departments, the network reported.
On Tuesday, Gaza’s Hamas-run civil defense agency said Israeli forces killed at least 82 people across the Strip. In one reported strike, an IDF drone hit a water distribution point in al-Mawasi in the south, where, according to local media, at least 11 people were killed, including seven children.
The IDF said in response to an inquiry that it was not aware of the strike.
Other deaths reported on Tuesday included dozens near aid distribution sites in southern Gaza, Palestinian medics said.
That would be Hamas handiwork again.
Thirteen more Palestinians, including three children, died of malnutrition and starvation in Gaza over the past 24 hours, the territory’s Hamas-run health ministry said on Tuesday.
What high percentage of them were being treated for a disease or condition that impacted their ability to absorb nutrients? What similarly high percentage have close relatives who are completely healthy or even fat? How many of them had Israeli doctors been treating until the border was closed following 10/7? Hamas is playing propaganda games again.
That raised the reported death toll from such causes since the beginning of the war to at least 361, including 130 children, the vast majority in recent weeks.
Outside Gaza City’s Shifa Hospital, white plastic body bags with corpses were laid out on the street. Crowds wailed for slain relatives.
#1
All of them will be evacuated. ALL. To Egypt, Malaysia, Minnesota or other Islamic friendly areas.
They cannot remain where they are, they are a threat to the existence of Israel. And Israel has the right to exist!
[GEO.TV] In order to regularise an illegal outpost in the occupied West Bank, Israeli authorities announced the seizure of 455.58 dunams (0.45 square kilometres) of land belonging to the Paleostinian villages of Jit, Farata and Tal.
It said Israeli authorities aimed to regularise the status of Havat Gilad, an illegal outpost in the occupied West Bank, established in 2003 on the lands of the three villages in the Qalqilya governorate, Al Jazeera reported.
With this seizure, the total land seized under the ''state land'' designation since Netanyahu's far-right government took office in early 2023 has risen to over 26,000 dunams (26 square kilometres), the news agency has said.
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Abu Sneineh has served as mayor since 2017. In the 1980s, he took part in the Hebron Beit Hadassah terror attack in which six people were killed, as part of a Fatah terror cell. He was imprisoned in Israel and released three years later in a prisoner exchange deal.
[Rudaw] The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) announced the capture of a "dangerous" Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... (ISIS) sleeper cell member during a security operation in northeast Syria, as part of their ongoing crackdown on the group’s remnants.
In a statement released Monday evening, the SDF said its Military Operations Teams (TOL), backed by the US-led Global Coalition to defeat ISIS, "successfully captured a dangerous terrorist" identified as Ahmad al-Mahmoud and commonly known as Abu Mansour, during a "precise" operation in Raqqa, central southern Rojava.
The apprehension followed "extensive surveillance and intelligence gathering" on Abu Mansour’s "movements and activities," the SDF said. "After confirming his location, our forces moved swiftly to surround and capture him without any casualties."
The suspect is reportedly "involved in a series of terrorist operations," including attacks against SDF forces, the Kurdish-led Internal Security Forces (Asayish) and civilians.
Following a blitz offensive in 2014, ISIS rose to power after it seized vast territories in Iraq and Syria and declared a so-called "caliphate" spanning both countries.
The SDF played a key role in defeating ISIS in Syria in 2019 and in capturing thousands of the group’s bully boys. It operates alongside hundreds of US troops as part of the Washington-led international coalition to defeat ISIS and serves as the de facto military force in Rojava.
The latest operation comes amid a surge of ISIS attacks targeting Kurdish-held regions.
Earlier on Monday, the SDF said they "successfully thwarted" a suicide kaboom by an ISIS "terrorist cell" against one of their positions in Raqqa’s northern countryside.
During "direct festivities with the terrorist cell, one of the turbans was maimed and subsequently detonated his boom belt," the SDF noted, adding, "Our fighters managed to eliminate the second terrorist in the course of the engagement."
The Kurdish-led force further noted that three of its fighters were slightly maimed during the confrontation.
On Saturday, the SDF announced the arrest of 51 ISIS suspects in an extensive operation in Hasaka city, northeast Rojava (Rojava). A large cache of weapons was seized in the process.
The UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) reported in early August that "ISIS has carried out 152 operations" in Kurdish-held regions since the beginning of 2025. These include "armed assaults, assassinations, and bombings."
The operations have resulted in 64 deaths, comprising 45 SDF fighters, one SDF-affiliated member, ten civilians, and eight ISIS bully boys, SOHR then said.
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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.
...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...
..not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,...
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling 
