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More than 200 FAMa have been killed, wounded, or taken prisoner during the attack on Dioura
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Friday 09/18/2026

1960s mod girl (45).
Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Massive pro-regime rally floods Tehran
as military volunteers vow to defend Iran
India-Pakistan
At least 16 killed after vehicle
loaded with explosives rams into Pakistan mosque
Arabia
US approves sale of 48 F-35 jets to Saudi Arabia
Europe
Italy Won't Wait for Slow E.U., Sending
Navy to Protect Merchant Ships from Houthis
Europe
Finnish foreign ministry official details
how Russia's 'hybrid warfare' reshaped border security
Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Satellite images show Iran rapidly
working to rebuild nuclear site bombed by Israel
Nobel Winner and AI Godfather warns A.I. is out of control, and Humanity has 1 year unless it is quickly controlled

Posted by: Fred || 09/18/2026 || Comments || Link || [160 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The haircut makes her look old!
Posted by: Seeking Cure For Ignorance || 09/18/2026 19:39 Comments || Top||

#2  60s? Probably the only hair that got cut
Posted by: Frank G || 09/18/2026 20:03 Comments || Top||


Africa North
Ceuta overrun: Thousands of migrants charge through streets of Spanish enclave as police attempt to move them to official tent camp
[DM] This is the moment thousands of migrants ran through the streets of the North African enclave of Ceuta as authorities tried to move them to a new tent camp.

Spanish police today began relocating the migrants, who have been living for weeks on the beach in Ceuta, to its port area.

In the move officers struggled to contain the crowds jostling to secure a spot at the new tented site. Authorities say there are enough tents for 1,700 people.

Video footage shows people charging through the streets towards the new camp, cheering and shouting.

According to local reports, the National Police and Riot Control Unit were forced to intervene, reportedly using tear gas to stop the chaos.

It comes after tens of thousands of migrants flooded across the border from Morocco in late July.

Although most returned, around 13,000 have remained, with many now sleeping rough on the territory's beaches.
Posted by: Skidmark || 09/18/2026 07:39 || Comments || Link || [146 views] Top|| File under: Migrants/Illegal Immigrants

#1  You don't use police to fight an enemy invasion.
Posted by: EMS Artifact || 09/18/2026 10:27 Comments || Top||


Mali: Kamikaze Drone Attack in Sévaré

Translated Text:

MALI 🇲🇱 | Kamikaze Drone Attack in Sévaré

Satellite images show what appear to be burn marks on the ground of the airbase, which would correspond to the various aircraft hit by the drones. (📽️ below)

ℹ️ Sévaré Air Base 200 has hosted numerous aircraft from the Africa Corps and FAMa:
- Bayraktar AKINCI and TB2 drones
- Mi-24 and Mi-35 attack helicopters
- Mi-8 and Mi-17 transport helicopters
- Su-25 attack aircraft

Russian 🇷🇺 elements have a dedicated area within the airport, as shown by a previous satellite photo (📸 in the thumbnail on the map below), geolocated at 14.51925, -4.075136.

🔶 The attack has not been claimed by JNIM, but is attributed to it by several sources. The group is notably known for carrying out kamikaze drone attacks without systematically claiming them.

As we publish, no official communication from the Malian government or the Africa Corps confirms or denies this attack.

⚠️ The Russian-Malian base in Sévaré has suffered 3 attacks in 5 months, following the coordinated attacks of April 25 and July 4, 2026

Posted by: badanov || 09/18/2026 00:00 || Comments || Link || [146 views] Top|| File under: al-Qaeda


More than 200 FAMa have been killed, wounded, or taken prisoner during the attack on Dioura

Translated Text:

🚨 Dioura | More than 200 of our FAMa have been killed, wounded, or taken prisoner during the attack on the camp. The camp remains out of the State's control and is still besieged by JNIM.

All convoys heading toward the camp have been repelled by JNIM.

The Russian mercenary Assimi Goïta continues to abandon hundreds, if not thousands, of soldiers killed in the field, while he has new infrastructure and military facilities built for the General Staff of the Autonomous Battalion of Special Forces and hardening centers, which he hopes will defend him during a future coup d'état.

Assimi Goïta is a terrorist under Putin's protection. His destiny is prison, not the presidential palace. The hundreds of our soldiers killed since 2023 were killed because of him.

He believes that Wagner's mercenaries will protect him, but even those mercenaries are failing. Worse still, they use the money that Goïta pays them to fund armed groups in exchange for the release of their own imprisoned friends during the fighting in the North.

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A Malian military document dated September 16, which we have reviewed, reports a high alert level in response to projected coordinated attacks by "GAT."


Translated Text:

🚨 Mali 🇲🇱 | Centre — September 16, 2026

A Malian military document dated September 16, which we have reviewed, reports a high alert level in response to projected coordinated attacks by "GAT."

The document explicitly cites PCAT-Centre Sévaré and Saye as potential targets, as well as the presence of FAMa-uniformed elements in the Konna – Cargue – Diambakourou triangle. It specifically mentions the risk of attacks by kamikaze drones or by airdropping payloads.

Available information reports more than 220 Malian soldiers killed, wounded, or captured during recent fighting, particularly in Dioura, Konna, and Sévaré.

Many other files are currently being downloaded. Dioura, Sévaré, and Konna would only be the beginning. The coming days could be particularly challenging, according to our sources.

Posted by: badanov || 09/18/2026 00:00 || Comments || Link || [286 views] Top|| File under: al-Qaeda

#1  Good, on either side. Worthless POS!
Posted by: chris || 09/18/2026 1:07 Comments || Top||


Arabia
Ansar Allah (Houthis) released a new video with captured or destroyed vehicles belonging to PLC in Al-Jawf Front
Posted by: badanov || 09/18/2026 00:00 || Comments || Link || [157 views] Top|| File under: Houthis

#1  I ain’t got no spares for this vehicle and the only ammo for that gun is what’s in the vehicle. That’s a couple thousand rounds which is worth about 20 seconds of fire time. Sure is pretty though. Hope I can get it unstuck from the sand.
Posted by: Remoteman || 09/18/2026 2:48 Comments || Top||


India-Pakistan
At least 16 killed after vehicle loaded with explosives rams into Pakistan mosque
[BBC] At least 16 people, including five police officers, have been killed after a vehicle loaded with explosives rammed into a mosque in north-western Pakistan, according to a senior police official in Peshawar.
Muslim Unity™
A gun battle is still ongoing between attackers and security forces at the mosque, near police headquarters, in the Kohat district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

One of the assailants has reportedly been killed, an officer says, and a rescue operation is under way.

In a statement, Pakistan's President Asif Ali Zardari expressed "his best wishes for the swift recovery of those injured in the explosion."

Khyber Pakhtunkhwa police chief inspector general Zulfikar Hameed described the attack as a "suicide attack", according to Reuters news agency.

There has been no immediate claim of responsibility.

Prime Minister Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif also condemned the blast.

Militancy in Pakistan's border areas has risen sharply in recent months, targeting the military and police.

Islamabad says militants use safe haven in Afghanistan to train and plan attacks in Pakistan. Afghanistan's Taliban government denies the accusation and says militancy is Pakistan's domestic problem.
Update from Dawn at 2:10 p.m. EDT:
According to IG Hameed and police statements, the attack began when a vehicle-borne improvised bomb (VBIED) detonated at the boundary wall near the mosque inside the Kohat Police Lines.

At least seven attackers then breached the compound and headed towards the CTD and Special Branch buildings. Six attackers, including a jacket wallah, were killed by law enforcers, according to a police statement.

At least one attacker was subsequently cornered, prompting police personnel to launch a clearance operation. At around 3:30pm, police said the operation was "in its final stages".

"The operation will continue until the complete elimination of Fitna-ul-Khawarij," the IG was quoted as saying, adding that the police’s morale remained high.

Fitna al Khawarij is a term the state uses for Death Eaters belonging to the banned Tehrik-e-Taliban
...mindless ferocity in a turban...
Pakistain.

Earlier, television footage from the scene showed citizens gathered beside a building with a collapsed wall, digging through the rubble and helping the injured. The blast caused extensive damage to the mosque.

The attack was claimed by the Hafiz Gul Bahadur
...a member of the Madda Khel clan of the Uthmanzai Waziris. Educated in a Deobandi madrassa located in Multan, he is affiliated with the Jamaat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) political party. Upon the formation of the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) in December 2007, he was announced as the group's overall naib amir under Baitullah Mehsud, who was based in South Wazoo, but has largely distanced himself from the TTP due to rivalries with the Mehsuds and disagreements about the TTP's attacks against the Pak state..
-led Ittehadul Mujahideen.

The funeral prayers for 15 police personnel martyred in the Police Lines blast were offered in Kohat later in the evening, after which their bodies were transported to their native districts of Kohat, Karak, Lakki Marwat, Bannu and Mardan in Rescue 1122 ambulances.

Posted by: Skidmark || 09/18/2026 08:47 || Comments || Link || [276 views] Top|| File under: Pak Taliban (TTP)

#1  George Bush (great religion of peace) can't be reached for comment?
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 09/18/2026 9:04 Comments || Top||

#2  Khyber Pakhtunkhwa police chief inspector general Zulfikar Hameed described the attack as a "suicide attack"

That would be my guess as well.
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/18/2026 9:33 Comments || Top||

#3  Must be those dam' Lutherans again...
Posted by: Mercutio || 09/18/2026 10:09 Comments || Top||

#4 
Using Islamic Terrorist suicide tactics will not get any person in the Heaven. This is not self-Defense, or War. It was a stupidly carried out mass murder.

So the real question is, will this enlighten them, or promote more such attacks in revenge from their side?

Or .... looking at it from a really 180 deep political game view. Is a 3rd party funded OPS, hoping to disrupt things or enrage the Pakistani's?
Posted by: NN2N1 || 09/18/2026 13:10 Comments || Top||

#5  Personally, I hope there are alot of revenge attacks on both sides. Only good muslim is a dead one! And change the shit were it automatically makes muslim capitalized please, they don't deserve enough respect for that!
Posted by: chris || 09/18/2026 13:13 Comments || Top||

#6  Mohammed and Allah were vexed
To discover ["Yes, vexed and perplexed!"]
That the Hancocks of tyrants
In Mecca's environs
Were scribbled in miniscule text.
Posted by: Hupimble Panda4789 || 09/18/2026 16:29 Comments || Top||

#7  Aw,heck. Meant to lowercase 'em, but whatever.
Posted by: Hupimble Panda4789 || 09/18/2026 16:35 Comments || Top||


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Syrian Security Forces deploy, conduct searches in Daraa countryside
[North Press] Syrian Internal Security Forces deployed across neighborhoods of Sanamayn in northern Daraa governorate on Thursday following clashes with wanted individuals, according to the Interior Ministry and local sources.

The Internal Security Forces said they deployed in the city after clashes ended and security forces established control over areas where what it described as “armed groups operating outside the law” had been stationed.

Local sources told North Press that three Internal Security Forces members were killed and others were injured during clashes with wanted individuals in Sanamayn. The clashes involved light weapons and took place in several neighborhoods of the city.

Earlier Thursday, Nour al-Din al-Baba, spokesperson for Syria’s Interior Ministry, told Syrian state broadcaster Al-Ikhbariya that the Criminal Investigations Department had carried out a raid in Sanamayn to arrest a suspected criminal cell following surveillance operations.

Al-Baba said the suspected cell had a network of ties and interests with individuals suspected of belonging to ISIS in Daraa governorate. He added that the cell had carried out several criminal operations.

Posted by: badanov || 09/18/2026 00:00 || Comments || Link || [116 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Syria/HTS



Who's in the News
22[untagged]
4Houthis
2al-Qaeda
2Govt of Iran
1Govt of Syria/HTS
1Hezbollah
1Commies
1Malevolent NGO
1Migrants/Illegal Immigrants
1Moslem Colonists
1Nut Jobs
1Pak Taliban (TTP)
1Devout Moslems
1[untagged]
1Govt of Saudi Arabia

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