Bomb blasts were recorded overnight in the border areas of Afghanistan and Pakistan. In response to the air strike in Paktika, afganistan the AfghanTaliban heavily targeted Pakistani posts along the Durand Line
…on October 15. Following the airstrikes, Afghanistan put security forces on full combat alert along the entire Durand Line, the border between the two countries, which is not recognized by Kabul.
📺 The video captures the cricketers in their final game — moments before the bombs fell.
[Regnum] Representatives of the Ansar Allah movement (Houthis) detained 20 United Nations staff members in the Yemeni capital, Sana'a, a UN spokesperson reported.
"Yesterday, October 18, 2025, Ansar Allah security personnel entered the United Nations compound in Sana'a without permission. According to our latest information, 11 national staff members were released after questioning. Five national staff members and 15 international staff members remain in custody within the compound," TASS quoted the source as saying.
He added that the organization's representatives are negotiating with the authorities in Sana'a and the internationally recognized government of Yemen to quickly resolve the incident and release the detainees.
The day before, a Cameroon-flagged merchant vessel caught fire after being hit by an unknown projectile off the coast of Yemen and issued a distress signal. The Houthis have repeatedly attacked vessels in the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden, but this time they did not claim responsibility. The Houthis had previously suspended attacks on ships during the first ceasefire between Israel and Hamas in March, but resumed them after fighting resumed in the Gaza Strip.
[IsraelNationalNews] Jewish lawyer arrested in London for wearing a Star of David. Police claim it antagonized pro-Palestinian Arab protesters.
A Jewish lawyer was arrested in central London after police accused him of "antagonizing" pro-Paleostinian Arab protesters by wearing a Star of David, The Telegraph reported.
The man, in his 40s, was detained on August 29 outside the Israeli embassy in Kensington, where a pro-Paleostinian demonstration was taking place. He was acting as an independent legal observer, monitoring the protest for unlawful activity and police conduct. Instead, he was handcuffed, placed in a police van, and held at Hammersmith cop shoppe for nearly 10 hours before being released at 4:30 a.m.
Footage obtained by The Telegraph shows a detective accusing the man of wearing a Star of David "openly" in a way that could cause "offense." The symbol was worn on a chain around his neck.
The lawyer told The Telegraph that the arrest appeared to be an attempt by the Metropolitan Police to "criminalize the wearing of a Star of David." He remains on police bail more than six weeks later.
"It is outrageous that police should claim wearing a Star of David somehow antagonizes people," he said. "When it was first raised in the police interview, it rang alarm bells for me immediately. Police crossed the line."
"They [the police] are trying to criminalize the wearing of a Star of David. They said I was antagonizing and agitating pro-Paleostine protesters with my Star of David. In an environment of antisemitism, I will not be cowed by this. I will carry on wearing it."
The Metropolitan Police deny that the arrest was due to the Jewish symbol, claiming instead that the man repeatedly breached a police order to keep opposing protest groups apart. They allege he got "very close" to the protesters and moved "beyond observing to provoking," thus becoming an active participant and subject to restrictions under the Public Order Act.
The lawyer, who has chosen to remain anonymous for security reasons, said he was baffled by the police response, especially since the protest was organized by anti-Zionist Jews. He also claims to have documented around 30 incidents of criminal behavior by pro-Paleostinian Arab demonstrators, none of which have resulted in convictions. He said he has been personally targeted with slurs, including being called a "Zionist baby killer."
"This is one of the clearest examples of two-tier policing you will ever see," he said. "Police are arguing that wearing a Star of David is antagonizing to protesters while we have seen all manner of antisemitic slogans on placards and shouted at Jews that have gone unpunished."
Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar condemned the arrest, stating, "The Star of David is a symbol of Jewish identity, not provocation."
"The fact that Jews are warned in central London not to display it publicly shows how rampant antisemitism spread through hateful ’pro-Paleostinian’ marches in Britannia has poisoned the streets," he added.
"This is a moral disgrace. The British authorities must act: ban anti-Semitic slogans and conduct a full institutional review."
The incident comes amid mounting criticism of Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer for allowing anti-Israel marches to continue, even after two Jews were murdered on Yom Kippur at a synagogue in Manchester. Police have also been accused of ignoring chants that support terrorism or incite hatred against Jews.
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[Regnum] An 11th-grade student at a secondary school in Dagestan has been arrested by court order in connection with a criminal case alleging involvement in the activities of the Islamic State (an organization banned in Russia) through TikTok communications. This was reported in court documents from October 19.
A minor schoolboy from the village of Khuchni in Dagestan was detained and subsequently arrested on suspicion of ties to and participation in a terrorist organization. According to investigators, the teenager communicated with an unidentified member of an extremist organization via TikTok. The criminal case was opened in September, and the decision to arrest the suspect took effect in early October.
The teenager's defense requested a more lenient pretrial detention, taking into account his schooling and positive personality traits. The Dagestani court rejected the appeal.
A charming 16 year old jihadi? Goody.
Participation in the activities of a terrorist organization entails a punishment in the form of imprisonment for a term of ten to twenty years.
The Ministry of Internal Affairs noted that criminals recruiting children and adolescents into criminal activity through social media and messaging apps begin communicating with them using positive and humorous content and only then offer them the opportunity to commit crimes. Furthermore, those recruiting adolescents often use economic tactics to lure minors into criminal activity.
[FacebookReel] Hive News: 18 officers injured, four taken to hospital following attacks on city police by masked demonstrators during an unauthorized pro-Hamas march in Bern Saturday. Owner of Della Casa restaurant told the Berner Zeitung that if it weren’t for police water cannon used against the rioters, the building would have burnt to the ground killing ten employees. 56 more buildings were damaged over the weekend — millions of Euros of damage caused by the rioters. 536 were arrested.
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I am very surprised this is happening in SZ, even more surprised it's happening in Bern. I appear to be totally out of touch with Euro geo-political reality.
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Noted how they DEMANDED peace for the Hamas Terrorist State, by acting like Hamas Terrorists themselves.
Simply put.
There will be no peace with Muslims, as long as there are those of other faiths, which they are taught from the time they are in diapers must die.
The EU would do good to see and understand they are being invaded AGAIN.
[GEO.TV] A weapons smuggler from Pakistain who used a fishing boat to ship ballistic missile parts 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... to 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 in 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... has been sentenced to 40 years in a US prison on five counts.
And that is why it’s filed under Home Front: WoT and not India/Pakistan.
Muhammad Pahlawan was detained during a US military operation in the Arabian Sea in January 2024. Two US Navy Seals drowned in that operation, according to the US authorities.
Pahlawan's crew, who were working as fishermen, according to the US case, testified they had been duped into taking part and were not aware of the real plot.
…which may or may not be true. But regardless, they weren’t the brains of the operation.
At that time, Houthis had launched missile and drone attacks on Israel, claiming they were acting in support of Gazooks.
The components found on Pahlawan's boat were "some of the most sophisticated weapon systems that Iran proliferates to other terrorist groups", US federal prosecutors said after his trial.
The 49-year-old was sentenced after being convicted on five counts, including terrorism offences and transporting weapons of mass destruction. He has been convicted on five counts, making a total of 480 months or 40 years.
The eight crew members who testified in court said they had no idea what was inside the large packages on board the boat, named the Yunus.
One crew member said that when he questioned Pahlawan about it, he was told to mind his own business.
Pahlawan referred to himself as a "walking dead person" in text message exchanges with his wife in Pakistain, sent in the days before the January 2024 voyage, which would get him arrested.
"Just pray that [we] come back safely," said the message, used as evidence in court.
"Why do you talk like this, 'may or may not come back'," she asked him.
Pahlawan told her: "Such is the nature of the job, my dear, such is the nature of the job."
His final words to her before sailing were: "Keep me in your prayers. May God take me there safely and bring me back safely, alright. Pray."
The prosecution told the court that Pahlawan was paid 1,400 million rials ( 25,200; $33,274), "part of a larger operation" funded and co-ordinated by two Iranian brothers, Yunus and Shahab Mir'kazei.
The US alleges the Mir'kazei brothers are affiliated with Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).
Pahlawan made two successful smuggling voyages before he was caught - one in October 2023, and a second two months later.
[GEO.TV] The Frontier Corps ...a provincial paramilitary force. Total manpower is about 80,000. They are tasked to help local law enforcement in the maintenance of law and order, and to carry out border patrol and a..the Antwerp-based Salafist organization that had campaigned to introduce Sharia law to Belgium before single-handedly making Belgium the highest per capita supplier of jihadis to Syria in Europe. There was a big trial in Antwerp in 2015, but most of those convicted were in absentia...nti-smuggling operations.... (FC) Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa carried out an operation in South Wazoo, arresting a suspected Afghan jacket wallah, security sources told Geo News on Sunday.
This arrest was made amid border tensions between Pakistain and Afghanistan after the neighbours engaged in deadly festivities for days that killed dozens and maimed hundreds before agreeing to a ceasefire.
The escalation was a result of the Afghan Taliban ...mindless ferocity in a turban... regime's reluctance to act against terrorist groups, including proscribed Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistain (TTP) alias Fitna al-Khawarij, operating from Afghan soil, in the backdrop of rising terror attacks in Pakistain.
The arrested suicide bomber has been identified as 22-year-old Naimatullah, son of Musa Jan, and is a resident of Kandahar province of Afghanistan.
During interrogation, the suspect revealed in a video that his militancy training was supposed to last for three months, but he received only a week of it.
He stated that the training included instructions on how to carry out suicide kabooms using vehicles, as well as how to target military checkpoints and security personnel.
The detained suspect also disclosed that he, along with around 40 others, had gathered in Afghanistan's Khost city before entering Pakistain through the Chowar route.
In a separate development, security sources confirmed to Geo News that a "most wanted" Fitna al-Hindustan local commander, Jamil alias Tetak, was killed.
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[IsraelTimes] IDF deploys additional soldiers to Tubas following incident; Palestinian couple said wounded by settlers near Hebron, olive harvesters attacked in 2 locations, vehicles set alight
Two Israeli soldiers were moderately maimed by an bomb hurled at them by a Paleostinian during a military operation in the West Bank town of Tubas on Saturday evening, the Israel Defense Forces said.
The IDF said the incident took place during "offensive activity" in the area. The assailant who hurled the bomb at the troops apparently fled.
The two soldiers were taken to a hospital and their families were notified, the army added.
Following the incident, the IDF deployed additional forces to Tubas and blocked the entrances to the town with earth barriers, Paleostinian media reported.
On Sunday morning, Paleostinian media reported that the IDF blew up an apartment in the town amid the raid.
The IDF did not immediately provide further details.
Separately over the weekend, the IDF said it received reports of gunfire near the West Bank settlement of Evyatar late Friday, with no injuries or damage caused. Troops were dispatched to the scene, began searches in the area, and imposed closures on several nearby Paleostinian villages, the military added.
Several attacks by Israeli settlers against Paleostinians were also reported in the West Bank over the weekend.
The official Paleostinian Authority news outlet WAFA reported that a Paleostinian couple was maimed on Saturday evening in an assault by settlers south of Hebron.
WAFA also reported that Israelis from the settlement of Itamar attacked Paleostinian olive harvesters near the village of Rujeib, near Nablus, on Sunday morning.
Paleostinian olive pickers were also attacked by settlers in the central West Bank town of Turmus Ayya, and the attackers set fire to two cars, WAFA reported.
In another incident, settlers set fire to several cars at a vehicle repair shop in the village of Jab’a, near Bethlehem, early Sunday, according to WAFA.
There were no reports of arrests, which are rare in the near-daily instances of reported settler violence.
Violence has risen in the West Bank since the 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... war started on October 7, 2023, when thousands of Hamas ..the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,... -led murderous Moslems stormed southern Israel, killed some 1,200 people and took 251 hostages.
[GEO.TV] Israel returned the bodies of 15 Palestinians to Gaza on Sunday, bringing the total number handed over to 150, the health ministry in the Hamas-run territory said.
Under a ceasefire deal brokered by US President Donald Trump, Israel was to turn over the bodies of 15 Palestinians for every deceased Israeli returned.
Hamas returned the remains of two hostages late on Saturday— Ronen Engel, an Israeli national, and Thai farmworker Sonthaya Oakkharasri.
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[GEO.TV] Gaza's civil defence agency said a series of Israeli air strikes across the territory killed at least 33 people on Sunday, updating an earlier toll of 21.
The Israeli military said it had struck dozens of Hamas targets across the Gaza Strip, as both Israel and Hamas accused each other of violating the nine-day-old ceasefire brokered by US President Donald Trump.
[IsrelTimes] The IDF says it struck dozens of Hamas targets in the Gaza Strip, including a major tunnel system, in response to this morning’s attack on troops in the Rafah area.
Among the targets hit by fighter jets, drones, and artillery shelling were weapon depots, cells of operatives who were identified in “real-time,” and other infrastructure used by the terror group, according to the military.
The IDF says it also targeted Hamas operatives and field commanders in central Gaza. Palestinian and Arab media reported that a strike in central Gaza killed Yahya al-Mabhouh, a commander in Hamas’s elite Nukhba Force.
One airstrike carried out by fighter jets a short while ago, which involved over 120 munitions, hit a major Hamas tunnel, spanning some six kilometers )some 3.7 miles), in the southern Gaza Strip, the military says.
According to the IDF, the tunnel was used by Hamas for advancing attacks on Israel, and it was previously used by the terror group to hold hostages.
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[IsraelTimes] Authorities do not name individual who was hanged in Qom, claim he was in contact with Mossad from October 2023 until arrest in early 2024
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... executed a man convicted of spying for Israel’s Mosssd ...sees all, knows all, gets 'em all in the end... intelligence agency, the judiciary said Sunday, the latest in a series of executions following a 12-day war in June between the two countries.
"The execution of this spy... was carried out after confirmation by the Supreme Court and the rejection of his pardon request at Qom Prison," Kazem Mousavi, chief justice of Qom province, was quoted as saying by the judiciary’s Mizan Online website.
The identity of the man — who was hanged on Saturday in the holy city of Qom, south of Tehran — was not immediately revealed.
According to the Iranian authorities, the suspect began contacting Israeli intelligence in October 2023 and was arrested in January-February 2024.
Investigators said he confessed to cooperating with Mossad and transmitting confidential information online.
Earlier this month, six men were executed in Khuzestan province for alleged terrorism, and less than a week before that a man described as one of Israel’s top spies was hanged. Iran identified the executed man as Bahman Choobi-asl, whose case wasn’t immediately known in Iranian media reports or to activists monitoring the death penalty in the Islamic Theocratic Republic.
Another, named as Roozbeh Vadi, was also executed for allegedly passing information about a nuclear scientist killed during the conflict.
Iran is known to have hanged at least ten people for espionage since its June war with Israel. The Israel Defense Forces conducted a sweeping assault on Iran’s top military leaders, nuclear scientists, uranium enrichment sites, and ballistic missile program. Jerusalem said the attack was necessary to prevent the Islamic Theocratic Republic from realizing its avowed plan to destroy the Jewish state, and that Tehran had been taking concrete steps toward assembling an atomic bomb.
Iran responded by firing missile barrages at Israeli cities and military sites.
Entangled in a decades-long shadow war with Israel, Iran has put to death many individuals it accuses of having links with the Mossad and facilitating its operations in the country.
The Islamic Theocratic Republic, which carries out executions by hanging, is the world’s second most prolific executioner after China, according to human rights ...which are usually entirely different from personal liberty... groups including Amnesty International.
Separately, Iran’s Revolutionary Guards said at least four tribal leaders were killed in Sistan-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... province in southeastern Iran.
The Guards did not identify them further, but authorities in Iran frequently accuse bully boy groups operating in Sistan-Balochistan of having ties to Israel.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
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...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the 
...mindless ferocity in a turban...
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