[ShabelleMedia] Somali security forces successfully executed an operation in the Yaqle area of the Middle Shabelle region, resulting in the deaths of 27 al-Shabaab ... Somalia's version of the Taliban, functioning as an arm of al-Qaeda... holy warriors, the National Intelligence and Security Agency (NISA) reported on Saturday.
The operation, which spanned over 12 hours, also injured several other murderous Moslems, according to NISA’s statement.
The targeted strike was aimed at a known gathering point for al-Shabaab, including senior commanders, as part of ongoing efforts to dismantle the group’s infrastructure and prevent attacks on civilians and government forces. NISA highlighted that the mission was a significant blow to al-Shabaab’s operations in the region.
However,
denial ain't just a river in Egypt... there has been no independent verification of these claims, and some security experts express caution about the figures provided by NISA, noting that al-Shabaab’s statements often differ significantly from government reports.
Despite this, the operation underscores the continued military engagement against al-Shabaab, which has maintained a presence in Somalia despite years of international and local efforts to eradicate the group.
The Middle Shabelle region has been a focal point for such military actions due to its strategic importance and the presence of al-Shabaab activities. This operation is part of a broader strategy to secure rural areas and disrupt the holy warrior group’s plans to destabilize the government and carry out attacks.
We had a report back in March of this lot destroying the portrait of Lord Balfour hanging in the University of Cambridge’s Trinity College. It looks like this the same event, though they did have another protest yesterday.
Pro-Paleostinian protesters burnt a copy of the Balfour declaration yesterday evening (02/11) — a document which announced British support for a homeland "for the Jewish people".
The protest, which took place outside Trinity College, was organised by Cambridge for Paleostine.
Demonstrators condemned Lord Balfour, the former British Prime Minister and Trinity alumnus, who signed the declaration on 2 November 1917.
One protester told Trinity to "taste the fire you inflict upon the Paleostinian people" as the declaration burned. "Cambridge is the belly of the beast" and "is complicit in the genocide in Paleostine," protesters said.
They called on Cambridge to divest from Israeli weapons manufacturing, and said they "will not forgive and forget for this imperialist university".
The Balfour declaration announced the support of the British government for the establishment of a "national home for the Jewish people" in Paleostine, which was then an Ottoman region with a minority Jewish population.
It was signed 107 years ago yesterday (02/11), prompting what protesters called "107 years of genocide".
Last night's protest was not the first in Cambridge to target Lord Balfour. In March, a pro-Paleostinian activist slashed a painting of the former Prime Minister held at Trinity College. Paleostine Action, who organised the protest in March, said Lord Balfour "gave away the Paleostinians’ homeland — a land that wasn’t his to give away".
Yesterday evening protesters celebrated the "brave activist" involved in slashing the artwork, who "painted his portrait with the blood that remains on his hands today".
Yesterday, pro-Paleostinian activist students also sprayed the University Institute for Manufacturing with red paint, over their links to companies with ties to Israel.
Paleostine Action, the group responsible, targeted the front of the building, after stating that the Institute was a "centre of complicity". They said Cambridge had painted "blood on the institution’s walls for blood on the institution’s hands".
Varsity is the independent newspaper for the University of Cambridge
[OneIndia] Two bad boyz were potted in a clash with security forces in Jammu and Kashmir ...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it Azad (Free) Kashmir. The remainder they refer to as "Indian Occupied Kashmir". They have fought four wars with India over it, the score currently 4-0 in New Delhi's favor. After 72 years of this nonsense, India cut the Gordian knot in 2019, removing the area's special status, breaking off Ladakh as a separate state, and allowing people from other areas to settle (or in the case of the Pandits, to resettle) there.... 's Anantnag district on Saturday. The encounter began near Halkan Gali in the Shangus-Larnoo area of south Kashmir. Of the two murderous Moslems killed, one was foreign and the other local. Their group affiliations remain unconfirmed, according to unnamed officials cited by news agency PTI.
The operation is ongoing, with further updates awaited, officials stated.
Simultaneously, another encounter is underway in Srinagar's Khanyar area. So far, there are no reports of casualties on either side, according to authorities.
"A cordon and search operation in Khanyar area of district Srinagar has resulted in an exchange of fire. Police and security forces are on the job. Further details shall follow," Kashmir Zone Police posted on X.
On Friday, an encounter had also erupted between security forces and murderous Moslems in Bandipora district. In a post on X, the Indian Army on Saturday said that murderous Moslems opened fire on personnel before fleeing into the jungle.
"On 01 November 2024 late evening, suspicious movement was spotted, in gen area Panar of Bandipora, by alert troops. On being challenged, murderous Moslems opened indiscriminate fire and escaped into the jungle. Search Operation underway," Chinar Corps, Indian Army posted on X.
This was the fifth terror attack in Kashmir Valley since a new government was formed in the Union Territory last month.
On 24 October, two soldiers and two Army porters bit the dust, with another porter and a soldier injured, in a terrorist attack on an Army vehicle six kilometres from the popular tourist site of Gulmarg.
Earlier on the same day, murderous Moslems shot and maimed Shubham Kumar, a labourer from Uttar Pradesh, in Pulwama's Tral area.
On October 20, murderous Moslems killed a local doctor and six non-local labourers at a tunnel construction site in Ganderbal's Gagangir area. Two days prior, a labourer from Bihar was fatally shot by murderous Moslems in Shopian district.
[OneIndia] In a distressing development from Jammu and Kashmir's Budgam district, two migrants hailing from Uttar Pradesh became the latest victims of terrorism. They were targeted by gunmen while engaged in work related to the Jal Jeewan Project. Fortunately, their conditions have been reported as stable following the attack. This incident adds to a series of terror-related events that have shaken the Union territory over the past few months, underscoring the volatile security situation in the region.
The attack in Budgam is part of a disturbing trend of violence aimed at disrupting peace and development in Jammu and Kashmir. Only days before this incident, terrorists associated with the Pakistan-backed Jaish-e-Mohammed group ambushed an ambulance that was part of an Indian Army convoy in the Akhnoor sector. The relentless efforts of security forces, however, led to the neutralization of three terrorists during counter-terrorism operations, showcasing the ongoing battle between state forces and militants.
[OneIndia] A grenade attack in a bustling flea market in Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir ...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it Azad (Free) Kashmir. The remainder they refer to as "Indian Occupied Kashmir". They have fought four wars with India over it, the score currently 4-0 in New Delhi's favor. After 72 years of this nonsense, India cut the Gordian knot in 2019, removing the area's special status, breaking off Ladakh as a separate state, and allowing people from other areas to settle (or in the case of the Pandits, to resettle) there.... , left several people injured on Sunday. The incident occurred near the well-secured Tourist Reception Centre (TRC), according to officials.
Following the earth-shattering kaboom, police and paramilitary forces quickly arrived at the scene. Their immediate focus was on evacuating the injured and initiating a search operation to locate the attackers. The blast caused chaos, with shoppers desperately seeking safety.
SECURITY MEASURES INTENSIFIED
The attack happened just a day after security forces neutralised a top Pak commander from Lashkar-e-Taiba ...the Army of the Pure, an Ahl-e-Hadith terror organization founded by Hafiz Saeed. LeT masquerades behind the Jamaat-ud-Dawa facade within Pakistain and periodically blows things up and kills people in India. Despite the fact that it is banned, always an interesting concept in Pakistain, the organization remains an blatant tool and perhaps an arm of the ISI...> (LeT) in Khanyar, downtown Srinagar. This recent development has heightened security concerns in the region.
Authorities are on high alert following these events. They are working tirelessly to ensure public safety and prevent further incidents. The situation remains tense as efforts continue to track down those responsible for the attack.
This is an ongoing story, and updates will be provided as more information becomes available. The community is urged to remain vigilant and report any suspicious activities to authorities immediately.
[GEO.TV] In a dramatic turn of events, the Punjab ...1. Little Orphan Annie's bodyguard
2. A province of Pakistain ruled by one of the Sharif brothers
3. A province of India. It is majority (60 percent) Sikh and Hindoo (37 percent), which means it has relatively few Moslem riots
.... police successfully recovered the Pakistain Tehrik-e-Insaf ...a political party in Pakistan. PTI was founded by former Pakistani cricket captain and philanthropist Imran Khan. The party's slogan is Justice, Humanity and Self Esteem, each of which is open to widely divergent interpretations.... (PTI) founder Imran Khan ...aka The Great Khan, who ain't the sharpest bulb on the national tree... 's lawyer, Intezar Hussain Panjutha, following a shootout with alleged kidnappers in Hassan Abdal.
The development too place late Saturday night when personnel of the Attock police stopped a suspicious vehicle during a routine check. According to the police spokesperson, the vehicle was carrying a "gang of kidnappers" with an abductee.
Upon being intercepted, the kidnappers opened indiscriminate fire on the police. However,
nothing needs reforming like other people's bad habits... they fled upon retaliation by the police party, leaving behind the car with a man trussed-up inside.
The police safely recovered the abductee, who turned out to be the PTI founder's counsel, the police front man confirmed.
Later, Panjutha was shifted to a hospital for medical treatment, where he revealed that he was severely tortured by the kidnappers. He said he was picked up from Islamabad on October 8 for a ransom worth Rs20 million.
"The abductors communicated in Pashto and I was unable to understand the conversations. They kept me tied up till Saturday evening," Panjutha said, recounting that he was being moved continuously for three to four hours.
"I had no idea where they had brought me or how far they had travelled," he added.
The police said they an investigation is underway to identify the individuals behind the abduction.
The former prime minister's lawyer had been missing since 8 October. A case regarding his disappearance is sub judice in Islamabad High Court (IHC)
IHC Chief Justice Aamer Farooq was told during a recent hearing that efforts for Panjutha's recovery were underway.
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[IsraelTimes] Indictment reveals that two terrorists had initially considered attacking sports stadium, before carrying out shooting at light rail station in south Tel Aviv, killing 7 civilians
The owner of a taxi company and two taxi drivers were indicted on Sunday for driving into Israel the perpetrators of the October 1 terror attack in Jaffa, in what the State Attorney’s Office described as a precedent.
The indictments also revealed new details of the planned attack, including that the holy warriors — who killed seven civilians at a light rail station — had considered attacking a nearby sports stadium.
In the stabbing and shooting attack, Mohammad Mesek, 19, and Ahmed Himouni, 25, from Hebron in the West Bank, murdered seven people and injured 11. Mesek was killed at the scene and Himouni was maimed. Hamas ..the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,... later grabbed credit for the attack — one of the worst in years.
The three individuals indicted on Sunday are accused of driving the terrorists, who they knew didn’t have entry permits into Israel, across the Green Line, from East Jerusalem to Tel Aviv. The indictment is on charges of causing death by negligence and causing death by recklessness.
According to the indictment, the taxi company had started up a business illegally ferrying Paleostinians from the West Bank into Israel who did not have permits to enter. On the day of the attack in Jaffa, the indictment said, the company’s owner received a request to take 13 Paleostinians without entry permits into Israel, including the two terrorists.
The owner, who knew the individuals did not have entry permits, instructed one of his drivers to take the business, when they both knew that the Paleostinians’ "entry into Israel was forbidden and in order to make money, while taking an unreasonable risk that the company [might be] giving taxi services to terrorists," the State Attorney’s Office wrote in the indictment.
According to the indictment, the driver told the Paleostinians who got into his taxi to turn off their cell phones and to draw the curtains in the rear windows of the vehicle. The holy warriors were said to have worn black clothes — unlike the other Paleostinians who were being transported — and had two backpacks: one holding a dismantled M-16 assault rifle, and another holding knives and ammunition.
After crossing into Israel, the first driver had some of his passengers, including the two terrorists, change to the second driver’s taxi, "because of his fear of police inspection," the indictment said. It noted that the second driver was not an employee of the company, but worked in cooperation with it.
According to the indictment, the holy warriors had originally planned to carry out their attack at a crowded venue, such as a sports stadium. While passing by the Bloomfield stadium, one of the holy warriors asked the driver if there was a game on that evening, ostensibly to see if he could carry out a mass terror attack at the venue. There was no game being played that night.
Before carrying out the attack, the holy warriors entered Jaffa’s al-Nuzha Mosque, stashed their bags in the mosque’s bathroom, and threatened worshippers not to leave.
Then they boarded the Tel Aviv light rail, attacking civilians on board, before getting off and continuing on foot and shooting and stabbing people on Jerusalem Street in the city.
The seven civilians murdered in the attack were Victor Shimshon Green, 33, Revital Bronstein, 24, Shahar Goldman, 30, Inbar Segev Vigder, 33, Nadia Sokolenco, 40, Ilia Nozadze, 42, a Georgian citizen and Jonas Chrosis, 26, a Greek citizen.
The attack came amid heightened tensions in Israel, as the Israel Defense Forces announced a ground incursion into Leb ...an Iranian satrapy until recently ruled by Hassan Nasrallah situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozen flavors of Christians, plus Armenians, Georgians, and who knows what else? It is the 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. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers... in a bid to push the Hezbollah terror group away from the border, and just minutes before 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... launched a massive missile attack on Israel.
[IsraelTimes] The State Attorney’s Office files an indictment against an anti-government protester who allegedly threw torches at coppers during a demonstration in Jerusalem in April, on charges of obstructing a police officer under aggravated circumstances and committing an act of recklessness and negligence.
According to the indictment, Tel Aviv resident Roy Gordon
…an architect by trade, he’s an Israeli Black Bloc/Antifa cadre, currently protesting about the hostages in Gaza. He’s in the Rantburg archives for showing up for a meeting at Jewish Voice for Peace’s New York City offices shortly after 10/7 for a meeting between the leaders of the anti-Bibi protesters and a bunch of rich, Progressive entrepreneurs looking to invest in social change buy the remaking of Israel to their preferred specs…
threw a burning torch at a police position during a demonstration close to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s private home on Azza Street in Jerusalem on April 2.
The torch did not hit anyone and was extinguished by a police officer after it hit the ground.
Several minutes later Gordon threw another torch, which had gone out but reignited as it flew through the air and eventually hit the horse of a mounted police officer, before being extinguished as it fell to the ground.
The protest in which the incident took place generated furious response from government officials at the time, after some protesters tried to break through police lines to get closer to the prime minister’s home.
Police used tough riot control methods at the time, dragging away protester Ayala Metzger, daughter-in-law of Hamas hostage Yoram, and spraying skunk spray from water cannons at others.
[GEO.TV] At least 31 people were killed during Israeli bombardment of 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... Strip on Sunday, Paleostinian medics said, with nearly half of the deaths in northern areas where the army has waged a month-long campaign it says aims to prevent Hamas ..always the voice of sweet reason... regrouping.
Paleostinians said the new aerial and ground offensives and forced evacuations were "ethnic cleansing" aimed at emptying two northern Gaza towns and a camp of their population in order to create buffer zones. Israel denies this, saying it is fighting Hamas Lions of Islam who launch attacks from there.
Medics said at least 13 Paleostinians were killed in separate attacks on houses in Beit Lahiya town and Jabalia, the largest of the enclave's eight historic refugee camps and the focus of the army's new offensive.
The rest were killed in separate Israeli Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s in Gaza City and in southern areas, including one in Khan Younis, which health officials said had killed eight people, including four children.
Israel has not commented on its military actions in Gaza on Sunday.
[GEO.TV] Hezbollah has announced that it fired a series of missiles at an Israeli military installation located in Haifa, a northern coastal city, Al Jazeera reported.
The group stated that this marks the first time it has targeted the technical base associated with the Israeli Air Force, following its earlier claim of a drone strike on a different military base south of Haifa.
Did any actually get through and hit something other than dirt?
[TWZ] In use in CENTCOM, AFRICOM, and EUCOM with 170 successful kills in all those regions.
Coyote interceptors represent a key part of the Army's counter-drone arsenal, which it is still trying to expand to tackle evolving threats.
Army officials highlighted Coyote’s achievements at the Falcon Peak 2025, a counter-drone capabilities demonstration at Peterson Space Force Base in Colorado this week, which The War Zone and reporters from other outlets observed. The service currently has Coyotes deployed at 36 unspecified sites outside of the United States.
Operational use of these interceptors, which defense contractor Raytheon produces, in the Middle East has been previously reported. Coyotes were also notably among the defensive capabilities deployed to protect a temporary pier attached to the shore of the Gaza Strip that the U.S. military briefly operated to try to help get more humanitarian aid into the enclave earlier this year.
The IDF has completely leveled the Hezbollah stronghold of Meiss El Jabal, leaving almost the entire village entirely erased. @MarioLeb79pic.twitter.com/9ePrb2XGhV
On October 1, 2024, the IDF claimed that since the onset of the Israel–Hezbollah conflict in October 2023 and leading up to the October 2024 ground operation, it has destroyed 91 Hezbollah targets in Meiss Ej Jabal, including 13 lookout posts and various weapons, with tunnels measuring nearly 12 meters deep and located just 30 meters from the Blue Line.[6]
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It’s a very good thing they have the Dead Sea down at the bottom of the country to mine for chemicals to turn into explosives. Even using what they found on site in the village, it must have taken a convoy to bring in the necessities to wire that up.
[IsraelTimes] General Hamid Mazandarani and another IRGC member die when ultralight plane goes down during anti-terror operation in restive Sistan-Baluchistan province.
WSJ: Iran has informed Arab diplomats of plans for a powerful, multi-faceted strike against Israel, involving more advanced warheads and additional weaponry.
According to Iranian and Arab officials familiar with the preparations, Iran’s conventional army is expected…
[IsraelTimes] Reza Valizadeh was arrested last month and faces trial on undisclosed charges; US seeking info on case, says Tehran ‘routinely imprisons US citizens’ for ‘political purposes’
An Iranian-American journalist who once worked for a US government-funded broadcaster is believed to be detained by 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... for months now, authorities said Sunday, further raising the stakes as Tehran threatens to attack Israel.
The imprisonment of Reza Valizadeh, acknowledged to The News Agency that Dare Not be Named by the US State Department, came as Iran marked the 45th anniversary of the American Embassy takeover and hostage crisis on Sunday.
It also followed Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei ...the very aged actual dictator of Iran, successor to Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini...> threatening both Israel and the US the day before with "a crushing response" to Israel’s retaliatory strikes on military sites in Iran.
Valizadeh had worked for Radio Farda, an outlet under Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty that’s overseen by the US Agency for Global Media. In February, he wrote on the social platform X that his family members were tossed into the calaboose in an effort to see him return to Iran.
Unexpectedly.
In August, Valizadeh apparently posted two messages suggesting he had returned to Iran despite Radio Farda being viewed by Iran’s theocracy as a hostile outlet.
"I arrived in Tehran on March 6, 2024. Before that, I had unfinished negotiations with the (Revolutionary Guard’s) intelligence department," the message read in part. "Eventually I came back to my country after 13 years without any security guarantee, even a verbal one."
So now both his relatives and he languish in Iranian prison. How is that better?
Valizadeh added the name of a man who he claimed belonged to Iran’s Intelligence Ministry. The AP could not verify if the person worked for the ministry.
Rumors have been circulating for weeks that Valizadeh were tossed into the calaboose. The Human Rights Activists News Agency, which monitors cases in Iran, said that he were tossed into the calaboose on arrival to the country earlier this year, but later released.
He was then rearrested and sent to Evin prison, where he now faces a case in Iran’s Revolutionary Court, which routinely holds closed-door hearings in which defendants face secret evidence, the agency reported. Valizadeh had faced arrest in 2007 as well, it said.
Of course. Since he is a hostage for ransom and/or trade in the age-old Muslim tradition, it absolutely doesn’t matter if he actually did whatever imaginary crime they accused him of.
The State Department told the AP that it was "aware of reports that this dual US-Iranian citizen has been arrested in Iran" when asked about Valizadeh.
"We are working with our Swiss partners who serve as the protecting power for the United States in Iran to gather more information about this case," the State Department said. "Iran routinely imprisons US citizens and other countries’ citizens unjustly for political purposes. This practice is cruel and contrary to international law."
Not for politics. For money and leverage against their enemies.
Iran has not acknowledged detaining Valizadeh. Iran’s mission to the United Nations ...a lucrative dumping ground for the relatives of dictators and party hacks... did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
The Voice of America, another US government-funded media outlet overseen by the Agency for Global Media, first reported the State Department was acknowledging Valizadeh’s detention in Iran.
Since the 1979 US Embassy crisis, which saw dozens of hostages released after 444 days in captivity, Iran has used prisoners with Western ties as bargaining chips in negotiations with the world. In September 2023, five Americans detained for years in Iran were freed in exchange for five Iranians in US custody and for $6 billion in frozen Iranian assets to be released by South Korea.
QED.
Valizadeh is the first American known to be detained by Iran in the time since.
Last week, Iran executed German-Iranian prisoner Jamshid Sharmahd, in what the German government called "a murder." Sharmahd, who was a US resident, was accused of behind behind a 2008 bombing that killed 14 people.
Both the US and Germany called his trial a "sham," and human rights ...which are often intentionally defined so widely as to be meaningless... group Amnesty International said he had been subjected to "enforced disappearance, torture and other ill-treatment" while in prison.
[GEO.TV] The death toll from Israeli attacks on Lebanon has now climbed to 2,986 and the number of injured to 13,402 since October 2023, including 18 dead and 83 injured in the past 24 hours, the Lebanese health ministry said on Sunday.
[NAHARNET] Lebanon's health ministry said one person was killed and 15 people were wounded Saturday in an Israeli strike on the Galerie Semaan area on the outskirts of Beirut's southern suburbs.
The ministry announcement came as the official National News Agency said the "Israeli enemy launched a raid near Karout Mall... in the southern suburbs of Beirut."
The strike was not preceded by an Israeli evacuation warning.
TV networks said the strike targeted a motorbike showroom located on the ground floor of a building.
[IsraelTimes] Iranian authorities arrested a female student yesterday after she staged a solo protest against harassment by stripping to her underwear outside her university, reports say.
The woman, who has not been identified, had been harassed inside Tehran’s prestigious Islamic Azad University by members of the Basij paramilitary force who ripped her headscarf and clothes, according to reports by several news outlets and social media channels outside Iran.
She then took off her clothes in protest and sat outside the university dressed in just her underwear before defiantly walking in the street to the astonishment of passersby, videos posted on social media show.
Under the dress code mandatory in Iran, women must wear a headscarf and loose-fitting clothes in public.
The footage appeared to have been shot by onlookers in a neighboring building. Another video showed her being bundled into a car by men in plainclothes and driven off to an undisclosed location.
The Amir Kabir newsletter alleges she was beaten during the arrest.
“Iran’s authorities must immediately and unconditionally release the university student who was violently arrested after she removed her clothes in protest against abusive enforcement of compulsory veiling by security officials,” Amnesty International says.
The London-based rights group, which has in the past years chronicled allegations of abuse against women in Iranian prisons, adds: “Pending her release, authorities must protect her from torture and other ill-treatment and ensure access to family and lawyer.”
It adds that “allegations of beatings and sexual violence against her during arrest need independent and impartial investigations.”
Iran’s conservative Fars news agency confirmed the incident in a report, publishing a picture with the student heavily blurred out.
It says the student had worn “inappropriate clothes” in class and “stripped” after being warned by security guards to comply with the dress code.
Citing “witnesses,” it says the security guards spoke “calmly” with the student and denied the reports that their action had been aggressive.
Near-nationwide protests erupted in 2022 following the death in custody of Mahsa Amini, an Iranian Kurdish woman who had been arrested for an alleged breach of the dress code.
[IsraelTime] Elite forces entered Syrian territory in July and snatched Ali Suleiman al-Asi, who told interrogators he was told to monitor troop movements along border, says military
Israeli commandos carried out a raid in southern Syria where they captured a Syrian man who was allegedly carrying out surveillance operations on the border on behalf of Iran, the IDF revealed Sunday in a rare acknowledgment of a ground operation in its northeastern neighbor.
According to the Israel Defense Forces, the raid in Syria was carried out in recent months by the Egoz commando unit, along with field interrogators of the Intelligence Directorate’s Unit 504. Local Syrian media reported that the incident took place on July 19.
The commandos captured Ali Suleiman al-Asi, a Syrian man who lived in the village of Saida, in the Daraa Governorate.
The IDF said that al-Asi worked on behalf of Iran, and was involved in collecting intelligence on the Israeli military’s operations along the Syrian border "for future terror activity."
The military was "closely monitoring" al-Asi before he was captured and taken to Israel for questioning.
His arrest has "prevented and disrupted a future attack and led to the exposure of the modus operandi of Iranian entities on the Golan Heights front," the IDF said.
The IDF released footage of the mission and also from al-Asi’s interrogation, during which he said that he was approached by a man who told him: "Your area is good, strategic, we can get something from this." al-Asi said that the man was "linked to Iran."
The detained Syrian man told Israeli interrogators that he was instructed by the Iranian-linked source to "just observe the borders," while under the guise of Syria’s military intelligence, and pass on information on Israeli patrols.
He told interrogators that, among other things, he passed on information about troop and tank movements on the Israeli side of the border.
Israel has been carrying out Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s inside Syria since the outbreak of that country’s civil war in 2011, mainly targeting attempts to transfer weapons to the Iran-backed Lebanese Hezbollah terror group or to keep Iranian fighters themselves from gaining a foothold near Israel’s border.
In July, Israeli special forces allegedly carried out a raid on an Iranian weapons facility in the Masyaf area in Syria, which has long been associated with the manufacture of chemical weapons
...have not been used since WWI except for in Iraq, by the late, unlamented Saddam Hussein and in Syria, but really, honest, not by the Syrian government. And in Germany in WWII, but that was against civilians. Lots of them, just one of many reasons Hitler's also late and unlamented... and precision missiles by the Syrian regime and Iranian forces.
The raid was said to have been carried out alongside Israeli air strikes on military facilities in the area that reportedly killed at least 14 people and maimed 43.
Local Syrian media reported at the time that the strikes hit the area surrounding the Scientific Studies and Research Center, known as CERS or SSRC, which according to Israel is used by Iranian forces to manufacture precision surface-to-surface missiles.
Various reports in foreign media claimed that Israeli troops operated on the ground during the action at Masyaf, which lies about 200 kilometers (124 miles) north of Israel, though only about 30 kilometers (18 miles) from Syria’s western coastline.
The reports said that commandos of the Israeli Air Force’s Shaldag Unit rappelled down from helicopters and raided CERS. Israeli troops removed equipment and documents and then laid explosives to destroy the facility.
The IDF has not publicly confirmed the details of the operation.
[Rudaw] At least two regime soldiers were killed in an attack carried out by Islamic State (ISIS) gunmen in Syria’s eastern Deir ez-Zor province, a war monitor reported on Saturday.
“Two members of the 17th Division of the regime forces were killed, and a third was injured with various injuries after being targeted by two ISIS gunmen riding a motorcycle,” said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a UK-based war monitor.
The ambush took place near the town of Mahkan, in Deir ez-Zor’s Mayadin district – a stronghold for pro-Iran militias and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).
It is the latest in a spate of ISIS attacks in Syria, particularly from the desert regions where jihadist cells maintain a presence.
ISIS rose to power and seized swathes of Iraqi and Syrian land in a brazen offensive in 2014, declaring a so-called “caliphate.”
While the group was declared territorially defeated in 2017 and 2019, respectively, it still continues to pose serious security risks through hit-and-run attacks, bombings, and abductions, especially across the vast expanses of the Syrian desert as well as several Iraqi provinces.
At least 476 Syrian regime soldiers and pro-Iran militants have been killed by ISIS militants in Syria since the start of the year. The attacks have also killed 58 civilians, according to data from the Observatory.
#5
If they have any excess, there are some African countries that could put it to use fighting with their neighbors and amongst themselves. I hear Victor Bout is out of jail now. Maybe we should give him a call...
#7
Sunni, Christian, and Druze militias - provided they want to play.
Seems like a once in a lifetime opportunity to change the political balance and remove Hezbollah from the board. Knobby Berri might want to get in on this.
[Rudaw] Members of a The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...just another cheapjack Moslem dictatorship, brought to you by the Moslem Brüderbund... -backed militia group in northwest Syria are preventing Kurdish farmers from harvesting their olives, a local source said.
Commanders of the Sulaiman Shah Brigade have blocked Kurdish farmers from entering their olive orchards in the Kurzele village of Afrin region, a local source to Rudaw on Saturday, speaking on condition of anonymity
... for fear of being murdered... Seventeen Kurdish families, who have around 4,000 olive trees, have been affected.
The Sulaiman Shah Brigade is based in northern Syria and is accused of numerous human rights ...not to be confused with individual rights, mind you... violations, especially against Kurdish residents. In 2023, the United States sanctioned the group for "serious human rights abuses committed in northern Syria, including abduction, severe physical abuse, and rape."
Olives are an important economic crop in Afrin.
Abdulrahman Korajo is a Germany-based Kurdish activist from the enclave. He said Arab settlers have confiscated and stolen olives from Kurdish farmers and local authorities have done nothing to stop them.
"The people of Kurzele village have been banned from entering their farms. Arabs affiliated with this brigade harvest the olives in the light of day but there is no one to hold them accountable. Our people of Afrin have been working these farms for years but Arabs have confiscated and stolen them," he said.
Afrin was invaded by Turkey and its Syrian proxies in 2018 after years of Kurdish rule under the People’s Protection Units (YPG).
Human rights groups and the United Nations ...an organization conceived in the belief that we're just one big happy world, with the sort of results you'd expect from such nonsense... have published reports detailing arbitrary arrests, detention and pillaging, among other violations in Afrin since 2018.
[Rudaw] At least five people from one family were maimed on Friday by an exploding mine in northern Syria, according to local sources. It is suspected that the bomb was planted by 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 cells.
The incident took place in Tal Qarah village in the Shahba region of Aleppo province that houses hundreds of thousands of Kurds who were displaced from their nearby hometown of Afrin during the 2018 invasion by The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire... and its Syrian proxies.
"The improvised mine went kaboom! near an IDP [internally displaced] family from Afrin Friday afternoon while they were going to harvest their olives," Ibrahim Shekho, a Kurdish rights activist, told Rudaw.
He said six people were maimed, including a three-year-old child.
The mine had been laid by ISIS members in the region, according to ANHA news agency, which is affiliated with the local Kurdish authorities. The outlet reported that five people aged between 20 and 50 and all from one family were maimed.
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