[NYPOST] Italian police arrested a nun known for her prison work and 24 other people on Thursday as part of an investigation into the 'Ndrangheta Mafia in the northern city of Brescia, three sources with direct knowledge of the matter told Rooters.
They said Sister Anna Donelli, a volunteer in Milan's San Vittore prison, is suspected of Mafia collusion and of acting as a go-between for the criminal group and its locked away Youse'll never take me alive coppers!... [BANG!]... Ow!... I quit! gang members.
The nun, 57, is also well known for her service in Milan's run-down districts.
In February, she was one of the recipients of the ''Golden Panettone,'' an annual Milanese civic award.
It was not immediately possible to reach the nun's lawyer for comment.
A police blurb said two local politicians were also arrested, and that $1.89 million had been seized in the operation.
The statement did not name any of the people targeted by the raid.
Suspects are accused of various crimes, including Mafia association, vote-buying, illegal possession of weapons, money laundering, loan-sharking, drug dealing, and false invoicing, the police statement added.
The alleged gang was connected to the issuance of 12 million euros worth of invoices for non-existent transactions that enabled complicit entrepreneurs to lower their income and evade taxes in return for a commission paid to mobsters.
[THEEPOCHTIMES] Authorities in Mexico dissolved two caravans of would-be illegal immigrants colonists heading to the United States, just days after President-elect Donald Trump ...So far he's been unkillable, and they've tried.... warned he would levy a 25 percent tariff on imports from the country.
Migrant activists said this week that some were bused to cities in southern Mexico, and others were offered transit papers. Migrant rights activist Luis Garcia Villagran said the breaking-up of the two caravans appeared to be part of ''an agreement between the president of Mexico and the president of the United States.''
The first of the caravans started out from the southern Mexico city of Tapachula, near the border with Guatemala, on Nov. 5, the day Trump was elected. At its height, it had about 2,500 people. In almost four weeks of walking, it had gone about 270 miles to Tehuantepec in the state of Oaxaca, activists said.
In Tehuantepec, Mexican immigration officials offered the migrants colonists free bus rides to other cities in southern or central Mexico, members of the caravan and activists said.
That doesn’t sound like they’re being sent home, or even out of Mexico, but rather just being made less visible for their next pass at the American border.
''They took some of us to Acapulco, others to Morelia, and others from our group to Oaxaca city,'' said Barbara Rodriguez, an opposition supporter who left her native Venezuela
...a country in Central America that sits on an enormous pool of oil. Formerly the most prospereous country in the region, it became infested with Commies sniffing almost unlimited wealth. It turned out the wealth wasn't unlimited, the economy collapsed under the clownish Hugo Chavez, the murder rate exceeded places like Honduras and El Salvador. A significant proportion of the populace refugeed to Colombia and points south... after that country's contested presidential elections earlier this year.
The second caravan of about 1,500 migrants colonists set out on Nov. 20 and made it about 140 miles to the town of Tonala, in Chiapas state, activists say. There, authorities offered a sort of transit visa that allows travel across Mexico for 20 days.
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[IsraelTimes] Victorian police have removed a man wielding a hammer and verbally abusing community members at a Jewish bakery in Melbourne, hours after masked assailants set fire to a nearby synagogue.
A Jewish community security organization says its personnel “assisted Glick’s staff and remained on site until police arrived.”
Posts on social media say the bakery was put on “lockdown.”
The incident took place at the Balaclava branch of Glick’s bakery, an iconic Jewish institution founded by Holocaust survivor Mendel Glick in 1960.
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They might be able to get away with doing this downtown, but if they moved about 30 blocks in any direction, the gangs would have ended this kind of behavior rather abruptly.
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[IsraelTimes] Overnight, troops of the IDF’s Duvedevan commando unit killed a Palestinian gunman who opened fire at them during an operation in the Balata camp near the northern West Bank city of Nablus, a military source says.
Meanwhile, four weapons were seized by troops in the village of Qarawat Bani Hassan, also near Nablus, according to the source.
Six wanted Palestinians were also detained across the West Bank overnight.
[IsraelTimes] Shin Bet reveals it arrested duo from Mas’ade in November, charging they passed info on IDF activity in Golan Heights to Iranian handlers — the latest in flood of espionage cases
Two residents of the northern Druze village of Mas’ade are suspected of carrying out surveillance missions on behalf of Iran’s Quds Force, the Shin Bet and police said Friday.
The suspects, Bassem and Tahrir Safadi, a father and son, were arrested in November on suspicion that they were "recruited by Iranian elements and committed crimes of espionage and contact with a foreign agent during war," the Shin Bet said.
The investigation found that Tahrir, 21, a software engineering student, was involved in recent years in surveillance missions for 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... and its regional proxies, at the request of his father, Bassem.
The Shin Bet said Tahrir would collect information on IDF activity in the Golan Heights, which was then handed over to Hussam as-Salam Tawfiq Zidan, a journalist with the Iranian state-owned al-Alam News Network.
Zidan lived in Damascus and simultaneously worked for the Paleostine division in the Quds Force, the extraterritorial arm of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards, according to the Shin Bet. The Paleostine division is responsible for aiding Paleostinian terror groups in carrying out attacks.
Tahrir and Bassem were both instructed by their Quds Force handler Zidan to carry out various missions, including taking photos of troops, tank movements, equipment and other details, the security agency said.
On Friday, an indictment was filed against Tahrir Safadi, accusing him of "grave crimes of espionage." His father, Bassem, will be held in administrative detention due to "the absence of a criminal proceeding alternative, and given his high risk to state security and public peace," the Shin Bet said.
"The investigation of the case revealed once again the fact that elements of the Axis, led by Iran, act to advance terror activity in Israel and to exploit residents of Israel for espionage activities," the agency said.
The Shin Bet and police added that they view the case, and any other contact by Israelis with Iranian elements, "gravely."
Law enforcement agencies have in recent months announced a series of Iranian espionage plots involving Israeli citizens.
In some, Tehran tried to trick Israelis online into carrying out missions on its behalf.
In other cases, individuals are alleged to have knowingly operated on its behalf for monetary gain.
In September, seven Jewish Israelis were arrested on suspicion of spying on security figures and IDF bases for Iran. They were accused of collecting information for their Iranian contacts about several Israeli citizens, including a senior security figure, and may have been part of a plot to ultimately assassinate the figure.
That same month, a man from the southern city of Ashkelon was arrested on allegations that he was smuggled into Iran twice and received payment to carry out missions on behalf of Tehran, and was recruited to assassinate either Israel’s prime minister, defense minister, or the head of the Shin Bet.
Then, on October 14, a man and his 18-year-old partner, both from Ramat Gan, were arrested on charges that they carried out various acts of sabotage and vandalism on behalf of an Iranian agent.
On October 16, the Israel Police and State Attorney’s Office announced the arrest of a man from central Israel who allegedly acquired a weapon in order to kill an Israeli scientist on instructions from an Iranian agent, after performing several smaller tasks on the agent’s behalf.
On October 22, seven East Jerusalem men, six of them Israeli citizens, were arrested on suspicion of spying for Iran and plotting attacks in Israel.
Those recent cases came after authorities in January uncovered a scheme involving Israelis who were allegedly recruited to gather intelligence on high-profile figures.
Israel’s army said Friday it had conducted air strikes on Hezbollah "weapon-smuggling routes" on the Syria-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... border, just over a week into a fragile ceasefire in Lebanon.
The Israeli air force "conducted strikes on weapon-smuggling routes and terror infrastructure sites located near the Syrian regime’s crossings at the Syrian-Lebanese border", the military said in a statement that included a map identifying the crossing as al-Arida.
Lebanon’s National News Agency said the Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... on the al-Arida border crossing in the country’s north caused heavy material damage and cut the road.
The Israeli army also said it destroyed Hezbollah weapons in south Lebanon.
Over the past two months, Israel’s airstrikes closed several border crossings between Lebanon and Syria. The al-Arida border crossing was attacked in late November and reopened days later before it was struck again.
Empty except for Hamas jihadis and their toys, anyway.
[GEO.TV] The Israeli military has now denied targeting or entering the Kamal Adwan hospital in the north 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... The army says it would ''continue to operate against terror infrastructure and terrorists'' in northern Gaza, including ''adjacent to'' the hospital, according to Al Jazeera.
Moreover, the entire medical facility and shelter to thousands of the displaced has been completely evacuated by the military.
It also ordered the director of the hospital as well as everyone to evacuate and go through a checkpoint leaving the area where 70 were detained and taken to an unknown area for interrogation.
[IsraelTimes] Military denies reports it struck, stormed Kamal Adwan Hospital, after 29 said killed and dozens injured at one of north Gaza’s last functioning hospitals
The IDF and Shin Bet said Friday that several senior Hamas ..a regional Iranian catspaw,... commanders were killed in recent Israeli Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s on 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... , including a leader who criminal masterminded the terror group’s use of paragliders to infiltrate Israel on October 7, 2023.
The military also denied allegations that Israeli forces had targeted north Gaza’s Kamal Adwan Hospital, amid Paleostinian allegations that 29 people were killed there.
The military said Nidal al-Najjar, the commander of Hamas’s aerial forces in Gaza City, was killed in an airstrike Tuesday.
According to the IDF, al-Najjar was among the criminal masterminds behind Hamas’s aerial infiltration of Israel on October 7, 2023, when hard boyz in paragliders flew over the border into the south, part of a force that killed some 1,200 people and took 251 hostages.
During the ensuing war, al-Najjar was responsible for Hamas’s air defenses and carried out explosive-laden drone attacks against troops operating in Gaza, the IDF said.
Majdi Aqilan, a company commander and deputy commander in Hamas’s Gaza City-based Shati Battalion, was also killed in an airstrike over the past week, the military said.
During the October 7 onslaught, Aqilan was one of the commanders who led the massacre and hostage-taking at Kibbutz Nahal Oz, according to the military.
The strike also killed Mamdouh Mehna, the military said. According to the IDF, Mehna was a senior tunnel specialist in Hamas’s Gaza City Brigade, and had also participated in the massacre in Nahal Oz.
Ahmed Suwaidan, a company commander in the Shati Battalion, was also killed in the strike, the army said. Suwaidan was involved in abducting Israeli civilians and taking them to Gaza during the Hamas onslaught, according to the IDF.
The army added that the Hamas operatives were also involved in attacks on Israel and troops in Gaza throughout the war.
DOZENS SAID KILLED AT KAMAL ADWAN, IDF DENIES TARGETING HOSPITAL
The IDF denied reports it had struck or raided the Kamal Adwan Hospital in Jabalia, saying it had been operating near the facility.
The area has been the site of an intense IDF operation aiming to stop Hamas from regrouping in northern Gaza for the past two months.
"Contrary to the reports made over the past day, the [military] did not strike the Kamal Adwan hospital or operate within it," the IDF said in a statement, adding that it would "continue to operate against terror infrastructure and terrorists" in northern Gaza, including "adjacent to" the hospital.
The statement came after the Hamas-run territory’s civil defense agency said 29 people were killed and dozens maimed on Friday by Israeli strikes around the hospital, one of north Gaza’s last functioning health centers.
Mahmud Bassal, the agency’s front man, said Israeli troops had entered the hospital, evacuated patients and arrested several Paleostinians.
A representative for the World Health Organization told news hounds that Israeli troops were first spotted outside the hospital at 4 a.m. and that the hospital was bombed despite there being "no official evacuation order." The representative said a "substantial amount" of people, including patients and staff, were still in the hospital, which remained "minimum operational."
According to Hossam Abu Safieh, the hospital’s director, "There was a series of airstrikes on the northern and western sides of the hospital, accompanied by intense and direct fire."
He added that four staff were killed and there were no surgeons left at the site.
Reports of the strikes at Kamal Adwan came just days after the World Health Organization said an emergency medical team had reached the hospital for the first time in 60 days.
Dr. Faradina Sulistiyani, a surgeon on the team, told AFP from Gaza City that all seven of her team members had left the premises on foot as the bombing went on.
Israeli forces have raided Kamal Adwan on several occasions since the start of the war. The hospital said its intensive care unit director Ahmad al-Kahlut was killed in an airstrike late last month.
Israel has said it seeks to minimize civilian fatalities and stresses that Hamas uses Gaza’s civilians as human shields, fighting from civilian areas including homes, hospitals, schools and mosques.
Gaza’s Hamas-run health ministry said only 37 hospitals and clinics in the war-devastated territory remained operational but lacked essential equipment, manpower, and medical and fuel supplies.
The three main hospitals on the enclave’s northern end are barely functioning and have been under repeated attack since Israel sent tanks into Beit Lahiya and nearby Beit Hanoun and Jabalia in October, the ministry said.
Large parts of northern Gaza have been cut off from aid as the IDF operates in those areas against Hamas insurgencies. Most of the civilians there have evacuated but thousands remain under dire conditions.
Amid the operation, COGAT, the IDF body responsible for humanitarian coordination in Gaza, said it had helped transport thousands of bags of flour to Beit Hanoun.
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[Washington Examiner] The U.S. Embassy in Syria issued a new security warning to citizens in the country, urging them to leave as rebel groups advance and cause further unrest.
Rebel groups have advanced on Syrian President Bashar al Assad’s forces, the Syrian Arab Army, in the past week, after he established control over most of the country in 2020 and had four years of relative stability. The country has been largely unstable for the past decade, with the conflict beginning in 2011, but fighting has increased with the latest rebel advancements.
The advisory issued Friday warns that areas of the country affected by the latest instability include Aleppo, Idlib, Hama, Manbij, and Daraa, but are also prevalent in other areas.
"The security situation in Syria continues to be volatile and unpredictable with active clashes between armed groups throughout the country. The Department of State urges U.S. citizens to depart Syria now while commercial options remain available in Damascus," the warning said.
The advisory also warns that those who elect not to leave the country should "prepare contingency plans for emergency situations and be prepared to shelter in place for extended periods."
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That will ruin somebody’s worst vacation ever.
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[IsraelTimes] Iran has started evacuating military commanders and other Iranian officials from Syria, the New York Times reports, as the Syrian government comes under increasing pressure from advancing rebel forces.
Citing regional and Iranian officials, the report says among those who have been moved out of Syria are senior commanders in the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ Quds Force, some diplomats and their families, and civilians, with the evacuations beginning Friday morning.
The US newspaper also reports that some of the officials left by Tehran via plane, while others departed by land for Lebanon, Iraq and the Syrian port city of Latakia.
Together with Russia, the Islamic Republic has been a key supporter of President Bashar al-Assad during the over decade-long Syrian civil war, with the Syrian regime serving as a key component in the Iran-led anti-Israel, anti-US “axis of resistance” along with Lebanon’s Hezbollah terror organization and other Iranian proxy groups across the region.
I thought this time it’s an Al Nusra blitzkrieg, Skidmark. ISIS remnants have been absorbed by the “Syrian National Army” paramilitaries on the Turkish payroll, yes, but they are no longer animated by the current heir of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi first caliph of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria.
[IsraelTimes] The network cites “foreign reports,” though no such reports appear to exist, indicating that the citation is a tactic by the network to get around Israel’s military censor.
Earlier this week, Haaretz reported that the Israeli military fears that amid the Syrian rebel assault and their taking over of military sites belonging to the Assad regime in the country, chemical weapons could fall into the wrong hands.
If such weapons fall into the hands of the rebels or Iranian militias, Israel would have to act in a way that “may affect Syria and the entire Middle East,” according to Haaretz.
The report adds that Israel recently conveyed messages to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, via Russia, demanding that he “uphold his sovereignty and not allow Iran to operate in his territory.
… Opposition Forces are approaching Quneitra and Damascus from the South. Latakia and Tartus will likely be the last strongholds of the Assad Loyalists.
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At least three people have been killed in clashes between Druze militias and security forces in the southern Syrian city of Sweida, two witnesses and a local activist say.
They said anti-government fighters also took control of the main police station and the biggest civilian prison hours after hundreds of people protested in a main square demanding the downfall of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
“People are seeing what is happening in the rest of Syria as liberation of Syria and a chance to bring down the regime,” activist Ryan Marouf, editor of Suwayda 24, a website that covers the province, tells Reuters.
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[KavkazUzel] Thousands of Armenians remain in militant-held Aleppo, Syria, and the Armenian authorities are ready to help evacuate them, but there is no way to ensure their exit from the city or deliver humanitarian aid. At least one member of the Armenian community has been killed in the renewed fighting.
As reported by the "Caucasian Knot", due to the intensification of hostilities in Syria, on November 27, the Armenian authorities withdrew a group of humanitarian demining specialists and medical workers from the republic. The Armenian humanitarian contingent of 83 people had been working in Syria since February 2019. The mission participants returned to Armenia on November 29.
The Islamist armed group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham* (recognized as terrorist in Russia and banned) attacked President Bashar al-Assad's forces in Aleppo on December 1, forcing government troops to leave the city, which had been controlled by Assad's army since 2016. On December 5, the Islamists said they had launched an offensive on the city of Hama, located south of Aleppo in the direction of Damascus, Reuters reported. Hama, the fourth-largest city in the country and of key importance, is already fully controlled by the militants, as is the local military airfield - "one of the largest in Syria", which was used by government forces, Al Jazeera reports. Aleppo residents said they were experiencing a shortage of bread and fuel, and telephone communications were cut off. The UN food agency said that as a result of the latest fighting, 280,000 people were forced to flee their homes.
A discussion on the situation of the Armenian community of Aleppo and the situation after the capture of the city by Islamist militants took place on December 5 at the Yerevan Media Center. Participants in the meeting stated that leaving Aleppo is currently unsafe and the possibilities for evacuation are extremely limited, a correspondent for the "Caucasian Knot" reported, who watched the live broadcast of the discussion on the organization's YouTube channel.
According to official data, by the beginning of the war in 2011, about 100 thousand Armenians lived in Syria, of which about 60 thousand lived in Aleppo. In Damascus, the Armenian population was about 6 thousand, another 30 thousand lived in Latakia, Kessab, Qamishli, Homs, Raqqa, Hasakah, Deir ez-Zor. More than 60 thousand Armenians were forced to leave Syria because of the conflict. Today, about 30 thousand Armenians live in Syria, most of whom live in Aleppo, according to a publication on the website of the office of the Commissioner for Diaspora Affairs in Armenia.
The situation in Syria has developed so rapidly that it has become impossible to organize an evacuation, in particular from Aleppo, said the head of the repatriation department of the Office of the Chief Commissioner to the Government of Armenia, Oganes Aleksanyan.
"In the first two days, it was possible to take families out of Aleppo to Damascus or Latakia via secondary roads, but not via the main highway, which is controlled by the rebels. Now, however, it is practically impossible to leave the city; all exits are controlled by the Islamists," he said during the discussion.
A government spokesman reported a casualty among the Armenian population of Syria. "In the first days, a local Armenian was killed by a sniper on the road from Aleppo," Aleksanyan said.
On November 30, 66-year-old Aleppo doctor Yervand Arslanian was fatally wounded by a sniper on the road from Aleppo to Selemia, the Syrian Armenian newspaper Gandzasar reported. "The wounded man was taken to a hospital in Hama, where he died," the newspaper writes.
According to various estimates, between 10,000 and 12,000 Armenians live in Aleppo, the head of the department added. "After the start of the Syrian conflict, most of them left the country, but there were also those who did not want to leave their homes. It is possible that some would have left, in particular Aleppo, if not for the rapid development of events, but the majority, in my opinion, will not leave the city," he suggested.
Aleksanyan also noted that the office maintains contact with the community in Aleppo. "Although the city is controlled by militants, this time they have chosen a strategy of good neighborliness in communicating with the townspeople, and do not resort to atrocities. Food is brought from Idlib ( controlled by Islamists since 2017, - note from "Caucasian Knot" ), electricity is supplied. After the start of the war in Aleppo, there were rolling blackouts, but after the capture of the city, the intervals between power supplies increased," he explained.
With the assistance of the Cilicia Catholicosate of the Armenian Apostolic Church, assistance has been established for the Armenian community of Aleppo, since after the capture of the city, goods have become several times more expensive. "It is virtually impossible to send humanitarian aid, the airport is controlled by the rebels. If the situation escalates, it is necessary to look for opportunities, since we will have to deal with the rebels, not the Syrian government. In any case, we must be ready to organize the evacuation of Syrian Armenians. There is such experience - evacuation from Ukraine, Israel and Lebanon after the explosion in the harbor," Aleksanyan emphasized.
Most Syrian Armenians have dual citizenship, noted Sergey Kazinyan, a human rights expert at the Center for European Studies at Yerevan State University. "Having a second Armenian citizenship obliges Armenia to provide protection to them. Unlike people with foreign citizenship, those who have Armenian passports cannot receive refugee status or apply for asylum. But in the case of mass migration, as was the case after the ethnic cleansing in Artsakh (the self-name of Nagorno-Karabakh), the Armenian authorities may decide to provide temporary protection. In this case, group status is equivalent to refugee status," he said during the discussion.
The Armenian authorities have experience in assisting foreign communities with the support of the international community, the human rights expert added. "In 2016, the Armenian government developed a program to assist Syrian Armenians. They met the refugee status, as they fled the conflict zone due to massive human rights violations. This factor made it possible to organize assistance," Kazinyan explained.
Mass emigration is a serious challenge for Armenia, given the limited opportunities, so Armenia is forced to seek international assistance, including from the UN, he added. "The UN has been providing assistance since the start of the Syrian war in 2011," the human rights expert emphasized.
Local residents avoid contact with the rebels, Aleppo resident Maria Gabrielyan told Radio Liberty on December 4. According to her, Aleppo is controlled by Islamists.
"Armenians of Aleppo have started going to work, opening shops for a few hours. There is a problem with bread in the city, but the community is not left without bread. All those in need are given bread at the Aram Manukyan Center. They also promised financial assistance to all Armenian families. After the capture of the city, goods have almost tripled in price," said a resident of Aleppo, whose words were translated by a correspondent of the "Caucasian Knot."
Schools and kindergartens are still closed, and the rebels have announced plans to change the curriculum, Gabrielyan noted. "It is difficult to say whether government forces will be able to retake the city. The townspeople live in fear of uncertainty. Leaving the city is risky and unsafe. Several families have managed to leave the city," said an Aleppo resident. She also added that the body of the slain 66-year-old doctor has still not been transported to Aleppo for burial.
The Armenian Embassy in Syria stated on December 3 that there was no possibility of organizing the evacuation of Armenians from the country, but the Foreign Ministry was closely monitoring the situation and would consider all options if an evacuation was possible. At the same time, the Consul General of Armenia in Aleppo left for Damascus for a meeting at the Syrian Foreign Ministry before the start of active hostilities and was unable to return, the Armenpress news agency reported.
[GEO.TV] 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... is "dramatically" increasing the amount of uranium enriched to up to 60% purity, close to the roughly 90% of weapons grade, that it is able to produce, the ineffective International Atomic Energy Agency chief Rafael Grossi told Rooters in an interview.
The move is certain to cause even greater alarm in Western capitals already arguing that there is no civilian justification for Iran's enrichment to that level as no other country has done so without producing nuclear bombs, which Iran denies pursuing.
Iran already has enough material enriched to up to 60%, its most highly enriched stock, for four nuclear weapons in principle if it enriched it further, according to an IAEA yardstick. It has enough for more at lower enrichment levels.
"Today the agency is announcing that the production capacity is increasing dramatically of the 60% inventory," the watchdog's chief Grossi said on the sidelines of the Manama Dialogue security conference in Bahrain's capital.
He added that it was set to rise to "seven, eight times more, maybe, or even more" than the previous rate of 5-7 kg a month.
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Hopefully, Israeli gov knows that something have to be done - regardless of DC position.
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...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 
...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...
..a regional Iranian catspaw,...
...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 
