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She's mostly off her rocker. Nice pic though.
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I like the fact that she’s not wearing Crocs. Saw a teenage boy entering church this morning wearing Crocs. It was snowing out. He was also wearing socks. I believe he is on a high school football team. I can’t makes sense of it.
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A suspected Ebola exposure at a Manhattan urgent-care facility had two patients rushed to the hospital by emergency workers in hazmat suits Sunday – but the infection may be norovirus, sources said.
Whew! One of the reasons why it’s important to have control of our borders.
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Before there were Tevas or Crocs,
We rocked Birkenstocks down on the blocks
Where great apes with degrees
Grazed and lazed in the trees.
[our grave saviors swap favors and POCs]
[ToloNews] The Islamic Emirate considers 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... Security Council's sanctions monitoring committee report on the presence of al-Qaeda in Afghanistan to be inaccurate and contrary to the current realities of the country.
Zabiullah Mujahid, the spokesperson for the Islamic Emirate, told TOLOnews that the interim government will never allow any group to use Afghan soil to act against other countries.
According to Mujahid, some countries and intelligence circles within the United Nations are using this narrative to conduct propaganda against Afghanistan.
Mujahid said: "The Islamic Emirate does not allow any foreign, rogue group to operate in Afghanistan, and such groups are not present here. Unfortunately, some countries and intelligence circles, through organizations like the United Nations and the Security Council, are tarnishing public opinion and waging propaganda and campaigns against Afghanistan."
The United Nations Security Council's sanctions monitoring committee reported that the Islamic Emirate has provided favorable conditions for al-Qaeda's presence, offering safe houses and training camps across Afghanistan.
The report states: "Low-profile members resided with their families under the protection of the Taliban ...mindless ferocity in a turban... intelligence service (General Directorate of Intelligence) in Kabul neighbourhoods, while big shots were placed in rural areas outside Kabul. Some Member States noted that Hamza al Ghamdi (not listed) was in the highly secured Shashdarak area in Kabul with his family."
"The unconfirmed killing of al-Zawahiri ...Formerly second in command of al-Qaeda, now the head cheese, occasionally described as the real brains of the outfit. Formerly the Mister Big of Egyptian Islamic Jihad. Bumped off Abdullah Azzam with a car boom in the course of one of their little disputes. Is thought to have composed bin Laden's fatwa entitled World Islamic Front Against Jews and Crusaders. Currently residing in the North Wazoo area assuming he's not dead like Mullah Omar. He lost major face when he ordered the nascent Islamic State to cease and desist and merge with the orthodox al-Qaeda spring, al-Nusra...> should not reflect Afghanistan's decision or the will of the Afghan people, and the fate of Afghanistan should not be determined based on that. It must be addressed according to Afghanistan's situation, logic, and evidence, not through malicious policies or blind speculations for self-interest," said Abdul Sadiq Hamidzoi, a political analyst.
Meanwhile,
...back at the secret hideout, Scarface Al sneeringly put his proposition to little Nell... Sergey Lavrov, the Russian Foreign Minister, has stated that the situation in Afghanistan poses a serious threat to neighboring countries.
In a presser, Lavrov emphasized the need for regional cooperation to counter security threats in Central Asia, particularly Afghanistan. He said: "The situation in Afghanistan remains difficult and has a significant impact on neighboring countries, including Tajikistan."
Although the international community has repeatedly expressed concerns about potential terrorism threats from Afghan soil, the Islamic Emirate has stated that, just as Afghan soil has not been used against other countries so far, it will not be used for such purposes in the future.
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[ToloNews] In a suicide kaboom today (Thursday, February 13) at the Ministry of Urban Development and Housing, one person was killed, and three others were maimed.
The ministry’s spokesperson Mohammad Kamal Afghan stated that a jacket wallah attempting to enter the ministry was eliminated by security forces of the Islamic Emirate.
The spokesperson for the Ministry of Urban Development and Housing provided further details about the incident: "When he was attacked, the explosives he was carrying detonated, resulting in the martyrdom of one of our Mujahid comrades and the death of the attacker. Additionally, three civilians were maimed."
Abdul Mateen Qani, the spokesperson for the Ministry of Interior, said the suicide bomber was neutralized before reaching his target, and further investigations are underway.
The spokesperson said: "The security forces are conducting a thorough investigation, and just as perpetrators have been brought to justice before, they will be punished again."
"Intelligence and security forces are responsible for identifying the perpetrators and the root causes of such attacks, as the continuation of such incidents damages public morale," Sayed Muqaddam Amin, a political analyst, told TOLOnews.
This comes after a suicide kaboom near the Kabul Bank gate in Kunduz on Tuesday, which killed eight people and injured four others.
[ShabelleMedia] At least two Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s, believed to have been carried out by the U.S. military hit the Sheebaab area in the Calmiskad Mountains of Bari Region in Puntland ...a region in northeastern Somalia, centered on Garowe in the Nugaal province. Its leaders declared the territory an autonomous state in 1998. Puntland and the equally autonomous Somaliland seem to have avoided the clan rivalries and warlordism that have typified the rest of Somalia, which puts both places high on the list for Islamic subversion... The overnight airstrikes have resulted in significant casualties among ISIS fighters, with reports indicating that at least 30 bully boyz were killed.
According to a statement from Puntland’s Forces, the airstrikes targeted a weapons manufacturing facility used by ISIS in the mountains. Additionally, a vehicle loaded with explosives, which ISIS had prepared for a suicide kaboom, was destroyed in the strikes.
In other developments, a Moroccan national affiliated with ISIS was captured by locals in the city of Bosaso. The suspect has confessed to being a member of ISIS, and local security forces are currently interrogating him.
Puntland officials also confirmed the success of their ongoing operations in the mountainous areas of Bari. The Puntland military has reportedly seized several strategic positions and strongholds previously controlled by ISIS bad boys.
At least two airstrikes, believed to have been carried out by the U.S. military hit the Sheebaab area in the Calmiskad Mountains of Bari Region in Puntland.
The overnight airstrikes have resulted in significant casualties among ISIS fighters, with reports indicating that at least 30 militants were killed.
According to a statement from Puntland’s Forces, the airstrikes targeted a weapons manufacturing facility used by ISIS in the mountains. Additionally, a vehicle loaded with explosives, which Daesh had prepared for a suicide bombing, was destroyed in the strikes.
Puntland authorities reported that the operation dealt a severe blow to Daesh, significantly weakening the group’s presence in the region.
In other developments, a Moroccan national affiliated with Daesh was captured by locals in the city of Bosaso. The suspect has confessed to being a member of Daesh, and local security forces are currently interrogating him.
Puntland officials also confirmed the success of their ongoing operations in the mountainous areas of Bari. The Puntland military has reportedly seized several strategic positions and strongholds previously controlled by Daesh militants.
13/02/2025
[ShabelleMedia] The Somali National Army (SNA) and local forces have jointly carried out an operation in the rural areas of Jowle, located at the boundary between the Mudug and Galgaduud regions.
The operation specifically targeted the Death Eater group al-Shabaab ... the personification of Somali state failure... , resulting in the death of Abdullahi Said Bulxiye, the al-Shabaab leader responsible for the Jowle area.
In addition to Bulxiye, 10 other individuals accompanying him, who were part of his security detail, were also killed during the operation, according to the Somali state media.
The SNA and local tribal forces have confirmed that the operation is still ongoing, with efforts focused on removing al-Shabaab from areas under their control.
Jowle, a strategic town linking the Mudug and Galgaduud regions, has become an important focal point in the ongoing battle against al-Shabaab in Somalia.
[ShabelleMedia] Jubaland forces conducted a meticulously planned operation in Lafo Guri, Dhoobley district, resulting in the destruction of an al-Shabaab ... the personification of Somali state failure... -controlled courthouse and the arrest of its leader, local sources reported on Saturday.
The operation, which took place in the Lower Juba region, saw Jubaland troops engage with al-Shabaab murderous Moslems, leading to the death of at least four fighters. Jubaland authorities described the offensive as a strategic move designed to dismantle al-Shabaab’s influence in the area.
"This operation was executed with precision," a Jubaland official stated, emphasizing the region’s commitment to counter-terrorism efforts. The successful raid is seen as a pivotal moment in the ongoing campaign against the group, which has long plagued the region with its insurgency.
Residents of Lafo Guri have reported a noticeable improvement in local security following the operation, with Jubaland’s administration pledging further actions to consolidate peace and stability in territories once dominated by al-Shabaab.
The latest military operation underscores the regional government’s resolve to curb the activities of al-Shabaab, contributing to a broader national effort to stabilize Somalia.
Jubaland is getting military support from Kenya, which said it created the regional state in 2013 as a buzzer zone to protect its security from al-Shabaab within Somalia.
[HODHODYEMENNEWS.NET] Two prominent leaders of the terrorist organization al-Qaeda, including a Saudi national, were killed in separate Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s in the governorates of Abyan ...a governorate of Yemen. The region was a base to the Aden-Abyan Islamic Army terrorist group until it dropped the name and joined al-Qaeda. Its capital is Zinjibar. In March 2011, al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula declared the governate an Islamic Emirate after seizing control of the region. The New York Times fastidiously reported that those in control, while Islamic hard boyz, are not in fact al-Qaeda, but something else that looks, tastes, smells, and acts the same. Yemeni government forces launched an effort to re-establish control of the region when President-for-Life Saleh was tossed and the carnage continues... and Shabwah, which are under the control of the Saudi-led coalition in southeastern 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... Informed sources confirmed that a senior figure, known by the alias Abu Muhammad al-Hudhali al-Makki—a Saudi national—was killed in a US airstrike on the Musayna'ah area in the al-Saeed district, south of Ataq in Shabwa governorate, which is controlled by UAE-backed factions, last Wednesday.
The sources also reported the death of another leader, Ayoub al-restive Lahj ... a Yemeni governate located in the southwestern corner of the Arabian Peninsula. It is the stomping grounds on the southern secessionist al-Harak movement i, in a similar airstrike in Mudiyah district, Abyan governorate, last week.
These operations targeting the organization's leaders followed the death of another leader, Abu Yusuf al-Mahdi al-Hadrami, earlier in February. He was killed in a kaboom involving a booby-trapped cycle of violence in the Wadi district, east of Ma'rib city, which is controlled by the Islah Party.
The governorates of Abyan, Shabwah, and Ma'rib have witnessed a significant presence of terrorist elements, especially after Saudi Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula, largely made up of sand and oil rigs. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual haj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. Formerly dictatorial and steeped in Olde Tyme Religion, deferring to Salafist holy men on all issues, it has now done a 180 and is making a serious effort to modernize, so as not to be left in the sand by its Gulf Arab neighbors. The holy men have been shoved to the background and the nation is now still dictatorial but somewhat rational. That doesn't make them trustworthy, but it's a start... gathered these groups into training camps following the cleansing operations carried out by Sana'a forces in the al-Bayda districts in recent years.
[KhaamaPress] A 36-year-old Afghan immigrant woman has been found guilty of terrorism offences after planning to travel to Afghanistan with her children to join the terrorist group ISIS. Farishta Jami was convicted of two counts of engaging in conduct in preparation for terrorism under Section 5 of the Terrorism Act 2006 at Leicester Crown Court.
The court heard that Jami, a refugee who settled in the UK, had saved over £1,200 to fund one-way flights for herself and her children to Afghanistan. Her intention was to join ISIS and martyr herself. Jami had conducted extensive research into available flight options and was planning the trip as early as July 2023. Investigators found that she had carried out 22 separate flight searches in late October and early November 2023, with a focus on one-way tickets.
During a search of her home, detectives seized multiple electronic devices, sim cards, hidden cash, and concealed passports. Jami had been active online, sharing violent mostly peaceful bad boy material across social media platforms, including graphic videos and documents. She was also an administrator in several pro-ISIS groups, overseeing the distribution of propaganda and instructional videos, further solidifying her commitment to the terrorist organization.
Detective Chief Superintendent Alison Hurst of Counter Terrorism Policing West Midlands highlighted that while Jami had claimed she was traveling to visit family in Afghanistan, no evidence was found to support this. Authorities were able to confirm that she had no plans to contact relatives, and her actions pointed to a clear intention to join ISIS.
Jami is scheduled for sentencing on February 14, 2025. The case serves as a stark reminder of the ongoing threat posed by individuals attempting to travel abroad to join terrorist groups. UK authorities urge the public to report any suspicious activities, stressing that timely action can help prevent tragedies.
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And they arrest her instead of facilitating her's exit?
[IsraelTimes] March to US Embassy, organized by Palestine Solidarity Campaign, sees antisemitic chants and slogans; draws small band of pro-Israel counterprotesters
Thousands of pro-Paleostinian and anti-Israel demonstrators marched through central London to the United States embassy on Saturday to protest against US President Donald Trump ...The tack in the backside of the Democratic Party... ’s proposal that the US "take over" 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... and turn it into the "Riviera of the Middle East."
Waving Paleostinian flags and placards saying "Hands off Gaza," several thousand people walked from Whitehall in Westminster over the River Thames to the embassy in Nine Elms, chanting, among other slogans, "From the river to the sea, Paleostine will be free," according to the Daily Mail.
Among those in attendance was former Labour party leader Jeremy Corbyn, who was seen at the front of a bloc marching under a banner demanding to "stop arming Israel."
Of course. How could he possibly stay away?
Several attendees could be seen holding signs with inflammatory language or symbols emblazoned on them, including a man identified as 69-year-old John Hamilton, who the Daily Mail reported was carrying a placard featuring two swastikas that he claimed were a way to "draw comparisons between the Zionists and the Nazis." The sign was inside an evidence bag, to draw attention to an identical sign that had been taken from him when he was arrested during a November 2023 protest.
Earlier this month, Trump stunned the world when he suggested the US could redevelop the war-torn Gaza Strip into a prime real estate location as a means of rebuilding it. His proposal envisages resettling Paleostinians elsewhere, chiefly in Jordan and Egypt, apparently with no plan for them ever to return, despite other members of his administration and Israel insisting it would be a temporary measure. Other Western leaders and the Arab world have widely condemned the idea.
Protesters held banners that read, "Stand up to Trump" and "Mr Trump, Canada is not your 51st state. Gaza is not your 52nd."
"I think it’s completely immoral and illegal and also impractical and absurd," 87-year-old Holocaust survivor Stephen Kapos told AFP.
"You simply cannot deport two million people, especially that the surrounding countries already said that they wouldn’t take them, not out of the goodness of their heart but because it would destabilize those countries," he said.
"So it’s not going to happen but it does a lot of damage simply stating that as an endgame," he added.
The march, organized by the Paleostine Solidarity Campaign (PSC), was the 24th major pro-Paleostinian and anti-Israel protest in Britannia’s capital since Hamas ..not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,... ’s October 7, 2023 assault on Israel.
The assault — in which thousands of bully boyz invaded southern Israel from the Gaza Strip, killing some 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and taking 251 hostages, amid acts of brutality and sexual assault — sparked immediate demonstrations worldwide, even prior to Israel’s response.
The PSC has faced heavy backlash in recent weeks, after newly obtained information from the Metropolitan Police Service showed that the group first filed a request to hold an anti-Israel protest shortly after noon on October 7, some eight hours after Hamas breached the Israel-Gaza border in multiple places, invaded Israel and began its slaughter.
At the time that the request was filed, the massacre was ongoing and the IDF was scrambling to regain control of the southern communities invaded by Hamas. Israel was still far from fully understanding the scale of the unfolding disaster.
A heavy police presence was deployed as officers kept protesters away from a counter-march led by the "Stop the Hate" group, founded post-October 7 to respond to the frequent anti-Israel marches.
The Telegraph reported that protestors from the main demonstration shouted, among other things, "Zionist pig," and "Khaybar, Khaybar, oh Jews, the army of Mohammad will return" — an Arabic chant referring to an ancient battle between Moslems and Jews — at the pro-Israel counterprotestors.
Stop the Hate also shared a series of signs on social media that it found particularly egregious, including a map labeled "Paleostine" with the borders of the entire State of Israel, several comparisons of Israel to Nazi Germany and the war in Gaza to the Holocaust, and a sign alleging that both major parties in the UK and the US are "owned by Israel."
"Antisemitic tropes were popular at today’s PSC protest. Placards about Jewish power are never called out by the organisers," the group said on X.
[KhaamaPress] The General Prosecutor’s Office of Tajikistan has announced that more than 30 individuals have been sentenced to prison terms ranging from 8 to 20 years for attempting to poison participants at a festival.
According to Rooters, a security source in Tajikistan reported that all of the convicted individuals are linked to ISIS-Khorasan.
On Friday, February 14th, Tajikistan’s prosecutors revealed that the defendants attempted to poison festival-goers at the Nowruz celebration last year in the city of Vahdat, located east of the capital, Dushanbe. They attempted to contaminate food served at the event with poison.
Said Ahmadzadeh, head of the counterterrorism and extremism department of Tajikistan’s General Prosecutor’s Office, stated to news hounds that 10 more individuals connected to the plot are being pursued by authorities.
Earlier this month, Tajikistan media reported that nine ISIS-Khorasan prisoners were involved in an attempt to escape from a prison in Vahdat, where they killed five fellow inmates during the escape attempt.
Tajikistan’s foreign minister had previously stated that bandidossnuffies carried out three attacks in the country in 2024, while two other attacks were successfully prevented. Tajik authorities have repeatedly expressed concerns over the activities of ISIS-Khorasan in Afghanistan and their growing influence in Tajikistan.
Tajikistan continues to grapple with the influence of krazed killer groups like ISIS-Khorasan within its borders. With ongoing security challenges, the government remains focused on counterterrorism efforts to ensure the safety of its citizens.
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[Regnum] In Ingushetia, an unknown armed man shot several times at the former head of the Karabulak city department of internal affairs (GOVD). This was reported on February 16 by the Telegram channel "112".
“In Ingushetia, an attempt was made on the life of the former chief of police of Karabulak, Ilez Nalgiyev, who served time for torturing a detainee, ” the source clarified.
The moment of the assassination was caught on video cameras. The footage showed the criminal repeatedly shooting at the former police officer and escaping in a passenger car. Later, the car the killer got into was found burned in the village of Surkhakhi.
The wounded Nalgiev was hospitalized. According to law enforcement, members of the Batalkhadzhin organization may have been involved in the attack.
As reported by the Regnum news agency, in Ingushetia, late in the evening of October 11, 2024, unknown persons opened fire on a car in which four people were traveling. Three of them died in the hospital from their wounds.
On the afternoon of June 6, 2024, on Sviridov Street in Moscow, a masked man dressed in all black opened fire with a machine gun at a passerby. The victim died. Investigators opened a criminal case under articles on murder and illegal arms trafficking. The "Intercept" plan was announced in the capital.
[Rudaw] Stockholm’s District Court on Tuesday convicted a 56-year-old woman to 12 years in prison for crimes against humanity, genocide, and gross war crimes committed against Yazidi women and kiddies in Syria’s northern province of Raqqa.
The woman was found to have had "a strong ideological inclination to destroy members of a religious group," according to a statement by Stockholm’s District Court. In total, nine victims, including seven children, suffered severe mental harm as a result of the convicted woman’s actions "which will affect them for the rest of their lives," the statement added.
In 2014, the 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) launched an assault on the predominantly Yazidi region of Shingal (Sinjar) in northern Iraq, abducting some 6,417 Yazidi women and kiddies. Many of these victims were subjected to forced labor and sex slavery.
The Yazidi women and kiddies involved in the case in Sweden were held captive and enslaved by ISIS gunnies for around five months before being transferred into the custody of the convicted woman. There, she "imprisoned and treated them as property for a period of, in most cases, five months," the statement explained.
The Yazidis were subjected to various types of abuse by their captors who forced them to adhere to Islam, forbade them from using their native language, and subjected them to sexual assault and molestation. Additionally, they were forced to do chores "in a slave-like manner," and their freedom was severely restricted.
Stockholm’s District Court emphasized that the comprehensive enslavement of members of the Yazidi community by ISIS members was one of the key components in the perpetration of the genocide against them. "The enslavement of Yazidi women and kiddies was a precursor for forced labour, conversion [to Islam], and sex slavery," said the Court.
The convicted woman was sentenced to 12 years in jail for her involvement in crimes against humanity, genocide, and gross war crimes committed in Raqqa. The injured parties were awarded 150,000 SEK (almost $14,000) each, in compensation.
Accused of keeping Yazidi women and children as slaves at her home in Syria in 2015, Lina Ishaq
… Ms Ishaq returned from Syria in 2020. She was the first person charged and convicted in Sweden for aiding in the recruitment of her minor son, age 12, as a child soldier. The boy died in Syria when he was sixteen, in 2017…
was convicted of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes, the Stockholm district court said in a statement.
The crimes warranted a sentence of 16 years, but taking a previous sentence into account it ordered her to spend 12 years behind bars, the court said. Prosecutors had demanded a life jail sentence.
The woman, a Swedish citizen, had already been sentenced to six years imprisonment in 2022 for allowing her 12-year-old son to be recruited as an IS child soldier.
Prosecutor Reena Devgun said she was happy with the convictions but she would likely appeal against the sentence.
“These are very, very severe crimes, and compared to other Swedish jurisprudence or Swedish sentencing traditions, I do think that there is room for a more severe sentence,” she told AFP.
The court said the case concerned nine Yazidi, six of whom were children at the time.
All the plaintiffs were captured by IS in attacks on Kurdish-speaking Yazidi villages that began in August 2014 in Sinjar, Iraq. Their male relatives were executed and thousands of women were taken.
After about five months of captivity, they arrived at Ishaq’s home in Raqqa.
“The woman kept them imprisoned and treated them as her property by holding them as slaves for a period of, in most cases, five months,” the court said.
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Their movement was restricted, they were made to perform chores and some were photographed in preparation to be transferred to other people as slaves.
“Given the fact that she participated in the onward transfer of the injured parties, she is also responsible for enabling their continued imprisonment and enslavement,” the court said.
Ishaq also forced the Yazidis, who practice their own religion, to “become practising Muslims” by making them recite Koran verses and pray four or five times a day.
She also called the injured parties “demeaning invectives such as ‘infidels’ or ‘slaves'”, the court said.
The court stressed “that the comprehensive system of enslavement” was one of “the crucial elements” implemented by IS in “the perpetration of the genocide, the crimes against humanity and gross war crimes that the Yazidi population was subjected to”.
As such, the court said “the woman shared the IS intent to destroy a religious group”.
Ishaq’s lawyer Mikael Westerlund said the woman had not decided whether to appeal, but said they were pleased the court had not handed down a life sentence as requested by the prosecution.
“It was important for the prosecution to sentence her for life,” he told AFP.
Around 300 Swedes or Swedish residents, a quarter of them women, joined IS in Syria and Iraq, mostly in 2013 and 2014, according to Sweden’s intelligence service Sapo.
Ishaq grew up in a Christian Iraqi family in Sweden but converted to Islam after meeting her late husband and Islamist Jiro Mehho, with whom she had six children, in the 1990s.
She travelled to Syria with her children in 2013. Mehho died in August 2013, and Ishaq moved to Raqqa in 2014 and re-married.
[IsraelTimes] An Israeli couple was attacked in Greece overnight, Hebrew media outlets report, apparently after the attacker overheard them speaking Hebrew.
The attack occurred shortly after midnight between Friday and Saturday, as the couple headed to their hotel from a restaurant on Ermou Street, in central Athens
The attack occurred shortly after midnight between Friday and Saturday, a local Greek media outlet reports. The couple were heading to their hotel from a restaurant on Ermou Street, in central Athens when the assailants attacked them in an alley.
One of the Israelis suffered light injuries to his leg and head, but neither of them required hospitalization, the reports add.
The attackers were heard speaking Arabic ahead of the incident, according to an eyewitness. One of them fled the scene after the attack and has yet to be apprehended, but the other has been charged with racist violence, the Greek media outlet adds.
In response to the reports, the Foreign Ministry says it is aware of the incident, and that it is being handled by the Foreign Ministry’s department for Israelis abroad in coordination with the Israeli Embassy in Athens.
The Foreign Ministry adds that the apprehended suspect is known to police for having previously participated in “pro-Palestinian demonstrations.”
“The two recognized the group of Israelis after noticing them speaking Hebrew and wearing a Star of David necklace,” it adds.
A 23-year-old man carried out a knife attack in the centre of Villach on Saturday afternoon, killing a 14-year-old and injuring four others. The suspect, a Syrian citizen with a residence permit, was arrested shortly after the attack.
According to police, the attack happened shortly before 4:00 pm near the main square. Witnesses reported that the man randomly stabbed several passers-by before being stopped by a 42-year-old food delivery driver, also from Syria, who hit the suspect with his car. Police arrested the attacker at the scene.
Police brought in helicopters to help search for possible further suspects but eventually determined the man acted alone.
Authorities have not yet determined a motive.
Police did say the man was carrying valid asylum documentation when he was arrested. They are also looking into witness reports the man shouted an Islamist call to prayer while carrying out the attack.
The suspected attacker was arrested. He is a Syrian asylum seeker with a valid residence permit and no criminal record, according to preliminary information, police spokesman Rainer Dionisio told the French AFP news agency.
According to the Austrian Ministry of Interior, 24,941 foreigners applied for asylum in Austria in 2024. The largest group of applicants comes from Syria, followed by Afghanistan.
Over the past two years, the number of asylum seekers has decreased significantly. In 2022, applications peaked at over 100,000, while approximately 59,000 individuals sought asylum in 2023.
Several European countries, among them Austria, said in December they are suspending decisions on asylum claims by Syrian nationals because of the unclear political situation in their homeland following the fall of Bashar Assad.
A horrific act in Villach led to a large-scale police operation on Saturday afternoon. A Syrian man laughingly and indiscriminately stabbed passers-by - killing one teenager and injuring five others. An Islamist motive is being investigated. The Federal Ministry of the Interior (BMI) is looking for witnesses.
COURAGEOUS FOOD DELIVERY DRIVER HITS THE PERPETRATOR OF THE CRIME
The elite Cobra police unit is alerted. But things could have been even worse if a courageous eyewitness, himself a Syrian, had not intervened. The food delivery driver hits the suspect with his car: "He was heading towards the city center, there were children on the street. I couldn't let that happen. I have children of my own!"
Meanwhile, police and ambulance vehicles race to the scene. What initially looks like a degenerate argument could actually have been a planned act of terrorism. Shocked eyewitnesses describe how the 23-year-old stabbed him "laughing". "As things stand at the moment, it's a good thing that the witness hit the perpetrator," says Dionisio.
The perpetrator is said to have shouted "Allahu Akbar". The recognized Syrian asylum seeker - who has so far been inconspicuous to the police - also showed the raised index finger, also notorious as an IS gesture, in circulating pictures. Whether there is an Islamist motive behind the knife terror is now the subject of intensive investigations, including by the local state security service. The suspect's contacts are being closely scrutinized. A manhunt is currently underway throughout Carinthia under the direction of the State Office for State Protection and the State Office of Criminal Investigation.
His intervention probably prevented worse: Alaaeddin Alhalabi (42) actually just wanted to deliver food and ended up in the middle of a rampage! Without further ado, he ran down the perpetrator with his car. The "Krone" spoke to the hero.
Austrian minister says 23-year-old Syrian asylum seeker was radicalized online before killing 14-year-old boy, wounding five others.
The suspected perpetrator of a deadly knife attack in the southern Austrian town of Villach on Saturday had sworn allegiance to Islamic State and had its flag in his apartment, Austrian officials said on Sunday.
At a press conference in Villach, the police chief for the state of Carinthia, Michaela Kohlweiss, said she could confirm an oath of allegiance. She and Interior Minister Gerhard Karner said the ISIS flag had been found in his apartment.
The 23-year-old suspect, who was detained shortly after the stabbing, is a Syrian asylum seeker with a residence permit in Austria. The assailant, named in reports as Ahmad G., stabbed six passersby, killing a 14-year-old and injuring five others, in what police said was a random attack.
That’s because killing those of Dar al Harb, the House of War, is the object, not killing anyone specific. Actually, even killing or harming does not matter, so long as fear of the conquering Moslems is learnt by the target population and its government.
The Free Syrian Community of Austria issued a statement on Facebook distancing itself from the attack and expressing its deepest condolences to the victims’ families. “We all had to flee Syria, our home country, because we were no longer safe there — no one left their country voluntarily. We are grateful to have found asylum and protection in Austria,” the association said.
“Finally, we would like to emphasize: Anyone who causes strife and disturbs the peace of society does not represent the Syrians who have sought and received protection here,” the statement concluded.
Villach, a popular tourist destination near the borders of Italy and Slovenia, is known for its laid-back atmosphere, which blends Mediterranean and Alpine traditions. The city hosts annual carnival processions in March and an event on Saturday was canceled in the wake of the attack.
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The perpetrator is said to have shouted "Allahu Akbar". The recognized Syrian asylum seeker - who has so far been inconspicuous to the police - also showed the raised index finger, also notorious as an IS gesture, in circulating pictures.
The picture of the grinning killer can be found here (no blood or gore.)
Whether there is an Islamist motive behind the knife terror is now the subject of intensive investigations, including by the local state security service.
Pay no attention to the "Allahu Akbar" and "Tauhid Finger" behind the curtain 'state security service' spokesman Quincy Magoo admonished the public...
Survey: 83% of Jewish US college students have experienced antisemitism since Oct. 7
[IsraelTimes] Poll by ADL and Hillel International finds two-thirds of Jewish students not confident in their universities’ abilities to prevent antisemitism on campus. Published on Thursday, the survey found that two-thirds (66%) of Jewish students and 60% of non-Jewish students said they were not confident in their university’s ability to prevent antisemitic incidents.
Jewish professor quits Columbia, citing ‘systematic’ anti-Israel bias on campus
Prof. Avi Friedman, award-winning business school instructor, lashes NY university for having anti-Zionist activist professor Joseph Massad, who celebrated the Oct. 7 Hamas attack, teach a class on Israel. Massad received tenure from Columbia in 1999 and has long taught about Israel and the Middle East. His Israel course, called “Palestinian and Israeli Politics and Societies,” drew widespread criticism ahead of the spring semester this year.
Another professor, Lawrence Rosenblatt, said in December he was resigning due to the course. Days later, Columbia released a statement saying Massad’s comments about the Hamas attack “created pain for many in our community and contributed to the deep controversy on our campus.”
Friedman added that Columbia’s role as an “epicenter of the intifada movement” in the US was not an accident, but resulted from “years of institutional cultivation.” (One of the student protest leaders who said “Zionists don’t deserve to live” claimed in a recent court filing that the statement was partially based on university reading material.)
US Justice Department launches task force aimed at combating campus antisemitism
[IsraelTimes] The US Justice Department on Monday announced a task force to combat antisemitism at schools and colleges, the latest move by the Trump administration to crack down on anti-Jewish discrimination on campuses. The task force will include officials from the Department of Justice, Department of Education, and Department of Health and Human Services, the Justice Department said in a statement. The group will be led by Leo Terrell, senior counsel to the assistant attorney general for civil rights.
Georgetown University Law student group to host speaker linked to Israeli teen’s killing
The university’s Students for Justice in Palestine chapter will host Ribhi Karajah, a member of the U.S.-designated terrorist group the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, on Feb. 11, Jewish Insider reported. The “former Palestinian political prisoner” will give a talk on “arrest, detention, and torture in the Israeli military system,” according to an Instagram post by LSJP.
BREAKING: The Bowdoin Encampment students have been suspended by the administration. They have until 5 pm to "vacate campus." pic.twitter.com/GHwNGxXi5x
Wesleyan SJP group hosts "Anti-Zionist" Tu Bishvat, Israeli Arbor Day
[ToniAiraksinen] Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) at the elite Wesleyan University are hosting a Tu B'Shvat Seder for the [anti-Israel] community to rally around. Notably, the event has the approval of the school’s Office of Religious and Spiritual Life as it is giving the students space to host their seder. The event was coordinated with a shadowy group called “Beyond Empire” which claims to be founded by Wesleyan University students, according to their Instagram page.
Tu B’Shvat (the 15th of the month of Shvat, roughly February) is an agricultural holiday marking the best time to plant food trees in Israel. It refers back the commandment in Leviticus 19:23 about when trees in ancient Israel might first be harvested. Without the Jewish-Israel connection it has no meaning.
Bowdoin College disciplines SJP students after pro-Palestine encampment violates policies
[CampusReform] A Justice in Palestine chapter recently hosted an encampment at Bowdoin College, for which various protesters were immediately disciplined, with some receiving suspensions. The SJP group posted to Instagram on Monday following the announcement of the suspensions, condemning the school and blaming it for the 'weaponization of a disciplinary process.'
[HODHODYEMENNEWS.NET] At least 11 people have been killed and seven others injured in an improvised bomb attack on a vehicle transporting coal miners in Pakistain's 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, local officials say.
The attack was carried out on Friday as the vehicle was traveling through the Harnai area, located over 160 kilometers (100 miles) from Quetta, the thriving provincial capital.
According to reports, the bomb had been planted on the roadside and detonated as the vehicle passed.
Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif condemned the attack, reiterating his ''commitment to actively working towards eradicating the menace of terrorism from the country.''
No group has grabbed credit for the bombing yet. However,
a good lie finds more believers than a bad truth... the Balochistan Liberation Army (BLA) remains the most active hard boy group in the region and has frequently carried out deadly attacks against security forces and Paks from other provinces.
Earlier this month, the same region witnessed a major assault in which 18 Pak soldiers were killed.
Balochistan, a resource-rich but long-neglected province, has been at the center of violence led by separatist groups, particularly the BLA, and other Takfiri ...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who must be killed... terrorist groups. The group claims that Islamabad exploits the province's natural resources, such as gold and copper while neglecting the local population.
Energy projects, especially those involving Chinese investments, have been key targets of BLA attacks, as the group argues that foreign powers and Pakistain's central government are looting the region's resources without benefiting its people.
Pakistain saw a sharp rise in terrorist attacks last year, making it the deadliest year in a decade, with at least 1,500 people killed in violence across the country.
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[Rudaw] Iraq announced on Wednesday that at least two suspected Islamic State (ISIS) militants were killed in an Iraqi airstrike in the vicinity of Kirkuk province.
The airstrike conducted on Monday targeted an ISIS hideout near Kirkuk, Baghdad’s Security Media Cell explained. An army dispatch which visited the location of the strike found “the bodies of two terrorists,” the cell added.
ISIS seized control of large swathes of territory in Iraq north and west in 2014. After several years of battles, Iraq in 2017 announced the group’s defeat, however its remnants continue to pose a security threat, particularly in disputed areas across Diyala, Kirkuk, Nineveh, and Salahaddin.
The United States Central Command (CENTCOM) on Wednesday reported that Iraqi forces on Monday “conducted precision airstrikes in the vicinity of Kirkuk,” killing “two ISIS operatives” who had explosive materials in their possession. CENTCOM described the operation as “part of the ongoing Defeat-ISIS campaign to disrupt and degrade” the group’s “capabilities, dismantle their attack networks, and ensure its enduring defeat.”
The latest strike is seemingly part of Iraq’s continued effort to eliminate ISIS sleeper cells. On Saturday, Baghdad announced that at least three suspected Islamic State (ISIS) leaders, including the group’s so-called “governor of Kirkuk,” were killed in an Iraqi airstrike late last month.
[IsraelTimes] The IDF says it carried out a drone strike earlier today in central Gaza as a warning after several vehicles tried to travel to the Strip’s north via an unapproved route.
Northbound vehicular traffic is only permitted on the Salah a-Din road, where a private company is inspecting Palestinian cars heading to northern Gaza.
The vehicles attempting to bypass the inspection on Salah a-Din, in violation of the ceasefire deal, returned south after the strike, the military says.
[IsraelTimes] Man in his 60s said lightly wounded after assault in backyard of his West Bank-adjacent home, as IDF counterterrorism operation rages on across security barrier
A Paleostinian from the West Bank city of Jenin was detained Saturday for allegedly attacking an Israeli man in the northern community of Gan Ner on Friday, police and the Shin Bet said.
The suspect, a 25-year-old resident of Jenin, was captured Saturday morning while hiding in a horse stable in a nearby community, police said.
The victim, an Israeli man in his 60s, was hit in the head with a hoe in his backyard, sustaining light wounds, according to medics.
The attacker was initially thought to have been Israeli, but further investigation indicated he was a Paleostinian from the West Bank, police said.
Channel 12 quoted the victim’s wife as saying the attacker stood outside the door of their balcony.
"It’s very concerning when you’re certain that the town is secured, and suddenly it happens in the most sensitive place, the entrance to your house," she said. "My husband struggled with him, tried to protect himself... we just felt powerless, not knowing how to act."
Gan Ner, which is not in the West Bank, stands near the territory’s northern security barrier — close to Jenin, where the IDF last month launched a counterterrorism operation dubbed "Iron Wall." The operation has since been expanded to other areas of the West Bank.
On Thursday, the IDF said it had killed over 60 Paleostinian terror operatives and detained more than 210 in the ongoing operation.
Violence has spiked in the West Bank since the war in 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... was sparked on October 7, 2023, when thousands of Hamas ..the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,... -led Lions of Islam stormed southern Israel to kill some 1,200 people and take 251 hostages.
In that time, according to the IDF, troops have arrested some 6,000 wanted Paleostinians across the West Bank, including more than 2,350 affiliated with Hamas.
The Paleostinian Authority’s health ministry says more than 900 West Bank Paleostinians have been killed during the war in Gaza. The IDF says the vast majority were button men killed in exchanges of fire, rioters who clashed with troops, or Lions of Islam carrying out attacks.
In the same period, 48 people, including Israeli security personnel, have been killed in terror attacks in Israel and the West Bank. Another eight members of the security forces were killed in festivities with terror operatives in the West Bank.
Still working off leftover USAID funds, or fresh donations from frustrated rich Progressives trying to change the world in their image? What vile people these are.
[IsraelTimes] About a thousand people
…down to the hard, reactionary cadres of the anti-Bibi protest movement that dates back about a quarter century…
gather for the weekly pro-hostage deal, anti-government protest in front of the Begin Road entrance to the IDF headquarters in Tel Aviv.
The protest takes place as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, whom protesters accuse of trying to thwart the continuation of the Gaza ceasefire and hostage release deal, holds security consultations about the future of the agreement.
Speaking at the protest, Einav Zangauker, mother of hostage Matan Zangauker, says she sometimes imagines herself reunited with her son, “having coffee, smoking a cigarette.”
“These moments are approaching with giant strides,” she says.
To jeers, she adds: “The prime minister has tried to thwart the agreement again and again and again.”
“One person stands between us and all the hostages,” she says, referring to the premier.
“Netanyahu — we’re sick of the procrastination,” she says.
Assailing the protracted multi-stage hostage releases, she says, “Shorten the stages, release everyone, give us a victory image without loved ones.”
About an hour earlier, Zangauker had spoken at a separate rally at Hostages Square, a block away, where she also accused Netanyahu of abandoning the captives to keep his coalition intact: “How can you play politics on their backs when you know the Holocaust they are enduring in Hamas’s tunnels?”
The Begin Road demonstration is bolstered by protesters against the government’s judicial overhaul plan who have marched over from Habima Square.
In front of the IDF headquarters, protesters chant: “A deal that’s not completed murders everyone.”
The main block of protesters is flanked by activists from various civil society groups: Members of the Israeli Gay Youth movement, who wave pride flags; a coalition of left-wing groups including Standing Together, Women Wage Peace and Socialist Struggle, and the Movement for Quality Government.
The display involved four demonstrators wearing scant clothing and covered in fake blood, kneeling on the ground during the procession and raising their hands, bound together with rope.
Echoing Trump, hawkish hostage forum demands release of all abductees or Hamas to face ‘hell’
[IsraelTimes] The hawkish Tikva Forum, which represents a group of hostage families, congratulates the hostages released today, and states that the next phase of hostage releases must look “completely different,” with “no humiliations and no staged events,” referring to the Hamas ceremonies parading the hostages before they are released to the Red Cross.
“We demand the release of all the remaining hostages on one day, on one bus, and if this doesn’t happen, then all hell must break out on Hamas,” states the Tikva Forum, echoing US President Donald Trump’s threat from earlier this week. “Stop the electricity, stop the water, a total siege and re-occupation!
“We need to hit the Hamas-Nazi terror organization hard until they release all the hostages, until they understand that holding hostages is a burden and not an asset.”
The Forum states that the next phase of the hostage deal must begin with an ultimatum, with the backing of the president of the United States, and not from a position of weakness.
“In our region, only force is understood,” says the Forum.
[IsraelTimes] Craig and Lindsay Foreman held on security-related charges after being arrested while motorcycling around world; Tehran has long been accused of taking Westerns as hostages
Relatives of a British couple who have been detained in 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... said Saturday that their situation was distressing and causing "significant concern," and that the family was working hard on securing their safe return.
Iran’s official news agency reported on Wednesday that the pair were held in the southern Iranian city of Kerman on security-related charges.
The report did not name the couple or provide details about their case, but a family statement released Saturday through the UK Foreign Office identified them as Craig and Lindsay Foreman.
The two were reportedly traveling around the world on cycle of violences when they were detained in January. British media, citing social media posts, reported that they had crossed into Iran from Armenia on December 30 and were planning to enter Pakistain next.
"This unexpected turn of events has caused significant concern for our entire family, and we are deeply focused on ensuring their safety and well-being during this trying time," the family said in a statement, adding that it was working with UK officials to navigate the situation.
"The family are united in our determination to secure their safe return," it added.
The UK ambassador met with the couple earlier and the UK Foreign Office said that it was providing consular assistance to them.
Iran has a history of detaining and releasing Western nationals on security charges. The country has long been accused of holding those with Western ties as prisoners to be used as bargaining chips in negotiations with the West. Iran denies those accusations.
In 2022, Iran released British-Iranian aid worker Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe after more than five years. She had been sentenced to five years in prison after being convicted of plotting to overthrow Iran’s government, a charge that she, her supporters and rights groups denied.
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Iran has a history of detaining and releasing Western nationals
And even when these 'detainments' were de facto declarations of war (1979-81, 2004, 2007) the West never did anything more than issue empty threats.
Unidentified button men attempted on Friday to assassinate an official of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in the countryside of Deir ez-Zor, eastern Syria, though his lover companion was injured.
A military source from the SDF in Deir ez-Zor told North Press that unknown button men on a cycle of violence targeted the vehicle of the official, who preferred to remain anonymous for security reasons, with machine guns near the main road in the village of Jazrat al-Buhamid.
The attackers aimed to eliminate the SDF official responsible for military relations in the area.
The source added that while the official managed to flee, his lover companion sustained a gunshot wound.
Eyewitnesses reported that the button men shouted slogans in support of the 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) during the attack.
Hundreds of Syrian government employees protested in Damascus against mass dismissals, citing economic concerns and lack of due process. Workers demand fair labor rights amid growing instability. #Syria#Damascus#Protestshttps://t.co/NqkLEpmXFX
Guys, you’re not their people. Why would they keep you on when they can put their own people to work doing those jobs? To the winner go the spoils, remember?
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Syrian intelligence arrests a senior ISIS leader, Abu al-Harith al-Iraqi, responsible for attack planning and recruitment. The operation disrupts a terror network linked to high-profile assassinations and planned bombings. #Syria#ISIS#Securityhttps://t.co/L3TBYuIYwG
Syrian intelligence forces arrested Abu al-Harith al-Iraqi, a senior Iraqi commander of the 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), in Damascus on Saturday, marking a major breakthrough in counterterrorism efforts against the group’s underground networks.
According to a security source, al-Iraqi played a key role in ISIS operations in Iraq and Syria, overseeing foreign recruitment and managing logistical support for terrorist attacks. His capture comes as Syrian authorities intensify operations against ISIS sleeper cells operating in government-controlled areas.
KEY ISIS FIGURE BEHIND ASSASSINATIONS AND ATTACKS
The Syrian security source, who spoke on condition of anonymity, revealed that al-Iraqi was deeply involved in orchestrating attacks, including the liquidation of former ISIS leader Maisar al-Jubouri, who had defected from the group.
"Al-Iraqi held a crucial role in planning and executing operations," the source said. "He was responsible for organizing assassinations and large-scale attacks, including a foiled plot to bomb the Sayyed ...Arabic term meaning your/his lordship. Groveling in His Exalted Presence is encouraged... a Zainab shrine near Damascus."
The Sayyida Zainab shrine, a highly symbolic religious site, has been a frequent target of jihadist groups due to its significance for Shiite Moslems. Security agencies claim the arrest of al-Iraqi disrupted an active ISIS cell that had been preparing for an attack in the area.
COUNTERTERRORISM EFFORTS INTENSIFY
The arrest is part of an ongoing security crackdown against ISIS remnants, who have maintained a presence in Syria despite losing their territorial control in 2019. The group continues to operate through covert cells, launching sporadic attacks in both regime-held areas and regions under the control of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF).
In recent months, Syrian security forces have arrested multiple ISIS operatives accused of planning attacks on infrastructure, military convoys, and high-profile targets. Intelligence reports indicate that ISIS is attempting to rebuild networks by infiltrating local communities, using tactics such as bribery and extortion to regain influence.
REGIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL REACTIONS
The capture of al-Iraqi has drawn attention from regional security analysts, who view it as a significant step in dismantling ISIS’s ability to conduct high-profile attacks in Syria and beyond.
While Syrian intelligence has not disclosed details about where al-Iraqi was hiding, sources suggest he may have been operating under a false identity before being tracked down through a months-long surveillance operation.
The arrest also comes as the U.S.-led coalition continues Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s against ISIS hideouts in eastern Syria, particularly in Deir ez-Zor and the Badia desert, where the group has been attempting to regroup.
WHAT’S NEXT?
The Syrian government has yet to announce whether al-Iraqi will face trial in Syria or be extradited to Iraq, where he is wanted for multiple terror-related crimes. Experts say his arrest could lead to valuable intelligence on ISIS’s underground networks, potentially aiding future operations against terrorist cells in both Syria and Iraq.
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[IsraelTimes] Army says Abbas Ahmad Hamoud was involved in launching drones, which Katz calls ‘a red line and blatant violation of the ceasefire’
The military carried out an Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... in southern Leb ...an Iranian satrapy until recently ruled by Hassan Nasrallah situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel... on Saturday evening, saying it targeted a prominent Hezbollah operative after he "repeatedly violated" the ceasefire between Israel and Lebanon over the past few weeks.
According to the Israel Defense Forces, the member of Hezbollah’s aerial forces was involved in launching drones at Israel amid the ceasefire. The operative was later named as Abbas Ahmad Hamoud by Defense Minister Israel Katz.
Lebanese media outlets reported two people were killed in the Israeli strike, which hit a car near the town of Jarjouaa in the Nabatieh District.
There was no immediate comment from Hezbollah.
"As I warned, if there are drones, there will be no Hezbollah," Katz said in a statement.
"We will not allow drone launches toward Israel. The launch of the drones crosses a red line and is a blatant violation of the ceasefire agreement between Israel and Lebanon," he added.
Hezbollah’s aerial forces, known as Unit 127, are responsible for explosive-laden drone attacks on Israel and flying surveillance drones to collect intelligence. During the ceasefire, Hezbollah has fired surveillance drones at Israel, according to the IDF.
Saturday’s strike came as Hezbollah supporters demonstrated around the Beirut airport for a third consecutive day over a decision barring two Iranian planes from landing there, with rioters wounding UNIFIL’s outgoing deputy commander during an attack Friday on a convoy of peacekeepers.
Lebanon detains 25 people for questioning over attack on UN peacekeepers convoy in Beirut
'As of now, more than 25 people are being held by the Lebanese Army Intelligence and the Internal Security Forces Information Branch for questioning,' says the country's interior minister… pic.twitter.com/rrq31QvPgs
[IsraelTimes] Lebanese president vows perpetrators ‘will receive their punishment’ as Hezbollah and its allies seek to distance themselves from assault by Iran-backed terror group’s supporters
Lebanese authorities said Saturday that more than 25 people had been arrested following an attack by Hezbollah supporters on a 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... convoy the day before that maimed two peacekeepers, including the force’s outgoing deputy commander.
UN and Lebanese officials have condemned Friday’s attack, which came as Hezbollah supporters blocked the road to the country’s only international airport for a second night over a decision barring two Iranian planes from landing there.
"More than 25 people have been arrested by Lebanese army intelligence," with another person detained by the security services, Lebanese Interior Minister Ahmad al-Hajjar told news hounds after an emergency security meeting Saturday.
"This does not mean these detainees carried out the attack... but the investigations will show who is responsible," he continued.
The army and security agencies would bolster measures to "maintain security and stability," Hajjar said, adding that violations would be treated "with all seriousness."
The UN Interim Force in Leb ...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?... (UNIFIL) has demanded an investigation after one of its vehicles was set on fire during the incident, which maimed outgoing deputy force commander Chok Bahadur Dhakal, a Nepalese national who was heading home after ending his mission.
UNIFIL deputy spokesperson Kandice Ardiel told AFP that a second Nepalese peacekeeper was also maimed and hospitalized.
On Saturday, Hezbollah supporters again demonstrated around Beirut airport, with the Lebanese army firing tear gas to disperse them. A politician from the terror group Hassan Fadlallah called on the army to hold those who fired at the protesters to account.
The Lebanese army and government "should have held immediate meetings to prevent the Israeli enemy from imposing its dictates on the airport and from continuing its occupation of Lebanese territory ... instead of using force against a peaceful sit-in on the airport road," Fadlallah added in a statement.
Lebanese President Joseph Aoun vowed that "the attackers will receive their punishment," adding that "security forces will not be lenient with any party that tries to upset stability and civil peace," according to a statement from the presidency on X.
Lebanese Prime Minister Nawaf Salam strongly condemned the "criminal attack" and promised to arrest the perpetrators during a conversation with UN Special Coordinator for Lebanon Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert and UNIFIL Commander General Aroldo Lazaro.
’CIVIL PEACE’
In a meeting with Hajjar on Saturday, Salam emphasized the importance of maintaining security across the country, a statement from his office said. The premier was set to meet other "relevant ministers" later in the day.
The presidency’s statement said Aoun had stressed that the incident "cannot be allowed to be repeated," adding that the judiciary "has begun investigations on the ground."
The army said Friday that several areas around the airport had seen "demonstrations marked by acts of vandalism and festivities, including assaults on members of the armed forces and attacks against vehicles."
Videos circulating on social media showed demonstrators, some hooded and carrying Hezbollah flags, attacking a man in military garb and another in civilian clothes near the torched UNIFIL vehicle.
There was no immediate official comment from Hezbollah, which, together with its allies, appeared to be scrambling to distance themselves from Friday’s attack.
Hezbollah’s Al Manar TV said in a statement posted on its social media accounts that "unruly elements caused chaos with suspicious objectives on the Beirut airport road."
The Lebanese terror group’s ally, the Amal Movement, which is led by Lebanese Parliament Speaker Nabih Knobby Berri
...perennial Speaker of the Lebanese parliament, head of the Amal Shiite party aligned with Hezbollah, a not very subtle sock puppet of the Medes and Persians... , said: "The attack on UNIFIL is an attack on south Lebanon" and that "blocking roads anywhere is an assault on civil peace."
’ABSOLUTELY UNACCEPTABLE’
Several countries have condemned the incident, as did UN Secretary-General António Guterres ...Portuguese politician and diplomat, ninth Secretary-General of the United Nations. Previously, he was the UN High Commissioner for Refugees between 2005 and 2015. He was the Prime Minister of Portugal from 1995 to 2002 and was the Secretary-General of the Socialist Party from 1992 to 2002. He served as President of the Socialist International from 1999 to 2005. In both a 2012 and 2014 poll, the Portuguese public ranked him as the best Prime Minister of the previous 30 years... "Such attacks are absolutely unacceptable... The safety and security of UN personnel and property must be respected at all times," said Stephane Dujarric, Guterres’s front man.
"Attacks against peacekeepers are in breach of international law... and may constitute war crimes," the statement said, adding that "UNIFIL must be allowed unrestricted freedom of movement throughout Lebanon."
The French foreign ministry released a statement that "calls on the Lebanese security forces to guarantee the security of blue-helmet peacekeeping forces, and calls on Lebanon’s judicial authorities to shed all light on this unacceptable attack and to go after those responsible."
Israel has repeatedly accused Hezbollah of using the Beirut airport to transfer weapons from Iran, claims Hezbollah and Lebanese officials have denied.
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... said Saturday that it was ready for "constructive talks" with Lebanon on restoring Tehran-Beirut flights.
In a telephone call, the two countries’ foreign ministers discussed "how to resolve the problem of civil flights" and "confirmed their readiness to hold constructive talks in good faith," an Iranian foreign ministry statement said.
Iran-backed Hezbollah has a large popular base in Lebanon, though a year of hostilities with Israel and the ousting of its ally Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad The Scourge of Hama... in neighboring Syria have left the group weakened.
Lebanon’s Directorate General of Civil Aviation said Thursday it had "temporarily rescheduled" some flights, including from Iran, until February 18 as it was implementing "additional security measures."
The date coincides with the deadline for the withdrawal of Israeli forces from south Lebanon and for Hezbollah to vacate positions there, under a ceasefire deal that began on November 27.
Beginning on October 8, 2023, Hezbollah-led forces attacked Israeli communities and military posts along the border on a near-daily basis for months, with the group saying it did so to support 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... amid the war there.
Hezbollah eventually expanded its attacks to also target cities in central and northern Israel with rockets, in addition to the attacks on the border.
Some 60,000 Israeli residents were evacuated from northern towns on the Lebanon border shortly after Hamas ..a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",... ’s October 7 onslaught, amid fears Hezbollah would carry out a similar attack, and increase rocket fire by the terror group.
Hezbollah’s attacks on Israel since October 2023 have resulted in the deaths of 46 civilians. In addition, 80 IDF soldiers and reservists died in cross-border skirmishes, attacks on Israel, and in the ensuing ground operation launched in southern Lebanon in late September.
Two soldiers were killed in a drone attack from Iraq, and there have also been several attacks from Syria without any injuries.
The IDF estimates that some 3,500 Hezbollah operatives were killed in the conflict. Around 100 members of other terror groups, along with hundreds of civilians, were also reported killed in Lebanon.
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Wanna bet most of these 25 "suspects" are just people they grabbed of the street?
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
...mindless ferocity in a turban...
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... the personification of Somali state failure...
... the personification of Somali state failure...
...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula, largely made up of sand and oil rigs. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual haj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. Formerly dictatorial and steeped in Olde Tyme Religion, deferring to Salafist holy men on all issues, it has now done a 180 and is making a serious effort to modernize, so as not to be left in the sand by its Gulf Arab neighbors. The holy men have been shoved to the background and the nation is now still dictatorial but somewhat rational. That doesn't make them trustworthy, but it's a start...
..not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,...
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling 
...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who must be killed...
..the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,...
...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 
...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 
...an Iranian satrapy until recently ruled by Hassan Nasrallah situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel...
..a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",...
