Sudan 🇸🇩 MAP UPDATE: The situation in Sudan as of 01/11/2025.
After over 500 days of siege El Fasher has fallen, meaning the RSF now controls all the major cities in Darfur. This together with the recapture of Bara and an increase in drone attacks has people in Kordofan worrying… pic.twitter.com/c8OaWdMVh6
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After over 500 days of siege El Fasher has fallen, meaning the RSF now controls all the major cities in Darfur. This together with the recapture of Bara and an increase in drone attacks has people in Kordofan worrying their region will be next.
Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman will meet Donald Trump in the United States on November 18 to discuss a possible deal for F-35A fighter jets. Both sides are expected to sign a defense pact modeled on the U.S.–Qatar agreement, pledging mutual security cooperation.
Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin is in italics.
[ColonelCassad] The Russian Foreign Ministry noted that Pashinyan justifies the failures of his policies by blaming the KGB for the problems of Turks and Armenians. Of course, the KGB has nothing to do with the problems of the Turkish-Armenian interethnic conflict, as these problems arose long before the creation of the KGB and even before the Soviet Union. In fact, the massacres of Armenians actually took place on the territory of the Ottoman Empire.
But since Pashinyan is now engaged in ceding Armenia's national interests to Turkey and Azerbaijan (we also ceded them under Gorbachev and Yeltsin), he is actively glossing over the Armenian genocide and openly declaring that it weighs heavily on him. This is why accusations against the USSR have emerged, to divert attention from the Armenian genocide in the Ottoman Empire. You can read about how Armenia became a Soviet Republic here: It clearly shows how the "Pashinyans" of that time 100+ years ago screwed everything up. Today's Pashinyans are following the same path.
On November 2, Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova reminded Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan of the founding date of the Soviet KGB. The diplomat responded to claims that Soviet intelligence agencies were to blame for the problems facing Armenians and Turks.
"Prime Minister Pashinyan blamed the Turks and Armenians… for historical problems. The KGB was created in 1954. The Armenian Genocide in the Ottoman Empire began in 1915, almost 40 years BEFORE the KGB was created," Zakharova wrote on her Telegram channel.
This is how the diplomat responded to Pashinyan's proposal to "step out of the world and the framework that KGB agents have created for us" when resolving contentious issues between Turkey and Armenia.
On February 23, 2024, Pashinyan announced that the country had "frozen " its participation in the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO). He claimed that the organization had allegedly failed to fulfill the treaty's terms with respect to Yerevan. Later that day, the CSTO Secretariat stated that it had not received any requests to suspend Armenia's membership in the organization. The organization speculated that the reference may have been to the republic's non-participation in a number of events.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov noted that Yerevan's claims that the CSTO abandoned Armenia in its lurch are untrue. It was not Russia that renounced Nagorno-Karabakh, but Armenia itself, and, moreover, it did so proactively and without informing Moscow, Russian President Vladimir Putin pointed out.
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[REGNUM] One of Sweden's most notorious crime bosses, Ismail Abdo, known as Strawberry, fled to Turkey and began running his gang remotely. He also attempted to establish control over the drug market in Finland.
This led to a sharp expansion of drug trafficking in Suomi and violent conflicts between criminal groups in Finland and Sweden.
Abdo and his "officers" eventually ended up behind bars, but this hydra, as a rule, grows a new head in place of the severed one.
FIERCE COMPETITION
Thirty-five-year-old Ismail Abdo is one of Sweden's most notorious crime bosses. Born in Uppsala to Turkish immigrants, he chose a life of crime at a young age, joining a gang. As a young man, he served five and a half years in prison for drug trafficking and involvement in a shootout.
Abdo earned his nickname "Strawberry" (Jordgubben) because he was once involved in the berry business. This type of business in Scandinavia often borders on illegality: berry farm owners mercilessly exploit migrant workers brought in from Third World countries, underpaying them and keeping them in brutal conditions, with poor sanitary standards.
Moreover, they often cheat with labels, passing off, for example, strawberries grown with pesticides as organic, premium products. Finally, farm owners often evade taxes.
However, Abdo's main "specialty" was and remains drug trafficking. He previously served on the leadership of the largest Swedish gang, Foxtrot, led by Rawa Majid, nicknamed the Kurdish Fox. But at some point, the ambitious Abdo and Majid had a falling out.
He formed his own network, Rumba, and attempted to wrest a lucrative turf from his former colleagues: drug trafficking to tens of thousands of addicts across Sweden. Naturally, a standoff immediately erupted between Rumba and Foxtrot, accompanied by murders, explosions, and shootouts.
Since Abdo has become such a well-known figure for some time now and there is ample evidence against him, he chose to move to his parents' homeland and began managing his organization remotely from Turkey.
It is noteworthy that Majid, when things got too hot for him in Sweden, also fled to Turkey and commands his Foxtrot from a distance.
As a result, the war between the Kurdish Fox and the Strawberry gang resumed on Turkish territory. On September 6, 2023, Majid's men attacked a café in the Sarıyer district of Istanbul, where members of another gang liked to hang out.
The attack failed, and in retaliation, Abdo and his accomplices killed one and wounded another of Majid's men on March 27, 2024.
However, even earlier, the Kurdish Fox managed to strike Strawberry in the most sensitive spot: in September 2023, Majid ordered the murder of Abdo's mother, who lived in a villa in the Grenby district of Uppsala, Sweden.
The order was carried out. Two teenagers hired by Foxtrot were arrested on suspicion of committing the murder.
In response, Abdo ordered the assassination of Majid's mother-in-law, who was shot at on September 13, 2023, also in Uppsala. But the amateur killers missed.
MAJID TRIUMPHS
The Rumba gang, led by Klubnika, continued its operations in Scandinavia in full force. The criminals found their signature move: using the Swedish postal system to distribute drugs to their "clients."
At the end of 2023, local police reported that they estimated there were 150 underground centers across Sweden (50 of them in Stockholm) where drugs were packaged and then shipped to buyers across the country.
Postal workers open suspicious packages almost daily, but many reach their intended recipients. "There are numerous indications that the leader of the criminal group, Ismail Abdo, controls a significant portion of this market," says Stockholm police inspector Mats Baakki.
According to him, the packers are at the very bottom of the criminal hierarchy and work for pennies. People higher up the chain of command operate on the darknet and coordinate their activities, sending both the drugs themselves and lists of addresses for their distribution to the packing centers.
However, the hand of the law eventually caught up with Strawberry outside of Sweden: in July 2025, Ismail Abdo was arrested in Turkey and remains in custody there to this day.
His arrest was the result of a joint effort by law enforcement agencies from Turkey, Sweden, and Norway. In total, nineteen individuals associated with three different criminal networks were arrested during the operation, ironically dubbed "Strawberry."
Incidentally, Abdo was already arrested in Turkey last year, immediately after the attack on Majid's men, but he was released on the minimum bail of 20,000 lira (approximately 39,000 rubles). The criminal, however, refused to lie low and continued his previous activities on an even larger scale, for which he paid the price.
Immediately after Klubnika's re-arrest, four of his henchmen were detained in Spain, where they had arrived to kill members of a rival gang. Two of them were young men, a 19-year-old and a 16-year-old, from the Swedish city of Borås.
This is unsurprising: Rumba is one of those gangs that widely uses minors as their "bio-drones." When recruiting teenagers, they are told that they won't face any serious consequences if arrested, as Swedish criminal law doesn't penalize children very harshly.
Strawberry faces numerous charges, including several attempted murders and an attempt to import a large amount of cocaine (1.3 tons) into Scandinavia, seized in 2024. Later, the Swedish Central Criminal Police (KRP) reported that they suspect Abdo of organizing the import of large quantities of drugs from Sweden to Finland. Consequently, in October 2025, the Helsinki District Court issued an arrest warrant in absentia for him.
KRP suspects that Abdo may soon become a defendant in other criminal cases in Finland. However, it is already known that Turkey will not extradite Klubnika due to his Turkish citizenship. The trial in Istanbul is still ongoing, but it will likely end with a lengthy prison sentence. For now, Majid can celebrate: he has won.
THE END OF THE "INITIATIVE"
Police detectives discovered that Abdo, whose gang had recently found Sweden a bit cramped, had recently decided to take over neighboring Finland.
He himself, of course, never came to Finland. The core of the Finnish network consisted of four trusted men who controlled the smuggling flows, drug sales, and various violent crimes. This year, all were arrested and convicted.
One of these four was Karl Björkandahl, a twenty-year-old resident of the Finnish city of Porvoo. At first glance, he seemed little different from his peers: he owned a small auto parts business, drove a modest car, was into rap, and wrote and recorded his own tracks.
Neighbors were stunned to learn that Björkandahl had been detained by the police: he was accused of involvement in a shootout in Helsinki's Lassila district. Abdo's men were attempting to resolve the problem of their rivals—a local gang outraged by Rumba's intrusion into their territory.
Karl himself also provided evidence against himself: he made a boastful rap video featuring himself, in which he effectively claimed to have orchestrated the shootout. Police included the video in their investigation. The evidence proved irrefutable, and the court sentenced Karl Björkandahl to ten years in prison.
The investigation revealed a host of curious facts. On behalf of Klubnika, Björkandahl organized the illegal importation and distribution of various types of drugs into Finland. He also collected the proceeds from the drug sales.
The young man also collected debts from those who accepted large shipments of "goods" but failed to pay on time. In particular, he once ordered his henchman to burn down the premises of a biker club.
When all these circumstances came to light, Björkandahl received another "five" (above). He remained silent during interrogations, and in court he admitted only a small part of the charges against him. To this day, Abdo Karl denies any connection with Ismail.
Soon after Björkendahl, another of Klubnika's emissaries in Finland, 36-year-old Swede Tobias Larsson, was brought to trial. He was also sentenced to nearly ten years in prison. Larsson acknowledged his connection to Abdo, and said he had interacted with Klubnika personally for a considerable time before he was forced to flee the Scandinavian kingdom.
Finn Toni Iinatti was a key player in the network built by Klubnika in the Finnish regions of Tampere and Pohjanmaa; he was sentenced to twelve years in prison for drug trafficking.
Another close associate and ally of Klubnika is Besha Aziz, nicknamed Gorilla. Police uncovered their correspondence; in one message, Abdo wrote to Aziz: "We need to take care of Finland. Come with us, brother?"
According to police, Aziz took on a particularly sensitive "job": recruiting underage Finns to commit violent crimes in Sweden. "Gorilla" was recently sentenced to seventeen years in Sweden.
Experts estimate that Rumba, while suffering a major blow, has not been completely defeated. They fear the gang will soon recover, recruit new members, rebuild its structures, and resume operations at its former peak. Or another criminal organization, no less dangerous, will take its place.
In a tragic example, in 2020, Swedish police managed to hack the encrypted phone network EncroChat, used by criminal groups, resulting in hundreds of arrests. However, the resulting "vacuum" quickly led to newcomers eager to fill it.
In particular, this helped Foxtrot, and then Rumba, rise to prominence. Moreover, Foxtrot is still doing extremely well—it was the main beneficiary of the blow dealt to Rumba.
I spoke with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on the phone today. We agreed: The ceasefire in Gaza must hold. The people there need safe humanitarian aid and Hamas must finally hand over the mortal remains of the last hostages. pic.twitter.com/WL9OTvNvC9
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A “Day After” Plan Israel can get to work on Right Now A pro-Israel American majority can no longer be assumed given the growing appeal of raw Jew hatred in America. Here’s what Israel can do to prepare for a future President AOC and Sec'y of State Mamdani.
[GatewayPundit] According to a leaked DHS procurement document obtained by The Intercept, ICE plans to outsource "Skip Tracing and Process Serving Services" to private firms, providing them with government data on batches of 10,000 immigrants at a time, with potential escalations up to 1,000,000 cases."
The document closely resembles a plan reportedly circulated by a group of military contractors, including former Blackwater CEO and Trump ally Erik Prince.
In February, Politico reported that Prince and other were pushing for the formation of a private efforts to locate immigrants and a "bounty program which provides a cash reward for each illegal alien held by a state or local law enforcement officer," according pitch materials obtained by the outlet.
The proposal called for "skip-tracing," a method of using available information to locate people — something ICE is already handing out multimillion-dollar contracts for, according to a recent report in The Lever.
Soon, according to the newly published procurement document, private sector ICE contractors will surveil and confirm the home or work addresses of tens of thousands of immigrants in the U.S. and then report their locations back to the government.
The document states, "DHS ICE has an immediate need for Skip Tracing and Process Serving Services using Government furnished case data with identifiable information, commercial data verification, and physical observation services, to verify alien address information, investigate alternative alien address information, confirm the new location of aliens, and deliver materials/documents to aliens as appropriate." I've been saying this for years. Well that and a moat with 20 foot crocodiles.
"Skip Tracing and Process Serving Services" to private firms, providing them with government data on batches of 10,000 immigrants at a time, with potential escalations up to 1,000,000 cases.
There has been an escalation in attacks on ICE personnel, with DHS reporting an 8,000% spike in death threats and over a 1,000% increase in assaults compared to previous years.
Anomolous Sources submitted the same article, commenting Maybe just another Trumpian troll, or maybe not.
Like Shimmer, it works either way.
[Rudaw] Artemis Ghasemzadeh is an Iranian asylum seeker who has fallen victim to US President Donald Trump ...The Hero of Butler, Pennsylvania... ’s immigration policies. In Iran, her crime was leaving Islam for Christianity. She sought safety and freedom in the US, but instead of sanctuary, she was detained and deported to Panama.
"I just want a normal life like the other people," Ghasemzadeh sighed. "Just I want to have a chance to live safe, pray to God, be free, [not be] scared of anybody. Just like that."
You can easily do all that in Panama, my dear. Count your blessings that you landed in a Christian nation when the rules changed, and work to be self-supporting. Perhaps in time you will be able get a visa to emigrate to America legally. But as one who fled Iran, you understand why the Trump government wants more assurances about a claimed Iranian refugee than the Biden-Harris Politburo had done.
To reach the US, Ghasemzadeh flew to Mexico, crossed the border, and asked for political asylum. She was detained for about a week, then without warning or consent, she says, she was transferred to Panama.
"They said we wanted to change your place and send you to Texas. We go to the airport and they use [an] army plane and they send us to Panama," she told Rudaw.
Since Trump took office, deportations of Iranians have surged. US media reports say Washington struck a secret deal with Tehran to send hundreds of Iranians back. One plane full of people has already gone.
The Trump administration insists no specific nationality has been targeted, calling the mass deportations part of a broader effort to discourage illegal migration, especially along the southern border, where millions try to cross each year. But human rights ...which are usually open to widely divergent definitions... activists are alarmed about the deportation of Iranians.
"Earlier this month, we had deportation to Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... for the first time with an agreement between Iran and the US," said Ali Herischi, a human rights lawyer in Washington DC.
In the US Congress, Ghasemzadeh’s name is on a proposed bill to prevent people from facing expedited removals from the country, even as she continues to live in Panama, far from her homeland and the country she once dreamed of. These days, she goes to church, prays for a better future, and reads the first Persian-language Bible she received years ago in The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the decaying remnant of the Ottoman Empire... "Everybody thinks being a migrant is really easy," she said. "But you know you should leave all things in your country: your language, your family, your friends. Maybe it’s easy to say ’I flee my country’ but behind that it’s a lot of pain."
Ghasemzadeh has a one-year visa in Panama. Four months have passed and she still does not know what her future holds.
[IsraelTimes] Two American Jewish women who entered a closed military zone in the West Bank to help Palestinian olive growers with their harvest have been banned from Israel for 10 years. They had been deported over the incident.
The women were detained on Wednesday for entering a closed military zone imposed by the IDF over the Palestinian village of Burin on October 29, the same day the women and nine other activists went to volunteer picking olives. They were held in the Givon Prison in Ramle and were deported on Friday.
The two women, one an 18-year old and the other in her 50s, were participating in a project run by the Rabbis For Human Rights organization to help Palestinians harvest their olives. The program aims to show solidarity with Palestinians in the face of violence by extremist settlers, which has erupted in the West Bank since the olive harvest season began in mid-October.
During a hearing at the Detention Review Tribunal at Givon Prison, the judge noted that both women were accused of violating a military order and not obeying instructions from security forces.
Democrats MK Gilad Kariv, the chairman of the Knesset Diaspora Affairs Committee, described the 10-year ban against the women as “outrageous,” and said he intends to hold a hearing in his committee on the issue and summon the relevant officials to explain the decision.
“Beyond the injustice, this does direct harm to Israel’s relationship with Diaspora Jewry, and harms the legitimacy of liberal-Zionist worldviews,” said Kariv, a left-wing lawmaker.
Director of Rabbis for Human Rights Avi Dabush says it is “anti-Zionist and anti-Jewish to ban Jews from Israel,” and insisted that his organization’s activities are non-violent and law-abiding.
“Two Jewish women came to Israel with with Zionist values and for Zionist purposes,
How does picking Arab olives help Jews return to Israel? Would not helping the poor in Israel be more to the point?
and to help people in distress, and the outcome is really crazy,” says Dabush. “The fact that the police don’t stop the Jewish terrorists working against us and the Palestinian olive growers is also very frustrating.”
According to Wikipedia, Rabbis for Human Rights was founded in 1988, has received funding from the EU, Spain, and the UK, and since 2002 has sent activists to protect the Arab olive harvest at the request of a Palestinian peace activist — which means the PLO. Of their membership, something like 100 are rabbis or rabbinic students, which is not impressive.
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Work Like an Egyptian, or, "Do my chores and I'll do yours!"
By the flickering flame of a taper,
Two-dimensional neighbor helps neighbor --
"Fella, lend me a tool."
"Tuesday send me some ful!" --
Yet their nation's distension grows graver.
Digging deep and slicing thin, like. Zenobian division of labor. ;-)
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*happy sigh* Mr. Wife does love Egyptian ful. I’ve never had it, as I’ve not been to Egypt. At the time he was starting up the factory there, the company was pressing him to take an assignment in Saudi Arabia; neither of us wanted that, as we both were fond of my head remaining attached to my shoulders…
”Ya don’t pay yer cumshaw, ya can’t sell yer meat, capish?”
Telegram channels affiliated with Hamas report that the terror group shut down several shawarma restaurants yesterday along Salah al-Din Road, which runs down the length of the Strip, as part of efforts to regulate food prices.
According to the reports, the restaurants were selling chicken at inflated prices, higher than what Hamas had permitted.
In recent days, lists of regulated food prices — apparently set by Hamas — have circulated on social media, outlining the rates that vendors must adhere to.
[IsraelTimes] Held by Hamas for 2 years, former captive recalls beatings, starvation, psychological torment; other ex-hostages have also linked abuse to actions of far-right minister.
It was a lie, of course, The Hamasniks were just getting their jollies torturing their prisoners, and frustrated because they had not yet won the war, and so had not proved by winning that Islam is superior. Had Minister of Defense Gvir not existed, another name would have done as well.
He told Channel 12 that at one point, the ordeal hardened his resolve against Hamas.
“I told myself that to end this phenomenon called Hamas, I had to sacrifice myself for the country,” Kalfon said. “I wanted the war to continue, to finish them off. Even if it cost me my life. Such evil has to be destroyed, even if I give my life.”
[PUBLISH.TWITTER] Who are they guarding with those guns, and against whom? The targets, after all, are dead.
Hamas’s Shadow Unit is accompanying a Red Cross delegation in the search for the bodies of hostages in the Shuja'iyya neighborhood in eastern Gaza City. pic.twitter.com/iVCxHmp6Wn
[X] Place your bets, ladies and gents: How many parts per coffin, how many bodies those parts come from, and will any of those parts belong to an actual hostage? The only saving grace to this exercise is that Israel’s Abu Kabir forensic institute has done this so often since 10/7 that we should have answers within hours.
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) and the Shin Bet Security Service (Shabak) confirms the receipt of the bodies of three hostages killed in the Gaza Strip
[Regnum] The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) and the Shin Bet Security Service (Shabak) confirmed the receipt of the bodies of three hostages killed in the Gaza Strip. The IDF Spokesperson's Office reported this on November 2.
"According to information provided by the Red Cross, three coffins containing deceased hostages have been transferred to their custody and are on their way to IDF forces in the Gaza Strip," the agency said in a statement.
The statement emphasized that Hamas is obligated to comply with the agreements reached and to take all necessary steps to return all the bodies of the deceased hostages remaining in its possession.
Israel launched military operations in the Gaza Strip in October 2023 after Hamas militants attacked Jewish settlements along the border, killing people and taking hostages. In September 2025, the UN Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory recognized Tel Aviv's actions as genocide.
Cpt. Omer Maxim Neutra, 21, a tank platoon commander in the 7th Armored Brigade’s 77th Battalion, from New York, was killed on October 7 while battling the Hamas invasion of southern Israel, and his body taken captive. His tank was attacked by Hamas terrorists with RPG fire and explosive devices. Neutra and two others in the tank were killed in the attack, and their bodies taken to Gaza, while soldier Nimrod Cohen was abducted alive to the Strip.
Footage of Gazans standing around the burning tank and celebrating, and dragging Nimrod Cohen out from inside, became some of the most haunting footage for Israelis in the wake of October 7.
Omer’s family did not know of his fate for more than a year, until in December 2024, Israeli authorities confirmed that he had been killed on October 7 and his body taken hostage. His family sat shiva, the seven-day mourning period, but did not hold a funeral.
He is survived by his parents, Orna and Ronen, and his younger siblings Daniel, Keren, Or and Leah.
According to a Hamas statement, the hostages’ bodies were recovered earlier Sunday from a tunnel. In the statement, the group published a picture showing a body bag with the name of a deceased hostage on it, while the other two were not named.
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Israel’s intelligence and defense services are quietly hardening for a new vector of assault, one that mirrors October 7th, but from the east.
Iran’s proxy militias in Iraq are reportedly positioned to launch coordinated waves of missiles and one-way drones toward Israeli targets.
Key details:
• Tehran’s Quds Force chief Esmail Qaani has met militia leaders in Iraq.
• Kataib Hezbollah controls long-range drones and smuggling routes into Syria.
• Israel is striking logistics hubs near the Iran–Iraq border.
• The 96th “Gilad” Division is training intensively in the Jordan Valley.
Analysts say an Iraq front would stretch Israel’s air-defense arc but also bring Iran’s proxies within Israel’s strike envelope.
You spend your money building that instead of something useful for your people, and then Israel will knock it down again. Good, healthy exercise for all involved, and it will keep you from spending your ill-gotten gains on something truly harmful. Hard on the common folks, it’s true, but until they throw you out, they’re stuck with it.
[IsraelTimes] Tehran will rebuild its nuclear facilities “with greater strength,” Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian told state media on Sunday, claiming again that the country does not seek atomic weapons.
US President Donald Trump has warned that he would order fresh attacks on Iran’s nuclear sites should Tehran try to restart operations at facilities that the United States bombed in June.
Pezeshkian made his comments during a visit to the country’s Atomic Energy Organization, during which he met with senior managers from Iran’s nuclear industry.
“Destroying buildings and factories will not create a problem for us; we will rebuild and with greater strength,” the Iranian president said to the press.
In June, the US joined Israel to launch strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities long suspected to be part of a program geared toward developing nuclear weapons.
Tehran, which routinely calls for the destruction of Israel, maintains that its nuclear program is for purely civilian purposes. However, before the war, Iran had been enriching uranium to levels just below weapons-grade, which has no peaceful application.
And the rest “fell in love” with their captors after being raped? That’s how it goes in Egypt, too.
[IsraelTimes] A Syrian government-led committee finds that most allegations of kidnapping of women from the Alawite religious minority were false, the findings of the months-long probe released today show.
Syria’s Interior Ministry spokesperson Noureddine al-Baba announces the outcome of the inquiry into 42 allegations of women and girls during widespread violence in March along Syria’s coastal provinces.
Al-Baba says the committee, which was set up in July, spoke to affected women and girls and concluded that only one case was a kidnapping.
“In the one confirmed kidnapping case, the girl was safely returned after security agencies investigated the matter,” Al-Baba tells a news conference. “The search continues to identify the perpetrators.”
Amnesty International said in July it had received credible reports of several dozen Alawite women and girls being kidnapped across the provinces of Latakia, Tartus, Homs, and Hama.
The Syrian inquiry concludes that of the remaining 41 cases it examined, 12 involved women fleeing with romantic partners, nine were “temporary absences” with relatives or friends, six were instances of fleeing domestic violence, six were false allegations on social media, four were victims of extortion or prostitution, and four were perpetrators of criminal offenses who were apprehended by security agencies.
“We urge citizens, civil society, and human rights organizations to first report any such incidents or suspicions to the Interior Ministry,” al-Baba says.
The violence began after armed groups aligned with former Syrian president Bashar al-Assad, who belongs to the Alawite minority, attacked government security forces. The counter-insurgency spiraled into sectarian revenge attacks and massacres that killed hundreds of civilians from the Alawite community.
On the other side of things, some of the ISIS wives have taken to setting the older of their sons to stud, to breed more soldiers for the caliphate since their husbands are not available to them for the service. Interesting times for all involved…
[Rudaw] Baghdad is preparing for the repatriation of more than 600 Iraqis suspected of having links to 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) from Syria's Kurdish-controlled al-Hol camp, a Kurdish official said on Saturday. The camp’s population has dropped to 25,301 individuals, down from more than 60,000 after the defeat of ISIS.
"Iraq continues [repatriations]. Last week, it repatriated 245 families. Now they are preparing for the repatriation of another batch," Sheikhmous Ahmed, who oversees all internally displaced persons and refugee camps in northeast Syria (Rojava), told Rudaw English.
"Their number is between 600 and 700 individuals from around 250 families," he added, noting that all preparations have been completed and they are awaiting the Iraqi side to receive the group.
A member of the Iraqi parliament’s migration committee, Sherwan Dubardani, confirmed to Rudaw English that Baghdad plans to repatriate more nationals from al-Hol. This group, which he expects to include over 800 individuals from 250 families, is the thirtieth that Iraq has brought back.
The date of the repatriation has not been disclosed.
Al-Hol camp in Hasaka province is infamous for its squalid conditions and has been branded a breeding ground for terrorism. Iraqis and Syrians make up the majority of the 25,301 ISIS-linked people who have been held at the camp since the defeat of the group in 2019. There are also people in the camp from around the world who had traveled to join the so-called ISIS caliphate.
The camp’s population was initially around 60,000.
Rojava officials have allowed Syrians held at the camp to return to their homes since January.
A delegation from the Syrian government visited al-Hol camp in May. This was the first visit to the camp by the interim government. They were also joined by representatives from the US-led global coalition against ISIS, local media reported at the time.
All Iraqis brought back from the camp are put in al-Jadaa camp in Nineveh where they go through a rehabilitation program before they can return to their original homes. Baghdad had temporarily paused repatriations from al-Hol because of overcrowding at al-Jadaa.
Iraq held a conference on the sidelines of the United Nations ...a lucrative dumping ground for the relatives of dictators and party hacks... General Assembly in New York in September to discuss emptying and dismantling al-Hol. The conference resulted in the establishment of a joint cell, led by the United States, to facilitate the repatriation of the camp’s foreign residents. Some governments have resisted taking responsibility for their citizens, citing security concerns.
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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.
[GatewayPundit] According to a leaked DHS procurement document obtained by The Intercept, ICE plans to outsource "Skip Tracing and Process Serving Services" to private firms, providing them with government data on batches of 10,000 immigrants at a time, with potential escalations up to 1,000,000 cases."
...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 
