Strategic town Camsuma and surrounding villages have fallen to #Jubaland and SNA Danab forces.
Supported by precision raids from U.S. AFRICOM, Somali forces continue their advance toward Jilib, disrupting Al-Shabaab command structures and neutralizing multiple… https://t.co/V2qeg3PjNPpic.twitter.com/w7N0ghpSDR
Strategic town Camsuma and surrounding villages have fallen to #Jubaland and SNA Danab forces.
Supported by precision raids from U.S. AFRICOM, Somali forces continue their advance toward Jilib, disrupting Al-Shabaab command structures and neutralizing multiple senior operatives.
Jubaland and SNA Danab commandos are now operating within 20 km of Jilib, securing villages and cutting key supply and movement routes. Al-Shabaab’s ability to operate, resupply, and regroup is increasingly constrained as coordinated operations sweep across southern #Somalia.
🔴 Drones reportedly operated by the RSF and their ally SPLM-N struck South Kordofan, hitting civilian areas and a medical facility in Dilling, according to local sources. Casualties reported as access to affected sites remains limited.#Sudan#Newspic.twitter.com/gyHKEzAktS
Drones reportedly operated by the RSF and their ally SPLM-N struck South Kordofan, hitting civilian areas and a medical facility in Dilling, according to local sources. Casualties reported as access to affected sites remains limited.
ISWAP announced a new series of executions of spies and CJTF militiamen loyal to the Nigerian army, all were captured from their houses by the group, along with one police officer captured between Gubio and Damasak, a total of eight men were executed all in the same day yesterday… https://t.co/n6S9SDATwT
ISWAP announced a new series of executions of spies and CJTF militiamen loyal to the Nigerian army, all were captured from their houses by the group, along with one police officer captured between Gubio and Damasak, a total of eight men were executed all in the same day yesterday while they were captured at different times previously from different villages, all in Borno State, northeast Nigeria.
The Nigerian Air Force conducted airstrikes against an ISWAP position in the southern Tumbuns, in the Lake Chad area, Borno state, in northeast Nigeria, the strikes were very likely enabled by US Air Force previous ISR missions in the area. https://t.co/3kRChU3HDrpic.twitter.com/lmPezp2rUa
The Nigerian Air Force conducted airstrikes against an ISWAP position in the southern Tumbuns, in the Lake Chad area, Borno state, in northeast Nigeria, the strikes were very likely enabled by US Air Force previous ISR missions in the area.
Après la prise stratégique d'Uvira par le M23 et l'armée rwandaise 🇷🇼, le prochain objectif se trouve au sud ou à l'ouest : Kalemie ou Kindu.
Les FARDC 🇨🇩 et wazalendos ont été battus, il est probable qu'ils ne puissent pas défendre correctement Baraka et Fizi face à la… pic.twitter.com/85tmc8jqLD
After the strategic capture of Uvira by the M23 and the Rwandan army 🇷🇼, the next objective lies to the south or west: Kalemie or Kindu.
The FARDC 🇨🇩 and wazalendos have been defeated; it is likely that they cannot properly defend Baraka and Fizi against the M23's advance along Lake Tanganyika (capture of Makabola today), on the lake (arrival of boats provided by Rwanda), and in parallel on the highlands of Minembwe (with the M23's local allies).
In the long term, it is Tanganyika Province and the city of Kalemie that are threatened; the M23 could exit the tropical zone to enter a more accessible area. In parallel, the M23 is pushing westward, particularly toward Mwenga and Shabunda, which could open a front at Kindu.
[BBC] A suspected New Year's Eve terror plot by an extremist group has been foiled by federal authorities in Los Angeles, officials say.
Four alleged members of the Turtle Island Liberation Front - an offshoot of a pro-Palestinian anti-government group - have been arrested on suspicion of planning a coordinated bombing attack in at least five locations across southern California, the FBI and LA law enforcement said on Monday. I prefer MILFs not TILFs
The suspects were apprehended last week while traveling to the desert east of Los Angeles to test improvised explosive devices, officials said.
The FBI believes it has "disrupted the plot", but an investigation to identify other potential suspects is ongoing.
US Attorney General Pam Bondi said on X on Sunday that the agencies prevented "far-left" extremists from executing "a massive and horrific terror plot".
Audrey Illeene Carroll, 30; Zachary Aaron Page, 32; Dante Gaffield, 24; and Tina Lai, 41, face charges including conspiracy and possession of an unregistered destructive device, according to the complaint filed in the US District Court for the Central District of California.
On 12 December, the group travelled to the desert with "precursor chemicals" and were allegedly going to create bombs with their wares, officials said during a media conference on Monday.
A surveillance plane captured footage of their movements and the Los Angeles FBI SWAT team, along with the FBI, moved in and arrested the quartet without incident.
The bombing plot involved explosive devices being planted at locations that targeted two US companies described as logistic centres at midnight on New Year's Eve in the Los Angeles area.
The group also allegedly discussed attacking Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents and vehicles with pipe bombs in January or February, according to the complaint said.
Carroll allegedly said: "That would take some of them out and scare the rest of them."
"The successful disruption of this plot is a powerful testament to the strength of our unified response," said LAPD Chief Jim McDonnell, adding that work through allied agencies "prevented a potential tragedy and reaffirmed our shared commitment to safeguarding our communities".
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[Aljazeera] Essayli said Carroll had created a detailed plan to bomb at least five locations. The plot included the targeting of two “Amazon-type” logistics centres operated by US companies in the Los Angeles area on New Year’s Eve.
The term “Turtle Island” is used by some Indigenous peoples to describe North America in a way that reflects its existence outside the colonial boundaries put in place by the US and Canada. It comes from Indigenous creation stories where the continent was formed on the back of a giant turtle.
Activists affiliated with the group have previously organised campaigns against detentions and deportations by ICE, as well as anti-colonial issues.
Vehicles continue to explode in succession in areas controlled by the Damascus government!
Currently, a vehicle exploded near the Al-Mustafa Mosque in Al-Bukamal, a city east of Deir ez-Zor, which is under the control of the Damascus government. The vehicle belonged… pic.twitter.com/wv4Qv5YAMj
Vehicles continue to explode in succession in areas controlled by the Damascus government!
Currently, a vehicle exploded near the Al-Mustafa Mosque in Al-Bukamal, a city east of Deir ez-Zor, which is under the control of the Damascus government. The vehicle belonged to the Damascus Ministry of Defense.
#Syria: 4 members of the Road Safety patrol were killed tonight in an ambush near Maaret Numan (SE. #Idlib).
Another one was injured.
This looks like another #ISIS attack, which are becoming more regular and bolder - a sign of confidence and operational capacity despite recent setbacks.
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.
