Some winners of the unfolding Red Sea tensions are al Qaeda and ISIS.
The UAE has used this base to traffic arms to the RSF, fueling genocidal violence in Sudan.
However, they've also coordinated drone strikes and operations with US and local forces against IS Somalia throughout 2025 and trained Puntland CT forces to combat ISS and al Shabaab for a decade.
The Malian Air Force conducted three airstrikes yesterday across the country, the first one west of Bebelin, killing "a dozen [JNIM] terrorists", the second one southeast of Tinkeleni killing several militants and destroying a dozen motorcycles, both in the Dioila region.
The Malian Air Force conducted three airstrikes yesterday across the country, the first one west of Bebelin, killing "a dozen [JNIM] terrorists", the second one southeast of Tinkeleni killing several militants and destroying a dozen motorcycles, both in the Dioila region.
The third one targeted a vehicle transporting explosive devices east of Kidal, northern Mali, likely FLA.
Bénin 🇧🇯 | Malgré une tentative de coup d'état le 07/12 qui aurait pu jeter le trouble sur l'opération "Mirador", les 3000 militaires participant à l'opération anti-terroriste dans le nord du pays ont commencé efficacement l'année en neutralisant plus de 20 terroristes du JNIM… pic.twitter.com/ilzK1796zF
Despite a coup attempt on 12/07 that could have sown chaos in Operation "Mirador," the 3,000 troops taking part in the counter-terrorism operation in the north of the country kicked off the year effectively by neutralizing over 20 JNIM terrorists in two FDS assaults in the south and east of W National Park.
🔸 The air-ground operations conducted by the FAB made it possible to gain a decisive edge over the terrorists and facilitated the destruction of JNIM camps and the seizure of equipment.
🔹 The country remains traumatized by the terrorist attack on 01/08/25 at the "triple point," which claimed the lives of nearly 35 soldiers.
🔸 However, over the last quarter of 2025, nearly 45 terrorists were neutralized and 7 suspects taken into custody, along with a large number of weapons, ammunition, vehicles, and communication devices seized.
🔹 With its recent purchase of military equipment from the United States of America 🇺🇸, Benin is confirming its intention to diversify its foreign partners.
⚠️ Neutralizing terrorists in the country is a major challenge for the nation, which faces incursions by JNIM and EIGS from Burkina Faso 🇧🇫 and Niger 🇳🇪, as well as the Nigerian terrorist group "Mahmuda".
TROOPS OF OPHK NEUTRALISE TERRORISTS AND RECORD SURRENDERS IN BORNO STATE
Troops of Operation Hadin Kai (OPHK) have sustained intense offensive operations against Boko Haram/ISWAP terrorists across Borno State along Azir–Wajiroko axis forcing 11 terrorists fighters to surrender… pic.twitter.com/3P6aJDXRsk
TROOPS OF OPHK NEUTRALISE TERRORISTS AND RECORD SURRENDERS IN BORNO STATE
Troops of Operation Hadin Kai (OPHK) have sustained intense offensive operations against Boko Haram/ISWAP terrorists across Borno State along Azir–Wajiroko axis forcing 11 terrorists fighters to surrender along with their AK 47 rifles and assorted ammunition.
A statement signed by the Media Information Officer Joint Task Force (North East) Operation Hadin Kai, Leutenan Colonel Sani Uba says on 9th January 2026, troops conducted extensive clearance operations in the Bulaagalda cluster, destroying several terrorist enclaves and camps at Dagumba, Bonne, Yaganari, Gosuri and Umchile.
Gunmen attack Obajana police headquarters in Kogi, one killed, several injured
By: Zagazola Makama
Unknown gunmen on Sunday night attempted to storm the Obajana Police Divisional Headquarters in Kogi State but were repelled by combined security forces, resulting in one death… pic.twitter.com/xhDkNY3E60
Gunmen attack Obajana police headquarters in Kogi, one killed, several injured
By Zagazola Makama
Unknown gunmen on Sunday night attempted to storm the Obajana Police Divisional Headquarters in Kogi State but were repelled by combined security forces, resulting in one death and multiple injuries.
Sources told Zagazola Makama that the attack occurred at about 10:30 p.m. when a large number of assailants sought to invade the divisional headquarters. The attackers were confronted by joint operatives comprising the Immediate Response Team (IRT), Quick Response Unit (QRU), Counter-Terrorism Unit (CTU), Police Mobile Force (PMF), Divisional personnel, and members of Vigilante.
During the ensuing exchange of fire, several security personnel sustained gunshot wounds. Victims included Inspector Onwaye Solomon, AP attached to QRU Lokoja, as well as Ahmadu Adamu, one Ahmadu (surname yet unknown), Muhammed Usman, and Ibrahim Mustapha, all members of the Vigilante. The injured were immediately rushed to Fisayo Hospital, Obajana, for medical attention. One of the injured, Ahmadu (surname unknown), was confirmed dead by hospital authorities.
ISWAP kills 10 JAS fighters in Kukawa as rivalry clashes escalates
By: Zagazola Makama
No fewer than 10 fighters of the Jama’atu Ahlis Sunna Lidda’awati wal-Jihad (JAS) were killed on Jan. 8 during a night attack by the rival Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) at Dabar… pic.twitter.com/MmWolBjvc6
ISWAP kills 10 JAS fighters in Kukawa as rivalry clashes escalates
By Zagazola Makama
No fewer than 10 fighters of the Jama’atu Ahlis Sunna Lidda’awati wal-Jihad (JAS)
…Boko Haram…
were killed on Jan. 8 during a night attack by the rival Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) at Dabar Ledda, within the Doron Naira axis of Kukawa Local Government Area (LGA) of Borno State.
Security sources told Zagazola Makama that ISWAP fighters launched a surprise assault on a JAS checkpoint, locally referred to as an Irasa, in the Dabar Ledda area, overwhelming the position after a brief but intense clash.
Sources familiar with developments in the area told Zagazola Makama that the attack ended decisively in ISWAP’s favour, with about 10 JAS fighters killed. Following the operation, ISWAP elements were said to have withdrawn swiftly to their major stronghold located between Kangarwa and Dogon Chuku, also within Kukawa LGA.
بنوں: سی ٹی ڈی بنوں ریجن اور مقامی پولیس نے تھانہ میراخیل کے علاقے جھنڈوخیل روڈ، نزد شگی مچن خیل میں ایک کامیاب انٹیلیجنس بیسڈ آپریشن کیا، جس کے نتیجے میں 2 دہشتگرد ہلاک ہو گئے۔ ہلاک دہشتگردوں کی شناخت سہیل عرف سنگری اور اسماعیل عرف عثمان کے نام سے ہوئی ہے۔ سیکیورٹی ذرائع کے… pic.twitter.com/3ffXrpdeWw
Bannu: CTD Bannu Region and local police conducted a successful intelligence-based operation in the Jhandokhel Road area near Shagi Machankhel, under the jurisdiction of Mirakhil Police Station, as a result of which 2 terrorists were killed. The identities of the killed terrorists were confirmed as Suhail alias Sangri and Ismail alias Usman.
According to security sources, the killed terrorists were involved in attacks on police checkpoints at Sheikh Landak and Fateh Khail, in which 8 police constables were injured. Furthermore, these terrorists were also involved in an attack on a security forces convoy and an IED attack on the under-construction Rescue 1122 building.
During the operation, 2 Kalashnikovs, 1 pistol, multiple cartridges, a motorcycle, 2 mobile phones, 2 identity cards, and a card of the banned organization TTP were recovered from the terrorists. However, taking advantage of the darkness of the night, 2 terrorists managed to escape.
On 10th January 2026, Pakistani security forces conducted an Intelligence Based Operation in Kot Kili, North Waziristan, targeting a key hideout used by armed TTP fighters.
On 10th January 2026, Pakistani security forces conducted an Intelligence Based Operation in Kot Kili, North Waziristan, targeting a key hideout used by armed TTP fighters.
According to Pakistani security sources, the operation resulted in the killing of 6x fighters, while several others sustained injuries.
[IsraelTimes] NYT says Israel destroying buildings past Yellow Line, quotes Gazan as saying Hamas ‘militarized civilian spaces,’ gave IDF ‘pretext’; army kills 3 armed men in Khan Younis strike
Israel has razed over 2,500 buildings in the Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... Strip since the ceasefire with Hamas ..not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,... took effect in October, The New York Times
...which still proudly claims Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize... reported Monday, as the military continued to destroy alleged terror infrastructure. "alleged"
According to the report, most of the demolitions have been on the Israeli side of the so-called Yellow Line demarcating the areas of control in Gaza, with the Israel Defense Forces telling the US newspaper that it is dismantling tunnels and buildings that have been booby-trapped.
However,
by candlelight every wench is handsome... the Times said its investigation found that "scores" of buildings on the Hamas-controlled side of the line have also been demolished, some as far as 900 meters (over half a mile) deep.
The report quoted an anonymous IDF official as saying Israel was not "indiscriminately" destroying buildings, and that many of them had collapsed because they sat on top of terror tunnels that the military blew up.
The official did admit that the IDF was demolishing buildings on both sides of the Yellow Line, but said that Israeli forces did not physically cross the line to do so. The Times said it was unable to verify the official’s claim.
"Our memories have been erased," said Ashraf Nasr, who lived in north Gaza’s Shejaiya, one of the main areas that the IDF is focusing its demolition efforts, before being displaced due to the war. "But Hamas gave Israel the pretext to carry out this disaster. It militarized civilian spaces."
IDF SAYS IT KILLED 3 ARMED MEN IN KHAN YOUNIS STRIKE
Separately, the IDF announced Monday that it struck and killed three armed operatives and maimed a fourth after they approached troops in the Khan Younis area of southern Gaza near the Yellow Line, in a manner that it said posed an "immediate threat."
According to the military, troops from the 188th Armored Brigade operating along the ceasefire line identified four armed individuals moving toward Israeli positions, though the IDF did not say whether they crossed into the Israeli-controlled side.
The air force, guided by the troops on the ground, carried out a strike that killed three of them and "neutralized" the fourth, according to the military. The IDF said weapons and equipment intended for gathering intelligence on Israeli forces were later found on their bodies.
According to the UK-based, Saudi-owned newspaper Asharq al-Awsat, citing Hamas field sources, the three operatives that the IDF killed Monday were in active pursuit of Gaza holy warriors who assassinated senior Hamas police officer Mahmoud al-Astal earlier in the day in Mawasi, near Khan Younis.
After the strike, the anti-Hamas holy warriors took the operatives’ weapons, the report said.
Hossam al-Astal, a former Paleostinian Authority security officer who leads an anti-Hamas militia near Khan Younis, grabbed credit for the liquidation of the police officer hours after he was killed.
The last name that the militia leader shares with the slain Hamas police officer, al-Astal, is common in southern Gaza.
Hamas’s interior ministry claimed, without providing evidence, that an initial investigation indicated that al-Astal’s killers, who had not been caught, worked for Israel.
The military did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the Asharq al-Awsat report.
The emergence of armed anti-Hamas groups, though still small and localized, has added pressure on the Islamists and could complicate efforts to stabilize and unify a divided Gaza, shattered by two years of war.
These groups remain unpopular among the local population as they operate in areas under Israeli control, although they publicly deny they take Israeli orders. Hamas has publicly executed people it accuses of collaboration.
The IDF statement on the strike followed reports in Arabic-language media that said Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis received the bodies of at least two people said to have been killed by Israeli dronezaps on the Hamas-controlled side of the ceasefire line.
The reports identified two of the dead as Mahmoud Burayka, 40, and Atef al-Bayouk, who was described as a young man but whose age was not reported.
Other Gaza hospitals also received four people maimed by the IDF in the past 24 hours, according to the Hamas-run health ministry. The statement did not specify where the people were maimed or the severity of their wounds.
Paleostinian media also reported that a woman arrived at Nasser Hospital Monday after being maimed by IDF gunfire west of Khan Younis. Medics cited by Paleostinian media also reported three people maimed by IDF gunfire Sunday night in the Strip’s north, where the IDF said it carried out an Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... on two suspects who had crossed the ceasefire line and approached Israeli troops near the Jabalia refugee camp.
Additionally, the Hamas-run health ministry reported that a 7-day-old girl and a 4-year-old boy died over the past day as a result of cold exposure, raising the number of such cases this winter season to six. The ministry did not give their names or say where they died.
The ceasefire has ended major combat in Gaza over the past three months, but both sides have accused the other of regular violations. According to figures provided by Hamas, more than 440 Paleostinians have been killed in Gaza since the truce took effect, though the toll cannot be verified and does not differentiate between civilians and fighters.
Three IDF soldiers have also been killed in the Strip in the same period.
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[Regnum] The death toll from protests in Iran has risen to 538, Reuters reported.
"According to the latest figures, the US-based human rights group HRANA said it had confirmed the deaths of 490 protesters and 48 security forces," the agency noted.
More than 10,000 people were detained during the unrest. The publication also noted that Iranian authorities provided no information about casualties.
Protests in Iran began on December 28th, sparked by the sharp decline in the Iranian rial. On December 31st, the Fez city administration building was attacked. On January 1st, in Hamadan, one group of protesters burned a Quran and several other religious books, while another group attempted to attack a mosque.
A series of clashes between rioters and police were also reported. On January 3, groups of unidentified armed men took to the streets of Serbale, firing bursts into the air while shouting anti-government slogans.
On January 8, a complete internet shutdown was observed across Iran amid ongoing protests. This followed a series of other measures aimed at curbing protest activity in the country.
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Remember the Iranian Green Movement back in 2009?
The Obama/Hillary handling, was to pull all support for those Iranians protesting and demanding an Honest election.
As a result, many Iranians were arrested and lost their lives, because of Obama/Hillary's handling. Obama also allowed IRAN to continue it "Peaceful" NUKE program.
SIDE NOTE: Wasn't our own Jan. 6th election protests like the Green Movement's Protests, in that it was over a clear conducted Fraudulent Election by radical in power.
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Some of the killing appears to me to be by psychos that are shooting like they don’t have to live in the country post engagement. I expect that those are the Arab imports.
To me, it looks like the regime is done, now we are figuring up how many civilian lives this will cost. If the regime runs it has few options because they have killed so many folks. Whoever welcomes them will be sanctioned by Trump.
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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.
..not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,...
