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In 64 we used paper tape. You can not trust the punch card…One or two probability have spilled coffee on them.
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I had 2800 cards alone for Ms November 1973 or 74 (I forget which and don't remember if she was playboy or penthouse... kind of why I crashed ARPA Net at the node before the Offut AB hole.. when an io clerk destroyed my MS November cards in front of my face... (slinks away ..)
#13
...did she have pink hair? No. Did she have a nose ring? No. Was she over 92 kg? No. Sorry that doesn't meet the 'crimes against humanity' requirements.
The militant, who carried out the suicide bombing attack, was posing with a Type 3 AKS-47 assault rifle and #China-made 🇨🇳 CF-98 pistol. pic.twitter.com/g2LUsXsWSM
[SudanTribune] Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces (RSF) on Monday acknowledged its troops clashed with the Chadian army after crossing into Chad, calling the incident an “unintentional mistake.”
The paramilitary force expressed regret for the “unintended clashes,” saying the incursion occurred while its forces were pursuing Sudanese army troops and allied Joint Force members. The RSF alleged these forces had entered Sudan from Chad in a “calculated plan” to provoke a confrontation between the RSF and N’Djamena.
Hammer and anvil, right?
The RSF said its units crossed the frontier without prior knowledge of the exact boundaries due to the “similar nature of the terrain” in border regions. It accused Minni Arko Minawi, leader of the Sudan Liberation Movement, and Gibril Ibrahim, leader of the Justice and Equality Movement, of orchestrating the move to spark a regional crisis.
The force said it respected Chadian sovereignty and pledged to hold those responsible accountable under its internal regulations.
JNIM claims to have targeted a second Malian army MRAP this evening between Fassoudebe and Nioro du Sahel, Kayes region in western Mali with a guided IED. https://t.co/VG9RQSJbMWpic.twitter.com/SEwOqzQ5H9
JNIM claimed to have attacked a position of the pro-government Burkinabe VDP militias in Nouankui, only a few kilometers from the city of Dedougou, northwest Burkina Faso yesterday morning, reportedly killing nine militiamen and capturing weapons and ammunition. pic.twitter.com/iDXtzDXuQ7
NAF air strikes destroy terrorist boats, neutralise fighters in Kukawa riverine
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The Nigerian Air Force (NAF), operating as the Air Component of Operation Hadin Kai (OPHK), has recorded another major success against terrorists in the Lake Chad and… pic.twitter.com/YprWwovS56
NAF air strikes destroy terrorist boats, neutralise fighters in Kukawa riverine
By Zagazola Makama
The Nigerian Air Force (NAF), operating as the Air Component of Operation Hadin Kai (OPHK), has recorded another major success against terrorists in the Lake Chad and North-East corridors, following coordinated night precision air strikes that destroyed watercraft, hit key hideouts and neutralised several fighters in the riverine areas of Kukawa Local Government Area of Borno.
Sources told Zagazola Makama that the missions were executed after weeks of sustained intelligence gathering, surveillance and reconnaissance that confirmed increased terrorist movement and logistics activity around the Malimbe–Masaram Island axis and the Northern Tumbuns.
“Based on credible human intelligence (HUMINT) and persistent aerial surveillance, we tracked the movement of Jama’atu Ahlis Sunna Lidda’awati wal-Jihad (JAS) elements transiting through Masaram Island ahead of Malimbe, as well as Toumbun Beriberi in Kukawa LGA,” the sources said.
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Troops clear abandoned insurgent camps in forest operation in North-East
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Troops of the Joint Task Force (JTF) in the north-east Operation HADIN KAI have successfully cleared multiple abandoned insurgent camps during ongoing operations in the Sambisa forest… pic.twitter.com/SuAFK5cvjK
Troops clear abandoned insurgent camps in forest operation in North-East
By Zagazola Makama
Troops of the Joint Task Force (JTF) in the north-east Operation HADIN KAI have successfully cleared multiple abandoned insurgent camps during ongoing operations in the Sambisa forest area.
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[Regnum] The United States detained the tanker Sagitta in the Caribbean Sea for violating the sanctions quarantine imposed on Venezuelan oil. This was reported by the US Southern Command.
“The detention of another tanker <…> demonstrates our commitment to ensuring that oil from Venezuela is exported only legally,” the command stated on social media.
The US Southern Command's area of responsibility includes Central and South America, as well as the Caribbean.
The White House previously stated that Washington intends to continue seizing tankers leaving Venezuela without "permission" from US authorities. Administration spokesperson Karoline Leavitt emphasized that only vessels approved by the US government will be allowed to leave the country.
At the end of December, US President Donald Trump announced a de facto blockade of sanctioned oil shipments, after which US authorities regularly reported the interception of tankers in the Caribbean region.
[IsraelTimes] PM Albanese says his leadership is ‘tackling antisemitism, tackling hate, and getting dangerous guns off our streets,’ as parliament votes in favor of both reforms.
[IsraelTimes] A group of Jewish teenagers was chased through the streets of Melbourne by a driver who shouted antisemitic slurs, including “Heil Hitler,” and made Nazi salutes, Australian media says, citing police reports.
According to The Australian, five schoolboys, easily identifiable as Orthodox Jews, were walking home from Adass High School last night when a white utility vehicle approached them.
CCTV footage shows the vehicle stopping near the teenagers, who fled across an intersection.
The vehicle then makes a rapid U-turn and accelerates toward them, coming within meters of one boy.
The teens were pursued for between five and eight minutes, with the driver yelling slurs at them, according to the report.
The incident occurred near the Adass Israel Synagogue, which was firebombed in late 2024.
Victorian Premier Jacinta Allan condemns the “hateful behavior,” noting Nazi salutes are banned under state law.
Police are investigating and have urged witnesses to come forward.
Australian Jewish groups say the community is facing unprecedented levels of antisemitic attacks, including the deadly terror attack at a Hanukkah event at Sydney’s Bondi beach last month.
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#1
Maybe the premise is wrong.
Maybe this is the lesson they wanted taught.
Stop thinking the world has good intentions for us.
#2
Another Bondi beach will happen soon. This just happened in Miami and it wasn't some nobody taxi driver, it was American boys. None are in jail and none ever will be. The consequences for their actions? Oh no, they can't go back to that dance club. They are all still streaming their filth and radicalizing other good American boys with Jew hate.
#5
Oh yay. Now they know who the Jewish-owned restaurants and nightclubs are and can target them. Before, the safety of obscurity protected them. They might as well just start walking around in public with yellow stars sewn to their clothes.
I have to wonder if this RW influencer party wasn't a 3D chess move to provoke just such a reaction. Why else would they pick a spot like that? They had to know it was Jewish-owned and this would make their stunt get into the news. Otherwise everyone would have gone home after the party and that would be it.
#6
Or owned by people who think Jew-haters like them are the kind of troublemakers who are bad for business. Not everyone who objects to Jew haters is Jewish— in fact most are not.
[IsraelTimes] Police say detainees ‘promoted Nazi ideology,’ to target, intimidate immigrants, after weapons and neo-Nazi propaganda discovered during raid
Portuguese police on Tuesday arrested 37 people suspected of belonging to an ultra-right group responsible for hate crimes, with links to similar international groups, in a large operation that involved around 300 officers.
"Those detained ... promoted Nazi ideology, inherent to the national-socialist culture and the radical and violent mostly peaceful extreme right, acting out of racist and xenophobic motives with the aim of intimidating, persecuting and assaulting ethnic minorities, namely immigrants colonists," the Judicial Police said in a statement.
Searches found weapons of different kinds and neo-Nazi ...adherents of a philosophy that was seen even at the time as pure evil, which makes them either consciously purely evil, or attention-seeking ratbags. Pick one, or both.... propaganda materials.
The 37 suspects had "extensive criminal records and links to international groups that promote hate," the judicial police said in a statement, adding that 15 people had been formally charged.
The victims were mostly immigrants colonists from Moslem-majority countries in South Asia, according to local media.
Police sources said the group in question was "1143," named after the year Portugal became a kingdom. The group’s leader, Mario Machado, is serving a prison sentence after being convicted of racial discrimination, hate speech and related violence.
The arrival of workers from Bangladesh, India and Pakistain, has boosted Portugal’s foreign-born population in recent years to around 15 percent of the total.
In June, police arrested several suspected neo-Nazis believed to be seeking to create an illegal armed militia, and seized firearms and explosives.
The suspects were believed to belong to the otherwise little-known Lusitanian Armillary Movement, whose name alludes to one of Portugal’s national symbols, the armillary sphere.
Human rights groups have long raised concerns about increasing hate speech and attacks against immigrants colonists in Portugal, where the far-right, anti-immigration party Chega last year became the second-largest parliamentary group, 50 years after the country overthrew its fascist ...anybody you disagree with, damn them... dictatorship.
In June, a group of neo-Nazis attacked several actors outside a Lisbon theater during Portugal Day celebrations, prompting the government, criticized by left-wing parties for what they see as a failure to take action against far-right groups, to condemn the violence and promise an investigation.
And in April last year, far-right groups provoked festivities in downtown Lisbon, marring celebrations of the 51st anniversary of the Carnation Revolution, which ended the dictatorship.
On Sunday, Chega leader Andre Ventura came in second in the first round of a presidential election, proceeding to a runoff against Socialist candidate Antonio Jose Seguro.
#4
Fascist isn't "anything you disagree with," it's accurate.
When I use the word, you’re right. When a leftwing loon seeking to fatally define us as Other uses it, Fred’s inline is absolutely true. Furthermore, if you require the loon to define it, she won’t be able to.
[IsraelTimes] Anti-Israel foundation accuses Guy Hochman of ‘incitement’ linked to Gaza war due to videos with soldiers; he later performs for local Jews, is attacked by protesters outside hall
Israeli comedian Guy Hochman was reportedly held for six hours of questioning on Monday upon arriving in Canada after a complaint was filed by the Hind Rajab Foundation,
…a Hezbollah front project launched late 2024 by the March 30 Movement, itself named in memory of the Palestinian general strike on that date in 1976 in the West Bank against the Israeli government. Both groups are lawfare boiler rooms generating endless lawsuits against Israelis and those who support Israel in Western Europe and elsewhere, and between times propagandizing against Israel using the currently fashionable far left shibboleths. March 30 is the hobby of lawyer Haroon Raza, appearing at the end of 2023 …
an anti-Israel legal group.
Associates of Hochman told Channel 12 news that the comedian was detained upon landing at Toronto airport and was only let go after the Israeli consulate intervened.
Hochman later performed a gig for the local Jewish community, where anti-Israel, pro-Paleostinian protesters rallied outside. One of the activists attacked him and injured his manager, Hochman wrote on social media.
"The attacker was arrested by the local police," he added.
The Hind Rajab Foundation said last week that it had filed a criminal complaint citing "military propaganda and incitement linked to Israel’s war on Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... ," due to videos Hochman made with Israeli soldiers during the war against the Hamas ..the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®,... terror group.
"These activities led to his recruitment into a role linked to the IDF Spokesperson’s Unit, an unusual position for a civilian entertainer. In this role, Hochman appeared in military uniform and disseminated messaging that glorified destruction in Gaza, promoted Dire Revenge narratives, and contributed to the normalization of war crimes," the foundation claimed.
It also argued that Hochman had "engaged in overt political advocacy," called for blocking humanitarian aid trucks to Gaza, and produced content "promoting retaliatory narratives."
"While presenting himself internationally as a comedian, much of his recent content has moved beyond satire, using humour to dehumanize Paleostinians, Arabs, Moslems, and pro-Paleostinian demonstrators, and to normalize collective punishment," it said.
Beginning in 2024, the Hind Rajab Foundation has made use of social media posts by Israeli soldiers, officers and reservists to locate them in an attempt to have them arrested for alleged war crimes when they travel abroad. The group has sparked alarm within Israel, prompting the IDF to create new rules to better protect troops’ privacy and keep them from being victims of doxxing — the practice of publishing someone’s personal information online to expose them.
While the group has spurred European authorities to detain a number of IDF soldiers and forced a soldier visiting Brazil to flee back to Israel, fearing arrest, it has been unsuccessful in court, and no soldier targeted by the group has been prosecuted for war crimes or any other alleged offenses committed in Gaza.
Hochman drew outrage in January 2024 when he posted a video in which he gave a mocking tour of a damaged Gaza hotel while visiting the Strip under the aegis of the military.
The video, which was removed days later, drew fire for what critics said was a racist depiction of Gazooks and for appearing to champion Israeli resettlement of the Strip, damaging Jerusalem’s attempts to deflect claims that it has designs on a long-term reoccupation of Gaza after the October 7, 2023, Hamas-led massacre.
Hochman also drew attention later that year after he attempted to jump on the stage at a Coldplay concert in Athens, wrapped in the national flag, but instead fell and broke a rib.
#Pakistan / #Afghanistan 🇵🇰🇦🇫: Pakistani Armed Forces struck #Taliban positions and outposts on the border on 19-20 January.
Pakistani Forcrs seemingly used domestic "Ababeel" MR-5/10 Drones with POF 60mm HE (High-explosive) bombs and 12.7mm Type 54 heavy machine guns. pic.twitter.com/lU0q7pBOsr
Hamas and the world keep the Gazans trapped there instead of letting them escape into the light.
[IsraelTimes] A 6-month-old baby girl died over the past day from cold exposure in Gaza, the Strip’s Hamas-run health ministry says.
Shatha Abu Jarad is the ninth child to die of exposure in Gaza during the winter season that started last month, the ministry says. According to Palestinian media, she died this morning in Gaza City.
The health ministry also reports that Gaza hospitals have over the past 24 hours attended to seven people wounded by the IDF, and received the body of one person who was killed.
The report does not identify the people, specify the severity of the wounds or say where or when the they took place.
The death and injuries bring the number of people the Hamas-run ministry says were killed and wounded by the IDF since the Gaza ceasefire deal to 466 and 1,294, respectively.
WAFA, the Palestinian Authority’s official news agency, says the 466th casualty is Musael Aqel, who died today of injuries sustained in a previous Israeli strike on central Gaza’s Bureij camp. His age, and the date of the strike, are not reported.
The outlet also reports several people wounded by IDF gunfire this afternoon in Bani Suheila, on the Israeli-controlled side of the ceasefire line east of Khan Younis. The IDF has not commented on the reported incident. The army regularly says it fires on gunmen who cross the ceasefire line and who pose a threat to troops.
IDF denies issuing new evacuation orders for Gazans
[IsraelTimes] Contrary to a report by Reuters earlier today, the IDF says it has not issued any new evacuation orders for Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, but did warn civilians against crossing the Yellow Line, which demarcates the military’s withdrawal as part of the ceasefire.
According to the Reuters report, the IDF dropped leaflets ordering Palestinians in Bani Suhaila, east of Khan Younis in the Strip’s south, to leave their homes, in what the news agency claimed was the first forced evacuation since October’s ceasefire.
“Urgent message. The area is under IDF control. You must evacuate immediately,” said the leaflets, written in Arabic, Hebrew, and English, according to Reuters.
The military confirms to The Times of Israel that it dropped leaflets in the area, but says it was intended to warn Palestinians against crossing the Gaza ceasefire line, rather than a forced evacuation of an area where civilians were residing.
“Earlier today, IDF troops identified an attempt by Gazan civilians to cross the Yellow Line toward the Israeli-controlled side. The civilians were warned not to cross, including through leaflets that were distributed in the area,” the military says in response to a query.
“Contrary to what was claimed in the publication, there is no evacuation of the population in the area,” the army adds.
IDF finds weapons cache in Gaza tunnel shaft
[IsraelTimes] IDF troops located a cache of weapons in a tunnel shaft during mop-up operations on the Israeli side of the Gaza ceasefire line in the Strip’s south, the military says.
The IDF says soldiers of the 188th Armored Brigade and elite Yahalom combat engineering unit found firearms, RPGs and other military equipment in the shaft.
Amid the ongoing ceasefire, the military has been operating on the eastern side of the Yellow Line to demolish Hamas tunnels and other infrastructure belonging to Palestinian terror groups.
[IsraelTimes] Police say they arrested a Palestinian who is illegally in Israel and his employer this morning near the home of IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir, who lives in Ramot Hashavim, between Hod Hasharon and Ra’anana.
According to police, Border Police and Central District police officers were dispatched to the community after a report to emergency services of shouting heard in Arabic.
During searches in a residential neighborhood, officers located an illegal entrant from the West Bank city of Tulkarem at a construction site, along with a suspect from the central Arab town of Kafr Qasim, approximately 10 kilometers (6.2 miles) from Ramot Hashavim, who allegedly employed him.
Both suspects were detained and taken for questioning, police say.
Police stress that employing, housing, or transporting people illegally in Israel poses a potential security risk and may serve as infrastructure for terror activity, adding that such offenses are treated with “zero tolerance.”
[FoxNews] Video shows automatic weapons fire after dark as Hezbollah and Iraqi forces patrol Iranian capital
Gunfire echoed through Tehran Tuesday as heavily armed militias were deployed across the Iranian capital, transforming some districts into fortified zones under intense security.
Video footage showed bursts of automatic weapons after dark as government buildings, state media sites and major intersections were reportedly placed under guard, with armored pickups and masked fighters patrolling the streets in Toyotas.
The trucks were mounted with heavy machine guns and were moving in convoys with weapons firing into the darkness as armed men shouted commands.
In the video, large-caliber guns can be heard rattling as vehicles maneuver through urban streets.
"There has been a deployment of dozens of Toyotas mounted with heavy machine guns (DShK) and other heavy weapons in Tehran," Ali Safavi, a senior official with the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), told Fox News Digital.
"They are reportedly being used by elements linked to Lebanese Hezbollah and Iraqi Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF)," he said.
"Their commander speaks in Farsi, and these fighters are Iraqi Hashd al-Sha’bi, Popular Mobilization Force and Hezbollah fighters who have joined the IRGC. The IRGC are their commanders, and you can hear them shouting in Farsi."
According to Safavi, the Iranian regime has increasingly relied on foreign proxy forces to maintain control of the capital.
"The regime has brought in at least 5,000 foreign elements now from Iraq and Hezbollah to control Tehran," he explained.
"They are guarding the government buildings and the state radio and TV and are using heavy machine guns, which are Russian-made and 50 caliber."
Safavi added that "at night, there are fierce clashes that are ongoing as well as running street battles between the protesters and the special unit forces."
The footage emerged as the Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA) reported what it described as Day 24 of nationwide protests marked by a continued communications blackout.
"The number of confirmed deaths has reached 4,519, while the number of deaths still under investigation stands at 9,049," the agency said, adding that at least 5,811 people have been seriously injured and 26,314 arrested.
HRANA reports also described an overwhelming security presence, particularly with law enforcement, the IRGC, Basij units and plainclothes agents after nightfall, creating what the group called an atmosphere of deterrence and fear.
The first protests began Dec. 28 and rapidly spread nationwide, driven by economic grievances and opposition to clerical rule.
Demonstrations have persisted despite mass arrests, lethal force and internet shutdowns.
"Sometimes the protesters hold their ground to the gunfire, ammunition and volleys of tear gas," Safavi said.
He alleged that IRGC units attacked a hospital in Gorgan, killing wounded patients, stationing snipers on rooftops and firing into surrounding areas.
"They then took around 76 bodies to a warehouse and are refusing to hand them over to families because the forces want to bury them in secret," he claimed.
Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has repeatedly blamed foreign enemies for unrest while backing the IRGC’s response.
President Trump on Tuesday warned Iran that continued assassination threats from leaders in Tehran would trigger overwhelming retaliation.
"Anything ever happens, we’re going to blow the whole — the whole country’s going to get blown up," Trump told NewsNation.
NCRI President-elect Maryam Rajavi rejected the notion that external military action could topple the regime.
"A foreign war cannot bring down this regime," she said in a statement. "What is required is an organized nationwide resistance rooted in active, combat-ready forces inside Iran’s cities to defeat one of the most brutal and repressive apparatuses in the world today — the IRGC."
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UPDATED MAP: SDF redeploys from Al-Hol currently being stormed by tribes + Daesh elements; SDF captured armored vehicles in ambush at Tall Barud.
Daesh cells are reactivating & moving in step with the STG-aligned offensive, suggesting coordination rather than coincidence.… pic.twitter.com/9tvpdgy1Zf
UPDATED MAP: SDF redeploys from Al-Hol currently being stormed by tribes + Daesh elements; SDF captured armored vehicles in ambush at Tall Barud.
Daesh cells are reactivating & moving in step with the STG-aligned offensive, suggesting coordination rather than coincidence.
STG is the so-called Syrian Transitional Government, the Hayat Tahrir Al Sham conquerers, who have no intention of being even a little transitional to anything other than their originally planned Al Qaeda caliphate. The Kurds feel strongly they’ve been betrayed by President Trump.
BREAKING:
Fighter jets of the International Coalition Against ISIS has carried out warning airstrikes against Syrian forces nearing SDF areas in south of the al-Hol camp where tens of thousands ISIS terrorists are imprisoned by the Kurdish-led SDF forces. pic.twitter.com/DqSwvStqfC
Guards from the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces abandoned a camp Tuesday in northeast Syria housing thousands of people linked 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.... group, and the Syrian military said that allowed the detainees to escape.
Hours later, the Syrian government and the SDF announced a new four-day truce after a previous ceasefire between government forces broke down. The two sides have been clashing for two weeks, amid a breakdown in negotiations over the implementation of a deal to merge their forces together.
The al-Hol camp houses mainly women and kiddies who are family members of IS members or accused of being otherwise affiliated with the group. Thousands of accused IS hard boyz are separately housed in prisons in northeast Syria.
Syria’s interior ministry accused the SDF of allowing the release of "a number of detainees from the ISIS bully boy (group) along with their families." The AP could not independently confirm if detainees had beat feet from the camps or how many.
The SDF subsequently confirmed that its guards had withdrawn from the camp, but did not say whether any detainees were able to escape. The group blamed its move on "international indifference toward the issue of the ISIS terrorist organization and the failure of the international community to assume its responsibilities in addressing this serious matter," using another abbreviation for IS.
It said its forces had redeployed "in the vicinity of cities in northern Syria that are facing increasing risks and threats" from government forces.
An official with the US military’s Central Command, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly, said, "We are aware of the reports and are closely monitoring the situation."
The SDF and the government have also traded blame over the escape on Monday of IS members from a prison in the northeastern town of Shaddadeh, amid the breakdown of a ceasefire deal that had been reached between the two sides on Sunday.
The Syrian defense ministry, in a statement, said it is prepared to take over al-Hol camp and the prisons and accused the SDF of using them as "bargaining chips" to "sow chaos and destabilize the region."
AL-HOL HOLDS TENS OF THOUSANDS OF DETAINEES
At its peak in 2019, when IS was defeated in Syria, some 73,000 people were living at al-Hol camp. Since then, the number has declined, with some countries repatriating their citizens.
Sheikhmous Ahmad, a Kurdish official overseeing camps for displaced people in northeastern Syria, told The News Agency that Dare Not be Named that al-Hol currently has a population of about 24,000, of which Syrians make the largest group with about 14,500, followed by Iraqis, who are nearly 3,000.
He added that about 6,500 from other nationalities are held in the highly secured section of the camp known as the annex, as they are the most die-hard IS supporters who came from around the world to join the Death Eater group.
GOVERNMENT AND SDF TRADE BLAME OVER PRISON BREAK
Earlier Tuesday, Syria’s interior ministry said that 120 Islamic State members had escaped Monday from the prison in Shaddadeh, amid festivities between government forces and the SDF. Security forces recaptured 81 of the escapees while pursuing the remaining runaways, the statement said.
Also Tuesday, the SDF accused "Damascus-affiliated factions" of cutting off water supplies to the al-Aqtan prison near the city of Raqqa, which it called a "blatant violation of humanitarian standards."
The SDF, the main US-backed force that fought IS in Syria, controls more than a dozen prisons in the northeast where some 9,000 IS members have been held for years without trial.
IS was defeated in Iraq in 2017 and in Syria two years later, but the group’s sleeper cells still carry out deadly attacks in both countries.
Under a deal announced Sunday, government forces were to take over control of the prisons from the SDF, but the transfer did not go smoothly. On Monday, Syrian government forces and SDF fighters clashed around two of the prisons.
NEW CEASEFIRE DEAL ANNOUNCED
The Syrian military announced Tuesday evening a new four-day ceasefire with Kurdish-led forces after a previous agreement fell through. The SDF confirmed the deal and said "it will not initiate any military action unless our forces are subjected to attacks."
Elham Ahmad, a bigwig with the Kurdish-led local administration in northeast Syria, told journalists Tuesday that the earlier ceasefire had fallen apart after SDF leader Mazloum Abdi requested a five-day grace period to implement the conditions and Syrian Interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa refused.
She blamed the government for violating the agreement but called for a return to dialogue.
In response to a journalist’s question regarding whether the SDF had requested help from Israel — which previously intervened in festivities between government forces and groups from the Druze religious minority last year — Ahmad said "certain figures" from Israel had communicated with the SDF. She added that the SDF is ready to accept support from any source available.
SDF officials have expressed disappointment at the failure of the US to intervene on their behalf. The group was long the main US partner in Syria in the fight against IS, but that has changed as the Trump administration has developed closer ties with al-Sharaa’s government.
US envoy to Syria Tom Barrack, in a statement Tuesday, urged the SDF to move forward with integration into the new Syrian government and army and appeared to warn the Kurdish-led force that no help would be coming from Washington if it continued fighting.
"The original purpose of the SDF as the primary anti-ISIS force on the ground has largely expired, as Damascus is now both willing and positioned to take over security responsibilities, including control of ISIS detention facilities and camps," he said in a statement. "Recent developments show the US actively facilitating this transition, rather than prolonging a separate SDF role."
Since toppling Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Oppressor of the Syrians and the Lebs... in December 2024, Syria’s new leaders have struggled to assert their full authority over the war-torn country. An agreement was reached in March that would merge the SDF with Damascus, but it didn’t gain traction.
Earlier this month, festivities broke out in the city of Aleppo, followed by the government offensive that seized control of Deir el-Zour and Raqqa provinces, critical areas under the SDF that include oil and gas fields, river dams along the Euphrates and border crossings.
Al-Sharaa postponed a planned trip to Germany on Tuesday amid the ongoing tensions in northeast Syria.
Trump backs Syrian leader, says ‘a choir boy’ could not handle situation
[IsraelTimes] US President Donald Trump on Tuesday expresses support for his Syrian counterpart Ahmed al-Sharaa, who launched an offensive against Washington’s erstwhile Kurdish allies, saying a “choir boy” could not handle the situation.
“He’s working very hard, the president of Syria. He’s working very, very hard. Strong guy, tough guy,” Trump tells journalists at the White House.
“Pretty rough resume. But you’re not gonna put a choir boy in there and get the job done,” he adds.
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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.
...adherents of a philosophy that was seen even at the time as pure evil, which makes them either consciously purely evil, or attention-seeking ratbags. Pick one, or both....
..the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®,...
...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 
