This post has been updated with additional information on destroyer positions as of Jan. 26. These are the approximate positions of the U.S. Navy’s deployed carrier strike groups and amphibious ready groups throughout the world as of Jan. 26, 2026, based on Navy and public data. In cases in which a CSG or ARG is conducting disaggregated operations, the chart reflects the location of the capital ship.
#ALERT: Turkish Forces Reportedly Involved in Fighting Near Coastal Town of Warsheikh
Emerging reports indicate that Turkish forces were among those participating in fighting that took place on the outskirts of the coastal town of Warsheikh on Tuesday. The reported involvement…
#ALERT: Turkish Forces Reportedly Involved in Fighting Near Coastal Town of Warsheikh
Emerging reports indicate that Turkish forces were among those participating in fighting that took place on the outskirts of the coastal town of Warsheikh on Tuesday. The reported involvement has heightened concerns surrounding Turkey’s stated plans to establish a satellite-related facility in the district.
Why in Somalia?
In recent days, al-Shabaab militants have reportedly reinforced their presence in areas close to Warsheikh, deploying heavily armed fighters in what analysts believe may be an attempt to disrupt the proposed Turkish project.
[LibyaReview] Heavy clashes erupted on Saturday evening in the Al-Hara district of Al-Zawiya, western Libya, amid escalating security tensions between rival armed groups, eyewitnesses said.
According to local sources, the fighting broke out between forces loyal to Ahmed Daraa and others affiliated with Abdelmoez Qabasa, with both sides using light and medium weapons in densely populated residential areas.
The exchanges of fire caused widespread panic among civilians, as the sound of gunfire echoed across the neighborhood and nearby districts. Residents reported being confined to their homes for safety, while traffic movement was severely disrupted.
[LibyaReview] A young man, identified as Mohamed Abdelsalam Ajina, was shot dead in a drive-by attack carried out by unknown gunmen in the Libyan city of Al-Zawiya, local sources reported.
According to initial information, Ajina was targeted by occupants of a dark-colored vehicle that opened fire on him near the Baghdad Market area in Al-Zawiya, west of Tripoli. The assailants fled the scene immediately after the shooting, leaving the victim fatally wounded.
Security authorities have launched an investigation to identify the perpetrators and determine the motives behind the attack. No group has so far claimed responsibility for the killing.
Bandits ambush police patrol in Katsina, four officers killed
By Zagazola Makama
Four police officers were killed and two others injured when suspected armed bandits ambushed a patrol along the Guga–Bakori road in Katsina State.
Sources told Zagazola Makama on Wednesday that the attack occurred on Jan. 27 at about 12:45 p.m., targeting operatives of the 27 Police Mobile Force (PMF), Guga Camp, during a routine patrol.
According to the source, the driver of the patrol vehicle lost control after coming under fire, causing the vehicle to crash by the roadside. Officers who died on the spot were identified as UC ASP Abubakar Abdullahi, Insp. Umar Ahmed, and Sgt. Kailani Kabir.
Police arrest suspect with 954 pieces of suspected explosives in Zamfara
By: Zagazola Makama
Operatives of the Nigeria Police Taskforce on Illegal Mining have arrested a 38-year-old man in Abuja for unlawful possession of suspected explosive materials.
Police arrest suspect with 954 pieces of suspected explosives in Zamfara
By Zagazola Makama
Operatives of the Nigeria Police Taskforce on Illegal Mining have arrested a 38-year-old man in Abuja for unlawful possession of suspected explosive materials.
Sources told Zagazola Makama that the arrest was made on Jan. 27 at about 4:15 p.m., following credible and actionable intelligence.
According to the source, the suspect, Mustapha Mohammad, was intercepted while driving a Toyota Corolla car with registration number KUJ 933 EJ.
ISWAP terrorists captured 13 Nigerian soldiers, including a commanding officer and killed seven others in an ambush near Damasak, Borno State yesterday, very concerning event reminiscent of the capture and execution of Brigadier General Musa Uba late last year.
Taking a page from the Imperial Japanese Navy of WWII
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[Regnum] Portuguese police have seized the largest cocaine shipment in the country's history, which was being transported from Latin America to Europe. Tons of the drug were found in a submarine seized in the North Atlantic, the Daily Mail reported.
Portuguese authorities announced the successful completion of the operation on January 26. Police intercepted approximately nine tons of cocaine more than 400 kilometers from the Azores Islands, which belong to the Republic. They were assisted by the country's navy and air force, as well as British and American intelligence agencies.
The seizure of the "narco-submarine" took place in difficult weather conditions. Security forces boarded the vessel, which was carrying 300 bales of cocaine, and arrested the crew—three Colombian citizens and one Venezuelan. Most of the packages were seized, but the submarine ultimately sank with 35 bales.
On January 23, the US military struck a vessel suspected of being linked to drug trafficking in the Eastern Pacific Ocean. The operation resulted in the deaths of two individuals identified as narco-terrorists, and the survival of one other person on board.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] A military‑grade device capable of projecting a deafening, focused sound was deployed during a tense anti‑ICE protest in Minnesota Monday night.
State patrol troopers faced off with activists outside the SpringHill Suites in Maple Grove, where demonstrators believed federal immigration agents were staying.
Officers threatened to engage a long‑range acoustic device (LRAD), giving the crowd a countdown before deployment.
The system, a highly directional loudspeaker, can emit piercing deterrent tones or amplified voice commands over long distances and was originally developed for military and crowd‑control use.
Experts warn that exposure to the device at close range can cause permanent hearing loss, ruptured eardrums, constant ringing in the ears, migraines, nausea, balance problems and even panic responses.
Marine Colonel Mark Cancian, a senior adviser for the Center for Strategic and International Studies, said, 'We used it in Iraq … if you're in the cone, it sounds like the voice of God is speaking to you.'
State patrol officials said they checked the device's volume, issued dispersal notices and did not actually use tones or sirens, despite reports circulating on social media.
The night ended with 26 arrests, whom the police said were allegedly taking part in 'unlawful assembly and riotous conduct.'
The protest in the Minneapolis suburb came as federal law enforcement leadership in the state was in flux, with Border Patrol Commander Gregory Bovino and some agents expected to soon leave Minnesota after intense public scrutiny of recent actions by immigration authorities.
It was not immediately clear whether Bovino or other federal agents were staying at the hotel where demonstrators gathered.
The department issued a statement saying: 'While we respect First Amendment rights, we will not tolerate property damage or violence in our community.'
The protest was declared unlawful after demonstrators caused property damage and engaged in violent behavior, which is not protected under the First Amendment. Officers deployed the LRAD after the crowd failed to comply with a dispersal order.
The system was developed as a non-lethal alternative to traditional crowd-control methods such as pepper spray, tear gas, and rubber bullets.
'In some situations where you might end up using force, kinetic force, or even lethal force, you know this can avoid that and avoid permanent damage to people,' said Cancian.
LRAD uses an array of high-frequency speakers to produce highly directional sound, concentrating audio into a narrow beam rather than dispersing it broadly.
This technology allows sound to travel long distances while maintaining clarity, so spoken messages or warning tones can be heard over ambient noise.
The LRAD system can switch between voice communication and a high-decibel deterrent tone, with volume and frequency precisely controlled by the operator.
The device is portable and can be mounted on vehicles, tripods or handheld platforms, and operators can adjust range, angle, and intensity depending on the situation.
It has been suggested that this is the same 'secret sonic' weapon President Donald Trump said US special forces used during the daring capture of the Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro earlier this month.
Following the capture of Maduro, reports surfaced that special forces used unknown sonic weapons to disable the Cuban bodyguards assigned to protect the Venezuelan dictator.
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#3 mega is correct. This article says it was threatened but not used. Also this seems a different system than was used in Venezuela. This is the system that let's you talk to one person in a crowd far away while those on either side of him hear nothing. Brown note optional.
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The question for domestic use is harm to the unborn and dilemmas for that.
[IsraelTimes] Turkey’s authorities have detained six people suspected of spying for Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps by monitoring military facilities and other strategic sites across the country, local media reports.
Reports of the operation came as Turkey’s foreign minister urged Washington to start nuclear talks with Iran in an interview, as US warships arrived in the region amid fears of a strike over Tehran’s protest crackdown.
“It’s wrong to attack Iran. It’s wrong to start the war again. Iran is ready to negotiate on the nuclear file again,” Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan tells Qatar-based Al-Jazeera television.
“My advice has always been to our American friends: close the files one by one with the Iranians. Start with the nuclear issue and close it. Then move on to the others,” he says.
In a phone call today, Fidan and Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi evaluated “efforts to reduce tensions in light of recent developments in the region”, a Turkish diplomatic source says.
Speaking to Al-Jazeera, Fidan says problems with Iran should be tackled individually.
“Do not treat them as a package. If you put everything together as one package, it will be very difficult for our Iranian friends to digest and truly process it,” he says. “In some cases, it may even seem humiliating for them. It would be hard to explain not only to themselves but also to their leadership.”
In the arrest operation, security forces carried out simultaneous raids in five provinces, including Istanbul and Ankara, following a joint investigation by the counter-terror department and Turkey’s intelligence agency, state-run TRT television reported.
The suspects allegedly conducted reconnaissance and surveillance around Incirlik air base in the southern province of Adana, which hosts US forces, says the broadcaster.
One of the six detainees was of Iranian origin, the private DHA news agency reports.
The group is accused of transmitting intelligence and logistical information to Iranian intelligence operatives, TRT says.
Investigators also reportedly uncovered evidence that the suspects had monitored the shipment of drones through Turkey for use in other countries.
[IsraelTimes] A Brooklyn man has been sentenced to 15 years in prison for taking part in what prosecutors call a failed Iran-backed murder-for-hire plot against Masih Alinejad, a prominent Iranian dissident living in the US, the Justice Department says.
Carlisle Rivera, also known as “Pop,” previously pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit murder-for-hire and one count of conspiracy to commit stalking before US District Judge Lewis Liman for the Southern District of New York, who imposed Wednesday’s sentence, the Justice Department says in a statement.
Alinejad, who fled Iran in 2009, is a longtime critic of Iran’s head-covering laws and a journalist. She has promoted videos of women violating those laws to her millions of social media followers. She was living in Brooklyn at the time of the alleged plot on her life.
The case was part of a crackdown by the Justice Department on what it calls transnational repression: the targeting by authoritarian governments of political opponents on foreign soil.
Prosecutors say Iran’s elite Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and its intelligence officials have repeatedly tried to target Alinejad.
Iran has dismissed as baseless allegations that its intelligence officers sought to kidnap or kill her.
Other people have also been convicted in the US and sentenced in relation to the alleged plot.
[IsraelTimes] Police say no Israeli forces injured; PA says slain man is Qussai Halaika, 28
A Paleostinian assailant was shot and killed on Wednesday while trying to stab Israeli forces at a checkpoint south of Jerusalem, Israeli authorities said.
According to the Israel Police and medics, no Israeli forces were maimed in the attack, which occurred at the "tunnels checkpoint" between the capital and the West Bank city of Bethlehem.
Border Police officers stationed at the checkpoint identified a suspect arriving on foot from the direction of the West Bank, police said, and during a routine inspection, the suspect presented his ID card before pulling out a knife.
The Israel Defense Forces said the assailant was then shot by a platoon commander of the Military Police’s Erez Battalion, a unit that is also stationed at the checkpoint alongside the Border Police officers.
According to the Paleostinian Authority’s General Authority for Civilian Affairs, the suspect was killed, and his body was detained by Israel.
He was identified as Qussai Halaika, 28, from the town of al-Shuyukh, north of Hebron in the southern West Bank.
Meanwhile,
...back at the buffalo wallow, Standing Buffalo drew a bead on his old enemy and squeezed the trigger... the military said that a Paleostinian who hurled a Molotov cocktail at Israeli troops in the West Bank on Tuesday was rubbed out by troops.
Paleostinian Authority health officials identified the man as 20-year-old Muhammad Rajih Nasrallah.
According to the IDF, during an operation in the southern West Bank town of ad-Dhahiriya, troops spotted the suspect hurling a Molotov cocktail at the forces.
"The soldiers returned fire and eliminated the terrorist," the army said, adding that no troops were hurt.
[IsraelTimes] A Palestinian who hurled a firebomb at Israeli troops in the West Bank was shot dead yesterday, the military says.
Palestinian Authority health officials identified the man as 20-year-old Muhammad Rajih Nasrallah.
According to the IDF, during an operation in the southern West Bank town of ad-Dhahiriya, troops spotted the suspect hurling a Molotov cocktail at the forces.
“The soldiers returned fire and eliminated the terrorist,” the army says, adding that no troops were hurt.
[IsraelTimes] Community leaders are working to get detainees freed, sources tell Hebrew media, as Jews signal total loyalty to the regime, say they’ve stayed away from protests
Several members of Iran’s Jewish community have been arrested in recent days, purportedly on suspicion that they were involved in the recent mass anti-regime protests, Hebrew outlets reported on Tuesday.
The community has reportedly denied any connection to the demonstrations, saying the arrest of the Jews was a mistake. Iranian Jewish leaders are involved in efforts to have the detainees released, sources close to the community said, according to Kan and Israel Hayom.
The community is trying to show total loyalty to the regime, the sources added.
Contact between Iran’s Jewish community, believed to number some 8,000-10,000, and the outside world is generally sparse, easily leading to misunderstanding, experts say. Communication lines are often tapped, and direct contact with Israel is strictly prohibited by the Iranian regime, which frequently vows to destroy the Jewish state, so much of what is known is filtered through "official" Iranian channels. That makes it difficult to gauge the community’s real sentiments.
Jews in Iran, the largest community of Jews in the Middle East outside of Israel, say they enjoy a large degree of religious freedom and security, with religious ceremonies and rituals protected by the state.
At the same time, they are subject to several legal limitations, including being barred from holding significant government positions. There is a single seat in Iran’s parliament, the Majlis, reserved for a Jewish representative.
According to the reports, the Jewish community has distanced itself from the protests, and no Jews are known to be among those injured or killed amid the unrest.
Iran’s Jews have avoided protest sites, and the community has maintained its routine as much as possible, including normal prayers and classes in synagogues and schools, the sources said.
Protests broke out in Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... in December, in response to the country’s dire economic crisis, then escalated into calls for the fall of the regime; earlier this month, the demonstrations were brutally repressed, with Iranian security forces killing thousands of people and, activists say, potentially far more. US President Donald Trump ...So far he's been unkillable, and they've tried.... has threatened to respond militarily to the crackdown, and has surged its forces in the region, leading to Iranian threats to retaliate against Israel and US targets.
The recent arrests came after all but one of some 35 Iranian Jews who were arrested during and after the 12-day Israel-Iran war in June 2025 had been released, according to a report by Kan earlier this month.
Amid the recent unrest in Iran, representatives of minority communities, including Jewish community representative Homayoun Sameh, issued a statement in support of the Iranian regime and against supposed interference by the US and "child-killing" Israel.
Earlier this month, another Jewish community leader, Rabbi Younes Hamami Lalehzar, attended a virtual conference marking six years since the US’s liquidation of Iranian general Qassem Soleimani .
Also participating in the conference were representatives from the Hamas ..always the voice of sweet reason... and Hezbollah terror groups.
[IsraelTimes] Hamidreza Sabet Esmaeilipour had been in custody since April; 12 people said hanged for similar charges after June war
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... executed a man on Wednesday who was accused of spying for Israel, the Iranian judiciary’s media outlet Mizan reported, naming him as Hamidreza Sabet Esmaeilipour.
Entangled in a decades-long shadow war with Israel, which it has vowed to destroy, Iran has executed many people it has accused of having links with the Israeli intelligence service and facilitating its operations in the country.
"Hamidreza Sabet Esmaeilipour who was arrested on 29 April 2025, was hanged for the crime of espionage and intelligence cooperation in favor of a hostile intelligence service (Mosssd ...sees all, knows all, gets 'em all in the end... ) through... the transfer of classified documents and information, after the verdict was confirmed by the Supreme Court and through legal procedures," Mizan said.
Rights groups have previously said 12 people have been hanged on similar charges in the wake of Israel’s war with Iran in June 2025.
Esmaeilipour’s execution comes amid a global spotlight on Iran, after the Islamic Theocratic Republic’s security forces killed thousands — according to some reports, tens of thousands — of anti-regime demonstrators earlier this month.
US President Donald Trump ...The cad! Twice caught beating wimmin!... , who has threatened to attack Iran in response to the brutal crackdown, has said Tehran told him it called off some 800 planned executions of people arrested during the protests, but Iran itself has denied that.
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.
..always the voice of sweet reason...
...sees all, knows all, gets 'em all in the end...
