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Trump says US ‘obliterated' military targets in strike on key Iranian oil hub: 'Powerful bombing raids'; IDF reports 7,600 strikes, 10,000+ Iranian security casualties
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Good Morning



'Exit Strategy': Trump Allies Flee Amid Impeachment Threat
Saturday 03/14/2026

carolelandis
Home Front: WoT
Armed Muslim(?) Texas man in tactical gear arrested after going into elementary school through unsecure door
Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Trump says US %u2018obliterated' military targets in strike on key Iranian oil hub: 'Powerful bombing raids'; IDF reports 7,600 strikes, 10,000 Iranian security casualties
Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Iran's enemies are suffering from the
Strait of Hormuz blockade, but are afraid to violate it
Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
A court sentenced a foreigner for
justifying the terrorist attack at Crocus
Syria-Lebanon-Iran
France and Italy are negotiating with Iran
over the Strait of Hormuz, according to media reports
Fifth Column
8 accused of antifa ties convicted on terrorism
charges over shooting at Texas immigration facility
Feb CPI - little change, Q4 GNP revised down

Posted by: Fred || 03/14/2026 || Comments || Link || [1771 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Nice stems
Posted by: Frank G || 03/14/2026 8:50 Comments || Top||

#2  part of the "Showing The Ham" series!
Posted by: Seeking Cure For Ignorance || 03/14/2026 9:20 Comments || Top||

#3  Apparently she never skipped a "Quads" day.
Posted by: Mercutio || 03/14/2026 9:28 Comments || Top||

#4  She's got legs, and she knows how to use them.
Posted by: alanc || 03/14/2026 10:14 Comments || Top||


-War on Police-
Pure justice pornography: the verdicts returned by a Texas jury of first eight antifa domestic terrorirsts.


Count 1 — Riot
GUILTY
Count 2 — Providing Material Support to Terrorists
GUILTY
Count 3 — Conspiracy to Use and Carry an Explosive
GUILTY
Count 4 — Use and Carry an Explosive
GUILTY
Counts 5—7 — Attempted Murder of Officers and Employees of the US
Mixed, some acquitted.
Count 11 — Corruptly Concealing a Document or Record
GUILTY

Posted by: Otto Gonque6990 || 03/14/2026 07:44 || Comments || Link || [1769 views] Top|| File under: Antifa/BLM


Africa North
Niger: Islamic State Organization Sahel Province branch announces the killing of "L" 3 elements from the Nigerien army

Translate Text:

#Niger, Islamic State Organization Sahel Province Branch"
Announces the killing of "L" 3 elements from the Nigerien army and the burning of vehicles in an ambush it carried out in the (Taoua) area"

The organization attributes the Taoua province incident to the Tillabéri region in western Niger, which serves as the operational center for this branch, alongside the Ménaka region and the Aribinda area south of the Niger River.

Posted by: badanov || 03/14/2026 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1810 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State

#1  I was not aware L3 had embedded contractors in Nigeria. /?
Posted by: Skidmark || 03/14/2026 13:48 Comments || Top||

#2  What’s L3, Skidmark?
Posted by: trailing wife || 03/14/2026 21:37 Comments || Top||

#3  Former aero/defense now merged as L3/Harris
Posted by: Skidmark || 03/14/2026 23:47 Comments || Top||


Niger: 13 soldiers killed in ISGS ambush on Niger Army convoy in Tahoua

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13 soldiers killed in ISGS ambush on Niger Army convoy in Tahoua

By Zagazola Makama

At least 13 people, including 12 soldiers and a civilian driver, were killed after suspected fighters of the Islamic State in the Greater Sahara (ISGS) ambushed a Nigerien military convoy in the Tahoua Region of Niger.

Security sources said the attack occurred on March 11 along the road between Yaya and Tahoua near Bagga village.

According to the sources, the convoy, comprising about 50 personnel drawn from the 42nd Infantry Battalion (BIA) and the Rapid Security Brigade (BSR) of Tahoua, had been deployed as reinforcement following the sabotage of a pipeline in the area by suspected ISGS elements.

The troops were reportedly travelling in a seven-vehicle convoy when they were caught in a complex and coordinated ambush by the insurgents.

The sources said 12 members of the Defence and Security Forces (FDS) were killed in the attack, while a civilian truck driver also lost his life.

One of the soldiers reportedly died after being evacuated to a hospital in Tahoua, while the officer leading the mission, a lieutenant, sustained serious injuries after being shot twice in the arm.

More at the link
Posted by: badanov || 03/14/2026 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1782 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State


Arabia
Iranian Forces (IRGC) carried out an attack targeting Al-Dhafra US Base in Abu Dhabi.



Posted by: badanov || 03/14/2026 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1762 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran


Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
A court sentenced a foreigner for justifying the terrorist attack at Crocus
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited
[Regnum] Tajik citizen Kudrat Kurbonov was found guilty of justifying the terrorist attack at the Crocus City Hall concert hall near Moscow online and sentenced to six years in prison. The First Western District Military Court handed down the verdict, law enforcement officials reported on March 13.

A criminal case was opened against the foreigner under Part 2 of Article 205.2 of the Russian Criminal Code ("Public justification of terrorism"). The convicted man will serve the first three years of his sentence in prison, and the remainder in a maximum-security penal colony, TASS reported.

The suspect was arrested in late November 2025 and, by court order, sent to pretrial detention. He admitted his guilt. According to investigators, in March 2024, Kurbonov published several messages on the Telegram messaging app, justifying the terrorists who attacked the Crocus customers.

The source clarified that the man came to Russia to work in August 2025. He admitted to being a supporter of ISIS (a terrorist organization banned in Russia) and wanted to "fight the infidels."
Back to the original story that this was an ISIS attack.
Posted by: badanov || 03/14/2026 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1817 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State


Home Front: WoT
Armed Muslim(?) Texas man in tactical gear arrested after going into elementary school through unsecure door
[FoxNews] Kyle Chris, 39, originally from Iraq, became a naturalized US citizen in 2022 and changed his name to Kyle Najm Chris, according to court documents

An armed man wearing tactical gear walked into a Texas elementary school Tuesday through an improperly closed door and asked about the security presence on campus, authorities said.

Kyle Chris, 39, also known as Muhi Mohanad Najm,
…his original Iranian name? It looks Moslem, which Kyle Chris does not…
was arrested at his home Wednesday night and faces a felony charge of unlawfully carrying a weapon in a prohibited place after the incident at Zwink Elementary School, Fox Houston reported.

Chris, originally from Baghdad, Iraq, became a naturalized U.S. citizen on Aug. 24, 2022 and changed his name to Kyle Najm Chris, according to court documents.

He was arrested at his home, located minutes from the school by Klein Independent School District police.

Chris allegedly told authorities he was a security guard, but was actually unemployed, the report states.

The district said Chris got into the school during a 15-second window when the doors didn't click shut after a parent left the building. He was wearing what appeared to be a uniform and had a holstered firearm, the district said.

However, the school's "secure vestibule" system stopped him from going any further by keeping him trapped in the front office area, the district said.

"When the individual was asked by the front office staff to provide identification, he did not provide identification, and the front office staff immediately contacted our armed, full-time campus guard," the district said in a letter to parents obtained by Fox News Digital.

Chris was unable to get into the hallways where students were located.

He left the school grounds and drove away, the district said. No students or staffers were harmed.

Parents were notified of the incident on Wednesday, the district said, because they were working with law enforcement to identify Chris.

"Sending a public notification during that window could have jeopardized those efforts, tipped off the suspect, and delayed the arrest," the letter states. "Law enforcement had the individual under constant surveillance today, and out of an abundance of caution, additional security measures were in place on campus, including increased police presence."

Chris is being held in the Harris County jail on $75,000 bond, according to jail records.

Related: Gateway Pundit describes him as Muslim, and points out his home is four(4) miles [6.437376 kilometer]from the school he tried to enter.
Posted by: Skidmark || 03/14/2026 00:20 || Comments || Link || [1819 views] Top|| File under: Nut Jobs

#1  Breaking: Jasmine Crockett Security Officer Shot, Killed by SWAT Team
Posted by: Grom the Affective || 03/14/2026 4:30 Comments || Top||

#2  Interesting name choice given Texas’s Chris Kyle was quite famous.
Posted by: Airandee || 03/14/2026 4:48 Comments || Top||

#3  Ref Grom's post at #1 above. The licensing, finance, and contracts of the late Mr. King's security business might require some....looking into.

Posted by: Besoeker || 03/14/2026 6:11 Comments || Top||

#4  Refrained from picking Joe Mama, I suppose.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 03/14/2026 11:42 Comments || Top||


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Trump says US ‘obliterated' military targets in strike on key Iranian oil hub: 'Powerful bombing raids'; IDF reports 7,600 strikes, 10,000+ Iranian security casualties
[FoxNews] President Donald Trump said Friday that the U.S. had carried out a bombing raid on Iran’s Kharg Island, a strategically vital island in the Persian Gulf that serves as the country’s largest oil terminal and a crucial hub for its crude exports.
"They'll never bomb here"
"Moments ago, at my direction, the United States Central Command executed one of the most powerful bombing raids in the history of the Middle East, and totally obliterated every MILITARY target in Iran’s crown jewel, Kharg Island," Trump wrote on Truth Social.

The island, located roughly 35 miles off Iran’s Bushehr province in the country’s southwest, is about the size of New York City’s Central Park but carries huge importance for Iran’s economy.

It has a loading capacity of about 7 million barrels per day, and roughly 90% of Iran’s crude oil exports pass through it. Most of those exports are shipped to China and India, underscoring the island’s importance not only to Iran’s energy trade but also to broader global oil markets.

Courtesy of badanov:



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🚨 FIRST COLOR DRONE FOOTAGE FROM INSIDE IRAN

The U.S. military has released full-color daytime targeting video from inside Iran.

The footage, captured by an MQ-9A Reaper drone, shows the aftermath of a recent precision strike on a munitions storage warehouse.

The MQ-9 Reaper is one of the U.S. military’s primary strike and surveillance drones used for intelligence gathering and precision targeting during combat operations.


Text:

🇮🇱 OPERATIONAL UPDATE: The IDF says it has carried out about 7,600 strikes across Iran, including more than 2,000 targeting Iranian regime headquarters and assets and roughly 4,700 aimed at the missile program. The Israeli Air Force has flown over 4,700 sorties so far during Operation Roaring Lion, including more than 380 missions in Iranian airspace.

In Lebanon, the IDF says it has conducted over 1,100 strikes targeting Hezbollah, including Radwan Force sites, missile launchers, command-and-control centers, and buildings used for terror activity. The military says more than 380 Hezbollah terrorists have been eliminated.


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🇮🇱 A senior Israeli Air Force official told Israel’s Channel 12 about the results achieved in the military operation against Iran:

📌 “The number of killed and wounded among Iran’s security forces exceeds 10,000.”

📌 “The Americans did not believe that our operation to eliminate Iran’s leadership would succeed.”

📌 “Together with the Americans, we destroyed between 160 and 190 Iranian missile launchers, disabled another 200, and about 150 remain operational. Iranian missile crews are afraid to come out; there are cases of desertion and refusal to follow orders. Every day we destroy several launchers.”
More at the link
Posted by: Skidmark || 03/14/2026 00:08 || Comments || Link || [1897 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran

#1  My thought is that the US and Israel initially left Kharg Island alone as a bargaining chip to see if the Mullahs/IRGC might come to their senses and it would leave something for the Iranian future finances. 'Every Fool Deserves a Break', or something like that.

Apparently that didn't happen.
Posted by: Mullah Richard OTR || 03/14/2026 9:59 Comments || Top||


#3  Iran has maybe 10 days before that MEU from Japan arrives. If Iran doesn't stop attacking oil and LNG tankers, the MEU is going to take Kharg Island which will bring Iran's economy to almost complete stop. No more money for anything.
Posted by: Chantry || 03/14/2026 10:24 Comments || Top||


#5  I thought Trump said Iran's nuke program was "obliterated" last year. Maybe not.
Posted by: DooDahMan || 03/14/2026 11:13 Comments || Top||

#6  Marines gonna occupy Kharg Island?
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 03/14/2026 11:47 Comments || Top||

#7  MSM hardest hit
Posted by: Matt || 03/14/2026 12:18 Comments || Top||

#8  Mossad says Ayatollah Stumpy is already dead!

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2026/03/13/is-the-new-supreme-leader-already-dead-n2672787
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 03/14/2026 13:24 Comments || Top||

#9  What do you call ten thousand dead people in a single day?
"A good start."
Casualties need to be in the millions before Islam will stop, and probably not even then.
Most of the world's population holds false antisemitic views which they will not be convinced out of.
We can't live in the same world together.
There are 200-400 million Shia Muslims and 2 billion Sunni.
This is going to take a while.
Posted by: Omans Slath8956 || 03/14/2026 14:11 Comments || Top||

#10  Most of the world's population holds false antisemitic views

Which are the true antisemitic views?
Posted by: Grom the Affective || 03/14/2026 14:14 Comments || Top||

#11  You're good at math, medicine. and the legal professions?
Posted by: Secret Master || 03/14/2026 16:10 Comments || Top||

#12  LINK to fall of Terhan to the Shah's people
Posted by: 3dc || 03/14/2026 17:08 Comments || Top||


Iran has launched its most powerful attack on Israel since the conflict began, the IRGC said
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited
[Regnum] Iran carried out its most powerful attack on Israeli territory, using super-heavy ballistic missiles. This was announced on March 13 by General Majid Mousavi, commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Aerospace Force (IRGC Aerospace Force).

"Thirty super-heavy ballistic missiles, weighing between one and two tons, were launched at specific targets in the occupied territories. This operation disrupted and destroyed the [Israeli] regime's critical aerial surveillance systems. This was the regime's most powerful combat attack. Now another part of the sky is under our control," Mousavi wrote on social media.

On the morning of February 28, Israel and the United States launched military operations against Iran. According to Iranian estimates, the strikes injured more than 15,000 civilians.

In response, Iran launched a large-scale operation using missiles and drones. Missile strikes targeted American military bases in Qatar, Kuwait, the UAE, Bahrain, and Jordan. A CIA compound in the UAE was attacked. On March 10, Spiegel magazine reported that Iran launched a missile strike on German military facilities at the multinational Al-Azraq Air Base in Jordan.

On March 11, the IRGC reported that Iran had struck US positions with new Khorramshahr 4 missiles with a 2-ton warhead.

More from regnum.ru
Iran suffered its first missile attack from Bahrain, media reports

A missile strike on Iran was launched from Bahrain, marking the first recorded attack on the Islamic Republic from a Persian Gulf country. This was reported by The New York Times, citing verified video.

The authors noted that the video alone makes it unclear whether the missiles were fired by the US or the Bahraini military. Iran frequently accuses Gulf states of allowing their territory to be used as a launch pad for American attacks, the publication explained.

"Video confirmed by The New York Times shows ballistic missiles launched from Bahrain on March 7 toward Iran, in what appears to be the first confirmed attack since the military operation began," the newspaper concluded.

As experts explained, the launcher for the first missile is hidden behind a building, but when the second missile takes off, its trajectory points to a second launcher located nearby. According to Wes J. Bryant, a former US Air Force national security analyst, and Fabian Hoffman, a missile specialist at the University of Oslo, this is a US-made M142 HIMARS truck.

The US Navy's Fifth Fleet is based in Bahrain. However, the government has not officially commented on the matter. The publication stated that Iran launched over 100 missiles and 191 drones at Bahrain.

Posted by: badanov || 03/14/2026 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1768 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran

#1  Pulling out the "super heavy" munitions are they?
Posted by: chris || 03/14/2026 2:51 Comments || Top||


Iran civilians as spotters for IDF targeting Basij, IRGC
[Jpost] Iranians on the ground have been transmitting information in Persian through Israeli social media accounts. According to the report, the information is first verified and vetted by Israeli authorities, and action is taken only after it is found to be accurate.

Iranian state media reported on Wednesday evening that Israeli drones targeted checkpoints in Tehran, killing several members of Iran's security forces, including some affiliated with the Basij militia. Separate reports said several regime security personnel and Basij members were killed in the strikes.

If confirmed, the reported use of civilian-supplied intelligence would point to an additional layer in Israel’s targeting apparatus inside Iran.

From Red State, courtesy of NoMoreBS:
We've seen Israel and the United States take out a lot of Iran's leaders. The two countries have also been pounding away at their military capacity. They've decimated their Navy, and they've taken over their skies.

"Never before has a modern, capable military, which Iran used to have, been so quickly destroyed and made combat ineffective," Secretary of War Pete Hegseth declared.

So on one level, they've already largely succeeded in taking down the military.



This is a brilliant move. Not only does it take the oppressors out, it encourages the resistance on the ground, and it also has to have the Basij cowering in their boots. It's likely to result in more defections from their ranks. Now, of course, you have to check and make sure the identification of the checkpoint is correct, which is what the Israelis are doing. But it's pretty easy to identify a Basij checkpoint versus other kinds of traffic, I would think.
Posted by: Lord Garth || 03/14/2026 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1778 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran

#1  Islam strikes back
Blast hits Jewish school in Amsterdam, mayor calls it targeted attack
Posted by: Grom the Affective || 03/14/2026 4:25 Comments || Top||

#2  'Operation Whack a Mullah'

Operators standing by for your call. Free delivery.

See also our offer 'Red Shirts for Basij'

Call today!
Posted by: Procopius2k || 03/14/2026 8:16 Comments || Top||

#3  Excellent effort. Now, arm the INDIG elements and let them take it to the IRGC.
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/14/2026 8:30 Comments || Top||


General Staff: Iran's armed forces did not launch missiles toward friendly Turkey
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited
[Regnum] Iran denied launching missiles toward Turkey. This was stated in a statement by the central headquarters of the Iranian military command, Khatam al-Anbiya.

Türkiye stated that NATO air defense forces had already intercepted three ballistic missiles from Iran.

"The Iranian Armed Forces deny any missile launch against friendly neighboring Turkey," the General Staff said in a statement.

Iran's military stressed the need to study the situation, pointing out that the US and Israel are seeking to damage Iran's relations with Turkey.

On March 13, the Turkish Ministry of Defense reported that NATO forces had destroyed another ballistic missile launched from Iran over its territory. Meanwhile, Turkish military leaders also announced the destruction of missiles launched from Iran on March 4 and 9. The ministry noted that "all necessary steps" would be taken to address any threat.

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's administration called on all parties to the conflict, and "primarily Iran," to refrain from escalating the situation in the region and from actions that could endanger civilians.

Posted by: badanov || 03/14/2026 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1764 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran



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  Trump says US ‘obliterated' military targets in strike on key Iranian oil hub: 'Powerful bombing raids'; IDF reports 7,600 strikes, 10,000+ Iranian security casualties
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  At least 17 LNG Carriers (almost half the world's fleet) Currently Stuck In the Persian Gulf
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