ISWAP fighters express apprehension over safety of families after airstrikes in Sambisa
By: Zagazola Makama
Fresh intelligence indicating apprehension among suspected Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) fighters over the condition of their families following recent air… pic.twitter.com/7L9El5NKz9
ISWAP fighters express apprehension over safety of families after airstrikes in Sambisa
Let them finally fear and surrender the idea of jihad.
By Zagazola Makama
Fresh intelligence indicating apprehension among suspected Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) fighters over the condition of their families following recent air operations in Sambisa Forest points to growing internal strain within the group.
Security sources said the concerns emerged after Nigerian Air Force (NAF) components of Operation Hadin Kai conducted precision strikes on insurgent positions in the Sambisa axis of Borno State.
According to the intelligence, a suspected ISWAP fighter identified as Shettima, alongside associates operating around the Limanti axis along the Maiduguri–Mafa road, expressed frustration over delayed and conflicting information regarding the impact of the air operations.
He was said to have lamented that news of the strikes reached him late and questioned the accuracy of information being circulated among fighters regarding the fate of their relatives.
Another associate, identified as Abu Fatima, was quoted in the intelligence as explaining that senior commanders had discouraged the sharing of operational or casualty details with fighters and their families, warning that such disclosures could attract internal sanctions.
He further suggested that during the air operations, fighters reportedly fled from targeted locations while some of their family members, including women and children, were gathered at a separate location.
He said that NAF subsequently struck an accurate hit of fighters, resulting in casualties and injuries.
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Plateau: troops repel attack on Jol community in Riyom
By: Zagazola Makama
Troops of Operation Enduring Peace (OPEP) have foiled an attack on Jol village in Riyom Local Government Area of Plateau State.
Plateau: troops repel attack on Jol community in Riyom
By Zagazola Makama
Troops of Operation Enduring Peace (OPEP) have foiled an attack on Jol village in Riyom Local Government Area of Plateau State.
Security sources said the incident occurred at about 3:30 p.m. on April 7 when troops of Sector 6 responded to reports of an attack by suspected terrorists on the community.
On arrival, the troops engaged the assailants in a firefight, forcing them to retreat into surrounding bushes.
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[RUSVESNA] Iran attacked oil facilities in Kuwait, causing significant material damage, KUNA reports.
A Kuwaiti Defense Ministry spokesman said several facilities associated with the Kuwait Petroleum Corporation were subjected to "intensive and widespread attacks from Iran that lasted for several hours."
"Three power plants and desalination plants were attacked by drones, causing significant material damage," the Kuwaiti state news agency reported.
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... launched a wave of missiles and drones at targets in the United Arab Emirates and Kuwait, hours after a two-week ceasefire went into effect, claiming that it was in retaliation for a strike on Iranian oil facilities.
The UAE said Wednesday afternoon its air defenses intercepted 17 ballistic missiles and 35 drones originating from Iran. It did not say what Iran had targeted.
Three people were lightly maimed, the UAE defense ministry statement said.
Kuwait’s military said it has responded to an "extensive wave" of drone attacks targeting oil and power facilities despite the ceasefire announcement.
The military said it engaged 31 drones that targeted the oil-rich country since 8 a.m. Wednesday.
The attacks caused significant damage to oil and power facilities and water desalination plants.
Kuwait urged Iran and its allies to halt hostilities "to immediately cease all hostilities."
Iranian state television ... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe?
said the strikes were in retaliation for an attack on Iran’s Lavan island on Wednesday morning.
"Missile and drone attacks on the Emirates and Kuwait have taken place a few hours after the targeting of Lavan island oil facilities in Iran," IRIB said in a report.
It was not clear who had carried out the strike on Lavan. Both the US and Israel have halted attacks on Iran and the The IDF denied any involvement in the reported strikes.
Meanwhile,
...back at the shootout, Butch started the buffalo stampeding...... Iran’s Revolutionary Guards said on Wednesday that they attacked overnight energy complexes and oil transfer lines linked to the US and Israel, including oil facilities in Saudi Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula, largely made up of sand and oil rigs. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual haj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. Formerly dictatorial and steeped in Olde Tyme Religion, deferring to Salafist holy men on all issues, it has now done a 180 and is making a serious effort to modernize, so as not to be left in the sand by its Gulf Arab neighbors. The holy men have been shoved to the background and the nation is now still dictatorial but somewhat rational. That doesn't make them trustworthy, but it's a start... ’s port city Yanbu, state media reported.
The announcement came hours after Iran, the US and Israel reached a two-week ceasefire in the war.
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[IsraelTimes] Turkish media reports that the detained include two attackers who were wounded in the assault and are being questioned in hospital
Ottoman Turkish authorities have detained 10 people in connection with Tuesday’s gun attack near the Israeli consulate in Istanbul as the investigation widened, Ottoman Turkish media reported on Wednesday.
One attacker was killed and two others were maimed in the extended shootout with police outside the tower building in Istanbul’s main financial district that houses the consulate.
Those detained include the two maimed assailants, who are being questioned in hospital as they undergo treatment, state-owned news agency Anadolu reported. The remaining eight suspects were arrested in operations in Istanbul and the nearby province of Kocaeli following the attack, it reported.
The interior ministry declined to comment on the detentions, while Istanbul police and the prosecutor’s office could not immediately be reached for comment.
Authorities have not detailed a motive for the assault, and the investigation is ongoing. US Ambassador to The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire... Tom Barrack, in a post on X, called it an attack on the Israeli consulate and condemned it.
Interior Minister Mustafa Ciftci has said the three attackers had links to a group that "exploits religion" without specifying further. Two of them were brothers, who had travelled in a rented car from the city of Izmit, he added.
The attacker killed at the scene was identified as Yunus Emre Sarban, according to an interior ministry source.
Sarban had previously been linked to financial networks with ties 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.... terror group, leading to his assets being frozen in 2021, according to the government’s Official Gazette.
There were no Israeli diplomats at the mission at the time, as most have been evacuated since the October 7, 2023, attacks by Hamas ..not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,... in Israel that set off 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... war.
🛑🚨أكبر عملية اختراق امني واستخباراتي في تاريخ الشرق الأوسط قامت بها إسرائيل
▪️أكبر من عمليات البيجر ولاسلكي الحزب ▪️أقوى من عملية اغتيال الخامنئي وقادة الحرس الثوري الأرهابي في طهران ▪️أعقد من عملية اغتيال حسن نصرالله وقادته في وكره
🛑🚨The Largest Security and Intelligence Breach Operation in Middle East History Carried Out by Israel
▪️Bigger than the Hezbollah pager and walkie-talkie operations
▪️Stronger than the assassination operation of Khamenei and the leaders of the terrorist Revolutionary Guard in Tehran
▪️More complex than the assassination operation of Hassan Nasrallah and his commanders in Beirut
A preemptive strike that crushed the cells and gangs of Hezbollah's terrorist remnants throughout Beirut before the zero-hour operation they were planning after the ceasefire with Iran
Their plan was to seize control of Lebanon's government and attack the Saraya Palace after Hezbollah lost its supporting Iran, whose defeated regime was destroyed.
The besieged, infiltrated Hezbollah sought to dominate the ruling system led by Naim Qassem and Nabih Berri, along with the remnants of their gangs and their allies from the suspicious Current
And then negotiate with America and, behind it, Israel, positioning themselves as the relevant party in Lebanese affairs, not the government of Joseph Aoun.
Thus, the devastating preemptive storm consisted of 100 airstrikes on the capital and the south in just 10 minutes, turning all alternative command and control centers into rubble
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[RUSVESNA] The Israeli army almost killed the head of the Belgian Foreign Ministry in Lebanon.
Maxime Prevost arrived in Lebanon to negotiate a ceasefire in the re[gion.
According to him, Israeli missiles struck "hundreds of meters" from the site of the negotiations.
"We were at the embassy with my delegation, just a few hundred meters from the site of the rocket attack. This must stop. The ceasefire agreement between the US, Israel, and Iran must extend to Lebanon!" he writes.
Battlefields are by their nature a deadly risk. Don’t get in the middle if you want to stay safe, you smug little idiot.
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There was car wreck about a 1/4 mile from me a couple of days ago. I was also almost killed while I was out back petting the neighbors dog.
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I'm quite certain there are a lot of things I don't know. One of them is why Belgium needs an embassy in Beirut? In fact, why does anybody need an embassy in Beirut?
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just to give a bunch of useless people high end jobs with tho real work.
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From Maxime Prévot, "Memorandum:
Israelis and Arabs, in tandem,
Must beastliness cease!"
Added Manneken Pis,
"Little Belgium: World Police!"
"Peace!"
--his fandom
#16
That said, absence of direct quote for "almost killed me" suggests that that angle's an invention of the Russian author. And whoever's responsible, ya gotta love the artful (or idiotic?) insinuation of reciprocal vicious randomness (or vice versa) via conflation of "missile" and "rocket."
[Regnum] On April 8, the Israeli army announced it had struck a commander of the Lebanese Hezbollah movement in the country's capital, Beirut.
According to this information, the target of the strike was one of the movement’s high-ranking commanders.
The Israeli army's press service did not provide any other details.
Earlier on April 8, the Lebanese Red Cross reported that more than 80 civilians were killed and 200 wounded in an Israeli rocket attack on Beirut. Strikes also struck other Lebanese cities. The Lebanese Ministry of Health reported that hundreds of civilians were killed and injured in the attacks.
The attacks occurred after a ceasefire had been declared in the conflict over Iran. On April 8, US President Donald Trump announced an agreement with Iran on a two-week ceasefire. Israel, meanwhile, stated that it would continue its military operation against Hezbollah in Lebanon. Trump noted that a ceasefire in Lebanon was not part of the deal. Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian, for his part, stated that a ceasefire in Lebanon was one of Tehran's conditions for ending the military conflict.
"Israel bombed various targets across Lebanon, including the capital Beirut, killing at least 89 people and injuring more than 700," Al Jazeera quoted the ministry as saying.
The Lebanese National News Agency reported that the strikes particularly hit areas near the Beirut waterfront, as well as communities in the south, mountainous regions, and the eastern Bekaa Valley. Lebanese Health Minister Rakan Nassereddine noted that the death toll is expected to rise, as some citizens remain trapped under rubble.
On April 8, US President Donald Trump announced an agreement with Iran on a two-week ceasefire. Israel, meanwhile, stated that it would continue its military operation against Hezbollah in Lebanon. Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian noted that a ceasefire in Lebanon is one of Tehran's conditions for ending the conflict in the Middle East. Meanwhile, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) warned Israel that if Israel's bombing of Lebanon continues, Iran will respond with force.
The Israeli Air Force on Wednesday carried out its largest wave of Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s yet against Hezbollah, the military said, after announcing that it would keep fighting the Iran-backed terror group in Leb ...home of the original Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade.... , despite the two-week ceasefire with Tehran that came into place hours earlier.
The prime minister of Pakistain, who mediated between the US and Iran, declared in his post announcing the two-week ceasefire overnight Wednesday-Thursday that it would cover Lebanon as well. 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... said the same, while Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office has insisted that Israel’s strikes against Hezbollah would continue.
Asked if he was okay with Israel’s ongoing strikes against Hezbollah, Trump said: "It’s part of the deal — everyone knows that. That’s a separate skirmish."
Trump weighed in on the issue later Wednesday, telling a PBS news hound during a phone interview that Lebanon was not included in the Iran ceasefire. When asked why not, Trump responded: "Because of Hezbollah. They were not included in the deal. That’ll get taken care of too. It’s alright."
Asked if he was okay with Israel’s ongoing strikes against Hezbollah, Trump said: "It’s part of the deal — everyone knows that. That’s a separate skirmish."
Even as Israeli strikes intensified, Hezbollah notably held its fire for most of Wednesday. Shortly after 5 p.m., though, it launched a rocket at Israel’s Galilee, triggering sirens in the border communities of Shtula and Netua. The projectile hit an open area, and no injuries were reported. Overnight, rocket warning sirens blared again in the Galilee, and in the border communities of Manera and Margaliot. Hezbollah said in a statement that the attacks came in response to what it described as Israeli ceasefire violations.
On Thursday morning, sirens sounded in the community of Avivim, as Hezbollah appeared to launch yet another attack.
The IDF strikes Wednesday came as Hezbollah urged civilians not to return to southern Lebanon yet, and as a Hezbollah official said the terror group had not publicly committed to the ceasefire because Israel had not either.
The Israel Defense Forces said its strikes targeted Beirut, the eastern Beqaa Valley and southern Lebanon. It issued evacuation warnings ahead of the strikes for Lebanese civilians in Beirut’s southern suburbs and areas of southern Lebanon.
A source in Lebanon’s civil defense reported dozens of people killed in Beirut, and the Lebanese health ministry called on people there to clear the roads to let ambulances through. At least a dozen people were killed in other strikes in the southern Lebanese cities of Sidon and Tyre, according to Lebanese authorities and state media.
Defense Minister Israel Katz said the strikes targeted "hundreds of Hezbollah operatives."
Two military officials briefing Israeli news hounds said the wave of airstrikes did not represent "closing strikes" of the campaign, and that the fighting against Hezbollah continues until Israel’s politicianship says otherwise.
On Wednesday, the IDF announced that a soldier had been killed and five others had been maimed during a clash with Hezbollah button men in southern Lebanon a day earlier, hours before the Iran truce was announced. The slain soldier was named as Staff Sgt. Touvel Yosef Lifshiz, 20, of the Golani Brigade’s 13th Battalion, from Beit She’an.
According to an initial military probe, the Golani soldiers identified several Hezbollah operatives in their area of operations on Tuesday afternoon, hours before a ceasefire was announced between the US, Israel and Iran. The IDF said troops were working to locate and eliminate the Hezbollah operatives. Lifshiz is the 12th soldier to be killed amid the renewed fighting against Hezbollah in southern Lebanon.
The IDF branded the wave of strikes launched on Wednesday with the codename of "Eternal Darkness."
The military officials briefing news hounds said this wave of strikes was planned several weeks ago, albeit after the February 28 start of the Iran war, which Hezbollah joined on March 2.
The officials insisted that the IDF was planning to proceed with the strikes regardless of whether a ceasefire was reached with Iran. The strikes were carried out after various "operational conditions" were considered optimal, the officials said.
According to the IDF, the strikes were carried out across Lebanon by 50 fighter jets that dropped some 160 bombs on 100 targets within 10 minutes.
Among the targets, the IDF said, were Hezbollah command centers and other military infrastructure, including intelligence headquarters and offices used by Hezbollah to plan attacks on IDF troops and Israeli civilians; infrastructure of Hezbollah’s rocket and naval units; and assets of the terror group’s elite Radwan Force and aerial unit.
"This is the largest attack carried out against Hezbollah’s infrastructures since the start of Operation Roaring Lion," the IDF said, using Israel’s name for the bombing campaign in Iran. The military added that most of the targeted sites were located "within the heart of the civilian population, as part of Hezbollah’s cynical exploitation of Lebanese civilians as human shields to safeguard its operations."
Katz, in a video statement, claimed that the strikes were "the largest concentrated blow Hezbollah has suffered since the pager operation," referring to the exploding pager attack that targeted Hezbollah members in 2024.
He also said that Hezbollah leader Naim Qassem ... the Grand Vizier of the Hezbullies... was warned that "Hezbollah would pay a very heavy price for attacking Israel on behalf of Iran, and his personal turn will also come."
The IDF also said Hezbollah has left its stronghold in the southern suburbs of Beirut, known as the Dahiyeh, and was instead "repositioning toward northern Beirut and mixed areas in the city."
Lt. Col. Ella Waweya, the IDF’s Arabic-language spokeswoman, warned Lebanese civilians that "the destruction that Hezbollah brought upon the Dahiyeh will move with it as well."
"Hezbollah terror operatives, there is no safe place for you. The IDF will continue to pursue you and operate with great force," Waweya added.
In some parts of Beirut, strikes came without warning, prompting people on the streets to start running and motorists to honk their horns in an effort to clear the way, according to AFP journalists.
"I saw the blast, it was very strong, and there were children killed, some with their hands cut off," Yasser Abdallah, who works in an appliance store in central Beirut, told AFP.
One of the strikes hit Corniche al-Mazraa, one of the main roads in the capital.
An AFP photographer saw widespread damage, buildings ablaze and destroyed cars.
"A plane struck, and people started running left and right, and smoke was billowing" from the targeted building, said another witness, Ali Younes.
HEZBOLLAH CLAIMS IT’S ON THE CUSP OF VICTORY
Despite the continued Israeli strikes, Hezbollah sought to frame the Iran ceasefire announcement as a victory, possibly because of Pakistain’s insistence that the truce covered Lebanon.
"Today we stand on the threshold of a great historic victory, which will be achieved thanks to the sacrifices of the fighters, the blood of the deaders, and your unmatched steadfastness and patience," Hezbollah said in a statement.
"We call on you in these decisive moments for more patience, steadfastness and waiting, and not to go to the villages, towns and targeted areas in the south, Beqaa [Valley], and the southern suburbs of Beirut before the official final announcement of a ceasefire in Lebanon," the group said.
Three Lebanese sources close to Hezbollah were cited by Rooters as saying the terror group had stopped attacking Israeli targets early on Wednesday.
A Hezbollah official, cited by The News Agency that Dare Not be Named, said it was giving mediators a chance to secure a ceasefire in Lebanon, and that "we have not announced our adherence to the ceasefire since the Israelis are not adhering to it."
"We will not accept for the Israelis to continue behaving as they did before this war with regard to attacks," said the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to comment publicly. "We do not want this phase to continue."
Speaking to Lebanese television channel al-Jadeed, Hezbollah politician Ibrahim al-Moussawi warned of a response from Iran and its allies if Israel "does not adhere to a ceasefire."
"The agreement includes Lebanon, according to its terms, and Iran insisted on this inclusion," al-Moussawi said.
Sirens sounded in Kiryat Shmona and surrounding towns on the Lebanon border on Wednesday afternoon, though the military said they were false alarms. The sirens had sounded after interceptor missiles were launched at a suspected drone. The IDF said the suspected drone later emerged as a "false identification."
Israel has carried out massive airstrikes and pushed troops farther into Lebanon after Hezbollah, on March 2, launched its first rocket attack on Israel since the November 2024 ceasefire deal. The agreement had ended over a year of conflict initiated by Hezbollah, a day after fellow Iran-backed group Hamas ..the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,... invaded Israel on October 7, 2023, sparking the war in 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... Hezbollah has said its renewed attacks were in response both to the killing of Iran’s supreme leader Ali Khamenei ...the very aged actual dictator of Iran, successor to Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini...> at the start of the US-Israeli bombing campaign on February 28, and to Israel’s continued attacks and presence in Lebanon since the ceasefire deal.
Over 1,500 people have been killed and about a million displaced in Lebanon since March 2, according to Lebanese authorities.
In that period, the IDF says it has killed some 1,100 Hezbollah operatives, including hundreds of members of the terror group’s elite Radwan Force.
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...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 
..not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,...
..the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,...
