[SudanTribune] Sudanese forces say they defeated RSF fighters in Sali area, Blue Nile region, on April 25, 2026
Military operations escalated on Saturday in Sudan’s Blue Nile region between the army and an alliance of the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and the SPLM-N led by Abdel Aziz al-Hilu, amid conflicting reports over territorial control.
The RSF and its allies launched a major offensive in the southeastern region last March, seizing the strategic town of Kurmuk and several surrounding areas.
The army’s 4th Infantry Division in Ed Damazin said in a statement that its forces and allied groups repelled an RSF attack on the Sali site. The military claimed to have destroyed 36 combat vehicles and captured two others, while neutralizing several fighters.
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Text taken from the Telegram channel of KorpusAfrica2
Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin is in italics.
[ColonelCassad] Statement by the African Corps on the repulse of yesterday's attempt to implement the Syrian scenario in Mali:
Yesterday, at approximately 5:30 a.m. on April 25, 2026, the terrorist groups "Front for the Liberation of Azawad" and "Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb," trained by Western intelligence agencies, launched a large-scale coup attempt (estimated at 10,000-12,000).
Attempts were made to seize key facilities in the capital, primarily the presidential palace. Furthermore, attacks were launched on major cities (Gao, Kidal, Kati, and Sevare) with the aim of seizing city administration buildings. Ukrainian and European mercenaries in Africa participated in attacks on government facilities and units near the cities of Kidal and Gao, using Western-style Stinger and Mistral MANPADS.
Thanks to the courage and heroism of the Russian Armed Forces' African Corps personnel, a "Syrian scenario" was prevented in Mali. The African Corps held all significant positions and airfields, repelled terrorist attacks, and supported its allies in Kati. The skillful actions of the Corps' soldiers and officers provided support, including air support, to Malian troops, preventing the capture of the presidential palace and key facilities in Bamako.
The militants lost over 1,000 terrorists (over 200 in Bamako, 500 in Gao, 300 in Kati, and 200 in Kidal), and over 100 vehicles.
The African Corps of the Russian Armed Forces is Russia's pride on the African continent. The effective actions of AK troops, shoulder to shoulder with the Malian army, repelling a large-scale attack along the line of contact stretching over 2,000 km, stopped a carefully prepared attempt by Western intelligence agencies to violently overthrow the government and demonstrate Russia's "inability," following Syria's example, to protect its strategic partners on the African continent.
Russians are confused by the position of the Russian Embassy in Mali and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs as a whole, whose websites provide no information about the events in the country or the heroic actions of Russian soldiers, who have ensured the stability of the current government.
The comprehensive actions of our soldiers and officers, under the difficult conditions of coordinated actions by armed groups under the leadership of Western and Ukrainian instructors, made it possible to thwart the enemy's plans to stage a coup and ensure the stability of the country's governance. Currently, the situation in Mali remains grave. Unfortunately, there are wounded among the African Corps personnel. They are receiving all necessary assistance and are being evacuated. The personnel are ready and continue to carry out their assigned tasks.
HE WHO DARE WINS! (motto of the British special forces) Overall, they missed the enemy's preparations for the offensive, but heroically fought back and inflicted huge losses on the militants.
Today, a huge number of videos have surfaced showing dead militants, drone strikes, and the like. It's worth noting the fairly frequent cases of militants being lynched by locals. Several dozen were killed by ordinary Malians.
Attacks on the Russian zone of influence will undoubtedly continue, even after this setback for the militants. France is seeking revenge on Russia for the destruction of the French neocolonial empire. I wouldn't rule out similar militant attacks in Niger and Burkina Faso.
𝗕𝗟𝗨𝗙: Kidal has fallen. Rebel forces are in complete control of the city. Situation in northern Mali is deteriorating rapidly for Russian African Corps and Malian Armed Forces (FAMa).
Russia has requested a safe corridor for withdrawal from the FAMa base in Kidal. An… pic.twitter.com/eKhaGfJHiv
𝗕𝗟𝗨𝗙: Kidal has fallen. Rebel forces are in complete control of the city. Situation in northern Mali is deteriorating rapidly for Russian African Corps and Malian Armed Forces (FAMa).
Russia has requested a safe corridor for withdrawal from the FAMa base in Kidal. An agreement between Russian and Malian military forces is reported and withdrawal has begun. Footage circulating online shows an FLA fighter wearing a captured Russian flag on his turban.
A second African Corps helicopter has been reported shot down by FLA and JNIM forces, with the entire crew killed. Mass surrender of Malian forces to the FLA in the Kidal region is also being reported.
Separately, French outlet Le Figaro and Abidjan Post are reporting the death of Mali's Defense Minister Sadio Camara. This requires further confirmation.
If confirmed across all elements, this represents a strategic collapse of the Russian-Malian position in northern Mali.
Source: Multiple TG | Le Figaro | Abidjan Post
Even more:
#Mali / #Russia 🇲🇱🇷🇺: Russian Africa Corps carried out airstrikes targeting “Al-Qaeda” (#JNIM) and “Azawad Liberation Front” (#FLA) positions.
Seemingly Africa Corps used Russian Kronshtadt “Orion” pattern Combat Drones (UCAVs) during the airstrikes as well. pic.twitter.com/FUljI7cAhy
#Mali / #Russia 🇲🇱🇷🇺: Russian fighters of “Africa Corps” clashing with the “Al-Qaeda” (#JNIM) and “Azawad Liberation Front” (#FLA) militants in #Bamako.
Africa Corps fighters were seemingly armed with customized AKM rifle and RPG-7 Launcher with PG-7V Anti-Tank rocket. pic.twitter.com/mMaXJESXx3
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[Regnum] The death toll from the explosion on the Pan-American Highway in Colombia has risen to 20, Cauca Department Governor Octavio Guzmán announced on April 26.
"At this point, the report has recorded 20 civilian deaths—15 women and five men, all adults; 36 people were injured, three of whom remain in intensive care," Guzman wrote on social media.
He called the incident the most brutal and merciless attack on residents of the department in recent decades.
A crater of approximately 200 cubic meters was formed at the site of the explosion. Traffic is expected to be restored within six hours, the governor added.
The terrorist attack occurred on April 26, approximately 35 kilometers from Popayán, the capital of Cauca province. Attackers detonated an explosive device on a passenger bus. Thirteen people were killed and 17 injured. Several vehicles were damaged. Colombian President Gustavo Petro blamed terrorists and drug traffickers for the attack. Petro added that he plans to report the crime to the International Criminal Court. Authorities blamed the FARC group for the attack.
Videos of the aftermath of the terrorist attack have surfaced on social media. The footage shows overturned cars and the crushed roof of a bus.
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Good catch, mossomo — thank you. I was focussed on the wannabe assassin, and missed that. Added a quick term search to the post — we last had anything about FARC in late 2025.
[RedState] An Iranian national has been arrested in Colombia at the request of the United States. Why? For smuggling illegal aliens into the United States, mainly — you guessed it — other Iranians.
The Department of Justice's blurb:
An indictment was unsealed today in the Western District of Texas charging Jafar Tafakori, 57, an Iranian national, for his role in coordinating the smuggling of illegal aliens into the United States. Tafakori was arrested in Colombia at the request of the United States.
According to the indictment, from at least Dec. 1, 2022, through on or about May 15, 2024, Tafakori illegally brought large numbers of aliens, primarily Iranian nationals, into the United States. In exchange for payment, Tafakori coordinated with others to provide shelter, transportation, and occasionally airline tickets for the aliens to travel through South and Central America and Mexico. Tafakori charged some aliens as much as $30,000 for his services. Once at the U.S./Mexico border, the aliens were directed to illegally enter the United States.
This has been going on for some time:
"Jafar Tafakori allegedly smuggled Iranian nationals illegally into the United States for 18 months," said Assistant Attorney General A. Tysen Duva of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division. "Based on this indictment, Colombian authorities acted fast and arrested Tafakori, and when he is extradited, he will face justice in the United States. Those who endanger our communities by participating in human smuggling across our borders will be apprehended regardless of if they live in the United States or abroad."
There's no indication as to how many Iranian nationals, or illegal aliens from anywhere for that matter, Jafar Tafakori may have smuggled into the USA, but we can probably safely presume that it is (at least) in the hundreds. Maybe thousands.
[AmericanThinker] Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. Joe's wife and daughter weren't killed by a drunk driver. He didn't graduate with three or even two degrees, wasn't in the top half of his law class, and his daddy didn't come home from a hard day's work in the mines and play football with the guys. The NAACP hasn't endorsed him every time he's run.... 's open border brought all the world's riff-raff to our doors and it's a logical thing that it did: If you know you can't get into the U.S. the legal way, and you aren't big on laws anyway, and the U.S. was letting all comers in as 'asylum seekers,' the time to go was then. So in addition to all the terrorist watchlisters, home invasion burglary rings, Chinese spies and saboteurs, Mexican cartel human smugglers, pro-Hamas ..a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",... agitators, and garden variety thieves, killers and rapists, the Department of Homeland Security picked up yet another problem from Joe Biden's open borders: An actual Somali pirate.
Via Power Line blog, here's the Department of Homeland Security's tweet of its latest catch:
SOMALI PIRATE ARRESTED.@CBP arrested Said Jama Ahmed, an illegal alien from Somalia with a prior piracy-related history. Ahmed had outstanding warrant for falsely making, using, and forging a passport, as well as a fingerprint match linking him to a 2012 national security… https://t.co/crS8BQD612pic.twitter.com/Js03GxlJ3B
WASHINGTON – Today, the United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced that United States Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers arrested Said Jama Ahmed, an illegal alien from Somalia, who faces an outstanding arrest warrant for violations of falsely making, using, and forging a passport and for a positive fingerprint match to a 2012 national security threat with ties to Somali piracy.
“Weak Biden Administration border policies allowed this illegal alien to enter and remain in the country despite his multiple law enforcement encounters,’ said Acting Assistant Secretary Lauren Bis. ‘We are thankful for our hardworking U.S. CBP officers and Canadian officials for their cooperation in arresting this individual. DHS will continue to work to arrest criminal illegal aliens to protect the American homeland from all threats.”
On the night of April 14, an off-duty Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) officer first reported Ahmed and observed him walking southbound while carrying a backpack several miles north of the U.S.-Canada border. Two hours later, a U.S. Border Patrol (USBP) Agent spotted Ahmed and confronted him and placed him into CBP custody.
USBP currently holds him in the District of North Dakota for illegal entry.
Ahmed has a long record of United States military and law enforcement encounters. On March 10, 2012, the U.S.S. Halsey responded to a distress call from an Indian-flagged ship reporting that pirates had hijacked it in the Gulf of Aden.
A Visit, Board, Search and Seizure (VBSS) team conducted boarding operations and encountered Ahmed and nine other armed pirates who had taken the Indian ship hostage by force, where the Navy then logged Ahmed’s fingerprint.
Ahmed first entered the United States in September of 2022 near San Luis, Arizona. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials detained him in 2024 during a warrant search for fraud documents, where officials issued a full extradition warrant dated 4/24/2025.
So the pirate got let in, despite U.S. authorities having his fingerprints on file from a 2012 Somali piracy incident where the U.S.S. Halsey had to rescue an Indian-flagged ship under attack, and he somehow snuck into Canada where he was spotted trying to sneak back into the U.S. somewhere around North Dakota, where he is being held in the can.
No word on what he was up to, but it would not be unreasonable to think it was something unsavory.
That he was slinking around the Northern border, rather than the Southern one, pretty well tells us he likely had a network of confederates, and a good guess for where they were based is Minneapolis which is home to a very largee Somali fraudster community. Was he defrauding the U.S., too?
Why would someone with such a long history of crime and confrontation with U.S. military and law enforcement be so very eager to come to the U.S. to be around people who would likely arrest him?
It's astonishing.
What it says is not only did he have a network -- he had to have had a base here in the states, Somalia is just too different from the U.S. for a Somalian to even know what to do here, he was pretty confident nothing would ever happen to him. The United States was where the money was, as the old bank robber saying goes. The U.S. was there for his harvesting and why do it on the high seas when it's so much easier to do it with Tim Walz ...Kamala's smarmy-looking VP running mate, governor of Minnesota and self-admitted knucklehead, who decided to retire rather than to deploy with his National Guard unit, then claimed to have been in Iraq and Afghanistan. One man's socialism is another man's neighborliness.... 's glad-to-be-fleeced government?
Which raises the obvious question: How many more of them are here, too? This one was caught because he left a fingerprint on one of the boats the U.S. came to the rescue to. How many more of them didn't leave fingerprints, or did leave fingerprints, but who are location unknown?
If there is anyone out there with values utterly incompatible with the U.S.'s, it's got to be Somali pirates. That one got let in pretty well tells us how bad the rot was with Biden's open borders. It's not enough that terrorists, criminals and spies got let in, there had to be pirates, too, living it up and probably voting in our elections, all at the expense of the U.S. taxpayer.
[Rudaw] Villages northwest of Kirkuk have been affected by a series of kidnappings targeting local residents, with incidents frequently attributed to suspected remnants of 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.... (ISIS). The security gap in these disputed areas remains despite the group’s territorial defeat in Iraq in 2017.
Locals from villages on the outskirts of the Kani Domalan mountain range, northwest of Kirkuk near the town of Prde (Altun Kupri), told Rudaw that suspected ISIS members - estimated to number between five and ten - primarily target residents and farmers for ransom.
"When the [ISIS] bully boyz come down from the [Kani Domalan] mountain, people see them," one citizen who spoke anonymously due to security concerns said, adding that the last time they were seen, "they were wearing military uniforms, helmets and body armor. They were carrying M4 and M16 rifles and posing as soldiers."
The local further detailed that the suspected bully boyz "set up checkpoints, conduct interrogations, and ask for credentials, saying, ’Haven’t we warned you not to leave your homes at night?’"
Official figures from Prde police show that at least nine people have been kidnapped from nearby villages over the past eight months.
A local shopkeeper, who also spoke on condition of anonymity, told Rudaw, "Every day, in front of our eyes, they kidnap people and demand ransom." He added that the bully boyz are "surviving off the locals’ livelihoods," and that several of his friends have been kidnapped multiple times and released only after large sums were paid.
ISIS seized large swathes of territory in northern and western Iraq in 2014 before being defeated in 2017 after three years of intense fighting. Despite this defeat, the group continues to pose security threats, particularly in disputed areas between Erbil and Baghdad, spanning Diyala, Kirkuk, ... a thick stew of Arabs, Turkmen, Kurds, and probably Antarcticans, all of them mutually hostile most of the time... Nineveh, and Salahaddin provinces.
Following the 2017 withdrawal of Kurdish Peshmerga forces from Kirkuk and surrounding disputed territories, a security gap emerged where neither Erbil nor Baghdad maintained a permanent presence. The unpatrolled area has since served as a refuge for ISIS sleeper cells, enabling them to establish logistics hubs and carry out hit-and-run attacks with limited risk of pursuit.
An Israeli soldier was killed and six others were maimed in a Hezbollah explosive dronezap in southern Leb ...The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. Only one of those statements is an exaggeration.... on Sunday, as cross-border violence continued throughout the day, despite a fragile ceasefire that was extended last week.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu accused Hezbollah of repeatedly violating the shaky truce, and vowed to act forcefully in response, while the Iran-backed group rejected the accusation and blamed Israel for ceasefire violations.
Following the deadly attack, the IDF said it carried out a wave of Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s and artillery shelling in southern Lebanon, targeting Hezbollah operatives and infrastructure north of the Israeli-declared security zone.
Under the terms of the truce, which came into force on April 17 and was extended on Thursday by US President Donald Trump ...The man who was so stupid he beat fourteen professional politicians, a former tech CEO, and a brain surgeon for the Republican nomination in 2016, then beat The Smartest Woman in the World in the general election. Then he beat Kamala while dodging bullets... for three weeks, Israel reserves the right to respond to "planned, imminent or ongoing attacks."
The IDF said Sunday evening that Sgt. Idan Fooks, 19, of the 7th Armored Brigade’s 77th Battalion, from Petah Tikva, was killed, an officer and three troops were seriously maimed, one soldier was moderately hurt and another soldier was lightly hurt in the attack that occurred that morning.
Fooks is the third soldier to be killed in southern Lebanon during the ceasefire, and the first in a direct Hezbollah attack. The other two troops were killed by bombs previously planted by the terror group, with the military assessing that they were not remotely detonated.
A tank of the 77th Battalion got stuck in the southern Lebanon town of Taybeh, within the Israeli-declared security zone. While the troops were working to repair the tank, a Hezbollah explosive-laden drone struck next to them, killing Fooks and wounding the other soldiers.
An Israeli Air Force helicopter was then dispatched to take the maimed troops to a hospital. During efforts to evacuate the maimed troops, Hezbollah launched two more explosive-laden drones at the forces.
One of the drones was intercepted by the soldiers, while the second struck near the troops and the helicopter, without causing any additional injuries or damage, according to an IDF probe of the incident.
The moment a Hezbollah explosive-laden drone struck near Israeli forces who were evacuating maimed troops in southern Lebanon, April 26, 2026. (Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
Hezbollah took responsibility for the attack, saying it was a response to alleged Israeli violations of the truce.
The terror group has made use of small first-person view (FPV) drones in its attacks on Israeli troops. Some of the drones are guided using a spool of fiber-optic cable, which mitigates efforts to electronically jam their signal.
Speaking at the start of the weekly cabinet meeting on Sunday, Netanyahu accused Hezbollah of threatening the ceasefire between Israel and Lebanon, pledging to "vigorously" target the Iran-backed terror group.
"It must be understood that Hezbollah’s violations are, in practice, dismantling the ceasefire," he said.
"We are acting vigorously according to the rules we agreed upon with the United States and, incidentally, also with Lebanon," Netanyahu added. "This means freedom of action not only to respond to attacks, which is obvious, but also to thwart immediate threats and also neutralize emerging threats."
He said that according to the IDF, over the past two weeks of the ceasefire, "we have eliminated 46 gunnies [in southern Lebanon], and we will act with a strong hand and an outstretched arm. We are not prepared to accept this lawlessness. We will do whatever is necessary to restore security to the North."
In a statement, Hezbollah rejected Netanyahu’s accusation that it was jeopardizing the ceasefire, and said it would keep responding to what it called Israel’s violations and occupation of southern Lebanon.
The Iran-backed terror group said its attacks on Israeli targets in south Lebanon and northern Israel are "a legitimate response to the enemy’s persistent violations of the ceasefire since the first day of the announcement of the temporary truce."
"Hezbollah affirms clearly and firmly that the enemy’s continued ceasefire violations... and above all its continued occupation of Lebanese territory and violations of its illusory sovereignty will be met with a response and a resistance that is... ready to defend its land and people," the statement said.
Hezbollah continued to fire drones at both northern Israel and IDF troops stationed in southern Lebanon throughout Sunday.
The IDF said that three Hezbollah drones launched from Lebanon Sunday afternoon, which triggered sirens in the Western Galilee, were shot down by the Israeli Air Force before crossing the border. The military said it also intercepted two Hezbollah drones that separately targeted troops in southern Lebanon and also did not cross into Israeli territory.
On Sunday afternoon, the IDF issued an evacuation warning for several Lebanese towns north of Israel’s southern Lebanon security zone, ahead of its airstrikes on Hezbollah.
"In light of the Hezbollah terror organization’s violation of the ceasefire agreement, the IDF is compelled to act against it with force," said army front man Col. Avichay Adraee.
Civilians in Mayfadoun, Shoukine, Yohmar, Arnoun, Zawtar al-Sharqiyah and Kfar Tebnit were instructed to evacuate their homes and move at least a kilometer away from an area designated on a map published by the IDF.
Shortly afterwards, Israeli warplanes "launched a strike" in Kfar Tebnit, causing casualties, Lebanon’s National News Agency said.
An Israeli strike on Zawtar al-Sharqiyah, another of the flagged villages, destroyed a mosque and another religious building, the news agency said. It had earlier said an Israeli "drone hit a cycle of violence" there.
Shelling was also reported in several border villages, it said.
Elsewhere, AFP correspondents saw clouds of grey smoke rise over Nabatieh al-Fawqa and several other locations after the Israeli strikes.
The IDF said that the strikes, which came after the drone attack that killed Fooks, targeted rocket-launching squads that were planning attacks on troops and Israel, a primed rocket launcher, a weapons depot and other buildings used by the terror group.
The military said it also struck Hezbollah operatives in a building known to be used by the terror group, and another operative on a cycle of violence.
The US-mediated ceasefire, which started on April 16, was extended for an additional three weeks, Trump announced last week during talks in Washington between Israel and Lebanon, despite continued cross-border violence.
Since Hezbollah began firing at Israel again on March 2, two Israeli civilians have been killed in the attacks and 16 IDF soldiers have died fighting in Lebanon.
Lebanon’s health ministry says that more than 2,500 people have been killed in Israeli strikes during the same period, a figure that does not distinguish between civilians and combatants. The IDF has said that it has killed some 1,700 Hezbollah operatives since hostilities escalated.
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..a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",...
Somali pirates
...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 
...The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. Only one of those statements is an exaggeration....
