"We don’t want Montana to be the next Wuhan," Big Sky Country senator says, asking inspector general to probe federal lab after RFK Jr. confirms whistleblower allegations. NIH has dribbled out details on pathogen accidents.
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I’m still getting a Privacy Error page when I log on from my bookmark. In Australia, on Starlink. Page says, Your Connection Is Not Private. Server could not prove it is Rantburg.com, it’s security certificate is from www.rantburg . Com. I click on Proceed to Rantburg.com ( unsafe) & I’m in. Have not dumped cookies. Have re- bookmarked.
Still down for me as well. No one is complaining, (perhaps there is a message in that). If I see something worthwhile, I've defaulted to posting as a comment under Fred's Scimitar for now.
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In Safari Post Your Own Article just worked for me, Besoeker. At this time of day the article was set for tomorrow and dropped straight into the hopper to await moderation.
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I've done everything I know to do to remedy Besoeker's problem in posting articles, including running the scripts on the command line, reviewing his records, going over firewall rules, etc, and I can see nothing preventing him from posting.
SSL problems is a bit more complicated, so I will go over existing documents tomorrow to see what part of the setup, if any, is going wrong
[Breitbart] Border Patrol agents and Texas Highway Patrol troopers worked together to capture two groups of illegal aliens attempting to escape from authorities and secure entry into the United States. In all, a total of 19 illegal aliens were captured near Eagle Pass, Texas, including six Chinese nationals, considered by DHS to be Special Interest Aliens (SIAs).
In stark contrast to the thousands of daily illegal border crossings near the small Texas border town during the Biden administration, new border security policies under the Trump administration have deterred most illegal aliens from attempting the crossing. Despite the stronger border security measures that ended the practice of “catch and release” at the border, a small number of illegal aliens continue to attempt the trek, hoping to get into the country using remote border ranches to elude detection and capture.
A group of illegal aliens apprehended in Maverick County consisted of seven nationals from five different countries, including Mexico, Guatemala, India, Ecuador, and Cuba. Border Patrol agents apprehended the group on a remote ranch with the help of a Texas Department of Public Safety Highway Patrol K-9 tracking team.
Later in the evening, Border Patrol agents captured a group of 12 illegal aliens that included six Chinese nationals, all dressed in camouflage. According to a Texas DPS Highway Patrol spokesperson, the joint arrests by Border Patrol and Highway Patrol troopers highlight ongoing law enforcement efforts to deter criminal activity along the southern border and the critical partnership between Texas DPS and federal agents under Operation Lone Star.
The influx of Chinese nationals has dropped significantly since President Trump enacted stiff border control measures, which have seen the reduction of apprehensions from the communist country. According to CBP in 2024, nearly 40,000 Chinese nationals were apprehended by the Border Patrol after entering the United States along the Southwest border. Only 334 Chinese nationals have been apprehended in the first seven months of Fiscal Year 2026.
The use of remote ranches and the tactic of donning camouflage clothing to reduce detection and avoid apprehension after crossing the border illegally do not guarantee success, according to a source within CBP. The source told Breitbart Texas that reduced illegal crossings along the southwest border and the end of “catch and release” have freed up Border Patrol agents to saturate areas that once lacked routine patrols. The existing partnership with the Texas Department of Public Safety adds to the agency’s ability to reduce the likelihood that a group of illegal border crossers will be able to escape.
Troops neutralise two terrorists, destroy camps in Zamfara
By Zagazola Makama
Troops of 1 Operation FANSAN YANMA
…a Hausa phrase meaning "Sweeping Away Bandits"…
have neutralised two terrorists during a fighting patrol in Zurmi Local Government Area of Zamfara State.
Security sources said the troops responded to reports of terrorist activities around Maradun and Gidan Dan Jaja communities at about 1:00 p.m. on May 27.
According to the sources, the troops made contact with the terrorists during the operation and overpowered them in the ensuing exchange.
The sources added that two terrorists were neutralised during the encounter.
Troops of the Nigerian Army have successfully repelled an attack by ISWAP terrorists in Chibok Local Government Area
…home of the famously kidnapped Chibok schoolgirls, many of whom were disappeared after they were sold on the international Moslem concubine market…
of Borno State.
Security sources said the attack occurred at about 12:30 p.m. on May 27 when terrorists attempted to overrun troops of 115 Task Force Battalion at Yarchida.
According to the sources, the troops responded swiftly and engaged the attackers in a gun battle.
IS-Sahel has claimed for the first time attacks against the Nigerian army in Kebbi and Sokoto states of northwest Nigeria, this confirms my reports for the last few years that the so-called "Lakurawa" is only a front group for the Islamic State, despite many "analysts" and… https://t.co/yPZWCOEPdFpic.twitter.com/WgLmrxUOMm
IS-Sahel has claimed for the first time attacks against the Nigerian army in Kebbi and Sokoto states of northwest Nigeria, this confirms my reports for the last few years that the so-called "Lakurawa"
…pledged to the Islamic State - Sahel Province operating in Mali, Niger, and the Kebbi and Sokoto states of Nigeria. Their activities are concentrated in five local government areas of Sokoto, namely: Tangaza, Gudu, Illela, Binji, and Silame. Initially founded as a self-defense group to fight Nigerian bandits, the group became increasingly radical. Lakurawa was described as a terrorist group in 2024 …
is only a front group for the Islamic State, despite many "analysts" and "experts" claiming otherwise.
And just as reported, the Islamic State explains that they were active in NW Nigeria for a long time previously, but refrained from claiming these attacks until now for operational security reasons.
A quote from the IS statement:
More at the link
The Islamic State Sahel Province (ISSP), that hitherto operated only in Mali, B-Faso and Niger have claimed its first attacks in Nigeria's northwestern Sokoto and Kebbi states. Its tough enough battling domestic groups like Boko Haram and ISWAP in the northeast, now Nigeria is…
— Defense News Nigeria (@DefenseNigeria) May 28, 2026
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The Islamic State Sahel Province (ISSP), that hitherto operated only in Mali, B-Faso and Niger have claimed its first attacks in Nigeria's northwestern Sokoto and Kebbi states. Its tough enough battling domestic groups like Boko Haram and ISWAP in the northeast, now Nigeria is looking at the prospect of confronting an influx of Islamic State affiliates expanding south from the central Sahel into Nigeria.
The inability of the AES states of Mali, B-Fas and Niger to contain militant groups means a spillover effect into coastal West Africa was only a matter of When, not If.
[IsraelTimes] A resurfaced video shows British actress Dame Helen Mirren being accosted in London by a man calling her an “evil Zionist bitch.”
The man, who recorded the interaction and reportedly first posted it online back in November, approached the multi-award-winning Mirren and her husband, US film director Taylor Hackford, as they were crossing the street.
“And there’s Helen Mirren,” the man says as he walks up to them, “the avowed Zionist.”
“You said Israel should last forever because of the Holocaust,” the man says, claiming that the 80-year-old actress was “very happy that Palestinians’ houses were gone.”
Throughout the interaction, Hackford repeatedly tells the man to “fuck off,” but is ignored.
As he begins to back away from the couple, the man behind the camera tells Mirren that she is “an evil Zionist bitch,” informs Hackford that the same goes for him, and departs with a “fuck you and all.”
The clip was produced by someone who calls themselves antifascist action uk. Has anyone identified the account holder?
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The instagram account of antifascistactionuk has 150 followers. Perhaps one of his followers can identify him
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He has now been identified by Gnasherjew as Tom Carroll - a man with a recent conviction for assaulting an 84 year old woman at a train station
The man was referring to comments Mirren made in a 2023 interview while she was in Israel for the premiere of “Golda,” in which she starred as the eponymous Golda Meir.
In the interview, Mirren, who is not Jewish, said that she believed “in the existence of Israel” and its right to exist “because of the Holocaust,” and spoke out against cultural boycotts of the Jewish state, saying it “didn’t seem right” to abandon Israeli artists.
She also recounted her experience during her first visit to Israel in 1967, after the Six Day War.
“I witnessed things that were wrong,” she said of her visit. “I saw Arabs being thrown out of their houses in Jerusalem. But it was just the extraordinary magical energy of a country just beginning to put its roots in the ground. It was an amazing time to be here.”
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The Daily Mail confirms that the vicious idiot is pro-Palestinian activist Tom Carroll, wanted by the police for misbehaving in demonstrations and convicted of brutally beating up another little old lady — for which the London court sentenced him to probation and community service, despite merely being a white, middle aged man instead of a member of a protected class.
[IsraelTimes] An Australian woman has been charged with traveling to Syria and joining the Islamic State group, Australian Federal police say.
The 34-year-old woman was arrested at her Melbourne home eight months after she returned to Australia via Lebanon with another woman, Australia Federal Police Deputy Commissioner Hilda Sirec says.
The arrest comes two days after seven women and 12 children linked to IS returned to Australia from a Syrian refugee camp against the wishes of the Australian government.
Three weeks ago, four women and nine children in similar circumstances returned from the same Roj camp for displaced people, which is located near the area where the frontiers of Syria, Turkey and Iraq converge. Three of the four women were charged on arrival with slavery and terrorism offenses and remain in custody.
All the women who returned from Syria this month remained under police investigation. Another woman, who accompanied the woman charged Thursday to Australia from Lebanon, also was under investigation, Sirec says.
A period of time passing without charges does indicate investigations have ceased, Sirec notes.
The woman most recently arrested in Melbourne is expected to appear today in the Melbourne Magistrates’ Court on a charge of entering and remaining in a declared conflict zone. She also has been charged with joining a terrorist organization, ISIS. Each charge carries a potential maximum sentence of 10 years in prison.
Police allege she traveled to Syria between 2013 and 2014 to join ISIS. She was captured by Kurdish forces in March 2019 after IS fighters were defeated and placed in al-Hol camp for displaced people.
She returned to Australia on Sept. 26, police allege.
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[NYPost] An Austrian court on Thursday convicted a man of planning to attack a Taylor Swift concert in Vienna nearly two years ago. He was sentenced to 15 years in prison.
The state court in Wiener Neustadt, south of the capital, found the 21-year-old defendant, an Austrian citizen known only as Beran A. in line with Austrian privacy rules, guilty on multiple charges including those related to the concert.
The concert plot was thwarted, but Austrian authorities still canceled Swift’s three performances in August 2024.
His defense attorney said Beran A. admitted to the charges related to the concert plot during the opening day of the trial last month.
In brief final words to the court before it adjourned to consider a verdict on Thursday, Beran A. said: "I would just like to say that I am sorry."
Beran A. allegedly planned to target people outside the Ernst Happel Stadium with knives or homemade explosives.
Tens of thousands of Taylor Swift fans, known as Swifties, had traveled to Austria to attend the performances of the American singer’s record-setting Eras Tour.
Devastated by the cancellations, many gathered in central Vienna to trade friendship bracelets and commiserate.
Beran A. also allegedly networked with members 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.... group ahead of the planned attack.
Prosecutors have said they discussed purchasing weapons and making bombs, and that the defendant also sought to illegally buy weapons in the days ahead of the performance, as well as swearing allegiance to the Death Eater group.
Authorities searched his apartment on Aug. 7, 2024, and found bomb-making materials. The concerts were scheduled to begin the next day.
"Having our Vienna shows canceled was devastating," Swift wrote in a statement posted to Instagram two weeks later. "The reason for the cancellations filled me with a new sense of fear, and a tremendous amount of guilt because so many people had planned on coming to those shows."
He was tried alongside Arda K., another 21-year-old whose full name also has not been made public. They, along with a third man, Hasan E., who was arrested and remains in pretrial detention 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... , allegedly planned to carry out simultaneous attacks in Saudi Arabia, The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire... and the United Arab Emirates during Ramadan 2024 in the name of IS.
Only Beran A. was charged in connection with the concert plot. The two defendants were found guilty of charges including traveling and training for terrorist purposes, and being part of a terrorist organization, the Austria Press Agency reported.
The court also found the pair guilty of contributing to attempted murder, a charge linked to Hasan E.’s alleged stabbing of a security officer in Mecca in March 2024. Hasan E. also attacked and maimed three other officers and a woman before he was arrested, according to prosecutors.
Beran A. and Arda K. did not carry out their alleged plans in the UAE and Turkey. Beran A. returned to Vienna and later allegedly began plotting to attack the Swift concert there.
Arda K. was given a 12-year sentence. The two men listened stoically to the verdict and the sentencing, APA reported.
Beran A.’s lawyer, Anna Mair, said after the verdict that she would discuss with her client in the coming days whether to accept the verdict.
[Rudaw] A 42-year-old German woman appeared before the Dusseldorf Higher Regional Court on Thursday, accused of collecting financial aid for families linked to the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... (ISIS) through online campaigns.
The woman, identified as Nadin, is accused by federal prosecutors of supporting ISIS by gathering donations via a Telegram channel called "Free Our Sisters" and transferring the funds to wives and children of ISIS turbans.
German federal prosecutors allege that the aid campaign amounted to material support for the krazed killer group, which once controlled large territories in Iraq and Syria.
"We accuse the defendant of having solicited donations via social media for many years and forwarding these donations to ISIS members and ISIS sympathizers," federal prosecutor Silke Ritzert told Rudaw during the hearing.
"Based on the circumstances of the transfers, it is assumed that she intended these donation payments to be understood as an appeal to ISIS members to continue supporting ISIS, and to ISIS sympathizers to join ISIS in the future," Ritzert added.
Nadin, a mother of four married to a Ottoman TurkishMoslem citizen, denies the accusations through her defense team. Her lawyer argued that the funds were intended for humanitarian purposes rather than to assist ISIS operations.
"The way I see it, it's actually quite simple, because it is clearly evident from the case file," defense lawyer Serkan Alkan told Rudaw.
"When it says ’for children’ and I know that the money was paid for children, or for repatriation insurance for example, or for legal fees, then it is obvious. It’s not about supporting some ISIS organization," he added.
ISIS declared its so-called caliphate across Iraq and Syria in 2014, capturing vast territory in both countries before being territorially defeated in Iraq in 2017 and in Syria in 2019.
Despite its defeat, legal cases involving ISIS members and supporters remain a major issue across Europe, including in Germany, where authorities continue investigating networks accused of financing or promoting the group.
Syrian authorities recently closed the notorious al-Hol camp in northeast Syria's (Rojava) Hasaka province, after transferring all of its residents, ending years of controversy surrounding the facility, which housed families and relatives of suspected ISIS fighters.
The camp, once the largest site in Syria for people linked to ISIS, held around 24,000 residents, including Syrians, Iraqis, and more than 6,000 foreign nationals from about 40 countries.
Following festivities earlier this year between Syrian government forces and the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), Kurdish authorities withdrew from the camp. Syrian authorities later evacuated remaining residents to other areas in northern Syria, while thousands of ISIS detainees were transferred to Iraq under US supervision after prison break attempts during the unrest.
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[IsraelTimes] A man who admitted to taking part in a plot to kill an Iranian-American activist who is a prominent critic of Tehran has been sentenced to 10 years in prison.
Jonathan Loadholt, 37, was arrested in November 2024 and pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit stalking and money laundering in the plot targeting Masih Alinejad, who is 49.
He and another man, Carlisle Rivera, were charged with accepting $100,000 to kill Alinejad, who lives in the United States.
Rivera was sentenced to 15 years in prison in January after pleading guilty to a count of conspiracy to commit murder-for-hire.
The US Justice Department has said the plan to kill Alinejad was ordered by Iran’s government.
“Tehran attempted to murder a US journalist in the United States simply because she exposed a few of that regime’s many abuses,” says Assistant Attorney General for National Security John Eisenberg.
Another suspect remains at large: Farhad Shakeri, an Afghan living in Iran who is accused of recruiting the other two men on behalf of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, the powerful ideological branch of Iran’s military.
Alinejad is one of the most prominent dissident campaigners against Iranian authorities and for years has pushed for the abolition of the obligatory headscarf in Iran under the banner of “MyStealthyFreedom.” She left Iran in 2009.
Alinejad was the target of another assassination attempt thwarted at the last moment in the summer of 2022.
She has nearly nine million followers on Instagram.
[Rudaw] An Iran-backed militia leader was killed on Thursday when a bomb planted in his vehicle went kaboom! in Iraq’s southern Maysan province, according to local officials and security sources. The incident also left another bully boymaimed.
Hussein Ali Miryani, head of the defense and PMF committee in the Maysan provincial council, told Rudaw on Thursday that the leader of Harakat Ansar Allah al-Awfiya (HAAA), a brigade of the government-linked Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF), Uday Muhsin al-Halfi, also known as Sheikh Dhafir al-Halfi, "was killed today in the Dur al-Naft area when a bomb went kaboom! on his vehicle," adding that another bully boy from the group was also maimed.
Formed in 2014, HAAA has been accused of threatening and targeting American interests in Iraq and Syria. It was also allegedly involved in kidnapping and killing of protesters during the 2019 Tishreen movement.
In late April, the US Department of State’s Rewards for Justice program announced a reward of up to $10 million for information on the leader of Harakat Ansar Allah al-Awfiya, Haydar Muzhir Ma’lak al-Sa’idi, also known as Haydar al-Gharawi, stating that Gharawi "has attacked U.S. diplomatic facilities in Iraq, as well as U.S. military bases and personnel in Iraq, Jordan, and Syria, killing U.S. service members."
In a statement issued on Thursday, HAAA said the group’s leader had been killed, describing it as the "liquidation" of Dhafir al-Halfi, one of its "prominent" figures in southern Iraq’s Maysan province.
The group said al-Halfi was targeted by an improvised bomb (IED) that exploded in his vehicle, resulting in his death.
Both HAAA and its leadership have been designated by the US State Department as Specially Designated Global Terrorists (SDGTs) since mid-2024 over their activities as part of the Islamic Resistance® in Iraq.
The Islamic Resistance® in Iraq emerged following the outbreak of 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 in October 2023, bringing together several Iran-aligned armed factions operating through coordinated or shadow networks, including Kata’ib Sayyed ...Arabic term meaning your/his lordship. Groveling in His Exalted Presence is encouraged... al-Shuhada, Asa’ib Ahl al-Haq, Kata’ib Hezbollah, and Harakat Hezbollah al-Nujaba.
#Iraq 🇮🇶: Islamic State (#ISIS) militants carried out an IED attack targeting Iraqi Forces in Al-Hadar, #Nineveh Governorate.
ISIS militants, who released a photo from the scene, appear to be armed with #USA-made 🇺🇸 M16A4 assault rifle and a PKM pattern machine gun. pic.twitter.com/Hu3waVyFAb
[IsraelTimes] Troops from the IDF’s Duvdevan commando unit under the direction of the Shin Bet arrested five Palestinian terror suspects in a series of operations across the West Bank over the past two days, including one accused of planning an attack in the immediate future, the military says.
According to the IDF, the suspect was detained in Jenin.
In a separate raid in the village of Zeita, troops arrested a Hamas-affiliated suspect accused of “advancing terror activity.”
The IDF says three additional suspects were arrested in the Qalandiya and Al-Bireh areas, including one armed operative accused of incitement and another involved in assembling explosive devices.
Separately, undercover Border Police officers operating under Shin Bet direction arrested two additional Palestinian suspects overnight in Nablus who were also allegedly planning to carry out an attack imminently.
According to the IDF, the undercover forces surrounded the building where the suspects were hiding and negotiated their surrender before arresting them.
All of the suspects were transferred to security forces for further questioning, the military says.
[IsraelTimes] Anti-Hamas militia shows off heavy drone, possibly provided by Israel; Hamas buries Gaza City deputy commander, IDF kills moneyman who it says transferred millions to military wing
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Thursday that he ordered the Israel Defense Forces to take control of 70 percent of 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... Strip — well beyond the portion of the enclave that Jerusalem was allowed to temporarily continue occupying as part of an October 2025 ceasefire deal with Hamas ..the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®,... "At this point, we are fully in control of 60% of the territory of the Gaza Strip... and my directive is to get to... 70%," Netanyahu said, in Hebrew-language remarks delivered at a conference held by the Ein Prat Leadership Academy.
When one audience member shouted out that Israel should take "100 percent" of the territory in Gaza, Netanyahu responded, "First 70%. We’ll start with that."
Netanyahu acknowledged last week that Israel already holds 60 percent of the territory in the Strip, significantly more than the roughly 53% allotted to Israel in the October ceasefire deal.
That truce, which secured the release of hostages held by Hamas and other terror groups in Gaza, left Hamas in de facto control of the remainder of the Strip.
The deal was envisioned as part of a larger process that would see the terror group disarmed and the enclave demilitarized, but progress toward that vision has stalled, as Hamas has refused to lay down its weapons and Israel has continued striking deep inside Gaza, while facing allegations that it is violating additional terms of the October agreement.
Maps issued by Israel in March showed a new restricted area controlled by Israel.
Marked with an orange line, it made up an estimated 11% of Gaza’s territory beyond the "Yellow Line" demarcating the part of Gaza occupied by Israeli troops since the truce.
The areas appeared to cordon off nearly two-thirds of Gaza’s territory in total.
ANTI-HAMAS MILITIA IN GAZA SHOWS OFF HEAVY DRONE
In the remainder, some gangs backed by Israel continue to challenge Hamas’s dominance as the territory’s governing power.
A militia led by Ashraf al-Mansi, which works against Hamas in northern Gaza with Israeli backing, published footage on Thursday showing one of its members operating a heavy military drone.
The footage appeared to be the first of its kind released by an anti-Hamas militia, which until now have primarily been seen using light weapons.
A statement published on al-Mansi’s Facebook page said that "the People’s Army led by Ashraf al-Mansi in northern Gaza announces the successful introduction of advanced drones into operational use."
Brig. Gen. Ghassan Dehini, who is considered the commander of various militias in Gaza, announced that "several successful operations" had been carried out using the new drones.
It was unclear where the drones came from, though given Israel’s known military and logistical support for the militias, it is likely they were gifted by Jerusalem.
The IDF has not yet commented on the matter.
IDF STRIKES KILL HAMAS COMMANDERS, MONEYMAN
Also on Thursday, a funeral was held for Imad Aslim, the deputy commander of Hamas’s Gaza City brigade.
Israel announced on Wednesday that it had targeted Aslim in a strike along with Izz ad-Din Beck, the commander of Hamas’s northern Gaza brigade.
Hamas had not yet commented on the strike or on the fate of the two men.
Separately, an Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... in the southern Gaza Strip earlier this week killed a senior Hamas moneyman, the IDF announced.
The Tuesday strike in Khan Younis killed Ihab Khrizim, who the military says headed a central network for transferring funds to Hamas.
The strike also killed Mohammed al-Habash, a commander in Hamas’s weapons production headquarters, according to the IDF.
Khrizim was responsible for "managing the transfer of millions of dollars to Hamas’s military wing," and recently, he "continued to violate the ceasefire agreement," as his actions enabled Hamas to advance attacks on troops and Israeli civilians, the IDF said.
The IDF claimed his killing "constitutes a significant blow to the rehabilitation and force-building efforts of the Hamas terror organization."
من وداع وتشييع الشهيد عماد اسليم قائد كتيبة الزيتون بكتائب القسام والذي ارتقى بعملية اغتيال في غزة ليلة أمس. pic.twitter.com/09Is7HW0MO
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[Regnum] Iranian armed forces fired warning shots at vessels near the Strait of Hormuz, the Iranian Mehr news agency reported.
"After four vessels were discovered attempting to navigate the established route without permission, warning shots were fired to prevent further movement," the agency noted in a statement.
No further details of the incident were provided.
Earlier, the Fars news agency reported that the Iranian army launched missiles from the southern regions of the country at unspecified targets. It noted that the specific targets of the missiles are still unknown. Several sources warned of the possibility of clashes in the Persian Gulf. Furthermore, the agency reported several unconfirmed reports of explosions in the Bushehr and Hormozgan provinces (in southern Iran).
Earlier, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) announced it had struck a US military base in retaliation for the US air strike on a facility near the airport in the Iranian city of Bandar Abbas. The IRGC warned that any aggression against Iran would not go unanswered, and that Tehran would take action if further attacks were to occur.
According to Axios sources, on May 28, the US shot down four Iranian kamikaze drones that had attacked a commercial vessel and struck a ground-based drone launcher before it could launch another one. Prior to this, Reuters reported that US forces had attacked a military facility in Iran that posed a threat to American troops and shipping in the Strait of Hormuz.
On May 26, the United States launched military strikes against targets in southern Iran, which escalated the situation and prompted the Islamic Republic to call on the United States to prepare for oil prices to rise to $200.
[IsraelTimes] Singapore, UAE, South Korea and Norway-flagged ships transited waterway over the past week, monitors say, as Washington says Oman pledged not to participate in Iranian tolling
The proportion of vessels not linked to Iranian ownership that are transiting the Strait of Hormuz has risen, according to data from maritime firm Lloyd’s List Intelligence shared Thursday.
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... has largely blockaded the waterway since the US and Israel attacked the Islamic Theocratic Republic on February 28. The strait’s closure has prevented a large share of Gulf countries’ hydrocarbon exports, in turn harming the global economy.
"The last week we saw ships flagged with Singapore, UAE, South Korea, and also a Norway flagged-vessel going through the Gulf, specifically exiting," said Bridget Diakun, an analyst at Lloyd’s List Intelligence.
Crossings by very large crude carriers not tied to Iran appear in particular to be picking up again.
Of the 27 recorded by analytics firm Kpler since the start of the conflict, more than half took place in May.
Five of these huge oil tankers meanwhile left the Gulf through the strait between May 20 and May 26.
Three of them — the Eagle Veracruz sailing under the Singaporean flag, as well as the Eagle Verona and the Yuan Gui Yang each flying the Chinese flag — have declared China as their destination.
Another ship, the Universal Winner, is heading to South Korea, whose flag it flies, while the Nissos Keros, flying the flag of the Marshall Islands, is headed for India.
China, South Korea, India and Japan have coordinated with the Iranian government to ensure safe passage, according to Lloyd’s List Intelligence.
On May 18, Iran formalized the creation of the Persian Gulf Strait Authority to manage navigation in the Strait of Hormuz and collect transit fees.
The United States strongly opposes the new body, with the US Treasury on Wednesday announcing sanctions against the PGSA, while threatening similar action against anyone paying the fees.
Such retaliation risks reducing the number of ships exiting the strait in coordination with Iran.
Adding to the uncertainty, Iranian forces fired at four ships attempting to cross the Strait of Hormuz without authorization, prompting the US to strike southern Iran on Thursday.
The fighting, which also drew in US ally Kuwait, was the most significant since the start of a truce in April.
OMAN OFFERS US ASSURANCES AFTER TRUMP THREAT
The United States warned Oman on Thursday not to get directly or indirectly involved in any effort to impose a toll in the Strait of Hormuz, saying it will penalize any partners involved in such a system.
"The United States Government will not tolerate any effort to impose a tolling system in the Strait of Hormuz," US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said in a post on X.
"Oman, in particular, should know that the US Treasury will aggressively target any actors involved — directly or indirectly — in facilitating tolls for the Strait and any willing partners will be penalized," Bessent added.
Shortly thereafter, Bessent told news hounds he had spoken with Oman’s ambassador, and that Oman had assured the US there are no plans to toll the strait.
On Wednesday, US President Donald Trump ...So far he's been unkillable, and they've tried.... had himself appeared to threaten Oman, a long-time mediator in the region.
"Oman will behave just like everybody else, or we’ll have to blow them up. They understand that, and they’ll be fine," Trump said.
The Israel Defense Forces said it carried out a strike in a suburb of Beirut on Thursday, the first time in three weeks that Israel has bombed the area of the Lebanese capital, amid an escalating conflict with the Hezbollah terror group.
The military did not immediately give any further details.
An Israeli security source said the target was Ali al-Husni, the head of the missile force in the Imam Hossein Division, an Iranian militia that operates alongside Hezbollah.
It was not immediately clear whether he had been killed in the strike. The IDF said it would provide further details later.
According to Lebanese media, the strike took place in Shuwayfat, just south of the Lebanese capital.
Images and videos from the suburb of Shuwayfat showed white smoke billowing from a residential neighborhood. The area is close to Beirut’s international airport.
It marked the first Israeli strike on Beirut since May 6. A strike that day killed the commander of Hezbollah’s elite Radwan Force, Ahmed Ghaleb Balout.
Amid a fragile ceasefire in Iran, the IDF has mostly avoided striking the Lebanese capital at the request of the Trump administration. The US earlier this week approved Israeli plans to expand operations against Hezbollah, but warned Jerusalem against striking Beirut for fear that doing so could harm ongoing negotiations with Iran, Hebrew media widely reported, citing Israeli officials.
The strike came amid an escalation in southern Leb ...The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozen flavors of Christians, plus Armenians, Georgians, and who knows what else?... , where Israeli troops have crossed the Litani River over the past few days and issued a warning for residents to leave much of the area, in response to relentless deadly Hezbollah drone attacks on troops and northern Israel. A soldier was killed by a drone on Wednesday on the Israeli side of the border.
Over 135 Hezbollah targets were struck over the past day, the military said, with targets in southern Lebanon and the eastern Beqaa Valley, including rocket launch sites and a Hezbollah training camp. In Tyre, 15 Hezbollah infrastructure sites used to advance attacks were struck, according to the military.
The Israeli Air Force also struck and killed several Hezbollah operatives who were seen leaving a rocket-launching site used in an attack on troops, the IDF noted.
The Israeli strikes killed at least 14 people across the south of the country, local officials said, without distinguishing between fighters and noncombatants. Among those killed in the flurry of strikes were five women and kiddies and
the Lebanese Health Ministry and the state-run National News Agency. Israel is not fighting against the Lebanese army, but rather just the Iran-backed Hezbollah and allied militias.
The intensification comes after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced an expansion in the Israeli military’s attacks in Lebanon, apparently sparked by Hezbollah’s use of fiber-optic exploding drones that have struck Israeli troops in Lebanon and reached some of Israel’s northern border towns.
Before the attacks on Thursday, Israeli military Arabic spokesperson Col. Avichay Adraee issued warnings to eight buildings in Tyre and the surrounding neighborhoods. Many people have fled the area.
Further north in the city of Sidon, an Israeli drone struck an apartment building where some displaced families lived, killing five people and wounding 21 others, among them five children. Among the killed was Hossan Zeidan, who was once a correspondent for Iran’s Arabic-language al-Aalam television.
In the nearby coastal town of Adloun, an Israeli drone struck a car with a family that was fleeing, killing six people, of whom four were two children and their parents, the Lebanese Health Ministry said. Another dronezap that came without warning killed two people on a cycle of violence near Tyre. The target of the attack was not immediately clear, NNA reported.
Elsewhere near the city of Nabatieh, the Lebanese military said a soldier was killed in an Israeli dronezap while he was driving his cycle of violence.
Israel has struggled to fend off growing attacks on troops in southern Lebanon and northern Israel by Hezbollah’s first-person view drones, which are largely impervious to jamming technology. The terror group has also fired rockets and other types of UAVs, hitting both military and civilian targets.
The group said Thursday it has launched several attacks on Israeli troops and tanks that have crossed the Litani River into the town of Zawtar al-Sharqieh near Nabatiyeh, as close-range fighting continues.
Washington approved Israeli plans to expand fighting against Hezbollah in the coming days, but warned Jerusalem against striking in Beirut amid concerns of hurting US talks with 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... on a deal, multiple Hebrew outlets reported Tuesday evening, citing Israeli officials.
A senior Israeli official told Channel 12, "There is approval for targeted liquidations in Beirut if an operational opportunity presents itself."
Senior Israeli officials similarly acknowledged to Channel 13: "We have freedom of action in southern Lebanon — less so in Beirut. We do not want to be perceived as undermining President Donald Trump ...Never got invited to a P.Diddy party... ’s agreement with Iran."
Lebanese and Israeli military officials are set to hold their first security talks on Friday in the US capital. The talks have extended a nominal ceasefire that went into effect on April 17, although the attacks have since intensified, while sparing the capital, Beirut.
“Several Hezbollah operatives were observed earlier this week attempting to harm the activity of the Qaraoun Dam, which is considered national and strategic infrastructure of the Lebanese state, and they were attacked from the air,” says Lt. Col. Ella Waweya, the IDF’s Arabic-language spokeswoman.
Addressing Lebanese citizens, she says that Hezbollah, which has “led to the ruin and destruction of your country, attempted to harm strategic national infrastructure, the targeting of which would cause severe damage to the economy of Lebanon and the state itself.”
Waweya warns Hezbollah that the IDF “will not allow any attempt to harm the dam, and will act with great force against these attempts.”
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[RUSVESNA] The Pentagon said Tehran launched a ballistic missile towards Kuwait.
"On May 27 at 10:17 p.m. ET, Iran launched a ballistic missile toward Kuwait, which was successfully intercepted by Kuwaiti forces," the statement said.
The Pentagon called it a "flagrant violation of the ceasefire."
Iran also launched five attack drones, which the Pentagon said were successfully shot down.
At 10:17 p.m. ET on May 27, Iran launched a ballistic missile toward Kuwait that was successfully intercepted by Kuwaiti forces. This egregious ceasefire violation by the Iranian regime occurred hours after Iranian forces launched five one-way attack drones that posed a clear…
…drones that posed a clear threat in and near the Strait of Hormuz. All drones were successfully intercepted by U.S. forces which also prevented a sixth drone launch from an Iranian ground control site in Bandar Abbas.
U.S. Central Command and regional partners remain vigilant and measured as we continue to defend our forces and interests from unjustified Iranian aggression.
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