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Agreed, on both counts. The thing is there's just something about Joan. Younger, older, caught off guard? Small matter. All she had to do was flash that smile and those eyes.
[ShabelleMedia] Three copperswere maimed after suspected al-Shabaab ... the Islamic version of the old Somali warlord... bully boyz attacked a Special Operations Group (SOG) camp in Fino, Lafey Sub-County, Mandera County, on Friday night.
Preliminary reports indicate that the attackers launched an assault on the camp before officers responded and repelled the attack.
According to police, the bully boyz used Rocket-Propelled Grenades (RPGs) and PKM machine guns during the raid.
SOG officers swiftly responded, engaging the attackers in a firefight that lasted approximately 25 minutes before forcing them to retreat.
The injured officers were taken for treatment as security agencies mounted an operation to pursue the assailants.
Security forces have since launched a manhunt for the bully boyz who escaped following the failed attack.
Authorities said additional security personnel had been deployed to the area as operations to track down the attackers continued.
Fino, which lies near the Kenya-Somalia border, has previously experienced attacks linked to suspected al-Shabaab bully boyz due to its proximity to the frontier.
The latest incident is part of a series of security breaches and attempted attacks reported in Mandera County, a region that has frequently been targeted by the Somalia-based bully boy group.
On Wednesday, coppers in Mandera foiled another attempted al-Shabaab attack after suspected bully boyz targeted the Jabi Quick Response Unit (QRU) Camp in Lafey Sub-County shortly after 7pm.
Preliminary reports indicated that about 10 heavily armed bully boyz approached the camp from the north-eastern direction and opened fire in what authorities believe was an attempt to overrun the facility.
The attackers reportedly fired from a distance of about 600 metres, apparently testing the camp’s defensive capabilities, but officers successfully repelled the assault without the bully boyz breaching the installation.
The Special Operations Group (SOG) is an elite multi-agency counter-terrorism unit operating under the Border Patrol Unit (BPU) and works closely with the National Intelligence Service (NIS) in securing Kenya’s borders and responding to high-risk security threats.
Le JNIM a publié ce soir 11 juin 2026 une vidéo de préparation des opérations imminentes dans les jours à venir, L'agence nationale de la sécurité d'Etat est en panique totale. Deux de ses officiers sont déjà dans la liste des primes du JNIM.
[HumangleMedia] Amid the ongoing armed violence, farmers are among the worst hit as terrorist attacks disrupt farming activities, despite being subjected to extortion payments to armed groups.
Shocking. Who would have thought that jihadis could lie?
SUMMARY
Muhammadu Mahe narrowly escaped abduction by terrorists in his northwestern Nigerian village, Ruwan Bado. The area has been plagued by violent attacks, stemming from longstanding farmer-herder conflicts, where terrorists demand "farming taxes" in exchange for safety. When Mahe's village was attacked, he decided to flee, joining others from his community who were forced to abandon their homes and farms due to the relentless terror threats.
Despite significant payments, the terrorists continue to disrupt farming activities, targeting communities and livestock without guarantees of safety. This lack of security infrastructure, coupled with insufficient state presence, has left communities vulnerable to the terror-induced financial strains. Many residents now prioritize survival over economic concerns, as they struggle to access their farmlands amidst ongoing threats.
🇺🇸 U.S. Naval Presence in the Middle East — June 2026
Chinese OSINT trackers report a significant concentration of U.S. naval forces across the Middle East, Red Sea and Eastern Mediterranean.
🔹 Arabian Sea
• USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN-72) Carrier Strike Group
• USS George H.W. Bush (CVN-77) Carrier Strike Group
• USS Tripoli (LHA-7) Amphibious Ready Group
🔹 Red Sea
• USS Thomas Hudner (DDG-116)
• USS Gonzalez (DDG-66)
🔹 Eastern Mediterranean
• USS Arleigh Burke (DDG-51)
• USS Oscar Austin (DDG-79)
• USS Roosevelt (DDG-80)
The reported deployment places two U.S. carrier strike groups, an amphibious ready group, and multiple destroyers within operational reach of key regional flashpoints, including the Strait of Hormuz, Red Sea shipping lanes, and the Eastern Mediterranean.
🇮🇷 #Iran - 🇧🇭 #Bahrain / 🇰🇼 #Kuwait / 🇺🇸 #US: Iranian media has shared satellite imagery, as well as 3D reconstructions, of US bases hit in Bahrain and Kuwait during the latest Iranian missile and drone attacks.
🇮🇷 #Iran - 🇧🇭 #Bahrain / 🇰🇼 #Kuwait / 🇺🇸 #US: Iranian media has shared satellite imagery, as well as 3D reconstructions, of US bases hit in Bahrain and Kuwait during the latest Iranian missile and drone attacks.
1. The first three satellite images show a destroyed US early-warning radar system (radome) in Bahrain, as well as damage to jet fuel tanks located at Sheikh Isa Air Base.
2. Another satellite image reportedly shows a second early-warning radar system destroyed in Kuwait at Ali Al Salem Air Base.
So far, the official position of Bahrain’s Ministry of Defence is that the incoming missiles were successfully intercepted and destroyed.
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"It was a 'rogue' unit. Just like all the others!"
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The ceasefire hasn’t started yet. Whether it will start remains to be seen — the Iranians sound pretty sure it won’t. Though perhaps that means they’re mistaking the difference between ceasing fire and being ceased by fire…
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Seeking Cure, I suspect we WOULD be wiping out the IRGC if we knew where to wipe. But can't hit one at a time without exposing our limited on-the-ground intel resources, so save up and hit what we have once Iran breaks the truce and gives us an excuse.
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If you expect a Muslim to keep their word on anything you're a fool.
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I've seen this X source posted here before. I don't know how credible he is, but he is tweeting things I'm not seeing any where else. I hope he is credible.
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited
[Regnum] Law enforcement officers detained 54-year-old Khasan Altemirov in Ingushetia, who is an accomplice to the organizers of the terrorist attack at the Crocus City Hall concert hall near Moscow. This was reported on Saturday, June 13.
According to Izvestia's source, Altemirov was taken into custody in connection with the illegal possession of a combat grenade.
Investigators discovered that the detainee was an accomplice of radicals belonging to the Batalkhadzhin community
…followers of Sheikh Batal-Khadji (also known as Batal-haji Belkharoyev), revered Sufi Islam teacher during the early part of the 20th century in Ingushetia and other parts of the North Caucasus. They appear to engage in the usual misbehaviours common to the region, and in 2023 sent a rapid response detachment (the Batalkhadzhinsky Rapid Response Detachment (BOBR) to fight with the Akhmat special forces. Naturally Russia finds this objectionable...
(a terrorist organization banned in Russia). Acting on direct orders from its leaders, the suspect produced false identification documents for at least three wanted criminals in 2025.
Among those who received fake passports from Altemirov was Batyr Kulaev, one of the direct organizers of the attack on Crocus City Hall (listed as a terrorist and extremist by Rosfinmonitoring). The source reported that, thanks to the forged documents, Kulaev was able to successfully flee the country.
The terrorist attack at Crocus City Hall occurred on March 22, 2024. Terrorists stormed the building, opened fire, and started a fire. As a result of the attack, 150 people were killed, one remains missing, and 609 were injured.
[IsraelTimes] A group of Israelis were pushed and verbally accosted by attendees at the LGBTQ Pride Parade in Bologna, Italy, earlier today, witnesses told Channel 12.
The group held a rainbow version of the Israeli flag, which other parade attendees took issue with, prompting the altercation. According to the report, a pregnant woman among the group of Israelis was violently pushed.
“They screamed at us that we were murderers, all the children there were scared,” one Israeli is quoted as saying.
“I stood with my wife and son and another family who came with strollers, and we filmed their screams.” Another adds,”We were with children, proud families who came to march in an event founded to promote our rights – and we were attacked because we are Jews.”
[IsraelTimes] As far-right demonstrators perform fascist salutes and praise Mussolini, a larger crowd of counter-protesters wave Palestinian flags and back migrant rights
Tens of thousands of people marched through the streets of the Italian capital in rival anti- and pro- migration demonstrations Saturday, after a far-right citizens’ initiative seeking sweeping measures against migrants colonists garnered enough support to be brought to parliament.
A petition by the initiative, named "Remigration and Reconquest," gathered the 50,000 signatures needed to trigger parliamentary discussion, pushing the once-fringe concept of "remigration" into the political mainstream. No date has been scheduled yet for a vote.
The proposal, promoted by right-wing groups, calls for sweeping measures targeting foreigners, including coercive returns, incentives to leave Italia and broader policies critics say could extend to legal residents.
Several thousand demonstrators from around Italia gathered for the anti-migration march, singing the national anthem. On several occasions, many of them raised their arms in the fascist ...anybody you disagree with, damn them... salute, shouting "Duce! Duce!," a reference to Italian dictator Benito Mussolini ...former dictator of Italia. He perfected the idea of the corporate state and was all the vogue in intellectual circles until he lined up with Adolf in the Second World War. He wanted Italians to be figli de la lupa, and like the sons of wolves they turned on him when they finally got the chance. He ended his days dangling by his heels in a public square next to his mistress... , who ruled Italia from 1922 to 1943.
A rival, pro-migration demonstration saw tens of thousands of people take to the streets in another part of Rome Saturday evening. That march was attended by various left-wing groups and trade unions, with some demonstrators waving Paleostinian flags.
Thousands of police were deployed to ensure the two rival groups would remain apart. No violence was reported.
The debate on migration represents a delicate balancing act for Premier Giorgia Meloni’s right-wing coalition. While the anti-migration League party has backed opening discussion, Meloni’s Brothers of Italia and centrist allies have been more cautious about endorsing a proposal linked to bully boy circles, amid concerns over legal risks and internal divisions.
Critics, including opposition parties and legal experts, argue the proposal would violate constitutional and international anti-discrimination principles by targeting people based on ethnic background, including naturalized citizens and their descendants.
The controversy comes even as Meloni’s government pursues a parallel policy of expanding legal migration, having approved a multiyear plan to admit hundreds of thousands of non-EU workers to address labor shortages in key economic sectors.
The demonstrations in Rome came a day after a new set of European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... rules came into effect, governing how each of the bloc’s 27 member states will deal with irregular migration and asylum seekers.
The European Migration and Asylum Pact is the culmination of years of grueling negotiations that overhauled the previous system, which was widely considered a failure and gave far-right parties a potent issue to win votes.
[IsraelTimes] Protesters in Toronto wearing ‘Jews for a free Palestine’ shirts unfurl banner calling for Israel’s ouster from FIFA, hold event calling for release of jailed Hamas medical officer
Protesters unfurled a massive red banner on top of the World Cup logo near a busy highway in Toronto on Friday, denouncing FIFA’s association with Israel, hours before Canada’s first game.
The anti-Israel demonstrators donning shirts that read "Jews for a free Paleostine" mounted a nearby embankment and dropped the banner with the message "Kick Israel out of FIFA."
While Israel is a member of the soccer association, its national team did not qualify for the World Cup.
The banner was visible to commuters on the Gardiner Expressway — one of Canada’s busiest — on their way to the home team’s opener against Bosnia and Herzegovina at the Toronto stadium.
Other actions organized by a group of activists included demands for the release of prominent Paleostinian doctor Hussam Abu Safiya, an officer in Hamas ..the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,... ’s Military Medical Services who is the director of Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern 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... , and was captured by the Israeli military in Gaza in late 2024.
Following his arrest, decade-old photos surfaced showing him wearing Hamas uniforms alongside senior members of the terror group. Abu Safiya holds the rank of colonel in the terror group’s Military Medical Services, according to the service and Paleostinian media reports.
The Military Medical Services is separate from Hamas’s military wing, the al-Qassam Brigades, though its members directly participated in Hamas’s October 7, 2023, terror onslaught in southern Israel, which sparked the Gaza war.
Faisal Ibrahim, a spokesperson for the activists, accused FIFA of being complicit with Israel’s actions against Paleostinians.
"FIFA not only turns a blind eye to the Israel Football Association’s playing of games on illegally occupied West Bank and Syrian territory, it actually actively broadcasts those games, thereby normalizing occupation and erasure, which makes FIFA an active and complicit participant," he told Rooters.
In March, global soccer’s ruling body said it would take no action against Israeli clubs accused by the Paleostine Football Association of competing while allegedly based in Paleostinian territory, citing the unresolved legal status of the West Bank under international law.
UN experts have also appealed to FIFA and the Union of European Football Associations to suspend Israel from international football.
The fighting core of ISIS was irredentist Iraqi Ba’athists looking for a vehicle with which to reclaim the country a decade after Saddam Hussein lost it. The question is whether this lot are taking orders from ISIS, or if they’d been quietly biding their time until erupting now.
[Rudaw] Iraq's National Security Service (INSS) has arrested 15 people accused of plotting liquidations against security bigshots, including the head of the agency, after what it described as a complex intelligence operation targeting a banned group linked to the toppled Ba’ath party.
Arshad al-Hakim, spokesperson for the INSS, told Rudaw on Friday that "in a highly complex intelligence operation, the National Security Service succeeded in infiltrating one of the fronts of the banned Ba'ath Party. We arrested 15 individuals who were conducting operations involving threats and incitement to destabilize security and stability."
The Ba'ath Party is banned in Iraq under the Law of the Prohibition of the Ba'ath Party and Dissolved Entities in 2016, which prohibits political and intellectual activity linked to the party and imposes legal penalties for its promotion.
The party had ruled Iraq from 1968 until 2003, when the US-led invasion of the country resulted in the ouster of the long-seated dictator Saddam Hussein.
Operating under the "National Gathering for Liberation," Hakim said their initial infiltration revealed that the suspects were instructed by their leaders to carry out targeted liquidations.
"They were assigned the task of eliminating and assassinating several figures, most notably the head of the National Security Service, the service's official spokesperson, the director general of Baghdad security, and several other officers," he said.
Hakim noted that the suspects were being tracked closely over "several infiltrations", adding that they "were aware of everything that was happening."
The spokesperson added that authorities intervened when the group allegedly moved beyond incitement and began preparing for attacks.
"There was talk of 'zero hour' and discussions regarding the locations and movements of these leaders and officers," he said, adding that the operation was thwarted and the "perpetrators were arrested and referred to the judiciary."
Last year, Iraq arrested 135 people suspected of having links to the banned Baath party in a nationwide campaign.
The arrests came less than a month before Iraq’s parliamentary elections, which had seen the disqualification of hundreds of candidates on charges linked to the Baath party.
Saddam Hussein’s oppressive regime was responsible for numerous crimes against humanity, including the Anfal genocide against the Kurds. The campaign reached its deadliest point in 1988 with the Halabja chemical attack that killed around 5,000 people and injured 10,000 more.
Hussein was executed in 2006 after he was sentenced to death for the killing of 148 Shiites. His trial on charges related to the Anfal genocide was still ongoing at the time of his execution.
Iraq carried out two Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s on Thursday targeting an 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) leader in the Iraqi eastern province of Diyala, leaving two dead as the country commemorates the victims of the Speicher massacre.
Iraq’s Joint Operations Command (JOC) said that following months of field monitoring and intelligence tracking by the Military Intelligence Directorate, "the heroic Air Falcons carried out two successful airstrikes using F-16 aircraft."
Adding that subsequently the Iraqi security units "began searching the targeted site and found the bodies of two terrorists," detailing that "one belonged to the criminal Muhannad Karim Ali (alias Abdul Aziz Abu Maysarah)," who held the position of the so-called "Emir of the South Bahriz Sector."
The operation coincides with the annual commemoration of the victims of the Speicher massacre. On June 12, 2014, over 1,700 cadets and soldiers undergoing training at the camp in Tikrit ...birthplace of Saddam Hussein... were executed by ISIS murderous Moslems, who had initially promised them safe passage.
Camp Speicher, which is currently named Majid al-Timimi air base, is located in the town of Tikrit, approximately 170 kilometers north of Baghdad.
Several of the country's provinces on Wednesday announced that Thursday is a public holiday, with Iraq’s state media reporting that Baghdad province "suspends official working hours tomorrow, Thursday, in its headquarters and affiliated departments in remembrance of the souls of the Speicher massacre deaders."
Inspector General of the Military, Jassim Mohammed Alwan, in a moment of silence and mourning for the victims of the massacre on Thursday, stated that "the victories achieved by our security forces, across all branches and formations, against the terrorist ’ISIS’ gangs were a tribute to the blood of the Speicher deaders that watered the soil of the homeland."
ISIS seized control of swathes of land in Iraq in 2014. The group was declared territorially defeated in 2017, but it continues to carry out bombings, hit-and-run attacks, and abductions across several provinces. ISIS remnants are particularly active in parts of northern Iraq that are disputed by Erbil and Baghdad, including in the provinces of Kirkuk, ... a thick stew of Arabs, Turkmen, Kurds, and probably Antarcticans, all of them mutually hostile most of the time... Diyala, and Salahaddin.
[IsraelTimes] Hundreds of anti-government protesters gather at Tel Aviv’s Habima Square for weekly demonstrations, with tonight’s rally expected to draw several thousand.
Some protesters marched from nearby Rabin Square, holding signs with varying anti-government messages, including anti-war and anti-occupation slogans, campaign messages for opposition parties and calls for the establishment of a State Commission of Inquiry into the failures that allowed the October 7, 2023, Hamas-led attacks.
“The members of the massacre government have their backs against the wall today,” Anti-government protest leader Shikma Bressler says in a speech before the main rally. “They see the polls, and they know what their part is in the great disaster that happened to us and in the great deterioration of the status of the State of Israel.”
Several family members of former hostages and fallen soldiers are expected to speak at the Tel Aviv protest.
Several other demonstrations were also being held at other locations across the country, including Haifa, Jerusalem, Beersheba and Afula.
[IsraelTimes] Speakers at the 500-strong anti-government protest on Tel Aviv’s Habima Square rail against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s failure to call for a statutory state commission of inquiry for failures surrounding the Hamas-led onslaught of October 7, 2023.
“As time passes the questions just pile up,” says Ayala Metzger, whose 80-year-old father-in-law Yoram was snatched to Gaza in the attack and killed in Hamas captivity.
A statutory committee, Israel’s highest investigative authority, comprises independent experts appointed by the chief justice, she notes.
Netanyahu’s proposed committee of inquiry, by contrast, would be selected by politicians.
“The political, populist, fascist committee of inquiry… would comprise three coalition representatives and three opposition representatives,” she says. “If the opposition members happen to refuse to take part in this perverse conduct, the three coalition members will act as the committee and probe the crimes they themselves are responsible for.”
Eran Littman, whose daughter Oriya was killed in the Hamas massacre at the Nova music festival, says the 26-year-old was “murdered because of a war of religion.”
“Hamas’s Muslic fanatics murdered her,” while letters left behind from slain Hamas chief Yahya Sinwar show “the damage that Jewish fanatics did to Muslim holy places triggered the un-ending war,” Littman claims.
Idiocy. The Hamas objection to Israel is that Jews dare to be there at all. Arab fedayeen, the same people who became the PLO and Hamas, were in the 1920s attacking native Jews in the ancient Jewish community of Tiberius as well as kibbutzniks, showing the objection long predated the existence of Jewish self-rule in 1948, never mind conquest of the West Bank, Gaza, and the Temple Mount. And given that the Hamas charter calls for wiping out the Jews of Israel as a first step before killing them all over the world, fussing at the Haredim for the provocation of praying on the Temple Mount seems a bit petty.
He expresses derision toward the Haredi effort to pass a quasi-constitutional Basic Law equating the privileges of draft-evading yeshiva students to those of Israelis who perform mandatory military service.
Agreed. But that is the political cost to Bibi because all the center-right and center-left parties shun him — he makes his coalitions where he can. Break the boycott, and the Haredis won’t have a hold on him anymore. Your choice, your consequences.
“Don’t you dare tell me learning Torah protects us,” he says. “Anyone who dares say that next to me, I’ll take them six feet under so they can say that to my Oriya.”
He notes ahead of these comments that his daughter’s body was retrieved by four Haredi volunteers with the ZAKA service who are “no less heroic than any commando.” Littman’s tirade is aimed at the government, not the volunteers, whom he has since befriended, he says.
As he speaks, police enter the crowd to break up a shouting match between pro-government provocateur Hadar Muchtar, who is trying to get footage from the protest, and a would-be anti-government influencer who tries to shout her down. Both are escorted aside, and police take their respective versions before letting them go.
[LegalInsurrection] The IDF strike kills Hezbollah mastermind of 2007 attack on U.S. troops, reports say
Israel Defense Forces (IDF) struck Hezbollah’s main Dahiyeh stronghold in southern Beirut on Sunday, responding to drone attacks by the Iranian proxy terrorist group.
"Following Hezbollah’s launch of aerial targets toward Israeli territory earlier today (Sunday), the IDF conducted a precise strike on a Hezbollah command center in Beirut," the Israeli military announced.
In response to a Hezbollah drone attack on Israel, the Israeli Air Force just struck a Hezbollah commander center in the Dahieh neighborhood of Beirut.
Initial reports speak of serious casualties among Hezbollah’s top leadership. pic.twitter.com/8r7N9MgJcJ
The Lebanon-based terrorist group was using the command center to direct cross-border attacks against Israel, the IDF disclosed. “The command center was used by Hezbollah terrorists to advance terrorist attacks against the citizens of the State of Israel and IDF soldiers operating in southern Lebanon,” the military added.
Isreali news reports suggest that senior Hezbollah commander, Ali Moussa Dakdouk, was eliminated in a recent strike. Dakdouk (also spelled Daqduq) orchestrated the 2007 ambush on a U.S. military facility in Karbala, Iraq, resulting in the deaths of five American soldiers.
“Ali Musa Daqduq, a senior Hezbollah commander who held a series of 5 senior positions within Hezbollah,” the IDF said. “Daqduq played a central role in advancing terrorist attacks and combat operations against Israel and IDF soldiers. In 2007, he orchestrated the kidnapping and murder of 5 American soldiers.”
[Rudaw] The US military said on Saturday that its forces intercepted multiple Iranian drones launched toward commercial vessels transiting the Strait of Hormuz, as efforts continue by Washington and Tehran to finalize a deal aimed at ending months of tensions and military confrontation. Perhaps they're only as "committed" as my last girlfriend?
"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 multiple one-way attack drones in an attempt to strike fat merchantmen transiting the Strait of Hormuz. U.S. forces have downed all of them in recent hours as traffic flow through the strait continues unimpeded," the US Central Command (CENTCOM) said in a statement.
"The international trade corridor remains open for transit," it added.
An hour earlier, CENTCOM highlighted ongoing US military operations in the region, saying that US fighter jets patrol "the skies above the Middle East as American forces maintain regional presence and vigilance."
Iran's drone attacks comes as the US continues enforcing a blockade on maritime traffic linked to Iran.
"U.S. forces continue to strictly enforce the blockade against Iran. CENTCOM has redirected 139 compliant fat merchantmen and disabled 9 non-compliant vessels since April 13," CENTCOM said late Friday.
The blockade, which took effect on April 13, targets vessels entering or leaving Iranian ports and is part of Washington's broader pressure campaign against Tehran.
The maritime campaign comes amid efforts by Washington and Tehran to finalize a deal aimed at ending months of tensions and military confrontation that began following the US and Israeli military campaign against Iran in late February.
US officials on Friday expressed optimism that an agreement could be reached in the coming days, with discussions reportedly focusing on reopening the Strait of Hormuz, dismantling Iran's nuclear program, and establishing a framework for long-term regional stability.
However,
today is that tomorrow you were thinking about yesterday... conflicting statements from both sides have cast uncertainty over the negotiations. US President Donald Trump ...Never got invited to a P.Diddy party... on Friday rejected terms of a purported agreement published by Iranian media, insisting that they "have NOTHING to do with the terms that were agreed to, in writing."
Iranian officials have meanwhile denied making several concessions attributed to Tehran in media reports.
[Rudaw] The US military said on Friday that its forces have redirected 139 commercial ships and disabled nine vessels since the enforcement of a blockade targeting maritime traffic linked to Iran began in mid-April.
"U.S. forces continue to strictly enforce the blockade against Iran. CENTCOM has redirected 139 compliant commercial ships and disabled 9 non-compliant vessels since April 13," the US Central Command (CENTCOM) said in a statement.
The blockade, which took effect on April 13, targets vessels entering or leaving Iranian ports as part of Washington's broader pressure campaign against Tehran. CENTCOM has previously said the measures are intended to restrict Iran's maritime activities while maintaining freedom of navigation for vessels transiting the Strait of Hormuz to and from non-Iranian ports.
The latest figures indicate a continued increase in enforcement actions. Two weeks ago, CENTCOM announced that US forces had redirected 100 vessels and disabled four others during blockade operations.
The maritime campaign comes amid efforts by Washington and Tehran to finalize a deal aimed at ending months of tensions and military confrontation. US officials have recently expressed optimism that an agreement could be reached in the coming days, with discussions reportedly focusing on reopening the Strait of Hormuz, dismantling Iran's nuclear program, and establishing a framework for long-term regional stability.
However, conflicting statements from both sides have cast uncertainty over the negotiations. US President Donald Trump on Friday rejected terms of a purported agreement published by Iranian media, insisting that they "have NOTHING to do with the terms that were agreed to, in writing."
Iranian officials have meanwhile denied making several concessions attributed to Tehran in media reports, underscoring persistent differences despite indications that diplomatic efforts are advancing.
The blockade has become one of the central features of the US strategy toward Iran since the latest phase of the conflict erupted on February 28, with both countries exchanging military strikes and accusations over maritime security in the Gulf region. The Strait of Hormuz, through which a significant portion of the world's oil supplies passed before the war, has remained a focal point of the crisis, raising concerns over global energy markets and regional stability.
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[NYPost] Iran booby-trapped the tunnels leading to its highly enriched uranium stockpile in recent weeks — in an apparent bid to stop the US from raiding its key nuclear site, a bombshell new report revealed.
The Islamic Republic planted explosive mines at tunnel entrances and deliberately collapsed passageways to its nuclear cache in the city of Isfahan, south of Tehran, five sources familiar with US intelligence told CNN.
The news comes after President Trump was reportedly considering sending in US troops to seize the nuclear material in late March.
The risky ground raid was ultimately scrapped, but may have given Tehran the incentive to conceal its nuclear assets, two of the sources said.
An estimated 440 pounds of 60% enriched uranium — which is only a short technical step from a nuclear weapon — is stored in the tunnel complex, the only major nuclear site that appears to have survived largely intact after the 12-day war with Israel in June 2025, according to the International Atomic Energy Agency, the UN’s nuclear watchdog.
That amount represents more than half of the Iranian regime’s total stockpile of highly enriched uranium, the IAEA said.
Iran also reportedly intentionally sealed some of its tunnels at Isfahan to block access to nuclear materials over the last few weeks.
A proposed peace deal to effectively end the war between the US and Iran, which is expected to be signed this weekend, requires Tehran to turn over its enriched uranium so it can be destroyed on site and transported out of the country.
🇮🇱 NEW: The IDF says the seven Hezbollah terrorists eliminated this week were spotted emerging from a tunnel used to store weapons and launch attacks against Israeli forces.
🇮🇱 NEW: The IDF says the seven Hezbollah terrorists eliminated this week were spotted emerging from a tunnel used to store weapons and launch attacks against Israeli forces.
According to the military, reservists from the 551st Paratroopers Brigade identified the operatives, who were then targeted with airstrikes, artillery fire, and explosive drones.
Weapons and additional equipment were later found near the tunnel.
🇮🇱 IDF operations in southern Lebanon over the past week:
• Identified two Hezbollah terrorists cells operating from an underground route. • Eliminated all seven Hezbollah terrorists in coordination with the Israeli Air Force, artillery forces, and unmanned aerial defense. •… pic.twitter.com/L8JHpEvz0r
[IsraelTimes] Lebanese army withdraws from southern city, says soldier seriously injured in Israeli drone strike; seven terror operatives killed earlier this week after emerging from tunnel
The Israel Defense Forces on Saturday said it struck over 70 Hezbollah sites in southern 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.... , targeting rocket launchers and buildings allegedly used by the terror group to advance attacks, after the army issued evacuation warnings for over 20 locations.
The military added that it killed several Hezbollah operatives identified in areas of southern Lebanon where troops were operating.
Lebanon’s National News Agency (NNA) reported Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s in several areas covered by the evacuation warnings, including the villages of Rihan and Sujud, located not far from the city of Nabatieh, which is considered to be a Hezbollah stronghold.
Meanwhile,
...back at the saloon, Butch got the bill for the damage caused by the fist fight, the mirror broken in the shootout, and drinks for everyone...... the Lebanese army said one of its soldiers was seriously maimed in an Israeli dronezap in southern Lebanon.
According to the Lebanese Armed Forces, the soldier was first targeted near a hospital in Nabatieh, without being injured.
He was then targeted again on a road between Kfar Roummane and Nabatieh, "resulting in him sustaining serious injuries," the LAF said.
There was no immediate comment from the IDF.
The Lebanese army withdrew from its positions in the southern town of Kfar Tebnit, close to Nabatieh, as the IDF advanced in the area, according to Lebanese media.
Footage published by Lebanese media shows armored vehicles of the LAF driving away from Kfar Tebnit on the outskirts of Nabatieh.
In a separate statement, the IDF said that seven Hezbollah operatives who were operating out of a tunnel in southern Lebanon were killed in strikes this week.
According to the military, reservists of the 551st Paratroopers Brigade spotted two cells of Hezbollah button men emerging from the tunnel, which was used by Hezbollah to store weapons and to carry out attacks.
The operatives were killed in airstrikes, artillery shelling, and by explosive drones, the army said, adding that troops found weapons and equipment near the tunnel afterward.
Additionally, the IDF said on Saturday that a suspected Hezbollah drone struck near Israeli forces operating in southern Lebanon. No injuries were caused in the incident.
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 current bout of conflict began when Hezbollah started attacking northern Israel with rockets and drones in support of 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... days after the US and Israel launched the war with the Islamic Theocratic Republic in late February.
An April ceasefire in Lebanon collapsed, and the fighting has continued despite a new conditional truce deal announced last week after Lebanese-Israeli talks in Washington.
Thirty IDF soldiers and one Defense Ministry civilian contractor have been killed in southern Lebanon amid fighting against Hezbollah since hostilities escalated amid the Iran war. Two civilians were also killed by Hezbollah rockets, and an Israeli civilian was mistakenly killed in the north by Israeli artillery shelling.
In Lebanon, the Israeli military has said that it has killed over 2,500 Hezbollah operatives, including hundreds of members of the terror group’s elite Radwan Force, since early March.
In one of the tunnel routes, where several Hezbollah operatives tried to break free several days ago, Israeli forces located maps “illustrating control of the area over the northern [Israel] communities,” the army says.
The major tunnel system, which the IDF says was built by Hezbollah with Iranian direct assistance, is to be demolished once troops have finished scanning it.
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... the Islamic version of the old Somali warlord...
[HumangleMedia] Amid the ongoing armed violence, farmers are among the worst hit as terrorist attacks disrupt farming activities, despite being subjected to extortion payments to armed groups.
...anybody you disagree with, damn them...
..the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,...
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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 
...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....
