[HumangleMedia] Dozens of farmers went to work on their farms on Friday, but not all of them were lucky enough to return home alive.
SUMMARY
Seventeen farmers were killed, and thirteen injured in a terrorist attack in Maradun LGA, Zamfara, Nigeria. This is part of a broader issue where rural terrorism has thrived for over a decade, forcing farmers to pay exorbitant "farming taxes" to militant groups for access to their fields.
Despite payments, many communities are displaced, and attacks on farmers are increasing, disrupting agriculture activities.
Local security has been ineffective as indicated by repeated incidents, including the abduction of about 40 community leaders under false pretenses. Recent violence has persisted across various local government areas of Zamfara, further highlighted by incessant attacks which resulted in deaths and injuries of numerous farmers.
The ongoing threat deters farming activities and devastates local economies, leaving residents in fear and uncertainty.
“There were a lot of motorcycles with bandits on top, shooting sporadically, but I managed to escape. The bandits [terrorists] must have divided into groups because there were gunshots from all corners,” Bello said.
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[KavkazUzel] Investigators believe two residents of Dagestan participated in the activities of an international terrorist organization, and one of them recruited a minor.
The criminal prosecution of two Dagestani residents was based on materials from the republic's FSB department. Both are accused of participating in the activities of a terrorist organization, and one of the defendants is also suspected of assisting terrorist activity by involving a minor (Part 2 of Article 205.5 and Part 2 of Article 205.1 of the Russian Criminal Code, which carry a sentence of 10 to 20 years in prison).
According to investigators, one of the suspects, from November 2025 to April 2026, while in Derbent, promoted terrorist ideas "aimed at expanding and resuming the activities of a banned organization." The second suspect, via instant messaging, convinced a minor he knew to join the same terrorist organization. The teenager eventually agreed and "committed actions indicating participation in its activities," the Dagestan Investigative Committee reported on its Telegram channel.
The investigation's statement does not specify which terrorist organization is being referred to. The agency also does not disclose the ages and occupations of the suspects or indicate the preventive measures they have been given. However, investigators have not ruled out the possibility that they will be charged with other criminal offenses that have not yet been identified.
[FOX] The U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Minnesota on Tuesday announced that 15 Antifa members have been indicted for their alleged roles in conspiring to hinder federal immigration enforcement operations in Minneapolis earlier this year.
The suspects, 12 of whom are in custody, are all charged with conspiracy to impede or injure a federal officer, according to a 94-page criminal complaint, and some are charged with further crimes. Federal prosecutors allege that each suspect took part in a conspiracy to obstruct federal immigration enforcement officers, including ICE personnel, through force, intimidation and threats.
The suspects are alleged members of the Antifa cell Direct Action Minnesota Network (DAMN), a radical far-left group accused of coordinating operations against federal immigration officers.
Federal prosecutors maintain that the group use Signal chats to organize and carry out rapid response operations including coordinating street blockades, tracking federal vehicles, surveilling the ICE field office at the federal Whipple Building and other activities meant to stop immigration officials from conducting their business.
The government says that DAMN served as the hub for participants to share intelligence, plan actions, recruit volunteers and assign roles.
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It is Right to openly and disagree peacefully with our government.
But it must be done peacefully, without property damages, looting, without harm to others, and in a non-disruptive to general public. Like blocking traffic, 1st responders and the freedom of movement of others.
ANTI-FA and other far left radical groups like them. Have called for, and even inflected physical harm to ICE and even innocent public bystanders. Their use of arson, IED's, weapons, and other instruments, have met the definition of 18 U.S.C. § 2331(5) covering Domestic Terrorists. Add to it the mayhem they planned and caused by their many violent protests.
18 U.S.C. § 2331(5) defines domestic terrorism as activities that involve acts dangerous to human life, violate U.S. laws, and are intended to intimidate or coerce a civilian population or influence government policy, occurring primarily within the United States.
Therefore, for their prison sentences to reflect the seriousness of their Crimes against the United States Of America citizens and to obtain a level of justice to meet their subversive crimes. Their cases must not be handled by any known liberal social justice minded DA/Asst-AG or Judge.
ALSO those organizing and funding these activities must exposed and arrested. No matter how much influence and $$$$$ they may have with the DC Swamp.
[IsraelTimes] Law enforcement raided Shuafat refugee camp in East Jerusalem overnight, seizing firearms including three M-16 assault rifles, police say.
The raid took place after police investigators began suspecting that a resident of the refugee camp had been smuggling firearms in the area.
The man was arrested and brought to the Jerusalem Magistrate’s Court this morning, where his detention was extended for two days.
An axe, knife, ammunition and magazines were also seized in the searches, police add.
[IsraelTimes] US military has conducted dozens of risky ship-to-ship oil transfers, sources say, also revealing that the Apache helicopter downed last week was part of the operation
The United States military has overseen scores of secretive ship-to-ship oil transfers to keep Gulf energy exports flowing, using aerial and water drones as well as helicopters in an operation to guide convoys to awaiting tankers.
The operation on the edge of the Strait of Hormuz employs a shuttling technique long used by 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... to skirt sanctions. Two specific locations where the oil transfers take place were identified by 11 people familiar with the operation — one off the coast of Fujairah in the United Arab Emirates and the other off Oman’s port of Sohar. It started in early May, and at least 92 ships have been involved in the transfers, according to shipping data and satellite imagery reviewed by Rooters.
As recently as June 11, 17 pairs of ships could be seen carrying out simultaneous oil transfers at the two sites, according to satellite images reviewed by Rooters.
An Apache helicopter downed by Iran on June 9, sparking retaliatory bombings by the US, was involved in the mission, according to four sources, including a former US official with knowledge of the attack. Using satellite imagery, Rooters counted six pairs of tanker ships clustered together in a small area off the port of Sohar the day the Apache was shot down.
Rooters could not confirm what role the Apache played in the operation. In response to Rooters questions, a US defense official said no Central Command forces are taking part in an offshore ship-to-ship oil transfer operation. Both crew members were rescued by a drone boat, US officials said.
The extent of the ship-to-ship transfers, how they work, and the Apache’s role in the operation have not been previously reported. The White House referred questions to CENTCOM. The Iranian government did not respond to requests for comment about the transfer operation.
The two spots where these transfers take place, in the Gulf of Oman near the exit of the Strait of Hormuz, are close to the boundaries drawn by the Persian Gulf Strait Authority, a new Iranian body established to manage the Hormuz Strait. Ships that fail to comply with Iran’s orders are at risk of drone and missile attack by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.
The Fujairah port itself has come under repeated Iranian fire during the time this US-led operation has been underway. This past weekend, according to the British maritime risk management group Vanguard, an "unknown projectile" struck a tanker off the coast of Oman. Vanguard said in a statement that the crew was safe and that the impact caused some leakage of the cargo, but no environmental damage. It did not specify whether the tanker was involved in a ship-to-ship transfer.
Iran responded to the US-Israeli war by effectively closing the Strait of Hormuz, through which roughly a fifth of global oil consumption normally passes. That created the biggest global energy supply disruption in history and has spurred inflation around the world.
The ship-to-ship transfers, though risky and inefficient, appear to be a part of the Trump administration’s efforts to help restore normal oil flows from the Gulf. US President Donald Trump ...Never got invited to a P.Diddy party... said the Strait of Hormuz would reopen Friday under a framework peace deal with Iran announced this week, but details remain vague. Rooters could not determine whether the announced deal had affected the oil transfers.
A Rooters investigation published May 20 found that Iran has established its own system for ushering ships through the opposite side of the Strait, involving island checkpoints, diplomatic deals and sometimes fees.
STAGGERED DEPARTURES
The American transfer operations are fully controlled by the US military, said eight of the sources, including a private security contractor who has been involved in the transfers.
Tankers must sail to a meeting point before they reach the strait, then stagger their departures so they are around 3,000 to 4,000 meters apart, according to one of the sources as well as satellite imagery. Their transponders are off and their lights are dimmed, according to four sources.
A series of waypoints allow the US military to monitor the progress of the designated tankers, but the Americans are "obviously watching you all the time," one of the sources said.
When they pass through the strait, just beyond a zone that Iran has delineated as under its control, the tankers pull alongside the recipient ships, which are Very Large Crude Carriers, or VLCCs, to begin the oil transfers. These take between 24 and 40 hours to complete. The empty tankers then shuttle back through the strait and the newly loaded VLCCs sail onward.
What makes this ship-to-ship operation possible is that there are a few shippers willing to sail their vessels through the strait to deliver the oil to the waiting tankers, despite the Iranian blockade.
But the operation is risky. "You just don’t know when Iran might just decide to start using drones or even gunboats in order to prevent even those ships from transiting the strait," said Noam Raydan, a senior fellow at Washington Institute who specializes in maritime risk and who reviewed Rooters’ findings.
The ship-to-ship technique has been used by Iran for years to bypass sanctions, because it masks the source of the oil. The Iranians usually operate one pair of ships at a time, both to avoid detection and because its prewar exports were relatively small. The US-led operation, which involves mass transfers, gives Gulf producers better protection from Iranian retaliatory attacks so they can move crude, condensate and petroleum products to international buyers.
Rooters reviewed more than a dozen satellite images taken between May 2 and June 11 showing ship-to-ship transfers involving state-owned Gulf tanker fleets and internationally operated vessels that receive the oil. LSEG and Kpler shipping data reviewed by Rooters showed repeated rendezvous between tankers operating in the area during the same period.
Based on the imagery, Rooters calculated that at least 90 million barrels of crude oil and petroleum products may have moved through the offshore network since early May. The volumes, based on the tankers’ carrying capacities, are still small compared to the prewar average of about 20 million barrels that passed through the strait daily.
"As the old rules weaken, it’s ironic that the United States is now taking a page out of the playbook of China, Russia, North Korea ...hereditary Communist monarchy distinguished by its truculence and periodic acts of violence. Distinguishing features include Songun (Army First) policy, which involves feeding the army before anyone but the Dear Leadership, and Juche, which is Kim Jong Il's personal interpretation of Marxism-Leninism, which he told everybody was brilliant. In 1950 the industrialized North invaded agrarian South Korea. Twenty-one countries of the United Nations eventually contributed to the UN force opposing the invasion, with the United States providing around 90% of the military personnel. Seventy years later the economic results are in and it doesn't look good for Juche... , and even Iran, whose so-called ’dark fleets’ pioneered these techniques precisely to evade US and UN sanctions," Michael Froman, president of the Council on Foreign Relations, wrote in a note Friday. He was referring to the practice of sending ships through the strait without transponders, which Trump mentioned in comments June 10 after the downing of the Apache.
Six sources with direct knowledge of the operation said the US has supported participating vessels through a combination of aerial surveillance, compliance screening and monitoring rather than naval escort. Rooters found no indication that US military personnel were directly involved in the transfers themselves.
THROUGH THE STRAIT
The receiving side of the operation is dominated by international tanker operators, according to a review of the shipping records. One of them, Greece-based Dynacom Tankers Management, has alluded to its efforts to find creative ways to ship oil through the strait since the war began on February 28.
"Freedom of navigation is essential and nobody can impose tolls or any other burden," George Procopiou, Dynacom’s founder, told a Capital Link shipping conference in Athens on June 1. "We are here to serve, and Greece has the tradition of breaking blockades since antiquity," he said. "I don’t want to go into more details, but I believe the hints are enough to understand what I mean."
Dynacom did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the US operation.
Another maritime source, however, said the new system imposes its own risks on their industry.
"There is a paucity of reliable data," the maritime security source said. The transponders used to communicate ships locations are switched off, "and companies are not reporting through the usual reporting centres." That risks collision between the ships, which travel at night with their lights off at speeds that don’t allow for easy maneuvering, according to multiple shipping industry officials.
Four sources familiar with the arrangements said operators seeking access to the system are required to undergo a compliance review process before being allocated transit windows. The process includes submitting information to the US Navy’s Naval Cooperation and Guidance for Shipping office in Bahrain.
Two preliminary compliance documents reviewed by Rooters required operators to provide complete geospatial tracking histories, full beneficial ownership disclosure, cargo documentation and a willingness to permit cargo testing.
If they are approved, participating vessels are then assigned transit windows and remain in contact with the U.S. military office in Bahrain throughout the voyage.
Emirati exports account for a substantial share of the US transfer operation, according to shipping records reviewed by Rooters. Six of the sources said UAE’s state-owned national oil company ADNOC has been among the most active participants in the US-led transfers.
The Kuwait Oil Tanker Company has also been active in the transfers. Some 2.3 million barrels of crude were siphoned from one of its ships off the coast of Sohar on June 6, one of the busiest days for the transfers, according to TankerTrackers.com data. The receiving ship, Sea Ruby, was spotted five days later off India’s southwest coast and bound for China, where the cargo was expected to be discharged.
The UAE government, ADNOC and the Kuwait Oil Tanker Company did not respond to requests for comment.
"I don’t see a permanent solution in all of this," said Raydan. "This is a temporary solution amid exceptional times."
[IsraelTimes] Javad Zamani and Abolfazl Saedi convicted of waging war against God and ‘corruption on earth’ for allegedly participating in January anti-regime rioting
Iranian authorities on Tuesday executed two men after convicting them for their alleged role in anti-government protests that peaked in January, the judiciary said.
"The death sentence ...the barbaric practice of sentencing a murderer to be punished for as long as his/her/its victim is dead... s of Javad Zamani and Abolfazl Saedi, armed leaders of the January 2026 coup attempt, were carried out," the judiciary’s official outlet Mizan Online reported.
The executions were carried out after the pair were convicted of moharebeh — waging war against God — and "corruption on earth," both capital offenses.
They were found guilty of "the deliberate destruction of public and private property with the intention of confronting the system of the Islamic Theocratic Republic of Iran," Mizan said.
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 in recent weeks stepped up executions of convicts found guilty of allegedly acting on behalf of Israel and the United States, which launched strikes on Iran that triggered a wider regional conflict on February 28.
Many of the executions were of people linked to protests that broke out prior to the war, which Iranian authorities labeled as "foreign-instigated riots."
Iran brutally suppressed the protests, with opposition groups saying tens of thousands were killed in the crackdown that included live fire at crowds.
Iran executes more people annually than any other nation besides China, according to rights groups.
On Monday, the United Nations ...an organization which on balance has done more bad than good, with the good not done well and the bad done thoroughly... said Iran had executed at least 40 people, including 18 protesters, since the start of 2026.
Breaking | The @IDF is carrying out intensive artillery shelling on a hilltop known locally as Ali Al Taher, located between the villages of Kfar Reman and Kfar Tebnit in the Nabatieh Governorate of southern Lebanon, northeast of Nabatieh city. Reports indicate that nearly two… pic.twitter.com/8M57ujMT5k
Breaking | The IDF is carrying out intensive artillery shelling on a hilltop known locally as Ali Al Taher, located between the villages of Kfar Reman and Kfar Tebnit in the Nabatieh Governorate of southern Lebanon, northeast of Nabatieh city.
Reports indicate that nearly two dozen artillery rounds have struck the area. This is among the most intense exchanges of fire reported in the sector since the ceasefire took effect.
A short while later, the Israeli Air Force struck and destroyed the launcher, the IDF says.
Additionally, the IDF says it spotted a suspicious vehicle in an area of southern Lebanon where troops are operating today. The soldiers fired warning shots, and later carried out a strike “to remove the threat,” the army says.
Initially, a car was targeted in a drone strike in Mayfadoun, before a second strike hit the area after locals gathered there, Lebanon’s National News Agency reports.
NNA says a third strike hit another car in the town, and a fourth strike hit a car in the adjacent town of Shoukine.
The strikes resulted in the deaths of four and injured others, according to NNA.
Cartel networks are adopting a more hands-on approach to their modus operandi in Africa, marking a new chapter after four decades of facilitating illicit drug flows through the continent to reach destination markets in Europe and North America.
A recently raided methamphetamine production facility in South Africa is the latest in a string of major meth lab busts in Kenya and Nigeria where Mexican chemists were sent on behalf of either the Sinaloa and Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG) to establish greater direct presence and develop local synthetic illicit drug production in Africa.
The increasing involvement of Mexican cartels in Africa’s meth trade is likely a direct effect from the increasing constraints on Latin American production sites and smuggling routes amidst the U.S.-led counternarcotics campaign in the region.
The growing presence of Latin American cartels in Africa raises several risks to local and regional security, with the likely introduction of drone technology to local militant and criminal groups, potential interaction with terrorist organizations, and challenges to governance and law enforcement.
Last week, the South African Police Service (SAPS) Directorate for Priority Crime Investigation (DPCI), widely known as the country’s elite ‘Hawks Unit,’ conducted a raid on a rural farm in Swartruggens, discovering an industrial-scale laboratory that contained over 481 kilos of methamphetamine — estimated to be worth around $61 million. The discovery did not break national records; however, it did confirm a growing trend both in South Africa and across the continent: the involvement of cartel-associated Mexican nationals in local synthetic drug production.
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Can't wait for the cartels to meet the likes of Boko Haram and al Shaboob. And then there are the Russians and the Chinese. Better stock up on popcorn.
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[HumangleMedia] Dozens of farmers went to work on their farms on Friday, but not all of them were lucky enough to return home alive. 
...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 
...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 
