[IsraelTimes] Prosecutors say seized materials show teen admired Nazi leader, Christchurch mosque shooter Brenton Tarrant and Norwegian mass killer Anders Breivik
A British 14-year-old on Thursday denied plotting a terrorist attack on two mosques in south London, which prosecutors say was motivated by extreme right-wing ideology set out in a “manifesto” which said he was inspired by Adolf Hitler.
The teenager appeared at London’s Westminster Magistrates’ Court and pleaded not guilty to the preparation of terrorist acts relating to the alleged plot.
He also denied an additional charge of racially aggravated criminal damage and was remanded in youth detention until he next appears in court on August 21.
Prosecutor Adam Harbinson said the 14-year-old was arrested earlier this month for throwing a brick through a Black woman’s car window in June, after which devices and notebooks were seized from his bedroom.
The material contained a document setting out his views in which the teenager said he was “inspired” by Hitler, as well as Christchurch mosque shooter Brenton Tarrant and Norwegian mass killer Anders Breivik, Harbinson added.
The prosecutor said the 14-year-old had planned to stab people at the two mosques and had conducted online reconnaissance.
“Putting together the information that was gleaned from the notebooks and information from online activity and a manifesto that were found on the devices, it became apparent that (he) had a plan to carry out an act of terrorism… namely to attack worshippers at two mosques in Sutton,” Harbinson said.
The prosecutor added: “In the manifesto, he refers to having been inspired by Adolf Hitler, Brenton Tarrant and Anders Breivik.”
[Rudaw] A drone has reportedly crashed at a port in southern Iraq's Basra province for the second day in a row on Thursday, a day after a separate drone crash was recorded at another port in the province.
A drone crashed into an oil tanker at a terminal in Basra's Umm Qasr port, causing no damage or fire, Rooters reported, citing four Iraqi oil and security sources.
Crude oil flows have been suspended at all of Iraq's oil loading terminals following the incident, the agency added.
The reports come a day after a drone crashed at Iraq's Grand Faw Port, also in Basra.
"Local authorities were notified on Wednesday morning after a drone crashed into the port's container yard," Faw Mayor Waleed al-Sharifi told Rudaw on Wednesday, adding that the aircraft was "completely destroyed upon impact."
Sharifi added that the incident "caused no damage to the port's facilities and resulted in no casualties."
Umm Qasr port is Iraq's primary deep-water seaport, located along the Kuwaiti border near the Khor al-Zubair waterway. Grand Faw, meanwhile, sits at the tip of the al-Faw Peninsula, directly across a narrow marine channel from Kuwait's Bubiyan Island.
The drone crashes come as Kuwait has reported a surge of Iranian attacks over the past two days.
The Kuwaiti defense ministry on Wednesday reported that four cruise missiles and 21 drones were launched 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... against its territories. A day prior, the ministry had reported that 33 Iranian drones, one ballistic missile, and five cruise missiles were fired at the Sheikhdom as well.
Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) confirmed Wednesday that it launched a new wave of attacks on what is said was a US military base in Kuwait, claiming to have hit its "satellite communications center, missile and air defense radar systems, Patriot air defense battery, a logistics depot, and HIMARS missile launchers."
A day prior, the IRGC said its "navy and aerospace" units struck "weapons and equipment depots" for US vessels and aircraft at Sheikh Isa Air Base in Bahrain in a "coordinated missile and drone operation." The Corps also claimed to have hit "the deployment ramp for MQ-9s at Ali Al Salem Air Base in Kuwait," reporting damage and destruction of several aircraft.
[IsraelTimes] Several top members of a health organization affiliated with the Popular Front for the Liberation of Paleostine terror group were recently apprehended in the West Bank, Israeli authorities announce.
The Union of Health Committees was outlawed by Israel in 2021 for allegedly serving as “a central part of the financial apparatus” of the PFLP.
In a joint statement, the Shin Bet, police and IDF say that several senior employees at the Union of Health Committees were arrested after “the institution had resumed operating from its headquarters in Ramallah and continued employing operatives, including members of the Popular Front terrorist organization.”
Among those detained are PFLP operatives, the statement says.
The Shin Bet says that in the past few days, indictments were filed against some of the suspects, and additional indictments are expected in the coming weeks.
[IsraelTimes] Army says it targeted Hamas commander who invaded Israel on Oct. 7, as Central Command chief confirms apparent violation of truce stipulation that Israel only hold onto 53% of territory
Five people were killed in Israeli strikes throughout 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... on Thursday, with a senior Israeli officer confirming that the Israel Defense Forces have taken over 60 percent of the Strip’s territory, in what further demonstrated the porous nature of the ceasefire with Hamas ..not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,... Medics said an Israeli Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... killed two people near the Tuffah neighborhood in the north of the enclave, while a third person was killed in Israeli tank shelling in the Zeitoun suburb in eastern Gaza City.
Another airstrike at a tent encampment for displaced people in western Gaza City killed one person and maimed several, while an attack on a vehicle in Khan Younis, in the south, killed another, medics said.
Witnesses also reported that an airstrike hit a residential building in the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza, causing damage to several homes nearby.
The deaths add to a toll of more than 1,100 Paleostinians killed by Israeli strikes since an October ceasefire between Israel and Hamas took effect, according to Gazook health officials. The figure doesn’t differentiate between civilians and combatants, but the IDF has found the Hamas health ministry figures to be generally reliable.
The army only commented on one of the Thursday killings, confirming that it carried out an airstrike in northern Gaza that killed an individual who it said was a Hamas commander who invaded Israel during the October 7, 2023, onslaught.
Nihad Riyad Abd al-Rahim Arouq was a platoon commander in Hamas’s Shati Battalion and recently worked to train additional bandidosholy warriors and advance attacks on troops, the military claimed.
"The terrorist posed a threat to our forces operating in the Gaza Strip and was eliminated in a precise aerial strike," the IDF said.
The IDF in recent months has ramped up strikes on terror operatives in Gaza, including numerous October 7 terrorists, insisting almost every time that they posed a threat to Israeli forces. But those strikes have also come with civilian casualties, including women, children and aid workers.
The IDF said earlier Thursday that its troops had destroyed four Hamas weapon depots in strikes in central Gaza overnight. It also confirmed a strike from Wednesday that killed a Paleostinian identified as Omar Ahmed Abu Qasem. The IDF called him a Hamas sniper commander who recently acted to restore Hamas’s capabilities and advance attacks, "in violation of the ceasefire agreement," the IDF added.
Separately on Thursday, Central Command chief Maj. Gen. Avi Bluth declared that Israel now controls more than 60% of the Gaza Strip’s territory, well beyond the portion of the enclave that Israel was allowed to temporarily continue holding as part of an October 2025 ceasefire deal with Hamas.
"We are standing here [near] the northern Gaza Strip, looking at everything we have achieved — and we have achieved a great deal. More than 60% of the Strip is in our hands," said Bluth during a handover ceremony on Wednesday for the commander of the 99th Division, whose forces operated in the Strip in recent years.
"There is a security zone for the communities near the Gaza border, held by two divisions and the IDF’s finest soldiers. The threat of an invasion, as occurred nearly three years ago, is no longer possible," he said.
It marked the first time that an IDF official had publicly confirmed that the military had expanded its areas of control in the Strip.
Bluth added, however, that "Hamas still controls [its portion of the Strip] and the murderous organization retains residual capabilities, and its vision of destroying Israel has not changed."
In May, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that he ordered the IDF to take control of 70% of the Gaza Strip. At the start of the truce, the military controlled around 53% of the war-torn Paleostinian enclave, with Hamas controlling the other 47%, where nearly all of the Strip’s two million residents live.
Last month, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio ...The diminutive 13-year-old Republican U.S. Senator from Florida, Secretary of State in the second Trump administration... acknowledged that Netanyahu’s directive goes against US President Donald Trump ...Oh, noze! Not him!... ’s 20-point plan to end the conflict between Israel and Hamas.
However,
ars longa, vita brevis... the US has refrained from pushing Israel to roll back its takeover of additional Gaza territory and hasn’t commented publicly on it further.
[AnNahar] Israeli warplanes targeted Nabatieh al-Fawqa and the outskirts of Baraashit and Beit Yahoun in southern Lebanon on Thursday, while artillery shelled Rshaf.
The National News Agency said two strikes targeted Nabatieh al-Fawqa and a third strike targeted Ali al-Taher hill on the outskirts of the town.
Meanwhile, Israeli forces set fire to homes and land on the outskirts of Beit Yahoun.
I much prefer breaking more things until whatever is left of Iran surrenders, to deescalation. And as long as we break Iran’s things, Israel can concentrate on quietly collecting information there while acting on her other fronts.
[IsraelTimes] Tehran targets Jordan, Kuwait and Bahrain, while warning it will hit civilian infrastructure across region if Trump follows through on threat to attack power plants and bridges
The United States struck 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... and Tehran hit back at US allies in the Gulf on Thursday, as the foes battled over the vital Strait of Hormuz in the renewed Middle East war.
The rekindled fighting came a month after the signing of a preliminary deal that aimed to end the conflict, which broke out in late February with massive US-Israeli strikes on Iran. So far Israel has not been involved in the latest escalation and Tehran has not directly targeted the Jewish state.
On Thursday, Tehran warned it would target infrastructure across the region if Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and whatever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th and 47th President of the United States... followed through on a threat to attack power plants and bridges in Iran — though the White House said the US president remained "open to diplomacy."
Earlier, Iran’s Revolutionary Guards said they struck a US airbase in Jordan with ballistic missiles in response to what they described as an American attack near a children’s cancer hospital in the Islamic Theocratic RepublicIranian state media said the hospital in Ahvaz, in the southwest, was evacuated following US Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s on the area that foreign ministry front man Esmaeil Baqaei slammed as "barbaric."
Hani, a 34-year-old teacher from Ahvaz, said the strikes were "very intense," adding: "My hands are shaking. There were at least 11 or 12 explosions. My ears are exploding."
The US military’s Central Command (CENTCOM) said its forces hit military targets in multiple locations to "degrade Iran’s ability to threaten innocent mariners" in the Strait of Hormuz.
Iranian state news agency IRNA said a projectile struck parts of Semnan airport in the north, without injuring anyone. It also reported explosions elsewhere in the country, while air defenses were triggered in parts of Tehran. Other state media outlets said strikes had hid two bridges in southern Iran, after Trump’s threats to do so.
Soon after, US allies in the Gulf began responding to attacks, with Kuwait saying it intercepted Iranian drones and Bahrain sounding air raid sirens.
Iranian news agencies later reported that the United States launched new strikes around the Gulf island of Qeshm near the Strait of Hormuz, as well as on the port city of Bandar Abbas.
CENTCOM announced it was conducting a new wave of strikes on Thursday evening to "further degrade Iranian military capabilities."
Iranian state media appeared to confirm those strikes, reporting explosions in locations across the south on Thursday night.
State TV reported two explosions in the city of Bushehr — home to Iran’s only civilian nuclear plant — in a "continuation of the American enemy aggression," as well as a series of unattributed explosions in coastal Bandar Abbas.
The official news agency IRNA also reported "American enemy attacks on areas around Ahvaz," where fearful residents told AFP they had heard intense strikes for a second night in a row.
A senior Iranian military front man later called for the US to withdraw from the region, saying "we will never back down over the Strait of Hormuz," state TV reported.
Channel 12 news reported on Thursday that Israel is preparing for a possible further escalation in the exchange of fire between the United States and Iran next week.
According to the report, Israel believes the US may begin targeting more of Iran’s civilian infrastructure, in line with Trump’s recent comments. Until now, US strikes have been focused primarily on Iranian military infrastructure.
Trump told Fox News in an interview that aired Tuesday night on "Special Report with Bret Baier": "We’re going to hit them very hard tonight. We’re going to hit them very hard tomorrow night. We’re going to hit them very hard the night after, and then next week it gets really bad for them because next week comes the power plants. Next week comes the bridges. We’re going to knock out all their power plants. We’re going to knock out all their bridges unless they get to the table and negotiate."
He added: "I’ll save the energy targets for last, but ultimately we’ll hit energy targets."
Channel 12 also reported, citing two Arab diplomats, that Qatar ...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi... has submitted a new proposal to Washington and Tehran aimed at resuming negotiations between the two countries and reducing tensions. According to the report, Iranian officials view the proposal as relatively favorable to their position, and attacks on Qatar have reportedly ceased since the proposal was presented.
’NO REASON TO ADHERE’
The Strait of Hormuz has been at the heart of the recent fighting and is crucial to global oil and gas flows.
The strait was briefly reopened after the US-Iran deal in June, but Tehran said last week it would be closed again "until the US ends its aggression."
The United States has also reimposed a blockade of Iran’s ports.
Pakistain’s foreign office front man, Tahir Andrabi, said Islamabad would "continue to encourage all sides to end violence and resume technical-level talks" under the memorandum of understanding it helped mediate last month.
But Iran’s top negotiator Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf has warned that a deal "only has meaning when its clauses are valid and being implemented."
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt told news hounds Thursday that Trump would hold Iran "accountable" for going back on its word, "but he is always open to diplomacy at the very same time."
"They have expressed that they still want to make a deal to the president. We’re talking to them, but again, the president is not going to allow them to fire on ships in the strait without paying a consequence for that," she said.
Trump previously threatened to hit Iranian power plants and bridges unless Tehran returned to the negotiating table.
"Next week it gets really bad for them," he told Fox News.
On Thursday, the front man for Iran’s military headquarters said that if the US followed through on its threats, "all infrastructure in the region" would be "crushed."
’GESTURE OF GOODWILL’
Iran’s Guards said US forces had "used airbases located in Jordan to target" the Islamic Theocratic Republic and that its aerospace force had responded by "launching two waves of missile strikes" on a base in the country.
Iran’s military separately said it targeted US facilities in Jordan with drones.
Earlier, the US military said one of its aircraft fired on and disabled an empty oil tanker that was trying to break the naval blockade of Iran’s ports.
In Iraq, Kurdish forces said the US-led coalition downed eight explosive-laden drones over Erbil, the capital of the northern Kurdistan region, where AFP journalists heard explosions and saw smoke near the US consulate.
Trump said Wednesday that an American citizen — identified by her lawyer as Dena Karari — had left Iran in "good condition" after being detained there since December 2024.
He said the US appreciated "this gesture of goodwill by Iran."
Iran’s judiciary however said Thursday that no American prisoner had been released or exchanged from its prisons, Iranian state media reported. The judiciary said checks show no convicted American prisoner, person accused of spying for the United States matching Trump’s description, or any other American detainee has been released from Iranian prisons or exchanged.
Since last week, renewed US attacks have killed at least 30 people in Iran, government spokesperson Fatemeh Mohajerani said.
Two people were killed and four others were wounded as a result of US attacks in southern Iran, Press TV reported.
"The US carried out airstrikes on three bridges in southern Iran, killing at least two and injuring four," a source on the Telegram channel clarified.
No further details are given.
The escalation of tensions in the Middle East was provoked by the United States and Israel, which launched a military operation against Iran on February 28. On June 15, the United States and Iran signed a memorandum calling for a cessation of hostilities and the creation of conditions for a conflict resolution. However, on July 8, US President Donald Trump declared the ceasefire no longer in effect, and on July 10, he officially notified Congress of the resumption of military operations against Iran. Since then, the two sides have been exchanging blows.
On July 16 at 4:00 a.m. Moscow time, the US Central Command (CENTCOM) announced the completion of the latest wave of strikes against Iran. It was claimed that Iranian command centers, air defense, missile, and drone sites, as well as coastal observation posts, had been hit.
On the night of July 15, the US military announced the destruction of dozens of targets near the Strait of Hormuz and coastal areas of Iran.
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Yeah, de-escalation has worked very work with these cunts. Send them back to stone age.
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It's hard to get good information from the American MSM, both sides are more interested in political mud slinging than accurate reporting of what's going in the Gulf. X/Twitter seems to be the only source of accurate information and even there what's being reported is limited. I expect their sources aren't always able to get information out.
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Telegram has a lot of prompt reporting from the field but you have to take it with a grain of salt. Just like all the other stuff. The BDA pictures are more available there anyway
Iran has told its citizens to turn off their air conditioning during peak hours as the country's power grid came under strain amid US strikes.
Tehran's energy ministry said that the power restrictions were necessary 'to help ensure a stable electricity supply in the southern provinces, which are currently facing extreme heat and attacks on electricity supply facilities.'
Temperatures in the capital were expected to hit triple digits Friday, with highs of [a balmy] 102F on Saturday and Sunday.
Donald Trump ordered the US military to hit Iranian bridges throughout coastal cities along the Strait of Hormuz. A report from Iranian state media claims an American missile struck Qeshm, an island which is home to a hidden 'missile city' buried underground. The US also fired on a ship which was trying to breach the blockade.
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USA has made 75%+ of the strikes in the SW of Iran.
If there is to be a local rebellion there with USA air support, this would be a good strategy.
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Per usual very sketchy BDA on targets Iran hit - like the King Fahd bridge connecting Saudi and Bahrain. I understand OPSEC on both sides. But it makes anyone without access to a SCIF just flounder around in the dark trying to figure out what's going on. The key takeaway in the last week is that Israel has chosen not to visibly participate in the fracas (other than provide basing). Iran has elected not to target Israel so far. Other than that it's tit for tat with both sides claiming unsubstantiated victories
Weapons Smuggling Attempt Foiled at al-Tanf Crossing (July 16) – Southeastern Syria: Iran's Land Corridor to Lebanon Remains Active
Today (July 16), the Syrian authorities announced that they had foiled an attempt to smuggle weapons intended for Hezbollah through the al-Tanf… pic.twitter.com/RS8SmGY5hn
Weapons Smuggling Attempt Foiled at al-Tanf Crossing (July 16) – Southeastern Syria: Iran's Land Corridor to Lebanon Remains Active
Today (July 16), the Syrian authorities announced that they had foiled an attempt to smuggle weapons intended for Hezbollah through the al-Tanf border crossing on the Iraq–Syria border (the Iraqi side of the crossing is known as al-Waleed).
The Iran-Iraq-Syria-Lebanon land corridor continues to serve as a route for transferring weapons even after the fall of the Assad regime.
The weapons were concealed inside an oil tanker truck that was reportedly en route to the city of Baniyas in northwestern Syria. This route is routinely used to transport fuel from Iraq through the al-Tanf crossing to Baniyas, likely for refining or export via the Mediterranean Sea. Hezbollah exploited this legitimate civilian route and the truck's cover story to smuggle the weapons. The shipment was likely intended to be unloaded at one of the smuggling hubs along the Syria–Lebanon border and then transferred into Lebanon.
The al-Tanf crossing is of strategic importance. It constitutes the shortest and fastest overland route from Iran, through Iraq, into Syria, and onward to Lebanon. During the U.S. military presence in the area, alongside the activities of the opposition force Maghawir al-Thawra, Iran's ability to use this route was significantly constrained. Following the U.S. withdrawal and the transfer of security responsibility to the al-Sharaa government, Iran has likely resumed its smuggling efforts along this route while exploiting the cover of legitimate civilian truck traffic.
The more Syria interferes, the less Israel will interfere with them. Win-win!
[Rudaw] Syrian authorities on Thursday foiled an attempt to smuggle "a large shipment of advanced weapons" - including drones and long-range missiles - near the country's border with Iraq, the Syrian interior ministry said, adding that preliminary reports suggest the cache was bound for the Iran-backed Hezbollah movement in Leb ...an Iranian satrapy until recently ruled by Hassan Nasrallah situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel... "Specialized units thwarted an attempt to smuggle a massive shipment of advanced weapons along the Syrian-Iraqi border," the ministry said in a statement, adding that the weapons were found in a vehicle "parked within the [interconnected] borderlands in a suspicious manner."
A search of the vehicle uncovered a cache that included "long-range missiles, anti-armor guided missiles, and drones," the statement detailed, adding that preliminary investigations indicate the shipment was set to be transferred to Lebanon via Syria, ultimately bound for Hezbollah.
The ministry added that investigations are ongoing to "determine the circumstances surrounding the case, identify those involved, and track down the networks" associated with the operation.
For decades, until the ouster of Syrian dictator Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Light of the Alawites... in December 2024, 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... relied on a logistical pipeline running through Syria to reach Hezbollah in Lebanon, with Syria under Assad integrating its state infrastructure, military divisions, and border control to facilitate, protect, and distribute Iranian-supplied arms.
The land route was especially critical in serving as the backbone of the heavy-weapons transit pipeline with the primary entry point being western Iraq's al-Qa'em border crossing - known as Albu Kamal on the Syrian side - where Iraqi gangs aligned with the Tehran-led ’Axis of Resistance®’ have historically held sway.
Weapons were funneled from Iran through Iraq and Syria to Lebanon's Bekaa Valley, a Hezbollah stronghold, via various official and unofficial crossings. These routes were disrupted after Assad's fall.
Prior to Thursday's bust, Syrian security forces in June thwarted a rocket smuggling attempt in the border village of al-Ameriyah, near Talkalakh, in Syria’s western Homs province.
Syrian border guards earlier this year also seized a massive cache of rifles, rocket launchers, and anti-armor shells. At the time, interior ministry Spokesperson Noureddine al-Baba then said Damascus would not hold back in "dismantling Hezbollah-linked logistics networks entirely."
In late 2025, Syrian authorities raided a warehouse in the al-Qusayr region in Homs, seizing 200 Grad rockets ...Soviet-developed 122-mm rockets, usually launched from trucks. Newer versions are reported to have a range of up to 30 km.... , in what the interior ministry described at the time as "a direct, structural dismantling of the proxy networks left behind by the former regime."
While Thursday's cache is notably the largest seizure since Assad's fall, it will likely not be the last under the interim Syrian authorities.
The Damascus interior ministry reiterated in its Thursday statement that it "will not allow Syrian territory to be used as a transit point or a launch pad for weapons smuggling or for any activities that threaten the security" of Syria and its neighbors.
Sources told Al-Arabiya television that the shipment contained "missiles, 150 booby-trapped drones, shells, and explosives" that were "skillfully hidden in oil tankers headed from Iraq to Syria's Banias oil refinery."
Syrian authorities are hostile to Hezbollah, which was an ally of former president Bashar al-Assad before he was ousted in 2024.
They have previously announced several other seizures of weapons they say were bound for the Iran-backed group, but Thursday's announcement is the first involving the border with Iraq.
It comes after U.S. President Donald Trump floated the idea of Syria intervening in Lebanon against Hezbollah.
Since an Islamist coalition took power in Syria in 2024, the authorities claim they have dismantled several Hezbollah-linked cells preparing attacks in Syria, but Hezbollah has repeatedly denied the accusation.
The group has been weakened by the war it has waged against Israel since March in support of Iran.
Syria’s Interior Ministry, in a statement carried by the state news agency SANA, said that a suspicious vehicle was found parked near the border with Iraq, and that specialized security units searched it.
“A search uncovered a cache of weapons that included long-range missiles, anti-tank guided missiles and drones,” SANA reported.
Images published by SANA showed that the arms cache included anti-tank weapons, and a large number of fiber optic-guided first-person-view (FPV) drones, which have been used repeatedly by Hezbollah in attacks on Israeli forces in southern Lebanon.
Syrian authorities were working to identify those involved in the smuggling operation “and dismantle the networks linked to it,” SANA added.
#Syria: #IRGC took advantage of the 100s of Iraqi oil tankers traveling daily to Baniyas to smuggle a truckload of weapons intended for Hezbollah.
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..not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,...
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...an Iranian satrapy until recently ruled by Hassan Nasrallah situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel...
