#UPDATE: Pirates Reportedly Hijack Tanzania-Flagged Oil Tanker off Puntland Coast
A Tanzania-flagged oil tanker carrying 20 crew members, including eight German nationals and 10 Filipinos, has reportedly been hijacked by suspected pirates off the coast of Caluula district in…
Pirates Reportedly Hijack Tanzania-Flagged Oil Tanker off Puntland Coast
A Tanzania-flagged oil tanker carrying 20 crew members, including eight German nationals and 10 Filipinos, has reportedly been hijacked by suspected pirates off the coast of Caluula district in Somalia’s northeastern Puntland region, according to Reuters.
Initial reports indicate the vessel was seized while sailing near the Puntland coastline. The crew is said to consist of 20 personnel of multiple nationalities, including eight Germans and 10 Filipinos. The nationalities of the remaining two crew members were not immediately disclosed.
The vessel, named MT Asana and sailing under the Tanzanian flag, is a tanker designed to carry oil and chemicals.
One of the sources speaking to Reuters who identified himself as a former pirate stated that there are 20 crew members on board, including eight German nationals and 10 Filipinos, with the remaining two believed to be from other countries.
Another resident of the Alula district in the Bari region reported seeing armed pirates transporting food and other supplies to the ship, indicating that the vessel is being held near the Puntland coast.
The UK Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO) had previously confirmed that the vessel was boarded by unidentified armed men while transiting the Gulf of Aden and subsequently diverted toward Somali waters; the incident was classified as a hijacking.
This incident comes amidst a resurgence of Somali piracy targeting commercial vessels, following years of significantly reduced activity. Between 2008 and 2018, Somali pirates were notorious for hijacking international vessels and demanding multi-million dollar ransoms; however, joint operations involving Somalia and international naval forces significantly reduced these attacks.
Nevertheless, since late 2023, there has been a resurgence of attacks in Somali waters and the Gulf of Aden. Maritime security experts attribute this trend to a reduction in ship security measures, regional security conditions, and increased activity by armed groups exploiting this vital Horn of Africa waterway.
So far, there has been no statement from the Somali government or the Puntland administration regarding the hijacking of the MT Asana, and the measures being planned to secure the release of the vessel and its crew remain unclear.
#UPDATE: Al-Shabaab Shells Ethiopian Military Base in Somalia’s Bay Region
Al-Shabaab militants fired mortar shells at an Ethiopian military base in Bardale district of Bay region overnight, with several rounds landing inside the compound, according to security sources.
#UPDATE: Al-Shabaab Shells Ethiopian Military Base in Somalia’s Bay Region
Al-Shabaab militants fired mortar shells at an Ethiopian military base in Bardale district of Bay region overnight, with several rounds landing inside the compound, according to security sources.
The attack targeted a base housing Ethiopian forces operating in the area as part of security operations in Somalia. The sources said the shelling caused damage inside the military camp, although details about possible casualties or the extent of the damage were not immediately available.
Residents in Bardale reported hearing multiple explosions during the night as the mortar fire hit the area.
Al-Shabaab has previously carried out similar attacks against Ethiopian and Somali government forces in Bay region and other parts of southern Somalia. The militant group frequently uses mortar attacks, ambushes, and roadside explosives as part of its ongoing insurgency against Somali authorities and allied forces.
Again, the strategic town of Barah, north of El Obeid in central Sudan 🇸🇩, is back in the Sudanese armed forces control
For the past year and a half, it has been at the center of back-and-forth battles between the Sudanese army and the Rapid Support Forces. As the war drags on,… https://t.co/XQM2WX6G95pic.twitter.com/hVlFRyvHSj
Again, the strategic town of Barah, north of El Obeid in central Sudan 🇸🇩, is back in the Sudanese armed forces control
For the past year and a half, it has been at the center of back-and-forth battles between the Sudanese army and the Rapid Support Forces. As the war drags on, the Kordofan region and El Obeid in particular is fiercely contested.
The army controls the city and the road leading east (under drone fire), while the RSF control the roads to the south, west, and north including the route to Khartoum, which is currently being fought over. The city is not directly threatened, but battle are regular in the region.
[HodhodYemenNews] The Yemeni Armed Forces announced the execution of two major military operations targeting sensitive facilities belonging to Saudi Aramco in Jizan and Yanbu, using dozens of ballistic and cruise missiles and drones. They also reaffirmed that the naval blockade on Saudi Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula, largely made up of sand and oil rigs. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual haj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. Formerly dictatorial and steeped in Olde Tyme Religion, deferring to Salafist holy men on all issues, it has now done a 180 and is making a serious effort to modernize, so as not to be left in the sand by its Gulf Arab neighbors. The holy men have been shoved to the background and the nation is now still dictatorial but somewhat rational. That doesn't make them trustworthy, but it's a start... will continue.
Yemen’s Armed Forces issued the following statement:
"In its continued siege of the Yemeni people and in yet another violation of the illusory sovereignty of the Republic of Yemen, the Saudi enemy regime launched a series of unjust and criminal Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s last night on the city and port of Hodeidah and Kamaran Island.
These airstrikes resulted in material and incorporeal damage, and air defenses engaged with a formation of enemy aircraft after they violated Yemeni airspace, preventing them from committing further crimes against this great nation.
In response to this blatant and criminal aggression, the Yemeni Armed Forces carried out two qualitative military operations.
The first targeted sensitive Aramco-affiliated facilities in Jizan with dozens of ballistic missiles and drones.
And the second operation targeted sensitive Aramco-affiliated facilities in Yanbu with a number of ballistic and cruise missiles and drones.
Both operations successfully achieved their objectives, thanks to Allah Almighty, with accurate and direct strikes.
This escalation of aggression confirms the Saudi enemy’s determination to continue its siege of our people and its violation of our country’s illusory sovereignty.
This is unacceptable, and our free, faithful, and valiant people will confront it with unwavering resolve and strength.
We in the Yemeni Armed Forces, relying on Allah, are committed to fulfilling our duty of honorable and responsible defense of our beloved country and our noble people—the people of faith and wisdom, the people of Islam and Arabism.
This criminal enemy will find nothing from us but resistance and confrontation from our righteous position, while it stands on the side of falsehood, Indeed, falsehood is ever bound to perish.
We affirm that the naval blockade imposed on the Saudi enemy remains in effect, in response to its aggression and its unjust blockade that has persisted for twelve years. We will not hesitate to expand our operations and escalate our actions based on developments in the coming hours and days, within the equation of a blockade for a blockade and an escalation for an escalation."
Two Asia-based trading sources said that they had been informed of potential damage to fuel and oil storage sites at Jizan. Aramco did not respond to requests for comment.
In Yanbu, two ballistic missiles aimed at oil installations were intercepted by a US-made Patriot battery operated in Saudi Arabia by the Greek military under an agreement with Riyadh, Greek security sources said. Yanbu is Saudi Arabia’s main Red Sea oil port, where millions of barrels a day are loaded, and has become the main route out for Saudi oil skirting the Strait of Hormuz, which has been essentially closed off by Iran. Jizan, on the Red Sea close to the Yemeni border, is the site of a refinery with a capacity of 400,000 barrels per day.
In Yemen, the air force of the Saudi-backed, internationally recognized government, which has opposed the Houthis for more than a decade, struck Houthi missile and drone launch sites and arms depots in the Marib and al-Jawf provinces, Yemeni officials said. The Saudi-led military alliance said it had bombed Houthi military positions on Friday in the Red Sea port of Hodeida.
The Yemeni officials said both sides in Yemen’s civil war were mobilizing forces along the front.
Saudi Arabia led an Arab coalition against the Houthis after the Iran-aligned fighters captured Yemen’s capital, Sanaa, in 2014, though the alliance and the conflict had been largely dormant in recent years.
The Yemeni civil war, during which hundreds of thousands of people died from fighting and famine, has been paused under a ceasefire since 2022. But that truce broke down this month, with the Houthis effectively joining the wider war their Iranian allies have waged since being attacked by the US and Israel.
The Houthis have declared a naval blockade of Saudi Arabia over the past week, and Houthi leader Abdul Malik al-Houthi said all Saudi oil facilities could be targets.
The move has contributed in recent days to one of the war’s sharpest rises in global oil prices, with Brent crude spiking above $100 a barrel for the first time since May.
Yemen’s Houthis say they hit a Saudi Aramco oil facility in Jizan with missiles (and possibly drones) overnight, sparking fires.
Videos of smoke are circulating and satellite data reportedly shows thermal hotspots at the site.
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Nah, they to busy spending their money on a city in the desert. Their bitch asses are scared of the Iranians!
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Not out of missiles YET? Perhaps they are being re-resupplied, along with RU/Chinese sat targeting data? Wonder how long the proxy war will go on until we lose Houston and LA ?.
[HodhodYemenNews] Heavy festivities broke out on Friday using medium and heavy weaponry between factions allied with Saudi Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula, largely made up of sand and oil rigs. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual haj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. Formerly dictatorial and steeped in Olde Tyme Religion, deferring to Salafist holy men on all issues, it has now done a 180 and is making a serious effort to modernize, so as not to be left in the sand by its Gulf Arab neighbors. The holy men have been shoved to the background and the nation is now still dictatorial but somewhat rational. That doesn't make them trustworthy, but it's a start... in Harib District, south of Ma’rib governorate, leaving several dead and maimed.
A local informed source in the district stated that the confrontations erupted between elements of the "10th Shabwah Defense Brigade", commanded by Nasser al-Murkada, and the "Saba Axis" over the latter’s raid on a military post manned by Shabwah Defense forces at the ’Wady Abla Bridge’ checkpoint in Harib.
The source added that the festivities erupted after elements from the Saba Axis, led by Abdul-Hadi al-Qibli, took control of the position without prior operational notice.
Initial reports confirm one ShabwahDefense member, identified as Salem Ali Saleh Bin Ma’mar, was killed, alongside several others injured. Armed tensions persist in the area, with new checkpoints established in the aftermath of the fighting.
Tribal mediation efforts are reportedly underway to contain the fighting, amid demands from Saba Axis fighters to remove the newly established checkpoints aimed at Shabwah Defense forces, while no official movement has been reported from the leadership of the Saudi-backed factions.
Shabwah Defense positions in the al-Mala’a area have periodically faced similar drone attacks from Saba Axis forces over recent months.
[PJM] It's 5 a.m. in Costa Rica, about half an hour before sunrise. There's a farm near the border the country shares with Nicaragua. Drones monitor the perimeter. Tactical teams move through the dark with one goal, when suddenly, the place erupts with gunfire. Five or six officers go down. One man who was protecting the farm was killed. The shootout lasts for an hour, but when it comes to an end, the most wanted man in Costa Rica, a man with a bounty on his head in the United States, too, is in handcuffs. "El Diablo" has been caught after a decade-long manhunt.
Alejandro Arias Monge was not your typical cartel boss, but he was not a good dude, and the entire Western Hemisphere is safer for having him off the streets.
Known as "El Diablo," the Spanish phrase for "the devil," he was born in the Costa Rican town of Guápiles in 1984. He began living a life of crime as a teenager, robbing homes in his community. He eventually escalated to the drug business. He had cells in all seven of Costa Rica's provinces, and his transnational criminal organization was known for being extremely brutal. Costa Rican authorities suggest he was responsible for at least 100 murders over the years, and those are just the ones they know about.
In 2016, he got into a feud with a rival drug boss, which left a trail of burned and decapitated bodies across parts of Costa Rica. He and his men also weaponized social media, using it to threaten citizens and even police officers. They'd post pictures of drugs and weapons, warning messages to law enforcement and other political figures, and even videos of some of the grisly murders they committed.
In the United States, the State Department had a half-million-dollar reward for Arias' arrest. According to the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), he "conspired with numerous drug traffickers and Drug Trafficking Organizations (DTOs) to transport multi-hundred-kilogram loads of cocaine originating from Colombia. The cocaine is then smuggled through Costa Rica, Honduras, and Guatemala to Mexico, with the ultimate destination being the United States."
So why did it take so long to catch him? A few reasons. Arias doesn't look like your typical cartel boss — the 41-year-old isn't flashy and doesn't live extravagantly. He has also remained mobile over the years, though he's spent most of his time near the Nicaraguan border. Police there have tried to take him out a few times, but he manages to get away, in part, because he has a small group of loyal but fierce men willing to protect him. Thankfully, on Friday, July 24, those men lost.
they're keeping their eye on this guy, even in custody. According to the Tico Times, he "spent his first night in custody inside the maximum security wing of the Jorge Arturo Montero Castro penitentiary complex, better known as La Reforma, in San Rafael de Alajuela" after he was transferred "in an armored tactical vehicle escorted by members of the agency’s special tactical response unit." The Ministry of Justice and Peace even went as far as to suspend all general visits for the weekend to the prison, due to "security reasons." Along with Arias, Jonathan Pérez Méndez, who was also detained during the same raid, is in custody there. Both men are under 24-hour surveillance.
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[Regnum] The Iranian Foreign Ministry has declared its right to respond to the attack by the Ukrainian Armed Forces on an Iranian merchant vessel in the Caspian Sea. This was reported in a statement by the Islamic Republic's Foreign Ministry on July 25, according to the state news agency IRNA.
“The Ukrainian regime’s attack on an Iranian merchant vessel in the Caspian Sea <…> demonstrates the continuation of Ukraine’s hostile course towards the Islamic Republic of Iran,” the statement said.
The Iranian Foreign Ministry called the attack a violation of international law and accused Kyiv of escalating the conflict. Tehran emphasized that Iran has never interfered in the Ukrainian conflict and called on the UN Security Council, European countries, and all UN members to respond to the incident and hold Ukraine's leadership accountable.
It is emphasized that Iran, in accordance with the fundamental principles and norms of international law, in particular the principle of self-defense, will not compromise in protecting its national interests and security and reserves the right to respond to Ukraine's aggression.
According to the Iranian Foreign Ministry, the Ukrainian Armed Forces attacked a merchant vessel on the morning of Saturday, July 25. The attack left one person dead and one injured. Details of the incident, including the name of the vessel and the circumstances of the attack, were not provided.
Earlier, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov stated that the Kyiv regime's strikes on Caspian Pipeline Consortium (CPC) infrastructure constituted energy terrorism. Prior to this, he clarified that the Ukrainian Armed Forces' attacks on CPC facilities constituted attacks on Russia, Kazakhstan, and the United States.
On July 19, the Kazakh Ministry of Energy called attacks by Ukrainian Armed Forces drones on tankers used to transport oil through the Caspian Pipeline Consortium (CPC) infrastructure unacceptable.
On July 19, Ukrainian drones attacked two tankers —the Liberian-flagged ASIA and the Marshall Islands-flagged NISSOS IOS—while they were loading oil at a marine terminal. A fire broke out on board the former, but it was quickly extinguished. This marks the fifth attack on civilian infrastructure on the Caspian Pipeline Consortium.
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Considering the source, this may be more about Ukrainians gonna get it, rather than raging mullahs.
I say, let them add more targets.
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The slow slouch toward WWIII.
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@ Let's hope not. Russia can't even beat Ukraine on its own and the IRGC doesn't bring enough to the table to make the Russians want help them (other than some oil transfers). The IRGC would be burden Russia doesn't need or want.
[Powerline] A terrorist attacked a gay pride festival in Berlin, using terrorists’ favorite weapon—an automobile:
At least one person was killed and several injured in Berlin on Saturday night after van drove into a crowd of people at the city’s Gay Pride festival.
German police are hunting the driver of a white vehicle which onlookers say crashed into a group of people at the event at around 10pm at high speed.
The driver of the van allegedly attacked people with a bladed weapon after the collision, which occurred at Berlin’s Tiergarten park, Bild reports. The suspect later fled the scene on foot and remains at large.
Fifteen people were injured, with one having died so far. German police are investigating whether the attack was terror-related, but I am not sure what there is to investigate. The perpetrator drove a car into a gay crowd at a high rate of speed, and then attacked people with a knife. There’s your investigation.
I assume the terrorist was a Muslim, but it is possible he was some other kind of extremist. We will find out soon.
... suspect in the ramming attack at Berlin’s Gay Pride festival has identified by police as a member of the city’s "Islamist scene".
At least one person was killed and 17 others were injured on Saturday night, including three critically, after a white van mowed down a crowd of people at the event.
A manhunt remains underway for the driver of the vehicle which onlookers say crashed into a group of people at the event at around 10pm local time at high speed.
The driver allegedly attacked people with a knife after the collision, which occurred at Berlin’s Tiergarten park. The suspect later fled the scene on foot and remains at large.
"Based on the investigators’ initial findings, we have already identified a suspected perpetrator," Florian Nath, a spokesman for Berlin police, said, adding that the force’s search for the suspect was "proceeding at full speed".
"He is known to us as a member of Islamic circles here in Berlin."
A citywide manhunt is underway after a van drove into a crowd during Pride celebrations, known locally as Christopher Street Day (CSD). Police have identified a suspect tied to Berlin's "Islamist scene."
At least one person has died and 16 people were maimed, "some seriously", police said, after a vehicle was driven into a crowd near Berlin's annual Pride event, Christopher Street Day (CSD) on Saturday night.
Berlin's CSD is one of Europe's biggest Pride events celebrating the LGBTQ+ community. It attracts tens of thousands of visitors from around the world each year.
Police spokesperson Florian Nath said a suspect has been identified who was known to police and "is believed to be associated with the Islamist scene in Berlin."
It was unclear whether there were other perpetrators. No arrests have been made yet.
Nath said a woman had died at the scene, without providing further details.
Three of the 16 injured had suffered "life-threatening injuries," Nath told news hounds.
The city's fire department said eight people were seriously injured, with five sustaining minor injuries.
Nath added that more than 2,200 personnel were involved in the police response, including officers from Hamburg and other federal states.
The vehicle in question is a white minivan or compact SUV, he said.
DW news hounds on the scene in Berlin said coppers armed with machine guns were patrolling the streets of the German capital.
Police said early on Sunday morning that the Tiergarten remained closed off.
"We are now piecing together the facts based on the evidence found at the scene. The search radius covers the entire city," Nath said. "We need to use daylight tomorrow to meticulously examine the evidence."
PRIDE PARADE PARTICIPANTS TOLD TO 'GO HOME, PLEASE'
Hundreds of thousands of people had taken to the streets of Berlin on Saturday to advocate for tolerance and diversity, culminating in concerts at the Brandenburg Gate.
The event was called off around 10:15 p.m., and a band's performance was interrupted. Authorities urged people to "go home, please," and avoid routes through Tiergarten.
The CSD parade ended on 17 June Street, which crosses Berlin's Tiergarten to the Brandenburg Gate. The Gate has been the venue for concerts since Friday.
Berlin's CSD was first held in 1979, making it Germany's oldest Pride event. Its name comes from Christopher Street — the site of the 1969 Stonewall riots in New York City.
CSD has since evolved from a small protest into a major fixture of the city's cultural and political calendar.
GERMANY'S HISTORY OF CAR RAMMINGS
Germany has seen a number of car rammings at major public events in recent years.
In 2016, a Tunisian-born man drove a truck into a Christmas market in Berlin, killing 12 people, in the deadliest Islamist attack in Germany's postwar history.
In 2024, a man plowed his car into a busy Christmas market in the city of Magdeburg, killing at least two people and injuring more than 60. The perpetrator was a Saudi-born atheist who held anti-Islamic and far-right beliefs.
Earlier this year, two people were killed after a man drove a car through a crowd in the eastern German city of Leipzig. Investigators treated the incident as a rampage and the suspect, a German national, was remanded to a psychiatric hospital.
Update from Deutsche Welle at 2:00 a.m. EDT:
WHAT DO WE KNOW ABOUT THE ALLEGED ATTACKER?
Police spokesperson Florian Nath said a suspect has been identified who was known to police and "is believed to be associated with the Islamist scene in Berlin."
In a later statement, police named 21-year-old Abdul B. as the man they are hunting, describing him as of slim build, around 1.9 meters tall, with black hair. He was wearing a black hoodie and white pants.
Photo of the jihadi can be seen at the link. One can understand why Arabs consider themselves white.
Police said the suspect could be "armed and dangerous" and should not be approached.
It was unclear whether there were other perpetrators. No arrests have been made yet.
Three of the 16 injured had suffered "life-threatening injuries," Nath told reporters.
The city's fire department said eight people were seriously injured, with five sustaining minor injuries.
According to German paper of record Die Welt, the vehicle used in the apparent attack was rented to a man named “Abdul B.” Born in 2005, Abdul was reportedly released from juvenile detention in May. Police have not confirmed if he is a suspect in connection with the incident at the Pride Parade on Saturday evening.
The chief suspect in a deadly attack near Berlin's Pride parade on Saturday night is a supporter of the self-proclaimed Islamic State (IS) group, German media has reported.
The Bild and Spiegel news sites said the 21-year-old man, named by police as Abdul B, was previously convicted for related offences.
The media outlets said B. last year travelled to the Middle East in a failed attempt to join IS.
He was then convicted in Germany of "preparing a serious act of subversive violence," the papers report.
German police have not confirmed the reports, but are due to issue an updated statement on the attack later on Sunday.
Rafael Bossong, a researcher at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP), warned that there are over 9,000 Islamist radicals with apparent violent inclinations in Germany.
Although authorities are doing a better job of monitoring and foiling threats, he said that the Berlin attack appeared to have been carried out by "a minor figure, with a prior criminal record, but no clear affiliation [to Islamist terrorism] and no clear online warning that he was preparing to attack."
Asked how the suspect was able to drive into Berlin's Tiergarten so easily despite barriers being installed, Bossong said:
"It depends on the time and locality. In this case, Tiergarten is a large area, the ceremony was closing, so maybe the traffic restrictions had been relaxed."
UPDATE 13:40: German Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt said on Sunday morning that at least one person was killed and 29 people were injured, some seriously, in what he said is believed to have been an “Islamist terror attack” at the Berlin Pride Parade on Saturday evening. Dobrindt said the suspect was born in Germany but is of Lebanese descent, with his mother naturalised in the country in 2002. He also confirmed that the alleged terrorist had also attacked revellers with a bladed weapon, thought to be a machete. The manhunt continues.
Berlin Police identified “Abdul B.” as their main suspect, releasing a picture of the 21-year-old as they conduct a large-scale manhunt. The force said that there may be more suspects yet to be identified. A spokesman earlier revealed that the suspect was known to police as an “Islamist”.
It has been reported that the suspect may still be armed, with some witnesses claiming that he was carrying a machete as he fled the scene.
The Bild newspaper identified the suspect as “Abdul Ballut”, who they reported was born in Germany but came from a Lebanese family. The paper further reported that his apartment was located just a few hundred meters from the site of the terror attack on Saturday evening.
German paper of record Die Welt reported that Abdul was previously identified as a threat by police and had been in juvenile detention as recently as May for having attempted to incite or threaten a terror attack. He was also said to have claimed to have contacts with the ISIS terror network.
After being released in May, Abdul was reportedly put on probation and was instructed to attend de-radicalisation counselling sessions, the third of which was scheduled for Monday.
While it is yet to be confirmed that he was a supporter of the so-called Islamic State, Die Welt noted that the U.S. State Department had specifically warned in 2024 that ISIS had called on supporters to attack Pride events in Europe.
Vehicle terror attacks have previously been used by jihadists in Berlin, including the Christmas market attack in 2016, carried out by a Tunisian asylum seeker, who stole a truck and rammed it into a crowd of revellers, killing 13 and injuring around 70.
Despite authorities consistently noting that Islamist terrorism remains the largest threat in Europe, organisers of the Christopher Street Day Pride Parade event had complained earlier this week that they felt “afraid” over the rising popularity of the anti-mass migration Alternative for Germany (AfD) party.
Ugh.
This is despite the populist party being led by Alice Weidel, who is in a homosexual relationship with a woman from Sri Lanka. Following the suspected Islamist attack, Weidel said that her “thoughts are with the victims and their loved ones.”
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Let's see 'em spin this to some right-wing slant out of those "Islamic circles". Must be giving the Left fits.
Police have launched a massive manhunt for 21-year-old ISIS terrorist suspect Abdul Ballout, after a van was rammed into a crowd killing one and injuring 29 others.
The fugitive Berlin Pride attack suspect had previously tried to join the Islamic State group, according to German media.
He is described as slim, approximately 6ft 3in tall, with black hair and was last seen wearing a black hoodie and white trousers. The public has been warned not to approach him as he may be armed and dangerous.
Roughly 1,000 officers are involved in the hunt amid fears the fugitive could strike again.
Police sources, quoted by German media, said Abdul B, a German citizen, had travelled to Lebanon in 2025 in an unsuccessful attempt to join IS.
He had been in pre-trial detention until May 2026 and was ordered to take part in a de-radicalisation programme.
In an update this afternoon, Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt confirmed the number of people injured had risen from 16 to 29. Three of which are in a life-threatening condition.
He said 'everything we are seeing here indicates that we have experienced an Islamist attack'.
Mr Dobrindt said the suspect 'rammed into a crowd with a car' and 'then attacked the crowd with some type of blade, it might have been a machete, and also severely injured those people'.
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So this guy was in Lebanon and the Germans had him extradited TO GERMANY so he could stand trial and then be was released before the trial to attend a deradicalization session.
Like every country is outdoing each other in stupidity.
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^ "Here. Hold my stein!"
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key problem
12 May 2026: The Tiergarten District Court sentences him to one year and 10 months' imprisonment for "preparing a serious act of violence endangering the state". The decision is deferred for six months.
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^. No room in the prisons due to all the rightwing locked up.
#Pakistan 🇵🇰: Tehrik-e #Taliban Pakistan (#TTP) ambushed and killed Pakistan Customs Service officers.
At least one of the militants was armed with #USA-made 🇺🇸 M4 / M4A1 carbine; seemingly fitted with Longot / InfiRay Thermal scope. pic.twitter.com/wj0jll46X6
[Kurdistan24] New intelligence indicates five explosive-laden drones intercepted over Erbil on Friday morning were launched by outlawed armed groups from the outskirts of Mosul, highlighting persistent security threats despite successful Coalition air defenses.
More Iran proxy shenanigans by the Shiite militias.
New intelligence obtained by Kurdistan24 indicates that the five explosive-laden drones intercepted before reaching Erbil on Friday morning were launched by outlawed armed groups operating from the outskirts of Mosul, providing fresh insight into the origin of the latest attempted attack on the Kurdistan Region's capital.
According to information obtained exclusively by Kurdistan24, the drones were fired from areas outside Mosul before Coalition air defense systems intercepted and destroyed them en route to Erbil.
The attempted strike caused neither casualties nor material damage, underscoring the effectiveness of the defensive measures protecting the city while also highlighting the continuing threat posed by illegal armed groups operating beyond the control of Iraqi state institutions.
The intelligence identifying the launch area represents the most significant new development to emerge from Friday's incident. It points to the continued operational capability of outlawed militias to mount drone attacks against the Kurdistan Region despite repeated efforts to counter such threats.
Coalition forces successfully neutralized all five drones within a brief period on Friday morning before they could reach their intended targets.
The Kurdistan Region's Directorate General of Counter Terrorism (CTD) reported that the interceptions occurred between 9:32 a.m. and 9:45 a.m., preventing what could have become another attack on the regional capital.
[IsraelTimes] Brigadier General Abdel-Nasser Al-Maqadma was also known as the governor of northern Gaza; army says he was a member of Hamas’s military wing
An Israeli Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... on Saturday killed the head of the Hamas ..the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,... -led police force in the 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... Strip, Brigadier General Abdel-Nasser al-Maqadma, the Hamas-run interior ministry and medics said.
Maqadma, one of at least five Paleostinians killed in Israeli strikes on Saturday, was also known as the governor of the northern Gaza Strip.
He was killed in the Sheikh Radwan area north of Gaza City, medics said.
The Israeli military said he was also part of Hamas’s military wing.
Israel has killed dozens of members of the Hamas-led police force, including bigwigs, in the past months, accusing many of them of being members of the Hamas armed wing who posed imminent threats to Israel and its forces inside Gaza.
Hamas says Israeli attacks on the police force and its headquarters are intended to sow chaos and anarchy in the enclave and violate the US-brokered October ceasefire.
🚨 متابعة | وزارة الداخلية والأمن الوطني في غزة: استشهاد مدير شرطة محافظة شمال غزة عميد/ عبد الناصر محمد المقادمة (54 عاماً)، إثر استهدافه من طائرات الاحتلال في حي الشيخ رضوان شمال، غربي مدينة غزة. pic.twitter.com/VLZ2oSJg2s
Translated from Arabic
🚨 Follow-up | Ministry of Interior and National Security in Gaza: Martyrdom of the Director of Police for the North Gaza Governorate, Brigadier General/ Abdul Nasser Muhammad Al-Maqadmah (54 years old), following his targeting by occupation aircraft in Sheikh Radwan neighborhood north, west of Gaza City.
The IDF also said Saturday that several Hamas operatives, including a terrorist who invaded Israel during the October 7, 2023, onslaught, were killed in strikes in the Gaza Strip this past week.
One strike in central Gaza on Tuesday killed Muhannad Asaad Mahmoud Abu Ghazal, a commander of a Nukhba Force cell. The military said Abu Ghazal raided the Kissufim area on October 7.
A separate strike on Tuesday in northern Gaza killed Raed Hani Mohammed, a surveillance operative in Hamas’s aerial array, according to the IDF. The same strike also killed Nabhan Mohammed Nabhan al-Amsi, chief of intelligence in Hamas’s Gaza City Brigade, the military said.
The IDF said the operatives had advanced attacks on troops and Israeli civilians, and were targeted to "remove the threat."
Meanwhile,
...back at the abandoned silver mine, a triangular dorsal fin appeared in the water. Then another... Paleostinian medics said an Israeli strike on Saturday killed a medic in the Nuseirat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip. They added that a police officer maimed by an Israeli airstrike last week died on Saturday. The Israeli military didn’t immediately comment on the incident.
An Israeli airstrike also killed two people in a house in Khan Younis, in the south of the enclave, medics said. The Israeli military said the strike targeted a member of the Islamic Jihad ...created after many members of the Egyptian Moslem Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the assassination of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah... terror group.
Later on Saturday, an Israeli airstrike, also in Khan Younis, killed Khaled al-Breim, a high school student, taking Saturday’s corpse count to at least five. Relatives said Breim was killed as he sought to bring sweets to distribute to relatives and friends who had flocked into his family home to offer their congratulations as he had just concluded high school and was preparing for university.
The Israel Defense Forces did not immediately comment on the student’s death.
The latest deaths add to a toll of more than 1,180 Paleostinians killed by Israeli attacks since an October ceasefire between Israel and Hamas took effect, according to Gaza health officials, who allege that most were civilians.
The truce halted full-scale fighting but has not ended near-daily Israeli strikes. Four Israeli soldiers have been killed by terror operatives in Gaza over the same period.
PEACE TALKS STALLED
Mediators including Egypt, 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... , The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...a NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It's headquartered in Belgium. That sez it all.... member, but not the most reliable... and the United States have been trying to advance US President Donald Trump ...His ancestors didn't own any slaves... ’s plan for ending the conflict in Gaza, which calls for Hamas disarmament and Israeli withdrawals, but there has been little sign of progress in the efforts.
The war began when Hamas-led snuffies attacked southern Israel on October 7, 2023, killing 1,200 people and taking 251 hostages.
The Hamas-run Gaza health ministry says more than 72,000 people in the Strip have been killed during the war — including over 600 since the October 2025 ceasefire — though the toll does not differentiate between civilians and combatants.
The Israeli military believes that Hamas’s overall toll is largely accurate, with IDF officials estimating that two to three non-combatants were killed for every dead terror operative.
The IDF says it has killed over 23,000 combatants in Gaza and another 1,600 snuffies inside Israel during the October 7 onslaught.
Israel’s toll in the ground offensive against Hamas in Gaza and in military operations along the border with the Strip stands at 477.
Israel effectively controls an estimated 64% of the tiny coastal Strip, bombarded to ruins in the war that followed the 2023 Hamas attack on southern Israel.
Nearly all of Gaza’s 2 million people now live on a tiny strip of land, mainly in makeshift tents or damaged buildings and facing dire conditions, under Hamas control.
The United Nations ...boodling on the grand scale... ’ human rights ...which are often intentionally defined so widely as to be meaningless... office this week condemned Israeli strikes in Gaza.
"Nine months after the announcement of a ceasefire, still, nowhere is safe for Paleostinians in Gaza," UN rights office front man Thameen al-Kheetan told news hounds in Geneva.
He decried that "the Israeli military has intensified its attacks in Gaza in recent days, killing and injuring dozens of Paleostinians." The Israeli strikes had killed "at least 57 Paleostinians, including six children and eight women" from July 13 to 20, Kheetan said.
The Israel Defense Forces has in recent days announced a series of strikes in the Gaza Strip targeting Hamas and Islamic Jihad members who it said were involved in the October 7 attack, or the subsequent holding of hostages.
It also reported striking a weapons depot, an arms manufacturing site, and a rocket-launching position, saying that this infrastructure posed a threat to its troops.
Kheetan said the strikes had targeted residential buildings, at least one tent sheltering internally displaced people, and other crowded areas, with 34 of the victims "killed far away from the Israeli-imposed yellow line," referring to the border between an IDF-controlled majority of the Strip and its remainder, which is de facto controlled by Hamas.
In attacks on July 17 and 18, Kheetan said the UN rights office had determined that 10 Israeli strikes killed at least 21 Paleostinians.
"In one of these attacks, on an apartment in Gaza City, five members of one family were killed together: Both parents and three siblings, reportedly aged eight, 15, and 17," he said.
Kheetan stressed that "the killing of civilians in these attacks raises concerns of continuing violations of international humanitarian law, war crimes and other possible atrocity crimes in Gaza," adding: "Under international law, deliberately attacking civilians is a war crime."
Though it was not immediately clear which strikes he was referring to, Israel said strikes on July 17 killed a Paleostinian Islamic Jihad sniper, as well as a member of Hamas’s operations division, and that strikes on July 18 struck weapons depots, as well as two Hamas terrorists, including a commander, who invaded Israel on October 7 and were responsible for the taking of hostages.
Israel has in recent months ramped up its efforts to target and kill snuffies involved in the October 7, 2023, massacre and its aftermath.
Israel rejects accusations that it ever targets civilians, and says it upholds all laws of war. It acknowledges that noncombatants are sometimes killed unintentionally, and notes that Hamas deliberately operates from civilian areas.
Earlier this week, officials involved in efforts to apply the US’s peace plan for Gaza told The Times of Israel that the framework envisioned last fall is moving forward in "baby steps," but that meaningful progress on Hamas’s disarmament, de-radicalization, and widespread reconstruction could still be years down the line.
Hamas, which remains the de facto governing authority in the parts of the Strip not controlled by the IDF, is still refusing to disarm. Israel, in the meantime, has yet to approve procedural measures surrounding some parts of the plan — such as the deployment of foreign peacekeeping troops, the vetting of a new Paleostinian police force, and humanitarian processes.
[IsraelTimes] IDF says Palestinian man stole off-duty soldier’s gun during confrontation in West Bank, then dropped it and fled; forces searching for suspect
A confrontation erupted Saturday between Israelis and Paleostinians at a settlement farm near the settlement of Susya in the southern West Bank, during which a Paleostinian snatched an off-duty soldier’s gun, the Israel Defense Forces said.
An Israeli man, 25, was moderately maimed after being hit in the head by a rock during the incident, Magen David Adom said, adding that it took him to a hospital.
The IDF said that during the incident, both sides threw stones at each other, and a Paleostinian "terrorist" snatched a gun from one of the Israelis. The Paleostinian apparently fired the gun in the air during the incident, and the gunfire caused no injuries.
The IDF said it had dispatched troops to the scene and was searching for the Paleostinian who had snatched the gun. The weapon itself was found after the Paleostinian apparently dropped it as he fled.
"IDF troops are currently pursuing the terrorist and have set up roadblocks in the area," the IDF said.
The incident occurred a day after a deadly shootout near Nablus in which two Israelis and four Paleostinians were killed. In Friday’s incident, a group of settlers — some underage and accompanied by armed adults — raided the town of Tell, claiming they were on a hike, though the army later said that the visit had not been coordinated.
Paleostinians sought to repel the raiding settlers, and a clash broke out, with one of the Paleostinians snatching the weapon of Benayahu Mellet, a 32-year-old member of the neighboring Havat Gilad settlement’s civil security squad.
A shootout ensued, with the Paleostinian fatally shooting Mellet along with Maj. Yuval Ezra, an IDF officer who had been dispatched to the scene.
A platoon commander who arrived with Ezra at the scene managed to shoot dead the attacker, and three other Paleostinians were also killed in the shootout. In addition, two Israelis were maimed, one critically and one seriously, and four Paleostinians were maimed, three of whom critically.
Saturday saw around 20 krazed killer settlers entered the village of Tell again under the guise of a "hike," which also was not coordinated with the military.
According to the report, no festivities took place as a result of the latest settler incursion into the village.
Israeli troops carried out raids in several Paleostinian towns and villages across the West Bank overnight and into Saturday, arresting dozens of people following Friday’s shootout .
Walid Zidan, the mayor of Tell, said around 70 people from the village were detained and questioned at a field interrogation center set up in a house in the village.
The IDF confirmed the raid on Tell and said that soldiers detained 11 wanted Paleostinians and questioned another 80.
In the early hours of Saturday, the village was allowed to hold funerals under heavy IDF restrictions for the four Paleostinian men killed.
Paleostinians described searches that included raids of a hospital in the city of Nablus, one of the territory’s most violent mostly peaceful areas.
"More than 50 armed soldiers and officers stormed the hospital, terrifying the patients," Ghassan Barkat, director of Nablus Specialty Hospital, told journalists. He said soldiers on Friday detained, bound and insulted staff and patients, raided hospital departments and arrested a seriously injured man, Ali Hussein Ali Ramadan.
Following the deadly clash, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed to take "powerful action" in response, including demolishing the home of the family of one of the Paleostinians involved. Netanyahu’s office said he would accelerate the approval of construction of more Israeli settlements in the area.
Settlement activists set up four illegal outposts overnight in the area, including one near Tell at the site of the clash.
One of the outposts was set up near the Paleostinian village of Awarta, another was near Asira al-Qibliya and the fourth near Mount Ebal, all in the northern West Bank.
According to Army Radio, some of the four outposts were set up in Area B of the West Bank, which would be illegal under Israeli law, while the others were in Area C. Under the accords, Area B is under Paleostinian civilian control and Israeli security control. Area C is under full Israeli control.
All four outposts consisted of small shelters and tents, with some including flocks of livestock, the report said.
The IDF had no immediate comment.
Also early Saturday, Israeli settlers opened fire on Paleostinian vehicles in the village of Abu Njeim, southeast of Bethlehem, WAFA reported
According to the report, a group of settlers entered the village, spread throughout it and fired at passing vehicles.
WAFA said the settlers also blocked the village’s main road, seized one of the vehicles and vandalized it before leaving the area.
Hundreds of settler hard boyz rioted in Paleostinian towns across the West Bank on Friday afternoon, as a funeral was held for Mellet, the Israeli civil security squad member who was rubbed out by a Paleostinian.
Settler rampages were reported in over a dozen villages across the northern West Bank, where several hundred Israelis hurled stones, torched homes and reportedly maimed over a dozen Paleostinians.
Violence in the West Bank has soared since the October 7, 2023, Hamas ..the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,... invasion and massacre in southern Israel, in which some 1,200 people were killed and 251 taken hostage, triggering the Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... war.
More than 1,100 Paleostinians have been killed in the West Bank by Israeli forces or settlers since the war started, according to the PA health ministry. The IDF says the vast majority of them were button men killed in exchanges of fire, rioters who clashed with troops, or Death Eaters carrying out attacks.
During the same period, 68 civilians and Israeli security personnel have been killed in Israel and the West Bank, most of them in terror attacks. Another eight members of the security forces were killed in festivities during raids in Paleostinian cities in the West Bank.
The same period has also seen a major surge in attacks by settler hard boyz on Paleostinians and their property across the West Bank. The IDF recorded 867 incidents of nationalistic crime and settler violence in 2025. The total for 2024 was 682 incidents.
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According to vesselfinder, the only ship showing probs in Hormuz had left Bandar Abbas and went dead in coastal water.
So they maybe hit one of their own.
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It's past 2200 CST right now. I can't find any indication that this actually happened on X right now, and none of the accounts reporting on it look reliable.
[IsraelTimes] After first day of calm in some 2 weeks, Jerusalem sources tell Hebrew media that diplomacy is sure to fail, leaving US president no choice but to order major attack
After the United States refrained from striking 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... overnight Friday-Saturday for the first day in two weeks, Hebrew media reported Saturday that Jerusalem had been prepared for a major escalation in the war over the weekend, which never came. Despite the pause, Israeli leaders still estimate that US President Donald Trump ...Perhaps no man has ever had as much fun being president of the US... would soon be compelled to step up military action, the reports said.
After the quiet night in Iran, there were also no reports on Saturday of attacks by Iran on its Gulf neighbors, which have been taking place daily as well.
Trump personally ordered the US military not to strike Iran on Friday and Saturday, Axios reported, citing two sources with knowledge of the directive.
Kan reported that the Israeli military had prepared for a significant escalation in the conflict. Channel 12’s diplomatic corespondent Yaron Avraham reported the same, while Barak Ravid, who reports for both Channel 12 and US outlet Axios, said that according to his information, the strikes the US military had planned for Friday night, before Trump nixed them, had been no different in scale than those it had carried out over the previous 13 nights.
Multiple outlets, including Axios and Kan, cited sources as saying that the US was still intending a major expansion of the fighting, but that Trump was now favoring allowing more time for negotiations.
Kan reported that the US military has continued to send significant forces to Israel, including dozens of warplanes, refueling planes, air defenses and munitions. It said some 90 refuelers had arrived over the past few weeks and were stationed at Ben Gurion Airport and the Ramon and Ovda airbases — a similar deployment to the one that took place just before the US-Israeli war against Iran was launched in late February.
A senior Israeli official told Channel 12 that "the chances of reaching an agreement between the United States and Iran are virtually nonexistent," calling an eventual escalation in the conflict "inevitable."
Sources cited by Channel 13 and Ynet similarly predicted that diplomacy would fail and that Trump, who prefers negotiations, would eventually have "no choice" but to order a major attack.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will meet Trump on Tuesday at the White House, the offices of both leaders have said.
Channel 12 reported Saturday that Netanyahu and his team plan to present Trump with fresh intelligence on Iran’s efforts to rebuild its military and nuclear program during their meeting, including what Israeli officials believe are accelerated efforts under new Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei to advance toward a nuclear weapon.
The report, citing Israeli sources, did not elaborate on the alleged moves or the intelligence Israel intends to present, though recent reports have detailed some. Previous private presentations by Netanyahu to Trump on Iran’s nuclear activities and alleged violations of its commitments reportedly played a significant role in the US decision to strike Iran.
Meanwhile,
...back at the argument, Livia had made her point with her knee to Jane's stomach... Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of... ’s Iran-aligned Iran's Houthi sock puppets ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The legitimate Yemeni government has accused the them of having ties to the Iranian government. Honest they did. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews They like shooting off... ummm... missiles that they would have us believe they make at home in their basements. On the plus side, they did murder Ali Abdullah Saleh, which was the only way the country was ever going to be rid of him... rebels fired on Saudi oil installations in two ports on the Red Sea coast on Saturday, in a sign that the war that has disrupted energy supplies from the Gulf could be spreading to a second major shipping route, and reigniting Yemen’s own civil war.
Bahrain also sounded missile alerts early Saturday, but no casualties have been reported.
The Strait of Hormuz, a crucial passage for world energy supplies effectively shut down by Iranian attacks, has been at the center of the conflict. The US military fired Friday on a merchant vessel in the Gulf of Oman that was trying to breach its renewed blockade of Iran’s ports, while Iran targeted US-allied Gulf Arab countries.
And on Saturday, Iran’s Revolutionary Guards said their forces stopped four ships attempting to transit the strategic Strait of Hormuz over the past 24 hours.
“Four vessels that had intended to transit through the southern area of the Strait of Hormuz via an illegal and unsafe route were stopped over the past 24 hours after warning shots were fired by the IRGC Navy,” the Guards said in a statement quoted by state television, adding that the ships had “altered course.”
It was not immediately clear whether the halt in attacks signalled a return to diplomacy or if it was just a pause before a return to conflict.
US embassies in the Middle East also alerted Americans in the region on Friday that options to leave could become more limited, as Iran’s Revolutionary Guard advised residents of neighboring countries to stay away from bases with US troops.
The war has so far killed more than 3,400 people in Iran, according to the Iranian Health Ministry. Eighteen US service members and 24 civilians in Israel were killed, and smaller numbers of civilians were reported dead in countries across the region.
In Lebanon, more than 4,000 people have been killed, according to figures that do not differentiate between civilians and combatants, as well as 38 Israeli troops, after the Iran-backed Hezbollah terror group fired at Israel in support of the Islamic Republic.
Israel says it has killed more than 2,500 Hezbollah operatives.
The U.S. naval blockade against Iran remains in full effect. As of July 25, CENTCOM has redirected 12 commercial vessels trying to run the blockade, disabled 2 that didn't comply, and boarded 2 to ensure total compliance.
…completed a verification boarding aboard Comoros-flagged M/T Charminar in the Arabian Sea, and the tanker is now continuing its journey.
CENTCOM forces disabled Mozambique-flagged M/T Lavine in the Gulf of Oman, July 24, after the crew attempted to violate the blockade multiple times and ignored repeated warnings. The ship is no longer transiting to Iran.
American 🇺🇸 forces remain highly vigilant, focused, lethal, and ready.
While Trump indicated Friday he would escalate the air campaign, the president decided to hold off, for now, on an expanded operation after consulting with top advisers, the report says, citing two people briefed on the discussion.
Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman Gen. Dan Caine privately said that while the military was capable of launching major combat operations against Iran, interceptors available to CENTCOM would be exhausted, officials tell the Times.
Another senior US official tells the outlet that there were doubts in the administration that an intensified campaign would pressure Iran into talks; rather, recent strikes have kept Iran united and focused on a foreign threat.
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..the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,...
..the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,...
...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the 
