[FOX] A multi-agency effort in Florida has recovered 163 children — from 2 months old to 17 — across five continents during Operation Statewide Shield, Attorney General James Uthmeier announced Tuesday.
Working with federal and foreign law enforcement agencies, Florida law enforcement officials spent five days in mid-August tracking and recovering the missing children.
Some of the children were runaways, Uthmeier’s office said. Some had been abandoned, neglected or abused. Some had been trafficked.
Rescuers recovered the children in Florida, Alabama, California, Ohio, New York, North Carolina, Puerto Rico and Tennessee. They also found children in Brazil, Canada, Colombia, Dominica, Finland, Ghana, Guatemala, Italy, Jamaica, Mexico, Spain and Taiwan, Uthmeier’s office said.
Three men have been arrested so far, a spokesman for Uthmeier told Fox News Digital. Eh?
Considerably more arrests no doubt to come. The Trump administration is fierce about this kind of thing.
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#Somalia 🇸🇴: Al-Shabaab (Al-Qaeda) ambushed Somali Forces and killed several soldiers in Teedaan, Hiran Region.
Militants were armed with #Iran-made 🇮🇷 “Sageg” RPG Launcher, #China-made 🇨🇳 DZP1C-40 / Type 69-1 rockets, Type 80 machine guns and Type 56-1 / 56-2 assault rifles. pic.twitter.com/mgvzsbCham
#UPDATE: Federal Forces Occupy Baidoa Buildings and Install Heavy Weapons on Rooftops amid fears of an imminent attack
Forces supporting Sheikh Adan Madobe have dug trenches and established military positions across several densely populated neighbourhoods in Baidoa, prompting…
#UPDATE: Federal Forces Occupy Baidoa Buildings and Install Heavy Weapons on Rooftops amid fears of an imminent attack
Forces supporting Sheikh Adan Madobe have dug trenches and established military positions across several densely populated neighbourhoods in Baidoa, prompting civilians to flee amid fears of possible armed clashes.
According to local sources, the forces have established positions in the downtown Baar-Lugabaxsi neighbourhood, Warshadda Hassay and in the Alfaras area close to Somafone. All the reported positions are located within civilian neighbourhoods.
#BREAKING: Armed Vehicles Loyal to Laftagareen Reach Baidoa Outskirts as Tensions Rise
Several heavily armed vehicles reached the outskirts of Baidoa on Sunday night and joined forces loyal to former South West State President Abdiaziz Hassan Mohamed “Laftagareen,” according to… pic.twitter.com/RqsrNxQJn6
#BREAKING: Armed Vehicles Loyal to Laftagareen Reach Baidoa Outskirts as Tensions Rise
Several heavily armed vehicles reached the outskirts of Baidoa on Sunday night and joined forces loyal to former South West State President Abdiaziz Hassan Mohamed “Laftagareen,” according to local sources.
Mr. Laftagreen had a perfectly conventional and successful career in Somali politics until suddenly he became persona non grata for reasons that escape me, and is now accused of association with Al Shabaab. on the other hand, other Somalis have actually done exactly that, so who knows what the real story is here.
The vehicles were part of a larger military convoy that passed through Yurkud town while advancing toward Baidoa. According to local sources, the convoy comprised more than 25 armed vehicles.
The reported movement has created an uneasy atmosphere in Baidoa, where federal government forces assigned to protect Sheikh Aden Madobe have reinforced their defensive positions.
Witnesses said federal troops were seen earlier Sunday digging trenches and establishing defensive positions in several neighborhoods in baidoa amid concerns about a possible confrontation between the rival forces.
NIGER 🇳🇪 | Série d’attaques meurtrières : une multitude d’acteurs armés impliqués
🔸Ce lundi 24/08, le JNIM revendique la prise de contrôle d’un poste militaire de l’armée nigérienne dans le village de Bangoume (région de Tillabéri). Aucun bilan n'a été communiqué.
NIGER 🇳🇪 | Series of Deadly Attacks: A Multitude of Armed Actors Involved
🔸On Monday, 08/24, JNIM claimed control of a Nigerien army military post in the village of Bangoume (Tillabéri region).
No casualty figures have been reported.
🔸The day before, on 08/23, in Boulakana (Diffa region), elements of the terrorist group Boko Haram opened fire on civilians, killing 5 and abducting 8 others.
Later in the day, to the west of the village, other civilians were abducted after their vehicle was set on fire.
🔸The same day, in Kabobi (Maradi region), an attack by an armed group reportedly killed 6 members of the population and wounded several others. The attack has not been claimed; it could involve cross-border armed bandits or the EIS, via Lakurawa,
…“the recruits” from Mali, associated with Boko Haram…
which operates nearby.
🔸The previous day, on 08/22, the village of N’Guel Kolo was attacked, this time by ISWAP. 4 civilians were reportedly killed.
🔸Finally, on 08/21, a gendarmerie post in the town of Tessa (Dosso region) came under a violent assault. The EIS, which claimed the attack, asserts it killed 20 gendarmes, compared to 18 according to the previously established toll. (photos in map thumbnails 📸)
The position was reportedly completely looted and then set on fire.
ℹ️ These attacks, carried out in several regions, along with that of the rebel group MPLJ
…the Mouvement patriotique pour la liberté et la justice (MPLJ) and the Front patriotique pour la justice (FPJ), both of which emerged in 2023 following the coup in Niger, merged in June of this year, no doubt for reasons that seemed good to the participants…
earlier in the week (quoted below), fully illustrate the scale and diversity of the actors involved in the country's deteriorating security situation.
[HodhodYemenNews] The 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... i Armed Forces announced on Monday that they carried out military operations targeting a Saudi oil tanker in the northern Red Sea off the coast of Yanbu, alongside strikes on Saudi military buildups in ’al-Abr’, ’al-Wadeah’, and ’al-Kanayes’.
In a statement delivered by military front man Brigadier General Yahya Sare’e, the Yemeni Armed Forces said they targeted the oil tanker ’Amzan’ with a ballistic missile, confirming a direct hit that sparked a fire onboard, while other vessels in the vicinity departed the area.
The statement indicated the operation is part of an ongoing maritime blockade against 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... to enforce a "siege-for-siege" equation.
The statement added that two separate operations utilizing ballistic missiles and drones targeted Saudi military concentrations in al-Abr, al-Wadeah, and al-Kanayes. The strikes destroyed over ten trucks carrying weapons arriving from Saudi territory, destroyed several weapons depots, and resulted in dozens of casualties, including military commanders and officers.
The Yemeni Armed Forces reaffirmed their commitment to maintaining the declared maritime embargo on Saudi Arabia, reciprocating escalation with broader operations.
The Ansarullah movement, better known as Houthis, said Monday that it struck Saudi military personnel and military facilities, adding that it targeted a Saudi oil tanker named "Amzan" in the Red Sea with a ballistic missile amid ongoing hostilities.
A drone and missile attack on “Saudi troop gatherings” northeast of Yemen have “resulted in dozens of casualties, including officers and commanders, and the destruction and burning of several weapons depots,” Houthi military spokesperson Yahya Saree said in a post on X.
“A large Saudi military convoy loaded with military equipment” in central-eastern Yemen were targeted with “a number of ballistic missiles and drones," he said, claiming that “the attack resulted in the burning and destruction of more than ten weapons trucks entering from Saudi territory to target the Yemeni people.”
Yemen’s Iran-aligned Houthi terror group says it attacked a vessel off Saudi Arabia’s Yanbu, according to the group’s military spokesperson Yahya Saree on Telegram.
Saudi Arabia has confirmed that one of its ships has been attacked.
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Maybe the Saudis should step their asses up and contribute to the effort of getting rid of the roaches on both coast.
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How does a ballistic missile strike a tanker - or any moving ship - on the ocean? Is this some muslim magic where missiles are maneuverable? I call bullshit.
[HodhodYemenNews] 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... i air defenses shot down a Saudi military reconnaissance drone over Hajjah governorate, northern the country, a military source said in a brief statement to the Yemeni News Agency (Saba) on Sunday.
According to the source, the aircraft—identified as a "ScanEagle" spy drone operated by the Saudi army—was intercepted and downed with an appropriate weapon while violating Yemeni airspace over the governorate.
Medics and relatives say 10-year-old Amal Abu Khater was hit by a bullet in her back while she was eating inside her family’s tent in the enclave’s southern city of Khan Younis. The fire came from Israeli forces to the east, they added. The IDF says it is not aware of any incident involving a 10-year-old girl.
Medics also say a 4-year-old boy and another Palestinian were killed in separate Israeli airstrikes on a house in Bureij refugee camp and a road in Khan Younis, medics said. The IDF does not specifically respond to questions about the reported attacks in Khan Younis and Bureij.
Earlier today, another Israeli airstrike killed one person and wounded another at a tent in Deir Al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip, medics say. This afternoon, the IDF said a strike in Deir al-Balah killed Mohammad Abd al-Nasser Jabr Abu Asaad, a member of Hamas’s elite Nukhba Force, who invaded Israel during the October 7, 2023, attack. The strike also targeted a second terror operative, who also invaded Israel during the onslaught, though he apparently survived the strike, the army said.
Yesterday, health officials in Hamas-controlled Gaza claimed that an Israeli strike killed two people, including a four-year-old boy.
The IDF reportedly assesses that Hamas was behind the launches, rejecting suggestions that they were carried out independently or by children.
According to Channel 12, the security establishment believes Hamas is using the launches to provoke an Israeli response and trigger a deliberate escalation, for which it would then blame Israel, amid US efforts to advance reconstruction in Gaza following the October ceasefire.
The report comes as kites have been launched from Gaza toward Israeli border communities in recent days, most recently today, when one landed in Kibbutz Nahal Oz.
A total of 12 kites and four balloons have reportedly crossed from Gaza in August as of today.
So far, none of the kites launched from Gaza in recent days have carried any suspicious items on them. But many have associated the objects with the kites and balloons carrying incendiary devices that were launched by Gaza terror groups for a number of years in the run-up to the Hamas-led October 7, 2023, onslaught, in which terrorists on hand gliders crossed the border.
The mosques in Gaza City and Deir al-Balah were used by Hamas to store dozens of assault rifles and other weapons, according to the IDF.
“This is another example of Hamas’s systematic exploitation of civilian infrastructure, including mosques, in violation of international law, to advance and execute terror attacks against IDF troops and Israeli civilians,” the military says.
Ahead of the strikes, the IDF published warnings to Palestinians residing in the area.
“The additional kite discovered in Nahal Oz reinforces the understanding that this is not an isolated incident,” says Uri Epstein, head of the Shaar Hanegev Regional Council. “While Hamas is returning to its former strength, Israel is returning to a policy of containment and reaction instead of initiative.”
Israeli leaders have threatened Hamas over the recent launching of kites, but the terror group has claimed they are merely “children’s toys” from Gaza refugee camps.
So far, none of the kites launched from Gaza in recent days have carried any suspicious items on them, but many have associated the objects with the kites and balloons carrying incendiary devices that were launched by Gaza terror groups, and plagued southern Israel, for a number of years in the run-up to the Hamas-led October 7, 2023, onslaught, in which terrorists on hanggliders crossed the border.
Epstein says that the border communities “expect a clear and unequivocal Israeli policy: every object that crosses from the Gaza Strip into Israeli territory must be identified and dealt with in real time, not only after it lands in our communities.”
In a statement, the Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT), responsible for coordinating aid distribution in the territory, says WCK “responsibly reported a smuggling attempt detected inside humanitarian aid supplies.”
“During food preparation in their kitchen, illegal drugs were found concealed inside canned pepper packages, including: 6 packs of hashish (600g total) [and] unidentified illicit substances (162g),” COGAT says.
COGAT attaches a photo showing six black packages, apparently of the marijuana, as well as another bag with white pills bearing the logo of the luxury car Lexus, which have previously been used in packages of captagon pills.
Captagon is an amphetamine-type stimulant manufactured mostly in Lebanon and Syria. Israeli officials have previously called it the “Islamic State drug,” as it was supposedly used by jihadists to prevent fear and fatigue during fighting in Syria and Iraq. Captagon pills have previously been seized en route to the Gaza Strip.
“We view Hamas’s continuous exploitation of humanitarian aid for illicit smuggling with extreme severity. Hamas stops at nothing, even embedding dangerous narcotics directly into the humanitarian aid entering Gaza. Such cynical tactics jeopardize vital aid operations for their own selfish gains,” COGAT adds.
According to the IDF, the strike in Deir al-Balah killed Mohammad Abd al-Nasser Jabr Abu Asaad, a member of Hamas’s elite Nukhba Force, who invaded Israel on October 7.
The strike also targeted a second terror operative, who also invaded Israel during the onslaught, though he apparently survived the strike, the army says. Pray for sepsis
The IDF justifies the strike amid the ceasefire by saying that both terrorists had advanced attacks on troops and civilians, as well as tried to restore Hamas capabilities, “systematically violating the ceasefire.”
“The strike was conducted in order to remove the threat,” the military says.
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[Regnum] Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu admitted that Iran allegedly attempted to assassinate one of his sons. The politician himself revealed this in an interview with Channel 14.
Netanyahu did not say which of his two sons he was referring to, nor did he reveal details of the assassination attempt. It is known that one of the heirs lives in Miami, the other in Israel.
"Iran targeted one of my sons. Iran tried to kill, to assassinate one of my sons," the prime minister repeated. "Neither one of which is gay, like your dead Gayatollah Nepo Baby"
He then added that the security provided to his family was not a luxury.
In May, Turkish authorities extradited Iraqi citizen Mohammed Bagher Saad Daoud al-Saadi to the United States, who was planning an assassination attempt on US President Donald Trump's daughter Ivanka Trump.
Earlier, the US president stated that he had ordered the American military to launch a powerful strike on Iran if he were killed. Trump has been the target of several assassination attempts.
Israeli commandos nabbed a Palestinian in the West Bank city of Jenin this morning who the military says was planning to carry out a terror attack in Israel.
The suspect is Imam Hazem, the son of Fathi Hazem, who was killed while trying to stab Israeli troops in Jenin last week.… pic.twitter.com/oVoiazchub
Israeli commandos nabbed a Palestinian in the West Bank city of Jenin this morning who the military says was planning to carry out a terror attack in Israel.
The suspect is Imam Hazem, the son of Fathi Hazem, who was killed while trying to stab Israeli troops in Jenin last week. Fathi's other son, Raad Hazem is a terrorist who killed three Israelis in Tel Aviv in 2022.
Following Fathi's killing, Imam "expressed his intentions to carry out a terror attack against Israeli civilians and security forces," the military says.
The army says soldiers of the Duvdevan Commando Unit apprehended Imam this morning.
In a separate raid in the village of Sanur near Jenin yesterday, troops detained a Palestinian who the army says was planning a terror attack against Israeli civilians.
#عاجل‼️ قوات لواء المظليين تستكمل مهمتها في قطاع غزة وتنتقل للعمل في منطقة يهودا والسامرة
⭕️ عملت قوات لواء المظليين، بقيادة فرقة غزة (143) والفرقة 99، خلال الأشهر الثلاثة الأخيرة في قطاع غزة، في مهام دفاعية وتطهير منطقة الخط الأصفر من البنى التحتية الإرهابية.
— Lieutenant Colonel Ella Waweya | إيلا واوية (@CaptainElla1) August 24, 2026
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#BREAKING‼️ Paratroopers Brigade forces complete their mission in the Gaza Strip and transition to operations in the Judea and Samaria region
⭕️ Paratroopers Brigade forces, under the command of the Gaza Division (143) and the 99th Division, operated in the Gaza Strip over the past three months on defensive missions and clearing the Yellow Line area of terrorist infrastructure.
⭕️ During its activity, the forces destroyed and sealed, in collaboration with the Yahalom unit, underground routes totaling 13 kilometers in length, including part of the route where Captain Hadar Goldin, may God avenge his blood, was abducted.
⭕️ The forces also destroyed numerous terrorist infrastructure sites and uncovered combat means used by the terrorist organization Hamas to carry out terrorist plots against the citizens of the State of Israel and IDF forces. Among the combat means discovered: RPG projectiles, mortar shells, hand grenades, launch platforms, and ammunition.
⭕️ In addition, the forces established new axes and military positions as part of the activity aimed at strengthening the defense system in the area.
⭕️ IDF forces in the Southern Regional Command are deployed in the area in accordance with the ceasefire plan and will continue operations to remove any immediate threat.
More attempted Turkish military establishments needing to be spiked?
[North Press] An Israeli army patrol entered Saida al-Golan village in southern Quneitra countryside on Monday with several military vehicles, local sources said.
On Sunday, three military vehicles accompanied by more than 10 personnel entered the road linking Jabata al-Khashab and Ofaniya towns in northern Quneitra countryside. Early Monday, an Israeli force also entered Maaria village in western Daraa countryside.
Local sources in Quneitra said the Israeli vehicles entered Saida al-Golan and searched a farm in the surrounding area.
🇮🇱 ISRAELI STRIKES REPORTED ACROSS SOUTHERN LEBANON
Israeli air and artillery strikes were reported across southern Lebanon over the past day, targeting areas near Nabatieh, Houla, Al-Mansouri and other locations.
🇮🇱 ISRAELI STRIKES REPORTED ACROSS SOUTHERN LEBANON
Israeli air and artillery strikes were reported across southern Lebanon over the past day, targeting areas near Nabatieh, Houla, Al-Mansouri and other locations.
Controlled detonations and road-clearing activity were also reported near Majdal Zoun, Kfar Tebnit, Taybeh, Hadatha and Hariss, alongside increased drone activity.
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Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
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...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...
