Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin:
[ColonelCassad] Khartoum International Airport after being liberated by Burhan government forces.
The army recently recaptured the capital from the RSF after nearly two years of fighting for the city.
Video from the channel "Arab Africa"
Let me remind you that everything that is happening in Sudan began with the overthrow of Al-Bashir "for the sake of establishing democracy."
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We had the report of their kidnapping here. They are fortunate to have been released so quickly.
[ShabelleMedia] The five Kenyan chiefs who were kidnapped by suspected al-Shabaab ... the personification of Somali state failure... militia in February while going for a security meeting to plan for President William Ruto’s tour have been released.
The five were released on Sunday evening, after being dropped by unknown men following what local authorities reported were successful negotiations between the elders from the region and the turbans.
The five had been held captive in neighbouring Somalia for the last two months following their abduction while on their way from Wargadud to Elwak Town.
The chiefs were from the administrative units of Wargadud East, Qurahmudow, and Chachabole and were aboard a vehicle at the time of the incident.
At the time of the incident, the vehicle ferrying the chiefs to Elwak was hijacked between Bamba Owla and Ires Suki in Mandera South.
The government has been in active efforts through the local elders to rescue the administrative officers whose abduction became a national security concern following the circumstances under which they were captured.
Following the incident, President Ruto, while on tour in Mandera, issued stern directives to national security agencies to ensure that the five were found.
Speaking at Moi Stadium in Mandera County on February 4 during his work tour, the president also fired a salvo at the al-Shabaab snuffies after they bypassed security checkpoints and gained entrance into the country.
"We will deal with the terrorists, and that is why I have come with the Deputy Inspector General of Police, Gilbert Masengeli, to say that no matter what happens, that issue must be promptly addressed," Ruto asserted in his address.
According to the head of state, the snuffies chose to abduct the administrators because of the effort that Kenyan multiagency security teams had shown against them in the region.
Kenya is currently on alert following the renewed efforts of the al-Shabaab Death Eaters in neighbouring Somalia and along the borders of Kenya.
On Saturday, suspected al-Shabaab Death Eaters ambushed a GSU camp in the Basuba area of Boni Forest, launching two rocket-propelled grenades during the attack. In response, Kenya Defence Forces (KDF) officers, working alongside General Service Unit (GSU) personnel, launched a manhunt for the attackers as part of ongoing efforts to secure the region.
[Garowe] After hours of speculation, it has now emerged that Colonel Nur Farey was killed by a gunman who was not a member of the Somali National Army (SNA) but was with the soldiers at the time of the tragedy, raising concerns of possible al-Shabaab ... an Islamic infestation centering on Somalia attempting to metastasize into Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, and similar places, all ofwhich have enough problems without them... infiltration in the national forces.
Initial reports carried out show the killer was not a member of any unit and that the gun he used was foreign to the national army. And now, questions are being asked about how he managed to mix with soldiers and who may have facilitated the plot.
Several people including soldiers are being investigated, officials say, with preliminary investigations showing al-Shabaab holy warriors may have infiltrated the army, leading to the tragic death of Colonel Nur Farey, a senior officer within the military.
This comes just hours after former Somali National Army Commander General Ibrahim Sheikh Muhyiddin raised concerns about possible infiltration of the al-Shabaab in various fighting units of the national forces, consequently, diluting the credibility.
"We are in a difficult time where there is no clear distinction between the enemy and the army. The enemy is hiding within the ranks of the army in every form," said Gen. Muhyiddin, calling the killing of the commander both regrettable and a sign of institutional neglect.
According to him, it was suspicious that Nur sidelined his bodyguards during the trip to the occasion before his death at Ado-Diidible between Afgooye and Laanta Buure. He was known for his trust in his troops.
Despite raising concerns about infiltration, Muhyiddin clarified that it remains unclear whether the shooter was a member of the Somali army or an al-Shabaab infiltrator in military uniform.
Nur was killed by a man wearing a military uniform in the Addow Dibille area near Afgoye town, on Saturday, leading to a national outcry.
The commander of the 14th brigade Colonel Nur Farey was addressing soldiers when a man shouting a word repeatedly approached and fired shots, fatally injuring him. Farey was leading mobilizations aimed at recapturing Awdhegle town from al-Shabaab, an official says.
The 14th October Brigade was created in memory of the victims of the single deadliest terrorist attack in Africa, at Mogadishu’s K-5 junction which killed and injured 1000 people on October 14, 2017. The death has caused anxiety within the government which is actively leading the crackdown against al-Shabaab krazed killers.
[HodhodYemenNews] US aggression aircraft intensified its Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s raids on 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... , launching 22 airstrikes on the governorates of Sana’a, Ma’rib, and Hodeidah.
In Sana’a province, the US aircraft conducted six airstrikes on the Jarban area in Sanhan District, and five others on the al-Jumaymah area in Bani Hushaysh District, according local sources.
Additionally, US warplanes launched two airstrikes on Kamaran Island in Hodeida province.
In Ma’rib province, the aggression aircraft carried out five airstrikes on Majzar District, two airstrikes on the Kawfal area in Sirwah, and two airstrikes on the Jubah district.
On Monday evening, the aggression warplanes conducted five airstrikes on the Harib district, targeting the al-Jafrah area.
Four killed in US attacks on Yemen's Hodeidah
[HodhodYemenNews] At least four civilians were killed, and 16 others have been injured, in a preliminary toll of the US aggression targeting the city of Amin Muqbil in the Al-Hawak District, Hodeidah Province, Western Yemen, the Health Ministry reported on Tuesday.
In a statement, the ministry condemned the continued targeting of civilians and civilian objects by the US enemy, calling it “a full-fledged war crime that violates all international norms and laws.”
It added that that Civil Defense teams are continuing their search for victims trapped under the rubble.
US strikes pound Yemen overnight
[IsraelTimes] Several US airstrikes targeted Houthi positions throughout rebel-held Yemen on Monday night.
Unnamed sources told the Al Hadath network two airstrikes hit Houthi weapons stores on Kamaran Island in Hodeidah as well as an ammunition depot in the al-Juba area of the Marib governate.
Five other strikes targeted the Al Jumaimah area in the Sanaa governorate, Al Hadath reported.
Al Hadath also said that the Houthis carried out a campaign of arrests following the strikes. Among those said to be detained was the deputy head of the Houthi intelligence service over suspicions that he leaked coordinates for targets.
An intense campaign of airstrikes in Yemen under US President Donald Trump targeting the rebels since March has killed at least 70 people, according to casualty figures released by the Houthis.
Suspected US airstrikes pounded the area around Yemen’s Red Sea port city of Hodeida on Tuesday night, killing at least two people and wounding 13 others, the Iran-backed Houthi rebels say.
The strikes hit around Hodeida’s al-Hawak District, the rebels say. The area is home to the city’s airport, which the rebels have used in the past to target shipping in the Red Sea.
Since its start, the intense campaign of US airstrikes targeting the rebels over their attacks on shipping in Mideast waters — related to the Israel-Hamas war — has killed at least 75 people, according to casualty figures released by the Houthis.
Footage aired by the rebels’ al-Masirah satellite news channel shows chaotic scenes of people carrying wounded to waiting ambulances and rescuers searching by the light of their mobile phones. The target appears in the footage to be a home in a residential neighborhood, likely part of a wider decapitation campaign launched by the Trump administration to kill rebel leaders.
Other strikes target Yemen’s mountainous Amran governorate, north of the rebel-held capital of Sanaa. There, the Houthis describe American strikes hitting telecommunication equipment. Previous US strikes also targeted telecommunications gear in Amran near Jebel Aswad, or the “Black Mountain.”
The US military’s Central Command, which oversees American military operations, doesn’t immediately acknowledge the strikes. That follows a pattern for the command, which now has authorization from the White House to conduct strikes at will in the campaign that began March 15
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[Regnum] The Third Court of Appeal, during a visiting session in the Volgograd Regional Court, upheld the verdict in the case of high treason against Nikita Zhuravel, who burned the Koran. This was reported by RIA Novosti, citing the words of the convicted man's lawyer, Andrei Sabinin.
“The complaint was dismissed, the sentence came into force,” the agency quotes the lawyer as saying.
On November 25, 2024, the Volgograd Regional Court sentenced Zhuravel to 13.5 years in prison for treason; he will spend a total of 14 years in prison, taking into account another unserved term.
As reported by the Regnum news agency, Zhuravel burned the Koran near the Cathedral Mosque in Volgograd in May 2023 and posted the video online. He admitted that he did this on the instructions of the Ukrainian special services for a reward of 10 thousand rubles. In February 2024, the court sentenced him to 3.5 years in a general regime penal colony.
[Rudaw] Iraqi security forces thwarted an attempt to smuggle 400,000 Captagon pills across the Euphrates from Syria into Iraqi territory, the interior ministry announced on Monday.
"The operation was carried out using advanced thermal cameras, and the drugs were hidden inside tightly-sealed plastic jerry cans," ministry spokesperson Miqdad Miri said in a statement.
The narcotics were being smuggled from Syria’s eastern Deir ez-Zor province, according to the statement.
In mid-March, the Iraqi interior ministry announced the seizure of a truck packed with some 1,100 kilograms of Captagon pills coming from Syria towards Iraq through The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...a NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Originally it was a mutual defense pact directed against an expansionist Soviet Union. In later years it evolved into a mechanism for picking the American pocket while criticizing the cut of the American pants... member, but not the most reliable... .Also in March, Iraq’s narcotics control directorate reported that Baghdad has seized some 1.75 tons of illicit substances since the beginning of 2025 and made 2,000 arrests in the process.
Three months prior, in December, the narcotics directorate revealed that a total of six tons and 183 kilograms of illicit drugs were seized in 2024, with 14,483 suspects arrested. Among these, 144 individuals have been sentenced to death for international drug smuggling, while 454 local dealers were sentenced to life in prison - a term of 20 years.
Saad Maan, the head of Iraq’s Security Media Cell, told Rudaw in February that drug trafficking is "the most widespread crime" in Iraq, highlighting that Erbil and Baghdad are working jointly and with regional neighbours to address the issue.
Maan also said that "drugs are almost exclusively imported" into Iraq and that there have been "failed attempt ...Curses! Foiled again!... s" to manufacture crystal methamphetamine and Captagon - the most commonly used types of psychotropic substances - within the country.
The drug trade, especially Captagon, is a growing concern in the Middle East, including Iraq.
Syria, under fallen dictator Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Scourge of Qusayr... , was a major source for the Captagon trade. The drug was one of the power cards used by the Assad regime for political leverage and his brother Maher is believed to have been largely behind the illegal business. With the collapse of his rule, observers have urged the international community to end the Captagon trade among the prerequisites for providing relief to the new Syria leadership.
Play stupid games, win stupid prizes OR suicide by IDF — both are valid choices in that part of the world.
[IsraelTimes] A Palestinian woman who allegedly hurled stones at soldiers and Israeli vehicles at the Gitai Avisar junction near the large West Bank settlement of Ariel, and tried to carry out a stabbing, was shot by troops, the military says.
According to the IDF, the soldiers opened fire on the woman after she drew a knife on them.
The condition of the woman is unclear. There are no other injuries as a result of the incident.
[IsraelTimes] Ahmed Zidat, 25, and Mahmoud Zidat, 44, jailed for life plus 60 years after killing Edna Bluestein, 70, and injuring 17 others in ramming and stabbing attack across multiple locations
The Lod District Court on Tuesday sentenced two perpetrators of a 2024 car-ramming and stabbing attack, in which they killed an elderly woman, to life imprisonment plus 60 additional years.
Cousins Ahmed Zidat, 25, and Mahmoud Zidat, 44, were convicted of repeatedly ramming vehicles into pedestrians across several locations throughout Ra’anana on January 15, 2024. The terror attack killed 79-year-old Edna Bluestein and injured at least 17 others.
The perpetrators, from the southern West Bank town of Bani Naim, had been working in the Ra’anana industrial zone without proper documentation. The two pleaded guilty and were convicted in July 2024 on terror charges including aggravated murder, attempted murder, causing injury and other offenses.
According to an indictment filed by prosecutors in February 2024, both identified with the Hamas ..the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,... terror group and had planned other terror attacks in the past. They carried out their rampage using three cars in separate parts of the city.
Ahmed rammed into one pedestrian at high speed, exited his wrecked vehicle, then hijacked another car to run into two other pedestrians. He again got out of the car and began stabbing one of his victims.
Mahmoud, meanwhile, spotted a crowded bus stop and rammed his car into those waiting there, running over 18 people, including Bluestein.
One of them told the Shin Bet that "when the war in 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... started," they "decided to carry out an attack and become deaders... Initially, we intended to stab Jews, but then we decided to run over as many Jews as possible," Channel 12 reported last year.
Dozens of terrorist attacks have been carried out in Israel since Hamas’s October 7, 2023, massacre, which saw thousands of snuffies burst across the border from the Gaza Strip by land, air and sea, killing some 1,200 people and seizing 251 hostages of all ages. In response to the deadliest attack in the country’s history, Israel vowed to eliminate Hamas from the Gaza Strip, where the terror group has ruled since 2007, and return the hostages.
Since then, 51 people, including Israeli security personnel, have been killed in terror attacks in Israel and the West Bank. Another eight members of the security forces were killed in festivities with terror operatives in the West Bank.
Troops have arrested some 6,000 wanted Paleostinians across the West Bank, including more than 2,350 said to be affiliated with Hamas.
According to the Paleostinian Authority health ministry, more than 900 West Bank Paleostinians have been killed in that time. The IDF says the vast majority of them were button men killed in exchanges of fire, rioters who clashed with troops, or snuffies carrying out attacks.
[GEO.TV] The Paleostinian Foreign Ministry has called for ''intensified international efforts to preserve UNRWA's mandate and ensure its continuity'' following Israel's closure of six schools run by the agency in occupied East Jerusalem, Al Jazeera reported, citing a statement. Pop quiz: Who was the first king of Paleostine?
''This decision deprives hundreds of students of their right to education, undermines their future, and attempts to impose the Israeli curriculum on them, harming the educational process,'' the ministry said in a statement.
''This is a flagrant violation of the immunity and privileges enjoyed by the United Nations ...boodling on the grand scale... and its affiliated headquarters and institutions, and a serious assault on international law and international resolutions that clearly affirm that Jerusalem is an integral part of the Paleostinian territory, occupied since 1967, and the capital of the State of Paleostine.''
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[GEO.TV] Strikes have also hit the Al-Amal neighbourhood west of Khan Younis in the south of the territory. Intense Israeli artillery shelling has also been reported east of Gaza City, reported Al Jazeera.
[IsraelTimes] Israeli strikes on 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... Strip overnight and into Tuesday killed at least 26 people, according to health officials in the Hamas ..the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®,... -ruled enclave.
The al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital says 15 people were killed in separate strikes in Deir al-Balah in central Gaza, including five children as young as 2 years old.
Gaza’s Hamas-run health ministry says seven people were killed in a strike in the northern town of Beit Lahiya, and four others were killed in a separate attack northwest of Gaza City.
There is no comment from Israel on the strikes. The tolls cannot be verified and Gazook health authorities do not differentiate between fighters and civilians.
Meanwhile,
...back at the Hubba Hubba Club, Nunzio wondered: Where the hell was Chumbaloni? And where was his $600?... Paleostine Today, a media outlet affiliated with 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, says a second journalist was killed in a strike in Khan Younis Monday that killed another news hound and injured six others.
Israel said the strike targeted Hassan Eslaiah, who took pictures for the News Agency that Dare Not be Named after entering Israel alongside invading Hamas-led turbans on October 7, 2023. Israel accused Eslaiah, who was injured in the strike, of being a Hamas operative.
Israel says it only targets turbans and takes measures to avoid harming civilians, blaming Hamas for operating in densely populated areas.
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[BREITBART] The U.S. Catholic Church is shutting down two of its migration programs amid pressure from ordinary Catholics and the U.S. government.
Not so much pressure as discontinuation of funds, I imagine. Did the feds tell them couldn’t continue the program using parishioner donations? On the other hand, with the flow of illegals into the country almost completely stopped, to whom would the programs minister?
''A very sad day has dawned,'' wrote Archbishop Timothy P. Broglio, the president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, in an April 8 op-ed for the Washington Post. He continued:
The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) had to make the gut-wrenching decision this week to end our work with the federal government to resettle refugees and coordinate support services on the government's behalf for unaccompanied children entering the United States. Our programs — among the nation's largest and longest-serving refugee resettlement efforts — will shut down by the end of the fiscal year.
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This is a painful end to a life-sustaining partnership the Catholic Church in the U.S. has had with our government and that has spanned decades across administrations of both political parties.
The retreat comes after voters — including many Catholics — picked President Donald Trump ...Never got invited to a P.Diddy party... to end the federal government's very unpopular policy of importing workers, renters, and consumers into the nation's communities.
That ruthless economic policy had imposed poverty, lower wages, higher rents, and chaotic diversity on many American communities which were already suffering from the loss of jobs and investment. The church-backed policy also led to the deaths of thousands of migrants colonists.
[IsraelTimes] Israeli fighter jets struck a Hezbollah weapons depot in Lebanon’s northeastern Beqaa Valley a short while ago, the military says.
According to the IDF, the site was being used to store weapons used by Hezbollah’s aerial defense unit.
“The presence of the weapons in the area constituted a threat to the State of Israel and a blatant violation of the understandings between Israel and Lebanon,” the military adds.
[GEO.TV] As calls for Leb ...home of the original Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade.... 's Hezbollah to disarm gain momentum, a senior Hezbollah official told Rooters the group is ready to hold talks with the Lebanese president about its weapons if Israel withdraws from south Lebanon and stops its strikes.
US-backed President Joseph Aoun, who vowed when he took office in January to establish a state monopoly on the control of arms, intends to open talks with Hezbollah over its arsenal soon, three Lebanese political sources said.
The senior Hezbollah official said the group was ready to discuss its arms in the context of a national defence strategy but this hinged on Israel pulling out its troops from five hilltops in south Lebanon.
"Hezbollah is ready to discuss the matter of its arms if Israel withdraws from the five points, and halts its aggression against Lebanese," the bigwig told Rooters.
Hezbollah's position on potential discussions about its arms has not been previously reported. The sources spoke on condition of anonymity due to political sensitivities.
Hezbollah's media office did not immediately respond to a request for comment. The presidency declined to comment.
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[Rudaw] Kurdish-led security forces arrested more than a dozen Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... (ISIS) turbans, seized communication equipment and uncovered a secret trench during a raid on Roj camp in northeast Syria (Rojava) on Saturday.
"16 members of the [ISIS] organization's cells and accomplices were arrested. It was confirmed that they were involved in communicating with foreign [ISIS] cells for the purpose of recruitment and smuggling families" from the camp, read a statement from the Kurdish Women's Protection Units (YPJ) in Rojava on Monday.
Roj is the smaller of the two camps in Rojava housing people with links to ISIS. The larger al-Hol camp houses some 40,000 people and has been branded a breeding ground for terrorism.
Both camps are located in northeastern Syria’s Hasaka province and are controlled by the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), who have warned about a possible ISIS resurgence and the security risks posed by the camps.
The YPJ on Saturday added that the operation it led also saw the seizure of "advanced communication equipment that were used to coordinate with [accomplices in] the outside world."
"This operation constitutes a new milestone in our ongoing path to combat terrorism, protect society from the threat of ISIS, and ensure a safe and stable environment for our people in Syria and for all peoples of the world," stated the women-led Kurdish security forces.
The raid also uncovered a secret trench dug under the camp’s outer fence, which had been used for infiltration and smuggling activities.
Most of the people in the al-Hol and Roj camps are Iraqi or Syrian nationals. The Iraqi government has been repatriating its citizens in batches and enrolling them in rehabilitation programs before reintegrating them into their communities.
In the camps, there are also people from around the world who traveled to Iraq and Syria to join ISIS. Kurdish authorities in Rojava have repeatedly urged countries to repatriate their nationals, but many countries are unwilling to take them back due to security concerns.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
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
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
... the personification of Somali state failure...
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...home of the original Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade....
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling 
