[PUBLISH.TWITTER] The poor darling is much too sensitive to be a foreign ministry mouthpiece for a would-be regional hegemon. Perhaps he should switch his efforts to flower arranging and painting watercolours.
Iranian foreign ministry spokesman described the killing and wounding of hundreds of innocent people in an attack on the village of "Wad Al-Nura" in Sudan as shocking, calling for international measures to stop the situation.https://t.co/yMSlcpLH6bpic.twitter.com/qYGydJdcqP
[SHABELLEMEDIA] A tragic incident unfolded in the border regions of Bay and Bakool in southern Somalia, as a devastating explosion claimed the lives of the commander of the 8th battalion of the 60th CXDS division and several other soldiers.
The explosion took place while the officers and soldiers were responding to a call for support from government forces engaged in operations in the area. The incident occurred near the border between the two regions, highlighting the ongoing security challenges faced by Somali forces in this volatile area.
Local sources, who spoke on condition of anonymity due to the sensitivity of the situation, revealed that the blast was believed to have been caused by a mine planted by holy warriors. This tactic has been frequently used by groups opposing government forces in the region, aiming to disrupt military operations and spread fear among the local population.
The South West administration has yet to issue an official statement regarding the incident, leaving many questions unanswered about the circumstances surrounding the earth-shattering kaboom and the steps being taken to address the security situation in the area.
This incident comes amidst ongoing efforts by the Somali government to strengthen security in the country and combat the presence of holy warrior groups. The loss of a high-ranking military officer and other soldiers is a significant blow to the Somali National Army and underscores the challenges faced in maintaining stability and security in the region.
As the investigation into the earth-shattering kaboom continues, the incident serves as a stark reminder of the persistent threat posed by holy warrior groups and the ongoing need for vigilance and cooperation in the fight against terrorism in Somalia.
[SUDANTRIBUNE] The Sudan ...a Moslem country located in the Horn of Africa. It is noted for its affinity for rule by ex- or current generals, its holy men, and for the oppression of the native Afro population by its Arab conquerors. South Sudan, populated mostly by the natives, split off from Sudan proper, which left North and South Darfur to be oppressed by the guys with turbans... ese army announced Friday the death of Ali Yaqoub,
… more fully Ali Yagoub Gibril …
the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) Operations Commander in North Darfur, during an attack on El Fasher. The RSF downplayed the loss, asserting that his death would not affect their morale or determination to fight.
Joint forces in the Darfur region published photos and videos of Yaqoub’s body, which the Sudanese army later transported to their headquarters. Also, El Fasher residents celebrated the death of the RSF figure.
Yaqoub, who commanded the Central Darfur sector, was a close associate of RSF leader Mohammed Hamdan Dagalo. He led numerous military operations throughout Darfur, particularly in the absence of the RSF’s second-in-command, Abdel Rahim Daglo.
The high-ranking RSF commander’s death occurred less than 24 hours after the UN Security Council resolution demanding that the RSF end its siege on El Fasher, cease fighting, and de-escalate tensions in the city and surrounding areas.
Sudanese Armed Forces front man Nabil Abdallah, in a statement received by Sudan Tribune, said, "The army and joint forces thwarted an attack by the RSF this morning, inflicting heavy losses, including hundreds of dead and maimed, among them their criminal commander Ali Yaqoub."
Abdallah emphasized that the attack on El Fasher directly challenged the recent UN Security Council call for a cessation of hostilities and the lifting of the siege on the historic capital of Darfur.
A field commander within the Joint Force of Darfur gangs informed Sudan Tribune that their troops eliminated Yaqoub and his lover companions as they attempted to infiltrate El Fasher from the south with a large force comprising vehicles, cycle of violences, and infantry.
He stated that their forces engaged in a fierce battle with the attacking force near the livestock market, one of the largest markets in El Fasher, and neutralized the entire group.
The commander further revealed that Yaqoub had addressed his forces the day before, declaring their intention to pray Friday prayers at the Khatim al-Anbiya Mosque in the North Darfur capital and overrun joint forces’ positions at the livestock market and its surroundings.
Iran’s top human rights official has hailed an attack by French police on the Mujahedin Khalq Organization (MKO) terrorist group’s main headquarters in a Paris suburb, saying there will be "no safe place for terrorists."https://t.co/Wx7XWSYbatpic.twitter.com/yJi8hAt8dk
[IsraelTimes] Spokesperson for university says demonstrators caused ‘significant damage’ when they occupied and trashed building while president was inside, though no arrests carried out
The president of Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party,State University, Los Angeles, said demonstrators protesting against Israel over the war with Hamas ..one of the armed feet of the Moslem Brüderbund millipede,... 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 an 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... are no longer welcome on campus after some of them occupied and trashed a building while she was inside.
The takeover ended early Thursday without arrests, a school spokesperson said.
Protesters barricaded the multistory Student Services Building at 4 p.m. Wednesday with university President Berenecea Johnson Eanes and dozens of other employees inside, said spokesperson Erik Frost Hollins.
Most of the 58 employees got out by 6 p.m. except for a group of administrators who remained until after midnight to manage the situation. The group included Eanes, but Frost Hollins would not say whether the president interacted with the protesters.
"That falls under tactics that we are not discussing at this point," the spokesperson said.
Most of the protesters left the building around 1:15 a.m. Thursday and returned to an encampment on the campus. A few remaining protesters left when university police ordered them out, Frost Hollins said.
Pro-Paleostinian demonstrations and encampments against Israel have roiled campuses across the US since the war in Gaza was started by Hamas’s October 7 attack, in which thousands of forces of Evil stormed southern Israel to kill nearly 1,200 people and take over 251 hostages. Israel’s retaliatory offensive has affected a humanitarian catastrophe in the Strip where over a million Paleostinians have been displaced and the Hamas-run Gaza health ministry says over 37,000 have been killed, an unverifiable figure that doesn’t differentiate between civilians and combatants.
Anti-Israel protesters in US universities have called on their institutions to boycott Israel. Some campus administrations have responded to unruliness — which has included instances of violence, vandalism and antisemitic harassment — by summoning law enforcement, leading to the arrest of over 3,000 students nationwide, according to the New York Times
...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize... In a statement Thursday afternoon to the school community, CSULA President Eanes said she has engaged with protesters who have occupied the campus encampment for some 40 days.
"So long as the encampment remained non-violent mostly peaceful, I was committed that the university would continue to talk," the president wrote. But in the wake of the destruction and theft that occurred Wednesday, a line was crossed and "those in the encampment must leave."
"I am saddened, and I am angry," Eanes said. "Campus community: Know that we will recover from this, but also know that I am committed to doing everything we can to ensure this will never be allowed to repeat. I cannot and would not protect anyone who is directly identified as having participated in last night’s illegal activities from being held accountable."
There were no arrests and no injuries were reported, but "assaults" were reported by three employees and one student, according to Eanes. Officials said those were a law enforcement matter.
The university, meanwhile, announced that all main campus classes and operations would be remote until further notice.
Images from the scene showed furniture blocking doorways from the inside, while the plaza out front was barricaded with a picnic table, umbrellas, a vending machine, and at least two overturned campus vehicles, one with a shattered windshield.
The interior and exterior of the building were graffitied with expletives about Zionism, calls to "end the genocide in Gaza," and disparaging remarks about the university president.
"We don’t have an exact appraisal on it but there was damage to the exterior, the interior, equipment, materials, structure — it was significant damage," Frost Hollins said.
The CSULA Gaza Solidarity Encampment, a group that has camped near the campus gym for about 40 days, sent an email indicating that members were staging a sit-in in the building, Hollins said.
[GEO.TV] The armed wing of Palestinian Islamic Jihad said on Saturday the only way to return Israeli hostages is through Israel's withdrawal from Gaza, ending its attacks and reaching a deal for exchanging Israeli hostages for Palestinian prisoners.
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[GEO.TV] Hezbollah on Saturday kept up retaliatory attacks on military positions in northern Israel, and one person was killed in Leb ...an Iranian satrapy currently ruled by Hassan Nasrallah situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozen flavors of Christians, plus Armenians, Georgians, and who knows what else? It is the 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. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers... , days after an Israeli strike hit a senior commander from the Iran-backed group.
Senior Hezbollah commander Taleb Abdallah was killed in an Israeli strike in the village of Jouaiyya on Tuesday, alongside three comrades, a source close to the group had told AFP.
Hezbollah said Saturday that it targeted the Meron base in northern Israel with "guided missiles", and sent "attack drones" towards another Israeli base "as part of the response to the attack and liquidation carried out by the enemy in Jouaiyya".
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[GEO.TV] Artillery strikes have been launched on several areas southwest of Gaza City, as per the Palestinian news agency Wafa.
Israeli naval vessels bombarded the Tel al-Hawa and Sheikh Ajlin neighborhoods, while Israeli military vehicles also opened heavy gunfire in the areas, Wafa said, reported Al Jazeera.
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Significant Brush and Forest Fires are Burning tonight on both Sides of the Border in Northern Israeli, with the Fire near the Towns of Bar'am and Yir'on in the Galilee Panhandle reported to be Out-of-Control. While across the Border in Southern Lebanon, an ongoing Large Brush… pic.twitter.com/QCct6PXICe
8 Soldiers with the Combat Engineering Corps of the Israel Defense Force were Killed earlier today, after a Massive Explosion in the City of Rafah caused the Total Destruction of their “Namer” Armored-Personnel Carrier (APC). The Cause of the Explosion is currently Unknown,… pic.twitter.com/WQ2mzMrR7w
The Israel Defense Force has released the Identity of one of the Soldiers that was Killed in this morning’s Explosion near the City of Rafah; Captain Wassem Mahmoud, a 23-Year-Old Officer and a Deputy Company Commander in the 601st “Asaf” Battalion of the Combat Engineering Corps… pic.twitter.com/QkLvnHPJM9
The Israeli Defense Array is reported to have utilized the “David’s Sling” Medium-Range Surface-to-Air Missile Interceptor to Down an “Unknown Aerial Projectile” this morning that was coming from the Northeast, with the Projectile being Successfully Intercepted outside of Israeli… pic.twitter.com/291zBKkxGS
… Airspace. At the same time, the Islamic Resistance in Iraq claimed to have launched an Advanced Version of the Iranian “Al-Arqab” Long-Range Cruise Missile at the City of Haifa in Northwestern Israel.
That sounds like it didn’t get anywhere near Haifa, or even Israel.
U.S. Central Command has announced that the Temporary-Floating Pier off the Coast of Central Gaza, which had just Resumed Humanitarian Aid Operations this Week after being Damaged on May 28th in Severe Weather, will be Partially-Dismantled and Towed to the Port of Ashdod in… pic.twitter.com/ZqCK4VwM9h
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.
[SHABELLEMEDIA] A tragic incident unfolded in the border regions of Bay and 
...a Moslem country located in the Horn of Africa. It is noted for its affinity for rule by ex- or current generals, its holy men, and for the oppression of the native Afro population by its Arab conquerors. South Sudan, populated mostly by the natives, split off from Sudan proper, which left North and South Darfur to be oppressed by the guys with turbans...
..one of the armed feet of the Moslem Brüderbund millipede,...
...an Iranian satrapy currently ruled by Hassan Nasrallah situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozen flavors of Christians, plus Armenians, Georgians, and who knows what else? It is the 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. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers...
