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Africa Subsaharan
Troops Foil Boko Haram Attack In Borno, Kill Commander, Terrorists' Cameraman
[CHANNELSTV] Troops of the Nigerian military have foiled an attempted infiltration into Monguno town and Bitta community at the Lake Chad region by Boko Haram
... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality...
/ISWAP turbans after scores of them, including a top commander, were neutralized in the midnight operations

The Senior Quiad Commander, identified as Ibn Khalid, was killed along with the terrorist cameraman in the fierce shootout that ensued in the Bitta community when troops of the Nigerian Army engaged the turbans while repelling the attack around 2:30 am.

According to the theater Commander Northeast joint taskforce operation Hadin Kai, Major General Abdulsalam Abubakar, seventeen other bad boyz were potted in different locations within Sambisa cutting across Madagali LGA in Adamawa and Kaga in Borno.

An unspecified number of the turbans escaped with varying degrees of injuries.

Maj. Gen. Abdulsalam said the troops, while pursuing the turbans as they retreated, observed traces of blood along the withdrawal routes.

Items such as 2 AK-47 magazines, 7.26 millimeter special ammunition, 1PKT belt, Rocket Propelled Grenade Bomb, and a Camcorder were recovered from the terrorists.

Monguno Town is the headquarters of Northern Borno at the fringes of the Lake Chad region. It serves as the headquarters of Sector 3 operations, Hadin Kai, and the Multinational Joint Task Force.

Although civil authorities have been restored in Monguno, with residents resuming their normal activities, communities within Lake Chad remain deserted as they are yet to be rebuilt and restored.

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Posted by: Fred || 07/26/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Boko Haram (ISIS)


Arabia
Major explosion hit occupation force airbase in Lahj, Yemen — Hodhod Yemen News Agency
Now we know where it exploded, which is more than we had yesterday.
[HODHODYEMENNEWS.NET] Violent explosions rocked al-Anad Air Base, which is under the control of coalition forces in restive Lahj
... a Yemeni governate located in the southwestern corner of the Arabian Peninsula. It is the stomping grounds on the southern secessionist al-Harak movement
Governorate, southern 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...
, on Thursday evening.

A local source reported that the earth-shattering kabooms occurred in a warehouse storing various weapons and shells, amid reports of casualties and material losses, while the cause remains unknown. The source confirmed that the earth-shattering kabooms were heard in various parts of the al-Hawtah and Tuban areas and that flames and smoke rose into the sky over the base.
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Posted by: Fred || 07/26/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Houthis


Various southern Yemeni separatist militias clash in Aden
[HODHODYEMENNEWS.NET] Armed festivities erupted on Thursday between factions affiliated with the UAE-backed Southern Transitional Council (STC) in the Sheikh Othman district of central Aden, leaving several people injured.

A local source in the city reported that festivities erupted between members of ''the Security Belt Forces,'' led by Nasser al-Dahshali, and other button men affiliated with the STC factions. The festivities occurred after the button men began opening fire during a wedding celebration for one of their relatives in the Abd al-Qawi neighborhood.

The source indicated that verbal altercations between the two parties quickly escalated into armed festivities, resulting in injuries on both sides. He added that ''the Security Belt Forces brought military reinforcements to the area and were able to control the situation, arresting two participants in the festivities after several main and side streets were closed.''

The festivities, in which light and medium weapons were used, sparked panic among the neighborhood's residents, amid the ongoing escalation and security tension in the area.
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Posted by: Fred || 07/26/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Southern Transitional Council


Home Front: WoT
ICE Arrested a Guatemalan illegal alien charged with having sex with child In Fairfax Virginia
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Posted by: Fred || 07/26/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Migrants/Illegal Immigrants


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Dozens of Gazans killed, injured in relentless Israeli attacks
[HODHODYEMENNEWS.NET] The Israeli occupation army continued, last night and on Friday, to carry out deadly attacks on different areas of 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, killing and injuring dozens of civilians, the Paleostinian Information Center (PIC) reported, citing local media sources.

According to local media sources, the occupation forces also continued today to detonate and bomb more homes and displace families in the Gaza Strip, further deepening the dire humanitarian crisis as the population grapples with worsening famine.

Israeli attacks have continued across the Gaza Strip, including an Israeli strike on a mosque in Gaza City that killed at least five civilians and injured 37 others as they were performing the Friday prayer.

Another Israeli strike killed two civilians and injured others in Gaza City's an-Nasr street.

Two separate strikes on Gaza City's at-Tuffah neighborhood killed two people and injured others.

Meanwhile,
...back at the chili cook-off, Chuck reached for the green sauce...
medical sources reported that 21 citizens were martyred as a result of new and previous Israeli attacks in Khan Yunis.

The Israeli occupation army also bombed a tent sheltering a displaced family in the new al-Yarmouk street in Gaza City, killing four people, including journalist Adam Abu Rahbeed.

The bodies of four deaders were evacuated from the Muraj area of Rafah in southern Gaza, according to medical sources.

More people were martyred or injured in Israeli attacks on aid seekers near US-backed distribution points in southern and central Gaza.

The occupation army also launched attacks on other areas of the Gaza Strip last night and today, killing and wounding more civilians, including children and women.

Meanwhile,
...back at the chili cook-off, Chuck reached for the green sauce...
several Gazooks were pronounced dead after they succumbed to injuries they sustained in recent attacks.
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Posted by: Fred || 07/26/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Hamas


122 Palestinians, including 83 children, killed by starvation in Gaza — Hodhod Yemen News Agency
[HODHODYEMENNEWS.NET] The corpse count from starvation 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...
has risen to 122, including 83 children, according to the Paleostinian Ministry of Health, as the humanitarian crisis deepens under the ongoing Israeli siege.

Nine more Paleostinians died of starvation and malnutrition in the past 24 hours, the ministry reported Friday. Government officials described the situation as a ''systematic crime of starvation'' perpetrated by the Israeli occupation army against more than 2.4 million besieged civilians over the past 145 days.

The Gaza Government Media Office (GMO) called for an immediate end to the famine and demanded the urgent entry of humanitarian aid, including baby formula, 500 aid trucks, and 50 fuel trucks daily, to prevent further loss of life.

The GMO urged the international community to form an independent commission to investigate Israel's use of starvation as a weapon and prosecute those responsible.
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Posted by: Fred || 07/26/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Hamas


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Georges Abdallah back in Lebanon after 40 years in French jail — Naharnet
[NAHARNET] One of La Belle France's longest-held inmates, the pro-Paleostinian Lebanese hard boy Georges Ibrahim Abdallah, arrived in Beirut on Friday, having been released from prison after more than 40 years behind bars for the alleged killings of two diplomats.

At around 3:40 am (0140 GMT), a convoy of six vehicles with flashing lights left the Lannemezan prison in southwest La Belle France, AFP journalists saw.

Hours later, the 74-year-old was placed on a plane and deported back to Leb
...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?...
, to be welcomed by family members on his return to Beirut at the airport's VIP lounge.

Dozens of supporters, some waving Paleostinian or Lebanese Communist Party flags, gathered near the arrivals hall to give him a hero's reception, an AFP correspondent said. He later received another hero's welcome by Hezbollah demonstrators on the airport road, where he got out of the car to salute them.

In his first public address after being released, Abdallah took aim at Israel's ongoing war in 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, where human rights
...which are usually open to widely divergent definitions...
organizations have warned of mass starvation.

"The children of Paleostine are dying of hunger while millions of Arabs watch," he said.

"Resistance® must continue and intensify," added the former schoolteacher.

''We bow to the deaders of the resistance and the resistance is not weak, seeing as its leaders are deaders and not traitors,'' Abdallah added.

''Israel is living the last chapter of its existence,'' he said.

Abdallah's family had said previously they would take him to their hometown of Kobayat, in northern Lebanon, where a reception is planned.

Abdallah was detained in 1984 and sentenced to life in prison in 1987 for his alleged involvement in the murders of U.S. military attache Charles Robert Ray and Israeli diplomat Yacov Barsimantov in Gay Paree.

- 'Past symbol' -

The Gay Paree Court of Appeal had ordered his release "effective July 25" on the condition that he leave French territory and never return.

While he had been eligible for release since 1999, his previous requests were denied with the United States -- a civil party to the case -- consistently opposing him leaving prison.

Inmates serving life sentences in La Belle France are typically freed after fewer than 30 years.

Abdallah's lawyer, Jean-Louis Chalanset, visited him for a final time on Thursday.

"He seemed very happy about his upcoming release, even though he knows he is returning to the Middle East in an extremely tough context for Lebanese and Paleostinian populations," Chalanset told AFP.

The charge d'affaires of the Lebanese Embassy in Gay Paree, Ziad Taan, who saw Georges Abdallah before his departure, told AFP that he was "well, in good health, very happy to return to Lebanon to his family and to regain his freedom."

AFP visited Abdallah last week after the court's release decision, accompanying a politician to the detention center.

The founder of the Lebanese Revolutionary Armed Factions (FARL) -- a long-disbanded Marxist anti-Israel group -- said for more than four decades he had continued to be a "militant with a struggle."

After his arrest in 1984, French police discovered submachine guns and transceiver stations in one of his Gay Paree apartments.

The appeals court in February noted that the FARL "had not committed a violent mostly peaceful action since 1984" and that Abdallah "today represented a past symbol of the Paleostinian struggle."

The appeals judges also found the length of his detention "disproportionate" to his crimes, and pointed to his age.

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Posted by: Fred || 07/26/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Commies


Israel strikes car in Baraashit, flies drones over Beirut and Dahieh — Naharnet
[NAHARNET] An Israeli dronezap on Friday targeted a Renault Rapid vehicle in the southern town of Baraashit, killing one person and wounding another, the Health Ministry said.

The Israeli army identified the slain man as Ali Mohammad Hassan Qassan, claiming that he was "the head of Hezbollah's manpower for the Bint Jbeil sector."

"Qassan had lately worked on attempts to rebuild Hezbollah's force in the Bint Jbeil area and we worked on recruiting members during the war," the Israeli armed added.

Israeli drones were meanwhile overflew Beirut and its southern suburbs.

The developments come after violent mostly peaceful evening strikes that targeted the Iqlim al-Tuffah heights and the area between Ansar and al-Zrariyeh in south Leb
...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?...
, with the Israeli army claiming those strikes hit "Hezbollah military sites, including arms depots and a rocket launchpad."

The escalation follows U.S. envoy Tom Barrack's latest visit to Lebanon, where he discussed the thorny issue of Hezbollah's disarmament amid Israel's continued occupation of five hills in south Lebanon and its daily liquidations against suspected Hezbollah operatives.

Earlier on Thursday, one person was killed in an Israeli dronezap on a pickup truck in the border town of Aita al-Shaab.

An Israeli drone also fired two missiles on a forest area in the outskirts of the southern town of Beit Leef, sparking a blaze.
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Posted by: Fred || 07/26/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Hezbollah


Hezbollah's Qmati calls for unity amid pressure for disarmament — Naharnet
We can't possibly be the problem.
[NAHARNET] Hezbollah political bureau member Mahmoud Qmati called Friday for unity in Leb
...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. Only one of those statements is an exaggeration....
amid ongoing domestic and international pressure for Hezbollah to disarm after a bruising war with Israel.

"We are ready for dialogue about a defense strategy," Qmati said, adding that only national unity could help Lebanon and warning that divisions among the Lebanese people would only serve Israel.

"Our call today is clear: We must unite for Lebanon. If we give up our strength and our weapons, that would be the end of Lebanon."

Qmati said that Lebanon is in danger, "in the eye of the storm", and is facing existential threats from all directions - east, west, north, and south. He cited French President Emmanuel Macron and U.S. envoy Thomas Barrack's statements that Lebanon could become a part of Israel or Syria. "That is why we must all be united around the Lebanese army to defend the nation, its entity, dignity, illusory sovereignty, and the unique Lebanese formula in this region."

Qmati said that Hezbollah can fight alongside the Lebanese army and that the monopoly of arms is to protect Lebanon domestically against destructive weapons and mafias that do not defend or serve Lebanon and not against those "who are resisting an external enemy."

"The resistance was created to protect the country," Qmati said, "and we will not accept describing it as Lebanon's problem."

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Posted by: Fred || 07/26/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Hezbollah


U.S. Strike Kills Top ISIS Leader In Syria - As Troops Head Home
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
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Posted by: Fred || 07/26/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State


Ali Mohammed Hassan Qawzan, a Hezbollah terrorist responsible for manpower in the Bint Jbeil sector zapped
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
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Posted by: Fred || 07/26/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Hezbollah



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