[SaharaReporters] There is tension presently in the Wuse area of the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, over persistent gunshots as the Nigerian Army personnel attacked and shot at the members of the Islamic Movement of Nigeria (IMN)
…Sheikh Ibrahim Zakzaky (and a number of other spellings), the former head of the Muslim Brotherhood in Nigeria, converted to Shi'ism after a visit to Iran and now is a fiery Iranian sock puppet. He founded the Islamic Movement of Nigeria (IMN), the Shiite version of the Muslim Brotherhood — only beholden to Iran. Nigeria declared IMN a terror group in 2019. ...
at the Banex Plaza.
Speaking with SaharaReporters, a source in the area said, "It's been a rain of sporadic shootings by the Nigerian Army around Austoma Petrol Station/ Banex Axis on Aminu Kano Cresent, Wuse 2, Abuja.
"Some parts of the road have been condoned to probably fish out the Islamic protesters that might be hiding around.
I had to abandon my car on the Ahmadu Bello/Aminu Kano Cresent Traffic light because of the shootings."
The clash occurred just hours after the United States Embassy in Nigeria issued a security alert, warning its citizens about planned IMN protests in Abuja and other major cities on Friday.
In the advisory, the US Embassy had cautioned that demonstrations could lead to disruptions such as roadblocks, traffic congestion, and possible confrontations.
"The Islamic Movement of Nigeria has called for demonstrations in Abuja and other major cities on Friday, March 28, 2025. Heavy traffic and other disruptions are possible. Based on past occurrences, protests may involve roadblocks, checkpoints, traffic congestion, and physical confrontations," the embassy had stated.
The security warning listed potential protest locations, including Banex Plaza, Berger Junction, Unity Fountain, the National Human Rights Commission Head Office, Eagle Square, Area 10 Shopping Plaza, the National Mosque, al-Noor Mosque, and Fouad Lababidi Mosque.
Dozens of pro-Palestinian protesters have been killed and wounded as security forces opened fire on an International Quds Day demonstration in Nigeria’s capital city.
According to reports, at least 19 demonstrators were killed and dozens more wounded in Abuja on Friday.
Video footage of the scenes shows armed forces securing the perimeter as protestors flee for cover while bullet shots are heard. The footage also shows soldiers dragging the lifeless body of a civilian on the street and dumping it into a pickup while beating two other protesters and forcing them to get into another truck.
The Islamic Human Rights Commission (IHRC) had expressed concern over attacks against protesters after it was revealed that Nigerian authorities were making preparations in this regard as a pretext for an attack.
The Office of the National Security Adviser had stressed the necessity to stop the al-Quds day demonstration to “prevent a breach of the peace” by the pro-Palestinian protesters, according to a leaked internal letter seen by the IHRC.
In the leaked communique, Nigerian authorities had warned that though the pro-Palestinian demonstrations were peaceful, the protesters had the potential to seek justice by attacking US and Israeli interests in the country. Therefore, their demos must be stopped.
This method has been used by Nigeria’s pro-Israel officials in recent years to prompt the forces to stage a violent crackdown on the demonstrators.
At least one person was killed, and many more were injured after police opened fire on the Quds Day demo in Abuja in 2023.
[IsraelTimes] Satellite photos show US moving more stealth bombers to Indian Ocean base in striking distance of Yemen and Iran; rebels have launched 7 missile attacks at Israel since March
Suspected US Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s pounded 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... overnight into Saturday, reportedly killing at least one person as the American military acknowledged earlier bombing a major military site in the heart of Sanaa controlled by the 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.
The full extent of the damage and possible casualties wasn’t immediately clear. The attacks followed a night of airstrikes early Friday that appeared particularly intense compared to other days in the campaign that began March 15.
An News Agency that Dare Not be Named review has found the new American operation under US President Donald Trump ...The Hero of Butler, Pennsylvania... appears more extensive than those under former President Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. I'm not working for you. Don't be such a horse's ass.... , as the US moves from solely targeting launch sites to firing at ranking personnel as well as dropping bombs in cities.
Meanwhile,
...back at the shootout, Butch clutched at his other leg...... satellite photos analyzed by the AP show a mysterious airstrip just off Yemen in a key maritime chokepoint now appears ready to accept flights and B-2 bombers within striking distance of the country Saturday.
NEW STRIKES COME AS US RELEASES VIDEO OF ONE BOMBING
The strikes into Saturday targeted multiple areas in Yemen under the control of the Iranian-backed Houthis, including the capital, Sanaa, and in the governorates of al-Jawf and Saada, rebel-controlled media reported. The strikes in Saada killed one person and maimed four others, the Houthi-run SABA news agency said.
SABA identified the person killed as a civilian. Houthi fighters and their allies often aren’t in uniform. However,
there's more than one way to skin a cat... analysts believe the rebels may be undercounting the fatalities given the strikes have been targeting military and intelligence sites run by the rebels. Many of the strikes haven’t been fully acknowledged by the Houthis — or the US military — while the rebels also tightly control access on the ground.
One strike early Friday, however, has been confirmed by the US military’s Central Command, which oversees its Mideast operations. It posted a black-and-white video early Saturday showing an Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... targeting a site in Yemen. While it didn’t identify the location, an AP analysis of the footage’s details corresponds to a known strike Friday in Sanaa. The footage shows the bomb striking the military’s general command headquarters held by the Iran's Houthi sock puppets, something the rebels have not reported.
The Houthi-controlled Telecommunications and Information Technology Ministry in Sanaa separately said US strikes on Friday destroyed "broadcasting stations, communication towers and the messaging network" in Amran and Saada governorates. The strikes in Amran around the Jebel Aswad, or "Black Mountain," had appeared particularly intense.
The Houthis have begun threatening both 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... and the United Arab Emirates, two American allies in the region, over the US strikes. That’s even as the nations that have sought a separate peace with the Houthis have stayed out of the new US airstrike campaign.
An AP analysis of satellite photos from Saturday shows the American military has moved at least four long-range stealth B-2 bombers to Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean — a base far outside of the range of the rebels that avoids using allies’ Mideast bases. Three had been earlier seen there this week.
That means a fourth of all the nuclear-capable B-2s that America has in its arsenal are now deployed to the base. The Biden administration used the B-2 with conventional bombs against Houthi targets last year.
The aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman has launched attacks from the Red Sea and the American military plans to bring the carrier USS Carl Vinson from Asia as well.
Meanwhile,
...back at the alley, Slats Chumbaloni was staring into a hole that was just .45 inch in diameter and was less than three feet from his heavily sweating face ... La Belle France said its sole aircraft carrier, the Charles de Gaulle, was in Djibouti, an East African nation on the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, which links the Red Sea to the Gulf of Aden. The French have shot down Houthi drones in the past, but they are not part of the American campaign there.
MYSTERIOUS AIRSTRIP IN BAB EL-MANDEB APPEARS READY
Satellite images Friday from Planet Labs PBC show an airstrip now appears ready on Mayun Island, a volcanic outcropping in the center of the Bab el-Mandeb. The images showed the airstrip had been painted with the designation markings "09" and "27" to the airstrip’s east and west respectively.
A Saudi-led coalition battling the Houthis had acknowledged having "equipment" on Mayun, also known as Perim. However,
today is that tomorrow you were thinking about yesterday... air and sea traffic to Mayun has linked the construction to the UAE, which backs a secessionist force in Yemen known as the Southern Transitional Council.
World powers have recognized the island’s strategic location for hundreds of years, especially with the opening of the Suez Canal linking the Mediterranean and Red Seas.
The work on Mayun follows the completion of a similar airstrip likely constructed by the UAE on Abd al-Kuri Island, which rises out of the Indian Ocean near the mouth of the Gulf of Aden.
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[HodhodYemen ...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... News] The American aggression continues to conduct treacherous Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s on multiple Yemeni provinces.
On Friday evening, the enemy aircraft carried out 14 airstrikes on Saada province, resulting in the martyrdom and injury of four civilians.
Local sources reported that the American aggression launched 14 raids around the city of Saada, killing one citizen and wounding three others. Earlier, the US had conducted eight airstrikes near Saada city and two raids on Sahar district in the same province.
In Sana’a province, the American aggression launched eight airstrikes on the al-Sawad area in Sanhan district, south of the capital.
Meanwhile,
...back at the shouting match, the spittle had reached unprecedented levels... in al-Jawf province, the US carried out eight airstrikes targeting the vicinity of the government complex in Hazm district.
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[HodhodYemen ...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... News] UK police arrested nine individuals, among them six young women, for holding a meeting to discuss the ongoing genocide 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... Youth Demand, a pro-Paleostinian group advocating for climate action and an end to UK arms sales to Israel, reported on Friday that at least nine of its members and supporters have been arrested, with police raiding homes and events associated with the group.
On Thursday, 30 Met coppers stormed into the Youth Demand Welcome Talk at the Quaker Meeting House in Westminster and arrested six young women, including one attending their first ever welcome talk and a journalist.
Three of them were released in the early hours of the morning, but three remain in jug
Police said that they were arresting people for "conspiracy to cause a public nuisance."
In a separate incident at around 8.00 am on Friday, police arrested Youth Demand supporter Eddie Whittingham in his house in Exeter, but he has been released without charge.
Three other supporters were arrested at another location. Then, at around 12:30 pm on Friday, cops raided another Youth Demand supporter’s home and arrested them.
Youth Demand, in a post on Instagram, announced that the UK police have made nine arrests in less than 20 hours.
"Arresting those for attending a welcome talk is an unprecedented level of police repression that has never been seen before in the UK. Repression means the state is nervous and we are winning," it said.
The Welcome Talk is an opportunity to share information about Israel’s ongoing genocide of the Paleostinian people in Gaza and the West Bank and about the mass killing that is being imposed on marginalized people across the globe as a result of the accelerating climate crisis.
Ella Grace-Taylor, 20, an actor, musician, and one of those arrested, said after her release that UK politicians are complicit in allowing law enforcement to carry out mass arrests and detainments of those who speak out against the government’s involvement in enabling the Israeli genocide.
"By arming Israel and refusing to call what is happening a genocide, they are perpetrating mass slaughter. Hundreds of children were killed in Paleostine in the last week. We won’t stop saying it. We won’t be intimidated," she added.
A Youth Demand spokesperson said in a statement that the UK government sees the pro-Paleostine group as a "threat" due to their strong opposition to governmental actions facilitating genocide.
"We will not be silenced. Young people all over the country are coming together to shut London down day after day throughout April," the spokesperson highlighted.
Youth Demand is planning on launching its month of resistance on April 1, at 6:30 pm in Mallet Street outside Senate House Library.
"Only sustained mass resistance can put an end to genocide. By standing together,r we can grind the murder machine to a standstill. It’s time to disrupt," the spokesperson noted.
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[RedState] Multiple Turning Point USA staffers were assaulted in Dallas on Tuesday, and the whole incident was caught on video. The suspected perpetrator expeditiously departed at a goodly pace but was quickly tracked down and arrested. That's where the story gets even more predictable, as you'll see momentarily.
TPUSA Chapter president Paige Neumann and her secretary were handing out materials on the campus of the University of Texas at Dallas when they were approached by an angry person on a bike. Things escalated from there, with the assailant striking them with a heavy-duty bike lock. You can see the moment of the attack in the video posted below. Another video shows them making their escape.
JUST IN — Our Chapter President, Paige Neumann, and her secretary Grace were just assaulted while tabling at the University of Texas at Dallas.
The attacker took a metal bike lock and slammed it against Paige's head (pictured below), hitting her so hard that it completely… pic.twitter.com/xgG5QqbqOc
…that it completely shattered Paige's phone. It's unclear if the perpetrator is female or trans.
Paige has filed a police report with University Police who are thankfully taking this matter seriously and are currently searching for the individual.
Thankfully, Paige and her chapter VP Grace (whose phone was also destroyed) are both physically doing okay.
Our
@TPUSA
students are the tip of the spear on college campuses across the country. They are brave, strong, and resilient. Thank God for these amazing students.
A police report was quickly filed, and to their credit, local law enforcement made an arrest that evening. Perhaps unsurprisingly, the attacker appears to be a transgender. individual. Liam Thanh Tam Nguyen, who was wearing a skirt and exposed bra or bikini top during the assault, is a man.
If you read through the list of charges, it's clear Nguyen didn't go quietly. Aside from being charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, he was also charged for resisting arrest, assault on a police officer, and attempting to take a weapon from an officer. The body cam footage must have been wild.
This will continue to happen until real deterrence is established. Because the far-left has turned "transgenderism" into a lauded, protected class, there is a sense of entitlement and lack of accountability that has led to an increase in violence. Perhaps Nguyen should have considered that he wasn't in Washington or Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party,, though. Assuming he's convicted of one or more of the charges, Texas courts are more likely to come down hard regarding sentencing.
Unfortunately, left-wing politicians, including Texas' own Rep. Jasmine Crockett, are continuing to stoke the flames of hatred, possibly inciting violence along the way. Days before this attack, the congresswoman proclaimed that people should "punch" their political opponents. Other Democrats ...every time you hear the phrase white people, white supremacy,white anything but paint, you're listening to a Democrat. Ask him/her/it to reimagine something for you; they do that a lot, though not well. They can hear a dog whistle a mile or two away. They invented the spoils system and Tammany Hall, and inspired the addition of the word (Thomas) Nasty to the English language. They want to stop continental drift and repeal the law of unintended side effects... have also made similar statements regarding attacking Telsa as a way to get back at Elon Musk.
The left never sits idly by, and you can expect things to get much worse over the next four years as they cope with not only being out of power but also a society that is rejecting their deranged ideologies.
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Tehran International Tower would suit the purpose well. It is 50+ stories tall and the IRNG owns several apartments (probably entire floors) in the building.
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Aerial crowd shot and matching video, for those who would like to estimate for themselves.
[IsraelTimes] After controversial arrest of Istanbul’s mayor, week of unrest culminates in giant demonstration in Turkey’s largest city, with some estimates putting crowd size in the millions
Waving flags and chanting slogans, hundreds of thousands of anti-government demonstrators rallied in Istanbul Saturday calling for democracy to be defended after the arrest of mayor Ekrem Imamoglu which sparked The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor... ’s worst street unrest in over a decade.
Under a cloudless blue sky, huge crowds gathered in Maltepe on the Asian side of Turkey’s biggest city on the eve of the Eid al-Fitr celebration which starts Sunday, marking the end of Ramadan.
Ozgur Ozel, leader of the main opposition party CHP which organized the rally, said there were 2.2 million people in the crowd, but AFP was unable to independently confirm the figures.
"I’m not scared. I’ve only got one life, I’m ready to sacrifice it for this country," said an 82-year-old woman in a headscarf, carrying a picture of Imamoglu and the Ottoman Turkish flag.
She did not want to give her name "in case they come knocking at my door."
"He’s an honest man, he’s the one who will save the Ottoman Turkish republic," she said of the mayor who was arrested then jugged anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not over a graft probe on charges widely believed to be spurious.
The mass protests, which began with Imamoglu’s March 19 detention, have prompted a repressive government response that has been sharply condemned by rights groups and drawn criticism from abroad.
Widely seen as the only Ottoman Turkish politician capable of challenging President His Enormity, Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First ...Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey. In Anatolia did Recep Bey a stately Presidential Palace decree, that has 1100 rooms. That's 968 more than in the White House, 400 more than in Versailles, and 325 more than Buckingham Palace, so you know who's really more important... at the ballot box, Imamoglu was elected as the opposition CHP’s candidate for the 2028 presidential race on the day he was jugged anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not He was resoundingly re-elected mayor last year for the third time. The anger over his arrest quickly spread from Istanbul across Turkey.
Nightly protests outside Istanbul City Hall drew vast crowds and often degenerated into running battles with riot police, who used teargas, pepper spray and rubber bullets to disperse the protesters.
"We are here today for our homeland. We, the people, elect our rulers," insisted 17-year-old Melis Basak Ergun, vowing the protesters would never be cowed "by violence or tear gas."
"We stand behind our mayor, Imamoglu."
’KEEP FIGHTING!’
Heading for the rally, protesters on board ferries crossing the Bosporus could be heard chanting: "Everywhere is Taksim, resistance is everywhere!"
It was a reference to Istanbul’s iconic Taksim Square, the epicenter of the last massive wave of protests in 2013.
"I joined the rallies outside City Hall for four days together with university students. I told them not to give in," protester Cafer Sungur, 78, told AFP.
"There is no other way than to keep fighting," he said.
"I was jugged anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not in the 1970s but back then there was justice. Today we can’t talk about justice any more."
Among those at the protest were Imamoglu’s wife Dilek and their children, along with his parents, an AFP correspondent said.
Opposition chief Ozel told French newspaper Le Monde the Saturday rallies would from now on be a weekly event in cities across Turkey, alongside a weekly Wednesday night demo in Istanbul.
"If we don’t stop this attempted coup, it will mean the end of the ballot box," he said.
Student groups have kept up their own protests, most of them masked, in the face of a police crackdown that has seen nearly 2,000 people arrested.
The authorities have also cracked down on media coverage, arresting 13 Ottoman Turkish journalists in five days, deporting a BBC correspondent and arresting a Swedish news hound who flew into Istanbul to cover the unrest.
Eleven journalists were freed Thursday, among them AFP photographer Yasin Akgul.
Swedish journalist Joakim Medin, who flew into Turkey on Thursday to cover the demonstrations, was jugged anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not on Friday, his employer Dagens ETC told AFP.
Reporters Without Borders’ Turkey representative Erol Onderoglu said Medin had been charged with "insulting the president" — a charge often used to silence Erdogan’s critics.
"The judicial pressure systematically brought to bear on local journalists for a long time is now being brought to bear on their foreign colleagues," he told AFP.
Ottoman Turkish authorities held BBC journalist Mark Lowen for 17 hours on Wednesday before deporting him for posing "a threat to public order," the broadcaster said.
Ottoman Turkish officials said it was due to "a lack of accreditation."
Baris Altintas, co-director of MLSA, a legal NGO helping many of the detainees, told AFP the authorities "seem to be very determined on limiting coverage of the protests."
He added: "We fear that the crackdown on the press will not only continue but also increase."
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[ZeroHedge] The Trump administration ordered two Pentagon intelligence agencies—the NGA and NRO—to use spy satellites to monitor the U.S.-Mexico border in a broader effort to curb illegal immigration and drug trafficking., according to Reuters.
The involvement of spy agencies and troop deployments highlights the growing militarization of the southern border, where Trump declared a national emergency.
Though the extent of satellite surveillance over U.S. territory remains unclear, the NGA confirmed forming a task force for the border mission, while the NRO said it was working with the Pentagon and intelligence community to secure the border.
The Reuters report says that their role stems from Trump’s executive orders targeting illegal crossings, trafficking, and the deportation of up to 14 million undocumented immigrants.
Trump, who made immigration central to his 2016 campaign, is now expanding the use of military tools—originally designed for foreign conflict—to the U.S.-Mexico border.
While AI and drones have long been used for border surveillance, the new initiative taps battlefield-grade capabilities. AI could scan satellite imagery for people or objects of interest, sources said, much like it does overseas.
Though the full scope remains unclear, experts warned the administration must address legal limits on domestic surveillance. U.S. law bars spy agencies from targeting citizens, but immigration officials can operate within 100 miles of the border.
“If they follow the law, these agencies should only collect on the other side of the border in foreign territory,” said national security lawyer Paul Rosenzweig. “But how they implement that, and if they do, are legitimate oversight questions.”
An intelligence official insisted all surveillance is “legal and authorized” and respects Americans’ privacy. The NGA and NRO declined to detail their border operations, citing security concerns. The CIA, sources said, has no role in domestic enforcement: “Once foreign criminals are inside the United States, they are not within the purview of the CIA.”
Trump has elevated border security to a top national intelligence priority, channeling more resources to it. A recent U.S. intelligence report placed transnational crime above threats from Iran or North Korea.
Meanwhile, the National Security Council is reportedly receiving daily briefings on immigration arrests, including minors.
[Rudaw] At least two suspected 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) snuffies were killed in an Iraqi strike on their hideout in the vast western Anbar desert, the army said on Friday.
Iraq’s air force "carried out a successful Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... using F-16 aircraft, which resulted in the killing of two ISIS terrorist gang members according to initial information. The strike was followed by successive explosions inside the hideout from the destruction of weapons, ammunition, equipment, and logistical materials inside," the army’s Security Media Cell said in a statement.
The army said that the Anbar strike was their "own way" of congratulating the Iraqi people on the upcoming Moslem Eid al-Fitr holiday that marks the end of the holy month of Ramadan. "This congratulations consisted of continuing to pursue and kill the remaining ISIS terrorist gang members," it said.
Iraq carries out frequent airstrikes on suspected ISIS hideouts to pursue remnants of the group, particularly within areas of Diyala, Salahaddin, Kirkuk, ... a thick stew of Arabs, Turkmen, Kurds, and probably Antarcticans, all of them mutually hostile most of the time... and Nineveh provinces that are disputed between Erbil and Baghdad and a security vacuum exists, as well as in the Anbar desert that borders Syria. Iraqi forces and the Kurdish Peshmerga are coordinating to combat the group in the disputed areas.
Two weeks ago, another airstrike in Anbar province killed Abdullah Makki Muslih al-Rafiei, ISIS’s second-in-command globally and its top man in Iraq and Syria.
In late February, the head of Iraq’s Security Media Cell told Rudaw that Iraqi security forces have largely eradicated ISIS from the country, with only a few hundred snuffies remaining in remote areas. The group was declared territorially defeated in Iraq in 2017, three years after it seized control of swathes of territory in the north and centre of the country.
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[IsraelTimes] Ahead of protests, hostages’ families urge ‘all Israelis, from every background and political viewpoint’ to attend demonstrations in cities across the country.
Some undefined number less than 10,000, probably slightly more than 2,000 to make the plural true.
Update: A subsequent Israel Times article on the subject estimates the number of protesters at tens of thousands, adding:
While the events passed mostly without incident, some protesters clashed with police toward the end of the night, and law enforcement officers were filmed violently dragging and detaining demonstrators.
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[Jpost] The IDF intercepted a ballistic missile that was launched from Yemen before it crossed into Israeli territory, the military said on Sunday.
Starting at 10:41 a.m., the launched missile triggered rocket sirens across central Israel, the Shfela, and Jerusalem areas.
Alerts sounded in Tel Aviv, Holon, and Yavne, ranging as far north as Herzliya and as far south as Telem in the West Bank.
Initially, Israel's emergency response service, Magen David Adom (MDA), said it had not received reports of injuries. However, it later noted its paramedics were providing medical treatment to two people who had been injured while running to a safe area.
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[HodhodYemenNews] The Ministry of Health in Gaza Strip announced on Saturday that its hospitals received 26 martyrs, including one who was retrieved from under the rubble of a destroyed building, and 70 wounded citizens over the past 24 hours.
In its daily report, the ministry pointed out that the casualties of the Israeli renewed aggression since March 18 have reached 921 martyrs and 2,045 injured.
The ministry pointed out that an unspecified number of victims are still trapped under the rubble of destroyed buildings or lying on roads and rescue teams cannot reach them.
The death toll from the Israeli aggression on Gaza since October 7, 2023, has risen to 50,277 martyrs and 114,095 wounded, according to the report.
Mortar shells fired at troops near Khan Younis, armored bulldozer hit by IED, none hurt; IDF acknowledges mistakenly firing on ambulances in Rafah, says troops targeted Hamas
The Israeli military said Saturday evening it had expanded its ground offensive in the southern 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 in the past few hours.
Troops pushed into the al-Jneina neighborhood of Rafah as part of efforts to expand a buffer zone along the borders of the Strip, the IDF said. During the operation, the IDF said troops demolished Hamas ..the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®,... infrastructure in the area.
Separately, dozens of Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s were carried out over the weekend, targeting what the military said was Hamas and Paleostinian 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... infrastructure. The targets included weapon depots, rocket launchers and buildings used by the terror groups, according to the IDF.
Strikes also killed several terror operatives, including some behind mortar attacks on Israel, the military added.
On Saturday afternoon, three mortar shells were launched at IDF troops operating on the outskirts of southern Gaza’s Khan Younis. Additionally, the IDF said an armored D9 bulldozer was hit by an bomb planted in the ground in the same area.
No soldiers were maimed in either incident, the military noted.
Following the attacks, the military issued an evacuation warning for Paleostinians in the area, and later said it struck the launch site.
In a post on X, the IDF’s Arabic-language front man, Col. Avichay Adraee, published a map of the area that was to be evacuated, saying that it was a "final warning" before the IDF carried out strikes there.
The area to be evacuated included the Abasan suburbs of Khan Younis, and the towns of al-Qarara and Khuza’a.
Also on Saturday, the IDF acknowledged mistakenly opening fire on ambulances and fire engines in the southern Gaza Strip a week ago, as it targeted and killed several Hamas operatives. The incident took place last Sunday in the Tel Sultan neighborhood of Rafah. According to Hamas authorities, at least one rescue worker was killed.
According to the military, troops had opened fire "toward Hamas vehicles and eliminated several Hamas button men" in Tel Sultan. "A few minutes afterward, additional vehicles advanced suspiciously toward the troops... The troops responded by firing toward the suspicious vehicles, eliminating a number of Hamas and Islamic Jihad terrorists," the IDF said
The IDF adds that "after an initial inquiry, it was determined that some of the suspicious vehicles... were ambulances and fire trucks," while condemning "the repeated use" by "terrorist organizations in the Gaza Strip of ambulances for terrorist purposes."
The military did not say if there was gunfire coming from the vehicles.
On Friday, the Hamas-run civil defense agency reported finding the body of the team leader and the rescue vehicles — an ambulance and a firefighting vehicle — and said a vehicle from the Paleostine Red Islamic Thingy Society was also "reduced to a pile of scrap metal."
On Friday, the IDF said it carried out 25 strikes across Gaza, targeting operatives and infrastructure of Hamas and other terror groups, as United Nations ...an organization originally established to war on dictatorships which was promptly infiltrated by dictatorships and is now held in thrall to dictatorships... agencies accused Israel of atrocities and forced displacement in the Strip.
The Strip’s Hamas-run health ministry said Israel had killed 896 Paleostinians since resuming hostilities on March 18, and over 50,000 since the war was triggered by the Hamas onslaught of October 7, 2023. The figures cannot be independently confirmed and don’t distinguish between civilians and combatants. Israel says it seeks to avoid targeting civilians and accuses Hamas of embedding itself among them.
The Paleostinian Authority’s official news agency WAFA reported several deaths on Friday in airstrikes on homes in Gaza City, Rafah and Khan Younis, as well as a tent sheltering displaced people in the Jabalia camp and a vehicle west of Khan Younis. WAFA also reported gunfire by Israeli military vehicles in Jabalia and Beit Lahiya, artillery fire in Gaza City and demolition of buildings in Rafah by Israeli forces.
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🚨 Hamas has executed suspected spies in Gaza, according to Asharq Al-Awsat.
Sources say "revolutionary courts" convicted and executed individuals accused of espionage in areas where Hamas leaders were recently targeted. Investigations are ongoing with others.
The crackdown follows a wave of Israeli strikes and reports of intensified Israeli intelligence efforts during the recent ceasefire.
[IsraelTimes] Hamas operatives kidnapped, tortured and executed a 22-year-old Palestinian who participated in last week’s protests wave of protests against the terror group, according to his family.
Oday Nasser Al Rabay’s body was left in front of his family’s home over the weekend.
Many dozens were filmed participating in Rabay’s funeral procession earlier today, shouting “Hamas out!”
Hamas has reportedly been threatening Palestinians who participate in the protests against the terror group, but this appears to be the first time that anyone has been killed in connection to them.
The protests were held for three straight days last week, but none were held over the weekend.
The family of 22-year-old Odai Nasser Saadi Al-Rubai, who was kidnapped, tortured, and murdered by Hamas militias, opened fire during his funeral and vowed to avenge his death.
Mourners turned the funeral into a protest against Hamas, chanting: "Hamas out, out!" pic.twitter.com/snKhFh6ZVH
[IsraelTimes] Police stopped a bus carrying left-wing activists who were en route to a rally in the northern Arab down of Sakhnin in solidarity with Palestinians in Gaza.
Footage from the bus shows officers boarding and searching the belongings of those present. Officers confiscated signs, Palestinian flags, Palestinian keffiyehs and t-shirts, according to Haaretz.
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[Rudaw] The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) announced on Friday they captured an 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) member in Hasaka province accused of smuggling people out of al-Hol camp.
"As part of ongoing operations against remnants of ISIS cells, our SDF’s military operations teams (TOL), with support from the International Coalition, conducted a security operation on Thursday, targeting a member of an ISIS terrorist cell in the village of al-Tuwaimin, al-Shaddadi town, southeast of al-Hasaka," read a statement from the SDF.
"Following intelligence on the movements and activities of the terrorist Zahir al-Kaidi al-Fian, also known as Abu Ghazi, our forces raided his place and successfully captured him.
The terrorist Zahir was an active ISIS member involved in smuggling terrorists, particularly foreign ISIS women, out of al-Hol camp," the statement added.
He was caught with two AK-47 rifles, ten magazines and one military telescope.
The Kurdish-led and US-backed SDF fought the lion’s share of the battle against ISIS and ultimately defeated the jihadists territorially in their last bastion of Baghouz in 2019. They are now in control of numerous detention facilities that house tens of thousands of veteran ISIS fighters and camps like al-Hol where some 40,000 ISIS-linked people, mainly women and kiddies, are held. The camp has been branded a breeding ground for terrorism and Kurdish authorities have repeatedly called on the international community to repatriate their citizens.
ISIS is trying to take advantage of Syria’s evolving security landscape following the overthrow of the regime in Damascus by a coalition of rebels.
The SDF, which controls northeast Syria (Rojava), is working to prevent the jihadists from reestablishing their presence, but has warned that its ability to combat ISIS in the east is being undermined by an offensive against their forces by The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...just another cheapjack Moslem dictatorship, brought to you by the Moslem Brüderbund... and its allied militias in the north.
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[IsraelTimes] Hezbollah says it has canceled an event planned for later today in Beirut’s southern suburbs, a stronghold of the terror group, after an Israeli strike hit the area.
“In view of the Zionist aggression on the southern suburbs, it was decided to cancel the Quds Day event,” a statement says, referring to an annual commemoration launched by Iran in support of Palestinians. The site of the planned gathering, at which Hezbollah chief Naim Qassem was due to give a televised address, is located several hundred meter from where the strike
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