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Nice little work station she has there. All the parts and tools are within easy reach and she has obviously been at it long enough to be proficient. Just another day at the shop.
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I got confused and tried to check out Betty Grable’s manicure and workstation.
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[Breitbart] Texas Department of Public Safety troopers detained a Mexican woman after she allegedly paid a human smuggler $8,000 to bring her five-year-old daughter across the Rio Grand. Troopers made the discovery after a traffic stop in Del Rio, Texas.
Texas DPS spokesman Lieutenant Chris Olivarez posted a video showing a Mexican woman being detained after a traffic stop. The woman claimed to be the mother of a five-year-old girl strapped in the vehicle’s back seat without a child safety seat.
The trooper stopped the driver of a Ram 1500 truck in Val Verde County on Friday. The traffic stop followed information developed from a border surveillance camera. The camera captured an image of a man running from the border carrying a little girl that police say matched the girl in the truck.
Incoming Border Czar Tom Homan took note of the incident with a post on X.
During questioning of the mother, Dolores Lopez, she allegedly said she used the internet to find a smuggling organization to bring her daughter to the U.S. Lopez was residing in North Carolina as a temporary resident, Olivarez reported.
Lopez claimed to have paid the smuggler $8,000 to bring her daughter to her in Del Rio. Troopers turned Lopez and her little girl over to Border Patrol agents.
The Trooper arrested Roman Ibarra Rojo, also a Mexican national, on a charge of smuggling a person under the age of 18. Rojo allegedly confessed to being paid $1,000 to smuggle the five-year-old.
The Val Verde County District Attorney is reviewing the case for possible charges against the mother.
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[Regnum] Rebels from the Yemeni Ansar Allah (Houthi) movement said they attacked a US military vessel and three supply ships in the Arabian Sea using several missiles and UAVs, rebel spokesman Yahya Saria said.
"They struck an American destroyer and three supply ships of the American army. The operation was carried out using 16 ballistic and cruise missiles and a drone in the Arabian Sea and the Gulf of Aden," he said on the Al Masirah TV channel.
Did they strike or did they merely launch and let Allah see to the intersection of missile and target? The latter is their usual approach — though Allah almost always chooses to prevent the intersection, one way or another…
According to him, the US military supply ships Stena Impeccable, Maersk Saratoga and Liberty Grace were attacked. The Houthis intend to continue attacking US and Israeli-linked ships until the operations against the Gaza Strip cease.
As reported by Regnum, on November 22, the Houthis announced the launch of a hypersonic missile at the Nevatim airbase in Israel. It was claimed that such operations would not be stopped until the end of "Israeli aggression in Gaza and Lebanon."
On November 17, the Ansar Allah movement attacked a target in the southern Israeli city of Eilat, a Houthi spokesman claimed.
On November 12, Yahya Saria announced a successful attack on the US aircraft carrier Abraham Lincoln in the Arabian Sea. The operation lasted eight hours. In addition to the aircraft carrier, the Houthis attacked two US destroyers in the Red Sea.
Following the escalation of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Yemen's Houthis have warned that they will shell Israeli territory and prevent ships linked to the Jewish state from passing through the Red Sea and the Bab al-Mandeb Strait. Since October 7, 2023, they have attacked dozens of ships linked to Israel, the US and the UK.
[IsraelTimes] US Navy destroyers shot down seven missiles and drones fired by Yemen’s Houthi rebels at the warships and three American merchant vessels they were escorting through the Gulf of Aden. No damage or injuries are reported.
US Central Command says that the destroyers USS Stockdale and USS O’Kane shot down and destroyed three anti-ship ballistic missiles, three drones and one anti-ship cruise missile. The merchant ships were not identified.
The USS Stockdale was involved in a similar attack on Nov. 12.
[Breitbart] Authorities in Mexico rescued 22 migrants being held by cartel gunmen at a ranch in southern Mexico. The rescue came after a fierce gun battle where a soldier and a police officer died during the clash with more than 15 gunmen.
The rescue operation occurred on Thursday afternoon near Tapachula, Chiapas, in southern Mexico. According to the newspaper El Diario del Sur, authorities had been investigating the recent kidnapping of four Cuban migrants. They were tipped off about a ranch near the Tapachula-Viva Mexico highway being used to warehouse migrants. When authorities arrived in the area, they were met by more than 15 gunmen who opened fire.
During the shootout, a state police officer and a Mexican soldier died. Authorities managed to arrest one gunman while the rest escaped. After the confrontation, authorities found more than 14 rifles and rescued 22 migrants that the gunmen were holding against their will.
The rescue comes after weeks of complaints by migrants that authorities in Chiapas were not investigating kidnappings of migrants. According to El Diario del Sur, the migrants claimed gunmen were taking Haitians, Venezuelans, and Cubans to force their loved ones to pay fees of around $5,000 USD for their release.
The kidnappings come as Chiapas continues to be one of the leading immigration hotspots where thousands of migrants continue to enter Mexico. The migrants request travel permits to make their way to the U.S. border to claim asylum. The abuse of asylum claims continues to be the dominant trend used by human smugglers and migrants trying to reach the United States to make a credible fear claim.
Zionist org preps list of foreign pro-Hamas students, hoping Trump will deport them
A Zionist organization is compiling names of foreign students on visas in the US who spewed anti-Israel bile at campus protests — and is hoping President-elect Trump will give the haters a one-way ticket back home.
So far, the group, Betar, has about 30 names of students from nations such as Jordan, Syria, Egypt, Canada, and the United Kingdom currently enrolled in some of the nation’s top universities, including Columbia, UPenn, Michigan, Syracuse, UCLA, The New School for Social Research, Carnegie Mellon, and George Washington University.
“We have started commencing lists of Jew-hating foreign nationals on visas who support Hamas,” said Ross Glick, director of the US chapter of Betar.
Betar has IDed the haters using a combination of facial recognition software and “relationship database technology” to weed out people who were busted at antisemitic campus protests over the last year.
“One of our issues is processing power, there is just so much video to work through,” Glick said.
Betar is already in contact with “prospective” Trump administration appointees in the Justice Department about how best to take action on those identified, Glick said.
Among those on the list is Momodou Taal, a British national and PhD candidate in Africana studies at Cornell University, who was suspended twice for participating in a pair of on-campus Palestinian protests, most recently in September. University officials initially told Taal that the latest incident would lead to his F-1 visa being revoked, Newsweek reported. The Ivy later backed down.
Rutgers Faculty Set to Vote on BDS Measure
The faculty of Rutgers University is set to vote in early December on a BDS (boycott, divestment and sanctions) referendum that aims to have the school pull out of its collaborations with Tel Aviv University, stop investing in companies that do business with Israel and in Israel Bonds.
Spearheading the vote is the American Association of University Professors-American Federation of Teachers (AAUP-AFT), the union that represents more than 5,000 employees at Rutgers. The union is led by Todd Wolfson, a Rutgers professor in the media department, who also serves as the president of the national AAUP.
The national AAJP in August reversed a longstanding policy that opposed academic boycotts, saying that such boycotts “can be considered legitimate tactical responses to conditions that are fundamentally incompatible with the mission of higher education.”
In its BDS resolution, the union claims that there is “scholasticide in occupied Palestine” and that Israeli universities “play a key role in supporting Israel’s system of apartheid rule.”
Uncovered emails reveal multiple university administrators at Columbia University and Northwestern University engaged in negotiation efforts with protesters while demonstrations continued to rage on campus, according to the report from the House Committee on Education and the Workforce. Northwestern President Michael Schill appointed two “radical anti-Israel” professors, Jessica Winegar and Nour Kteily, to oversee negotiations with protesters, the report found. Messages obtained by the committee expose that Kteily applauded Rutgers University and the University of Minnesota for following in Northwestern’s footsteps and conceding to protesters’ demands.
Columbia’s leaders meanwhile drafted a “menu” of options to concede to each of the protesters demands, including providing amnesty to many of the students involved in the encampment that overtook the campus for weeks, formally reviewing divestment demands from protesters, funding scholarships for students in Gaza and the West Bank, and creating a $10 million “resilience fund” for Gaza. Administrators also approved of a program in collaboration with a Palestinian university in which “Hamas is active on campus.”
America’s Largest And Most Expensive DEI Program - University of Michigan - Is About To Go Up In Flames
The University of Michigan’s (UM) multi-million dollar diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) program - $250 million since 2016 - may soon be dismantled. The university’s board of regents has reportedly asked UM president Santa Ono “to defund or restructure” the DEI office amid growing criticism and public pressure, according to emails shared on X. The board is expected to vote on the matter on Dec. 5.
The major catalyst of this change, Sailer explained, was the series of fiery protests that ravaged college campuses across the country after Hamas’ deadly Oct. 7, 2023 attack on Israel, which were “absolutely a big part of the story.”
A bunch from Campus Reform:
University of Rochester anti-Israel groups blast university's handling of anti-Semitic posters, say it's an example of 'Anti-Palestinian racism'
Four students involved in an incident where anti-Semitic “wanted” posters were put up around the University of Rochester campus have been arrested.
Multiple student-led pro-Palestinian groups took to Instagram following the arrests and response from the University to claim that they are being treated unfairly.
Students for Justice in Palestine at the University of Rochester and the Rochester Democratic Socialists of America were among the groups that made the post.
Some Jewish patients reportedly hide identities as UCSF faces accusations of bias and activism
Faculty at UCSF’s medical center have raised concerns about anti-Semitism, claiming it has created an environment where Jewish patients hide their identities.
They also criticize mandatory training sessions for promoting ideological activism and undermining professionalism.
Recently, Rupa Marya, a professor at UCSF, was suspended for statements she had made about an Israeli student who was taking one of her classes.
Anti-Israel group at Columbia calls for removal of Jewish organization Hillel
Columbia University’s “Palestine Working Group” (PWG) recently called for the elimination of the Hillel Jewish student organization, accusing it of supporting Israel’s “imperialist” agenda.
Critics, including the Anti-Defamation League and Jewish advocacy groups, condemned the statement as antisemitic and reflective of a broader trend of hostility toward Jewish campus organizations.
NYU activists protest 'pro-apartheid wall,' call for 'student intifada'
A group of nearly 4 dozen anti-Israel student activists recently protested against a 'pro-apartheid wall' outside of New York University's Gould Plaza.
Students were also said to protest the increased police presence as a result of the wall, as well as promote other pro-Palestine political causes.
The NYU activists were said to have left the demonstration to join other local, anti-Israel student activists at Columbus Circle in response to the National Students for Justice in Palestine’s “International Day of Action.”
Chapter of Faculty for Justice in Palestine, org accused of ‘influencing student-led antisemitic activism,’ formed at George Washington University
The professors said they ‘stand in solidarity with the students and grieve the continued atrocities against the people of Palestine.’
A study by a group opposed to anti-Semitism recently found that ‘the presence of FJP chapters correlates strongly with the rise of violent antisemitic behavior on campuses.’
The formation of the group was mentioned by professors Peter Calloway, helen [sic] DeVinney, Amr Madkour, Sara Matthiesen, and Dara Orenstein in an Oct. 28 op-ed published in The GW Hatchet.
FJP chapters have been spreading across American higher education, including to schools like the Universities of Pennsylvania, Princeton, and Harvard. FJP members routinely participate in anti-Israel protests similar to those engaged in by activist student groups.
Florida professors complain about threats to 'academic freedom' over course reviews of anti-Semitism
Some Florida public university professors have expressed reservations about being asked to review course materials for anti-Semitism.
In August, State University System of Florida Chancellor Ray Rodrigues tasked the system's university presidents with examining courses for 'antisemitism or anti-Israeli bias.'
CUNY announces free speech task force after controversy over anti-Israel protests
The City University of New York (CUNY) announced plans to create a free speech task force in response to tensions surrounding anti-Israel protests on its campuses.
Chancellor Félix Matos Rodríguez emphasized balancing free speech with campus safety and zero tolerance for hate.
University of Michigan appoints Title VI coordinator amid campus anti-Israel protests
The University of Michigan hired Anlyn Addis as its new Title VI coordinator to address discrimination and harassment issues on campus, following anti-Israel protests.
This role aligns with a U.S. Department of Education agreement aimed at ensuring compliance with federal anti-discrimination laws.
Campus Reform recently reported about two Jewish students at UMich being attacked, prompting a police investigation and an official condemnation from the university administration.
Mizzou president doubles down on barring SJP from homecoming parade, rejects latest demand letter
University of Missouri President Mun Choi has reaffirmed his decision to deny Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) from participating in the school's homecoming parade out of safety concerns.
On Friday, the Mizzou SJP chapter took to Instagram to share that President Choi had stood by his decision and rejected the groups latest list of 'demands.'
According to the SJP chapter, Choi’s response came after the group teamed up with other organizations to send him a letter concerning the school’s “pattern of mistreatment and exclusion.”
”After months of silence and discriminatory actions, the administration not only barred MSJP from participating in this year’s Homecoming parade but also publicly labeled us as a threat to public safety,” the letter read. “This dangerous lie has placed Palestinian and pro-Palestinian students at greater risk of harm and and has fueled slander from Zionist groups both on and off campus.”
Signatories of the letter also included Mizzou’s Young Democratic Socialists of America, the Legion of Black Collegians, the Muslim Student Organization, and Progressive Jews of Mizzou.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] An terrorist who allegedly shot a Jewish man walking to a synagogue in Chicago has been found dead in his jail cell.
Sidi Mohamed Abdallahi, 22,
… illegally entered America from Mexico a year and a half ago, ie. April/May 2023…
an migrant from Mauritania, was found unresponsive in 'an apparent suicide attempt by hanging' in his cell Saturday afternoon, The Chicago Sun-Times reports.
Cook County Sheriff's officials said jail staff were conducting a routine security check at around 3.30pm in the medical facility of the jail - where Abdallahi has been held since he was critically injured in a shootout with police - when they saw him in the cell.
Staffers initiated life saving measures and first responders transported Abdallahi to Mt. Sinai Hospital, where he was pronounced dead, according to the Chicago Tribune.
Authorities say there is no evidence of foul play, but the cause and manner of his death will be determined by an autopsy conducted by the Cook County Medical Examiner's Office.
The Illinois State Police Public Integrity Task Force will also be conducting an independent investigation under protocol.
Abdallahi was arrested on October 26 after he allegedly shot a 39-year-old Orthodox Jewish man wearing traditional attire.
The victim was walking to a local synagogue, and police say Abdallahi approached him from behind.
Neighbors then rushed to help the injured man as police and paramedics raced to the scene. As officers then searched for the gunman, they said, Abdallahi emerged from an alley and started firing on the cops - hitting a Chicago Fire Department ambulance.
He reportedly screamed 'Allahu Akbar' as he fired at the officers, who then fired back and shot the suspect multiple times. No officers were injured in the exchange.
Footage later showed the 22-year-old being wheeled away from the scene in a stretcher after being shot multiple times. He was hospitalized in the aftermath, and was transferred to the jail's medical facility on November 15.
The victim, meanwhile, was hospitalized, but was later released.
An ensuing investigation found that Abdallahi's phone contained evidence that 'indicated he planned the shooting and specifically targeted people of Jewish faith, Chicago police Superintendent Larry Snelling said.
Prosecutors also alleged that Abdallahi mapped the locations of several Chicago synagogues and Jewish day schools in the days leading up to the attack.
The attack then occurred in the West Rogers Park neighborhood, the home to the highest concentration of Jewish citizens in the city.
'This was not anything but a planned attack... an attempted assassination of these people,' Assistant State's Attorney Anne McCord Rodgers said at a hearing on November 22, the Sun-Times reports.
'This was a calculated plan on a public street, and an attempted slaughter of that person and law enforcement officers.
She added that his phone also contained more than 100 'antisemitic and pro-Hamas' photos and videos.
It was also determined that Abdallahi was an illegal immigrant who came from West Africa in March 2023.
He crossed southern border illegally last year, but authorities did not find any criminal or terrorist ties at the time, sources told the New York Post.
Abdallahi told agents he was going to live with a friend in Indiana, and although he initially said he didn't fear being returned to Mauritania, he later filed for asylum, the outlet said.
At the hearing on November 22, Assistant Public Defender Josh Thigpen noted that Abdallahi had lived in the US for 'at least two years' and worked at an Amazon warehouse.
Still, Judge Susana Ortiz ordered him detained.
His death is no loss to humanity whatsoever, though he should get credit for saving Illinois taxpayers the cost of his trial and subsequent incarceration.
[GEO.TV] Amid the government's efforts to ease tensions in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa's Kurram district, a ceasefire was finally reached between two warring tribes in the restive district, the Deputy Commissioner confirmed on Sunday as the corpse count in deadly festivities surged to 130.
"Armed rustics were removed from the firing posts while police and forces have been deployed [in the region]," the DC said in a statement without divulging details.
The latest spell of violence, which continued for the 11th consecutive day, has claimed at least 130 lives and injured 186 others as six more individuals bit the dust and eight others sustained injuries in the overnight firing.
The question is merely which group of Sunnis went after the Shiite Hazeras — Pak Taliban, Afghan Taliban, ISIS, their civilian neighbours on a tear? So many possibilities, so little information.
The recent episode of festivities began eight days ago with ambushes on two separate convoys under police escort, resulting in 52 deaths on November 21. Since then, violence between the warring clans has escalated, with police struggling to maintain control.
The Kurram region is facing a communication blackout, with mobile and internet services suspended and educational institutions closed.
The closure of the main highway has not only disrupted local transportation but also caused a complete suspension of trade with Afghanistan, particularly at the Kharlachi border.
A 10-day truce was brokered earlier this week, but intermittent violence has rendered it ineffective.
In the statement issued today, the deputy commissioner said that the jirga participants would "speak to elders to reopen roads and sign a peace agreement."
Furthermore, the official said, Kohat Division elders and parliamentarians would visit Kurram district to ensure a peace agreement between the warring tribes.
The Human Rights Commission of Pakistain recorded 79 deaths in the region between July and October this year, highlighting the persistent instability.
[GEO.TV] Two Pakistain Army soldiers, including a captain, embraced martyrdom, while eight bad boyz were potted in two separate operations in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, the military's media affairs wing said on Sunday.
According to the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR): ''Eight khwarij have been sent to hell in two separate operations conducted in KP from November 29 to December 1, 2024.''
Back in August the government of Pakistan declared the Tehrik-e-Pakistan (TTP) as "Fitna al-Khawarij,” and then banned them. This had exactly the non-effect one would expect.
An intelligence-based operation (IBO) was conducted in the general area of Baka Khel, Bannu District, based on reports of terrorists' presence.
The ISPR stated that security forces effectively engaged the bully boys' location during the operation, killing five holy warriors and injuring nine.
However,
the hip bone's connected to the leg bone... during the operation, Sepoy Iftikhar Hussain, 29, having fought gallantly, embraced martyrdom.
In another operation, the security forces neutralised three holy warriors and arrested two in the general area of Shagai, Khyber District.
During the intense exchange of fire, Captain Muhammad Zohaib Ud Din, 25, who was leading his troops from the front, fought bravely, paid the ultimate sacrifice and embraced shahadat.
According to the military's media wing, the murderous Moslems were involved in numerous terrorist activities against the security forces as well as innocent civilians.
"Sanitisation operations were being conducted to eliminate any other holy warriors found in the area as security forces were determined to wipe out the menace of terrorism from the country and such sacrifices of our brave soldiers further strengthened our resolve," said the ISPR.
Meanwhile,
...back at the buffalo wallow, Standing Buffalo watched the circling Commanches and asked himself What would Geronimo do?... President Asif Ali Ten Percent Zardari
...former president of Pakistain, husband of the late Benazir Bhutto, who has been singularly lacking in curiosity about who done her in... and Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif appreciated the security forces for conducting two successful operations against ''Fitna-al-Khawarij'' in KP.
In their separate messages, they praised the bravery of security forces for killing eight terrorists. They also paid rich tribute to Captain Zohaib and Sepoy Iftikhar who embraced martyrdom in the operations against bully boys.
President Zardari said the sacrifices of deaders for the security of motherland will not go waste. He reiterated his commitment to continue the actions against the menace of terrorism till its complete elimination.
[IsraelTimes] Israeli warplanes intercept flight, order it to turn around; incident comes amid efforts to prevent all weapons shipments to Lebanese terror group
An Iranian flight suspected to be ferrying arms to the Hezbollah terror group in Lebanon was blocked by the Israeli Air Force over Syria overnight between Saturday and Sunday, The Times of Israel has learned.
IAF fighter jets intercepted the Iranian plane over Syria and ordered it to turn around, and it did a short while later, a defense source said.
The incident was first reported by Ynet, although the news site showed a screenshot of flight data from an unrelated Iranian Mahan Air plane that landed in Syria’s coastal city of Latakia in the afternoon hours of Saturday.
The interception of the flight came as part of Israel’s efforts to prevent Iranian weapons from reaching the Lebanese terror group, during a ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah.
In recent months, the Israel Defense Forces has forced several Iranian flights to make U-turns over Syrian or Iraqi airspace, after they were suspected of carrying weapons to Hezbollah.
The IDF has said that, during the truce, it would continue to act to prevent all weapon deliveries to the Lebanese terror group, including by striking shipments anywhere in Lebanon or Syria.
Last week, a senior military official said that the IDF would not just strike the weapon shipments, but Syrian President Bashar Assad’s regime would pay for aiding Hezbollah.
In the hours before the ceasefire early Wednesday, the IDF carried out strikes against Hezbollah’s smuggling routes. Three border crossings between northern Lebanon and Syria, which the military said were used by Hezbollah to smuggle weapons, were destroyed. The IDF assessed that it would take time to repair the crossings, and during that time, Hezbollah would have limited routes to bring in weapons, which would be easier for Israel to monitor.
On Saturday, during the ceasefire, IAF fighter jets struck infrastructure in Syria near the country’s border crossings with Lebanon, which the IDF said were being “actively” used by Hezbollah to transfer weapons.
Thousands of trucks and hundreds of planes carrying missiles and other components for Hezbollah have traveled from Iran to Syria, and later to Lebanon, in recent years, according to the IDF. Reports of Israeli strikes on Hezbollah weapons shipments began to emerge in early 2013, with Israel officially keeping mum to avoid blowback from Damascus and its allies, in light of the civil war there. It has increasingly opened up in recent years about the sorties, which have complemented a longstanding aerial campaign aimed at keeping Iran from gaining a foothold near Syria’s border with Israel.
[IsraelTimes] As Netanyahu vows ‘intense reaction’ to terror group’s entrenchment in south Lebanon will continue, Paris reportedly says Israel isn’t using agreed mechanisms to enforce ceasefire
The Israel Defense Forces said Sunday that it was continuing to enforce the ceasefire in Leb ...an Iranian satrapy until recently 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... by striking Hezbollah forces violating its terms, as La Belle France was said to charge that Jerusalem, too was repeatedly violating the days-old truce.
The IDF is still deployed in much of southern Lebanon, and it has until late January to withdraw under the 60-day ceasefire deal clinched last week that sought to end more than a year of fighting.
Early on Sunday, Israeli jets launched an Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... over a southern Lebanese border village of Yaroun, while troops shelled other border towns and villages still under Israeli control, Lebanon’s state-run National News Agency reported. Neither the military nor Hezbollah commented on the incidents.
In another incident that the IDF said Sunday took place the previous night, soldiers of the Paratroopers Brigade spotted a group of armed Hezbollah operatives close to a church in southern Lebanon, a site previously known to have been used by the terror group.
The paratroopers shot up the button men, killing them, the IDF said.
"The bandidosforces of Evil who were eliminated were active in [Hezbollah’s] ground defense, anti-tank and artillery arrays in the area, and took part in the fighting while using the church," the military said in a statement.
After the operatives were killed, the IDF said soldiers scanned the church Sunday and located a tunnel shaft that was used to store weapons.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a statement Sunday that Israel was "very resolutely enforcing the ceasefire agreement, and every violation is immediately being met with an intense reaction by the IDF." He vowed that this would continue.
Meanwhile,
...back at the wreckage, Captain Poindexter wished he had a cup of coffee. Even instant would do... Hebrew media outlets reported on Sunday that, according to French diplomatic sources, La Belle France has accused Israel of 52 ceasefire violations.
The sources claimed that although Israel was acting against Hezbollah’s own violations, the IDF did not go through the proper channels to report the Lebanese terror group’s transgressions to the US-led international oversight body, of which La Belle France is a member, as required by the terms of the agreement.
Lebanon’s caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati and the Lebanese military have accused Israel of violating the agreement with daily airstrikes and overflights since the ceasefire went into effect.
The first phase of the ceasefire is a 60-day cessation of hostilities where Hezbollah operatives are supposed to withdraw from southern Lebanon to north of the Litani River and Israeli troops withdraw from southern Lebanon into northern Israel. Lebanese troops are to deploy in large numbers in the south, effectively being the only armed force in control of the south alongside UNIFIL observers.
The ceasefire agreement was aimed at halting 14 months of conflict between Israel and Hezbollah, which began when the Iran-backed terror group, unprovoked, began firing into Israel on October 8, 2023, saying it was acting in solidarity with Paleostinians 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... . The relentless attacks forced the displacement of some 60,000 residents of northern Israel.
Israel retaliated with airstrikes, and the conflict steadily intensified for nearly a year before Israel ramped up its operations in Lebanon in mid-September, eventually launching a ground operation into Lebanese territory that dismantled much of the terror group’s infrastructure throughout southern Lebanon.
The offensive was launched with the aim of securing the return home of the 60,000 people evacuated from homes in the north of Israel due to the Hezbollah attacks and concerns the terror group — which seeks Israel’s destruction — would carry out an invasion similar to the Hamas ..the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®,... onslaught from the Gaza Strip on southern Israel. In that attack, 1,200 people were killed and 251 taken as hostages to Gaza.
Hezbollah’s attacks on Israel since October 2023 resulted in the deaths of 45 civilians. In addition, 76 IDF soldiers and reservists have died in cross-border skirmishes, attacks on Israel, and in the ensuing ground operation launched in southern Lebanon in late September.
The IDF said it had confirmed with high confidence the deaths of 2,500 Hezbollah operatives, though it estimated that number to be closer to 3,500. Around 100 members of other terror groups have also been reported killed in Lebanon.
Images showed Hezbollah holding large funeral ceremonies Friday for dozens of their fighters killed over the past two months.
According to data published by the Lebanese health ministry, 3,823 people have been killed in Israeli actions since October 8, 2023, a figure that does not differentiate between civilians and combatants.
[IsraelTimes] Israel is watching the jihadist rebels’ advances in Syria with considerable wariness, with intelligence chiefs telling the political echelon developments in Syria could ultimately spell trouble for Israel, Channel 12 reports.
Referring to a consultation hurriedly convened by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Friday evening with key figures in the defense establishment, the TV report quotes intelligence officials assessing that “Iranian infrastructure in Syria has been harmed, and much of it has been captured by the rebels.”
Netanyahu was reportedly told that Hezbollah’s attention will now be shifted to Syria, and “so will its forces, in order to defend the Assad regime.”
This, in turn, will bolster the likelihood of the Israel-Lebanon ceasefire holding, the prime minister was reportedly told.
As regards Syrian territory itself, where the IDF has been working to prevent the transfer of weaponry to Hezbollah and to thwart direct threats from pro-Iranian forces, Israel’s “freedom of military operation will apparently widen.”
The intelligence chiefs reportedly noted that “the latest developments appear to be positive.” But, they are said to have warned, “the collapse of the Assad regime would likely create chaos in which military threats against Israel would develop.”
[GEO.TV] The Paleostinian health ministry said the Israeli army killed four people in the occupied West Bank on Sunday, as Israel announced a strike that killed four "terrorists".
The ministry updated the corpse count from two earlier on Sunday, saying four people were killed "due to the occupation's aggression on the village of Siir, Jenin district", referring to Israel.
"Immediately after the strike, (Israeli) soldiers conducted a targeted raid in the area and located three weapons on the terrorists' bodies," the army said.
[IsraelTimes] Another three gunmen killed in strike in town of Sir, northern West Bank; Wael Lahlouh murdered Yonatan Deutsch, wounded another man in August attack
An Israeli drone strike near the West Bank city of Jenin on Sunday morning killed four Palestinian gunmen including a Hamas terrorist responsible for a deadly shooting attack in the Jordan Valley in the summer, the military said.
According to the Israel Defense Forces, the cell of four gunmen killed in the airstrike in the town of Sir, close to Jenin, was responsible for several shooting attacks against Israeli towns bordering the northern West Bank.
The head of the cell, Wael Lahlouh, 31, from Qabatiya, carried out a shooting attack on August 11 at the Mehola Junction on Route 90, the main north-south artery in the Jordan Valley, killing Yonatan Deutsch, 23, and wounding Anas Jaramana, 32.
Lahlouh and another Hamas terrorist managed to flee the scene of the attack. The terror group later released a video showing the shooting. The IDF said that, following the attack, Lahlouh worked to recruit additional terrorists in Jenin for “imminent” attacks.
After the four gunmen were targeted in the drone strike, troops raided the site and seized three guns from their bodies, the military said.
Additional weapon parts and military equipment were also captured, the army added.
The Palestinian Authority health ministry said it was informed of the deaths of the four, indicating that their bodies are being held by Israeli authorities.
The West Bank, which is controlled by Israeli security forces, has seen a sharp rise in violence since the Gaza war began on October 7, 2023, when thousands of Hamas-led terrorists stormed southern Israel to kill some 1,200 people and take 251 hostages.
The onslaught was followed by sharp restrictions on Palestinian movement in the West Bank and wide-scale counterterrorism operations there. On Wednesday, the Shin Bet said it thwarted an arms shipment to the West Bank by Iran, Hamas’s benefactor.
Since the Hamas onslaught, Israeli troops have arrested some 5,250 wanted Palestinians across the West Bank, including more than 2,050 affiliated with Hamas.
According to the Palestinian Authority health ministry, more than 716 West Bank Palestinians have been killed in that time. The IDF says the vast majority of them were gunmen killed in exchanges of fire, rioters who clashed with troops or terrorists carrying out attacks.
During the same period, 41 people, including Israeli security personnel, have been killed in terror attacks in Israel and the West Bank. Another six members of the security forces were killed in clashes with terror operatives in the West Bank.
[Rudaw] The Kurdish forces announced on Monday that they had arrested one of the emirs of the 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) in eastern Syria earlier in the week following a series of operations against the group in the area.
Asayish, internal forces in Kurdish-held areas of Syria, said in a statement that they carried out a "qualitative operation" in Deir ez-Zor province early Saturday.
The province is partially controlled by the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) while the rest is in the hands of the regime forces and snuffies backed by Damascus and Tehran.
Asayish said the arrest came after "a series of precise security operations aimed at enhancing security and stability in the region."
Asayish accused the unidentified ISIS suspect of "carrying out a series of recent bombings and liquidations that targeted civilians" in one of the towns of the province.
A "limited" confrontation took place between the suspected ISIS emir and Asayish forces, it noted.
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🇮🇶🤝🇸🇾 Zionist U.S.-Israeli proxy aggression in Syria is doomed: Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF) advancing to aid the SAA, countering HTS and SNA. Two columns in Damascus, more from Iraq. #UnitedAxis#Iraqpic.twitter.com/WreOS9PzMH
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The Syrian army and the Russian Aerospace Forces destroyed at least 320 militants in one day
[Regnum] The Syrian Armed Forces, together with the Russian Aerospace Forces, destroyed at least 320 militants and 63 pieces of equipment in the provinces of Idlib, Hama and Aleppo in one day. This was reported on December 1 by the deputy head of the Russian Center for Reconciliation of Opposing Sides in Syria, Captain 1st Rank Oleg Ignasyuk.
"Over the past 24 hours, missile and bomb strikes were carried out on areas where militants and equipment were concentrated, ammunition and weapons depots, MLRS and artillery positions, and command posts. At least 320 militants and 63 units of automobile and armored vehicles were destroyed," he specified.
In addition, the aviation of the so-called international anti-terrorist coalition led by the United States continues to create dangerous situations in the skies of Syria, carrying out flights in violation of deconfliction protocols and violating the airspace of the Arab Republic. Over the past 24 hours, Ignasyuk noted, three cases of violation of the deconfliction protocols of December 9, 2019, related to flights of unmanned aerial vehicles not coordinated with the Russian Federation, were recorded. In November 2024 alone, 54 such cases were identified, he added.
As reported by the Regnum news agency, on November 27, groups of Syrian militants began an offensive against the Syrian army positions in the Aleppo region. They managed to capture 13 settlements and the largest base of the government army in this area.
On November 29, Al-Mayadeen TV reported that the Syrian army had launched a counteroffensive against the militants of the Hayat Tahrir al-Sham group (a terrorist organization banned in Russia) in Aleppo and Idlib. Government forces had liberated the city of Al-Bakum.
On December 1, the Syrian government army announced that it had repelled the militants' attack and intended to launch a counteroffensive in the near future to liberate all territories. Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said that Damascus is capable of defeating the terrorists with the help of friends and allies. He added that terrorism in Syria will be defeated, no matter who sponsors it.
The militants' offensive on the positions of Syrian government troops is an encroachment on the repu
More from regnum.ru Syrian Air Force Destroys Terrorist Armored Column Near Aleppo
The Syrian Air Force struck a column of armored vehicles of terrorist groups on the Aleppo-Damascus highway, thereby disrupting their offensive. This was reported on December 1 by a source in the Syrian security forces.
"Syrian aircraft carried out several strikes on a column of armored vehicles belonging to terrorists on the M-5 road, who were planning to carry out an offensive, and destroyed the equipment," RIA Novosti quoted him as saying.
As reported by the Regnum news agency, groups of Syrian militants launched an offensive on Syrian army positions in the Aleppo region on November 27. They managed to capture 13 settlements and the largest government army base in the area.
On December 1, the Syrian government army announced that it had repelled the militants' attack and intended to launch a counteroffensive in the near future to liberate all territories. Before this, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said that Damascus was capable of defeating the terrorists with the help of friends and allies.
Former Austrian Foreign Minister Karin Kneissl said on December 1 that the West was playing a dirty game in Syria and Ukraine by supplying weapons there. She also quoted one of her friends in Syria calling terrorist fighters with equipment, uniforms and training a “dark force” and acknowledging that they were internationally supported and trained forces, not some “bearded men” with AK-47s.
“The units of our armed forces that operated in the northern part of Hama last night strengthened the defense line with firepower and equipment, confronted terrorist organizations and did not allow them to break through,” reads a message on the Syrian Armed Forces command page on Facebook (owned by the Meta company, which is recognized as extremist and banned in Russia).
It is specified that the Syrian government army also took control of a number of areas, during which dozens of terrorists were destroyed.
As reported by the Regnum news agency, earlier on December 1 it became known that the Syrian government army was repelling the militants' attack and intended to launch a counteroffensive in the near future to liberate all territories. It was noted that the Syrian Armed Forces had redeployed in order to save the lives of civilians and their soldiers.
Before this, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said that Damascus is capable of defeating terrorists with the help of friends and allies. He stressed that the republic currently continues to defend its territorial integrity from terrorists and their supporters
Armed groups of Syrian militants launched an offensive on Syrian army positions in the Aleppo region on November 27. They captured 13 settlements and the largest base of the government army.
Yet, again, more from regnum.ru White House Denies US Involvement in Terrorist Attack in Syria
The United States denies involvement in the attack by the terrorist organization Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (an organization whose activities are banned in the Russian Federation) in Syria. This was stated in a statement released on November 30 by White House National Security Council spokesman Sean Savett.
The document states that the White House is closely monitoring the situation in Syria and has been in contact with authorities in the Middle East region for the past 48 hours.
"The United States has no involvement in this offensive, which is led by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), a designated terrorist organization. The United States, along with its partners and allies, calls for de-escalation and the protection of civilians and minorities," the statement emphasized.
The White House spokesman noted that the refusal of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's government to "participate in the political process" and its "dependence on Russia and Iran" created the ground for the current crisis.
Earlier, Regnum news agency reported that the Syrian Armed Forces are decisively repelling the militants’ attack and are planning to launch a counteroffensive in the near future to liberate all territories.
Syrian President Assad, in a conversation with his counterpart from the United Arab Emirates, Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, said that Syria is capable of defeating terrorists with the help of friends and allies.
The Syrian army has launched a counteroffensive against militants of the Hayat Tahrir al-Sham group (a terrorist organization banned in Russia) in Aleppo and Idlib. Government forces have liberated the city of Al-Bakoum.
The Russian leadership views the worsening situation in Syria as an encroachment on the republic's sovereignty, commented the press secretary of the Russian president, Dmitry Peskov. On November 26, the director of the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR), Sergei Naryshkin, stated that the West is deliberately destabilizing the situation in key regions of the world. Western elites do not want to accept the loss of their former power in the world, he added.
[IsraelTimes] A senior member of a Syrian rebel group tells Israel’s Channel 12 that the surprise offensive launched against Syria’s military last week coincided with the start of a ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah in Leb ...an Iranian satrapy until recently 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... , after the rebels assessed that members of the Iran-backed terror group were likely to flee across the border from Lebanon into Syria.
The officer, who was identified by Channel 12 only as "Y," says that the renewed fighting against Syrian President Bashir al-Assad’s forces is necessary to ensure that "Hezbollah members from Lebanon, who have come to Syria and have stood by the Assad regime, will not have a permanent foothold."
He says that the rebel group realized the offensive was necessary and that "this is the right time" to carry it out.
"We will not allow them [Iran’s proxies] to fight in our areas, and we will not allow the Iranians to settle there and support the Iranian militias in carrying out hostile actions against the regions we liberated, whether in Idlib or the Aleppo province," the rebel officer adds.
He says that the rebels’ dream is to "overthrow the Assad regime and create a climate for all Syrians, and all ethnicities and nationalities," and to form strong relations "with all neighboring countries."
"It will be a country based on equality and justice for all Syrian citizens without exception, where there will be peace and security with the entire region, including with Israel," he tells Channel 12.
Also speaking to Channel 12 is exiled Syrian opposition leader Fahad Al Masri, who urges Israel to act against Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... in support of the Syrian rebel groups.
"We call on the Israeli leadership to launch intensive attacks against the positions and troops of the Iran-backed militias in Syrian territory," he says. "It will be necessary to strike sites in Homs, Damascus and on the Lebanon border. This will help rid Syria’s territory of the Lebanese presence and Hezbollah’s weapons and the octopus tentacles of Iran."
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[RIA] A sudden escalation: militants from several extremist groups attacked positions of the SAR government forces. The terrorists managed to capture a number of settlements, bring up reserves and consolidate their positions. The army is trying to recapture what was lost. RIA Novosti reports on the situation in the north of the Middle Eastern country.
THE DASH TO ALEPPO
The offensive began on the morning of Wednesday, November 27, in the provinces of Idlib and Aleppo. The Jabhat al-Nusra and Syrian National Army
…a combination of Turkics from the Middle East, the former Soviet Union, and China, Syrian Muslim Brotherhood types, and ISIS remnants united by Turkey paying their salaries and set to guard Turkey’s new territories on the Syrian side of the border. From time to time they also harass the native Kurds…
groups managed to secretly move significant forces to these areas in advance. Violating the de-escalation agreement concluded in 2020 with the participation of Russia, Turkey and Iran, they attacked on a broad front and reached the outskirts of Aleppo, one of the largest cities in the country, which was the site of intense fighting in the 2010s.
According to specialized Telegram channels, the situation around Aleppo was rapidly deteriorating. Militants were advancing from three sides at once: to the west in the Bashnitra area, to the southwest on the cut section of the M-5 highway, and to the south near Saraqib. Government troops are still holding this settlement. One of the strongest units is operating here — the 25th Special Forces Division, trained by Russian instructors. The militants were unable to pass through it.
On Thursday, the Defense Ministry reported that extremist groups had suffered heavy losses in equipment and manpower. "Government forces are confronting terrorist organizations with various firepower and together with friendly forces," the communique said. However, militants' activity has not decreased.
On the same day, Hayat Tahrir al-Sham militants and their supporters began storming the city of Anadan, nine kilometers northwest of Aleppo, to cut off an important route north to Nubol and Az-Zahra, where civilians could theoretically be evacuated and troops could retreat. Apparently, they want to encircle Aleppo.
To the west, heavy fighting continues in the vicinity of Kafr Dael and Bashkatin. To the south, the militants have occupied Jamiyat Kahraba and Khan al-Assal, capturing many trophies there - artillery, tanks, ammunition, cars. From there, the terrorists are advancing towards Aleppo itself.
On Friday, the Syrian army counterattacked. More than 400 militants were reported killed. The Russian Aerospace Forces provided active support to the government forces in repelling the offensive, including strikes with aerial bombs with universal planning and correction modules (UMPK), which are used in Ukraine.
UKRAINIAN TRACE
Moscow has already responded to what is happening in the northern regions of Syria. The president's press secretary Dmitry Peskov said that the Kremlin is in favor of constitutional order. He described the militants' actions as an encroachment on Syria's sovereignty. Iran has responded more harshly. The official representative of the Foreign Ministry, Ismail Baghaei, said that all this is part of Washington's plan to destabilize the region in general.
How fortunate that President Biden will be gone in January. President Trump has stated he intends to run things differently
Be that as it may, the militants' tactics clearly reflect the experience of others. Hayat Tahrir al-Sham has published footage of objective control of the combat use of FPV drones, as well as drones designed to drop homemade ammunition, on its Internet channels. The extremists' UAVs are hitting army armored vehicles and field positions. They even claim that a kamikaze drone destroyed a government helicopter. It appears that the operators were trained by foreign instructors.
The Middle East Spectator reports that Ukrainian field commanders have been spotted among the militants attacking government troops. Ukraine, in coordination with the United States, has long been training Hayat Tahrir al-Sham*, as Ukrainian media outlets themselves have written about. At the same time, Kiev is conducting large-scale recruitment campaigns in the region to make up for the shortage of manpower in the ranks of the Ukrainian Armed Forces. The final touch is that the Islamist militants wear armbands made of blue and green tape. Just like in the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
TIME BOMB
According to experts, the hand of not only Washington and Kyiv, but also Ankara is visible in this.
According to experts, the hand of not only Washington and Kyiv, but also Ankara is visible in this.
"First of all, these are Syrian-Turkish problems," said Andrey Grozin, head of the Central Asia Department at the CIS Institute. "Erdogan and his proxies in Syria, who are currently attacking, have recently had strained relations with Damascus. Assad is strengthening his position in the regions under the control of pro-Turkish militants. A spring offensive by his army would be entirely expected. Syrian sources have indicated a high probability of such a development. Turkish proxies want to play ahead."
The survival of the friendly Syrian regime is extremely important for Moscow, the political scientist continues. The withdrawal of the Russian military contingent from the Middle East would further complicate the already difficult relations with Ankara. It is also necessary to take into account the Iranian factor - Tehran will not like it if Russia leaves Syria. Therefore, we should expect an intensification of the Russian army's actions in this region.
As observers note, there are many Central Asians among the militants - Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan. Having gained combat experience, they will return home. And from there they can get to Russia under the guise of migrant workers. There is no doubt that Western "partners" are preparing such scenarios. It is best to defuse this "time bomb" as far from the Russian borders as possible.
The Syrian army has not allowed terrorists to pass north of the city of Hama and has taken control of several important areas, a source from the Syrian Defense Ministry told the Al-Ikhbariya TV channel.
"Our Armed Forces units <…> managed to take control of a number of areas after expelling terrorists from them, the most important of which were Qalaat al-Madiq and Maardas," he said.
According to the TV channel’s source, dozens of terrorists were killed there, and the rest escaped.
At the same time, units operating at night in the northern outskirts of Hama reinforced defensive lines with firepower, personnel and military equipment and prevented the terrorists from breaking through, the source added. As a result, according to him, thousands of militants have been eliminated over the past three days.
The Syrian air force continues to destroy terrorist strongholds in the vicinity of Aleppo and Idlib , the channel’s source concluded.
On Wednesday, November 27, groups belonging to Hayat Tahrir al-Sham* violated the de-escalation agreement and attacked the provinces of Aleppo and Idlib. They struck settlements and military positions on a broad front.
The Syrian army responded to the attack, as a result of which the terrorists suffered losses in manpower and equipment. According to the deputy head of the Russian Center for Reconciliation of Opposing Sides in Syria Oleg Ignasyuk, over the previous day, Syrian government troops destroyed at least 300 militants in Aleppo and Idlib.
Syria has been in the grip of an armed conflict since 2011. After the army liberated most of the country, scattered terrorist groups operate in the desert regions of the north and northeast.
Militants periodically carry out raids on civilian and military vehicles on highways and terrorize residents of remote villages. The Syrian army continues active targeted operations to eliminate the remaining militant units.
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Russia's been under pressure, calling back troops and drone operators to shore up the Ukraine fight.
When Israel smacked Hezbollah in Lebanon, Iran had to shift personel to support, or risk a domino fall.
Which sounds like a great time for their opposition in Syria to push, because the calvary is not gonna be riding out to save Assad. They got other things to do.
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...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 
...an Iranian satrapy until recently 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...
