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Not fond of "Pay to Snitch" programs. Corrosive to community. If you're going to report malfeasance, do so because it's right for the community, but don't do it for the bucks.
[Rudaw] An unspecified number of suspected Islamic State (ISIS) members were killed on Monday in an Iraqi airstrike on their base in Salahaddin province, the army said, as Baghdad cracks down on jihadist cells.
“A terrorist shelter was monitored in Hawi al-Labwa within the Zarqa area in the Salahaddin Operations Command sector … and F-16 aircraft carried out an airstrike targeting this guesthouse completely destroying it,” the Iraqi army’s Joint Operations Command said in a statement.
The strike killed an unspecified number of suspected ISIS members inside the base, the statement added.
ISIS seized control of swathes of territory in northern and central Iraq in 2014. But their so-called caliphate was brought to an end in 2017 when Iraqi and Kurdish fighters, supported by a United States-led international coalition, clawed back territory.
Despite its territorial defeat, ISIS has continued to pose a security threat in Iraq through hit-and-run attacks, bombings, and abductions, particularly in the disputed territories that stretch across several provinces including Diyala, Salahaddin, Kirkuk, and Nineveh.
In its latest report on anti-ISIS operations, the Pentagon said that ISIS is a bigger threat in Syria than it is in Iraq.
In Iraq, “ISIS displayed limited capabilities, conducting the lowest number of attacks observed since the onset of the Sunni insurgency in Iraq in 2003. The group also showed no significant improvement in attack sophistication,” said the report from October 29.
On Friday, a similar Iraqi strike in Kirkuk killed five ISIS militants, in an area disputed between the federal government and the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG).
[GEO.TV] Hamas said it had information that Israel intended to carry out a hostage rescue operation similar to one conducted in Gaza's Nuseirat camp in June and threatened to "neutralize" the captives if such an operation took place, according to an internal statement seen by Reuters on Wednesday.
In the internal statement dated November 22, Hamas told its operatives not to consider any repercussions of following the instructions and said Israel was responsible for the fate of the hostages. It did not say when any Israeli operation was expected to take place.
[GEO.TV] 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... 's civil defence agency said Wednesday that 20 people, including five children, were killed in an Israeli strike on a displacement camp near Khan Yunis in the territory's south.
The agency's front man Mahmud Bassal told AFP there were "20 deaders, including five children, and dozens were maimed after the occupation (Israel) bombed the tents of the displaced in the al-Mawasi area" near Khan Younis. The Israeli military said it struck "senior Hamas ..the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,... terrorists" in the area.
The IDF says an airstrike earlier this evening in the Israeli-designated humanitarian zone in the southern Gaza Strip targeted several senior Hamas commanders.
According to Paleostinian media, more than 20 people were killed in the strike in the Khan Younis area.
The military says that the senior Hamas ..always the voice of sweet reason... commanders were "engaged in terror activity in the humanitarian zone in Khan Younis."
Following the strike, the IDF says it identified secondary blasts, indicating the presence of weapons in the area. Paleostinian media publish footage purportedly showing the strike.
The IDF says it took numerous steps to mitigate civilian harm in the strike, including by using a precision munition, aerial surveillance, and other intelligence.
"This is a further example of Hamas’ cynical exploitation of the civilian population and infrastructure as human shields for terrorist activity. The IDF will continue to operate against terrorist organizations that use the humanitarian area as cover," the army adds.
Military says Svirsky, 38, was murdered by Hamas terrorists in captivity nearly a year ago; few details given on the operation
The Israel Defense Forces and Shin Bet security agency announced on Wednesday that the body of hostage Itay Svirsky was recovered by Israeli forces from the Gaza Strip, 14 months after his kidnapping and nearly a year after he was murdered in Hamas captivity.
IDF Spokesman Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari said at a press conference that Svirsky’s body was recovered “in operational activity, details of which cannot be expanded upon, in order not to endanger the operational efforts of the IDF and Shin Bet.”
Earlier this year, the IDF said that Svirsky had been murdered in captivity by Hamas terrorists, around four months after he was taken hostage on October 7, 2024.
During his time in Gaza, he was held alongside hostages Yossi Sharabi and Noa Argamani. Sharabi was likely inadvertently killed as a result of an IDF strike, the military said in February, and Argamani was rescued in the summer.
The deaths of hostages Sharabi and Svirsky were announced by officials in mid-January.
The IDF has assessed that Svirsky was murdered by Hamas terrorists several days after the strike that likely killed Sharabi, and that he did not die in another strike, as the terror group had claimed.
After Sharabi and Svirsky were killed, Hamas in January issued a propaganda video showing them and Argamani.
Following the announcement on Wednesday, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu issued a statement expressing his condolences to Svirsky’s family and pledged to continue working to return all remaining 100 hostages.
Svirsky, 38, was visiting his parents, Orit Svirsky and Rafi Svirsky, in their Kibbutz Be’eri homes for the Simhat Torah holiday weekend when Hamas terrorists launched a massacre in the community on October 7, 2023.
Svirsky was with his mother in the sealed room of her house. She lived next door to her ex-husband, Rafi, his father.
Svirsky, who was single and lived in Tel Aviv, was known as the quintessential “uncle” to his nieces and nephews and his friends’ children. He was the only one of his parents’ four children in Be’eri at the time.
The family’s last communication with Svirsky and his mother was around 10 a.m. The bodies of his parents, Orit and Rafi, were later found. They were buried on October 20, 2023.
Following the recovery of Svirsky’s body, it is now believed that 96 of the 251 hostages abducted by Hamas on October 7, 2023, remain in Gaza, including the bodies of at least 34 confirmed dead by the IDF.
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Rescued hostage Luis Har: My [leftist] views have completely changed since I was kidnapped "My views have changed drastically since October 6 and until today. I don't trust any of them [in Gaza]. I know, in some way, they’re all involved. They’re born into hatred. Weapons are put in their hands already as babies. They don’t care about sacrificing their children if it means killing Jews. That’s their way of life,”
Heavy traffic jams are reported in Homs as thousands, primarily Alawites and regime supporters, evacuate their homes and head toward the Syrian coast. pic.twitter.com/DYNdbmEnxH
Having worked on #Syria full-time since the crisis began nearly 14yrs ago, there really is no understating how remarkable the losses imposed on #Assad's regime have been over the past week.
Er-Rastan’s terrain offers defensive advantages, with the Orontes River and a reservoir protecting its flanks.
However, Assad army’s failure to secure Hama’s flanks led to its loss, raising doubts about its ability to hold Er-Rastan.
If Syrian forces capture Homs, they gain routes to Damascus and the coastal regions, threatening key Russian bases in Tartus and Hmeimim, potentially forcing their evacuation.
[Rudw] A local official of the Future Syria Party was killed in an attack by suspected Islamic State (ISIS) gunmen in the eastern Deir ez-Zor province, local media reported on Wednesday.
“The Youth Council of the Future Syria Party announced the martyrdom of Mohammed Hassan al-Samir, the co-chair of the Youth Council of the Future Syria Party in Deir ez-Zor, in an attack by ISIS mercenaries,” said Hawar News Agency (ANHA), affiliated to the Kurdish administration in northeast Syria (Rojava), citing a party statement.
The Future Syria Party was founded in 2018 in northeast Syria (Rojava). It said at the time that it wanted to bring together all ethnic groups and build good ties with neighbors of Rojava, including Turkey.
But a year later, its leader Hevrin Khalaf was assassinated by Ahrar al-Sharqiya, a Turkish-backed militia group sanctioned by the US Treasury and known for various human rights violations and assassinations against Kurds in the country.
ISIS controlled vast swathes of territory in Syria and Iraq in 2014 but was territorially defeated in both countries by 2019. Despite its collapse, the extremist group continues its hit-and-run attacks in areas with security vacuums.
The jihadists frequently attack positions of the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in the province, which borders Iraq and houses troops of the US-led anti-ISIS coalition.
Control of Deir ez-Zor province is split between the SDF and the Syrian regime, backed by Iran. It is also home to many of the country’s key oilfields, such as Omar and Conoco, which the global coalition helps the SDF to control.
[Rudaw] The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) on Tuesday announced that it captured seven villages previously held by Syrian regime forces in the eastern countryside of Deir ez-Zor province, days after Russian forces reportedly withdrew from the area.
The SDF said in a statement by its military council in Deir ez-Zor that its forces became "responsible for safeguarding" the villages of Salhiya, Tabia, Hatla, Khesham, Marrat, Mazloum, and Husseiniya in the eastern countryside of the province, saying that the move was in light of recent situation in western Syria, and "serious threat related to the imminent movement" of 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) cells to control land.
"The deployment of our forces to these villages is in response to the urgent pleas and appeals of the local populace, following the increasing potential risks that ISIS will exploit the events in the west of the country," the statement added.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Britannia-based war monitor, reported that the SDF launched an attack on the villages on Tuesday, days after Russian forces left their bases in eastern Deir ez-Zor, which was under the control of Syrian regime and pro-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... proxies.
Syrian state media SANA reported on Tuesday that the army "repelled" an attack carried out by the SDF on villages in the Jazeera area in Deir ez-Zor's northern countryside.
This comes amid an escalation of violence in the west of the country, as a coalition of Syrian rebel groups spearheaded by the jihadist Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham, formerly al-Nusra, before that it was called something else ...al-Qaeda's Syrian affiliate, from which sprang the Islamic State... (HTS) and the Ottoman Turkish-backed Syrian National Army (SNA) launched a major offensive against the Syrian army over the past week. They took control of the northern city of Aleppo, the largest in the country, and advanced their offensive into Hama province.
After the recent escalations in Aleppo, the Syrian regime has focused its efforts on recapturing Aleppo, which they lost to the rebels for the first time since the start of the Syrian civil war over a decade ago.
[GEO.TV] Dozens of Lebanese families who returned to their homes in south Lebanon after the truce was announced last week between Israel and Hezbollah have fled Israeli attacks once again, according to Al Jazeera.
"I packed my stuff and children up after we came last week to our home near Tyre in southern Lebanon and returned to the house I was renting in Mount Lebanon," Haj Abu Mohammed told the German news agency DPA.
Israel launched a series of air strikes on southern Lebanon on Monday night which killed nine people. Attacks were also reported on Tuesday, with about a dozen people reported killed. Israeli drones have also been heard flying over the capital city, Beirut.
[GEO.TV] Israeli attacks on Lebanon have killed 4,047 people and wounded 16,638 others, Lebanese Health Minister Firass Abiad said in a televised press conference on Wednesday.
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A journey of a 1000 miles starts with one step.
If anyone knows how to use military cadets, it's the Russians.
[Regnum] Officers and cadets of the Hafez al-Assad Military Academy, previously blocked by militants in the As-Safira area southeast of Aleppo, broke through the encirclement in coordination with the Russian military, the Syrian Defense Ministry reported on December 4.
“(Thanks to. — Ed.) joint coordination between Syria and the Russian Federation at the military and political levels, the blockade was broken, and the cadets’ retreat towards the city of Homs was ensured,” the Syrian military department said in a message on Facebook (owned by the Meta corporation, which is recognized as extremist and banned in the Russian Federation).
Cadets who were injured during clashes with militants will be provided with all necessary medical care in Homs, the press service of the Syrian Defense Ministry also noted.
As reported by the Regnum news agency, on November 27, militant groups in Syria launched an offensive against government army positions in the Aleppo region. The terrorists were able to capture 13 settlements.
On November 29, Syrian soldiers launched a counteroffensive against Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (a terrorist organization banned in Russia) militants in Aleppo and Idlib. The government army also managed to liberate the city of Al-Bakoum.
On December 2, the command of the Syrian government army announced that the country's troops and the Russian Aerospace Forces had destroyed more than 400 militants in the Aleppo and Idlib provinces in a few hours.
Support for terrorists in Syria is provided primarily by the United States and its allies, Russia's permanent representative to the UN Vasily Nebenzya also stated earlier. Since the start of the militants' offensive, about 400 terrorists have been eliminated, and more than 600 have been wounded, the diplomat noted.
Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova previously noted that Russia resolutely supports the efforts of the Syrian authorities amid the escalation, in which the Ukrainian trace is clearly visible.
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..the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,...
...al-Qaeda's Syrian affiliate, from which sprang the Islamic State...
