[Garowe] At least five people, including children, were injured in a series of landmine explosions in Galmudug village, Garasbaley district, over the past two nights as the number of the people killed in such attacks are increasing.
Witnesses said six explosives were strategically placed outside homes equipped with CCTV cameras. No official comment has been made by either the Garasbaley district administration or Mogadishu security officials on the attacks.
The blasts coincide with heightened fear and panic in Mogadishu sparked by a government initiative to install thousands of security cameras citywide aimed at monitoring al-Shabaab movements and enhancing public safety. The measure has, however, alarmed local business owners, who fear retaliation from the militant group.
Several traders have admitted to receiving threats from al-Shabaab, with warnings about destroying the cameras and threats of reprisals against those who comply with the government's directive. In contrast, officials have threatened legal action against anyone interfering with the cameras.
In response to the expanded surveillance, al-Shabaab has stepped up attacks on markets, businesses, and traders in Mogadishu, seen as a backlash to the increased monitoring. Despite the dangers, some residents back the CCTV project, considering it vital for the capital's security.
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Remember back in October 1993 the DC Swamp fixed Somalia 🤔?
Using the usual let's start a war to deflect attention from the DC criminal screw-ups. While claiming it's to "Save Africa" and feed the starving.
Given the results and $$B's in costs of Somalia, Iran, Lebanon, Jordon, Syria, and other area fixes. When will DC stop fixing other nation's problems and focus on our actual allies, MAGA & KAG?
But then I guess, physical war is at least focused to an area, unlike an "accidental" Scamdemic release.
[HODHODYEMENNEWS.NET] The US and UK aggression coalition forces launched on Monday a new attack on Hajjah governorate in the north-western part of 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... A security source told the Yemen Press Agency that the US-British aggression targeted the Baha's area in the Midi district of Hajjah with an Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... On Sunday, the US-British aggression had previously launched an airstrike on the district of al-Tuhayta in Hodeidah province, western Yemen.
[IsraelTimes] The US military says it conducted an airstrike against a command and control facility operated by the Houthis in Yemen.
“The targeted facility was a hub for coordinating Houthi operations, such as attacks against US Navy warships and merchant vessels in the Southern Red Sea and Gulf of Aden,” the US military’s Central Command says in a post on X.
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From all the Yemeni launches today, perhaps not murderous enough.
Myanmar rebel group invades Bangladesh, taking territory in the Teknaf area in the southern-most part of Bangladesh
If the new regime in Dhaka spent less time on persecuting its Hindu minority, maybe they would be able to protect their country’s territorial integrity pic.twitter.com/5sX6yDVpSu
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A powerful ethnic armed group in western Myanmar says that it is now in full control of the country’s border with Bangladesh, after overcoming the final Myanmar military base in the town of Maungdaw. The Arakan Army (AA), which is fighting to create an autonomous state for the Rakhine ethnic group in western Myanmar, seized the military stronghold known as Border Guard Post No. 5 near Maungdaw... “The Arakan Army successfully captured and neutralized the last remaining outpost… in the Maungdaw region,” it said in a statement quoted by Radio Free Asia.
The statement added that Myanmar army personnel members who were defending the base were trying to flee across the Naf River, which forms the border with Bangladesh, “using motorboats and canoes.” [The key point:] The AA claimed that the regime troops were accompanied by Muslim Rohingya fighters.
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I added archive searches of Arakan Army and Maungdaw to the article, with my thanks. :-)
[X] Yesterday Poland was shooting them with hot lead. Clearly they deserved it. Separately, if anyone could translate the lyrics of the background music, that would be helpful.
[KhaamaPress] A court in New York has sentenced an Afghan man named Abdul Satar Barakzi, 59, to 30 years in prison for heroin trafficking.
The U.S. Department of Justice stated that Abdul Satar Barakzi used heroin trafficking as a form of "warfare" and had organized a kidnapping plot.
According to the announcement, Barakzi was linked to an international drug trafficking ring and attempted to smuggle heroin into the U.S. through this network.
His connections to drug trafficking organizations were uncovered in 2018, and he was first arrested in Estonia in 2019 before being extradited to the U.S.
Officials from the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) said that Barakzi was identified through an undercover agent who had befriended him as part of the drug trafficking network.
The DEA officials also stated that in a call from prison, Barakzi had instructed his family members to abduct witnesses in his case to prevent them from testifying.
The U.S. Department of Justice further stated that Barakzi had used drug trafficking "for the benefit of the Taliban ...the once and current oppressors of Afghanistan... The report also stated that Barakzi "provided thousands of dollars to the Taliban to support their activities in Afghanistan and their war against coalition forces." The U.S. Department of Justice described the Haqqani Network as "one of the most violent mostly peaceful groups within the Taliban" and accused Barakzi of financing the network.
Barakzi’s conviction highlights the ongoing threat posed by the nexus between drug trafficking and terrorism, particularly in regions where Death Eater groups benefit from illegal activities. This case exemplifies the international efforts needed to combat both organized crime and terrorism on a global scale.
The cooperation between U.S. law enforcement agencies and international counterparts is crucial in dismantling such networks. As more countries enforce strict anti-drug laws, the hope is that such cases will serve as a deterrent for others involved in similar illicit activities.
[HODHODYEMENNEWS.NET] The mayor of Rutba district in al-Anbar province, Iraq, Imad Mishal al-Dulaimi, reported on Saturday evening that 2,100 former Syrian army personnel had entered Iraq since the fall of the previous regime, calling on humanitarian organizations to provide support for them.
Al-Dulaimi explained that these soldiers have been sheltered in tents at al-Murasant Air base, noting that their humanitarian conditions are difficult due to the lack of electricity and water in the desert area where they are being housed.
He added that most of these soldiers wish to return to Syria after the amnesty decision was issued, but the closure of borders and airports has delayed their return
[IsraelTimes] After three months of fighting in southern Lebanon, the IDF’s 98th Division is being redeployed to the Gaza Strip, the military says.
The elite formation of paratrooper and commando units completed its operations in Lebanon on Wednesday last week, and is now readying for future missions in Gaza.
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[Regnum] Yemeni Houthis (Ansar Allah movement) struck a military facility in the Tel Aviv area with a Palestine-2 hypersonic ballistic missile. This was stated by the representative of the armed forces formed by the rebels, Yahya Saria.
The spokesman was wrong. The IDF shot the missile out of the sky long before it reached Israel’s border.
The Houthis carried out a military operation, attacking an Israeli military facility in the occupied Jaffa region with a hypersonic missile.
‘"The operation achieved its objectives.
“Once the rocket goes up,
who cares where it comes down?
That’s not my department,”
said Wehrner von Braun.’
— Tom Lehrer
It is a response to the ongoing atrocities against the Palestinian people and a demonstration of Yemen's willingness to support their cause," Saria told the Houthi-owned Al Masirah TV channel.
On the evening of December 16, air raid sirens were sounded in a number of central areas of Israel. The signal was issued after the military recorded a rocket launch from Yemen.
The IDF was concerned about shrapnel damage after the thing was broken up.
As reported by Regnum news agency, Syrian army facilities in the provinces of Latakia and Tartus, where Russian military bases are also located, were bombed by Israeli aircraft.
There are risks to co-locating on known targets.
The Israeli military carried out a strike on Syrian air defense systems in the province of Tartus, comparable in power to an earthquake.
The Israel Defense Forces said Monday morning that a drone launched from 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... had been successfully shot down over the Mediterranean Sea.
According to the IDF, the UAV was intercepted by a Navy missile boat before it reached Israeli territory. No sirens were activated in the incident and no injuries or damage were reported.
The attack came as an American official said Yemen’s 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 had launched multiple drones and a missile at three fat merchantmen being escorted in the Gulf of Aden by United States Navy ships.
The American official, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss military operations, said US Navy destroyers, a Navy helicopter, and a French Air Force aircraft shot down four of the drones and the missile. The three US-affiliated flagged ships were sailing east toward Djibouti.
There were also no injuries or damage reported in that attack.
A Houthi military front man, Brig. Gen. Yahya Saree, said Tuesday that the rebels had targeted American supply ships and two US destroyers.
The incident came a week after a Houthi drone fired from Yemen hit a residential building in the central Israeli city of Yavne, causing damage but no injuries. At the time, the Israeli Air Force said sirens were not activated because the drone had not been classified as a clear threat.
The Houthi rebels, part of Iran’s "Axis of Resistance®" against Israel and the US, have fired hundreds of ballistic missiles, cruise missiles, and drones at Israel since the outbreak of the Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... war, one of which killed a man in Tel Aviv.
[HODHODYEMENNEWS.NET] Israeli occupation warplanes launched on Monday Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s targeting several military points in the Syrian provinces of Latakia and Tartus, resulting in massive explosions.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) reported that the Israeli airstrikes targeted missile bases at Camp 107 in the Zama area, as well as arms depots in the countryside of Tartus.
A violent mostly peaceful explosion occurred in the village of Hiresun in Tartus following one of the airstrikes.
Since the collapse of the Baath regime, Israel has launched hundreds of airstrikes in Syria to target military infrastructure and capabilities.
[IsraelTimes] Residents of Syria’s coastal Tartus region say alleged Israeli airstrikes overnight, called the heaviest in the area in over a decade, went on until almost 6 a.m., shaking the ground and causing widespread damage.
“It was like an earthquake. All the windows in my house were blown out,” says 28-year-old Ibrahim Ahmed, an employee in a legal office.
According to the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which relies on a network of sources inside the country, 18 raids “targeted strategic locations on the Syrian coast,” including missile stockpiles and air defense assets.
In the village of Bmalkah in the hills above Tartus, roads are filled with shattered glass and shreds of roller doors and smoke can still be seen rising from nearby hillsides.
Clean-up crews trying to clear debris off roads have been sweeping up missile and shell parts, even as the valley echoes with fresh blasts from stockpiled munitions catching fire.
“The village did not sleep last night. The kids were crying,” says one middle-aged man in a blue sweatshirt who refused to give his name.
At a nearby military complex, smoke billows from arched concrete bunkers cut into the hillside, and secondary explosions launch shrapnel that then falls among the trees.
Broken parts of mortars, rockets and missile launch tubes litter the hillsides.
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[HODHODYEMENNEWS.NET] The ''ISIS'' attacks have recently escalated in several areas in northern and eastern Syria, especially in the Syrian desert.
According to the Syrian Human Rights Observatory, the number of ISIS terrorist attacks in the Syrian desert since the fall of the former regime on December 8 has reached six attacks, resulting in the deaths of 70 people, both civilians and soldiers.
The terrorist organization launched five attacks in Homs, killing 64 people, including 52 soldiers from the former Syrian army who were executed and 12 civilians, including nine livestock herders.
[IsraelTimes] American forces carried out air strikes against the Islamic State group in Syria on Monday, killing a dozen of its fighters, the US military says.
“The strikes against the ISIS leaders, operatives, and camps were conducted as part of the ongoing mission to disrupt, degrade and defeat ISIS,” US Central Command (CENTCOM) says on social media, using an acronym for the Islamic State group.
The aim is to prevent “the terrorist group from conducting external operations and to ensure that ISIS does not seek opportunities to reconstitute in central Syria,” CENTCOM says.
“These recent strikes are in former regime and Russian-controlled areas, ensuring pressure is maintained on ISIS,” it adds.
Washington is seeking to prevent the jihadist group from taking advantage of the fall of Bashar al-Assad’s government, which was overthrown by an Islamist-led rebel alliance that took the capital Damascus on December 8.
[X] Courtesy of Fred:
U.S. Central Command Conducts Airstrikes Against ISIS Operatives
Tampa, Fla. – U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) forces conducted precision airstrikes targeting known ISIS camps and operatives in Syria, Dec. 16, killing 12 ISIS terrorists.
…The strikes against the ISIS leaders, operatives, and camps were conducted as part of the ongoing mission to disrupt, degrade, and defeat ISIS, preventing the terrorist group from conducting external operations and to ensure that ISIS does not seek opportunities to reconstitute in central Syria.
These recent strikes are in former Regime and Russian controlled areas ensuring pressure is maintained on ISIS.
Battle damage assessments are underway, and there are no indications of civilian casualties.
“CENTCOM, working with allies and partners in the region, will not allow ISIS to reconstitute and take advantage of the current situation in Syria,” said Gen. Michael Erik Kurilla.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
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