Crossings are up nearly 850% along northern border
U.S. Customs and Border Protection transferred 25 extra agents from south
Migrants crossing heavily wooded area on dirt paths in freezing snow
It is a problem that works both ways - some migrants are actually sneaking into Canada from the U.S., causing a spike in immigration numbers for America's neighbor to the north. Leaders there are demanding to speak to President Joe Biden about the problem.
[ToloNews] The European Council announced on Tuesday it has sanctioned nine individuals and three entities under its Global Human Rights Sanctions Regime, including two acting ministers from Afghanistan.
According to the EU Council, two acting "Taliban ...Arabic for students... " ministers-- for Higher Education, Neda Mohammad Nadim and for the Propagation of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice, Mohammad Khalid Hanafi--who are "behind the decrees banning women from higher education and gender-segregated practices in public spaces," are among the nine sanctioned individuals.
"The listed individuals and entities will now be subject to an asset freeze in the EU. In addition, listed individuals will be subject to a travel ban to the EU. Moreover, persons and entities in the EU will be prohibited from making funds available, either directly or indirectly, to those listed," the EU said in a statement.
The decision announced by the Ministry of Higher Education last year to ban female students from going to universities has faced strong reactions from the international community.
Meanwhile, ...back at the saloon, Butch got the bill for the damage caused by the fist fight, the mirror broken in the shootout, and drinks for everyone...... speaking at a graduation ceremony on Tuesday, Nadim said that the closure of the universities is not permanent.
"There is a certain issue that all the media is focusing on. That is the issue of female education. In this regard, since the start, there has been no word about a ban but it was a temporary decision," he said.
Without naming a particular side, Nadim said that there are individuals who "don’t consider the situation and condition of Afghanistan, but rather focus on their wishes and recommendations—about why the (universities) have been closed-- and this harms the mindset of the people."
[ToloNews] Following the ban on female education in the country, girls in Nangarhar The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country.. province have turned to tailoring.
They urged the Islamic Emirate to reopen schools and universities to female students in the new academic year.
Maryam, a student at the School of Economics, said that she turned to tailoring to support her family when universities banned female students.
"I graduated from university, but now that women are banned from working, that's why I came here to learn sewing," Maryam said.
"They should give us an education and open our schools and universities," said Sili, a student.
Nazia is the sole breadwinner of a family with13 members. She asked the Islamic Emirate to reopen schools and universities for girls in the new academic year.
"They should help the widows and reopen schools for girls," Nazia said.
The officials of this tailoring center said that 150 students, most of whom are female students, are learning at the center.
"The clothes we gave to these women to prepare, and sell, are worth 2 lahks Afghani and this program will continue," said Abdul Raziq Hamdard, head of the tailoring center.
Meanwhile, ...back at the the conspirators' cleverly concealed hideout Montefiore's foot was still stuck and the hound had completely soaked his uniform with slobber... the local officials of Nangarhar talk about efforts to reopen schools and universities for girls.
"We hope that in the future, the Islamic Emirate will take measures to provide education opportunities for our sisters," said Farhad Ahmad Stankzai, the spokesperson of Nangarhar Education Department.
Universities in the country's colder provinces reopened on the 15th of Hoot (Solar calendar) without any female students present. The new academic year will also start in all the country in two weeks, but it is unclear whether or not girls who are above sixth grade will be permitted to attend classes.
[HODHODYEMENNEWS.NET] The Ministry of Fisheries held on Monday the Saudi-led coalition and mercenaries fully responsible for the implications of the decision to suspend exporting fish and aquatic life, as well as the effects on fishermen and those involved in trading and selling fish products.
This was revealed at a large conference held at the Ministry’s headquarters in Sanaa, led by the Undersecretary of the Production and Marketing Services Sector, Abdulghani al-Wali, and attended by fish agents, suppliers, and merchants.
The implications and consequences of the coalition-backed government’s decision to prohibit the export of fresh fish products, as well as the negative effects on fisheries, fishermen, merchants, and suppliers in the sector, and the national economy in general were reviewed in the meeting.
The meeting also dealt with topics such as coordinating efforts between the public and private sectors to develop solutions for marketing fish products and addressing the challenges that merchants and suppliers of fish products face, as well as their proposals for expanding their activities and businesses.
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[Rudaw] The UK government Tuesday unveiled radical plans to stop migrants colonists crossing the Channel illegally on small boats, acknowledging it is stretching international law amid an outcry from rights campaigners.
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said the plan would "take back control of our borders once and for all" -- reprising a popular pledge from campaigners like him who backed Britannia's Brexit divorce from the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... (EU).
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While visiting the European Border and Coast Guard Agency (Frontex) in Warsaw, Poland, last Friday, the minister urged the agency’s director, Hans Leijtens, to continue collaborating with the Spanish government and its African partners to drive back illegal migrants colonists.
The Spanish government has said it will cut down the influx of African migrants colonists by almost 60 per cent, according to a statement by the nation’s interior minister, Fernando Grande-Marlaska.
While visiting the European Border and Coast Guard Agency (Frontex) in Warsaw, Poland, last Friday, the minister urged the agency’s director, Hans Leijtens, to continue collaborating with the Spanish government and its African partners to drive back illegal migrants colonists.
Grande-Marlaska boasted that their collaboration so far had yielded substantial results, noting that Spain recorded a sharp 56.9 per cent decrease in illegal migration, as opposed to the 25.6 per cent recorded in 2022.
"Spain’s experience shows that the best way to deal with this phenomenon is to work with our partners to prevent irregular flows in the countries of origin and transit, based on cooperation, based on mutual trust and sustained in time," Schengenvisainfo quoted the interior minister as saying.
He said the majority of the reductions were seen throughout the peninsula’s coasts, as well as in Ceuta, the Canary Islands, and the Balearic Islands—all of which are sites of seaborne entry into the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... The minister claimed that since Spain, Cyprus, Greece, and Italia are frequently the first countries illegal immigrants colonists enter, their borders needed to be protected.
"External borders are not only national but European, and given the challenges we face, states of first entry must be supported politically and operationally," Grande-Marlaska said.
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start sinking boats, it'll come to a halt real quick I would guess.
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I would not sink them. I would seize the boat.
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Many of the boats are little more than hulks, barely able to make it into international waters before they start to sink. The people smugglers depend on rescuers getting there in time to pick them up — in some cases radioing the ships (NGOs and national Coast Guards) to let them know another load of humanity is headed their way. So confiscating the boats would not be effective.
Sadly, the choices are to pick them up and take them to Europe, pick them up and take them back to wherever they launched from, or let them sink.
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I would seize the NGO boats that are coordinating the hulk flotillas. The immigration from African is no more organic than it is from Mexico. Governments are handing money over to NGOs that are acting as a travel services including false advertising to attract migrants. There was a truck found this week with about 100 kids unaccompanied. Everyone involved in creating this situation is awash in blood and evil. Where were the kids headed? A factory? That would be the best option. Where are the parent? This has to be stopped.
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[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Poor little rich boy! Smirking suspected Antifa goon as he and his 22 cronies appear in court on terror charges
Mattia Luini, 30, is among the 23 protesters accused of carrying out a 'coordinated attack' on a proposed police training center
Video shows a mob of 150 rioters descending on the site Sunday night and pelting officers with fireworks and Molotov cocktails
Luini is the son of Ivan Luini, who helped popularize high-end plastic furniture in the United States
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...Curious, ain't it, that Georgia denies Stacey Abrams her second term and rubs the 'voter suppression' faces in their own lies, and then all of a sudden it's a new Antifa central.
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Mr. Luini, good morning, this is the office of the right Mayor Adams, could I have a moment of your time? It has come to our office your son Mattia has come attracted unnecessary attention. Of course part of our New York Brand is to take care of each other in this shared community, and that the continued support of Mayor Adams, a father himself, will extend and confirm New York City's commitment to its most wonderful citizens. There are still challenges, and we would like to confirm your continued support of Mayor Adams, and his associates, in their quest to make a better tomorrow.
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There will be a lot of money slinging around to facilitate plea deals for the punks that don’t involve jail time. Terrorism will transform into mischief through the magic power of corruption.
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[NPASyria] In response to The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the decaying remnant of the Ottoman Empire... ’s reaction regarding the US Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General’s visit to northeast Syria, the US State Department linked the visit to the presence of the US troops in the region on Monday.
Ned Price, the US State Department Spokesman, said in a press briefing, "General Milley met only with US troops while in Syria. It was only an interaction with American service members."
However, a lie repeated often enough remains a lie... price, in his remarks, noted that answering any questions regarding the visit is the responsibility of the Department of Defense front man, "I’m not the Pentagon spokesperson."
Turkey’s Foreign Ministry summoned Jeff Dear God! Won't he ever shut up? Flake ...Former Publican junior senator from Arizona, elected in 2012, since replaced by some Dem. Prior to that he was a U.S. Representative for twelve years. There's a reason he's a former junior senator... , the US ambassador to Ankara, on Monday to ask for clarification regarding the visit of top US General Mark Milley to northeast Syria on March 4.
The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General made an unexpected visit to a US base in Syria to evaluate the mission against 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) and review protection measures for US troops.
Price told news hounds that "Flake did go to the Ottoman Turkish Ministry of Foreign Affairs today for meetings and for discussions."
The State Department Spokesman stressed, "Our service members are deployed in Syria in service of a goal" shared with Turkey, the US allies, and all members of the US-led Global Coalition to Defeat ISIS, which is "the enduring defeat of ISIS."
The US Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General inspected force protection measures and received updates on the counter-ISIS mission, Milley’s front man, Dave Butler, told AFP.
Price said that, "the US Army chief does pop up around the world to visit with US service members. That’s what he did in this context."
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Flooding the region with bureaucrats?
Or briefing minions on ROE?
[FoxNews] Tarik Johnson, responsible for evacuating lawmakers, reveals the Jan. 6 Committee never asked him to testify
Tucker Carlson sat down with a former Capitol Police officer who was ignored by the House Jan. 6 Select Committee despite the pivotal role he had that day.
Tarik Johnson, a 22-year veteran on the Capitol Hill force, was tasked with securing the certification of the 2020 presidential election.
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The $3M, two-year January 6th committee was destroyed by a single devastating cable news segment - because the left was never interested in truth. They just wanted revenge
How in the world did Daily Mail let that one get through?
Has it become impossible to keep people from noticing, even those trying not to notice?
[NYPOST] A federal prosecutor in Manhattan showed eight gruesome photos Tuesday at a sentencing hearing for West Side Highway terrorist Sayfullo Saipov
...the Uzbeck lone wolf from Paterson, NJ, where he lived next to the Omar Mosque. He rented a truck for the purpose of running over as many people as possible while screaming “Allahu akhbar,” though he only managed to kill eight for ISIS and wound 12 more despite also crashing into a school bus. He came to the U.S. under President George HW Bush’s Diversity Immigrant Visa program in 2010, one of millions of Uzbeks to take advantage of the offer...
— one of each of his victims — as jurors weigh whether to execute the mass murderer.
In her closing argument, Assistant US Attorney Amanda Houle also described in excruciating detail the anguish that family members of the victims face to this day.
She highlighted previous testimony from slain New Yorker Nicholas Cleves’s mother, who had told jurors that grief was seared into her and "consumed me and never left me since."
"She’s just existing," Houle said of the mother, Monica Missio.
The prosecutor also described to jurors the moment New Jersey resident Darren Drake’s parents identified his body at the Medical Examiner’s Office the day after the Oct. 31, 2017, attack.
Drake’s father, Jimmy, "ran out of the building and onto the street because he could not bear to see what the defendant had done to his only child," Houle said.
The prosecutor noted the young children of slain Belgian tourist Ann-Laure Decadt, one of whom was just weeks old when his mother was mowed down and killed by Saipov.
[Dawn] The Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa police have established the Counter Terrorist Financing Unit (CTFU) to "reduce and investigate" the growing cases of extortion to finance terrorist activities.
"Extortion is taking place at a huge scale. This was a low priority area. There was confusion on who would deal with it in the first place," KP Inspector General of Police Akhtar Hayat Khan told Dawn about the initiative.
A standing order issued by the Central Police Office said the volume of terror financing, extortion and transfer of money through illegal means, inland and across the borders, was higher than the number of registered cases.
It added that the cases reported to the police were just a tip of the iceberg.
The IGP said the police had created the fiscal space to get specialised equipment and gadgets and the required personnel to prop up the unit and get it going.
"I hope to see it [CTFU] up and running by the middle of next month," he said.
Data shared with Dawn revealed that the province recorded 155 cases of extortion payment in 2022 alone and that 60 extortion payers disclosed the amount to the police but a bigger number declined to do so.
According to it, the amount paid to extortionists was estimated at Rs41 million.
"The scale and amount of extortion is, of course, much bigger than we know," the police chief said.
However, there's more than one way to stuff a chicken... in a recent background briefing, a top security official put the figure at Rs1.06 billion. It is not clear how the law-enforcement agency reached that sum.
The standing order, while outlining the objectives of the CTFU was to reduce the threat of terrorist financing by ’detecting, preventing, deterring and disrupting the flow of terrorist finance.’
"I am banking on a 30 per cent success rate," Mr Khan said.
"Even if we are able to reduce it by 30 per cent, it would certainly dent the terrorists’ ability to finance their activities. Less money means less activity. It is better to do something than fighting it with meagre resources. At the moment, we are doing nothing."
The standing order said the CTFC would undertake to understand terrorist finance activity by exploiting intelligence to prevent and detect illicit activity and investigate to disrupt and deter it by holding extortionists to account.
According to it, the CTFC will also review its legislative framework and propose new laws or amendments in the existing instruments with the view to enhance legal powers of law- enforcement agencies to disrupt and pursue terrorism financing in the face of more technological and complex threats that Pakistain and its interest might face.
Currently, Pakistain has several laws dealing with terrorist financing, including the NACTA Act, Anti-Terrorism Act, 1997, Foreign Exchange Regulation Act, 2947, Anti-Money Laundering Act, 2010 and Prevention of Electronic Crimes Act, 2016.
As part of the effort, the police chief said he was formally setting up the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Financial Intelligence Cell that would be linked with financial units to receive suspicious transaction reports, work on them, and initiate their own suspicious activity reports.
"We are going to procure highly sophisticated technology and digital systems. We need to have a technological edge over bully boyz financing their activities through extortion. If we can squeeze them, it will have an impact on the ground. Better technology and better methods will yield better results," he said.
The IGP said increasing the police’s digital footprint was high on his agenda.
"There is technology available and we are certainly going to tap into it. With better reorganised force and specialised units with better technology, I am sure we can make a much better and much bigger impact to stem the tide," he said.
BREAKING: The U.N. hired a daughter of Syria’s sanctioned spy chief to work in the Damascus office of its emergency response fund. A spokesperson for the UN agency said all “staff members are hired according to rigorous recruitment processes.” @antonioguterres, fire her now. pic.twitter.com/fc9S9oBSf7
ISIS did its best, but like the Nazis their best was not good enough — a sign that Allah did not approve of ISIS’ plans.
[Shafaq News] The process of uncovering mass graves in the Sinjar district, containing the remains of Yazidi victims brutally killed by ISIS Lions of Islam in 2014, is ongoing.
Nechirvan Hussein, spokesperson for the Investigation and Evidence Gathering Agency of the Kurdistan Regional Government, stated that "the Iraqi National Team, in collaboration with the agency in Kurdistan, has commenced unearthing the Hamadan cemetery situated on the outskirts of Sinjar city."
The cemetery is said to contain the remains of around 30 victims from the region. Hussein further clarified that the remains would be transported to Baghdad for forensic analysis, in order to ascertain their identities and subsequently hand them over to their families.
According to the most recent statistics from the Investigation and Evidence Gathering Agency of the Kurdistan Regional Government, there are currently 114 mass graves in the Sinjar area and its environs, with 32 graves already opened. To date, the remains of 522 victims have been recovered, with the identities of 170 of those victims identified, and their remains handed over to their families for proper burial in specially designated graves in Sinjar.
The opening of mass graves has been a slow process, with each site posing its unique challenges, while it serves as a painful reminder of the atrocities committed by ISIS terrorists.
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[IsraelTimes] ‘Leave the army out of the conversation,’ says organizer Oded Harush, a tank commander reservist, as political and military figures work to combat snowballing trend.
[IsraelTimes] National Cyber Directorate says it traced assault on Technion Institute to group calling itself MuddyWater, which is affiliated with Iranian government intelligence
The Israel National Cyber Directorate announced Tuesday that a group affiliated with Iranian intelligence was behind an internet attack last month on the Technion, a top Israeli research and education institute.
In a statement, the directorate said an investigation found the attack was carried out by a group known as MuddyWater, "which is affiliated with Iran’s Ministry of Intelligence and Security."
It said the same group has been blamed for many other attacks around the world. According to the directorate, last year the US and the UK said the group was behind a series of online assaults in Asia, Africa and North America.
The directorate said the probe revealed that the attack used malware that was designed to encrypt operating systems. It has since distributed to other organizations methods to identify the attack so that they can block similar attempts, also providing additional recommendations for ways to defend themselves.
It also noted that during the Moslem month of Ramadan, set to begin at the end of March, "cyberattacks are promoted against a variety of targets in Israel with the aim of disrupting their business activities and harming their good name."
It called on organizations to up their level of protection in expectation of a bout of attacks in the coming weeks.
When the February 11 attack struck, the Technion disconnected its computer system and administrators postponed some scheduled examinations until the beginning of the coming spring semester, Ynet reported at the time. Students were also asked to disconnect their computers from the internet and to limit their use of email until an all-clear was given.
Ynet also reported that the university received an email from a group calling itself DarkBit that demanded 80 bitcoins ($1.79 million) from the Technion as a ransom for information it had obtained.
A week and a half later, the Israel Hayom newspaper cited Technion sources saying that the incident was not a ransom attack but rather a politically motivated action.
"The choice of us as a target was not accidental, and its purpose was to harm a national icon," a source said, noting that an assessment had found it was tied to Iran.
At the time of the attack, the directorate said that in 2022 it had identified 53 cyber incidents at Israeli academic institutions, most of which were blocked.
Israel and Iran ...The nation is 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... have been engaged for years in a largely clandestine cyberwar that occasionally bubbles to the surface. Israeli officials accused Iran of attempting to hack Israel’s water system in 2020, while Iran has also blamed Israel for cyberattacks on the country’s infrastructure.
Aside from the attempted attack on the water system, a cyberattack last year thought to have been carried out by an Iranian group caused false rocket sirens to ring out in Jerusalem and Eilat.
In 2021, a hospital in central Israel came under a major cyberattack, and its systems remained down for several days until military officials and other experts assisted in restoring its data.
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[IsraelTimes] Damascus alleges southern neighbor destroyed civilian infrastructure as well as key facility needed to import aid for victims of deadly February earthquake
Syria and Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites.... accused Israel of criminal behavior after Israeli Air Force jets allegedly carried out an Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... at the airport in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo in the early hours of Tuesday morning.
Syria’s Foreign Ministry decried a "double crime," saying the strike targeted both "a civilian airport... and one of the key channels for the arrival of humanitarian aid" for victims of the deadly earthquake that devastated the region in February.
Syrian Transport Ministry official Suleiman Khalil told AFP that "it is no longer possible to receive aid flights until the damage has been repaired," adding that the strike had put the runway out of service.
Iran, an ally of Syria, condemned the strike, calling it a "crime against humanity."
"While the Syrian earthquake victims in Aleppo are experiencing difficult conditions, the Zionist regime is attacking Aleppo airport," Iran’s Foreign Ministry Spokesman Nasser Kanani said in a statement.
According to a report in Syria’s state news agency SANA, local air defenses were activated but it was not clear if there were any interceptions. Syria regularly claims to have intercepted Israeli missiles, though military analysts doubt such assertions. There were no immediate reports of casualties.
Short clips and photos allegedly from the site of the strike, circulating on social media, show a fire at the airport.
There was no comment from the Israel Defense Forces, in line with its policy of not generally commenting on air raids in Syria. Israel is believed to have carried out hundreds of strikes on targets inside government-controlled parts of Syria in recent years, including attacks on the Damascus and Aleppo airports, but it rarely acknowledges or discusses the operations.
Israel has acknowledged, however, that it targets bases of Iran-allied turban groups, such as Lebanon Hezbollahstan ...a formerly French, now an Iranian colony situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. ... ’s Hezbollah, which has sent thousands of fighters to support Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Leveler of Latakia... ’s forces. Israel views Iran’s expansion throughout Syria as a continued threat to its national security, and has conducted these strikes across a broad range of targets in an effort to curb Iran’s forces in the region.
SANA, citing a military source, said early Tuesday that "the Israeli enemy carried out an air attack from the Mediterranean [Sea]... targeting the Aleppo International Airport." The source said the airport sustained "material damage," and was not currently operating.
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Continuing to consolidate Turkey’s expansion into the Syrian borderlands that used to belong to the Kurds.
[NPAsyria] Days earlier, a local organization, in coordination with The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor... , finished building a new settlement in Jabal al-Ahlam, south of Afrin, in northwest Syria, and granted it to IDPs from the countryside of Damascus, Homs, and Aleppo.
The construction process ended following the devastating earthquake that hit across Syria, as Jindires was the most damaged area in the country.
Qatar ...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi... , through its ambassador to Turkey, who visited Jindires after the quake, and the head of the Qatar Red Islamic Thingy, had pledged to establish a new settlement under the name of "al-Karama" within earthquake-affected areas.
An informed source told North Press that the International Association for Development and Relief (ONSUR), Ottoman Turkish organization, has finished building a new settlement in Jabal al-Ahlam in southern Afrin, which consists of 250 residential apartments.
The source added that the residential units were handed over to the IDPs a few days ago.
It is expected that some quake-affected families would be transferred to the settlement, according to the source.
The new settlement is constructed in corporation with the Ottoman Turkish organization, Afad, accountable for building settlements in the countryside of Idlib and Aleppo, the source added.
North Press’ correspondent monitored, during his tour in the area, the construction of three settlements in Jabal al-Ahlam and al-Khaldiya forest, in Sharran district, south of Afrin, as each one of those settlements contain 150 to 200 apartments, mosques, schools, and centers for memorizing Holy Koran.
The number of settlements built by Turkey with the support of Gulf countries, most notably Kuwait and Qatar, and Paleostinian associations, exceeded more than 100 in Ottoman Turkish-occupied areas in northern Syria, according to North Press’ own investigations.
The projects aim at settling the Turkey-based Syrian refugees and the forces of Evil of the Ottoman Turkish-backed opposition factions, also known as the Syrian National Army (SNA), according to international reports.
In June 2022, Syrians for Truth and Justice (STJ), a human rights ...not to be confused with individual rights, mind you... organization, published an extensive investigative report, in which it detailed Turkey’s demographic engineering in Afrin and its countryside.
Afrin has been under the control of Turkey and the SNA factions since 2018 following a military operation dubbed "Olive Branch" against the Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) under the pretext of preserving Turkey’s national security.
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[HODHODYEMENNEWS.NET] Secretary General Sayyid Hasan Nasrallah on Monday announced that the Resistance® Party supports the nomination of Head of Marada Movement the personal militia of Suleiman Franjieh, president of Lebanon at the outbreak of the civil war, currently Syrian toadies, but you never know when that could change... Sleiman Frangieh for the presidential elections, stressing that the latter matches all needed candidacy criteria.
Addressing Hezbollah ceremony held to mark the anniversary of the Birth of Imam Sajjad (P) and Abu Fadl al-Abbas and honor the prisoners as well as the maimed fighters of the Islamic Resistance®, Sayyed Nasrallah noted that Hezbollah rejects the presidential void and insists on the two-third quorum for the parliament to convene and elect a new president.
Sayyid Nasrallah pointed out that Hezbollah refuses any foreign intervention in the Lebanese presidential elections, adding that Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites.... and Syria do not interfere in this issue and refer all inquirers to Tehran and Damascus allies in Beirut.
Sayyid Nasrallah affirmed that the Lebanese parties must never wait for the regional and international developments to settle the presidential file, calling for holding a dialogue among the parliamentary blocs if the quorum is not secured to elect a new president.
His eminence indicated that that Hezbollah remains committed to its presidential choice till the elections, reiterating that the Party wants the new President is abstain from backstabbing the resistance.
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[An Nahar] "It has become clear that the Free Patriotic Movement Despite its name a Christian party allied with Hizbullah, neither free nor particularly patriotic... is not taking part in any alignment," FPM MP Salim Aoun said Tuesday, in a tweet.
The tweet came after Hezbollah chief Sayyed His Eminence Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah ...The satrap of the Medes and the Persians in Leb... openly named Suleiman Franjieh as its presidential candidate.
"The natural candidate that we back in the presidential elections and has the specifications that we take into consideration is minister Suleiman Franjieh," Nasrallah said in a speech during a rally honoring the group's maimed fighters.
Nasrallah added that Hezbollah’s declared support for Franjieh does not mean that the party is "giving up the MoU with the FPM" and that Hezbollah is keen on the MoU and the friendship with the FPM.
The FPM opposes the election of Franjieh and its chief Jebran Bassil had said that the FPM will not endorse the presidential nomination of Franjieh, even if all other parties agree on him.
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[An Nahar] Opposition MP Waddah al-Sadek has announced that the "solution" for the presidential crisis might be "closer than we imagine," shortly after Hezbollah officially endorsed Suleiman Franjieh’s nomination.
"I have repeatedly said that the (Shiite) Duo’s official nomination of Marada Movement the personal militia of Suleiman Franjieh, president of Lebanon at the outbreak of the civil war, currently Syrian toadies, but you never know when that could change... chief Suleiman Franjieh would be the beginning of serious work for the election of a president," Sadek said in a social media statement.
"There is political balance and legislative balance and today there has become balance in nominations, and the solution might be closer than we imagine," Sadek added.
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[An Nahar] Army Commander General Joseph Aoun has fiercely lashed out at unnamed parties whom he accused of "fabricating rumors and files" against the military institution.
"As the army offers hefty sacrifices and shoulders its responsibilities with professionalism and expertise despite the challenges, some fanatics and concerned and unconcerned officials continue to fabricate rumors and files, tarnish the institution’s image and accuse us of corruption and breaking the law," Aoun said in a speech in the Bekaa.
"If breaking the law allows me to accept aid from the Lebanese who love the institution inside and outside the country and to provide medicine, food and transportation for soldiers and hospitalization and tuition aid for their families ... then I will break the law," the commander added.
"Their concern is personal interests and your concern is the country’s interest, protecting civil peace and defending your oath," Aoun told soldiers.
"We will not care about their accusations," the army chief added, stressing that the military institution "will remain bigger than their files and rumors."
He added: "May God aid an army that is fighting stupidity, expensiveness, the pandemic and the lack of modesty and loyalty."
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[An Nahar] Army Commander General Joseph Aoun has fiercely lashed out at unnamed parties whom he accused of "fabricating rumors and files" against the military institution.
