#UPDATE: Al-Shabaab Ambushes Kenyan Troops Near Somalia-Kenya Border
Al-Shabaab militants ambushed Kenyan security forces after they crossed the Somalia-Kenya border and were reportedly heading toward the Ciise Guur area in Somalia’s Gedo region.
#UPDATE: Al-Shabaab Ambushes Kenyan Troops Near Somalia-Kenya Border
Al-Shabaab militants ambushed Kenyan security forces after they crossed the Somalia-Kenya border and were reportedly heading toward the Ciise Guur area in Somalia’s Gedo region.
According to local residents, the attack occurred between the border town of El Wak and the Dhamase area. The sources said the Kenyan troops later withdrew back into Kenyan territory. There has been no official statement from Kenyan authorities or the Somali government, and the reported details could not be independently verified.
The border area around El Wak and Gedo has witnessed repeated cross-border security incidents in recent years, including Al-Shabaab ambushes, roadside bomb attacks, and military operations targeting the militant group, underscoring the persistent security challenges along the Somalia-Kenya frontier.
قوات الطوارئ تخنق الحوثيين وتغلق أبرز مسارات التهريب عبر الصحراء.
صعّدت قوات الطوارئ عملياتها الرامية إلى إغلاق أهم خطوط التهريب الصحراوية التي ظلت لسنوات تمثل شرياناً لإيصال الوقود والأسلحة إلى مناطق سيطرة المليشيات الحوثية، معلنة فرض رقابة ميدانية صارمة على الطرق غير النظامية… pic.twitter.com/sPaExiqWJK
Emergency forces choke the Houthis and close the most prominent smuggling routes across the desert.
Good. Starve ‘em out. They’re as evil as their Mad Mullah masters.
Emergency forces have escalated their operations aimed at shutting down the most important desert smuggling routes, which for years have served as a lifeline for delivering fuel and weapons to areas under Houthi militia control, announcing the imposition of strict field oversight on unregulated roads extending across the eastern border regions all the way to the desert of Al-Jawf Governorate.
Authorities state that this step targets drying up the militias' logistical supply sources and curbing the activity of smuggling networks operating outside the state's framework.
[HodhodYemenNews] The UAE-backed Southern Transitional Council (STC) militia seized control of Aden on Saturday, months after Saudi Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula, largely made up of sand and oil rigs. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual haj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. Formerly dictatorial and steeped in Olde Tyme Religion, deferring to Salafist holy men on all issues, it has now done a 180 and is making a serious effort to modernize, so as not to be left in the sand by its Gulf Arab neighbors. The holy men have been shoved to the background and the nation is now still dictatorial but somewhat rational. That doesn't make them trustworthy, but it's a start... had taken control of the city.
Images circulated by activists showed a heavy deployment of the STC militia in the city’s streets. The deployment includes medium-range weapons and crews, including anti-aircraft guns.
The spread was concentrated in several districts, most notably in the al-Mansoura district, where the central prison is located.
This move comes after the STC called on all its fighters to mobilize in Aden and reflects a Saudi failure to manage the city, with the possibility of its fall.
[IsraelTimes] About 300 people were evacuated yesterday from a neighborhood in Sarcelles, a multicultural Paris suburb with a large Jewish population, owing to a “suspicious” car near the town’s synagogue, French Interior Minister Laurent Nunez says.
Nunez, speaking to French broadcaster BFM, says the incident took place on Saturday evening.
Nunez says an investigation is underway and that a “military weapon” had been found in the vehicle, and that the motive and suspect have not been identified.
One might opine that the individual(s) was taking his/her firearms and ammo to a gunsmith but, as there are none withing 20Km of Sarcelles, that theory is blown.
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#Pakistan 🇵🇰: Tehrik-e #Taliban Pakistan (#TTP) shot down a Pakistani Army drone armed with 60mm HE ADB Bomb in Swat District.
Militants who shot down the Drone were apparently armed with #USA-made 🇺🇸 M4A1 carbine and a customized M16A4 rifle with suppressor. pic.twitter.com/3w3C7MuuKb
The IDF says it bombed a Hamas weapons manufacturing site in Gaza City earlier today, while members of the terror group were operating there.
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IDF says it bombed a Hamas weapons manufacturing site in Gaza City earlier today, while members of the terror group were operating there.
Recently, Hamas operatives worked the site to "manufacture weapon components in an attempt to restore the organization's capabilities," in a "violation of the ceasefire agreement," the military says.
"The manufacturing site was struck while several Hamas terrorists were operating inside it," the IDF says, adding that the operatives were advancing attacks on troops and Israeli civilians.
Palestinian media reported that four people were killed in the strike.
[IsraelTimes] IDF says unaware of incident in which 9-year-old reported killed; says operatives were inside arms factory during strike, 2 Hamas members killed last week
Israeli fire in 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... Strip on Sunday reportedly killed at least six people, including a 9-year-old girl, as Paleostinian media reported a series of particularly heavy strikes in Gaza City, which the army said targeted a weapons production site and killed Hamas ..a regional Iranian catspaw,... operatives who were working there.
Medics said Israeli gunfire directed at a tent encampment on the eastern side of the al-Bureij refugee camp in central Gaza hit 9-year-old Tala Abu Matar. She succumbed to her wounds and was taken to the al-Aqsa Martyrs hospital.
The military said it was unaware of the incident.
Separately, the military carried out a large strike in the Sabra area of Gaza City Sunday afternoon, which it said hit a makeshift weapons production site.
Footage shared by Paleostinian media showed the moment of the strike, indicating that the IDF gave prior warning.
Witnesses said the site was hit with three missiles.
According to the army, it bombed the site as Hamas operatives were working there.
Recently, Hamas operatives worked at the site to "manufacture weapon components in an attempt to restore the organization’s capabilities," in a "violation of the ceasefire agreement," the military said.
"The manufacturing site was struck while several Hamas Death Eaters were operating inside it," the IDF said, adding that the operatives were advancing attacks on troops and Israeli civilians.
IDF SAYS TWO HAMAS MEMBERS KILLED LAST WEEK
The IDF announced separately that it killed two Hamas operatives in strikes in the Gaza Strip last week, both of whom it said were advancing attacks on troops stationed in the area.
A strike on Saturday killed Hassan Mustafa Zahir al-Razina, whom the military said tried to plant bombs "in the area of the Yellow Line," and advance other attacks.
A separate strike on Thursday killed Mohammad Mahmoud Abd al-Mu’ti Fayyoumi, identified by the IDF as a member of Hamas’s elite Nukhba Force.
Fayyoumi was advancing "imminent" attacks on troops operating in Gaza, the military said.
Both operatives had "posed an immediate threat to the troops and were eliminated in aerial strikes," the IDF added.
Counting Sunday’s deaths, at least 1,100 Paleostinians have been killed in Gaza since the ceasefire took effect in October last year, according to the Hamas-run health ministry. That toll is unverified and does not differentiate between civilians and combatants, though the Israeli military believes that Hamas’s overall figure is largely accurate.
Overall, Hamas says over 73,000 people in the Gaza Strip have been killed since the October 7, 2023, Hamas-led attack on Israel sparked the war in the enclave. The IDF says it has killed over 23,000 combatants in Gaza and another 1,600 Death Eaters inside Israel during the October 7 onslaught.
Israel has said it seeks to minimize civilian fatalities and stresses that Hamas uses Gaza’s civilians as human shields, fighting from civilian areas, including homes, hospitals, schools, and mosques.
🇮🇷🇰🇼 Iran carried out strikes today against three border positions along the Kuwait-Iraq frontier.
Iranian sources claim the targeted sites were being used to deploy HIMARS launchers allegedly responsible for firing ATACMS missiles into Iran.
Footage released after the strikes shows large plumes of smoke rising from the area, aligning with the reported location of the targeted position geolocated by @LayBay_ish at approximately 30.0011° N, 47.9500° E.
The IRGC said in a statement carried by Iran’s semi-official Tasnim News Agency on July 12 that it targeted what it described as U.S. logistical support facilities for naval vessels and aircraft carrier refueling infrastructure at the Port of Duqm.
According to the statement, the operation formed part of the third phase of Iran’s military campaign against U.S. forces and was carried out in response to recent American strikes on Iranian military targets.
Iran did not provide evidence to support its claim. Omani authorities had not commented on the reported attack, and the U.S. military had not acknowledged any strike or damage at the port at the time of publication.
The United States launched a new wave of strikes on 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... into Monday morning, following an Iranian attack on a container ship in the Strait of Hormuz that set it ablaze and left a crew member missing over the weekend. Tehran retaliated with further strikes on countries across the region.
The fresh US strikes came hours after US President Donald Trump ...dictatorial for repealing some (but not all) of the diktats of his predecessor, misogynistic because he likes pretty girls, homophobic because he doesn't think gender bending should be mandatory, truly a man for all seasons... said the American military had "hit them hard," and claimed that Iran had agreed to a diplomatic deal before it attacked a ship in the Strait of Hormuz. With rhetoric and tensions sky high, an Iranian foreign ministry statement suggested in the wake of the latest strikes that the time for diplomacy was now over.
Despite the escalation in violence, Israel still remained on the sidelines of the fighting as of early Monday morning, without joining the US strikes in Iran nor so far becoming a target for Tehran’s retaliatory bombing. Israel had no part in negotiating the Iran-US memorandum of understanding, which sought to reopen the strait and launch talks as part of a deal that now appears shakier than ever.
In a statement amid a third round of strikes late Sunday night and into Monday in Iran, following separate Iranian strikes on ships in Hormuz, the US military said it was seeking "to degrade" Iran’s "ability to attack fat merchantmen freely transiting" the strait.
Later announcing that the latest wave of strikes had ended, CENTCOM said it had used fighter jets, ships, aerial drones and naval drones to hit Iran’s air defense systems, radar sites, missile and drone equipment and small boats.
"The Strait of Hormuz is a vital maritime corridor for global trade," US Central Command said. "Iran does not control it." It added: "US forces are postured and prepared to ensure that freedom of navigation remains available to commercial shipping despite Iran’s continued unwarranted aggression, harassment, threats and arbitrary declarations."
Iranian state media acknowledged the latest attacks on its soil early Monday, describing explosions in several locations with at least one person being killed and four reported maimed at a water pumping station in the southwest city of Mahshahr. State media reported strikes targeting large areas across southern and western Iran, including Qeshm island and Bandar Abbas near the strait, and in Khuzestan province bordering Iraq.
Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard acknowledged in a statement early Monday it had begun a new round of strikes across the Middle East. Missile alert sirens sounded at dawn Monday in Bahrain, home to the US Navy’s 5th Fleet. There was no immediate word on damage.
The Strait of Hormuz, the narrow mouth of the Persian Gulf, which once saw a fifth of all oil and natural gas pass through it, has become the key issue challenging an interim deal between the US and Iran. Iran and the US are nearly at the midway point of the 60-day period of that deal, which was supposed to set up talks for a permanent end to the war. Instead, it has devolved into a series of attacks over the strait and its future, worrying world leaders the Iran war could resume.
In an interview on Sunday, Trump claimed Iran "agreed to a deal" on Saturday before striking a ship in the Strait of Hormuz with a drone.
"We had meetings with them. They agreed to a deal yesterday. A perfect deal for us. No nuclear... They gave up everything, and then... within an hour, they launched a drone at a ship," Trump told NBC’s "Meet the Press." It was not immediately clear what deal Trump was referring to.
"I said, ’You people are sick, and so it’s one of those things,'" Trump added of Iran. He insisted that the Strait of Hormuz remained open — despite Iran’s claims to the contrary — and that the US "bombed the hell out of them last night."
Iran early Monday condemned the latest wave of US attacks on its territory, saying they have "rendered futile" all the diplomatic efforts of the last few months.
"The US regime has also caused the return of insecurity in the Strait of Hormuz and disruption of international commercial shipping by openly interfering in the process of Iran implementing the necessary arrangements in the Strait of Hormuz," a foreign ministry statement said.
The governor of Qeshm Island near the strait told Iran’s state-run IRNA news agency that projectiles were fired at military targets, with no casualties. Explosions were also heard in the coastal city of Bandar Abbas and Hajiabad city to the north.
A US official said a few strikes targeted missile and air defense systems and paramilitary Revolutionary Guard boats. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to publicly discuss military operations.
The US military earlier Sunday said it hit some 140 targets, including missile and drone launch sites, ammunition dumps, communication equipment and other sites.
"A return to full-scale hostilities would have catastrophic consequences," United Nations ...aka the Oyster Bay Chowder and Marching Society... Secretary-General António Guterres said in a statement.
The attacks were heavier than in recent days. The US has launched three rounds of Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s targeting Iran in the past week over attacks on ships heading through the strait using a route off Oman, seeking to avoid the Islamic Theocratic Republic’s territorial waters.
Semiofficial Iranian news agencies reported that a navy officer was killed. Iran retaliated by attacking nations in the region hosting US military forces, while insisting it alone must control the strait and potentially charge vessels for traveling through it.
"The era of one-sided deals is OVER," Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, the speaker of Iran’s parliament and a main negotiator, wrote. "We told you: keep your word or pay the price. Reality is knocking."
Iran said the strait was closed until calm is restored, and Tehran would consider targeting "additional enemy bases in the region" if it faced more attacks. The US military and Trump asserted that the strait remained open.
The US military said more than 140 ships had transited over the past week. A multinational body overseen by the US Navy said traffic continued "at reduced levels" off both Oman and Iran, and that nearly 140 vessels transited daily before the war.
The official news agency IRNA cites several statements released by the Guards saying they had attacked Prince Hassan Air Base in Jordan, a US military drone command center in Bahrain and airbases including Ali Al Salem in Kuwait.
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The main question is! Were any camels hurt in the strike by Iran?
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#5
Devil is dead
Big success for the US forces
Top official of IRGC Air Defence Hamidreza Dehghan, who threatened to make the entire Middle East a graveyard of American soldiers yesterday, has been eliminated in today's airstrike by the United States Forces. Officially confirmed pic.twitter.com/ELiGqDCwwX
#9
This bit from President Trump’s announcement is interesting:
The U.S.A. will be, from this point forward, known as “THE GUARDIAN OF THE HORMUZ STRAIT," but as such, and as a matter of FAIRNESS, will be reimbursed, at the rate of 20% on all cargo shipped, for any and all costs necessary to do the job of providing safety and security to this very volatile section of the World.
Yesterday, using multiple one-way attack surface drones, CENTCOM forces successfully struck a submarine and ship maintenance facility in Iran. Three Corsair unmanned surface vessels hit the port at Bandar Abbas Naval Base, marking the first time American forces have employed sea… pic.twitter.com/bOM2kmgRxz
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...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula, largely made up of sand and oil rigs. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual haj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. Formerly dictatorial and steeped in Olde Tyme Religion, deferring to Salafist holy men on all issues, it has now done a 180 and is making a serious effort to modernize, so as not to be left in the sand by its Gulf Arab neighbors. The holy men have been shoved to the background and the nation is now still dictatorial but somewhat rational. That doesn't make them trustworthy, but it's a start...
..a regional Iranian catspaw,...
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