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Al Shabab claims to have killed 43 soldiers and wounded 51 more in a dawn attack on an army base in Qayib area near Bahdo town
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Arabia
Saudi Arabia and UAE planning new airport runway on occupied Socotra
[HODHODYEMENNEWS.NET] A joint military delegation from Soddy Arabia
...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face...
and the UAE arrived on the 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...
i island of Socotra with the purpose of establishing a new runway at Socotra Airport to receive Saudi-led coalition aircraft, local sources reported on Thursday.

The sources said that the governor appointed by the government loyal to the coalition, Raafat al-Thaqali, was in the reception of the Saudi-Emirati military delegation, before he toured with the Emirati military delegation in the area that was designated for the military runway within the Socotra Airport.

Al-Thaqali held, during the past few days, a series of meetings with leaders from the coalition and local ones to discuss plans to establish a military runway for the coalition warplanes.

Since June 2020, Socotra Island has been under the sole control of Abu Dhabi forces, in addition to the presence of Saudi forces. Then, the Zionist entity’s interventions in Socotra Island were exposed, which, in coordination with Abu Dhabi and Riyadh, established a monitoring center on the Island, which occupies strategic importance in its location overlooking the Indian Ocean and the Arabian Sea.
Posted by: Fred || 11/26/2022 00:15 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under: Houthis

#1  The Pentagon has long had an interest in Socotra. Including a landing of Marines back in 2014. It wouldn't at all be a surprise that the USA has bought (and I mean bought) peace between Saudi Arabia and Abu Dhabi for its own purposes.
Posted by: Slavising Unineting5672 || 11/26/2022 9:35 Comments || Top||


Major fire breaks out in Al-Khokha refugee camp
[HODHODYEMENNEWS.NET] A massive fire broke in a camp for Internally displaced people (IDPs) in the coastal district of Al-Khokha, southwest of Hodeidah governorate, amid continuous repetition of fire incidents in camps for displaced people in the same district.

Local sources said the fire, which erupted in the al-Alili camp, destroyed six houses, in addition to causing damages to other houses.

Sources added that the displaced people in the camp were able to put out the fire before it spread to the rest of the houses, (which are built of mud, straw and tree branches).

The camp houses nearly 800 families.

According to the sources, local authorities’ pro-coalition have failed to investigate the reasons behind the consecutive flames of camps, in the District of Khokhah, amid the mystery surrounding the case and stirring speculations.
Posted by: Fred || 11/26/2022 00:13 || Comments || Link || [16 views] Top|| File under: Houthis

#1  China Xinjiang: Ten dead in Urumqi residential block fire
Posted by: Skidmark || 11/26/2022 9:49 Comments || Top||


Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
16 people return to Azerbaijan from Syria
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[KavkazUzel] A total of 16 Azerbaijani citizens, including 13 children, have been repatriated from Syria. In recent years, 409 Azerbaijani women and children have been returned from Syria and Iraq, the Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry said.

The "Caucasian Knot" has reported that on October 6, 15 citizens of the country were repatriated  to Azerbaijan , who were kept in the Amerna camp in the Syrian city of Jerablus.

According to the ministry, first of all, the location, identity and belonging of the repatriated to the citizenship of Azerbaijan were established. Then they were sent to Turkey, where they underwent a preliminary medical and psychological examination by Azerbaijani doctors, and they were also provided with the necessary assistance. After that, the Azerbaijani embassy in Turkey issued certificates of return and air tickets to the repatriates, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent translated the agency's message.

The Azerbaijani government intends to take all necessary measures for the reintegration and rehabilitation of repatriates, a press release says.

In recent years, 409 Azerbaijani citizens, including 380 children and 29 women, have been repatriated to their homeland from Syria and Iraq, the report says.

Tofig Turkel, an observer for the Turan agency on the Middle East, explained earlier to the "Caucasian Knot" that in recent years, the Azerbaijani authorities have been  repatriating  from Iraq and Syria children and women from the families of people who once went to fight in these countries as part of various armed formations.

"Some created families there, and children were already born in these countries. After the liquidation of these terrorist groups, the death, arrest or flight of militants, women and children of foreigners, including Azerbaijanis, were placed in special camps, shelters or they were kept in places of detention

"As Azerbaijani citizenship is established, these people are returned back. It often happens that children have lost both parents, and the establishment of their citizenship takes some time. After the return of children without parents, they are usually given to close relatives - on the paternal or maternal side. Usually such children are taken by uncles , aunts or grandparents. If there are none, then children are sent to orphanages," Turkel told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent
Probably ISIS, but could have been any of the other remaining jihadi groups still battling for the soul of the Syrian corner of the Ummah.


Posted by: badanov || 11/26/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under:


Europe
EU ministers endorse new migrant plan after France-Italy spat
[IraqiNews] European interior ministers welcomed Friday an EU plan to better coordinate the handling of migrant arrivals, after a furious row over a refugee rescue boat erupted between Italia and La Belle France.

La Belle France has accused Italia of failing to respect the law of the sea by turning away the NGO vessel, triggering crisis talks in Brussels to head off a new EU dispute over the politically fraught issue.

All sides described the meeting as productive, but Czech interior minister Vit Rakusan, whose country holds the EU presidency, said afterwards that they had agreed that "more can and must be done" to find a lasting solution.
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Posted by: trailing wife || 11/26/2022 00:58 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under: Migrants/Illegal Immigrants

#1  What does the guy mean by "populistic and europhobe forces"? Seems like an oxymoron to me but maybe I'm missing something.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 11/26/2022 12:24 Comments || Top||

#2  All these people are talking around the most obvious solution which is to send all Middle Eastern and African colonists back to the Middle East and Africa. It's the elephant in the room that they all ignore. They are all hellbent on the death of Europe and expect that nobody will notice. Are they gonna use the colonists to invade Russia?
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 11/26/2022 12:30 Comments || Top||


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
An 'emerging secular, democratic consensus' stares Iranian theocracy in the face
[ARABNEWS] On Sept. 13, Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old Iranian woman, was arrested in Tehran for violating the Islamic republic’s strict dress code for women. In the custody of the Gasht-e Ershad — the "Guidance Patrol," or morality police — she suffered a catastrophic head injury and, after three days in a coma, died in hospital.

Her death was the trigger for hundreds of protests across the country, which have seen men and women take to the streets in vast numbers, with women openly shunning the obligatory wearing of the hijab and cutting their hair in public in a gesture of defiance.

Now a new report from the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change — TBI — backed by two consecutive polls of thousands of Iranians, has concluded that the widespread rejection of the hijab is nothing less than a symbol of a nationwide yearning for regime change.

The current protests are "no flash-in-the-pan moment," says Kasra Aarabi, co-author of the report and the 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 Jews Zionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol...
Program lead at TBI’s Extremism Policy Unit.

"The protests we are seeing now are unprecedented in their longevity, and in their size. But they are a continuation of the trend for unrest that emerged in 2017, since when we’ve seen Iranians consistently taking to the streets."

Aarabi, a non-resident scholar at the Middle East Institute in Washington and a native Farsi speaker, believes that the current unrest, some of the worst seen in Iran since the revolution in 1978 replaced the modernizing regime of the Shah, is a pivotal moment for Iran.

"This is the beginning of the end of the Islamic Theocratic Republic," he said.

"It’s been clear for years that the Iranian people don’t want reform, they want regime change, the downfall of the Islamic Theocratic Republic in its entirety and the creation of a secular democracy."

Young people in Iran, he says, are witnessing the great changes taking place elsewhere in the region, from the bridge-building of the Abraham Accords to the great modernizing reforms in Soddy Arabia
...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face...
, "and they’re thinking, ’Why can’t we have that?’"

The TBI report draws on two polls carried out among tens of thousands of Iranians, which demonstrate the extent to which Iran has become a secular society, despite more than 40 years of life under a hard-line Shiite theocracy.

Key findings include that men and women in Iran are almost equally opposed to the mandatory wearing of the hijab, rejected by 70 percent of men and 74 percent of women.

This opposition also spans what might otherwise be expected to be the divide between town and country, where people are traditionally considered to be more conservative in outlook.

Only 21 percent of urban Iranians believe in the practice, support that rises only to 28 percent among rural communities.

Predictably, rejection of the compulsory wearing of the hijab is strongest among younger people — 78 percent of respondents aged between 20 and 29 oppose it.

Yet the practice is also opposed by 68 percent of Iranians aged between 30 and 49, and 74 percent aged over 50 — the so-called revolution generation.

Only a small minority of Iranians support the practice — just 13 percent of women and 17 percent of men.

The hijab protests, says the TBI, are clearly about regime change: 84 percent of those who oppose the dress code also want to see an end to the Islamic Theocratic Republic.

Furthermore, "the anti-regime protest movement in Iran is fundamentally secular," said the report, adding that "76 percent of Iranians who want regime change, also consider religion unimportant in their lives."

Posted by: Fred || 11/26/2022 00:09 || Comments || Link || [10 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran

#1 
Posted by: Spike the Hairy6811 || 11/26/2022 4:15 Comments || Top||

#2  Meaningless paper mask mandates, the American Hijab Experiment, is an eerie parallel!
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 11/26/2022 12:43 Comments || Top||


US official urges 'de-escalation' as Turkiye strikes Syria
[ARABNEWS] A US official in Syria on Friday called for an "immediate de-escalation" following days of deadly Arclight airstrike
...KABOOM!...
s and shelling along the Syria-Turkiye border, saying the actions destabilize the region and undermine the fight against the ISIS group.

Turkiye this week launched a wave of airstrikes on suspected Kurdish rebels hiding in neighboring Syria and Iraq, in retaliation for a deadly Nov. 13 bombing in Istanbul that Ankara blames on the Kurdish groups.

The groups have denied involvement in the bombing and say the Ottoman Turkish strikes have killed civilians and threatened the anti-ISIS fight.

The Britannia-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, an opposition war monitor, said that 67 civilians, button men and soldiers, have been killed in Ottoman Turkish attacks in northern Syria since the airstrikes began.

Nikolas Granger, the US senior representative to northeastern Syria, said Washington "strongly opposes military action that further destabilizes the lives of communities and families in Syria and we want immediate de-escalation."
Posted by: Fred || 11/26/2022 00:02 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under: Sublime Porte



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