[SUDANTRIBUNE] An alliance of Sudan ...a Moslem country located in the Horn of Africa. It is noted for its affinity for rule by ex- or current generals, its holy men, and for the oppression of the native Afro population by its Arab conquerors. South Sudan, populated mostly by the natives, split off from Sudan proper, which left North and South Darfur to be oppressed by the guys with turbans... ese gangs on Saturday appointed Mohammed Hassan al-Taishi, a former civilian member of the country's post-revolution Sovereign Council, as prime minister of a new parallel administration.
The appointment is part of a broader move by the Tasis (Founding) Alliance to establish a government in territories controlled by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and the Sudan People's Liberation Movement-North (SPLM-N).
Two other prominent figures from the pre-war transitional government, Hadi Idris and al-Tahir Hajar, were also named to the new 15-member presidential council. Both men, like al-Ta'ishi, were part of the original Sovereign Council but were later dismissed from their posts after the conflict began.
In a video statement released on social media, alliance front man Alaa al-Din Naqd detailed a slate of appointments for regional governors, including for Darfur, Khartoum, the Nuba Mountains, and the Eastern region.
The presidential council itself is headed by RSF commander Mohammed Hamdan ''Hemetti,'' with SPLM-N leader Abdelaziz al-Hilu serving as his deputy.
The formation of the parallel government has been met with international opposition, with the United Nations ...where theory meets practice and practice loses... , the United States, and the African Union ...a union consisting of 53 African states, most run by dictators of one flavor or another. The only all-African state not in the AU is Morocco. Established in 2002, the AU is the successor to the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), which was even less successful... warning that the move could lead to the country's partition.
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[SUDANTRIBUNE] The Sudan ...a Moslem country located in the Horn of Africa. It is noted for its affinity for rule by ex- or current generals, its holy men, and for the oppression of the native Afro population by its Arab conquerors. South Sudan, populated mostly by the natives, split off from Sudan proper, which left North and South Darfur to be oppressed by the guys with turbans... ese army on Friday launched dronezaps against Rapid Support Forces (RSF) positions across North Darfur. In return, the RSF shelled a displacement camp near El Fasher, killing at least three civilians and injuring seven others, activists said.
The army's dronezaps targeted RSF gatherings in several locations, including Melit (65 km north of El Fasher), al-Kuma (75 km east), and the areas of Kafut and al-Mona, local sources told the Sudan Tribune. Both Melit and al-Kuma are strategic towns currently under the control of the RSF.
In the wake of the air raids, the RSF responded with heavy artillery fire on the Abu Shouk camp for internally displaced persons (IDPs) on the northern outskirts of El Fasher.
El Fasher, the capital of North Darfur, remains the only capital in the vast Darfur region not under the control of the RSF. The paramilitary group has besieged the city since May 2024, after seizing the other four state capitals, making it a flashpoint in the ongoing conflict.
Shelling kills at least 31 in Sudan's El Fasher, activists and doctors say
[SUDANTRIBUNE] At least 31 non-combatants were killed and dozens were maimed in heavy shelling by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) on the capital of North Darfur state, El Fasher, and a nearby displacement camp on Saturday, activists and medics said.
The attack is the most intense bombardment in days on the North Darfur capital, the last army stronghold in the vast western region, where fighting has escalated since Monday.
The Sudan Doctors Network, an activist group, said in a statement that 31 people were killed, including seven children and a pregnant woman, when artillery fire hit the Abu Shouk camp for displaced people.
Eyewitnesses told Sudan Tribune that 11 of the dead were worshippers killed inside a mosque in the camp.
El Fasher has been under a de facto siege by the RSF since April 2024, severely restricting the flow of food and life-saving medicine, according to residents and aid groups.
RSF accused of summary executions in El Fasher as violence surges
[SUDANTRIBUNE] Sudan 's Rapid Support Forces (RSF) were accused on Sunday of carrying out summary executions of civilians in the besieged North Darfur city of El Fasher, with videos circulating online that appeared to show the killings.
The accusations come as the RSF intensifies shelling and ground assaults in an attempt to capture El Fasher, the Sudanese army's last stronghold in the vast Darfur region.
Local sources told Sudan Tribune that RSF fighters rubbed out 12 unarmed young men in the Shaqra area, about 13 km (8 miles) west of the city, claiming they were smuggling goods.
A separate artillery attack by the RSF on Saturday killed at least 30 people in El Fasher's neighbourhoods and the sprawling Abu Shouk camp for displaced people, according to a statement from the El Fasher Resistance® Committees. The committees also accused RSF fighters of infiltrating the camp, executing residents, and taking others to unknown locations.
Somalia: It was reported that the army killed senior Al-Shabaab commander Hussein Moallim Hassan (Magaalabeen) in an operation near Buurdhuxunle, Bakool region. pic.twitter.com/ZFv9jJ9FZL
Somali National Army (SNA) forces, specifically the 95th Battalion of the 9th Brigade under the 60th Division, conducted a carefully planned overnight operation between the areas of Ceel-boon and Buurdhuxunle in the southern Bakool region, military officials said Sunday.
During the operation, troops killed a senior al-Shabaab ... al-Qaeda's tentacle in East Africa... commander identified as Hussein Macalin Hassan, also known within the Death Eater group’s ranks by the alias "Magaalabeen."
The offensive is part of an intensified military campaign jointly executed by Somali federal forces and regional Daraawiish troops from South West State (Koonfur Galbeed), targeting al-Shabaab strongholds across the Baay and Bakool regions.
Security officials report that over the past two weeks, multiple operations have been launched across the two regions. In a separate development, four al-Shabaab members surrendered to government forces in the town of Naydhabo, the administrative capital of Baay region.
IS-Sahel claimed responsibility for attacks in Oudalan province, Burkina Faso, killing 15 VDP militiamen near the Essakane gold mine.The assaults in Korizéna and Débéré-Doumam, east of Gorom-Gorom, highlight escalating jihadist violence targeting local defense forces.
[IsraelTimes] Katz says Yemeni rebels will ‘pay dearly’ for attacks on Israel, warns morning’s strikes near Sanaa only the start
A ballistic missile launched by the 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... s in 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... at Israel on Sunday afternoon was intercepted by air defenses, the Israel Defense Forces said.
The missile, which was detected shortly before 4:30 p.m., set off sirens in central Israel and the Jerusalem area, forcing hundreds of thousands of Israelis to seek cover amid widespread protests across the country for the return of the hostages held by Hamas ..the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,... There were no reports of impacts or injuries.
The attack came hours after the Israeli Navy launched strikes against a power plant south of Sanaa, the Houthi-controlled capital of Yemen, on Sunday morning.
The Israel Defense Forces, in a statement, said the strike hit "energy infrastructure used by the Houthi terror regime" near Sanaa, in response to "repeated attacks by the Houthi terror regime against the State of Israel and its citizens, including the launching of surface-to-surface missiles and UAVs toward Israeli territory."
Local media reported large explosions in the area that knocked generators out of service.
The Houthi-run Al Masirah TV blamed the earth-shattering kaboom on "aggression," without identifying the source. Teams were working to put out a fire caused by the incident, Al Masirah added, citing a source in civil defense.
An Israeli defense official confirmed the strike was carried out by Navy missile boats. It was only the second time that the Navy has struck in Yemen, the first being an attack on the Houthi-controlled Hodeida port in June.
After the missile fire on Sunday afternoon, Defense Minister Israel Katz threatened that the Houthis would "pay dearly" for their attacks.
"We are imposing an aerial and naval blockade that hurts them greatly, and this morning, we struck infrastructure and energy targets. This is only the beginning," he said in a statement issued by his office.
"What follows will be strong and painful. Whoever raises a hand against Israel, his hand will be cut off," Katz added.
The navy strike on Sunday morning was the 14th time that Israel has attacked the Iran-backed Houthis in Yemen, located some 1,800 kilometers (1,100 miles) away.
Most of the strikes have been carried out by Israeli Air Force fighter jets; the last strike on the Houthis, in July, was carried out by an IAF drone, for the first time.
Since then, the Houthis have launched eight ballistic missiles and at least seven drones at Israel, attacks that caused no damage or injuries.
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[Regnum] The defendant in the case of the terrorist attack in the Crocus City Hall concert hall, Khusen Medov (included in the list of terrorists and extremists in the Russian Federation), who made the assault rifles, received about 500 thousand rubles for the weapons. This follows from the materials of the criminal case.
A gunsmith from Ingushetia purchased three blank-firing Kalashnikov assault rifles online and bought another one at a hunting store in Malgobek. In January 2024, Khavazh-Bagaudin Aliyev (listed as a terrorist and extremist in the Russian Federation) approached him with a request to help convert these weapons into combat weapons, stating that the assault rifles were planned to be used in criminal conflicts at the Sadovod market in Moscow.
During interrogation, Medov described in detail how he was trained to convert blank-firing weapons into combat weapons, as well as the process of making machine guns. To test their functionality, he fired several shots in the yard of his house, after which he stored the weapons in the attic.
“For the weapons sold, about 500 thousand rubles were transferred to his mother’s card, which she didn’t know about, which he cashed and after some time transferred to Aliyev,” TASS quoted the gunsmith as saying.
Their accomplices transported these weapons to Dagestan through hiding places, and later the accomplices of the terrorist attack delivered them to Moscow.
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Ugh. Criminal masterminds in Israel trying to be clever. Khat is primarily grown for export in the East African highlands of Ethiopia and Kenya, and in the Sanaa area of Yemen, and is consumed mostly beyond the region by emigrants. In much of the world it is illegal, but it is legal for personal use in Israel, accommodating the cultural peculiarities of Yemenite Jews and the Bene Israel Jews of Ethiopia and Sudan, who apparently mainly grow it for the purpose as a garden plant. Organized crime in Israel developed the practice of paying Israelis take suitcases of the stuff to Europe— someone must have been getting ambitious.
[IsraelTimes] Bust at Athens International Airport valued at €1.5 million is biggest Greek seizure of smuggled khat leaf since 2014
Greece has made a record seizure of khat, confiscating half a ton of the illegal plant-based drug, Athens airport said on Sunday.
The drug is made from the leaves of the khat plant, native to the Horn of Africa and the Arabian Peninsula.
When chewed, khat releases chemicals similar to amphetamines, resulting in a mild high.
Greece’s state-run news agency ...and if you can't trust the state-run news agency who can you believe?... said the seizure’s size made it the largest haul ever confiscated in the country, with a value estimated at €1,500,000 ($1,750,000).
According to the Athens News Agency, the illegal substance was hidden in four shipping containers declared to be holding curtains, sheets and fabrics, transiting from Israel and bound for the United States.
Greece’s previous record seizure was also confiscated at Athens International Airport on December 4, 2014.
Khat, also known as qat, is very popular in 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... and Horn of Africa countries, including Æthiopia and Somalia.
In 2022, Spain made Europe’s record seizure of the drug, confiscating khat with a street value of €61 million.
[GEO.TV] Israeli army says pressing ahead with plans for next phase of 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... offensive; Hamas ..not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,... says plans would result in new wave of genocide and displacement
The Israeli army's chief of staff said Sunday the military was pressing ahead with plans for the next phase of its Gaza offensive, with a focus on Gaza City.
"Today we are approving the plan for the next phase of the war," Lieutenant General Eyal Zamir said during a field visit to the Paleostinian territory, according to an army statement.
"We will maintain the momentum of Operation 'Gideon's Chariots' while focusing on Gaza City. We will continue to strike until the decisive defeat of Hamas," he said.
The large-scale operation in Gaza, dubbed "Gideon's Chariots" by the Israeli army, began in mid-May.
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[GEO.TV] The armed wing of Hamas ..always the voice of sweet reason... has released footage that shows its fighters launching rocket-propelled grenades at invading Israeli military vehicles in southern 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... , Al Jazeera reported.
The Qassam Brigades said the attack took place in Khan Younis, around the Salah al-Din road, and that tanks and military bulldozers were hit.
The group also reported an ambush in northern Gaza's Zeitoun neighbourhood, saying its fighters hit a Merkava tank of the Israeli army with Yassin-105 shells.
The Quds Brigades, the armed wing of the Paleostinian Islamic Jihad ...created after many members of the Egyptian Moslem Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the assassination of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah... , also released footage of its fighters gathering in Gaza City to plan and execute a mortar attack.
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Welcome back to TCTV, your global news
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channel. We come to you guys with some breaking news. This time from the Middle East. The Islamic Republic of Iran is in
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chaos as there have been multiple hits on the IRGC, the Islamic Revolutionary
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Guard up and down the country. There's an ongoing situation in the capital in Thran.
There's a lot to cover but the top adviser to the supreme leader Ali Ky
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Ali himself is still in hiding. He is currently living in a bunker. They they
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have said that they have apparently moved him from the the the existing bunker to a new place because apparently
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the location might have been exposed. But Yahim Safavi who is one of the top
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top advisers said that obviously we are not in a ceasefire. We are in a phase of
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war. No protocol, regulation or agreement exists between us and the US,
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Israel and others. it is possible that essentially Iran will make a move
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against the west and after that war he says there will be not another one. So
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After the Israeli naval assault in Sanaa Yemen, this morning, again IRGC assets in Iran are now starting to ‘spontaneously’ explode in southern Teheran.
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...a Moslem country located in the Horn of Africa. It is noted for its affinity for rule by ex- or current generals, its holy men, and for the oppression of the native Afro population by its Arab conquerors. South Sudan, populated mostly by the natives, split off from Sudan proper, which left North and South Darfur to be oppressed by the guys with turbans...
...a Moslem country located in the Horn of Africa. It is noted for its affinity for rule by ex- or current generals, its holy men, and for the oppression of the native Afro population by its Arab conquerors. South Sudan, populated mostly by the natives, split off from Sudan proper, which left North and South Darfur to be oppressed by the guys with turbans...
... al-Qaeda's tentacle in East Africa...
..the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,...
..not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,...
