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Mali: FAMa announced that over 70 terrorists were neutralized
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Good Morning



Agency [DHS] Imports 85,000 White
Collar Foreign Workers for U.S. Jobs
Monday 07/21/2025

June 1943. bumper crop of babes Arlington Farm_500.
Europe
Activists, citing %u2018war crimes,%u2019
urge Belgium to arrest Israelis at music festival
Afghanistan
Dozens of young women detained
in Kabul because of their appearance
Home Front: WoT
Axios: White House Unhappy With Netanyahu's
Destructive Decisive Actions
Afghanistan
Russian Embassy Reacts to Detention
of Ethnographer in Afghanistan
Home Front: WoT
Drones as cartridges
-Lurid Crime Tales-
DHS Now Confirming The Suspect Who Shot Border Patrol Agent Was Illegal Alien With Prior Arrests For Felony 2nd and 3rd Degree Assault
Chinaman trampled after whacking cow


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Posted by: Fred || 07/21/2025 || Comments || Link || [51 views] Top|| File under:

#1  ..elsewhere in 1943.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 07/21/2025 7:45 Comments || Top||

#2  I had never heard of Arlington Farms.
Posted by: Super Hose || 07/21/2025 8:08 Comments || Top||


-Lurid Crime Tales-
ICE Agents tracked down and arrested an illegal alien from Mexico for decapitating an Illinois woman
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Posted by: Fred || 07/21/2025 2025-07-21 00:58 || Comments || Link || [36 views] Top|| File under: Migrants/Illegal Immigrants


DHS Now Confirming The Suspect Who Shot Border Patrol Agent Was Illegal Alien With Prior Arrests For Felony 2nd and 3rd Degree Assault
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
…one of the alleged suspects walked into the 44th Precinct with multiple gunshot wounds to the chest. That individual is now in custody. The second suspect remains on the run.

Sources say the Border Patrol agent is in stable condition.

Meanwhile, chaos is erupting across the city tonight. Police scanners are flooded with reports of robberies, many involving suspects described as Hispanic males on scooters. The pattern suggests another violent crime wave may be hitting New York City.

Stay tuned for updates.

For licensing email viralnewsnyc@gmail.com



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Posted by: Fred || 07/21/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [79 views] Top|| File under: Migrants/Illegal Immigrants


#2 
It is well past due to halt returning these repeat border crossing Illegals.

Maybe dropping them off at that North Sentinel Island would be better.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 07/21/2025 5:15 Comments || Top||


Africa Horn
Sudan: RSF is reportedly shelling civilian neighborhoods in El Fasher, North Darfur.
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UAE is recruiting Somali youths from Puntland and deploying them to RSF-held areas in Darfur
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Africa North
Egypt says it foiled terrorist plot, kills two suspected Muslim Brotherhood-linked militants
[IsraelTimes] Egypt says two suspected bully boyz were rubbed out and a civilian killed in a shootout with security forces during a raid in Cairo that authorities say thwarted a "terrorist" plot.

The raid followed recent intelligence that the Hasm movement, said to be linked with the Moslem Brüderbund, was "preparing to revive its activities and commit hostile operations targeting security and economic facilities" inside Egypt.

Police raided a "militant hideout" in Cairo’s densely populated neighborhood of Bulaq al-Dakrour, the ministry says in its statement, without disclosing when it occurred.

During the raid, two suspects "began firing randomly at the forces and the surrounding area," resulting in their deaths and that of a passerby, it adds.

The statement adds that authorities had identified five leaders of the plot besides those killed, all of whom had received life sentences in absentia for a series of attacks that rocked Egypt in the aftermath of the 2013 overthrow of Islamist president Mohammed Morsi.

Following Morsi’s ouster, the Moslem Brüderbund group was outlawed in Egypt and many of its members were imprisoned, while others moved to different countries including The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire...
and 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...
Hasm, once blamed for a series of liquidation attempts and bombings between 2016 and 2019, had largely faded from public view.

Since toppling Morsi, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sissi’s administration has often projected itself as a guarantor of "peace and security." But the more than decade-long crackdown has curtailed nearly all space for dissent, according to rights groups.

The ministry says one of the suspects killed in the shootout had received advanced military training "in a neighboring country," before entering Egypt through an illegal border crossing, allegedly to carry out attacks.

The ministry’s statement comes after a video circulated on social media platforms this month appeared to show Hasm members conducting live-fire drills in a desert setting.
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Mali: FAMa announced that over 70 terrorists were neutralized
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
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Posted by: Fred || 07/21/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [45 views] Top|| File under: al-Qaeda


Burkina Faso: JNIM claims it killed 13 soldiers on Thursday in coordinated attacks on three army posts
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]


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Posted by: Fred || 07/21/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [31 views] Top|| File under: al-Qaeda


India-Pakistan
Pakistan Army Major killed in Quetta by magnetic IED
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]


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Posted by: Fred || 07/21/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [30 views] Top|| File under: Baloch Liberation Army

#1  "Natural causes" in Pakland
Posted by: Frank G || 07/21/2025 9:08 Comments || Top||


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Masses of Gazan Civilians Just Meters from IDF Soldiers – The Order: “No One Fires!”
[X] Amid claims that the IDF fired at civilians in the jihadist occupied 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, in areas where humanitarian aid is distributed, the IDF Arabic-language spokesperson tonight released footage of an incident that occurred earlier today in which hundreds of Gazook civilians looted a humanitarian aid truck that had entered the Strip.

The masses of Gazooks stood just a few meters from the soldiers, who were on alert and ready to open fire to push them back — but the soldiers ordered one another: ''No one opens fire!''

The IDF Arabic spokesperson wrote:

''There is no famine, no deliberate killing, and no intentional harm to those seeking aid. There is only Hamas
..a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",...
propaganda, with media outlets spreading lies to salvage what's left of the defeated Hamas.''

Hamas officials say at least 73 Gazans killed, most near aid site; IDF: Toll exaggerated

[IsraelTimes] Army confirms firing ‘warning shots’ near UN aid convoy, as GHF denies involvement; Israeli strikes kill 2 commanders of Hamas-linked terror group involved in Oct. 7 hostage-taking

At least 85 Gazooks were killed Sunday in the Gazoo Strip, the vast majority of them while seeking out aid at distribution sites near Gaza City, the territory’s Hamas
..not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,...
-run health ministry said, with Israel disputing the corpse count.

The largest toll was in northern Gaza, where at least 79 Paleostinians were allegedly rubbed out trying to reach aid that had entered through the Zikim Crossing with Israel, the ministry said.

The remaining six were killed in the southern part of the Strip, according to the ministry.

It was not immediately clear whether the victims were killed by the Israel Defense Forces or armed gangs or both. But some witnesses said that Israeli troops shot at the crowd.

Responding to the reports, the IDF said it had fired "warning shots to remove an immediate threat posed to the troops" in northern Gaza, but denied the steep corpse count, insisting that the "reported number of casualties does not align with the existing information."

The army has been implicated in near-daily shooting incidents near humanitarian aid sites in recent months.

The UN World Food Program said 25 trucks with aid had entered via Zikim for "starving communities" when the convoy encountered massive crowds.

A UN official, speaking on condition of anonymity
... for fear of being murdered...
because they were not allowed to comment on the incident to the media, claimed Israeli forces opened fire toward crowds who tried to take food from the trucks. Footage taken by the UN and shared with the AP showed Paleostinian men running as automatic gunfire was heard.

"Suddenly, tanks surrounded us and trapped us as gunshots and strikes rained down. We were trapped for around two hours," said Ehab al-Zei, who had been waiting for flour and said he hadn’t eaten bread in 15 days. He spoke over the din of people carrying the dead and maimed. "I will never go back again. Let us die of hunger, it’s better."

More than 150 people were maimed Sunday, with some of them at death's door, according to hospital tolls cited by the News Agency that Dare Not be Named.

The killings in northern Gaza did not take place near aid distribution points associated with the US- and Israel-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, which hands out food packages to Paleostinians.

Following the reports, the GHF stressed that the shooting took place near a UN aid convoy, rather than near any of their distribution hubs, which have seen hundreds of people killed in recent months by Israeli fire while trying to access the sites, according to witnesses and health workers.

"Like most violent mostly peaceful incidents, this incident is not linked to GHF, despite what was falsely implied by Al Jazeera," the group insisted, adding that it hoped "news hounds will cover these incidents with the same scrutiny GHF receives."

Health ministry front man Zaher al-Wahidi said Israeli gunfire also killed another six Paleostinians in the Shakoush area, hundreds of meters north of a GHF hub in the southern city of Rafah. The GHF said it was not aware of any incident near its site.

Separately, seven Paleostinians were killed while sheltering in tents in Khan Younis in the south, including a 5-year-old boy, according to the Kuwait Specialized Field Hospital, which received the casualties.

FOOD RELIEF GROUP FORCED TO SCALE BACK OPERATIONS
On top of the regular shooting incidents Gazook aid-seekers have faced over the past few months, food has been spread thin in the war-torn enclave.

The World Central Kitchen organization, which works to provide fresh meals in disaster-stricken areas, said Sunday that it had depleted all supplies in its Gaza warehouses and that its aid trucks were stuck at the border.

As a result, the organization was forced to halt operations in kitchens that were serving hot meals. However,
a clean conscience makes a soft pillow...
its teams in Gaza are continuing to bake bread and distribute water to residents, the group said. It added that on Saturday, it served 80,000 meals to residents of Gaza.

The entry of humanitarian aid into Gaza has been a point of conflict between Israel and aid organizations since the start of the war. Aid groups have accused Israel of obstructing deliveries, while Israel repeatedly claims the organizations fail to meet necessary conditions for safe food distribution, such as compliance with specific aid routes in the Strip.

Last week, the GHF announced that UN-affiliated organizations had not delivered food to Gaza for over a week, and that the GHF was currently the only group bringing humanitarian aid into the territory. This appeared to no longer hold true, however, given the Sunday reports of the shooting near a UN aid convoy which had entered Gaza via the Zikim Crossing.

Ambulances in front of three major hospitals in Gaza sounded their alarms simultaneously Sunday, in an urgent appeal to shed light on the hunger crisis in the territory. The Hamas-run health ministry posted pictures on social media of doctors holding paper signs about malnourished children and lack of medication.

Al-Wahidi said that at least nine children under 5 years old had died of malnutrition as of Sunday, since Israel’s complete blockade on aid entry in March, which was lifted in May after over two months.

In northern Gaza, Shifa Hospital director Mohammed Abu Salmiya said that the hospital recorded 79 people who died of malnutrition in the past month.

Israeli strikes continued to pound the Gaza Strip overnight Saturday into Sunday. Large explosions in northern Gaza were visible from Israel as plumes of fire shot into the sky.

Two senior Mujahideen Brigades operatives killed in southern Gaza strike, terror group says

By EMANUEL FABIAN
Two senior members of the Mujahideen Brigades were killed in an Israeli airstrike in southern Gaza’s Khan Younis yesterday, the terror group announces.

The Mujahideen Brigades is a relatively small Hamas-allied terror group in the Strip. According to the IDF, the group was responsible for the abduction and murder of Shiri Bibas and her two young sons, Ariel and Kfir; Gadi Haggai and Judih Weinstein; and Thai hostage Nattapong Pinta.

The terror group says the strike in Khan Younis killed Azmi Mohammed Qdeih, a commander responsible for the Gaza City area; and Raed al-Saqa, a commander responsible for the southern part of the Strip.

The strike also killed several members of their families, the terror group says.

The IDF has not yet commented on the strike.

The leader of the Mujahideen Brigades was killed in a strike last month, along with another senior member of the terror group. Another Mujahideen Brigades operative involved in burying the bodies of slain hostages was killed in a separate strike last month. eeèe>IDF STRIKES COMMANDERS OF HAMAS-LINKED TERROR GROUP
Meanwhile,
...back at the shouting match, a new, even louder, voice was to be heard...
the Mujahideen Brigades announced Sunday that two of its senior members were killed the day prior in an Israeli Arclight airstrike
...KABOOM!...
in southern Gaza’s Khan Younis.

The Mujahideen Brigades is a relatively small Hamas-allied terror group in the Strip. According to the IDF, the group was responsible for the abduction and murder of Shiri Bibas and her two young sons, Ariel and Kfir; Gadi Haggai and Judih Weinstein; and Thai hostage Nattapong Pinta.

The terror group said the strike in Khan Younis killed Azmi Mohammed Qdeih, a commander responsible for the Gaza City area, and Raed al-Saqa, a commander responsible for the southern part of the Strip. It also killed several members of their families, the terror group added.

The IDF did not immediately comment on the strike.

The leader of the Mujahideen Brigades was killed in an IDF strike in June, along with another senior member of the terror group. Another Mujahideen Brigades operative involved in burying the bodies of slain hostages was killed in a separate strike, also in June.

The IDF reissued evacuation orders for all of northern Gaza and parts of Gaza City, as the military continued its offensive against Hamas in the area.

In a statement, Col. Avichay Adraee, the IDF’s Arabic-language spokesperson, warned "all those who have returned or intend to return to the areas of Beit Lahia, Jabalia, Beit Hanoun, Shejiya, Daraj, the Old City, Tuffah, [and] Zeitoun" that those areas are "dangerous combat zones."

"The Israel Defense Forces are operating in these areas with very great force," he said.

Three IDF divisions are operating in the northern Gaza Strip area, mostly in Beit Hanoun, Jabalia, and Gaza City’s eastern neighborhoods.

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#1  I remember such orders from Intifada I - it's how you get killed.
Posted by: Grom the Affective || 07/21/2025 2:10 Comments || Top||


Israeli occupation issues new evacuation orders in central Gaza as fighting continues amid Hamas foot-dragging on negotiations
[HODHODYEMENNEWS.NET] The Israeli occupation army issued new evacuation orders today, Sunday, calling on all individuals present in the southwestern area of Deir al-Balah and those living in tents to evacuate the area immediately.

In a statement, the occupation army said that the evacuation orders targeted Paleostinians residing in blocks 130, 132—134, 136—139, and 2351.

The statement explained that the occupation army continues to carry out intensive military operations aimed at destroying the Paleostinian resistance's capabilities and infrastructure, noting that the scope of operations has expanded to include areas not previously targeted.

IDF set to begin ground operations in central Gaza’s Deir al-Balah for first time

[IsraelTimes] has held captives in city, which saw hostage release in February; 2.7 kilometers of tunnels destroyed in Jabalia, other terror infrastructure razed in Beit Hanoun

The Israeli military said Sunday that it was set to begin ground operations in Deir al-Balah for the first time since the start of the war, issuing an evacuation order for Paleostinians in the southwest of the city in the central 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.

"The IDF continues to operate with great force to destroy the enemy’s capabilities and terror infrastructure in the area, as it expands its activities into an area where it has not operated before," the IDF’s Arabic-language spokesperson, Col. Avichay Adraee, said on X.

The expansion into Deir al-Balah was announced as fighting continued across the Strip, and alongside ongoing ceasefire negotiations in 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...
, where Israel has accused Hamas
..the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®,...
of dragging out its response to an Israeli proposal.

Deir al-Balah is one of the few places in the Strip where the military has not yet operated with ground troops because it believed Hamas to be holding hostages there, though it has conducted Arclight airstrike
...KABOOM!...
s in the city. Hamas has vowed to execute captives if the IDF approaches.

The IDF has avoided ground operations in areas where it believes Hamas to be holding hostages, in order not to endanger them.

Because of the relatively light fighting in the Deir al-Balah area, refugees from other parts of Gaza have sought shelter there, and most buildings remain standing.

Sunday’s announcement told civilians to head south to the Mawasi area on the coast, where hundreds of thousands of Paleostinians are already massed. According to IDF estimates from May, some 350,000 Paleostinians reside in all of central Gaza. It is unclear how many are in the newly evacuated zone.

Meanwhile,
...back at the dirigible, the pilot and the copilot had both hit the silk.

Jack! Cynthia exclaimed. Do you know how to drive one of these things?

Jack wiped some of the blood from his knuckles.

No, he said. Do you?...

overnight, the IDF demolished Hamas infrastructure in northern Gaza’s Beit Hanoun, amid an ongoing offensive against the terror group there. A video from the Israeli border community of Netiv Ha’asara showed a large explosions that shook the region just after 3 a.m..

Also on Sunday, the IDF said it demolished 2.7 kilometers’ (1.7 miles) worth of tunnels in recent operations carried out by the 401st Armored Brigade in the area. The underground passages were some 20 meters (66 feet) deep, according to the military, and were destroyed by combat engineers.

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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Syrian Druze woman tells reporter she is being kidnapped by Bedouins, Qatari channel cuts off interview
[IsraelTimes] A clip shared widely on social media shows the Qatari Al-Araby news channel cutting off an interview with a Druze woman in southern Syria after she tells a reporter that she and her family are being abducted by Bedouins.

In the clip, which was filmed yesterday, a reporter interviews a group of Bedouins in a car as they leave the Sweida area, where clashes between Druze and Bedouins have raged in recent days, leaving hundreds dead.

In the interview, one of the men in the car points to several Druze women and children in the back seat, and explains that he kidnapped them in retaliation against the Druze people.
Just like Hamas, ISIS, Boko Haram, and the government of Iran.
The reporter then turns to one of the women, who says she had been besieged in her home for seven days by Bedouin forces until they forced her out and took her captive.

Just seconds into the interview, the studio anchor interrupts the reporter, and the broadcast is cut.
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Posted by: trailing wife || 07/21/2025 2025-07-21 02:54 || Comments || Link || [30 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Qatari channel cuts off interview

Under Assad Syria was a client of the Iranian section of the axis Russia-Qatar-Iran.

Now Syria is a client of the Qatari section of the axis Russia-Qatar-Iran.

Just like Hamas, ISIS, Boko Haram, and the government of Iran.

IOW this is the reality of the bloody borders of Islam.

With the exception of China of course where the borders of Islam are bloody because the Chicoms spill Muslim blood, which makes mainstream political Islam fear and respect the Chicoms.
Posted by: Elmerert Hupens2660 || 07/21/2025 8:24 Comments || Top||


Relief convoys carrying food, water, medicine, and essential supplies are set to start arriving in Suwayda; 1100+ dead
[X]

The Times of Israel reports:
Public broadcaster reports that Israel coordinated delivery to the Druze-majority province with the US; monitor says death toll in sectarian clashes has surpassed 1,100

Israel delivered humanitarian aid and medical equipment to Syria’s Druze-majority Sweida overnight in coordination with the US, Israeli television reported Sunday, as a monitor and news hounds said that calm had returned to the Syrian province after a week of sectarian violence between Druze fighters and rival groups that killed more than 1,100 people.

According to the Kan public broadcaster, Israel coordinated the delivery with the United States, which in turn coordinated with the Syrian government. The broadcaster said it was currently unable to provide any further information on how the operation was carried out.

The Health Ministry had announced Saturday that Israel’s security forces would deliver medical equipment and medicine to a hospital in Sweida that had been heavily damaged in the recent festivities, as soon as it had received clearance to do so from all relevant authorities.

"Our brotherhood with the Druze community is well known, but beyond that, we are committed to a ’covenant of life.’ We cannot stand idly by when members of the community — inside or outside Israel — are in danger," Health Minister Uriel Buso said of the decision.

The reported delivery came as a ceasefire announced on Saturday appeared to be holding after earlier agreements failed to end fighting between the Druze and Bedouin that spiraled to draw in the Islamist-led government, the Israeli military and armed tribes from other parts of Syria.

AFP correspondents on the outskirts of Sweida city reported hearing no festivities on Sunday morning, with government forces deployed in some locations in the province to enforce the truce.

The first humanitarian aid convoy entered the city on Sunday, Red Islamic Thingy official Omar al-Malki said, adding that it would be followed by others. He said the convoy came "in coordination with the government bodies and the local authorities in Sweida," which are controlled by the Druze.

The Syrian government meanwhile said a Druze group blocked its own convoy from entering the city.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said that since around midnight, "Sweida has been experiencing a cautious calm," adding government security forces had blocked roads leading to the province in order to prevent tribal fighters from going there.

The Britannia-based Observatory gave an updated toll late Sunday of 1,120 killed since the violence erupted like lava from a volcano a week ago, including 427 Druze fighters and 298 civilians from the minority group, as well as 354 government security personnel and 21 Sunni Bedouin.

Witnesses, Druze factions and the Observatory have accused government forces of siding with the Bedouin and committing abuses including summary executions when they entered Sweida days ago.

’TOTALLY CALM’
Hanadi Obeid, a 39-year-old doctor, told AFP that "the city hasn’t seen calm like this in a week."

The interior ministry said overnight that Sweida city was "evacuated of all tribal fighters, and festivities within the city’s neighborhoods were halted."

The Observatory had said Druze fighters retook control of the city on Saturday evening.

Interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa had on Saturday announced a ceasefire in Sweida and renewed a pledge to protect Syria’s ethnic and religious minorities in the face of the latest sectarian violence since Islamists overthrew longtime ruler Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad
Terror of Aleppo ...
in December.

A front man for Syria’s tribal and clan council told Al Jazeera late Saturday that fighters had left the city "in response to the call of the presidency and the terms of the agreement."

A medic inside Sweida told AFP by telephone on Sunday that "the situation is totally calm... We aren’t hearing festivities."

Residents of Sweida city, who number at about 150,000, have been holed up in their homes without electricity and water, and food supplies have also been scarce.

An AFP photographer said the morgue at Sweida’s main hospital was full and bodies were lying on the ground outside the building.

The United Nations
...aka the Oyster Bay Chowder and Marching Society...
migration agency said more than 128,000 people in Sweida province have been displaced by the violence.

’BRUTAL ACTS’
US special envoy to Syria Tom Barrack said Sunday that the country stood at a "critical juncture," adding that "peace and dialogue must prevail — and prevail now."

"All factions must immediately lay down their arms, cease hostilities, and abandon cycles of tribal vengeance," he wrote on X, saying "brutal acts by warring factions on the ground undermine the government’s authority and disrupt any semblance of order."

Sharaa’s announcement Saturday came hours after the United States said it had negotiated a ceasefire between Syria’s government and Israel, which had bombed government forces in both Sweida and Damascus earlier in the week.

Israel, which has its own Druze community, has said it was acting in defense of the group, as well as to enforce its demands for the total demilitarization of Syria’s south.

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio
...The diminutive 13-year-old Republican U.S. Senator from Florida, Secretary of State in the second Trump administration...
on Saturday urged the Syrian government’s security forces to prevent jihadists from entering and "carrying out massacres" in the south, and called on Damascus to "bring to justice anyone guilty of atrocities including those in their own ranks."

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Posted by: Fred || 07/21/2025 2025-07-21 00:25 || Comments || Link || [39 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Syria/HTS


Israel carried out an airstrike in southern Lebanon, killing senior Hezbollah commander
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
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Two weeks of WOT
Mon 2025-07-21
  Mali: FAMa announced that over 70 terrorists were neutralized
Sun 2025-07-20
  Clashes end in Suwayda after govt forces deployment, 940 dead
Sat 2025-07-19
  Hezbollah Leader Naim Qassem: We're ready to fight — no to disarming, no to surrender.
Fri 2025-07-18
  Libya: Armed clashes reported in Najila between militia forces and Dbeibah's defense units
Thu 2025-07-17
  Israeli airstrikes hit the Syrian Presidential Palace and the Syrian General Staff HQ in Damascus
Thu 2025-07-17
  Iran ready to respond to any new attack, says supreme leader
Wed 2025-07-16
  Syrian Internal security with Ministry of Defense expelled outlawed groups from Suwayda, over 100 Druze dead
Tue 2025-07-15
  At least 30 people killed in armed clashes in Syria's Sweida, says interior ministry
Mon 2025-07-14
  IDF seizes 3 tons of arms from ex-Assad regime sites
Sun 2025-07-13
  ISIS-aligned rebels kill 66 civilians in eastern Congo
Sat 2025-07-12
  US appeals court cancels plea deal for 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed
Fri 2025-07-11
  Iranian media reports that Iran’s Army Chief of Staff, General Abdulrahim Mousavi, has been assassinated... False a;arm
Thu 2025-07-10
  Lebanon strike that killed 3 targeted senior Hamas commander: Israel
Wed 2025-07-09
  Gunmen Hijack 33 Tons of Gold, Silver Concentrate in Truck on Mexican Highway
Tue 2025-07-08
  Leb: 10 hurt in Israeli strikes on South and Bekaa Sunday, 2 airstruck Monday
Mon 2025-07-07
  IDF reports Hamas’s north Gaza naval commander killed in strike on cafe last week as 130 targets hit in 24 hours


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