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Arabia
Houthis Attack Four Israeli Targets With Drones, Hypersonic Missile, only one missile got far enough to be shot down
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[Regnum] Fighters from the Yemeni Shiite movement Ansar Allah (Houthis) launched hypersonic missile and drone strikes on four targets in Israel. This was stated by Houthi military spokesman Yahya Saria on the Al Masirah TV channel on the evening of July 25.

“The missile forces carried out a unique military operation, during which they attacked a sensitive target of the Zionist enemy in the occupied region of Beersheba using a Palestine-2 hypersonic ballistic missile,” he said.
“ ‘Once the rockets go up
who cares where they go down?
That’s not my department,’
says Wehrner von Braun”

— Tom Lehrer
Saria added that the movement's fighters also carried out drone strikes on "important targets" in Eilat, Ashkelon and Hadera. All of the strike's objectives were achieved, the Houthi spokesman added.
They say that every time. Almost every time they mistake their intent for Allah’s permission.
Before that, on July 10, Ansar Allah fighters launched a ballistic missile at Ben Gurion Airport in Tel Aviv. According to Saria, the operation's goal was achieved.

The day before, the Houthis claimed responsibility for the attack on the Greek cargo ship Eternity C, which sank in the Red Sea. Earlier, on July 7, the Houthis announced strikes on Tel Aviv airport, a power plant in Ashkelon, and seaports in Ashdod and Eilat in Israel.
They did indeed make those claims, despite the fact that none of those things were actually hit. Early Sunday morning the Times of Israel reported:
A ballistic missile launched at Israel Friday night by the Iran-backed 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...
was intercepted by air defenses, the Israel Defense Forces said.

There were no reports of impacts or injuries in the attack, which triggered sirens in several settlements in the southern West Bank and communities near the Dead Sea in southern Israel.

The Houthis took responsibility for the attack, claiming to have aimed at a "sensitive target" in the Beersheba area, dozens of kilometers away from where sirens sounded.

It was the second ballistic missile the Houthis launched at Israel in the past three days, after a missile fired on Wednesday night fell short outside the country’s borders, according to military officials. The IDF identified that launch, but no sirens sounded in Israel because the missile did not pose a threat.


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Posted by: badanov || 07/27/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under: Houthis


Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
The perpetrators of the Crocus attack bought new smartphones and knives for the attack
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[Regnum] The four immediate perpetrators of the terrorist attack in the Crocus City Hall concert hall near Moscow bought four new smartphones and kitchen knives to commit their crime the day before. This follows from the materials of the criminal case.

They specify that on March 21, 2024, four terrorists, on the instructions of an unidentified person with the pseudonym “Saifullo,” destroyed their mobile phones in order to conceal their criminal activity as much as possible.

"Saifullo" instructed them to purchase new mobile phones, as well as knives, with the aim of using them as weapons to commit a terrorist act. On the same day, [Shamsidin] Fariduni (included in the list of terrorists and extremists), on the instructions of an unidentified person, "Saifullo" purchased four mobile phones and four household knives in the "O'Key" store, located in a shopping center at the address: Moscow Region, Krasnogorsk," TASS quoted an excerpt from the materials.

In addition, before committing the crime, the perpetrators of the terrorist attack downloaded training videos from the Internet, with the help of which they independently made unloading vests from fabric for storing ammunition, which they used during the terrorist attack.

Earlier, on July 26, it became known that the accomplices delivered weapons to the perpetrators of the terrorist attack in Crocus in a car with a special hiding place. The Basmanny Court of Moscow arrested the property of Alisher Kasimov (an individual included in the list of terrorists and extremists in the Russian Federation), accused of involvement in the terrorist attack in the concert hall in Krasnogorsk.


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Posted by: badanov || 07/27/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
IDF takes over pro-Palestinian activist boat attempting to break Gaza blockade
[IsraelTimes] Livestream by those aboard Handala shows Navy forces boarding vessel 100 km west of Strip; Israel to deport hunger strike-threatening activists after towing boat to Ashdod Port

Israeli forces took over a boat that was attempting to break Israel’s maritime blockade of 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 Saturday night, and towed it toward the Ashdod Port.

The boat, Handala, had been carrying pro-Paleostinian activists and small amounts of humanitarian aid supplies. It set sail from Sicily earlier this month, weeks after Israel intercepted a different vessel that made a high-profile attempt to break the blockade.

Handala is operated by the Freedom Flotilla Coalition,
…a project of Turkey’s IHH Humanitarian Relief Foundation, a semi-official "charity" branch of the Erdogan government that links the government, the Turkish branch of the Muslim Brotherhood, and pet jihadi groups like ISIS in Syria, or in this case Hamas. IHH periodically puts together another Freedom Flotilla, hoping for publicity like the Mavi Mara incident from the first one in 2010. This time, instead of sailing in a group, they’re sending smaller boats on at a time…
which also dispatched the previous boat, the Madleen, on a mission to challenge Israel’s blockade on the Strip. According to the Freedom Flotilla Coalition’s website, the Handala was carrying 19 activists as well as two Al Jazeera journalists. The organization did not disclose the contents or quantity of the humanitarian aid aboard the ship.

The activists’ own live broadcast from the vessel showed them sitting on deck, holding their hands up and whistling the Italian anti-fascist
...anybody you disagree with, damn them...
song "Bella Ciao," as Israeli Navy soldiers took control of the boat.

Three video live feeds of the scene, which had been broadcast online, were cut minutes later.

An online tracking tool set up to plot the Handala’s course showed the boat’s position as roughly 50 kilometers (30 miles) from the Egyptian coast and 100 kilometers west of Gaza when intercepted.

The boat was towed toward Ashdod Port by the Navy, and the activists were then set to be deported from the country.

While the IDF did not issue an official comment on the incident, the Foreign Ministry confirmed the takeover, stressing that everyone on board was safe.

In a statement, using the original name of the vessel, the ministry said the forces "stopped the vessel Navarn from illegally entering the maritime zone of the coast of Gaza."

"The vessel is safely making its way to the shores of Israel. All passengers are safe," it added. "Unauthorized attempts to breach the blockade are dangerous, unlawful, and undermine ongoing humanitarian efforts."

The Freedom Flotilla Coalition earlier said it was altering course, heading south toward Egypt, due to the Israeli Navy vessels and a drone approaching the boat at sea.

"At this time, the Handala does not intend to enter Egyptian waters but plans to sail parallel to the coastline. Should the threat from Israeli authorities escalate, the crew will attempt to contact the Egyptian Coast Guard to request emergency entry based on the threat to their lives," the Freedom Flotilla Coalition said.

After the interception, the Freedom Flotilla Coalition declared in a message on social media: "’Handala’ has been intercepted and boarded illegally by Israeli forces whilst in international waters."

Two far-left French politicians, Emma Fourreau and Gabrielle Cathala, were among those detained. Their party leader, Jean-Luc Melenchon of La Belle France Unbowed (LFI), condemned Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

"Netanyahu’s thugs boarded Handala. They attack 21 unarmed people in territorial waters where they have no right. A kidnapping in which two French parliamentarians are victims," he posted on X, demanding the French government take action.

According to several activists aboard the Handala, the group had decided that it would begin a hunger strike immediately upon interception by the IDF.

"If the Israeli military attacks our vessel and prevents us from getting to Gaza, we will go on hunger strike immediately," Huwaida Arraf said in a social media post on Friday.

"We are not interested in receiving any food or water [from Israel...] and certainly not in the ways that they use it for propaganda, while at the same time they are starving to death Paleostinian children," she added.

The IDF, in response to an earlier query about the ship, said it was "enforcing the maritime security blockade on the Gaza Strip and is prepared for a range of scenarios, which it will implement in accordance with the directives of the political echelon."

The previous ship launched by the Flotilla group, the Madleen, was intercepted by Israeli authorities on June 9, about 100 nautical miles (185 kilometers) west of Gaza’s coast, after it defied repeated warnings by Israel to turn around.

Israel towed the boat to Ashdod Port and detained the 12 activists on board — including climate activist Greta "Pippi" Thunberg
...an autistic sixteen year old Swedish expert on climate change, though I guess she's older now...
— before deporting them over the following days. Jerusalem, which described the venture as a publicity stunt, said the small amount of aid on that boat was then transferred to Gaza using approved overland channels.

Several other attempts have been made over the years to approach Gaza by sea, not all of which fared as well as the Madleen.

In May, a vessel dispatched by the Freedom Flotilla was attacked by two drones while sailing in international waters off Malta. The group blamed Israel for the attack, which damaged the front section of the ship. Israel did not comment on the incident.

Past attempts to break the blockade have also failed, most notably the Mavi Marmara incident of 2010, which saw Israeli commandos board a Ottoman Turkish-led flotilla bound for Gaza. The violence that ensued when those aboard the ship attacked the soldiers resulted in the deaths of 10 activists and left a soldier badly maimed, sparking international condemnation and a severe diplomatic rift between Israel and The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the decaying remnant of the Ottoman Empire...
Israel and Egypt have imposed varying degrees of blockade on Gaza since Hamas
..a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",...
seized power from rival Paleostinian forces in 2007 in a violent mostly peaceful coup. Israel says it is necessary to limit Hamas’s ability to smuggle in arms with which to attack the Jewish state.

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Posted by: trailing wife || 07/27/2025 2025-07-27 00:39 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under: Malevolent NGO


Suspect in Thursday car-ramming caught at central Israel construction site
[IsraelTimes] Arkan Khaled, 27, suspected of intentionally driving vehicle into bus stop, injuring eight soldiers; eyewitnesses say he accelerated into the group and then fled the scene

Law enforcement on Saturday arrested a man suspected of carrying out a car-ramming attack in central Israel last week that maimed eight IDF soldiers, police said.

Police said the suspect, named earlier as Arkan Khaled, a 27-year-old Israeli resident of Taybeh, was caught while hiding at a construction site in the town of Kfar Yona.

The attack happened on Thursday at the Beit Lid Junction in central Israel, near Kfar Yona.

After the incident, the Magen David Adom emergency service said two of the victims, a man and a woman aged 20 and 18, respectively, suffered moderate injuries. Three others were in light-to-moderate condition, and three were lightly injured.

The perpetrator fled, abandoning his car in the area, where it was found by police.

Police announced on the day of the attack that Khaled was the suspect and asked the public for assistance in locating him.

Station and district officers conducted searches along roads and in open areas, assisted by other security forces, police helicopters, cycle of violence units and canine units, the force said.

Security forces closed crossings into the West Bank in the area, including the road leading to Tulkarem, as they searched for the suspect. Central District police commander Yair Hetzroni also gave an order to enlist local volunteer security teams in central Israel to assist in the manhunt.


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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Report: Israel Derailed Iran's EMP Weapons Program During the 12-Day War
[LI] The Washington Post: U.S.-Israeli joint strikes “turned back the clock on Iran’s nuclear program.”

Israel derailed Iran’s EMP weapons program during the recently concluded 12-day war, The Washington Post reported Saturday.

Besides an elaborate nuclear weapons program, the Iranian regime had been developing nuclear-generated electromagnetic pulse (EMP) devices capable of striking the telecommunications, internet, and banking infrastructure of a country or a region. These EMP bombs can also disrupt power, water, and other public utilities.

“Israeli and American sources said the bombing campaign, in addition to destroying many of the Iranian centrifuges that enrich uranium, shattered most elements of Iran’s aggressive program to prepare to weaponize that uranium,” David Ignatius wrote in his article for the WP. “For example, Israeli sources believe the Iranians were studying an electromagnetic pulse (EMP) weapon that could cripple Israel electronically, a more-complex nuclear fusion bomb, as well as a standard fission warhead.”



The 12-day operation “turned back the clock on Iran’s nuclear program,” the article added. “Israeli and American assessments agree Tehran’s infrastructure to finish a bomb is shattered.”

The WP columnist Ignatius further reported:

Israeli and American sources said the bombing campaign, in addition to destroying many of the Iranian centrifuges that enrich uranium, shattered most elements of Iran’s aggressive program to prepare to weaponize that uranium.

The most devastating, and least reported, aspect of Israel’s campaign may have been its targeting of Iran’s leading nuclear scientists. Sources said strikes in the first hours of the war killed all of Iran’s first and second tier of physicists and other nuclear scientists, as well as most of the third tier. (…)

The United States struck the final blow, with Air Force B-2 bombers carrying bunker-busting bombs and Navy ships launching Tomahawk missiles. That strike capped Israel’s devastation of Iran’s program and gave President Donald Trump a share of the success — and also provided an important demonstration of U.S. military might. (…)

Beyond targeting the nuclear facilities and the scientists who worked there, Israeli attacks destroyed logistical foundations of the program, including its headquarters, archives, laboratories and testing equipment, the Israeli source said. This devastation may increase Iran’s desire to possess a nuclear deterrent, but it will be hard to reconstruct all these pieces.

The revelation comes after the mainstream media repeatedly questioned President Donald Trump’s assessment of the success of the U.S. airstrikes on Iranian nuclear weapons sites that took place nearly five weeks ago. President Trump described the strikes as “a spectacular military success,” adding that “Iran’s key enrichment facilities have been completely and totally obliterated.”


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Posted by: Frank G || 07/27/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran


Female Kurdish force rescues Yazidi woman from 11 years ISIS captivity
[Rudaw] An all-female Kurdish force in northeast Syria rescued a 21-year-old Yazidi woman who had been held captive by the Islamic State (ISIS) for 11 years.

Riham H. “was rescued by the Women's Protection Units (YPJ) and handed over to Shingal Resistance Units (YBS) and Shingal Women's Units (YJS) to be returned to her family,” the YPJ said in a statement on Thursday.

Riham was kidnapped by ISIS during its 2014 occupation of Shingal (Sinjar). She was 10 years old at the time of her abduction.

The statement did not detail where she had been held captive.

My feelings are indescribable because I am happy. I did not expect all of this - that I would return to my family - because they extinguished hope at the end. They told me, 'You Yazidis are within our grasp. If you return to your families, they will slay you.' They used to scare us a lot," Riham told Rudaw, surrounded by her family.

"Finally, I established communication with my brother Sa'ad. He contacted friends from the Women's Protection Units. They freed me and saved me from Daesh [ISIS]," she said, adding, "I thank the Women's Protection Units, the YPJ. They freed me after 12 years. I could not imagine that I would return to my family and people."

The YPJ is the women’s branch of the People’s Protection Units (YPG), which is the backbone of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF). The Kurdish female fighters have been recognized for their fight against ISIS, in particular their role in defending the besieged Kurdish town of Kobane in 2014-2015.

The force said their “struggle against the terrorist organization ISIS will continue with all its difficulties” until all the missing Yazidi women are rescued. Yazidi women and men who were children at the time of their abduction continue to be rescued from across Syria and the Middle East.During its 2014 assault on Shingal, ISIS abducted 6,417 Yazidi women and children, many of whom were subjected to sexual slavery and forced labor. Nearly 2,600 of them are still missing, according to the Office of Rescuing Abducted Yazidis, which is affiliated with the Kurdistan Region Presidency.
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Posted by: trailing wife || 07/27/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State



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