[Rudaw] Six Kurds detained in Libya while trying to reach Europa ...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum... are returning home on Friday under arrangements made by Iraq’s diplomatic mission in Tripoli ...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn... and the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG). Another 37 were repatriated from Tunisia earlier this week.
The six said they are in good health in a video submitted to Rudaw.
"After our release from prison in Tripoli, we are returning to Kurdistan. Kurdish migrants colonists’ clothing and necessities have been provided by the Iraqi diplomatic mission in Libya," one of the six said.
Dozens of Kurds have been repatriated from Libya over the past year and a half in cooperation with the Kurdistan Region’s Department of Foreign Relations.
"Six migrants colonists are being returned, and over the past year and a half, 60 migrants colonists have been returned," Ahmed Sahaf, chargé d'affaires at the Iraqi Embassy in Libya, told Rudaw.
He said he has seen a growing wave of migration and warned that "our youth fall prey to smuggling networks and human trafficking."
On Monday Iraq’s ambassador to Tunisia, Abdul Hakim al-Qassab, told Rudaw that 37 Kurds were to be repatriated from Tunisia.
Officials and civil society groups in the Kurdistan Region have repeatedly warned against the growing migration trend, pointing to high unemployment and limited economic opportunities as the main driving forces behind the surge.
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[Regnum] Four perpetrators of the terrorist attack in the Crocus City Hall concert hall in Krasnogorsk near Moscow planned to cross the border with Ukraine and get to Kiev with the help of an accomplice who was waiting for them in the Bryansk region. This is stated in the materials of the criminal case.
"From the testimony of Shamsiddin Fariduni (an individual included in the list of terrorists and extremists in the Russian Federation) it follows that before the terrorist attack, the organizer "Saifullo" informed them that after committing the crime they needed to go to the Bryansk region, where they would be met by a man named Kakh-kah, who would help them cross the border and accompany them to Kiev, where they would receive a reward," TASS cites the case data.
Specifically, Fariduni was promised to pay 1 million rubles. During interrogation, he also admitted that he did not know the real name of his accomplice.
It was previously reported that the terrorists in the attack on Crocus were supervised by an organizer from abroad. They met an hour before the entrance to the concert hall and waited for instructions from an unidentified person "Saifullo" to begin the terrorist attack. They received the go-ahead on March 22, 2024 at 19:45 "via telephone communication", and 15 minutes later they attacked the visitors.
The terrorists broke into the Crocus and opened fire on people with automatic weapons, after which they set the building on fire. As a result of the terrorist attack, 149 people were killed, one person is missing. In addition, 609 citizens were injured. The perpetrators were detained the next day in the Bryansk region. During interrogation, they stated that the terrorist attack was organized by the Ukrainian special services. The organizers were put on the wanted list.
[GEO.TV] Germany "strongly" objects to an Israeli plan to build thousands of new homes in the West Bank, calling on the government to "stop settlement construction" in the Palestinian territory.
Berlin "strongly rejects the Israeli government's announcements on thousands of new settlements in the Israeli occupied areas of the West Bank", the foreign ministry said in a statement.
Whatevs. You would be better off worrying about what your own jihadis will do next.
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[TOWNHALL] Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem revealed Thursday nearly two million illegal aliens have self-deported since President Donald Trump ...Perhaps no man has ever had as much fun being president of the US... took office in January.
DHS has implemented a number of programs and used a series of tactics to promote self deportation.
"In her first 200 days as secretary, DHS also launched an international, multimillion-dollar ad campaign warning illegal aliens to LEAVE NOW because if they don't, we will arrest them and deport them. This new data shows illegal aliens are hearing our message," DHS adds in a statement. "Secretary Noem ended the CBP One App, that allowed more than one million aliens to illegally enter the country, which has been transformed into the CBP Home App. Part of Operation Homecoming, the CBP Home App allows illegal aliens to take control of their departure. The American people are generously offering illegal aliens $1,000 and a free flight to self-deport now."
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[GEO.TV] Defence Minister Khawaja Asif has said that the country's nuclear assets are solely for national defence and not intended for any form of nuclear blackmail or coercion.
Speaking exclusively with Geo News on Friday, the defence minister said: ''We do not threaten anyone with our nuclear capability. It is purely a guarantee of our national security.''
While aiming at Indian PM Narendra Modi, Khawaja Asif said: ''Modi now sees Pakistain and its military even in his dreams. For him, the idea of war with Pakistain has become a nightmare.''
Asif went on to say that Pakistain has fought and won wars in self-defence, while Modi now faces a different kind of conflict within India itself.
''There is growing dissent inside India, even from citizens and opposition leaders who say Modi's attitude brought the region to the brink of war,'' he added.
Pakistain and India engaged in the military confrontation in May 2025, triggered by an attack in April on tourists in Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir ...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it Azad (Free) Kashmir. The remainder they refer to as "Indian Occupied Kashmir". They have fought four wars with India over it, the score currently 4-0 in New Delhi's favor. After 72 years of this nonsense, India cut the Gordian knot in 2019, removing the area's special status, breaking off Ladakh as a separate state, and allowing people from other areas to settle (or in the case of the Pandits, to resettle) there.... (IIOJK) that New Delhi blamed on Islamabad, before agreeing to a ceasefire.
[IsraelTimes] Arab diplomat tells ToI that the gaps remain wide, particularly over Israel’s demand that Hamas disarm; security chiefs expected to urge political leaders to back 60-day truce deal
Hamas ..a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",... negotiators in Cairo this week signaled a willingness to come down from demands they made last month that led to the collapse of hostage talks in Doha, an Israeli official and an Arab diplomat familiar with the matter told The Times of Israel on Friday.
Arab mediators passed along the development to Israel, but Jerusalem responded that it is not interested in another partial ceasefire and is only willing to forgo plans to take over 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... City if Hamas agrees to all of its demands for ending the war, the Israeli official said.
Those demands include the release of all 50 remaining hostages, the disarmament of Hamas and the demilitarization of the Gaza Strip.
But the gaps on those issues are very wide, particularly regarding the disarmament of Hamas, with the Arab mediators believing that it is a "poison pill" designed to blow up the talks, as it will likely require ongoing intensive Israeli military operations in Gaza in order to verify that it is being upheld, the Arab diplomat said.
Instead, the Arab mediators prefer a gradual approach to dealing with Hamas’s weapons, akin to the system that is in place in Leb ...The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. Only one of those statements is an exaggeration.... . Arab countries are willing to contribute troops to this effort on the condition that it is at the invitation of the Paleostinian Authority, the diplomat recalled.
But another of Israel’s conditions for ending the war is that the PA be barred from any governance role in Gaza, effectively preventing the Arab initiative from moving forward.
Despite opposition from Jerusalem, Egyptian 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... i mediators are planning to resume talks with Hamas on Saturday with the aim of getting the terror group’s final approval on an updated proposal that is far closer to the one that the United States and Israel authorized last month.
While this has been characterized as a partial deal, the Arab diplomat stressed that it still has the potential to turn into a permanent ceasefire if the sides hold successful negotiations during the envisioned 60-day truce. During that two-month period, 10 living hostages and 18 bodies will be released in exchange for an agreed-upon number of Paleostinian security prisoners.
The US and Israel pulled their negotiators out of Doha last month due to frustration over Hamas’s demands regarding the scope of the Israeli military’s withdrawal from Gaza, the humanitarian aid mechanisms that will be in place during the truce and the number of Paleostinian security prisoners it was demanding, the Israeli official said.
If Hamas gives its final approval of a softened proposal that comes down from those demands in the coming days, the mediators will present it to Israel, forcing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to decide whether to retreat from his declarations that he will no longer accept partial deals.
If he agrees to walk back those assertions, the sides will still have to hold another round of talks to agree on the Paleostinian security prisoners to be released in the deal, the Arab diplomat clarified.
The Israeli official said that the security establishment will likely urge the politicianship to take the deal, as it will secure the release of at least 10 living hostages, whereas taking over Gaza City will risk the lives of some of those captives, with no guarantee that the military pressure will lead Hamas to capitulate.
Netanyahu currently feels that Hamas is buying time by expressing interest to mediators in a partial deal when it is not actually serious and that only military pressure will secure the release of all remaining hostages, the Israeli official added.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
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