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Good Morning



'Disturbing pattern' of Secret Service 'failures' exposed in new report on Trump's Butler assassination attempt
Tuesday 07/15/2025

Mary Jones, aka Alar the Human Arrow
International-UN-NGOs
Three members of UN commission investigating
Israel resign amid Trump crackdown
Africa Subsaharan
Nigeria jails 44 people for
involvement in Boko Haram terrorism
Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Two French intelligence agencies did
not share Lebanon and 'burned' their own agents
Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
FSB burns 530 kg of cocaine worth over 1 billion rubles
Africa Horn
Somalia: Al Shabaab militants
have seized Tardo in central Hiiran region
Europe
In Copenhagen, Denmark, a fight broke out between Islamist migrants trying to convert people and a gay Chinese tourist
Syria says wildfires in Latakia
province contained after 10 days


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Posted by: Fred || 07/15/2025 || Comments || Link || [118 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Netanyahu orders IDF to protect Syrian Druze
Posted by: Grom the Affective || 07/15/2025 5:50 Comments || Top||

#2  More like the "Human Shotput"
Posted by: Mercutio || 07/15/2025 8:58 Comments || Top||

#3  "Ms. Mooseknuckle"
Posted by: Frank G || 07/15/2025 9:41 Comments || Top||

#4  But nothing to surprise you walking around Walmart.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 07/15/2025 11:50 Comments || Top||

#5  Kids today complain about onerous challenges like eating cinnamon or a Tide Pod. None of them would have survived the crossbow bolt challenge. Mary Joes didn’t even have Jnstagram followers.
Posted by: Super Hose || 07/15/2025 13:43 Comments || Top||


-Lurid Crime Tales-
LAPD forced to shoot a machete wielding maniac
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
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Posted by: Fred || 07/15/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [125 views] Top|| File under: Migrants/Illegal Immigrants

#1  Not just LA

Alleged Intruder Dead After Woman Opens Fire at 2 a.m.

King County, Washington
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/15/2025 9:43 Comments || Top||

#2  Five People Shot, 10 Hit by Cars, at ‘Impromtu’ Parking Lot Party

Akron
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/15/2025 9:45 Comments || Top||

#3  Homeowner Shoots Alleged Burglar Dead During 911 Call

Phoenix
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/15/2025 9:46 Comments || Top||

#4  Also lots of similar happenings in Alb-Q, Las Cruces, Wisconsin..they always talk about Florida but those places are crazier.
Posted by: Ulailet+Thud3602 || 07/15/2025 9:58 Comments || Top||

#5  Suicide by cop.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 07/15/2025 11:59 Comments || Top||

#6  Or after meth-induced rage. Even most the most jumped-in gangsta homies recognize the life-altering finality of rushing the LAPD with a machete. This is symbolic bravado by a drug addled mind.
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 07/15/2025 12:17 Comments || Top||

#7  ^ or a Zombie
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/15/2025 13:44 Comments || Top||


U.S. Border Patrol in Michigan arrested an illegal alien and admitted MS-13 gang member
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
… More than 5 grams of crystal meth were found in their possession.

DEPORT

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Posted by: Fred || 07/15/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [50 views] Top|| File under: MS13


Police arrest international traveler allegedly carrying nearly $3M in drugs bound for Brazil
[FoxNews] Vance Ray Randolph faces narcotics charges after attempting to smuggle drugs to Sao Paulo
To Brazil? That’s a bit of coals to Newcastle, don’t you think?
Police arrested a man who allegedly tried to carry almost $3 million worth of drugs in his suitcase in Atlanta.

Vance Ray Randolph was arrested on June 28 at the Atlanta International Airport after allegedly trying to take the drugs to Sao Paulo, Brazil, according to a Saturday Facebook post by the Atlanta Police Department.

According to officials, Randolph tried to travel with THC-extracted products and marijuana.
Ah. Specialty products. We got us an entrepreneur.
Law enforcement officers said they seized 12.35 lbs of THC wax, 34.39 lbs of hashish, 4.6 lbs. of marijuana, and 1.21 lbs. of pasty marijuana.

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Posted by: Skidmark || 07/15/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [61 views] Top|| File under: Narcos

#1  they seized 12.35 lbs of THC wax

It's a floor wax AND an intoxicant.
Posted by: SteveS || 07/15/2025 0:24 Comments || Top||


Africa Horn
Somalia: Al Shabaab militants have seized Tardo in central Hiiran region
[X]


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Posted by: Fred || 07/15/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [62 views] Top|| File under: al-Shabaab (AQ)

#1  The Retardos rise again!
Posted by: Whiskey Mike || 07/15/2025 5:55 Comments || Top||


Sudan: Activists say RSF killed around 300 people in attacks on North Kordofan since Saturday
[X]
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Posted by: Fred || 07/15/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [45 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Sudan


Somali intelligence kills seven Al-Shabaab militants in Hiiraan operation
[ShabelleMedia] Somalia’s National Intelligence and Security Agency (NISA) conducted a targeted operation against al-Shabaab
... al-Qaeda's tentacle in East Africa...
holy warriors in the village of Buulo-Xoog near Buq-Aqable in the Hiiraan region late Friday night, killing seven forces of Evil and destroying two trucks loaded with weapons.

The agency, having closely monitored the movement of the vehicles and fighters, launched the strike after confirming credible intelligence on the hard boys’ location.

The operation took place as the convoy was returning from the Shaw area of Hiiraan toward Buq-Aqable.

The raid successfully neutralized the hard boys, seized weapons, and destroyed the vehicles at the site.

NISA also recorded video footage of the operation, which officials said will be released soon to the Somali public to showcase the significant blow dealt to al-Shabaab.
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Posted by: trailing wife || 07/15/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [45 views] Top|| File under: al-Shabaab (AQ)


Africa Subsaharan
Nigeria jails 44 people for involvement in Boko Haram terrorism
[TRT.GLOBAL] Nigeria has placed in durance vile
Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw!
44 people with terms of up to 30 years for funding terrorist activities, a front man for a counterterrorism agency said on Saturday.

The convicted were among 54 suspects arraigned in four specially-constituted civilian courts set up at a military base in the town of Kainji in central Niger state, Abu Michael, a front man for Nigeria's counterterrorism centre said in a statement. The trial of the remaining 10 cases was adjourned to a later date, he said.

On Wednesday, Nigeria resumed trials of the suspects seven years after it suspended prosecution of over 1,000 people suspected of ties with the Boko Haram
... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality...
terrorist group, which has been unleashing violence since 2009.

"The verdicts delivered from the trials resulted in prison sentences ranging from 10 to 30 years, all to be served with hard labour," Michael said.

"With the latest convictions, Nigeria has now secured a total of 785 cases involving terrorism financing and other terrorism-related offences," said the statement.
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Posted by: Fred || 07/15/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [56 views] Top|| File under: Boko Haram (ISIS)


Arabia
IDF shoots down drone launched from Yemen outside of Eilat
[IsraelTimes] A drone launched from Yemen at Israel was successfully intercepted by air defenses off the coast of Israel’s southernmost city of Eilat a short while ago, the IDF says.

Warning sirens were not activated in any towns, “according to protocol,” the military adds.
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Posted by: trailing wife || 07/15/2025 2025-07-15 03:10 || Comments || Link || [57 views] Top|| File under: Houthis

#1  Lebanon: IDF begins striking Hezbollah Radwan Force targets in the Beqaa Valley
Posted by: Grom the Affective || 07/15/2025 6:14 Comments || Top||


'Owner from the Emirates, don't shoot!'
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.

Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin:

[ColonelCassad] Message from a vessel in the Red Sea:

"Emirati owner, don't shoot."

The Houthis regularly receive such messages as part of Yemen's notification regime for passage off the country's coast. Many send such messages proactively to avoid attacks from Houthi controllers.

Those who do not respond to the warnings or silently proceed to Israeli ports are legitimate military targets.
….except for the illegitimacy of the entire enterprise, anyway. How is this different from priracy?
How this happens was clearly demonstrated last week by the example of two large dry cargo ships linked to Israel. After that, the flow of people wanting to prove to the Houthis that they have no ties to Israel increased sharply.


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Posted by: badanov || 07/15/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [78 views] Top|| File under:


Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
FSB burns 530 kg of cocaine worth over 1 billion rubles
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[Regnum] In Saint Petersburg, FSB officers burned 530 kg of cocaine seized as part of an investigation into several criminal cases. This was reported on July 14 by the press service of the FSB Directorate for the city and Leningrad Region.

The destruction of the drugs took place as planned at a specialized site of one of the city's enterprises. The department emphasized that guilty verdicts have already been issued in all cases involving the seized cocaine.

The estimated value of the destroyed substance exceeds 1 billion rubles.

The disposal procedure was monitored by a special interdepartmental commission, which included representatives of the city committees for health care, environmental management and environmental safety of St. Petersburg.

Earlier, the official representative of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs Irina Volk reported on her Telegram channel that police officers had liquidated a large drug lab in Domodedovo near Moscow, seizing over 1.3 tons of synthetic drugs. According to the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the wholesale value of the seized substances exceeds 0.5 billion rubles.

The drug lab was set up in a private home that a local resident had purchased and re-equipped specifically for the production of illegal substances. Precursors, equipment, and finished products were discovered during the search. The suspect was arrested by court order.

"Da, Comrade. We burned 530KG...100 KG...2 Ounces of Cocaine"
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Posted by: badanov || 07/15/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [75 views] Top|| File under: Narcos

#1  Should have shipped it to Kyiv.
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/15/2025 11:49 Comments || Top||


Europe
In Copenhagen, Denmark, a fight broke out between Islamist migrants trying to convert people and a gay Chinese tourist
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
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Posted by: Fred || 07/15/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [139 views] Top|| File under: Moslem Colonists

#1  W.T.F.?
Posted by: Frank G || 07/15/2025 1:33 Comments || Top||

#2  Is this multiculturalism?

...Well, technically...

Mike
Posted by: MikeKozlowski || 07/15/2025 6:37 Comments || Top||


#4  hit it.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 07/15/2025 12:45 Comments || Top||


Iraq
Reports of a drone, likely launched by Iran or Iranian-backed forces, having been downed tonight near the U.S. Consulate within Erbil in Northern Iraq
[X]
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Posted by: Fred || 07/15/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [47 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran Proxies


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
IDF: Palestinian attempts to ram troops in West Bank, is shot and arrested; earlier, armed Paleo near settlement shot dead
[IsraelTimes] The IDF says that during military operations in the West Bank city of Jericho last night, “a terrorist tried to ram IDF troops operating in the area.”

According to the IDF, the troops responded with gunfire toward the attempted rammer “and neutralized him.”

The man in question was arrested and no troops were harmed, the IDF adds.

IDF says troops killed armed Palestinian spotted near West Bank settlement of Maoz Tzvi

[IsraelTimes] IDF troops killed a Palestinian gunman who was spotted near the West Bank settlement of Maoz Tzvi a short while ago, the military says.

The IDF says the troops identified the armed Palestinian, opened fire, and killed him.

No other injuries were caused, it adds.
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Posted by: trailing wife || 07/15/2025 2025-07-15 03:19 || Comments || Link || [43 views] Top|| File under:


Gaza daily round-up: Muhammad Nasser Ali Kanita, who held Emily Damari hostage in his home, was eliminated
[X]

The Israeli army says its warplanes have attacked Gaza more than 100 times in the past 24 hours
[GEO.TV] The Israeli army says its warplanes have attacked Gaza more than 100 times in the past 24 hours, claiming “terrorist organisations” are the targets, reported Al Jazeera.

It added that ground advances are also continuing across the besieged enclave, especially in the north.

Israeli attacks kill more than 50 people across Gaza
[GEO.TV] Israeli attacks across Gaza have killed at least 51 Palestinians since dawn, Al Jazeera reported quoting medical sources.

Israel's war on Gaza has killed at least 58,030 people and wounded 138,520 since the beginning of war, according to Gaza's Health Ministry.

Children among over 700 Gazans killed waiting to get water
[GEO.TV] The government media office in 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...
says attacks on people waiting in line for water have killed more than 700 Paleostinians as part of a ''systematic thirst war'', Al Jazeera reported.

The Israeli army has targeted 112 freshwater filling points and destroyed 720 water wells, putting them out of service. This has deprived more than 1.25 million people of access to clean water, the office said in a statement.

''We affirm that this racist policy constitutes a full-fledged war crime under the Geneva Conventions, and a grave violation of international humanitarian law and human rights
...which are often intentionally defined so widely as to be meaningless...
law.''

The office said Israel has prevented the entry of 12 million litres of fuel monthly, the amount necessary to operate the minimum number of water wells, sewage treatment plants, garbage collection vehicles and other vital services. This ban has ''caused near-total paralysis of water and sewage networks and worsened the spread of diseases, especially among children'', the office said.

Three IDF troops killed, officer seriously wounded in northern Gaza fighting
[IsraelTimes] After initially suspecting tank was hit by Hamas RPG fire, army increasingly believes deadly blast was caused by a malfunctioning shell that detonated inside the turret

Three IDF troops were killed and an officer was seriously wounded during fighting in the northern Gaza Strip on Monday, the military announced.

The slain troops were named as:

  • Staff Sgt. Shoham Menahem, 21, from Yardena

  • Sgt. Shlomo Yakir Shrem, 20, from Efrat

  • Sgt. Yuliy Faktor, 19, from Rishon Lezion

They all served with the 401st Armored Brigade’s 52nd Battalion.

According to an initial IDF probe, the soldiers were in a tank that was hit by an explosion in northern Gaza’s Jabalia at around noon Monday. The IDF initially suspected the tank was hit by Hamas RPG fire. However, in the hours following the incident, the military increasingly came to believe the explosion may have been caused by a malfunctioning shell that detonated inside the turret. Other causes of the explosion were being investigated, the military said.

Their deaths raised the Israeli toll in the ground offensive against Hamas in Gaza and in military operations along the border with the Strip to 454 soldiers. The figure includes two police officers and three Defense Ministry civilian contractors.

The announcement of the soldiers’ deaths came shortly before two rockets were launched from the central Gaza Strip at southern Israel, which the military intercepted. Sirens did not sound in any towns, but alerts were activated in open areas near the Gaza border. There were no injuries.

In Gaza, meanwhile, footage circulated Monday on social media showing dozens of Palestinians lying on the ground as prolonged gunfire is heard around them.
That sure sounds like a classic Paliwood production to me, rather than something that actually happened as described. Especially since we know that Hamas has been killing those who dare take advantage of donated supplies that aren’t controlled — and sold at siege prices — by them.
Based on the location in the video, the incident appeared to have occurred near one of the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation’s distribution centers, specifically in the Rafah area.

The IDF stated that “the details of the video are under review. At this stage, there are no known casualties from IDF fire at the distribution center in Rafah today.”
More from the Times of Israel:
A Hamas terrorist who infiltrated Israel during the October 7 onslaught and held hostage Emily Damari in his home was killed in an Israeli airstrike last month, the IDF announces.

Nasr Ali Quneita was targeted in Gaza City on June 19, according to the IDF.

Gaza’s Hamas-controlled civil defense agency said Israeli strikes on Monday killed at least 22 people, and the Islamic Jihad terror group shared footage that it said showed its fighters firing missiles at an Israeli command and control center in the Strip.

The fighting comes as five IDF divisions, made up of tens of thousands of troops, continue to operate across Gaza.

According to Israel, the IDF’s targets on Monday included operatives, buildings used by terror groups, weapon depots, tunnels, and other terror infrastructure.

The military said that in northern Gaza’s Beit Hanoun, troops of the Givati Brigade located and destroyed a tunnel, while forces of the 99th Division directed airstrikes on operatives who tried to plant bombs on a road.

In the nearby town of Jabalia, the IDF said troops of the 401st Armored Brigade and elite Multi-Domain unit killed several more operatives, including by directing strikes, and destroyed terror infrastructure.

In the Gaza City neighborhoods of Daraj and Tuffah, troops of the Nahal Brigade killed additional operatives, and the 98th Division operating in the neighborhoods of Zeitoun and Shejaiya directed strikes on operatives and destroyed buildings used by Hamas and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, the IDF added.

The Al-Quds Brigades, the armed wing of the Islamic Jihad terror group which has fought alongside Hamas in Gaza, released footage that it said showed its fighters firing missiles at an Israeli army command and control center near Shejaiya.

Gaza’s civil defense spokesman Mahmud Bassal said that 10 Palestinians were killed in three separate airstrikes in various parts of Gaza City on Monday, with 12 more people killed in attacks on the southern area of Khan Yunis.

The agency, which is governed by Hamas, does not distinguish between civilian and combatant casualties, and its figures are not independently verified.

AIRSTRIKE LAST WEEK KILLED 10 TERRORISTS RELEASED IN SHALIT DEAL
The IDF and Shin Bet announced Monday that an airstrike in Gaza last week killed 10 Hamas terrorists who had been among the 1,027 security inmates released from Israeli prisons in 2011 in exchange for abducted Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit.

Most of those killed were members of Hamas’s so-called West Bank headquarters, a unit involved in recruiting terrorists and advancing attacks against Israel from or within the West Bank, the Shin Bet said.

Among those killed were Riyad Assila and Bassem Abu Sanina, who were accused of murdering Israeli civilian Haim Karman in a 1998 stabbing attack in Jerusalem.

Assila served as a member of Hamas’s West Bank headquarters, specifically involved in recruiting terrorists from East Jerusalem, the Shin Bet said.

Also killed in the strike was Mohammed Saria, who the Shin Bet said was charged with killing IDF soldier Staff Sgt. Ehud (Udi) Tal in a stabbing attack at the Dotan Civil Administration facility in the West Bank in 1996.

Seven more members of Hamas’s West Bank headquarters were killed in the strike. The Shin Bet said the seven were all convicted during the Second Intifada of involvement in deadly terror attacks and were given life sentences, before being exiled to Gaza in the Shalit deal.

After their exile, the Shin Bet said, the operatives held roles in the West Bank Headquarters, “within which they operated in regional committees responsible for advancing attacks in the Judea and Samaria areas, including by transferring weapons and funds to terrorists.”

IDF issues evacuation order for Gaza City, Jabalia, saying fighting ‘is spreading westward’
[IsraelTimes] The IDF calls on Palestinians residing in Gaza City and Jabalia in the Strip’s north to evacuate amid an ongoing offensive against Hamas.

“The IDF is operating in the area with increased force to destroy the enemy and terror organizations. The fighting is spreading westward toward the city center,” says the IDF’s Arabic-language spokesperson Col. Avichay Adraee on X.

The warning calls for civilians to head south to the Mawasi area on the coast.

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Posted by: Fred || 07/15/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [56 views] Top|| File under: Hamas


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Some IRGC command posts seem to have been bombed
Link is to Tousi TV. They are a pro-Shah station.

Not sure if bombing is by IRGC defectors or others.
From the transcript:
Uh uh chaos, mysterious explosions
0:15
and attacks on IRGC bases continued
0:18
across the country over the last few
0:21
hours. And since last night, we've had a
0:22
number of attacks in major cities and
0:25
smaller towns in Iran.
0:42
God bless the state of Israel and God
0:44
bless the Iranian people who are
0:46
fighting against the IRGC tyranny and
0:48
being ignored by the global corporate
0:51
media. H first let's talk about the
0:53
actual details of this. First things
0:55
first, the problem that we've been
0:58
facing and the actual the Islamic
1:00
Republic of Iran are facing explosions
1:03
have been heard and seen in Tan Karaj
1:07
Mashad and Tabris. Now, first things
1:11
first, we have to talk about why some of
1:14
these things who initially, by the way,
1:17
by the Iranian regime, they were
1:18
reported to be uh incidents and
1:22
essentially isolated incidents and
1:24
accidents or whatever. The reality of
1:26
the situation is that by now we do know
1:29
that MOSAD operatives are still
1:31
operating in Iran. We also do know that
1:34
the anti-IRGC Iranians are operating in
1:38
Iran. There is an update on the
1:40
revolution itself which we're going to
1:41
give you because the the queen empress
1:45
of Iran, the mother of Raza Palavi has
1:49
finally come out to also speak out to
1:51
join this revolutionary movement. First,
1:55
let's go to the first video from Tehran.

there's a lot of
5:03
achievements that's been happening.
5:04
Number of assassinations again over the
5:06
last few days and yet again another one
5:08
last night. There is a there was a
5:11
confirmation of the defection of uh
5:15
General Ashani who disappeared ages ago,
5:18
years ago. Then they said that Mossad
5:20
basically kidnapped him but actually he
5:22
turned out to be living in America cuz
5:25
he defected. There's been a number of
5:27
others who have already left the
5:29
country. We don't know how many days or
5:32
weeks this regime has. But let's go to
5:35
the video of the post targeted
5:37
assassination of yet another IRGC
5:40
member.
5:50
Essentially what you're saying is the
5:52
war is continuing.
5:55
the same level of uh destruction is
5:58
continuing and
6:02
but nobody has nobody basically seems to
6:04
think anything is going on because the
6:07
media is not saying
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Posted by: Lord Garth || 07/15/2025 10:10 || Comments || Link || [22 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran


Five Kurdish security forces killed by ISIS in northeast Syria: War monitor
[Rudaw] Five members of the Kurdish-led internal security forces (Asayish) were killed in northeast Syria (Rojava) in an attack carried out by Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems....
(ISIS) turbans, a war monitor reported on Monday, adding that the incident underscores a surge in ISIS activity targeting both civilians and security forces in Kurdish-controlled areas.

According to the UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR), the five Asayish members "were killed in Hasaka province when ISIS cells attacked their security checkpoint on the al-Dashisha road in southern Hasaka countryside.

"The assailants fled to an unknown location," SOHR added.

The UK-based war monitor characterized the attack as part of a broader ISIS campaign aimed at "reorganizing its ranks and creating a state of chaos."

Since the beginning of 2025, SOHR says it has "documented 126 ISIS operations" in areas administered by the Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (DAANES).

"These operations included armed assaults, assassinations and bombings," resulting in the deaths of 51 individuals - 34 fighters from the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), nine civilians, and eight ISIS members.

The US-backed SDF was instrumental in defeating ISIS in 2019 and capturing thousands of the group’s fighters. The force continues to operate in coordination with hundreds of US troops as part of the Global Coalition to Defeat ISIS.

Both the SDF and Asayish are also primarily responsible for securing the Roj and al-Hol camps in Rojava. These camps house thousands of individuals suspected of ISIS ties and are widely viewed as potential breeding grounds for hard boy ideology.

Since its defeat in 2019, ISIS has been trying to regain its strength, particularly after a coalition of opposition groups led by the now-dissolved Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham, formerly al-Nusra, before that it was called something else
...al-Qaeda's Syrian affiliate, from which sprang the Islamic State...
(HTS) on December 8 toppled the regime of Syrian dictator Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad
Horror of Homs...
SDF chief Mazloum Abdi has repeatedly warned of the growing threat posed by ISIS. In mid- January, he urged the "need to intensify efforts to continue the fight against ISIS if we don’t want to see it make a comeback."
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Posted by: trailing wife || 07/15/2025 2025-07-15 03:55 || Comments || Link || [41 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State


At least 30 people killed in armed clashes in Syria's Sweida, says interior ministry; IDF shoots down HTS tanks to protect Druze
[GEO.TV] At least 30 people were killed and 100 injured in a preliminary count in armed clashes between local military groups and tribes in Syria's predominantly Druze city of Sweida, Syria's interior ministry said early on Monday.
Sweida sounds like an artificial sugar substitute
The ministry said that its forces will directly intervene to resolve the conflict and halt the clashes.


IDF strikes several tanks in south Syria as regime forces, Bedouin clash with Druze

[IsraelTimes] Army says it hit tanks to ‘prevent their arrival’ at sites of fighting against Druze, in rare occurrence of Israel targeting forces of Syria’s new government; no injuries reported

The Israeli military on Monday carried out a strike against several tanks near the southern Syrian village of Sami’, in the Sweida area, where Syrian government forces and Bedouin tribes have clashed with Druze militias in recent days. It said the move was aimed at protecting the Druze and thwarting any threat to Israel.

The military released footage of the strike, and said the tanks were struck after they were identified heading toward Sweida, and that “the IDF struck the tanks to prevent their arrival to the area.”

The footage indicated that a small munition was launched from an Israeli Air Force drone in the strike, to “disrupt” the arrival of the tanks in the area. There were no reports of injuries in the incident.

“The presence of these assets in southern Syria may pose a threat to the State of Israel. The IDF will not allow the establishment of a military threat in southern Syria and will operate against it,” the statement said, adding that “the IDF continues to monitor the developments in the area.”

The strike marks an apparent rare occurrence of Israel striking military forces of Syria’s new government. Israeli officials have said that they seek to completely demilitarize the southern Syria area, and not allow any armed groups to enter it and gain a foothold, including those of the new Syrian government.

Hours after the strike, Defense Minister Israel Katz said its purpose was to send “a message and a clear warning to the Syrian regime. We will not allow harm to the Druze in Syria.”

“Israel will not stand idly by,” he added.

In the same area, there have been deadly clashes between Bedouin tribes and Druze fighters in recent days. Israel has previously vowed to protect members of Syria’s Druze community.

Dozens of people have been killed in the fighting, and government security forces that were sent to restore order Monday also clashed with local armed groups.

Syria’s Interior Ministry has said more than 30 people have died and nearly 100 others have been injured. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a UK-based war monitor, reported at least 89 dead, including two children, two women, and 14 members of the security forces.

The clashes in Syria initially broke out between armed groups from the Druze and Sunni Bedouin clans, the observatory said, with some members of the government security forces “actively participating” in support of the Bedouins.

Rami Abdurrahman, who heads the observatory, said the recent conflict started with the kidnapping and robbery of a Druze vegetable seller, leading to tit-for-tat attacks and kidnappings.

Interior Ministry spokesperson Noureddine al-Baba said government forces entered Sweida in the early morning to restore order.

“Some clashes occurred with outlawed armed groups, but our forces are doing their best to prevent any civilian casualties,” he told the state-run Al-Ikhbariya TV.

After IDF strikes tanks, Syrian FM condemns outside interference in internal affairs

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