[Garowe] The al-Shabaab ... Somalia's version of the Taliban, functioning as an arm of al-Qaeda... group lost several strategic villages in central regions on Monday, military officials said, noting the progress made in securing several frontlines and districts from the bad boys, who are fighting to topple the government.
Sweeping operations conducted by the Somali National Army (SNA) with backing from Maawisley militia helped secure the villages, officials said, adding that the government troops will remain in the region to protect innocent civilians.
Reports from military sources indicate that the force took control of villages in the area and pushed away al-Shabaab bad boys. The bandidosDeath Eaters fled towards parts of the Harardhere district, where they have frequently attacked innocent civilians.
The operations took place in the areas of Barag Hurdaye, Gal Dhagaweyne, and Tawar Mooge villages in the Mudug region, reports indicate. This was the first major victory by the forces while working with the militia after the joint operations were momentarily halted.
Since June 2024, the teams have jointly recaptured several towns and villages in central Somalia, further reaffirming the successes on the battlefields. The joint operations were activated by President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud who had declared total war against al-Shabaab.
There is active repatriation of locals displaced by the bad boys, with the military also extending Amnesty to those willing to defect from the group. al-Shabaab has lost several fighters in the process since the operations against them kicked off in 2022.
[ShabelleMedia] In a fierce nighttime engagement on the outskirts of Wajid district, in Somalia’s Bakool region, government forces successfully repelled an assault by al-Shabaab ... an Islamic infestation centering on Somalia attempting to metastasize into Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, and similar places, all ofwhich have enough problems without them... bad boys, maintaining control over the contested area.
The conflict erupted after al-Shabaab initiated the attack with artillery fire targeting the 60th Division base of the Somali army, leading to a direct confrontation.
Although the battle’s darkness and the ongoing nature of the operations obscure the full extent of casualties, Somali military officials confirmed they thwarted the bad boys’ advance, with the strategic sites remaining under government control.
Following the clash, the military presence in Wajid has been intensified, with troops conducting extensive sweeps for any remaining al-Shabaab fighters who participated in the assault. The situation as of now is reported to be stable, with no further festivities reported.
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[Regnum] The commander of the assault unit of the Wagner group, Mikhail Prikhodko, call sign Michael, died in Mali while carrying out a combat mission. This was reported on the evening of October 14 by the Telegram channel "Razgruzka Wagnera".
According to the channel, Prikhodko, at the head of a rapid response group, moved to help his fellow soldiers who were surrounded by terrorists and died in battle. Thanks in part to his actions, the group managed to break out of the encirclement, disperse and completely eliminate the militants.
"Despite the incessant fire of the enemy, Michael acted calmly and professionally, personally killing eight militants. Unfortunately, the wounds he received during the battle were incompatible with life," the statement said.
The channel's author notes that Prikhodko will be awarded the star of the Hero of the Wagner group.
As reported by the Regnum news agency, from July 22 to 27, Wagner Group fighters and Malian military personnel fought fierce battles with militants in the area of the settlement of Tin-Zoutine in the north of the country. The Russians and their Malian allies suffered losses after falling into an ambush set up by Tuareg separatists from the Coordination Movement of Azawad (CMA) and the jihadist group Al-Qaeda in the Sahel (JNIM, a terrorist organization banned in the Russian Federation). On October 9, the head of the Commonwealth of Officers for International Security (COIS) Alexander Ivanov reported that the bodies of the fallen fighters had been returned to their homeland.
[BREITBART] Where were Haiti's elite anti-gang police on October 3 when more than 88 Haitians were being murdered by gangs in a rural town?
Hard to find, except for in New York where former anti-gang cops are working in low-wage Bidenomics jobs because President Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. The man who made Barack Obama and Jimmy Carter look competent, if only by comparison.... 's migration chief gave them visas to fill jobs in Biden's economy.
The U.S. Department of State's ''2024 Trafficking in Persons Report: Haiti,'' admitted:
Law enforcement experienced a significant reduction in its [9,000 person] workforce as coppers fled the country; media reported 3,000 coppers departed Haiti since 2022, the majority of whom anecdotally left on the U.S. government's [visa] processes for Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans, and Venezuela
...a country in Central America that sits on an enormous pool of oil. Formerly the most prospereous country in the region, it became infested with Commies sniffing almost unlimited wealth. It turned out the wealth wasn't unlimited, the economy collapsed under the clownish Hugo Chavez, the murder rate exceeded places like Honduras and El Salvador. A significant proportion of the populace refugeed to Colombia and points south... ns, a humanitarian parole program [created by Biden's border chief, Alejandro Mayorkas] that included Haitians as of January 2023.
The New York Times
...which still proudly claims Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize... described the aftermath of the Mayorkas-enabled massacre at the town of Pont-Sond :
When Ms. [Bertide] Horace, who was about 10 miles away in the city of Saint-Marc, arrived with heavily armed coppers four hours later as the sun was rising, she said the streets of the town were strewed with bodies.
''People were coming out of hiding and trying to flee,'' she said in an interview. ''It was total panic.'' The maimed, she added, were walking around ''begging for help.''
The violence, perpetrated by a gang called the Gran Grif, left at least 88 people, including 10 gang members, dead, the United Nations ...an organization originally established to war on dictatorships which was promptly infiltrated by dictatorships and is now held in thrall to dictatorships... said.
If burning US flags is OK then so is burning Palestinian flags , Iranian flags, Yemenite flags, Afghan flags etc.
If "Death to America" is fine then so is "Death to Iran, Palestine etc".
The reaction of the establishment commentariat to pro-Western demonstrations using the language of the left to convey a non-leftist message would be interesting.
… live with the constant fear that your child will be attacked on her way to school, your apartment complex will be taken over by illegals, or you will be the victim of a vioIent crime. VOTE WISELY!
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From population replacement to outright invasion/occupation. Can't wait to see what comes next!
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Animal shelters are encorage to send their excess animals also. As FEMA is low on emergency funds.
[KhaamaPress] Pak customs officials have reported the seizure of a cache of U.S.-origin weapons left behind in Afghanistan at the Torkham border.
On Tuesday, October 15, Pak media outlet News International reported that Muhammad Umar Jan, head of Torkham Customs, revealed in a presser that officials intercepted a coal truck from Afghanistan after receiving credible intelligence.
According to officials, the vehicle was carrying 15 M4 rifles, 170 magazines, and over 5,100 rounds of ammunition. The estimated value of these weapons is 35 million Pak rupees, equivalent to more than $126,000.
Pak customs authorities have also released images of the seized weapons. The discovery adds to growing concerns about cross-border arms trafficking.
MediaLine further reported that Pak officials suspect these weapons were meant to be delivered to groups, including the Tehrik-e-Taliban ...Arabic for students... Pakistain (TTP). Authorities have detained the driver and an accomplice, and they have been moved to an undisclosed location for interrogation.
A Pak customs official told MediaLine that the seized arsenal included assault rifles, pistols, night-vision equipment, thousands of rounds of ammunition, and other modern weaponry.
This significant weapons seizure occurred just one day before Islamabad’s Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) conference.
It was described as a major anti-terrorism operation. Past incidents have also involved the capture of U.S. weapons from Pak Talibs, raising concerns about the use of leftover American arms from Afghanistan in attacks on Pakistain.
It is worth mentioning that a year after the U.S. military withdrawal from Afghanistan, the U.S. Department of Defense announced that NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A collection of multinational and multilingual and multicultural armed forces, all of differing capabilities, working toward a common goal by pulling in different directions... member countries had handed over $7.2 billion worth of weapons and military equipment to Afghanistan’s security institutions during their mission.
The cross-border smuggling of U.S.-made weapons from Afghanistan to Pakistain continues to be a significant concern for Pak authorities. Despite Taliban assurances of no threats to neighboring countries, such incidents highlight the security risks posed by the leftover military equipment in the region, with Death Eater groups exploiting these resources for violent mostly peaceful activities.
[ToloNews] The Ministry of Interior has dismissed the claims made by Pakistani officials regarding arms smuggling from Afghanistan to Pakistan, saying that the weapons that entered Pakistan through Torkham are not linked to the Islamic Emirate.
Abdul Mateen Qani, the spokesperson for the Ministry of Interior, told TOLOnews that the weapons under the control of the Islamic Emirate’s security and defense forces are secure and kept in storage facilities.
"The incident involving arms smuggling allegedly through Torkham to the neighboring country is not related to the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan. The weapons held by the Islamic Emirate's security and defense forces are completely secure and stored in national depots, with no unauthorized access," he said.
Qani further noted that arms smuggling exists in all countries and it is possible that such weapons are purchased in black markets in other countries and then smuggled elsewhere.
Earlier, some Pakistani customs officials had claimed that a portion of American weapons and ammunition left behind in Afghanistan, worth over $126,000, had been discovered and confiscated at Torkham.
A Pakistani media report quoting a customs intelligence official of the country, wrote: “The confiscated arsenal includes M4 high assault rifles, magazines, pistols, night vision instruments, and other modern weapons including thousands of rounds.”
[Rudaw] At least four suspected 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) members, including an "important leader," were killed in an Iraqi Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... in Kirkuk province, the army said on Tuesday, with Baghdad tightening the noose around jihadist remnants in the country.
"The brave Air Falcons carried out two successful airstrikes by F-16 aircraft at 1:30 am last night in the Laylan area within the Kirkuk Operations Command sector," the army’s Security Media Cell said in a statement.
The bodies of four suspected ISIS hard boys, including an "important leader," were found by Iraqi counterterrorism forces at 5:00 am upon arriving at the site, the cell added.
"The operation also resulted in the destruction of weapons, communications devices, and logistical materials, and the search process is still ongoing," according to the army.
The strike in territories disputed between the federal Iraqi government and the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) is the latest in an ongoing effort to rid the country of ISIS cells, in areas where a security vacuum allows them to operate. Despite its territorial defeat, ISIS has continued to pose security threats in Iraq through hit-and-run attacks, bombings, and abductions, particularly in the disputed territories that stretch across several provinces including Diyala, Salahaddin, Kirkuk, ... a thick stew of Arabs, Turkmen, Kurds, and probably Antarcticans, all of them mutually hostile most of the time... and Nineveh.
Last week, an Iraqi airstrike in disputed territories in Salahaddin province killed at least six ISIS members.
In late August, a joint operation by the Iraqi army and US forces in the western Anbar province killed 16 ISIS hard boys, and the US military later said that the operation killed four ISIS leaders.
Earlier this month, the Iraqi army announced that over 100 ISIS members have been killed since the beginning of the year.
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[IsraelTimes] Israeli authorities arrest and charge eight terror operatives accused of involvement in the incident, as well as an East Jerusalem resident who allegedly transported the bomber
An attempted suicide kaboom attack in Tel Aviv several months ago was planned and carried out under the supervision of the Hamas ..a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",... terror group’s headquarters in The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the decaying remnant of the Ottoman Empire... , the Shin Bet and Israel Police said on Tuesday.
In a joint statement, the two agencies said they arrested and charged eight people accused of planning and carrying out the attack, as well as another person accused of transporting the jacket wallah from Jerusalem to Tel Aviv.
The incident, which took place August 18, saw a man walk down a street in south Tel Aviv wearing a backpack holding a bomb, which then went kaboom!, killing the terrorist instantly and moderately wounding a passerby.
If the bomb had not gone off outdoors, authorities said at the time, "it would have caused vast damage and multiple casualties."
According to a statement from police and the Shin Bet, the attempted attack was carried out by Jaafar Muna, a Hamas operative from the West Bank city of Nablus.
He worked together with other terror operatives there, who maintained contact throughout the planning process with Abada Bilal, a bigwig at Hamas headquarters in Turkey, who directed the operation, the statement said.
One of the operatives traveled several times to Turkey, receiving funding and explosives training from Hamas members there, the investigation revealed.
Over the course of the investigation, carried out in cooperation with the Central Investigations Unit of the Tel Aviv District Police, Shin Bet agents seized two ready-to-use TATP
…also known as Mother of Satan, whether because it is so volatile it often explodes spontaneously while being mixed up in the bathtub of your mother, or because it is so powerful…
bombs weighing about 4 kilograms (8.8 pounds), as well as about 4 kilograms of TATP meant for additional attacks inside Israeli territory.
Hamas has called for a renewal of suicide kabooms, a tactic that killed hundreds of Israelis during the Second Intifada in the early 2000s but has become rare in the decades since following the construction of a security barrier around the West Bank.
The security agency also seized some NIS 111,000 ($29,600) that had been transferred from Hamas’s headquarters in Turkey.
According to the statement, military prosecutors were set to file an indictment on terrorism charges on Tuesday against eight people accused of involvement in the attack.
Another person — a resident of Beit Hanina in East Jerusalem — has also been indicted. It was not immediately clear whether he is an Israeli citizen. According to Channel 12, some of the people charged in connection with the attack were Arab Israelis; the others were Paleostinians.
The announcement shines a spotlight on Hamas’s operations in Turkey, which has been an outspoken supporter of the terror group since its October 7, 2023, attack on Israel, when snuffies killed some 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and took 251 hostages, starting the ongoing war.
"The findings of this investigation clearly indicate the establishment of Hamas headquarters in Turkey and their extensive efforts abroad to incite violence and carry out bombings in Israel," the Shin Bet and Israel Police said in their statement Tuesday.
Ottoman Turkish President His Enormity, Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First ...Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey. In Anatolia did Recep Bey a stately Presidential Palace decree, that has 1100 rooms. That's 968 more than in the White House, 400 more than in Versailles, and 325 more than Buckingham Palace, so you know who's really more important... ’s embrace of Hamas, and his frequent comparisons of Israel to Nazi Germany and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to Adolf Hitler ...late Fuehrer of Germany, founder of the Third Reich, currently communing with his pals Himmler and Heydrich. He is reincarnated every few days, sometimes every few hour if it's an election year, as a politician somebody doesn't like... , have worsened already fraught relations between Israel and Turkey, which were once cordial allies.
[IsraelTimes] Volunteer medic shoots attacker dead; doctor who stopped to help wounded is also injured; Ben Gvir says private gun ownership helped prevent worse attack
A policeman was killed and four people were maimed when a terrorist opened fire along the Route 4 highway north of the coastal city of Ashdod Tuesday.
The victim was identified as First Sgt. Adir Kadosh, 33. He was critically maimed in the attack, and died of his injuries on the way to the hospital, medical officials and police said.
Reports in Hebrew and Arabic media identified the terrorist as 28-year-old Muhammad Dardouna, who entered Israel illegally from the West Bank. According to the reports, Dardouna was originally from Jabaliya, in 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, but resided in the West Bank after moving there several years ago.
Assuta Medical Center said it was treating an individual who was moderately hurt by pieces of his car window that were shattered by gunfire, and two others who were lightly hurt, including a doctor who stopped his car to treat the injured and was hit by another car.
Another injured person was taken to Kaplan Medical Center.
An initial probe found that Dardouna approached the road by foot, police said. Citing the Central District Police Commander, Channel 12 reported that he approached the police car stationed at the side of the road after the officers noticed him walking and called him over for a security check.
He then fired at Kadosh and injured the additional four people before he was shot by a Magen David Adom ambulance service volunteer who happened to be at the scene.
"I was driving and I saw a person with a gun standing on the road," the volunteer told the Kan public broadcaster. "At first I thought it was a policeman, and then he fired a few shots at me. I ducked, and immediately after that I jumped out of my car, drew my gun, and shot him."
The road was reopened after traffic was temporarily halted immediately after the attack.
An eyewitness to the attack told Channel 12 that he was driving when he saw the attacker spray bullets in every direction.
"I began to flee. I didn’t understand what was going on. Suddenly, someone got out of their vehicle and fired at him," the witness said.
In a statement, the Israel Police said Kadosh was supposed to be getting married in November.
He joined the Israel Police in 2013, after completing his military service in the Border Police and served in the traffic division since 2022. He is survived by his parents and two siblings.
In a post on Instagram, Israeli model and influencer Nataly Dadon shared that she was supposed to have officiated Kadosh’s marriage to his partner Edi Levy.
"Less than a month ago, we were sitting in the living room writing points for the vows," she wrote. "how we waited for this, how excited I was with both of you."
The Aguda-The Association for LGBTQ Equality in Israel sent condolences to Levy, and said that Kadosh was "a person loved by all who knew him."
The incident is the latest in a string of deadly deadly attacks as Jewish Israelis mark the High Holidays.
Last Wednesday, a man was killed in a terror-stabbing rampage in Hadera.
Days earlier, Sgt. Shira Suslik, 19, a Border Police officer, was killed by a gunman at the central bus station in Beersheba. Ten other people were maimed in the attack.
Earlier this month, seven people were killed and at least eight were maimed in a shooting and stabbing attack in Jaffa, one of the deadliest terror attacks in Israel in recent years.
In a statement, National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir’s office said a greater disaster was averted on Tuesday due to the minister’s easing of private gun ownership restrictions, adding that the civilian who shot the attacker had received his private gun three months earlier.
[IsraelTimes] The IDF, Israel Police and Shin Bet issue a joint statement saying they have thwarted a pair of terror attacks in the West Bank.
In one incident, a suspect with a pistol and a rifle was arrested near the northern West Bank settlement of Reihan.
In the second, Israeli forces operating in the Palestinian city of Jenin exchanged fire with a suspect who the army says was planning on carrying out an imminent terror attack.
No Israeli troops were injured in either incident, the army adds.
While conducting Anti-Terror Operations in the Jabalia Area of the Northern Gaza Strip, Elements of the 401st Brigade were Attacked by Terrorists hiding within a Building which was previously used as a UNRWA Clinic. The Terrorists were Eliminated by a Drone Strike, with several… pic.twitter.com/DlGhteVRFI
[IsraelTimes] Military releases interrogation footage suggesting dissension among terror group’s ranks; Lebanon PM says he received reassurances from US that Israel will reduce strikes in Beirut
The IDF said on Tuesday that it had nabbed three members of Hezbollah’s elite Radwan forces after discovering them in a shaft underneath a building in southern Lebanon, amid the ground offensive against the Lebanese terror group. In a statement, the Israel Defense Forces said that troops from the Golani Brigade’s 13th Battalion discovered the Radwan operatives “entrenched” in the shaft “alongside many weapons and equipment needed for a long stay.”
The IDF did not say when the Hezbollah operatives were captured, and there was no immediate announcement from the Lebanese terror group on the matter.
The military also published a video clip of an alleged Radwan operative being interrogated about the terror group’s plans in southern Lebanon and the current state of its operations. It was unclear whether the suspect in the video was one of the three that the IDF said it arrested.
In the video, he painted a picture of chaos within Hezbollah at large and the Radwan forces in particular. Several days before being discovered, he said, an airstrike in the vicinity had cut his contact with a nearby cell of four operatives. Then, the three men he had been stationed with fled, leaving him alone.
“The village was emptied,” he said. He added that the regional commander and his deputy both abandoned their posts before the fighters did, speculating that they did so because “they had conflicts among themselves.”
Pressed on the matter by the interrogator, the Radwan fighter posited that those who fled had “little faith,” having chosen to join Hezbollah for the money rather than ideology.
“Of course, they were scared of Israel,” he acknowledged.
The interrogator then turned his attention to a different topic.
“What was the Radwan Force’s goal over the last period?” he asked.
Pausing momentarily before answering, the operative responded that the first objective was to respond to any strikes that came their way. The second long-term goal was “to perhaps push forward to the Galilee.”
“To enter Israel?” the interrogator asked, receiving an answer in the affirmative.
“That was the plan if there was fighting.”
The remark on a plan to invade the Galilee was consistent with briefings from the army in recent weeks in which they revealed that days after Hamas’s October 7 mass onslaught in southern Israel, thousands of terrorists had been positioned near the Lebanon border in a plan to storm the Galilee and unleash similar carnage there.
Pivoting suddenly, the interrogator once more demanded to know why those stationed in the south — supposedly in preparation for an anticipated invasion of Israel — had all seemingly fled.
“After the assassination of Hassan [Nasrallah], I didn’t see any of them,” the operative responded, referring to the massive strikes in Beirut on September 27 in which the Hezbollah leader was killed.
The capture of Hezbollah forces have not been common. On Sunday, the military announced for the first time since the ground offensive began it had captured a Hezbollah fighter in an underground bunker.
Hezbollah has been badly hit over the last month, starting with sabotage attacks that saw pagers and walkie-talkies belonging to terror operatives explode in two waves on September 17 and 18, killing at least 39 people and injuring thousands more. The attack has been widely blamed on Israel, despite it staying silent on the matter. Days later, Israel launched a major offensive against the Iran-backed Hezbollah on September 23 with the aim of allowing residents of northern Israel to return to homes they had been forced to evacuate during a year of cross-border rocket fire from Lebanon.
The attacks on northern Israel over the last year have resulted in the deaths of 28 civilians. In addition, 38 IDF soldiers and reservists have died in cross-border skirmishes and in the ensuing ground operation launched in southern Lebanon late last month.
Across the border, the Lebanese government has said that strikes have killed at least 2,309 people in Lebanon over the last year, mainly in the last few weeks. The number includes at least 960 Hezbollah terrorists the IDF said it had killed in the last year but likely includes many more as the numbers of slain Hezbollah members have not been consistently updated since Israel ramped up operations against it.
Speaking Tuesday, IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi said Hezbollah was hiding the number of fighters killed by Israel.
“This indicates that it is in distress and that we need to intensify our efforts against the terror group,” he was quoted saying in a statement issued by the IDF.
A graphic released by the military showed how it has eliminated almost all of Hezbollah’s top brass.
The IDF also confirmed on Tuesday that it had killed a top commander in Hezbollah’s aerial unit who was responsible for launching drones at Israel for both intelligence-gathering and attack purposes. The strike several days ago in Nabatieh took out Khader Al-Abed Bahja, head of the northern Litani region of the aerial unit, the army said. The news came two days after a drone struck an IDF training base, killing four soldiers and injuring dozens more. The IDF did not say, however, whether Bahja’s unit was tied to that attack.
US PUSHING FOR ISRAEL TO LIMIT BEIRUT STRIKES
Attempting to counter the image of an organization that has been splintered b Nasrallah’s assassination, Hezbollah deputy chief Naim Qassem warned in a speech Tuesday that the only solution to the current war would be a ceasefire, and claimed that his terror group would not be defeated.
“Since the Israeli enemy targeted all of Lebanon, we have the right from a defensive position to target any place” in Israel, “whether the center, the north or the south,” Qassem said.
“I am telling the Israeli home front: The solution is a ceasefire… the resistance (Hezbollah) will not be defeated because this is its land,” he added, claiming that the Iran-backed terror group had adopted a new calculation so that Israel feels “pain.”
Lebanese caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati also raised the matter of a ceasefire on Tuesday. In a statement distributed by his office, Mikati said that he had received guarantees from the US that Israeli strikes in Beirut would be reduced, appearing to confirm recent Hebrew media reports that pressure from President Joe Biden had led to an agreement by Israel to cut back on strikes in the Lebanese capital.
While Israeli officials have vehemently denied agreeing to such a demand,
…one can imagine…
US State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller said on Tuesday that the US did indeed raise concerns over the bombing campaign in Beirut, and warned that Washington would continue to watch very carefully.
“We’ve told Israel very directly that we oppose their near-daily strikes here in densely populated areas in Beirut,” White House National Security Council spokesperson John Kirby said in a separate briefing.
“We understand that they’re conducting targeted operations designed to go after Hezbollah infrastructure, and we recognize that they have a right to do that, but they also have a commensurate responsibility to do it in a way that doesn’t threaten the lives of civilians, UN peacekeepers or members of the Lebanese armed forces who have suffered some casualties here,” Kirby said. “It’s unacceptable, and we’ve pressed the Israelis for more details about that.”
”Yes, they have the right in theory, but in practice we do not permit it.”
Israel has not struck the southern suburbs of Beirut, a Hezbollah stronghold known as Dahiyeh, since late last week after hitting the area on a near-nightly basis for several weeks in attacks targeting Hezbollah operatives which the Lebanese health ministry said also killed scores of people not connected to the terror group.
Mikati did not provide further details on the assurances he had received from the US on the matter, but said that Washington was “serious about pressuring Israel to reach a ceasefire.”
Clearly. Washington has Jew-haters to appease before the election.
He told AFP on Tuesday that international efforts were still underway to reach a ceasefire that would put an end to the year-long hostilities between Israel and Hezbollah, which began when the terror group started launching attacks following the October 7, 2023, terror onslaught carried out by Hamas in southern Israel.
He reiterated his previously pledged commitment to implement UN Resolution 1701, which calls for the Lebanese army and UN peacekeepers to be the only armed forces deployed south of the Litani river.
“Currently we have 4,500 soldiers in south Lebanon, and we wish to add to them between 7,000 and 11,000,” Mikati said, adding that his cash-strapped government would start by recruiting an additional 1,500 troops, and that as soon as any ceasefire is agreed they would move in soldiers from elsewhere in Lebanon.
“The Lebanese state is ready to impose its sovereignty over all of Lebanese territory,” he said.
Riiiiight.
‘WE ENTERED A WAR WHICH IS NOT FOR US’
While Israeli strikes have been concentrated mostly on south and east Lebanon, in addition to the capital, a deadly strike in northern Lebanon on Monday raised fears of a widening conflict. Israel said the strike, which was reported to have killed 22 people, struck a Hezbollah target. The United Nations nevertheless called for an independent investigation.
The strike was carried out in Aito, a village in the country’s Christian heartland, far from Hezbollah’s main area of influence. As rescue workers rummaged through the debris on Tuesday, they found the body of a child, and later a small leg and other remains that they put together in a white bag. The Lebanese military watched as a bulldozer cleared heaps of twisted steel, destroyed olive trees, and crushed rocks. Speaking to AFP in the aftermath of the strike, a resident of the village blamed Hezbollah for dragging Lebanon into a war it didn’t want.
“We entered a war which is not for us, we are all bearing its consequences,” she said.
DEMINING ACTIVITY IN GOLAN MAY INDICATE WIDENING FRONT
In what may be an indication that Israel is seeking to expand its ground operations against Hezbollah whilst bolstering defenses, security sources and analysts said its troops have cleared landmines and established new barriers on the frontier between the Golan Heights and a demilitarized strip bordering Syria. The move suggests Israel may seek to strike Hezbollah for the first time from further east along Lebanon’s border, at the same time creating a secure area from which it can freely reconnoiter the terror group and prevent infiltration, the sources said.
While demining activity has been reported, sources who spoke to Reuters — including a Syrian soldier stationed in south Syria, a Lebanese security official and a UN peacekeeping official — revealed additional unreported details that showed Israel was moving the fence separating the DMZ toward the Syrian side and digging more fortifications in the area.
From the Times of Israel liveblog, posted at midnight Wednesday ET. Israel did reduce the frequency of attacks on Beirut…
An Israeli strike hit Beirut’s southern suburbs, Reuters witnesses say, after days of the area being spared strikes. Reuters witnesses heard a blast and saw a plume of smoke. It came after an evacuation order by the Israeli military for a building in the area.
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🔴أنتم متواجدون بالقرب من منشآت ومصالح تابعة لحزب الله حيث سيعمل ضدها جيش الدفاع على مدى الزمني القريب 🔴من أجل سلامتكم وسلامة أبناء عائلتكم عليكم اخلاء هذا… pic.twitter.com/cigjAse6iL
In a statement, the military says troops have engaged in face-to-face combat with Hezbollah fighters and have also targeted them in airstrikes carried out by the Israeli Air Force. Israeli soldiers have discovered rocket launchers, mortars, grenades, anti-tank missiles and other weaponry aimed at northern Israeli towns, the IDF says.
Over the past day, Israeli airstrikes have struck “more than 140 Hezbollah terror targets in more than 50 areas in Lebanon,” including those directed by ground troops, the military adds.
[X] Spontaneous combustion? Allah’s will made manifest? Inshallah maintenance? It could not possibly be Israel, because Bibi was said to have agreed — under duress, mind — not to attack nuclear or oil sites.
Rough day for BBC News.. Even they cannot believe how closely coordinated the @UN and Hezbollah were in building infrastructure to fire missiles at Israelis. | @UNIFIL_ 🚀pic.twitter.com/kEFyNILu9D
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
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
... Somalia's version of the Taliban, functioning as an arm of al-Qaeda...
... an Islamic infestation centering on Somalia attempting to metastasize into Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, and similar places, all ofwhich have enough problems without them...
...46th president of the U.S. The man who made Barack Obama and Jimmy Carter look competent, if only by comparison....
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...late Fuehrer of Germany, founder of the Third Reich, currently communing with his pals Himmler and Heydrich. He is reincarnated every few days, sometimes every few hour if it's an election year, as a politician somebody doesn't like...
