[Breitbart] The massive flow of migrants crossing the Rio Grande into the Del Rio Sector is shattering last year’s record pace, according to the sector chief. Apprehensions in some stations are up more than 215 percent over the record set in 2021.
Del Rio Sector Chief Patrol Agent Jason D. Owens tweeted a shocking report that stations in his sector are experiencing an increase in apprehensions of 215 percent — some as high as 350 percent. The increases catapulted the sector into first place over the Rio Grande Valley Sector.
Breitbart Texas visited the Del Rio Sector last week to meet with Texas National Guard officials regarding Governor Greg Abbott’s Operation Lone Star border security mission. While in Eagle Pass, Texas, Breitbart witnessed the steady flow of mostly Venezuelan migrants where more than 50 crossed at a single location in just two hours.
During the first three months of Fiscal Year 22, which began on October 1, 2021, Del Rio Sector agents apprehended more than 91,000 migrants who illegally crossed the Mexican border into Texas between ports of entry, according to the Southwest Land Border Encounters report for December. This marks an increase of more than 247 percent over the same period last year when agents apprehended only 26,000 migrants.
Del Rio took the lead in January as the busiest of the nine southwest border sectors. Agents apprehended an estimated 31,000 migrants during January, according to a source operating under the umbrella of U.S. Customs and Border Protection. This was down slightly from January when Del Rio agents apprehended about 33,000 migrants.
Rio Grande Valley Sector agents, normally the busiest in the nation, apprehended slightly less than the Del Rio Sector in January. These agents apprehended just over 30,000 migrants.
[Breitbart] Laredo Sector Border Patrol agents stopped more than 800 migrants from illegally crossing the Rio Grande into Texas last week, according to the sector chief. In addition, the agents apprehended 2,000 more who crossed the border into South Texas between ports of entry.
Laredo Sector Chief Patrol Agent Carl E. Landrum tweeted images of migrants being smuggled into the U.S. from Mexico. The images also show some migrants being stopped from crossing the border river and sending them back to Mexico.
In addition to the 800 turn-backs, agents apprehended more than 2,000 migrants in one week.
The Laredo Sector is the only southwest border sector to report a decrease in migrant apprehensions for the first quarter of Fiscal Year 22. Agents apprehended nearly 23,000 migrants — down from more than 25,000 during the same period last year, according to the December Southwest Land Border Encounters report.
At least ten civilians were on Friday killed in southern Somalia, following a wave of al-Shabaab ...... an Islamic infestation centering on Somalia attempting to metastasize into Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, and similar places, all of which have enough problems without them... violence in the country, despite beefed up security in several towns across the Horn of Africa nation, which is battling instability.
Somalia has been a hotspot of terrorism in Africa, with al-Shabaab turbans closely associated with al-Qaeda, dominating several parts of the rural central and southern parts of the country. IS-Somalia turbans are also dominant in northern parts.
State media reported that the ten died near Abdalla Birole township in the outskirts of Kismayo ...a port city in the southern Lower Juba province of Somalia, at the extreme southern end of the country (always assuming Somalia can be called a country). It is the commercial capital of the autonomous Jubaland region.... , the regional administrative capital of Jubaland. This is the first time the turbans are attacking Jubaland in as many months.
"10 non-combatants were killed and three others maimed after a bus they were traveling in ran over an IED bomb planted by the forces of Evil on outskirts of Kismayo town of Somalia’s Jubbaland State, on Friday, " state media reported.
Al-Shabaab turbans have since taken responsibility but could not explain why they targeted civilians. Usually, the group targets senior civil servants, security forces, and at times, innocent civilians like yesterday.
The attack took place near the outpost of the US Africa Command, which has since been deserted. The United States military left Somalia in 2021 following an order by former President Donald Trump ...The tack in the backside of the Democratic Party... , but there are plans to redeploy them.
Jubaland has been in the fore front fighting al-Shabaab holy warriors, and the regional troops have been working closely with Somali National Army, the Kenya Defense Forces, and the Æthiopia National Defense Forces who work for AMISOM in the region.
A few days after a similar raid in Wajir and Mandera counties of northern Kenya, where at least 14 people were killed. Kenya and Somalia have borne the brunt of al-Shabaab forces of Evil for over ten years now.
On Saturday, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) announced that Turkey sent a new group of Syrian mercenaries to Libya. Turkey did this despite local and international demands to withdraw all foreign forces from the North African country.
In a statement, the SOHR said 250 mercenaries from the pro-Ankara Libyan National Army (LNA), including the Al-Majd Corps, Sultan Murad, and Al-Hamza Divisions, arrived in Tripoli on Friday.
This group was sent to replace 250 mercenaries who left Libyan territories to return to Syria.
They noted that some of the mercenaries who were sent to Libya paid their leaders $250 to make them travel to Tripoli.
On January 27th, the SOHR reported that Turkish forces cancelled the flight to repatriate a group of mercenaries from Libya to Syria through Turkey.
On January 10th, reliable sources informed the SOHR that the mercenaries in Libya reportedly received the second half of their salaries, an estimated $300.
It claimed that the total payments in January amounted to $900 each, while 10,500 Turkish Liras were delivered to their relatives in Aleppo. On the 2nd of January, the SOHR activists reported that the mercenaries received the salaries after a seven-month delay.
Last week, the SOHR reported that the Turkish government intended to maintain employing mercenaries, despite international calls for all foreign forces to withdraw from Libya.
An estimated 7,000 Syrian fighters are believed to remain in Libya, according to the SOHR.
Notably, on the 10th of October, a new group of 100 Syrian fighters had been repatriated to Syria. This coincided with the back-and-forth transfer operations of mercenaries. The group also contained fighters who were transported to Libya in 2019, the SOHR said.
Libyan Foreign Minister, Najla Al-Mangoush, told Reuters in October that many foreign fighters had left the country. This comes as the government seeks to mobilize international support to withdraw the remaining forces.
The ceasefire agreement between Libya’s warring parties called for all foreign mercenaries to be withdrawn within three months of its signing in October 2020.
Bandits have launched a fresh attack on Karfi District in the Malumfashi Local Government Area of Katsina State and reportedly killed 17 persons.
SaharaReporters learnt that armed bandits invaded at least five communities under the district on Friday night, leaving several others with injuries.
A resident of the area revealed that the hoodlums arrived the area by shooting sporadically at residents.
“They came around 11:00pm on Friday and started shooting and looting, during which they killed about 17 people,” a source said.
The member representing Malumfashi Constituency in the state House of Assembly, Aminu Ibrahim Saidu, who confirmed the incident, said, "I've visited the affected communities to sympathised with the families over the unfortunate incident.
"The increasing criminal activities recently in Katsina State, with the police authorities attributing it to the influx of bandits from Zamfara and Sokoto states due to the ongoing military operations in those states is troubling."
When contacted for confirmation of the incident, spokesperson for the police in the state promised to get back on the issue but had yet to do so as of the time of this publication.
Several Islamic State’s West Africa Province militants fleeing airstrikes of the Nigerian military have drowned around the Marte axis of Lake Chad, a known stronghold of the terrorists in Borno State.
According to a report by PR Nigeria, no fewer than 25 of the terrorists met their waterloo.
Military fighter jets of the Nigerian Air Force, the report said, raided camps of the Islamic State of West African Province in a weeklong sustained aerial attack leading to the death of scores of the terrorists.
An intelligence operative told the news medium that camps and warehouses serving as ISWAP insurgents’ ammunition and firearms stores were bombed and destroyed by the aircraft.
“The military jets’ bombardments were simultaneously carried out at Bukar Mairam and Jubularam, Abbaganaram and Chikul Gudu which resulted in the explosion of the warehouses, killing several terrorists.
“The terrorists who survived the blast at Bukar Mairam and Jubularam fled and attempted to cross a river within the Lake Chad axis. It was in the process that about 25 of them got drowned,” the source added.
He further said recent air offensives by troops have seriously affected ISWAP operational command, thwarting the group’s plans to carry out major attacks on military formations in the North-East.
Gunmen have killed Victor Lucky, vigilante commander of Sapele town in Sapele Local Government Area of Delta State.
Lucky was said to have been ambushed by about five gunmen with AK-47 rifles after leaving venue of the burial ceremony of mother of a former Commissioner for Youths, Chief Omolubi Newuwumi.
The assailants drove a tinted SUV and shot him several times at close range.
The incident caused tension in the town as businesses and vehicular activities closed immediately.
Confirming the incident, the Delta State Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Bright Edafe, said nine persons have been arrested in connection with the killing.
[Dawn] The Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) said on Saturday that the clearance operation in Balochistan ...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it... , which was launched after turbans attacked security forces camps in the province's Panjgur and Naushki areas late on Wednesday evening, had been completed.
Twenty bad boyz were potted during operations after the attacks, the military's media affairs wing said in a statement, adding that nine security personnel had embraced martyrdom.
"Both attacks were repulsed successfully by prompt response from troops at both locations," the ISPR said.
It added that nine of the bad boyz were potted in Naushki and four security personnel, including an officer, were martyred during an exchange of fire with the snuffies there.
In Panjgur, the ISPR said, security forces had repulsed the terrorist attack after an intense exchange of fire during which some of the snuffies had fled the area.
Security forces had carried out a clearance operation to hunt down the hiding turbans in the vicinity, it said, adding that initially four fleeing bad boyz were potted there and as many were encircled by security forces the next day.
"All encircled bad boyz were potted in today’s (Saturday) operation as they failed to surrender," the ISPR said.
The military's media wing said five soldiers, including a junior commissioned officer, were martyred and six injured during follow-up operations in Panjgur over the past 72 hours.
Moreover, the ISPR said, three terrorists, including two high-value targets, linked to the attacks were killed in Kech district's Balgatar area on Friday.
These bad boyz were potted in a follow up clearance operation conducted at a makeshift terrorist hideout.
"Our security forces stand firm and resolutely committed to eliminating the menace of terrorism from our soil no matter [at] what the cost," the ISPR said.
Earlier, the ISPR had said intelligence agencies had intercepted communications between the turbans who carried out attacks in Balochistan and their handlers in Afghanistan and India.
The attacks in Naushki and Panjgur were claimed by the banned holy warrior outfit Baloch Liberation Army (BLA).
Shafaq News/ A force from al-Hashd al-Shaabi (Popular Mobilization Forces-PMF) on Saturday seized weapons and logistic supplies that belong to ISIS groups in al-Anbar, Western Iraq.
A statement by the PMF Commission said that a force from the third brigade of the third PMF headquarters found weapons, explosive devices, rockets, and RBG7 rocket launcher during a security operation in the villages of Sahali, Bonyan, al-Dayee', and al-Kaara.
The force on duty also raided an ISIS safehouse while tracking groups affiliated with the extremist organization sheltering in the territory, according to the statement.
Shafaq News/ Iraqi security forces captured a member of the ISIS group who was in charge of logistics earlier today, Saturday, in the Nineveh Governorate.
The Iraqi military intelligence said in a statement that the intelligence department of the 14th division identified the terrorist who was remotely moving between Saladin and Nineveh.
"After piling up evidence, the terrorist was caught in Kanous, Saladin, in cooperation with a force from the second regiment of the 50th brigade," the statement said.
"The terrorist transported supplies, mobile phones, and SIM cards to the terrorist groups sheltering in Qara Dagh, Nineveh," it added, "the terrorist is wanted in accordance with the provisions of Article 4/Terrorism."
Shafaq News/ Turkish warplanes reportedly rocked sites inside the territory of the Kurdistan Region earlier today, Saturday.
A source told Shafaq News Agency that Turkey's aircraft bombarded sites of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) in Sifa valley in the Amadiyah district, north of Duhok.
Smoke plumes were seen rising frome bombed site but damages and casualties from the airstrike were not immediately clear, the source said.
[IsraelTimes] More than 200 kilograms of marijuana flowers and hashish seized, no arrests made
Israeli troops foiled an attempt to smuggle drugs into Israel from Egypt on Friday morning, the military said.
According to the Israel Defense Forces, soldiers monitoring surveillance cameras spotted the drug smuggling attempt and dispatched troops to the scene.
Suspects from the Egyptian side tossed the drugs over the fence, apparently for accomplices on the Israeli side to later pick them up.
More than 200 kilograms (440 pounds) of marijuana flowers and hashish, estimated to be worth NIS 4 million ($1.2 million), were seized, according to the IDF. No arrests were made.
"This operation is part of the ongoing effort by the IDF and security forces to thwart drug smuggling on the Egyptian border," the military said.
On a sometimes nightly basis, Egyptian smugglers attempt to pass contraband over the border to Israelis, who collect the packages and sell the drugs in Israel — mostly marijuana from grow houses in the Sinai Peninsula, but sometimes harder drugs like heroin.
A Turkish-backed Ahrar al-Sharqiya faction, sanctioned by #US, arrested a woman of #Syria’s #Afrin under pretext of working in Autonomous Administration facilities. #SNA#ypghttps://t.co/EZtptFG80b
ALEPPO NORTHERN COUNTRYSIDE, Syria (North Press) – The Turkish-backed Ahrar al-Sharqiya faction
... among the most brutal gangs on the Turkish payroll...
arrested on Friday a woman of a village of Maabatli in the countryside of Afrin, north of Aleppo governorate, on the pretext of dealing with the Autonomous Administration previously.
Militants of the Ahrar al-Sharqiya faction arrested Asia Ahmad Haydar from her house in Ketekh village and took her to an unknown place and her fate has been unknown so far, a local source told North Press.
Haydar was arrested under the pretext of working in institutions of the Autonomous Administration previously, according to the source.
In June, the Turkish-backed military police arrested the woman and she was released after paying a ransom, the source noted.
In July 2021, the US Department of the Treasury announced a new package of sanctions applied to the Ahrar al-Sharqiya faction.
The city of Afrin and its villages, north of Aleppo, have been controlled by Turkish forces and the affiliated factions since March 2018.
Since then, the region has been witnessing ongoing security chaos accompanied by infighting among militants of the Turkish-backed factions, arrests, and kidnappings amid the factions’ disability to settle the security and spread safety.
MANBIJ, Syria (North Press) – A drone, believed to be of Turkey, bombed on Saturday the northern countryside of Manbij, north Syria.
The outskirts of the village of Umm Adasa, on the front line between the Manbij Military Council (affiliated with the Syrian Democratic Forces-SDF) and the Turkish-backed armed opposition factions, northwest of Manbij was bombed today.
“The drone was launched from the Turkish base in the village of al-Yashli, north of the village of Umm Adasa, and it bombed some houses in the outskirts of the village,” North Press reported a field source.
However, no other details, on causalities or material damage were reported by the source.
Late in 2021, villages in the northern and western countryside of Manbij were intensely bombed by the Turkish forces, killing a woman and her child, and causing material damage to the property of the residents.
MANBIJ, Syria (North Press) – On Saturday evening, several villages in the northern and western countryside of Manbij, northern Syria, were bombed by Turkey and the affiliated opposition factions.
The village of Tokhar Saghir, north of Manbij, was hit with more than ten mortar shells by the Turkish forces stationed in the villages of al-Hoshariya and Tokhar Kabir, an informed source said.
The village of Arab Hassan in the northwestern countryside of Manbij was also hit with light and medium weapons by the Turkish forces and the opposition factions, the source added.
Hours before, a drone believed to be of Turkey had bombed the outskirts of the village of Umm Adasa, on the front line between the Manbij Military Council and the Turkish-backed opposition factions, northwest of Manbij.
Late in 2021, villages in the northern and western countryside of Manbij were intensely bombed by the Turkish forces, killing a woman and her child, and causing material damage to the property of the residents.
MANBIJ, Syria (North Press) – On Saturday, with help of the Internal Security Forces (Asayish), the anti-terror units of the Manbij Military Council, arrested cells affiliated with ISIS in the city of Manbij, north Syria.
Following-up operations, in addition to seizing a quantity of weapons and ammunition they had, five people affiliated with ISIS were arrested, according to the media center of the Manbij Military Council (affiliated with the Syrian Democratic Forces-SDF).
A Kalashnikov, in addition to 400 bullets, two hand grenades and a pistol were seized, the media center said.
No further details about where the operation took place or the names of the people who were arrested were released by the center.
The media center called on the residents of Manbij to immediately report any suspicious movements in order to maintain security and stability in the city.
IDLIB, Syria (North Press) – Following days of relative calm, the de-escalation zone in northwest Syria witnessed on Saturday mutual shelling between the Syrian government forces and the Turkish-backed armed opposition factions.
The opposition factions’ sites in the towns of Kafr Amma, Kafr Ta’al, Atarib and al-Wisata in the western countryside of Aleppo, were bombed with heavy artillery and missiles by the government forces, military sources of the Syrian opposition told North Press.
Two people from the town of al-Wisata were injured in the shelling. They were transported to the medical points for treatments, said the sources.
Similarly, the opposition’s sites near the towns of Qleidin and al-Enkawi in the Gab Plain, west of Hama, were also bombed by the government forces stationed in Jurin Camp, the sources added.
The opposition factions’ sites near the towns of al-Bara and al-Ruwaiha, the Zawiya Mountain area, south of Idlib, were shelled with heavy artillery and missiles by the government forces stationed in Kafr Nabl, according to the sources.
Meanwhile, the government forces’ sites in the towns of Dadikh and Kafr Batikh, east of Idlib, were bombe by al-Fateh al-Mubin Operations Room.
...a coalition project of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (Al Nusra), the Turkish-backed National Front for Liberation, and Jaysh al-Izza...
The government forces’ sites near the town of Quptan al-Jabal in the western countryside of Aleppo were bombed by al-Fateh al-Mubin as well.
The de-escalation zone in northwest Syria had witnessed relative calm regarding the mutual bombing operations between the two sides of the conflict following months of military escalation.
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.
...... an Islamic infestation centering on Somalia attempting to metastasize into Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, and similar places, all of which have enough problems without them...
[IsraelTimes] More than 200 kilograms of marijuana flowers and hashish seized, no arrests made
