The number of Ukrainians trying to illegally enter the U.S. soared in March compared to previous times
Russia's unprovoked and illegal invasion of Ukraine has forced more than 10 million to flee their homes
Roughly 88,000 migrants from outside the Northern Triangle of Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador were encountered by officials last month
A total 249,198 people were detained trying to come into the U.S. by land, air or sea in March
A growing chorus of Democrats are working to stop Biden from ending COVID-era expulsion policy Title 42
The Michigan Democrat Sen. Gary Peters told The Hill that he has privately raised concerns with Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas and other administration officials about the May 23 expiry
Peters chairs both the Homeland Security committee and the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee
He said he wants to give Biden time to detail a plan for handling the likely onslaught of migrants
If they do not have a plan, he said the Biden administration should 'revisit' ending the policy
Migrant crossings at the Mexican border surged to the highest number in over two decades last month
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Given Cuba's Communist Gov. is FAR FROM friends with the USA. Seeing 32,000+ attempting to enter the USA (Note: No telling how many avoided ICE) and given the typical excessive travel controls imposed by this and any other Communist country.
For some reason I get imagines of "Invasion USA" and Chuck Norris?
Could Cuba and the CCP be setting up a subversive element 5th column force in the USA?
[CNN ...formerly the Cable News Network, now who know what it might stand for... At least six people have been killed and 11 others injured after multiple explosions rocked a high school and educational center in western Kabul on Tuesday.
It was not immediately clear how many of the dead were students, but seven injured children were taken to a hospital run by the NGO Emergency, the organization said on Twitter.
"Security forces are at the scene and investigations underway," Kabul police chief front man Khalid Zadran said in a tweet, also giving the corpse count.
He added that the Abdul Rahim Shaheed High School was hit with three explosions. The other facility attacked was the Mumtaz Educational Centre.
A spokesperson for the Muhammad Ali Jinnah Hospital in Kabul earlier gave CNN a higher number for those injured.
The blasts occurred in the Dasht-e-Barchi area of the Afghan capital, home to a large Shia Hazara ...a grouping of Dari-speaking people of Sino-Tibetan descent inhabiting Afghanistan and Pakistain. They are predominantly Shia Moslems and not particularly warlike, which makes them favored targets... community, a minority group previously targeted by hard boys.
There has been no official claim of responsibility for the apparent attack and it is possible the corpse count could rise
At least six people were killed and 24 maimed on Tuesday by two kabooms that struck a boys' school in a Shia Hazara ...a grouping of Dari-speaking people of Sino-Tibetan descent inhabiting Afghanistan and Pakistain. They are predominantly Shia Moslems and not particularly warlike, which makes them favored targets... neighbourhood of the Afghan capital, police and hospital staff said.
The number of attacks in the country has significantly declined since the Taliban ...Arabic for students... ousted the US-backed Afghan government in August, but the jihadist 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.... group has claimed several attacks since then.
"We were leaving school and had just stepped out from the rear gate when the earth-shattering kaboom occurred," Ali Jan, a student who was maimed in the first blast, told AFP at a hospital.
The second blast took place as rescuers arrived to ferry victims from the first explosion to hospitals.
"When I heard of the blast I called one of my friends who studies at that school," said maimed shopkeeper Murtaza.
"His phone was switched off. Then I went to the site... and that's when I was hit in the second blast."
Kabul police front man Khalid Zadran told AFP that the attack outside the Abdul Rahim Shahid school was caused by improvised bombs, killing six people.
"These are preliminary figures. We are at the site and waiting for more details," he said.
Two hospitals confirmed they were treating a total of 24 people maimed in the blasts.
Zadran said a third blast had occurred at an English language centre in the same area, but did not specify whether it was caused by an explosive. Zadran had earlier tweeted that three blasts had rocked the school.
Outside the hospital, Taliban fighters beat back relatives of victims who had gathered, an AFP correspondent reported.
BACK-TO-BACK BLASTS
The Dasht-e-Barchi neighbourhood is mainly home to the Hazara community and has been previously targeted by the jihadist Islamic State group -- a rival of the Taliban, also a hardline Sunni Islamist movement.
The Hazara community, which makes up between 10 and 20 percent of the country's 38 million people, has long been the target of mass-casualty attacks, some blamed on the Taliban during their 20-year insurgency.
Since seizing power the Taliban have regularly carried out raids on suspected IS hideouts, mainly in the eastern Nangarhar The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country.. province.
Taliban officials insist their forces have defeated IS, but analysts say the jihadist group is a key security challenge.
IS has claimed some of the deadliest attacks in Afghanistan in recent years.
In May last year at least 85 people -- mainly girl students -- were killed and about 300 maimed when three bombs went kaboom! near their school in Dasht-e-Barchi.
No group grabbed credit, but in October 2020 IS claimed a suicide kaboom on an educational centre in the same area that killed 24, including students.
In May 2020, the group was blamed for a bloody gun attack on a maternity ward of a hospital in the neighbourhood that killed 25 people, including new mothers.
[HODHODYEMENNEWS.NET] Unidentified button men believed to be affiliated with al-Qaeda have on Monday detonated a bomb near a military point in Mudiyah district of Abyan ...a governorate of Yemen. The region was a base to the Aden-Abyan Islamic Army terrorist group until it dropped the name and joined al-Qaeda. Its capital is Zinjibar. In March 2011, al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula declared the governate an Islamic Emirate after seizing control of the region. The New York Times fastidiously reported that those in control, while Islamic hard boyz, are not in fact al-Qaeda, but something else that looks, tastes, smells, and acts the same. Yemeni government forces launched an effort to re-establish control of the region when President-for-Life Saleh was tossed and the carnage continues... province, southern Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of... .Local sources said that the targeted military point belongs to the UAE-backed Southern Transitional Council (STC) militia, without giving details about the attack.
Other sources reported that the earth-shattering kaboom resulted from an attack that targeted a house of one of citizens with a hand grenade.
Al-Qaeda operatives are deployed extensively in a number of Abyan districts, mostly in Mudiyah, Lawdar, al-Khadira, and al-Mahfad, as well as large areas in Shabwah province.
Over the past weeks, al-Qaeda elements set up positions in al-Maja’lah area, east of Mudiyah in Abyan province.
HODHODYEMENNEWS.NET] The UAE-backed Southern Transitional Council (STC) has on Tuesday continued to raise separatist flags on government facilities in Aden city, in defiance of the Saudi occupation forces.Local sources reported that the leaders of the STC in Aden completed raising a separatist South Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of... i flag at the intersections and roundabouts of Aden, after obliging the residents to raise it on the roofs of their own houses in most of the city’s districts, especially those located on the main streets.
The sources said the campaign of raising separatist flags reached the road leading to the Ma’ashiq Palace, where the Riyadh-backed Presidential Council and the government loyal to the coalition reside.
The campaign organisers confirmed their intention to raise the flag over the Ma’ashiq Palace itself, in clear defiance of Saudi Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. Fifteen of the nineteen WTC hijackers were Saudis, and most major jihadi commanders were Saudis, to include Osama bin Laden. Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman quietly folded that tent in 2016, doing terrible things to the guys running it, and has since been dragging the kingdom into the current century... and as the latest showcase of a growing rift between the plans of Saudi Arabia and the UAE.
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[Rudaw] A member of the Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF) was killed and another was injured on Monday in festivities with the 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) in Anbar, also resulting in the death of two hard boys, according to the Iraqi Security Media Cell.
A PMF brigade thwarted an attempted attack by suspected ISIS members in the Akashat area of western Anbar, killing two of the gunnies in the festivities that ensued. The group’s members came from "the depths of the Iraqi desert," and launched the attack from four pickup vehicles, according to a statement from the cell.
The statement added that one fighter from the PMF brigade was killed during the incident, and another was injured. The vehicles fled towards the same location they came from, and are being pursued by the forces.
The media cell also announced that the PMF in Baghdad were able to arrest an ISIS administrative official on Monday, sentencing him to life imprisonment.
In its propaganda magazine on Thursday, ISIS claimed to have conducted 24 attacks in Iraq from April 7 to April 13, killing and injuring 31 people.
ISIS on Sunday vowed to seek "Dire Revenge" over the killing of its former leader, Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Quryishi, and called on supporters to make the most of the war in Ukraine to resume attacks in Europe.
ISIS typically sends messages to followers during Ramadan to garner support.
The administrator of Kanaan sub-district in Diyala, Mahdi AbdulKareem al-Shammari, reported that the Iraqi army repelled an ISIS attack on Tuesday.
Al-Shammari told Shafaq News agency that an army force thwarted an ISIS attack on the sub-district, noting that military reinforcements arrived at the site of the incident, forcing the perpetrators to flee.
[SHAFAQ] The Internal Security Forces (Asayish) said it managed to apprehend Arab nationals with links to the terrorist organization of ISIS in Raperin earlier today, Tuesday.
The Asayish directorate of the Independent county said that it arrested four Syrian nationals with forged IDs.
"The arrestees were referred to the investigation magistrate in accordance with Article 298 and 289, and Article 4/Terrorism," the statement said.
[SHAFAQ] The Ottoman Turkish army deployed in five points north of Duhok, in the Kurdistan Region.
The source told Shafaq News agency that this step was taken as part of the Ottoman Turkish military operations launched two days ago.
In a new offensive launched yesterday, Ottoman Turkish military forces struck a dozen suspected targets of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, the Ottoman Turkish Defense Ministry said.
The air and ground offensive, codenamed Operation Claw Lock, began in Metina, Zap and Avasin-Basyan in Kurdistan in the early hours of Monday.
Sharing images from the operation, Defense Minister Hulusi Akar said that Ottoman Turkish jets have struck shelters, bunkers, caves, tunnels, ammunition depots, and the military headquarters of the PKK.
The separatist group uses its bases in northern Iraq to stage attacks on The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor... . It is considered a terrorist group by Turkey as well as the United States and the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... .
[SHAFAQ] Military reinforcements were brought to Sinjar district, following festivities that erupted between the army and forces loyal to the Kurdistan Workers party, YBS, a source reported.
The source told Shafaq News agency that the west Nineveh command sent military reinforcement to Sinjar.
Earlier today, festivities reportedly flared between a force from the Iraqi army and paramilitary groups loyal to the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) in the governorate of Nineveh.
A source told Shafaq News Agency that an army force stationed in al-Qahtaniyah sub-district exchanged fire with members of the Yazid Khana group.
Yazid Khana forces of Evil were deployed in the Khansur complex and blocked all the roads leading to it, except for the main road.
Yesterday, Yazid Khana fighters withdrew from a military site in the district of Sinjar after fire exchange with the Iraqi army.
According to a source, the festivities erupted when the PKK-aligned paramilitary group refused to evacuate a military site in the Dukuri complex, north of Sinjar.
"A civilian, two Yazid Khana fighters, and an Iraqi soldier were maimed in the confrontations," the source said.
[IsraelTimes] Organizers say some 20,000 marching to dismantled Homesh outpost, including right-wing politicians Smotrich and Ben Gvir, after IDF reaches deal on securing shortened event
Several thousand right-wing Israelis on Tuesday marched in the northern West Bank to the dismantled Homesh settlement, as Paleostinians opposed to the rally clashed with Israeli forces in an adjacent village.
Several opposition politicians participated, notably including former coalition whip Idit Silman, who quit the government two weeks ago, and who some in the coalition were still hoping could be persuaded to return.
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