A study by the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), which advocates for cracking down on immigration overall, found that the undocumented immigrant population in the U.S. grew from 14.5 million in 2020 to 15.5 million now
The conservative group estimates cost the American taxpayer an additional $9.4 billion, up to $143.1 billion per year
FAIR attributed the rise in border apprehensions to both economic upturn at the end of the Covid-19 pandemic and new immigration policies under Biden
Tracking the number of unlawful migrants residing in the U.S. is a difficult task, and FAIR admits that any figure is going to be 'inexact'
The new estimate comes as migration at the southern border is surging again and in March 221,000 migrants were apprehended, nearly a 20-year high
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While eating out, I started listening to the HLS Sec. Mayorkas on a restaurant TV, while he was being interviewed (FOX).
When asked directly about the border situation, he provided a carefully worded, and ambiguous answer. something like 'We are managing the border situation'.
Leaving me to wonder if the 1,000,000+++ illegals in just 1 year were allowed in or slipped in, were Biden/LSD's Goal, or their failure?
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Local Congresscritter put out a survey asking what questions she should pose to Mayorkas during some dog and pony show or another. I doubt she'll use my suggestions... don't think her vocabulary runs in the same gutters...
A reminder that the big, relatively rich Shiite country next door is keeping an eye on their religious compatriots. Not to mention borrowing some of them for a few years to give them military training in faraway lands — perhaps they, too, will one day be Iranian catspaws striking out on Iran’s orders.
[ToloNews] Families of victims of the mosque blast in northern Mazar-e-Sharif city gained cash assistance from the Iranian Consulate General in Mazar-e-Sharif.
The twenty-three families who lost their loved ones received $500 dollars, and 63 families whose members were maimed received $300 dollars.
This follows a kaboom that targeted worshippers offering prayers in the She-Dokan Mosque in Mazar-e-Sharif on Thursday. More than 30 worshippers were killed, and 87 others were maimed in the blast.
The consulate general said that the families would receive food, medicine and clothes packages in addition to cash assistance.
"Today, a military aircraft is landing in Mazar-e-Sharif from Iran ...The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both... to bring humanitarian aid including food, medicine and clothes and we hope these will be distributed very correctly between families of the victims and needy people," said Sayed Hussain Yahyawe, head of the Consulate General.
The families gathered to receive the assistance and said that almost all of them are struggling with economic challenges.
Atta Mohammad, a resident of Mazar-e-Sharif, talked about the blast. "We had started prayers, it blew up, there was smoke and dust everywhere ... all were shocked and horrified," said Atta Mohammad.
Mohammad Aref, a resident of Mazar-e-Sharif, lost his 20-year-old son at the incident. Mohammad Aref called the blast a crime against humanity and stated that these incidents must come to an end.
"These incidents must be prevented, how long should people be martyred and suffer? People suffered for more than four decades," said Mohammad Aref.
Meanwhile, ...back at the barn, Bossy was furiously chewing her cud and thinking... the Ottoman Turkish Cooperation and Coordination Agency (TIKA) has provided food assistance to 350 needy families in Mazar-e-Sharif.
Families who received aid,said they lost their employment and are struggling with severe poverty. They asked for job opportunities to start work.
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[ToloNews] The Ministry of Vice and Virtue said it has formed local offices in order to investigate the problems of the people who complained about harassment from the forces of the Islamic Emirate.
“We’re the government and we’re here to help.”
The move comes after reports were published over harassment by individuals related to the Islamic Emirate.
“I see you made a complaint about my cousin’s son-in-law’s nephew Abdulmahmudullahaddin. That was a mistake, you say? I’ll just mark it as resolved, then.”
The ministry called on the people to file complains if they face any mistreatment by the Islamic Emirate forces.
"The responsibility of this department is to register the complaints of the people if they are being mistreated by our military," said Mohammad Sadeq Akis, a front man for the ministry.
Meanwhile, ...back at the the conspirators' cleverly concealed hideout the long-awaited message arrived. They quickly got to work with their decoder rings... Kabul residents called on the ministry to transparently probe the complaints of the people.
"When a soldier is doing his duty, he should consider that he is being monitored," said Najib Rahman, a resident of Kabul.
"(Those) who violated the general amnesty—which must be respected by the members of the Taliban ...mindless ferocity in a turban... -- should be brought to justice," said Mahmood Raghi, a political analyst.
That won’t help those already murdered and so forth by the turbans, but it’s a nice sentiment.
However, there's more than one way to stuff a chicken... analysts said that addressing discipline problems is the responsibility of the security institutions.
"Any kind of security and stability in the capital and in the provinces is the responsibility of the police and Ministry of Interior," said Samar Sadat, a military veteran.
This comes as citizens have voiced concerns over mistreatment at the hands of individuals related to the Islamic Emirate.
More kaffir funds donated to Talib Big Turban pockets.
[KhaamaPress] The United Nations ...boodling on the grand scale... Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA) in Afghanistan announced that the Netherlands has contributed an additional EUR 20 million for humanitarian purposes in Afghanistan.
The UNOCHA in a Twitter post on Tuesday, April 26, 2022, said that the money will be supporting emergency life-saving responses to assist the most vulnerable people in need in Afghanistan.
...whatever is left after various officials take their baksheesh.
As per the UN office, the Netherlands has contributed EUR 49 million to the Afghanistan humanitarian fund since 2016.
The assistance is good timing as Afghanistan is going through the worst humanitarian condition in its history with 24 million people in need of life-saving assistance while 95 of the population is under the poverty line.
Oddly enough, they didn’t have this problem before the Talibs took over last August. What could have made the difference?
[Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News] Send it all to the Ukraine Still, quite a bit of it is high maintenance, so by now that portion at least are become very, very large paperweights. Offer them to Putin
Pentagon report details billion of dollars in arms left in Afghanistan after exit
It was prepared for Congress, and obtained by CNN
It says $7 billion in hardware was left behind last year after chaotic withdrawal
That includes $1 billion of aircraft and some 22,000 military Humvees
The details will provide ammunition for critics who say President Biden should have done a better job of ensuring weapons did not fall into Taliban hands
Some 9,524 air-to-ground munitions were also left in the country
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Having worked around the DOD as a ITSEC consultant in the 80's and 90's. Even back then we had written instructions, processes & procedures on when and how, what to remove or destroy prior to bugout vs withdrawal?
What US DOD Leadership level idiot in Afghanistan allowed this?
Or was it a Hunter Biden type weasel looking at selling replacement parts and etc... later on?
[Garowe] Rebellious Tigrayan forces are fully withdrawing from the neighbouring area of Afar in Æthiopia, a spokesperson for the Tigrayan forces advised Rooters on Monday, saying he hoped it meant that desperately wanted meals support might lastly pour into famine-hit Tigray.
"Our forces have left all of Afar," Getachew Reda, a spokesperson for the Tigray Folks’s Liberation Entrance (TPLF), advised Rooters on Monday.
Afar’s police commissioner Ahmed Harif mentioned Tigrayan forces had withdrawn from the city of Abala however had been nonetheless in three of the area’s districts.
He mentioned the forces had been additionally accountable for the freeway between Abala and Tigray’s capital Mekelle, and that he was in contact with native officers and militias who had been protecting him up to date.
Authorities spokesperson Legesse Tulu couldn’t be reached for a remark.
Combating in northern Æthiopia, which started in November 2020 within the Tigray area and spilled over into Afar's final 12 months, has eased because the federal authorities declared a unilateral ceasefire final month, saying it will enable humanitarian support to enter.
Tigrayan forces mentioned they might respect the ceasefire so long as enough support was delivered to their area "inside cheap time".
Solely a trickle of support has made it into Tigray, the place greater than 90% of the inhabitants want meals support because the Æthiopian army pulled out at the finish of June after months of bloody festivities.
The United Nations ...an organization conceived in the belief that we're just one big happy world, with the sort of results you'd expect from such nonsense... has blamed forms and insecurity for blocking convoys and mentioned at least 100 vans of support are wanted to enter Tigray on daily basis.
Solely 144 vans have made it in because the ceasefire was introduced a month in the past, with the newest 74 arriving on Monday, in keeping with the U.N. World Meals Programme.
It was unclear if the pull-out was negotiated with the Æthiopian authorities.
The battle in northern Æthiopia has killed hundreds of civilians and displaced hundreds of thousands throughout three areas in Æthiopia and into neighboring Sudan.
The TPLF has accused Æthiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed of attempting to centralize energy at the expense of the areas and Abiy has accused the TPLF of attempting to regain nationwide energy — accusations either side has denied.
[LIBYAREVIEW] The United States (US) Embassy in Libya stated that they remain "deeply concerned by the continued oil shutdown, which is depriving Libyans of substantial revenue, contributing to increasing prices."In a statement, the US Embassy added that this could lead to electricity blackouts, water supply problems, and fuel shortages. "The damage the shutdown is causing to oil infrastructure will cost Libya additional millions, and risks an environmental disaster."
The statement stressed that the shutdown could impact the country’s ability to "utilize this infrastructure in the future to reach its full production potential."
The US embassy called on responsible leaders to "recognize that the shutdown harms Libyans throughout the country, and has repercussions across the global economy."
"The United States reminds Libyan leaders of the multiple UNSCR’s that protect the National Oil Corporation (NOC), and reaffirms our commitment to work with Libyan leaders on a mechanism that will give the Libyan people confidence that the country’s revenues are being distributed for the benefit of the Libyan people," it stated.
Prior to the shutdown, the United States had recommended "an incremental transfer of revenue, subject to monitoring and oversight by a Libyan-led financial mechanism. However, some people are alive only because it's illegal to kill them... Libyan leaders independently decided to make more substantial transfers," according to the statement.
"The US advised and continues to advise the creation of a temporary Libyan financial mechanism with broad support to address how Libya’s revenues should be spent, in the absence of an agreed national budget," the statement said.
"Such a mechanism could be used by Libyan authorities to give the Libyan people confidence regarding how oil revenues from the NOC would be used. As well as to prevent the diversion of funds for partisan political purposes that could undermine Libya’s peace and security. We recommend the mechanism be designed to allow Libyans to ensure the payment of critical expenditures for the people, with the highest degree of transparency. In order to build trust, all parties must know when and to whom funds are transferred to finance the agreed expenditures," It added.
The Embassy underscored that "Libya’s wealth should serve Libyans throughout the country — no outsider should decide the fate of Libyan resources. Any mechanism must only allow an avenue for Libyans to find agreement among themselves, and avoid unnecessary economic disruptions that only serve to hurt all Libyans."
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Yemen’s Presidential Leadership Council President Dr. Rashad al-Alimi arrived in Saudi Arabia’s Jeddah on Wednesday, the official Saudi Press Agency (SPA) reported.
Mecca’s governor Prince Khaled al-Faisal, the Kingdom’s ambassador to Yemen Mohammed al-Jaber and other officials received Alimi at King Abdulaziz International Airport, the report added.
Al-Alimi was picked to head the eight-man leadership council, which assumed power from former President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadii earlier this month.
On April 19, the council performed a largely symbolic swearing-in in Aden in front of members of a parliament elected in 2003.
A fragile, UN-brokered truce has been holding since April 2, the start of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, providing a rare respite from fighting.
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[HODHODYEMENNEWS.NET] Great Britannia has sent new military reinforcements to the 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 coasts, in conjunction with the presence of the United States and other Western powers involved in Yemeni territorial waters, in recent weeks.
The account of the Combined Maritime Forces in the Gulf said on Twitter that the British frigate T-23 arrived in the Arabian Gulf, confirming that the British battleship began its missions on April 20.
The Combined Maritime forces indicated that the frigate would work to support the joint task force known as CTF, conducting maritime navigation in the region.
The British move comes at a time when the United States is reinforcing its presence with the mutual Western powers in the Yemeni territorial waters, in recent weeks, after American forces conducted joint naval patrols in the Red Sea and Arab Sea.
These developments also came in light of British efforts to restore its colonial role in the southern provinces under the cover of the Saudi-Emirati coalition, after establishing an illegal military base in Mahrah, in the east of the country.
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[Breitbart] Britannia’s Justice Tsar was greeted by shouts of ’Allahu Akbar’ on a visit to a UK prison, in which Islamists are now said to be running amok.
Islamists are reportedly running riot within Britannia’s prison system, frequently being left alone by staff who apparently fear accusations of racism or homophobia should they try and restore order. homophobia?
Such are the findings of a report on the prevalence of terrorist behaviour in UK prisons, which has released not long after Britannia’s deputy Prime Minister and Justice Tsar, Dominic Raab, was reportedly greeted by chants of "Allahu Akbar" while visiting Woodhill Prison in England.
According to a report by The Times, prisoners greeted Conservative Party bigwig with the Islamist-linked slogan during his visit to the facility, the purpose of which was to promise harsher action on extremism within the UK’s incarceration system.
Such action seems to be badly needed, with an independent report finding that hard boyMoslemhard boyz are obtaining ever-greater control over prison life, with unofficial "emirs" or Islamist commanders becoming de facto decision-makers within jails with which actual prison staff are forced to routinely cooperate with.
According to the report, these Islamist hard boyz are exercising soft power in prisons so as to exclude fellow inmates who don’t live according to their rules from prison amenities, such as kitchens and showers.
Such radical Moslems have even become so powerful as to be able to hold their own sharia courts behind bars, with floggings reportedly being conducted as punishment for rulebreakers.
This status quo is somehow maintained, according to the report, with "insincere allegations of racism and Islamophobia ...the irrational fear that Moslems will act the way they usually do... " directed toward staff who attempt to intervene, who often back down for fear of being labelled a bigot.
"HMPPS officials sometimes doubt the extent to which it is possible to distinguish terrorist risk behaviour from other behaviour," the report reads. "They worry about making false assumptions based on a lack of cultural familiarity with Islam or Moslems."
The report concludes by recommending that the process of using so-called "separation centres" — which see hard boyz cut off from the rest of the prison population — should be streamlined so as to reduce terror-related risk in prisons, and that staff should receive more training to recognise danger signs.
In response to the crisis behind bars in Britannia, authorities look set to attempt a clampdown on Islamist radicals.
While current human rights When they're defined by the state or an NGO they don't mean much... law in the UK is seemingly making it difficult to use "separation centres" effectively, the Conservative Party look set to curb protections in the hopes of combating Islamism in prisons.
Warning that such hard boyz "will poison the well, they will radicalise if they’re left in general population", Raab said that he and his colleagues would stop inmates from using "cultural and religious sensitivities" to exercise control and recruit more terrorists.
"We must nip in the bud the kind of coercive controlling behaviour by hard boyz which can lead to radicalisation and terrorism," the Deputy PM told Sky News, before saying that he wants to take away the right of radical prisoners to socialise with their fellow inmates.
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Same reason Democrats want illegal aliens in America. But Hispanic voters are getting wise and leaving the Democrat party. I don't think we can count on that ever happening with the Muslims in Europe.
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Interesting candor from an Indian source.
"Muslim Population is increasing rapidly in secular democratic nations while being restricted in Muslim countries because they have nothing to conquer. They grow to outnumber the Kaffirs and then impose Sharia law or Islamic control in the nation...
[Breitbart] The Spanish government has revoked the nationality of 78 babies from Moroccan mothers who gave birth in a Spanish North African exclave and lied about the father of their child being Spanish.
The women were clients of an organised criminal group which paid men of Spanish nationality to sign documentation declaring themselves the father of the babies after they were born in the North African city of Melilla, in order that the children to receive Spanish nationality.
The women are said to have entered Melilla before giving birth and were put in contact with men of Spanish nationality by the criminal network, with the men being paid between €1,500 and €3,000 (£1,261-£2523/$1,607-$3215) for stating they were the biological father of the children at the Civil Registry of Melilla, newspaper El Pais reports.
By their children attaining Spanish nationality, the women were then allowed to apply for residency themselves in Spain and police say that, in turn, allowed for family reunification and the children’s real fathers could be brought to Spain later as well.
While police say they do not know how long the criminal network has been operating, they say that at least 117 people, including fake fathers, mothers and intermediaries, were involved in the network. So far 79 people have been arrested and 38 others remain wanted and on the lam. Additionally, 78 babies have had their citizenships revoked after the fraud was detected.
Melilla, which borders Morocco and is one of the two Spanish exclaves on the African mainland, has seen multiple attempts by illegal immigrants colonists in recent years to climb the high fences of the city and make an attempt to claim asylum in Spain.
Earlier this year in March, a group of around 1,200 illegals attempted to climb the 20-foot high barrier, with 380 migrants colonists successfully scaling the border barrier and gaining access to Spanish territory.
Not all illegal immigrants colonists attempt to scale the walls, however. In February, five suspected members of a people trafficking network were charged for helping migrants colonists sneak into the city by boat, with migrants colonists being charged €4,000 (£3,370/$4,566) or more for the trip.
[Rudaw] Around 50 square kilometers of woodland have been damaged in Duhok in 2021 due to the conflict between The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor... and the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), the head of Duhok’s forestry and agriculture directory told Rudaw on Wednesday, as he lamented the destruction of the Region’s forests.
For years, Duhok has played host to the decades-long conflict between the PKK and Turkey in the Kurdistan Region, being the subject of constant bombardment and other offenses that have harmed Duhok, its people, and its environment greatly.
Kawa Sabri, head of Duhok’s forestry and agriculture directory, told Rudaw on Wednesday that some 18-20,000 dunams (between 45 and 50 square kilometers) of forest and over 1,200 dunams (three square kilometers) of agricultural fields in Duhok - from the Zakho border to Amedi - were damaged last year due to the continuous conflict. An Iraqi dunam is roughly 2,500 square meters.
[Rudaw] Jean-Nicolas Beuze, the UNHCR Representative in Iraq since November 2021, spoke to Rudaw last week about the situation of Syrian refugees in the Kurdistan Region, praising the recent move to integrate children into the Region’s public schools, and warning of both the agency’s limited humanitarian funding, and the fraud schemes targeting some of the most vulnerable.
The Syrian conflict has displaced over 240,000 Syrians of Kurdish origin to the Kurdistan Region, mainly from northeast Syria (Rojava), and the UN Refugee Agency official opened the interview by commending the Region for welcoming so many, and providing them with a safe place to "rebuild" their lives.
"Over the last ten years, their children have been able to go to school, sick patients have been able to have access to medical care, and a lot of Syrians have found jobs'' in Erbil, Duhok, and Sulaimani, the official told Rudaw’s Dilbixwin Dara. "The Kurdish and Iraqi people have shown a lot of compassion, a lot of empathy [and] a lot of support for their refugee brothers and sisters."
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[IsraelTimes] Teenagers raise posters of placed in durance vile Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out! Paleostinian Death Eaters who plotted Second Intifada attacks alongside local PA officials
Paleostinian Authority education officials in the West Bank governorate of Tulkarem last week held an event for high school girls supporting Paleostinian security prisoners in Israeli jails, including some who criminal masterminded deadly terror attacks against Israelis.
Local politicians turned out at the Adawiya Girls High School in the city to found a garden in honor of Paleostinian prisoners. Teenage girls were given posters to express their support for the placed in durance vile Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out! Paleostinians.
Many of the Paleostinians in question were convicted of deadly attacks. One of the teenage girls photographed with the officials held a poster in support of convicted Paleostinian terrorist Abbas al-Sayed, who is serving 35 life sentences in Israeli prison for his role in plotting attacks against Israelis.
Al-Sayed is particularly notorious for helping to plot the 2002 Netanya Park Hotelsuicide kaboom that left 30 civilians dead and 140 maimed. The attack was one of the bloodiest in the Second Intifada.
"Because you are free — support their freedom," the poster read, next to a stylized drawing of al-Sayed.
Other students supportively held photos of other convicted terrorists, including Nasser Abu Hmeid, whom Israel says was responsible for the murder of seven Israelis in separate attacks.
The activity was exposed by Paleostinian Media Watch, which monitors incitement to violence and hate speech in Paleostinian media.
As part of the PA-sponsored event, the Tulkarem high school students also paid homage to the six Paleostinian security prisoners who last year participated in a jailbreak that captured the attention of both Israelis and Paleostinians. Some of the runaways had unrepentantly confessed to involvement in attacks on Israeli soldiers and civilians.
Israel has repeatedly denounced what it considers incitement to terror and hate speech in Paleostinian media and textbooks. American and European politicians have also held hearings on the matter.
The Paleostinian Authority says that its media and curricula content reflect the national narrative and do not constitute hate speech.
The European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... , the PA’s largest donor, has become embroiled in months-long bureaucratic deadlock over whether to condition a small fraction of its aid to Ramallah on changes to PA education materials. Although European and Paleostinian officials have repeatedly met in recent month, there has yet to be a solution to the freeze in aid.
[IsraelTimes] Police say mass prayer event for Qadr Night proceeds as planned; thousands of officers deployed to Jerusalem’s Old City amid high tensions in recent weeks.
Over 100,000 Moslem worshippers took part in mass prayers on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem Wednesday evening on one of the few remaining nights before the end of the Moslem holy month of Ramadan on May 1.
Worshippers were gathered on Wednesday night for Laylat al-Qadr (Night of Destiny) when Moslems believe the first verses of the Koran were revealed to Muhammad. Worshipers gather for intense nighttime prayers at the al-Aqsa Mosque.
Thousands of police were deployed to Jerusalem’s Old City ahead of the prayers Wednesday and into Thursday on the compound, where officials have been trying to prevent a flare-up of violence for several weeks.
Israel Police Commissioner Kobi Shabtai held a security assessment with Jerusalem police officials Wednesday evening, according to the Israel Police. The prayers were proceeding as planned, the police said.
[BenarNews] President Rodrigo Duterte signed a law this month that sets up a board to compensate people who lost their homes in Marawi during a five-month battle after Islamic holy warriors seized the southern Philippine city in 2017, his front man said Wednesday.
Street fighting between government forces and pro-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.... holy warriors, combined with aerial bombardments by the military, left much of this once-picturesque lakeside city in ruins.
Nearly five years after the military ended the siege and killed top holy warriors who led it, sections of Marawi — the only predominantly Moslem city in the majority-Catholic Philippines — remain uninhabitable. Thousands of families live in transitional shelters.
They’ve been thoroughly punished enough for hosting the local branch of ISIS. Perhaps next time they’ll push back against the jihadis.
"President Duterte has signed Republic Act 11696 which gives compensation to those who lost their property and those who lost lives in the 2017 Marawi siege," acting presidential front man Martin Andanar told news hounds on Wednesday.
The law, which Duterte signed two weeks ago, allows the creation of a nine-member compensation board, but it does not state a figure for how much money Marawi residents could receive to compensate them for homes or properties destroyed during the fighting.
"According to this law, an independent and quasi-judicial body called Marawi Compensation Board will be created and will have a chairman and eight members which will be appointed by the president," he said.
More than 1,200 holy warriors, soldiers, police and non-combatants were killed when Islamic State holy warriors from the Middle East and Southeast Asia joined Filipino fighters who took over Marawi in May 2017. Government forces reclaimed the city in late October that year.
In January, the Philippine Senate passed its version of the act after the House passed similar legislation that were reconciled and sent to Duterte. The reconciled act did not specify amounts to be awarded or the number of people who would benefit from it.
The president signed the law on April 13, barely two months before he will be required to leave office at the end of June. Voters are to go to the polls on May 9 to elect his successor along with 12 members of the Senate, all 316 members of the House of Representatives as well as thousands of officials, who range from governors and mayors to village chiefs and council members.
[Rudaw] Nine children in northeast Syria (Rojava) have been killed and many others maimed due to attacks by Ottoman Turkish armed forces since the beginning of the year, according to local media reports published on Wednesday, as The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor... continues to intensify its military offenses.
Turkey often targets Rojava, killing and injuring civilians and security forces, and has conducted several military operations in the area since 2016. It claims that the People’s Protection Units (YPG), the backbone of the SDF, is the Syrian offshoot of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) — an gang struggling for the increased rights of Kurds in Turkey and considered a terrorist organization by Ankara.
A human rights ...which are often intentionally defined so widely as to be meaningless... watchdog from Rojava’s Jazira region stated that the attacks are continuing and intensifying as a result of the silence and lack of action on behalf of the international community and rights groups. Human Rights Organization Jazeera, a rights group which calls itself independent and claims to have no political affiliation, also called for international recognition of Ottoman Turkish occupation of Syrian land, and for the country to be held accountable.
"The hostile acts committed by Turkey and its transgression of Syrian land is a clear occupation, which must be recognized internationally and hold it accountable for all the war crimes it committed against the safe Syrian civilians inside their lands," Hawar News Agency (ANHA), a media outlet affiliated with Kurdish authorities in Rojava, cited Aveen Jumaa, head of the rights watchdog as saying.
The outlet also reported that nine children have been killed and 24 others maimed in suspected Ottoman Turkish attacks on the districts of Ain Issa, Zirgan, and Tel Tamer in 2022, also reporting 21 women killed and maimed.
Jumaa added that international committees and rights groups condemn the violations committed in the area, but do not explicitly condemn the Ottoman Turkish state "despite their actual participation in them."
Gire Spi (Tal Abyad) and the neighboring Sari Kani (Ras al-Ain) were controlled by the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), until Turkey and its Syrian proxies invaded in October 2019. Both towns were Kurdish-majority, but most people of the ethnicity have fled to other areas under the control of the SDF.
Sari Kani and Gire Spi now lie at opposite ends of a resulting ’buffer zone’ under the control of Ottoman Turkish-backed militias.
[IsraelTimes] A delegation of bigwigs from 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 an iron fist by Hamaswith 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... -ruling Hamas, the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood, terror group is visiting Tehran, according to Iran’s official news agency.
The IRNA report says the delegation is being led by Khalil al-Hayya and will attend a meeting tomorrow on "the latest status of the Paleostinian nation’s resistance."
[AlArabiya] Iran ...Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979... and China have agreed to expand their military cooperation, Iran’s top military commander said on Wednesday during a visit by the Chinese defense minister to Tehran.
China’s Minister of National Defense Wei Fenghe met with senior Iranian officials in Tehran, including President Ebrahim Raisi.
"In [Wednesday’s] meeting with the Chinese minister of defense, we agreed to expand bilateral cooperation in joint military drills, exchange of strategies, training issues and other common fields between the two countries’ armed forces so that we can provide better security for the two countries’ territories," Maj. Gen. Mohammad Bagheri, chief of staff of Iran’s armed forces, told news hounds in Tehran after meeting with Wei.
Military ties between Iran and China have deepened in recent years. In January, the two countries, along with Russia, held their third joint naval drills since 2019 in the northern Indian Ocean.
Raisi described Tehran-Beijing ties as "strategic" in his meeting with Wei.
"We pursue these strategic relations [with China] regardless of international developments and based on mutual political trust, and the successful implementation of the 25-year comprehensive cooperation agreement is a priority in this regard," state news agency IRNA quoted Raisi as saying.
In 2021, Iran and China signed a 25-year cooperation agreement to strengthen economic and political relations.
Wei’s visit to Tehran came as talks between Iran and world powers aimed at reviving the abandoned 2015 nuclear deal, of which China is a signatory, have stalled.
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#Lebanon’s efforts to secure $3 billion in #IMF support to help it tackle its financial crisis could be derailed by divisions over how to deal with massive financial sector losses, the economy minister says.https://t.co/UysSCWkrq3
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
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Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
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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.
...The word 
...mindless ferocity in a turban...
...the irrational fear that Moslems will act the way they usually do...
...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor...
...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing...
...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 
...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor...
...Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979...
