[HODHODYEMENNEWS] A total of 50 Yemeni fishermen arrived on Thursday in Al-Khoba port of Hodeidah province, after they were released from prisons of the Eritrean authorities.
Returning fishermen reported that they were kidnapped in Yemeni territorial waters by the boats of the Eritrean authorities and forcibly taken to the prisons of the State of Eritrea and detained for a period ranging from 25 to 50 days.
They added that their boats and equipment were confiscated before their arrest.
The fishermen appealed to all human rights organizations and activists to intervene urgently to stop the Eritrean authorities from attacking the Yemeni fishermen and their boats.
[Dawn] Since April last year Iraq has hosted five rounds of talks between 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 Iran.
Iran ...They hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... and Saudi Arabia are ready to move reconciliation talks to a higher level, more than a year after they began and six years after the two rivals severed relations, Iran’s foreign minister said on Thursday.
Since April last year Iraq has hosted five rounds of talks between Saudi Arabia and Iran, which support opposing sides in various conflicts around the region.
"Progress has been made in these negotiations," Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian said in an interview with Iran’s state broadcaster.
He added that last week Iran had received a message from Iraqi Foreign Minister Fuad Hussein who said "the Saudi side is ready to move the talks to the political and public level".
Iran’s top diplomat noted that previous rounds had mainly been at the level of security officials.
"We announced our readiness for the talks to enter the political stage," he said.
In 2016, protesters attacked Saudi diplomatic missions in Iran after the kingdom executed Shia holy man Nimr al Nimr. Riyadh responded by cutting ties with Tehran.
Amir-Abdollahian said he hoped that the negotiations with Riyadh would lead to "normal diplomatic ties between Saudi Arabia and the Islamic Theocratic Republic of Iran". Officials in Tehran have previously said that holding talks on a political level could yield better and faster results.
After the last round of negotiations in April, Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa Kadhemi said he believed that "reconciliation is near" between Riyadh and Tehran, a further reflection of shifting political alignments across the region.
Following the severance of ties between Iran and Saudi Arabia, Abu Dhabi downgraded diplomatic relations with Tehran and Kuwait recalled its ambassador. Last week the United Arab Emirates said it was "considering" appointing an ambassador in Tehran.
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Terrorists will be sent straight to special extremist wings in jails under new rules
Currently prisoners can only be moved to the units upon signs of radicalisation
The rule even applies to convicted terrorists who have history of preaching hate
Units for prisons’ most high-risk, radicalising terrorists were established in 2017 to stop extremists spreading their ideology to other inmates. Currently there are three such units in operation across the country, which held around ten terrorists earlier this year.
The Government is moving to expand the use of the units – known as separation centres – and has now changed the rules so that prisoners can be referred to the wings immediately after being sentenced in court.
Previously jail staff could apply to move extremists into the units as a last resort and only after spotting any tell-tale signs of radicalisation inside prison – even when a convicted terrorist has a long-documented history of preaching hate.
Among those who have been held in the units are a high-explosives bomb expert, an Islamic State fighter, and reportedly Hashem Abedi, who organised and directed the Manchester Arena bomb attack which killed 22 people in 2017.
Radical hate preacher Anjem Choudary, who was released in 2018, was one of the first prisoners to be held in the terror unit at HMP Frankland, near Durham.
A second unit at HMP Woodhill, Milton Keynes, is now fully operational, and a third specialist terror wing at HMP Full Sutton, near York, is on standby.
There are currently around 220 terrorist offenders in UK jails, with a similar number on an ‘at-risk’ radar over fears they could be radicalised, more than four-fifths of which are of Islamist ideology.
[IsraelTimes] Sabah newspaper publishes new details of June plan to target three Israeli tourists staying at hotel near Taksim Square; video allegedly shows suspect scouting location
New details of an alleged Iranian attempt to kill Israelis in Istanbul last month were published by Ottoman Turkish media on Saturday.
According to the Sabah daily newspaper, which is close to 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 there are in the White House, 400 more than in Versailles, and 325 more than Buckingham Palace, so you know who's really most important... , Iranian agents were instructed to target three Israeli tourists staying at a hotel near Istanbul’s Taksim Square, in exchange for $35,000.
A video published by Sabah showed a man photographing areas inside the hotel.
According to the paper, the four members of the cell were arrested on June 17, at the "last minute."
Local media on Friday reported that Ottoman Turkish security forces foiled another attempt by Iranian agents, on July 14.
The reports come a month after Israeli officials issued an urgent appeal to all citizens to leave Istanbul immediately, and reconsider non-essential travel to other parts of The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire... , warning that Iranian agents were ready to kidnap or kill Israelis there as Tehran seeks Dire Revenge for the killings of officers blamed on Israel.
[Dawn] The Counter-Terrorism Department on Friday released a sketch of the purported criminal mastermind of the Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... University suicide kaboom that had claimed life of three Chinese teachers and their local driver.
CTD official Raja Umer Khattab said that they considered the suspect, Zaib Brohi alias Zoib, as the ’criminal mastermind’ of the deadly suicide kaboom carried out by a woman and whose responsibility was claimed by the banned 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... Liberation Army.
He said with help of CCTV footage and held suspect Dad Bux,
...alternately spelt Daad Baksh, per Dron66046 in comments, below...
the Sherlocks had got prepared the sketch of Zaib by an artist.
"Zaib is an important character of the KU blast... in fact, he is the criminal mastermind,"he said.
Suspect Dad Bux, who facilitated the blast, was trained by Zaib in Afghanistan. "It was Zaib who has prepared the suicide jacket used in the blast," the official added.
In April, ajacket wallah'> exploding trollop female suicide bomber, Shari Baloch, detonated herself outside KU’s Confucius Institute killing three Chinese teachers and their local driver.
[Dawn] Decides to pursue matter in accordance with ’comprehensive security strategy’
A high-level military huddle on Friday discussed ’peace talks’ with the banned Tehrik-e-Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... Pakistain (TTP) and decided to pursue the matter in accordance with "comprehensive security strategy".
The national security meeting, chaired by Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee Gen Nadeem Raza, was attended by all three services chiefs — Chief of Army Staff Gen Qamar Javed Bajwa, Chief of Naval Staff Admiral Muhammad Amjad Khan Niazi and Chief of Air Staff Air Chief Marshal Zaheer Ahmed Baber Sidhu —, ISI Director General Lt Gen Nadeem Anjum, Beautiful Downtown Peshawar ...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistain's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire... Corps Commander Lt Gen Faiz Hamid, and other bigwigs.
Though the meeting carried the impression of a Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee session, it wasn’t one. A JCSC meeting would normally include the director general of Strategic Plans Division, and secretaries of ministries of defence and defence production, but none of them were there.
It was the first of such meetings, involving all the armed services, since the army-led talks with the turbans in Afghanistan assumed a public profile with briefings for politicians and the Parliamentary Committee on National Security on the issue by the army top brass.
"The forum was given a detailed briefing on review of national security situation specific to Western Border, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa and 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... ," the ISPR said about the meeting. It added that "fast-paced developments in the realm of strategic and conventional policies, the importance of peace in Afghanistan for sustainable development in the region and the operational preparedness of the armed forces" were also discussed.
The participants, the ISPR said, resolved to respond to "entire spectrum of threats" in accordance with the "comprehensive security strategy".
It apparently means that the approach would go beyond the usual ’kinetic strategy’ — an apparent reference to the peace talks.
The military leadership had told the politicianship at the earlier briefings that it wanted to give peace a chance, but would respond with full force if the TTP did not abide by the agreement that may be eventually concluded.
The meeting noted its "complete satisfaction" and "full confidence" in the readiness of all the three services.
The participants, the ISPR said, while reaffirming the resolve of the armed forces to befittingly respond to the threats, "lauded the sacrifices of security agencies in the fight against terrorism".
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[Rudaw] The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire... has breached 105 kilometers deep into the Iraqi borders, setting up over a hundred military outposts and five bases, read an Iraqi defense ministry report to the parliament on Saturday.
The Iraqi parliamentary meeting on Saturday discussed the latest Ottoman Turkish artillery shelling of a Zakho resort that killed nine Iraqi tourists and maimed 23 more.
"In today’s parliamentary meeting, the defense ministry read a report about the Ottoman Turkish attacks and military proceedings into Iraqi land, and according to the report, the Ottoman Turkish military has set up over a hundred military outposts and five bases in the Kurdistan Region and Iraq," MP Sherwan Dubardani told Rudaw.
Dubardani added that the report indicated that the Ottoman Turkish military has entered 105 kilometers deep into Iraqi lands and has over 4,000 soldiers inside the country.
Turkey launched its latest operation dubbed Operation Claw-Clock on April 18 targeting Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) hideouts in the mountainous areas of Metina, Zap, Avashin, and Basyan in Duhok province. The operation is the fourth stage of Ankara’s Claw operations against the PKK in the Kurdistan Region, with the first stage starting in 2019.
The PKK is an gang fighting for the increased rights of Kurds in Turkey and designated a terrorist organization by Ankara.
Despite Ankara's denial, the assaults have previously led to civilian casualties who are often caught in the crossfire in the Region.
The parliamentary meeting on Saturday comes after a shelling in Zakho, Duhok province killed nine Arab tourists and injured 22 others from Iraq’s central and southern provinces. Baghdad and Erbil have blamed the Ottoman Turkish army for the deadly attack while Ankara denied its involvement.
Iraqis have strongly condemned the Zakho attack through protests, attacks on Ottoman Turkish embassy in Baghdad and Ottoman Turkish visa application centres, calls to boycott Ottoman Turkish products and anti-Turkey hashtags on social media.
"According to the report, the shelling was carried out using 155mm artillery shells, which cannot be moved a lot in mountainous areas," Dubardani said, adding that according to the defense ministry, the direction of the shelling came from an area under the control of Ottoman Turkish military.
Iraqi protesters on Thursday called for the expulsion of Ottoman Turkish ambassador Ali Riza Guney from the country. The Iraqi foreign ministry said later in the day that it had summoned Guney and handed him a "strongly worded" protest letter.
The Iraqi government on Wednesday called on Turkey to withdraw all troops from the country. The government has also said it will take diplomatic measures against Ankara, including filing a complaint at the United Nations ...boodling on the grand scale... Security Council.
The deadly attack has been locally and globally condemned but most countries have avoided explicitly blaming Turkey or the PKK.
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[JPost] Sheikha Mai bint Mohammed Al Khalifa was dismissed by the Bahraini king after reportedly refusing to shake the hand of Israel's ambassador to Manama.
A top Bahraini official and member of the ruling family was dismissed from her position by the Bahraini king after she refused to shake hands with the Israeli ambassador to the Gulf state, Arab media outlet Rai al-Youm reported on Friday.
Sheikha Mai bint Mohammed Al Khalifa, Bahrain's Authority for Culture and Antiquities chief, reportedly refused to shake the hand of Eitan Na'eh, Israel's ambassador in Manama, during a funeral service for the father of US Ambassador Steven C. Bondy held last month.
Furthermore, Sheikha Mai left the funeral service when she was informed of Na'eh's presence and asked the US embassy to not publish any pictures of her attending the American ambassador's late father's funeral, according to the report.
The Bahraini royal family member, who has carried out official duties for more than 20 years, is a "controversial figure" in Bahrain, the report noted. She has previously served as the Bahraini information minister, the first woman to hold the office.
She also served as Bahrain's culture minister and was named the sixth most powerful Arab woman of 2014 in a list compiled by Forbes Middle East.
[IranNewsUpdate.com] On July 17, an ex-Iranian official threatened the international community with a potential nuclear bomb. In an interview with the Young Journalist Club (YJC) news agency, Mohammad Javad Larijani, a former judiciary official and a close ally to Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, said, “No one can prevent us from producing a nuclear weapon if Iran concludes to produce it.”
Speculating why the U.S. had abandoned a military approach against the regime, Larijani stated, “The United States’ policies are archaic, just like Biden’s age. They are incapable against us. Europe and the U.S. back Saudi Arabia with an unlimited amount of weapons; however, they are outmoded weapons that stuck Saudi Arabia in Yemen.”
Reacting to U.S. President Joe Biden’s trip to the Middle East, Larijani said that the U.S. and Israel signed an agreement and pledged together that “We will not allow Iran to obtain nuclear weapons.”
Larijani claimed, “Naturally, we have been prohibited from acquiring weapons of mass destruction, including atomic ones, based on the Supreme Leader’s fatwa. However, no one can stop us if we ever decide to do so.”
Larijani’s statement comes just as another former official explicitly revealed that the regime started nuclear activities to produce atomic weapons. On April 24, Ali Motahari, the former deputy speaker of the Iranian parliament [Majlis], said, “When we started nuclear activities, our goal was to make a bomb.”
ack in February 2021, former Minister of Intelligence and Security (MOIS) Mahmoud Alavi also threatened the West with producing nuclear weapons. In an interview with the state-run TV Channel Two, he said, “In his Fatwa, the Supreme Leader announced that the production of nuclear weapons is Haram [forbidden] and contrary to Sharia, and the Islamic Republic would not pursue them.”
Alavi laid the blame for producing nuclear weapons on the West, saying, “However, if [foreigners] caught a cat in an awkward corner, it may behave unlikely to a free cat. If they pushed Iran to that path, then it is not Iran’s fault.”
On the same day, former Foreign Affairs Minister and current chief of the Supreme Council of Foreign Relations Kamal Kharrazi reiterated similar threats. His remarks came following the U.S. President’s pledge about Tehran’s nuclear ambitions. He said, “The United States is committed to ensuring that Iran never gets a nuclear weapon.”
In an interview with Aljazeera, Kharrazi stated, “We have the technical capabilities to produce a nuclear bomb; however, we have yet to have such a decision. Iran would not negotiate about its missile programs and regional policies because it is equivalent to surrender.”
In a threat to the international community, he added, “We enriched uranium from 20 percent fissile purity to 60 percent only within a few days. We can easily reach it to 90 percent alike.”
In an interview with Al-Jazeera on June 7, Mohammad Eslami, the regime’s Atomic Energy Organization (IAEO) chief, did not reject the possibility of Iran enriching uranium at a 90 percent—weapons-grade level, highlighting that, “The decision to enrich at 90 percent depends on the relevant officials.”
In a nutshell, all evidence shows that the Iranian regime began and continued the nuclear projects to acquire at least an atomic bomb. The 2015 Iran nuclear deal, known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), failed to stop Tehran’s nuclear ambitions. Larijani stated, “The JCPOA slowed our nuclear abilities, but it would be rebuilt soon.”
Remarkably, former IAEO chief Ali Akbar Salehi had already revealed that Tehran never obeyed by JCPOA clauses. He said, “When UN watchdog spectators told us to pour cement into the calendrias… we said: ‘Fine. We will pour.’ But we did not tell them that we had other tubes. Otherwise, they would have told us to pour cement into those tubes as well. Now we have the same tubes.”
The international community should no longer compromise on the Iranian regime’s nuclear extortion. The mullahs have deceived the world, particularly the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), for a long while. Iranian dissidents have routinely emphasized, “The Iran regime only understands the language of power and firmness.”
As the regime continues to blackmail regional and global peace and security, world powers should, once and for all, hold the regime accountable for its constant attempts to acquire weapons of mass destruction, and refrain from encouraging its aggression with further concessions.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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...They hate 
...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 there are in the White House, 400 more than in Versailles, and 325 more than Buckingham Palace, so you know who's really most important...
...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistain's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire...
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire...
On July 17, an ex-Iranian official threatened the international community with a potential nuclear bomb. In an interview with the Young Journalist Club (YJC) news agency, Mohammad Javad 
