[ToloNews] The Ministry of Refugees and Repatriation (MoRR), said that more than 800,000 Afghans returned from Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. 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. They hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... over the last year.
400,000 of these immigrants colonists have been forcefully returned to the nation, according to Abdul Mutalib Haqqani, the spokesperson for the ministry.
The ministry added that these immigrants colonists were expelled from Iran due to illegal immigration and a lack of documents.
"In the last year, 820,000 immigrants colonists from Iran returned to the nation, of which 400,000 were forcibly returned and the rest returned voluntarily," said Mutalib.
Meanwhile, ...back at the chili cook-off, Chuck slipped the habañero into the roasted jalapeño... some citizens consider poverty and unemployment as the main cause of illegal immigration and asked the Islamic Emirate to provide employment opportunities for them.
"I'm a university graduate, I don't have work, and the economic condition is very severe, therefore I have to go," said Mohammad Zia, a resident of Kabul.
"I ask the Islamic Emirate to provide employment opportunities for youth inside the country, so they can work inside their community," said Khaliq Dad, another resident of Kabul.
According to certain immigration screeching muppets, migrants colonists face several issues along this path, including robbery and hostage-taking.
"To get out of this situation, it is essential that we develop a plan and fundamental solutions for a sort of legal immigration," said Asifa Stanekzai, an screeching muppet for immigrant rights in Iran.
Previously, the Iranian embassy in Afghanistan, said that more than 6 million immigrants colonists from Afghanistan reside in Iran, and about 2 million of them lack proper documentation for residency.
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[ArianaNews] The Islamic Emirate’s front man Zabihullah Mujahid says ISIS has been destroyed by the security forces in the country and is not as big a threat as it was a year ago.
In a recent interview with Voice of America, Pashto, Mujahid said that the Afghan cops "since August 2021, have arrested and imprisoned around 1,600 to 1,700 ISISholy warriors and have killed more than 1,100."
I wonder what the real numbers are...
The remarks came as the IEA usually downplays the presence and the threat of ISISholy warriors in Afghanistan.
Mujahid said ISIS hideouts had been destroyed across the country, including in Zabul, Kunar and Jawzjan provinces, and that ISIS fighters were mostly supported by the previous government. Some of them beat feet from the prisons during the regime change.
However, you can observe a lot just by watching... he added that the Afghan cops either killed, arrested, or imprisoned them.
ISIS has grabbed credit for a number of attacks in the past few months including one last month close to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, which left six people dead and dozens maimed.
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[KhaamaPress] A child was killed and three others injured when an Improvised Explosive Devise (IED) went kaboom! in Southern Zabul province, according to local sources.
The explosion caused by an IED of past wars resulted in the death of one child and the injury of three others in the Sarkhakan area of the Shah Joi district of Zabul province on Friday evening, Qari Zabiullah Jawhar, the provincial police front man said.
It is reported that a group of children from nomad families were playing next to a tractor in a field when the bomb went off, killing one and injuring three others.
On Tuesday (March 28), a similar blast claimed the lives of two children and injured four others in the northern Jawzjan province according to local sources.
In recent days, the incidents caused by the earth-shattering kabooms of unwent kaboom! devices have increased in some parts of the country, resulting in the death injury of men, women and kiddies.
Afghanistan reportedly is one of the most mine-contaminated countries in the world. Dozens of people, mostly children, are killed and maimed every month due to blasts of unwent kaboom! ordnances left over from the past four decades of wars and internal conflicts.
Despite the efforts of 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... Mine Action Services (UNMAS) in direct collaboration with UNAMA and other relevant government bodies, the presence of land mines and unwent kaboom! devices poses major threats to the lives of ordinary people.
Since November 2022, Afghanistan’s international partners have generously contributed to support demining in the country. These countries include Australia, Denmark, Germany, Japan, Sweden, the United States of America, the United Kingdom, the UN Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF) and the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA).
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[KavkazUzel] Detained in Ukraine, a native of Dagestan, Imangazali Magomedov, asked to be deported to a third country, considering it unsafe to return to Russia.
The "Caucasian Knot" has reported that on March 29 it became known that a court in the Sumy region of Ukraine extended 43-year-old Imangazali Magomedov's stay in the deportation center for six months. Magomedov decided to appeal this decision.
Imangazali Magomedov crossed the border with Ukraine in the summer of 2022 to escape from administrative supervision in Russia and was detained by Ukrainian border guards. According to him, he twice applied for asylum in Ukraine, but the migration service refused to consider his applications. Magomedov explained the decision to leave Russia by the pressure of the security official, who demanded to cooperate and "inform on Muslims", threatening to "imprison" otherwise.
Imangazali Magomedov is seeking deportation not to Russia, but to another country that is safe for him, said Valery Yakovenko, program coordinator for the Just Cause human rights association from Odessa.
The human rights activist explained that the migration service of Ukraine refused to accept Magomedov's documents, referring to his Russian citizenship, and the court approved this decision.
"The court refers to far-fetched arguments, in particular, that Magomedov did not personally file a complaint. But he could not do this, since he is under arrest in a deportation center," Kavkaz.Realii quoted Yakovenko today as saying.
In connection with the threat of returning to Russia, Magomedov wrote an application for deportation to a third country, where he can apply for refugee status, the human rights activist noted.
“Considering that in the country of my nationality there is a threat for me to become a victim of persecution on the grounds of race, religion and political opinion, the existence of an established fact by the decision of the European Court of Human Rights of the use of torture and other cruel, inhuman and degrading acts against me by the authorities of the Russian Federation types of treatment, I cannot return to the Russian Federation or enjoy the protection of the country of my nationality," Magomedov said in a statement.
Recall that on June 2, 2014, the security forces detained Magomedov in the Kizlyar district after searches in his house and the house of his mother. During the searches, according to the investigation, a pistol and cartridges were found in Magomedov's car. The defendant's lawyer stated that her client was beaten .
In March 2015, the Kizlyar District Court sentenced Imangazali Magomedov to seven years in prison, finding him guilty of aiding militants and illegal possession of drugs and weapons. The convict himself pleaded guilty only to illegal possession of weapons. His defense appealed the verdict, but the Supreme Court of Dagestan upheld the verdict.
In October 2022, the ECtHR recognized that Imangazali Magomedov suffered from torture by the security forces, and decided to pay him compensation of 33.8 thousand euros.
On September 16, 2022, Russia ceased to be a party to the European Convention on Human Rights. However, the ECtHR stated that it retains competence to consider applications directed against the Russian Federation, provided that they took place before that day. Earlier, on March 16, 2022, it became known that due to Russia's withdrawal from the Council of Europe, the ECtHR suspended consideration of complaints from Russia. At the same time, cases that were received from Russians at the ECHR before March 16, 2022, should be considered, and decisions made before that date should be executed, analysts interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" pointed out.
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[KavkazUzel] Relatives of a resident of Ingushetia, Mikail Moshkhoev, after the statements of the security forces that he was put on the wanted list in connection with the planning of a terrorist attack, excluded him from their teip. Relatives of Amirkhan Gurazhev stated that they were not involved in his actions and did not support him if he was involved in something illegal.
“Wudn’t us. Please don’t hurt us!”
The "Caucasian Knot" has reported that on March 29, after the attack on the traffic police post, the FSB department for Ingushetia announced the search for four residents of the republic - Mikail Moshkhoev, Ramazan Eldiev, Amir Bokov and Amirkhan Gurazhev - in connection with the preparation of terrorist acts . On the same day, it became known that Ramazan Eldiev was found dead on the morning of March 29.
Today, the FSB announced that law enforcement officers are looking for not only Moshkhoev, Bokov and Gurazhev, but also Adam Ozdoev and Movsar Kottoev in the case of planning terrorist attacks. All five are suspected by the security forces of involvement in the attack on the traffic police post.
Two law enforcement officers were injured in an armed attack on the Volga-24 traffic police post located on the border of Ingushetia and North Ossetia. This incident was the first attack on the security forces in North Ossetia in almost nine months. The "Caucasian Knot" maintains the "North Caucasus - victims statistics" section, where it collects information about the victims of the armed conflict in the North Caucasus.
The relatives of Mikail Moshkhoev, a resident of Ingushetia, put on the wanted list, excluded him from their teip. Their appeal was published on the YouTube channel "Weinach Dog" on March 29.
"Mikail did not coordinate any of his actions with us, and he does not obey us: neither the teip, nor his father. Therefore, today, even if it’s hard, we exclude him from our teip. And we are not responsible for any of his actions," are given words of relatives of Mikail Moshkhoev in today's publication on the Fortanga website.
Relatives of Amirkhan Gurazhev, who is wanted by the security forces, refused to be responsible for his actions if it turned out that he had done something illegal, follows from a video message published on March 31 in the News_Ingushetii Instagram* public.
According to one of Gurazhev's relatives, on March 26, Amirkhan left the house and since then his whereabouts have been unknown to his relatives. "We do not know where he went, and he did not ask us for permission about this. We want to inform the public if he does any harm, we do not support this and are not involved in this. If someone finds out that he is planning or committing some kind of atrocity, we ask you to inform us about this. We guarantee anonymity, "Fortanga translated a fragment of Gurazhev's video message into Russian in her Telegram channel.
On March 28, the Telegram channel "Search of Ingushetia" published a video in which Ingush families declared their disappearancetheir relatives. The first part of the video shows a recording of three elderly men, one of them says. "Yesterday, after the evening prayer, our relative, a young man named Mikail Akhmedovich Moshkhoev, left the house in a car (nine) at number 481. There is no information about his whereabouts to this day. If anyone knows where he is, or I saw him after the time we noted, we kindly ask you to inform us urgently," the "Caucasian Knot" translated the man's words.
The date the recording was made is not shown on the video. In the second part of the video, the relatives of Amir Bokov made a statement. "My cousin Amir Bagaudinovich Bokov and his friends left the other day to who knows where, none of the relatives know anything about it, there are only talks," the "Caucasian Knot" translated the words of one of the men.
The "Caucasian Knot" also wrote that on March 29, representatives of the Bokov teip published a video message with a call to provide any information about their relative Amir Bokov.
"We appeal to everyone who knows anything, help us with information about him," Fortanga translated the words of one of the men in the video. Bokov's relatives combed the forest area and urged him to surrender over the loudspeaker .
On March 31, after reports that one of the suspects in the attack on the traffic police post, Ramzan Eldiev, was found dead, Eldiev's audio message to the sisters was published. "Thank you for raising me and looking after me. Sisters, there is no reason to worry about me. No one forced me to do anything, and I do this not for material reward. You know me and know that I did not need in money. What I want to do is my duty, which Allah has placed on me," the message, which was translated by Fortanga, said.
The attack on the traffic police post took place on the border of the two republics, but on the territory of North Ossetia. "The attack was carried out on a police post located on the territory of North Ossetia at the intersection of the Nazran-Kantyshevo and Malgobek-Maiskoye highways," the investigative department of the ICR for North Ossetia said.
In the message of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for Ingushetia, it is said that "Volga-14 post", located near the village of Kantyshevo, Nazranovsky district of Ingushetia, was fired from machine guns. The Ministry of Internal Affairs for Ingushetia also published a video of a fired traffic police post on its website. It follows from this video that the checkpoint is indeed located at the crossroads of the Nazran-Kantyshevo and Malgobek-Maiskoye highways, next to a mosque, a gas station, and a building materials store. According to the Yandex.Maps service, the traffic police post is located (coordinates 43.217256, 44.697542) on the territory of North Ossetia.
Five residents of Ingushetia are wanted on suspicion of planning terrorist attacks, the FSB department said and gave their names, although the department had previously named the names of four wanted people.
The "Caucasian Knot" has reported that on March 29, the department of the FSB for Ingushetia announced the search for four residents of the republic - Mikail Moshkhoev, Ramazan Eldiev, Amir Bokov and Amirkhan Gurazhev - in connection with the preparation of terrorist acts. Law enforcement sources said that these people are also suspected of involvement in the attack on the traffic police post. On the same day, it became known that Ramazan Eldiev was found dead on the morning of March 29.
Two law enforcement officers were injured in an armed attack on the Volga-24 traffic police post located on the border of Ingushetia and North Ossetia. This incident was the first attack on the security forces in North Ossetia in almost nine months. After the incident, the Ministry of Internal Affairs announced the strengthening of security measures in the republic.
In addition to Mikail Moshkhoev, Amir Bokov, Amirkhan Gurazhev, two more residents of Ingushetia, also suspected of planning terrorist attacks, are on the wanted list: Adam Ozdoev and Movsar Kottoev, the Internet newspaper Ingushetia reports today with reference to the press service of the republican department of the FSB.
The security forces believe that all these people may be involved in an armed attack on a traffic police post, an informed source said. "All the wanted persons are suspected of shelling a traffic police post. In addition, there is information about the wounding of one of the members of an illegal armed formation in the leg during a shootout with security forces, who returned fire on the attackers. People saw him with a bandaged leg. Perhaps the list of suspects will expand along the chain, complex work is being carried out in this direction," the publication quotes him as saying.
Two police officers wounded in the shelling of the post have already been discharged from the republican hospital in Nazran for outpatient treatment, the publication says.
Initially, the security forces were looking for six people, but one of the wanted people was found dead in Karabulak on the morning of March 29, Interfax-South reported on the night of April 1.
In the North Caucasus, police posts have been operating on the administrative borders of the republics for decades. In 2018, Ramzan Kadyrov came up with the idea to remove these checkpoints, although in fact in Chechnya at that time not only the checkpoints were not liquidated, but new buildings were erected for them. Kadyrov's proposal gave rise to a lengthy discussion, the "Caucasian Knot" report says, "The main thing about the checkpoints dividing the North Caucasus."
Recall that on March 29, representatives of the Bokov teip published a video message with a call to provide any information about their relative Amir Bokov, son of Badruddin Bokov. "We appeal to everyone who knows anything, help us with information about him," Fortanga translated the words of one of the men in the video. Bokov's relatives combed the forest area and urged him to surrender over the loudspeaker .
Earlier, on March 28, the Telegram channel "Search of Ingushetia" published a video in which Ingush families announced the disappearance of their relatives. The first part of the video shows a recording of three elderly men, one of them says. "Yesterday, after the evening prayer, our relative, a young man named Mikail Akhmedovich Moshkhoev, left the house in a car (nine) at number 481. There is no information about his whereabouts to this day. If anyone knows where he is, or I saw him after the time we noted, we kindly ask you to inform us urgently," the "Caucasian Knot" translated the man's words. The date the recording was made is not shown on the video.
In the second part of the video, the relatives of Amir Bokov made a statement. "My cousin Amir Bagaudinovich Bokov and his friends left the other day to who knows where, none of the relatives know anything about it, there are only talks," the "Caucasian Knot" translated the words of one of the men.
On March 31, an audio message was published on behalf of Ramazan Eldiev to the sisters. "Thank you for raising me and looking after me. Sisters, there is no reason to worry about me. No one forced me to do anything, and I do this not for material reward. You know me and know that I did not need in money. What I want to do is my duty, which Allah has placed on me," the message, which was translated by Fortanga, said.
The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire... ’s Foreign Ministry summoned Danish Ambassador Danny Annan over "an attack targeting Koran and Ottoman Turkish flag" at a public demonstration in Denmark.
The ministry said in a written statement that it strongly condemned and protested the "heinous act committed under the guise of freedom of expression", which is "unacceptable".
The statement came after Ottoman Turkish media reported that members of the Danish far-right group The Patriots Go Live
...in Danish Patrioterne Går Live...
displayed Islamophobic banners and chanted anti-Islam slogans in front of the Ottoman Turkish Embassy in Denmark’s capital of Copenhagen earlier on Friday, Xinhua news agency reported.
This is the work of Rasmus Paludan, who burnt a Koran in Sweden on January 21, repeated in Copenhagen on March 24, and vowed to continue every Friday until Sweden is admitted into NATO...
The protest was live broadcasted on the group’s Facebook page, local TV network CNN ...formerly the Cable News Network, now who know what it might stand for... Turk reported.
"It is seen that the inadequacy of legal and administrative measures and the lack of political will to prevent such acts as well as impunity of perpetrators have encouraged further provocations," the ministry said in the statement, speaking of the recurrence of anti-Islam demonstrations in Denmark lately.
It urged Danish authorities to take necessary actions against the perpetrators of this act and to take effective measures to prevent the recurrence of such "provocations", according to the statement.
[ToloNews] In a highly unusual ruling, a state court judge on Thursday voided a U.S. Marine’s adoption of an Afghan war orphan, more than a year after he took the little girl away from the Afghan couple raising her. But her future remains uncertain.
For now, the child will stay with Marine Maj. Joshua Mast and his wife, Stephanie, under a temporary custody order they obtained before the adoption. The Masts will have to re-prove to the court that they should be granted a permanent adoption.
Despite the uncertainty, the ruling was a welcome move for the Afghan couple, who had been identified by the Afghan government as the child’s relatives in February 2020 and raised her for 18 months. They dropped to their knees in prayer outside the courthouse. As they held each other, the young man wiped the tears from both their eyes with his wife’s headscarf.
The Masts quickly left the courthouse after Thursday’s hearing, flanked by their attorneys. The parties are forbidden from commenting by a gag order.
The dispute raised alarms at the highest levels of government, from the White House to the Taliban ...Arabic for students... , after an News Agency that Dare Not be Named investigation in October revealed how Mast became determined to rescue the baby and bring her home as an act of Christian faith. But until now, the adoption order has remained in place.
"There’s never, ever been a case like this," said Judge Claude V. Worrell Jr. on Thursday.
The girl, who will turn 4 this summer, was an infant when she was found injured in the rubble after a U.S.-Afghan military raid in a rural part of the country in September 2019. She spent more than five months in a U.S. military hospital before the Afghan government and International Committee of the Red Thingy determined she had living relatives, and united her with them.
Unbeknownst to them, Mast learned about the baby while she was hospitalized, and decided that he and his wife should be her parents. The Masts told Virginia Circuit Court Judge Richard Moore that she was the daughter of transient bandidosbandidos hard boys who died in the fight, and thus a stateless orphan. He claimed that the Afghan government was prepared to waive jurisdiction over her, though it never did. Moore granted him the adoption.
The Masts contacted the couple in Afghanistan, offering to help with her medical treatment. After the U.S. military withdrew and Afghanistan fell to the Taliban in 2021, the Masts helped them evacuate to the United States. Once they arrived, Mast used the adoption order to take the child, and the Afghan couple have not seen her since.
The Masts claim in court filings that they legally adopted the child, and that the Afghan couple’s accusations that they kidnapped her are "outrageous" and "unmerited." They have repeatedly declined to comment to the AP.
Judge Worrell, who took over the case after Judge Moore retired in November, said the Afghan couple "were the de facto parents when they arrived in the U.S." and their due process was violated. Worrell also said from the bench that the Masts knew things that they never told the court, particularly about what was happening in Afghanistan at the same time the judge in Virginia was granting the adoption. He said he wasn’t sure it was intentional, but "the fact of the matter is that the court did not have all the information known to (the Masts) at the time the order was entered."
The ruling is one more twist in what is already a standout case.
"Once an adoption is final, it is extremely difficult and rare for it to be overturned," said Virginia attorney Stanton Phillips.
"This is really, really unusual," said adoption attorney Barbara Jones. "You just don’t hear about this happening."
A Defense Department spokesperson said Thursday it was aware of the ruling and referred the AP to the Justice Department, which declined to comment. Another hearing is scheduled for June.
[Shafaq News] Dozens of supporters of Iraq's Sadrist movement
...Iranian catspaws, most of the time, though Iran occasionally lets them pretend to independence...
demonstrated in Nasiriyah, the center of Dhi Qar governorate in southern Iraq, on Saturday to protest against what they described as attempts to "normalize" the Iraqi government's relations with Israel.
The protesters accused the Iraqi government, led by the Framework Coalition, of seeking to organize "normalization" with Israel and expressed concern over the recent appearance of Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia'a al-Sudani, at the same Conference in the "Democracy Delivering Justice for All" session, with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, which they viewed as an "indirect rapprochement with Israel."
“OMG!! They breathed the same air, you guys! EWWWWW!!! Joo cooties!!!11!!”
However, facts are stubborn; statistics are more pliable... a high-ranking government source denied reports of al-Sudani participating in a session with Netanyahu during the summit.
He checked to see where that horrid Bibi would be, then signed up for the other ones. No telling what kind of accord that insidious joo might seduce him to, were they ever in the same room.
The source clarified that al-Sudani participated in a session that did not include Israel after setting the condition that Israel would not be present.
The source emphasized that Iraq's refusal of normalization only pertains to its presence with Israel in a single activity, such as the World Cup or Olympics, and not to its participation in any international forum where Israel is present.
Perhaps that makes sense in the original Arabic...
The Iraqi prime minister's participation was at the official invitation of US President Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. Sleazy Dem mschine politician, paterfamilias of the Biden Crime Family... , and leaders and representatives from 115 countries worldwide also participated in the summit.
Iraq and Israel have traditionally been considered enemies due to Iraq's alignment with other Arab states and the wider Moslem world in their opposition to Israel, which they view as an occupying force in Paleostine and a threat to regional stability.
The Palestinian Authority ditto, and the PA is trying to claim things not actually promised, but that’s buried deep in the article.
[IsraelTimes] Officials say pledges to lower tax Jerusalem charges Ramallah for fuel, raise portion of Allenby crossing fees it sends to PA, and expand list of tax-free imports not yet fulfilled.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government has yet to follow through on a series of small measures to boost the Paleostinian Authority it promised to implement ahead of the holy month of Ramadan, which began last week. In mid-February, Netanyahu’s office leaked that it would be lowering the so-called "blue tax" that it levies from the PA on fuel transfers from three percent to 1.5%; raising the percentage of revenues it transfers to Ramallah from the fees it collects from travelers at the Allenby border crossing between the West Bank and Jordan; and expanding the list of tax-free imports that it facilitates on the PA’s behalf. However, a clean conscience makes a soft pillow... four Israeli, Paleostinian and US officials told The Times of Israel this week that none of the three steps have been completed. The lack of follow through has the Biden administration increasingly worried since the PA’s financial state is at its weakest ever, a senior US official said.
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[NPASyria] In response to a spate of attacks on the US bases deployed in Syria by Iranian-backed militias, the US announced on Friday boosting its military forces in the Middle East.
Pentagon front man Lt. Col. Phil Ventura revealed that a squadron of A-10 attack aircraft are deploying to the region ahead of a scheduled deployment following the attacks in Syria.
The US ordered a carrier strike group to remain in the region to support US forces in Central Command, which covers the Middle East, and a squadron of A-10 attack aircraft to the region, Ventura said.
"We are committed to supporting the defeat-ISIS mission alongside a global coalition in Syria and prepared to respond to a range of contingencies in the Middle East if needed," Ventura said in a statement.
He said that the George H.W. Bush Carrier Strike Group will remain in the Mediterranean Sea under US European Command, but it will support US forces in the Middle East in the event of contingency plans and operations.
"These actions demonstrate the United States’ ability to rapidly reposition forces across the globe and underscores that all necessary measures will be taken to defend U.S. forces," Ventura said.
On March 23, a US contractor was killed, and five other service members and another contractor were maimed when a suspected Iranian drone struck a facility on a base of the US-led Global Coalition in northeast Syria, the Pentagon said.
In response, the US Central Command attacked with "precision Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s" against facilities in eastern Syria used by militias affiliated with IRGC, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin ...retired Army four-star general under the Biden administration, 28th United States Secretary of Defense. He is the first African American to serve in the position. As is usually the case with the first black anything appointed for his melanin content,he is a political general to the core. He was appointed as the first Black commander of CENTCOM by President Barack Obama where he went along to get along. He retired from the armed services in 2016 and joined the boards of Raytheon Technologies, Nucor, Tenet Healthcare, and Auburn University. On December 7, 2020, he was nominated for defense secretary by then-President-elect Joe Biden. He was confirmed by the United States Senate by a vote of 93–2 and has no regrets on the utterly botched withdrawal of U.S. forces from Afghanistan.... said.
Thirteen turbans of the Iranian militias were killed and maimed, sources told North Press.
Following the US retaliatory strikes, the Iranian-backed krazed killer in Syria launched a series of additional attacks on US troops based at Conoco and the Green Village in northeast Syria.
"Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. 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. They hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... threatens to push the Middle East into regional instability by supporting terrorist and proxy forces," said Joint Chiefs Chair Gen. Mark Milley in his opening remarks at the House Armed Services committee on March 29.
On March 24, US President Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. S I'm not working for you. Don't be such a horse's ass.... , while on a visit to Canada, pledged to "act forcefully" to protect his troops against Iranian-backed attacks.
Biden stressed that the US "does not seek conflict with Iran but is prepared to act forcefully to protect our people."
There are roughly 900 US troops are involved in aerial surveillance, coordinating the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), civilian aid provision, tribal engagement, as well as medical evacuations of SDF troops in northeast Syria
[NPASyria] Oleg Gurinov, deputy head of the Russian Reconciliation Centre for Syria, announced on Friday that Russia protested about "provocative actions" by US troops in Hasakah Governorate, northeastern Syria.
For eight years, the United States has been deploying troops alongside other countries in Syria to fight 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).
Gurinov told the Russian news agency Tass, "Provocative actions on the part of U.S. armed forces units have been noted in Hasakeh province."
He added, "During joint Russian-Ottoman Turkish patrols, the movement of two patrols conducted by the so-called anti-terrorist coalition were tracked along the non-deconfliction routes near Deiruna-Aga and Saramsak," in the countryside of Derik.
Russia, according to Gurinov, has protested to the US-led Global Coalition, but did not mention the timing.
He added that the violation of the deconfliction agreements by the coalition jeopardizes "the fragile balance of power," claiming that it has been achieved through Russia’s efforts in the region.
He noted that this also has a negative impact on the development of the situation.
Air Force General Alexus Grynkewich of US Central Command (CENTCOM) previously said that Russian jets have violated the US airspace over the al-Tanf base in Syria over 25 times in March.
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U.S. Air Force Lt. Gen. Alexus G. Grynkewich named commander of Ninth Air Force, succeeding U.S. Air Force Lt. Gen. Gregoy Guillot, at Al Udeid Air Base, Qatar, July 21, 2022. U.S. Army Gen. Michael E. Kurilla, commander of U.S. CENTCOM, presided over the ceremony.
...Kurilla said [obviously with tongue in cheek], “Under the new command, our adversaries and our competitors can expect nothing different from AFCENT. What was true in 1941 remains just as relevant today: we will protect our interests, we will defend our troops and partners, we will serve as a force for stability across the Middle East.”
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[REGNUM] In military terms, the authors of the letter to the White House do not offer anything new and recommend continuing the US “soft presence” in Syria, relying on the armed formations of the so-called northeastern administration. What are the authoritative American experts on the Middle East so afraid of?
The year 2023 brought tectonic changes in the Middle East, which not coincidentally coincided with natural disasters in Turkey and Syria. The sudden warming of relations between Iran and Saudi Arabia, mediated by China, and the gradual exit from the isolation of Syria are the key elements of a great geopolitical transformation, which, of course, does not suit those who have built the architecture of the region for themselves over the past decades.
Last week it became known that a letter was sent to the White House addressed to President Joe Biden and Secretary of State Anthony Blinken from a group of authoritative American diplomats and the military who were closely involved in the Middle East: former ambassadors to the countries of the region, advisers, special envoys and military leaders. Representatives of the Syrian opposition organizations also joined the signatories.
The authors of the letter are concerned about the withdrawal of the government of Bashar al-Assad from international isolation, which is ensured by the so-called Caesar law.
Caesar Syria Civilian Protection Act was adopted by the US Congress at the end of 2016, signed by President Donald Trump on December 20, 2019, and entered into force on June 17, 2020. According to the document, various restrictions can be imposed on any person or organization for supporting the Syrian government and its affiliated militias .
The act got its name in honor of the pseudonym of a Syrian military man who fled the country in 2013 and took with him evidence of the alleged war crimes of Assad and his family. In reality, the "Caesar law" targeted the industrial, construction and energy sectors of the Syrian economy, not to mention trade and finance.
This act really hit Syria hard, and after its introduction, the economy of the Arab Republic, which had withstood the hostilities, began to crack, and the currency began to plummet.
So, the “Letter of Forty” calls on Washington to more resolutely oppose Damascus, establish ties, fight against violations of sanctions “not in words but in deeds”, inexorably continue the implementation of the American scenario for the reconstruction of Syria based on the “Syrian Democratic Forces” with the Kurds at the head.
In addition, the authors of the petition demand to stop the receipt of humanitarian aid by the Assad government and redirect the opposition and Kurdish forces for subsequent distribution from their hands.
Also, the authors of the letter are sure that the normalization of relations with the Bash Assad regime is not inevitable and must be stopped.
Violation of the Caesar Act, as well as other American sanctions, is unacceptable and threatens the authority of the international community and its ability to "shape a political process aimed at a meaningful settlement of a civil conflict."
In military terms, the authors do not offer anything new and recommend continuing the "soft presence" of the United States in Syria, relying on the armed formations of the so-called northeastern administration.
What are the authoritative American experts on the Middle East so afraid of?
And I must say that these are not just research workers from institutes and honored pensioners. No, these are people who actually assembled the architecture of power in the region starting almost from the Clinton era.
Conventionally, they can be divided into two parts - career diplomats with extensive experience in service in the East and "siloviki" (military with intelligence officers). Moreover, both the first and the second did not just sit out their pants in the offices, but often performed hard field work.
For example, the same Jeffrey James, the ambassador to Turkey and Iraq, along with Michael Pompeo, went to persuade Erdogan to stop the Turkish operation in Syria in 2019 and succeeded in doing so.
Or Jeffrey Feltman rose to the rank of Deputy Secretary General of the UN, but before that he worked in Jerusalem, then for almost four years as an ambassador to the seething Lebanon, and then left for Iraqi Kurdistan to help Erbil build relations with the outside world.
Another prominent character from the group of signed diplomats is William Roebuck, who was ambassador to Bayhrain for two years, and then was sent as a special representative to the Anti-ISIS Coalition*.
From the same galaxy is the indomitable Ann Patterson, who, before rising to the rank of assistant secretary of state for the Middle East, worked for several years, first as ambassador to Pakistan, and then to Egypt.
The former special representative of the State Department on Syria, Frederick Hof, who fought back in Vietnam and then served in the Middle East, and who is considered the voice of the "hawk" party in government and expert circles, did not change himself.
It is noteworthy that among the authors is the experienced Joel Rayburn, special envoy for Syria in 2018-2021, and one of the “godfathers” of the system of sanctions suppression of this country, an ardent supporter of the “Caesar Law”.
Standing out among the security signatories is General Kenneth McKenzie, the former head of Central Command, who in 2021 was thrown into Afghanistan to prevent disaster during the evacuation.
As you can see, people are not accidental and very knowledgeable, despite the fact that many have already completed their service and are listed as researchers at various academic institutions and think tanks.
Of course, it should immediately be noted that the vast majority of the signatory American figures are people who have experienced the peak of their careers in the era of US dominance and, in essence, belong to the camp of the so-called. hawks, but this does not detract from their professional qualities and knowledge. And their concern in itself is indicative and by no means groundless.
But what made them so worried? Is it really only about Syria and Bashar al-Assad?
Certainly not. Rather, the point is not so much in Assad, but rather in the situation that is now emerging for the Americans in the Middle East.
After Trump's attempt to withdraw troops from Syria, the evacuation from Afghanistan dealt a severe blow to US prestige in the Middle East, and not only the Middle East. Contrary to Washington's official forecasts and statements by the State Department that the Afghan army is fully prepared and can solve tasks quite independently, the Taliban's blitzkrieg * in a matter of weeks crossed out all twenty years of American efforts.
It was after the evacuation, which turned into a flight with abandoned bases, equipment and Afghans falling from the chassis, the US authority cracked even in the eyes of allies such as Saudi Arabia.
And if earlier the Saudis and the UAE tried to justify themselves, if they quietly allowed themselves too much, then after Afghanistan, the behavior became downright self-willed. The refusal of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman to increase oil production was quite predictable and predetermined by the Afghan disaster.
Assistance to Syria in the elimination of the consequences of the earthquake was only an excuse to demonstrate the increased independence of the Arab countries. The US, having come across such behavior, has already in fact gone to freeze the “Caesar Law” for 180 days in order to save face.
American attempts to protest against the contacts of the UAE with Syria, and even more so to threaten the Emirates, did not have the expected result, which only spurred other countries in the region to revive communications with Damascus.
Against this background, the concern of American experts is understandable.
The Syrian case may become a second blow, not as loud, of course, as in Afghanistan, but no less strong, and possibly fatal. All Middle Eastern architecture built by the United States over the past decades is at stake.
And the restoration of relations between Iran and Saudi Arabia is only the beginning of a process uncontrolled by the Americans.
As for Syria, it will be indicative if it is reinstated in the League of Arab States before the freezing period of the “Caesar Law” expires, which will force the Americans to either increase aggressive pressure, or quietly lower everything on the brakes, delaying the statement of subsidence their positions de jure.
On the whole, of course, the catastrophe is still far away and the position of the United States is outwardly still unshakable, but the trends are already obvious to the American expert community.
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