[SUDANTRIBUNE] A Sudan ...a Moslem country located in the Horn of Africa. It is noted for its affinity for rule by ex- or current generals, its holy men, and for the oppression of the native Afro population by its Arab conquerors. South Sudan, populated mostly by the natives, split off from Sudan proper, which left North and South Darfur to be oppressed by the guys with turbans... ese military Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... on Friday tragically killed three civilians, including two children, and injured four others in West Kordofan state. The strike targeted the town of Shuaa, 10 kilometres north of Babanusa, a region already displaced by intense fighting between the army and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF).
The escalation comes amidst a week of escalating festivities in Babanusa, headquarters of the 22nd Infantry Division. The RSF, a paramilitary group, has repeatedly attempted to capture the military base, prompting fierce defence from the army.
This ongoing conflict has displaced over 50,000 civilians, forcing them to seek refuge in overcrowded shelters with limited humanitarian resources. Government officials warn of an impending famine threatening those fleeing the violence.
"The airstrikes targeted Shuaa, where many Babanusa residents fled due to the recent fighting," reported al-Sadiq Othman, a member of the Babanusa emergency room, to Sudan Tribune. "Three people, including two children, were killed and four others injured."
Meanwhile, ...back at the the conspirators' cleverly concealed hideout the long-awaited message arrived. They quickly got to work with their decoder rings... displaced civilians who reached the town of al-Dulaima reported that the RSF retreated to the outskirts of Babanusa in the past two days after sustained aerial bombardments by the army using explosive barrels.
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[ShabelleMedia] Two Somali soldiers have been killed and several others maimed in a kaboom at an AU military base in the Lower Shabelle region, south of Somalia.
Multiple sources said a landmine was planted at the gate of the ATMIS forward operating base in Qoryoley district last night, killing two soldiers and injuring senior security officers.
Qoryoley lies about 120 kilometers northwest of Mogadishu.
The maimed include the district police commissioner Abdi Waal and Abdikarin Adow, a former intelligence chief and a soldier, some are reported to be at death's door.
The security of the AU camp has been beefed up following the blast and no group has yet grabbed credit for the attack which comes amid Ramadan observed across Somalia.
The Uganda Peoples’ Defence Forces (UPDF) and the Somali government forces control the town since 2014 after liberating it from al-Shabaab ... the Islamic version of the old Somali warlord... during an offensive in the region.
[AFRICANEWS] The Democratic Republic of the Congo ...formerly the Congo Free State, Belgian Congo, Zaire, and who knows what else, not to be confused with the Brazzaville Congo aka Republic of Congo, which is much smaller and much more (for Africa) stable. DRC gave the world Patrice Lumumba and Joseph Mobutu, followed by years of tedious civil war. Its principle industry seems to be the production of corpses. With a population of about 74 million it has lots of raw material... 's conflict-driven hunger crisis is worsening as violence in the eastern province’s surges, forcing families to flee once again.
More and more people are arriving at overcrowded camps where there is a lack of food, sanitation and shelter.
Just since February, 230,000 people have been displaced to Goma by the M23 conflict bringing the total estimated displaced population to almost a million people around the city - almost double what it was four months ago.
Eastern Congo has been riddled by conflict for decades, linked to more than 120 gangs fighting for land and power and in some cases, protecting their communities.
The government said the violence in the east has plagued the country with recurrent conflict and resulted in a surge of attacks that have spread terror among the communities.
In recent years, the M23 rebel group — the most dominant in the region with alleged links to neighboring Rwanda — has continued to attack villages, forcing many to flee to Goma, the region’s largest city.
M23 has laid siege to several communities with about half of North Kivu province under its control.
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[IsraelTimes] CENTCOM says American forces also destroyed UAVs in areas controlled by the Iran-backed rebels, intercepted missiles fired toward Red Sea.
The US military said Friday it had struck three underground storage facilities used by 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... ’s Iran's Houthi sock puppets ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The legitimate Yemeni government has accused the them of having ties to the Iranian government. Honest they did. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews They like shooting off... ummm... missiles that they would have us believe they make at home in their basements. On the plus side, they did murder Ali Abdullah Saleh, which was the only way the country was ever going to be rid of him... s, as the Iran-backed rebels continue to launch attacks on shipping in the Red Sea.
According to a US official, the strikes were carried out by fighter jets that took off from the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower aircraft carrier, which is in the Red Sea.
Strikes and explosions were seen and heard in Sanaa on Friday night, according to witnesses and videos, some circulating on social media. Footage showed explosions and smoke rising over the Houthi-controlled capital.
There was no official confirmation of the injured or the origin of the earth-shattering kabooms. Yemeni TV station al-Masirah, which is linked to the Houthis, reported strikes hitting the city.
In a statement late Friday, US Central Command said its forces also destroyed four unmanned aerial vehicles in Houthi-controlled areas of Yemen.
Central Command also said Houthis fired four anti-ship ballistic missiles toward the Red Sea, but no injuries or damage were reported by US, coalition or fat merchantmen.
The head of the Houthi supreme revolutionary committee, Muhammad Ali al-Houthi, said earlier there had been "reckless" US-British attacks on Yemen. The Houthi-run Saba News Agency said US and British aircraft had launched five raids on Hodeidah, the area where Yemen’s main port is located.
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I still prefer an ARCLIGHT strike, just to get their attention. Hodidah would be a nice target. Use a dozen B-1s with a full load of 1000lb conventional bombs.
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London—Violent trantifa members swarmed & tried to shut down the @CanSG_org conference for speaking about the health effects of medical transitioning. The March 23 direct action was organized by extremist group, Trans Action Block. pic.twitter.com/dtTGNk2dM0
[MAIL] Footage of Russian forces torturing a Moscow terror suspect by hooking his genitals up to an 80v battery as part of their brutal interrogations into Friday's attacks has emerged.
A new video of the slaughter - which saw more than 140 people killed in a concert hall in Krasnogorsk, on the outskirts of Moscow - shows people running and cowering behind tables as the gunmen open fire in the main lobby of the building.
People can be heard screaming as continuous bullets break through glass doors and mow down victims in what was the deadliest attack on Russia in years.
The Russian Investigative Committee detained four suspected terrorists and their barbaric torture techniques have been seen on social media - including one video which shows a Russian agent severing a man's ear off before trying to force him to eat it.
Another photograph shows one of the suspected terrorists, named as Shamsuddin Fariddun, lying on a gym floor with his trousers pulled down and wires evidently attached to his groin area.
He is visibly foaming from the mouth and appears to be clenching his teeth, while a man in military uniform stands with his foot on the leg of the suspect.
[NYPOST] Russian authorities arrested the four men suspected of carrying out the attack on a suburban Moscow concert hall that killed at least 133 people and believe they were headed to Ukraine, President Vladimir Putin ...President-for-Life of Russia. He gets along well with other presidents for life. He is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substance. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to him. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substances... said Saturday during an address to the nation.
Kyiv, meanwhile, strongly denied No, no! Certainly not! any involvement in Friday’s attack on the Crocus City Hall music venue in Krasnogorsk, which 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.... group’s affiliate in Afghanistan grabbed credit for in a statement posted on social media channels linked to the group. Kyiv accused Putin and other Russian politicians of falsely linking Ukraine to the assault in order to stoke fervor in Russia’s war in Ukraine, which recently entered its third year.
A U.S. intelligence official told The News Agency that Dare Not be Named that U.S. agencies had confirmed that IS was responsible for the assault and had previously warned Moscow that an attack could be imminent.
Putin said authorities have detained a total of 11 people in the attack, which also injured scores of concertgoers and left the venue a smoldering ruin. He called it "a bloody, barbaric terrorist act" and said Russian authorities captured the four suspected button men as they were trying to escape to Ukraine through a "window" prepared for them on the Ukrainian side of the border.
Putin also said that additional security measures have been imposed throughout Russia, and he declared Sunday a day of mourning.
The attack, the deadliest in Russia in years, is a major embarrassment to the Russian leader and happened just days after he cemented his grip on the country for another six years in a vote that followed the harshest crackdown on dissent since the Soviet times.
Some commentators on Russian social media questioned how authorities, who have relentlessly suppressed any opposition activities and muzzled independent media, failed to prevent the attack despite the U.S. warnings.
To be fair, a warning that something is going to happen is not exactly actionable. And is it any likelier that Russian authorities would believe an American warning than the Americans believed Russian warning about the Tsarnaev brothers?
The attack came two weeks after the U.S. embassy in Moscow issued a notice urging Americans to avoid crowded places in view of "imminent" plans by bandidosholy warriors to target large Moscow gatherings, including concerts. The warning was repeated by several other Western embassies.
Investigators on Saturday were combing through the charred wreckage of the hall for more victims, and authorities said the corpse count could still rise. Hundreds of people stood in line in Moscow early Saturday to donate blood and plasma, Russia’s health ministry said.
"We faced not just a thoroughly and cynically prepared terror attack, but a well-prepared and organized mass murder of peaceful innocent people," Putin said.
His claim that the attackers tried to flee to Ukraine followed comments by Russian politicians who pointed the finger at Ukraine immediately after the attack. But Mykhailo Podolyak, an adviser to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, denied any involvement.
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The key to successful anti-terrorism is retaliation. Arabs, and to a laser extent, other Muslims are eusocial - not social like humans. Kill the families of the perps.
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Director Bill Burns, MI6 reps, and the French DGSE should be in immediate consultations
I'm sure they are...over Trump, not ISIS-K.
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They don't know who blew up Nordstream after 1.5 years and they reply to all atrocity accusations towards Israel that an investigation must take place to understand who's guilty...
...but within less than 24h they know with absolute certainty who's "solely responsible" for this. https://t.co/SvOKTgFhv6
[Regnum] The Ministry of Emergency Situations of Russia, with reference to data from the Ministry of Health, presented a preliminary list of those killed in the terrorist attack at the Crocus City Hall shopping center in the Moscow region. The corresponding document was published on Saturday, March 23, by the official website of the department.
As of 21:00 Moscow time, the list of victims includes 29 names. Let us remind you that in the previous list published by the Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations at 17:00 Moscow time, 13 names were indicated.
On Saturday evening, the Moscow Region Ministry of Health updated the lists of victims of the terrorist attack. According to current data as of 19:00 Moscow time, 105 people remain in inpatient treatment, 31 people in outpatient treatment, and three more victims have already been discharged from hospitals.
As IA Regnum reported, on the evening of March 22, unknown people in camouflage entered the Crocus City Hall concert hall and opened fire with automatic weapons. Afterwards, an explosion occurred in the complex and a large fire started. According to the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation, 133 people died as a result of the terrorist attack. Based on the fact of the incident, a criminal case was opened on the grounds of a crime under Art. 205 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (“Terrorist act”).
The rescue operation at the site of the terrorist attack at Crocus City Hall in Krasnogorsk near Moscow was completed, the head of the Moscow region Andrei Vorobyov said on March 23.
At the same time, according to the governor, the search operation continues. HE clarified that during the day, 133 bodies of the dead were removed from under.
Search work at the site of the collapse of the Crocus City Hall structures, where the terrorist attack took place, continues around the clock; there may still be dead under the rubble, Governor of the Moscow Region Andrei Vorobyov told reporters on the evening of March 23.
“We understand that there may be dead people and bodies under the rubble. To do this, we need to hold this event overnight,” he said.
Vorobyov noted that the main part of the search operation will probably be completed on March 24. He clarified that by 23:00 Moscow time, rescuers will try to make a technological opening, so that over the next 12-14 hours they can clear access to the concert hall, where most of the rubble remains undismantled.
As IA Regnum reported, during the terrorist attack at Crocus City Hall on March 22, a strong fire started. The concert hall was completely burned out. Rescuers were able to completely extinguish the fire only on the evening of March 23.
Vorobyov also reported on March 23 that out of 133 dead people found at the scene of the tragedy, 50 people were identified. He also noted that 121 victims of the terrorist attack were identified in hospitals in Moscow and the Moscow region.
On March 23, FSB Director Alexander Bortnikov reported to President Vladimir Putin that eleven people had been detained in connection with the terrorist attack, including all four who had killed people with machine guns. Four suspects were stopped in the Bryansk region, near the border with Ukraine, where they tried to escape. They were all detained.
47-year-old security guard Alexei Osanushkov, who worked at the Crocus City Hall shopping and entertainment center near Moscow, did not leave his post and saved several dozen people when the terrorists began to shoot visitors.
He was showing visitors where to go and came across another group of smoke inhalers. At first everyone was hiding in the service premises, but the fumes began to penetrate there, and then the security guard decided to take everyone out.
Osanushkov was able to calm the panicking people and eventually led those who were with him to a safe place, Telegram channel “112” reported.
As Regnum reported, street musician Mikhail Filippov, who also found himself in Crocus during the terrorist attack, told how he saved several people by leading them through the smoke. He noted that before that he had not even imagined such dense smoke that was there. Despite the almost complete lack of visibility, he and his girlfriend and several other people figured out where to go, and everyone got out onto the stairs, and then onto the street.
One of the visitors to the shopping center was able to take away a machine gun from a terrorist who happened to be nearby. The man took advantage of the moment, although he felt great fear when the militant was reloading the machine gun.
[Regnum] The leader of the French Patriots party, Florian Philippot, called for a full investigation into the possible involvement of Ukraine in the terrorist attack in the Crocus City Hall near Moscow.
“It is now necessary to demand a full investigation into possible ties with Ukraine and what the billions we have been sending there for more than two years are actually going to,” the politician wrote on the social network X.
Kiev has been carrying out systematic terrorist activities against Russians over the past years, according to a commentary by the official representative of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Maria Zakharova, in connection with the terrorist attack at Crocus City Hall.
“Over the past years, the Kiev regime has been carrying out active and systematic terrorist activities against Russian citizens,” the statement said.
The diplomat recalled the systematic shelling of residential areas by the Armed Forces of Ukraine, including kindergartens, schools, medical institutions, attacks on significant Russian civilian infrastructure facilities, including transport and energy facilities, and attempts on the lives of public figures and journalists.
Zakharova emphasized that the perpetrators, organizers, and those who ordered the terrorist attack at Crocus will be punished, and their actions will be given the necessary legal and political assessments. A Foreign Ministry spokeswoman called the killing of civilians to achieve any goals unacceptable.
Russia supports all efforts aimed at countering international terrorism and condemns it in all forms, she emphasized. Zakharova added that the fight against terrorism should remain the focus of all healthy forces in the international community.
In addition, the official representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs expressed sincere gratitude to everyone who did not remain indifferent in the face of the tragedy. She noted that from the first minutes after it became known about the monstrous terrorist attack in Crocus City Hall, numerous calls, letters, official appeals began to arrive from heads of state and government, heads of authorities of foreign countries, international organizations, NGOs, religious associations, concerned citizens.
What happened at Crocus City Hall is a bloody and barbaric terrorist attack, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on March 23 in an address to citizens.
“I am appealing to you in connection with a bloody barbaric terrorist act, the victims of which were dozens of peaceful, innocent people, our compatriots, including children, teenagers, and women,” he said.
Doctors are now fighting for the lives of those who are in serious condition. The head of state expressed special gratitude to the ambulance and air ambulance crews, special forces soldiers, firefighters, and rescuers who did everything to save people’s lives.
The North Atlantic Alliance condemned the terrorist attack that occurred on March 22 at Crocus City Hall and expressed condolences to the families of the victims. The head of the NATO press service, Farah Dahlalla, reported this on the social network X (formerly Twitter).
“We certainly condemn the attack on the concert audience in Moscow. Nothing can justify such heinous crimes. Our deepest condolences to the victims and their families,” wrote the head of the NATO press service.
As IA Regnum previously reported, the White House said after the terrorist attack at Crocus that US authorities received information in March about a terrorist attack that was being prepared in Russia. The American administration added that they allegedly shared this information with the Russian side.
The official representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Maria Zakharova, in turn, was outraged by Washington’s statements about the non-involvement of anyone in the midst of the tragedy. The diplomat emphasized that if the United States has or had reliable data on this matter, then it must be immediately transferred to the Russian side.
The Muslim community in Russia condemned the terrorist attack in the Crocus City Hall shopping and entertainment center near Moscow; Muslim Islamic leaders expressed condolences over the attack and called for the perpetrators to be punished.
“This is an inhumane crime that cannot be justified! Open fire on peaceful people when they don’t expect it at all,” wrote the Mufti of Moscow, head of the Spiritual Administration of Muslims of the capital Ildar Alyautdinov in the Telegram channel.
He emphasized that the shooters showed the highest degree of cruelty and showed a complete lack of spirituality. Alyautdinov wished the victims recovery and help to those who are in danger.
The Central Spiritual Administration of Muslims (TSDUM) of Russia said it was shocked by what the terrorists did in the Moscow region and expressed sympathy for the dead and injured. The CDUM called on compatriots to unite more closely in the fight against extremism and terrorism, which are wreaking havoc and discord in Russia.
“On behalf of the Central Spiritual Spiritual Directorate of Russia, its presidium and ourselves personally, we express our angry indignation and the strongest condemnation of this extremely vile act of heinous anti-human atrocity,” says a statement on the website of the religious organization.
Mufti of the Spiritual Assembly of Muslims of Russia (DSMR), Albir Krganov, called what happened in Crocus City Hall a monstrous, inhuman tragedy. He expressed his deepest condolences to the families and friends of the victims. The head of the organization called the terrorist attack a cynical, vile, cruel aggression against civilians that has no justification.
“We offer prayers that law enforcement agencies will take the necessary measures to ensure the safety of the citizens of our country and that those involved in organizing and carrying out this terrible attack will be quickly found and punished,” Krganov was quoted as saying on the DSMR website.
Chairman of the Coordination Center for Muslims of the North Caucasus (CCMC) Ismail-haji Berdiev expressed his deepest condolences in connection with the tragedy at Crocus City Hall. He called it an inhumane terrorist attack and a tragedy for all Russians.
“The organizers of the terrorist attack must receive the punishment they deserve!” - he emphasized, the press service of the KCMSC reported.
Chairman of the Spiritual Administration of Muslims of Russia (DSMR) Ravil Gainutdin also expressed his deepest condolences, noting the inhumanity of the attack on visitors to the center. He said Muslims share the pain of the tragedy.
“And may Allah Almighty grant His help to all rescuers and doctors who are fighting for the lives and health of the victims at these moments, and may they allow us to quickly find the organizers and perpetrators of a monstrous well-planned terrorist attack and give them what they deserve,” said Gainutdin, his the words were published by the SAMR website.
The Mufti of Muslims of the Republic of Crimea and Sevastopol, Haji Emirali Ablaev, condemned the terrorist attack on visitors to a concert center near Moscow. He called for prayers so that this would not happen again.
“We pray for the people who were hostages of a criminal and inhumane attack,” Ablaev said in a statement published on the Crimean mufti’s page on the VKontakte social network.
In cities of all regions of the Southern Federal District, spontaneous memorials were organized for the victims of the terrorist attack in Krasnogorsk, municipal and regional officials reported.
As the "Caucasian Knot" wrote, on the evening of March 22, armed people burst into the Crocus City Hall concert hall in Krasnogorsk near Moscow and opened fire. The FSB classified the incident as a terrorist attack. As a result of the terrorist attack, 133 people were killed, Sledkom reported today.
The FSB today reported the detention of 11 suspects of involvement in the terrorist attack. Four of them were detained in the Bryansk region while trying to escape towards the border with Ukraine; they had contacts on the Ukrainian side, the department reported. Vladimir Putin today made an address in connection with the terrorist attack and said that a “window” had been prepared at the Ukrainian border for the passage of those who committed the terrorist attack.
Memorials in memory of the victims of the terrorist attack in Krasnogorsk have appeared in cities in southern Russia. Thus, in Adygea, Maykop residents lay flowers at the “Forever with Russia” memorial in memory of the victims of the terrorist attack, the city administration reported today on its Telegram channel. “Residents bring flowers, candles and toys to the monument “Forever with Russia” on Friendship Square in memory of the victims of the tragedy,” the publication says.
The mayor of Astrakhan, Oleg Polumordvinov, also published photographs of people laying flowers at the memorial today on his Telegram channel. “A single place of memory has been determined, where Astrakhan residents bring flowers and memorial candles from the very morning - the Family monument on Swan Lake,” he wrote.
A memorial has also been organized in Krasnodar in memory of the victims, the city administration reported. “Residents of the city come to the Church of St. Alexander Nevsky as a sign of condolences to the families of those killed and injured during the attack on Crocus City Hall. At 10.00 am, representatives of youth organizations laid flowers and children’s toys at the spontaneous memorial. Residents can do this throughout the day,” says a publication on the city hall’s telegram channel.
A memorial also appeared in Elista ; the head of Kalmykia, Batu Khasikov, also called it spontaneous in his Telegram channel. “Concerned citizens bring flowers to a spontaneous memorial in the center of Elista in memory of those who died in yesterday’s terrorist attack in the Moscow region,” he wrote, illustrating the publication with photographs of people laying flowers.
In Rostov-on-Don, a spontaneous memorial was organized at the entrance to Gorky Park, Mayor Alexey Logvinenko said in his Telegram channel. “At the entrance to the M. Gorky Park, a spontaneous memorial was organized in memory of those killed in the terrorist attack at Crocus City Hall in Moscow. Rostovites of all ages bring flowers, candles and toys to the memorial,” the official wrote.
Residents of Anapa have been bringing flowers, candles and toys to the chapel of the Holy Prophet Hosea “since the morning,” the city administration reported on its Telegram channel. “A memorial has been organized here in memory of the victims of the monstrous terrorist attack that took place in Moscow’s Crocus City Hall the day before,” the publication notes.
A place has also been organized on the central square of Gelendzhik where residents and guests of the resort can bring flowers, as indicated in a message posted today on the telegram channel of the resort city mayor’s office. The publication is illustrated with a photograph in which the word “We Mourn” is laid out with the help of many candles.
In Volgograd, a memorial was also formed near the Eternal Flame on the Square of Fallen Fighters; dozens of citizens come to it with flowers and toys to honor the memory of those killed in the terrorist attack, local publication V1.ru reports today.
“At the spontaneous memorial, identical memorial candles are displayed and children’s soft toys are lying around. The bulk of those who came were deputies of all levels with children and officials. Ordinary citizens were only allowed in from the side of the Central Department Store, but there were only a few of them. People held posters with the words: “We are together.” Volgograd is mourning." Each person holds two red carnations. The governor of the Volgograd region, Andrei Bocharov, also came to the memorial site and laid a bouquet of red roses," the publication writes, noting that "cadets, pensioners, and officials lined up at the Eternal Flame."
The administration of the Volgograd region in its telegram channel focused on Bocharov’s participation in the mourning event. “On March 23, Volgograd residents bring flowers and toys to the memorial on the Alley of Heroes in Volgograd. Governor Andrei Bocharov expressed support for the families of the dead and wounded, together with the townspeople at the foot of the Eternal Flame, he lit candles and laid flowers,” the publication says.
Let us remind you that after the terrorist attack, the authorities of the North Caucasus regions reported on strengthening security measures. In particular, entertainment and public events have been cancelled. Today, Vladimir Putin declared March 24 a day of national mourning in connection with the terrorist attack.
The terrorist attack in Krasnogorsk was one of the largest in 30 years in the Moscow region. From 1999 to the events at Crocus City Hall, there were five terrorist attacks there, in which more than 40 people were killed. The largest number of deaths, 130 people, is attributed to the seizure of the Theater Center on Dubrovka.
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Muslim community in Russia condemned the terrorist attack
[IsraelTimes] Troops locate terror infrastructure, weapons at medical center; WHO chair says facility has become inaccessible; IAF strikes 35 sites across Strip over past day
The Israel Defense Forces said Saturday it had killed more than 170 button men and captured 800 terror suspects during its ongoing operation against Hamas ...one of the armed feet of the Moslem Brüderbund millipede,... at 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 Hamas with 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... City’s Shifa Hospital.
The IDF first cleared the hospital a month ago or more, then waited for it to fill up again with bad guys before hitting it a second time. Kind of like setting up a deer stand overlooking a salt lick…
In the raid, which began early Monday and is being led by the Navy’s Shayetet 13 commando unit and the 401st Armored Brigade, the IDF said troops located infrastructure belonging to terror groups and caches of weapons.
According to World Health Organization head Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the medical site has become inaccessible due to the fighting.
On social media, he shared a harrowing account from a doctor there, who said two patients on life support had died from lack of electricity, while others at death's door were lying on the floor.
"These conditions are utterly inhumane," Tedros wrote. "We call for an immediate end to the siege."
International law stipulates that while a medical facility is a protected site, it loses that status if it is used for military activity, as Israel alleges Hamas has done on a large scale.
Meanwhile, ...back at the wreckage, Captain Poindexter wished he had thought to pack sun block... the IDF said that over the past day, the Israeli Air Force struck some 35 sites across the Gaza Strip, including command rooms and other infrastructure belonging to terror groups.
In central Gaza, the IDF said troops of the Nahal Brigade killed some 15 terror operatives during "intense fighting."
In southern Gaza’s al-Qarara, the IDF said the 7th Armored Brigade directed Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s on two operatives and a building used by Hamas amid its ongoing operations in the area close to Khan Younis.
The Hamas-run Gaza health ministry reported in a preliminary tally early Saturday morning that another 67 people had been killed overnight, including 10 in a strike on a home north of Gaza City. The figures cannot be independently verified.
On Saturday, UN chief António Guterres ...Portuguese politician and diplomat, ninth Secretary-General of the United Nations. Previously, he was the UN High Commissioner for Refugees between 2005 and 2015. He was the Prime Minister of Portugal from 1995 to 2002 and was the Secretary-General of the Socialist Party from 1992 to 2002. He served as President of the Socialist International from 1999 to 2005. In both a 2012 and 2014 poll, the Portuguese public ranked him as the best Prime Minister of the previous 30 years... arrived in Egypt, where he plans to meet with aid workers on the Egyptian side of Rafah, just across the border from the Gazook city where around 1.5 million Paleostinians are sheltering.
The question of a ground offensive on the city has become a matter of dispute between Israel and Washington.
"We have no way to defeat Hamas without getting into Rafah and eliminating the battalions that are left there," Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Friday.
Netanyahu has said the IDF will evacuate the civilians to areas north of Rafah before beginning the operation and has approved the military’s plans for the offensive.
But US Secretary of State Antony Blinken ...71st United States secretary of state and a leading light of the corrupt and inept Biden administration. He previously served as deputy national security advisor from 2013 to 2015 and deputy secretary of state from 2015 to 2017 under the corrupt and inept Obama administration. He advocated for the 2003 invasion of Iraq while serving as the Democratic staff director of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee from 2002 to 2008. He was a foreign policy advisor for the Biden 2008 presidential campaign. During his tenure in the Obama administration, Blinken helped craft B.O.'s policy on Afghanistan, Pakistan, and the nuclear program of Iran. We all saw how well each of those worked. After leaving government service, Blinken moved into the private sector, co-founding WestExec Advisors, a lobbying firm... argued an invasion of Rafah was "not the way to achieve" that aim, and warned starkly that it would risk more civilian fatalities, undermine aid assistance, risk greater isolation for Israel and endanger its security and international standing.
US officials say the number of aid deliveries via land needs to increase fast and that aid needs to be sustained over a long period. Israel says it is not restricting aid, and has blamed the deteriorating humanitarian situation on aid agencies’ failure to distribute supplies.
"We have the same goals as Israel: the defeat of Hamas," the top American diplomat wrote on X, after meeting with Netanyahu on Friday. "Next week I will meet again with Israeli officials in Washington to discuss a different way we can achieve this objective."
"Hard disagree," wrote Democratic Senator John Fetterman on X, in response to Blinken’s charge that Israel would become isolated. "Israel shouldn’t face isolation when Hamas snuffies are still present and hiding behind civilians.
"Hamas owns this humanitarian catastrophe and must surrender, release the hostages NOW, or be eliminated," added Fetterman, who has been a vocal supporter of Israel since the war erupted.
Meanwhile, ...back at the wreckage, Captain Poindexter wished he had thought to pack sun block... Mossad chief David Barnea headed to Qatar ...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi... for negotiations with CIA chief William Burns and Qatari and Egyptian officials on Friday.
[IsraelTimes] Palestinian terrorist opened fire at minibus, ambulance, and troops searching for him near Dolev on Friday; military maps his home for demolition
The Israel Defense Forces on Saturday evening announced the death of a soldier killed in a terror shooting attack carried out by a Palestinian sniper in the West Bank a day earlier.
He was named by the IDF as Sgt. First Class Ilay David Garfinkel, 21, of the Commando Brigade’s Duvdevan unit, from the central community of Sitria.
In the sniper attack near the settlement of Dolev on Friday morning, the commander of the 668th “Ram” Search and Rescue Battalion and another soldier were also seriously wounded. Five other troops were lightly and moderately hurt, the IDF said.
Mujahid Barakat Mansour attacked early Friday morning, shooting at an Israeli minibus, which lead to an hours-long exchange of fire and resulted in him being killed in a helicopter strike. Troops began a pursuit after the gunman following the initial attack, during which they came under fire several times throughout the morning.
A Magen David Adom ambulance was also targeted during the attack, with no injuries caused to the service’s medics.
According to the IDF’s initial probe of the attack, Mansour was using a sniper rifle and had opened fire from behind a makeshift cover in a forested area near Dolev. The gunman moved between several positions that he had set up in the area, which he had reached overnight, the probe found.
The IDF said it scrambled an attack helicopter and drones in its search for the terrorist.
The Israeli Air Force helicopter carried out gunfire in the area where the terrorist was believed to be, in an attempt to flush him out. Meanwhile, the gunman fired several more shots toward Israeli forces, causing casualties, according to the probe.
The IDF’s elite Duvdevan unit was then dispatched to the scene to locate the terrorist, during which the commandos also engaged in a gun battle with him. Garfinkel was killed in that clash.
Around five hours after the initial attack, with Mansour being finally located, the IAF helicopter carried out a strike against him, the IDF said. The terrorist was killed in the strike.
IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi toured the attack scene on Friday evening, the military said. Overnight, the IDF said it operated in the West Bank town of Dayr Ibzi’ to measure the home of Mansour ahead of its potential demolition.
Israel regularly destroys the homes of Palestinians accused of carrying out deadly attacks.
[IsraelTimes] Speakers at both rallies liken 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 Hamas with 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... captives to Purim story heroine; 10 arrested after demonstration in Tel Aviv where participants blocked roads, lit bonfires outside minister’s home.
Who needs an external enemy to destroy Israel when there are far left activists eager to wage war from inside the lines.
Thousands gathered in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem for weekly Saturday night protests against the government and for a hostagedeal, with speakers at both types of demonstrations drawing from the themes of the Jewish holiday of Purim, which began on Saturday night.
This week’s rallies took place as talks between Israel and Hamas ...the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,... for a temporary truce and hostage release were kicked into gear in Doha with speakers at both protests urging Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government to close a deal as soon as possible.
At the Jerusalem hostage protest near the Prime Minister’s Residence, Hostages and Missing Families Forum organizer Tom Barkai said, "No holiday will ever be a real holiday without the return of all the hostages."
RELEASING ’HUMAN SCUM’ IN EXCHANGE FOR THE HOSTAGES
The Tel Aviv anti-government protest took place outside the Kirya military where demonstrators called for early elections.
Many attendees wore shirts calling for the immediate dismissal of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the release of hostages, as well as shirts identified with various protest groups from the anti-judicial overhaul demonstrations that occurred weekly prior to October 7.
As has been observed before, they're the same people, just pivoting to a new excuse in the hope that more will be swayed to support them this time — Victory 2015 was sponsored and trained by Barack Obama’s State Department in concert with specialists from the Democratic Party.
Ami Dror, a high-tech entrepreneur and one of the leaders of the "Elections Now" movement, lauded the protesters before him as "heroes who went to war with a government of cowards."
CLASHES WITH POLICE
In the wake of the festivities between police and protesters at last week’s demonstrations, cops in both Tel Aviv and Jerusalem intensified their crowd control measures in hopes of preventing ralliers from blocking traffic.
Participants from neighboring hostage and anti-government protests in Tel Aviv blocked off the northern section of Begin Street after their respective demonstrations finished, lighting bonfires in the middle of the road.
Calls against the government were echoed across the protesting crowds as the bonfires were set up. Attendees pleaded for the US to pressure the Netanyahu government to pursue a hostage deal, crying out in English "SOS USA" and "Help, help, we need your help."
Can’t get the Israeli public to follow your lead, so you demand outside intervention? How anti-democratic of you.
When Fire and Rescue Services arrived at the demonstration, protesters pulled on the hoses to prevent them from extinguishing the bonfires, while the police attempted to forcibly disperse them.
Despite the police barricades installed along Ayalon Highway, a group of demonstrators made a break for the major road and succeeded only briefly in lighting a few bonfires before being dispersed.
Protesters made a couple more attempts to block the Ayalon before returning to Sapir Street and blocking it, lighting a bonfire along the way. The commanding police officer then declared the protest illegal and called on its participants to return south and for cops to use force to remove them from the street.
A group split off and made its way to MK Gideon Sa’ar’s apartment block, where they called on the politician to ensure that far-right ministers Itamar Ben Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich do not gain entry into the war cabinet.
The protesters also rallied outside the home of Minister Yitzhak Wasserlauf, from Ben Gvir’s Otzma Yehudit party, calling for the release of the hostages and lighting a bonfire before being dispersed by the police.
Tel Aviv police said they arrested ten protesters over the course of the evening.
After the protests in Jerusalem, a group of roughly a dozen people attempted to block the road outside Netanyahu’s official residence. The group included Mai Alvini-Peri, the grandson of Hamas-held hostage Haim Peri.
Although last Saturday night, attempts to block the road descended into festivities between police and protesters, the civil disobedience this week quickly fizzled out with only a few willing to partake in stifling traffic.
Sitting in the middle of the street, protesters chanted through megaphones that there is no routine without a return of the hostages and demanded their release.
Police ordered the demonstrators to return to the sidewalks, and then dispersed them without much resistance within a couple of minutes.
[IsraelTimes] IDF says no damage or injuries in attack, incident under investigation; fighter jets strike south Lebanon buildings used by Lebanese terror group
At least two drones from Leb ...an Iranian satrapy currently ruled by Hassan Nasrallah situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozen flavors of Christians, plus Armenians, Georgians, and who knows what else? It is the home of the original Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers... went kaboom! near the northern community of Kfar Blum early Saturday afternoon, causing no injuries.
The launches were apparently responsible for sirens heard around 12:30 p.m. in several communities close to the border, which have been largely evacuated.
The Upper Galilee Regional Council said the impacts caused a fire but no casualties.
According to the Israel Defense Forces, no damage or injuries were caused in the attack and the incident is being investigated.
Hezbollah claimed to have targeted an Iron Dome battery near Kfar Blum with two explosive-laden drones.
Later Saturday, the IDF said it struck a building in southern Lebanon’s Kafr Kila, after a Hezbollah operative was spotted entering it. The operative was identified by the 869th Combat Intelligence Collection Unit, and a short while later a fighter jet struck the building, the military said.
In Naqoura and Ayta ash-Shab, also in south Lebanon, the IDF said fighter jets struck additional buildings used by Hezbollah, as well as an observation post in Khiam.
Hezbollah also launched a number of rockets and missiles at the Mount Dov, Margaliot and Shomera areas, causing no injuries, according to the IDF.
Since October 8, Hezbollah-led forces have attacked Israeli communities and military posts along the border on a near-daily basis with rockets, drones, anti-tank missiles and other means, with the group saying it is doing so to support 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 Hamas with 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... amid the war there. Hezbollah is an Iranian proxy in Lebanon and Paleostinian terror groups Hamas ...one of the armed feet of the Moslem Brüderbund millipede,... and Paleostinian Islamic Jihad ...created after many members of the Egyptian Moslem Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the assassination of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah... are backed by Iran.
The IDF has regularly responded with strikes in Lebanon, while warning it will no longer tolerate Hezbollah’s presence on the frontier and warning of war in the north should ongoing international efforts fail to remove the terror group’s forces from the border area.
The war in Gaza erupted after Hamas’s October 7 massacres, which saw some 3,000 bandidosturbans burst across the border into Israel by land, air and sea, killing some 1,200 people and seizing 253 hostages, mostly civilians.
Vowing to destroy Hamas, Israel launched a wide-scale military campaign in Gaza. Hamas’s Iran-backed ally Hezbollah responded with strikes and attacks on the northern front.
So far, the skirmishes on the border have resulted in seven civilian deaths on the Israeli side, as well as the deaths of 10 IDF soldiers and reservists. There have also been several attacks from Syria, without any injuries.
Hezbollah has named 244 members who have been killed by Israel during the ongoing skirmishes, mostly in Lebanon, but some also in Syria. In Lebanon, another 42 operatives from other terror groups, a Lebanese soldier and at least 30 civilians, three of whom were journalists, have been killed.
Amid the constant attacks from Lebanon, Israeli officials maintain the country will no longer accept Hezbollah’s presence along the border, in contravention of the UN resolution that ended the 2006 Second Lebanon War. They say from those positions, the bandidosturbans could launch an attack similar to Hamas’s October 7 attacks in southern Israel.
Jerusalem also says the situation whereby tens of thousands of northern residents have been driven from their homes for months by Hezbollah’s attacks is intolerable and unsustainable.
[IsraelTimes] The IDF confirms reports of an Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... in the northern Lebanese city of Baalbek earlier tonight, saying its warplanes targeted a Hezbollah weapons manufacturing plant.
It also confirms Hezbollah’s claim to have fired a retaliatory barrage of rockets at northern Israel, but says it only detected 50 launches into Israeli territory. Hezbollah claimed to have fired 60 rockets.
The IDF says several of the Hezbollah rockets were intercepted by the Iron Dome missile defense system, while the rest landed in open areas. There were no reports of injuries or damage.
In response, the IDF said its forces immediately targeted some of the rocket launchers used in the attack on Israel.
Three people were wounded by Israeli air strikes on Lebanon’s eastern city of Baalbek overnight, one of which hit a two-story building, an AFP correspondent says
The city is a stronghold of the Hamas ally Hezbollah, and it is the third time the area has been hit in more than five months of fighting between Israel and the Iran-backed Lebanese terror group.
The AFP correspondent says the Israeli strikes targeted a Hezbollah site that had been deserted for some time, wounding three residents in nearby buildings.
[NAHARNET] Paleostinian factions in Leb ...an Iranian satrapy currently ruled by Hassan Nasrallah situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozen flavors of Christians, plus Armenians, Georgians, and who knows what else? It is the home of the original Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers... ’s Tyre region have handed over to Lebanese authorities a group of individuals suspected of aiding Israel in its drone liquidation of senior Hamas ...a regional Iranian catspaw,... official Hadi Mustafa near Tyre on March 13.
"Following close and constant monitoring and a preliminary investigation, it turned out that a group of intruders in our camp was involved in the liquidation operation," the factions said in a statement.
"They have been handed over to the relevant security authorities in the Lebanese state," the factions added.
Hamas has identified Mustafa as a senior member of its armed wing in Lebanon, saying he lived at the Paleostinian refugee camp of Rashidiyeh near Tyre.
The Israeli army confirmed in a statement that it carried out a strike in the Tyre area. It described Mustafa as a "significant operative" behind attacks on Israeli and Jewish targets around the world.
Al-Jadeed TV meanwhile identified two of those arrested as 18-year-olds who sold napkins at the camp, noting that they are Lebanese citizens of bedouin origin.
"They had placed a tracking device in a car belonging to a relative of the martyr Mustafa," al-Jadeed said, adding that the two have confessed to the charges.
"The two suspects confessed that their handler is called Hassan F., the attendant of a mosque in the al-Maashouq area between Tyre and al-Burj al-Shamali," the TV network added, quoting Paleostinian security sources.
"The three people were handed over to the Lebanese Army’s intelligence branch in the south, which arrested other individuals linked to the mosque attendant, who also has Lebanese citizenship," al-Jadeed said.
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...71st United States secretary of state and a leading light of the corrupt and inept Biden administration. He previously served as deputy national security advisor from 2013 to 2015 and deputy secretary of state from 2015 to 2017 under the corrupt and inept Obama administration. He advocated for the 2003 invasion of Iraq while serving as the Democratic staff director of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee from 2002 to 2008. He was a foreign policy advisor for the Biden 2008 presidential campaign. During his tenure in the Obama administration, Blinken helped craft B.O.'s policy on Afghanistan, Pakistan, and the nuclear program of Iran. We all saw how well each of those worked. After leaving government service, Blinken moved into the private sector, co-founding WestExec Advisors, a lobbying firm...
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