The lying genocidist, aka Notanyjahud has ordered the idf to "help" the unifil troops to fight a non-existent enemy threatening the buffer zone patrolled by the Unifil troops. What he means is he grabs territory protected by Unifil under treaty of 1974.
Interesting things are going on in Romania. The police have been rounding up people connected to Russia's (and other's) attempts to illegally influence the election. https://apnews.com/article/romania-raids-election-georgescu-1095e5a6420af8c25208971a8855d664
Why doesnot Biden do the same, declare state of emergency, let the secret service plough through the trump and the musk files and get them both behind bars.
Picture of a 3-year old boy in the women's wing of the Sednaya prison. Plenty of others where that comes from. 1865703206803685843 is not a valid tweet id He's never seen daylight. His mother hadn't seen daylight in 6 years either. Do the maths.
As I said, the kid isn't at all unusual. "He asked me 'what's a bird?' 'What's a tree?' 'What's the sun?'"
That being said HTS has been designated a terrorist group with ties to ISIS by the US, Turkey, and UN.. The head of HTS claims he broke ties with jihadis after they started killing civilians.. Again… time will tell tho. HTS is clearly the most powerful rebel group in Syria and their leader very well could just be making positive noises to stop the West from attacking him. https://www.cnn.com/world/live-news/syria-civil-war-12-08-2024#cm4fy9c5r002f3b6u6pjh26p1
One thing that has opened up with Syria no longer being aligned with Russia.. Major oil and natural gas pipeline connecting the Middle East and Europe can now be built. Putin had directed Assad to prevent construction of the pipelines in order to protect Russia’s pipelines. With Assad gone, those pipelines can now be built and Syrian and the rest of ME oil and NG can start flowing towards Europe. https://bsky.app/profile/jayinkyiv.bsky.social/post/3lct3wkvxc22g
Not yet. Almost 18 hours after rebels broke in, they're still opening up the Red Zone - you read that right - and there are layers they can't find. In a final touch of sadism, the guards turned the ventilation systems off before running for their lives. It's a race against time before any remaining prisoners suffocate.
Sounds like it would screw Egypt, who depends on money from the Suez Canal. They are already down like $6 billion just from the reduction caused by the Houthis. Maybe in a decade will be finding out exactly how riot-proof their new capital city - the one that cost them all their foreign money reserves - really is.
That could be shoe to drop after the next one, which will be Tehran. No way a multi-generational failure like this won't have major consequences for the regime
Which one? Egypt hasnot got rebels like those in Syria to cause troubles for the regime. Afaik all the firepower is in the hands of the regime. On top of that nobody in the region or those with global strategic interests are waiting for any change there. Iran has Kurds in the north western part and in the coastal area of the Persian Gulf rebel factions, but with little impact.
And just in case the usual suspects - who've suddenly gone to ground on all threads - start their "akshually the role of CIA, MIT (Turkish intel), Mossad and MI5 has not yet been investigated" shit again . . . Sit down and shut the fcuk up. HTS had maybe 20-30k men, max, little armour, less artillery and zero air support. They knocked Assad over in 12 days. The Syrian Arab "Army" had all of that, plus 6-digit numbers of soldiers and militia, the vast majority of whom said "screw this shit" and walked off home. That's what happens when your president spends 6+ years getting rich off the drugs trade (captagon) and cowering in his palace when Israel bombed his allies. Jolani spent that time building a proto-state with a civil service and a police force, a professionalized light infantry army, opened a staff college for his army and drilled it to the nth-degree, waiting for his opportunity. Even Assad's loyalist constituencies saw post-'victory' that things continued to get worse economically. There was no 'victory dividend', no plan, no resources, no direction. Just rapacity, oppression and disorder with even the soldiers going hungry. A breath of air and it fell over.
ISIS getting reacquainted with USAF... U.S. Central Command conducts dozens of airstrikes to eliminate ISIS camps in central Syria > U.S. Central Command > Press Release View TAMPA, Fla. – U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) forces conducted dozens of precision airstrikes targeting known ISIS camps and operatives in central Syria, Dec. 8. The strikes against the ISIS leaders, operatives, and camps were conducted as part of the ongoing mission to disrupt, degrade, and defeat ISIS, in order to prevent the terrorist group from conducting external operations and to ensure that ISIS does not seek to take advantage of the current situation to reconstitute in central Syria. The operation struck over 75 targets using multiple U.S. Air Force assets, including B-52s, F-15s, and A-10s. Battle damage assessments are underway, and there are no indications of civilian casualties. CENTCOM, together with allies and partners in the region, will continue to carry out operations to degrade ISIS operational capabilities even during this dynamic period in Syria. "There should be no doubt - we will not allow ISIS to reconstitute and take advantage of the current situation in Syria," said General Michael Erik Kurilla, "All organizations in Syria should know that we will hold them accountable if they partner with or support ISIS in any way."