Free Republic

Air raid sirens sounded here in Nahariya and also in Haifa where our youngest son is living. We went into our building's air raid shelter. I said my daily measure of Psalms and said the afternoon prayers, then got bored, then sat down. People chatted about the news, infiltrators in Maalot and the air raid on Tiberias. Someone tried to start a song. It didn't get very far. I'm a decent Russian tenor when I want to be, and many in our buildings are Russian speakers, so I sang a Chassidic song in Russian about fearing nobody but G-d. It...

This week, Mexican authorities confirmed that two police officers in Michoacán were injured by an attack from cartel gunmen who used commercial drones to drop IEDs, Breitbart Texas reported. The attack came after state police officers removed a series of roadblocks aimed at keeping rival cartels from using armored SUVs to carry out attacks in their attempts to take control.El personal de la #PolicíaMichoacán realizó el restablecimiento de la vialidad luego de retirar piedras que obstruían el libre tránsito en la localidad de El Terrero, municipio de #Aguililla. pic.twitter.com/MtSDwpdvyk— SSP MICHOACÁN (@MICHOACANSSP) April 24, 2021While various news outlets in Mexico...

Soon after Turkish air force jets carried out a wave of airstrikes against Kurdish targets in northeastern Syria and northwestern Iraq on April 25, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu spoke with US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson over the phone. The reported tone of the conversation speaks volumes about the new low in Turkish-American relations ahead of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s planned May 16 meeting with President Donald Trump. Summary⎙ Print The Turkish foreign minister shared a heated conversation with his American counterpart in the wake of the Turkish airstrikes in Syria, and despite US fury, Ankara's increasingly roguish behavior will likely...

Ilham Ahmed, the co-president of the Democratic Council of Syria. File photo Ilham Ahmed, the co-president of the Democratic Council of Syria, said that the United States should not choose between Turkey and the Kurds in Syria.Ahmed accused Turkey of turning a blind eye to terrorism. “Erdogan is trying to force the United States to choose between us [Syrian Kurds] and Turkey. We don’t think such a choice is necessary, but it is worth considering what that choice entails,” she said.“The Turks said they bombed our headquarters because they claimed our territory is being used to launch attacks against Turkey, but those...

PKK (Kurdistan Workers' Party) Executive Council released a statement regarding the Turkish airstrikes on Rojava and Shengal. The statement by PKK said: “After facing a 'No' from Turkey's peoples in April 16's referendum, the AKP-MHP fascist dictatorship conducted airstrikes on our people's sacred place Shengal and Rojava Kurdistan -the vanguard and fortress of resistance against ISIS fascism- at April 24 night, and struck the positions of YBŞ and HPG and the YPG-YPJ headquarters with warplanes. To begin with, we commemorate with respect all those martyred in this savage fascist attack, and state that they will be avenged and the...

It’s not the first time we’ve heard this, so treat this report from Iraq with a healthy dose of skepticism. In fact, it’s not quite clear what’s being reported. According to one Iraqi news source, an Iraqi air strike killed Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi earlier today, but further information supposedly sourced from Iraqi PM Haidar al-Abadi upgraded al-Baghdadi’s status to wounded. Gateway Pundit flagged the initial tweet: URGENT: #ISIS leader Abu Bakr al Baghdadi was killed by a coalition airstrike in #Gwer area a few hours ago. Source. #Kurdistan— Rudaw English (@RudhoeEnglish) January 19, 2015 A few hours later, al-Baghdadi...

New York Times -The Opininator:A Gathering of Opinion From Around The Globe The Latest on Bombing or Talking to Iran Let’s start with the bombing. Ace at Ace of Spades HQ points to a Jerusalem Post story today in which a former Israeli official floats a conditional timeline for bombing Iran. Israel will be compelled to attack Iran’s nuclear facilities if Western powers do not impose serious sanctions against Teheran by the end of 2009, former deputy defense minister Ephraim Sneh said on Wednesday. He also points to a second Post story, a report on Nicholas Sarkozy’s comments earlier today...

Israel is keeping its options open to deal with the Iranian nuclear programme, a senior official said on Monday, after the Russian president said he had been assured it would not take military action. Russian President Dmitry Medvedev made the comments in an interview with US television, excerpts of which were released by the Kremlin on Sunday. "When Israeli President (Shimon) Peres was visiting me in Sochi recently, he said something very important for all of us: 'Israel does not plan any strikes on Iran, we are a peaceful country and we will not do this'," Medvedev said. Peres's office...

Another US air attack on Waziristan submitted 1 hour 19 minutes ago SOUTH WAZIRISTAN -US aircrafts violated Pakistan air space and launched another air strike in the South Waziristan tribal region, witnesses said on Thursday. There was no casualty but the air raid at Angoor Ada near the Afghan border created panic among the people. According to sources, the US planes on Wednesday night bombed Zeyub mountainous range, around 25 km west of Wana, the center of South Waziristan. The air strike uprooted trees and created deep caves in the mountainous region. After the US air strike, more than 10...

The U.S. provided Israel with information about Syrian air defenses before Israel attacked a suspected nuclear site in Syria, reports AVIATION WEEK, which broke the story on its website, AviationWeek.com, today. The complete story will appear in the November 26 issue of Aviation Week & Space Technology The U.S. was monitoring the electronic emissions coming from Syria during Israel's September 6 attack, and while there was no active American engagement in the operation, military and aerospace industry officials told AW&ST that advice was provided. The AW&ST article, reported by Dave Fulghum, Robert Wall and Amy Butler, also reveals that the...

Before an airplane's propeller nearly sliced her apart, lithe, brown- eyed Arianna Jimenez was a star on the Patriots, a Contra Costa County youth soccer team. A year later, she faces her 13th birthday today knowing more surgeries are in store to minimize the 2 1/2-inch difference in the length of her legs. And years will pass before she can get back on any soccer field. But Arianna finally stashed her crutches last month. And she's coming into her own. "I feel braver," she said. "I know if I have survived this, I can deal with life. I have a...