>5,000 terrorists amassed in Afghanistan close to CIS border - Russian FSB chief >Houthi forces captured 13 new villages in Al Azariq district, Dhale province >the state department has repeated the stance that if chemical weapons were used, the US & allies will respond >The Syrian Arab Army (SAA) continues its push into militant-held areas in Hama Governate >"Trade War" song with anti-U.S. lyrics goes viral in China >Source says US has decided to arm the tribes of Anbar Province, Iraq >Qualcomm halt chip supplies to Huawei >Google pulls Huawei’s Android license, forcing it to use open source version >Houthi militants announce that the attack on Saudi oil infrastructure was the start of a military campaign against 300 vital targets in Saudi Arabia, Yemen and the United Arab Emirates >US State Department warns Iran after a rocket hits near the US Embassy in Baghdad Green Zone >WASHINGTON — Nearly 400 members of Congress signed a bipartisan letter to President Donald Trump calling on him to safeguard Israel’s interests with Syria’s civil war coming to an end >WFP says it could suspend aid in Houthi-controlled areas due to 'repeated obstacles' placed in its way >HTS enters Kafr Nabudah in recent offensive and SAA units retreat after failed advance in western Hama
= NGO’s and hybrid warfare: youtu.be/ro1byfe5vUM = >WikiLeaks: Turkish oil minister links to Isis oil trade - wikileaks.org/berats-box/article Top aide to Hillary Clinton: :Al-Qaeda is on our side in Syria - wikileaks.org/clinton-emails/emailid/23225
reuters.com/article/us-northkorea-usa-document-exclusive-idUSKCN1RA2NR With a piece of paper, Trump called on Kim to hand over nuclear weapons The English version of the document, seen by Reuters, called for “fully dismantling North Korea’s nuclear infrastructure, chemical and biological warfare program and related dual-use capabilities; and ballistic missiles, launchers, and associated facilities.
>State Dept comes to no ‘definitive conclusions’ after chemical attack claims in Syria After accusing Damascus of another chemical attack on rebel fighters earlier this week, the US State Department said it had seen evidence “consistent” with that narrative. The spokesperson said investigations were ongoing.
“We do have numerous sources including interviews with those present during the attack that did report that a number of opposition fighters were taken to local hospitals and presented symptoms that were consistent with chemical exposure,” US State Department spokeswoman Morgan Ortagus told reporters Thursday.
“We don't have any definitive conclusions yet as we continue to investigate,” she said.
Oliver Martin
>Pentagon confirms mulling more troops for Middle East As US relations with Iran continue to plummet, Acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan confirmed military planners were weighing a new troop deployment to the Middle East.
“What we're looking at is: Are there things that we can do to enhance force protection in the Middle East?” Shanahan told reporters at the Pentagon Thursday, adding “It may involve sending additional troops.”
Shanahan dismissed reports that suggested Washington had plans to send 120,000 troops into the region, and declined to discuss specific numbers for the potential deployment.
Anyone else /nightwalk/ here? About to walk some around my neighborhood, hopefully no coppers lmao
Mason Fisher
VIDEO
>HOUTHIS RELEASE RARE VIDEO OF DRONE ATTACK ON ABU DHABI INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT
For the first time ever, the Houthis media wing has released a video showing an aerial attack that targeted the Abu Dhabi International Airport less than a year ago.
The short video shows a suicide unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) of the Yemeni Air Force [loyal to the Houthis] directly hitting the airport’s “Terminal 1” on July 26, 2018.
According to the Houthis, the attack on Abu Dhabi International Airport was carried out with a “Samad-3” UAV. No photos or information about this type of UAVs have been presented, yet. However, experts assume that it has a range of more than 1,400km and a stealth design.
When the attack first took place, the official twitter account of the Abu Dhabi International Airport announced that an accident involving a supply vehicle occurred in “Terminal 1.” The UAE also denied any attack. The Houthis new video proves that these statement were false.
Yes. I'd like to bring a cat with me but he's a crazy fucker so he'll escape to the nearest tree or will start catching critters uncontrollably I'm sure. Early morning is nice too, haven't done that in a while. For jogging we have a nice park with a small lake nearby, I don't like the benches there though but for jogging it's great.
Ryan Wright
Don't take the cat, you will lose it. Do you listen to music or just enjoy the silence?
Jose Jenkins
>night walk in crown heights Brooklyn No thanks
Adrian Hernandez
>Houthis say they attacked Najran airport, Saudi-led coalition ‘intercepts drone’ Yemen’s Houthi rebels have launched a drone attack on a Patriot missile battery at the airport of the Saudi city of Najran near the Yemeni border, according to the group’s Al-Masirah TV.
The Saudi-led coalition fighting the Houthis said on Thursday the drone was intercepted and destroyed by the kingdom’s air defenses, according to Reuters.
The group claimed responsibility for last week’s armed drone strikes on oil assets in Saudi Arabia and on Sunday said they would attack 300 vital military targets in Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Yemen.
This is the third Houthi strike or attempt to strike Najran in a week, according to Saudi and Houthi reports.
probably ignore it and take the attrition, long as there aren't too many of them
Camden Sanchez
also, buy decent close range AA from the Russians
Mason Collins
Houthis for the win. Do they have rocket capabilities?
Isaiah Reed
on the one hand I like it as a piece of television but it is pretty obviously anticommunist propaganda wrapped in anti russian propaganda
Charles Harris
user, Houthis have their own modernized and modified Scud missiles that they had used extensively to wipe out entire Saudi bases inflicting literal hundreds of casualties with every hit.
>Turkey stops importing Iran’s oil ‘out of respect for US sanctions’ – official Ankara stopped buying oil from Iran at the beginning of May out of ‘respect’ for US sanctions despite disagreeing with them, AFP quoted a Turkish official as saying on Wednesday.
“As a strategic ally” of the US, “we respect” the sanctions, said the official, during Turkish Deputy Foreign Minister Yavuz Selim Kiran’s visit to Washington.
Turkey was among eight countries, also including China, India and Japan, that were initially exempt from the sanctions and allowed to continue importing Iranian crude. The exemption ended May 2 and has not been renewed.
Ankara initially appeared unwilling to comply, but according to the anonymous official, Turkey did stop importing Iranian oil after May 2.
The Turkish delegation in Washington reportedly discussed the various points of tension between the two NATO allies, including Ankara’s recent purchase of the S-400 missile defense system from Russia.
Parker Gray
>Iran tells German envoy its patience is over: Fars
Iran told a German envoy seeking to preserve the 2015 nuclear deal that its patience was over and urged the treaty’s remaining signatories to fulfill their commitments after the United States pulled out, the Fars news agency reported on Thursday.
Jens Ploetner, a political director in the German Foreign Ministry, met Iranian Deputy Foreing Minister Abbas Araghchi. A German diplomatic source told Reuters that talks with other Iranian official were also planned.
The semi-official Fars news agency said Araghchi had relayed Iran’s impatience during the talks.
Britain, France and Germany, which signed the 2015 deal along with the United States, China and Russia, are determined to show they can compensate for last year’s U.S. withdrawal from the deal, protect trade and still dissuade Tehran from quitting an accord designed to prevent it developing a nuclear bomb.
But Iran’s decision earlier this month to backtrack from some commitments in response to U.S. measures to cripple its economy threatens to unravel the deal, under which Tehran agreed to curbs on its uranium enrichment program in exchange for the removal of most international sanctions.
“At the center of the political director’s visit is the preservation of the Vienna nuclear accord (JCPOA),” the German diplomatic source told Reuters.
>tfw sandal wearing khat farmers destroy the richest nation on earth Why don't those Iranian faggots make a movie about this instead of Muh Mullahs Are Oppressing Me 3: Reloaded
Thinks are heading towards a war in the next two months it seems. The deal doesn't really work for the U.S. or its allies. Removing sanctions is the last thing they would want since it is that what they are mainly fighting against. They can spread their influence through proxies and political around the region. The only thing that works for Washington really is destabilising Iran and the main way to do that is to fracture it like Syria
Wyatt Rogers
Neat. Anything in Idlib? Heard SAA got rekt there like yesterday, losing a village n shiet to HTS I think?... Alright out for a /nightwalk/ hopefully thread will still be up.
Julian Lee
The houthi are modern day Samurai i tell ya
Justin Smith
More like, why don't those Iranian faggots give them everything they got. Fuckers are the best fighters on this planet.
Tyler King
HTS pyrric victory, they've lost 250 men of 600 that they had before the counteratack.
Connor Adams
Come the fuck on, how can you tell me that isn't action movie material Fucking Khat Rambo
Christian Smith
>teleports to your convoy's flank >nothin' personnel, imperialist jew lackey
who captured the video? btw, good to see the houtis upgrade.
Liam Wood
Fierce clashes between the SAA and militants are ongoing in Kafr Nabudah and in nearby areas; The Syrian Arab Army (SAA) uncovered several weapon caches in the course of recent combing operations in the countrysides of Damascus and Daraa; Militants launched 17 rockets at the Russian Hmeimim airbase. 9 rockets were intercepted. 8 rockets fell before reaching the airbase; Several armed unmanned aerial vehicles attacked Hama Airbase. They were intercepted; An armed unmanned aerial vehicle damaged Zara’a power plant.
>Full report from the ongoing battle for northwestern Syria
The battle for northwestern Syria has recently intensified following a large-scale counter-offensive by Hay’at Tahrir Al-Sham and their Turkish-backed rebel allies.
On Tuesday, Hay’at Tahrir Al-Sham and their allies were able to score an important advance in northwestern Hama when their forces managed to retake the key town of Kafr Naboudeh from the Syrian Arab Army (SAA).
Since retaking Kafr Naboudeh, the jihadist rebels have come under heavy attack from both the Syrian military and Russian Air Force. Last night, the Russian Air Force launched over 20 airstrikes in the area, with most of their strikes targeting Kafr Naboudeh itself.
the front-lines have not changed very much over the course of a week; however, the capture of Kafr Naboudeh by the jihadist forces is an important advance, regardless of how little the progress looks on the map.
The Syrian Arab Army was able to push back into Kafr Naboudeh on Wednesday, but they were ultimately forced to withdraw after failing to breach the jihadist lines at the northern district of the town.
It is still not clear whether or not the Syrian Army will attempt to retake Kafr Naboudeh in the coming days; it is a very difficult town to hold if you do not hold the hills to its east.
>Russian Air Force unleashes hell over Kafr Naboudeh
The Russian Air Force unleashed a massive assault over the key town of Kafr Naboudeh in northwestern Hama last night, a military source in the Hama Governorate told Al-Masdar News this morning.
Led by their Sukhoi jets, the Russian Air Force repeatedly struck the jihadist defenses inside of Kafr Naboudeh, scoring several direct hits on Hay’at Tahrir Al-Sham’s positions.
According to the military source in Hama, the Russian Air Force was attempting to weaken the jihadist resolve at the northern district of Kafr Naboudeh. This area now has a large presence of Hay’at Tahrir Al-Sham fighters, which is making it very difficult for the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) to retake Kafr Naboudeh.
The Russian Air Force is still carrying out airstrikes over northwestern Syria at this time; however, the majority of these strikes are now concentrated on the western countryside of the Idlib Governorate. In particular, the Russian Air Force is hitting the jihadist positions in the Jisr Al-Shughour District.
>Jihadists make new push to capture 2nd strategic town in northwestern Hama
The jihadist rebels launched a new wave of attacks in northwestern Hama on Wednesday, targeting the strategic town of Qal’at Al-Madiq near the Al-Ghaab Plain.
Led by Hay’at Tahrir Al-Sham, the jihadist rebels launched a heavy attack on the towns of Kurkat and Mustariyah in a bid to reach nearby Qal’at Al-Madiq. Intense clashes are now ongoing at these two towns.
Hay’at Tahrir Al-Sham and their Turkish-backed rebel allies have already managed to recapture Kafr Naboudeh from the Syrian Arab Army on Wednesday. If they can retake Qal’at Al-Madiq, they will have successfully retake the two most important towns in northwestern Hama.
At this time, the Syrian Army is still trying to recapture Kafr Naboudeh from HTS; however, they have only managed to retake a part of the town. HTS has entrenched themselves deep in the northern part of Kafr Naboudeh, which is now making it hard for the Syrian Army to break through their lines.
> but it is pretty obviously anticommunist propaganda wrapped in anti russian propaganda The main bad thing of this show is that there are a lot of military personnel in places where they were not and should not be even logically. In real life, most people were motivated to work without the presence of the military or the KGB.
For example, those three divers who were sent to open the valves, went there simply because at that time there was their shift. Anyway, all of them hasnt take seriuos damage to their health, only one of them died few years ago, two others are still alive. The man who went to look at the ruins of the reactor, did it simply at the request of the director of NPP.
Well, fun fact. It was Academician Legasov who asked the helicopter pilot to fly over the reactor when they arrived at the place. Tychina then also asked him, like, what glows below. Legasov answered him that it was death.
Ayden Flores
>UK threatens to strike Syrian gov’t over HTS claims of chemical weapons use
The United Kingdom will “respond appropriately” if the alleged use of chemical weapons in Syria is confirmed, UK Prime Minister Theresa May said Wednesday.
“We condemn all use of chemical weapons, we are in close contact with the United States, we are monitoring the situation closely. And if any use of chemical weapons is confirmed we’ll respond appropriately”, May told the parliament.
The US Department of State claimed earlier in the day that there were “signs” that the Syrian government might be using chemical weapons.
apparently the west still needs an obvious bad guy to create fiction and I wonder why those fucking capeshit movies won't die
Ayden Reyes
>Russian forces carry out operations in eastern Syria
The Anna News Agency has released another set of photos from eastern Syria showing the Russian Armed Forces participating in operations against the Islamic State
In the photos released by Anna News, the Russian soldiers can be seen operating inside the Deir Ezzor Governorate, which still has an Islamic State presence.
The battle to oust Islamic State from Raqqa followed the modern US military playbook. A massive aerial assault conducted with willing military powers ( UK and France); zero use of ground troops; and a reliance on proxy fighters at street level (Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces militia).
The bombardment was immense. For four months the coalition pounded the city into the ground – with thousands of airstrikes (215 from the UK, says the MoD) and 30,000 US artillery rounds. Never mind that artillery is notoriously imprecise and should not be used in heavily populated areas (such use is “indiscriminate” in international legal parlance), the coalition fired artillery round after artillery round into residential areas for four solid months.
80% of the city has been reduced to ruins. More than 11,000 buildings are uninhabitable and Raqqa is widely considered the most-destroyed city of modern times. Think Dresden and you’d be close. Street after street of windowless, hollowed-out buildings. Miles of rubble. Piles of twisted metal. Utter ruin. There has been no assistance for residents desperate to rebuild, and entire families are reduced to living in bombed-out husks of buildings.
IRGC Commander believed to have defected to the West
Brigadier General Ali Nasiri, head of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps Protection Bureau, is said to have fled to the West after a fallout with the representative of the Supreme Leader in the IRGC. On Thursday, April 11th, during a meeting among the senior IRGC intelligence officials, Nasiri and Hossein Taeb, the representative of the Supreme Leader to the IRGC came to blows. The following days, when Nasiri failed to show up for work, it was revealed that he had actually left the country.
Nasiri, already commander of the Seyyed al-Shohada unit of the Guards in Tehran Province, was appointed in 2017 by Major General Mohammad Ali Jafari, commander-in-chief of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps. The website of the Al-Mayadin news agency which is affiliated with the Lebanese Hezbollah posted the news without much detail on Saturday, April 13, but removed it only after half an hour.
Nassiri is said to have gone to a US embassy in one of the Persian Gulf countries while carrying important strategic documents, seeking political asylum. The IGGC’s Protection Bureau was established in 1984, to oversee aviation and flight security (hijacking and bombing), as well as protection for regime and government officials, and foreign dignitaries visiting Iran.
> apparently the west still needs an obvious bad guy to create fiction Tychyna does not seem to me as a negative character. In fact, the writers did not work well for this moment. Characters are not quite similar to those who they were. Academician Legasov was not like a man who is afraid of someone. Moreover, he felt great in the party system, was the son of a party official.
If you have any moments strange or propagandistic, ask me, I will try to explain to you.
Alexander Russell
>Clavell spent four years researching and writing the book.[2] Clavell:
>I learned to fly a helicopter. I read the Koran for the second time (the first was as a POW), I read anything the Shah had written, anything by his sister, by Khomaini. I read about the cults, about Sufism and 100 other books, about the Caucasus, the war years, the partition of Iran between Russia and Britain, I read about Ali, the first of the Imams.
Cameron Carter
>I toured the country in a helicopter with an old friend of mine who was in the oil business. We went everywhere. I saw how helicopters and an international team of pilots were essential to the oil industry. Immediately I knew it lent itself to a novel. But I had other projects going so I put it aside. Then the revolution occurred. Now there were all these stories about the horrors of living through someone else's revolution. It all came together in my mind as the story of a multinational group of copter pilots caught up in an ugly revolution. Of course, that's all I knew. I never have a plan before I begin a novel.[2]
Jack Long
Apple complied with the requirements of the Russian legislation, eliminating the Ukrainian identity of the Crimea on its maps. interfax.ru/world/662026
the scene in the bunker with old man the scene in the shoe man office the various scenes where they say can't evacuate because of west, I thought they evacuated before Sweden even found out
> the scene in the shoe man office In fact, practically it happened in reality. One of the heads of the Belarusian Institute of Nuclear Physics found that the rad level was exceeded, started calling the nearest nuclear facilities, realized that the problems in Chernobyl, sent out employees to measure radiation in the city and went to the deputy chairman of the Belarusian Communist Party. He refused to accept him, but in the end he was able to get to him because he was familiar with one of the poets whom the party chief accepted that day. Party official said that everything was normal.
> the scene in the bunker with old man Maybe it looks weird, but it is quite acceptable. It is very realistic that some party chief may made a similar speech. Naturally, he would not say anything about the reward.
> the various scenes where they say can't evacuate because of west You will laugh, but in fact it was. Academician Legasov really demanded an urgent evacuation, and Tychina could not contact Gorbachev, so the evacuation was postponed. Local authorities prepared the transport and waited for the approval from the center. Besides the lack of understanding of the scale of the accident, there was indeed a fear that Americans would learn about it. > , I thought they evacuated before Sweden even found out It happened at about the same time.
maybe it's a ploy in the pivot to asia, a feeble attempt to realign with russia
Jack Sanchez
i'm not sure how it shows in russia - but internationally they removed ukraine from the label, but they did not add russia this is the same they do with much disputed territories in the world (see LOC between china and india for example, or kashmir) i would be curious if it shows differently for russia (my vpn doesn't have a russian server, unfortunately, or ukrainian)
> naked miners You understand perfectly that this is just a joke. In any case, the miners really were very in hot conditions, they did not put on any protection (however, the mine itself had normal radiation levels), in the summer many of them took everything off because there were also installers working with welding machines in the mine. Nevertheless, the work is absolutely naked in the mine is such a mining humor, it happened in all countries.
Jonathan Hall
Bout to see the biggest memory holing in Magapede history
A few months back. If you check Google maps you should see Crimea as Russia. Google does this for certain countries normally, like for example Pakistanis would see Jammu and Kashmir as Pakistan territory while Indians would see it as part of India, but for Crimea since Google got called out by the government for it, they made it Russian territory on all versions of Google maps and this caused a rectal ragnarok among Ukrainian Twitter nationalists.
Carter Thompson
ok - the miners did it as a joke? i did not know i figured the miners already accepted that they were going to die, and that's why they didn't wear any protection
that article in particular was talking about the labeling, not where the border shows up the border still shows disputed internationally
Dominic Gonzalez
Yeah that's what Apple did for Crimea as well, but if you look at the borders and color of the territory, it's drawn as Russian territory. Note the disputed border between Crimea and Ukraine but no border between Crimea and the rest of Russia. This is how most countries now get it.
