Yemen’s Houthis have captured the strategic Red Sea port city of Mocha, about 80km from the Bab al-Mandeb Strait, cutting key government supply lines and boosting their leverage over southern Red Sea shipping.
Al Jazeera’s Yousef Mawry reports.
Alexander Dugin: "All Salafi, Wahhabi, Al-Qaeda and ISIS groups around the world are instruments of the CIA and Mossad. This is not Islam — they are Takfiri groups."
Scores between ISWAP and Boko Haram. So far, 170 ISWAP killed, 4 Boko Haram Killed. 7 boats, captured only three escaped. Several weapons captured by Boko Haram.
ISWAP may retaliate tonight.
@DHQNigeria@HQNigerianArmy
EXCLUSIVE: Live battle between Boko Haram and ISWAP. So far casualties is more than 100 now. So far Boko Haram is defeating ISWAP and sweeping all their camps.
Zagazola will give you up to date report with video and pictures. The new camera man is doing a wonderful job
Over 50 fighters reportedly killed as Boko Haram factions clash with ISWAP in Abadam,
By: Zagazola Makama
A deadly clash between the factions of Boko Haram the Jamā’at Ahl as-Sunna lid-Da‘wa wa’l-Jihād (JAS) and the Islamic State of West Africa Province (ISWAP) has resulted in the reported death of more than 50 fighters at Toumbun Gini, an island community in Abadam Local Government Area of Borno State.
Security sources told Zagazola Makama that the clash occurred on Sunday afternoon around 3 pm, following an attempted offensive by ISWAP fighters.
According to the source, ISWAP mobilised fighters using 10 high-powered watercraft and launched an attack aimed at reclaiming the island, believed to have recently fallen under the control of the rival JAS faction.
However, intelligence reportedly reached JAS leadership ahead of the assault, enabling them to set up a counter-ambush.
At exactly 1500 hours, ISWAP boats landed and what was planned as a surprise offensive quickly turned into a deadly trap. The first shots were decisive. JAS fighters overpowered them within minutes. ISWAP was routed,” the source said.
The source said over 50 ISWAP fighters were killed during the ambush, with seven of their boats seized. The remaining three vessels escaped with casualties. Video clips appearing to show the aftermath of the clash surfaced online on Sunday.
Zagazola described the clash as Day 5 of intensified rivalry between the two insurgent factions, which have been fighting over territorial dominance and control of resources in the Lake Chad islands.
The continued push by JAS against ISWAP could force surviving ISWAP fighters deeper into mainland communities bordering Kukawa, Monguno and Marte LGAs, increasing security risks for civilians and security personnel.
The rivalry has however, weakened both factions, reducing their ability to launch coordinated large-scale attacks. However, this fragmentation also poses a different challenge: smaller, unpredictable cells that are harder to track.
What is happening on Lake Chad today is a conflict within a conflict and Nigerian troops remain in the middle of the battlefield. The fighting could be leveraged strategically by intensifying pressure on both groups simultaneously.
“This is the best time for the Nigerian military to tighten the corridor and deny both factions space to regroup,”said Zagazola.
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The battle line between the Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) and Boko Haram has reached a deadly new phase, as both factions intensify efforts to eliminate each other completely.
In recent months, Boko Haram had successfully overpowered ISWAP in several of their strongholds, inflicting significant losses. However, ISWAP appears to have regrouped and regained momentum, launching a series of renewed and more sophisticated offensives.
Intelligence sources indicate that ISWAP’s resurgence may have been aided by the involvement of foreign mercenaries operating within the Lake Chad region a factor that has shifted the balance of power between the two rival groups. The mercenaries helped ISWAP to deploy the use of armed drones to attack Boko Haram positions.
In a significant development, ISWAP fighters recently extended their operations to the Mandara Mountains and many parts of Sambisa Forest, an area historically dominated by Boko Haram marking the first time they have carried the fight deep into the Mandara strategic terrain.
The renewed clashes will continue to escalate in the coming weeks with no end in sight.
⚡️Sheikh Dr.Al-Sadiq Al-Ghariani, the Grand Mufti of Libya:
“What the UAE is doing now in Sudan is an implementation of the Zionist project.
What is happening in Sudan, what is happening in Libya, (through the Saudi & UAE’s support for Haftar’s militia that occupies eastern Libya)
and what happened before in Yemen, and in Egypt with the coup that brought its ruler (Sisi) to power through militarization, and what happened in Iraq, are all part of one scheme, a single Zionist-American plan.
The project in the West Bank and Gaza is the core, and its branches have extended to Yemen, Egypt, Libya, and Sudan.
When Egypt, Libya, and Tunisia were liberated for a few months in 2012, the Arab and Muslim armies, and weapons of the Muslims, were in Gaza and the West Bank. The American-Zionist enemy felt threatened.
That’s why they plotted: their war on Yemen, the coup in Egypt against the elected president (Morsi) because he opened the crossings with Gaza,
and in Libya, they brought us Haftar.”
⚡️🇮🇹BREAKING:
Italy is holding a powerful 24-hour national strike demanding an end to Italian arms sales to Israel, sanctions, to ending the genocide and justice for Palestine.
Footage from the top of Termini station in Rome.
Israel's strike on a Hamas leaders in Qatar failed after leaders left to pray, leaving their phones behind and fooling Israeli intelligence into thinking they were still inside – N12 reports
🇮🇱🇹🇷 Hamas delegation in Doha survived with Turkey's help.
Turkish intelligence MIT warned the Hamas delegation in Qatar about an impending Israeli attack, allowing the negotiators to avoid death.
Turkey tracked the movements of Israeli aviation and timely ensures security measures for the Hamas delegation.
Bombing of Hamas delegation in Qatar >
Don't be fooled by Trump's peace talk—it's always a trap.
With Iran, he negotiated just long enough to set them up for a strike.
With Hamas, he lured them to Doha under the guise of diplomacy and helped plan their assassination.
The man is a lying snake.
Thanks to the feckless U.S. elite, Trump’s personal treachery is now US national policy, making America a global joke:
dangerous, duplicitous, and utterly unreliable
Putin knows and he plays along. Putin, As a judo and chess master he is far more intelligent and subtle and he will win this war on attrition….on both US and Ukraine.