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Operating as the Iranian arm of the regime forces, the Fourth Division maintains its own security apparatus, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says.

Maher al-Assad, commander of the Fourth Division and brother of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, has issued a directive imposing restrictions on any security or military entity’s ability to arrest members of the Fourth Division, except under official missions sanctioned by the division’s security office or its military police company.

The SDF has not issued a statement regarding the events.

Groups of the National Defense militia (auxiliary forces of the Syrian regime) launched attacks on military positions held by the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) along the Euphrates River in Deir-ez-Zor’s western and eastern countryside. The SDF retaliated against the sources of fire.

Hezbollah has responded to recent Israeli threats by saying it will wage war without ‘limits’ if it continues to escalate military assaults on Lebanon.

Hezbollah on Saturday threatened to wage war with “no limit, rules and restraint” in response to any escalation of military activity by Israel on the Lebanese group.

A drastic escalation of tensions between Israel and the Hezbollah militia in Lebanon over the past week has brought the prospect of an expansion of war across the Middle East ever closer. Following Israel’s assassination of a senior Hezbollah commander and a retaliatory rocket barrage fired on northern Israel, The Israel Defence Forces (IDF) released a statement Tuesday declaring that operational plans for a war in Lebanon have been approved.

As Jonathan Tobin writes at Commentary:

The Khamenei Palestine book is important not in and of itself but because the regime’s obsession with Israel is a key to its foreign policy. Iran constitutes a grave threat to Neighboring Arab countries that are at least as angry about the president’s embrace of Tehran as the Israelis since their nuclear status would undermine their security. But as much as Iran is focused on regional hegemony in which Sunni states would be brought to heel, as Khamenei’s Palestine illustrates, it is the fixation on Israel and Zionism that really animates their expansionism and aid for terror groups.

Le Sommet du G7 sous présidence italienne, organisé par le gouvernement Meloni dans les Pouilles, proclame comme sa priorité «la défense du système international fondé sur la force du droit», déclarant que «la guerre d’agression russe contre l’Ukraine en a affecté les principes et a déclenché une croissante instabilité, visible dans les divers foyers de crise». Ceci est déclaré par le G7, dont 6 membres (États-Unis, Canada, Grande-Bretagne, France, Allemagne et Italie) sont les plus grandes puissances de l’OTAN, qui a fait exploser la guerre en Ukraine contre la Russie, auxquelles se joint le Japon, plus gros partenaire de l’OTAN en Asie Orientale contre la Chine.

Saviez-vous qu’Hitler a nommé Adolf Eichmann pour travailler avec les sionistes dès 1936 pour construire un État germano-juif en Palestine afin de menacer l’autorité britannique ? Vous savez maintenant pourquoi Eichmann a dû être réduit au silence. La consanguinité idéologique entre nazisme et sionisme

Cela semble incroyable mais c’est vrai.

Analysis: Turkey has said that the Kurdish-led administration’s decision to hold elections is unacceptable, but is a military operation likely?

Turkey is once again using threatening language after the Kurdish-led Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (AANES) scheduled local elections for 11 June in the territories under its control.

A southwestern Kentucky man has been convicted in federal court of travelling to Syria about a decade ago to train and fight with the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham, colloquially known as ISIS, the U.S. Attorney’s Office announced Wednesday.

According to USA Today, a federal jury in Bowling Green, Kentucky, convicted Mirsad Hariz Adem Ramic, 34, on Tuesday of multiple terrorism charges related to his involvement with ISIS, the U.S. Attorney’s Office of the Western District of Kentucky said in a news release Wednesday. Ramic was charged with providing material support to ISIS and receiving military-type training from the organization.

The Israeli government and military have committed systematic “crimes against humanity,” including “extermination,” during their eight-month-long assault on Gaza, a key United Nations commission found in a report published Wednesday.

The report is the first in-depth investigation by the United Nations into the events that have happened since October 7 and is based on detailed interviews with victims and witnesses. The three-person commission is led by Navi Pillay, a former United Nations human rights chief.