—❗️🇺🇸/🇮🇶 NEW: The Islamic Resistance in Iraq announces the downing of an American MQ-9 'Reaper' drone in Salahuddeen Governorate

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Funny how they always have just enough votes to stop these things!

🇺🇸 The Justice Department has withheld thousands of documents from the Epstein files, including FBI documents that detailed a woman’s unverified allegations of sexual misconduct against President Trump, according to a review by WSJ.

At least 4 Israeli airstrikes in Safad al-Batikh town

Goodnight

Throughout the night, the Israeli enemy army attacked several buildings and apartments in Beirut's Dahyeh - causing extensive damages

The Israeli army also carried assassinations in Tripoli and Badawi area in northern Lebanon, targeting Palestinians officials

❗️A car was targeted in Zahleh

While some municipalities are not allowing internally displaced people to seek refugee, others around Lebanon are handing fines as high as 100,000,000 to anyone hosting beforehand taking approvals

Qassem Suleimani
Mohammad Bagheri
Esmail Qaani
Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf

What do these names have in common?

They all began their military careers fighting a Kurdish insurgency after the 1979 revolution, later becoming top IRGC commanders.

The law of unintended consequences.

The highlight of my teens was reading the stories of Iranian martyrs

There is a full series translated to Arabic. It's wonderful.

كتيبة كميل and همت made me cry

You'd think that my bad spelling here (it's bas because I'm typing fast and not proofreading) is an instant disqualifier of me being American lol

https://t.me/LebUpdate/57177?comment=47510

Throughout the night and evening, many Israeli attacks happened around Lebanon

Abba, Toul, Kfaruman, Shahabieh, Kfartabneet, Dier Kayfa, Nafakhyeh, Adaysit, Dier Siryan, Toulren, Safad al-Bayikh, Tamrieh and many more

Unfortunately the attack on Qlayleh killed one.

The attack in Zawtar murdered a family of four who stayed in their home because they had no where else to go

لا حول و لا قوة الا بالله

A suspected military insider won $90K correctly predicting 9 separate military events!

This guy is now betting big on US forces entering Iran!

He will win nearly $100K if he is correct.

How can a random Polymarket account correctly predict:

- US striking Venezuela
- US kidnapping Maduro
- US forces in Venezuela
- US striking Iran
- Israel striking Iran
- US striking Iraq
- Israel striking Khamenei
- US anti cartel operations

❗️Pete Hegseth and Marco Rubio are clashing over the U.S. approach to the war with Iran, three former U.S. officials and a senior regional official told Middle East Eye.

The two were described as “at each other’s throats” over whether the U.S. should deploy troops to Iran. Hegseth supports the idea, while Rubio is deeply wary of entangling the U.S. in a long war

The attack in Al-Jurn - Al-Jamijmiyah area resulted in casualties

Two Iranian Su-24 bombers flew toward Al-Udeid Air Base in Qatar and were reportedly two minutes from striking when Qatari F-15 fighters intercepted and shot them down in Qatar’s first air-to-air combat mission.

Source: CNN

Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz spoke overnight with U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.

Hegseth thanked Katz for condolences over six U.S. soldiers killed and said:

“Keep going to the end — we are with you.”

Iran’s underground “missile cities”—tunnel complexes built to hide its missile arsenal—are becoming key targets for U.S. and Israeli strikes.

Aircraft and drones are destroying launchers as they leave the tunnels, while bunker-buster bombs hit entrances and surface infrastructure.

According to U.S. commanders, hundreds of missiles, launchers, and drones have been destroyed, and Iran’s missile launches have dropped about 86% in four days.

Source: WSJ

📸 Zawtar

The mayor of Al-Kafour, Tawfiq Safa, and his wife were martyred in the dawn raid on the town