ISIS Attacks Oil Tankers and Escalates Operations in Northeast Syria

ISIS cells attacked three oil tankers with machine guns in Abu Khashab, western Deir Ezzor, causing damage before fleeing. Since early 2025, the group has carried out 67 operations in areas under the Autonomous Administration, killing 23 people, including 13 SDF fighters, 5 ISIS members, and 5 civilians. The attacks included ambushes, shootings, and bombings: 55 in Deir Ezzor, 9 in Hasakah, and 3 in Raqqa. The surge comes amid international warnings of ISIS’s resurgence and its threat to Syrian stability.

This also comes after the US lawmakers "unofficial" visit to Damascus and meeting with Jolani. The Jolani interview with the New York Times, in which he clearly reaches out to Russia for weapons, food and energy supplies. This would only be said under instructions from the US during the visit. At the same time Washington is mobilizing ISIS against Jolani in Syria. Reports are saying ISIS is approaching Damascus and Sweida. In coordination, the former Free Syrian Army factions in the US Al Tanf base are reportedly within 10km of Damascus. The US is creating contained chaos and not providing Jolani with the support he benefited from in Idlib. Despite Jolani doing US Zionist bidding in Syria, sanctions are still in place.

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📰 | Regional Situation Report – April 25, 2025

— YEMEN

The U.S. terror military carried out six airstrikes on Hudaydah, western Yemen. Targets and casualties remain unclear, but the strikes mark a continued escalation of U.S. involvement in the Red Sea and western Yemen theater.

- PAKISTAN

A roadside bomb exploded in Quetta, Balochistan, killing four security personnel and injuring three others. The attack occurred in southwestern Pakistan, a region often hit by separatist and insurgent violence.

- GAZA STRIP

Israeli airstrikes since Thursday morning have killed 82 Palestinians across the Gaza Strip.
• North Gaza (35 killed):
– 32 killed in a single strike on a police center and a home sheltering displaced civilians in Jabalia.
– 3 killed, others wounded, in a strike on a displacement tent at Safatawi junction, west of Jabalia.
• Gaza City (28 killed):
– 6 killed in a strike on the al-Sarafiti family home in Sheikh Radwan.
– 2 killed in Wadi al-Arais, al-Zaytoun neighborhood.
– 5 bodies recovered in al-Tuffah neighborhood.
– 15 killed in a bombing of an apartment in Al-Siddiq Tower, near Al-Sahaba complex.
• South Gaza (12 killed):
– 2 killed in a strike on the al-Najjar family home in Khan Yunis.
– 2 killed in a displacement tent in al-Mawasi, Khan Yunis.
– Abdul Aziz Adel Abu Hani succumbed to wounds from a previous strike on a tent.
– Asif al-Najjar killed, others injured, in a separate Khan Yunis strike.
– 15-year-old Karam Raed Harb Abu Kawarik killed near al-Nasr Municipality in Rafah.
– 5 members of the Abu Taimeh family—including three children and a pregnant woman—killed near Al-Aqsa University in Khan Yunis.
• Central Gaza (7 killed):
– 3 killed in a strike on a displaced family’s tent in al-Sawarha, west of Nuseirat.
– Ayman Mahmoud Basheer killed near Al-Bukhari Mosque in Deir al-Balah.
– 3 killed, including a child, in a drone strike on al-Zawaida.

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🟩 Report: In a statement, Hamas strongly rejected the outcomes of the Palestinian Central Council (PCC) meeting in Ramallah, calling it a major disappointment that deepens national division and ignores the unity and resistance needed amid Israel's ongoing war on Gaza and escalation in the occupied West Bank.

– Criticized the lack of action by official Palestinian institutions to stop the genocide in Gaza and settlement expansion, accusing the meeting of reinforcing unilateralism and disconnect from the Palestinian people's struggle.

– Recalled the widespread boycott of the meeting by key factions like the Popular Front (PFLP), National Initiative (PNI), Democratic Front (DFLP), and independent figures.

– Condemned Mahmoud Abbas’s insults against Palestinian resistance forces during the meeting, calling them inappropriate at a time that demands unity.

– Reaffirmed its call to rebuild the PLO on democratic and national foundations, hold comprehensive elections, and activate a unified leadership framework.

– Stressed the need for leadership that honors the sacrifices of the Palestinian people, not one that collaborates with the occupation or follows foreign agendas.

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❎ | This illegitimate born is cursing the maqam (shrine) where the head of Imam Husayn (A) is buried, a place of immense significance. The references to this place are not only supported by massive references, including those from Sunni sources, but also carry an undeniable weight in the religious discourse. He is addressing Imam Husayn (A) as if he were a pagan Egyptian god—astaghfirullah! Is this what modern-day Takfiri Wahhabi Sunnism has descended to? Today or tomorrow, if a believer believes in the Mahshar (Day of Judgment), they will face the Prophet (S) with these same words, and Erdogan will also be there with shackled hands. May Allah curse these cults and all the groups that promote such ideologies.

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— 🇮🇷/🇵🇰/🇮🇳 NEW: Iran has offered to be a mediator between Pakistan and India, with Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi citing good relations with both 'brotherly neighbors'

@Middle_East_Spectator

🇸🇾 Breaking: Four Israeli army vehicles entered the village of Ofaniya in the northern Quneitra countryside, southern Syria, and established a military checkpoint.

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🇸🇾 Breaking: A new massacre has shaken Homs, where seven syrian civilians were arrested during coordinated pre-dawn raids and executed in cold blood. All victims were non-combatants with no known affiliations or charges.

This latest wave of sectarian-targeted killings exposes the brutality of the current de facto terrorist authorities, who operate with impunity and continue to commit systematic violence against civilians.

Victims of the massacre:

— Shaheed Hafez Abdul Karim Shamsin
— Shaheed Mohammed Saeed Al-Waari
— Shaheed Ali Asef Ibrahim
— Shaheed Yahya Al-Jardi
— Shaheed Alaa Al-Nasr
— Shaheed Hussein Al-Nasr
— Shaheed Haitham Muhammad

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🇵🇸 Breaking: Eyewitnesses from inside the Gaza Strip report a very fierce battle underway between the resistance and occupation forces east of the Shuja’iyya neighborhood and Al-Tuffah, east of Gaza City.

Israeli terror forces are carrying out intense airstrikes and artillery shelling, accompanied by the deployment of heavy smoke barriers. Rescue helicopters are seen evacuating dead and wounded IOF from the battlefield.

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