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ILLUSTRATIVE IMAGE: REUTERS / Mohamed Azakir Lebanon foiled a plot by militants based in the Syrian province of Idlib to carry out 2 attacks this year against places of worship and Lebanese army positions, Interior Minister Nohad Machnouk said on December 10. During a televised news conference, the attacks were timed to coincide with Lebanon’s general election, which took place in May. The Internal Security Forces monitored the plot and thwarted it. The province of Idlib is a part of the last remaining militant stronghold in Syria. A major part of it is held by extremist militant groups like Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (formerly Jabhat al-Nusra, the Syrian branch of al-Qaeda). These are the same “moderates” that the US-led bloc is defending when it claims that the Syrian Army should not employ a military solution in the area if the peace is not reached by diplomatic measrues.

On Dcember 10, the Turkish Interior Ministry released a new report providing a detailed look at the security situation in the country in the period from December 3 to December 10. According to the statement, the Turkish Army and security forces carried out 2,817 anti-terror operations across the country “neutralizing” 26 terrorists. Authorities detained 4,677 suspects in variuos crimes: 3,338 – crimes linked to drugs and smugling; 153 – crimes linked to illegal migration; 1,163 – terror-related crimes. The army and security forces also seized 40 guns, 2 grenades, 2,027 ammunitions and 428 kg of explosive materials. Turkish forces destroyed 40 shelters belonging to terrorist cells as well as 4 IEDs and mines. Click to see the full-size image

Click to see the full-size image Group of Israelis are suspected of running a child sex trafficking network in Colombia. According to a report by the  Times of Israel the number of suspects is 14 , while  Haaretz claims it is 12. The office of Colombia’s attorney general said eight of the suspects have been arrested, including six Israelis. The video shows Colombian police carry out an arrest at one of the locations: Fiscalía Colombia ✔ @FiscaliaCol 5/5 # ATENCIÓN 8 presuntos responsables de explotación y esclavitud sexual en # Colombia fueron capturados: 6 israelíes, entre ellos uno de los señalados cabecillas, Mor Zohar; y 2 colombianos, entre ellos un policía que presuntamente entregó información privilegiada de operativos 68 23:38 - 9 Dec 2018 54 people are talking about this Twitter Ads information and privacy The alleged sex trafficking ring provided Israeli tourists with “tourism packages” which includ

ILLUSTRATIVE IMAGE: Baykar Makina The Kiev government delivered a large shipment of unmanned combat aerial vehicles (UCAVs) to the frontline near the town of Gorlovka, the head of the press service of the Office of the People’s Militia of the Donetks People’s Republic (DPR),  Daniel Bezsonov said on November 9 th . According to Bezsonov, using these UAVs, the Ukrainian Air Force is going to stage a chemical provocation in the Donbass and deliver attacks on critical facilities of the DPR. “Our intelligence obtained reliable data on the arrival at the Gorlovka direction by the train of a large number of drone UAVs like the Warmate-1 and Bayraktar TB2. The latter is a joint production of Ukraine and Turkey, which can carry up to 70 kilograms of payload. The Ukrainian authorities recently boasted about the purchase of this UAV,” Bezsonov said. He also added that, according to anonymous sources at the operation headquarters of the Ukrainian Armed Forces’ Joint Forces Operation

Taliban Special Forces. Illustrative image On December 8, the Taliban announced that its fighters had killed 14 soldiers of the Afghan National Army (ANA) and captured 23 others during a hit and run attack on a military base in the district of Shindand in the northwestern province of Herat. “12 PKM machine guns, 3 RPG launchers with 80 rounds, 17 rifles, 55000 rounds of rifle, 10000 rounds of PKM, 3 communication radios and a sizable amount of other ammunition were seized during the operation,” the Afghan group’s news agency, Voice of Jihad, said in a press release. Herat provincial council member, Najibullah Mohebi, confirmed to the Associated Press (AP) that Taliban fighters had carried out a coordinated attack on a base of the ANA in Shindand on December 6. According to local officials, the army repelled the attack after six hours of clashes. However, the Afghan group had already killed and captured many soldiers. This was the biggest Taliban attack in Herat since the

Written by  The Saker ; Originally appeared at  The Unz Review The AngloZionist propaganda machine is constantly warning us that Russia is about to invade some country.  The list of candidates for invasion is long and ranges from Norway to the Ukraine and includes the Baltic statelets, Poland and even countries further West.  Of course, we are also told that NATO and the US are here to prevent that.  Well, thank God for them, right? But what is conspicuously missing from this narrative is a discussion of the possible Russian motives for such a military move. Typically, we are merely told that Russia has broken the European post-Cold War order and borders by “annexing” Crimea and by sending military forces into the Donbass. Anybody with an IQ at room temperature or above by now realizes that both of these claims are total bunk. The ones who indeed broke the post-Cold War international order and borders were the NATO member states when they used military force, in complete illegal