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Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer hosts Syrian President Ahmed al‑Sharaa in Downing Street
New videos shows Iraqi members of the Iranian proxy group PMU filming themselves feeing in panic as an American A-10 Warthog carries out 3 strafing Arun’s against them. The sound is something else…
#USAF United States Air Force - Iran War Special Operations Command / RAF Mildenhall 27 March - 0020z The build-up and transit of MC-130J Commando IIs at RAF Mildenhall has been ongoing since the start of March. So far, there have been at least 41 MC-130Js (excluding based aircraft) that have arrived at RAF Mildenhall. Of those 41, at least 11 have the Silent Knight modification. These aircraft have been arriving in the early hours of the morning and have largely been unmarked or had their tail numbers taped over. A few have been changing their callsigns on departure, and most have had 20+ passengers on their inbound flights. The first aircraft, 14-5805, arrived at Mildenhall on the 3rd of March as UNLIT 77, departed on the 24th as BZAIN 31 and then arrived back on the 25th again as BZAIN 31. In the past 24 hours there have been 15 MC-130Js departing. DACHA 11/12/13 and LAPEL 23/25/27 departed on the 26th and 25th, although I'm not sure what callsign they arrived under, nor their identity. AGREE 35/41/45, PILUM 53/55 and SWASH 03/05/07/11 all departed on the 26th of March, leaving behind SWASH 09 which had a bird strike on landing on the 23rd March. Three AC-130s remain at RAF Lakenheath, along with a single USMC KC-130 which arrived from MCAS Miramar. 📸 @havoc_aviation @MATA_osint @DefenceGeek @sipjack1776 @TheIntelFrog @Andyyyyrrrr @vcdgf555 @sentdefender @Osinttechnical @FaytuksNetwork @Faytuks @Andyyyyrrrr @haynesdeborah
This claim that Ukraine are firing drones through Poland and the Baltics to avoid Russian airspace is nothing more than delusional cope. It took me 10 minutes to find Russian Telegram channels reporting launches from Chernihiv followed by alerts in Bryansk, Smolensk, Pskov and Leningrad Oblasts. The claim that they just "appear" in Leningrad is provably false. Image attached shows the rough path the drones would take to go through these Oblasts.
Tried my hand at a very rough, initial geospatial battle damage assessment of Iranian missile and drone strikes against US and regional military bases. A few notes on caveats and methodology. 1/7
Drones attacked the port of Ust-Luga in Russia’s Leningrad region. Preliminary reports say the NOVATEK Ust-Luga plant was hit. The facility processes stable gas condensate - a byproduct of oil and gas production - and exports petroleum products to international markets.
🔥🚨 Ukraine’s military intelligence destroyed a Bastion-M launcher loaded with Zircon missiles in Crimea overnight on March 24, after tracking the system moving to firing positions. Another launcher was damaged and seven Russian personnel were killed or wounded.
Marked change in policy by the Trump Administration in dealing with the pro-Iranian Iraqi militias. The US struck several militia locations around Mosul, notably on the guest house of Faleh al-Fayyadh, the head of the "Popular Mobilization Forces," the umbrella group of Iraqi militias. The PMF was established after the 2014 invasion of Iraq by ISIS, made up of pre-existing Iranian-backed militias, as well as newly created militias of volunteer who joined the fight against ISIS. The PMF numbers about 250,000 members formally (many in fact are ghost soldiers) and includes militias not loyal to Iran, such as ones loyal to Grand Ayatollah al-Sistani, and the Sadrist Saraya a-Salam. 6 of the PMF's militias, all of them established with the support of the Iranian regime, are proscribed terrorist groups in the US. Until the ongoing war, the US policy differentiated between the PMF and the 6 proscribed militias. However, this war showed that the Iranian-backed militias control the infrastructure of the PMF too, and utilize it for striking US interests. This is no surprise, as the Chief of Staff of the PMF, Abu Fadak, is a senior Kataeb Hezbollah commander. Thus, the more hardline groups, Kataeb Hezbollah, Harakat al-Nujabaa' and Kataeb Seyyed a-Shuhadaa', utilize bases of different PMF militias (including Sunni ones!) and networks loyal to Iran within militias that publicly adopted a more conciliatory tone, to strike US interests. This is something confirmed to me by Iraqi security sources. In response, the Trump Administration is launching attacks on the PMF infrastructure, moving away from the distinction between the PMF and the pro-Iranian militias that actually control the PMF.
The Defense Forces struck the seaport in Primorsk, Leningrad Oblast, one of Russia’s largest oil export terminals on the Baltic Sea. The pipeline system has a capacity of up to 75 million tons of oil per year.
