U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth warned that China's hypersonic missiles could destroy all U.S. aircraft carriers in just 20 minutes, highlighting China's military advancements. Hegseth noted that in every Pentagon war game, the U.S. loses to China, underscoring the growing threat to American naval power in potential conflicts.

The difference between what is allowed in the food supply in the U.S. versus Europe is shocking. While thousands of chemicals are approved in America, Europe restricts many of them. Why do we accept this imbalance? Our health, the health of our children, and our planet depend on what we choose to consume. Let’s challenge the status quo and demand safer food. The power lies in our hands—together, we can make change. 🍊🌍

Breaking: Pope Francis Is Dead. Jorge Mario Bergoglio, Pope Francis, has died at the age of 88 years at his residence in the Vatican’s Casa Santa Marta. Naija News reports that Pope Francis was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on December 17, 1936. A brief statement from the Vatican on its 𝕏 handle disclosed that the Catholic leader died on Monday (today). “Pope Francis died on Easter Monday, April 21, 2025, at the age of 88 at his residence in the Vatican’s Casa Santa Marta,” it read. On Easter Sunday morning, shortly after 11:30 am at the Casa Santa Marta, Pope Francis had a brief private meeting with the Vice President of the United States of America, James David Vance. The Holy See Press Office gave news of the meeting and noted it lasted a few minutes and offered an opportunity to exchange Easter greetings. Travelling to Italy with his family, Vance visited the Secretariat of State Saturday morning where he was welcomed by the Cardinal Secretary of State, Pietro Parolin, together with Archbishop Paul Richard Gallagher, Secretary for Relations with States and International Organisations. A cordial conversation took place, according to the Holy See Press Office, during which the common commitment to protect the right to religious freedom and freedom of conscience was renewed. There was also an exchange of views on the international situation, especially regarding countries affected by war, political tensions and difficult humanitarian situations, with particular attention focused on migrants, refugees and those in prison,” Vatican News reported. During the afternoon of Good Friday, the United States Vice President with his wife and three children attended the Celebration of the Lord’s Passion in Saint Peter’s Basilica, presided over by Cardinal Claudio Gugerotti, prefect of the Dicastery for the Eastern Churches.

IRNA News Agency: 🔷 Iran-U.S. talks can bear fruit with continued goodwill and realism: Araqchi 📌 Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi says talks between Iran and the United States can be fruitful if goodwill and realism persist. 🖇 en.irna.ir/news/85808536/ 📲 @Irna_en 🔶Thousands rally against Trump’s policies across the U.S. 📌 Thousands of protesters have poured into the streets of Washington and other cities across the United States to reject President Donald Trump’s policies including those on the economy, deportations, government firings, and the wars in Gaza and Ukraine. 🖇 en.irna.ir/news/85808687/ 📲 @Irna_en 📌 Gaza has become a “mass grave” for Palestinians and those helping them, American actress and filmmaker Angelina Jolie says, criticizing the Israeli regime’s genocide in Gaza. 📲 @Irna_en ♦️ Dozens killed in Gaza as Netanyahu vows to continue war 📌 Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has pledged to continue the Gaza war despite growing opposition at home and a rising death toll in the Palestinian territory where dozens of people have been killed in the latest Israeli attacks. 🖇 en.irna.ir/news/85808785/ 📲 @Irna_en 🔷 Former Israeli Prime Minister Bennett hospitalized 📌 Former Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett has been hospitalized overnight after feeling unwell. 🖇 en.irna.ir/news/85808868/ 📲 @Irna_en 🔶Iran says it welcomes any practical initiative that terminate sanctions 📌 Tehran, IRNA – Administration spokesperson Fatemeh Mohajerani says Iran, in the path of negotiations with the United States, welcomes any practical initiative that terminates sanctions and ensures the rights of the Iranian people. 🖇 en.irna.ir/news/85808856/ 📲 @Irna_en ♦️ Kuwait welcomes progress in Tehran-Washington talks 📌 Kuwait’s Foreign Ministry has welcomed the progress made in the ongoing negotiations between Iran and the United States. 🖇 en.irna.ir/news/85808872/ 📲 @Irna_en 🔸 Judiciary chief will attend SCO forum meeting in China 📌 Tehran, IRNA – Judiciary Chief Qolam-Hossein Mohseni-Ejei will travel to China to participate in the 20th summit of the chairs of supreme courts from the nine member countries of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO). 🖇 en.irna.ir/news/85809011/ 📲 @Irna_en 🔶 Chamber of Commerce says Iran-U.S. talks are a tool to serve national interests 📌 Tehran, IRNA – The Chamber of Commerce, Industries, Mines, and Agriculture (ICCIMA) has expressed support for the Iran-U.S. nuclear negotiations, describing them as a sovereign tool to serve national interests and revitalize the economy. 🖇 en.irna.ir/news/85809023/ 📲 @Irna_en 🔸 Israeli airstrikes kill at least two people in southern Lebanon 📌 Lebanon’s Health Ministry said on Sunday that one person was killed and two others wounded in a drone strike targeting a car in the town of Kfaryachit. 🖇 en.irna.ir/news/85809019/ 📲 @Irna_en 🔸 Exclusive | Saudi defense minister’s visit to Iran can help expand bilateral relations: Ambassador 📌 Tehran, IRNA- Ambassador to Saudi Arabia Alireza Enayati says the recent visit of Saudi Defense Minister Prince Khalid bin Salman Al Saud to Tehran was a step toward deepening relations between the two countries. 🖇 en.irna.ir/news/85809117/ 📲 @Irna_en 🔸 Enriching uranium is a ‘red line’ for Iran, says deputy foreign minister 📌 Tehran, IRNA – Deputy Foreign Minister for Legal and International Affairs Kazem Gharibabadi says Tehran firmly refuses to negotiate over its fundamental right to enrich uranium, declaring it a non-negotiable “red line.” 🖇 en.irna.ir/news/85809166/ 📲 @Irna_en

🇳🇬 Wilayatul Faqih NG 🇮🇷: While many, including ourselves, have criticisms of the usefulness of negotiations with the US, such criticism should always be constructive and never weaken the Islamic Republic through slander, such as painting the Leader as a powerless figurehead who has been overridden by the liberal fifth column. No criticism should be made in a way weaken the Islamic Republic, which Haj Qassem called a shrine (a holy sanctity that must be protected). According to this clip from late Ayatollah Fateminia (ra), weakening the Islamic Republic is the gravest sin, worse than alcohol, which only affect a handful of individuals. The liberals were about to arrange direct negotiations with the US which would put all subjects on deck, including missile programs and support for resistance groups, until the Leader put his foot down. These negotiations would not happen without his approval or oversight, therefore he approved indirect negotiations where none of Iran's red lines are even up for discussion. This caused the US to make great concessions, because otherwise the meeting would have been canceled prior or cut halfway through. There are certain voices who are trying to paint the Leader as a weak, powerless figurehead who has been sidelined. This is a grave fitna, because the Zionist Jews and the liberal imperialists have tapped out their customer base when it comes to getting an obnoxious minority of ultra-liberals to withdraw their support and confidence from the Islamic Republic. The next frontier is getting religious revolutionaries to lose confidence and pull their support from the Islamic Republic. There are certain voices who have gone so far to label Iran as a Jewish Republic due to this. Should we reveal that one of these voices is hiding his fully Jewish identity while claiming to be another ethnicity? Wouldn't be ironic that such a person who goes around calling everyone a Jew agent and Jew simp is of a fully Jewish background which he hides similar to Dan Burros, the Jewish man who hid his identity to rise to the top of the KKK and American Nazi Party in the 1950s and 60s? Whatever criticisms there are to make against "reformists," the LAST person that should do it is someone who is hiding their Jewish identity. Now, the issue is that it is hidden. In Islam, we have no problem with what someone is born into, so long as they are sincere. We have martyrs, such as Edoardo Agnelli (ra), whose mother was one of the most powerful Jewish women in Italy. Hiding and lying about it, however, raises obvious red flags. We're open to the possibility that there is a totally innocent reason for such hiding, and will apologize profusely if this is proven to be the case, but with such fitnamongering, we aren't holding our breath. A person whose origins are under question should keep their mouth shut regarding Iranian internal issues, painting the Leader as weak and powerless in the name of claiming to love the Leader and the revolution. Now, we won't name who this is. There is an escalation ladder. Want to keep up the charade? Stop the fitna against the Leader and stay in your lane. Want to try and slander us? The moment we hear anything, the floodgates of truth will open. Want to try and quietly kill us for "knowing too much"? Our families are instructed to tell the truth about this questionable character even if we die from natural causes or even from slipping on a banana peel, so pray for us to have a long life to maximize the length of the charade because no matter what is done to us, the truth will come out one day. Stop the fitna and spreading pessimism about the Islamic Republic, and the escalation ladder will stay where it is. However, that is what is within our own power. We cannot stop that other people might do a simple internet search to find out that the people spreading fitna to get religious revolutionaries to lose hope in the Leader and stop supporting the Islamic Republic is a bit gefilte fishy himself. We fear no one but God and will expose any questionable character if need be to protect our Leader. Do not test us. 📸 Imam Khamenei met with commanders of Armed Forces on the occasion of the Iranian New Year A group of commanders from the Islamic Republic of Iran’s Armed Forces met with Imam Khamenei, the Commander-in-Chief, on Sunday afternoon, April 13, 2025, on the occasion of the Iranian New Year. 📲 KHAMENEI.IR | 𝕏 (Official) | 𝕏 (Website) ✅ @Khamenei_en ‍📸 The #ZOF 🏴‍☠ (“iDF” aka iOF) terrorist organization admits to the elimination of one more of its vile terrorists and injury of five others, including three seriously, in a #Palestinian #Resistance operation in the northern #Gaza Strip earlier today: ☠ Warrant Officer G’haleb Sliman Alnasasra, 35, a tracker in the “Gaza Division’s Northern Brigade”. 💥 According to an initial ZOF probe, at 12:58 p.m., a group of ZOF terrorists driving along a ZOF logistics road, close to an army encampment inside Gaza, came under fire by the brave Palestinian Resistance mujahideen, who had come out of a tunnel shaft, launched an RPG at the #Zionist army vehicle. 💥 Three ZOF terrorists of the 414th Combat Intelligence Collection Unit were wounded in the attack. Two of them, an officer and a combat medic, are listed in serious condition. 💥 A short while later, Zionist rescue forces led by the commander of the “Gaza Division’s Northern Brigade”, Omri Mashiah, reached the scene, along with trackers from the brigade. 💥 At 1:25 p.m., Palestinian mujahideen set off an explosive device on the side of a road, near the rescue forces, eliminating Alnasasra and wounding two other trackers, including one seriously. 📈 A total of 848 ZOF terrorists have been eliminated since 7th October 2023, according to ZOF data. 🔻#AlAqsaFlood ✌️🏼#LongLiveResistance 🇵🇸#PalestinianResistance 🆔 Subscribe: https://t.me/News_Articles_Analysis/51485 ⏯ Video | #BREAKING | Yemeni Armed Forces published a video on Saturday, April 19, 2025, showing scenes of its operation: ✈️💥 Footage shows the moment a #US [$32 million] “MQ-9” drone was downed while it was carrying out hostile missions in the airspace of #Sanaa Governorate. ✈️💥 This is the 2nd US drone shot down 24 hours and the 6th this month. ✈️💥 The number of drones of this type shot down during the Battle of the Promised Victory and the Holy Jihad (since the beginning of the war in 2023) has risen to 21. 🇾🇪#Ansarullah 🇾🇪#LongLiveYemen 🇺🇸#USGenocidalRegime 🆔 Subscribe: https://t.me/News_Articles_Analysis/51486 — 🇮🇷/🇮🇱 NEW: Iran's 2,000 kilometer range 'Sepehr' OTH Radar has finally become operational, satellite imagery seems to confirm The radar array is one of Iran's most advanced over-the-horizon radars, more than 1,5 kilometers in length. It can detect takeoffs of individual aircraft or ballistic missile launches at a range of up to 2,000 kilometers, including inside the entirety of Israel. Only a handful of countries have mastered such advanced OTH radar technology, and the radar provides Iran with valuable early warning of an imminent attack. @Middle_East_SpectTor 📸 #BREAKING: #AlQassamBrigades announced: 💥 “Our fighters (mujahideen) were able to carry out a complex ambush against a #Zionist force that had advanced east of the Tuffah neighborhood, east of #Gaza City, and left its members dead and wounded.” 💥 “We targeted a [#ZOF] ‘Merkava-4’ tank and a ‘D9’ military bulldozer with two ‘Al-Yassin 105’ shells, setting them on fire in the Jabal al-Surani area, east of the al-Tuffah neighborhood, east of Gaza City.” 🔻#AlAqsaFlood ✌️🏼#LongLiveResistance 🇵🇸#PalestinianResistance 🆔 Subscribe: https://t.me/News_Articles_Analysis/51488 ⏯ Video | Footage shows the aftermath of the latest #US terrorist attacks on General Authority for Maritime Affairs building at the Port of Hodeidah in western #Yemen! 🚨 American warplanes carried out at least 20 airstrikes on the Yemeni capital #Sanaa, and its western, eastern, and southern suburbs! 🇺🇸#AmericaCrimes 🇺🇸#USGenocidalRegime 🆔 Subscribe: https://t.me/News_Articles_Analysis/51489 ⏯ Video | Over the span of just three hours, the #US regime launched over 38 terrorist airstrikes targeting civilian-populated areas in #Yemen’s capital, #Sanaa, and the provinces of Hodeidah, Marib, and Amran, according to Al Mayadeen’s correspondent! 🚨 The heavy bombardment resulted in the martyrdom and injury of at least 10 civilians in Sanaa and its surrounding areas! 🇺🇸#AmericaCrimes 🇺🇸#USGenocidalRegime 🆔 Subscribe: https://t.me/News_Articles_Analysis/51490 ⏯ #VideoPhotoNews 📸 Footage documenting the moment massive #Zionist occupation airstrike earlier today (Saturday 19, April) that targeted tents sheltering displaced people in the Al-Mawasi area, west of #KhanYunis, killing dozens of #Palestinian civilians with impunity! 🚨 On Friday night, #US-funded #ZOF (“iDF”) warplanes bombed a tent sheltering over 15 Palestinians west of Gaza City, killing at least five civilians! ☑️ 𝐙𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐢𝐬𝐦 𝐢𝐬 𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭; 𝐨𝐜𝐜𝐮𝐩𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧, 𝐝𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐮𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧, 𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐫𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐦, 𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐨𝐜𝐢𝐝𝐞...! 🇵🇸#GazaGenocide 🏴‍☠#ZionistTerrorism 🦠#ZionismIsADisease 🇺🇸#USGenocidalRegime 🦠#CancerousZionistTumor 🏴‍☠#GenocidalZionistOccupation 🆔 Subscribe: https://t.me/News_Articles_Analysis/51491

IRNA News Agency: 🔸 In a sign of progress, Iran says negotiations with the United States will enter the ‘technical’ phase 📌 Tehran IRNA (news analysis) – Spokesperson for the Foreign Ministry Esmaeil Baqaei says negotiations with the United States will resume next week “on the technical level,” a sign of progress. 🖇 en.irna.ir/news/85808104/ 📲 @Irna_en 🇮🇷 Turkmen Sahra, northeastern Iran 🇮🇷 📲 @Irna_en 🔸 Yemeni forces shoot down another U.S. MQ-9 drone 📌 Yemen’s Armed Forces have say they have downed two American MQ-9 drones over Sana’a, amid escalating confrontations with the United States and Israel during. 🖇 en.irna.ir/news/85808107/ 📲 @Irna_en 🔻 IRNA’s CEO: Iran, Arab countries adopting different approach to Tehran-Washington talks 📌 Tehran, IRNA – Hossein Jaberi Ansari, the CEO of IRNA, says Iran and its Arab neighbors are adopting a different and “forward-moving” approach to negotiations between Iran and the United States over a new deal on the Islamic Republic’s nuclear program, as compared with a 2015 agreement officially called the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA). 🖇 en.irna.ir/news/85808284/ 📲 @Irna_en

Press TV: Deadly US strikes hit Yemen fuel port used by Huthis https://jordantimes.com/news/region/deadly-us-strikes-hit-yemen-fuel-port-used-huthis <!-- google_ad_section_start -->SANAA — The US military said it had destroyed a key Yemeni fuel port as it targets the country's Huthi rebels, who said Friday that 20 people had been killed in the strikes.   The attack on the Ras Issa fuel port aimed to cut off a source of supplies and funds for the Iran-backed Huthis, the US military said.   Washington has hammered the Huthis with near-daily air strikes since March 15 in a bid to end their attacks on civilian shipping and military vessels in the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden.   The rebels began their attacks in late 2023, claiming solidarity with Palestinians in Gaza. Israel's army said Friday they had intercepted an incoming missile from Yemen.   In a statement, the US Central Command (CENTCOM) said: "US forces took action to eliminate this source of fuel for the Iran-backed Huthi terrorists and deprive them of illegal revenue that has funded Huthi efforts to terrorise the entire region for over 10 years.    "The objective of these strikes was to degrade the economic source of power of the Huthis, who continue to exploit and bring great pain upon their fellow countrymen".   Ships "have continued to supply fuel via the port of Ras Issa" despite Washington designating the rebels a foreign terrorist organisation earlier this year, the military command added, without specifying the source of the fuel.   Huthi health ministry spokesman Anees Alasbahi said the preliminary death toll stood at 20, including five paramedics.   There were also "50 wounded workers and employees at the Ras Issa oil port, following the American aggression", he said on X.   "The death toll is likely to rise as body parts are still being identified," he added.   Fireball    The port lies along the west coast of Yemen on the Red Sea.   In images broadcast early Friday by the rebels' Al-Masira channel, which it presented as the "first images of the US aggression" against the port, a fireball lit up the area around the ships, while thick columns of smoke rose above what appeared to be an ongoing blaze.   "Civil defence rescue teams and paramedics are making every effort to search for and extract victims and extinguish the fire," said Alasbahi.   The Huthis have regularly fired missiles and drones on Israel since the war in Gaza broke out in October 2023 following an attack on Israel by Hamas militants.   "Following the sirens that sounded a short while ago in several areas in Israel, a missile launched from Yemen was intercepted," Israel's army said Friday on Telegram, adding that aerial defence systems had been deployed "to intercept the threat".   Huthi attacks have hampered shipping through the Suez Canal -- a vital route that normally carries about 12 percent of world shipping traffic -- forcing many companies into a costly detour around the tip of southern Africa.   The United States first began conducting strikes against the Huthis under president Joe Biden's administration, and his successor President Donald Trump has vowed that military action against the rebels would continue until they are no longer a threat to shipping.   On Thursday evening, France's Defence Minister Sebastien Lecornu said a French frigate in the Red Sea destroyed a drone launched from Yemen.   "Our armed forces continue their commitment to ensuring maritime freedom of movement," he said on X.   US State Department spokeswoman Tammy Bruce told journalists Thursday that the Chinese satellite firm Chang Guang Satellite Technology Company was "directly supporting Iran-backed Huthi terrorist attacks on US interests".   "Their actions -- and Beijing's support of the company, even after our private engagements with them -- is yet another example of China's empty claims to support peace," she said.   Bruce did not initially provide details on the nature of the company's support for the rebels, but later referred to "a Chinese company providing satellite imagery to the Huthis." <!-- google_ad_section_end -->Image:  Hizbollah 'will not let anyone disarm' it, says chief https://jordantimes.com/news/region/hizbollah-will-not-let-anyone-disarm-it-says-chief <!-- google_ad_section_start -->BEIRUT, Lebanon — Hizbollah "will not let anyone disarm" it, the Lebanese group's leader Naim Qassem said Friday, as Washington presses Beirut to compel the Iran-backed movement to hand over its weapons.   Hezbollah, long a dominant force in Lebanese politics, was left weakened by more than a year of hostilities with Israel sparked by the Gaza war, including an Israeli ground incursion and two months of heavy bombardment that decimated the group's leadership.   The fighting was largely brought to an end by a November ceasefire, but not before the group's longtime leader and Qassem's predecessor Hassan Nasrallah was killed in an Israeli air strike.   "We will not let anyone disarm Hezbollah or disarm the resistance" against Israel, Qassem said in remarks on a Hezbollah-affiliated TV channel.    "We must cut this idea of disarmament from the dictionary."   His comments came hours after another Hizbollah official said the group refused to discuss handing over its weapons unless Israel withdrew completely from south Lebanon and halted its "aggression".   "It is not a question of disarming," Wafic Safa said in an interview with Hizbollah’s Al-Nur radio station.   "What the president (Joseph Aoun) said in his inauguration speech is a defensive strategy."    Safa, believed by experts to belong to the movement's most radical faction, said Hezbollah had conveyed its position to Aoun, who on Tuesday said he sought "to make 2025 the year of restricting arms to the state".   In his interview, Safa asked: "Wouldn't it be logical for Israel to first withdraw, then release the prisoners, then cease its aggression... and then we discuss a defensive strategy?   "The defensive strategy is about thinking about how to protect Lebanon, not preparing for the party to hand over its weapons."   Analysts have said that the once unthinkable idea of Hezbollah disarming may no longer be so, and may even be inevitable.   Problem is Israel'    Under the November ceasefire, Israel was meant to withdraw all of its forces from south Lebanon.   But despite the deal, its troops have remained at five south Lebanon positions that they deem "strategic".   Israel has also continued to carry out near-daily strikes against Lebanon -- including on Friday -- saying it is targeting members of Hezbollah.   Under the truce, Hizbollah was to pull its fighters back north of Lebanon's Litani River and dismantle any remaining military infrastructure in the south.   Lebanon's army has been deploying in the south as Israeli forces pulled back.   Hezbollah says the ceasefire does not apply to the rest of Lebanon, despite being based on UN Security Council Resolution 1701, which calls for the disarmament of non-state groups.   Hizbollah was the only group to keep its weapons after Lebanon's 15-year civil war ended in 1990, saying that they were for "resistance" against Israel, which continued to occupy the south until 2000.   US special envoy for the Middle East Morgan Ortagus, who visited Beirut this month, said Washington continued to press Beirut "to fully fulfil the cessation of hostilities, and that includes disarming Hizbollah and all militias".    Safa said on Friday that both Hezbollah and the Lebanese army were respecting the terms of the truce.   "The problem is Israel, which has not done so," he said.   On Saturday, a source close to Hezbollah told AFP that the group had ceded to the Lebanese army around 190 of its 265 military positions identified south of the Litani. <!-- google_ad_section_end -->Image:  5yrs ago April 2020 What a strange world we live in Covid-19 ClownWorld Restrictions Lockdowns Masks US to withdraw some 1,000 troops from Syria https://jordantimes.com/news/world/us-withdraw-some-1000-troops-syria <!-- google_ad_section_start -->WASHINGTON — The United States will roughly halve the number of troops it has deployed in Syria to less than 1,000 in the coming months, the Pentagon said Friday.   Washington has had troops in Syria for years as part of international efforts against the Daesh terror group, which rose out of the chaos of the country's civil war to seize swaths of territory there and in neighboring Iraq over a decade ago.   The brutal extremists have since suffered major defeats in both countries, but still remain a threat.   "Today the secretary of defense directed the consolidation of US forces in Syria... to select locations," Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell said in a statement, without specifying the sites where this would take place.   "This deliberate and conditions-based process will bring the US footprint in Syria down to less than 1,000 US forces in the coming months," he said.   President Donald Trump has long been skeptical of Washington's presence in Syria, ordering the withdrawal of troops during his first term but ultimately leaving American forces in the country.   As Islamist-led rebels pressed forward with a lightning offensive last December that ultimately overthrew Syrian president Bashar Al Assad, Trump said Washington should "NOT GET INVOLVED!"   "Syria is a mess, but is not our friend, & THE UNITED STATES SHOULD HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH IT. THIS IS NOT OUR FIGHT," Trump, then the president-elect, wrote on his Truth Social platform.   Years of war against Daesh   The 2014 onslaught by Daesh prompted a US-led air campaign in support of local ground forces -- the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) and Iraqi government units.   Washington also deployed thousands of American personnel to advise and assist local forces, with US troops in some cases directly fighting the jihadists.   After years of bloody warfare, Iraq's prime minister announced a final victory over IS in December 2017, while the SDF proclaimed the defeat of the group's "caliphate" in March 2019 after seizing its final bastion in Syria.   But the extremists still have some fighters in the countryside of both countries, and US forces have long carried out periodic strikes and raids to help prevent the group's resurgence.   Washington stepped up military action against Daesh in Syria in the wake of Assad's overthrow, though it has more recently shifted its focus to strikes targeting Yemen's Huthi rebels, who have been attacking international shipping since late 2023.   US forces in Iraq and Syria were repeatedly targeted by pro-Iran militants following the outbreak of the Gaza war in October 2023, but responded with heavy strikes on Tehran-linked targets, and the attacks largely subsided.   Washington for years said it had some 900 military personnel in Syria as part of international efforts against Daesh, but the Pentagon announced in December 2024 that the number of US troops in the country had doubled to around 2,000 earlier in the year.   While the United States is reducing its forces in Syria, Iraq has also sought an end to the US-led coalition's presence there, where Washington has said it has some 2,500 troops.   The United States and Iraq have announced that the coalition would end its decade-long military mission in federal Iraq by the end of 2025, and by September 2026 in the autonomous Kurdistan region. <!-- google_ad_section_end -->Image:  A few minutes ago, the Russian Defense Ministry published unique footage of the destruction of another American multiple launch rocket system 'HIMARS'. 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IRNA News Agency: 🔷 Araqchi meets Italian foreign minister in Rome ahead of second round of Iran-U.S. talks 📌 Tehran, IRNA – Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi has held talks with his Italian counterpart, Antonio Tajani, in Rome, ahead of the second round of indirect negotiations between the Islamic Republic and the United States. 🖇 en.irna.ir/news/85807562/ 📲 @Irna_en 📌 Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi leaves the Italian Foreign Ministry for an Omani diplomatic building after meeting with the Italian Foreign Minister. Indirect talks are due between Iran and the United States shortly. 📲 @Irna_en 📌 The Iranian delegation arrives at the venue of negotiations with the U.S. and starts talks with Oman’s foreign minister. 📲 @Irna_en 🔶Second round of Iran-U.S. talks kicks off in Rome 📌 Tehran, IRNA – The second round of indirect negotiations between Iran and the United States has kicked off in the Italian capital, Rome, where the two sides will discuss the Islamic Republic’s civilian nuclear program and termination of American sanctions against the country. 🖇 en.irna.ir/news/85807722/ 📲 @Irna_en ♦️ Iran extradites 199 Afghani prisoners: Official 📌 Tehran, IRNA – Iran’s Deputy Minister of Justice for Human Rights and International Affairs Askar Jalalian says that 199 Afghani prisoners held in Iran have been extradited to Afghanistan. 🖇 en.irna.ir/news/85807728/ 📲 @Irna_en 🔷 Iranian negotiators are given ‘full discretion’ in talks with U.S.: Adviser to Ayatollah Khamenei 📌 Tehran, IRNA – Ali Shamkhani, a political advisor to Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei, says Iranian negotiators in talks with the United States have been given “full discretion.” 🖇 en.irna.ir/news/85807704/ 📲 @Irna_en 📌 Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi in a meeting with his Italian counterpart says the only obstacle to achieving a nuclear-weapons-free Middle East is the Israeli regime. 📲 @Irna_en 🔶Iran’s agricultural exports up by 29% in value year-on-year: Customs Administration report 📌 The Islamic Republic of Iran Customs Administration (IRICA) announced that $5.2 billion worth of agricultural products were exported in the March 20, 2024-March 20, 2025 period, which was up by 29%. 🖇 en.irna.ir/news/85807772/ 📲 @Irna_en ♦️ Dozens more Palestinians are killed as Israel intensifies attacks on Gaza 📌 Gaza’s Health Ministry says Israeli strikes have claimed more than 90 lives over the past two days, as the regime’s military ramp up attacks across the Gaza Strip. 🖇 en.irna.ir/news/85807891/ 📲 @Irna_en 🔷 Iran one of the most important strategic partners in the region: Tajik minister 📌 Tehran, IRNA – Tajikistan’s Minister of Energy and Water Resources Daler Juma has described Iran as one of the country’s most important strategic partners in the region. 🖇 en.irna.ir/news/85807925/ 📲 @Irna_en 📌 The Foreign Ministry spokesperson says Iranian and American negotiating delegations are stationed in separate rooms. 📲 @Irna_en 🔹 Disarmament project a plot against countries, deterrence needed to defend sovereignty: Ambassador to Lebanon 📌 Tehran, IRNA – Iranian Ambassador to Lebanon Mojtaba Amani has described the disarmament project as a conspiracy against sovereign countries. 🖇 en.irna.ir/news/85807958/ 📲 @Irna_en 📌 The second round of talks between Iran and the United States has just wrapped up. 📲 @Irna_en 📌 President Dr Pezeshkian hosts the heads of the other two branches of government for their latest meeting. 📲 @Irna_en 🔸 Iran and the U.S. conclude indirect talks in Rome, agree to hold third round next week 📌 Tehran, IRNA – The second round of indirect negotiations between Iran and the United States has come to an end in the Italian capital, Rome, with both sides agreeing to meet again next week to continue the talks. 🖇 en.irna.ir/news/85808057/ 📲 @Irna_en 🔸 In a sign of progress, Iran says negotiations with the United States will enter the ‘technical’ phase 📌 Tehran IRNA (news analysis) – Spokesperson for the Foreign Ministry Esmaeil Baqaei says negotiations with the United States will resume next week “on the technical level,” a sign of progress. 🖇 en.irna.ir/news/85808104/ 📲 @Irna_en

Let this sink in… 💸 If you have $10 in your wallet and zero debt, you’re wealthier than 25% of Americans. Not because you’re rich… but because debt has so many people buried. A reminder that sometimes, financial peace isn’t about how much you have— It’s about how little you owe. 💡 Stay grounded. Stay grateful.

This is the hand of the man that the Democrats feel should be brought back to the United States, because he is such “a fine and innocent person.” They said he is not a member of MS-13, even though he’s got MS-13 tattooed onto his knuckles, and two Highly Respected Courts found that he was a member of MS-13, beat up his wife, etc. I was elected to take bad people out of the United States, among other things. I must be allowed to do my job. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!

NAMIBIA: Namibian first female president has ordered deportation of 500 Americans in response to Trump's deportation operations targetting Africans mostly. She says if you can't enter America without a Visa then same applies to Namibia, No American should enter Namibia without a Visa, and infact she has doubled the Visa fee for Americans. On the other hand she said no African should seek for a Visa to visit Namibia, she added that African nations should love each other and visit each other without Visa requirements, Visa was a tool invented by the whites to control Africans from pursuing their stolen natural resources abroad , let's now use visa requirements to block them from coming back to exploit more of our natural resources especially the minerals. What do you think about the direction mamaa is taking!? Is it a wake up call for Africa?

Police Declare ABC Transport Founder’s Daughter Wanted for Cybercrime Offenses The Nigeria Police Force National Cybercrime Centre (NPF-NCCC) has declared Ihuoma Julia Nneji, daughter of ABC Transport founder Frank Nneji, wanted for alleged offences including criminal defamation, injurious falsehood, and cyberstalking. In a bulletin issued by the Office of the Inspector-General of Police, Nneji is accused of involvement in cybercrime-related activities. Authorities directed her immediate arrest and urged anyone with information on her whereabouts to contact the nearest police station or the NPF-NCCC headquarters in Abuja. According to police, her last known address was in Victoria Garden City, Lagos. This development comes just months after Nneji initiated a defamation lawsuit at the Federal High Court in Abuja against prominent social media activist Martins Vincent Otse, popularly known as VeryDarkMan, influencer Kemi Olunloyo, and lawyer Henry Ikenna Uzochukwu. VeryDarkMan had previously accused Nneji of making inappropriate allegations against her ex-husband, misrepresenting herself as an American travel nurse, and undergoing multiple cosmetic procedures, including a Brazilian Butt Lift. The controversy, initially an online exchange, has now intensified into a serious criminal investigation by Nigerian authorities. The police appeal to members of the public to assist by providing useful information leading to Nneji’s arrest.