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Israeli military conducts airstrikes on Iran Story by Courtney Kube • 1h • 2 min read The Israeli military has begun airstrikes against Iran, two U.S. officials said Thursday evening, a dramatic escalation that increased the chances of an all-out war between the countries and expanding the long-running regional conflict. There is no U.S. involvement or assistance, the officials said. Israel confirmed it had launched a strike on Iran, and declared a state of emergency early Friday local time. "Following the State of Israel’s pre-emptive strike against Iran, a missile and drone attack against the State of Israel and its civilian population is expected in the immediate future," Israel's Defense Minister Israel Katz said in a statement early Friday local time. Israeli military conducts airstrikes on Iran The move appeared to be a significant break with the Trump administration, which has been in talks with Tehran on a possible nuclear deal and argued against such a step. Israel became more serious about attacking Iran as negotiations between the United States and Iran appeared closer to a preliminary agreement that included provisions about uranium enrichment that Israel views as unacceptable. A big worry for the U.S. is Iran retaliating against American personnel or assets in the region. Officials earlier announced the voluntary departure of nonessential employees, and the Defense Department announced the voluntary departure of military families from across the U.S. Central Command area of operations. The Trump administration had ordered all embassies within striking distance of Iran’s missiles, aircraft and other assets (including missions in the Middle East, Northern Africa and Eastern Europe) to send cables with assessments about danger and about measures to mitigate risks to Americans and U.S. infrastructure, two sources told NBC News this week. Earlier this week, the board of governors of the International Atomic Energy Agency, the United Nations’ nuclear watchdog, formally found that Iran isn’t complying with its nuclear obligations for the first time in 20 years. This article was originally published

Is it true you can't be or follow Sunni or Shia in state of Insanity or severe mental illness?

If Iran is attacked, will it be a full-scale retaliation or like limited strike when Solomeni was killed?

The Daily Express US planning to permanently relocate 1 million Palestinians from Gaza to Libya Story by Housnia Shams • © Getty The US government is reportedly in talks with Libyan officials on a plan to permanently relocate up to 1 million Palestinians from Gaza to Libya. A report by NBC News, which cited unnamed sources, said the Trump Administration had discussed the proposal with Libya's leadership. Washington would reportedly offer Libya billions of dollars of funds that the US froze more than a decade ago in exchange for the resettling of Palestinians. No final deal has been reached. A former US official told NBC News that financial incentives, including free housing, may be offered to Palestinians to encourage them to voluntarily leave Gaza. The White House is also reportedly considering resettling Palestinians in Syria, the report said. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has backed a plan by US President Donald Trump to take over Gaza and resettle displaced residents outside the enclave. Last week, Netanyahu said Israel was working to find third countries willing to take in Palestinians. "We have put together an administration that will allow them to leave, but the problem with us is one thing - we need receptive countries," Netanyahu said. ) And, you know, I have concepts for Gaza that I WXIA-TV Atlanta Proposing a Freedom Zone for Gaza "That's what we're working on right now. If you give them the go-ahead, I tell you that more than 50 percent will leave, and I think much more." Trump's proposal has been widely condemned by allies in the Middle East who have warned that relocating Palestinians from Gaza would threaten stability in the region, expand the conflict and undermine the push for a two-state solution. Human Rights Watch said it amounted to "ethnic cleansing." Israel launched dozens of airstrikes across Gaza on Friday that killed 108 people, mostly women and children, according to health officials. Gaza's Health Ministry said 31 children and 27 women were killed and hundreds more wounded in the airstrikes. It comes days after Netanyahu declared that Israeli forces would enter Gaza with "full force," adding that there was "no way" Israel would stop the war. "In the coming days, we are going in with full force to complete the operation," he said earlier this week. "Completing the operation means defeating Hamas." His comments come after Israel's Cabinet approved a plan to capture all of Gaza and move hundreds of thousands of Palestinians to the territory's south. In March, Israel blocked the entry of all food, water and other aid supplies to two million people in Gaza, causing what is believed to be the worst humanitarian crisis since the war began in October 2023. The move was widely condemned by aid groups, who have accused Israel of using starvation as a weapon of war.

Follow Trump Tower in Damascus? Syria Seeks to Charm US President for Sanctions Relief By Timour Azhari and Humeyra Pamuk DAMASCUS/WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A Trump Tower in Damascus, a detente with Israel and U.S. access to Syria's oil and gas are part of Syrian leader Ahmed al-Sharaa's strategic pitch to try to get face time with U.S. President Donald Trump during his trip to the Middle East, according to several sources familiar with the push to woo Washington. Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa listens to the speech of French President Emmanuel Macron (not seen) during a joint press conference after a meeting at the Elysee Palace in Paris, France, May 7, 2025. REUTERS/Stephanie Lecocq/Pool/File Photo© Thomson Reuters Jonathan Bass, an American pro-Trump activist, who on April 30 met Sharaa for four hours in Damascus, along with Syrian activists and Gulf Arab states has been trying to arrange a landmark - if unlikely - meeting between the two leaders this week on the sidelines of Trump's visit to Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates. Syria has struggled to implement conditions set out by Washington for relief from U.S. sanctions, which keep the country cut off from the global financial system and make economic recovery extremely challenging after 14 years of grinding war. Signaling a possible shift in Washington's policy, Trump said on Monday that he may ease U.S. sanctions in response to a query from his Turkish counterpart. "We're going to have to make a decision on the sanctions... We may take them off of Syria, because we want to give them a fresh start," Trump told reporters. "Many people have asked me about that, because the way we have them sanctioned, it doesn't really give them much of a start. So we want to see we can help them out. So we'll make that determination," he said. Proponents of more U.S. engagement with Syria hope that getting Trump into a room with Sharaa, who still remains a U.S.-designated terrorist over his al-Qaeda past, could help soften the Republican administration's thinking on Damascus and cool an increasingly tense relationship between Syria and Israel. Part of the bet for the effort is based on Trump's history of breaking with longstanding U.S. foreign policy taboos, such as when he met with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in the demilitarized zone between North and South Korea in 2019. "Sharaa wants a business deal for the future of his country," Bass said, noting it could cover energy exploitation, cooperation against Iran and engagement with Israel. "He told me he wants a Trump Tower in Damascus. He wants peace with his neighbours. What he told me is good for the region, good for Israel," said Bass. Sharaa also shared what he saw as a personal connection with Trump: both have been shot at, narrowly surviving attempts on their lives, Bass said. Syrian officials and a presidency media official did not respond to a request for comment. Sharaa spoke with Saudi Arabia's de facto ruler Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman on Sunday, according to the Syrian presidency. A person close to Sharaa said afterwards a Trump-Sharaa meeting remained possible in Saudi Arabia, but would not confirm whether Sharaa had received an invitation. "Whether or not the meeting takes place won't be known until the last moment," the person said. 'PUSH UNDERWAY' To be clear, a Trump-Sharaa meeting during the U.S. president's visit to the region is widely seen as unlikely, given Trump's packed schedule, his priorities and lack of consensus within Trump's team on how to tackle Syria. A source familiar with ongoing efforts said a high-level Syria-U.S. meeting was set to take place in the region during the week of Trump's visit, but that it would not be between Trump and Sharaa. "There is definitely a push underway," said Charles Lister, head of the Syria Initiative at the Middle East Institute. "The idea is that getting to Trump directly is the best avenue because there are just too many ideologues within the administration to get past." Washington is yet to formulate and articulate a coherent Syria policy, but the administration has increasingly been viewing relations with Damascus from a perspective of counterterrorism, three sources including a U.S. official familiar with the policy-making said. That approach was illustrated by the make-up of the U.S. delegation in a meeting last month between Washington and Syrian Foreign Minister Asaad al-Shibani in New York, which included a senior counterterrorism official from the State Department, two of the sources said. U.S. officials conveyed to Shibani that Washington found steps taken by Damascus to be insufficient, particularly on the U.S. demand to remove foreign fighters from senior posts in the army and expel as many of them as possible, the sources said. The U.S. Treasury has since conveyed its own demands on the Syrian government, bringing the number of conditions to more than a dozen, one of the sources said. The U.S. State Department declined to disclose who attended the meeting from the U.S. side and said it does not comment on private diplomatic discussions. White House National Security Council spokesperson James Hewitt said the actions of Syria's interim authorities would determine the future U.S. support or possible sanctions relief. 'OLIVE BRANCH' A key aim of Syria's overtures to Washington is communicating that it poses no threat to Israel, which has escalated airstrikes in Syria since the country's rebels-turned rulers ousted former strongman Bashar al-Assad last year. Israel's ground forces have occupied territory in southwestern Syria while the government has lobbied the U.S. to keep Syria decentralised and isolated. Israel has said it aims to protect Syrian minority groups. Syria has rejected the strikes as escalatory. Sharaa last week confirmed indirect negotiations with Israel aimed at calming tensions, after Reuters reported that such talks had occurred via the UAE. In a separate effort, Bass said Sharaa told him to pass messages between Syria and Israel that may have led to a direct meeting between Israeli and Syrian officials. But Israel soon resumed strikes, including one near the presidential palace, which it framed as a message to Syria's rulers to protect the country's Druze minority amid clashes with Sunni militants. "Sharaa sent the Israelis an olive branch. Israel sent missiles," Bass said. "We need Trump to help sort this relationship out." (Reporting by Timour Azhari and Humeyra Pamuk; Additional reporting by Suleiman alKhalidi; Editing by Andrea Ricci) iman alKhalidi; Editing by Andrea Ricci)

Dua to combat against Black Magic - Duas.org

"[Yusufali 2:102] They followed what the evil ones gave out (falsely) against the power of Solomon: the blasphemers Were, not Solomon, but the evil ones, teaching men Magic, and such things as came down at babylon to the angels Harut and Marut. But neither of these taught anyone (Such things) without saying: "We are only for trial; so do not blaspheme." They learned from them the means to sow discord between man and wife. But they could not thus harm anyone except by Allah's permission. And they learned what harmed them, not what profited them. And they knew that the buyers of (magic) would have no share in the happiness of the Hereafter. And vile was the price for which they did sell their souls, if they but knew!"

Black magic is mentioned in the Holy Quran, it can cause separation between husband and wife, even Al Islam websites say it.

Do Shias have Pirs or Raqi's to help get rid of black magic or evil eye? I know on Al Islam website it mentions going to pirs or Sufi healers. Do Shias have Quran verses to help too?

thinking about converting?

Is the verse in the Holy Quran about games of chance, referring to online games like solitaire and other online games or is it talking about dice and chess?

Is it wrong or bad in Shia Islam to hold grudges?

Bloomberg Syria Strikes Lebanon After Blaming Hezbollah for Killing Troops Story by Sherif Tarek • (Bloomberg) -- Syria’s military fired rockets and shells at Lebanon on Sunday after accusing Iran-backed Hezbollah of executing three Syrian army personnel, sparking unusual tensions between the two war-ravaged neighbors. The Lebanese militant group abducted the army personnel in an ambush on the joint border west of Syria’s Homs before killing them in Lebanon, Syrian state-run news agency Sana reported, citing a statement from the defense ministry. The ministry described the move as a “dangerous escalation” by Hezbollah, saying it would take all necessary measures to respond. Hezbollah’s media office denied the group was involved in the events that took place near the border, Lebanon’s state-run news agency NNA reported. Rockets fired from Syria fell in Lebanese territories near the border, according to NNA. No casualties were reported. Syria’s new government has been engaged in deadly battles with forces it says are affiliated with the former regime of President Bashar al-Assad, who was toppled in December when the rebel Hayat Tahrir Al-Sham group led an Islamist uprising against him. The group’s head, Ahmed Al-Sharaa, declared himself president in January. Read: Syria to Investigate Violence That Killed Hundreds of Civilians Hezbollah, whose military abilities were largely degraded in its war with Israel last year, was one of the key allies of Assad during his decades-long rule. The group played an important role helping the autocrat survive the civil war that erupted in 2011. Related video: Understanding Hezbollah's Military Threat to Israel (Binkov's Battlegrounds) As the war in Gaza enters its third month, Hezbollah Loaded: 1.53% Play Current Time 0:01 / Duration 19:41 Quality Settings Captions Fullscreen Binkov's Battlegrounds Understanding Hezbollah's Military Threat to Israel Unmute 0 View on Watch Hezbollah began shelling Israel from the north in solidarity with Hamas, also backed by Tehran, during the Gaza war. Israel and Lebanon initiated a ceasefire in late November. ©2025 Bloomberg L.P.

Follow U.S., Israel interested in three countries resettlement of Gazans, sources say Story by Camilla Schick • 1h • The Trump administration and Israel approached the governments of Sudan and Somalia, and have also been interested in Syria, as potential places to resettle Palestinians from Gaza, according to three sources familiar with the effort. The idea of Palestinian resettlement in another country is one of several options the Trump team is chewing over as part of the U.S. president's larger goal of ending Israel's war with Hamas in Gaza and rebuilding the devastated Palestinian enclave. "Nobody is expelling any Palestinians," President Trump said Wednesday, when the Irish Prime Minister was asked during the two leaders' Oval Office meeting by a Voice of America reporter about the president's controversial remarks in February when he suggested taking ownership of Gaza to rebuild it. Mr. Trump made the remarks during a Feb. 4 press conference alongside Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, saying Gaza could be the "Riviera of the Middle East." " We should go to other countries of interest with humanitarian hearts, and there are many of them that want to do this, and build various domains that will ultimately be occupied by the 1.8 million Palestinians living in Gaza, ending the death and destruction," Mr. Trump said. A combination of Israeli and U.S. officials communicated to Sudan and Somalia, two diplomatic sources confirmed to CBS News. Senior far-right Israeli government officials have already been calling for Palestinians to migrate from the enclave. Mr. Trump's remarks have only emboldened Israel to reach out to other countries to explore opportunities for Palestinian resettlement, one source said. Three sources familiar with Mr. Trump's idea of resettling Gazans to another country told CBS News that his administration and Israel have also been interested in Syria. One source familiar with the Trump administration's Middle East policy said that the administration has attempted outreach to Syria's new interim government via a third-party interlocutor. Another source from the region told CBS News that Syria's government had been approached, but it was unclear whether there had been any response from Syria to the outreach. A senior Syrian official told CBS News that they are unaware of any outreach to their government by Israel or the U.S. about resettlement of Gazans. Dahir Hassan, Somalia's ambassador to the U.S., told CBS News that "neither the U.S. administration nor Israeli authorities have approached the Somali government regarding any proposed relocation of Palestinians to Somalia." Hassan also cited concern that "the dissemination of such unverified information risks fueling recruitment propaganda for extremist groups like ISIS and Al-Shabaab, potentially exacerbating security challenges in the region." The Sudanese government has not responded to a CBS News' request for comment. Syria's fledgling interim government is just three months old, after toppling Bashar al-Assad and his brutal regime which held an iron fist over the Syrian people for decades. The Arab northeast African nation of Sudan is currently embroiled in civil war and a refugee crisis while suffering pockets of famine. Tens of thousands of Sudanese refugees have sought asylum in Israel over the last two decades, only to be detained in the country's desert-based detention centers or left to live without any formal status. The East African country of Somalia is a fragile, formerly failed state where the militant Islamist group Al-Shabaab continues to wage a deadly insurgency. Since his Feb. 4 news conference, Mr. Trump has suggested Palestinians would have a choice on whether to leave but also indicated that their departure from Gaza could be permanent. In a Fox News interview several days later he said, "We'll build beautiful communities, safe communities, could be five, six, could be two. But we'll build safe communities a little bit away from where they (the Palestinians) are." In the same interview, he said that Palestinians wouldn't have the right to return to Gaza under his plan because the enclave "is not habitable" and won't be for years to come. Israel is keeping up its attacks in Gaza despite the Loaded: 19.99% Play Current Time 0:01 / Duration 1:30 Quality Settings Captions Fullscreen CBS News Ceasefire between Israel and Hamas in limbo Unmute 0 View on Watch The United Nations reported in January that over 90% of housing units in Gaza are either damaged or destroyed and 1.9 million Gazan civilians have been displaced. Gaza's health ministry says more than 48,000 Palestinians have been killed in the war between Israel and Hamas, which began after the Oct. 7, 2023, terrorist attack in which Hamas killed more than 1,000 Israelis and took roughly 100 more hostage. Multiple Arab governments, the United Nations and some Democratic lawmakers, quickly denounced Mr. Trump's idea of emptying out Gaza with some defining the idea as ethnic cleansing. Instead, Arab leaders endorsed an alternative Egyptian post-war construction plan for Gaza last week, but the Trump administration and Israel were both quick to reject it, again citing that the Gaza Strip is uninhabitable. Former President Joe Biden's administration had been sending U.S. officials on a regular basis to meet with the new Syrian government in Damascus in the lead-up to Mr. Trump's inauguration when the visits stopped. Syria's new leader Ahmed al-Sharaa, formerly known as Abu Mohammad al-Jolani, was quick to condemn Mr. Trump's remarks in February, saying that the U.S. president's plan "is a serious crime that will ultimately fail". It is unclear what the Trump administration's overall policy toward the new Syrian government will be. "The Trump administration should engage directly with the new government in Damascus, particularly after the agreement between Damascus and the SDF (the U.S.-allied Syrian Democratic Forces). And to ensure that Iran never again gains a foothold in Syria, for the true, enduring defeat of ISIS, and to conduct a full withdrawal of U.S. forces in the right way unlike what unfolded in Afghanistan," Mouaz Moustafa, executive director of the Washington-based advocacy and humanitarian organization Syrian Emergency Task Force, told CBS News. Israel has conducted widespread airstrikes in Syria since December, on what it described as Assad regime weapons sites, and seized territory in the buffer zone between both countries. This past week, Israel struck inside a Damascus suburb, saying it was taking out the headquarters of the Islamic Jihad, an Iran-backed militant group that has a substantial foothold in Gaza and the occupied West Bank. A State Department spokesperson deferred to the Israeli government, and told CBS News that Middle East special envoy Steve Witkoff "continues to work tirelessly towards either an extension of Phase One (of the Israel-Hamas ceasefire agreement) or an advance to Phase Two with these principles in mind". The State Department also referred to remarks by Witkoff from a February Fox News interview in which he said, "We need to explore new policy prescriptions that ultimately end up in a better life for Gazans and Palestinians." Witkoff also suggested in the same Fox interview that Gaza's entire Palestinian population could go to other Middle East-based Arab nations and other countries beyond the region: "I think that the president's solution is: how do we address where two million people can go? And I think the obvious answers are: in some respects, Egypt, in some respects, Jordan; but in some respects other countries who have called us up and voluntarily said this is a humanitarian effort, we want to help you". Asked by "Face the Nation" moderator Margaret Brennan on Sunday about whether the Trump administration is talking to other countries about relocation of two million Palestinians in Gaza, Witkoff said again "I think we're exploring, Margaret, all alternatives and options that lead to a better life for Gazans. And, by the way, for the people of Israel. So we're exploring all of those things." Millions of displaced Palestinians already live in surrounding Arab countries as refugees, including in Jordan, Syria, Lebanon and Egypt. Far-right Israeli ministers have increasingly called for moving Palestinians in Gaza and also in the West Bank off their land as part of the extreme view it would fulfill a Biblical claim by Jews to the land, and increase Israel's security. The Israeli government, the White House and its National Security Council all declined to respond to multiple CBS News requests for comment. Trump's son-in-law and former advisor Jared Kushner first suggested that Gaza's "waterfront property could be very valuable, if people would focus on building up livelihoods" during an on-camera discussion at Harvard University in February 2024. The Associated Press was the first to report Friday that the U.S. and Israel had contacted Sudan, Somalia, and also Somaliland, about resettling Palestinians from Gaza.

Could this be a sign of the coming of Sufayni?