Interview With a TKP-ML TİKKO Guerrilla

Disclaimer: We are not in agreement with all the positions in this interview. Nonetheless we find it important share.

Firstly welcome; can you present yourself?

Hello. My name is Eylem Munzur. I am a commander of TİKKO. Before I start to talk, I want to say something about the process. As it is known, March is the month of resistance and massacre. In the memory of the people it is takes place like this. Firstly I respectfully remember all of the ones, that lost their life in the of Halepçe, Qamişlo, Beyazıt, Gazi and Umraniye. We are also remembering Mahir Çayan and his comrades who were immortalized in Kızıldere on the 30th of March. In the last week we celebrated 8th of March. At the whole world women and LGBTI+ people filled the streets. They painted streets with rainbows against the patriarchal system. We salute this will. Even if it is late, but we congratulate to all the women and LGBTI+ people for the 8th March. In the next days there is Newroz. Newroz is the celebration of resistance for all Middle Eastern people but firstly for the Kurdish People. The fire, which is started by Blacksmith Kawa, became to the hammers shot by the Kurdish workers and laborers towards the head of the Despots. We celebrate the Newroz of our people. Newroz ji bo hemû gelê me pîroz be.

Firstly, I want to ask you about an current topic. We speak about the attacks of USA and Israel against Iran and the response that Iran give. On the 2nd congress of your Party, you pointed out that the imperialists are preparing for an new imperialist war of partition and expressed as a prior duty the necessity of struggling against this danger of war. How do you evaluate firstly the occupation of the Ukraine through Russia, then the Israeli attacks on Palestine, Lebanon and Iran, where they used the attacks of the 7th October as pretext and in the end the USA-Israeli attacks against Iran?

As you said, there are detailed clarifications about the lived process and specially about the situation of the imperialist-capitalist system in the documents of the 2nd congress of our party. The document about the situation in the country and the world is giving very clear perspective for us, as well as for the international proletariat and the people of the world. The imperialist-capitalist system is living the result of the crisis of the year 2008, that they couldn’t overcome. Because of this, they focused more to the regional wars. But these regional wars didn’t bring the solution for imperialist-capitalist system’s crisis. In this process, two blocks were bulid, on one side USA-England and the European union, on the other side China and Russia. Today we face with the war in Ukraine, as well as with the attacks to Iran, Lebanon and Palestine as a result of the competition between these two blocks. It is a “preventive” attack of the US imperialism against China, appearing as a “new and young” imperialist force on the market competition. For this purpose, the US imperialism is using the Israeli Zionism as their forward base in the Middle East and at the same time one of the reasons for these attacks is to solidify the security of the Israeli Zionism. The attacks against Iran should be understood like this. The Iranian Molla-Regime is a reactionary regime. Of course, the Iranian Molla-Regime doesn’t have the goal for liberation of exploitation, independency and democracy for the Iranian people. But at the same time the Us is making propaganda that they started these attacks to bring democracy for Iranian people, which is a big lie. In response to the US attack, reaction, nationalism and chauvinism is fed in Iran. Some years ago, Iran made a longtime contract with the Chinese imperialism about the country’s underground sources, which they hid from the people. This hidden contract led to big reactions under the Iranian People, Revolutionaries and Progressivist.

In this case how do we have to evaluate to currently war?

It needs to be expressed clearly; this war is an unjust and reactionary war. As I mentioned, this unjust and reactionary war isn’t in the interests of the working class and laborer people, neither in the US nor in Iran. This war is to strengthen the US hegemony again. Through using of the propaganda of the “Big and little devil” inside of Iran Chauvinism and Nationalism is strengthen. The statements of the US president Donald Trump about his “personal will” and “trader” standing are for sure not true. Trump is not a reason, he is a result. The US imperialism tries to overcome the weakening of their hegemony through the perspective of “Make America Great Again”, personalities like Trump are representant of this. Not just for the Iranian and the US proletariat, but for the whole international proletariat and the people of the world this war means hunger, poorness and stealing of their rights. As we pointed out on the documents of the 2nd congress, this war should be seen as part of the preparation for the 3rd imperialist war of partition. So of course, it is necessary to organize ourselves against this kind of reactionary and unjust wars of partition and to take place in the progressive, revolutionary and just wars. To be against the unjust and reactionary wars should not be just a slogan, it means at the same time to fight with the weapon in the hand.

Are there other signs for the 3rd imperialist war of partition that you mentioned?

Of course. At first, I can give the example of the since fore years continuing war between Ukraine and Russia. This occupation war is not independent of the contradictions and conflicts between the imperialist forces. Because of this on this topic I could give countless examples. But, in our opinion one of the biggest sign for the preparation of a new war of partition, is the aiming of revolutionary and progressiv organizations and movements of opposition, of communist organizations, different national movements, as well as states, which are not under the control of the imperialist and regional reactionary forces and that shows a risk for their interests

It is clear, that Socialism is still the biggest fear of the imperialist-capitalist system. Even if today there is no Democratic Peoples Power or socialist state, which both are important experiences and alternatives to the imperialist-capitalist system. But still, the attacks against the only alternative to the imperialist/capitalist system is continuing. Specially the bourgeois ideologs started a new wave of attacks against Marxism-Leninism-Maoism.

More than this, the attacks are not restricted to the ideological sphere, in the military sphere these attacks are turned to physical liquidations and erasing.  In this context there are military aggressions in form of execution attacks in the Philippines against the New People’s Army, led by the Communist Party of Philippine. As well as in India, where the reactionary Indian state serious attacks on the Peoples Liberation Gerilla Army, led by the Communist Party of India (maoist) started. In the “Kagaar operation” of the Indian state, we lost a lot of important cadre and fighters, firstly comrade Basavaraju. But we know and we have no doubts, that besides these attacks of the Indian state, the revolution of India will stand up on their feet again, even stronger than before and continue to go forward, as they did in the past. Because the history is not stopping to go forward. We are greeting our comrades, that were immortalized with honor by waving the red flag of the international Proletariat, we bow with respect in front of their struggle.

For sure these attacks of liquidation and erasing are not only directed against the communist parties, as the most forwarded positions of the international Proletariat. At the same time, whatever organization or structure which is not under the control of the imperialist forces, is an aim of these attacks. One of the most important examples of are the attacks against the resistance of the Palestine People under the pretext of the Aksa Tufan operation from the 7th of October. The imperialist and Zionist Propaganda put the Hamas in front to delegitimate the resistance of the Palestinian national movement. They made a lot of propaganda about this. But despite these black propaganda, the international Proletariat stood side by side with the struggle of the People of Palestine.

In Lebanon the aggressions directed to the Hezbollah are continuing. The attacks on Hezbollah, as well as the attacks on Iran needs to be see parallel to each other. The Kurdish national movement is under a serious attack of liquidation and disarming. These attacks begin firstly on Rojava. Rojava is an important example, as there were democratic achievements for the people, the women and the different nationalities and ethnics reached. As the experience of the Rojava Revolution isn’t in the interests of the imperialist and regional reactionary forces, they brought a salafist, jihadistic organization in power. Through this they want to erase the gains of the Rojava revolution.

Exactly at this point I want to ask something. As TİKKO fighters under the leadership of your Party you took place in the war in Rojava. In the last stage of the process in Syria they stated that the agreement between HTS and the Self administration got solified. How do you evaluate the developments in the last time in Rojava?

To answer this question, I will continue from the one before. The US made a choice, they changed their tactical agreements. Even if there was resistance against the last wave of attacks against Rojava, as the main line, the SDF put the line of agreement and compromise. And together with this line, they started to retreat step by step. In this process the arab clans decided to not fight in the ranks  of the SDF, so then the main force on the frontline was out of Kurdish forces. Despites the line of pulling back, the resistance continued. As you mentioned before, we took place in the resistance of Rojava in this process, as well as in the ones before. Also other revolutionary organizations of Turkey took place in this process. The Martyr Nubar Ozanyan Armenian Battalion was stationed on the frontline. The forces specially took place in the frontlines of the capitol city Heseke and its surrounding. We should take attention to the point, that the contribution of the Revolutionary organizations of Turkey in the Rojava resistance was a point of trade for the fascist Turkish State. Hakan Fidan’s declarations showed that very clearly, and in the last time it became even more clear. Today we can observe that the medias under the control of the fascist Turkish republic, are still sharing a lot of news against Rojava in general and specially against the revolutionary movement of Turkey inside the Rojava resistance.

From your Partys and Armies perspective, how do you evaluate this process?

I can say, that this periode is difficult for us. First I can express the following. We are followers of the comrade Ibrahim Kaypakkaya. In this sense, if the interests of the Party and the People come against each other, we are on the side of the People. In this process, under different circumstances, we follow this principle. Of course we can find several critics on this process. Besides all the negative aspects of the war period, the Kurdish national movement declares, that they could take concrete gains in their hands. But the time will show if these gains can be solidified or not. We know, that this current developments in Rojava are not restricted to the borders of Rojava. Since more than a year the Kurdish national movement, under the leadership of Abdullah Öcalan, is going through a “process” with the Turkish republic state.

If I understood right; the latest developments in Rojava will continue to be connected to the “process” between the Kurdish national movement and the Turkish republic state. At this point, can you say something about the current perspective of the Kurdish national movement in Türkiye?

Yes. Actually, it would be uncomplete to call this “process” only as the perspective of the Kurdish movement. Actually in the beginning of the interview I said, all of these developments should be seen as preparation of 3rd imperialist war of partition. The imperialist forces  USA, England and the European union, as well as the regional reactionary forces as the Israeli Zionism and the Turkish republic fascism are doing serious preparations. The whole process is connected to that. How I told before, this process took it’s form through the interventions of the fascist Turkish republic. The western imperialist brought Colani, as the one that promised the most profit for them, to Power. If you remember, the English imperialists stated, that they prepared Colani some years ago. One of the reasons why they brought Colani to power, is, that they don’t allow structures like the Rojava Revolution, where the people reached important democratic gains. The imperialists didn’t make a choice between the Kurdish national movement and HTS, they just don’t need the  Kurdish National Movement anymore. And it needs to be accepted, that the Turkish republic state could combine successfully their one politics and the interests of the imperialists.

It is no secret that the developments in Rojava are connected to the ongoing “process” between the Turkish state and the leader of the Kurdish national movement Abdullah Öcalan. On the one side, this process is calling as like “Peace and democratic solution process” by Kurdish National Movement and Abdullah Öcalan but, as we know, the fascist Turkish state is following other politics. On the council’s report it was clear, the enemy is still talking about “cleaning the country from terrorism”. We think, that this process is not done in an ethic way. Because on one hand Abdullah Öcalan is still imprisoned,under these circumstances every statement and every information that is send from the prison get questioned a lot. On the other hand, from the beginning on this process should be done openly in front of the people. But still a lot of points are keeping secret and hidden.

Our party shared before how we are evaluating this “process” as well as the call of Abdullah and the “paradigma. Because of this I think here it is not needed to go into detail again. Now they are mentioning some changes of the constitution in the month of April. They mention things like the law of regret and similars. This discussion shows clearly the politics of the fascist Turkish republic to “solidify the inner front”, whereas Peace is no topic. It shows clearly, that this preparation is leading to an increasing of the oppression against the People and the Masses.

In the end, do you want to add something?

In next July, there is a NATO summit in Türkiye. We are calling all the women, youth, LGBTI+ people, workers, peasants and all of the oppressed people to the resistance against that summit.

And as I said just before, the fascist Turkish state has no any goal as like peace or democracy. In contrary, they always say this process is about “solidify the inner front”. Not just the Turkish state, at the whole world there are preparations. There are serious attacks against the gained rights of the people. And our duty is to strengthen our preparations against these attacks. As our Party pointed out in the documents of the 2nd congress, we should build up and take place in the anti-fascist anti-imperialist unities. At the same time we have to fight with our weapon in the hand the just war against the unjust wars. The reactionary forces, as well as the imperialst-capitalist system are directing all their attacks to disarm us and our People, to break the trust of the people in the armed struggle, we need to stay against this.

Because of this, we call foremost the youth and the women, as well as all of our people of different ethnics and beliefs to organize yourself inside in the ranks of the People’s Army and to fight with the weapon in the hand against imperialism, comprador capitalism, patriarchy, feudalism, racism, chauvinism, and all kind of reaction.

We thank you for this possibility.

We also thank you.

source: TKP-ML

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Hezbollah Conducts 63 Resistance Operations in One Day of Actions

The Lebanese Islamic resistance movement Hezbollah has announced that it carried out 63 military operations targeting positions and centers of the zionist regime’s occupation army over the past 24 hours.

In a statement issued on Monday morning, Hezbollah said that these operations were launched within the framework of defending Lebanese territory and its people, and in direct response to the Israeli regime’s continuous aggressions.

The statement detailed that the operations included rocket barrages, offensive drone strikes, and artillery fire.

The targets primarily focused on zionist military gatherings, armored vehicles, bases, and troop deployment centers along the border areas and in northern occupied Palestine.

These sustained and precise strikes underscore Hezbollah’s unwavering resolve and operational capability in confronting the zionist regime’s repeated violations of Lebanese sovereignty.

On the other side, the zionist army was compelled to admit that seven of its soldiers were injured during clashes on the northern front bordering Lebanon in the same period.

Hezbollah continues to play its pivotal role in the axis of resistance, standing firm against the zionist regime’s expansionist policies and supporting the broader struggle for justice and liberation in the region.

Hezbollah started launching retaliatory attacks earlier this month after the occupying regime bombed the eastern and southern parts of the Arab country on a daily basis in violation of the November 2024 ceasefire.

Zionist i media, which are stunned by Hezbollah’s military capabilities, have admitted that the resistance group was able to inflict heavy losses against the Tel Aviv regime’s military over the past few days.

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Call For An International Emergency Campaign Against Operation Kagaar: ICSPWI

The International Committee to Support the People’s War in India (ICSPWI) calls on all democratic, progressive, anti-fascist, anti-imperialist and revolutionary forces worldwide to join the International Emergency Campaign Against Operation Kagaar.

What is Operation Kagaar?

Since January 2024, the Indian state under Narendra Modi’s Hindutva fascist regime has been conducting Operation Kagaar, a military operation whose stated goal is the complete destruction of the revolutionary movement in India by March 2026. In reality, this is a comprehensive war against the people, directed primarily against the Adivasi population, poor farmers, revolutionary activists, journalists, students and political prisoners. Entire regions are being occupied by the military, villages bombed and burned down, civilians abused as human shields, prisoners tortured and extra-judicially executed in so-called ‘fake encounters’.

Operation Kagaar is a continuation and escalation of earlier counter-revolutionary military operations such as Samadhan-Prahar and Green Hunt. With the deployment of the army, paramilitaries and air force, the Indian state is attempting to destroy the Communist Party of India (Maoist), the People’s Liberation Guerrilla Army (PLGA) and the New Democratic Revolution they are leading. This counter-revolutionary offensive hit the revolutionary movement particularly hard in 2025, when numerous leading cadres, including the party’s general secretary, Comrade Basavaraj (Namballa Kesava Rao), and other well-known Adivasi leaders, were assassinated. At the same time, the state is intensifying its psychological warfare, deliberately spreading rumors about alleged surrenders and attempting to demoralize the revolutionary forces.

Steadfastness and revolutionary continuity

Despite these heavy losses, the revolutionary movement in India remains steadfast on its path. In several public documents, the CPI (Maoist) has made it clear that there will be no abandonment of armed struggle and no surrender to the state. Rather, the party openly analyses its mistakes, learns lessons from its losses and reorganizes itself under the changed conditions. The protracted people’s war remains the only way to overcome exploitation, national oppression, the caste system, patriarchy and imperialist penetration.

A central element of repression is mass imprisonment. Under laws such as the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, thousands of people in India are detained for years without trial. Journalists are criminalized for critical reporting, students are arrested for possessing Marxist literature, and activists are tortured and isolated. India presents itself internationally as ‘the world’s largest democracy,’ but in reality it is a prison for its people, where fundamental democratic rights are systematically suspended.

This development is no coincidence, but rather an expression of the increasing fascistization of the Indian state. Under the Hindutva regime, religious minorities are persecuted, national oppression is intensified, and social protests are met with military force. At the same time, India acts as a strategic pillar of US imperialism in South Asia and as a close ally of Israel. Internal oppression and an aggressive external role are two sides of the same policy.

International significance of the struggle in India

This is precisely why the struggle of the Indian people is of international significance. The New Democratic Revolution in India represents one of the most important fronts in the global anti-imperialist struggle. Its defeat or victory would have a direct impact on the global balance of power between imperialism and the proletarian world revolution. Solidarity with the people’s war in India therefore also means solidarity with all oppressed peoples and political prisoners worldwide.

Against this background, the ICSPWI calls for an International Emergency Campaign Against Operation Kagaar. The aim of this campaign is to expose the crimes of the Indian state internationally, build political pressure, demand the release of all political prisoners and provide practical support to the revolutionary forces in India. Actions, rallies, events and publications have already taken place in numerous countries on several continents. This mobilization must be expanded, deepened and coordinated.

Call for participation

We call on all individuals and organizations in solidarity to participate in the month of action against Operation Kagaar in March 2026. On March 28, 2026, an international demonstration will take place in Zurich in solidarity with the revolutionary movement in India.

Today, more than ever, it is important to take a clear stand. Operation Kagaar must be stopped. The massacres of the Adivasi population must be stopped. All political prisoners in India must be released immediately. Imperialist support for the Indian regime must end.

The struggle of the Indian revolutionaries is our struggle. Their steadfastness is a call to all of us to strengthen international solidarity and advance the common struggle against imperialism, fascism and oppression.

STOP OPERATION KAGAAR!

FREEDOM FOR ALL POLITICAL PRISONERS!

LONG LIVE INTERNATIONAL SOLIDARITY!

SOLIDARITY WITH THE PEOPLE’S WAR IN INDIA!

MARCH 28 – ZURICH  H.15

Switzerland Coordination

INTERNATIONAL DEMONSTRATION AGAINST OPERATION KAGAAR

Parallel actions in Europe, North and South America, South Asia, Australia and North Africa.

-International Emergency Campaign Against Operation Kagaar

Source : https://maoistroad.blogspot.com/2026/03/call-for-international-emergency.html

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Earthquake Faction Communique #1 — Torching Elbit

For as long as the land continues to bleed under Israeli bombs in Occupied Palestine and across West Asia, ground must continue to shake under the feet of the sponsors of occupation.

We are The Earthquake Faction, an internationalist underground network that targets key sites critical to the Zionist entity. We aim to destroy all limbs of empire from within, by any means effective.

On March 20th 2026, we struck the epicenter of the Israeli weapons industry in Europe. In Pardubice, Czech Republic, Elbit Systems’ “Centre of Excellence” was newly built in collaboration with LPP, to service the global expansion of Israel’s biggest weapons producer. Whilst the development, production and training center was empty, The Earthquake Faction intervened to destroy its equipment and set the factory ablaze. No one was harmed.

During the Gaza genocide in 2024, LPP’s CEO said “one of the projects we are preparing with Elbit concerns the Israeli military”. Their “Centre of Excellence” is used as a means to develop weaponry used by the Zionist entity to massacre people daily in Palestine, Lebanon, Iran, and across West Asia. Every weapon developed by Elbit Systems is first “tested” on Palestinians, before being sold on to international governments, expanding the empire built off the destruction of Palestine.

Wherever Elbit Systems and their accomplices obscure and hide their business of bloodshed across the world, we will come for them.

We are in the belly of the beast, surrounded by the stench of evil. The technology, weaponry and capital needed to maintain the imperial and Zionist violence are all within our reach. The Earthquake Faction will shake the ground under the boots of the colonizers; while even an atoms weight of their evil remains, we will strike it out.

There is no time to beg the complicit international governments. We will not waste our breath asking nicely. Instead, we will take necessary action to quash their means to kill.

source: Earthquake Faction

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Hezbollah Keeps Occupied Territories Under Fire, While Regional War Rages On

In a series of coordinated operations, fighters of the Islamic Resistance in Lebanon, Hezbollah, targeted zionist occupation troop gatherings, advancing military vehicles, and strategic targets deep inside the occupied Palestinian territories, in defense of Lebanon and its people, according to statements issued by the Resistance.

Totaling 55 operations throughout March 20, 2026, Hezbollah successfully targeted key enemy assets, pounded illegal settlements, particularly Kiryat Shmona, and repelled enemy incursions into Lebanese territories.

At 2:00 PM, Resistance fighters targeted a zionist force attempting to advance toward the Randa area between the border towns of Alma al-Shaab and Dhahira, engaging it with light and medium weapons.

The Resistance also targeted multiple zionist troop gatherings across the frontline, including: Aita al-Shaab, Dhahira, Jabal al-Bat in Aitaroun, Jabal Warda in Markaba, the southern outskirts of Markaba, the Khanouq area, al-Zuqaq neighborhood in Aitaroun, al-Nabaa al-Qadima, Tallat al-Oweida in Adaisseh, the vicinity of Khiam detention center, and north of the Taybeh Project.

Operations against zionist occupation troop gatherings intensified significantly during the night hours, with a rapid succession of rocket barrages beginning around 21:30 and peaking between 22:00 and 23:30.

Multiple positions were repeatedly targeted across border areas, particularly in Markaba, Maroun al-Ras, and Adaisseh, indicating a sustained and coordinated escalation in operations against concentrations of soldiers and military vehicles under the cover of darkness.

In detail: 

• At 21:30, a gathering of occupation soldiers and vehicles in Khallat al-Aqsa, on the outskirts of the border town of Adaisseh, was targeted with a rocket barrage.
• At 22:00, a gathering of occupation soldiers in Jabal Warda, in the border town of Markaba, was targeted with a rocket barrage.
• Five minutes later, at 22:05, a gathering of occupation soldiers in the Dahr al-Tayara area, between Markaba and Rabb al-Thalathine, was targeted with a rocket barrage.
• At 22:20, a gathering of occupation soldiers in the park of Maroun al-Ras was targeted with a rocket barrage.
• In a simultaneous operation at 22:20, a gathering of occupation soldiers and vehicles at the al-Marj site, facing Markaba, was targeted with a large rocket barrage.
• At 22:35, a gathering of occupation soldiers in Taybeh Project area was targeted with a rocket barrage.
• At the same time, at 22:35, a gathering of occupation soldiers in Jabal Warda (Markaba) was targeted with a rocket barrage.
• Only 15 minutes later, at 22:50, a gathering of occupation soldiers in Jabal Warda (Markaba) was targeted for the fourth time with a rocket barrage.
• At 23:00, a gathering of occupation soldiers and vehicles at the al-Marj site, facing Markaba, was targeted with a large rocket barrage.
• At 23:30, a gathering of occupation soldiers and vehicles in Khallat al-Aqsa (Adaisseh outskirts) was targeted with a rocket barrage.

Rocket fire on settlements

As part of prior evacuation warnings, the Resistance launched rocket barrages targeting settlements, including: Nahariya, Kiryat Shmona (a total of seven times), Avivim, Shlomi, Yir’on, Hanita, Ramot Naftali, Shomera, Yiftah, and Kfar Giladi.

Strikes on zionist military bases and positions

Resistance fighters carried out coordinated strikes on Israeli military outposts and bases, including:

• At 11:00 AM, Islamic Resistance targeted the Ya’ara barracks with a swarm of suicide drones
• At 12:00 PM, Hezbollah fighters attacked the Metat barracks with a swarm of suicide drones
• At 12:00 PM, a rocket barrage targeted Zar’it barracks
• At 12:15 PM, resistance fighters targeted an IOF concentration in the town of Khiam
• At 1:15 PM, resistance fighters targeted the Branit barracks, the headquarters of the 91st Division, with a rocket salvo
• At 3:15 PM, a rocket salvo struck the Philon base south of Rosh Pinna
• At 4:00 PM, the Mahvah Alon base, southwest of occupied Safad, was targeted with a rocket barrage.
• At 5:30 PM, a rocket barrage targeted the Tefen base east of the city of Akka
• At 10:00 PM, the naval radar at the Ras al-Naqoura maritime site was targeted with an attack drone, scoring a direct hit.

Additional targets included: Kfar Giladi barracks, Yoav barracks in the occupied Golan, Ein Zeitim base north of Safed, and frontline positions such as al-Raheb (opposite Aita al-Shaab), Misgav Am (opposite Adaisseh), and al-Marj site (opposite Markaba).

Precision strikes and aerial operations

Resistance fighters targeted a Merkava tank in the Beidar al-Fuq’ani area with a guided missile, achieving a direct hit.

The Resistance also shot down a drone over the town of Marwaniyeh in southern Lebanon using appropriate weaponry.

Additionally, attack drones were deployed against targets in the settlement of Kiryat Shmona and the Tefen base.

This comes as the Resistance continues targeting the enemy as part of Operation Devoured Straw, in response to the zionist aggression on Lebanon, its villages, cities, and people.

Iran pounds imperialist forces in the region

The public relations of Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guard Corps (IRGC) announced the launch of the 70th wave of the ongoing Operation True Promise 4, reporting powerful explosions, rising flames, and smoke throughout more than 55 locations moments after the start of the operation. The escalation, according to the IRGC, marked a new phase in regional power dynamics, coinciding with Eid al-Fitr.

The announcement emphasized that the operation was conducted in memory of fallen military advisors, framing the latest wave as part of a broader strategy of sustained military pressure and escalation.

According to the statement, five US military bases were targeted in a coordinated strike using ballistic missiles and drone systems. The identified locations include bases in Al-Kharj, Al-Dhafra, Ali Al-Salem, and Erbil, in addition to the US Fifth Fleet. The strikes reportedly employed missile systems such as Qiam and Emad, alongside offensive drones, indicating a multi-layered operational approach.

Attacks aimed at upping the pressure

The IRGC said these attacks were part of an escalating trajectory aimed at increasing pressure on US military assets across the region, while signaling readiness for further actions.

The operation also focused on areas within the occupied Palestinian territories, namely in Haifa and Tel Aviv, with strikes reported in locations including Khdeira, Kiryat Ono, Savyon, and Ben Ami. The IRGC stated that these attacks utilized Kheibar-Shekan 4 and Qader multi-warhead missiles, claiming the strikes exceeded the enemy’s defensive calculations and contributed to heightened instability within occupied territories.

The statement reaffirmed that Iran would continue its offensive strategy, pledging to target any source of aggression against the Islamic Republic’s sovereignty with increased force. It also underscored the full readiness of the Iranian armed forces and the IRGC to sustain this phase of confrontation, signaling that further developments may follow as tensions escalate.

The voice of the IRGC martyred

Just hours earlier, the IRGC mourned Brigadier General Ali Mohammad Naeini, the IRGC’s Public Relations deputy and spokesperson, who was killed in a US-zionist aggression in the early hours of the last day of Ramadan.

The IRGC offered condolences to Iran’s Leader, Naeini’s family, fellow officers, media personnel, and the people of Kashan, describing his martyrdom as a “proud martyrdom in the fields of culture and media.”

Highlighting over four decades of service, the statement noted Naeini’s contributions to preserving the Islamic Revolution, particularly during the eight-year Iran-Iraq war, where he played a key role in documenting and narrating the conflict. In recent years, he served as the IRGC’s spokesperson, notably during Operations True Promise 1 through 4.

The IRGC emphasized Naeini’s transformative ideas and strategies in “soft warfare”, calling them guiding principles for personnel engaged in cognitive operations against adversaries.

The statement praised his bravery and dedication, pledging to continue the path of steadfastness and hope exemplified by him and his martyred brother, while reaffirming the IRGC’s commitment to maintaining its spiritual and soft-power influence and ensuring the corps’ voice remains strong among believers.

 

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Hamas’ Al-Qassam to Hezbollah: We Are Sure You’ll Complete the Mission

Al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas, announced on Thursday their support for Hezbollah’s ongoing operations in southern Lebanon, voicing confidence that the Lebanese resistance group will “complete the mission” of destroying the zionist tanks.

In a video message, Al-Qassam Brigades referenced a previous statement by former Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, who had said, “The tanks that leave Rafah … can reach the Litani River” in southern Lebanon.

Displaying scenes of targeting Israeli tanks and vehicles in Gaza’s Rafah, Al-Qassam Brigades said in the video: “Our message to our brothers in the Islamic Resistance: These are the tanks leaving from Rafah, and we are sure that you will complete the mission.”

Al-Qassam Brigades concluded their message by invoking the words of former Hezbollah Secretary General Martyr Sayyed Hasan Nasrallah who at time responded to Gallant’s threat by saying: “You will have no tanks left.”

The video message by Hamas’ Al-Qassam deliberately constructs a shared battlefield narrative by the two resistance groups, suggesting that what begins in Gaza can be “completed” in Lebanon.

Al-Qassam’s message comes as Hezbollah’s Islamic Resistance fighters confront the Israeli forces attempting to advance in south Lebanon’s so-called “targeted groud operation.” On Thursday the Lebanese resistance fighters ambushed occupation forces in the border town of Taybe, destroying at least five zionist Merkavas.

Source: Al-Manar English Website

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Hezbollah’s “Elite Marksmen” Ambush Zionist Forces, Hunt Merkavas Anew

Hezbollah’s resistance fighters ambushed zionist forces on Thursday, as they engaged in epic clashes with the invaders in the southern Lebanese border with occupied Palestine.

Hezbollah’s Military Media announced in a statement early on Thursday that Islamic Resistance fighters ambushed Israeli forces as they attempted to advance in the southern border town of Taybe.

“For the third time in a week, the Israeli enemy army attempted another advance in the town of Taybeh towards the Baydar Al-Faqa’ani area north of the town. After spotting the advancing enemy force, Islamic Resistance fighters ambushed them, targeting them with guided missiles that destroyed one of the tanks,” the statement read..

“The enemy then attempted to continue its advance towards the Abu Makna area in Deir Siryan, but the elite marksmen again targeted them with guided missiles, scoring direct hits and destroying five Merkava tanks. Enemy soldiers were seen fleeing the area of ​​engagement,” Hezbollah’s statement added.

It noted that the zionist forces subsequently brought in several helicopters to evacuate the casualties under heavy fire and smoke cover.

“The fighters then targeted the evacuation area with rocket barrages and artillery shells,” the statement concluded.

Our correspondent in south Lebanon Ali Shoeib announced that the number of destroyed Merkavas in south Lebanon reached 27 since the war started on March 2.

The term “elite marksmen” was notably invoked by former Hezbollah Secretary General Martyr Sayyed Hasan Nasrallah in warning against any zionist invasion of Lebanon, emphasizing that highly trained fighters stand ready to precisely target advancing israeli enemy forces and their vehicles.

Hezbollah Military Media

Meanwhile, Hezbollah Military Media issued a long series of statements which detailed many other attacks launched by the Resistance against the Israeli enemy.

Drones and missile salvos attacked settlements, like Kiryat Shmona , Even Menachem, Margaliot, Malkieh, Menara and Shtula, occupation bases and sites, including Yodivat Military Industries Company, east of Haifa, Tifn base, east of the occupied city of Acre, Hadbat Al-Ajel in Kfar Youval settlement, Alma Al-Shaab, Adather, and the gatherings of the Israeli occupation forces and vehicles in South Lebanon border villages and positions, like Harmon, Misgav Am, Khirbet Al-Menara (off Houla), Labbouneh, Maroun Al-Ras, Mays Al-Jabal, Aitaroun, Al-Adaisseh, and Taybe.

Source: Al-Manar English Website

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Zionist Regime’s Khiam Fixation: One Hill, Five Wars, and no Lessons Learned

According to biblical tradition, the patriarch Jacob pitched his tents on the plain of Khiam – a name that literally means “the tents.” Millennia later, the same ridge has become a recurring battlefield. The occupation state that invokes Jacob’s inheritance as a historical justification has spent decades trying to seize this hilltop and has never managed to hold it.

The irony is neither subtle nor accidental. Israeli brigades continue to advance along the same narrow axes, Merkava tanks climb the same slopes, and resistance fighters prepare the same ambushes. War after war. Withdrawal after withdrawal. As if repetition itself might eventually produce victory.

It never has.

Today, with Hezbollah’s elite Radwan Force redeployed among the ruins and Kornet anti‑tank teams positioned inside the rubble of a former detention complex where thousands of Lebanese were tortured under Israeli supervision, the occupation army is once again pushing toward Khiam – a battlefield it failed to control in 1978, 2000, 2006, and 2024. What drives this persistence is not operational necessity. It is doctrine. A territorial imagination that predates the occupation state itself and continues to shape its northern wars.

Five wars were over one hill, yet nothing was learned.

A border imagined before it existed

The strategic pull toward the Litani River did not originate in recent security debates. It has a long documentary history. In 1919, Zionist leader Chaim Weizmann argued before British prime minister David Lloyd George that the borders of a future Jewish homeland should extend northward deep into Lebanon, emphasizing the economic and strategic value of water resources. The Litani, he suggested, was indispensable.

The first prime minister of Israel, David Ben Gurion, picked up where Weizmann left off: in 1918, he described the future state’s northern frontier as the Litani; by 1937, he was declaring that across the northern border “the first possibility of our expansion will come up”; and by 1948, he was calling Muslim rule of Lebanon “artificial and easily undermined,” proposing a Christian buffer state with the Litani as its southern border. Zionist forces that year advanced into the Marjayoun district, reached the vicinity of the Litani, and occupied 14 Lebanese villages before being forced to withdraw.

From Weizmann’s letter to Netanyahu’s ‘buffer zone’

The most explicit articulation came in 1954, recorded in the personal diary of then-Israeli prime minister Moshe Sharett. In a meeting with Ben Gurion and chief of staff Moshe Dayan, the latter proposed finding a Lebanese officer, “even just a major,” who could be bribed to declare himself the savior of the Maronite population.

The Israeli army would then enter Lebanon, create a puppet regime, and annex everything south of the Litani. It would take a quarter century for the blueprint to materialize, but materialize it did: Saad Haddad, the South Lebanon Army (SLA), the “security zone,” and the Khiam detention center were all direct descendants of this conversation.

After the 1967 war, defense minister Moshe Dayan declared that the occupation state had achieved “provisionally satisfying frontiers, with the exception of those with Lebanon.” That exception has haunted every Israeli government since. Control of the Litani would increase the occupation state’s annual water supply by roughly 40 percent.

Strikes on the Litani dam and the Wazzani pumping station in the final hours of the 2006 war were therefore widely interpreted as doctrinal moves rather than battlefield accidents. Across generations of Israeli leadership, the map has remained remarkably consistent. Khiam stands directly on the axis between ideological ambition and geographic limitation.

Renaming failure

Each invasion of Lebanon has been framed as a limited security operation. “Operation Litani” in 1978 occupied everything south of the river and handed it to a proxy militia. The “security zone” from 1982 to 2000 formalized 18 years of occupation across 800 square kilometers. The 2006 war ended with a ground offensive aimed, once again, at the Litani. Nearly two decades later, the concept resurfaced as a proposed “buffer zone.”

The cost is measurable: from 1982 to 2000, 1,216 Israeli soldiers were killed in Lebanon. In 34 days of war in 2006, 121 more were killed, and 50 Merkava tanks were hit. In 2024, three full brigades could not hold Khiam for more than six weeks.

None of this has altered the doctrine. In January 2025, a settler group called “Uri Tsafon” called for Jewish civilian settlement in southern Lebanon. An Israeli army rabbi told soldiers: “This land is ours, the whole land, including Gaza, including Lebanon.”

The language of early Zionist planning remains alive in contemporary discourse. The hilltop of Khiam stands between that language and the river it has never reached.

Geography: Gateway and graveyard

To understand why the occupation state keeps returning to Khiam, one should look at a topographic map. The town sits at 800 meters above sea level, roughly 5 kilometers from the Blue Line, with the Israeli settlement of Metula less than 1 kilometer away.

To the north, the road opens toward Marjayoun; to the east, the terrain descends toward the Bekaa Valley. Khiam has been described as a strategic gateway for a rapid ground incursion. Retired General Mounir Shehadeh confirmed that capturing Khiam opens two corridors: north to Marjayoun or east into the Bekaa.

Together with Bint Jbeil to the west and Shamaa on the coast, Khiam forms the eastern anchor of the line the occupation state needs for a continuous “buffer zone” from the border to the Mediterranean.

Yet the same geography also turns it into a trap. Narrow roads channel armored advances into predictable paths. Elevated terrain exposes attacking forces to anti‑tank fire. Dense urban structures provide concealment for defenders familiar with the landscape.

Over successive conflicts, resistance fighters have refined their ability to exploit these features, transforming Khiam into a recurring site of attritional warfare.

From torture complex to liberation symbol

In 1985, the SLA converted a French-built barracks on Khiam’s hilltop into a detention center. Over 15 years, some 5,000 prisoners passed through its cells. Amnesty International documented systematic torture, while declassified Shin Bet documents confirmed Israeli intelligence trained the SLA’s interrogators.

The Israeli Defense Ministry’s own affidavit admitted Shin Bet personnel held meetings “several times annually” with Khiam’s interrogators. The occupation state built Khiam’s torture infrastructure, staffed its methods, and profited from its intelligence product.

Throughout the 1990s, Hezbollah attacks inside the security zone escalated from 19 per year in 1990 to 344 by 1995. Between 1985 and 2000, 256 Israeli soldiers were killed in combat. In May 2000, as the SLA disintegrated, Hezbollah fighters – reinforced by 3,000 civilians – stormed the prison, freed 144 detainees, and the occupation’s proxy army collapsed entirely. The prison became a museum. Khiam became a symbol, further embedding itself in the collective memory of resistance.

Six years later, the occupation state bombed that symbol into rubble, widely interpreted as an attempt to erase the evidence of its crimes. On 25 July 2006, an Israeli bomb obliterated a UN observation post on the outskirts of Khiam, killing four unarmed military observers. Hezbollah fighters hit up to a dozen Israeli tanks outside the town; the 366th Division never completed its assigned missions.

In 2024, three brigades returned. Hezbollah attacked Israeli troops around the town more than 20 times in 48 hours.

The occupation army entered only after the ceasefire, occupied for six weeks, and withdrew. Now, in March 2026, it is back – and the resistance fighters waiting in the ruins are not the same ones it faced before.

The evolution of resistance warfare

The fighters now operating in Khiam include Hezbollah’s Radwan Force – a specialized formation shaped by years of combat experience in Syria. Originating as a rapid intervention unit under the command of Imad Mughniyeh, the force developed advanced urban warfare capabilities during battles in Al‑Qusayr, Al‑Qalamoun, and Aleppo.

Israeli researcher Dima Adamsky has concluded that this transformed the unit from advanced infantry into a commando force capable of strategic effects against a conventional military.

The unit’s structure reflects its doctrine. According to the Alma Research Center, Radwan squads of seven to 10 operatives deploy autonomously in specific geographic zones with pre-positioned supplies. Squad leaders act without central directives.

When an airstrike in September 2024 killed Ibrahim Aqil, the Radwan commander, along with 14 other officers, the unit absorbed the blow and continued fighting. On 5 March 2026, Reuters confirmed the Radwan Force had redeployed south of the Litani, with Khiam cited specifically as a deployment zone. Hezbollah Secretary-General Naim Qassem stated the resistance would confront a plan of “occupation and expansion.”

The Kornet and the Merkava: An asymmetric equation

The 9M133 Kornet is a Russian-made laser-guided anti-tank missile with a tandem HEAT warhead that penetrates over 1,000 millimeters of armor behind ERA, at an effective range of 5.5 kilometers. It is the weapon that has turned every Israeli armored advance into southern Lebanon into a graveyard for Merkava tanks.

In 2006, Kornets pierced the armor of 24 Merkava tanks and destroyed at least four outright. During “Operation Change of Direction 11,” a column of 24 tanks from the 401st Brigade drove into a prepared ambush at Wadi Saluki. Eleven tanks were hit. Eight tankers and four infantrymen were killed.

Israeli historian Uri Bar-Yosef called it “one of the most humiliating operations in the history of the Israel Defense Forces.” A former UNIFIL spokesman put it more plainly: anyone who sends a tank column through that terrain should not be a brigade commander but a cook.

Hezbollah’s doctrine goes beyond the Kornet itself. The Jamestown Foundation has documented a swarming method: fighters saturate a target with cheaper ATGMs to exhaust the Trophy active protection system, then the Kornet delivers the killing blow.

Fighters target the Merkava’s weakest points at close range; Haaretz reported that roughly one in four missiles pierced armor. The upgraded Kornet-EM extends the range to 8 kilometers and adds twin-launcher capability designed specifically to defeat Trophy through salvo fire.

Iran reverse-engineered the Kornet in 2015, breaking Hezbollah’s dependency on the Russian-Syrian pipeline, and has since added the Almas and Badr missiles to the arsenal. What the occupation army faces at Khiam is not a single weapons system, but a layered anti-armor doctrine operating on terrain purpose-built for ambush.

Rubble as a fortress

Destroyed urban terrain favors the defender. This paradox, documented by military analysts since 2006, is the core of Khiam’s lethality. The rubble the occupation army created has become the architecture of its defeat: channelized kill zones, unlimited concealment, and IEDs in every pile of concrete.

Clausewitz argued that irregular forces should remain “nebulous and elusive”; Mao compressed it to a single rhythm: the enemy advances, we retreat; the enemy tires, we attack. At Khiam, both principles converge on the same rubble.

Lebanese analysts suggest resistance units sometimes allow advancing forces to penetrate 2 to 3 kilometers into devastated neighborhoods before triggering coordinated attacks involving improvised explosive devices, missile teams, and drones. Rotational deployment ensures fresh fighters remain available while exhausted units regroup behind secondary defensive lines.

An Israeli minister admitted the resistance stripped the military of the element of surprise. Behind the front line, a second defensive line is already organized: when the Lebanese army withdrew from south of the Litani, Hezbollah fighters immediately pushed forward.

Arreguin-Toft demonstrated that when conventional force meets guerrilla tactics, the weaker party wins the majority of the time. The variable is adaptation. The occupation state has not adapted. The rubble it created has been reorganized into a fortress.

Comparable patterns – from US operations in Vietnam to Soviet campaigns in Afghanistan – highlight the limits of conventional superiority when facing adaptive guerrilla strategies embedded in local terrain.

The ‘buffer zone’ that buffers nothing

Despite repeated setbacks, Israeli leaders continue to frame incursions into Lebanon as necessary defensive measures. Yet prolonged evacuations of northern settlements and broad warning strikes against densely populated urban districts suggest persistent intelligence gaps and strategic uncertainty.

The “buffer zone” concept has reappeared under multiple names across decades – security zone, defensive perimeter, limited operation. Each iteration has produced similar outcomes: sustained casualties, strengthened resistance legitimacy, and an inability to secure the Litani frontier.

Doctrine persists even when battlefield realities contradict its assumptions.

One hill, many wars

Khiam has repeatedly shaped the trajectory of conflict between Israel and Lebanese resistance movements. Proxy forces collapsed there in 2000. Israeli units withdrew after heavy fighting in 2006. Recent operations have again underscored the difficulty of maintaining control over exposed high ground in the face of decentralized opposition.

Today, resistance fighters remain embedded in the ruins, supported by layered defensive networks and advanced anti‑armor capabilities. The terrain itself – reshaped by years of bombardment – has become an active participant in the conflict.

More than a century after early Zionist planners identified the Litani River as a strategic objective, it remains beyond Israeli control. Khiam continues to overlook a border that doctrine insists must move north, while history repeatedly demonstrates the limits of military force in achieving that ambition.

Jacob’s tents are long gone. The hill remains – a witness to wars fought, ambitions deferred, and lessons still unlearned.

source: The Cradle

Anis Raiss

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ELN – Battles in Southern Bolivar

Darío Ramírez Castro War Front

The Darío Ramírez Castro War Front of the ELN is fighting combined forces of the state army and the Gulf Clan cartel, who are attempting to seize the community mining titles of artisanal miners in gold-rich territories in Bolívar and Antioquia.

JANUARY 2026

– On the 13th at 9:00 a.m., a guerrilla offensive began against paramilitaries of the Gulf Clan in the trenches of Campo Café, in the La Caoba village of Mico Ahumado, in the municipality of Morales, southern Bolívar; The operation, which lasted until January 22, forced them to retreat from their fortifications in Metodio, San Agustín, Mina Rica, Santo Domingo, and Mina Cielo. During their escape, 12 sets of field equipment were recovered, along with 2 GPS devices, 2 Motorola radios, and 10 drone grenades. According to local residents, the narcoparamilitaries left several dead and wounded with them. The guerrilla units suffered 4 wounded.

– On the 22nd, a drone bombing was carried out on the Clan del Golfo base, located in the La Garita village, in the municipality of Río Viejo, southern Bolívar; the results are unknown.

– On the 22nd, a drone bombing was carried out on the paramilitary base, located on the Sombrerón ridge, in the San Agustín village, in the municipality of Arenal, southern Bolívar, where one paramilitary member was killed and two were wounded.

– On the 23rd, a drone attack was carried out on a paramilitary base located in the village of San Agustín, in the municipality of Arenal, southern Bolívar; the results are unknown.

– On the 24th, a drone attack was carried out on a paramilitary base located at the Mina Rica junction, in the village of San Agustín, in the municipality of Arenal, southern Bolívar; the results are unknown.

– On the 29th at 11:40 am, during an hour-long firefight with the Clan del Golfo in the village of Santa Cecilia, Villa Flor, in the municipality of Santa Rosa, southern Bolívar, we do not know of enemy casualties, but we had one comrade slightly wounded.

– On the 30th at 9 am, a drone attack was carried out on a paramilitary base located in the village of Santa Cecilia, in the municipality of Santa Rosa, southern Bolívar; the results are unknown.

FEBRUARY

– On Sunday, February 1st at 9:00 AM, a paramilitary base located in the Santa Cecilia village, in the municipality of Santa Rosa, southern Bolívar, was bombed with drones; the results are unknown.

– On February 4th at 10:40 AM, a paramilitary base located in the Santa Cecilia village, in the municipality of Santa Rosa, southern Bolívar, was bombed with drones; the results are unknown.

– On February 5th at 11:00 AM, a paramilitary base located in El Cafetal, in the municipality of Morales, southern Bolívar, was bombed with drones, resulting in the deaths of two paramilitaries and injuries to three others.

– On February 6th, a paramilitary base located in La Jungla, in the municipality of Arenal, southern Bolívar, was bombed with drones; the results are unknown.

– On the 6th at 2 pm, a paramilitary base located in El Cafetal, Morales municipality, southern Bolívar, was bombed with drones; the results are unknown.

– On the 7th at 4 am, after several skirmishes, guerrilla units seized the fortified positions of the Gulf Clan, located in Filo Alto de San Agustín, heading towards La Garita. The paramilitaries ultimately fled and abandoned their positions. Our force concluded without incident.

– On the 7th at 4 am, a paramilitary base located in El Cafetal, Morales municipality, southern Bolívar, was bombed with drones, resulting in one paramilitary member being wounded.

– On the 8th at 10 am, a paramilitary base located in El Cafetal, Morales municipality, southern Bolívar, was bombed with drones; the results are unknown.

– On the 10th, a paramilitary base located in the La Garita village of the Río Viejo municipality, southern Bolívar, was bombed with drones. Four paramilitaries were wounded, and to protect themselves, they used the civilian population as human shields, blending in with the people to avoid further bombings by our units.

– Also on the 10th, at 9:00 a.m., during an hour-long firefight between the guerrillas and the Clan del Golfo in Casa Verde, in the El Paraíso village of Santa Isabel, Santa Rosa municipality, southern Bolívar, the paramilitaries were forced to retreat. In their flight, they carried two dead and one paramilitary member seriously wounded by an anti-personnel mine (APM). The paramilitaries took refuge in La Antena, where at 4:00 p.m., faced with a new guerrilla attack, they were forced to flee again, carrying three dead and several wounded. Our comrade Vlacho, operations officer of the Compañía Simón Bolívar, was killed in action.

– On the 10th at 4:20 a.m., in the Mina Cielo village of the Arenales municipality, southern Bolívar, a paramilitary member was seriously injured after stepping on a landmine.

– On the 11th, a paramilitary base located in the La Garita village of Rio Viejo, southern Bolívar, was bombed with drones. The results are unknown.

– On the 12th at 1:10 pm, fighting broke out between the guerrillas and the Clan del Golfo in the La Guarapería village of the Montecristo municipality, southern Bolívar, which lasted throughout the afternoon. One paramilitary member was killed and three wounded. The operation ended without further incident.

– On the 20th at 5:30 pm, the military base of the 48th Jungle Battalion of the state army, located in Mina Vieja in the San Lucas mountain range, was bombed with drones. The results are unknown.

– On the 20th at 9:30 pm, guerrilla units engaged in combat with the Gulf Clan in Casa Verde, in the El Paraíso village of Santa Isabel, Santa Rosa municipality, southern Bolívar department. The guerrillas managed to seize the paramilitary positions, forcing them to flee towards the Palmeritas area. The results of the engagement are unknown.

– On the 28th at 9 am, the military base of the 48th Jungle Battalion of the state army, located in Mina Vieja in the San Lucas mountain range, was bombed with drones. Fourteen professional soldiers were wounded, and a Black Hawk helicopter from the Military Aviation was hit by the bombs and forced to make an emergency landing in the municipality of Santa Rosa, southern Bolívar department. The operation concluded without further incident.

Source: https://eln-voces.net/2026/03/16/combates-en-el-sur-de-bolivar/

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