Oseguera, the longtime leader of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG), was killed during a pre-dawn raid carried out by Mexican military forces in western Mexico, according to senior government officials.
Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, also known as “El Mencho,” was the head of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel. The Mexican government said he was killed on Sunday.
Thirty-four U.S. Air Force noncommissioned officers participated in a Security Forces-focused, first-of-its-kind program that aims at increasing lethality and readiness across the force.
The detentions of politicians from Iran’s opposition follow mass arrests and a string of repression tactics aimed at preventing further anti-government unrest.
Iranian security forces have launched a campaign to arrest figures within the country's reformist movement.
The rights activist Narges Mohammadi is protesting her continued detention, her family said. She was arrested again in December after being given leave from prison for medical treatment.
Originally published by Sunday Guardian Live.
Iran is at a tipping point (once again). And so is President Trump’s foreign policy. Iranians have gone into the streets in the last few weeks to bring down the repressive Islamic regime. But they face an intact, ruthless security service—and some thousands of protesters have been gunned down. Thousands more have been arrested. Sanctions probably won’t be enough. The protesters are “the boots on the ground” but without direct American support in the form of airstrikes against Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and other security force targets to weaken the regime’s “coercive infrastructure” the protest movement may soon lose momentum—and fail once again. It is unclear what President Trump will…Open
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AI:Security forces have established an unusually heavy police presence across Tehran as tensions escalate between the Trump administration and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. Following recent U.S. sanctions and threats against Iranian officials, reports indicate a heightened state of alert within the Iranian capital as authorities attempt to maintain control amid growing instability.Open
An Iranian government official said some children had been detained, the first such acknowledgment in weeks of anti-government protests.
A rare detailed account of Iran’s crackdown, produced by The Post, reveals the brutality used by security forces in one of many such cities rocked by violence.
AI:Witnesses report that Iranian security forces massacred protesters who were attempting to flee a burning market during recent unrest in the country.Open