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Cafe Bombing Kills 9, Wounds 22, In Busy Court Area Of Central Damascus
On Thursday a bomb ripped through crowded cafe in central Damascus, killing at least nine people and wounding 22 others, in an attack very near the main entrance of the Palace of Justice - in an area frequented by lawyers, courthouse employees and visitors.
Al Jazeera correspondent Obaida Hitto, who reported from the scene in the aftermath, stated that "The casualties are higher because it is such a busy area." The death toll could rise given that many bystanders are being treated for severe injuries at a Damascus hospital - some in critical condition.
The target was a well-known gathering place for attorneys. "According to lawyers' groups on social media, the names of six lawyers who were killed have been identified, while eight others were injured in the blast," Mohammed al-Tawil, head of the Syrian Bar Association, told Germany's dpa.
via Associated PressAnd per the NY Times, "Syria’s interior ministry said the blast, near the main courthouse complex in Damascus, had been caused by an explosive device but did not say who was responsible."
The reported noted, "State media published images of bloodied floors and overturned chairs as emergency workers rushed through crowded streets to the scene."
Various jihadi groups, including ISIS, continue to threaten civilians all across the country, a reality which has only expanded in post-Assad Syria, and after the rise of US-backed, self-appointed President Ahmed al-Sharaa, the former Al-Qaeda and Islamic State commander.
Government forces under Sharaa have been seen as tolerating and even cooperating at times with ISIS-style terrorist groups. But at the same time the Sharaa regime has sought to present itself to the outside world as 'moderate'.
Sectarian crimes and targeted killings, particularly against Syria's Alawite, Christian, and Druze communities have continued. Euronews reports:
"I ran to the place and saw people lying on the floor with blood pooled around them everywhere," he added, saying the scenes recalled the blasts that Damascus experienced during the nearly 14-year civil war.
Damascus has been the site of multiple attacks and incidents since the new authorities took over following the toppling of longtime ruler Bashar al-Assad in December 2024.
The deadliest came in June 2025, when an attack on a Damascus church killed 25 people. The suicide attack was later claimed by a Sunni Islamist group, while the authorities blamed it on the Islamic State group.
In the meantime a new parliament is being sworn-in in Damascus, dozens of members which were handpicked by Sharaa. Some are well-known extremists.
"Among the 70 new appointees is Hassan Soufan, who was the head of Ahrar al-Sham, an Al-Qaeda-affiliated extremist group that fought as part of the 14-year CIA-backed insurgency against former Syrian president Bashar al-Assad's government," writes Beirut-based The Cradle. The report further says:
While maintaining secular institutions such as a parliament, Syria is unofficially governed by extremist Sunni Muslim religious figures known as “sheikhs” who are embedded within government institutions and public service departments, including police stations, municipalities, and the judiciary.
BREAKING | Explosion in a coffee shop near the Justice Palace in Damascus, Syria. pic.twitter.com/qkbD7x28sf
— The Cradle (@TheCradleMedia) July 2, 2026With Assad gone, mainstream Western press has basically stopped covering events in Syria, even though killings and terrorist attacks have persisted.
At the same time, the country has little in the way of military defenses to speak of, with Israeli bombings having largely wiped out anti-air defenses as well as offensive missile silos.
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Watch: Shocking Footage Of Britain's Two-Tier Policing
Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity News,
In the latest sickening example of two-tier policing under Keir Starmer's government, a female officer in Birmingham charged straight into a street attack, shielded the three black aggressors, and then turned her aggression on their white British victim - an inebriated teenager who had just been randomly assaulted.
While the attackers dispersed without consequence, multiple officers swarmed the white lad, barked obscenities at him, shoved him into a police car the wrong way round, and then dragged him back out again.
A bystander who tried to explain that the white kid was the victim was completely ignored.
3 blacks attack a drunk white kid in Birmingham, the female police officer comes in to protect the violent blacks and arrest the white kid
Absolutely disgusting the way white people are treated in England (@KnockoutAudit) pic.twitter.com/Nct3OcqxaQ
This is not policing. This is ideological enforcement, where native Britons are treated as the problem and mass migration's imported violence gets a free pass.
The main footage of the attack and the officer's intervention spread rapidly on X.
Further clips reveal the tone of the encounter. One officer is heard snarling at the restrained teen: "You're going to walk to the car you fucking dick." The contrast with how such language would be deployed against anyone else is glaring.
"You're going to walk to the car you fucking dick"
They would never speak to a darkie like this pic.twitter.com/irPoNe9Yhg
Another angle captures officers trying to force the handcuffed lad into the back seat the wrong way round while yelling "Get in the fucking car."
"Get in the fucking car"
Whilst they try to shove him into the back seat the wrong way pic.twitter.com/MpWJuZKhpo
When that fails, reinforcements arrive - another eight officers in total - and they drag him out again because of the botched seating.
Another 8 police officers turn up
They drag him out of the car because he's not in the seat properly because they forced him the wrong way pic.twitter.com/zR3QJ2y3ON
A witness wearing glasses can be seen on camera telling officers that the white lad had just been randomly attacked by the group. The officers brush past the information and continue processing the victim as the aggressor.
Public reaction has been swift and unforgiving. One observer captured the robotic programmed nature of the response:
?? British police in 2026 are genuinely like circuit-programmed androids
When they identify a scuffle, their sights lock on to the nearest white human regardless of the circumstances
Shameless cyborgs pic.twitter.com/uxlryjILci
The handling shows a blatant failure of duty, with the arresting officer targeting the white male despite clear evidence he was not the agressor. It is impossible the officer did not see the two black males actively attacking him.
We must demand the immediate release of the bodycam footage from the recent unlawful arrest in Birmingham.
The handling of this incident is a blatant failure of duty, as the arresting officer targeted the white male as the aggressor despite the clear reality of the situation.... pic.twitter.com/sDmwwZJoKf
West Midlands Police have reportedly asked people to stop sharing the footage. Of course they have.
This is not an isolated lapse. It fits a documented pattern of selective enforcement and excessive force against native Britons while authorities tiptoe around minority perpetrators.
Earlier this month, outrage erupted over South Yorkshire Police officers filmed shoving, baton-wielding and Tasering teenage girls during a dispersal in Rotherham.
The footage showed male officers brutally shoving small teenage girls flying onto the concrete like ragdolls. These are young girls, not hardened criminals. One wrong landing and they could have smashed their heads open.
South Yorkshire Police later acknowledged: "The short clip on social media of the police response to an incident in Rotherham over the weekend appears nothing short of shocking." The force's Professional Standards Department said it was reviewing all available footage, including body-worn video, and that officers are expected to act in a "lawful, proportionate, and fair" manner.
The Rotherham location itself sharpened the hypocrisy. It remains the epicentre of the grooming gangs scandal in which authorities failed for years to protect an estimated 1,400 young victims from predominantly Pakistani Muslim gangs. Political correctness and fears of racism accusations paralyzed police and social services. Now the same forces apply heavy-handed tactics to young British girls celebrating a school leavers' event.
Similar incidents piled up around the same period. Footage emerged of officers manhandling a five-year-old boy - nearly yanking his arms from their sockets while forcing him into a police car - while pepper-spraying his father and confronting his mother who was holding a baby.
South Yorkshire police shove a five year old kid into a car while almost pulling his arms out of their sockets, pepper spraying the father and getting in the mother's face as she holds a baby in her arms. What on earth did they do? pic.twitter.com/BV40eH9sD1
— m o d e r n i t y (@ModernityNews) June 14, 2026Another clip showed officers smashing a man's head into a metal bollard, then handcuffing and dragging him while threatening the person filming.
This case is actually way worse than the initial footage revealed. This longer video shows that after smashing the guy head first into a metal bollard the police handcuff him and drag him around. They then threaten and shove around the person filming it. https://t.co/3rF0kufikg
— m o d e r n i t y (@ModernityNews) June 14, 2026A further video captured police slamming Siobhan Whyte to the ground during a protest linked to the Henry Nowak case. Her daughter had been murdered by an illegal migrant, stabbed 23 times in the head with a screwdriver.
???BREAKING: British Police Slam Elderly Woman to the Ground in Broad Daylight!
Her daughter was stabbed 23 times in the head with a screwdriver – but Starmer's police don't care.
While arresting 5-year-olds, UK cops now beat Britons of any age. pic.twitter.com/SXag5tNjhe
A 50-year-old military veteran and father of three with 13 pins in his right ankle was struck with riot shields and kicked in the head four times while sitting on a wall filming and stating he was doing nothing wrong.
These episodes form part of a growing catalogue of police interactions with native British citizens that many describe as disproportionately aggressive. The common thread is eroding public trust.
If you keep assaulting and arresting innocent members of the public, especially when they're being victimised, then the people are going to start turning on you.
Best stop it.
When consent is revoked, and it will be at this rate, you're nothing more than civilian thugs....
The Henry Nowak case stands as the starkest recent precedent. On 3 December 2025, 18-year-old Henry was fatally stabbed five times in Southampton. His attacker, Vickrum Digwa, convinced arriving officers he was the victim and claimed racial abuse.
Police arrested and handcuffed the dying Henry instead of providing immediate aid. It took eight minutes for officers to discover the stab wound even though Henry repeatedly told them he had been stabbed and could not breathe.
Digwa was never handcuffed during his time in custody before being charged.
The Independent Office for Police Conduct confirmed it is investigating two Hampshire officers for potential gross misconduct. The evidence indicates both officers may have breached standards of duties and responsibilities, use of force, and discreditable conduct.
These relate to potential failures to recognise that Henry needed urgent medical attention, to immediately act after he said he had been stabbed and could not breathe, and the decision to arrest and handcuff Henry rather than provide immediate first aid.
There is also an indication one officer may have breached the standard relating to authority, respect and courtesy for appearing to dismiss Henry saying he had been stabbed.
'I don't just want these officers under investigation, I want them arrested!'
Adam Brooks (@EssexPR) discusses the police's failings following the murder of 18-year-old Henry Nowak, who was handcuffed in his final minutes. pic.twitter.com/mVxtd9Xx68
The officers face investigation but have not been suspended. Adam Brooks stated on GB News: "I don't just want these officers under investigation, I want them arrested!"
The Birmingham incident follows the same script. The white victim is processed aggressively while the actual attackers are permitted to leave. West Midlands Police have reportedly moved to limit circulation of the footage rather than address the conduct on camera.
This suggests the same institutional reluctance to confront anti-white bias that has already been admitted in training contexts around the Nowak case.
Britons pay for policing through their taxes. They have every right to demand officers who de-escalate rather than escalate against teenagers, who protect the vulnerable instead of dismissing them, and who operate without the stain of two-tier standards.
When footage repeatedly shows the opposite - and when legacy media largely ignores it until social media forces the issue - the contract between police and the public frays further.
Accountability mechanisms exist. Body-worn video exists. The public expects both to deliver transparency and consequences where warranted. Without that, resentment will only deepen.
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