U.S. Border Patrol agents have discovered and disabled a highly sophisticated, large-scale drug smuggling tunnel running from Tijuana, Mexico, into the Otay Mesa area of San Diego, authorities ...

The 3,000-foot tunnel — which reached depths of around 50 feet underground at its deepest point — was equipped with lighting, ...

Israel is supporting armed groups of Palestinians in Gaza in what it says is a move to counter Hamas. One self-styled militia ...

The group dug smuggling tunnels along the Philadelphi Route on Gaza’s ... Disarming Gaza: Mission impossible? Reviewing the power map of terrorist groups in Gaza leads to a sobering conclusion.

The corridor’s establishment comes amid increasing IDF activity in southern Gaza, with updated evacuation maps showing expanded ... forces and the use of smuggling tunnels that run between ...

The Philadelphi Corridor between the southern Gaza Strip and Egypt ... On Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas had 50 smuggling tunnels, some large enough to drive vans through, that it dug under the Egyptian ...

Known as the Philadelphi Corridor, it served as the main smuggling route ... according to agreed maps. Civilians would be allowed to return to almost all of Gaza without security checks.

"If Israelis don’t control it, they don’t control Gaza,” Middle East analyst Daniel Pipes says of the Philadelphi Corridor. Gaza-Sinai border looms as hostage deal’s top strategic issue | JNS | ...

To map the tunnels with any degree of accuracy ... Egypt reportedly poured sewage into smuggling tunnels from Gaza. Urban warfare is difficult, requiring specific knowledge and equipment; Tunnel ...

After the IDF’s May invasion of Gaza’s southernmost city, Rafah, an Israeli commander reported finding no new active smuggling tunnels leading ... see and map efforts to dig new passages ...

The map of the Gaza Strip shows the Philadelphi ... since Egypt acted to clear the border zone of tunnels and infrastructure. Most smuggling had instead occurred aboveground at the Rafah crossing ...

ON ISRAELI tactical maps the narrow corridor ... could perhaps end the war in Gaza. Binyamin Netanyahu, Israel’s prime minister, claims the corridor is the main smuggling route through which ...