OP 2026 - Situation Report
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Sahrani Liberation Army
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History of the Sahrani
Sahrani is an island nation based in the Atlantic. Host to a majority Spanish-speaking population, the territory was founded in the late 1800s by Spanish sailors outbounden route to the Americas. WithIndigenous thecommunities indigenouswere populationgradually integrated into Spanish culturecolonial duringculture. colonization.
religious keypoints in the north with a mix of Catholicism and Orthodox Christianity alongside a deeply Islamic south, existing in harmony lead to the early years of Sahrani being largely peaceful and the island remained neutral despiteduring the Spanish civilCivil warWar that took place betweenfrom 1936 -to 1939.1939 However,despite bycalls theto timefight. ofDuring the Cold War, Sovietthe Russian connections wereUSSR established in efforts to spread Communism and align Sahrani under Russia's influence toon useSahrani, against the United States. With allegations of Russian troops aiding them,supporting the Northern Sahrani Divisionists (NSD) andagainst the American-backed Sahrani Conservative Party (SCP) erupted intoin a proxy war,political withfight propagandafor control of the country. Though following the collapse of the USSR, the NSD lost support and minorfaded incidentsfrom suchpublic view without economic backing from the USSR, it is widely suspected that some former NSD members became radicalized and formed the early core of the Sahrani Liberation Army (SLA) following the arrest of Jorge Ingrid in 1993.
The SLA began as shootings/hita &small runspolitical splinter group of the minorNSD conflict spanned from 1988 - 1991, when the USSR collapsed the NSD, now without direct support,but quickly fellturned offto the radar and SCP re-established civil order.extremism. In 1999, widespread unrest erupted after a teenager was accidentally killed during riots following the assassination of President-Elect,Elect Jose Alamos IIIIII, sparking the first Sahrani Civil War. The conflict lasted fifteen years, ending in 2014 with a ceasefire that included partial disarmament of the National Guard and police forces. The SLA’s political wing, the Sahrani Workers Party (SWP), gained legitimacy while sporadic attacks by imitators and remaining insurgents persisted, declaring the disarmament a victory. In May 2023, elements of the Sahrani national guard engaged in armed conflict against the military and government, following alignment with the SLA the second civil war began. It was assassinatedrevealed threethat daysthe beforeSLA hehad embedded personnel in key functions across the national guard in order to systematically secure equipment. With a total media blackout, ordered by the government and military in efforts to maintain operational security. Aid packages and peacekeepers were deployed to Sahrani to support RACS' ongoing counterinsurgency efforts, however despite this damage to infrastructure and civilian casualties continued to grow. Officials approved the usage of private security companies to support security efforts ontop of a growing foreign military presence. The SLA operated a series of high-stakes strikes, ranging from their capture of the nation's general hospital to the full-scale takeover of the RSN Atlantic, an aircraft carrier operated by RACS' naval wing. Though the RSN Atlantic was totaken startback hiswithin term48 inhours office,by NATO Special Forces supporting RACS' counterinsurgency mission. Like the attacknational guard it was claimedrevealed bythat RSN personnel attached to the Atlantic had ties to the SLA and the nationaltakeover guardwas were activated in orderplanned to enforceleverage a nationwide curfew in effortscontrol to restoreSWP.
In order.August Theof following2024 weekthe aSLA teenager was killed inlaunched a series of riotsfollow-up againstattacks in retaliation for the capture of territory made by RACS in the mountainous north of the country. Persisting in their insurgency despite the arrest of their leader, Julian Hernandez. President Juan Andrei declared an order to rearm the police and place the national guard.guard in a hybrid oversight between the government and military. The SLA continues to wage its war in Sahrani, though in a smaller capacity, NATO troops in Sahrani were rotated out for UN Peacekeepers as a sign of the change both politically and to ease civilian concerns of flashbacks to their recent first civil conflict.
The Sahrani Liberation Army
The Sahrani Liberation Army (SLA), is an extremist-socialist organization with history dating back to the NSD fall-off. Originally as a splinter group of the NSD the political group quickly drew into extremism in 1993 when a member of the NSD, Jorge Ingrid, was arrested by Sahrani National Police for his ties to the proxy conflict. Ingrid, despite having no links to the SLA was freed by the group when they stormed the police station where he was held, the attack resulted in one police vehicle getting firebombed, engulfing and eventually killing the officer inside after the doors were forcibly kept shut by SLA members. Ingrid commented on the affair in subtle support to the SLA when he made a statement over pirate radio. In 1999, President-Elect Jose Alamos III was assassinated while on a walk-around for public support during his preparation to be made figurehead of the country, he was shot at gunpoint by a passerby.
The attack was claimed by the SLA. In response, the Sahrani National Guard (SNG) was activated to enforce an island-wide curfew and establish civil order after the affair. Widespread rioting occurred and the following week a teenager, participating in the riots, was killed by riot control accidentally. Support for the SLA spiked, with this sudden support the extremist group jumped on the opportunity to hit Government positions in efforts to take over.
The Civil war, despite spanning fifteen years, was notably rather unremarkable despite its long spanning conflict, the SLA utilized equipment and weapon systems bought by the Sahrani government from the USSR after raiding surplus facilities. These raids resulted in an expanded arsenal of equipment which put the SLA at a near-peer level to the Royal Armed Corps of Sahrani (RACS) at the time. In 2014, the SLA and RACS agreed upon a ceasefire to host negotiations to de-escalate the conflict. The negotiations resulted in the majority disarming of local and national police forces around Sahrani with the National Guard being halved. Using the Civil war and the perceived victory over the government, the SLA's alleged political connection; the Sahrani Workers Party (SWP) to gain backing as an official political party and runner up to challenge the successor to the Sahrani Conservative Party; the Sahrani Democratic Party (SDP). During the political firestorm that cropped up as a result, the SLA fell off the radar similar to the NSD, however sporadic attacks by wannabe groups / imitators have been noted.
Sahrani's Modern Crisis
In early May of 2023, the SWP has made strides in the northern territory of Sahrani, with the current government helmed by the SDP sloping in terms of favourability, concern of the SLA striking again has been in the air since the civil war ended however with election turning the corner it was at an all time high. With the rising threat of an attack spreading across local media, RACS increased their training to intimidate any aspiring SLA attacks. With now-public intelligence from the Sahrani Intelligence Group (SIG) that the SLA have been slowly re-arming since the ceasefire, alertness was raised to an alltime high since the civil war. Due to the lack of armaments and the slow disappearance of supplies; the Sahrani Government called upon the United States for surplus and support. The United States responded with the deployment of Peacekeepers to back up the lacking numbers within the National Guard, as well as additional surplus to potentially rapidly arm police forces in the event of an attack.
On the 5th of May, 2023 extremists took control of the Sahrani General Hospital, taking guests, staff and patients hostage. The Sahrani National Guard and National Police mobilized and initiated negotiations, the extremists now identified as members of the SLA demanded equipment and prisoners in exchange for the release of the hostages. Hostage rescue was conducted and the hostage takers were killed or detained. The SLA once again stepped in to claim the attack, making themselves known to the public once more. As the mobilization of troops foreign and local furthered sporadic conflict between the SLA and U.S/Sahrani Forces became more frequent.
On the 22nd of May, National Guardsmen detained U.S Peacekeepers, with the suspicion of conspiracy to commit murder the Marines were held in the National Guard Garrison within Corazol East. When U.S Command called for the release of the personnel they were immediately denied, sparking suspicion by the SIG and U.S Command Staff overseeing the operation, a discussion was offered however was once again quickly refused. The hasty refusal and lack of transparency commonly known between the National Guard and Sahrani Interior sparked an investigation. Uncovering that since the drawdown in 2014-2020 members of the SLA acquired membership despite background checks as well as filtered surplus to cache locations across Sahrani. Once discovered, Sahrani Marines accompanied by the SIG and U.S Command Staff were mobilized to the Garrison. An argument ensued and allegedly a National Guardsman engaged, the firefight resulted in a chain of attacks across Sahrani by the SLA. It has been theorized that the SLA planned the takeover of the Sahrani Government by infiltrating the National Guard and organizing enough supplies to conduct a successful coup to force the Sahrani Workers Party into power. With the spring of attacks and contingents of the National Guard assisting SLA takeover operations across North Sahrani the Royal Armed Corps of Sahrani mobilized forces to combat the sudden conflict they were brought into. U.S Peacekeepers have largely held a neutral stance, assisting in humanitarian aid and protection of U.S infrastructure. The Spanish Embassy evacuated in mid-June of this year after attacks grew closer to Paraiso, the capital of Sahrani.
Since July, the SLA have entrenched in North Sahrani, using equipment they seized from Surplus depots, the National Guard and from attacks on RACS emplacements to further arm themselves. RACS have attempted a harsh air campaign however were vetoed by the SDP to prevent civilian casualties. The largely ground-focused operation by RACS has been enhanced by use of the Sahrani Navy, using Marines and Navy vessels to target SLA infrastructure from a safe distance. The end of the conflict shows no sign of being in sight however civilian support is largely split, the Sahrani Workers Party despite being a major factor in the civil war have publicly denounced the SLA, however behind closed doors SWP members have been noted to support the ongoing coup attempt. The SDP have called for the SWP to order the National Guard to disarm and surrender however the SWP have never responded to their demands, the National Guard; now technically under the SWP due to the coup has led to controversy and conspiracy regarding how long the National Guard was under the influence of the party.
The ongoing situation is largely developing to nobody's favour, as targeted attacks by both RACS and the SLA have led to civilian casualties across the country. The AAN have been closely monitoring the situation despite the media blackout ordered by the SDP to conceal RACS Operations, while the SLA utilized social media sources such as Twitter, Telegram, Instagram and Truth Social to spread their message. Despite no ending in sight the Sahrani Democratic Party have promised that civil order will be established soon.ea