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Africa North
The Sudanese Army shoots down a UAE plane with Colombian mercenaries
[EMUNDO America] They were heading to Nyala airport, the capital of the South Darfur state in Sudan, under the control of the paramilitary group Rapid Support Forces.

The Sudanese Army has claimed to have shot down a UAE plane carrying dozens of Colombian mercenaries, as reported by the Sudanese official television, adding that they were heading to Nyala airport, the capital of the South Darfur state in Sudan under the control of the paramilitary group Rapid Support Forces (RSF).

According to the television reports cited by several local media, the plane was carrying at least 40 mercenaries and weapons shipments were also destroyed in the attack.

According to the military version, the plane was shot down during landing thanks to intelligence from the Army's secret services, which had been tracking the flight of the aircraft since its takeoff from an airbase in the Persian Gulf, without specifying its origin.

The Army emphasized that this attack represents "a clear message both domestically and internationally: Sudanese sovereignty is a red line", as reported by local media Sudan Ajbar and Sudan Tribune. It also stressed that the goal is to curb foreign interference.

This attack comes two days after the Sudanese government, controlled by the military leadership, reiterated its denunciation of the involvement of Colombian mercenaries fighting alongside the paramilitary group RSF in the ongoing war in the African country, following a surge in violence in the strategic western region of Darfur.


Posted by: Besoeker || 08/08/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [23 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Is being fired out of a cannon dangerous?

Only for the mercenaries.
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/08/2025 0:29 Comments || Top||


Africa Subsaharan
ISIS soldiers behead Christians in Mozambique, burning church and homes: 'Silent genocide'
[FoxNews] Islamic State affiliates burning churches, beheading Christians in Africa's Mozambique, Congo

International observers are reporting that ISIS-aligned soldiers are beheading Christians and burning churches and homes in central and southern Africa – with some of the most brutal attacks happening in the nation of Mozambique.

The Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI) – a counter-terrorism research nonprofit based in Washington, D.C. – is sounding that alarm about what it describes as a "silent genocide" taking place against Christians.

The Islamic State Mozambique Province (ISMP)
...even more fully Islamic State Central Africa Province-Mozambique (ISCAP), whence they moved in 2015 from the Congo, where they had called themselves Ansar al-Sunna (supporters of the tradition), more formally as Ahlu Sunnah Wa-Jamah (ASWJ, adepts of the prophetic tradition). Originally led by Abu Yasir Hassan of Tanzania (also known as Yaseer Hassan and Abu Qasim), who moved between Mocimboa da Praia and the Congo until his death possibly in 2015. ISMP funds itself through heroin, contraband, ivory, raiding, and selling the local girls into slavery...
recently released 20 photos boasting of four attacks on "Christian villages" in the Chiure district, in Mozambique's northern Cabo Delgado province, according to MEMRI.

MEMRI said the photos show ISIS operatives raiding villages and burning a church and homes. The images also allegedlydepict the beheadings of a member of what the jihadists consider "infidel militias" and two Christian civilians. Rampaging jihadist groups celebrated the killings. Photos also showed the corpses of several members of those so-called "infidel militias," according to the institute's analysis.

"What we see in Africa today is a kind of silent genocide or silent, brutal, savage war that is occurring in the shadows and all too often ignored by the international community," MEMRI Vice President Alberto Miguel Fernandez told Fox News Digital.

"That jihadist groups are in a position to take over not one, not two, but several countries in Africa – take over the whole country or most of several countries – is dangerous," Fernandez, a former U.S. diplomat, said. "It's very dangerous for the national security of the United States let alone the security of the poor people who are there – Christians or Muslims or whoever they are."

The Islamic State Central Africa Province (ISCAP) also recently released several photos of their own documenting a July 27 attack against the Christian village of Komanda in the Democratic Republic of the Congo's Ituri province. Islamic State-affiliated soldiers opened fire at a Catholic Church and set fire to homes, stores, vehicles and possessions. At least 45 people were killed, according to MEMRI. The photos show burning facilities and the corpses of Christians.

Fernandez explained to Fox News Digital that the goal of these jihadist groups is "eliminating Christian communities," as they push down from safe havens and Muslims are "given a choice: ‘either join us or you too will face killing and annihilation.’"

"Christians, of course, are not going to be asked to join," Fernandez told Fox News Digital. "Christians are going to be targeted and destroyed."

The United Nations migration agency said Monday that attacks by insurgents in Mozambique's northern Cabo Delgado province displaced more than 46,000 people in the span of eight days last month.

The International Organization for Migration said nearly 60% of those forced from their homes were children.

In a separate report, the U.N.'s humanitarian office said the wave of attacks between July 20 and July 28 across three districts in Cabo Delgado caused the surge in displacements.

While the United Nations references attacks, its reporting has not detailed deaths or specified the targets. At least nine Christians in the Cabo Delgado province were reportedly killed in separate attacks by Islamic insurgents during that timeframe.

"I'm no fan of the United Nations in general, but I think what they're doing is kind of the lowest common denominator," Fernandez told Fox News Digital. "It's kind of easy to be vague like that. The fact that some of this and some of the worst of it is happening because of a deep anti-Christian animus, hatred of Christians, religiously-based hatred of Christians is something that the UN usually doesn't like to talk about."

Fighters from Islamic State Mozambique allegedly captured and beheaded six Christians in the village of Natocua in the Ancuabe district of Mozambique's Cabo Delgado Province on July 22, according to MEMRI.

Barnabas Aid, an international Christian charity, pointed to reporting by the Terrorism Research & Analysis Consortium claiming another three Christians were slaughtered in the Chiure district in attacks on July 24 and 25.

The southern African nation has been fighting an insurgency by Islamic State-affiliated militants in the north for at least eight years. Rwandan soldiers have been deployed to help Mozambique fight them.

The jihadist groups have been accused of beheading villagers and kidnapping children to be used as laborers or child soldiers. The U.N. estimates that the violence, and the impact of drought and several cyclones in recent years, has led to the displacement of more than 1 million people in northern Mozambique.

Fernandez said that he feels the Trump administration "has refreshingly been tough and strong when it comes to jihadist terrorism" – but what's happening in Africa typically does not receive as much attention compared to the Middle East. He pointed to how Trump's intervention in the U.S. brokering a ceasefire deal between Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo helps offset jihadist groups that take advantage of security vacuums and ungoverned spaces to expand control.

Fernandez also warned about the threat of jihadist ideology. After the Islamic State was "very strongly defeated" in the Middle East during Trump's first administration, he said branches are now looking to weaker territories to expand their influence.

"It's kind of like a whack-a-mole situation," Fernandez said, explaining that the Islamic State not long ago controlled a pseudo-state the size of the United Kingdom between Syria and Iraq. "What we need to see is them to be utterly defeated in Africa, so people will say, people on the sidelines or people on defense will say, ‘Well obviously these people did not have the mandate of Allah, the mandate God, they were losers, they lost.' That's what we need."

Doctors Without Borders said it has launched an emergency response to help thousands of recently displaced people who now live in camps in Chiure district.

Cabo Delgado has large offshore natural gas reserves, and the insurgency caused the suspension of a $20 billion extraction project by French company TotalEnergies in 2021.

Meanwhile, the Congolese army said last month that attacks in the village of Komanda in the conflict-battered region were carried out by the Allied Democratic Force, which is backed by the Islamic State. The group has mostly targeted villagers in eastern Congo and across the border in Uganda. ADF leaders pledged allegiance in 2019 to the Islamic State and have sought to establish an Islamic caliphate in Uganda.
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/08/2025 01:02 || Comments || Link || [29 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State

#1  Israel's shelling of a Catholic church in Gaza sparks widespread outrage
Posted by: Grom the Affective || 08/08/2025 2:19 Comments || Top||


Bandit leader ;Bello Turji and gunmen under his command released a new video with quite rare weapons


Posted by: badanov || 08/08/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [16 views] Top|| File under: Banditti


Britain
Pakistani batter Haider Ali was held by @gmpolice Manchester Police on charges of raping a girl
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 08/08/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [13 views] Top|| File under: Moslem Colonists


Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
The case of the third person accused of preparing a terrorist attack in Sunzha has reached court
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[KavkazUzel] An 18-year-old resident of Ingushetia faces forced treatment in a psychiatric hospital for preparing an attack on security forces and a terrorist attack in Sunzha

As reported by the "Caucasian Knot", at the end of April the investigation reported that the case of two young men accused of preparing an attack on security forces and an Orthodox church in Sunzha had been transferred to court. The case of the third defendant was separated into a separate proceeding. The investigators did not report on the other defendants in the case, although initially there were six detainees. 

In August 2024, it became known that six residents of Ingushetia had been detained, who, according to investigators, were preparing attacks on security forces and an Orthodox church in Sunzha. One of the suspects  stated that he had received instructions from a native of Dagestan living in Syria.
Probably ISIS, possibly HTS/Al Nusra, it seems to me.
According to the Magas District Court, three of the suspects were minors at the time of their detention. 

The prosecution is demanding compulsory medical measures for an 18-year-old resident of Ingushetia, accused of a number of terrorist crimes, including the preparation of a terrorist attack in Sunzha. At the time of the crimes, he was a minor. 

The case of a young man who was initially arrested and then temporarily placed in a psychiatric hospital has been referred to court. Since the accused was found to have a mental disorder, he faces compulsory treatment, the Investigative Committee's Ingushetia department reported on August 7. 

In addition to preparing a terrorist attack and illegal trafficking of weapons and explosives, the young man is accused of participating in an illegal armed group and involvement in terrorist activity. The investigation believes that while preparing a terrorist attack in Sunzha and an armed attack on security forces, the young man illegally acquired automatic firearms and explosive devices, which he kept in a hiding place on the outskirts of the Sunzhensky District. 

“In addition, the defendant persuaded two local residents to commit terrorist crimes,” the official Telegram channel of the republican Investigative Committee said. 

The case of the other two defendants is still being heard in court, the department noted.
Posted by: badanov || 08/08/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [12 views] Top|| File under:


Europe
Spanish town bans Muslim religious festivals provoking a furious outcry as migrant tensions threaten to boil over after nearby town was rocked by riots
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] A Spanish town has become the first in the country to ban Muslims from using public facilities to celebrate religious Eid festivals just weeks after a nearby area was rocked by anti-migrant riots.

The controversial ban was passed in Jumilla, a town in the Murcia region with a population of around 27,000 - roughly 7.5 per cent of whom come from majority Muslim countries.

The motion was proposed by Spain's conservative People's Party (PP) and backed by the hard right Vox party.

It prohibits public facilities such a sports halls and civic centres being used for 'religious, cultural or social activities alien to our identity' unless officially organised by the local council.

It comes less than a month after several people were left injured during anti-migrant rioting in Torre Pacheco, just 70 miles from Jumilla, when a pensioner was reportedly beaten up by three Moroccan men.

A 68-year-old man told Spanish media he was beaten up in the street on July 9 by three young men of North African origin.

Amid the announcement of the latest ban, critics have said the wording is a thinly veiled attack on Islamic traditions, and have warned that the ruling could breach Spain's constitutionally protected freedom of religion.

The local Vox party openly celebrated the decision, declaring on X: 'Thanks to Vox the first measure to ban Islamic festivals in Spain's public spaces has been passed. Spain is and will be forever the land of Christian people.'

The move prevents Muslims in Jumilla from gathering in public gyms or civic buildings to celebrate Eid al-Fitr, which marks the end of Ramadan, and Eid al-Adha, the Islamic festival of sacrifice.

Muslim leaders have condemned the decision.

Mounir Benjelloun Andaloussi Azhari, president of the Spanish Federation of Islamic Organisations, said the ban was a direct attack on the country's Muslim population, calling it 'Islamophobic and discriminatory'.

'They're not going after other religions, they're going after ours,' he told Spanish newspaper El Pais.

Referring to the recent rise of racist rhetoric and attacks, he added: 'We're rather surprised by what's happening in Spain. For the first time in 30 years I feel afraid.'

Legal experts have warned the ban could face a constitutional challenge. Article 16 of Spain's constitution grants freedom of religious belief, with the only restriction being the protection of public order.

The Socialist leader of Murcia, Francisco Lucas, accused the PP of stoking division.

'The PP violates the constitution and puts social cohesion at risk simply in the pursuit of power,' he said on X.

Former Jumilla mayor Juana Guardiola, also from the Socialist party, condemned the rhetoric behind the ban.

'What do they mean by identity? And what about the centuries of Muslim legacy here?' She said.

The attack on the pensioner by three Moroccan men last month sparked violent riots that lasted for several days.

Despite a major police presence in the town, groups of people gathered on the streets armed with batons.

They were reportedly looking for foreigners, the regional newspaper Opinión de Murcia reported at the time.

Authorities found posts that had incited a planned 'hunt for migrants' on July 15, 16 and 17, Murcia delegate Mariola Guevara said, with the so-called 'hunt' beginning a day early.

A demonstration was organised by the town hall - intended to be peaceful - was later hijacked by people shouting anti-migrant slogans.

Almost 100 additional police officers were reportedly deployed to the town to shore up the security situation, with videos showing armed riot cops patrolling the streets.

But Jumilla's history is steeped in Islamic heritage. Once part of the Roman Empire, the town fell to Arab rule in the eighth century, becoming known as Yumil-la.

It remained largely Arab until the 13th century, when it was conquered by Christian forces under King Alfonso X of Castile.
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/08/2025 02:06 || Comments || Link || [15 views] Top|| File under: Migrants/Illegal Immigrants


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
SDF captures two ISIS operatives in Deir ez-Zor countryside
DEIR EZ-ZOR, Syria (North Press) – The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) announced on Thursday the arrest of two Islamic State (ISIS) operatives during a targeted security operation in the eastern countryside of Deir ez-Zor.

According to a statement issued by the People’s Protection Units (YPG), a component of the SDF, the operation was carried out in the village of Hawi al-Dhiban, a known hotspot for ISIS activity, with direct support from the US-led Global Coalition.

The SDF’s Tactical Operations Units (TOL), specialized in counterterrorism efforts, led the raid. The operation focused on a cell reportedly involved in smuggling and distributing weapons within ISIS networks in the region. The statement confirmed that two members of the cell were detained during the operation, which was conducted without casualties.

Posted by: badanov || 08/08/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11 views] Top|| File under:


French UNIFIL Forces discovered a tunnel system and weapons belonging to Hezbollah in southern Lebanon


Posted by: badanov || 08/08/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [24 views] Top|| File under: Hezbollah

#1  Any bets on how many times IDF has to point out that tunnel to UNIFIL?
Posted by: Grom the Affective || 08/08/2025 4:35 Comments || Top||


Terror Networks
Nearly one-third of detainees released from Gitmo may have returned to terrorism, ODNI data shows
[JustTheNews] Guantánamo Bay's island detention center in Cuba has seen hundreds of detainees pass through its gate since 9/11. New data suggests roughly one-third of those held may be returning to terrorism after they were freed.
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/08/2025 02:46 || Comments || Link || [29 views] Top|| File under:

#1  A surprise to no one.
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/08/2025 3:23 Comments || Top||

#2  The rest went to work for UN?
Posted by: Grom the Affective || 08/08/2025 4:36 Comments || Top||



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