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[Regnum] In May, the US military attacked the leader of the terrorist group ISIS (a terrorist organization whose activities are banned in the Russian Federation) in Somalia. NBC reported this with reference to the US Africa Command (AFRICOM).
“The American military launched an airstrike against the leader of the local terrorist group ISIS in Somalia... The airstrike was carried out in an area located 81 kilometers southeast of Bosaso,” the material says.
It is alleged that the US government has publicly named the head of the group's Somalia affiliate, Abdulkadir Mumin, who, according to NBC sources, has secretly become the world leader of the terrorist organization,
…that last seems a tad unlikely, but I suppose it’s possible…
as the target of the strike.
As a result of the airstrike, the US Armed Forces killed three militants, but at the moment there is no confirmation of the death of Mumin.
According to one of the representatives of the US Department of Defense, the United States estimates the number of IS group in Somalia from 100 to 200 militants.
As Regnum reported, in May, Turkish Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya said that law enforcement officers detained 41 suspects in the country suspected of involvement in the IS terrorist group. Law enforcement officers carried out an anti-terrorist operation in 12 provinces of Turkey - Bolu, Eskisehir, Istanbul, Kirikkale, Kilis, Kocaeli, Nevsehir, Sakarya, Gaziantep, Sanliurfa, Duzca and Manisa. Police seized firearms, digital media, foreign currency and Turkish lira from the detainees.
[SUDANTRIBUNE] A UN expert report has revealed that the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), engaged in conflict with the Sudan ...a Moslem country located in the Horn of Africa. It is noted for its affinity for rule by ex- or current generals, its holy men, and for the oppression of the native Afro population by its Arab conquerors. South Sudan, populated mostly by the natives, split off from Sudan proper, which left North and South Darfur to be oppressed by the guys with turbans... ese army, are utilizing the Am Dafok region on the border with the Central African Republic (CAR) as a key supply line and recruitment hub of new fighters for the RSF.
Am Dafok, a strategic town located on the border between the Central African Republic and Sudan in South Darfur, holds economic and commercial significance. The RSF gained control of the town in mid-June 2023.
The Panel of Experts on the Central African Republic, tasked with monitoring sanctions imposed on the country, expressed concern in a report published Friday about the significant impact of the Sudanese conflict.
The report highlights the recruitment of CAR-based fighters by the RSF, with groups like the Popular Front for the Renaissance of Central Africa (FPRC) actively participating in the Sudanese conflict. These complex dynamics pose a challenge for the CAR’s national armed forces (FACA), as the RSF simultaneously claims to support the CAR government while also collaborating with gangs within the country.
Key figures like Habib Hareka, a prominent RSF member, have been identified as playing a crucial role in transborder activities, facilitating the recruitment and movement of fighters between CAR and Sudan.
The report identifies Am Dafok, Sam Ouandja, the Ndah mining site, and Haute-Kotto Prefecture (region) as primary recruitment areas, with fighters ultimately being sent to Nyala in Sudan.
The experts noted that the conflict in Sudan has caused an influx of armed actors to Vakaga Prefecture, particularly around Am Dafok, which is vital for RSF supplies and recruitment. Despite the presence of major gangs like UPC and FPRC, there’s been no infighting due to a "no-harm policy" and opportunistic collaboration. This cooperation could bolster their power, worsen regional security, and threaten the CAR government.
The UN experts’ report paints a concerning picture of the spillover effects of the Sudanese conflict on the CAR, with increased insecurity, gang activity, and recruitment posing significant challenges to the stability and security of the region.
They urged Central African authorities to "stem the flow of weapons from neighbouring countries, fueled by the ongoing conflict in Sudan." They further called to "address the influx of imported muscle, posing a grave and enduring threat to regional stability."
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[Regnum] Yemen's Houthis attacked a US Navy destroyer and two commercial vessels, Captain Paris and Happy Condor, in the Red Sea. This was announced on Sunday, June 16, by the military representative of the Ansar Allah movement, Yahya Saria.
According to him, a group of militants fired ballistic missiles at the American destroyer. The Houthis attacked the Captain Paris oil tanker and an LNG tanker with anti-ship missiles and unmanned aerial vehicles.
Reuters, citing the United Kingdom Maritime Trade Office (UKMTO), reported that on Sunday morning, one of the merchant ships, 40 seas south of the Yemeni city of Al-Mukha, reported two explosions nearby. UKMTO is currently unable to confirm whether commercial vessels were damaged as a result of the reported attack.
As Regnum reported, on June 13, the US Central Command said that the Houthis attacked the commercial ship Verbena, owned by Ukraine and flying the flag of Palau, with two anti-ship missiles. On Saturday, the crew of the cargo ship sent a distress signal, which was responded to by the Anna Meta, whose sailors evacuated the crew of the Verbena.
On the same day, the military representative of the Houthi Ansar Allah movement, Yahya Saria, reported that the attacked ship Verbena sank in the Gulf of Aden 98 nautical miles east of Yemen's Aden. This information was also confirmed by UKMTO. At the same time, CENTCOM issued a statement that the distress signal from Verbena was allegedly ignored by the Iranian frigate Jamaran, which was then eight nautical miles from the Ukrainian cargo ship.
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[REGNUM] On the night of June 16, six prisoners in Rostov-on-Don managed to escape from the cells of the local pre-trial detention center and took two detention center employees hostage. The criminals called themselves supporters of IS (a terrorist organization whose activities are prohibited in Russia).
The invaders demanded a car, weapons and the opportunity to leave the country, but their plan did not work. Special forces quickly eliminated the militants and freed the employees.
WHAT HAPPENED
On Sunday morning it became known that in Rostov pre-trial detention center No. 1, prisoners took hostage two employees of the institution - the head of the operational department of the Main Directorate of the Federal Penitentiary Service, Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Bogma and duty shift inspector Viktor Konchakov.
Before this, six criminals knocked out the previously weakened window bars in their cell and got out into the courtyard of the institution. Then they entered the premises of the duty station, where they captured the FSIN employees.
Armed with knives, fire axes and sharpeners, the criminals recorded a video message in which, in particular, they spoke about belonging to a terrorist organization. They also demanded a car, weapons and unhindered travel abroad. Otherwise, the militants promised to kill the two hostages.
Negotiations began: the security forces tried to persuade the militants to release the hostages and surrender. The criminals were blocked on the territory of the detention center and were not allowed to enter the weapons room. At the same time, the pre-trial detention center functioned as usual.
The area nearby was quickly cordoned off, roads were blocked, and law enforcement officers rushed to the scene. Special forces soldiers from the Federal Penitentiary Service and Special Operations Brigade, as well as ambulances and rescuers, also arrived there.
It was quickly possible to establish the identities of the militants - they were Shamil Akiev, Tamerlan Gireev and Azamat Tsitskiev, who had previously planned to blow up the building of the Supreme Court of the Karachay-Cherkess Republic of the Karachay-Cherkess Republic, and were then sentenced by the court to long prison terms. Akiev and Gireev were sentenced to 18 years in prison, Tsitskiev - to 18 and a half.
Also in the group of criminals was Malik Gandaloev, a former medical student who became interested in radical Islam; he had previously been detained in Ingushetia for preparing for a terrorist attack.
Negotiations with the militants, in which the imam of the Spiritual Administration of Muslims of the Rostov Region, Muhammed Bakmaev, participated, did not lead to success; special forces began an assault on the Rostov detention center. The security forces opened fire to kill, eliminating the criminals in just three minutes. The FSIN employees who were held hostage were released and were practically unharmed. No bystanders were injured either.
Now law enforcement officers will have to understand the details of what happened and establish how the militants were able to realize their plans. The Investigative Committee has opened a criminal case, law enforcement officers are conducting an investigation under Article 206 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (“Hostage-taking”).
"SPREAD OF DESTRUCTIVE IDEAS"
The daring crime had been prepared for a long time, and accomplices of the militants probably participated in it. Questions arise: who supervised them outside the pre-trial detention center, and were there any “assistants” in the detention center? After all, the criminals managed to arm themselves, obtain the symbols of a banned terrorist organization - and all this under 24-hour surveillance.
The prisoners were in different cells, but there was communication between them for a long time, probably at least a month. How they managed to weaken the bars and where they got their smartphones from are questions that the investigation will have to answer.
Now the relatives of the criminals are being searched.
“ The taking of hostages in the Rostov pre-trial detention center is the result of a lack of prevention of extremism and the spread of destructive ideas in the FSIN system,” says State Duma deputy Alexander Khinshtein.
They will probably check pre-trial detention centers throughout Russia, because this is not the first time that the problem of extremists recruiting prisoners inside FSIN institutions has been raised.
“ Now that the hostages have been released, I can say one thing: anyone who breaks the law must be held accountable,” said the governor of the Rostov region Vasily Golubev.
According to him, immediately after the incident, provocateurs with obvious anti-Russian sentiments began to be active on social networks, trying to incite hostility between peoples. Law enforcement officers will also have to deal with them.
🇷🇺🏴☠️⚡ A video has appeared where terrorists took hostage employees of the Rostov pre-trial detention center.
The employees of pre-trial detention center-1, who were held hostage, have been released. The terrorists were shot dead. pic.twitter.com/K8Ilb96ErH
“They are not issued for burial and the place of their burial is not reported,” Gazeta.Ru reported the words of the lawyer.
Agranovsky referred to Article 14.1 Part 1 of the Federal Law “On Burial and Burial Matters.” According to the document, the burial of persons against whom criminal prosecution has been terminated due to their death is carried out in accordance with the procedure established by the government.
During the assault, security forces eliminated terrorists who had taken two employees of pre-trial detention center No. 1 hostage in the Rostov region. The FSIN employees who were held hostage were released and were not injured.
The Investigative Committee opened a criminal case under the article on hostage-taking.
According to law enforcement agencies, the terrorists had been preparing to take hostages for several months. They loosened the cell bars in advance so that they could get out into the yard at the right moment. After taking hostages, the terrorists demanded a car and weapons. The invaders called themselves supporters of IS (a terrorist organization whose activities are prohibited in Russia).
According to the source, three of the six defendants who took hostages planned to blow up the Supreme Court building in Karachay-Cherkessia in 2023. FSB officers detained them.
Adds kavkaz-uzel.eu:
According to the court, the defendants established contacts with militants in Syria, after which, on their instructions, they arrived in Cherkessk, where they rented an apartment and chose one of the administrative buildings as the target of attack. All three were found guilty of preparing for a terrorist attack, the FSB reported on May 14, 2024, noting that the verdict had already entered into force.
“Concerning the events in the Rostov pre-trial detention center, many, including official media, are disseminating information about the criminals that is not entirely accurate. I officially declare that none of the killed terrorists are Chechens. Once again I urge journalists to carefully check the information before publishing it,” - he wrote in his telegram channel.
Paris — Tens of thousands of leftists, including the extreme far-left and Antifa, gathered for a violent direct action today against the popularity of Marine Le Pen’s party. pic.twitter.com/HCVCMETyip
The liberal president of a Georgia state LGBTQ+ group who previously went viral for wanting to appeal to children by giving away teddy bear toys has been charged for allegedly possessing a firearm while preparing to distribute meth, crack cocaine & GHB. https://t.co/33pS24MP02
A three-time failed city council candidate who was also an LGBTQ and DEI activist leader in Georgia was arrested this week on charges related to the intent to distribute methamphetamines and cocaine. He is also facing firearms charges.
According to a press release from the Columbus Police Department in Georgia, "On Wednesday, June 12, 2024, at 10:00 a.m., following a months-long investigation, the Columbus Police Department's Special Operations Unit executed a search warrant at a residence in the 4200 block of 16th Avenue. Jeremy Hobbs, 49, was taken into custody without incident."
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[Al Jazeera] A preliminary investigation by the Israeli military found the Hamas ..a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",... attack that killed eight troops in an army vehicle near Rafah was carried out with a rocket-propelled grenade (RPG) and a defence system failed to stop it.
The short range of the rocket launch is likely why the system didn’t work, the Israel Broadcasting Corporation reports. The armoured personnel carrier was carrying eight Israeli soldiers from the 601st engineering battalion.
The rocket penetrated outer compartments where bombs and mines were kept, and "secondary explosions left no chance for the soldiers to survive", it said.
The body of a Paleostinian fighter and an RPG launcher was found during a search in the Tal al-Sultan neighbourhood northwest of Rafah. He was apparently killed in the blast.
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The Israel Defense Force has revealed the Identifies of 5 more of Soldiers with the 601st “Asaf” Battalion of the Combat Engineering Corps who were Killed yesterday after their “Namer” Armored-Personnel Carrier (APC) was Struck by a currently Unknown Explosive Device near the… pic.twitter.com/72Eeyff7BZ
The Israel Defense Force has Identified the Final Two Soldiers of the 601st “Asaf” Battalion of the Combat Engineering Corps who were Killed yesterday during an Attack near the City of Rafah in the Southern Gaza Strip:
- Sergeant Yakir Ya’akov Levi, Aged 21 from Hafetz Haim.
A Hezbollah Arms Deport within the Village of Aitaroun in Southern Lebanon was Destroyed earlier tonight by an Israeli Airstrike, resulting in a Massive Explosion followed by several Secondary Detonations. In addition to the Arms Depot, at least 3 other Hezbollah-Linked Buildings… pic.twitter.com/QBXKHNXafi
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
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...a Moslem country located in the Horn of Africa. It is noted for its affinity for rule by ex- or current generals, its holy men, and for the oppression of the native Afro population by its Arab conquerors. South Sudan, populated mostly by the natives, split off from Sudan proper, which left North and South Darfur to be oppressed by the guys with turbans...
..a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",...
