[GOOBJOOG NEWS] At least 12 people including six Kenya Defence Forces soldiers died in two separate IED attacks in Garissa and Lamu counties.
According to North Eastern Regional Commissioner John Otieno confirmed the attacks but said that details on the incident will be released later.
Cross-border attacks have increased in Kenya as al-Shabaab ...... Somalia's version of the Taliban, functioning as an arm of al-Qaeda... turbans move away from Somalia where the Federal Government has stepped up is offensive against the turbans — creating a potential security challenge for Kenya and neighboring states.
The latest attack comes after a similar incident in Mandera where suspected turbans shot at a bus ferrying 50 passengers. However, there's more than one way to skin a cat... the driver of the bus sped off with a deflated tyre saving the passengers on board.
In Sangailu area, Garissa, authorities said the terror group targeted troops with an IED killing four of them after their vehicle ran over an bomb. The personnel were also attacked with guns.
In a separate incident, another IED hit a KDF vehicle in the Mararani Area in Lamu, at the coastal region of Kenya killing two troops, officials said the attacks happened almost simultaneously. Response teams arrived at the scene and rescued more personnel.
This increased to 12, the number of security officers killed in a single day in terror-related incidents. Security agencies have warned of worse times ahead as the attacks increase.
In June, two coppers died while five were maimed after an armored car they were traveling in was hit by an IED in Mandera near the Kenya-Somalia border.
The team from the Quick Response Unit was moving to the Qurqura area in Elwak on an armored Land Rover when they ran over an IED that had been set up by suspected al-Shabaab terrorists, police said.
[AlAhram] Army warplanes bombed the Sudanese city of El Obeid Wednesday, as the country prepared to mark two months since a power struggle between rival generals plunged the country into devastating conflict.
Since April 15, the regular army headed by Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces commanded by his former deputy Mohammed Hamdan Daglo have been locked in urban combat that has left whole neighbourhoods of the capital Khartoum unrecognisable. The fighting quickly spread to the provinces, particularly the flashpoint western region of Darfur, and has now killed at least 1,800 people, according to the Armed Conflict Location and Event Data Project (ACLED).
On Wednesday, the regular army carried out "air strikes for the first time in El Obeid," the capital of North Kordofan state, 350 kilometres (220 miles) south of the capital, which has been "surrounded by the RSF since the war began," witnesses told AFP.
The United States has added senior al-shabaab explosive expert Abdullahi Osman Mohammed to the most wanted and issued $5 million reward for information leading to his arrest.
Mohammed is also believed to hold other key positions within the terror group including heading the media wing al-Kataib and serving as a special advisor to al-shabaab top leader Ahmed Diriye.
The move is seen as a firm commitment by the United States government to collaborate with the Federal Government of Somalia in its fight against the al-Shabaab ...... Somalia's version of the Taliban, functioning as an arm of al-Qaeda... which has continued to pose a threat to the people of Somalia and its neighboring countries.
The inclusion of Mohammed in the most wanted list is seen as a way of targeting the core operational point of the terror group so as to weaken its ability to conduct attacks and also deter its attempts to spread propaganda with the aim of attracting more recruits.
The United States’ "Reward for Justice" program which was established in 1984 has been instrumental in apprehending key snuffies and disrupting their networks.
Through monetary incentives, the program encourages individuals with knowledge of terrorist activities to come forward and provide crucial information to law enforcement agencies.
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[SUDANTRIBUNE] Civilians who have escaped the conflict in West Darfur state said that the state capital El Geneina is currently facing a multifaceted humanitarian and security crisis.
They further reported the ongoing targeting and forced displacement of civilians by Arab militias allied with the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), warning that the situation in El Geneina has grown increasingly complex.
Since April 15, El Geneina has been ravaged by violent mostly peaceful conflict that initially erupted between the army and the Rapid Support Forces but has since escalated into festivities between Masalit and Arab tribes. This inter-tribal fighting has resulted in numerous civilian deaths and extensive infrastructure destruction.
On May 17, communication and internet services were severed in the region, effectively isolating it amidst the ongoing tribal conflicts. This isolation has prompted thousands of people to flee to Chad for safety.
Mohammed Ishaq, a resident of the Alshati neighbourhood in El Geneina who managed to reach the Chadian area of "Adré," shared with Sudan Tribune his observations that "the Arab tribal militias are still engaging in massacres targeting all African tribes residing in El Geneina without exception."
Ishaq emphasized that these acts amount to genocide and ethnic cleansing of the indigenous population, forcibly displacing them from their homes. He further detailed the dire situation in neighbourhoods such as Alshati, al-Naseem, al-Thawra, Alzhour, and Alkifah, where armed militias supported by the RSF have invaded these areas and targeted members of African tribes.
"People are being killed solely based on their ethnicity. Hundreds of bodies remain unburied in these neighbourhoods due to the difficulty of reaching them amidst the presence of bully boys," he lamented.
Ishaq highlighted the challenges faced by those who managed to escape El Geneina and reach Chadian territory. They encountered numerous difficulties and came under attack from tribal button men deployed along the main streets, with snipers posing a significant threat to individuals attempting to cross the border.
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...escalated into festivities between Masalit and Arab tribes. This inter-tribal fighting..." Therein lies the crux of the problem. For decades, the Janjaweed criminals supported by the Arab rulers in Khartoum were used to cow the Muslim African tribes in Darfur. Those African tribes were given the general term Masalit.
The Arab tribes in Darfur now have reason to be concerned that the RSF (headed by a Zaghawa Masalit) will achieve its objectives which could mean the excision of Darfur from Khartoum. If that happens there will be a bloodletting and the Masalit will have a revenge whose destruction will surpass all that has gone on the last thirty years.
[HODHODYEMENNEWS.NET] At least two people were killed and three others injured on Tuesday, as a result of armed festivities in al-Qatn district of Hadhramaut Governorate, eastern Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of... According to local sources, the festivities erupted between tribal button men from Nahd and others, after which a number of maimed were taken to the al-Qatn General Hospital, leading to renewed festivities inside the hospital between the button men.
The sources confirmed that the hospital was closed by the forces of the "First Military Region".
Doctors and staff left the hospital for their safety, one of the sources said, without giving further details.
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[HODHODYEMENNEWS.NET] Gunmen believed to belong to al-Qaeda have attacked a force affiliated with the UAE-backed Southern Transitional Council (STC) in Shabwah province, southern Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of... Sources said that an gang shelled a checkpoint of the "Shabwa Defense Forces" in the area of al-Musaina’a of the al-Sa’eed district with an RPG shell, damaging a military vehicle.
The same sources added that explosions shook the area after the attack as a result of the shelling of the Shabwa Defense Forces with mortars shells
The new attack came three days after a similar attack claimed by al-Qaeda on a Shabwah defense force outpost left dead and maimed.
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They must be paycheck to paycheck in their jihad.
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[HODHODYEMENNEWS.NET] A United Nations ...boodling on the grand scale... employee, who has been kidnapped by al-Qaeda elements in Abyan ...a governorate of Yemen. The region was a base to the Aden-Abyan Islamic Army terrorist group until it dropped the name and joined al-Qaeda. Its capital is Zinjibar. In March 2011, al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula declared the governate an Islamic Emirate after seizing control of the region. The New York Times fastidiously reported that those in control, while Islamic hard boyz, are not in fact al-Qaeda, but something else that looks, tastes, smells, and acts the same. Yemeni government forces launched an effort to re-establish control of the region when President-for-Life Saleh was tossed and the carnage continues... since February 2022, appeared in a new video recording in a southern Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of... i province.
It’s Yemen. Foreigners are considered a natural resource there, created by Allah for the specific purpose of being held for ransom.
The Site Intelligence website, which specializes in monitoring krazed killer groups, said al-Qaeda has released a video that proves that the Bangladeshi citizen, Akam Sofyol Anam, the official of the United Nations Safety and Security Department in Aden, is still alive.
"Me and two of my colleagues are patients, and we need urgent hospital treatment," Anam said in the video.
In a previous video released by the organization in September last year, Anam confirmed, that his life and the lives of his colleagues are in danger due to serious health problems.
After they returned from a field mission in Aden during February of last year, the UN announced the kidnapping of five of its employees in the same province.
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[KavkazUzel] At the court session, Aslan Gagiev,
nicknamed Dzhako, he’s the boss of one of the bloodiest criminal mobs in Russia...
accused of creating a criminal community and three gangs, said that he did not agree with the position of the accuser.
As the "Caucasian Knot" has reported, on October 5, 2021, a trial began in Rostov-on-Don in the criminal case of Aslan Gagiev, who is accused of organizing a criminal community and contract killings. At the first meeting, on October 4, 2021, the indictment was announced. Aslan Gagiev pleaded not guilty, but two days later he confessed to the contract killing of Kazbek Pagiev, Deputy Prime Minister of North Ossetia.
In June 2018, Aslan Gagiev was extradited to Russia from Austria. He is accused of organizing a criminal community, three gangs, arms trafficking and six murders in 2012-2013. In particular, he was charged with the murders of the deputy prosecutor of the Industrial District of Vladikavkaz Oleg Oziev in 2013 and three businessmen: Taimur Kadzaev, Valery Laliev and Alan Torchinov. The accused did not admit that he organized these murders, according to the biography of Aslan Gagiev , published on the "Caucasian Knot".
The Southern District Military Court continued to consider the case of Aslan Gagiev, the 360 TV channel reported today, publishing a video from the meeting. In the published video, Gagiev addresses the court from a glass room for the defendants.
"It turns out that I did not create alone, but together with other persons? What happens, I share with them, respected court, the fate? Or do I get a discount? If there are three of them, then we divide by 30% of each: 30% I created, 30% he created. I ask you to voice the degree of my "creation" as a percentage ... I do not agree with your accusation," Aslan Gagiev says in the video.
In the published fragment of the video, the defendant did not specify whether it was about the creation of a criminal community (Article 210 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation) or three episodes of creating gangs (Article 209 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation), which he is charged with.
Gagiev also asked the court where the possible accomplices were and whether they were being searched for, according to a publication on the TV channel's website.
The case of 12 alleged members of the criminal community of Aslan Gagiev has been considered by the Second Western District Military Court in Moscow since December 2018. On April 19, a closed debate on their case was held. The state prosecutor demanded for the defendants, including three officers of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, from 15 years in prison to life imprisonment.
The meeting on the Gagiev case took place today, according to the case card on the court website. Since the preliminary hearing, which took place on September 7, 2021, 82 court sessions have taken place.
According to the file of the case, 77 times the sessions were adjourned, twice the sessions were postponed due to the absence of the defendant, including due to illness. The results of three more meetings, including the one held today, are not displayed in the case card.
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[Regnum] Law enforcement officers detained in Yugra an active member of the international terrorist organization Hizb ut-Tahrir al-Islami
... the Islamic Liberation Party is active in about fifty countries and banned in thirteen of them last I heard, claiming about a million followers plus the enthusiastic graduates who moved on to real jihadi groups like Al Qaeda and ISIS. The national emirs report to Number 1, Sheikh Ata Abu Rashta, a Palestinian Jordanian Islamic scholar ...
(an organization whose activities are banned in the Russian Federation). This was reported to journalists on June 14 by the Tyumen department of the FSB . Yugra is part of the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug in the Ural Mountains.
FSB in Yugra detained a terrorist from the Hizb ut-Tahrir al-Islami group*
“A citizen of Russia, who was hiding from punishment and is an active member of an international terrorist organization, was detained,” the report says.
The detainee, who was hiding from punishment, was prosecuted for recruitment. Previously, he had already been prosecuted for recruiting and involving new members in the ranks of the organization under the pretext of joint study of Islam.
As IA Regnum reported on June 13 , Russian transport facilities near the zone of the special operation became the targets of the Ukrainian special services. According to the National Anti-Terrorism Committee, since February 2022, 28 sabotage and terrorist acts have been prevented at transport facilities in Russia.
Also, on June 13, the FSB reported on the detention of former employees of the Russian military-industrial complex for working for the Ukrainian special services. They planned explosions on the territory of the Kursk and Belgorod regions. The purpose of undermining the railway infrastructure was to disrupt the supply of the units of the Russian army participating in the NMD.
[IsraelTimes] Greek authorities says 104 rescued so far after fishing vessel capsizes off coast of Peloponnese Peninsula, in worst such disaster this year
A fishing boat carrying migrants colonists capsized and sank off the coast of Greece on Wednesday, authorities said, leaving at least 78 people dead and many dozens feared missing in one of the worst disasters of its kind this year.
Coast guard, navy, and merchant vessels fanned out for a vast search-and-rescue operation that also included a plane and a helicopter.
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[IsraelTimes] Waseem Awawdeh to serve prison sentence on hate crime charges for beating Joey Borgen ahead of pro-Israel rally in 2021
A New York court on Tuesday sentenced a pro-Paleostinian activist to 18 months in jail for an attack on a Jewish man two years ago. Waseem Awawdeh was one of five assailants who attacked Joey Borgen while he was walking to a pro-Israel rally in Manhattan in May 2021. The attackers punched, kicked, pepper-sprayed and beat Borgen with crutches, causing injuries, including a concussion.
Awawdeh pleaded guilty in April to attempted assault in the second degree as a hate crime and criminal possession of a weapon in the fourth degree. He received 12 months for the assault charge and six months for the weapon charge. The sentences will be served consecutively.
Another attacker in the case, Faisal Elezzi, pleaded guilty in April to attempted assault in the third degree as a hate crime. He is set to serve three years of probation and go through mandatory anti-bias programming, the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office told The Times of Israel.
Awawdeh and Elezzi admitted that they attacked Borgen with the three other attackers and were required to make public apologies.
The three remaining defendants — Mohammed Othman, Mohammed Said Othman and Mahmoud Musa — are expected to stand trial in August. They are expected to be tried on hate crimes charges and "face significant state prison time if convicted," the district attorney’s office said.
"No one should ever feel unsafe because of their religion, and we do not tolerate the antisemitic hate displayed by the defendant in this case," the district attorney’s office said on Tuesday.
The attack took place during a spike in antisemitic incidents in New York City around the time of the May 2021 conflict between Israel and Gazoo ...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamaswith about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... terror groups.
Borgen said he had been jumped on the street while wearing a kippah.
The Manhattan district attorney, Alvin Bragg, had come under fire from Jewish groups and advocates for perceived lenience in the case before offering Awawdeh the 18-month plea deal.
Jews are targeted in hate crimes more than any other group in New York, by far, year after year. So far this year, an antisemitic hate crime has taken place in the city every 36 hours on average, according to New York Police Department data. The attacks rarely result in jail time.
Security groups say many more incidents likely go unreported.
Another pro-Paleostinian activist, Saadah Masoud,
"Are you a fucking Jew?" Masoud asked the man, then punched him in the face.
was sentenced earlier this year to 18 months in prison for a series of attacks on Jews in 2021 and 2022. Federal authorities took up the Masoud case amid complaints from the Jewish community about the lack of penalties against antisemitic attackers.
Awawdeh and Masoud have both appeared at rallies led by Within Our Lifetime, a prominent pro-Paleostinian activist group that regularly calls for an intifada and the destruction of the Jewish state at rallies in New York.
[Shafaq News] Ottoman Turkish aircraft conducted Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s on Wednesday targeting locations affiliated with the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) in Dohuk province, according to a security source.
The source informed Shafaq News Agency that "Ottoman Turkish aircraft carried out aerial strikes today on sites belonging to PKK elements in various areas within the Nahla region, which is part of the Amedi district in northern Dohuk."
The source further reported that "the bombardment resulted in significant material damage to forests and the farmlands of the local population, with no information yet on the losses incurred by the PKK members."
It is worth noting that this area was also subjected to artillery shelling by the Ottoman Turkish army yesterday.
[Rudaw] The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) on Wednesday rejected The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire... ’s claims that over 40 of its fighters were killed in Ottoman Turkishdronezaps in northern Syria, saying it was "far from the truth," while a monitor also reported casualties among regime forces.
The Ottoman Turkish defense ministry announced to have "neutralized" 41 members of the People’s Protection Unit (YPG) in Manbij and Tel Rifaat. Turkey uses the term "neutralized" to denote adversaries killed in combat.
The SDF rejected the claim by the Ottoman Turkish ministry, claiming the number to be far lower. "Five of our fighters were martyred in these attacks. The number of our losses in the statement of the Ministry of Defense of the Ottoman Turkish state is far from the truth," the SDF Office of Media and Information tweeted.
"We do not have any units in Til [Tel] Rifat. The results of the attacks in Manbij were announced to the public by the Manbij Military Council," it added.
The UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) reported that Ottoman Turkish forces carried out an artillery attack on a farm in a village west of Manbij, injuring two children, and killing four members of the Manbij Military Council, a local Kurdish-led force affiliated with the SDF, in subsequent dronezaps.
Hawar News Agency (ANHA), an outlet affiliated to Kurdish administration in northeast Syria (Rojava), reported that Ottoman Turkish forces have been bombarding the Tel Rifaat area, close to where military points of the Syrian regime are located, since Tuesday evening. According to the reports, at least nine Syrian soldiers were killed and 10 others were maimed.
Turkey claims YPG is the Syria branch of the Kurdistan Worker’s Party (PKK), which they consider a terrorist group. The YPG is the backbone of the SDF which rules over north and northeast Syria.
According to SOHR, the number of attacks carried out by Ottoman Turkish drones in areas under the control of the SDF has increased to 20 so far this year, adding that they have caused around 25 fatalities, including children and women.
Damascus has deployed troops to Syrian borders with Turkey since 2019 when the Ottoman Turkish invasion of some Kurdish towns in northern Syria led to an agreement between the Kurdish-led SDF and the Syrian army, allowing the latter to deploy forces to the bordering areas.
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[Rudaw] Three Syrian soldiers were maimed in Aleppo province on Tuesday in an aerial attack blamed on The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...just another cheapjack Moslem dictatorship, brought to you by the Moslem Brüderbund... , reported a war monitor.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) said a Syrian officer and two other soldiers were maimed after a "Ottoman Turkish drone" targeted a tank in northern Aleppo province. The tank was destroyed and the injured members of the Syrian army were taken to a hospital in the nearby Tal Rafaat town.
Neither the Syrian regime nor the Ottoman Turkish government have commented on the attack.
The UK-based war monitor also said that the same drone targeted a nearby town as well but did not cause casualties.
Turkey is the main supporter of Syrian rebels and both have fought the regime and Kurdish forces in the last decade.
Damascus has deployed troops to Syria’s borders with Turkey since 2019 when the Ottoman Turkish invasion of some Kurdish towns in northern Syria led to an agreement between the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) and Syrian army, allowing the latter to deploy forces to the bordering areas.
Turkey has recently sought reconciliation with the Syrian regime but Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Terror of Aleppo ... has asked Ankara to withdraw all forces from his country as a pre-condition.
Ankara has carried out several military operations against Kurds in Syria and has recently threatened to invade towns like Tal Rifaat.
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[IsraelTimes] UK-based Syrian group reports hits on military warehouses belonging to Iran-backed militias; Syrian military source says attacks cause ’material damage’
Wednesday’s strike was Israel’s 18th time targeting sites on Syrian territory since the beginning of the year. Israel has hit over 40 targets in these strikes.
Israeli carried out Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s near Damascus early Wednesday, wounding a Syrian soldier, state news agency SANA said. Explosions were heard in the Syrian capital early Wednesday, an AFP correspondent reported. The UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the targets were military warehouses belonging to Iranian militias near the Damascus airport and an area southwest of the capital. The Observatory reported that "violent mostly peaceful explosions" were heard in Damascus after midnight on Wednesday.
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[Regnum] Russian Konstantin Basharov was kidnapped by terrorists of the Islamic State (an organization whose activities are banned in the Russian Federation) in Syria. Information about this RT was reported by native men.
A close friend of the abducted person said that after May 8, the man did not get in touch for a long time. He has not spoken to his wife since May 7. The woman found out about the abduction on June 10, when she saw a video with her husband. In a video message, he said that since 2017 he has been working in Syria as an oil and gas production operator. The man also said that he was kidnapped on May 8, 2023 from work by terrorists.
Basharov's relatives appealed to the Russian Foreign Ministry, the country's embassy in Damascus, the FSB and the presidential administration with a request to save the man from captivity.
As reported by IA Regnum , in January militants from terrorist groups in Burkina Faso abducted about 60 women. The abduction took place in the vicinity of Aribenda. There, the terrorists attacked a group of women gathering in the wooded area of the city.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
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Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
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...... Somalia's version of the Taliban, functioning as an arm of al-Qaeda...
...... Somalia's version of the Taliban, functioning as an arm of al-Qaeda...
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[HODHODYEMENNEWS.NET] Gunmen believed to belong to al-Qaeda have attacked a force affiliated with the UAE-backed Southern Transitional Council (STC) in Shabwah province, southern 
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[IsraelTimes] Greek authorities says 104 rescued so far after fishing vessel capsizes off coast of Peloponnese Peninsula, in worst such disaster this year
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...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire...
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