United States
Boston.com: This New England Neo-Nazi Group Is Getting Bigger And Scarier, Experts Say. Most Troubling: Military Vets Fill Its Ranks.
“…Others include Christopher Pohlhaus, who served four years in the Marine Corps before moving to Maine with the dream of somehow turning it into an all-white ethnostate. Pohlhaus accompanied NSC-131 at an October 2022 protest in Lewiston aimed at the city’s sizable Somali community. In one video, published by Pohlhaus on Telegram and captured by the New York-based Counter Extremism Project, the veteran — who had moved to Maine less than a year earlier — demands the East African immigrants — who have lived in Maine for decades — leave “my state.” Pohlhaus has since accumulated some 120 acres of rural property in the state, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Hatewatch blog.
Syria
AFP News: Syria Jihadist Attacks Kill 6 Soldiers In Northwest: Monitor
“Six members of Syrian regime forces were killed Sunday in attacks on government positions in the conflict-torn country's northwest, the last main bastion of armed opposition, a war monitor said. "Six regime forces, including two officers, were killed and two others wounded" in three attacks by jihadist group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) and allied factions, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. The attacks targeted regime positions in Latakia province, said the Britain-based group which relies on a vast network of sources on the ground. Swathes of Idlib province as well as adjacent parts of Latakia, Hama and Aleppo provinces are controlled by HTS, which is led by Syria's former Al-Qaeda affiliate.”
Prensa Latina: Syrian And Russian Aviation Destroyed Terrorist Headquarters In Syria
“The headquarters of the Organization for the Liberation of the Levant terrorist group, formerly al-Nousra Front, located near the provincial capital of Idlib, was destroyed by a joint attack conducted by the Russian Aerospace Forces and the Syrian Air Force,” announced General Vadim Kulit, deputy director of the Russian Center for Reconciliation based at the Hmeimim base in the Latakia province. According to the officer, the extremists based in this stronghold were involved in organizing and carrying out sabotage and terrorist attacks against Syrian government forces and the civilian population. General Kulit recalled that the radicals launched four attacks in the last 24 hours, causing the death of a soldier and injuring another four; an anti-tank guided missile was used against a vehicle of the Syrian Armed Forces in one of these attacks.”
Iraq
Medya News: Anniversary Of The Yazidi Genocide Proves Need For ISIS Trials
“The third of August is recognised as the starting date of the genocide conducted against the Yazidi people by the Islamic State (ISIS) in Sinjar, a district in the Kurdistan Region in Iraq. Nine years later, on the anniversary of this tragic event, we are encouraged to commemorate the thousands whose lives were taken by ISIS, the women and children who were kidnapped and forced into sexual slavery. Nine years after the 2014 genocide, survivors still mourn their loved ones. In many cases the bodies of victims have been lost in unmarked mass graves denying their families the ability to give them a proper burial. But remembering is not enough. Despite the fact nine years have passed, justice has not been brought to those who suffered under ISIS. Bodies of victims are still lost inside unmarked mass graves, abducted women still wait to return to their families, thousands of ISIS members who perpetrated these atrocities have still not faced any trial for their crimes.”
Middle East
Times Of Israel: Terrorist Kills Patrolman In Tel Aviv, Is Shot Dead By 2nd Officer
“A Tel Aviv municipal patrol officer was killed in a terror shooting in a bustling area of Tel Aviv on Saturday evening, police and medics said. The gunman, a member of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad terror group, was shot dead by the patrol officer’s colleague. Police Commissioner Kobi Shabtai said the two Tel Aviv municipal security officers approached a suspect they saw walking at the corner of the Montefiore and Nachalat Binyamin streets, where dozens of restaurants, cafes, and bars are packed on Saturday evenings. The suspect initially refused to answer their calls, and as the pair got off their motorcycles, the Palestinian man pulled out a handgun and opened fire, hitting one of the patrolmen, according to law enforcement officials.”
Africa
Associated Press: US And UN Should Impose More Sanctions On Sudanese Leaders For Alleged Atrocities, Rights Group Says
“A leading human rights group called Friday on the United States and the United Nations to impose further sanctions on those in Sudan “responsible for the atrocities” in the troubled Darfur region, where evidence of scorched-earth attacks is mounting. The northeast African country plunged into chaos in April when monthslong tensions between the military, led by Abdel Fattah Burhan, and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, commanded by Mohammed Hamdan Dagalo, exploded into open fighting in the capital of Khartoum, and elsewhere. In Darfur, the scene of genocidal war in the early 2000s, the conflict has morphed into ethnic violence, with the RSF and allied Arab militias targeting African communities in the western region, U.N. officials say.”
United Kingdom
BBC News: Man From Weston-Super-Mare Charged With Terrorism Offences
“A man from Somerset has appeared in court charged with terrorism offences. Gabrielle Budasz, 23, pleaded guilty to collecting information of a kind likely to be useful to a person committing or preparing an act of terrorism at Westminster Magistrates court on Saturday. Counter Terrorism Policing South East said the charges were linked to extreme right-wing ideology. Mr Budasz, of Drove Road, Weston-super-Mare was remanded in police custody.”
France
New Statesman: The Islamist Roots Of French Disorder
“The most destructive, spectacular and costly riots in France’s recent history, surpassing even the infamous unrest of 2005, are over. To the Anglophone media and its audiences they were an expression of the anger felt among the children of France’s former overseas possessions – a generational resentment fuelled by experiences of poverty, discrimination and painful colonial legacies. Others have noted the opportunistic, even recreational quality of rioting, but the anger – the rage – against France among parts of its youth is real and goes deeper than one specific event. Socio-economic woes are crucial in explaining this tide of feeling. Yet any analysis which takes this into account but omits the specific and sustained delegitimisation of France contained within that feeling is incomplete.”
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