[DW] The men are accused of having founded a terrorist group in Germany, as well as supporting the so-called "Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... " (IS) terrorist organization. Arrests were also made in the Netherlands.
The German Public Prosecutor's Office said on Thursday that seven men were arrested in the western state of North Rhine-Westphalia on suspicion of terrorism.
According to prosecutors, the suspects allegedly founded a terrorist group in Germany and were supporting the so-called "Islamic State" (IS) terror organization.
Interior Minister Nancy Faeser said, "Germany is still in the direct target range of Islamist terrorist organizations and individual Islamist-motivated perpetrators."
WHAT GERMAN PROSECUTORS SAID ABOUT THE SUSPECTS
The Federal Prosecutor's Office in Karlsruhe said one was from Turkmenistan, one from Kyrgyzstan and five from Tajikistan. They suspects had entered Germany shortly after the start of Russia's war in Ukraine in 2022.
According to prosecutors, the suspects' aim was to carry out "high-profile attacks in Germany" and had already scouted out targets and tried to procure weapons.
Six out of the seven men were "collecting money for IS since April 2022," prosecutors said, adding that the suspects had "repeatedly" sent funds to the terror group abroad.
In May, German police carried out raids on an alleged IS financing network, arresting four in North Rhine-Westphalia and three in other states.
Acts committed by members or supporters of IS who are German citizens, residents or active in the country have been subject to prosecution under the criminal code since early 2014.
WHAT WE KNOW ABOUT THE ARRESTS IN THE NETHERLANDS
Police in the Netherlands also arrested two people, a man from Tajikistan and his wife, on related terrorism suspicions.
The two suspects in the Netherlands were "in contact with several persons residing in Germany," said a statement from the Dutch Public Prosecution Service.
"The police investigation has led to the suspicion that the man is a member of IS and that he was given the order to plot a terrorist attack," the statement said.
"Although the plans were not yet concrete, they were serious enough for the Netherlands Public Prosecution Service to intervene," it added.
[Shafaq News] On Thursday, the Iraqi Security Media Cell announced that Iraqi F-16 warplanes conducted a successful Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... on a vital target belonging to the ISIS organization in Diyala Governorate. The operation resulted in the elimination of terrorists.
The Security Media Cell expressed gratitude for the "exceptional efforts exerted by security units, accurate intelligence gathering, and swift information handling."
According to the statement, the F-16 warplanes carried out the air strike in the al-Abara area of Diyala Governorate. Subsequently, a search team comprising members of the 21st Federal Police Brigade and the National Security Detachments was dispatched to the site. The search team discovered two bodies of ISIS members, two M16 rifles, a pistol, and a manual grenade.
The operation signifies a notable achievement in the ongoing efforts to combat ISIS in Iraq.
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a notable achievement...two bodies of ISIS members
Guess the Centcom publicist is ghostwriting the news.
[IsraelTimes] Military says projectile landed in Israeli territory, close to northern village of Ghajar; at least 15 shells fired in response
An anti-tank guided missile fired from Leb ...an Iranian colony situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozeen flavors of Christians. It is the home of Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers... at Israel on Thursday morning went kaboom! on the border fence close to the northern village of Ghajar, the military said.
The Israel Defense Forces said that in response it carried out artillery strikes against the area from which the missile was launched.
The military had at first assessed the missile was a rocket, but later amended this.
Part of the projectile was found in Israeli territory, while another part landed in Lebanon.
The military was still looking into who was behind the attack.
Initially, the Rooters news agency reported that two rockets were fired from southern Lebanon toward Israel. The report said three Lebanese security officials confirmed that one of them landed in Lebanese territory and the second fell near a disputed area close to the border with Israel.
Hebrew-language media initially assessed the blast was caused by an old land mine on the border.
But in a subsequent statement, the IDF said that after forces arrived at the scene, "it emerged that a launch was carried out from Lebanese territory that went kaboom! adjacent to the border in Israeli territory."
"In response, the IDF is currently striking the area from which the launch was carried out in Lebanese territory," the military said, adding that there were no special instructions for citizens of northern Israel.
According to Lebanon’s al-Manar TV network, associated with the Hezbollah terror group, at least 15 artillery shells were fired at an open hill in the area.
The UN peacekeeping mission in southern Lebanon, known as UNIFIL, said it could not verify what caused the earth-shattering kaboom, but that the sounds were "consistent with a possible launch."
UNIFIL said it sent peacekeepers to investigate the incident, while the head of the mission spoke to both Lebanese and Israeli authorities to ease the situation.
"This incident comes at a sensitive time and in an area that has already experienced tensions earlier this week," UNIFIL said in a statement. "We urge everyone to exercise restraint and avoid any action that could cause further escalation."
The incident came amid rising tensions on the border after the Hezbollah terror organization set up two tents several dozen meters inside of Israeli territory last month.
The Mount Dov area where the tents were erected, also known as Shebaa Farms, was captured by Israel from Syria during the 1967 Six Day War and later effectively annexed along with the Golan Heights. The Lebanese government says the area belongs to Lebanon.
Hezbollah evacuated one of the two tents on Sunday, but there has been no confirmation from the Iran-backed terror organization.
Last week, Hezbollah said it shot down an Israeli drone flying over a village in southern Lebanon. The group has in the past claimed downing Israeli drones, and Israel’s military also has said in the past that they have shot down Hezbollah drones.
Hezbollah has long been the IDF’s most potent adversary on Israel’s borders, with an estimated arsenal of nearly 150,000 rockets and missiles that can reach anywhere in Israel.
[IsraelTimes] Fatality named as Staff Sgt. Shilo Yosef Amir; Hamas, a regional Iranian catspaw, claims responsibility for attack near Kedumim, west of Nablus, says it was a response to major IDF operation in Jenin this week
An Israeli soldier was rubbed out by a Paleostinian gunman near the West Bank settlement of Kedumim on Thursday afternoon, the military and medics said.
The IDF later named the fatality as Staff Sgt. Shilo Yosef Amir, 22, of the Givati Brigade, from the northern town of Meirav.
The Magen David Adom ambulance service said he was declared dead at the scene following resuscitation efforts.
According to the Israel Defense Forces’ initial probe of the attack, security forces were alerted of the presence of a suspicious car driving around the settlement. When a civilian security officer and IDF troops arrived at the scene and stopped a car for inspection, its occupant fired at them with a handgun and fled. The forces then chased the assailant and killed him.
The military had barred publication that a soldier was killed in the attack until his family was notified.
Amid the shooting, a suspected infiltration siren sounded in the community, west of Nablus. The IDF’s Home Front Command briefly ordered residents of Kedumim to remain in their homes and lock their doors and windows.
The deadly attack was later claimed by the military wing of the 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... -ruling Hamas terror group, which identified the assailant as Ahmed Yassin Ghaidan of Qibya.
The Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades said the shooting was as a response to the Israeli operation in Jenin earlier this week, during which at least 12 Paleostinian button men were killed, and over recent settler violence against Paleostinians in the West Bank.
[IsraelTimes] Iran’s Revolutionary Guards seizes a commercial ship "possibly engaged in smuggling activity" in the Gulf, the US Navy says.
US forces monitored the incident in international waters, the Bahrain-based US Navy’s Fifth Fleet says in a statement, but "assessed the circumstances of this event did not warrant further response."
Yesterday, the US Navy said it had blocked two attempts by the Iranian navy to seize commercial tankers in international waters off Oman.
[IsraelTimes] Alleged strike, second within days, comes amid joint Russian-Syrian air drills over Syria
The Israeli Air Force carried out Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s against targets near the Syrian capital of Damascus on Wednesday night, the Ynet news site reported.
The report, which did not cite any sources, said Syria did not use air defenses against the strike as it normally does.
Syrian media has so far made no mention of the incident, which would mark the second alleged IAF strike in Syria this week.
Ynet assessed that the strike on Wednesday night targeted warehouses storing "advanced Iranian weapons."
The strike came as Syria and Russia were holding joint air drills.
The exercises, which began Wednesday and were scheduled to last six days, were to "focus on joint air, air defense and electronic warfare operations to counter airstrikes," the Russian military said.
Russia maintains a significant military presence in Syria, and largely controls its airspace.
Before dawn on Sunday, the Israeli military said fighter jets struck a Syrian air defense battery in response to an anti-aircraft missile launched from the system earlier in the night that went kaboom! in Israeli airspace.
The launch from Syria earlier occurred as the IAF allegedly carried out airstrikes near the city of Homs. Syria’s state news agency, SANA, said the IAF targeted a number of sites, causing unspecified "material losses." SANA said Syrian air defenses responded to the "Israeli aggression."
The IDF said that the anti-aircraft missile launched from Syria "went kaboom! mid-air in Israeli airspace."
Shrapnel from the Syrian missile landed in the southern city of Rahat, causing slight damage to a building, but no injuries.
The city is located some 230 kilometers (142 miles) from Israel’s border with Syria, and 415 kilometers (257 miles) from Homs.
No sirens sounded in Israel after the Syrian missile entered Israeli airspace.
Though it is uncommon, Syrian surface-to-air missiles fired at Israeli fighter jets have in the past entered Israeli airspace.
[IsraelTimes] Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... said Thursday its forces attempted to intercept an oil tanker it alleged had been involved in a collision, after the US Navy accused its Iranian rivals of trying to seize the vessel.
The US military said on Wednesday that it had blocked two attempts by the Iranian navy to seize commercial tankers in international waters off Oman, including one case in which the Iranians fired on the tanker.
The maritime services in Iran said one of the two tankers, the Bahamian-flagged Richmond Voyager, had collided with an Iranian vessel, seriously injuring five crew members, according to state news agency IRNA.
They said the collision had occurred on Tuesday and that it damaged and caused the flooding of the Iranian vessel.
"The Richmond Voyager continued on its way, regardless of international maritime rules and regulations," IRNA said, adding a court order had been issued for Iran’s navy to seize the tanker.
The news agency said "the offending oil tanker was identified" on Wednesday and pursued by the Iranian navy but that it ignored warnings and changed course before entering Oman’s territorial waters.
Iran said it had referred the matter to the "friendly" Sultanate of Oman, which has mediated talks between the Islamic republic and the United States, and that it was seeking the vessel’s seizure.
On Tuesday, the US military said it had also foiled an Iranian attempt to seize the Marshall Islands-flagged TRF Moss three hours before the incident involving the Richmond Voyager.
In both cases, the Iranians departed after a US destroyer appeared on the scene, the US Central Command said in a statement.
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As I remember, tankers are constrained by draft in the Straits Hormuz. Once you exit the straits, tankers can turn to starboard and get into Omani waters where the Iranian patrol boats can’t go.
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[Regnum] The US Central Command (CENTCOM) said that Russian fighter jets in Syria allegedly performed unsafe maneuvers in relation to American drones. This was reported on July 6 by the American television channel CBS.
According to the channel, the MQ-9 Reaper drones were carrying out operations against the terrorist group "Islamic State" (an organization whose activities are banned in the Russian Federation), and at this time three Russian fighters allegedly approached them.
The commander of SENTCOM, Lieutenant General Alexus Grinkevich ,
...in American that’s spelt Grynkewich. He is currently commander of the Ninth Air Force. Previously he was director of operations of US Central Command — is that the same as commander of CENTCOM?
believes that the planes allegedly violated certain norms and protocols by firing parachute flares in front of the UAV. He also claimed that one of the Russian pilots allegedly placed the fighter in front of the drone and turned on the afterburner, making it difficult for the UAV operator to control the device.
Earlier, the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation repeatedly emphasized that Russian pilots fly exclusively in accordance with international flight safety rules.
Are there international flight safety rules regarding drones in the air space?
Moreover, on July 1, Rear Admiral Oleg Gurinov, deputy head of the Russian Center for the Reconciliation of Warring Parties in Syria (CPVS) , said that in June, drones of the international coalition led by the United States in Syria violated the Memorandum on Flight Safety 315 times in June. According to him, these violations are purposeful and systematic. He stressed that compared to 2022, their number has increased significantly.
[Rudaw] US Central Command (CENTCOM) on Thursday announced that at least 13 members of the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... (ISIS) were killed in Iraq and Syria in partnered operations with their local allies last month.
In its monthly review of anti-ISIS operations, CENTCOM revealed that a total of 37 operations were carried out against ISIS in June, 30 of which were conducted in Iraq while the remaining seven were in Syria.
At least 12 ISIS operatives were killed and seven were detained in the operations in Iraq, while the operations in Syria resulted in one ISIS operative killed and 14 others detained.
CENTCOM commended the role and commitment of their allies in both countries to ensure the elimination of the threat of ISIS from the region. "The continued reduction in ISIS activities in Iraq and Syria are a testament to our partner forces’ commitment to the safety and stability of the region," the report cited Major General Matthew McFarlane as saying.
In May, at least 30 ISIS gunnies were detained and eight others were killed in joint operations between US forces and local armed forces in Iraq and Syria.
The coalition advises and provides aerial assistance to Peshmerga forces and the Iraqi army as well as the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in the fight against ISIS. In recent weeks, the SDF have carried out a string of raids against ISIS targets in northeast Syria (Rojava), in coordination with the US-led global coalition.
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Given the likely $10M spent to kill 13 ISIS. Maybe a better Return on Investment would be offering MERC's $1M per captured and turned in ISIS member,would be cheaper, quicker and produce good follow-up INTEL..
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/\ Exactly correct. Private Military Companies (PMC) do it on the cheap. In and out, problems resolved. Little room for large financial kickbacks or commissions. Can't leave the MIC standing there playing pocket pool.
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...an Iranian colony situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozeen flavors of Christians. It is the home of Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers...
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...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for 
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling 
