Archive for December 2024
Australian Police Launch A Special Operation To Investigate Increased Antisemitic Attacks
Australian federal police launched a special operation to investigate an increase in antisemitic threats and violence since the war between Israel and Hamas began last year. Jewish leaders say prejudice against their community has reached unprecedented levels, with most incidents reported in Sydney and Melbourne, Australia’s largest cities where 85% of the nation’s Jewish population…
Read MoreAn Explosion In The Afghan Capital Kills The Taliban Refugee Minister, Officials Say
A suicide bombing in the Afghan capital on Wednesday killed the Taliban refugee minister, Interior Ministry officials said. The explosion struck inside the ministry and killed Khalil Haqqani, the refugee minister, officials said. He is the most high-profile casualty of a bombing in Afghanistan since the Taliban returned to power three years ago. There was…
Read MoreAssad’s fall has Iran desperately searching for a new proxy
Syrian rebels forced President Bashar al-Assad to flee Syria for his life on Sunday. Russian President Vladimir Putin granted Assad asylum on humanitarian grounds. After 53 years of tyranny first begun by his father Hafez al-Assad, the end of the brutal Assad family regime in Syria had finally arrived. Iran and Russia now find themselves…
Read MoreMaryland woman charged with sex-trafficking 11 pleads guilty
https://www.baltimoresun.com/2024/11/24/sex-trafficking-ring-pussy-kat-klub/ A Baltimore woman accused of sex-trafficking 11 women through a criminal organization she called the Pussy Kat Klub has pleaded guilty, state law enforcement officials announced Friday. Kenika Danielle Leach, 33, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit sex trafficking, distribution of cocaine and receiving the earnings of a sex worker, and she faces a…
Read MoreCriminal Charges Unsealed Against Two Former High-Ranking Syrian Government Intelligence Officials for War Crimes against Americans and Other Civilians
An indictment was unsealed today in the Northern District of Illinois charging two high-ranking Syrian officials under former President Bashar al-Assad with war crimes. The indictment charges the former Syrian intelligence officials with engaging in a conspiracy to commit cruel and inhuman treatment of civilian detainees, including U.S. citizens, during the course of the Syrian…
Read More3 Men Arrested In Germany Over Suspected Preparations For An Islamic Extremist Attack
Two young men who sympathized with the Islamic State group and a suspected accomplice have been arrested in Germany for allegedly making preparations for an attack, authorities said Tuesday. The two German Lebanese brothers aged 15 and 20 from the southwestern city of Mannheim and a 22-year-old German Turkish man from the neighboring state of…
Read MoreIsraeli Warplanes Pound Syria As Troops Reportedly Advance Deeper Into The Country
Israel carried out a wave of heavy airstrikes across Syria as its troops advanced deeper into the country, drawing to within 25 kilometers (15 miles) of the capital, a Syrian opposition war monitor said Tuesday. Israel denied its forces were advancing toward Damascus. Associated Press reporters in Damascus heard heavy airstrikes overnight and into Tuesday…
Read MorePittsburgh resident accused of attempting to join foreign terrorist group; Facing charges
A man is facing charges after allegedly lying to the FBI regarding involvement with a foreign terrorist organization. A statement from the U.S. Attorney for the Western Pennsylvania District said Monday that 24-year-old Jack Molloy of Upper St. Clair was arrested after lying to FBI agents during an investigation involving international terrorism in late October.…
Read MoreUniversity of Michigan regent says home targeted in antisemitic attack
“Anti-Semitic vandals” targeted the home of University of Michigan Regent Jordan Acker on Monday, the official announced in an Instagram post. The individuals threw an object through a window of the home Acker shares with his wife and three daughters, as well as appeared to demand through a spray-painted message that the school divest from…
Read MoreLuigi Mangione, man charged with murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO, has ties to Maryland
Luigi Mangione, 26, has been charged with murder in connection with the death of former UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, according to The Associated Press and NBC News, which both cited an online court docket. A man questioned by authorities in connection with the killing of UnitedHealthcare’s CEO has ties to Maryland, the New York Police…
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