Posts by MCAC(Maryland Coordination and Analysis Center)
Israel Says It Will Reopen Border Crossing With Hard-Hit Northern Gaza
Israel says it’s taking steps to increase the flow of humanitarian aid into the Gaza Strip, including reopening a key border crossing into northern Gaza. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office announced the plans Friday, hours after President Joe Biden told him that future U.S. support for the war in Gaza depends on Israel taking more…
Read MoreTexas Man Sentenced for Hate Crimes Following Mass Shooting Targeting Muslims at Car Repair Shop
A Dallas man was sentenced today to 37 years in prison, with credit for time served in state custody, following his guilty plea to hate crime charges arising out of a fatal shooting at a car repair shop. On Sept. 14, 2023, Anthony Paz Torres, 39, pleaded guilty to five federal hate crime counts for…
Read MoreFrench court sentences Christmas market attack plotter to 30 years in jail
The 42-year-old was the main defendant among four accused of helping Islamist militant Cherif Chekatt, who shot and stabbed shoppers at the market and was killed by police after a 48-hour manhunt. Prosecutors said Mondjehi, who is of Ivory Coast origin, helped Chekatt obtain a gun for the attack in a square in front of…
Read MoreProminent jihadist leader in northwest Syria killed in suicide bombing
“Abu Maria al-Qahtani was martyred after a treacherous attack by an Islamic State group member using an explosive belt,” said former al-Qaeda affiliate Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), which rules Syria’s last main rebel bastion, on its affiliated Amjad media outlet. Qahtani, whose real name is Maysar Ali Musa Abdallah al-Juburi, “was killed and two of…
Read MoreNew Mass Graves In Rwanda Reveal Cracks In Reconciliation Efforts, 30 Years After The Genocide
The diggers’ hoes scrape the brown soil, looking for — and often finding — human bone fragments. The women then wipe the bone pieces with their hands as others watch in solemn silence. The digging goes on, a scene that’s become all too familiar in a verdant area of rural southern Rwanda, where the discovery…
Read MoreRussia Renews Big Attacks On Ukrainian Power Grid Using Better Intelligence And New Tactics
When the Russian barrage hit the Ukrainian power plant, a worker named Taras was manning the control panel — a crucial task that required him to stay as the air-raid siren blared and his colleagues ran for safety. After the deafening explosions came a cloud of smoke, then darkness. Fires blazed, and shrapnel pierced the…
Read MoreTwenty-seven die in militant attacks on Iran security forces
Suspected Sunni Muslim militants killed at least 11 Iranian security force members and suffered 16 fatalities in attacks on Iran’s Revolutionary Guards headquarters in the southeastern province of Sistan-Baluchestan, state media said on Thursday. The overnight clashes between the Jaish al-Adl group and security forces took place in the towns of Chabahar and Rask, state…
Read MoreUK Teenager in court over terrorism offences – BBC
An 18-year-old man from West Sussex has appeared in court charged with terrorism offences. Cameron Finnigan from Horsham was arrested at his home address on 26 March, Counter Terrorism Policing South East (CTPSE) said. He has been charged with one count of preparation of terrorist acts, one count of possessing information likely to be useful…
Read MoreFinnish school shooting motivated by bullying – police
A 12-year-old suspected of shooting dead a boy at his school and seriously wounding two girls was motivated by bullying, Finnish police say. The boy was detained some distance from his school in Vantaa on Tuesday morning an hour after he opened fire on other children. His three victims were also aged 12. The two…
Read MoreMyanmar’s military-ruled capital targeted in drone attack, junta says
The military’s ouster of Aung San Suu Kyi’s government in 2021 sparked renewed fighting with ethnic minority armed groups, as well as with pro-democracy “People’s Defence Forces” (PDFs) in areas previously untouched by decades of conflict in Myanmar. Four drones approaching Naypyidaw airport and three drones approaching Zayarthiri township in the capital “were successfully shot…
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