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Source: Skandinavisk On April 18,  Skandinavisk frihet site  published an interview titled “Exclusive interview: Scandinavians that fight against ISIS”. According to an interviewed volunteer, his subunit “was acting in Syria during winter, spring and summer in 2017.” Skandinavisk frihet is a body of the right-wing organization Skandinaviska Förbundet in Sweden, founded in February 2018. The volunteer being presented as a Norwegian said that the subunit named “Scandinavian” had been receiving orders from the Russian Armed Forces and had been included in the operational structure of pro-government forces operating in Syria. The interviewee described the subunit as a section of a mounted infantry, which had possessed the access to battle tanks and heavy weaponry. The main goals were the collecting of surveillance information, exploration of enemy’s deployment and number of ISIS’ forces. Most of the members were from Scandinavian countries: Norway, Sweden, ...

A screenshot from the video On May 16, Riau (Indonesian province) Police prevented an attempted terrorist attack on their headquarters in Pekanbaru, the capital of Riau province,  The Jakarta Post reported . Terrorists crashed a vehicle into the entrance of the police headquarters and attacked officers. Four attackers were shot dead by police and one was later captured. During the attack, one police officer was killed and one injured. Video from the scene: On May 13,  a family of suicide bombers committed terror attacks in three churches in Surabaya . Indonesian Police later identified the father of this family Dita Oepriarto as the head of the East Java chapter of the Jamaah Ansharud Daulah (JAD), the largest terrorist group in the country affiliated to ISIS. Later, another explosion killed three members of a suspected terrorist family in an apartment in Wonocolo, East Java province of Indonesia. On May 14, another family of suicide bombers att...