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Illustrative image German authorities uncovered and cracked down on a group of 200 elite soldiers, which had planned to carry out political assasinations,  Germany’s news magazine Focus reported citing own sources . According to the report, the suspects formed a covert neo-Nazi faction within the German military’s Special Force Commando (KSK). German radio stations Radio Bremen, NDR, ZDF and ARD claimed that KSK troops had allegedly displayed extreme right-wing behavior at a goodbye party that took place on April 27, 2017 at a shooting range near Stuttgart. Their faction’s membership reportedly grew when Chancellor Angela Merkel let a million refugees into the country in 2015. The further speculations claimed that the faction had been planning to assasinate Green Party leader Claudia Roth, foreign minister Heiko Mass and other left-wing German politicians as well as to kill immigrants to the country in an even called “Day X”. This plan was set to be em...

The Houthis’ media wing released a 30-minute-long video showing clashes at supply lines of forces of the Saudi-UAE-led coalition south of the Yemeni port city of al-Hudaydah. According to pro-Houthi sources,  the Houthis and their local allies had killed 180 coalition-backed fighters and destroyed 21 military vehicles in western Yemen during the last two days . While these numbers look exaggerated, the released video allows to confirm that the coalition in-fact suffered significant casualties and lost some miltiary equipment.