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Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) detained four members of ISIS “sleeper cell” in Moscow. ISIS members arrived from the city of Noviy Urengoy in Russia’s Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Region with a goal to carry out “high-profile” attacks in Moscow,  the FSB’s press service told Russian media  on April 26. According to FSB, the detained ISIS members had received instructions from Syria through Telegram messenger. The security services clarified that searches and detentions had been held in Novy Urengoy. In the course of special operations, 20 people were rounded up in the city. A large number of religious extremist books, as well as “communication facilities used for contacting foreign emissaries” were seized. On April 21, FSB killed an ISIS terrorist who had plotted an attack on administrative buildings in Stavropol. Security forces recovered a firearm, explosive components and ISIS flag. In a separate development, large-scale counter-terrorism operations were staged in D

Taliban fighters during a military exercise before “Operation al-Khandagh” Taliban fighters captured two military bases and nine checkpoints of the Afghan Army and Police in a successful coordinated attack in the Almar district of the northern province of Faryab, the Taliban news agency Voice of Jihad reported on April 27. According to the news agency, Taliban fighters captured loads of weapons including two US-made armored vehicles. Mohammad Saleh Saleh, the governor of Almar district, acknowledged that nine Afghan policeman had been killed and fifteen others were injured in the Taliban attack on the district, according to the Afghan TOLO TV. Abdul Karim Yourish spokesman for Faryab Police said that Afghan policemen had killed eleven members of the Taliban during the clashes in Almar, including “Mohammad Amin” the movement’s field commander. However, Yourish didn’t clarify if the attack had been fully repelled. The Voice of Jihad said that the attack is a part of the Tal

Russian and Syrian officials as well as witnesses of the alleged chemical attack that took place in Syria’s Douma on April 7,  held a press conference in The Hague on April 26. HINT: The US, the UK and France used the April 7 incident in Douma to justify their April 14 missile attack on Syria.  MORE HERE The preess conference included “Presentation by the representative of the Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation with direct participants of the fake video produced by ‘White Helmets’ on 7th April 2018, in the Hospital of Douma”. Click to see the full-size image Major-General Igor Kirillov, the head of Russia’s Nuclear, Biological and Chemical Protection Troops, provided the following info: Russian experts had performed “a detailed analysis of the information on the ground”. No people injured or killed in the alleged chemical attack found. No witnesses that the alleged chemical attack took place found. Two gas cylinders, allegedly dropped by the government forc

An EC-130H Compass Call flies a training mission over Lake Mead, Ariz. (U.S. Air Force photo) The US military is complaining that Russia allegedly jams US electronic warfare weapons (EW) deployed in and near Syria. According to the head of Special Operations Command, Gen. Raymond Thomas, the Russians are “disabling” even U.S. EC-130 Compass Call electronic warfare aircraft flying near Syria. “Right now in Syria we are operating in the most aggressive EW environment on the planet from our adversaries. They are testing us everyday, knocking our communications down, disabling our EC-130s, etcetera,”  Breaking Defense quoted remarks by Gen. Thomas  . The EC-130H Compass Call is an electronic warfare aircraft emplyoed by the US military. The weapon is designed to disrupt enemy command and control communications and to limit adversary coordination essential for enemy force management. The Compass Call system employs offensive counter-information and electronic attack capabiliti

File Image On April 25, the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) announced in an official statement that its fact finding mission had visited a second site of the alleged chemical attack in the district of Duma and had collected samples from it.  The OPCW inspected the first site in Duma on April 21 . The OPCW added that its team had also interviewed some people who are related to the alleged chemical attack in Duma district and stressed that these interviews are part of its team’s mission. “The FFM [fact finding mission] will continue to carry out its independent and impartial mission based on interviews with relevant people, its findings from the site visits, analysis of the sample results, as well as any other information and materials collected,” the OPCW said in its official statement. In a related development, the OPCW announced that the Russian delegation to the organization will organize a briefing about the alleged chemical attack in Duma i

Kurdish fighters raise flag of PKK leader in centre of Raqqa Written by  Maksim Alexandrov ; Originally appeared on  warsonline.info ; Translated by  AlexD  exclusively for  SouthFront Not long ago in Washington at the Institute of National Strategic Studies of the National Defence University the round table on “The Multimodal Threats in the Kurdish Region” took place, a continuation of the “NATO and Regional Military and Political Alliance in 2018” Council. The organisers of the meeting, taking place on April 9 to 11, were the Institute of National Strategic Studies, the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA), the intelligence community and the commanders of the Special Forces of the US. The main agenda of the event was focused on clarifying the conceptual and analytical foundations of American policy in the framework of topical issues of the “Kurdish question”, the problem of improving the coordination of regional allies, as well as military and political modeling of crisis