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On June 2, militants riding five vehicles armed with heavy machineguns attacked a building of the Libyan Police and a checkpoint near it in the area of al-Qanan in the southern part of the northeastern district of Ajdabiya, according UAE-based al-Arabiya TV. The directorate of security of Ajdabiya said in an official statement that the militants had managed to burn the police center and destroyed several vehicles during the attack. Moreover, the militants killed a girl and injured five members of her family after targeting their car, according to the official statement. The ISIS-linked news agency said on June 3 that the attack was carried out by ISIS cells, which are mainly located in southern Libya. The source also claimed that ISIS fighters killed all Libyan policemen who were inside the police center in the moment of the attack. However, this claim was not confirmed by any Libyan source. During the last three months, ISIS cells launched several hit and run attacks on the

FILE – In this file photo taken Dec. 16, 2015 and provided by the Russian Defense Ministry Press Service, Russian S-400 long-range air defense missile systems are deployed at Hemeimeem air base in Syria. (Vadim Savitsky/Russian Defense Ministry Press Service via AP, File) In a letter addressed to French President Emmanuel Macron, Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud warned that Saudi Arabia will take a military action against Qatar if it acquires Russian-made S-400 long-range air-defense systems, the French newspaper Le Monde reported on June 1. “The Kingdom [Saudi Arabia] would be ready to take all necessary measures to eliminate this defense system, including military action,” King Salman warned in the latter. According to Le Monde, the Saudi king asked Macron to help to prevent the Russian-Qatari S-400 deal in order to preserve the stability in the region. The S-400 is a high-altitude long-range air-defense system that can be armed with 40N6 missiles, which have an

On June 2, warplanes of the Israeli Air Force (IAF) conducted a series of airstrikes on positions of the Palestinian Hamas Movement in the Gaza Strip, according to Palestinian activists. The Palestine Shehab News Agency (SNA) revealed that the airstrikes had targeted the positions of Ayn Jalut and al-Yarmouk in the southern and northern parts of Gaza. وكالة شهاب ✔ @ShehabAgency مشاهد للقصف الحربي الإسرائيلي على موقع للمقاومة الفلسطينية شرق مدينة # غزة 11:56 PM - Jun 2, 2018 19 33 people are talking about this Twitter Ads info and privacy وكالة شهاب ✔ @ShehabAgency # عاجل المشاهد الأولى لقصف طائرات الاحتلال الحربية لموقع اليرموك التابع للمقاومة في حي الشجاعية بغزة # شهاب_عاجل 11:35 PM - Jun 2, 2018 24 15 people are talking about this Twitter Ads info and privacy Earlier, the Israeli military announced that Palestinian fighters launched two rockets from the Gaza Strip at

Arkadiy Babchenko 1.  On May 29, Ukrainian media reported that Arkadiy Babchenko, a Russian citizen and journalist living in Ukraine,  had been killed in the Ukrainian capital of Kiev . The Ukrainain government and the Ukrainian Security Service (SBU) immediately accused Russia of being behind the attack. The mainstream media and international organizations joined the coverage of the incident blaming Russia for the killing. 2.  On May 30, Babchenko appeared to be alive and showed up at a press conference along with SBU Chief Sergey Gritsak and Prosecutor General Yury Lutsenko. Gritsak claimed that the death of Babchenko had been staged in order to trace an organizer of the crime. The SBU once again accused Russia of being behind the alleged attempt to kill Babcheno. According to the initial SBU version. The organizer [identified as “G”] is detained; The hitman [identified as “C”] hired by the organier contacted the SBU to reval the crime; Russian intelligence recruite