Al-Shabaab militants claimed responsibility for attacks this week that killed two men in Somalia. The victims were a security officer and a man who was released from an Italian prison after being held 16 years in a wrongful conviction case. The first explosive device targeted a vehicle carrying the police …
Read More »‘We’re Not Going to be Scared Away’: Journalists Threatened With Arrest While Digging Into Police Response During Uvalde Massacre
by Amaris Castillo San Antonio Express-News editor Nora López talks about her newsroom’s struggle against authorities to tell the stories of Uvalde. By now, many who have been following this story know that the official narrative of the tragedy that left 19 students and two teachers dead has shifted, with …
Read More »Assassination Disguised as Suicide? Second IRGC Commander Killed in Tehran
The killing of a senior officer in Iran’s powerful Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) in broad daylight in the capital, Tehran, is rare. But the deaths of two senior members of the IRGC, the elite branch of Iran’s armed forces, inside the Islamic republic in the space of two weeks is …
Read More »‘To Hell With the Chain of Command’: Uvalde Police Planned to Defy Orders, Breach School, Officers Say
“And then BORTAC arrived…” by Jose Campos Uvalde, Texas – As anger against local police officials continues to mount inside this close-knit community, individual police officers told Soldier of Fortune they began hatching a plan last week to defy their own commander who ordered them to remain outside Robb Elementary …
Read More »Border Patrol Special Operators Placed Selves Between Killer and Children During Uvalde Rampage
by Jose Campos Uvalde, Texas – Agents from the U.S. Border Patrol placed themselves between the killer and his young targets who were trapped during the rampage Tuesday inside Robb Elementary School in this small Texas town. “Risking their own lives, these agents and other officers put themselves between the …
Read More »As US Troops Return to Somalia, Officials Aim to Ramp Up Fight Against Emboldened al-Shabaab
By Soldier of Fortune correspondent Gatimu Juma Government officials in Mogadishu view the return of U.S. forces to Somalia as a boon to local efforts to fight a resurgent al-Shabaab terror group, sources told Soldier of Fortune. “If all they do is give advice, that’s a tremendous help,” one official …
Read More »Third Man Charged With Plot to Kill Haitian President
A Haitian citizen was extradited from Jamaica to the United States to face criminal charges in Florida related to his alleged involvement in last year’s assassination of the former President of Haiti, Jovenel Moïse. Joseph Joel John, 51, is charged with conspiring to commit murder or kidnapping outside the United …
Read More »Moroccan Police Arrest Islamic State Terrorism Suspect
Moroccan police said they had arrested a suspected Islamic State group member, in cooperation with the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation, who was implicated in plotting “acts of terrorism.” The announcement came ahead of the opening next Wednesday in the Moroccan city of Marrakesh of a conference of member countries …
Read More »Gunfight in Somalia: Attack From al-Shabaab
By SoF correspondent Gatimu Juma Early morning gunfire was the first sign of a deadly assault at a military base about 100 miles from Mogadishu, alerting local residents to the Tuesday attack by al-Shabaab. Officials and residents near the base said that many dozen Burundi soldiers were killed, and others …
Read More »Woman Convicted For Funneling Money to Somalia’s Al-Shabaab Terrorist Group
A federal jury convicted a Dutch woman on charges stemming from her participation in a terrorist financing ring in support of the Somalia-based terrorist group al-Shabaab. According to court records and evidence presented at trial, Farhia Hassan, 38, was involved with a group of women from more than a dozen …
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