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On Tuesday, Jordan announced that it had shot down more than 20 ISIS fighters during air strikes in southern Syria on Monday night. This attack, carried out in retaliation for a murderous attack on a church in Jordan, was strongly condemned by Syria, which denounces an "unacceptable violation".
From the Mexican border through the Sahel or Syria, companies rent aircraft barred with sensors to armies and intelligence services for necessarily political missions. A discreet but not invisible market.
The Omani co-pilot accused of stabbing his captain on a Flydubai flight on 30 September attempted to carry out a "terrorist" attack, according to the UAE Attorney General. The man reportedly attacked the pilot with an axe in the cockpit and attempted to take control of the aircraft.
Since the fall of Bashar al-Assad in December 2024, more than 200 people have reportedly been arrested by the Israeli army in southern Syria during operations beyond the buffer zone between the two countries. Israel suspects them of "terrorism", witnesses report arbitrary arrests. The arrested persons are then detained under conditions also denounced by those who have been released and their relatives.
Since the fall of the Bashar al-Assad regime in December 2024, southern Syria has become the scene of many Israeli military operations. In a number of villages close to the area of separation between Syria and the Golan Heights, residents told France 24 that they had faced incursions, searches and arrests by Israeli soldiers.
After living more than a decade in a refugee camp, Mustafa Khaled Alwan, a sympathizer of the Syrian branch of the Muslim brothers, was finally able to cut down the false wall he had erected at home in Homs, to hide his Islamist books from Bashar Al-Assad's forces.
Six French nationals suspected of belonging to the Islamic State (IS) organization are tried from Sunday in Baghdad, Iraq, where they face the death penalty. Iraqi prisons, already full of ISIS suspects, have been hosting thousands of detainees from Syria since last year.
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