(3.11.2016) Chinese security forces are ignoring international borders to make regular patrols deep inside eastern Afghanistan, according to sources in the area. In exclusive pictures obtained by WION, Chinese-manufactured military vehicles can be seen patrolling in the country‘s far eastern Little Pamir region.

(30.7.2016) A delegation from the Taliban visited China earlier this month to discuss the situation in Afghanistan, where the insurgent movement is fighting the Western-backed government in Kabul, sources in the Taliban said.

A delegation led by Abbas Stanakzai, head of the Taliban‘s political office in Qatar, visited Beijing on July 18-22 at the invitation of the Chinese government, a senior member of the Taliban said.

(14.4.2017) Russische Kontakte zu den Aufständischen gibt es seit längerem, und sie werden unter dem Sonderbeauftragten für Afghanistan mit dem passenden Namen Samir Kabulow stetig ausgebaut. Das russische Aussenministerium streitet zwar Berichte über Waffenlieferungen ab, amerikanische Militärvertreter im Land halten diese aber für wahrscheinlich. Unbestritten ist, dass sich Russland zusammen mit China und Pakistan dafür einsetzt, dass Taliban-Vertreter von internationalen Sanktionslisten gestrichen werden.

(23.12.2015) Russia has established communication channels to exchange information with the Taliban, Zamir Kabulov, a department chief at Russia‘s Foreign Ministry and President Vladimir Putin‘s special envoy on Afghanistan, told Interfax.

Russia is also ready to supply weapons to Afghanistan, he said, but would do this „with caution and on a commercial basis“, Kabulov said.

(13.2.2017) The top American commander in Afghanistan, Gen. John Nicholson, stopped short of detailing everything the U.S. knows about the Russian return to Afghanistan in an appearance before a Senate panel last week. But he did confirm some lawmakers‘ accounts of what U.S. intelligence has established about the relationship.

Die USA befinden sich seit 15 Jahren in Afghanistan im Krieg. Dennoch sind die Taliban dort nicht nur weiterhin aktiv, sie verzeichnen auch zunehmend Gewinne. Sie kontrollieren etwa die Hälfte des Landes und empfehlen den USA, Afghanistan zu verlassen, um eine Demütigung zu vermeiden.

(13.7.2016) Und im Bundesrat beeinflusst die Partei 45 Stimmen. Von insgesamt 69. Das ist beeindruckend. Es fühlt sich nicht mehr wie eine Sperrminorität an, sondern eher wie eine Gestaltungsmehrheit. Niemand kann an den Grünen vorbei ein Gesetz machen, das durch den Bundesrat muss.

(Juli 2016) Wie beim Terrorkrieg jedwede pazifistische Organisation, knipst sich auch bei den entsprechenden Terrorgesetzen jedwede Bürgerrechtsorganisation genauso aus wie die angebliche „parlamentarische Opposition“, der sie alle hinterher laufen.

Die Bundesregierung wollte einmal Deutschland zum Verschlüsselungsstandort Nummer 1 machen, hieß es in der Digitalen Agenda. Davon ist heute keine Rede mehr. Stattdessen freut sich der Minister, dass er eine neue Behörde geschaffen habe, die es endlich ermögliche, technisch mit den Kryptokriminellen Schritt zu halten. Eine nette Umschreibung für die Entschlüsselungs- und Unsicherheitsbehörde Zitis, die an der Aushebelung von Verschlüsselung forscht, Hintertüren finden und die Umgehung von Verschlüsselungsmethoden auch praktisch umsetzen soll.

(28.3.2017) Community members are urged to download the Zello walkie-talkie app and join a network of concerned citizens who help fight crime in their communities.

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(13.4.2017) All 400,000 users in the country have been banned from Zello.

(24.2.2014) Moore said the company occasionally hears from the FBI or a government who needs help identifying a „bad guy“ who uses Zello. He said the company isn’t able to provide much help because they don’t save a lot of information.

Some 12,000 people are signed up to the „The State of the Islamic Caliphate“ jihadist channel on the high-tech application Zello, an investigation by the anti-terrorism squad of the Carabinieri police in collaboration with the FBI has found.

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Der Krieg in Mali ist zumindest in Teilen Ergebnis der Institutionalisierung und Fusionierung EUropäischer Außen-, Sicherheits- und Verteidigungspolitik, der hiermit zusammenhängenden Versicherheitlichung der Region und ihrer geopolitischen Rahmung als „Sahel“, wie im Folgenden dargestellt werden soll.

Lefebvre said that, in general, Gotham Shield will not involve the actual deployment of emergency response equipment and personnel.

It is to be a „notional“ exercise in which emergency responders respond theoretically to an unfolding nuclear event scenario in which all levels of government are in communication and playing a role.

The drill is not a response to the recent tensions between the United States and North Korea, or any international incident, since it has been in the planning stages for a year, Lefebvre said.

„Operation Gotham Shield“ led to a predictable uptick in false flag and nuclear apocalypse rumors, but the long-planned preparedness training was neither secret nor suspicious.

Die Gruppe freiheitsfoo zeigt sich unter anderem überrascht davon, dass sich alle Parteien außer Linken und Piraten für den Einsatz von Bodycams für Polizisten aussprechen. Außerdem stellt freiheitsfoo fest, dass sich die Grünen nicht grundsätzlich gegen eine erneute Ausweitung der Videoüberwachung im öffentlichen Personennahverkehr aussprechen und sich um eine genaue Positionierung zum Einsatz von Staatstrojanern herumwinden.

Am Mittwoch unterrichtete Generalinspekteur Volker Wieker den Verteidigungsausschuss des Bundestags in vertraulicher Sitzung über die Personalie. Generalmajor Walter Spindler wird vorgeworfen, in einem bisher noch nicht bekannten Fall von Verfehlungen durch Heeresausbilder im thüringischen Sondershausen erneut nicht energisch genug ermittelt zu haben.

(1.12.2014) 5. In view of the heavy fighting, which was approaching close to the UNDOF headquarters at Camp Faouar and the mission’s positions in the central part of the area of separation, the Force Commander briefed both parties early in September on the Force’s plans to relocate its personnel and assets should the Nusra Front or other extremist fighters who posed a clear threat to the mission endanger the safety and security of the United Nations personnel. It should be noted here that from information posted on social media as well as in the course of its efforts to secure the release of the peacekeepers, the United Nations learned that its personnel had been taken and held by members of the Nusra Front. There were indications that the Nusra Front intended to detain additional UNDOF personnel and take from UNDOF more weapons and vehicles as opportunities arose. (…)

12. Crossing of the ceasefire line by civilians, primarily shepherds, was observed on an almost daily basis. On 24 October, United Nations observation post 73 observed 12 IDF soldiers who detained one civilian between the Alpha line and the Israeli technical fence south-east of the observation post and subsequently took him away. IDF informed UNDOF that they released the person within one hour at the same location. On 27 October, position 80 observed two IDF soldiers east of the technical fence returning from the direction of the Alpha line towards the technical fence. UNDOF observed IDF opening the technical fence gate and letting two individuals pass from the Bravo to the Alpha side. Following the evacuation of UNDOF personnel from position 85 on 28 August, UNDOF sporadically observed armed members of the opposition interacting with IDF across the ceasefire line in the vicinity of United Nations position 85.

(4.12.2014) UN troops monitoring the 1974 ceasefire between Israel and Syria have witnessed interactions between members of the Israeli Defence Forces and the Al Nusra Front who have taken over a large part of the Golan Heights.

(25.6.2015) Recently, Israeli TV aired an interview (Hebrew, at the 2:00 mark) with a wounded Syrian fighter who was treated in Israel after being evacuated from the combat zone. As I, and many other journalists have reported, Israel, despite the false claim of neutrality in the civil war, has frequently intervened in the conflict on behalf of forces opposed to Bashar al-Assad. It does this less because it opposes Assad himself, than because its arch-enemies, Iran and Hezbollah, are the regime’s strongest allies.

In the Golan, Israel has cultivated an alliance with Islamist forces it falsely claims to detest: the al-Nusra Front. It has built a camp to house fighters and their families on Israeli-held territory. It conducts regular meetings with Islamist commanders and provides military and other critical supplies to them. All of this is documented in written UN reports and images captured by journalists and activists on the armistice line (between Syria and Israel).

(21.9.2015) After Kremlin meet, Netanyahu says ‘mechanism’ reached with Russian leader to prevent misunderstandings in Syrian fighting

(23.6.2016) In short, Israel’s growing security cooperation with Russia in Syria is motivated by a common desire to stabilize the conflict, combat Islamic extremism, and pre-empt belligerence from Iran and its proxies. As relations between Israel and the West have deteriorated over disagreements on the status of the Palestinian territories, Netanyahu is gradually shifting the focus of Jerusalem’s diplomatic efforts towards Russia to bring to fruition Israel’s goals for the wider region.

(25.4.2017) Der Zeitung zufolge nahm Moskau das Memorandum, das nach dem US-Angriff auf den syrischen Militärflughafen Schairat Anfang April a
usgesetzt worden war, bereits am 13. April wieder auf — gleich nach dem Besuch des US-Außenministers Rex Tillerson in Moskau. „Rex Tillerson wandte sich während seines Moskau-Besuchs mit der Bitte an die russische Führung, das Abkommen wieder in Kraft zu setzen“, zitiert die Zeitung die Quelle.

Nevertheless, Postol begs a couple of questions, the most compelling of which is how the “false flag” imposters on the ground would have known how to time their operation with the Syrian air strike that everyone admits actually took place (the Syrians and Russians alleging that only conventional weapons were used, and the Americans alleging the use of chemical weapons). In order to do this, they would have had to have advance knowledge of the attack. How would they have gotten this information?

The six-page document – drawn up by France‘s military and foreign intelligence services and seen by said it was able to reach its conclusion based on samples they had obtained from the impact strike on the ground, and a blood sample from a victim.

Despite persistent local opposition to the relocation of the base from residential Ginowan to the coastal area in Nago, the state is moving ahead with construction —dumping building materials into the sea and planning to launch full-fledged landfill work inside the sea walls in the first half of next year.