Homeland Security News

The U.S.-led multinational coalition launched almost 35,000 strikes against Islamic State targets in Iraq and Syria over the past six years, officials told Military Times Wednesday.

From August 2014 to September 2020, aircraft of the Combined Joint Task Force conducted 34,917 strikes in the region.

“Combined Joint Task Force–Operation Inherent Resolve (CJTF-OIR) continues to work by, with, and through our local partners in Syria to ensure the enduring defeat of Daesh,” Marine Capt. Jose F. Uriarte, CJTF spokesperson, told Military Times in an email.

“Despite the territorial defeat of ISIS, the degradation of its leadership, and the widespread refutation of its ideology, this violent Islamist extremist group still poses a threat,” Uriarte said.

Read more: Air Force Times

The violent posts appeared Friday on Parler, an unfiltered right-wing social media app, echoing President Trump’s unfounded claims that Democrats are stealing the election. They called for “death to all Marxist Democrats,” and urged followers to “take no prisoners” and “leave no survivors.”

They were all posted under the name and photo of Lang Holland, the police chief of Marshall, Ark.

When journalists and residents asked about the posts, Holland at first claimed they were fake, the Kansas City Star reported. But Marshall’s mayor said when he confronted Holland on Saturday, the chief apologized for the posts and then resigned.

Read more: Washington Post

A viral Facebook post claiming the NAACP received information that white nationalists and neo-Nazis were planning violent attacks on people of color is false, the organization claims.

The social media message received traction online and caught the attention of law enforcement officials.

The NAACP said the message did not come from them and that they had not received any credible threats.

“We thought it was important enough to let you all know those claims are false,” said Trovon Williams, NAACP’s vice president of marketing. “The NAACP has not come in contact with any such information.”

Read more: WDIV (Detroit)