Homeland Security News

A car slammed into a crowd at a Carnival procession in a German town on Monday, injuring several people, police said. The driver was arrested.

Police told the dpa news agency that no deaths have been reported in the crash in Volkmarsen, about 280 kilometers (175 miles) southwest of Berlin. Police said they don’t have a specific number of injuries yet and they refused to release any details on the driver.

Police told the dpa news agency it wasn’t yet clear whether the driver had suffered some sort of a medical issue, if there was a mechanical problem with the car or whether the vehicle was intentionally driven into the crowd.

Local media reported at least a dozen injuries, including children, but police couldn’t immediately confirm the information.

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A neo-Nazi group is to become the second extreme rightwing outfit to be banned as a terrorist organisation in the UK, the home secretary has announced.

Sonnenkrieg Division (SKD), members of which have been jailed for serious offences, is to be proscribed, making membership of the group illegal and punishable by up to 10 years in prison, Priti Patel said.

Another order will recognise the extreme right wing group System Resistance Network as an alias of the already proscribed neo-Nazi organisation National Action.

Two teenage members of SKD, Michal Szewczuk, 19, from Leeds, and Oskar Dunn-Koczorowski, 18, from west London, were jailed for terrorism offences in June last year.

Read more: The Guardian (UK)

At least three members of the Al-Qaeda affiliated Al-Shabaab terror group have been injured and their compound has been destroyed in a U.S. airstrike in Somalia on Sunday.

The U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM) confirmed that U.S. forces, working in conjunction with the Federal Government of Somalia, targeted an Al-Shabaab compound near the city of Dujuuma, Somalia, according to an AFRICOM statement provided to American Military News.

The AFRICOM statement assessed no civilian casualties as a result of the strike “U.S. support to African-led counter-terrorism operations is crucial in East Africa,” said U.S. Army Brig. Gen. Gregory Hadfield, the AFRICOM deputy director of intelligence.  “China and Russia appear content to remain on the sidelines as our African partners, with U.S. support, fight extremism and pave the way to enhanced security and stability on the continent.”

AFRICOM has warned that Al-Shabaab has shown interest in expanding its terror attacks beyond East Africa and on to Americans and U.S. interests around the world.
 

Read more: American Military News

The Israeli military has carried out air strikes against the militant group Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) in Gaza and Syria in response to rocket fire.

On Sunday, more than 20 rockets were fired from Gaza into southern Israel, causing some damage.

Overnight, the Israeli military struck what it called PIJ "terror targets", including weapons development and training facilities near Damascus.

PIJ said two fighters were killed in Syria and vowed to avenge their deaths.

Gaza's health ministry reported that four Palestinians were wounded in the territory.

On Monday, another 14 rockets were fired at southern Israel, 12 of which were intercepted, according to the Israeli military. There were no reports of any injuries.

The hostilities escalated on Sunday morning, when the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said it had killed a PIJ militant near Israel's border fence with the Gaza Strip.

The IDF said troops identified two men attempting to plant an explosive device on the fence and opened fire at them.

Read more: BBC

Basking in adulation from a massive, colorful crowd, President Donald Trump and India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi lavished each other with praise Monday in a reaffirmation of U.S.-India ties as the subcontinent poured on the pageantry in a joyful welcome for the U.S. president.

More than 100,000 people packed into the world's largest cricket stadium in Modi's home state to give Trump the biggest rally crowd of his political career. The event was the pinnacle of the day's enviable trio of presidential photo-ops, sandwiched between Trump visits to a former home of independence leader Mohandas Gandhi and a planned tour of the famed Taj Mahal.

Nearly everyone in the newly constructed stadium in Ahmedabad in western India sported a white cap with the name of the event, “Namaste, Trump” or “Welcome, Trump,” and roared for the introductions of both leaders.

Embarking on a whirlwind 36-hour visit, Trump opened his speech by declaring that he had traveled 8,000 miles to deliver the message that “America loves India, America respects India and America will always be faithful and loyal friends to the Indian people.”

Read more: MSN