An allegedly neo-Nazi group called Nordadler (roughly: the Northern Eagles) was banned by Germany's Interior Ministry on Tuesday.
Police made four raids targeting the group in the German federal states of North Rhine-Westphalia, Saxony, Brandenburg and Lower Saxony.
Interior Ministry spokesman Steve Alter announced the ban on Twitter, saying the group operated mainly online.
"Right-wing extremism and anti-Semitism have no place on the internet either," he said.
Read more: Deutsche Welle
France on Monday brought home 10 children of French jihadists who had been stuck in sprawling detention camps in northeastern Syria since at least the collapse of the Islamic State last year.
The French foreign ministry said it had decided on repatriation because of “the situation of these particularly vulnerable young children.” About 270 children of French citizens remain in Syria, according to rights groups, which argue that this leaves the children at risk of illness and radicalization.
About 900 children from Western nations including France, Belgium, Canada and Australia are still stuck in the camps, which sprung up to hold relatives of Islamic State fighters who survived the battles with Kurdish-led fighters and a United States-led military coalition aimed at destroying the so-called caliphate.
Read more: New York Times
Coalition strikes took out three Islamic State camp sites in Iraq's Kirkuk province on Friday, while a jet "blasted" an ISIS cave in Nineveh province.
The "summer camp" in rural Kirkuk was located about 16 miles west of the city of Tuz Khurmatu in "densely vegetated austere terrain," the U.S.-led Operation Inherent Resolve said in a statement Saturday. Strike videos described them as ISIS mountain training areas.
Despite losing control of its last territory in Iraq more than two years ago, ISIS continues to wage an insurgency while hiding out in the mountains, deserts and other rural areas of the country.
While Iraqi security forces have "tactical overmatch against ISIS," Army Col. Myles B. Caggins III, a coalition military spokesman, said in the statement that "airstrikes help destroy ISIS targets in terrain difficult to reach by standard vehicles."
Read more: Military.com
An allegedly neo-Nazi group called Nordadler (roughly: the Northern Eagles) was banned by Germany's Interior Ministry on Tuesday.
Police made four raids targeting the group in the German federal states of North Rhine-Westphalia, Saxony, Brandenburg and Lower Saxony.
Interior Ministry spokesman Steve Alter announced the ban on Twitter, saying the group operated mainly online.
"Right-wing extremism and anti-Semitism have no place on the internet either," he said.
The ministry said the group pursued a national socialist ideology and also operated under four other names, which all make NSDAP-style references to the German Volk, or people/ethnicity: "Völkische Revolution" (People's Revolution), "Völkische Jugend" (People's Youth), "Völkische Gemeinschaft" (People's Community) and "Völkische Renaissance" (People's Renaissance).
The ministry said members of the right-wing extremist group professed their allegiance to Adolf Hitler and other important representatives of the Nazi regime and used the symbols and language of the Nazi regime.
It said Nordadler was planning a national socialist settlement project with like-minded people in rural areas.
In 2018, after separate raids against the group, the alleged founder of Nordadler told public broadcaster NDR that he saw himself as a Nazi and that they were considering attacks against politicians.
The Federal Prosecutor's Office announced at the time that the group had tried to obtain weapons, ammunition, and explosive material.
According to the ministry, this is the 20th ban of a right-wing extremist association by a federal interior and the third one this year.
In January, "Combat 18" was banned and in March the "United German Peoples and Tribes" was banned.
Source: Deutsche Welle (DW)
Seattle's mayor told protesters Monday "it's time for people to go home" and leave the Capitol Hill neighborhood they have established as an autonomous zone.
Demonstrators will not be removed by force, Mayor Jenny Durkan said, but the city will be working with Black-led community organizations to speak with leaders of the "Capitol Hill Organized Protest" to persuade them to leave the area.
All police were pulled out of the Seattle Police Department precinct in the neighborhood as tensions boiled over during protests over the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis police custody. But this weekend brought three nighttime shootings in the area, Durkan said, and officials especially want protesters out during the overnight hours.
Read more: CNN
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