Militant Wire

🇦🇫UN says Al-Qaeda Leader Swore Allegiance to the Taliban Leader

🇺🇦🇷🇺Russian forces are advancing in Severodonetsk

🇺🇦🇷🇺New ISW maps of Ukraine

🇺🇦🇷🇺Russian forces are working to envelope Severodonetsk and Lysychansk

🇺🇦🇷🇺Maps of Ukraine - May 28

🇮🇷🇮🇱New York Times: Sensitive Iranian Military Site Was Targeted in Attack: A drone exploded at a structure in the Parchin military technology complex on Wednesday. The attack fit a pattern of past Israeli strikes on Iran

🇺🇦🇷🇺New ISW maps of Ukraine

News roundup for May 27: 🇧🇫AFP: Rebels kill 50 civilians in Burkina Faso: regional governor 🇫🇷AFP: French authorities have charged an 18-year-old man on suspicion of planning an imminent terror attack with a knife in the name of ISIS extremists, a judicial source said on Wednesday 🇳🇪The Defense Post: Niger Says Army Killed 40 Boko Haram Jihadists on Lake Chad Islands 🇹🇷Rudaw: A senior figure of the Islamic State (ISIS) presumed to be the group's leader was arrested in Istanbul, according to media reports surfacing on Thursday, but officials are yet to confirm the suspect’s identity 🇨🇦CBC: Calgary terrorist who fought as ISIS sniper in Syria sentenced to 12 years in prison 🇹🇭The Straights Times: Bomb blasts and gunshots heard along Malaysian-Thai border 🇮🇳Reuters: Indian security forces have killed six militants in Kashmir in the past 24 hours while militants shot dead a female TV performer and a police officer following the conviction of the region's best-known separatist 🇮🇱The New Arab: At least 60 Palestinians injured by Israeli extremist Jewish settler violence in the Nablus region, north of the West Bank 🇲🇿The Defense Post: At least three people have been beheaded in a new outbreak of Islamist violence in northern Mozambique, police said Wednesday

🇺🇦🇷🇺UK Defence Intelligence assessment of Ukraine for May 27

🇺🇦🇷🇺AFP: Pro-Russia separatists say have captured strategic eastern Ukraine town of Lyman - Moscow-backed separatist forces in Ukraine said on Friday they had captured Lyman, a strategic town in the north of the Donetsk region that sits on a road leading to key eastern cities still under Kyiv's control - 'Around 10 dead' in Russian strike on central Ukraine military base: official - Russian strikes on a military facility in the central Ukrainian city of Dnipro (see map) early on Friday left nearly a dozen people dead and injured more than 30 others, a local defence official said - Russian forces were closing in on Friday on the strategic city of Severodonetsk in a relentless offensive to control Ukraine's eastern Donbas region, bombing residential areas and claiming the capture of a key town

🇺🇦🇷🇺Le Monde map of east Ukraine hostilities

🇺🇦🇷🇺Satellite imagery of Russian positions on Snake Island