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🇺🇦🇷🇺Latest ISW assessment of Ukraine

🇺🇦🇷🇺AFP: Russian assault on Ukraine’s twin industrial cities of Severodonetsk and Lysychansk

🇺🇦🇷🇺Latest French Defence Ministry map of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine

🇺🇦🇷🇺New ISW assessment of terrain control in Ukraine

May 25th news roundup: 🇦🇫AP: Blast in Kabul mosque and separate Islamic State bombs in north Afghanistan kill at least 14 🇱🇾African Union: More than 5, 000 [Foreign terrorist fighters] are believed to be fighting in the Sahel, mostly based in southern Libya 🇲🇱🇳🇪France24: Islamic State group ‘trying to control’ Mali-Niger border with series of attacks 🇺🇸CBS: An Iraqi citizen living in Ohio has been charged with aiding and abetting an Islamic State-inspired plot to assassinate former President George Bush 🇮🇳The Hindu: Three Jaish-e-Muhammad (JeM) militants and a policeman killed in an encounter in north Kashmi 🇸🇪Sveriges Radio: Two men accused of trying to join ISIS sentenced to eight months in prison by Swedish court in Gothenburg 🇮🇶The New Arab: ISIS kills at least 11 people in two separate attacks in Iraq's Kirkuk and Diyala provinces 🇨🇴🇻🇪Reuters: Colombia FARC dissident leader Duarte presumed killed in Venezuela

🇺🇦🇷🇺UK and French maps of Ukraine for May 25

New Militant Wire article https://www.militantwire.com/p/islamic-state-east-asia-down-but?r=s8x4i&s=w&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

🇺🇦🇷🇺AFP: Governor of Ukraine's Lugansk region says 'situation worse with every hour'

Long War Journal: Over the last two months, at least five Westerners, including three Italian nationals, one Polish citizen, and one American, have been kidnapped by armed men across the Sahel. An additional hostage, a Togolese national, was also kidnapped alongside the Italians

🇳🇬Reuters: Militants kill at least 50 in Nigeria's northeastern state of Borno

🇧🇷AFP: A police raid in a Rio de Janeiro favela early on Tuesday left 11 people dead, including 10 alleged criminals and a female resident who was hit by a stray bullet, authorities said

🇺🇸🇲🇽Forbes: Alleged ISIS operative in the U.S. plotted to kill George W. Bush - Sought help from a team of compatriots he hoped to smuggle into the country over the Mexican border, according to an FBI search-warrant application filed March 23 and unsealed this week