Militant Wire

🇮🇱The Jerusalem Post: At least three people were killed and four others injured in a terrorist attack in the Israeli city of Elad near Petah Tikva towards the end of Independence Day

🇨🇳🇸🇧Reuters: China's police presence under a new security pact will boost the capabilities of the Solomon Islands but they will not use techniques seen in Hong Kong, the Pacific island country's top diplomat to Australia said in a radio interview on Monday

🇷🇺🇺🇦New UK and France maps of Ukraine for May 5

🇷🇺🇺🇦AFP map of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine

🇨🇳SCMP: PLA Navy steps up real-life combat drills in East China Sea near Taiwan - Sailors always ready for battle, Eastern Theatre Command says in online post highlighting actual combat practice - Drills follow series of air and sea exercises in response to US lawmakers’ visit to Taiwan in April

🇷🇺🇺🇦NYT: The U.S. has provided intelligence that has helped Ukraine target and kill many Russian generals who have died in the war, officials said

🇮🇳The Print: Some of the terrorists in the Kashmir valley used American armour piercing bullets in encounters with Indian security forces and were successful in breaching the bulletproof jackets of soldiers. The bullets are part of the American weaponry leftover in Afghanistan by the US forces who had to leave earlier than planned due to capturing of all important provinces and cities by the Taliban.

🇸🇴🇧🇮BBC: The al-Qaeda affiliated al-Shabaab says it killed 170 AU soldiers, mostly from Burundi, and captured an unknown number of soldiers as prisoners of war. However Burundi's army says that it has lost 10 soldiers, with another five missing

🇳🇬Al Jazeera: Seven dead in attack on Chibok community in northeast Nigeria - Chibok first came to the limelight when Boko Haram abducted more than 200 schoolgirls from the community’s school in April 2014.

🇷🇺🇺🇦New UK and French maps of Ukraine

🇷🇺🇺🇦UK Ministry of Defence: The continued targeting of key cities such as Odessa, Kherson and Mariupol highlights their desire to fully control access to the Black Sea, which would enable them to control Ukraine’s sea lines of communication, negatively impacting their economy.

🇷🇺🇺🇦ISW maps of Ukraine - May 4