Militant Wire

Analysis by Militant Wire analysts Lucas Webber and Riccardo Valle in The Diplomat https://thediplomat.com/2022/04/islamic-state-in-afghanistan-looks-to-recruit-regional-tajiks-inflict-violence-against-tajikistan/

🇷🇺🇺🇦Foreign Policy reporter Jack Detsch: In the past 24 hours, we’ve learned of British, American, and now Danish foreign military volunteers getting killed in Ukraine https://twitter.com/jackdetsch/status/1520002747680137216?s=21

🇦🇫Al Arabiya English: A powerful blast has hit a mosque in western Kabul during prayers, killing at least 10 and wounding 15, Afghan officials say.

🇮🇱🇵🇸AFP: Fresh clashes between Palestinians and Israeli police at Jerusalem's Al-Aqsa mosque compound injured 12 people on Friday, the Palestinian Red Crescent says.

🇺🇸🇷🇺🇺🇦An American citizen, Willy Joseph Cancel, was killed fighting alongside Ukrainian forces in Ukraine, members of Cancel's family confirmed to CNN.

🇨🇳🇮🇷ABC News: Iran seeks to expand its military cooperation with China Iran’s state media say President Ebrahim Raisi expressed his government's desire for closer cooperation with China during a visit to Tehran by the Chinese defense minister

🇺🇸🇨🇳🇸🇧Politico: U.S. turns the screws on Solomon Islands to counter China The Biden administration is scrambling to block China from leveraging its new security pact with Solomon Islands to build a military base in the Pacific island nation

🇨🇳🇦🇫Taliban: Thursday, the 5th day of Ramadan, a meeting was held at the Afghan Embassy in China to discuss the resumption of the embassy's activities. The meeting was attended by Afghan students in Beijing as well as senior representatives of some state-owned and private Chinese companies.

🇺🇸🇦🇫CNN: US left behind $7 billion of military equipment in Afghanistan after 2021 withdrawal, Pentagon report says

🇸🇾Al Jazeera: Suspected ISIL (ISIS) gunmen killed seven people and wounded four others at a Ramadan iftar gathering in Syria’s northeast Deir Az Zor province, according to activists and monitors

🇦🇫Reuters: Blasts on vans carrying Shi'ite Muslims in northern Afghanistan kill nine

🇦🇫Al Jazeera: Two explosions, within minutes of each other, have killed at least nine people and wounded 13 in northern Afghanistan.