🚨🇾🇪🇸🇴 A dangerous new alliance could threaten one of the world’s most important trade routes... U.S. officials warn that Yemen’s Houthis and al-Qaeda-linked al-Shabaab are developing increasingly close operational ties across the Red Sea. The Houthis have reportedly supplied weapons and trained hundreds of Somali fighters in drones and explosives, while Houthi operatives have traveled into al-Shabaab-controlled territory. The concern is geography: cooperation could eventually give the groups capabilities on both sides of the waterways connecting the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden. AFRICOM has publicly warned that Houthi links with al-Shabaab are expanding and pose a growing threat to shipping and regional security. One network. Two coastlines. A critical artery for global trade caught in between. Source: FT / Writer: Samuel

Just arrived in Calais and I’ve already found over a hundred illegal migrants preparing to leave for the coast by train All guided by…. You guessed it The French authorities This invasion is NOT stopping @ShabanaMahmood the open invite is still here dm me 👍

The government has failed to publish the numbers for yesterday's small boat arrivals. We'll have to wait and see if they publish them tomorrow. Poor job @ShabanaMahmood @ukhomeoffice @Keir_Starmer

The FBI has thwarted an ISIS-inspired terrorist attack targeting the Mall of America in Bloomington, Minnesota, arresting Sheikhdoon Abdullahi Mohamud, an 18-year-old American-born son of Somali parents, who prosecutors say planned to enter the shopping mall armed with an AK-47 and massacre between 30 and 60 people on October 24. According to federal investigators, Mohamud pledged allegiance to ISIS, expressed his desire to murder non-Muslims and selected the date to coincide with a Hmong Arts Celebration attended by Asian families, while also claiming he wanted to target the mall because he believed it was Jewish-owned. The FBI had monitored Mohamud since December 2024, when he expressed interest in joining the Islamist terrorist group al-Shabaab in Somalia, before shifting to a domestic massacre because he lacked the money to travel abroad; investigators say he also admired the Pulse nightclub massacre in Orlando, the New Orleans terrorist attack and the Bondi Beach shooting in Australia. On October 6, undercover FBI agents posing as ISIS operatives sold him a disabled AK-47, four 30-round magazines and approximately 200 rounds of ammunition for $600 before arresting him in Richfield.

🇺🇸 An 18-year-old in Minnesota allegedly planned a mass shooting at the Mall of America in the name of ISIS He bought the AK-47 for the job from an undercover FBI agent. Sheikhdoon Abdullahi Mohamud paid about $600 cash for the rifle, four 30-round magazines and around 200 rounds earlier this week, not knowing the FBI had already made the gun useless. Agents arrested him right after. Prosecutors say he'd recorded a video pledging allegiance to ISIS, talked about recruiting others, and wanted to copy the Pulse nightclub shooting, the Bondi Beach shooting and the New Orleans truck attack. He picked October 24 because of a Hmong arts celebration at the mall, and targeted it because he claimed its owners were Jewish, writing that he wanted to kill enough people that no one would go there. The mall wasn't even Plan A. He first wanted to go fight for al-Shabaab in Somalia, and only settled on a mass shooting because he couldn't afford the trip. Sources: Reuters, DOJ / Writer: Julie

The U.S. military is expected to move most of its MQ-9 "Reaper" drones out of Africa and into U.S. Southern Command (SOUTHCOM), which oversees Latin America, according to six sources who spoke with CNN. The Pentagon declined to comment. The shift comes as the Trump administration ramps up counternarcotics and counterterrorism plans in South America, including potential operations in Ecuador. One source said discussions are still underway about sending some drones to the Middle East instead, where the US has lost MQ-9s in strikes against Iran. Some sources voiced concern that pulling drones from Africa could hurt ongoing operations against ISIS and al Shabaab there. The move follows a classified DOJ legal opinion, previously reported by CNN, authorizing lethal strikes against a secret list of cartels. Colombia has separately arranged to borrow three MQ-9A drones from the US, and Panama just received over six million dollars in drone systems for border surveillance. Source: