At least six killed in shooting in Stade in northern Germany, police say
At least six people have been killed in a shooting in the northern German city of Stade, police said Monday. Two people have been detained, including the suspected shooter.
Six people were killed in a shooting on Monday at a youth welfare facility in the northern German town of Stade, police said. Two people were arrested, including the suspected shooter.
Police said the dead included four women and a man. A sixth person, also an adult, died later at a hospital. Several people were wounded, some of them seriously, German news agency dpa reported. They did not give a specific figure or information on the victims' identity.
Police said the shooting took place in the facility on Dankersstrasse, a street south of the town center. The facility includes temporary accommodation for pregnant women or young mothers with children.
There was no danger to the public, police said. Video footage after the shooting showed a large police presence, along with other emergency service personnel and several ambulances on a residential street.
Germany’s gun laws are more restrictive than those in the United States, and mass shootings are rare but not unheard-of.
Vitali Mertens, who lives across the street from the scene, said he heard gunshots and “the whole area was cordoned off right away."
Stade has about 50,000 inhabitants and is located about 40 kilometers (25 miles) from Hamburg.
According to Grok:
What do we know about the Stade shooting suspect?
The suspect in the June 29, 2026, mass shooting at a youth welfare facility (mother-and-child shelter) in Stade, northern Germany (near Hamburg), is a 45-year-old man named Fatih Khan G. (or similar spelling variations in reports). en.wikipedia.org
Key Details Background: He is a German citizen born in Germany with Turkish roots (and Turkish citizenship). He lived in the greater Hanover area. dw.com
Motive: Police describe the incident as an "extended family tragedy" linked to a child custody dispute over his three-month-old daughter. The child was at the facility with her mother under a court order. He had a scheduled appointment there that day. aljazeera.com
Prior Record: Known to police for past threats, but not viewed as "particularly violent." Investigators have ruled out terrorism, organized crime, or political extremism. dw.com
Connections: Some reports link him to the Miri clan (a Mhallami extended family network associated with organized crime in Germany), though police emphasize the shooting was family-related, not clan-driven. Police said they were working to establish the background and circumstances for the shooting.
So far, they are saying it was not terrorist related but family related. However, he did not shoot his family but only those who cared for them. Is it another case of Muslim hysteria?
(FRANCE 24 with AP)
Bomb blast in central Damascus cafe kills several
An explosion in a cafe in central Damascus killed nine people on Thursday and wounded 20, Syrian authorities said. Syrian state television said the blast was caused by an explosive device.
A bomb blast at a cafe in Damascus on Thursday killed nine people and wounded 20, authorities said, in the latest challenge for Syria's Islamist leaders as they seek to stabilise the country after more than a decade of war.
The bombing – the deadliest since a suicide attack on a church last year – was not immediately claimed.
It took place near the capital's Palace of Justice, a key government building, sparking scenes of panic in the busy area.
An AFP correspondent saw ambulances weaving their way through traffic with their sirens blaring as they headed to the site, and security forces cordoned off the area of the blast.
FRANCE 24's Wassim Nasr posted a video to social media showing emergency services arriving at the scene in the wake of the explosion.
"The explosion that occurred in a cafe near the Palace of Justice in Damascus resulted from an explosive device planted in the location," state television said, after earlier reporting that authorities were seeking to determine the source of the blast.
Nour Khayyat, 40, who owns a shop selling batteries for solar panels near the site of the explosion, told AFP that "at about 3pm (1200 GMT), I heard a powerful blast and the storefront shook".
"People rushed to the cafe and called ambulances," he added.
Mohammed al-Dahabi, the owner of a glasses shop next to the targeted cafe, was trembling as he told AFP that "after the blast, I felt strong pressure, and the whole place shook".
"I ran to the place and saw people lying on the floor with blood pooled around them everywhere," he added, saying the scenes recalled the blasts that Damascus experienced during the nearly 14-year civil war.
'Malicious parties'
Arriving at the scene, Damascus governor Maher Eldibi said an investigation had been launched.
"Those responsible for this bloodshed will be punished," he said. "Each time the country sees a period of stability, malicious parties try to destabilise it."
Since the toppling of longtime ruler Bashar al-Assad in December of 2024, Syria's new authorities led by President Ahmed al-Sharaa have sought to exercise full control, restore security and reunify the country.
Damascus has been the site of multiple attacks and incidents since the new authorities took over. The deadliest came in June 2025, when an attack on a Damascus church killed 25 people.
The suicide attack was later claimed by a Sunni Islamist group, while the authorities blamed it on the Islamic State group.
More recently, there have been other incidents, including the killing in May of a soldier in a car bombing in Damascus's Old City.
(FRANCE 24 with AFP)
Hundreds of doctors killed or missing in Sudan war – report
Published 2 Jul, 2026 12:09 | Updated 2 Jul, 2026 13:10
More than 235 healthcare workers have been killed or reported missing since the civil war broke out in Sudan in April 2023, the Sudan Doctors Network reported on Tuesday.
In its latest report, the group also said 20 doctors, including four women, have gone missing in the last few months alone, after the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) seized control of El Fasher in October. Their whereabouts remains unknown.
At least 25 healthcare workers were killed in North Darfur between the outbreak of the conflict in April 2023 and the fall of El Fasher.
The dead include doctors, pharmacists, nurses, nutrition specialists, laboratory staff, administrators, and support workers. According to the report, they were killed in assassinations, drone strikes, shelling, shootings, torture, and other attacks linked to the fighting.
Among those killed were senior medical officials, including the director of primary healthcare in North Darfur, the medical director of Umm Kadada Rural Hospital, and the former acting director general of the state health ministry. Several hospital employees, ambulance volunteers, and healthcare support staff also died while on duty, the report said.
The organization called on the RSF to reveal the fate of the missing doctors in El Fasher and urged all parties to the conflict to ensure the safety of healthcare personnel and allow medical services to continue without interference.
Sudan plunged into a civil war three years ago after a struggle for power broke out between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the RSF.
In June, the Sudan Doctors Network said strikes on civilian infrastructure in El Obeid had knocked hospitals, dialysis centers, and water stations out of service, worsening the humanitarian crisis. It urged the UN and international organizations to pressure the RSF to halt attacks on civilian facilities.
The latest report follows a series of warnings issued by the Sudan Doctors Network over the impact of the conflict on civilians. On June 25, the group said an RSF drone strike on a fuel station in Rabak, White Nile State, killed two people and wounded seven others, including a woman.
Trump administration: Sudan’s Muslim Brotherhood is ‘executing civilians on Iran’s orders’
The Muslim Brotherhood showed its true colors on October 7, 2023, when its Iran-supported offshoot Hamas violently savaged Israelis. The American people are increasingly coming to understand that Muslim Brotherhood-linked entities are active and thriving inside America. So far, Egypt (the place of the Muslim Brotherhood’s origins), America, Canada, the EU, UK and Israel are recognized areas of Muslim Brotherhood activity. A new revelation, however, links Muslim Brotherhood activity in Sudan to the Islamic Republic of Iran; Sudanese Muslim Brothers are carrying out deadly orders from Tehran.
Sudan’s Muslim Brotherhood is executing civilians on Iran’s orders
by Amine Ayoub, Ynet News, July 2, 2026:
The Trump administration has just drawn a hard line under Sudan’s Muslim Brotherhood, warning openly that fighters loyal to the movement are receiving training and support from Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps and threatening a fresh wave of sanctions against anyone who keeps that pipeline open.
Washington’s message on Sudan is blunt and leaves no room for ambiguity. Sudan’s Islamic Movement is using excessive violence against civilians to sabotage conflict resolution and spread its extremist ideology, and many of its fighters, trained and armed with Iranian help, have carried out mass executions of civilians. This is one of the clearest and most direct statements yet from Washington tying a Muslim Brotherhood affiliate to Iran’s terror machine, and it comes with an explicit threat that more punishment is coming.
This is not a new suspicion dressed up in diplomatic language. Washington designated Sudan’s Muslim Brotherhood a global terrorist organization and a transnational criminal organization back in March, and last September it blacklisted the group’s Al Bara ibn Malik Brigade specifically over its brutal role in Sudan’s civil war and its ties to Tehran. Iran is branded once again as the world’s leading state sponsor of terrorism, its Revolutionary Guard accused of funding and directing malign activity across the globe, and Sudan’s Islamists are now formally listed as one of its beneficiaries.
For Israel, the significance is not subtle. Every time a Muslim Brotherhood offshoot anywhere in the region gets folded into Iran’s orbit, it confirms what Jerusalem has argued for years in closed briefings and open testimony alike: political Islam and the Iranian axis are not rivals competing for the same turf, they are increasingly partners sharing weapons, training camps and a common enemy. Sudan now joins that grim ledger, and the fighters carrying it out are executing unarmed people in the name of an ideology that has already proven it exports violence far beyond its borders. This is not an isolated case study. It is the same pattern that has played out from Gaza to Lebanon to Yemen, an Islamist movement wrapping itself in religious language while functioning as a forward operating arm of the Iranian regime.
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It is critical to remember that Iran’s influence is worldwide and relentless.
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Nigeria: Muslims storm school during exams, abduct 42 students, murder teacher
This is all entirely in accord with Islamic law. The kidnapping itself is a matter of precise legal directives: “As for the captives, the amir [ruler] has the choice of taking the most beneficial action of four possibilities: the first to put them to death by cutting their necks; the second, to enslave them and apply the laws of slavery regarding their sale and manumission; the third, to ransom them in exchange for goods or prisoners; and fourth, to show favor to them and pardon them. Allah, may he be exalted, says, ‘When you encounter those [infidels] who deny [the Truth=Islam] then strike [their] necks’ (Qur’an sura 47, verse 4)” — Al-Mawardi, al-Ahkam as-Sultaniyyah (The Laws of Islamic Governance).
Borno school attack: Teacher killed, students abducted, 10 rescued
Daily Trust, June 30, 2026 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):
Suspected Boko Haram and Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) members raided the Government Day Secondary School, Lassa town, in the Askira Uba Local Government Area of Borno State and abducted many students.
Lassa village is located about 20 kilometers from the Mussa community where 42 pupils of Mussa Primary and Junior Secondary School were abducted on May 15.
Parents of the pupils lamented on Sunday that they had yet to be contacted by the abductors of their children, expressing fear the victims might not be alive.
In the latest abduction, Daily Trust gathered the terrorists struck around 8.30am on Monday when candidates sitting the ongoing NECO examination were preparing for the day’s paper.
Sources revealed that the insurgents whisked away many students and two teachers. They reportedly shot dead a teacher, who refused to follow them, while one other sustained injuries and was hospitalised…
However, eight students and two teachers were later rescued by a joint team of hunters and security agents who went after the assailants.
A senior staff member of the school told our correspondent that the management has yet to ascertain the actual number of students abducted.
“As at this afternoon (Monday), when the school management tried to collate the figures, the number of missing students was between 30 and 31,” he said, adding that the terrorists stormed the classes when morning lessons were about to start.
The Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO) in the state, Nahum Kenneth Daso, who confirmed the incident to our correspondent, said the students were picked in their classrooms.
He said the attackers infiltrated Lassa on motorcycles during the community’s market day before storming the school.
“It was Lassa market day, so they took advantage, infiltrated the market on motorcycles and went to Government Day Secondary School, Lassa. They shot and killed one teacher and took away all the students who were in their classrooms,” Daso said.
He said the attackers, suspected to be ISWAP members, were confronted by security forces, a development he said reduced the scale of the abduction….
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