Albania Transfers ISIS Terror Cell Suspect to Germany

A MEMBER of ISIS waves the group’s flag in Raqqa
(photo credit: REUTERS)
A MEMBER of ISIS waves the group’s flag in Raqqa (photo credit: REUTERS)
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Albania Transfers ISIS Terror Cell Suspect to Germany

A MEMBER of ISIS waves the group’s flag in Raqqa
(photo credit: REUTERS)
A MEMBER of ISIS waves the group’s flag in Raqqa (photo credit: REUTERS)

Albania has transferred to Germany a Tajik man accused of being part of a cell of the ISIS group that allegedly planned to attack US military facilities in Germany, prosecutors said Tuesday.

The suspect, identified only as Komron B. in line with German privacy rules, was arrested on his arrival at Frankfurt airport on Monday, federal prosecutors said in a statement.

Four other Tajiks were arrested in Germany in mid-April and their alleged leader was taken into custody in March 2019, The Associated Press reported.

Prosecutors said Komron B. and the other suspects joined ISIS in January 2019 and founded a cell in Germany on the group's instructions, initially intending to travel to Tajikistan and fight that country's government.

They then allegedly changed plans and decided to carry out attacks in Germany, either on US military facilities or on individuals - including an unidentified person living in Germany who they considered critical of Islam.

As part of their efforts to raise money for their plans and for ISIS, one of the cell's members traveled to Albania to carry out a contract killing for $40,000 but the plan failed, prosecutors added.

He and another suspect who had traveled with him then returned to Germany. Komron B. was arrested in Albania on April 29.



10 Dead as Landslide Hits Passing Cars on Indonesia's Java Island

Rescuers search for victims after a rain-triggered landslide hit passing cars on a road in Mojokerto, East Java, Indonesia, Friday, April 4, 2025. (AP Photo)
Rescuers search for victims after a rain-triggered landslide hit passing cars on a road in Mojokerto, East Java, Indonesia, Friday, April 4, 2025. (AP Photo)
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10 Dead as Landslide Hits Passing Cars on Indonesia's Java Island

Rescuers search for victims after a rain-triggered landslide hit passing cars on a road in Mojokerto, East Java, Indonesia, Friday, April 4, 2025. (AP Photo)
Rescuers search for victims after a rain-triggered landslide hit passing cars on a road in Mojokerto, East Java, Indonesia, Friday, April 4, 2025. (AP Photo)

Indonesian rescuers recovered 10 bodies after a landslide struck vehicles on a hilly road on the country’s main island of Java, police said Friday.
Torrential rains pushed mud, rocks and trees down the mountainside road on Thursday, burying a van with seven people aboard and a pickup truck with three traders and full of vegetables near Watu Lumpang, a resort area in East Java’s Mojokerto district, said local police chief Andi Yudha Pranata.
According to The Associated Press, Pranata said rescuers pulled out the body of the van’s driver late Thursday and his six family members, including three children, wife and parents, were retrieved on Friday, together with the bodies of the three traders.
Footage released by East Java’s Search and Rescue Agency showed the road covered by thick mud, rocks and uprooted trees.
Seasonal rains from about October to April frequently cause flooding and landslides in Indonesia, a vast archipelago of 17,000 islands where millions of people live in mountainous areas or near fertile flood plains.