The Russian Federal Security Service announced the elimination of an agent belonging to the Ukrainian military intelligence who arrived in Russia from Lithuania.

The agent is a Russian citizen born in 1976 and has been planning a series of terrorist attacks on vital Russian installations, including military and energy facilities.

The FSB statement said the person was operating under the direct direction of Ukrainian military intelligence and belonged to a Ukrainian terrorist organization considered banned in Russia.

Security operations revealed that he was trying to transport explosive materials and weapons from a hideout in the Leningrad province, where he intended to use them to carry out a terrorist attack on a gas station in the Tosninsky region of the same province.

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The Criminal Chamber of the Tunis Court of First Instance sentenced a person accused of terrorist activities to 13 years in prison.

The department announced the charges, including “planning to carry out a suicide attack with an explosive belt in one of the Tunisian tourist cities in 2022.”

A spokesman for Tunisian courts and a spokesman for the General Directorate of the National Guard said that a number of suspects belonging to “takfiris” and groups involved in smuggling people, drugs and goods of unknown origin have been arrested.

Some of them were among those who had security or judicial checks issued some time ago on charges of “belonging to a terrorist organization” or to networks of militants (takfiris).

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The Moroccan Interior Ministry announced on Friday that authorities had succeeded in dismantling a terrorist cell consisting of five individuals loyal to the “Islamic State” group that was targeting vital and security facilities.

“A terrorist cell” consisting of five elements loyal to the Islamic State, aged between 22 and 46, was dismantled “on suspicion of involvement in preparing to carry out terrorist plans aimed at seriously harming public order,” a statement issued by the Central Bureau of Judicial Research of the Moroccan Interior Ministry said.

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On Tuesday, Turkish authorities arrested eight people in a security operation targeting the terrorist organization “ISIS” in six provinces, where the operation was concentrated in the state of Şanlıurfa.

On the instructions of the Prosecutor’s Office, the teams of the Directorate of the Anti-Terrorism Branch of the Şanlıurfa Gendarmerie Command have begun work to detect terrorist organizations and arrest their members.

After the security authorities identified the addresses where the people were suspected, eight people believed to be members of the Islamic State were arrested in simultaneous operations that included several provinces, including Istanbul, Mersin, Konya, Sakarya and Bolu.

During the address search, 10 digital items were seized, according to data from the Anti-Terrorism Branch Directorate teams.

This comes in the context of the Turkish government's ongoing efforts to combat terrorism, as the Turkish Interior Minister, Ali Yerlikaya, announced on the first of this month the arrest of 41 people suspected of belonging to the "ISIS" organization in a large-scale security operation that included 12 states.

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Tunisian authorities announced on Saturday that they had succeeded in arresting six individuals accused of involvement in terrorist activities.

The operation was carried out with the participation of information and security units from several areas, including Ghar al-Dama, Tabarka, Mateur, Sbeitla and Garmbalia, and in cooperation with the counter-terrorism services in the provinces of Jendouba, Bizerte, Kasserine and Nabeul.

The six officers face charges of belonging to terrorist organizations and have previously been sentenced to between two and eight years in prison.

The Tunisian authorities confirmed that all necessary legal measures have been taken against those arrested.

Tunisia has a comprehensive legislative framework to combat terrorism; Basic Law No. 26 of 2015, which was revised by Basic Law No. 9 of 2019, aims to address terrorism and money laundering and supports international efforts in this area.

Tunisia's National Counter-Terrorism Committee is also mandated to monitor and evaluate the implementation of the resolutions of the competent UN structures related to combating terrorism and preventing the financing of the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction.

The Committee works to identify and address the factors contributing to the spread of extremism and to address the recruitment of persons for the purpose of committing terrorist acts.

Tunisia also has the National Counter-Terrorism Regiment, a special counterterrorism unit that has been effective in pursuing armed militias and robbery gangs, especially after the Tunisian revolution.

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