NEWS SUMMARY-INTELLIGENCE REPORT SUNDAY 6/30-MONDAY 7/1/2019

(WORK IN PROGRESS THROUGH EARLY MONDAY)

Israeli attacks on Syria Sunday night with Damascus and Homs targeted.  The strikes occurred in the early hours of Monday morning with multiple sites in the areas of both cities being targets of attacks.

Syrian government media says the attacks originated from Lebanese airspace and that Syrian air defenses intercepted missiles south of Damascus and in the Homs area.

At least four dead and 21 wounded, civilian casualties according to Syria's SANA news agency.    Later reports said that five died. 

 

Coverage of the attacks from the "Within Sryia Blog" on Twitter.....LINK

Also this story published by "Israel National News".....LINK

Another story has been published by the "Southfront" website.....LINK

And this from Russia's Tass News Agency......LINK

President Trump and North Korea's ruler Kim Jong-un pledging to restart nuclear talks after a surprise Sunday meeting on the Demilitarized Zone between North and South Korea.

Trump and Kim shook hands on the border and held talks after the President tweeted an offer to meet the North Korean ruler on Friday.

"They tortured him so much that they killed him"

Those words from the wife of a Venezuelan naval captain arrested last Wednesday as a traitor as a traitor and rushed to a hospital as he feinted before a military tribunal Friday accused of being involved in an alleged plot to kill the leader of the country's regime Nicolas Maduro.

Venezuela's Interim President Juan Guaido saying that Captain Rafael Acosta was "savagely and brutally tortured".

Turkey promising retaliation if Libyan General Khalifa Haftar makes good on his Libyan National Army's intention to attack Turkish ships in Libyan waters and Turkish business interests in Libya.

The Turkish government is backing Libya's internationally recognized Government of National Accord in its fight with the LNA.

The Turkish Defense Minister Hulusi Akar said the Libyan National Army would pay a:

"very heavy price"

for any attacks at Turkish targets.


More from the pro-government "Yeni Safak" newspaper in Turkey.....LINK

Turkey also says that six of its citizens have been arrested by Haftar's forces.

On the battlefront in Libya, the GNA forces are repelling counterattacks from the Libyan National Army following the seizure of the town of Gharyan from the LNA last Thursday.    "Southfront" reports on the fighting in Libya.....LINK


Turkey's NTV news channel reporting that the Russian S-400 air defense system will be delivered to Turkey within the next 10 days.   Its been a source of dispute with the United States which has warned Turkey it will be excluded from the F-35 program as a result of taking the Russian system.
However, Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has continued to insist even in recent days that the differences with the US will be resolved.

In Sudan Sunday it started with police firing tear gas at protesters demanding an end to military rule in the country.

At least five are reported dead as snipers later opened fire, but the state news agency is reporting seven dead and 181 wounded.

Thousands of protesters had gathered in multiple locations across the country when government forces began to employ tear gas attacks to break up demonstrations with leaders were pledging to bring a million people onto the streets.

The French Interior Minister Christophe Castaner wants a report from the Prefect of Police in Paris on how a group of "Extinction Rebellion" climate change protesters were dealt with last Friday.

Police used tear gas to clear a bridge that was being blocked and causing traffic problems in the center of the capital city.

Castaner had had fewer if any qualms about tear gas and projectiles being employed against Yellow Vests protesters who continued their demonstrations for the 33rd Saturday in a row over the weekend.

Hot weather but more than 10-thousand protesters still on the streets across France according to the "Yellow Number" Facebook page  (10,725 at 130 locations).    The government estimated just under 6-thousand Yellow Vests.

Texas US Senator Ted Cruz calling for a federal investigation and legal action against Portland, Oregon Mayor Ted Wheeler after left-wing demonstrators went on the attack Saturday against counter protesters.   Among those pummeled by the masked Antifa protesters was conservative writer Andy Ngo.

Reporter Jim Ryan of "OregonLive" posted videos of the demonstrations and violence....LINK

Andy Ngo's Twitter page is at this link...ANDY NGO TWITTER

On the anniversary of the end of British rule in Hong Kong Monday, police attacked protesters as an official ceremony was held in the city.   Protesters blocked roads in some parts of the city and held a parallel ceremony raising a black flag on the date that the UK turned Hong Kong over to Chinese authority in 1997.

In Hong Kong Sunday pro-Beijing demonstrators on the streets to counter massive protests by pro-democracy forces in its streets in recent weeks opposing the law to extradite Hong Kong residents to mainland China.

The theme of pro-Chinese regime protest,  "Support the Police".    Hong Kong police used rubber bullets and tear gas against the pro-democracy demonstrators injuring dozens of them during a recent demonstration.

Hong Kong police have pledged to go after the leaders of the recent demonstrations against the extradition law.

And a massive explosion Monday in the center of Kabul near Afghanistan's Ministry of Defense with deaths reported, as many as 34 according to the Chinese Xinhua News Agency.

The blast comes two days after peace talks resumed involving the US and Taliban in Qatar.

And that's the way it really is as we come into Monday morning July 1st, 2019.