Daily Intel Brief
A Brussels police officer is stabbed in a suspected terror attack, the U.S. targets Haitian gang leaders, and Russia has suffered nearly 100K casualties in Ukraine...
Counterterrorism
Three soldiers and at least four rebels have been killed in fierce clashes between the Philippine Army and members of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front in the island province of Basilan. At least 13 soldiers and an unknown number of rebels were also wounded in the fighting…
A police officer died after being stabbed in Brussels Thursday evening in what investigators suspect may have been a terror attack. According to local media reports, a man armed with a knife attacked a police patrol at around 7:15 p.m. local time. Another police patrol shot the…
Military & Defense
Armenia ’s Defence Ministry reported Thursday that an Armenian soldier was wounded and in critical condition after being shot by Azerbaijani forces on the eastern section of the Armenian-Azerbaijani border. Both sides accused each other of opening fire on border…
About 100,000 Russian soldiers have been killed and wounded since the invasion of Ukraine, and Kyiv’s armed forces “probably” suffered a similar level of casualties, the top US general says. General Mark Milley’s remarks on Wednesday offer the highest US estimate of…
Cybersecurity
Microsoft on Thursday fingered Russia’s military intelligence arm as the likely culprit behind ransomware attacks last month that targeted Polish and Ukrainian transportation and logistics organizations. If the assessment by members of the Microsoft Security Threat…
A Russian-Canadian national has been arrested over LockBit cyber-attacks targeting critical infrastructure, US officials say. Mikhail Vasiliev, 33, was arrested in Ontario, Canada, on 9 November, the Department of Justice (DoJ) said. It said LockBit had been used against more…
Counterintelligence & Espionage
India has been in constant touch with the Qatari authorities and families of eight former Indian Navy personnel, who have been in detention in Qatar for more than 70 days, said the Ministry of External Affairs on Thursday. Stating that New Delhi and Doha have…
The war in Ukraine and suspected acts of sabotage on key infrastructure are forcing European countries to rethink their approach to what is critical and who should control it. And here, it's not so much Russia that European Union leaders fear, but China. "The greatest fear, I think…
Transnational Organized Crime
The U.S. State Department has announced rewards of US$1 million dollars for information which will lead to the arrest of the leadership of Haiti's 400 Mawozo gang which last year kidnapped several U.S. citizens for ransom. “As part of our efforts to continue imposing…
Nine people are dead, including four women, after gunmen burst into a bar and opened fire in the violence-wracked Mexican state of Guanajuato, authorities said Thursday. It was at least the third such bar massacre in as many months in Guanajuato, where a local gang is fighting…