Daily Intel Brief
Rebellion in the Sahel could engulf West Africa, Ukraine raids a Kyiv monastery in search of Russian agents, and Iran expands uranium enrichment...
Counterterrorism
At least one person has been killed and 30 wounded when a car bomb exploded in a police compound in southern Thailand, police said. Tuesday’s blast in Narathiwat province came shortly after a suspect drove a car into the police accommodation and abandoned it…
Ghana’s President Nana Akufo-Addo has warned that a rampant rebellion in West Africa’s Sahel is threatening to engulf the entire region. Akufo-Addo was speaking on Tuesday at a meeting of West African leaders and European ministers in Ghana’s capital Accra to discuss…
Military & Defense
Iran has started expanding uranium enrichment to 60 percent purity at an underground site in Fordow days after foreign governments accused Tehran of failing to cooperate with a U.N. investigation into its past nuclear work. The decision puts Iran a step closer…
In recent years, Indonesia and the Gulf states have steadily fortified their defense ties. Indonesia’s Minister of Defense Prabowo Subianto made state visits to Saudi Arabia and the UAE this year and to Bahrain last year to discuss ways of strengthening military partnerships…
Cybersecurity
People associated with the U.S. military were behind dozens of phony Facebook accounts, more than a dozen pages, a pair of groups and 26 Instagram accounts that pushed pro-U.S. messaging while attempting to hide their real identities, Facebook’s parent company Meta…
A unit of the Russian internet and media regulator Roskomnadzor confirmed Saturday that hackers had breached its systems after the Belarusian hacktivist group known as the Cyber Partisans claimed to attack the organization. The Russian General Radio Frequency Center…
Counterintelligence & Espionage
Swedish authorities arrested two people on suspicion of espionage in a predawn operation Tuesday in the Stockholm area. The authorities gave few details about the case, but Swedish media cited witnesses who described elite police rappelling from two Black Hawk helicopters…
Ukraine's security service has raided a historic monastery in Kyiv in an operation it says was aimed at stopping Russian agents using the site for sabotage, intelligence or weapons. The Kyiv Pechersk Lavra Christian monastery dates back to the 11th Century and is a seat of…
Transnational Organized Crime
A boat with hundreds of asylum seekers that lost steering and had been drifting in the Mediterranean south of the Greek island of Crete has been successfully towed to port, according to Greek authorities. The vessel was towed to the port of Palaiochora…
A secretive trading network set up in Lithuania and Singapore a decade ago might have helped a Belarusian power player to dodge international sanctions, the Belarusian opposition claims based on a joint investigation conducted by two OCCRP member centers…