Daily Intel Brief
14 elementary school students and 1 teacher were killed in a mass shooting, an ISIS affiliate planned to assassinate George W. Bush, and NK fires missiles toward the Sea of Japan...
Counterterrorism
An Iraqi citizen with suspected ties to the Islamic State was arrested in Ohio and charged with a plot to kill former President George W. Bush, the Justice Department announced Tuesday. Shihab Ahmed Shihab Shihab, 52, appeared in federal court in Columbus on Tuesday…
A gunman killed 15 people – 14 of them children – at a Texas elementary school, Gov. Greg Abbott said Tuesday. It marks the deadliest school shooting in the state's history. Abbott said the 18-year-old shooter walked into Robb Elementary School in Uvalde around noon Central…
Military & Defense
North Korea fired three ballistic missiles towards the Sea of Japan early Wednesday, Seoul's military said, just one day after President Joe Biden wrapped up his first Asia visit as US leader. South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff said in a statement that it had "detected at…
Russia and China conducted a joint military operation involving nuclear-capable bombers while President Joe Biden was in Japan. The drills took place on Tuesday when Biden was in Tokyo for the Quad leaders summit that includes leaders from the United States, Japan…
Cybersecurity
Vassily Nebenzia, a Russian representative to the United Nations (U.N.), accused Western democracies of being one-sided and influencing the public to think negatively about his country, calling it a “Russophobic information campaign,” according to Business Insider…
Tens of thousands of seemingly hacked files from China’s remote Xinjiang region provide fresh evidence of the abuse of mostly Muslim ethnic Uyghurs in mass detention camps there, which included a shoot-to-kill policy for escapees, according to a report from a rights group…
Counterintelligence & Espionage
In a string of recent indictments, the U.S. Department of Justice is cracking down on Chinese state-backed repression of U.S.-based dissidents. Why it matters: The Chinese government has spent decades harassing and trying to silence its critics abroad. Now the U.S. government is…
Never before have Western economic sanctions proliferated in such numbers. More have been slapped on entities connected to Russia since its invasion of Ukraine on February 24th than had been applied to entities worldwide in the previous decade, says Paul Feldberg, a partner…
Transnational Organized Crime
Extreme socioeconomic inequality, weak central governments, organized crime, and the vast profits generated by cocaine have inflamed geopolitical instability in Latin America for decades. That confluence of factors has created a fertile environment for illegal armed groups…
Gunmen killed 11 people in an apparent gangland revenge attack on a hotel and two bars in Mexico's central city of Celaya, authorities said Tuesday. The attack late Monday claimed the lives of eight women and three men, and left another person wounded, according to the…