Daily Intel Brief
A mass shooting occurred at a July 4th parade in IL, the U.S. has found that Israeli military gunfire likely killed Shireen Abu Akleh, and the British Army's Youtube and Twitter was hacked...
Counterterrorism
At least five people are dead and 19 were taken to hospitals after a shooting at a July Fourth parade in a Chicago suburb, police said. The shooting in Highland Park disrupted the annual parade just after it began at 10 a.m. Highland Park Police said in a statement that five…
A gunman who killed three people when he opened fire in a crowded shopping mall acted alone and apparently selected his victims at random, Danish police said Monday, all but ruling out that the attack was related to terrorism. Authorities filed preliminary charges of…
Military & Defense
The United States has concluded that gunfire from Israeli military positions likely killed Palestinian American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, the State Department said Monday, though it added that there was "no reason to believe" her shooting was intentional…
Russia's military deaths in Vladimir Putin's ongoing war have surpassed 36,000, Ukraine's armed forces said Monday, as Moscow claimed a major victory after appearing to take control of the Luhansk region. Ukrainian officials regularly provide updates on Russian military…
Cybersecurity
NATO has announced plans to develop virtual rapid response capabilities “to respond to significant malicious cyber activities.” The plans were unveiled in a declaration published following the NATO Summit in Madrid, Spain, last week. The latest summit took on extra…
Both the British Army’s Facebook and Twitter accounts were hacked and used to promote cryptocurrency scams, the UK Ministry of Defence confirmed on Sunday. It’s unclear when exactly hackers took over the two accounts, but they both appear to be back to normal now…
Counterintelligence & Espionage
A renowned Russian scientist with terminal cancer died two days after being taken from his hospital bed on espionage charges, his family said on Sunday. Dmitry Kolker, 54, died on Saturday in a Moscow hospital. He had been transferred to the hospital from a prison in the…
The Security Service of Ukraine has announced that it has neutralised a group of Russian agents who had been gathering intelligence on the defence of the Black Sea regions. "During a special operation in Mykolaiv Oblast, 3 deeply covert enemy agents were detained…
Transnational Organized Crime
Forced labor and irregular migration have been added to the scope of crimes that Turkey and Azerbaijan will work together to tackle, in addition to human trafficking and migrant smuggling, Deputy Foreign Minister Yavuz Selim Kıran said Monday. At the last meeting of…
A series of shootouts between migrant smugglers and Cuban armed forces suggest that organized crime groups may be shifting their human smuggling tactics between the Caribbean island and the United States. On June 28, the Cuban Interior Ministry announced that at…