Counterterrorism
Colombian President Ivan Duque on Monday accused former members of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) who reject a peace deal of setting off explosives at a police station which killed two children and injured 39 others in Bogota. The Saturday night attack…
A new report from ADL (the Anti-Defamation League) identifies the Nordic Resistance Movement of Sweden as the region’s most dangerous right wing extremist group, saying that the virulently antisemitic hate group poses “an ongoing and serious public security threat”…
Military & Defense
The Philippines and the United States kicked off on Monday their biggest joint military drills since 2015, underscoring improved defence ties after President Rodrigo Duterte had scaled back some earlier war games to pursue warmer ties with China…
With its aspirations for a quick victory dashed by a stiff Ukrainian resistance, Russia has increasingly focused on grinding down Ukraine’s military in the east in the hope of forcing Kyiv into surrendering part of the country’s territory to possibly end the war…
Cybersecurity
Anonymous has taken Operation OpRussia a step further by targeting MashOil and RostProekt, which happened to be giants in their respective industries. The online hacktivist group Anonymous has claimed responsibility for targeting two Russian companies stealing…
A Ukrainian internet service provider used by the country’s military suffered a massive cyberattack on Monday, Ukrainian officials said, fueling fears that Russia intends to wield more dangerous digital weapons as the war drags into its second month…
Counterintelligence & Espionage
Ukraine's military intelligence on Monday published the names and contact details of 620 people it alleged were officers of Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) involved in "criminal activities" in Europe. Reuters could not verify the information. Russia did not immediately…
In the latest bizarre, troubling development in Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the billionaire Chelsea owner Roman Abramovich and two Ukrainian negotiators appear to have been poisoned at peace talks. Facts are scarce, speculation rife. Abramovich was reported to have…
Transnational Organized Crime
Mexico's armed forces knew that 43 student teachers who disappeared in 2014 were being kidnapped by criminals, then hid evidence that could have helped locate them, according to a report released Monday by special investigation. Evidence obtained by the Interdisciplinary…
With a fifteen-year-old criminal record, alias “El Viejo” — “Felipe” or “Sebastián”, as he was also known — he had a blue Interpol circular when he was captured by the authorities in an operation deployed in the Murrí district in Frontino, West Antioquia. According to the…