Counterterrorism
The UN Security Council has strongly condemned Tuesday's terrorist attack against a school and an education center in Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan. According to the statement issued by council president for the month of April, Barbara Woodward, the council members…
A juvenile male living in the United Kingdom was arrested related to his alleged involvement connected to telephonic threats made to multiple locations, including several Scottsdale schools and businesses, on April 8 and April 11. U.S. Immigration and Customs…
Military & Defense
Ukraine's military said on Wednesday that Russian forces have made attempts to storm the seaport and Azovstal steel plant in the southeastern Ukrainian port city of Mariupol. Most of Mariupol is under Russian control, but Ukraine's president said on Wednesday that…
Six people died and 27 more sustained injuries after a fire broke at a defense research facility in the northwestern Russian city of Tver on Thursday, authorities of the Tver regions said. The fire erupted in an administrative building of the Aerospace Defense…
Cybersecurity
Two world wars had raged within three decades, costing over 100 million lives, when history’s most destructive weapon was deployed in August 1945. The horrific prospect of nuclear-fueled, mutually assured destruction has kept superpowers in check since then, and a cyber…
Parallels between this modern cyber arms race and the race to nuclear capabilities that plagued the previous century have been exhausted, to encapsulate the rapid expansion and increasing volatility of the cyber threat landscape in recent years. In the past year alone…
Counterintelligence & Espionage
In a rare and significant move, two U.S. Air Force RC-135S Cobra Ball intelligence-gathering aircraft reportedly flew toward the east coast of Russia on Wednesday, around the same time the Kremlin test-fired its "superweapon" Sarmat intercontinental ballistic missile…
Spies actively working for Russian President Vladimir Putin have most likely infiltrated US intelligence, former CIA and FBI officers have reportedly said. Former intelligence officials apparently gave their read on the situation in interviews with ex-federal prosecutor and…
Transnational Organized Crime
Honduras extradited former President Juan Orlando Hernández to the United States on Thursday to face drug trafficking and weapons charges in a dramatic reversal for a leader once touted by U.S. authorities as a key ally in the war on the drugs. Just three months after…
A Chinese man was sentenced to more than four years in prison Thursday after admitting that he fraudulently tried to get $20 million in federal coronavirus-relief funds meant to rescue distressed businesses. U.S. District Judge Richard M. Berman announced the four-year…