Counterterrorism
Ukrainian President Zelenksyy has asked the Biden administration to designate Russia as a state sponsor of terrorism, two sources familiar with the discussions told NBC News. Zelenskyy made the request in a recent phone conversation with President Joe Biden…
COVID-19, the climate crisis, the coup d’état in Myanmar, the Russia-Ukraine war, and the China-U.S. competition have dwarfed the relative severity of terrorism. Many would struggle to recall a significant terrorist attack during the COVID-plagued years…
Military & Defense
The death toll from Pakistani military air strikes in the eastern Afghanistan provinces of Khost and Kunar has jumped to at least 47, officials said Sunday, as Islamabad urged Kabul to act against militants launching attacks from Afghan soil. Border tensions between…
North Korea on Sunday said it test fired a new “tactical guided weapon” that it claimed will boost its ability to use nuclear weapons on the battlefield, just a day before the U.S and South Korea begin their annual military drills, which Pyongyang has called provocative…
Cybersecurity
When the London-based billionaire Viktor Prokopenya decided to stop his cryptocurrency exchange group Currency.com serving clients in Russia last week, he did not realise how rapidly the backlash would arrive. Within minutes of the announcement came a torrent of…
The Media Institute of Southern Africa in Malawi (MISA-Malawi), a watchdog group, has accused the Malawi Police Service of hacking a website for the Platform for Investigative Journalism. The accusation comes after the media organization said Thursday that its…
Counterintelligence & Espionage
When a Beijing restaurant manager was approached by Chinese national security authorities last year, he had no clue about the seriousness of an ongoing investigation involving his workplace. He then told others about the probe, ignoring forewarnings about his secrecy…
As Russia’s military wages a more and more brutal campaign against Ukraine, Vladimir Putin’s propagandists are in overdrive. Calls the “annihilation” of Ukraine are shouted ever stronger, and supposed Western plots are growing ever wilder. And what’s worse is that social…
Transnational Organized Crime
Steven Michael Pannhorst's Facebook page shows he got a new job last month. Federal authorities allege he is a member of an Arizona-based white power extremist prison gang whose business — illicit drug and firearm trafficking — has just expanded to Albuquerque…
Cyprus's frozen conflict is providing fertile ground for human traffickers with cases at "alarming" levels in the EU member state, and the breakaway north considered as bad as Afghanistan. "I love her, but at the same time she reminds me about my past," said one…