Counterterrorism
A teenager from Cardiff has been charged with alleged terrorism offences. Luca Benincasa, aged 19 and from the Whitchurch area, was arrested by officers from the Wales Extremism and Counter Terrorism Unit (Wectu) on Tuesday, a South Wales Police spokesman said…
The FBI has launched a hate crime and violent extremism investigation following a series of bomb threats made this week against more than a dozen Historically Black Colleges and Universities across the nation. Referencing a "nationwide series of bomb threats to…
Iranian dissidents are warning that the brutal regime in Tehran is creating a proxy naval force in the region with which it intends to attack ships and help the embattled Houthi forces in Yemen. The National Council of Resistance of Iran, the umbrella group for those opposed…
Military & Defense
Satellite images reveal a build-up of Russia's military presence in Crimea and western Russia as tensions continue to rise with Ukraine. The pictures show an increase in tents designed to accommodate troops at a number of Russian bases. Previous satellite images have shown that…
The United Kingdom's (U.K.) Royal Air Force said it had to scramble fighter jets in response to four Russian military aircraft approaching the country, The Associated Press reported. The military force said Wednesday that the Russian strategic bombers were "intercepted…
President Joe Biden is ordering 2,000 U.S.-based troops to Poland and Germany and shifting 1,000 more from Germany to Romania, demonstrating to both allies and foes America’s commitment to NATO’s eastern flank amid fears of a Russian invasion of Ukraine…
Cybersecurity
The U.S. Department of State’s Rewards for Justice (RFJ) program, which is administered by the Diplomatic Security Service, is offering a reward of up to $10 million for information on any person who, while acting at the direction of or under the control of a foreign government…
Ukrainian government officials want closer collaboration with NATO’s cyber center of excellence, even after center overseers denied Kyiv a formal membership status last year. The request, and news of its rejection, comes as Ukraine faces potential Russian cyber attacks…
A hacktivist group known as Adalat Ali (Ali’s Justice) has hijacked the web stream of Iran’s state-owned television station, the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB), in order to broadcast an anti-regime message earlier this week. The incident took place on Tuesday…
Counterintelligence & Espionage
Two days after launching an Italian remote sensing satellite from Florida, SpaceX fired off another Falcon 9 rocket from California Wednesday, this one carrying a classified National Reconnaissance Office spy satellite. The company plans another Florida launch Thursday…
Intense directed energy from an external source could have caused some cases of the debilitating so-called "Havana syndrome" among US diplomats, US intelligence said Wednesday, supporting the possibility of deliberate attacks. A panel of technological…
Intelligence-sharing between U.S. and Ukrainian spy agencies has greatly expanded since Russia's 2014 annexation of Crimea, with the two countries exchanging information obtained from eavesdropping on Russian military activities and cooperating on cybersecurity issues…
Transnational Organized Crime
Kazakhstan’s government has always depicted its border with China as a geographical advantage that makes it a natural bridge for international trade. The country, officials are fond of boasting, is the “buckle” in Beijing’s global Belt and Road transport and…
Italian police on Wednesday said they arrested 38 people in a raid targeting a notorious mafia clan in the southern city of Taranto and two other criminal groups. Twenty suspects were remanded in custody and 10 were placed under house arrest, a police statement said…
President Biden is meeting with New York City Mayor Eric Adams on Thursday to discuss the wave of gun violence plaguing America's cities. "Ghost" guns, unregistered and untraceable homemade weapons that can be made with a 3D printer, are partly driving the spike in crime…