Daily Intel Brief
Burkina Faso's leader agrees to step down after coup, soldiers in El-Salvador encircle a town in search of a gang member, and torture sites were found in the Ukrainian town of Izium...
Counterterrorism
A Pakistani soldier serving as a U.N. peacekeeper in the Democratic Republic of Congo was killed in a militant attack in the country's volatile east, the military said. A group of six militants reached the United Nations' permanent operation base in the district of Minembwe…
An attack by armed separatists on a police station in a southeastern city has killed 19 people, including four members of Iran’s elite Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. The assailants in Friday’s attack hid among worshippers near a mosque in the city of Zahedan, capital of…
Military & Defense
The first time the Russian soldiers caught him, they tossed him bound and blindfolded into a trench covered with wooden boards for days on end. Then they beat him, over and over: Legs, arms, a hammer to the knees, all accompanied by furious diatribes against Ukraine…
Burkina Faso's military leader, who was ousted in a coup on Friday, has formally agreed to step down, religious and community leaders said. They said the country's new self-declared leader, Capt Ibrahim Traoré, had Lt Col Paul-Henri Damiba's resignation and conditions he…
Cybersecurity
An elite Chinese hacking group with ties to operatives indicted by a US grand jury in 2020 has surged its activity this year, targeting sensitive data held by companies and government agencies in the US and dozens of other countries, according to an expert at consulting giant…
Mexican president Andrés Manuel López Obrador confirmed a widely reported cyberattack on Friday that leaked sensitive documents and emails from several militaries across Central and South America. About two weeks ago, hackers with the environmental collective…
Counterintelligence & Espionage
CIA websites so flawed that even an "amateur" could find them led to the deaths of dozens of assets in China and Iran, research has found. Security experts with the Citizen Lab at the University of Toronto conducted a study into a web of "covert" U.S. websites after being…
A government board advised President Joe Biden to declassify a full U.S. intelligence report on Jamal Khashoggi’s murder, but months later, the president has yet to do so. The bipartisan panel, which oversees national classification and declassification policy, recommended in…
Transnational Organized Crime
More than 2,000 soldiers and police surrounded and closed off a town in El Salvador Sunday in order to search for street gang members accused in a killing. The large-scale encirclement of the town of Comasagua is the latest example of heavy-handed tactics by the government to…
Deep in the jungles of Petén, a department in the extreme north of Guatemala, a group of elite park rangers and military officials were waiting in silence, chest-down on an anthill. They were hiding in order to ambush a group of illegal loggers seeking a much sought-after…