Daily Intel Brief
Iran and China expand military cooperation, Poland detains Belarusian spy, and Mexican Special Forces deploy to Tijuana...
Counterterrorism
The recent suicide bomb attack on the Confucius Insitute in the University of Karachi in Pakistan shows that the heavy-handedness with which Islamabad chose to deal with Baloch insurgency has come to haunt Pakistan and also its newly elected government…
Officers arrested the teenager at an address in west London on Wednesday morning as part of an ongoing investigation by the Metropolitan Police Counter Terrorism Command. He was held on suspicion of encouraging terrorism by sharing extreme Islamist material online…
Military & Defense
Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi expressed Wednesday his government’s desire for closer cooperation with China in remarks made during a visit by the Chinese defense minister, state media reported. According to the report, Raisi told China’s Minister of National Defense…
Taiwan's main military drills this year will draw on the experiences of the war in Ukraine, focusing on asymmetric and cognitive warfare as well as use of reserves as it practices fighting off a Chinese attack, a top officer said on Wednesday. Taiwan, claimed by China as its own…
Cybersecurity
Russia hasn’t demonstrated very sophisticated or destructive cyberattacks and Ukraine is able to resist attempts to hack its infrastructure, according to a top Ukrainian cyber official. “Russian cyber offensive operations likely reached their full potential and we do believe the…
A top Army official said the service’s updated cyber security risk management framework will significantly change how the service attacks a glaring, decades-old weakness: bureaucracy. Risk Management Framework 2.0 will get the service “to this notion of continuous…
Counterintelligence & Espionage
Polish intelligence detained a Belarusian and a Russian citizen in Bialystok on charges of espionage, reports TVP. Both detainees have been living in Poland for a long time. According to the media, they were collecting information about military units and their location…
The Malian authorities accused France of “espionage” and “subversion” after videos taken by a drone belonging to the French military showed men covering corpses, in what seemed like a staged mass grave. On April 21, 2022, the French General Staff shared drone footage with…
Transnational Organized Crime
Special Forces personnel of the Mexican Army arrived Tuesday in Tijuana to combat organized crime and to target a specific list of criminals suspected of being behind a wave of violence. For decades, Tijuana has been a battleground for rival cartels, looking to take over…
The Government is fighting a losing battle against the crime gangs behind fly tipping, a new report suggests. There has been a steady rise in organised, large-scale waste crime in England in recent years as incentives for criminals have increased, the National Audit Office (NAO)…