Daily Intel Brief
Jihadist violence continues to spread throughout Africa, gunmen kill 11 in attack on Russian trainees, and an estimated 55K gang members have been arrested in El Salvador...
Counterterrorism
Jihadists killed at least three soldiers and eight civilian auxiliaries in an attack Saturday in Burkina Faso's volatile north, security sources told AFP. The soldiers, who were patrolling with the auxiliaries, were caught in an ambush in the district of Bouroum, said one source…
Fleeing beheadings, shootings, rapes and kidnappings, nearly 1 million people are displaced by the Islamic extremist insurgency in northern Mozambique. The 5-year wave of jihadi violence in Cabo Delgado province has killed more than 4,000 people and scuppered international…
Military & Defense
Gunmen have killed 11 people in an attack at a Russian military training ground on Saturday. During a firearms training session, two men opened fire on a group who had volunteered to fight in Ukraine, state-owned news agency Ria reported. The attackers were from a former…
Diplomats are calling on Ethiopia ’s federal authorities and their rivals in the northern region of Tigray to agree to a cease-fire as heavy fighting raises growing humanitarian fears. African Union Commission Chairman Moussa Faki Mahamat expressed “grave concern” in a…
Cybersecurity
Chinese president Xi Jinping has opened the 20th Congress of the Chinese Communist Party with a call for the nation he leads to win the race for development of “core technologies” and to become self-reliant in strategic tech. The speech marked a shift in president Xi's language…
INTERPOL has arrested over 70 suspected members of the 'Black Axe' cybercrime syndicate, with two believed to be responsible for $1.8 million in financial fraud. The suspects were arrested as part of 'Operation Jackal,' an international law enforcement operation between…
Counterintelligence & Espionage
At least four people were killed and 61 others were injured after a large fire broke out at a notorious prison housing political prisoners and anti-government activists in Iran's capital, Tehran, the state-run news agency IRNA reported Sunday, citing the country's judiciary…
The Chief Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defence of Ukraine guarantees the payment of 100,000 US dollars for the handover of Igor Girkin (Strelkov), the former "minister of defence of the Donetsk People’s Republic" [Donetsk People’s Republic] and a former leader…
Transnational Organized Crime
Unidentified gunmen have opened fire in a bar in the central Mexican city of Irapuato, killing 12 people, including six women, local authorities said, the second mass shooting in the state of Guanajuato in less than a month. Three people were injured in the attack on Saturday…
More than 55,000 suspected gang members have been arrested since President Nayib Bukele declared a so-called “war” on criminal groups seven months ago, the country’s justice minister has said, as the legislative assembly voted in favour of a further extension of a controversial…