Daily Intel Brief
Evacuations begin in Mariupol, Jordanian activists are the newest targets of Pegasus spyware, and a Russian spy plane enters Swedish airspace...
Counterterrorism
As a combatant for the Islamic State group who left his native Morocco to join what he felt was a holy fight in Syria, Mohsin says he saw all the horrors of war. “A terrifying experience,” he says. Now a prisoner, the 38-year-old claims he is no longer the fanatic he was then…
Israeli forces have arrested two suspects over the killing of a guard at a Jewish settlement in the occupied West Bank. The Israeli army said the guard was on duty at the entrance to the Ariel settlement on Friday night when attackers opened fire, fatally wounding him…
Military & Defense
A long-awaited effort to evacuate people from a steel plant in the Ukrainian city of Mariupol has begun, the International Committee on the Red Cross (ICRC) and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Sunday. The operation to bring people out of the sprawling…
Samantha Power, administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development, said the costs of the war in Ukraine include global food and fertilizer shortages, impacting prices for consumers and farmers around the world. "It is just another catastrophic effect of Putin's…
Cybersecurity
Russian “cyber soldiers” have launched a new offensive against foreign leaders, targeting social media platforms with a large-scale disinformation campaign that seeks to legitimize the invasion of Ukraine, according to research funded by the U.K. Paid operatives working from…
Research conducted by digital-rights researchers concluded that four Jordanians' mobile phones were hacked for over two years with Pegasus, a software developed by NSO, an Israeli spyware company. On Tuesday, April 5, 2022, Frontline Defenders and Citizens Lab…
Counterintelligence & Espionage
The European Union has demanded a "proper answer" from Chinese authorities over the arrest of a local employee at its Beijing mission who has been held for eight months. The EU Delegation in China staffer was detained by police in September 2021, the bloc confirmed in…
A Russian reconnaissance plane briefly violated Sweden's airspace on Friday, Swedish defence officials said on Saturday (April 30), as the Scandinavian country ponders a bid for Nato membership after Russia's invasion of Ukraine. "A Russian AN-30 propeller plane violated…
Transnational Organized Crime
New INTERPOL analysis for law enforcement shows the clear involvement of organized criminals in illegal gold mining, taking advantage of surging gold prices and leaving severe environmental degradation in their wake. Gold prices have again risen to multi-year highs in…
Mexican authorities have captured a suspected leader of the powerful Jalisco New Generation Cartel, the navy and the Morelos state prosecutor's office said on Saturday (April 30). Francisco Javier Rodriguez Hernandez, known as "El Senoron" or "XL", was apprehended on…