Daily Intel Brief
70 Russian diplomat staff were expelled from Bulgaria, Turkey agrees to support Finland and Sweden's request to join NATO, and over 50 migrants are found dead in the back of a tractor-trailer...
Counterterrorism
An Egyptian court sentenced 10 people to death and more than 50 others to life in prison on Tuesday after they were convicted of supporting or carrying out attacks against security forces and sabotage of state infrastructure. The prosecution linked the attacks, which took place in…
A 19-year-old man has been arrested in connection with right wing terrorism offences. Counter terrorism detectives arrested the man, from Walsall, on Monday, in Winsford, Cheshire. He was brought to the West Midlands to be interviewed, West Midlands Police…
Military & Defense
Turkey has signed an agreement to support Finland and Sweden's bid for Nato membership. The foreign ministers of Sweden, Turkey and Finland shook hands after signing documents. Nato Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg told reporters that the memorandum addressed…
Japan says it's monitoring an ongoing "show of force" by the Chinese and Russian navies, whose warships have sailed in a circle around the country in recent weeks. The seemingly coordinated operations by China's People's Liberation Army Navy and the Russian Navy's…
Cybersecurity
Canada’s electronic intelligence agency says it’s waging a “long-term” campaign aimed at degrading cyber criminals’ abilities to target Canadian individuals and institutions. The Communications Security Establishment (CSE) has been warning for some time that…
The Group of Seven leaders agreed on Tuesday to strengthen their countries' defences against foreign disinformation and cyber attacks, including threats posed by Russia. "We also commit to further strengthening our internal security in light of transnational threats including those…
Counterintelligence & Espionage
Bulgaria said on Tuesday it was expelling 70 Russian diplomatic staff over espionage concerns and had set a cap on the size of Moscow's representation as tensions between two countries that were once close allies fractured over Ukraine. The move, announced by the foreign…
Ukraine's security service said on Tuesday it arrested a former Soviet KGB agent who helped direct Russian missile strikes that killed over 50 soldiers at a military facility in the country's west in March. The suspect sent the locations of targets at the Yavoriv military training…
Transnational Organized Crime
Homeland Security Investigations has taken the lead in the probe of how dozens of migrants were found inside a sweltering tractor-trailer in southwest San Antonio, resulting in the deaths of at least 50 people. “On June 27, #HSI responded to a call from @SATXPolice regarding…
Ghislaine Maxwell, the jet-setting socialite who once consorted with royals, presidents and billionaires, was sentenced Tuesday to 20 years in prison for helping the financier Jeffrey Epstein sexually abuse underage girls. The stiff sentence was a victory for a group of women…