The Biden administration released its strategy to counter domestic terrorism, detailing how the U.S. government plans to respond to the growing threat.
The strategy, the first of its kind, is comprised of four main pillars that each focus on a different aspect of the domestic terrorism threat.
In the recent summit between U.S. President Joseph Biden and Russian President Vladimir Putin, cyberattacks and ransomware were high on the agenda.
According to Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Christopher Wray, cyberattacks from U.S. adversaries are reaching a crisis point.
It took 25-year-old Wardini and her two young children almost two months to travel with smugglers by road from Jordan, through Iran, to western Afghanistan. By the time they were arrested by Afghan border guards, she had burned their Indonesian passports. They were not going home, she told an Indonesian consular officer who visited her in a Kabul prison in 2019. With the end of days near, she and her children, both then under three, would live in “Khorasan, the blessed land”, she said.
Review could reshape cooperation with domestic agencies, consequences for troops’ social media posts, and more.
How do you define extremism? That’s one question the Defense Department is asking itself as it works to implement the first National Strategic for Countering Domestic Terrorism, released by the White House this week.
Reports that a top Chinese official defected to the U.S. have swept Chinese-language media this week. The alleged reason? Sharing sensitive information about COVID-19 origins.
Chinese-language anti-communist media and Twitter are abuzz this week with rumors that a vice minister of State Security, Dong Jingwei defected in mid-February, flying from Hong Kong to the United States with his daughter, Dong Yang.
The European Union (EU) has adopted a new regulation that is designed to crack down on the dissemination of terrorist content online.
Despite safeguards to preserve freedom of speech, the new EU regulation is unlikely to curb potential tension with U.S. free-speech standards.
The new EU regulation can result in the imposition of financial penalties for non-compliance.
Iran and Venezuela appear to be expanding military ties, even beyond joint efforts to evade U.S. economic sanctions.
An Iranian flotilla carrying drones, assault helicopters, and fast-attack boats has entered the Atlantic Ocean, apparently bound for Venezuela.
Iran’s possible introduction of drone technology to Venezuela would enhance Iran’s efforts to project hard power into the Western Hemisphere.
După un an de COVID-19 în care privații au stat la cutie și au făcut bani din teste, guvernul Cîțu a dus mai departe opera lobbystului Victor Costache: au avut pe masă o ordonanță, deocamdată amânată, prin care mai dau un vagon de bani publici sănătății private.
In retrospect, Germany’s much-vaunted Hezbollah ban appears to have been little more than a publicity stunt aimed at silencing critics of the German government’s pro-Iran foreign policy.
Hezbollah has effectively evaded the ban by transferring many of its activities to charities and cultural centers controlled by Iran.
“Le groupe recommande que le Conseil de sécurité charge la Monusco (force de l’ONU en RDCongo) d’améliorer sa capacité de lutte contre les engins explosifs improvisés”, indique son rapport. Les Casques bleus doivent développer leurs “capacités de sensibilisation, de recherche, de détection et d’intervention sur les engins explosifs improvisés”, précisent les experts dans leurs conclusions.