#Counter-terrorism

Articles (12)

• 🇺🇸 ICE says it bought Paragon’s spyware to use in drug trafficking cases — 02/04/2026 [USA]

  The acting director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement told lawmakers that the use of Paragon spyware is necessary to counter terrorists’ “thriving exploitation of encrypted communications pl...

  Related: #Surveillance technology, #Privacy concerns, #Law enforcement capabilities
• 🇬🇧 Pakistan hopes steep cost of airstrikes on Taliban targets will protect against terror attacks — 18/03/2026 [United Kingdom]

  <p>Experts say attacks on Afghanistan are ‘defensive, not offensive’ but carry a risk of spiralling cycle of violence</p><p>An escalating Pakistani campaign of airstrikes against targets in Afghanista...

  Related: #Military strategy
• 🇬🇧 'We will go wherever they hide': Rooting out IS in Somalia — 16/03/2026 [United Kingdom]

  Somalia became a key part of IS's global network after fighters were driven out of strongholds in Syria and Iraq.

  Related: #Security operations
• 🇬🇧 UK counter-terrorism agents granted more time to question men suspected of spying for Iran — 07/03/2026 [United Kingdom]

  <p>Detectives are investigating if alleged surveillance of Jewish locations and individuals is linked to possible attacks on British soil</p><p>Counter-terrorism detectives have been granted more time...

  Related: #Espionage, #National Security
• 🇺🇸 Pakistan Strikes Afghanistan in ‘Open War’ Against Taliban Regime — 27/02/2026 [USA]

  The airstrikes came hours after Afghan troops had attacked Pakistani border positions and follow months of worsening relations between the neighboring countries.

  Related: #Cross-border conflict, #Regional security
• 🇺🇸 Syria moves out last residents of ISIL-linked desert camp — 22/02/2026 [USA]

  Official Fadi al-Qassem says all residents have left al-Hol camp, which long housed relatives of alleged ISIL members.

  Related: #Refugee crisis, #Syrian civil war
• 🇬🇧 Pakistan launches deadly strikes on Afghanistan — 22/02/2026 [United Kingdom]

  Pakistan says the strikes were retaliation for recent suicide bombings in the country.

  Related: #Cross-border conflict, #Civilian casualties, #International law
• 🇺🇸 Australia rejects report it is repatriating families of IS militants from Syrian camp — 21/02/2026 [USA] Related: #National Security, #Government Policy
• 🇺🇸 Power Shift in Syria Upends an Archipelago for ISIS Prisoners — 18/02/2026 [USA]

  America’s Kurdish allies oversaw two dozen sites holding thousands of members of the terrorist group and their families. Their withdrawal has left the system in chaos.

  Related: #Security, #Middle East Politics
• 🇬🇧 How an undercover cop foiled an IS plot to massacre Britain’s Jews – podcast — 16/02/2026 [United Kingdom]

  <p>The Guardian’s community affairs correspondent, <strong>Chris Osuh</strong>,<strong> </strong>reports on the plot by two IS terrorists to massacre Jews in Manchester, and how it was thwarted by an ...

  Related: #Religious extremism, #Undercover operations
• 🇺🇸 U.S. military hits 30 ISIS targets in Syria — 14/02/2026 [USA]

  The strikes were part of Operation Hawkeye Strike, which was launched in retaliation for an ISIS ambush that killed two American soldiers and an interpreter.

  Related: #Military Operations, #Regional Security
• 🇺🇸 Alleged key participant in 2012 Benghazi attack arrested, DOJ says — 06/02/2026 [USA]

  A suspect who was allegedly one of the key participants in the 2012 attack at a U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya, was arrested and brought to the U.S., Attorney General Pam Bondi announced Friday. CB...

  Related: #Justice, #Foreign Policy