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By Ben Farmer West Africa has become the global epicentre of Islamist jihadism, with fighters linked to the Islamic State group and al-Qaeda now strong enough to threaten local states, a new analysis warns. The expansion has been made possible by increasingly sophisticated weapons and tactics, including the use of…
By Isabella Egerton Western governments and NATO allies remain dangerously exposed because cyber security, counter-drone operations and missile defence are still being treated separately, despite modern warfare increasingly merging all three domains, a new report has warned. The report, entitled Converging Defences, argues that the war in Ukraine and the ongoing…
By Andre Pienaar A pattern has taken shape on the streets of north-west London that British counter-terrorism policing can no longer describe as opportunistic antisemitism. In the space of roughly five weeks, synagogues, Jewish charities, a Jewish emergency medical service, Iranian dissident media, and the perimeter of the Israeli Embassy…
Iran and North Korea are using artificial intelligence to avoid sanctions allowing hostile states to run complex financing schemes with little human involvement, according to a new report by the Royal United Services Institute. The report called, Algorithms of Evasion: The Rise of AI-Enabled Proliferation Financing, says countries under sanction…
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British Intelligence chiefs have uncovered the secrets of Russia’s most sophisticated operational tank.
How Prince Charles and the Prime Minister must together thwart China.
South Africa could be risking secondary sanctions from Russian jet loophole.
By yielding Commonwealth markets to Beijing, the UK risks unnecessarily diminishing King Charles’ future influence across the African continent.
The Ukraine War is on the brink of escalating into a conflict between three with Belarus poised to join.
Xi is waging a high-stakes hostile takeover attempt of the Commonwealth.
The movers and shakers from the biggest political party in the world – the 96 million-members who make up the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) – will gather in Beijing this Sunday, and for one man among the 2,296 delegates it promises to be history-defining. China’s 20th National Congress is expected to approve its leader Xi Jinping by a landslide vote to serve a historic third term, making him the most powerful leader China has had since Mao Zedong. But despite local weather forecasts predicting sunshine, with temperatures at a steady average of 21 degrees Celsius, storm clouds are already gathering…
Are we facing nuclear Armageddon? What might precipitate the ultimate nightmare scenario? Joe Biden is worried. On October 6 the US President used the A-word, warning Vladimir Putin that any use of a tactical nuclear weapon in Ukraine risked cataclysmic consequences. Ukraine fills our minds, naturally, but it is not the only potential nuclear flashpoint. Lest we forget, one such flashpoint just issued a reminder and not for the first time. On October 4, North Korea test-fired a missile. That’s hardly news. This year Pyongyang has launched no fewer than 46 projectiles on 29 separate occasions – an unprecedented pace.…
DISTURBING pictures have emerged of Ukrainian children in Russia-occupied Mariupol being trained in the use of firearms and mine sweepers The images were passed to National Security News by the Oleksandr Merezhko, the chair of the Ukrainian Foreign Affairs Committee and an expert in International Law, who described Russia’s so-called “patriotic military” summer camps as an “appalling” attempt at brainwashing. The images have been posted on the Mariupol city council telegram account and appear to be supported by articles which have appeared in pro-Putin publications, which described the children as attending “Young Vigilante” training in self-defence. Missing from the majority…
As the recently departed Queen Elizabeth II ascended the throne on her Coronation Day on June 2nd 1953, she spoke memorably of the living strength of the Commonwealth, as well as of “societies old and new; of lands and races different in history and origins but all, by God’s Will, united in spirit and aim.” Now King Charles III, her eldest son at 73 years of age, faces the history-defining challenge of keeping the Commonwealth as one when it seems that it will take considerably more than a divine decree to keep it united. In the week when it was…
Vladimir Putin has been warned that his rag tag army of exhausted conscripts and demoralised mercenaries are in no fit state for him to deploy tactical nuclear weapons in the Ukraine. General David H. Petraeus, a former top U.S. commander in Iraq and Afghanistan, said that although regular troops had historically been trained to operate on a nuclear battlefield, the Russian president’s current forces were not up to the task. General Petraeus added that the localised nuclear option – which many see as a last desperate throw of the dice by Putin – would also render the affected areas as impassable to Russian…
Dual national Britons based in Russia face being called up to fight in Ukraine, western officials have warned An estimated 4,000 British people currently living in Russia have also been warned to leave the country as soon as possible. The actual number of dual British-Russian passport holders in Russia is unknown but sources have suggested that the number could be in the high hundreds. The warning follows updated UK travel advice from western officials who said that British nationals holding Russian passports should be aware that they face the possibility of being called up as part of President Putin’s mobilisation…
