The UK’s terrorism threat level has been downgraded from “severe” to “substantial”. Home Secretary Priti Patel said the move followed a “significant reduction” in the momentum of attacks in Europe – since those seen in Austria and France between September and November 2020. But she stressed that it was kept...
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The US is offering two $10m (£7.4m) rewards for information on anyone responsible for a terror attack on Kabul airport. At least 185 people – including 13 American troops and three Britons – died in the suicide bomb attack during evacuation of the city in August 2021. President Joe Biden...
Statewide Terrorism & Intelligence Center Critical Infrastructure Daily Brief **UNCLASSIFIED ** (U) STIC is providing this information to our partner agencies for situational awareness. This document contains information obtained from open source information. While STIC has gone to great lengths to verify the information found in open source documents on...
Statewide Terrorism & Intelligence Center Critical Infrastructure Daily Brief February 3, 2022 **UNCLASSIFIED ** (U) STIC is providing this information to our partner agencies for situational awareness. This document contains information obtained from open source information. While STIC has gone to great lengths to verify the information found in...
Three convicted terrorists, including Hashem Abedi who is serving life for 22 murders in the Manchester Arena bombing, have been found guilty of a “vicious attack” on a prison officer. Paul Edwards, 57, was attacked in his office in the high security unit of Belmarsh Prison in May 2020. Abedi,...
Armed counter-terrorism officers will be deployed on British cross-Channel ferries for the first time this summer, though government sources said there was no specific threat to passenger vessels. Firearms police from the Civil Nuclear Constabulary (CNC) are to be posted on ferries out of Dover, as well as on passenger...
Seller whose passports have been used by those who illegally crossed Syrian border says: ‘it is not my job to see who is bad’ A booming online industry specialising in fake passports with official visas and travel stamps is offering people with links to Islamic State the opportunity to leave...
US man charged with selling gun used in Texas synagogue siege A man who allegedly sold a gun used by a British man to take hostages at a Texas synagogue has been charged with a federal firearms crime. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-60149144 Terror case dropped against trafficking victim, aged 16 The girl was...
Two men have been arrested in Manchester as part of the investigation into the Texas synagogue attack by British hostage-taker Malik Faisal Akram,. Greater Manchester Police said: “Officers from Counter Terrorism Policing North West are continuing with their investigation following the events in Texas. They are working closely with and...
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