29 OCTOBER 2026 A man has been convicted of petrol-bombing a hotel housing migrants in Islington, following a fast-paced Met investigation which used CCTV to track him from the scene to the door of his flat. Mark Neville pleaded guilty at Snaresbrook Crown Court on Wednesday, 28 October. ...
Security Alerts
BIain McDowell, Mike McBride and Keiron Tourish, BBC News Northern Ireland 27 October 2026 Police believe dissident republicans may be responsible for a “viable postal device” which was delivered to a hotel in Londonderry. Ammunition Technical Officers (ATO) were tasked to the hotel at Ebrington Square in the Waterside after the package was...
Wednesday 28 October 2026 10:00, UK A man carrying knives has been killed by police after attacking an officer outside the Israeli embassy in Belgrade. Serbian police said the unidentified man, a minor, who shouted Allahu Akbar, or “God is great” in Arabic, was shot dead just after midnight....
Tuesday 27 October 2026 13:32, UK Two British men have been charged with national security offences following an incident at RAF Fairford last month. Mohmed Abdulkarim, 24, and Nouman Essghir, 24, were charged under the National Security Act 2023. Abdulkarim, of London, has been charged with assisting a...
Monday 26 October 2026 Three men have been arrested after a deadly attack on a church in Jordan last week. Nine people were killed and dozens wounded when a Greek Orthodox Church in Karak was struck during a funeral on Friday. Located south of the Middle Eastern country’s capital,...
Footage broadcast on state TV shows three attackers approaching Greek Orthodox church and firing shots Reuters in Al-Mushairfeh Sat 24 Oct 2026 15.24 BST Nine people have been killed after gunmen opened fire at a funeral at a church in Jordan in a rare attack on the country’s Christian minority....
Jack Burgess and Paul Kirby, BBC Europe 23 October 2026, 12:09 BST One person has been killed and four others wounded in a gun attack in a Parisian suburb which police have said they are treating as a terrorist incident. Several drive-by shootings took place on Friday – first in Trappes...
Tara Mewawalla, BBC News 22 October 2026 Members of the public and businesses need to think more about how they would cope with natural disasters, cyber-attacks or state-sponsored terrorism, the defence secretary has said. Wes Streeting warned people needed to be more aware of emerging risks facing the UK...
Ella Kipling, BBC News 21 October 2026 A teenager who was 16 when he was arrested at Heathrow Airport has been jailed after being convicted of providing cyber-security support to groups including al-Qaeda. Yusuf Shah, from Ilford, was also found to have downloaded documents including instructions on how to...
Tiffanie Turnbull, BBC News Sydney 19 Oct 2026 As increasingly frequent acts of violence against politicians have shocked the globe in recent years, Australia has watched on with a contradictory feeling: that attacks like that could not happen here, and that it was only a matter of time until...
The Conversation
No. 1Martyn’s Law: the last six months before the clock starts
No. 2After Leipzig: the drone threat is no longer theoretical
No. 3Sabotage-for-hire: why your company is now on a hostile state’s target list
No. 4Younger, faster, less ideological: the new radicalisation curve
No. 5The chatbot in the attack cycle: what the evidence on AI and terrorism actually shows
No. 6From Heaton Park to HAYI: the state-terror hybrid
No. 7Cars and blades: why low-tech attacks remain the hardest to stop
No. 8The executive as target: protective intelligence after Thompson
No. 9Islamic State’s southern pipeline: why the Sahel is now Europe’s problem
No. 10The hoax as a weapon: this week’s aviation bomb threats
No. 11When the freezer is the target: cyber-physical convergence
No. 12The insider for hire: how criminals and states now buy their way in
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