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The United Kingdom's Home Office has updated its CONTEST counter-terrorism strategy, raising the alarm on artificial intelligence (AI) enabled terrorism and the continued threat by Islamic jihadist organizations, such as al-Qaeda and the Islamic State, who still seek to carry out attacks against the country. In a statement, UK Home Secretary Suella Braverman stated that "Islamist terrorism remains the predominant...

The Israel Defense Forces announced Saturday that three of it's soldiers were shot and killed near the border with Egypt. The story as it is currently understood is that an Egyptian police officer crossed the border into Israel, apparently chasing drug smugglers, where somehow a confrontation with an IDF frontier post led to a shootout between the Israelis and the...

The United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has reissued its National Terrorism Advisory System (NTAS) Bulletin, stating that the country remains in a heightened threat environment. https://twitter.com/DHSgov/status/1661441457562026028?s=20 The bulletin states that "Lone offenders and small groups motivated by a range of ideological beliefs and personal grievances continue to pose a persistent and lethal threat to the Homeland. Both domestic violent...

Sayfullo Saipov, the convicted terrorist that killed eight people and wounded 11 others during a truck ramming attack in New York City in 2017, has been sentenced to 10 life terms and an additional 260 years in prison. Saipov immigrated to the United States from Uzbekistan in 2010 under the green card lottery program, where he lived in Ohio and...

The 2023 Global Terrorism Index has finally been released, giving in depth analysis on terrorism and its trends from 2022. You can access the full report here, but I am going to summarize some key points below.   Deadliest Terror Groups Islamic State (ISIS) al-Shabaab Islamic State - Khorasan Province (ISKP) Jamaat Nusrat Al-Islam wal Muslimeen (JNIM) Balochistan Liberation Army (BLA) ...