Pakistan on Wednesday appointed lieutenant general Nadeem Anjum as the new director-general of Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI). Anjum will head the spy agency which was earlier headed by lieutenant general Faiz Hameed [https://theprint.in/world/pakistan-army-transfers-isi-chief-faiz-hameed-appoints-him-as-peshawar-corps-commander/746305/] . Hameed, who held the ISI chief post since 2019, was appointed as commander

Insight by Evarist Chahali [https://twitter.com/chahali], intelligence analyst. On 05 October 2017, well organized attacks in Cabo Delgado (Mozambique) gave way to warning calls that Southern Africa has crossed the threshold into an Islamist organized extremist footprint. The purpose of th insight is not to provide an in-depth

July 29, 2021 The Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) is a long-standing insurgent group with Ugandan roots that is currently operating in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). While the ADF’s ideology has historically contained some Salafi-jihadist elements, it has also recruited along secular ethnic lines and is deeply

Investigation Exclusive: It’s like a prize winning Hollywood script. Spies go inside, navigate the supposedly foolproof financial system of the telecom company and get away undetected. Mission? The secret agents breach the covert telecom system, seeking to probe numerous claims of tax evasion levelled against the firm. The spies

Chiefs and directors of military intelligence from East African Community (EAC) partner states on Monday, September 20, began a two-day meeting in Kigali to review the regional security situation and consider what could be the best way to deal with common threats. The quarterly meeting now hosted by Rwanda is

Swedish newspapers, including Aftonbladet and Expressen, reported that a former Swedish security police chief had been arrested for spying on behalf of the Iranian regime between 2011 and 2015. His arrest once again highlights the need for a joint-European action to address the Iranian regime’s terrorism. As identified by

CAIRO (AP) — Five intelligence officers were killed in a shootout Tuesday with suspected Islamic State group militants in Sudan’s capital Khartoum, authorities said. The General Intelligence Agency said in a statement the suspected militants opened fire on forces who raided their hideout in the Gabra neighborhood in southern Khartoum.

The person who carried out espionage for Armenia has been arrested, Trend reports referring to the website of the State Security Service of Azerbaijan. According to the information, the State Security Service continues to carry out comprehensive measures to timely identify and prevent threats to the interests of Azerbaijan'

For weeks, Israeli media hasreported [https://outline.com/xYKsde?utm_campaign=Ujasusi&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Revue%20newsletter] that the incoming Shin Bet chief is “R.” He will assume his post next month. Under rules of military censorship, all agents of the intelligence agencies may not be

MI6 bosses have written to serving and ex-members of our intelligence services telling them to call a hotline if “tapped up” by President Putin’s spooks wanting to corrupt them. British spies are on red alert amid fears Russian agents are plotting to corrupt them. MI6 bosses wrote to serving

THE EUROPEAN UNION HAS summoned the chief Georgian envoy to Brussels, in response to allegations that European, American and other diplomats were spied on by the Georgian security services. The allegations have emerged from an extensive collection of documents, which were released to the media by an anonymous whistleblower earlier

The Russian president’s personal security unit is the best-staffed and best-trained team in the country. We summed up all the information (that we know) about how Putin’s personal escort operates.Months before Vladimir Putin leaves his residences to appear in public anywhere, his security team is already afoot.

> #Tanzania [https://twitter.com/hashtag/Tanzania?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw]: there are reports of an attack by suspected ISCAP terrorists in Mahurunga village, Mtwara district which borders Mozambique. Several houses burnt, but no reports of casualties so far. The attackers crossed the border from Cabo Delgado

It’s a lucrative gig for content creators, who can make $10 to $15 a day by smearing journalists and activists on social media. ON MAY 18 of this year, the insidious hashtag #AnarchistJudges appeared on Kenyan Twitter timelines. Apparently driven by a number of faceless bots, and retweeted by

Uganda’s immediate past domestic spymaster, Col Kaka Bagyenda, last evening claimed that some state actors were framing him as the mastermind of a spate of macabre killings in Greater Masaka region by machete-wielding squads. The claims by the ex-director general of the Internal Security Organisation (ISO) came amid reports,

AMID EVER-INCREASING GOVERNMENT internet control, surveillance, and censorship in Iran, a new Android app aims to give Iranians a way to speak freely. Nahoft, which means “hidden” in Farsi, is an encryption tool that turns up to 1,000 characters of Farsi text into a jumble of random words. You

The government of Kenya has established a specialized university to train its spies. The move is aimed at ensuring that the agents stay ahead of the current and emerging security challenges through advanced intelligence gathering. Education Cabinet Secretary Prof. George Magoha announced the establishment of the institution through a gazette

If you’ve recently been out to the cinema to see No Time To Die [https://www.ladbible.com/tv-and-film?utm_campaign=Ujasusi&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Revue%20newsletter] and fancy yourself as something of a James Bond [https://www.ladbible.com/uk-entertainment?utm_campaign=Ujasusi&

> #DRC [https://twitter.com/hashtag/DRC?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw] -#ISIS [https://twitter.com/hashtag/ISIS?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw] - Photos : Members of the Islamic State attacked the town of Komanda in the Ituri region of the Democratic Republic of the

A member of the city council of The Hague has been arrested and accused of planning to carry out a terrorist attack on Dutch prime minister Mark Rutte. Arnoud Van Doorn protests his innocence. He was arrested on Sunday in the Benoordenhout district of the city, where his mother lives.

BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 2,154, September 17, 2021 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: The new president of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Ebrahim Raisi, has selected cleric Esmail Khatib as Minister of Intelligence. Khatib is a radical Islamist with close ties to both Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and the Islamic Revolutionary

The opposition People Power Party (PPP) is accusing Park Jie-won, chief of the National Intelligence Service (NIS), of conspiring with a whistleblower to derail the presidential candidacy of Yoon Seok-youl. The whistleblower, Cho Sung-eun, claims Yoon meddled in the April 2020 general elections while serving as prosecutor general. As a

An appeals court on Friday sentenced Won Sei-hoon, South Korea’s former intelligence chief, to nine years in prison in a retrial of a political meddling case. The Seoul High Court sentenced Won, who headed the National Intelligence Service (NIS) from 2009-13 under former President Lee Myung-bak, to nine years

An Austrian-Jordanian has been appointed to head of the country’s new security agency, following harsh criticism of the previous institution’s failure to prevent an attack by an alleged Islamic State (IS) sympathiser. The appointment of Omar Haijawi-Pirchner as head of the Directorate of State Security and Intelligence (DSN)