During a recent visit to Tajikistan, Russian Federal Security Service Director Alexander Bortnikov claimed that around 5,000 militants based in Afghanistan from a group known as Islamic State Khorasan, or IS-K, had been redeployed to …
The beat Facial recognition challenged in UK court The first test case against the use of facial recognition technology by police in Britain has been launched by Cardiff resident Ed Bridges. He’s arguing that the use …
The beat New Zealand police partner with Chinese counterparts Police from Auckland and the Chinese city of Guangzhou have partnered for a training and information- sharing exercise in New Zealand. Concerns have been raised over …
The Easter Sunday bombings in Sri Lanka rank among the deadliest terrorist attacks in modern history, and underscore the metastasising scourge of Islamist violence in Asia. Radical Islamist groups, some affiliated with larger extremist networks, …
As though Afghanistan’s problems couldn’t get any worse, the UN Office on Drugs and Crime’s most recent Afghanistan opium survey (released in November last year) was a stark reminder of the challenges facing the war-torn …