From HSToday: A group of Muslim female Islamic State (ISIS) “Jihad Janes” who’ve been in Syria off and on – including a prominent member believed to be Um Abdullatif, the widow of Australian fighter Mahmoud Abdullatif — are part of an ISIS female brigade called “Al Khansaa” — whose membership some counterterrorism officials believe could […]
From The Hill: This week, Turkey’s Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu arrived in Washington, D.C., and his visit could not come at a more critical time: in the face of a deteriorating security situation in the Middle East. By all accounts, the most pressing issue to be discussed in each of the meetings on his agenda […]
From HSToday: An alarming increase in recent Islamic State-inspired terrorist plots has contributed to rising concerns among counterterrorism officials about Americans and other Westerners traveling to Iraq and Syria to obtain terrorist training and then return home to carry out attacks. Beginning in the early 1990s, law enforcement authorities became increasingly concerned about “lone wolf” […]
From The Washington Post: The Department of Homeland Security plans to open an office in California’s Silicon Valley to recruit talent from the technology sector and build relationships with the industry. Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson announced the program at a major cyber security conference in San Francisco on Tuesday, saying he hopes more specialists […]
From The Wall Street Journal: The Department of Homeland Security said Monday that it will require airports and airlines to tighten the screening of nearly one million workers nationwide who have access to airport facilities without being screened every time they enter secure areas such as baggage sorting rooms, airplane parking areas and maintenance hangars. […]
From Reuters: Pakistan and the United States moved closer to a billion dollar defense deal this week, after U.S. authorities notified Congress of a proposal to supply helicopters and missiles to sharpen up Pakistan’s counter-terrorism efforts. U.S. ally Pakistan, a nuclear-armed nation of 180 million people, is fighting a Taliban insurgency in its northwest, a […]
From The Orange County Register: Just before dawn on a Wednesday morning in late March, more than a dozen Homeland Security agents and local police officers huddled beneath a street light in the parking lot at the Placentia Police Department’s headquarters. Special Agent Mark Johnston led the briefing, telling officers to watch their backs. The […]
From CNN: Russian hackers behind the damaging cyber intrusion of the State Department in recent months used that perch to penetrate sensitive parts of the White House computer system, according to U.S. officials briefed on the investigation. While the White House has said the breach only affected an unclassified system, that description belies the seriousness […]
From Fierce Homeland Security: The United States and allies are focusing on the imminent terrorist threat from the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria now, but they shouldn’t take their eye off of al-Qaeda even though its leader Ayman al Zawahiri has been quiet for months, an expert Atlantic Council panel said recently. The last […]
From The Boston Globe: In Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s trial, the prosecution and defense both agreed on “the who, what, where, and when,” defense attorney Judy Clarke said in closing statements. “We very much disagreed on the why.” The “why” was the focus of arguments during closing statements. For the government, Aloke Chakravarty spoke for just over […]
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