カテゴリー: UK security and counter-terrorism
The fate of the woman who left the UK at 15 in search of Islamic State raises wider questions about citizenshipWhile many aspects of UK political polling have shifted drastically since 2019, the public’s view on Shamima Begum has remained largely fixed…
Senior Security Service officers told Commons speaker in private meeting they can tackle espionage risks MI5 officers told the House of Commons speaker at a private meeting that they can tackle the risks of a proposed Chinese super-embassy in London, o…
Man at centre of abandoned spy case has said he reported to Chinese company with clients that wanted ‘to develop trading links with UK’Christopher Berry, the man at the heart of a controversial and now-abandoned Chinese espionage case, appeared to be a…
Stephen Parkinson called on to give ‘fuller explanation’ as MI5 expresses frustration over charges being droppedThe director of public prosecutions has come under intense cross-party pressure to explain why the China spy trial collapsed as MI5 expresse…
Hendi Suhartono was part of a plot to detonate four book bombs and blow up a church in Indonesia. He spent seven years in prison after going through a deradicalisation process. After Hendi was released from prison, he received support to open a kinderg…
First of new vessels expected to be seaworthy by the end of 2030s, with Australia receiving theirs in early 2040sThe UK’s nuclear-powered submarine fleet could double in size as plans were revealed for the new “Aukus” vessels to be based on a British d…
Warning in surveillance commissioner’s report comes after Chinese CCTV cameras banned from government propertyBritish police are leaving themselves open to spying by Beijing because of their reliance on Chinese-made cameras, according to a report from …
UK foreign secretary was speaking at memorial ceremony for victims of 2008 attacks in MumbaiCountries must work together to deprive terrorists of funding in order to prevent deadly attacks, the UK foreign secretary, James Cleverly, has said.Cleverly is…
Lawyers for Jagtar Singh Johal say he was given electric shocks after unlawful arrest in Punjab in 2017A British Sikh campaigner is facing a possible death sentence after the UK intelligence services passed on information about him to the Indian author…
Sir Jeremy Fleming speech says Russia’s president miscalculated the scale of resistanceRussia-Ukraine war: latest updatesVladimir Putin has made a strategic miscalculation in launching the invasion of Ukraine and his advisers are “afraid to tell him th…
Britain’s spy chief has thanked China’s state news agency for ‘free publicity’ after it posted a James Bond spoof that mocked the western intelligence community’s growing focus on threats posed by Beijing. The rare response by the head of MI6, Ric…
Rare response from Richard Moore comes after state news agency posted video mocking western intelligenceThe head of MI6 has thanked China’s state news agency for “free publicity” after it posted a James Bond spoof video in response to a statement he ma…
Newly declassified papers show shocking role played by Britain in slaughterA propaganda campaign orchestrated by Britain played a crucial part in one of the most brutal massacres of the postwar 20th century, shocking new evidence reveals.British offici…
The US has now spent $8 trillion over 20 years in its response to the attacks. But the true price has been more than financialSuccessive US administrations since 2001 have spent $8tn – that’s to say $8,000bn or $8 million million – on what George Bush,…
Ken McCallum says his agency has helped stop six ‘late-stage’ terrorist attacks during pandemicMI5’s chief said the Taliban’s recapture of Afghanistan had given Islamist extremists “a psychological boost” in an interview where he also said the spy agen…