Posts by MCAC(Maryland Coordination and Analysis Center)
Tests expose worrying flaws in France’s anti-drone system for 2024 Olympics
The anti-drone system Parade has been especially developed to protect the Parisian skies throughout the July 26-September 8 Olympics and Paralympics. But various French media report that the system performed worse than expected during a March exercise. “On two of the sites where Parade was tested, it didn’t work as well as expected. Put in…
Read MoreShip Comes Under Attack Off Coast Of Yemen As Houthi Rebel Campaign Appears To Gain New Speed
A ship traveling in the Gulf of Aden came under attack Thursday, officials said, the latest assault likely carried out by Yemen’s Houthi rebels over Israel’s ongoing war on Hamas in the Gaza Strip. The attack comes after the U.S. military said early Thursday an allied warship shot down a Houthi missile targeting a vessel…
Read MoreFamily Of American Man Believed To Be Held By Taliban Asks The Un Torture Investigator For Help
Lawyers for an American believed to be held by the Taliban for nearly two years are asking a United Nations human rights investigator to intervene, citing what they say is cruel and inhumane treatment. Ryan Corbett was abducted Aug. 10, 2022, after returning to Afghanistan, where he and his family had been living at the…
Read MoreTeen terror suspects had Islamic State beheading and bomb-making videos, court told
Two teenagers arrested in connection with the Wakeley church stabbing had graphic videos of Islamic State beheadings, with one also possessing bomb-making instructions, police allege. A 14-year-old, who stopped attending school in 2022, is among the five young people charged with a range of terrorism and extremism offences after a 16-year-old boy allegedly stabbed Bishop…
Read MoreHamas Official Says Group Would Lay Down Its Weapons If A Two-State Solution Is Implemented
A top Hamas political official told The Associated Press the Islamic militant group is willing to agree to a truce of five years or more with Israel and that it would lay down its weapons and convert into a political party if an independent Palestinian state is established along pre-1967 borders. The comments by Khalil…
Read MoreRural Texas Towns Report Cyberattacks That Caused One Water System to Overflow
A hack that caused a small Texas town’s water system to overflow in January has been linked to a shadowy Russian hacktivist group, the latest case of a U.S. public utility becoming a target of foreign cyberattacks. The attack was one of three on small towns in the rural Texas Panhandle. Local officials said the…
Read MoreAustralian counter terrorism force arrests seven teenagers after Sydney bishop stabbing
An Australian counter terrorism team arrested seven teenagers on Wednesday linked to a boy charged with a religiously-motivated terror attack on a Sydney bishop and questioned another five people. Police said a team of more than 400 police and security personnel were involved in the operation, which arrested associates of a 16-year-old boy charged with…
Read MoreArgentina seeks arrest of Iranian minister over 1994 bombing
Argentina has asked Interpol to issue an arrest notice for the Iranian interior minister, Ahmad Vahidi. The request comes less than two weeks after a court in Argentina held Iran responsible for the 1994 attack on a Jewish community centre in Buenos Aires, in which 85 people were killed. Mr Vahidi was in Pakistan earlier…
Read More2 members of thwarted Hong Kong bomb plot stole chemicals from university laboratory to make explosives, court hears
Two members of a thwarted bomb plot targeting Hong Kong police and civilians at the height of the 2019 anti-government protests stole chemicals from a local university laboratory to make explosives, the High Court has heard. Prosecutor Juliana Chow Hoi-ling also said on Wednesday the only woman of the seven defendants charged under the United…
Read MoreAfrican leaders spearhead efforts to tackle terrorism across the continent
African leaders discussed anti-terrorism solutions on the continent during a high-level security summit in the Nigerian capital Abuja Monday amid a rise in terror attacks. According to the African Center for the Study and Research on Terrorism (ACSRT), Africa witnessed an average of eight terror-related incidents and 44 daily casualties in 2023. The toll included…
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