July, 2020

• 7 July

  Israel's Annexation Plan Will Trigger Violence, Instability Arabs Warn

  Arab governments have warned Israel that plans to annex the West Bank will trigger violence and regional instability. Unilateral annexation could happen as early as July 1, but European states, the United Nations, the Arab League and senior members of the U.S. Democratic Party say the move will harm chances …

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• 7 July

  Kataib Hezbollah in Iraq says it will never surrender weapons

  Kataib Hezbollah in Iraq is riding high after humiliating the Iraqi prime minister this week. After 14 of its members were arrested and then released, it held a victory party at which it burned images of Prime Minister Mustafa Kadhimi and told pro-Iranian media it will never give up its …

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• 7 July

  German intel says Iran 'massively promotes antisemitism, Israel hatred'

  Iran’s clerical regime is a leading sponsor of Jew-hatred, the domestic intelligence agency for the city-state of Berlin disclosed June 25 in a report on antisemitism.

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• 7 July

  Pompeo urges U.N. arms embargo on Iran’s `terrorist regime’

  Calling Iran “the world’s most heinous terrorist regime,” U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo urged the U.N. Security Council on Tuesday to extend the U.N. arms embargo against Tehran, which expires in October, and reject “extortion diplomacy.”

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• 7 July

  How the Boogaloo movement is turning memes into violent action

  Late last month, Steven Carrillo pulled up in an unmarked van outside a federal courthouse in Oakland as protests against police violence raged in the city and opened fire on two security officers posted outside, leaving one of the men dead, according to federal prosecutors. A week later, prosecutors allege, …

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• 7 July

  Trump Got Written Briefing in February on Possible Russian Bounties, Officials Say

  The investigation into Russia’s suspected operation is said to focus in part on the killings of three Marines in a truck bombing last year, officials said. American officials provided a written briefing in late February to President Trump laying out their conclusion that a Russian military intelligence unit offered and …

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• 1 July

  U.S. Military Remains Vulnerable to Infiltration by Violent Extremists

  Bottom Line Up Front Federal prosecutors revealed earlier this week that a United States Army private, 22-year old Ethan Phelan Melzer, conspired to release classified information to a neo-Nazi group called Order of Nine Angles (O9A).

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• 1 July

  Will Western Nations Ever Repatriate Their Citizens in Syria and Iraq?

  Bottom Line Up Front Over the course of the past several weeks, more Western nations have taken steps to repatriate their citizens and children of Islamic State fighters or their family members who may have been born in the caliphate.

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• 1 July

  The Challenges of Effective Counterterrorism Intelligence in the 2020s

  The terrorist threat is vastly different today than it was on 9/11. Social media has empowered extremist movements and terrorist groups to network and organize online, making it far easier for them both to recruit newcomers and to direct or inspire attacks.

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• 1 July

  U.S. State Department Country Reports on Terrorism 2019 Assesses Global Nature of the Threat

  The U.S. State Department issued its annual report outlining country reports on terrorism to provide a global snapshot of the threat landscape, highlighting counterterrorism progress in several key areas while acknowledging that numerous challenges lie ahead.

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