Iranian intelligence services and Revolutionary Guards operatives are recruiting teenagers through criminal intermediaries to launch a wave of low-level “hybrid warfare” attacks in Europe and the UK, according to investigators, security officials, analysts and police documents. A first wave of attacks was launched in early March, 10 days after the US and Read more
It took just over an hour after the horrific knife attack on two British Jewish people in Golders Green, north London, for an Iran-linked terror group, Harakat Ashab al-Yamin al-Islamia (HAYI), to make a claim of responsibility on a Telegram channel. Counter-terror police are aware of the initial posting – Read more
A dangerous dissident republican group, the New IRA, which is allegedly linked to Iran and Hezbollah, claimed responsibility Tuesday for a car bomb outside a Belfast police station before warning of further attacks, according to reports. The blast targeted a Police Service of Northern Ireland station in Dunmurry, and police increased patrols after the group threatened Read more
The Congress of Local and Regional Authorities of the Council of Europe has expressed alarm at the state of local democracy in Georgia, a longstanding and important member of the Council of Europe. The Congress found local democracy to be in jeopardy, amid rapid democratic backsliding, high polarisation, one-party rule Read more
Council of Europe’s Congress debates focus on plethora of issues affecting towns and regions