Got questions about the terrorist threat in 2023? Join me Jan 10 for a conversation + Q&A with NCTC Director Christine Abizaid ⁦Office of the DNI⁩. Livestream ⁦Washington Institute⁩

🧵Notable defense news in the Middle East over the last week:

The Independent Review of Prevent has been published today. More on that to come, but there is a key mistake on p.3, which claims all UK attacks since 2019 have been "Islamist in nature" They have not.

U.S.-designated #Hezbollah financier Mohammad Bazzi was arrested in Romania & faces extradition to U.S. on sanctions evasion charges. Who is Bazzi? It's all here in Washington Institute interactive map/timeline on #Hezbollah worldwide activities. This backgrounder 🧵explains 👇

Proud to share my recent analysis for Washington Institute -- a look at a new Turkish media genre and how it is fanning anti-refugee sentiments. Read here: washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysi…

Today Homeland Security launched a website today to assist state & local partners to steer individual off the pathway to terrorism and radicalization. Check out their Prevention Resource Finder here dhs.gov/prevention

On April 19 at 2pm ET, tune in for the latest Washington Institute CT Lecture Series event with State Dept CT Bureau Deputy Coordinator for Countering Violent Extremism and Terrorist Detentions Ian Moss, discussing "Repatriation from Northeast Syria and the Effort to Counter Violent Extremism"

Arrest of Jordanian MP smuggling guns underscores Israel’s smuggling problem - my latest with Lauren von Thaden Washington Institute based on our joint research for a larger forthcoming study washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysi…

TARRIO: GUILTY OF SEDITIOUS CONSPIRACY

As always, anticlimactic from Putin: - Any attempts to start a mutiny will fail. - An armed mutiny would have been suppressed anyway. Perpetrators must've known about this. - By betraying their country, they also lied and forced others to kill their own soldiers. - All the

Between 2013 & 2019 approx. 53,000 men, women, & children, traveled to #ISIS’s so-called caliphate to join the group & support its activities. Today more than 60,000 are still in detention. What steps and stumbles could lie in the future? #repatriation youtube.com/watch?v=GYyHmu…

In the July 2023 cover story of CTC Sentinel Matthew Levitt & Lauren von Thaden take a deep dive into Israel's counter-smuggling challenges and the security/CT implications. Important reading.

Guns, Drugs & Smugglers: A Recent Heightened Challenge at Israel’s Borders with Jordan & Egypt In this new U.S. Military Academy at West Point CTC Sentinel study Lauren von Thaden & I explore the smuggling challenge along these borders ctc.westpoint.edu/guns-drugs-and… A thread 🧵👇

In a new report for CTC at West Point, Matthew Levitt and Lauren von Thaden examine the challenges facing #Israel at its borders with #Jordan and #Egypt. Read more: washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysi…

BREAKING: Judge Kelly has sentenced Enrique TARRIO to *22 years* years in prison, calling him the clear, singular leader of a seditious conspiracy that threatened the transer of power.

Check out my new 15-page research paper with Sarah Cahn: “Exploiting a ‘Vast Jihad Arena’: The Islamic State Takes Territory in Mali” washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysi…

New episode of ‘Breaking Hezbollah’s Golden Rule’ dropped today. Hear from CT operatives on the ground about #Hezbollah operations in Southeast Asia. Washington Institute A thread washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysi…

New: The cover story for CTC at West Point's newest issue, co-authored by myself & Matthew Levitt on "The Road to October 7: Hamas’ Long Game, Clarified" Washington Institute ctc.westpoint.edu/the-road-to-oc…

Curious about our new map & timeline of Iranian external operations & how to use it? Here's the origin story & user guide Washington Institute washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysi…