Day: June 4, 2018

    The EU is split on post-Brexit security cooperation, the UK home secretary has said, as he introduced a new government counter-terrorism strategy with an appeal for Brussels to focus on maintaining strong links. Sajid Javid, outlining the approach, called Contest, in a speech in London, said it would be wrong and reckless for either side to seek a reduction in security and terror cooperation after Brexit. After the speech, Javid said the European commission was seeking to treat the UK as a third country, and that interior ministers he was meeting took a very different view. Security links have been one of the more contested areas of Brexit talks, with Theresa May facing resistance from some in the EU over her desire for a new treaty on cooperation. Officials have a...

    Britain’s youngest female terror plotter has been found guilty of preparing an attack on London with the first all-woman Islamic State cell. Safaa Boular, now 18, secretly discussed the murderous scheme with her sister and mother using coded language which had an Alice in Wonderland tea party theme. Instead of cucumber sandwiches and cakes, her sister Rizlaine, 22, bought a large knife to bring carnage to Westminster in April last year. Boular first began planning a grenade and gun attack on the British Museum when she was thwarted from joining her IS husband in Syria. She passed the baton to her sibling after she was arrested and remanded in custody for trying to travel to the war zone. Following an Old Bailey trial, she was found guilty of preparing acts of ter...

    Britain will face a full spectrum Russian threat for years to come, a new report has claimed. The Kremlin's use of hackers, trolls, paid protesters and misinformation are all part of a destabilisation strategy, Tory MP Bob Seely suggests. In a peer-reviewed report for think tank the Henry Jackson Society, the Conservative MP says the covert and overt forms of malign influence used by Moscow should be termed contemporary Russian conflict. He suggests the Kremlin considers non-military tools to be potentially more powerful than military tools, with instruments such as information warfare, cultural manipulation and social media hacktivism being used to achieve foreign policy goals without the use of direct force. Mr Seely argues Russian President Vladimir Putin views...