Terrorism Watch

Treasury officials said the school committed 89 sanctions violations tied to tuition payments A famous preparatory boarding school known for its elite sports programs agreed to pay almost $2 million to settle a potential liability lawsuit after allowing two students with alleged ties to a  Mexican cartel  to attend the institution. The U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) announced that IMG Academy, based in Bradenton,  Florida , continued processing tuition payments for the two students, resulting in 89 violations of counternarcotics sanctions over a four-year period. According to OFAC, the transactions allowed sanctioned individuals to conduct business with U.S. persons and access the U.S. financial system. The  Miami Herald  reported that between 2019 and 2025, IMG Academy engaged in transactions involving the property or interests in property of the two individuals, entering into annual tuition agreements with the special...

Wagner, whose brutal methods have been denounced by rights organisations, was Russia's best-known mercenary group. Nearly 100 consultants work for Wagner's influence branch, called Africa Politology. Russia's SVR foreign intelligence agency has taken over mercenary group Wagner's influence operations in Africa after the death of its founder, Yevgeny Prigozhin, according to a new investigation. Wagner, whose brutal methods have been denounced by rights organisations, was Russia's best-known mercenary group. It had a widespread presence in Africa, deploying fighters alongside the armies of countries including Libya and Mali, and also conducted vast disinformation and destabilisation campaigns. After Prigozhin died in a plane crash in 2023 following a short-lived mutiny against Moscow, the Russian defence ministry has sought to replace Wagner in Africa and coordinate security operations through an umbrella group known as the Africa Corps. But it is the SVR that has tak...

Since US President Richard Nixon declared drugs public enemy number one in the 1970s and created the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), regional cooperation with the United States on anti-narcotics has become a central focus of US policy in Latin America. The drug war has defined key dynamics between the United States and countries in the region, including funding, military aid, and diplomatic relations. The form and scope of this cooperation have varied with changing administrations in the United States and countries in the region.  Currently, in  Colombia  and  Mexico , the pressure exerted by Washington has strained rather than strengthened bilateral relations, leading  to a  weakening of the fight against drug trafficking . In other countries, such as  El Salvador  and  Ecuador , Washington has opted to reinforce cooperation and political support with governments that are aligned with its anti-drug strategy. In this interactive map, I...

Miguel Angel Valdez Ruiz allegedly used planes to move cocaine from Ecuador to Mexico, then coordinated smuggling into the U.S. An alleged Sinaloa Cartel member indicted on charges of trafficking cocaine from South America through Mexico and into the United States made his initial appearance in San Diego federal court Tuesday. Miguel Angel Valdez Ruiz, 36, of Sinaloa, allegedly used a fleet of private aircraft to move cocaine from Ecuador to Mexico, then coordinated its importation into the United States, according to the U  ..   Source  Alleged cartel trafficker accused of moving cocaine by private aircraft extradited to San Diego – San Diego Union-Tribune

UPATS and Noida police arrested Sukhwinder Singh Dhillon, a Khalistan Commando Force terrorist, in Mohali after 31 years absconding. A joint team of UPATS and Gautam Buddha Nagar police have arrested an absconding terrorist, belonging to the banned terrorist organization Khalistan Commando Force (KCF), in Punjab’s Mohali. The terrorist apprehended by the joint ATS and Gautam Buddha Nagar police team, identified as Sukhwinder Singh Dhillon alias Dayal Singh alias Rakesh Sharma alias Chhinda, was an active member of the banned terrorist organization Khalistan Commando Force (CCF). The accused, Sukhwinder Singh, was arrested in Gautam Buddha Nagar with an AK-56 rifle and 121 cartridges and was produced before the court in 1993. On December 9, 1993, the court granted bail in the case. After being released on bail on August 16, 1995, he was absconding for nearly 31 years, and an arrest warrant was issued against him by the court. The joint ATS and Gautam Buddha Nagar police team arrested ac...

MANILA — The controversial anti-narcotics campaign launched by former President Rodrigo Duterte and the legal repercussions that followed have reshaped Philippine politics and intensified the global conversation on accountability. As proceedings move forward at the International Criminal Court (ICC), the case has drawn significant international attention, with the rising prospect that Duterte could become the first former Asian head of state to stand trial before the tribunal. DRUG WAR  Anchored on an ambitious promise to eradicate the drug menace within six months, longtime Davao City mayor Rodrigo Duterte was elected as the 16th President of the Philippines in 2016. Even before taking his oath of office, Duterte’s aggressive declaration of a “war on drugs” signaled an aggressive nationwide crackdown that empowered law enforcement to pursue drug suspects with minimal restraint. What followed was a sharp rise in killings during police operations and by unidentified assailants. On D...

Nearly three years into Sudan’s war, violence is intensifying, famine conditions are looming in parts of the country, and civilians remain trapped between shifting front lines, senior UN political and humanitarian officials told the Security Council on Thursday, warning that the risk of further mass atrocities remains alarmingly high. “Just over a month ago, Sudan reached a horrific milestone: 1,000 days of a brutal war that has nearly destroyed the third largest country in Africa,” Rosemary DiCarlo, Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs  said . It has been “ 1,000 days of staggering violence and unimaginable suffering” and “1,000 days of total impunity  for the perpetrators of a long list of atrocities and war crimes.” As the  conflict approaches its third anniversary in April , fighting continues to spread. Ms. DiCarlo said front lines have fluctuated in North Darfur, North Kordofan, South Kordofan and Blue Nile states, with drone attacks and aerial strikes by b...