Tag: shadow wars

• French and Russian Influence Operations Go Head to Head Targeting Audiences in Africa

  December 22, 2020

  On December 15, Facebook announced that it had taken down three separate networks that it had discovered for “coordinated inauthentic behavior” that targeted communities across Africa. One, centered on the Central African… more ›

• A U.S.-Backed Militia That Kills Children May Be America’s Exit Strategy From Its Longest War

  December 21, 2020

  The buzz of a drone at night was the first sign of trouble. Next came the roar of a larger, low-flying aircraft, which alerted residents of the Afghan village of… more ›

• FSB Team of Chemical Weapon Experts Implicated in Alexey Navalny Novichok Poisoning

  December 14, 2020

  We have detailed the research methodology for this investigation into a separate article. You can read it here. https://www.bellingcat.com/news/uk-and-europe/2020/12/14/fsb-team-of-chemical-weapon-experts-implicated-in-alexey-navalny-novichok-poisoning/ more ›

• Secret deal reveals how Chinese spies are given free rein in Switzerland

  December 9, 2020

  The full text of a secret deal between Switzerland and China that allowed Chinese security officials access to the country at Swiss taxpayers’ expense has been revealed for the first time as… more ›

• Nayarit and the Making of a Narco State

  November 29, 2020

  Nayarit rarely makes the headlines in Mexico, far less in the rest of the world. But this fall, the arrest of Mexico’s former secretary of defense, General Salvador Cienfuegos Zepeda,… more ›

• Toomas Hendrik Ilves: West is losing Informational war against Russia

  November 15, 2020

  Toomas Hendrik Ilves is the former president and Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Estonia, former Radio Free Europe journalist, a Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University,… more ›

• China Conducts Test Of Massive Suicide Drone Swarm Launched From A Box On A Truck

  October 18, 2020

  China recently conducted a test involving a swarm of loitering munitions, also often referred to as suicide drones, deployed from a box-like array of tubular launchers on a light tactical… more ›

• ‘Machines set loose to slaughter’: the dangerous rise of military AI

  October 18, 2020

  The video is stark. Two menacing men stand next to a white van in a field, holding remote controls. They open the van’s back doors, and the whining sound of… more ›

• The Nagorno-Karabakh conflict is ushering in a new age of warfare

  October 13, 2020

  Drones, sensors and long-range weapons have given one side a clear edge in the conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan. Both Armenia and Azerbaijan, traditional enemies, have been building up their… more ›

• U.S. Commandos Use Secretive Missiles to Kill Qaeda Leaders in Syria

  September 27, 2020

  The specially designed missiles use sharp blades and blunt force, rather than explosive warheads, to kill terrorist leaders. WASHINGTON — U.S. Special Operations forces, with no fanfare, killed a top… more ›