News from June 2020
By State Newswire | Jun 24, 2020
Release: North Macedonia. Overview: North Macedonia cooperated with U.S. CT efforts and was a member of the Global Coalition to Defeat ISIS. With no terrorist attacks in 2019 and no reported departures of its citizens to join ISIS, the main terrorism threat North Macedonia faced consisted of returned FTFs from ...
By State Newswire | Jun 24, 2020
Release: Azerbaijan. Overview: In 2019, the Azerbaijani government actively worked to deter, detect, and defeat terrorist efforts to move people, money, and materials across its land and maritime borders and within the South Caucasus. Azerbaijani law enforcement and security services conducted operations to disrupt ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 24, 2020
News Release: SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - On June 17, 2020, a Federal Grand Jury in the District of Puerto Rico returned a 43-count indictment charging Sophia Piñeiro-Ruscalleda, Dr. Alice Ruscalleda-Lebrón and Juan José Ruscalleda, former officials of New Health Med Group, Inc. (NHMG), with health care fraud, aggravated...
By State Newswire | Jun 24, 2020
News Release: Bahrain. Overview: There were no successful terrorist attacks in Bahrain in 2019, but domestic security forces conducted numerous operations to preempt and disrupt attack planning. The Government of Bahrain (GOB) is a member of the Global Coalition to Defeat ISIS and supported U.S. government counterterrorism...
By State Newswire | Jun 24, 2020
Release: Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. On Nov. 20, 2017, the Secretary of State designated the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) as a State Sponsor of Terrorism. The Secretary determined that the DPRK government repeatedly provided support for acts of international terrorism, as the DPRK...
By State Newswire | Jun 24, 2020
News Release: Democratic Republic of the Congo. Overview: Rebel group Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) established ties with ISIS in late 2018. Before its ISIS affiliation, the ADF previously attempted outreach to Islamist terrorist groups for multiple years, including online posts by some ADF members in 2016 and 2017...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 24, 2020
News Release: Jackson, Miss. - Newton Wade Townsend, 52, of Brandon, Mississippi, was indicted Tuesday by a federal grand jury and charged with making a threat against public officials, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst and U.S. Capitol Police Chief Steven Sund.
By State Newswire | Jun 24, 2020
News Release: Israel, West Bank, and Gaza. Israel. Overview: Israel was a committed counterterrorism partner in 2019, closely coordinating with the United States on a range of counterterrorism initiatives. Israel and the United States held numerous interagency counterterrorism dialogues to discuss the broad range...
By State Newswire | Jun 24, 2020
News Release: Denmark. Overview: The Kingdom of Denmark (which includes Greenland and the Faroe Islands) devoted significant assets to CT programs, domestically and abroad. Denmark cooperates closely with the United States, the UN, and the EU on CT initiatives, including within the GCTF and the Global Coalition to...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 24, 2020
News Release: Fayetteville, Arkansas - Acting U.S. Attorney David Clay Fowlkes for the Western District of Arkansas, Special Agent in Charge Diane Upchurch of the FBI Little Rock Field Office and Peter Kapoukakis, Special Agent in Charge of the U.S. Department of State’s Diplomatic Security Service, Miami Field Office...
By State Newswire | Jun 24, 2020
Release: Uzbekistan. Overview: The Government of Uzbekistan remained concerned about the potential spillover of terrorism from Afghanistan and its Central Asian neighbors, the return of ISIS fighters from Iraq and Syria, and terrorist radicalization of Uzbekistanis abroad. The government has actively worked to...
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 24, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding a $399,695 CARES Act Recovery Assistance grant to the Ozark Foothills Regional Planning Commission, Poplar Bluff, Missouri, to update economic development plans and fortify programs to assist communities in responding to the coronavirus pandemic.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 24, 2020
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By DOJ Newswire | Jun 24, 2020
News Release: Washington - The Department of Justice‘s Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS Office) today announced nearly $42 million in funding to support state-level law enforcement agencies in combating the illegal manufacturing and distribution of methamphetamine, heroin, fentanyl, carfentanil, and prescription opioids.
By State Newswire | Jun 24, 2020
Release: Mozambique. Overview: Mozambique experienced a significant increase in terrorist activity in 2019. ISIS’s affiliate in Mozambique carried out numerous attacks in northern Mozambique and Tanzania, resulting in the estimated deaths of 350 civilians and the internal displacement of 100,000 people. The Government...
By State Newswire | Jun 24, 2020
Release: Niger. Overview: Niger faces terrorist threats on five of its seven national borders. The Government of Niger (GoN) remains committed to denying terrorists safe haven within its territory. It cooperated with its neighbors and with international partners, including INTERPOL, and is a member of the Global...
By State Newswire | Jun 24, 2020
News Release: Mauritania. Overview: Mauritania remained a strong security and regional CT partner for the United States in 2019. Despite continued terrorist violence in neighboring Mali and regional threats that included those against Mauritania, the country has not suffered a terrorist attack on its soil since 2011.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 24, 2020
News Release: WILMINGTON, N.C. - A federal grand jury returned indictments today charging two Fayetteville men with the arson of the City of Fayetteville’s Market House, a National Historic Landmark.
By State Newswire | Jun 24, 2020
Release: Mauritania. Overview: Mauritania remained a strong security and regional CT partner for the United States in 2019. Despite continued terrorist violence in neighboring Mali and regional threats that included those against Mauritania, the country has not suffered a terrorist attack on its soil since 2011.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 24, 2020
News Release: MADISON, WIS. - Scott C. Blader, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Isaac Morales, 44, Tomah, Wisconsin, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge William M. Conley to 21 months in federal prison for unlawfully possessing a firearm knowing he was a convicted felon. Morales pleaded guilty to this charge on Dec. 30, 2019.
