23 January 2024 | Islamist Terrorism, Threat Analysis
Author: Becca Stewart ASyI,Senior Threat Analyst Read Time: 3 minutes Tags: On 19 January 2024, the British Home Secretary James Cleverly proscribed the Sunni Islamist political organisation Hizb ut-Tahrir as a terrorist organisation, meaning that it is now a criminal offence to belong to, publicly support, and invite support for the group.[1] Hizb ut-Tahrir is an international political party which has had a long-standing goal of uniting Muslims under an Islamic state. The group is allegedly active in 32 countries and is banned in at least 13 countries.[2] The...
25 September 2023 | State Threat, Threat Analysis, Threat Landscape
Author: Oliver Hair ASyI,Threat Analyst Read Time: 3 minutes Tags: On 15 September 2023, the Wagner Group was proscribed as a terrorist organisation by the UK Home Office. The proscription makes belonging to the Wagner Group or actively supporting the group in the UK a criminal offence. [1] The Wagner Group is a Russian private military company (PMC) founded in 2014 by Yevgeny Prigozhin.[2] The group has been a key pillar of Russian state power policy and has operated in a series of countries including most notably, Ukraine, Syria, the Central African Republic,...
