Britain's intelligence chief today disclosed that the UK's security forces had thwarted at least 12 terrorist attacks directed against the country since the Islamic State (ISIS) claimed strike on the British Parliament building in March last year. Today's updated total of 12 brings the total number of disrupted attacks in the UK to 25 since 2013. Against the backdrop of Brexit negotiations, the MI5 chief stressed that European intelligence agencies must rely on "shared cooperation more than ever". "European intelligence cooperation today is simply unrecognisable to what it looked like five years ago," he said, highlighting that there have been as many as 45 terror attacks across Europe since 2016. Parker also took the opportunity to make a scathing attack on Russia for its "deliberate and targeted malign activity".

Source: dna May 14, 2018 14:34 UTC