Dario Mentone

Intelligence/CT Analyst

[School of International Relations @StAndrewsIR]

The School of International Relations is top in the UK in both the Guardian University Guide 2023 and The Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide 2023.🎉

[International Centre for Counter-Terrorism @ICCT_TheHague]

Want to learn about the myths and realities of foreign fighters in Ukraine within the context of the #UkraineRussianWar?

Register for our Live Briefing featuring leading experts @KacperRekawek @CrexUiO, @ColborneMichael @bellingcat, and @evianeleidig: https://t.co/dhDwCR3yW3

[Dario Mentone @DarioMentone]

@KacperRekawek Respect

[Kacper Rekawek @KacperRekawek]

gold gold gold

[Kacper Rekawek @KacperRekawek]

Updates on #ForeignLegion in #Ukraine. 1. #Georgia n #National #Legion more like a battalion now. hundreds. #USA #UK #FRA #IND #GEO represented amongst the #foreignfighters volunteers. 2. #Belarus side of things growing, training, deploying. Dont underestimate this one....1/

[Kacper Rekawek @KacperRekawek]

not only #Denmark and #UK but also #Norway now says - you can go and be a #foreignfighter in #Ukraine. I kid you not. See below. ht @HHaugstvedt

https://t.co/KV5DfkGXRu

[Kacper Rekawek @KacperRekawek]

And apparently this group is now in the thick of it.

[Dario Mentone @DarioMentone]

@KacperRekawek @routledgebooks @PISM_Poland @GLOBSEC @FightExtremism Great to hear that! Congrats Kacper

[The Soufan Group @TheSoufanGroup]

A three-part series by @Channel4 follows the life of Osama bin Laden, from his early years to terrorist mastermind. 'Bin Laden: The Road to 9/11' tells the story through eyewitness accounts, including @Ali_H_Soufan's work investigating al-Qaeda.

Watch: https://t.co/dbZSxth0ed

[James Barnett @jh_barnett]

I’m thrilled to share, w/ @AbdulFagge and Dr. Murtala Rufa’i, one of the most timely and deeply researched analyses we’ve conducted

The most detailed assessment to date of the complex relationship b/w Nigeria’s deadly bandits and “Boko Haram”

For @CTCWP

https://t.co/EroD9zhff5

[Colin P. Clarke, Ph.D. @ColinPClarke]

Prisons offer shelter and easy targets for IS jihadists https://t.co/XRLtrGQLBl

[Antonio Giustozzi @AntonioGiustoz2]

https://t.co/fFUUdqhpgJ

[Colin P. Clarke, Ph.D. @ColinPClarke]

The New Jihadists and the Taliban Model https://t.co/8pSgbOc07g via @SadaJournal

[stig jarle hansen @stigjarlehansen]

Summed up the great debates over african jihadism here. My mantra focus on the need for security for local (and often rural) population, then we might fare better. Suspect that some of these findings hold for the 20 years of insurgency in Afghanistan also: https://t.co/Q6s1c1jTX6

[Aaron Y. Zelin @azelin]

Chinese official met with the Taliban again today

[mark rice-oxley @markriceoxley69]

You don't need to read any books about the end of the 'American century' and the death of liberal interventionism, as my colleague @julianborger has nailed it in one single, brilliant piece: https://t.co/Ob93qZQvp7

[Kacper Rekawek @KacperRekawek]

Careers of for fighters -#RafaelLusvarghi is back. the former #FARC, #DNR, wannabe #PMC, arrested in #Ukraine, exchanged with #Russia in '19, resurfaces in #Brazil. with #drugs and #guns. and is arrested. me and @FightExtremism profiled him last year: https://t.co/IIMjs2FdhK 1/

[Dario Mentone @DarioMentone]

@KacperRekawek @routledgebooks @PISM_Poland @GLOBSEC @FightExtremism Congrats Kacper!

[SecuritHub @SecuritHub]

One of the good things that came out of #2020 were #books.

Here are some of our favorites that were published this year!

[Dario Mentone @DarioMentone]

Interesting to read about the EU willingness to modernize border management without a single reference to the European Border and Coast Guard Agency FRONTEX...

EU wants to boost border security against extremist attacks https://t.co/wkaFUezfb7