Mollie Saltskog

Chief of Staff @TheSoufanGroup | Research Fellow @TheSoufanCenter

[Mollie Saltskog @msaltskog]

Very happy to announce I’ve taken on the role as Chief of Staff at @TheSoufanGroup and look forward to contributing to the organization in this new capacity 🙌💼🚀

[The Soufan Group @TheSoufanGroup]

📢 The Soufan Group is pleased to introduce Mollie Saltskog as the Chief of Staff at The Soufan Group. She will serve as a strategic advisor and key partner to the CEO and executive leadership.

Follow: @msaltskog

Welcome to the team! Read her full bio: https://t.co/X3dk9PWsRE

[Magnus Ranstorp @MagnusRanstorp]

Högerextremism har tagits bort i USA:s nya strategi för terrorbekämpning, Det kan få stora följder även för Europas och Sveriges säkerhet, skriver @msaltskog säkerhetspolitisk analytiker.
https://t.co/bRR26L62mj

[The Soufan Center @TheSoufanCenter]

3/ Read the full piece for more insights ⏬
https://t.co/GqOrbJ0C2b

#Counterterrorism #ForeignPolicy #InternationalAffairs #Geopolitics

[The Soufan Center @TheSoufanCenter]

2/ According to @msaltskog, the strategy risks focusing resources in the wrong places while failing to keep pace with emerging #technology-driven threats.

The result could leave both the U.S. and its allies less prepared for the next generation of #terrorism.

#NationalSecurity

[The Soufan Center @TheSoufanCenter]

1/ Could changes in U.S. #counterterrorism priorities have consequences beyond America's borders?

In a new commentary for @SvD, TSC's @msaltskog argues that the Trump administration's latest strategy could weaken efforts to combat terrorism in the U.S. and Europe.

#Geopolitics

[The Soufan Center @TheSoufanCenter]

"Right-wing extremism has been removed from the United States' new counterterrorism strategy. This could have major consequences for the security of Europe and Sweden."

✍️ TSC Research Fellow @msaltskog authors a new piece with @SvD

🇸🇪 Read [in Swedish] https://t.co/GqOrbJ0C2b

[Bloomberg @business]

The Philippines is seeking closer ties with Taiwan and stronger military links with nations focused on deterring China’s “nefarious plans,” according to the Southeast Asian nation’s defense chief https://t.co/gJe7TkLFJa

[The Soufan Center @TheSoufanCenter]

#IntelBrief: Islamic State Central Africa Province (ISCAP) remains resilient, with mobile units active across the forested terrain of eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).

Read more 👇 https://t.co/uQhk51nN3R

[The Soufan Center @TheSoufanCenter]

Foreign involvement has helped fuel and prolong the war in #Sudan.

Our Issue Brief examines how outside actors and regional competition continue to intensify the conflict and complicate efforts to end it.

🔗 https://t.co/OTwEPdZT8X…

#SudanWar #SudanCrisis #Geopolitics

[The Soufan Center @TheSoufanCenter]

📆 'Three Years of Violence in Sudan: Women and Girls on the Frontline of the Conflict'

On June 1, TSC's @GabyTejeda31 and @NikkieLyubarsky will speak at a side event on the role of external actors in Sudan.

▶️ Watch here https://t.co/rgwwZVrAVp

[The Soufan Center @TheSoufanCenter]

#IntelBrief: The Ebola outbreak in eastern DRC has so far not overlapped with ISCAP’s violent rampages, but secondary effects of large flows of internally displaced people to Ebola hotspots remain of concern.

Read more 👇 https://t.co/uQhk51nN3R

[The Soufan Center @TheSoufanCenter]

#IntelBrief: Pressure on the ISCAPs main camp from Operation Shujaa, the joint Ugandan-Congolese military offensive to counter the group, has initiated a northward move to Haut-Uélé Province.

Read more 👇 https://t.co/uQhk51nN3R

[Bloomberg @business]

China is restricting overseas travel for top AI professionals in private firms such as Alibaba and DeepSeek, suggesting an escalation in measures intended to safeguard its technology and catch up to the US in a pivotal sphere.

Government agencies have begun imposing restrictions on individuals involved in advanced AI work and considered strategically important to the country, people familiar with the matter said. https://t.co/WM5Y9gkue9

📷: Qilai Shen/Bloomberg

[Demetri @AsiaLens]

SCOOP - US warns #Japan to expect severe delays in #Tomahawk missiles due to Iran war. Tokyo agreed to buy 400 in 2024 in a landmark move to counter China.

Defense Secretary Hegseth informed his Japanese counterpart Shinjiro Koizumi earlier this month

https://t.co/2d62mwN0kF

[The Soufan Center @TheSoufanCenter]

🚨 NEW ISSUE BRIEF 🚨

#Discord servers. Gaming platforms. Algorithm-driven rabbit holes.

Our latest publication by @Jacob_A_Ware explores how online spaces are accelerating #YouthRadicalization among teenagers around the world.

🔗 https://t.co/TzapD16z5I

[OSINTdefender @sentdefender]

Russian President Vladimir Putin has arrived in Beijing, China for a leader summit with his Chinese counterpart, Preside Xi Jinping. Just a week after President Xi’s summit with U.S. President Donald J. Trump, Xi and President Putin are set to sign dozens of agreements on trade, reciprocal investment opportunities, and other increases in bilateral ties between the two nations.

[The Soufan Center @TheSoufanCenter]

Major win for @TheSoufanGroup's @SusanSim9 and "The Albatross File: Inside Separation", which received both #BookOfTheYear and Best #NonFiction Title at the Singapore Book Awards.

The book revisits the political negotiations behind #Singapore’s separation from Malaysia in 1965.

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

Fears Grow That Iran May Be Using Proxy Groups Beyond Mideast https://t.co/TpjvUkISQ6 via @NYTimes

[Tuvia Gering 陶文亚 @GeringTuvia]

🚨BREAKING: Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf has been appointed as Tehran's special envoy to China, according to Xinhua News Agency citing Tasnim.

Qalibaf’s lifelong ties to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and Iran's senior leadership make him one of the regime’s core power brokers. A veteran of the Iran-Iraq War, he commanded the 5th Nasr Division at only twenty-two and built lasting relationships with figures such as Qasem Soleimani and Esmail Qaani. His influence later expanded through senior roles at Khatam al-Anbiya, the IRGC’s engineering and economic conglomerate, before direct appointments by the Supreme Leader to lead the IRGC Air Force and the national police. As Speaker of Parliament and a trusted insider of the Supreme Leader’s office, Qalibaf now functions as a technocratic bridge between Iran’s military-security establishment and its political administration.

His appointment to oversee the China portfolio is significant given the ongoing the war against the US, Israel, and the Arab Gulf. By placing Qalibaf, who also served as a chief negotiator with the US, in charge of this file, Tehran consolidates its most important external lifelines under a single senior executor. He is well positioned to secure Chinese financing through accelerated sanctions-evasion oil sales, coordinate dual-use and defense-technology procurement via IRGC-linked logistics networks, and manage diplomatic relations with Beijing at the UN Security Council and other international forums.

If he is assigned to Beijing, he will join ambassador Abdolreza Rahmani Fazli, a former Minister of Interior and National Domestic Security Council (NDSC) member with close ties to the IRGC and Basij commanders.

[Trey Yingst @TreyYingst]

A drone attack targeted a nuclear power plant in the UAE causing a generator fire on the outskirts of the facility.

[Bloomberg @business]

The Defense Department may lack the resources in Africa to detect when Islamic State and al-Qaeda affiliates in the Sahel can threaten the US homeland, the head of US Africa Command warned https://t.co/BOprncVQHo