📰 **Geopolitical**
- China launched its largest-ever military drills around Taiwan, named “Justice Mission 2025,” mobilizing air, naval, and missile units to deter Taipei’s push for formal independence. The two-day exercise involved approximately 89 military aircraft and 28 naval/coast guard vessels and aimed to practice a blockade of the island to achieve “all-dimensional deterrence outside the island chain.”
[12/29/2025] – link;
[12/29/2025] – link
- U.S. President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu are set to meet to discuss the stalled Gaza ceasefire, Israel’s concerns over Hezbollah in Lebanon, and Iran’s attempts to rebuild its ballistic missile capabilities.
[12/28/2025] – link;
[12/28/2025] – link
- The U.S. and Palau signed a series of agreements, providing law enforcement, cybersecurity, and maritime security advisors to help Palau counter Chinese political warfare and organized crime. As part of the agreements, Palau also consented to take up to 75 individuals ordered removed from the U.S. who have no known criminal convictions.
[12/28/2025] – link
- Israel formally recognized Somaliland, an autonomous region that broke away from Somalia. Following this, Sayyed Abdulmalik al-Houthi, leader of the Houthis terror group, warned that they would “consider any Israeli presence in Somaliland as a military target.”
[12/26/2025] – link;
[12/29/2025] – link
- Thailand and Cambodia signed a ceasefire agreement to end weeks of fighting along their disputed border; the agreement includes halting military movements and air space violations.
[12/27/2025] – link
- North Korean leader Kim Jong Un oversaw the launch of long-range strategic cruise missiles on Sunday, with state media reporting that it confirmed the integrity of the country’s nuclear power and counter-attack readiness.
[12/28/2025] – link
💥 **Activism Terrorism**
- A Kenyan man, Cholo Abdi Abdullah, was sentenced to two consecutive life sentences in the U.S. for plotting a 9/11-style attack on Atlanta’s Bank of America Plaza on behalf of the Harakat al-Shabaab al-Mujahideen (al-Shabaab).
[12/22/2025] – link
- Turkish authorities detained 115 suspected Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) members in Istanbul whom they believe were planning attacks during Christmas and New Year celebrations.
[12/25/2025] – link
- The U.S. launched strikes on ISIS targets in Nigeria on December 25, 2025, using more than a dozen missiles fired from a U.S. Navy warship against two alleged Islamic State camps.
[12/25/2025] – link;
[12/25/2025] – link
- Militants from the Islamic State group opened fire on police and wounded seven officers during a raid on the group in northwest Turkey.
[12/30/2025] – link
- Five worshippers were killed and 35 others injured in Maiduguri, Nigeria, when a suspected suicide bomber detonated an explosive inside a mosque during evening prayers.
[12/25/2025] – link
💻 **Cyber**
- Asiana Airlines disclosed a breach involving the personal information of about 10,000 employees, including names, departments, and email addresses, after an external cyberattack on its internal intranet. No customer information was leaked.
[12/25/2025] – link
- An Iranian hacking group claimed to have compromised the cell phone of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s chief of staff, Tzachi Braverman, and threatened to release information related to the Qatargate scandal.
[12/28/2025] – link
- South Korean prosecutors indicted 10 people for allegedly leaking memory chip manufacturing technology to the Chinese chipmaker ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT).
[12/26/2025] – link
- South Korean e-commerce company Coupang announced a compensation deal worth 1.69 trillion won ($1.18 billion) for users whose data was compromised in a massive leak.
[12/29/2025] – link
- China’s cyber regulator issued draft rules intended to tighten oversight of artificial intelligence services designed to simulate human personalities and engage users in emotional interaction.
[12/27/2025] – link
🏭 **Critical Infrastructure**
- Ukraine’s Air Force struck the Novoshakhtinsk oil refinery in Russia’s Rostov Oblast on December 25, 2025, using U.K.-supplied Storm Shadow long-range cruise missiles. Ukraine also reported striking the Syzran oil refinery in Russia’s Samara region overnight on December 28, causing a fire.
[12/25/2025] – link;
[12/28/2025] – link
- Power line repairs have begun near Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant following a local ceasefire brokered by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).
[12/28/2025] – link
- Ukraine’s leading private energy provider restored power to more than a million households in and around Kyiv a day after a Russian air attack forced emergency outages.
[12/28/2025] – link
- Russia extended a temporary ban on gasoline exports through the end of February 2026 to maintain stability in its domestic fuel market.
[12/27/2025] – link
💰 **Crime or Organized Crime**
- Three adult men were shot outside St. Sabina Church in Chicago’s Auburn Gresham neighborhood on Sunday afternoon, just after a basketball program had concluded in the church gym. The victims were transported to area hospitals in stable condition.
[12/29/2025] – link
- The FBI is investigating a $400K lobster theft.
[12/30/2025] – link
- Chinese organized crime is prevalent in Palau and has been linked to political corruption, leading to the Palauan administration actively expelling Chinese criminals.
[12/28/2025] – link
🌿 **DVE (Domestic Violent Extremists) / EVE (Environmental Violent Extremist)**
- No events matching this category were reported in the provided context during the requested time frame.