Kyrgyzstan has entered a new period of political uncertainty after authorities charged former security chief Kamchybek Tashiev and seven others with allegedly plotting to seize power from President Sadyr Japarov.

Kyrgyzstan authorities have charged eight people, including powerful ex-security chief Kamchybek Tashiev, with plotting to seize power ​from President Sadyr Japarov, who has consolidated power in ‌the historically volatile central Asian country.

A U.S. government employee was arrested for allegedly threatening to kill President Donald Trump and using a work computer to plan the plot, prosecutors stated.

Five individuals have been sentenced to life imprisonment in Bahrain for allegedly plotting “terrorist and hostile acts” in coordination with Iran.

Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) says it has foiled what it described as a planned attack targeting senior officials of the country’s media and communications regulator Roskomnadzor.

Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) in the country’s northern Gilan province arrested four people accused of having links to the Israeli spy agency, Mossad.

The Iran-linked Handala hacker group has claimed to have uncovered what it described as a large-scale Israeli intelligence operation in recent days, warning of covert efforts to collect data on sensitive targets across the region.

Officers from Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) in St. Petersburg have prevented what authorities described as a planned terrorist attack targeting a senior Russian military official.