The Ohio State Attack: Workplace Violence Consulting Experts Review Days after Ohio State University celebrated a football victory against archrival Michigan, tragedy hit the campus. On Monday, November 28th, 2016, an 18-year old Ohio State student rammed a car into a group of pedestrians and then exited the vehicle and began slashing victims with a […]
ISIS in Mosul: Employee Travel Security Experts Review the Mosul Offensive The city of Mosul is located approximately 250 miles north of Baghdad and is home to more than one million people. Even though Raqqah, Syria is the official ISIS capital, Mosul has been the de-facto headquarters for the group since June 2014. As the […]
International Security Consulting Firm Reviews Russia, the United States, and the Syria War President Obama and Russian President Vladimir Putin failed to reach an agreement on the Syrian conflict during the G20 conference earlier this month. The failure to reach an accord likely means that the Syria War will continue unabated, at least in the […]
International Security Consulting Firm Analyzes the Brussels Attack On March 22nd, the city of Brussels was devastated by three suicide bombers that killed more than thirty people and injured over 300. Two of the bombings targeted the Brussels airport while the other suicide bomber detonated in a downtown metro station. The Brussels attack bombings were […]
In the news and around the world, ISIS continued to dominate security discussions in 2015. Thus, based on both impact to global security and international media coverage, IMG’s employee travel security experts believe that ISIS news tops their list of security-related global news stories in 2015. In a previous post, IMG employee travel security experts […]
Yemen Civil War & the Yemen Crisis Yemen is a small, impoverished country at the southwest end of the Arabian Peninsula. As most international security consultants know, however, the country occupies a strategic location on the Bab al-Mandeb strait. Unfortunately, Yemen has suffered from chronic political instability in recent years, and the already unstable situation […]
International Travel Security Update: Tunisia Terror Attack Sousse, Tunisia – On June 26th, 2015 a gunman attacked the Hotel Imperial Marhaba, a popular tourist destination on the Tunisian coast. The gunman, Saif Al-Deen Al Rezgui, killed 38 people and wounded almost 40 others before being shot and killed by police. Although the Tunisia terror attack […]
One of the hottest topics in corporate international security currently is the potential impact of ISIS on European security. Over the past several months, international corporate security experts have examined the terrorist threat posed by ISIS in Europe. These experts are particularly concerned with radicalized European Muslims who have joined ISIS on the battlefields of […]
International Travel Security & Terrorism: The Siege of Kobani In August 2014, the United States launched its first air strikes against ISIS. The strikes were meant to blunt the effectiveness of the group and stop the Islamic militants from marching on Baghdad and northern Iraq. Since that time, a large coalition of Arab states and […]