Faced with a packed legislative schedule involving the Investigatory Powers Act, National Security Bill and Human Rights Act, the British foreign intelligence service is strengthening its legal team, which has been tasked with lobbying in Westminster.
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Agencies The UAE and Turkey have several defence bilateral cooperation projects in the works, and are tentatively exploring cyber cooperation, which might be a way for Abu Dhabi's Edge Group to reestablish itself in the cyber-offensive sector.
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Cybersecurity Close to heads of the oil and gas business networks on the shores of the Caspian Sea as well as Washington think tanks, adviser Nargiz Nasrullayeva has become the go-to contact person for US investors in the region.
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Erbil and Baghdad are trying to put their differences aside and share intelligence to combat Islamic State, but obstacles remain.
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Agencies By staffing it, the French military intelligence directorate (DRM) has exposed the existence of its top-secret unit Paros. This unit is responsible for locating high-value targets for France's special forces to kill, as the country moves towards a two-pronged intelligence-special forces approach in the Sahel.
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Operations The large reform of Ukraine's SBU internal intelligence service, which has already been partly carried out, has been temporarily suspended because of the war with Moscow. Priority is now being given to some hard thinking about military intelligence reform.
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Defence As Brussels comes closer to its decision on Georgia's bid for European Union membership amid the challenging security situation, it has hired no less than five communications experts to convey its narrative in the country.
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