Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates are going all-out to equip themselves with armed drones, in case the US and Iran reconcile, to their cost (IOL 696). Tehran's own drone programmes are fairly well advanced and the Gulf monarchies [.
At odds over Syria, the communication lines are severed between the heads of U.S. and Saudi foreign intelligence.
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Xi Jinping has set up an anti-terrorism and security coordination committee placed directly under his control, rather than the Communist Party as in the old days.
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The French hostages who were held in the Sahel for three years are now safely home - but the fallout is only just beginning.
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A look at the French defence budget for 2014 provides a clear idea of moves to bolster French special forces by 2019.
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Prince Bandar bin Sultan, who runs Saudi Arabia's General Intelligence Department (GID), is working to unite the host of Jihadist [...]
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To counter Iran's diplomatic offensive regarding the regime's nuclear programme, the People's Mujahedin of Iran (MEK) is seeking to disclose [...]
Fighting over the past two weeks on the Saudi-Yemeni border between Houthi rebels and inhabitants of Dammaj, a city in [...]
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John Brennan, the director of the CIA, has picked a [...]
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The DCRI, France's internal intelligence service, will not become the [...]
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GCHQ, Britain's interception agency, did not oppose British firm Gamma [...]
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Elias El Baissari, the number two at the General Directorate [...]
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The Revolutionary Guard lost at least two officers in the [...]
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Mohamed Mabrouk Abou Khattah, the National Security officer who was [...]
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The double bomb attack against the Iranian embassy in Beirut [...]
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In open conflict with prince Bandar bin Sultan concerning Syria [...]
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Recently accused in documents published by Edward Snowden of assisting [...]
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The Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) has handed the UES [...]
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Abdul-Qadir Saleh, the operational chief of the Tawhid Brigade who [...]
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A consultancy based in Toulouse, south-western France, is helping Abu Dhabi negotiate some of the trickier aspects of its French observation satellite deal.
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Firmly against allowing private military companies to operate, the French government is making an exception for maritime security firms.
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After nearly a year of laborious horse-trading, the future corporate monitor of the French oil group Total should be named [...]
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The revival of close ties between Saudi Arabia and France has prompted members of the royal family to start visiting [...]
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The electronics and defence affiliate of EADS, Cassidian, is enduring a rough patch in the Middle East. The group is [...]
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Despite a 39% hike in its revenues, private security group Aegis's profits slumped in 2012.
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The St George brothers have bought back Indian group Punj Lloyd's stake in Olive, the private security firm they founded.
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After cancelling a tender last month for the protection of [...]
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The chief executive of the Casino retail chain, Jean-Charles Naouri [...]
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In response to a surge of cases of elected officials [...]
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Alongside private security heavyweights Control Risks Group, Aegis and Argus, [...]
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Jean-Baptiste Carpentier, head of TRACFIN, the intelligence unit at France's [...]
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TD International,William Green and Ron Slimp's US consultancy, has recently [...]
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Stroz Friedberg, the computer forensics firm co-founded in 2000 by [...]
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Control Risks, the British private security company, is one of [...]
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Aegis Defense Services, the private security firm founded by Tim [...]
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Kroll recently wooed James Faulkner away from his job as [...]
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Saladin Security, the oldest British private security company, has recently [...]
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Business is booming for the new Turkish private military company Sadat thanks to its relationship with the ruling AKP party.
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Erik Prince, founder of the defunct private security concern Blackwater, [...]
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Rifaat al Assad, uncle and opponent of Syrian president Bachar [...]
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Abdul Majid al Zindani, chief of Yemen's Moslem Brotherhood, also [...]
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In the wake of the Snowden affair a handful of French tech companies are working on telephone and text message security.
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