French president Nicolas Sarkozy is keen for French companies to secure a bigger slice of the lucrative war-zone private security market, dominated by British and American groups such as Control Risks Group and Xe, formerly Blackwater.
The time for tearing down walls within France's intelligence community has come. Several top DGSE members are going to switch over to the DCRI.
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Chinese moles are reported to have infiltrated Vietnamese military intelligence.
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Hezbollah wants put the skids under the Special Tribunal for Lebanon, to prevent its followers from being accused of complicity in Rafik Hariri's death.
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Following a major crisis in 2009, the EU's Satellite Centre is undergoing a wide-ranging reform.
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The 3rd Department of the People’s Liberation Army (APL), in charge of interceptions, is reviewing its network of listening stations [...]
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Amid a serious crisis of trust in the military establishment, on August 22 Defense Minister Ehud Barack announced he would [...]
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King Hamad bin Issa al-Khalifa held a meeting of the country’s secular leaders mid-August to plan security for parliamentary elections, [...]
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Erard Corbin de Mangoux, director of the DGSE, now deals [...]
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John D. Bennett last month replaced Michael Sulick as head [...]
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Ignazio La Russa, the defence minister, in July authorised the [...]
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Nabil Rahmatullah replaced Saleh Amrullah in July as head of [...]
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The NGA has awarded a new $7.3 billion contract to [...]
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The BND has launched an investigation into twelve former intelligence [...]
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The Gulf intelligence services believe that a maximum of 150 [...]
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The Parisian investigative journalist Pascal Krop, 54, has died after [...]
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If Paris wins the contract, currently under negotiation, to build [...]
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The names that crop up in the soon-to-be-published "Carnets" (Diaries) [...]
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In-Q-Tel, the CIA’s capital risk fund, has invested in Recorded [...]
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Pakistan and France are secretly negotiating a major arms deal for equipment destined for use against Taliban camps.
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France's financial investigation brigade is probing CO2 trading fraud.
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Officially, relations may have cooled between Tel Aviv and Ankara, but in the security business it is another matter. Israeli [...]
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Rival bidders are going full throttle for the lucrative contract to supply jet fuel and petrol to U.S. Army's Manas [...]
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New York and the Caiman Islands having said they are not competent to arbitrate between warring Saad and Ahmad Hamad [...]
With the ink still fresh on the deal that closed the firm's acquisition by Altegrity, Kroll is grabbing attention for other, less welcome, reasons.
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After opening a bureau in Dubai in 2009, Bruno Delamotte's firm has teamed with Olive and Garda to develop its business in the Middle East.
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The US’s new Wall Street Reform & Consumer Protection Act [...]
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Following President Hamid Karzai’s criticism of private security firms on [...]
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Former CIA agents who go to work in the private [...]
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A group calling itself Genocide Victims of Krajina filed a [...]
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A July 31 Court of Appeal decision barring the admission [...]
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James Lee Witt, who bought back his firm Witt Associates [...]
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ESL & Network, the firm founded by Patrice Alain Dupre, [...]
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Simon Barker, former head of kidnapping resolution at Control Risks [...]
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GPW, Patrick Grayson's corporate intelligence firm, has a new advisory [...]
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David Kilcullen, former counter-insurgency advisor to U.S. General David Petraeus [...]
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Polly Springer, who led the Serious Fraud Office investigation into [...]
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Britain's Aegis, one of the world's biggest private security firms, has moved from London to Basel in Switzerland. Its competitors operate out of Dubai.
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Ismael al-Lami, the "Shi'ite Zarqawi", is believed to have returned [...]
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Jack Devine, the CIA's former assistant head of operations, is [...]
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Khalifa bin Zayed al-Nahyan, the emir of Abu Dhabi and [...]
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The interception of mobile telephone calls requires a costly tapping device. Now, however, there is a low-cost alternative.
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