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SYRIA 21/11/2018 Bahrain reconnects with Damascus The Crown Prince of Bahrain, Salman bin Hamad al Khalifa, [...]
ISRAEL RUSSIA SYRIA 14/11/2018 Syria : Netanyahu takes advantage of the Paris summit to bring Putin back to the negotiating table Contrary to Israeli expectations, Russia still refuses to resume bilateral military cooperation. At stake for the Israeli air force: the vital freedom to operate in the Syrian sky. [...]
FRANCE SYRIA 07/11/2018 DGRIS contracts out Syria monitoring The armed forces ministry's international relations and strategic department DGRIS [...]
SYRIA 24/10/2018 Turkey's MIT and Qatari intelligence discuss Al Nusra's end According to our sources, the MIT (Milli Istihbarat Teskilati), Turkey's powerful intelligence service, has started talks with Qatar's External State [...]
SYRIA 10/10/2018 Fifth Brigade, Moscow's eye on Syria Present in some of the most strategic sites of the next stage of the conflict, the Syrian Army's 5th Brigade [...]
SYRIA 26/09/2018 Jordan and UAE court Damascus under Riyadh's watchful eye Although Saudi Arabia is officially still taking a hard line against Bashar Al Assad, some of its strongest regional allies are getting closer to Damascus. [...]
IRAQ SYRIA 29/08/2018 Kurds hot on Al Baghdadi's trail Sought by the intelligence services of every country fighting Islamic State, the organisation's elusive leader Abu Bakr Al Baghdadi is being actively hunted by the Kurdish forces. [...]
UNITED ARAB EMIRATES SYRIA 23/08/2018 Al Blouki fosters business ties between Damascus and Abu Dhabi Abduljalil Al Blouki, a businessman close to the ruling family in Abu Dhabi, has started serving as a UAE-Syria go-between. [...]
SYRIA 13/06/2018 Syrian Army at heart of dispute between Moscow and Tehran While relations are increasingly strained between the Kremlin and Iran's Pasdaran in Syria, the dispute has spread to the Syrian [...]
SYRIA 02/05/2018 Coalition still has Moscow's ear The diplomatic chill caused by the Skripal poisoning has not [...]
SYRIA 02/05/2018 Maher, rather than "Tiger", for 4th Division President Bashar Al Assad appointed his brother Maher al-Assad as [...]
SYRIA 11/04/2018 Al Hassan poised to be honoured by the kremlin Credited with the victory of the Syrian armed forces in [...]
SYRIA JORDAN 11/04/2018 Consultation between spymasters The head of Syria's National Security Bureau, Ali Mamlouk, met [...]
RUSSIA SYRIA 28/03/2018 Naryshkin visits Damascus Sergei Naryshkin, the director of the Russian external intelligence service [...]
SYRIA EUROPE 28/02/2018 Rome plays solo with Mamluk According to our sources, Syrian spymaster Ali Mamluk, the head [...]
SYRIA 28/02/2018 How Souhail Al-Hassan, Damascus' "Tiger", wants to retake eastern Ghouta Governments in Damascus and Moscow are counting on Syrian General Souhail Al Hassan to take back control of the Ghouta region, which has been the scene of intense bombing and clashes in recent weeks. [...]
SYRIA 29/11/2017 PKK banks on alliance with Damascus and Tehran Cemil Bayik, the military chief of Turkey's Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), has been in increasingly close discussion with Damascus' spymaster [...]
SYRIA 01/11/2017 Changing of the guard in Syrian Army According to our sources, the Syrian Army is undergoing major [...]
JORDAN SYRIA 20/09/2017 Abdullah II expands intelligence channels with Damascus Free According to our sources, regular discussions are back on again between Jordan's intelligence service, the General Intelligence Directorate (GID), headed [...]
SYRIA 06/09/2017 Damascus caught between Iranian militias and Russian reassurance A delegation of high level military officials from Tehran and Moscow pitched competing strategies to Syria's military top brass for the future shape of its armed forces at a closed meeting in Damascus last month. [...]
FRANCE SYRIA 21/06/2017 DGSE could be called in Lafarge case The Paris prosecutor's office, which opened an investigation into alleged [...]
SYRIA BELARUS 26/04/2017 Lukashenko slaloms between West and Syria Belarus' President Alexander Lukasheno is managing to make time for [...]
UNITED KINGDOM SYRIA 05/04/2017 Retired diplomat Peter Ford cosies up to Assad Peter Ford, who was an outspoken critic of former Prime [...]
SYRIA 22/03/2017 Russian-Israeli dialogue tested by Tehran Like Gulf leaders, Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu does not want to have a Shi’ite arc at Israel’s borders. When he met [...]
SYRIA LEBANON 08/03/2017 Nasrallah’s Hezbollah caught between Iran and Syria Damascus’ proxy Hezbollah also has to deal with Iran, which is calling for it to deploy more fighters in Syria, and Russia which wants it to leave Syria. [...]
