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Assad huddles with spy-chiefs

Syrian president Bashar Al Assad summoned his principal heads of intelligence to a meeting at the presidential palace on January [...]

Subscribers only Agencies 05.01.2011

Robert S. Ford

Robert S. Ford was appointed the first U.S. ambassador to [...]

Subscribers only 05.01.2011

Bashar al-Assad recently went to the Elysees Palace without an advisor for a meeting with French president Nicolas Sarkozy. The two talked only about Lebanon. A chill in relations between the two countries is hurting French companies.

Subscribers only 15.12.2010

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Bashar al-Assad at centre of power struggle

The imminent publication of indictments by the UN -backed Special Tribunal For Lebanon has aggravated rivalries in Syria, where Byzantine quarrels are par for the course. While President Bashar Al Assad is trying to position himself as the guarantor of [...]

Subscribers only Defence 15.12.2010

Bashar al-Assad's shadow diplomacy

To steer its way out of its current isolation, Syria is playing the security card and sending its intelligence chiefs to meet their Western counterparts.

Subscribers only 01.12.2010

Ali Mamlouk

Ali Mamlouk, head of Syria's General Intelligence, was in Paris [...]

Subscribers only 01.12.2010

MI6

MI6 has received a list of British militant Islamists who [...]

Subscribers only 01.12.2010

A censor in charge of Security

Ali Mamlouk, who has headed State Security since 2004, is to retire, making way for his successor, the service's number two Zuhair Hamad.

Subscribers only 20.10.2010

Common Palestinian front

The military structure that killed four Israeli settlers in Kiryat [...]

Subscribers only Defence 08.09.2010

Damascus’ Iranian missiles

Damascus has surface-to-air and surface-to-surface missiles that would enable it to react in case of an Israeli attack on its [...]

Subscribers only Defence 07.07.2010

John Kerry

John Kerry, who chairs the U.S. Senate's Foreign Relations Committee, [...]

Subscribers only 26.05.2010

Girding for air assault

Syria is preparing itself for possible attacks by the Israeli air force on its soil and in southern Lebanon, the [...]

Subscribers only Defence 12.05.2010

Maher el Assad

Maher el Assad, brother of the President Bachar al-Assad and [...]

Subscribers only 12.05.2010

Infiltration of Lebanese intelligence

According to our information, Syrian military intelligence has created a joint cell with Hezbollah to infiltrate the intelligence service of [...]

Subscribers only Operations 07.04.2010

ULM Kamikases

Two Palestinian groups based in Damascus, General Ahmed Jibril's FPLP [...]

Subscribers only Defence 24.03.2010

Special Envoy to Syria

While the Obama administration has largely dropped its efforts to [...]

Subscribers only Back-Door Diplomacy 23.12.2009

What Bachar Said to Abdallah

After several trips were put off in July (IOL 598), Saudi king Abdallah Ben Abdelaziz finally made it to Damascus [...]

Subscribers only Back-Door Diplomacy 14.10.2009

Damascus Blows Hot and Cold

Syria’s deputy foreign minister, Fayssal al Mekdad, flew to Washington on Sept. 28 and was expected in Paris on Sept. [...]

Subscribers only Back-Door Diplomacy 30.09.2009

New Scenario for Assassination

President Bachar al Assad is girding himself for the publication of the indictment of the Special Tribunation for Lebanon (STL) [...]

Subscribers only Defence 16.09.2009

Security Agency Ditched

Once the iron fist of Damascus in Lebanon, Syria's National Security agency was disbanded on July 10. Was that a move meant to mollify Washington?

Subscribers only 15.07.2009

Secret Talks between Damascus and Riyadh

Like Washington, Saudi Arabia would like to mend fences with Syria. But Bachar al Assad is a tough negotiator.

Subscribers only 15.07.2009

Abdulfattah Qodfiet

Abdulfattah Qodfiet is the new chief of Syrian military intelligence. [...]

Subscribers only 15.07.2009

Ali Mamlouk, A Rising Intelligence Star

Now that the National Security agency has been dismantled (see [...]

Subscribers only Agencies 15.07.2009

Damascus
Boeing & Oil Men in Opening Gambit

Big American groups are taking advantage of the diplomatic thaw between Washington and Damascus to position themselves on the Syrian market.

Subscribers only Corporate Intel 01.04.2009

Damascus
New Faces to Deal with U.S.

For the past year Bachar al Assad has been paying priority to his General Intelligence agency, to the point of assigning the domestic service to international missions.

Subscribers only 18.03.2009

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Assad huddles with spy-chiefs

Robert S. Ford

What Assad told Sarkozy

Spotlight
Bashar al-Assad at centre of power struggle

Bashar al-Assad's shadow diplomacy

Ali Mamlouk

MI6

A censor in charge of Security

Common Palestinian front

Damascus’ Iranian missiles

John Kerry

Girding for air assault

Maher el Assad

Infiltration of Lebanese intelligence

ULM Kamikases

Special Envoy to Syria

What Bachar Said to Abdallah

Damascus Blows Hot and Cold

New Scenario for Assassination

Security Agency Ditched

Secret Talks between Damascus and Riyadh

Abdulfattah Qodfiet

Ali Mamlouk, A Rising Intelligence Star

Damascus
Boeing & Oil Men in Opening Gambit

Damascus
New Faces to Deal with U.S.

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Assad huddles with spy-chiefs

Robert S. Ford

What Assad told Sarkozy

Spotlight Bashar al-Assad at centre of power struggle

Bashar al-Assad's shadow diplomacy

Ali Mamlouk

MI6

A censor in charge of Security

Common Palestinian front

Damascus’ Iranian missiles

John Kerry

Girding for air assault

Maher el Assad

Infiltration of Lebanese intelligence

ULM Kamikases

Special Envoy to Syria

What Bachar Said to Abdallah

Damascus Blows Hot and Cold

New Scenario for Assassination

Security Agency Ditched

Secret Talks between Damascus and Riyadh

Abdulfattah Qodfiet

Ali Mamlouk, A Rising Intelligence Star

Damascus Boeing & Oil Men in Opening Gambit

Damascus New Faces to Deal with U.S.

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Spotlight
Bashar al-Assad at centre of power struggle

Damascus
Boeing & Oil Men in Opening Gambit

Damascus
New Faces to Deal with U.S.