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AN EYE ON AFGHANISTAN

The Syrian intelligence services are keeping a close eye on [...]

WHAT THE U.S. WANTS

The United States would like to see negotiations currently being [...]

MOHAMED EL-KHOULY

General Mohamed el-Khouly, who won back his job as chief of the Syrian Air Force's intelligence service last month after [...]

ANTI-TERRORIST MEASURES TIGHTENED

Recent shakeups in Syria's intelligence and security system appear to [...]

THREE NOS AND ONE YES

During his three-hours meeting on 27 October in Damascus with Hafez al-Assad, Bill Clinton only obtained what he wanted on [...]

RUSSIAN ADVISERS IN THE BEKAA VALLEY

Following a financial agreement between Russian and Syria, Russian military [...]

A CUMBERSOME ASSOCIATE?

During his visit to Bonn in mid-March, Syria's foreign minister, Faruk el-Scharaa, was strangely silent about the January arrest in [...]

SOFT LIGHTING

The Clinton-Assad in Geneva began 15 minutes late because of [...]

BREAKING A CONTRACT FOR 300 T-72S

According to information obtained by Intelligence Newsletter, the director of the Slovak ZTS Martin factory notified Syrian authorities in late [...]

BASEL'S TAKING OVER

Officially General Ali Douba, recently appointed deputy chief of staff, has been replaced as head of the military intelligence services [...]

THE SUCCESSOR ON A TRIP

Basel el-Assad, son of the Syrian chief of state and [...]

PRESIDENT ASSAD'S HEART ATTACK

Contrary to official denials from Damascus, information verified by Intelligence Newsletter confirms that President Hafez el-Assad did indeed suffer a [...]

INTERFERENCE...

For several months now the Syrian defense minister, General Mustapha Tlass, has been renting a suite at the Hotel Prince [...]

MONZER AL-KASSAR

A notorious arms and drug trafficker, implicated in the bombing of the Pan Am flight over Lockerbie, Monzer al-Kassar obtained [...]

A DIFFICULT VISIT TO THE CIS

Syrian Foreign Minister Farukh al-Chareh visited several of the CIS member countries from 27 March to 2 April in a [...]

GENERAL KANAAN'S SECRET MISSION

General Ghazi Kanaan, head of Syrian intelligence services in Lebanon and uncle of President Hafez el-Assad, made a secret trip [...]

General Ali Douba, head of the Syrian military intelligence service, [...]