Spotlight | Turkey, Yemen
Ankara plans deployment of Syrian proxies in Yemen

The Intelligence Gazette
Israel's war bill and tacit agreement with Hezbollah, ex-DGSE officer at Elysée, Erdogan and Macron vs Signal

Appointments, reforms and the issues at stake: every Monday, Intelligence Online serves up snippets big and small from the global intelligence community.

Israel The latest war costs estimated

France Macron picks ex-Africa intel officer as chief of staff

Turkey Erdogan takes swipe at secure messaging apps Signal etc

Israel/Lebanon Shared desire to limit intensity of fighting holds steady

Iran, Turkey
Turkish and Iranian spies take cloak and dagger warfare from Afghanistan to Lebanon

The Taliban takeover of Kabul has opened a new battle front between the intelligence and hybrid warfare services of Turkey and Iran, who are already at daggers drawn over all of the regional issues.

Syria, Turkey
MIT's north Syrian outpost reflects Turkish unease

Turkey's increasingly belligerent tone on Syria could herald a new campaign in the country given the troop deployment extension ratified by parliament last week. The Turkish intelligence agency, which has been behind several arrests, is already quietly working in the area.

Turkey
Raft of generals resign from Turkish army over Erdogan's Syrian policy

Five years in Syria have pushed Turkey's troops to the limit. Exhaustion and increasingly dangerous conditions in Idlib have gnawed away at their operational capacities to such an extent that five generals have resigned in what is a veiled sign to Erdogan to reconsider Turkey's Syrian policy.

United States
US intelligence adopts two-pronged approach on Houthis and Riyadh

The proposals outlined in the draft bill on Yemen that Congress is about to give to the Director of National Intelligence illustrates Washington's harder line against Riyadh. The US will nevertheless continue to provide Saudi Arabia with intelligence support.

Egypt, Turkey
Muslim Brotherhood presence still hampering Turkey-Egypt rapprochement

Behind the scenes, both countries' spymasters are doing their best to patch up relations between Ankara and Cairo but still facing irreconcilable differences, including the presence of Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood members on Turkish soil.

Afghanistan, Russia, Turkey
Ankara and Moscow jockey for position in Kabul after US withdrawal

The departure of US troops from Afghanistan and the ongoing clashes between Taliban and Afghan forces have put a strain on the Afghan authorities, which are seeking help anywhere they can find it.

Azerbaijan, Turkey
MIT redeploys Syrian proxies yet again

By sending its Syrian proxies to support Azerbaijan in Nagorno-Karabakh, the MIT is over-exploiting a pool already committed on several fronts. Many fighters have become increasingly resistant to Ankara's orders.

Spotlight | Turkey
After Syria and Libya, Ankara makes moves in Yemen

Turkey's military and security apparatus, which is heavily mobilised in Syria and Iraq, Libya and increasingly Yemen, wants to go the distance against Russia on all fronts, despite the strain and internal strife these efforts are causing.

Turkey
MIT benefits from Turkish humanitary intervention in Yemen

In mid-May, a group of officers from Turkey's intelligence service, [...]