Mukhabarat in Sinai, Jordan's GID and Ukraine, Wang Yi, France's ANSSI

• EGYPT - Military intel targeted by the local IS

• KAZAKHSTAN - National Guard ups border surveillance

• UKRAINE - New Marines' Odessa training

• FRANCE - Commando unit drones in French skies.

• KAZAKHSTAN/AZERBAIJAN/TURKEY - Kazakh military intelligence moves closer to Azeri counterpart.

• EGYPT - Timid criticism of Sisi's Sinai strategy emerges in Cairo.

• JORDAN/UNITED STATES - Abdullah II puts intelligence at centre of US visit agenda

• UNITED KINGDOM - GCHQ's mystery Manchester accelerator
  

• UKRAINE/UNITED STATES - Washington determined to fill Ukraine's military gaps
  

• FRANCE - Cybersecurity chief eyes defence procurement role

• UZBEKISTAN/AFGHANISTAN - Tashkent refuses to return Afghan planes to Kabul.

• RUSSIA - Moscow decorates military engineers.

• FRANCE - Marc Burg lures more top spies to his degree course.

• PARIS - Senators call for a law on facial recognition.

• UNITED STATES - DNI tasked again to tackle China's support to Russia.

• EUROPE - Europol, future watchdog of foreign investment in the EU.

Mahmoud Al-Sisi's standing within the Mukhabarat grows 

Once ejected from the general intelligence service, the Egyptian president's son has regained his position beside the agency director Abbas Kamel. He is now in charge of developments with Israel, a sure sign of his father's trust.

GID talks to tribes with strategic role in region 

In view of the violent clashes since the beginning of [...]

Cairo returns to Arab media arena with Al-Qahera News 

United Media Services, owned by Egypt's intelligence services, has launched an Arabic-language rolling news channel. President Sisi and his Saudi ally intend to use the channel to influence Arab public opinion.

Palestinian entrepreneurs struggle as Sisi's promised Gaza reconstruction drags on 

Promised by Egyptian president, Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, the $500m aid package for several construction sites in the Palestinian enclave is experiencing numerous delays.