Hamas negotiates its return to Damascus from Beirut

Bahaa Hariri swaps CT Group for BGR to promote his political ambitions in Lebanon 

A powerful businessman and son of the former prime minister murdered in 2005, Hariri will pay BGR $600,000 for a year's work. Lobbyists on the contract include Ed Rogers, a veteran of the Reagan and Bush Sr.

Indictment of Cellcom network spy sheds light on five-year secret probe by Shin Bet 

A thorough review of the indictment of a man Israeli authorities accused last week of spying on the national telecom operator illustrates how Hamas operated - and how Shin Bet was put on the trail.

Moscow and Tehran behind Syria-Hamas reconciliation 

Damascus and Hamas officially buried the hatchet on 16 September, after a decade of dispute, in a deal brokered by Russia and Iran that gives the Palestinian faction the lead over Mahmoud Abbas's Fatah.

• PALESTINE/ISRAEL/TURKEY: ANKARA AND TEL AVIV ARE TALKING AGAIN - to Hamas's dismay
  

• FRANCE - GPIS, Paris's social housing security service provider, collects intelligence for the police
  

• GEORGIA - NATO's ex-liaison officer in Kyiv takes up residence in Tbilisi
  

• PALESTINE-ALGERIA - Master spy Noureddine Mekri takes a stab at Palestinian reconciliation
  

• UNITED KINGDOM - Christine Lee affair sparks Tom Tugendhat's push for draft bill on counter state threats
  

• RUSSIA - 'Compatriot' think-tank receives award
  

MbS due in Algiers to talk oil and Arab League 

Following his visit to Greece then France, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MbS) is heading to Algiers where he is expected by President Abdelmadjid Tebboune on Friday.