FRANCE / INDIA Published on 16/08/2017 Business moghul Ambani is key partner for defence contracts between France and India
AFRICA / CENTRAL ASIA / MIDDLE EAST Published on 07/09/2016 Ivor Ichikowitz, the worldwide connections of the South African arms magnate Free
IRAN / UNITED KINGDOM Published on 17/02/2016 Norman Lamont, pillar of the British-Iranian business community
SYRIA 11/04/2018 Al Hassan poised to be honoured by the kremlin Credited with the victory of the Syrian armed forces in [...]
SYRIAJORDAN 11/04/2018 Consultation between spymasters The head of Syria's National Security Bureau, Ali Mamlouk, met [...]
RUSSIA 11/04/2018 Hamas number two visits Moscow Mussa Abu Marzouk, the vice-president of the Palestinian Islamist movement [...]
SYRIA 28/02/2018 How Souhail Al-Hassan, Damascus' "Tiger", wants to retake eastern Ghouta Governments in Damascus and Moscow are counting on Syrian General Souhail Al Hassan to take back control of the Ghouta region, which has been the scene of intense bombing and clashes in recent weeks. [...]
SAUDI ARABIA 31/01/2018 The GIP remobilises Syrian spies The heads of the Syrian office of the General Intelligence [...]
SYRIA 01/11/2017 Changing of the guard in Syrian Army According to our sources, the Syrian Army is undergoing major [...]
IRAN 01/11/2017 Tehran moves to reconcile Hamas and Bashar Al Assad Teheran has tasked Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah with negotiating the terms of a new strategic alliance between Hamas and Syria. [...]
SAUDI ARABIARUSSIA 18/10/2017 Salman ready to allow Bashar to remain A meeting between Saudi Arabia's King Salman bin Abdulaziz and [...]
CHINA 06/09/2017 Beijing's military think-tank scrutinizes Islamic State China's Military Sciences Academy hosts the military intelligence service, or [...]
SYRIA 06/09/2017 Damascus caught between Iranian militias and Russian reassurance A delegation of high level military officials from Tehran and Moscow pitched competing strategies to Syria's military top brass for the future shape of its armed forces at a closed meeting in Damascus last month. [...]
ISRAEL 23/08/2017 Mossad fears its Syria policy is failing This week, Israel's PM Benyamin Netanyahu made a hasty visit to Sochi with Yossi Cohen, the head of Mossad, to [...]
FRANCE 05/07/2017 Franco-Russian initiative mooted for Near East According to our sources, Philippe Etienne, President Emmanuel Macron's new [...]
JORDAN 07/06/2017 Abdallah II ready to intervene directly and by proxy in Syria King Abdallah II of Jordan is putting the finishing touches to a plan to intervene militarily in Syria. The monarch, [...]
UNITED KINGDOMSYRIA 05/04/2017 Retired diplomat Peter Ford cosies up to Assad Peter Ford, who was an outspoken critic of former Prime [...]
SYRIALEBANON 08/03/2017 Nasrallah’s Hezbollah caught between Iran and Syria Damascus’ proxy Hezbollah also has to deal with Iran, which is calling for it to deploy more fighters in Syria, and Russia which wants it to leave Syria. [...]
SYRIAJORDAN 22/02/2017 Amman consolidates rapprochement with Damascus Jordan’s security heavyweights are reconnecting with Syria via the Kremlin. [...]
UNITED KINGDOMMIDDLE EAST 08/02/2017 Syrian rebels’ British flack bounces back with In2-Comms Paul Tilley, who works regularly for the Foreign & Commonwealth Office (FCO) on communications in countries in crisis, has opened a discreet office in Turkey. [...]
QATARSYRIAUNITED KINGDOM 25/01/2017 Doha gives airtime to Syrian rebels Free Despite its difficulties, the Syrian opposition continues to have the support of Doha which is preparing to launch a new [...]
SYRIA 21/12/2016 Damascus wins Aleppo intelligence battle Free Like their Western counterparts, the Turkish and Gulf region intelligence services are wondering how the Syrian Army was able to [...]
