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IRAQ SYRIA 25/02/2015 Al-Baghdadi alters strategy In preparation for the upcoming offensive by the International Coalition to retake Mosul, the leader of Islamic State has been reshuffling his military cards. [...]
Spotlight SAUDI ARABIA 11/02/2015 King Salman deploys security trio Saudi Arabia's new King Salman bin Abdulaziz al-Saud appointed his son Mohamed bin Salman as defence minister and director of the royal court on January 23, handing him responsibility for the security woes currently facing the kingdom. Flanking the new [...]
TURKEY 11/02/2015 MIT makes IS a priority As Intelligence Online revealed recently (IOL 728), Turkey's intelligence chief Hakan Fidan is going to run for office in Turkey's forthcoming general elections. The choice of his interim successor illustrates Ankara's priorities. [...]
SAUDI ARABIA PAKISTAN 11/02/2015 ISI and GIP in jihadist tangle Free Recent operations against jihadist groups by Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) are having an impact on Saudia’s own operations against Iran. [...]
ISRAEL SAUDI ARABIA 11/02/2015 Co-operation uncovered Recent revelations of the death of an engineer working for [...]
UNITED STATES IRAQ 28/01/2015 Congress rejects INIS chief Snubbed by the CIA, Zuhair al-Gharbawi, the head of Iraq's intelligence service, tried to approach members of US Congress earlier this month to obtain their support. The mission failed. [...]
LEBANON IRAN 28/01/2015 Nasrallah complains to Iran According to our sources Hassan Nasrallah, the leader of Hezbollah, informed Mohammed Yazbeck, the representative of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali [...]
TURKEY 28/01/2015 Pro-Ankara Kurdish militia could turn coat Certain disgruntled pro-government Kurdish Village Guard units are understood to [...]
UNITED STATES IRAQ 28/01/2015 Iraqi tribes head for Washington Jonathan Seth Greenhill, the former CIA National Clandestine Service (NCS) agent who left the agency in December 2013, is trying [...]
EGYPT UNITED STATES UNITED ARAB EMIRATES 28/01/2015 SnapTrends and Chenega monitor Twitter in Arabic The monitoring of social networks now extends to the rapidly growing field of Arabic language content. [...]
CANADA ISRAEL 14/01/2015 Ottawa,Tel-Aviv get closer Tsahal chief Benny Gantz’ visit to Canada last week was aimed at fostering the now flourishing cooperation between Israel and Canada, which struggled in the past. [...]
RUSSIA SYRIA 14/01/2015 Moscow ready to drop Assad Russian deputy foreign minister Mikhail Bogdanov’s visit to the Middle East in December signals a turning point in Russia’s strategy in the region. [...]
Spotlight UNITED STATES UKRAINE 24/12/2014 CIA, weakened, looks to the East CIA chief John Brennan is counting on the agency's mission on the Ukrainian front against Russia to help put one of its worst-ever years behind him. After a series of setbacks in areas of key importance to Brennan, the CIA [...]
UNITED STATES IRAQ 24/12/2014 Massoud Barzani Massoud Barzani, the President of the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) [...]
CHINA 24/12/2014 The Guoanbu The Guoanbu, the Chinese State Security ministry, has been working [...]
UNITED STATES 24/12/2014 Avril Haines Avril Haines, President Barack Obama's new deputy advisor for national [...]
IRAN LEBANON 24/12/2014 Tehran takes Hezbollah Unit 910 in hand Following the arrest of Mohamed Chawraba, who was accused of being a mole for Hezbollah, in November, the Pasdaran are reforming Unit 910. [...]
TURKEY 24/12/2014 Turkish Hezbollah actively supports IS Turkey’s MIT fears that stronger implication by Ankara in the fight against Islamic State (IS) might spur the development of [...]
