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GRU

The GRU is the Russian Federation’s military intelligence service. The unit has operatives in foreign countries and in the Spteznaz, the Russian Special Forces. It also has interception (SIGINT) and imagery (IMINT) capabilities.

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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 [...]

EGYPT 12/10/2016

Russian commandos may clean up Sinai

Russian security forces recently offered the Egyptian government to train Egyptian special forces in Sinai. Some Spetsnaz instructors, who could [...]

SYRIA 14/09/2016

Ali Mamluk

Ali Mamluk, the Syrian regime's immovable head of the National [...]

UNITED STATES RUSSIA 29/06/2016

Rosobornexport under DNI scrutiny

At the forefront of the new cold war with Russia, the Pentagon and the Department of State are keeping the [...]

AFGHANISTAN 01/06/2016

Mansour may have been dropped by ISI

The killing of Taliban leader Akhtar Mohammad Mansour at the end of May looks as though it may have been [...]

RUSSIA 13/04/2016

Putin’s Praetorian private guard

Russia now has its own Blackwater. The Russian private security [...]

SYRIA 20/01/2016

Anti-Tehran clan strengthens in Damascus

Bashar al-Assad's regime is shifting further away from Tehran and becoming increasingly pro-Moscow. [...]

SYRIA 16/12/2015

Al Nusra stays out of Saudi reach

Saudi Arabia did not manage to federate the Syrian opposition during the summit organised in Riyadh in December. [...]

RUSSIA SYRIA 21/10/2015

Threat of Syrian conflict spilling into Caucasus

The meeting between Vladimir Putin and Mohammed bin Salman in Sochi on October 11 was heated. Not surprisingly, the two men stuck to their positions on Syria. However the discussion soon shifted to the Russian Caucasus. [...]

SYRIA 07/10/2015

Syrian rebel MANPADS to combat Sukhoi

The Gulf monarchies do not intend to sit by and watch as Russia steps up its engagement in Syria. [...]

RUSSIA SYRIA 22/07/2015

Drones for Damascus

The admirable website Oryx (see here) has published several photographs [...]

RUSSIA SYRIA 15/10/2014

The GRU

The GRU, Russia's military intelligence service, has lost a solid [...]

FRANCE 17/09/2014

La DPSD

La DPSD has identified five Ukrainian-origin deserters from the French [...]

UNITED STATES RUSSIA UKRAINE 16/04/2014

John Brennan

John Brennan, the director of the CIA, travelled to Ukraine [...]

RUSSIA 16/04/2014

Putin resists Jordan's King Abdullah

Like Saudi Arabia's Prince Bandar bin Sultan last year (IOL 702), Jordan's King Abdullah was unable to make Moscow budge [...]

RUSSIA FRANCE 05/03/2014

Paris points antennae at Crimea

Messages that have been intercepted in Crimea make it abundantly clear. Although no confirmation has been forthcoming from the French [...]

SAUDI ARABIA RUSSIA 05/02/2014

Riyadh threatens Moscow in Sochi

Bandar bin Sultan, the head of Saudi Arabia's General Intelligence Department (GID), will cast a shadow over the Winter Olympics [...]

RUSSIA EGYPT 06/11/2013

GRU

GRU, the Russian military intelligence agency, sent one of its [...]

SAUDI ARABIA RUSSIA SYRIA 28/08/2013

Bandar gets nowhere with Putin on Syria

Before Western countries decided to launch air strikes against the Syrian regime, the Saudi head of intelligence tried to sway Putin to drop Bashar al-Assad. [...]

CHINA RUSSIA 04/07/2012

SVR/Guoanbu pact in tatters?

The conviction of two Russian scientists on June 20 for giving information to Beijing could punch a hole in a gentleman’s agreement that has long prevailed between the two countries. [...]

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