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ISRAEL 16/12/2015 Mossad chief Cohen's priorities Yossi Cohen, the new head of Israel's external intelligence service Mossad, faces a number of stiff challenges. [...]
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. [...]
UNITED STATESIRAQ 16/12/2015 Shammar appeal to Washington Sheikh Jamal al-Dhari, the leader of the Zoba tribe, wants [...]
SAUDI ARABIA 02/12/2015 The GIP The GIP (General Intelligence Presidency), the Saudi Arabian intelligence service [...]
EGYPT 02/12/2015 Abdel Fattah al-Sisi Abdel Fattah al-Sisi revived the country's National Security Council on [...]
JAPAN 02/12/2015 Shinzo Abe reforms anti-terrorism squad Still reeling after the death of a Japanese journalist at the hands of Islamic State (IS) earlier this year, Japan is setting up a new anti-terrorism agency. [...]
MIDDLE EAST 02/12/2015 Tehran oversees PKK-Iraqi Shi’ite deal The cooperation agreement between the Kurdistan Workers Party, or PKK and Iraq’s Shi’ite Popular Mobilization Forces on November 20, which [...]
TURKEY 02/12/2015 Grey Wolves take on black flag in Syria . While the focus is presently on the permeability between [...]
FRANCEISRAEL 18/11/2015 Benjamin Netanyahou Benjamin Netanyahou, Israel's prime minister, offered Mossad's help to the [...]
FRANCEMIDDLE EAST 18/11/2015 Inside ISIS’s Covert Ops A number of Arab region intelligence services have alerted Western governments to Islamic State’s (IS) recent adoption of a new terror strategy, which was put into practice to deadly effect in Paris on November 13. [...]
UNITED STATESIRAQ 18/11/2015 Lobbying for Assyrian fighters The Nineveh Plain Protection Unit (NPU), a small Assyrian self-defence [...]
SYRIA 21/10/2015 Seyyed Morteza Nematzadeh Seyyed Morteza Nematzadeh, the former cultural attache at the Iranian [...]
RUSSIASYRIA 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. [...]
IRAQUNITED STATES 21/10/2015 CIA and DIA monitor allies While keeping tabs on Islamic State is its top priority, the CIA is also gathering more and more intelligence on the US' allies in Iraq. [...]
JORDANUNITED STATES 21/10/2015 Israel offers drones while US wavers Israel has offered to sell several observation drones to Jordan's General Intelligence Directorate (GID), sources tell Intelligence Online. A deal [...]
FRANCE 07/10/2015 Christophe Gomart Christophe Gomart, the head of the DRM (Direction du Renseigement [...]
UNITED STATESSYRIA 07/10/2015 Financial intelligence probes IS funding US financial spymasters gathered at the Anti-Money Laundering & Financial Crime Conference last month discussed the difficulty of cutting off IS' sources of finance. [...]
CHINATURKEY 07/10/2015 Uighur provide grist to security mill Chinese Communist Party executive committee number three Yu Zhengsheng’s visit to Xinjiang on October 1 killed two birds with one [...]
Spotlight FRANCESYRIA 23/09/2015 Air strikes in Syria hampered by serial issues There is a series of very real obstacles to the air strikes against Islamic State in Syria that French President François Hollande announced France would to carry out at the beginning of September, Intelligence Online can reveal. Shortage of reconnaissance pods [...]
