Ambani is the key intermediary for the French military-industrial complex in India. ©Bloomberg FRANCE / INDIA Published on 16/08/2017 Business moghul Ambani is key partner for defence contracts between France and India
Peter Thiel has become Trump's principal technology adviser. ©Bloomberg UNITED STATES Published on 09/08/2017 Thiel is Trump's intelligence guru
Ivor Ichikowitz AFRICA / CENTRAL ASIA / MIDDLE EAST Published on 07/09/2016 Ivor Ichikowitz, the worldwide connections of the South African arms magnate Free
Norman-Lamont IRAN / UNITED KINGDOM Published on 17/02/2016 Norman Lamont, pillar of the British-Iranian business community
FRANCE 03/02/2016 Defence ministry acknowledges Islamic State’s statehood Islamic State’s name has certainly created some linguistic headaches. But [...]
KUWAIT 20/01/2016 $10 billion for defence Despite the oil crisis, Kuwait’s parliament approved a bill on [...]
CHINA 06/01/2016 New counter-terrorism powers Free China’s new counter-terrorist special operations unit illustrates Chinese ambitions and the breaking down of taboos in this sphere. [...]
JAPAN SYRIA 06/01/2016 Tokyo struggles with hostage crises Japan has no established procedure for dealing with foreign hostage crises, even though its nationals are increasingly targeted by kidnappers. [...]
IRAQ 06/01/2016 Falcon Security, Barzanis' army Owned by property magnate Peshraw Majid Agha and headed by former US soldiers, Falcon Security has carved a niche for itself as the go-to private security outfit in Iraqi Kurdistan. [...]
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 STATES IRAQ 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 [...]
FRANCE ISRAEL 18/11/2015 Benjamin Netanyahou Benjamin Netanyahou, Israel's prime minister, offered Mossad's help to the [...]
FRANCE MIDDLE 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 STATES IRAQ 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 [...]
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. [...]
IRAQ UNITED 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. [...]
