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The RAID (Recherche, Assistance, Intervention, Dissuasion) is the French police elite intervention unit that was founded in 1985. It is in competition with the GIGN and the BRI.

IRAQ SYRIA 29/08/2018

Kurds hot on Al Baghdadi's trail 

Sought by the intelligence services of every country fighting Islamic State, the organisation's elusive leader Abu Bakr Al Baghdadi is being actively hunted by the Kurdish forces. [...]

FRANCE 25/07/2018

Forces fall out over command helicopters 

French army special forces chiefs are up in arms about [...]

FRANCE 28/03/2018

Paris woos Delhi, keeps in with Islamabad 

Although Paris has recently been playing up its security cooperation with the Indian government led by Narendra Modi, a budding [...]

FRANCE 27/12/2017

Full security guard for Macron in Abidjan 

In addition to the Groupe de Securite de la Presidence [...]

FRANCE 29/11/2017

Old regime meets new with Fauvergue 

To celebrate the launch of "Patron du RAID" (Mareuil Editions), [...]

FRANCE 01/11/2017

French terrestrial drones for US commandos 

It is only a small contract for now but it looks set to make a splash. The Navy SEALs have [...]

TURKEY ISRAEL 26/04/2017

Ankara and Tel Aviv cooperate in defence 

According to Intelligence Online's sources, the Turkish defence minister, Fikri [...]

FRANCE SINGAPORE 05/04/2017

Police chiefs search for tecchies at milpol 

The French interior ministry is going all out to upgrade [...]

UNITED STATES 05/04/2017

DIA privatises NMEC, its enemy data exploitation centre 

The management of the National Media Exploitation Center (NMEC), which analyzes documents and hard drives seized on the battlefield, is going to be privatized. [...]

UNITED STATES 05/04/2017

Yemen, Afghanistan ops may save day for CIA 

Under strong fire from Donald Trump, the CIA is attempting to regain the White House's favor by multiplying anti-terrorist operations in Yemen and Afghanistan. [...]

SYRIA 22/03/2017

Russian-Israeli dialogue tested by Tehran 

Like Gulf leaders, Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu does not want to have a Shi’ite arc at Israel’s borders. When he met [...]

SYRIA LEBANON 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. [...]

UNITED STATES 08/02/2017

How SEAL raid went wrong 

The first special operation launched by President Donald Trump, a SEAL raid in Yakla on January 29, failed to deliver. [...]

FRANCE Document 16/11/2016

Episode 1 - Hermes/LVMH: tactical support for Bernard Arnault's silk scarf war  Free

On the basis of his own records, one of the affairs which most involved Bernard Squarcini after – and perhaps [...]

SYRIA 14/09/2016

Power struggle in Al Nusra Front 

Tension is growing inside the Fatah al-Sham Front, the former Al Nusra Front, according to a Gulf state embassy internal [...]

FRANCE 13/07/2016

BRI top of class, RAID last 

The Intervention Force Coordination Unit much beloved by French interior [...]

UNITED STATES 29/06/2016

The FBI's 

The FBI's Quantico training facility in Virginia is using the [...]

FRANCE 13/04/2016

Cazeneuve fails to curb RAID, GIGN rivalry 

The new French internal security strategy by interior minister Bernard Cazeneuve will probably do little to resolve the long-standing rivalry [...]

FRANCE INDIA PAKISTAN 17/02/2016

GIGN elite unit switches sides  Free

France's GIGN elite intervention unit is to substantially increase its cooperation with India's National Security Guard (NSG). Joint exercises are [...]

FRANCE 06/01/2016

Army looks at Aeraccess mini-drones 

The mini-drone manufacturer Aeraccess has attracted the attention of the [...]